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Speaker 1: Thank you, nephew. Subject Boo Boo Breath's assistant. Wow, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Boo Boo Breath's assistant is the subject. Dear Stephen Shirley.

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Speaker 1: I recently started a new position as an assistant to

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Speaker 1: the office manager. On my first day at work, I

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Speaker 1: noticed that everyone in the office was looking at me

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Speaker 1: and whispering. I thought that they were just checking me

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Speaker 1: out because I was a new girl, silling me. When

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Speaker 1: my boss got in, I went and greeted him. Everyone

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Speaker 1: was still looking at me, but now they were laughing.

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Speaker 1: And then it happened. The odor that came out of

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Speaker 1: my boss's mouth, dartneer knocked me out. It smelled like

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Speaker 1: a baby's diaper and it hit me across my face

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Speaker 1: and I almost passed out. I realized why my coworkers

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Speaker 1: were laughing. One of the ladies she was laughing so

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Speaker 1: hard she had tears in her eyes. Afterwards, they said

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Speaker 1: they were waiting for my reactions. They knew I wasn't ready.

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Speaker 1: It's been two weeks now and I literally cry in

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Speaker 1: my car before going in to work. I have to

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Speaker 1: be closed up in his office and meetings every day,

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Speaker 1: and I've tried offering mints and or gum, but he

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Speaker 1: declines every time. I really love my job, but his

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Speaker 1: breath makes it impossible. We have an off site meeting

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Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks and he suggested that me

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Speaker 1: and a couple of our teammates bride with him. So

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Speaker 1: now the teammates want me to be the one to

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Speaker 1: address this issue with him. They have chosen me to

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Speaker 1: tell him that his breath smells like boo boo. My

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Speaker 1: husband said that I should just breathe through my mouth

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Speaker 1: when I'm in his presence. He said, my co workers

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Speaker 1: are setting me up because I'm the new girl at

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Speaker 1: the office. Since I'm always in his face, I feel

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Speaker 1: like I should go ahead and say something, or should

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Speaker 1: I wait until I develop a better relationship with him?

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Speaker 1: What should I do. Please please help me. Wow, this

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Speaker 1: is funky. This is a funky situation right here. You're

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Speaker 1: absolutely right, and you love your job. You are the

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Speaker 1: new girl. I mean, what a bad position to be in.

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Speaker 1: You're the new kids. You're kind of darned if you do,

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Speaker 1: darned if you don't. Your husband may be right. They

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Speaker 1: could be setting you up because they've been there all

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Speaker 1: this time and they've had time to say something to him,

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Speaker 1: and they haven't. They haven't done anything. His breath still

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Speaker 1: smells like boo boo. But your husband's advice to just

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Speaker 1: breathe through your mouth, I don't think that's gonna work either.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta lift too. You probably will have

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Speaker 1: to find a way to tell him because you work

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Speaker 1: the closest with him. I mean, you can't just go

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Speaker 1: to his face and say your breath smells like boo

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Speaker 1: boo and he's your employer. I mean, it's not what

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Speaker 1: you say, it's it's it's how you say what you say.

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Speaker 1: So you I mean, you've offered him mint. You've offered

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Speaker 1: him and got him gum. Everybody knows that when somebody

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Speaker 1: offers you a mint or offers you gum, that you

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Speaker 1: should take it. Everybody knows that either they're trying to

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Speaker 1: tell you something or be polite. All right, So you

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Speaker 1: gotta find a way to just I don't know. You

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Speaker 1: gotta say it to your boss. Listen. You gotta say something.

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Speaker 1: You have to. You cannot let this go on. You

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Speaker 1: got to say something. Listen. I just wanted to tell

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Speaker 1: you maybe we should go to the dentist together, or

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Speaker 1: when's the last time you've gone to the dentist. Something.

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Speaker 1: You gotta say something. Steve helped me out of here. Yes, see, Shirley,

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Speaker 1: you don't you don't do good and let us like

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Speaker 1: this because see you two? Can you trying not to feeling? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm here for these type letters. Now see boo boo

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Speaker 1: Brewth's assisted right here. That turn is too loose, It's

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Speaker 1: too can you the first day all your office workers

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Speaker 1: is looking at your whisping. You thought they was checking

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Speaker 1: y'all cause you knew dot silly me. When a new

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Speaker 1: looking at me, and now they're laughing. And then it happened.

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Speaker 1: The odor that came out of my boss's mouth, damn

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Speaker 1: near knocked me out. It smelled like a baby's dipper.

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Speaker 1: It hit me, crossing my face. I almost passed out

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Speaker 1: the right hill. Why are we calling this letter boo

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Speaker 1: boo breth? What do you mean you need a stronger

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Speaker 1: name for somebody? Breath like that like white? You know,

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Speaker 1: wet white. Your breath smell like a used white. That's

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Speaker 1: what the Tylers letters should have been. How about pamper?

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Speaker 1: You could have just said pamp We know what a

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Speaker 1: pampa smell like. We've all told a tape off of

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Speaker 1: a baby that we love dealing. And when we opened

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Speaker 1: up that pamper, we went commercial running around. When did

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Speaker 1: this baby starred eating vinegar? Green? Put out in your mouth? Man? Mom?

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Speaker 1: Thank that's not boo boo, that's thank First of all,

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Speaker 1: you turn around and your co workers was laughing out.

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Speaker 1: Have fought somebody because y'all could have told, yes, y'all

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Speaker 1: knew good in hell what ill fit to walk up into.

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Speaker 1: And I'll be damn if you sit there and giggle

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Speaker 1: at me when you know what just happen. And then

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Speaker 1: your ignorant ass husband talking about breathe through your mouth.

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Speaker 1: You can't breathe through your mouth. You need your taste

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Speaker 1: book that'sh wine and breathe through your mouth. If you

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Speaker 1: won't to won't be able to taste a damn thing.

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Speaker 1: Now you would lunch talking about I can't taste nothing.

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Speaker 1: That's because she was breathing through your mouth. You got

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Speaker 1: you got to taste baby breaths. When you round, people

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Speaker 1: will thinking breath. This is high's got a sound. Listen

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Speaker 1: to this, Listen to all right, hold that breath, Hold

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Speaker 1: that breath. You can't breathe, you gotta sip. We'll have

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Speaker 1: part two of your response. Steve coming out, bake her face,

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Speaker 1: look at him like you clan coming up in twenty

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Speaker 1: three minutes after the hour. Today's subjects booboo breath's assistant.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back right after this. You're listening to show,

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Speaker 1: all right, Steve, come on, let's recap today's Strawberry letter.

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Speaker 1: Subject assistant. This Poe bro this Poe girl got this

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Speaker 1: new job. She need a job. She even said she

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Speaker 1: liked her job. First day. All the people looking at

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Speaker 1: ain't nobody saying nothing to They laughing. They figured it's

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Speaker 1: selling because it's her first day. Then her damn boss

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Speaker 1: came in and she didn't know why everybody was laughing

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Speaker 1: until he said, hello, Hello, how you doing? H words?

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Speaker 1: I don't know why people got bad bro use a

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Speaker 1: lot of H words? Hello, how you doing? How's your day? Anything?

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Speaker 1: I could help you? How long you've been here? Here's

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Speaker 1: another one who recommended you nothing? Who you standing there?

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Speaker 1: You just put your eyelashes on? Who is strong? Steve?

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Speaker 1: You had just put them damn out? Yeah now here.

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Speaker 1: You don't know what that is on your face? You

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Speaker 1: think abuged and got on, but your eyelashes that fell

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Speaker 1: on your damn cheese all because he and then you

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Speaker 1: know you're gonna offer him a mint? And he said, no,

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Speaker 1: he know him. Men ain't gonna work. He didn't know that.

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Speaker 1: What if you cover a person when somebody breath stink

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Speaker 1: that bad? Offering the mint? You know why they don't

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Speaker 1: never take mints because they can't taste them? Exactly, why

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Speaker 1: listen to me, y'all? I didn't we real stink brown.

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Speaker 1: Don't ever wanta min because they can't taste them. Then

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Speaker 1: I didn't know that sugar cube. That's like taking a

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Speaker 1: sugar cube a sugar cube and have her put it

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Speaker 1: on a tablespoon and sugar honey iced tea that's take

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Speaker 1: a cuba, put it on a tablespoon or sugar and swallowing.

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Speaker 1: Give me if you like sugar, see, let me ask

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Speaker 1: you this then no, let me tell you just ok well,

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Speaker 1: I want to know. Okay. If they can't taste it,

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Speaker 1: then do they know they have bad breath like this?

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Speaker 1: If you don't know, if they knew that they killed herself,

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Speaker 1: somebody got to say Something's got to see something. There's

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Speaker 1: other things you can do, Like instead of offering him

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Speaker 1: a mint or some gum, offer him some tidy boat

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Speaker 1: for sugar honeyed tea out of job that she offer

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Speaker 1: him some tidy bowl, just hand it to him. Play

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Speaker 1: the commercial with the little man and the tar taking

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Speaker 1: the light, play it. Go outside and hook up a

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Speaker 1: fire holes to a fire hydrant and when he turned

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Speaker 1: with that fire hole. Fees are the type of drastic

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Speaker 1: measures you have to take take with people's breath that

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Speaker 1: smell like hot garbage. Yeah, you've opened up trash can

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Speaker 1: in the summer when you was a little boy. Ye

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Speaker 1: know what that smell like. So that's it. You know,

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Speaker 1: everybody now looked every nine and everybody breath be kicking. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's just tell the truth. But normally for those of

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Speaker 1: us whose breath just kick every nine, then we kind

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Speaker 1: of know it. You'll be talking and you'll go, damn

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Speaker 1: is that me? And then we'll cut our hands when

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Speaker 1: you smell like exactly like what what did I said?

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Speaker 1: When your breath smell like exactly? See exactly, exactly exactly

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Speaker 1: like you cracking your age if you got exactly I

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Speaker 1: see the reason. The reason you don't never see people

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Speaker 1: blowing into their hands when they got bad brown, it's

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Speaker 1: what the hell had. No, she needs she wants to

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Speaker 1: know how to tell him. She's got to tell him.

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Speaker 1: You know, you can tell him what your body language

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Speaker 1: I know how he isn't talk to somebody with real

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Speaker 1: fucking brill. You can't talk. No, no, you just want

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Speaker 1: to get away from it. Yeah, yeah, email him. No,

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Speaker 1: I need telling them to tell him when they're in

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Speaker 1: some of those clothes. Need to just get a big

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Speaker 1: piece of paper. When he started talking, huh, just get

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Speaker 1: a magic market and right shut the air. Far he

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Speaker 1: doesn't want to lose her job. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: lose my We're both in all right. Thank you, Steve.

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