WEBVTT - Boogie Womderland - 8.7.26

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<v Speaker 2>Little My good friend, Shirley.

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<v Speaker 1>Strawberry, Thank you, my good friend. Junior subject Boogie wonder Land.

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<v Speaker 1>Dear Stephen, Shirley, my husband and I have owned a

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<v Speaker 1>lounge for almost ten years, and over the years it's

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<v Speaker 1>transitioned into a few different things. We used to sell

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<v Speaker 1>fish and wings. Then we stopped doing food and went

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<v Speaker 1>to a live jazz and wine tasting. No one came

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<v Speaker 1>to that, so we started catering to the younger crowd,

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<v Speaker 1>and that was a big problem because they don't know

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<v Speaker 1>how to act. So four years ago my husband decided

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<v Speaker 1>to make it an old school lounge and we put

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<v Speaker 1>in shag carpet and hanging plants to make it like

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<v Speaker 1>the seventies. The neighborhood where the lounge is has gotten

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<v Speaker 1>pretty bad over the years, but we wanted to keep

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<v Speaker 1>it in the area because it's where my husband grew up.

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<v Speaker 1>All of his old friends and his family come to

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<v Speaker 1>the lounge and hang out, and he doesn't charge them

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<v Speaker 1>for drinks at all. All of the men have nicknames,

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<v Speaker 1>and they want to come to the lounge to cheat

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<v Speaker 1>on their wives and play spades with women that don't

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<v Speaker 1>mind messing with married men. My husband is cool with

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<v Speaker 1>it all as long as the lounge has people in it.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not in the business of running boogie Wonderland with

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<v Speaker 1>old people that don't spend money. We have no smoking signs,

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<v Speaker 1>but my husband will not enforce it because his uncle

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<v Speaker 1>comes in there and smokes. I found out last week

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<v Speaker 1>that my husband allowed a group of folks to bring

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<v Speaker 1>in a crock pot and put and cats rolls for

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<v Speaker 1>a birthday party. I'm sure he lets them bring in

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<v Speaker 1>their own alcohol too. It's time for us to close

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<v Speaker 1>the Boogie Wonderland. How do I convince my husband to

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<v Speaker 1>let it go for good? Well, it sounds like you're

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<v Speaker 1>in to the Boogie Wonderland for business, but your husband

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<v Speaker 1>uses it to kick it with his friends and family.

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<v Speaker 1>And not for profit. Making money doesn't seem like a

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<v Speaker 1>priority to him now, does it. It's his social hangout,

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<v Speaker 1>so it will be hard to convince him to let

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<v Speaker 1>the business go. Clearly, you're ready to go, and you're right,

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<v Speaker 1>there's no way you can make money. But the way

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<v Speaker 1>your husband is running things, it's time for you guys

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<v Speaker 1>to get out before you start losing all your money

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<v Speaker 1>because giving away free drinks and letting people bring in

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<v Speaker 1>their own own drinks and food will be a disaster

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<v Speaker 1>for your business. You and your husband need to have

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<v Speaker 1>a serious conversation about where this business is going, and

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<v Speaker 1>you got to let him know how you feel.

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<v Speaker 3>Steve, just let her flat out. Just don't make no sense.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, what your husband's in it for is not

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<v Speaker 2>for the business of making money. I don't know what

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<v Speaker 2>you'all bottom line look like, your p and L all

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<v Speaker 2>this here. I don't know what your return investment is.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know how much it costs to run the place.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know how much in free alcohol he's given

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<v Speaker 2>away versus how much he's making. You didn't say if

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<v Speaker 2>it was profitable at all, but it don't sound like

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<v Speaker 2>it is. Y'all have no rules of regulation for this place.

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<v Speaker 2>Y'all just open up. Let people do what they They

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<v Speaker 2>are not cooking food. Y'all used to sell wings and

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<v Speaker 2>fish and y'all stopping. Then y'all went to live jazz

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<v Speaker 2>and wine tasters. Where they work at? Where do live

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<v Speaker 2>jazz and wine tastings work at in the hood.

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<v Speaker 3>That's not a you know, and y'all calling it a lounge.

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<v Speaker 2>You have a tavern. This is a tabbn. This is

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<v Speaker 2>a place where old people go tabbing. This place, let

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<v Speaker 2>me tell you some this's places in the hood where

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<v Speaker 2>old people go taverns uh vfw hall. That's another place,

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<v Speaker 2>whelled bingo. Now they not that they make it Bengal,

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<v Speaker 2>but your husband ain't. That's transition to a few things

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<v Speaker 2>over you your live jazz and wine tation. Nobody came

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<v Speaker 2>to that. Then y'all started catering to the younger crowd.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know why you surprised it, but this that

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<v Speaker 2>was a big problem because they don't know how to act. Duh, duh.

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<v Speaker 2>Come on, now you know what this happened. You know

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<v Speaker 2>what happens at these places. So four years ago, your

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<v Speaker 2>husband decided to make it an old school lounge, so

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<v Speaker 2>you put in shag carpet and hanging plants, and you

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<v Speaker 2>know that it's gotten pretty bad over the years. The neighborhood,

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<v Speaker 2>y'all got it, put put the place up in. But

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<v Speaker 2>your husband want to stay there because that's where you're from.

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<v Speaker 2>All his old friends and family, they come to the

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<v Speaker 2>lounge and hang out. He don't charge them for drinks

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<v Speaker 2>at all. So they just in that living it up,

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<v Speaker 2>kicking it. They just theyre in the backyard. And then

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<v Speaker 2>all the men got nicknames.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh I know this.

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<v Speaker 2>Place right here, O t old ot that show for oldest. See,

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<v Speaker 2>I'll tell you what we do. What give me the

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<v Speaker 2>old names, and I'll tell you what their nickname is.

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<v Speaker 1>Ralph, Ralph, Ray, Ray, Earl e.

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<v Speaker 2>Herman, he Dog, I know all the nickname I got.

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<v Speaker 2>We got Jerome, Jerome Roamy. Yeah, yeah, y'all know what

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<v Speaker 2>this is. When we come back, I'll show you the

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<v Speaker 2>nicknames of the rest of these people, and we're gonna

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<v Speaker 2>talk about because they want to come to the lounge

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<v Speaker 2>with these nicknames to cheat on their wives and play

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<v Speaker 2>spades with women that don't mind messing around with married

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<v Speaker 2>nick We're gonna find out who these women are, what

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<v Speaker 2>their name is, what the nickname is, and how they're

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<v Speaker 2>working out these arrangements while they playing spades, and they

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<v Speaker 2>don't put up the no smoking signs. But his uncle

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<v Speaker 2>coming now in.

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<v Speaker 1>Smoke, uh huh. And he said nothing, yeah, he.

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<v Speaker 3>Don't say it.

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<v Speaker 2>And everybody scared of his uncle, say anybody.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, all right, listen, his uncle is actually he

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<v Speaker 1>don't well. Have Fortune's response coming up in twenty three

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<v Speaker 1>minutes after the hour. Today's Strawberry Letters subject Boogie Wonderland.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening

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<v Speaker 1>All right? Come on, Steve, Let's recap today's Strawberry letter.

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<v Speaker 1>The subject is Boogie Wonderland one of your favorite songs

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<v Speaker 1>by Earth Running Fire.

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<v Speaker 2>It is a great song of mine and the emotion

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<v Speaker 2>oh yeah, as wonderful group. H This wife got a

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<v Speaker 2>problem with her husband. They've owned a lounge in their

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<v Speaker 2>neighborhood for quite some time where he grew up and

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<v Speaker 2>as obviously not making money because it used it as

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<v Speaker 2>a hangout for his free as in family that he

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't charge for drinks. He ain't got no rules established

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<v Speaker 2>in now, he got no smoking signs up. But his uncle, Herman,

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<v Speaker 2>who they call affectionately heat Dog, he dog coming there

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<v Speaker 2>and smoke anyway. So don't nobody say that because everybody

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<v Speaker 2>kind of scared of him. You know, he been locked

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<v Speaker 2>up four times. Everybody kind of lead heat Dog alone.

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<v Speaker 2>So he coming in there smoking because he dog talking

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<v Speaker 2>about how to heal. We can't smoking lines. We smoke

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<v Speaker 2>in jail. You know when that stayed logic, you kind

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<v Speaker 2>of have to I don't even understand it here jail.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't even understand it here. If you finish die,

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<v Speaker 2>you had last request you had for a cigarette?

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<v Speaker 3>I can't have for a cigarette in here? How do

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<v Speaker 3>they work?

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<v Speaker 2>Now? Now, she's also upset because they've made the loud

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<v Speaker 2>several things. They used to sell fishing wings and they

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<v Speaker 2>stopped doing that, so they turn it into a live

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<v Speaker 2>or jazz and wine tasted. Now, if they wasn't paying

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<v Speaker 2>for that E and j and they wasn't paying for

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<v Speaker 2>that that crown and that Jack Daniels, What the hell

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<v Speaker 2>make you think they've fin to come in here and

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<v Speaker 2>listen to jazz and buy wine? What what neighborhood is?

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<v Speaker 2>They just down there buying wine. They got some shot

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<v Speaker 2>blee and so that's what shot than they?

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<v Speaker 3>You know, they whine, ain't really you know, they drinking.

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<v Speaker 2>You're trying to charge for man of shivets and dog

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<v Speaker 2>and any green springs, don't really wild irish rose?

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<v Speaker 3>That don't you got the thunderbird?

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<v Speaker 2>You got hood drink? You Mickey's a on you trying

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<v Speaker 2>to charge. Ain't nobody buying that?

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<v Speaker 4>You know?

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<v Speaker 2>Now they're down there doing, yeah, the hanging plants and

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<v Speaker 2>shag carpet and turn onto an old school. And now

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<v Speaker 2>y'all got wicked chairs and them bushes.

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<v Speaker 3>That people they put you next to wicked chairs.

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<v Speaker 2>And got that airbrush painting of that nineteen forty Cadillac

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<v Speaker 2>in the back room. You know, everybody posing that said

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<v Speaker 2>that one kneeling down and they got their leaning up

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<v Speaker 2>against that chair on the back of the big wicker

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<v Speaker 2>chair with the circle back. Yeah, they actually plumes. You

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<v Speaker 2>got them plumes back there, and then everybody take a picture.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, women ain't what they was, The men ain't

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<v Speaker 2>what they were. The me ain't got nicknames. And so

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<v Speaker 2>give me some old names, and I'll tell you what

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<v Speaker 2>their nicknames are. Johnny, Johnny, Jojo Jojo or so but Jojo.

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<v Speaker 2>That's Johnny, Willy Willy, Well, see Willy could go a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of different ways. I had several.

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<v Speaker 3>Different and it could be just Willy. It could be

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<v Speaker 3>big Will. Yeah, it could be w La. You know

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<v Speaker 3>what w La that were lay all see all, see all.

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<v Speaker 2>My favorite hood name is Craig. Yeah, Craig, Craig. That's

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<v Speaker 2>sea dog. Craig is sea dog. So you know, now

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<v Speaker 2>the Dayton needs who Stanley, Oh, that's Sway Stanley, Stanley Sway,

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<v Speaker 2>Melvin Eminem mhm. And now they're in here, they dating

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<v Speaker 2>these women that they play spades with down there that

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<v Speaker 2>don't care about Dayton married men. So all the husbands

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<v Speaker 2>down there cheating on their wives with these cheating women. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>you know we got to go over that. This this

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<v Speaker 2>is all Bernard deck Burn. The debt is down there.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a hard name. Odetta. Yeah, Oldetta cheat and and

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<v Speaker 2>everybody scared of Oldetta. Bernice. Bernice down there do like

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<v Speaker 2>she wanta do.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, Brenda is good, but Brenda cool.

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<v Speaker 2>She ain't really made up her mind yet. But she

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<v Speaker 2>just down there for farm. But everybody won't. Brenda, Colissa, Clarissa,

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<v Speaker 2>it's down there just going through her husbands.

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<v Speaker 3>What about Betty?

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<v Speaker 2>Betty, Betty worked behind the bar. Thelma ain't really doing

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<v Speaker 2>much or nothing. She want somebody to date her, but

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<v Speaker 2>she herself too early. Pretty much cool. Yeah, she got

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<v Speaker 2>in there, thirsty. She hanging on hoping somebody holler at her.

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<v Speaker 2>And then you gotta feel feel down there. Everybody want

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<v Speaker 2>She got new weed. She went down there to the

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<v Speaker 2>beauty supply and came in on and she got that

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<v Speaker 2>hot one, that blonde one. So that's what's happening down

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<v Speaker 2>at the lounge. Show's got one more names, Got one

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<v Speaker 2>more name, Go ahead, Audrey, Audrey jets playing with nobody.

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<v Speaker 2>She down there talking about everybody.

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