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Speaker 1: Subject Fakestar with groupie tendencies. Dear Stephen Shirley, My husband

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Speaker 1: groupie when it comes to local celebrities. He's got a

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Speaker 1: podcast with a lady that was on a ghetto reality

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Speaker 1: show back in the day. She's got connections with local

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Speaker 1: artists and she gets them tickets to shows so they

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Speaker 1: People just walk right past them. I get so tickled

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Speaker 1: when he gets disappointed because he has put his little

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Speaker 1: podcast over me and the baby. When we go out,

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Speaker 1: for the next big star to feature on his quote

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Speaker 1: unquote talk show to help them blow up. The only

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Speaker 1: thing that's blown up is his ego. The final straw

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Speaker 1: was when he had me chasing behind a sprinter van

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Speaker 1: teenagers in it, headed to a sweet sixteen birthday dinner.

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Speaker 1: I was so embarrassed for him, but he didn't stop.

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Speaker 1: He had me drive back to the venue where the

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Speaker 1: the artists were still in the building. Everyone was gone,

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Speaker 1: and he got mad at me. I told him he's

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Speaker 1: a groupie. He doesn't have to he doesn't have a

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Speaker 1: talk show, and he needs to get a real job.

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Speaker 1: I'm a nurse and it's hard to pull the weight

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Speaker 1: of the family and support his raggedy dream of having

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Speaker 1: a talk show. I'm not a dream killer by any means,

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Speaker 1: but he's not celebrity material. I want all these lights

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Speaker 1: of this little, fake reality star coming to my house.

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Speaker 1: How do I get this thirty seven year old man

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Speaker 1: to be realistic? Well, to him, I'm sure this is

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Speaker 1: reality to him, this is what he wants to do.

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Speaker 1: This is his dream, and who are you to tell

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Speaker 1: him he's not gonna make it. I mean, you say

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Speaker 1: you're not a dream killer, but I think you are

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Speaker 1: a dream killer. And this doesn't sound good at all.

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Speaker 1: I got to ask you, what is your problem? I mean,

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Speaker 1: you don't believe in your husband. You don't approve of

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Speaker 1: what he's trying to do professionally. That's it. That's what

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Speaker 1: it all boils down to. I think the question is why.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's hustling, trying to make something happen, but

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Speaker 1: you don't like his method and your judgmental saying things

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Speaker 1: like his little podcast, his post was a ghetto reality star,

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Speaker 1: his raggedy dream. Those things are not helpful. If you

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Speaker 1: want him to spend more time with you and the baby,

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Speaker 1: why don't you talk to him about that? All right?

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Speaker 1: That's what you need to be focusing on. Instead of

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Speaker 1: complaining and putting his dream down. You got to support him.

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Speaker 1: At least he's trying to make something happen. If you

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Speaker 1: think he's going about it the wrong way, you gotta

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Speaker 1: them in the sprinter and all of that. Everyone has

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Speaker 1: they get great guests. Is you know this can happen?

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Speaker 1: It can. You are a nurse, so you're set as

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Speaker 1: far as your career goes. You know, you know where

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Speaker 1: is grinding right now. I say, yes, you are right.

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Speaker 1: He does need to bring some money into the household,

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Speaker 1: of course, so he should start looking for a job,

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Speaker 1: and then work on his his podcast part time. That

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Speaker 1: way he won't be abandoning his dream and at the

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Speaker 1: being so negative. Be supportive. You guys can work this out.

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Speaker 1: Steve Oh, I read a different letter. I'm sorry. I

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Speaker 1: what I'm about to say. Because by myself being known

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Speaker 1: as a motivational speaker, people who inspire people. And Shirley

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Speaker 1: said that you're being a dream killer. And I guess

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Speaker 1: you can be labeled as that young lady writing this letter,

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Speaker 1: but I want them introduce what you're saying from a

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Speaker 1: different angle. I don't want to be a dream killing,

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Speaker 1: but I am going to be a truth teller, So

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say say it. And every time time I said,

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Speaker 1: I want y'all to say tell the truth, Steve. So

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Speaker 1: let's practice, say it tell the truth. Okay, here we go,

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Speaker 1: fake star with group of tennis. My husband thinks he

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Speaker 1: it comes to local celebrities. Well, now I see that

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Speaker 1: all the time. Now tell it, tell tell the truth, Steve. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I forgot what my que was. I say tell it.

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Speaker 1: I forgot my own cue. That's why y'all was looking

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Speaker 1: reality show. Back in the day, say it tell most.

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Speaker 1: Back in the day, people don't make it. In the

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Speaker 1: new day, say it, tell tell the truth, ste She

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Speaker 1: got connections with local artists, and she gets some tickets

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Speaker 1: but they never get interviews. Tell tell the truth, say it,

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Speaker 1: and it's saying tell the truth. See all right, I

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Speaker 1: come back. I'm on the direct opposite of shilling Strawberry

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Speaker 1: all right, Coming up in twenty three minutes after the hour,

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Speaker 1: we'll have for two of Steve's response to fake Star

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Speaker 1: with groupie Tendencies, that is the subject of today's Strawberry Letter.

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Speaker 1: Right after this, you're listening Steve Morning Show. All right, Steve,

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Speaker 1: come on, let's recap today's Strawberry letter. The subject is

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Speaker 1: fake Star with groupie Tendencies. Shirley has pronounced in this

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Speaker 1: letter that the woman that's being a dream killer, which

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Speaker 1: it from her take. So I decided not to be

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Speaker 1: a dream killer, but the truth telling. I will read

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Speaker 1: this letter. When I'm telling the truth, I'm gonna say

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Speaker 1: say it, and the group will say tell the truth. Steve,

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Speaker 1: Are you sure now? Because I wrote it? I wrote

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Speaker 1: it on a commercial break. Okay, okay, my husband thinks

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Speaker 1: he got his own talk show. He's a grouping. When

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Speaker 1: it comes to local celebrities. Yeah, that's called Instagram right

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Speaker 1: now in Facebook Live, say it come on now. He

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Speaker 1: new day. Say it tell. She got connections with local

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Speaker 1: can interview people that show, but they never get an interviewed.

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Speaker 1: Come do nobody know they ass say it? People just

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Speaker 1: walk right pass him because don't nobody know the assay

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Speaker 1: See it kills me because what people don't understand is

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Speaker 1: you can't make yourself a star. That is up to

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Speaker 1: the headed to a sweet sixteen birthday party. I was

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Speaker 1: so in bass for him, but he didn't stop. Hear

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Speaker 1: me drive back to the venue what the concert was,

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Speaker 1: and I had to flirt with the security. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: now he usual you asked bait see man, now dog

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Speaker 1: you to drug your wife down in the dark ass

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Speaker 1: say it. I had to flirt with security to get

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Speaker 1: you have a talk show. How the howny people think

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Speaker 1: nobody got a talk show like this? These podcasts. Everybody

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Speaker 1: podcast not saying it's not doable, not not saying it's

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Speaker 1: you do your thing, but let's understand it, be be

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Speaker 1: Probably name Demetris, like Demetris something like that. You know

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Speaker 1: whose birthday is it? He's been better on I want

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Speaker 1: you this, but Instagram and Facebook watch live has created

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Speaker 1: I don't. I watched Instagram a lot, and you know, people, come, man,

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Speaker 1: there's some funny stuff on Instagram. Yeah, but you know

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Speaker 1: So that's the reality of it, man. And there's so

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Speaker 1: many options out there to choose from. Now. TV station

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Speaker 1: they've all created, content creators. It's just hard to get

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Speaker 1: up next to the Sports Talk with Junior. Right after this,

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Speaker 1: you're listening to the Stave Harvey Morning Show