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Speaker 1: just like we're gonna read this one right here, right now.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go buckle up and hold on tight.

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Speaker 1: We got it for you here it is Strawberry Letter.

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Speaker 1: Tom Me tell me, yes, here's what I'm gonna do today.

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Speaker 1: I've never done this ever before in the history of

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Speaker 1: this show. What Steve, since I've heard so much about

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Speaker 1: you doing the Strawberry Letter today today only, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: sit here and see how you handle or Strawberry letter,

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Speaker 1: so I know what's going on. When I ain't here,

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. Nephew, Tommy will do. Yeah, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: do the strawberry and yeah, work, all right, We'll prepare myself. Nephew,

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Speaker 1: all right. Subject, your baby isn't cute at all. Dear

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Speaker 1: Stephen Shirley, I am a thirty year old married woman

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Speaker 1: and my husband and I need your advice on an

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Speaker 1: issue with our closest friends, our friends, our first time parents,

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Speaker 1: and their daughter is a toddler. Now. Since the child

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Speaker 1: was born, we've been at a group text with the

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Speaker 1: couple and fifteen other people. My husband and I both

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Speaker 1: hate text groups, but we humored the couple because they

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Speaker 1: are really nice people. The couple started the group chat

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Speaker 1: so they could send us pictures of their newborn daughter.

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Speaker 1: We got pictures of the child almost daily, and the

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Speaker 1: mother would send us a text message if we didn't respond.

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Speaker 1: They've always bragged about how beautiful this child is, and

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be rude, but she's not cute

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Speaker 1: at all. When we got her newborn picture, my husband Darnier, screamed.

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Speaker 1: And whenever we see this little girl in person, I

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Speaker 1: have to watch my facial expressions. This little girl looks

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Speaker 1: like an older woman in the face. She never smiles,

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Speaker 1: and her afro is lopsided and dry all the time,

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Speaker 1: and her face looks ashy. She's two years old now

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Speaker 1: and we're still getting pictures. We want to kindly ask

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Speaker 1: that we'd be removed from the text group. If I

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Speaker 1: see one more picture of this child looking crazy, I

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Speaker 1: might just have to pull them aside and suggest they

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Speaker 1: fix their daughter up a bit. It's nothing to brush

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Speaker 1: a little grease in her hair and add a few

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Speaker 1: burettes in it, and maybe put some vasiline on her lips.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they should also tickle the baby so she will

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Speaker 1: smile on some of her pictures. But forget all of that.

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Speaker 1: We want I know, I know, we want to. I

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Speaker 1: just want to say one thing. Okay, let me finish.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they should also tickle the baby so she'll smile

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Speaker 1: on some of her pictures, but forget all of that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we want to leave the texting group altogether. We just

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Speaker 1: don't want to upset our friends. I'm sure we are

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Speaker 1: not the only ones that want the pictures to stop.

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Speaker 1: I'm embarrassed for feeling this way with an innocent child.

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Speaker 1: What should we do? All this is so sad, This

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Speaker 1: is so sad. I'm with you on one thing. I

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Speaker 1: do not like group text messages either. I don't. I would.

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Speaker 1: I would step up and say something about that. Just

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Speaker 1: to the group text messages. Even if they text you

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Speaker 1: I think they'll get the message about the text texting

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Speaker 1: group sooner or later. But about the baby that you

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Speaker 1: say is not cute, it's not the baby's fault. It

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Speaker 1: just really isn't be as sweet to the baby as

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Speaker 1: you possibly can when you see hers not her fault.

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Speaker 1: You said, she looks like an older woman in the face.

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Speaker 1: I think maybe one day she'll grow into her face.

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Speaker 1: I you know, I told you guys, I think was yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I had really really big eyes when I was a baby.

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Speaker 1: I grew into my eyes, but I grew into them Steve,

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Speaker 1: I did, I did? Um, Yeah, I'm trying all this

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Speaker 1: little baby. It's not her fault. Just leave the texting

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Speaker 1: group if that's really all you want to do, Just

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Speaker 1: leave there. Uh and you know, yeah, to feel this

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Speaker 1: all right, the baby didn't. Little let time to take over. Now,

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Speaker 1: the fact that the baby looked like an old woman

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Speaker 1: He wants us to be all right with you? And

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Speaker 1: then the second thing, Shirley and all I'm saying, in

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Speaker 1: that's what it said. That's called She knows. He found out.

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Speaker 1: She knows. She went by the mirror in the stroller

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Speaker 1: looking like this. I ain't got no lotion on, I

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Speaker 1: ain't got this damn but it is crooked, my afro stuck.

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Speaker 1: Come to me, I'm sitting over here looking like a

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Speaker 1: little man. If you don't take my ass to the house, yeah,

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Speaker 1: maybe your friends can keep the baby. And like my daddy,

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Speaker 1: I'm a two year old girl. Hell, I look like

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Speaker 1: my father. I thought you only had two things to say. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Tommy's gonna do the letter right. Can we

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Speaker 1: come back? All right, listen, we're gonna come back with

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Speaker 1: part two of this letter. Steve's gonna give Tommy his

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Speaker 1: chance to respond to this letter subject your baby isn't

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Speaker 1: after the hour, right after this and two years. I

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Speaker 1: ain't got a compliment. You're listening, all right, Come on, Steve,

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Speaker 1: let's recap today's strawberry letter, subject to your baby is

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Speaker 1: not cute at all? Wow, Well, time going to go

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Speaker 1: this A little baby that shot years old, it's over.

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Speaker 1: Shirley tried to relate to the fact that she had

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Speaker 1: baby growing. The baby looked like a little man right now,

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Speaker 1: she said, woman in the face. Go ahead, Timmy, all right,

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Speaker 1: I've been taught early on eye for eye or two

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Speaker 1: for two, fight five with five. You're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: fight ugly with some more ug Does that make sense

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Speaker 1: so far? So when you see these ugly pictures coming,

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Speaker 1: all right. When they sending that baby picture out, boom,

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Speaker 1: first one, you hit back, Dennis Rodman, you're gonna You're

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Speaker 1: gonna play your ugly card against the ugly card. Keep

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Speaker 1: coming with it. As soon as they send another picture

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Speaker 1: of that baby. Oh Lord, hit them back, wicked witch

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Speaker 1: you the East. You just keep coming with more ugly.

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Speaker 1: It's enough ugly people in this world that you can

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Speaker 1: keep sending back via text that all these couples on

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Speaker 1: this dog on text chat. I promise you they are

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Speaker 1: going to be saying you've been doing what we've been

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Speaker 1: wanting to be due how many people? How many ugly

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Speaker 1: people do y'all know? You know, A bunch out them

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Speaker 1: then died, then up against these ugly babies. Yes, this

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Speaker 1: ain't about the baby. It's about the parents that's sending

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Speaker 1: the baby. The baby don't know we're sending these ugly

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Speaker 1: Uncle Steve, when you used to get baseball card. Didn't

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Speaker 1: you trade them in with other baseball card whichever ones

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Speaker 1: was good against the other. Didn't you do that with

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Speaker 1: your boys? Y? Yes, but ugly pictures? But qui ugly

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Speaker 1: more pictures, Tommy? Huh. The parents think she's beautiful, and

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Speaker 1: if you're sending enough ugly pictures, they're gonna get the picture.

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Speaker 1: Other people don't recognize beauty, and enough pictures and they'll

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Speaker 1: get the picture. Your baby ugly, all right, And sometimes

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Speaker 1: you might have to just blatantly come on out with

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Speaker 1: it in just text back. Please don't send me no

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Speaker 1: more of the ugly baby pictures. Oh no, I've been

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Speaker 1: got to say it now. Huh, he said, thank you?

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Speaker 1: So your problem him? You're proud of him? Yeah, one

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Speaker 1: of the things I've ever seen him on radio? What

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Speaker 1: ugly begots ugly? Shirley, you know, but not if you

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Speaker 1: don't know that they're ugly. But that's the problem, Shirley.

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Speaker 1: Even the people that own the baby don't know the

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Speaker 1: be a sin for two people, two ugly people, to

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Speaker 1: get together, because you bring another the baby. Don't two

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Speaker 1: the world. Okay, not the baby. Don't know she ugly

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Speaker 1: or he ugly yet. They don't know that yet. Okay.

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Speaker 1: And what the last thing wait, wait and wait on

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Speaker 1: the last thing you want to do is tickle an

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Speaker 1: ugly baby? And see what pop up? Poor baby? I understand, Shirley,

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Speaker 1: and don't have no mirrors and stuff in that baby room.

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Speaker 1: wear it. Don't do that. Brush their teeth. Turned the

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Speaker 1: head the other way. But comb this baby hair, get

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Speaker 1: him as pretty ugly as you can. Comb the hair,

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Speaker 1: wash their face, put some lotion on. Get I'm ready

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Speaker 1: for school. That's as pretty ugly as you, kin ki,

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Speaker 1: she said. Her afro is lopsided, and it's time. I'll

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Speaker 1: put a wig on the baby. That might hear a

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Speaker 1: wig on a two year old. They got baby wigs? Hey,

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Speaker 1: what else we got? They got baby quig? Get her

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Speaker 1: baby twigs and do it like that. What a baby?

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Speaker 1: What a baby whig? You get a baby wigna. Get

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Speaker 1: that baby gonna look a whole lot better than waiting

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Speaker 1: looking at her. You're still proud. I'm just checking uncle. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're still happy with your nephews. Well you know, I

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Speaker 1: got it. I want to say thank you man. You

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Speaker 1: made me proud. What sir, baby proud saying some stuff

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Speaker 1: have to do it like that. That ain't our problem.

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Speaker 1: We are not supporting ugly children. Give me my money,

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