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Speaker 1: Coming up at the top of the hour, right about

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Speaker 1: four minutes after today's strawberry letter. You guys are not

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Speaker 1: going to believe my letter for today. The subject is

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Speaker 1: over seventy and selling sexiness. Almost wait till you're here,

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Speaker 1: Just wait till this one is crazy? Right? That was

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Speaker 1: my grandmother's name. All right, uh, right now though, the

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Speaker 1: nephew in the building with today's prank phone call, what

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Speaker 1: what's you got for his nap? God ain't through, but

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Speaker 1: we all. God ain't through with you. You're asking for it,

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Speaker 1: but we are. Ok. This is God. He may not

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Speaker 1: beat through which, but we are we through which. Let's

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Speaker 1: go cat. Hello, Hello, I'm trying to reach our sister

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Speaker 1: to alight. This is brother Brinkley from the church. How

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Speaker 1: you doing? Oh? Hey, how is it? It's I'm at work.

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Speaker 1: Can I call you back? H Well, this is this

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Speaker 1: is kind of urgent. I call your your house phone

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Speaker 1: other number on file, so I wanted to reach out

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Speaker 1: to you. But what I won't take long. But it

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Speaker 1: really is a hurt, that urgent matter. If you don't man,

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Speaker 1: step away. From my tubero. Hello. Hello, yeah, okay, so

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Speaker 1: what's uh but Brinkley speech tually. Okay, we have a

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Speaker 1: bit of a problem here and we're gonna try to

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Speaker 1: We're trying to clean up a lot of things here

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Speaker 1: at the church in you know, I hate to be

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Speaker 1: the one to bring you some bad news. Let me

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Speaker 1: just start by by saying that God might not be

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Speaker 1: through with you, but we are here at the church.

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Speaker 1: It has been brought the attention, uh sister car that

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Speaker 1: you guys are halfway coming to church. You you you

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Speaker 1: might come once once out of a month. You're not

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Speaker 1: tithing as we expected. You know, the church can't really

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Speaker 1: depend on you. Um, it's you you got you know,

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Speaker 1: you bring your kids. I think your brother comes to

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Speaker 1: the church. But everybody is coming every now we need

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Speaker 1: we cannot depend on you all to be the members

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Speaker 1: and have the expectation of what we're trying to do.

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Speaker 1: Held a hold a hold, to hold hold of what

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Speaker 1: you say. You say your name is yes, and you

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Speaker 1: you work on you work on the edition. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: I've never heard of you before. I I have been

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Speaker 1: officiated by the pastor as I'm over actually over the

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Speaker 1: finance and we're going through all of the books and

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Speaker 1: looking at all of the numbers of the of the

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Speaker 1: members of the church and directory, and we're noticing what

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Speaker 1: people are paying time, what people are on fans tid

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Speaker 1: who's coming to church, who's participating in different and if

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Speaker 1: in uh ministries and whatnot. And since at the car

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Speaker 1: I got, I had to be honest with you. You

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Speaker 1: you am maybe once every one of the mine we

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Speaker 1: might see you might not see you, you know, and

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Speaker 1: like I said, God may not beat through with you,

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Speaker 1: but we are okay. You been saying that. It's why

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Speaker 1: I don't understand, like, like y'all monitoring my my my

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Speaker 1: church going like I can't, I can't. I have to

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Speaker 1: go every single week. I mean, when why are you

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Speaker 1: absent so much at the church? Explain that? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I have three kids, you know, I mean I have

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Speaker 1: two jobs. Some time I don't. I mean, I still pray.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand how a church can are you y'all

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Speaker 1: still you got two jobs. But we're not getting tired

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Speaker 1: Like you got two jobs. You're not tired, and like

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Speaker 1: you got two jobs. I can't afford you just you

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Speaker 1: just said I got two jobs. That's what you just said,

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Speaker 1: and that don't job start in supporting my chid? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I can't support the church and my kids is the

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Speaker 1: same term? How to kid you both? I mean, I

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Speaker 1: I give what I can. Let me ask you something.

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Speaker 1: What are you making on that other job? Are you serious?

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Speaker 1: Are you really? You? Really? You? Really? I didn't know

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Speaker 1: the church? God? Is this deep with you really asking

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Speaker 1: me how much I make? And my second 'all that

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Speaker 1: I tape to support my kids? Cool? And now did

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Speaker 1: this got to be something? This is I'm gonna say

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Speaker 1: this to you again. God may not be through with you,

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Speaker 1: but we are. If you are gonna pay your ties,

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Speaker 1: if you're not gonna come to work on a consistent basis,

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Speaker 1: then what what do you benefit? The church? Is that

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Speaker 1: what the church is about? This can't be. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: say this. I'm gonna say this to you. You Let

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Speaker 1: me tell you what the church is all about? The churches? Hey,

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Speaker 1: and you say, we go with you again one more time?

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Speaker 1: I'm serious. No, I'm gonna tell you this you're talking about?

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Speaker 1: Is that what the church is about? Let me tell

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Speaker 1: you what the church is. The church is a hospital

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Speaker 1: for cripple souls. You understand that that's what. Okay, that's

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Speaker 1: what the churches. But when when we have the souls

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Speaker 1: that are coming in to be saved, we are doing

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Speaker 1: our job. And guess what those people that are coming

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Speaker 1: and you know what they're doing. They're tithing. That's what

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Speaker 1: they're doing. They're tithing. You, sister Takara, I'm sure your

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Speaker 1: soul is crippled. You're not coming and you're not tithing.

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Speaker 1: You may give us a little some something when you

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Speaker 1: show up if you show up. Am I right a wrong? Okay? Hold,

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Speaker 1: let me get the straight. This is what you call

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Speaker 1: me for in the middle of my work day to

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Speaker 1: tell me that you're kicking me out the church because

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Speaker 1: I don't give enough money to the church while I'm

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Speaker 1: at my job that I can bury fort to pay

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Speaker 1: my bills with. Not a fact. I don't even know

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Speaker 1: who you are. I've never met you in my life,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know what this church. You know this church.

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Speaker 1: I hate to say it, but if that's what the

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Speaker 1: church is about, you had the nerve to call me. Okay, Na, Na, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: let me say something now you're being very Unchristian like.

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Speaker 1: Na to the car. You're gonna watch you John in

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Speaker 1: your language him, this is not Christian life. Well, well

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Speaker 1: do you do you know? Brother Dwayne? Isn't that your brothers? Okay?

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Speaker 1: And no, brother Dwayne is who told me to call you?

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Speaker 1: Really my brother? So so what is this about? H brother? Whatever?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. What is your name? My name is

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Speaker 1: nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Your brother

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Speaker 1: do ain't got me to prank phone call you? No?

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, he's not to get me by you

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Speaker 1: from this job. I'm in the lobby screaming up looking

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Speaker 1: at me. Oh mysh, all right, what's up? No? No, normal?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god. My heart is racing.

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Speaker 1: Tell me it's the car. What is the baddest and

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Speaker 1: I mean the baddest radio show in the land. Steve Harvey.

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Speaker 1: God may not be through with you, but we are.

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Speaker 1: Get your nephew cussing in that lobby. Let him go ahead,

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Speaker 1: but see but see that's what it is. Let me

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Speaker 1: get away from my cubicle. Of course. What I don't

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Speaker 1: want to do is losing my church and my job.

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Speaker 1: May not be through with you, but we are. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna quit all this halfway ties and hand on when

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Speaker 1: you're coming here. We don't want you. Hum yes, uh,

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Speaker 1: Three Port Louisiana, East Texas. Everybody around the way, it's

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Speaker 1: your boy nephew time. If guess what Three Port, East Texas.

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Speaker 1: I'm coming to town. It's date night comedy show Nephew,

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Speaker 1: Tommy and Friends. That's MLK Weekend, Sunday, January fifteen at

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Speaker 1: the Three Port Municipal Auditorium. Stupid is on the way.

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Speaker 1: Did you hear what I'm saying? Stupid is on the

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Speaker 1: way and I'm bringing my friends with me. Go to

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Speaker 1: ticket master. I'll go to the box office. Get your

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Speaker 1: tickets because the nephew is coming to town. Say no more.

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Speaker 1: It's it, that's it. It's a rap. What we're talking about.

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Speaker 1: Ignorance comes around wash every three. Yeah, you're lucky every day,

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Speaker 1: spread as some of that spread some of it around.

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Speaker 1: I may not beat the witch, but we all ministry

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Speaker 1: all right, nephew, thank you. Coming up next, it is

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Speaker 1: Today's Strawberry Letters, subject seventy and selling Sexiness. We'll get

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Speaker 1: into it right after this. What do you hear this?

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the day Harvey Morning Show.