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Speaker 1: All right, coming up at the top of the hour,

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Speaker 1: right about four minutes after, it's my strawberry letter for today,

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Speaker 1: subject there's turmoil in my congregation. Oh you hear that?

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Speaker 1: Oh this must be from a pastor what there's turmoil

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Speaker 1: in my congregation? It could be any church in America.

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Speaker 1: But right now the nephew is here with today's prank

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Speaker 1: phone call. But as well going on and get in

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Speaker 1: that category. Today's title is church fees, Church fees? People

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Speaker 1: that you prank in the Are you even allowed to go?

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Speaker 1: I go to churches where they don't know who I am.

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Speaker 1: I go where I cannot be recognized. Right now, this

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Speaker 1: is church fees. Renny can't hello, Hello, I'm trying. How

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Speaker 1: you doing? This is? This is brother in from the church. Hey,

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Speaker 1: brother Glenn, how you doing. I'm good? I'm good, I'm

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Speaker 1: real good. Did you enjoy service morning? Oh? I enjoyed it.

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Speaker 1: Pastors have brought it down. Oh my god. That was

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Speaker 1: a word for me, right right, right, right? So what

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Speaker 1: do old the pleasure of this call? I wanted to

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Speaker 1: give you some information that the that the church has

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Speaker 1: come up with, and we wanted to let you know

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Speaker 1: what was going on before the next Sunday. I didn't

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Speaker 1: interrupt you. No, No, I actually I may found a

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Speaker 1: little a little off a little bit. I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: get getting ready for my little baby, my little darlins,

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Speaker 1: and I'm trying to your voice sounds so familiar to me.

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Speaker 1: It just sounds so familiar. Trying to place place that voice. Okay, Well,

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Speaker 1: you've seen me at the church quite a few times.

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Speaker 1: I think I have. I'm just trying to place it.

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Speaker 1: I can't place it right now, but looking at what Nevertheless,

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Speaker 1: I just wanted here's here's what's going on. Uh now

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Speaker 1: you aware of that for the last the last six Sundays,

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Speaker 1: you've been actually, uh coming in the service late. Have

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Speaker 1: you realized that, Yes, I know, I'm sorry about that,

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Speaker 1: but uh you know, yes I have. I have my

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Speaker 1: reasons though. Okay, okay, Well here's what's going on. The

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Speaker 1: officials at the church I've gotten together and this is

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Speaker 1: what they've decided on, is that anybody who is late

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Speaker 1: starting next Sunday, there would be a fifteen dollar charge

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Speaker 1: for that for coming in and disrupting services past the

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Speaker 1: fastest tide of service being disrupted by people walking in

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Speaker 1: late that that could not come at the worst time.

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Speaker 1: I don't have fifteen dollars to give. Look, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry that were late. We are doing our best.

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Speaker 1: Three young kids to seven and nine, and they are

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Speaker 1: a handful, and we do the best that we can

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Speaker 1: to get the church on time and to tell your

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Speaker 1: tring when we get there, it's during praise and worship.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's ain't even preaching yet, so I know

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Speaker 1: it's not fast, it's not up yet, but he's he's

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Speaker 1: stating that people coming in. It just seems very dis

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Speaker 1: rupted to the service that's going on. That's so Nevertheless,

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Speaker 1: like I said, this is a warning call, you know,

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Speaker 1: to let you know that if you are late on

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Speaker 1: next Sunday, then they will be charging your fifteen dollars

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Speaker 1: a leaf charge. And actually you won't be able to

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Speaker 1: even come in until you until you pay the dollars.

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Speaker 1: I can't even get in church with we Look, okay, Look,

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Speaker 1: I don't owe nothing. I don't owe you no explanation,

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Speaker 1: but I need to tell you something. We are me

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Speaker 1: and my kids for the last a few Sundays that

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Speaker 1: we've been late. It's because my car broke down. We

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Speaker 1: we are owned the bus man Public transportation. Okay, I mean,

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Speaker 1: and I understand, I understand I sivilitized with everything that

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Speaker 1: you're going through. But why are you called if you understand?

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Speaker 1: How are you calling me about fifteen dollars? If you

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Speaker 1: understand what I'm going through? Well I didn't. I first

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Speaker 1: of all, I didn't know what you were going Why

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Speaker 1: are you raising your voice at me? Why are you raising?

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Speaker 1: Did you just raise your voice at me? You know what?

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Speaker 1: You know what I think? You're raising your voice at me?

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Speaker 1: How dare you call me about this about a fee?

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Speaker 1: And I'm there at church? I got my key in

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Speaker 1: depths trying to raise them up is where they should go,

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Speaker 1: just like the Bible say. And you know why I

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Speaker 1: gotta chech the bus? Do you understand why that is?

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Speaker 1: Brother Glenn? No, I do not. That is because they

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Speaker 1: their dad is ain't. And yes, you got to calm

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Speaker 1: down a little bit now, Jesus help me. Jesus help me, Jesus. Okay, listen,

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Speaker 1: uh is all I can do is tell you this.

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Speaker 1: I hope you can make it. Maybe you can catch

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Speaker 1: an earlier bus, you know what I mean? And get

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Speaker 1: there a little earlier. But but if I'm just stating

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Speaker 1: know what, Well, maybe next Sunday I just won't be there.

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Speaker 1: How about that? You know, I'm already working six days

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Speaker 1: a week. The only day I have off this Sunday,

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Speaker 1: I've been baking, breaking my back. Do you know? I

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Speaker 1: worked two jobs or two jobs, and they always trying

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Speaker 1: wants to dump another fifteen dollars charging me for being

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Speaker 1: at church when that's what I'm supposed to do. But

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Speaker 1: you're coming in late though, you know what? You know

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Speaker 1: what late ain't bad. Okay, I might be delayed, but

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Speaker 1: I ain't denied, And I'm getting there the best way

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Speaker 1: that I know how. We on the bus. I have

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Speaker 1: to put my kids on the school bus and not you.

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Speaker 1: I have to put them on the school buson I

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Speaker 1: have to get on the bus to myself to him

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Speaker 1: because I don't have a car because that daddy's ain't

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Speaker 1: doing nothing nothing for them. Do you understand what I'm

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Speaker 1: saying to you? I need to under that Daddy number

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Speaker 1: one guess what he daddy for two? She and jail

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Speaker 1: been there by five years he ain't And Daddy number

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Speaker 1: three he decided to go ahead and walk out, ain't

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Speaker 1: I ain't heard from that that in about seven months now.

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Speaker 1: He know we're struggling. He had to nerder take my

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Speaker 1: wallet too. You don't. You don't even understand what I'm

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Speaker 1: going through. You don't even understand that I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: make a better life for me and my child. There

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Speaker 1: is one more thing, such a tracy that the Church

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Speaker 1: wants you to know before next Sunday that you definitely

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Speaker 1: need to know what one more thing does the church

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Speaker 1: want me to know? Beside? The Church just wants you

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Speaker 1: to know that. This is Nephew Tommy from the Steve

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Speaker 1: Harvey Morning. Your Your sister Patrese got me to prank

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Speaker 1: phone call you. I am going up. Are you know?

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Speaker 1: I ain't got time for that? You know I ain't

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Speaker 1: got time for that girl? Your all right? Oh? I

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Speaker 1: got something for her? How about that? She said? She said,

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Speaker 1: My sister Carrow. She says, she got these kids she

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Speaker 1: but you gotta give a hard time. She just wanted,

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Speaker 1: she wanted. She wanted you to put that she wants

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Speaker 1: you want things settled out. I'm gonna have to say

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Speaker 1: she did. Wow. Now that I know you y'all were joking,

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Speaker 1: and now I know this is nephew Tommy, I gotta

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Speaker 1: ask you something, Baby, what's the baddest and I mean

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Speaker 1: the baddest radio show in the land, that Steve Harvid

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Speaker 1: Morning Show? Basically, you won't be coming. You let it

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Speaker 1: go a couple of times at the three or four

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Speaker 1: you need to pay calling. Don't nobody care about what

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Speaker 1: you did the night before every Sunday with her Mr

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Speaker 1: last time calling Sea and showed up late. You're not.

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Speaker 1: Look now, it's a late fee when you come in.

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Speaker 1: And it's just another way for the church to make

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Speaker 1: money because we have things we had to pay for

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Speaker 1: church fees, like when y'all get the church, shar and Carl,

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Speaker 1: what tell y'all get there? I get there early. So

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Speaker 1: now wanted y'all walk in after praise and worship. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, when I was younger, but you know, you

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Speaker 1: know now it's different. You know, I like to be

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Speaker 1: on time. I just like to be on time for

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Speaker 1: the word I do. I like to be on time

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Speaker 1: for God. That's because he's on time for me. That's

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Speaker 1: take it back, huh. I like what Shirley is saying.

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Speaker 1: But you know, get a seat, Yeah, I get a seat.

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Speaker 1: You know all of that. Absolutely. I like showing up

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Speaker 1: for for him because he shows. But let me ask

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Speaker 1: you this, y'all. Another thing about church. Why do so

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Speaker 1: many people think they got seasoned seats like they can

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Speaker 1: sit there every every Sunday? Oh? Absolutely, what is that about?

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Speaker 1: We have a section where we sit because people are

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Speaker 1: creatures of habit, Timmy. They like sitting where they sit,

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Speaker 1: where they like to sit. I sit most seat. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, guys. We got to get out of here.

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Speaker 1: Up next, it is today's Strawberry Letters subject. There's turmoil

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Speaker 1: in my congregation and turmoil on the show about it

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Speaker 1: right now. We'll get into it right after this