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Speaker 1: Time now for today's Strawberry Letter and listen. If you

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Speaker 1: read this one right here. You hear it, Jay, that

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Speaker 1: got it for you here. It is Growberry Letters. I

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Speaker 1: got a little excited on this one. Yeah, he's seventy

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Speaker 1: single and ready to mingle. Dear Stephen Shirley, I am

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Speaker 1: a thirty year old single female and last year I

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Speaker 1: moved back to my hometown. I got an apartment in

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Speaker 1: I'm at an older male neighbor and he's seventy one

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Speaker 1: with me and I jokingly flurt back. He's very inappropriate

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Speaker 1: get to know me better and stop all the flirting.

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Speaker 1: I laughed and blew him off. One of my male

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Speaker 1: and the old guy mean mugged my friend the whole time.

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Speaker 1: I only spoke, and that was it. Five nights ago,

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Speaker 1: let him down easy by saying that I have a man.

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Speaker 1: I got rid of him that night, but each time

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Speaker 1: I really heard his pride, and I don't know what

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Speaker 1: I wrong? How can I fix this? Well, I mean

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Speaker 1: there's really nothing to fix. You don't have to fix anything.

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Speaker 1: You don't owe him anything. He's just a neighbor who

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Speaker 1: is very inappropriate with you, just saying whatever he wanted

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Speaker 1: because you thought he was harmless, and he might be.

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Speaker 1: But me mugging your friend and all of that knocking

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Speaker 1: I think that's too much. I don't care. I think

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Speaker 1: you know he is inappropriate. He's in commenting on how

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Speaker 1: a bit much. I mean, this guy could be your grandfather.

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Speaker 1: You're thirty, he's seventy one. I mean, you know, I

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Speaker 1: think it's a bit much. Like I said, you don't

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Speaker 1: If you don't want to nothing else. I'm glad you

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Speaker 1: just you know, take himself on get, you know, back

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Speaker 1: let's let's go in and put a little a little

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Speaker 1: light on this thing. Hell for your young lady. He's

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Speaker 1: He is ready for anything, anything, Another world war coronal

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Speaker 1: He figured it could be any day now, So don't

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Speaker 1: be worried about this. Now you've been on this walking

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Speaker 1: Well let me tell you why. You know why he's

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Speaker 1: I don't know about that. Then one night you're walking

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Speaker 1: It his and inappropriate. That's his flirting at seventy one.

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Speaker 1: He gotta get to it. He ain't got time for nothing.

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Speaker 1: Else to lead up and all that it could be

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Speaker 1: a little piece of advice. I don't know, all right, Steve,

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Speaker 1: we'll have part two of your response coming up at

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Speaker 1: twenty three minutes after the hour today. Subject he's seventy

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Speaker 1: come on, let's recap today's strawberry letter. He's seventy single

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Speaker 1: Hill old player days is number over with. He'd met

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Speaker 1: so all his comments is inappropriate. That's the life he lived. Now,

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Speaker 1: I laughed and blew him off. Then it got funky.

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Speaker 1: One of your male friends came over go jogging with you,

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Speaker 1: and the old guy mug my friend the whole time.

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Speaker 1: What was y'all jogging around the bench? He said, he means,

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Speaker 1: And he fronted this man at all he saw was

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Speaker 1: quit fla what you do all right. So five nights ago,

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Speaker 1: here's where he got tricking. The old man knocked on

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Speaker 1: your dough, told you he had emergency. You cracked it, dough.

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Speaker 1: He had on the road some dress pants, the road

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Speaker 1: was open, and his gray hair chest was out. He

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Speaker 1: Horatio was standing at your door. Ratio cost not cursed.

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Speaker 1: Horatio casting was at your don do He looked at

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Speaker 1: But the emergency found out was he couldn't sleep another night.

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Speaker 1: Knowing y'all head feelings for each other, he told me

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Speaker 1: let him down easy, told him I had a man.

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Speaker 1: I believe he's harmless and just lonely. Well, let me

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Speaker 1: tell you something about mister harmless and lonely. You're ready

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Speaker 1: for this information. Let's do the math hill seventy one

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Speaker 1: going to thirty as many times as it can. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's what you need to know about mister harmless. Wow,

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Speaker 1: because his head he hadn't done the math and seventy

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Speaker 1: one going to thirty as many times as he can.

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Speaker 1: That's what you need to know. He's not harmless. You

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Speaker 1: But now let me let me but let me say

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Speaker 1: Just continue to be kind because what you don't know

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Speaker 1: I just want to be your friend. Can we at

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Speaker 1: of my of my grandfather. Say that to him, said,

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Speaker 1: did you do the math again? I like the man?

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Speaker 1: Don do the math seventy one go into thirty how

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Speaker 1: what you need? Yeah, y'all, don't understand that he ain't.

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Speaker 1: He is not home at all. That's what he do.

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Speaker 1: And he thought you was it. Now you ain't it.

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Speaker 1: But just keep being nice to it. That's all. You

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Speaker 1: one more time? Jay, Let me ask you a question.

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Speaker 1: How many times do seventy go into thirty? Seventy will

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Speaker 1: go into thirty? Now in in seventies mine it will

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Speaker 1: think it could go in a lot of times, but

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Speaker 1: that's wrong. It can't go in a lot of times.

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Speaker 1: It can go in as many times as you let it.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty much it. Now you have more times in

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Speaker 1: It ain't no future with him, that's for damn, none

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Speaker 1: he's sexy though? Coming over her house? Put this robe

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, Man, let me talk to

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Speaker 1: You gotta start looking at that ear hair. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: that's bad because ear hair makes you look old. Duck. Really,

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Speaker 1: you need to start looking at that nostril hair. Yeah yeah,

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Speaker 1: President Trump's rollout plan to get the country back open.

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Speaker 1: It'll be in three phases. We'll talk about it right

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