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Speaker 1: Bugle up. Hold on you here, it is the Strawberry Letter.

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Speaker 1: He's crazy. He really is crazy because whatever I know.

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Speaker 1: All right now, listen, pay attention, Steve subject, my best

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Speaker 1: friend cannot be okay with this? All right, here's Stephen Shirley.

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Speaker 1: I've lost my best friend. We've been best friends for

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Speaker 1: over fifteen years, the best of friends. We were thickest

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Speaker 1: thieves and nothing could keep us apart. Whenever she got

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Speaker 1: in relationship, she introduced me as her brother, and I

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Speaker 1: got along with all of her boyfriends. She started dating

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Speaker 1: her in what Whenever she got into relationships as her brother,

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Speaker 1: did that for whatever reason, Like you know, they're close,

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Speaker 1: so she's like, this is my brother. It's not her brother.

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Speaker 1: They're just friends. A dude, Yes that wrote the letter. Huh, yes,

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Speaker 1: you're cool now. Whenever she got in relationship, she didn't

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Speaker 1: all right. She started dating her current boyfriend, and I

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Speaker 1: didn't approve of him at first because he had a

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Speaker 1: reputation of being a liar and a cheater. I played

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Speaker 1: it cool and supported her through all of the drama

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Speaker 1: and break the breakups with him. He knows I don't

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Speaker 1: really like him, so one night he invited me to

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Speaker 1: go to the strip club with him. I met him

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Speaker 1: He paid for all of my drinks and lap dances,

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Speaker 1: and we both ended up getting really drunk, and since

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Speaker 1: you to pay attention? Okay, I'm did I miss something, Monica? Miss? Okay?

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Speaker 1: This woman has this man? Man is writing a letter. Yes,

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Speaker 1: this is written by a man and his friend who

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Speaker 1: was a girl getting relationship with dudes. She didn't approve

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Speaker 1: it is one dude because he aling to cheat. Okay,

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Speaker 1: now go ahead, because I missed. Okay, So so anyway,

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Speaker 1: he wanted to stand on my couch instead of driving

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Speaker 1: we yeah, okay through this one, come on, So I

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Speaker 1: let him. One thing led to another, and we ended

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Speaker 1: up naked and rolling around on the floor. What you mean?

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Speaker 1: One thing lead to another? We ended up naked around?

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Speaker 1: Can I finish the letter? And then he responded, I

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Speaker 1: thought I thought these was two girls? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: But right in the in the what second or third sentence,

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Speaker 1: he says, whenever she got into relationships, she introduced me

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Speaker 1: would you be introducing this lady? Is your brothers? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: It's the okay, all right? I felt awful. The next

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Speaker 1: up getting really drunk, and since I lived close to

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Speaker 1: that happen? Can I Can I say something? Whole? You

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Speaker 1: do pranks? You can't say nothing else. Yeah, we don't

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Speaker 1: want that. I felt awful the next day and wanted

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Speaker 1: She told me that I never should have been hanging

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Speaker 1: without her knowing it. She accused me of pursuing him.

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Speaker 1: She knows her man is not my type. And I

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Speaker 1: explained that when I went out with him to keep

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Speaker 1: I can't get her to see past his lies and manipulation.

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Speaker 1: be able to get that back. You slept with her man.

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Speaker 1: You slept with her men. You broke the friend code.

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Speaker 1: You know, normally here we would say the girlfriend code,

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Speaker 1: but you brought Since you're a dude, we say you

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Speaker 1: and that's why she's mad at you. You were wrong, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you were wrong for getting with her guy, the subject

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Speaker 1: this um. You didn't get a chance to respond, your

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Speaker 1: I'm just assuming her her best friend is game a

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Speaker 1: gay guy. Okay. We were thickest thieves and nothing could

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Speaker 1: me and lying to Cheetah. I played it cool and

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Speaker 1: He knows I don't really like him, so one night

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Speaker 1: He invited her friend, her brother, her brother, the guy

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Speaker 1: What what thing? What is? I need to know what

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Speaker 1: that is, so I'll make sure you don't because if

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Speaker 1: I've been to sell all the scotch in my damn

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Speaker 1: house married, and you don't go to the strip club,

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Speaker 1: so you're good, and I'm not sitting up in the

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Speaker 1: floor with another man, and then makes this statement, one

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Speaker 1: I ain't no One thing led to another. Dog This

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Speaker 1: has got to be something you've had in your head

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Speaker 1: for a long time and has acted on before, because

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Speaker 1: ain't know, one thing laid to another and we ended

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Speaker 1: I'm sitting next to my partner and he got on

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Speaker 1: got that steep, But you're a straight heterosexual. Man. I know,

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Speaker 1: That's the space between us. So now we got up

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Speaker 1: that I wanted to tell my best friend everything. See

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Speaker 1: right here, see dog, Now, let me plain something to you.

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Speaker 1: It's rules to this game that we out here read on.

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Speaker 1: What you cannot do is go tell it well, because

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Speaker 1: you're gonna hurt the girl. Huh. I felt awful the

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Speaker 1: way to break this news to her. She was furious

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Speaker 1: with me, not him. She told me I never should

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Speaker 1: a strip club without her knowing it. She accused me

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Speaker 1: of pursuing him. You probably did, though, but he pursued

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Speaker 1: you too. She knows her man is not my type.

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Speaker 1: What what didn't you just say y'all was nicking on

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Speaker 1: Somebody was all right somewhere. So do you think she

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Speaker 1: she knew that her men's bisexual? Uh? I think that

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Speaker 1: she's not upse man. Yeah, she's not upset. I think

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Speaker 1: will I attempt, because in all honesty, I don't want

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Speaker 1: because I don't know the rules of engagement in these

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Speaker 1: want to have a comment because I don't know. But

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Speaker 1: but Steve, let me just say this though. Wouldn't you

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Speaker 1: think it would be the same if you with heterosexuals,

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine what you say. I can't if you're

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Speaker 1: is what's happening here, cal who's sleeping with my wife?

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Speaker 1: You know how that what's happening here? Though? Do you

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Speaker 1: understand what you just said? No, I can't fix that.

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Speaker 1: That's how you have to look at it. You can,

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Speaker 1: you can, That's how you have to look at it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no no no. It weigh motivously. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: that ain't what this matter. I would have something to

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Speaker 1: say about that her best friend slept with her man.

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Speaker 1: Her best friend is a man that slept with her man.

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Speaker 1: Now what she didn't had to wrap her mind, Rod

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Speaker 1: is these two men were sleeping together. Man. She had

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Speaker 1: to know. I'm out all right, guys, we gotta get

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Speaker 1: out of here. You can email us her Instagram. Here's

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on today's Strawberry letter at Steve Harvey f M.

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Speaker 1: And at my Girl Shirley. You're listening to the Steve

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Speaker 1: Harvey morning show,