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Speaker 1: got it for you here. It is the straw Berry Letter.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, get ready, Guys on this show subject

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Speaker 1: and unattractive Man's plea for help. Dear Stephen Shirley, I

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Speaker 1: am writing you for advice since I have heard you

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Speaker 1: guys talk about this on your show before. I'm in

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Speaker 1: my mid thirties and I'm an educated man with a

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Speaker 1: since that breakup, I have had problems meeting women. I

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Speaker 1: many possibilities as to why women avoid me, and I've

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Speaker 1: come to this conclusion it's because I am an unattractive man,

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Speaker 1: and I have realized that my facial features aren't the cutest.

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Speaker 1: All right. I wanted to put my theory to the test,

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Speaker 1: so I tried online dating. But instead of putting my

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Speaker 1: of these ladies the day before our date, so there

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Speaker 1: would be no public surprises. I send each lady a

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Speaker 1: to my text. One of them even blocked my number.

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Speaker 1: I know that lying was unethical, but I needed to

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Speaker 1: see if they liked me for me and not how

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Speaker 1: I look. My ex girl friend never complained about my looks,

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Speaker 1: so why are these women so shallow? I have deleted

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Speaker 1: my dating profile and I'm giving it a rest for

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Speaker 1: Come on, let me finish? How should I deal with it?

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Speaker 1: Got any advice? Please help? Yeah? Yeah? Wow? Okay, Well listen, um,

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Speaker 1: there's definitely nothing wrong with wanting to improve your looks

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Speaker 1: with plastic surgery if it'll make you feel and look better.

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Speaker 1: We really, though, have to see for ourselves what you

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Speaker 1: look like in order to make a real assessment on

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Speaker 1: this letter. Didn't You didn't tell us why you broke

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Speaker 1: up with your girlfriend of ten years. You didn't tell

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Speaker 1: if you're unattractive or any man period, you have to

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Speaker 1: It's not always about the looks, all right, Oh it ain't.

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Speaker 1: But it sounds like it sounds like you're I mean,

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Speaker 1: you said as yourself, you're not the most attractive man,

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Speaker 1: so so work on your other features. I would tell

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Speaker 1: That's the damn problem. I was told by this girl

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Speaker 1: So you call into the right place. I'm assuming this

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna use it this once. This ain't about you.

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Speaker 1: But you need specialized help because you're in your thirties

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Speaker 1: Part two of you. Thirty year old man broke up

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Speaker 1: uh you know, walk up to him, to ignore him,

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Speaker 1: Ain't saying nothing. She never mentioned it to you. You

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Speaker 1: Then she s naturalized? Baby, y'all just scaring each other.

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Speaker 1: Maybe dog, she needed you as much as bad as

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Speaker 1: you needed hell get back with her. You're probably gonna

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Speaker 1: need to go back the hood and find out, you know,

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Speaker 1: this going nowhere. Sir Shirley said, you gotta get real clean.

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Speaker 1: You gotta get a lot of swag. You gotta dress

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Speaker 1: real shop, you gotta get a real stylis coming now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you're in the gym and you're

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Speaker 1: the program, man, get your body right tightened up. Though

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Speaker 1: First of all, your girlfriend stayed with your ten years.

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Speaker 1: How unless unless she knew, unless she knew this was

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Speaker 1: she decided I can't play the rain in game now,

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Speaker 1: you said, sir, I've even considered plastic surgery. You didn't

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Speaker 1: say a nose job or nothing. You're really thinking about

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Speaker 1: getting your whole shot took. Yeah, try this website, we

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Speaker 1: ugly two dot com. I like that. I like that

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