1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,400 Speaker 1: Buck it up, hold on tight, we got it fight Yeah. 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:06,519 Speaker 1: Here it is the Strawberry letter, Thank you nephew. Subject 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:11,800 Speaker 1: Boo boo Breath's assistant. Wow yeah boo boo Breath's assistant 4 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:16,279 Speaker 1: is the subject. Dear Stephen Shirley. I recently started a 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: new position as an assistant to the office manager. On 6 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: my first day at work, I noticed that everyone in 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 1: the office was looking at me and whispering. I thought 8 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 1: that they were just checking me out because I was 9 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: a new girl, silling me. When my boss got in, 10 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 1: I went and greeted him. Everyone was still looking at me, 11 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: but now they were laughing. And then it happened. The 12 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 1: odor that came out of my boss's mouth dartneer knocked 13 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: me out. It smelled like a baby's diaper and it 14 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: hit me across my face and I almost passed out. 15 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: I realized why my coworkers were laughing. One of the 16 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 1: ladies she was laughing so hard she had tears in 17 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: her eyes. Afterwards, they said they were waiting for my reactions. 18 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:10,679 Speaker 1: They knew I wasn't ready. It's been two weeks now 19 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: and I literally cry in my car before going in 20 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: to work. I have to be closed up in his 21 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,759 Speaker 1: office and meetings every day, and I've tried offering mints 22 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:26,400 Speaker 1: and or gum, but he declines every time. I really 23 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: love my job, but his breath makes it impossible. We 24 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:33,759 Speaker 1: have an off site meeting in a couple of weeks 25 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: and he suggested that me and a couple of our 26 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: teammates ride with him. So now the teammates want me 27 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: to be the one to address this issue with him. 28 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 1: They have chosen me to tell him that his breath 29 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: smells like boo boo. My husband said that I should 30 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: just breathe through my mouth when I'm in his presence. 31 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: He said, my coworkers are setting me up because I'm 32 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 1: the new girl at the office. Since I'm always in 33 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: his face, I feel like I should go ahead and 34 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: say something. Or should I wait until I develop a 35 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: better relationship with him? What should I do? Please? Please 36 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: help me. Wow, this is funky. This is a funky 37 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: situation right here. You're absolutely right, and you love your job. 38 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: You are the new girl. I mean, what about position 39 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 1: to be in. You're the new kid. You're kind of 40 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 1: darned if you do, darned if you don't. Your husband 41 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:26,639 Speaker 1: may be right. They could be setting you up because 42 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: they've been there all this time and they've had time 43 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: to say something to him, and they haven't. They haven't 44 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 1: done anything. His breath still smells like boo boo. But 45 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: your husband's advice to just breathe through your mouth, I 46 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:41,399 Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna work either. I mean, you got 47 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: to live too. You probably will have to find a 48 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: way to tell him because you work the closest with him. 49 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: I mean, you can't just go to his face and 50 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: say your breath smells like boo boo and he's your employer. 51 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 1: I mean, it's not what you say, it's it's it's 52 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: how you say what you say. So you I mean, 53 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 1: you've offered him ment. You've harbard him and got him gum. Uh. 54 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 1: Everybody knows that when somebody offers you a man or 55 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: offers you gum, that you should take it. Everybody knows 56 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 1: that either they're trying to tell you something or peopolite. 57 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:14,919 Speaker 1: All right, So you gotta find a way to just 58 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: I don't know. You gotta say it to your boss, Listen. 59 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,799 Speaker 1: You gotta say something. You have to. You cannot let 60 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 1: this go on. You got to say something, Listen. I 61 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 1: just wanted to tell you, uh, maybe we should go 62 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 1: to the dentist together, or when's the last time you've 63 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,799 Speaker 1: gone to the dentist? Something? You gotta say something, Steve, 64 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: help me out here. Yeah, see, Shirley, you don't. You 65 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: don't do good it letters like this because see you 66 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: two can you're trying not to feelings. Yeah, yeah, I'm 67 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: I'm here for these type letters. Now what you say? 68 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 1: Oh see booboo brewth's assisted right here. That term is 69 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: too loose. It's too kid. You the first day all 70 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: your office workers is looking at you, whispering. You thought 71 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: they was checking y'all cause you knew and on silly me. 72 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 1: When a new boss got in and I greeted him, 73 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 1: everybody was still looking at me, and now they're laughing. 74 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 1: And then it happened. The odor that came out of 75 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:21,160 Speaker 1: my boss's mouth, damn near knocked me out. It smelled 76 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,119 Speaker 1: like a baby's diaper. It hit me, crossing my face. 77 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 1: I almost passed out the right hill. Why are we 78 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:35,359 Speaker 1: calling this letter booboo breath? What do you mean you 79 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: need a stronger name for somebody breath like that? Like white, 80 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: you know, wet white. Your breath smell like a used 81 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 1: wet white. That's what the title is. Letter should have been, 82 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: how about pamper? You could have just said pamper. We 83 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 1: know what a pampa smell like. We've all told a 84 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 1: tape off of a baby that we love deally, and 85 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: when we opened up that pampa, we went commercial running away. 86 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: When did this baby start eating vinegar? Green? Get out 87 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: in your mouth, man mouse, that's not boo boo, that's stink. 88 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:24,239 Speaker 1: First of all, you turn around and your co workers 89 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: was laughing out. Have fought somebody because y'all told yes, 90 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 1: y'all new good in hell? What ill fitting walk up into? 91 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:35,839 Speaker 1: And I'll be damn if you sit there and giggle 92 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: at me when you know what just happened. And then 93 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: your ignorant ass husband talking about breathe through your mouth. 94 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: You can't breathe through your mouth. You need your taste bud. 95 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 1: That's why. To breathe through your mouth if you want to, 96 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 1: won't be able to taste a damn thing. Now you 97 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: at lunch talking about I can't taste nothing. That's because 98 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 1: you was breathing through your mouth. You got you got 99 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 1: to take baby breaths when you round people with thinking breath. 100 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:08,479 Speaker 1: This is how it's got to sound. Listen to this, 101 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 1: listen to all right, hold that breath, Hold that breath. 102 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: You can't breathe. You got sick. This pole bro, This 103 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: Poe girl got this new job. She need her job. 104 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 1: She even said she liked her job. First day. All 105 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: the people looking at ain't nobody saying nothing too. They laughing. 106 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 1: They figured it's silly because it's her first day. Then 107 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: her damn boss came in and she didn't know why 108 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 1: everybody was laughing until he said, hello, Hello, how you doing? 109 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: H words? I don't know why people got bad, bro 110 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: use a lot of H words. Hello, how you doing? 111 00:06:54,600 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: How's your day? Anything I could help you? How long 112 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 1: you've been here? Here's another one who recommended you nothing? 113 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: Who you standing there? You just put your eyelashes on? 114 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:24,239 Speaker 1: Who is strong? Steve? You had just put them damn 115 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 1: ol yeah now here. You don't know what that is 116 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: on your face? You think a bugged and got on you, 117 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: but your eyelashes and fell on your damne all because 118 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: he and then you know you're gonna offer him a minute, 119 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: And he said no, he know a man ain't gonna work. 120 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: He know that what if you cover a president when 121 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: somebody breaths think that bad offering them minute? You know 122 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: why they don't never take mints because they can't taste 123 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 1: them exactly? Why listen to me, y'all, I didn't know 124 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 1: they were real stink breath. Don't ever wanna make because 125 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: they can't taste them? Well, then do they know that 126 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 1: they're breast? I didn't know that sugar cube? That's like 127 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: taking a sugar coo, a sugar cube and having put 128 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: it on a tablespoon of sugar honey iced tea. That's 129 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 1: why take a cuba, put it on a tablespoon sugar 130 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: and swallowing. Give me if you like sugar any more? 131 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:36,680 Speaker 1: If so, Steve, let me ask you this then no, 132 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:40,839 Speaker 1: let me tell you just well, I want to know, okay. 133 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: If they can't taste it, then do they know they 134 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: have bad breath? Like this? If you don't know, if 135 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: they knew that, they killed themselves, somebody got to say something. 136 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: They don't know that. She's got to see something. There's 137 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: other things you can do, like what like instead of 138 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 1: offering him a mint or some gum, offer him some 139 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: tiddy boat, offer him some tidy bowl. Just hand it 140 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:17,679 Speaker 1: to him. Play the commercial with the little man and 141 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:23,720 Speaker 1: the tarlet taking the life play it. Go outside and 142 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 1: hook up a fire holes to a fire hydrant, and 143 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: when he turned around and say hello, blow his whole 144 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 1: damn mouth off with that fire hole. Fees are the 145 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 1: type of drastic measures you have to tape take with 146 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: people's breath that smell like hot garbage. Yeah, yeah, you've 147 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:47,839 Speaker 1: opened up trash can in the summer when you was 148 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 1: a little boy. Ye know what that smell like. So 149 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 1: that's it. You know everybody now looked every nine and 150 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: everybody breath be kicking. Yeah, let's just tell the tru 151 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 1: But normally for those of us whose breath just kick 152 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: every nine, then we kind of know it. You'll be 153 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 1: talking and you'll go, damn that me, and then we'll 154 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: cut our hands when you smell like exactly like what 155 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: I said, when your breath smell exactly, see exactly what 156 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: that exactly exactly like the crack of your aid if 157 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: you got exactly I see the reason the reason you 158 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: don't never see people blowing into their hands when they 159 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 1: got bad breath, it's because they did it one time 160 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:49,439 Speaker 1: and it knocked their ass out, and when they came 161 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 1: to they didn't know what the hell now she needs 162 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:54,680 Speaker 1: she wants to know how to tell him. She's got 163 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: to tell him. You don't. You can tell him with 164 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:01,679 Speaker 1: your body language in your face, like like when they 165 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 1: turned and they started talking. Just started doing stuff like 166 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: just staying there. Start just jumping in place, just bounce, 167 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:27,680 Speaker 1: just be jumping in place. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Bless him, Lord, 168 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 1: bless him. Lord. You know I know how he isn't 169 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: talk to somebody with real fucking bro you can't talk now. 170 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 1: You just want to get away from this, Yeah, email 171 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 1: him no to tell him when they're in some of 172 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: those clothes, you need to just get a big piece 173 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:52,080 Speaker 1: of paper. When he started talking, just get a magic 174 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:57,679 Speaker 1: market right shut the air. Far want to lose her job. 175 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: I don't want to lose my eye. But we're both 176 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 1: all right. Thank you. Steve. 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