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Speaker 1: it for you. Strawberry Letter. Thank you. Nephew's subject my

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Speaker 1: daughter is married to a hobo. Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm concerned.

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Speaker 1: I'm a concerned parent, and I know you're going to

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Speaker 1: tell me to mind my business, but I can't this time.

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Speaker 1: I have a twenty nine year old daughter that is

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Speaker 1: in love with a trifling man. I know you can't

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Speaker 1: relate because you're a hard working man like my husband.

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Speaker 1: My daughter has lived a sheltered life with her father

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Speaker 1: and I giving her every opportunity available. She graduated from

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Speaker 1: a hobo is puzzling to her father and I. This

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Speaker 1: man won't take a nine to five job because he

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Speaker 1: doesn't want a boss. He wants to be one. He's

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Speaker 1: had several failed business ventures, and I know my daughter

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Speaker 1: is funding all of them. She's told us that we're

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Speaker 1: old school, and the new generation of married couples believes

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Speaker 1: in one another's dreams and nothing is impossible. We're not

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Speaker 1: that old, and we know that money makes the world

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Speaker 1: go round. I have stopped paying her credit card bills

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Speaker 1: after I saw that she charged a bunch of printing

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Speaker 1: equipment on her Amex so he could start up a

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Speaker 1: T shirt business. They live in our old home, which

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Speaker 1: she has done some nice upgrades in. They drive her car,

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Speaker 1: which her father got for her as a gift after

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Speaker 1: her husband totaled her other one because he ran a

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Speaker 1: red light. It's one thing after the other, and I

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Speaker 1: don't know if she's pretending to be in love to

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Speaker 1: know how to tell us. I want this hobo to

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Speaker 1: get it together and be the man that my daughter needs.

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Speaker 1: My husband send him a few job leads in the

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Speaker 1: insurance field, and he said he can't work from home

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Speaker 1: because he's a free spirit. He's not free spirited. He's

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Speaker 1: a hobo and she can do better. Is there anything

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Speaker 1: we can do to reach her? This sounds like just

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Speaker 1: a case of much was given to your daughter and

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Speaker 1: nothing was required. I mean, first of all, you got

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Speaker 1: to stop calling him a hobo. He's a loser, this

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Speaker 1: your daughter and he took it. You and your husband

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Speaker 1: have done a great job with educating your daughter and

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Speaker 1: and she's done that. But I think enough is enough.

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Speaker 1: Now you got to stop giving her things. You're still

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Speaker 1: spoiling her at twenty nine. I mean, how will her

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Speaker 1: man ever step up and start providing for her if

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Speaker 1: you guys are always there. Not that he would do

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Speaker 1: that anyway, because every time you present him with an opportunity,

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Speaker 1: he has an excuse of why he shouldn't do it

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Speaker 1: or can't do it. He knows you're gonna do for her.

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Speaker 1: There's no urgency for him to do anything for her.

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Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with being old school or

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Speaker 1: we see it, she just doesn't see it. The thing is,

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Speaker 1: he'll never be the man she needs. Doesn't sound like

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Speaker 1: he's built for it, and anyway, he's not doing it

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Speaker 1: now at all. So how many failed businesses and business

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Speaker 1: ventures will it take before he understands that he needs

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Speaker 1: The best thing you can do right now is to

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Speaker 1: at least some of her money so she won't give

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Speaker 1: it all to this loser. Then you got to stay

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Speaker 1: she'll see that he's not the man for her. He's

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Speaker 1: never gonna do anything. He is the true definition of

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Speaker 1: a loser. Steve, Oh, hobo is an interesting word. My

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Speaker 1: daughter is married to a hobo. I wouldn't describe him

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Speaker 1: as that. He's in it. She's enabling this guy who

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Speaker 1: doesn't somebody he hasn't been around, the same thing that

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Speaker 1: that's what it was. She's taken on this role of

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Speaker 1: a nurturer, and she's gonna pay for it in the

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Speaker 1: long run. Now, your parents and your daughter twenty nine,

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Speaker 1: She's just school and top of class, she makes six figures,

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Speaker 1: He wants to be one. He's had several fair business ventures,

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Speaker 1: and you know your daughter's funding him. She told us

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Speaker 1: that y'all old school and the new generation of married

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Speaker 1: couples believes that one another's dreams nothing is impossible. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's true, that you can believe in one another's dreams,

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Speaker 1: and nothing is impossible if you're not the right person

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Speaker 1: for the job. Though, we have a problem, and it

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Speaker 1: just strikes me from the letter, and I know you

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Speaker 1: and your husband have noticed this. He doesn't seem to

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Speaker 1: it's a carryover effect, y'all. If you're nothing in one

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Speaker 1: you will be nothing in other areas until finally you've

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Speaker 1: mastered the art of being nothing nowhere and everywhere. Now y'all,

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Speaker 1: engave a girl everything in her life, gave our AMAX card.

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Speaker 1: He didn't put a bunch of Prittan equipment on it

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Speaker 1: so he can start a T shirt business. Boy, you know,

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Speaker 1: putting how much of my American expression? Because you're gonna

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Speaker 1: He and there, and here's the funny part. All your

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Speaker 1: husband has given him, uh several leads for insurance job.

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Speaker 1: He says he can't work from home because he a

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Speaker 1: free spirit. He's not free spirit, he's a whole bow.

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Speaker 1: And she could do better? Is that anything we could

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Speaker 1: do to reach her? When I come back, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: answer that question. And then we're gonna do a reenactment

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Speaker 1: of me making up excuses why I can't take a job.

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Speaker 1: You know, all right, Steve, hang on, we'll have part

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Speaker 1: two of Steve's response coming up at twenty three minutes

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Speaker 1: after the hour. Today's Strawberry letter subject is my daughter

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Speaker 1: is married to a hobo. We'll get back into it

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Speaker 1: right after this. You're listening, all right, Come on, Steve,

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Speaker 1: let's recap today's Strawberry letter. The subject my daughter is

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Speaker 1: married to a whole bowl. Well, yeah, you got kind

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Speaker 1: of a problem. Let's go to Lutcal. She's twenty nine.

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Speaker 1: She's married to a guy that won't work. Your husband

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Speaker 1: had offered to give him jobs insurance business. He said

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Speaker 1: he can't work for nobody because he's a boss himself.

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Speaker 1: Let me give you the exact words that he can't

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Speaker 1: work for anybody because he's a free spirit. Being free

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Speaker 1: costs money. Being captured costs money. You know. She told

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Speaker 1: that you all an old school and this is how

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Speaker 1: the new school families are doing it. Let me just

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Speaker 1: He's not a free spirit, he's whole born. She can

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Speaker 1: do better. Is that anything we could do to reach her?

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Speaker 1: Here's what I have to say. You can do some

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Speaker 1: things to reach her, but it'd be a whole lot

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Speaker 1: easier to reach him because he ain't at work. Uh

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Speaker 1: Me and Tommy had a company we started a few

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Speaker 1: created a website if you just wanted us to ride

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Speaker 1: down now on somebody. And this looks like a perfect

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Speaker 1: job for ride down that dot Com because he just

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Speaker 1: needed he right, she can do better? Is there anything

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Speaker 1: we can do to reach her or him? Because you

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Speaker 1: want to you want a man to uh make an adjustment.

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Speaker 1: All you got to do. He doesn't want to work

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Speaker 1: from home because he's a free spirit. And she said,

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Speaker 1: she can do better. Is there anything we could do

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Speaker 1: to reach her? Sometimes you got to reach him, and

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Speaker 1: the father needs to slide around the daughter and put

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Speaker 1: missing a lot of stuff. Y'all looking upside his head

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Speaker 1: So now that's the answer to that. How do we

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Speaker 1: can damn sure reach him and just say little stuff

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Speaker 1: I see your punk ass like if he ball headed,

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Speaker 1: Like walk up behind him, daddy and just lick his

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Speaker 1: he doing? Well? Have you looked for anything? Have you

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Speaker 1: filled out any applications today? Oh? I feel like applications everything? Yeah? Well,

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Speaker 1: any prospects, any callbacks? Oh? No? Anybody car? You know

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Speaker 1: it's a pandemic. Most companies don't even have somebody at

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Speaker 1: I can't do that. I'm too free spirited. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: You're driving my daughter's car. Get your own car. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Man. We married yea to each his own

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Speaker 1: even been about it. Man, since callin, when are you

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Speaker 1: cool song because it can't you know when you say

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Speaker 1: Did you like that song? Yeah? Leave in Vogue out

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Speaker 1: of this. I'm want to know when a you're gonna

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Speaker 1: contribute to this household and not have it all the

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Speaker 1: burden on my daughter. That's my question to you. Oh

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Speaker 1: but see you you acted like it's a burden on her.

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Speaker 1: understand I've canceled her credit cards because she I noticed

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Speaker 1: your You cancel who credit card her? Amax? What is

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Speaker 1: we gonna do without the credit card? Miss Hazel? I thought,

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