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Speaker 1: Coming up at the top of the hour, right about

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Speaker 1: four minutes after. It's my strawberry letter for today. The

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Speaker 1: subject he cheated and I embarrassed him. Take my mind out.

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Speaker 1: He cheated and I embarrassed him? Is the subject for

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Speaker 1: today as the strawberry right now, Junior is then for

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Speaker 1: the nephew with today's praying phone call. What's you got, Junior?

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Speaker 1: Gotta good with funny? What's your guys? Your son didn't

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Speaker 1: make the tease? Yeah, your son didn't make the tea readiquet. Hello. Hello,

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to reach Ms. Lillio. This is she Mass

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Speaker 1: This is coach Watkins up at the up at the school.

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Speaker 1: How are you, hey, Coach Watkins? I'm fine. What can

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Speaker 1: I do for you? Listen, we've had Malik out for

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Speaker 1: the last week and a half. He's been coming to

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Speaker 1: practice here at the at the Junior High School, and

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Speaker 1: I wanted to reach out and give you a call

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Speaker 1: about everything that's going on. Oh yeah, Well, I know

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Speaker 1: he's really excited. He can't wait to start the season.

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Speaker 1: He's he's he's ready and well, you know what, I'll

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Speaker 1: be honest with you. He's a great kid, and uh,

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Speaker 1: he's got a good heart, and he's really really really

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Speaker 1: trying and trying to produce as much as possible. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, he loves the game and he's been playing

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Speaker 1: since he was a little kid. He yeah, yeah, and

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Speaker 1: you know this is uh, you know, this is the

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Speaker 1: seventh grade. This is the first time some of these

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Speaker 1: kids have played um organized football, and this is the

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Speaker 1: first time playing school football. And it's it's a big

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Speaker 1: it's a big transition that if you've been playing Little

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Speaker 1: League ball or Pop Warner or whatever you want to

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Speaker 1: call it, it's a it's a big difference in a

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Speaker 1: big transition to go from one to the other. You understand, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do understand. But Malik has been working really hard, yes,

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Speaker 1: and he's ready. Well well, well let me let me

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Speaker 1: say this. My main reason for calling you is letting

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Speaker 1: you know that Malik as a right now, is not

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Speaker 1: going to be able to make the cut as far

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Speaker 1: as he's not gonna be able to make the cut

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Speaker 1: as far as being on the team for this year. Now,

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Speaker 1: I wait a minute, you said, wait, wait, hey, you

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Speaker 1: said that Malief it's not gonna be happy to make

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Speaker 1: the team. You know, it's not gonna make the team.

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Speaker 1: He's a great kid. You know, he's a great I

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Speaker 1: know he's a great kid. But women, now, he didn't

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Speaker 1: play Pop Warner and he was a stunning quarterback, So

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Speaker 1: what are you talking about. He's not gonna make the

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Speaker 1: team this year. He was the best thing had out

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Speaker 1: on that squad. Okay, and you know what I've I've

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Speaker 1: heard a lot about him. I heread he did a

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Speaker 1: great job, and hear about him. Wait a minute, wait

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Speaker 1: a minute. Have you seen this stat wheny touchdown in

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Speaker 1: the season. Understand the kids is out there doing that.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, but right now, we've got a

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Speaker 1: lot of different kids that are coming into this particular school,

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Speaker 1: so you know, the competition has gone greater and greater

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Speaker 1: than what we could possibly understand. Wait a minute, when

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Speaker 1: this is seventh grade, first of all, everybody makes the team.

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Speaker 1: Nobody gets cut in the first place. You got an

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Speaker 1: A team and the B team. So you're telling me

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Speaker 1: my baby ain't made none of them teams right right now?

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Speaker 1: Ms Lydia, Uh you know, uh, Malick, Like I said,

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Speaker 1: Malik is a great kid. I like it. I know

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Speaker 1: what Malick is. I know that he's a great kid

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Speaker 1: and he's a ball player. Now, I make sure that,

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Speaker 1: so don't come telling me that he's not good enough

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Speaker 1: to make the cut on on this seventh grade team. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling me who who is the quarterback? Who? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you tell me what's going on? Who is the quarterback? Well? Actually,

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Speaker 1: right now, my my my my son is the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Your son? But well, yeah, don't actually the quarterback. He

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Speaker 1: hasn't done any pop warn or anything, but he really

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Speaker 1: has what it takes to be. He never played football before,

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Speaker 1: or he's never played organized football, but he he's gonna

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Speaker 1: be the quarterback for the seventh grade team. Is that

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Speaker 1: what you're telling me? Well, yeah, my son is actually

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Speaker 1: starting quarterback, but that my son's gonna make the TV

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Speaker 1: and my son screw touch down touchdown? Is that what

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Speaker 1: you're telling me? Hell no, I'm calling up to that

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Speaker 1: cool tomorrow. I will be up here tomorrow. Wasn't listening

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Speaker 1: to me explain something of worth? No? No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what this is. It's nepotism or what

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Speaker 1: everything you got going on around here? But hell no, Mo,

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Speaker 1: sa ain't Nathan what? Hell no, you're gonna be smoking

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Speaker 1: the city to mind when I get up there. Ms

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Speaker 1: Lydia what I want to say this is this, if

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Speaker 1: your son would take a year off lord and try

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Speaker 1: to get itself together and get his fundamentals together in

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Speaker 1: the mint together a greater football player when he gets

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Speaker 1: to be headed to the eighth grade. Was the right

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Speaker 1: star last year? What's your ting about this fundamentals together?

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Speaker 1: Your son ain't never even pros. But you know what

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Speaker 1: I've I've worked with my son and you know, and

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Speaker 1: it's a little on it's a little awkward for me

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Speaker 1: to try to talk about what my son has done. Hey, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be Hawes with you to talk about because

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Speaker 1: you don't know what your son is done. Because ain't

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Speaker 1: nobody ever seen your son? You just got this dream

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Speaker 1: probably something that you ain't Did you want to live

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Speaker 1: by Karsy through him? Hell no, that's so not in school.

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Speaker 1: I played in hard school, and let me play this.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to do the best that I can and

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Speaker 1: the best of my ability to make sure that everybody

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Speaker 1: gets a good and fair shot at what's going on.

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Speaker 1: But he, but he don't get to play, So what

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Speaker 1: about listen? Didn't get the plays? Probably work out better?

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Speaker 1: Some boodle show that to the model mother's that's some boy.

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Speaker 1: I bet you. I guarantee you this. My son ill

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Speaker 1: be starting this year. I guarantee you this. You don't

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Speaker 1: want that. It is okay right now. All I can

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Speaker 1: say is I need Malik to actually bring his cliques

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Speaker 1: back because my son's gonna need him to play in him.

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Speaker 1: Clea your son again, Your son running down that field,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna rust barefoot. He ain't get mine nothing. Man.

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Speaker 1: From my records. Understanding is that the clicks actually came

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Speaker 1: from mothers. This is the one that told you that

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Speaker 1: my son can't fight your record sation. Everybody thinking about

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Speaker 1: your records, You your mama and the day she bust

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Speaker 1: your man. I'm never gonna say and go back and

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Speaker 1: forth with you. All I'm trying to say, is it

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Speaker 1: that maleague's gonna about to do? You started looking for

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Speaker 1: a new get your bast together. You know what, ma'am,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go back and for I got one

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Speaker 1: more thing I need to say to you. Nothing that

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Speaker 1: you ain't. You ain't got nothing else to say to me.

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Speaker 1: My son to be playing, and I'll be up there tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I have one more thing I need to say to you.

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Speaker 1: Are you listen only thing you need to tell me,

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Speaker 1: it's who I need to talk to tomorrow. Now, I'll

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Speaker 1: let you know that as soon as I tell you

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Speaker 1: this are you're listening to. I'm listening. What this is? Nephew,

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Speaker 1: tomt me from the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Your sister

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Speaker 1: Aina got me to prank phone call you. I'm a man.

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Speaker 1: I thought I was really closed. You gotta be hot

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Speaker 1: day was going told oh man, but I got something

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Speaker 1: as what is the baddest and I mean the baddest

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Speaker 1: radio show in the land, Steve Harvey loaded shout, Oh lord,

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Speaker 1: it is. Sometimes you gotta let him know. You know

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Speaker 1: your son didn't make team. What you're getting mad for?

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Speaker 1: You don't want talented? When you brought him out of here, Junior,

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Speaker 1: you're having a moment, Well that's what it is? What moment? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: He isn't You know my nephew didn't make the team.

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Speaker 1: I knew he wasn't gonna make the team. You know,

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Speaker 1: he didn't made the band. Calling he halled band equipment

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Speaker 1: Like that's his job. He's the manager of the band. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he hall band equipment. That's his job. Who my nephew?

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Speaker 1: Now he wants me to come out to the game equipment. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: see him hall band equiped. I'm not going out there

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Speaker 1: seeing put the tubles under the bus. But after that,

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Speaker 1: what do you do? We do what we do. We

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Speaker 1: never the bay in need and what I do. So

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Speaker 1: you ain't made the band, No, I ain't made it.

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Speaker 1: A standing in the symbols. He in the back room

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Speaker 1: shining up the symbols. And you gotta go see that, right,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Junior. Coming up next year Strawberry letter subject

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Speaker 1: he cheated and I embarrassed him. We'll do the Strawberry

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Speaker 1: letter coming up right after this