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Speaker 1: Time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need

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Speaker 1: advice on relationships, dating, work, sex, parenting and more. Please

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Speaker 1: It is the Strawberry Letter subject Somebody has a secret admirer.

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley, I really need your advice for this

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Speaker 1: for this issue I'm having. I have fallen for someone

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Speaker 1: that I've never met in person. I have heard him

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Speaker 1: speak almost every day and I'm not sure if he

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Speaker 1: is single, but I would love to meet him in person.

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Speaker 1: I am single and ready to mingle with him if

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Speaker 1: he is available. This guy makes my toes curl when

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Speaker 1: I hear his voice, and the icing on the cake

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Speaker 1: is that he is very funny and quite handsome. I

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Speaker 1: have been single and abstinent for abstinent for five years

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Speaker 1: by choice. I have been focusing on my daughters, and

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Speaker 1: I'm writing a book about my family and it will

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Speaker 1: be coming out soon. I actually met a guy at

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Speaker 1: Essence Fests one year when you guys were in New

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Speaker 1: Orleans doing a radio show, and I liked him a lot,

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Speaker 1: but he got married on me. I kept hoping you

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Speaker 1: guys come back. What I kept hoping you guys come

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Speaker 1: back to the Essence Fest so I can talk to

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Speaker 1: you in person about my new crush. I live on

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Speaker 1: the West Bank, so I'm not far from downtown. It

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Speaker 1: would be a great time to talk to you about

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Speaker 1: my crush. And maybe you, Shirley or Steve could introduce

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Speaker 1: me to my crush. Wow. I'm not sure if you

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Speaker 1: figured it out or not, but Junior is my crush.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to remain silent and let Junior slip

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Speaker 1: away from me too, So I'm writing you to find

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Speaker 1: out if Junior is single and if he plans to

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Speaker 1: be in New Orleans anytime soon. We get him down

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Speaker 1: next week. If he's got a girl and not interested,

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Speaker 1: then can you please tell me the best way to

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Speaker 1: meet a good man like him? Wait a minute. I

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Speaker 1: like the way he handles his business and he seems

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Speaker 1: like I like the way he handles his business and

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Speaker 1: he seems like a good family man. Or is this

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Speaker 1: a totally crazy way to meet a man? Do I

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Speaker 1: need to change my approach? Please help? Uh? This is

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Speaker 1: so sweet. This is so sweet. I love this. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and yes, Junior is all the things you said in

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Speaker 1: the letter. He's a kind person, he's single, he's got

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Speaker 1: a great job. Junior works out. He's single, he's very funny.

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Speaker 1: You're right about that. He's fun to be around when

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Speaker 1: we hang out. He's fun, he's a life of the pop.

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Speaker 1: Did he just write notes on me? And and did

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Speaker 1: I mentioned? Yes, he's single, and you asked if he

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Speaker 1: was available. Yes, he's available. Yes. He told me he

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Speaker 1: frequents New Orleans because I asked him, didn't I ask you? Junior?

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Speaker 1: You did, but I didn't know about the letter. He

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Speaker 1: said he likes New Orleans, the West Bank in particular.

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Speaker 1: So this could work out, you guys, this could I'm

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Speaker 1: so solid right now. Yes, I know. We got to

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Speaker 1: find out these things. Uh, this is to answer your question.

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Speaker 1: It's a very good way to meet people. Yes, it is.

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Speaker 1: I can give you Junior's number, his availability, I know

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Speaker 1: his schedule, Oh, Shirley, Yeah, and and by the way,

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Speaker 1: by the way, he's a junior. Is a good man.

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Speaker 1: He's a very good man. He loves his family. He's

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Speaker 1: a good family man. I love the way he handles

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Speaker 1: his business. He will handle it. Uh and this is

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Speaker 1: just wonderful. I'm so excited, Junior. Yeah, Steve Shirley, you

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Speaker 1: was alway at right? No, no, yes, all right. Listen

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Speaker 1: go in order, like we don't know this, Junior. Okay,

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Speaker 1: thank you. I need your advice for this issue i'm having.

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Speaker 1: I've fallen for someone that I have never met in person. Okay, Hi,

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Speaker 1: you don't fail for somebody you ain't even met yet.

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Speaker 1: I've heard him speak almost every day. I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: What love this? His voice make your toes curl? What?

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Speaker 1: What the hell? I'm shocked? Shot and your toes curl?

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Speaker 1: I'm shot too? What is your toes curR? With his voice?

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Speaker 1: And the icing on the cake is He's very funny

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Speaker 1: and quiet, hands so she's seen it. It's not for

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Speaker 1: a year. Just talking to the lady, Shirley. But obviously

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Speaker 1: you have you've been single and after it for five years.

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Speaker 1: Now that's another problem. But we've been doing gonna hear

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Speaker 1: key on it. We need a spam can. Yeah. Now,

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Speaker 1: now I've been focusing on my daughters and I've written

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Speaker 1: Don't nobody know you? Man, it's a crazy person. I

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Speaker 1: Who is that? That's just some dude. Probably might have

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Speaker 1: been Timmy. I think I can't ask you guys come

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Speaker 1: in person about this crush. I live on the West Bank,

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Speaker 1: talk to you about my crush. Maybe, Shirley, you are Steve.

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Speaker 1: Steve not gonna talk to you about Jolie. I'm your

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Speaker 1: girl coach because dream like little nephew and I had

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Speaker 1: to watch over my brother. Could you introduce me to

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Speaker 1: my crush? We could, but like Tim to say, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna need some evidence with who you are. All right, listen, Steve,

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Speaker 1: hang on catfishing, nobody in this ship. Hang on Steve

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Speaker 1: for part two. We'll have part two of your response

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Speaker 1: coming up at twenty three after the hour subject someone

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Speaker 1: has a secret admer. We'll be right back right after

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Speaker 1: this you're listening to, all right, Steve, come on, let's

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Speaker 1: recap today's struggle and recap it simple. Sureley, this girl

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Speaker 1: I hear his boy Junior. That's supposed to right now,

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Speaker 1: or Steve, could introduce me to my crush. I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure if you figured it out or not, but my

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Speaker 1: crush is Junior. And when you got to this line,

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Speaker 1: right here, my mouth, fellow, because I keep going back

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Speaker 1: if Junior single, Yes, Junior is single, if he plans

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Speaker 1: being New Orleans anytime soon? Are you gonna being Orleans

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Speaker 1: this year? Junior? Yeah? Yeah, yeah. Now I like the

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Speaker 1: a crazy way, but Tommy gonna give you some information.

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Speaker 1: We need a picture. It's uh when Tommy's twenty. A

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Speaker 1: full body picture. Two, your full body front and back

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Speaker 1: of all this from your chin and up. We don't

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Speaker 1: need that catfishing anymore, real crush, you ain't catfishing nobody

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Speaker 1: on the what you grew in. And I need a

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Speaker 1: time coder. I need your passport because at least we

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Speaker 1: know that's at least ten years. Tommy's Tips, two thousand

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Speaker 1: three at yahoo dot com. Tommy's Tips, two thousand and three,

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Speaker 1: Send us your picture. You still got that damn lift.

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Speaker 1: There's some stuff on that and what celebrity would you

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Speaker 1: most likely look like? We need to know that with

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Speaker 1: the picture, lady, gentlemen, Nail Carter, I'm judging from brand.

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Speaker 1: Ask you questions, judging from the could you give me

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Speaker 1: a profile? What type of person we did it with? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Ask me a series of questions and I answered according

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Speaker 1: Shirley just asked me any asked me any questions you

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Speaker 1: to help you understand who you dealing with. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: she's she's heard the radio show. She she wants us

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Speaker 1: What does that mean? Well? She hard No, no, you

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Speaker 1: You gotta have it together. What else? Okay? Any kind

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Speaker 1: Is it a good thing that she's been concentrating on

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Speaker 1: her daughters. That's a very very good thing. That's also

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Speaker 1: a distraction. I mean, ain't nothing been happening? Yeah? What

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Speaker 1: while celibate. That's scary. Five years and why is that scary? Well,

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Speaker 1: I need you know, I ain't nobody come on? Use

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Speaker 1: is that an area of concern? Frightening thing is I'm

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Speaker 1: I think ain't to want me. I'm unwonnerable. I ain't

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Speaker 1: even wonnerable. Yeah, okay, So what what happened all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden that now she's single and ready to mingle? Well,

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Speaker 1: I need to do something. So write a strawberry letta yea.

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Speaker 1: And what's the problem with the line? I know with

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Speaker 1: Junior has a lot of toe curling moments in his life.

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Speaker 1: So you know, y'all go ski and his damn toes

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Speaker 1: and curl enough too, because he's gonna be too cold. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I like how you with you the back door? Now?

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Speaker 1: I like that Russell. Just y'all be sitting up in

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Speaker 1: both y'all toes. Well, don't you think it's cool that

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Speaker 1: um that she thinks he's very funny and quite handsome?

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Speaker 1: He is very very funny. Now, Junior, handsel, Yeah, Julie's

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Speaker 1: not handsome. You're not handling. I know I'm not handled,

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Speaker 1: but don't don't take that. I'm okay, I'm okay looking. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm not even show about that. I'm not even really

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Speaker 1: show about. Yeah, you're quite handsome, though, Junior. She saw him.

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Speaker 1: June bull crazy person. Well, I like the fact. And

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Speaker 1: what do you think, Steve that if he's got a

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Speaker 1: girl and not interested, tell her the best way to

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Speaker 1: me to man, she's moving on. Junior is available, but

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Speaker 1: we need a picture, telling him the website to send

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Speaker 1: it to Tom Tommy's Tips two thousand and three at

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Speaker 1: yahoo dot com. Tommy's Tips two thousand and three at

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Speaker 1: yahoo dot com. We've been to get to the bomb.

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Speaker 1: and don't forget to check out the Strawberry Letter podcast

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Speaker 1: on demand. You're listening to this Dave Harvey Morning Show