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Speaker 1: Thank you. A few subjects. It's between me and the mouse. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm married and I think we have

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Speaker 1: a rodent problem in our house because of my husband's friend.

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Speaker 1: Let me be clear. We don't have a filthy house,

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Speaker 1: and we don't eat anywhere but in our kitchen and

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Speaker 1: occasionally in our living room. My husband got out of

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Speaker 1: the military a few years ago and we chose to

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Speaker 1: settle down in a metropolitan area. When our friends come to town,

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Speaker 1: they always want to stay with us. So when my

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Speaker 1: husband's friend got out of the military, he has to

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Speaker 1: stay with us for a while while he looked for

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Speaker 1: a house in our area. Since he's been in our home,

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Speaker 1: there have been certain smells that I have never experienced before.

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Speaker 1: My husband said that his friend is into holistic healing

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Speaker 1: and all different kinds of body oils. I told his friend,

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Speaker 1: we believe in the Lord and we go to the

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Speaker 1: hospital if something is wrong with us. We got into

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Speaker 1: a big argument over his holistic healing theories. And besides

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Speaker 1: the stench coming from our guest room, I saw something

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Speaker 1: tiny and black running really fast out of the room.

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Speaker 1: I told my husband that it might be a mouse

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Speaker 1: and it probably came from his friend's luggage. My husband

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Speaker 1: said that I am taking things too far because I

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Speaker 1: don't like his friend. That same night, we were in

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Speaker 1: the shower together with the walls all steamed up, and

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Speaker 1: I saw a small black speck on the floor. I

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Speaker 1: yelled that it was a mouse. My husband has perfect

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Speaker 1: I know he saw it. Whatever it was, it quickly

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Speaker 1: ran away. That oily man has brought rodents into our house,

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Speaker 1: and my husband allowed this man and his mouse to

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Speaker 1: stay here as long as he needs to. Why is

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Speaker 1: my husband insisting on making me miserable? What do I do? Well? Geez,

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Speaker 1: I never tell anyone to leave their house but they're

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Speaker 1: extenuating circumstances all the time. But this is not good,

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Speaker 1: and I'm really with you. It's the man or the

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Speaker 1: mouse or me. I mean, this is your house too,

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Speaker 1: and I gotta ask you what is wrong with your husband?

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Speaker 1: Why is he so insistent upon letting this man stay

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Speaker 1: in your house? And why is he making excuses for

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Speaker 1: his stinky oils and stuff. There's such a thing as

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Speaker 1: wearing out ones welcome, and I think his friend is

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Speaker 1: way overdue. The friend and and the mouse need to

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Speaker 1: get out. I say, call the exterminator right now. Have

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Speaker 1: them come to your house and exterminate. Do what they do.

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Speaker 1: Either the little rodent nor the friend can continue to

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Speaker 1: have free reign in your house. This is craziness. Let

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Speaker 1: your husband know his friend's time is up, so you

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Speaker 1: guys can get back to living your own lives.

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Speaker 2: Steve, Well, I see another problem here. You know everything

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Speaker 2: you say is fine, sheerly, but you know you married

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Speaker 2: now and you say you got a roading problem, okay,

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Speaker 2: and you say it's because of your husband's friend. Now,

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Speaker 2: how is that so? Now? Then she tried to Now

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Speaker 2: here's the Let me be clear, we don't have a

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Speaker 2: filthy house, and we don't eat anywhere but in our

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Speaker 2: nothing to do with this mouse. Now, I just want

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Speaker 2: to point that out. Now, you might be blaming the

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Speaker 2: wrong person. I don't doubt that you got a mouse

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Speaker 2: with your house being filthy. It would add to it,

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Speaker 2: of course, but you can get a roading up in there.

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Speaker 2: I mean, how do they get in your house? Anyway?

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Speaker 2: Through a crack of crevices under the doorway. It could

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Speaker 2: be anyway they get in they come in outside do

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Speaker 2: you depend on where you live. It could be a

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Speaker 2: you know, a few mouths, or it could be a

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Speaker 2: mouse from a neighbor's house. You know, they got legs.

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Speaker 2: They travel anyway. Your husband got out the military chose

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Speaker 2: Metropolitan area. You know that it's called the city, y'all.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you ever heard of this place

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Speaker 2: Get out there early in the morning and walk to

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Speaker 2: they always want to stay with us. So my husband

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Speaker 2: with y'all. He got all types of smells I've never

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Speaker 2: experienced before, and he said, because your husband friend is

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Speaker 2: in the holistic healing and all different kinds of body

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Speaker 2: of alls. I told his friend, we believe in the

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Speaker 2: Lord and we go to the hospital when some I'm wrong.

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Speaker 2: See it right there, that's that old closed mind thinking

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Speaker 2: there is nothing wrong with holistic healing. There is a

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Speaker 2: place for when you got to go to the hospital.

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Speaker 2: I'll give you example. If you fall and break your arm,

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Speaker 2: you got to carryo ass to the hospital. You I

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Speaker 2: don't know what you fin to put some vinegar around

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Speaker 2: your arm with a garlic cloth on it and gingerbread

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Speaker 2: are packed on it with wrapped in a cabbage leaf.

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Speaker 2: Your arms still gonna be broken. There is a time

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Speaker 2: to go to the hospital. But there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: holistic stuff that you can do that's very very helpful

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Speaker 2: for you. Nature is healing. But you old school, so

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Speaker 2: gay ass on down to the hospital. Now. Remember when

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Speaker 2: you get to the hospital, y'all, remember the one thing

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Speaker 2: they are not into cures at the hospital. They are

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Speaker 2: into treatments. There's a difference. They are into treatments, not cures.

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Speaker 2: They make money off to you. If the hospital cured everybody,

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Speaker 2: if doctors cured everybody, there would be no more income.

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Speaker 2: But they will treat you though, they'll give you a peal.

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Speaker 2: That's just a personal note. Now, when I come back,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you where I think the damn rat

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Speaker 3: All right, we'll have part two of Steve's response coming

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Speaker 3: up at twenty three minutes after the hour of The

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Speaker 3: subject for today is It's.

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Speaker 1: Between Me and the mouse. And I want to thank

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Speaker 1: my friend Carla for sending me a meme of a

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Speaker 1: mouse yesterday. You're well, you know you did it. You

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Speaker 1: know you did it back right after this, you're listening

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Speaker 1: morning show. All right, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry letter.

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Speaker 1: The subjects is it's between me and the mouse.

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Speaker 2: Well, we got this lady that's got a husband that's

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Speaker 2: in the military, and they have people staying at their

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Speaker 2: and he got a lot of owls and body stuff

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Speaker 2: and smells. That's coming from the room that he's staying at.

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Speaker 2: But the problem is not that they are. They got

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Speaker 2: into a bigger argument about his holistic stuff, and she

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Speaker 2: told him we know the Lord and we go to

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Speaker 2: the hospital when something wrong. Okay, well, okay, that's an

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Speaker 2: argument that can be had. I understand both sides. Problem is,

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Speaker 2: you saw a mouse, a little black thing that ran

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Speaker 2: real fast from his room. All right, Now, smells can

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Speaker 2: attract rodents, Smells attract flies. The flies is coming odors

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Speaker 2: at insects and rodents. That could be where the road

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Speaker 2: it came from. I doubt, very seriously if anybody's traveling

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Speaker 2: with a with a mouse in their pocket, or I

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Speaker 2: doubt if anybody's got a mouse in their luggage in

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Speaker 2: their pocket. Yeah, I just think the rat came in

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Speaker 2: the house. Now, it could have came in there because

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Speaker 2: of the smells, the sudden, weird smells. That's why he

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Speaker 2: could have come into your house. You don't know, but

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Speaker 2: you're blaming this man, and now you want the man

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Speaker 2: to go. Your husband say, you're overreacted. What got y'all

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Speaker 2: was you was in the shower with your husband handling

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Speaker 2: your business. You saw something black on the floor run

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Speaker 2: real fast. You say you need glasses, and your husband

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Speaker 2: got perfect vision, so you know he saw it. He

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Speaker 2: probably did. But I'm gonna tell you we as men,

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Speaker 2: when we see something wrong at the house, we be quiet.

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Speaker 2: We gonna run that flag up. We don't go, oh wow,

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Speaker 2: there here's a mouse in here drags. We just handle

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Speaker 2: it because it ain't no need of making this no

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Speaker 2: bigger than it is. He could have seen the mouse.

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Speaker 2: But what I don't understand is why why are we

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Speaker 2: still writing about the damn mouse? Though?

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Speaker 1: Because it's a mouse in the house.

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Speaker 2: What you get rid of that mouse so fast? Let

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Speaker 2: me give you my experience.

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Speaker 1: Upset about this, I'm not.

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Speaker 2: I promise you in three days you won't see no

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Speaker 2: trace of mouse. First of all, they have this item

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Speaker 2: out called dcon Open it up, you tag the package.

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Speaker 2: It has an aroma that attracts rotors. They eat the road,

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Speaker 2: they eat it. The stuff in the decon makes the

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Speaker 2: mouse thirsty. It creates a thirst. Then they go to

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Speaker 2: wherever they water source is licking water off for condensation, piper,

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Speaker 2: a leak or something, and they go get some water.

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Speaker 2: Once they get the water, the water blows them up

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Speaker 2: and they die. Okay, So now they have old fashioned

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Speaker 2: stuff like mouse traps. Put a piece of meat and

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Speaker 2: cheese on it, Pam, shut him down, crack him in half.

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Speaker 2: Now you got to do discussed picking him up. My

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Speaker 2: it when they get stuck on it and they be hollering.

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Speaker 2: Then their friends come out to see what's wrong. When

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Speaker 2: the two. I love him glue traps. There's so many

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Speaker 2: ways to get rid of that. You could buy a cat,

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Speaker 2: I trust me, in two days, the damn mouse is gone.

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Speaker 2: Cats don't miss the hats. Don't miss the mouse is

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Speaker 2: not the problem. The real problem is you don't like

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Speaker 2: the man. Y'all have a big ass argument and now

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Speaker 2: you want the man. Go now them alls that you

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Speaker 2: smelling that you see like, I knew this dude in

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Speaker 2: New York. He was a Musk oil salesman. And every

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Speaker 2: But you're not really I'm not. I don't like them

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Speaker 2: alls on the street like that. That ain't you know?

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Speaker 2: I like? I like my smell coming from a counter

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Speaker 2: to smell like fern old mouse, because when you put

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Speaker 2: It's like when you go over your grandmama's house and

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Speaker 2: But it ain't a moth in there there, and it

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Speaker 2: don't know why I'm going with this. I just said, Hey,

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Speaker 2: if you want to get rid of the mouse, you

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Speaker 2: can get rid of the mouse. But where the mouse

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Speaker 2: ain't the problem? You don't like the man. The man

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Speaker 2: long is he going to be there? He'd be there

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Speaker 2: whole story. He saved my life. Yeah, make up a store,

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Speaker 2: He pulled it in and threw it back out, saved

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Speaker 2: our life.

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Speaker 1: He got to stay here on Instagram or face. He's

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Speaker 1: been here a long time. Instagram or Facebook.

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Speaker 2: And Steve Harvey he had to save my life. I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't even be here.

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