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Speaker 1: is Strawberry Letter. Thank you nephew. Subject her special healing suit.

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley. I recently moved to a small town

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Speaker 1: and I got a great job making great money. I'm

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Speaker 1: thirty three and the woman I'm working with. The women

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Speaker 1: I'm working with are all in their late forties and fifties.

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Speaker 1: I'm respectful, but there's a sixty year old woman that

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Speaker 1: thinks she's in charge because she's the oldest. She told

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Speaker 1: me to call her Mama May, and she was talking

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Speaker 1: down to me a lot in the beginning. The funny

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Speaker 1: part is that I was hired as a division director.

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Speaker 1: All of these women report to me. Mama May ran

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Speaker 1: the office before I was hired, so she's in my

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Speaker 1: way as I try to change the culture of the office.

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Speaker 1: She does little spiteful things and then acts like she

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Speaker 1: didn't mean any harm. But I'm on to her. I

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Speaker 1: need her to retire because she's weird and she's dangerous.

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Speaker 1: I was congested for three days, so I left work

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Speaker 1: early on a Friday to get some rest. Saturday morning,

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Speaker 1: May popped up at my house with a big pot

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Speaker 1: it was her special healing soup. She told me to

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Speaker 1: eat three bowls a day until I felt better. The

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Speaker 1: soup smelled awful and she would not tell me what

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Speaker 1: was in it. She insisted that I eat a bowl

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Speaker 1: of it before she left. I could basically drink the

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Speaker 1: soup because everything in it was mushy. I finished most

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Speaker 1: of it and she only left so I got back

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Speaker 1: my colon were clear after eating May's special soup. May

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Speaker 1: still won't say what's in her special healing soup. A

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Speaker 1: few ladies in the office said they should have warned

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Speaker 1: me not to let May no I'm sick. Is May

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Speaker 1: a witch or something? What's in her healing soup? Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know about her being a witch

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Speaker 1: or anything like that. No one knows what's in her

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Speaker 1: healing soup because she doesn't tell it. But what I

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Speaker 1: have to ask is where do you live that someone

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Speaker 1: could just burst in your house like that? I mean,

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Speaker 1: was your door open? Was it unlocked? Does Mama may

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Speaker 1: need her to retire because she's weird and dangerous and

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Speaker 1: she does little spiteful things to you. But yet you

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Speaker 1: ate some nasty smelling soup that she brought over and

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Speaker 1: wouldn't say what was in it. Boy, did you take

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Speaker 1: a chance? You took a risk on that one, didn't you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, thank god you're okay, you're alive after eating

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Speaker 1: her soup, But it could have turned out very ugly.

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Speaker 1: Now as far as her being a witch, I mean,

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Speaker 1: like I said earlier, really is this a real question?

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Speaker 1: Because who knows? I mean, we do know she's not

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Speaker 1: a snitch, because you're still trying to get her to

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Speaker 1: tell you what her healing soup. The ingredients to that

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Speaker 1: was and she won't tell you that. But if it

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Speaker 1: can cure congestion and illnesses, I guess the world needs

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Speaker 1: to know about it. I just think you're lucky, you know,

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Speaker 1: would to still be able to write us and tell

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Speaker 1: us about this, because I wouldn't have eaten the soup.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you that, Steve, and I know you wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have eaten it. All right, let's open up this letter

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Speaker 1: of the subject her special healing soup with this statement,

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Speaker 1: you stupid. That's just open with that. Let's go on

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Speaker 1: and this read this dumb ass letter and try to

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Speaker 1: figure out what possessed you to write this letter with

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Speaker 1: all this information in it that you had. Thirty three

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Speaker 1: have started to well, you're in a position now to

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Speaker 1: figure a lot of this stuff out. Stephen Sherley, I

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Speaker 1: recently moved to a small town. I got a great job,

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Speaker 1: with in the late forties and fifties, I'm respectful. Here's

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Speaker 1: a problem, though, got this one sixty year old woman

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Speaker 1: told me to call her mama, made all right, and

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Speaker 1: she's been talking down to you a lot in the beginning.

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Speaker 1: The funny party is you now hit the part I'm

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Speaker 1: about the letter. You are hired as a division leader,

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Speaker 1: so all the women report to you. Mama May ran

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Speaker 1: the office before I was hired, and your letter says,

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Speaker 1: so she in my way. Let's stop right here. She's

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Speaker 1: in your way of running the office. You just said

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Speaker 1: haven't said it yet in the letter, but she's the

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Speaker 1: and you said she was talking down to you in

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Speaker 1: the beginning. But you are hired as division leader, so

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Speaker 1: all these women report to me. Now, you said, Mama

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Speaker 1: May ran the office before I was hired, so she's

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Speaker 1: in my way. Well, seemed to me like Mama May

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Speaker 1: think you in her way. See she ran the office.

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Speaker 1: You about your little young ass up in here. Now

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Speaker 1: everybody got a report to you when she'd been having

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Speaker 1: everybody report to her. Let me ask you a question,

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Speaker 1: why is your position even open? They didn't. Let's not

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Speaker 1: come up with that position. You're feeling a position, Why

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Speaker 1: is that position even open? It's caused Mama made it,

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Speaker 1: got rid of everybody. Don't say she might be a witch,

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Speaker 1: bade it, got rid of everybody's and you go talking

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Speaker 1: about she in your way. Ah, you see nothing, Luca.

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Speaker 1: Let's come back. I'm gonna tell you, but I think

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Speaker 1: you already No, All right, hang on. Coming up in

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Speaker 1: twenty three minutes after the hour, Steve will be back

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Speaker 1: with part two of his response to today's Strawberry letter,

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Speaker 1: the subjects her special healing sup we'll get back into

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Speaker 1: it right after this. You're listening to the Steven Show,

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Speaker 1: all right, Steve, come on, let's recap today's Strawberry letter.

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Speaker 1: The subject her special healing suit. Got this young girl

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Speaker 1: thirty three years old and moved into this small, lovely town,

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Speaker 1: got this wonderful, high paying job. And the women that

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Speaker 1: they work with, she works with it in the late fortis,

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Speaker 1: in fifty. She's respectful of them. But there's a sixty

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Speaker 1: year old woman that thinks she's in charge because she's

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Speaker 1: the oldest. And she told you to call her mama, mate,

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Speaker 1: and she's been talking down to you a lot in

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Speaker 1: the beginning, and then you say, the funny thing is

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Speaker 1: you was hired as a division leader the division director.

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Speaker 1: So all these women report to me. Mama Made ran

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Speaker 1: the office before I was hired, so she's in my way. Now,

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Speaker 1: I pointed out a very factual thought of mine. First

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Speaker 1: of all, why is your position open? How did your

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Speaker 1: job become available? Anyway? And then you thought these women

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Speaker 1: reported you, But you just said, Mama Mate, ain't she

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Speaker 1: run everything? And then you said, Mama May is in

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Speaker 1: your way. Now you're missing the whole letter you wrote

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Speaker 1: you in Mama May's wayne, Yeah, you win the waker

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Speaker 1: some bris. And then you said, yeah in your wakeceruse,

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Speaker 1: you're trying to change the culture of the office. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is a very important line that follows. Next, she

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Speaker 1: does little spiteful things and then acts like she didn't

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Speaker 1: mean any harm. Now, all of a a sudden, this half

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Speaker 1: a shot up and yodough with some damn suit. Oh

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Speaker 1: you don't see it coming. Why oh, now you didn't

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Speaker 1: put this into the game, now you know you. But

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Speaker 1: now you say, she do the spiteful things, act like

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Speaker 1: she mean no harm. But you own to it, right,

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Speaker 1: And now your next statement is I need her to

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Speaker 1: retire because she's weird and dangerous. Then here comes a

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Speaker 1: chance to get somebody out of the way because she

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Speaker 1: in your way. But what you don't know is you

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Speaker 1: and little Mama made way. I got congestion for three days,

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Speaker 1: so I left work early on Friday to go get

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Speaker 1: some rest. Sadday morning, Mama made pops up at the

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Speaker 1: dough with a big pot of orange liquid dripping everywhere.

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Speaker 1: She barged into my house and plopped the pot of

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Speaker 1: suit you saying in your letter letting me quote you.

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Speaker 1: She does spiteful things and tries to act like she

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Speaker 1: didn't mean no harm. Well, you got a big pot

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Speaker 1: of spite sitting on your stove now because Mama made

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Speaker 1: in your way. Yeah, you and Mama made away. Mama

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Speaker 1: made him, bought this party, Mama making fits. She insisted

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Speaker 1: I could basically drink the soup because everything and it

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Speaker 1: was mushy. The reason it's mushy because she over balled

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Speaker 1: so you wouldn't be able to recognize the incredients. I

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Speaker 1: finished most of it and she finally left, so I

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Speaker 1: later in the worst stomach pain I ever had. I

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Speaker 1: made special soup, May still won't say what's in her

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Speaker 1: know I was sick. Is May a witch or something?

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Speaker 1: What is in her heels? Man? Let me clear up

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Speaker 1: how you think May got in charge at the office.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, yeah, old mother maide and killed lost people,

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Speaker 1: oh lord, and some people that went home and they

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Speaker 1: up at the doe with the healing suit. They just

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Speaker 1: don't come back to work. You need to do some

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Speaker 1: research and find out how many of your co workers

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Speaker 1: it out there. Anybody want to say, Mama May killing people?

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Speaker 1: This is a lot of about potential. This is one

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Speaker 1: you need to catch your little ignorant as kids on

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Speaker 1: Facebook that do all these mass shootings and everything. See

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Speaker 1: you ignore this signs, Uncle Steve, don't ignore no signs.

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Speaker 1: This is a Facebook post warning, just like them ignorant

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Speaker 1: people to be doing all the mass shootings. Mama made

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Speaker 1: is a killer Mama maid, and kill some people befolk.

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Speaker 1: And your answer, you'd ate them three bowls like she

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Speaker 1: told you your ants wouldn't be at work Monday morning.

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Speaker 1: Problem solved. Now it's Mama made. Really, I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: Did I use that as an example to get your attention? Yes?

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Speaker 1: I did? Why did you drink the soup? I don't

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Speaker 1: have no idea cause you stupid. I have a rule,

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Speaker 1: but I don't eat from people I don't like. No,

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