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

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Speaker 1: this one right here, right now.

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Speaker 2: Bug a up, hold on tight, We got it for

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Speaker 2: you here. It is a Strawberry.

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Speaker 1: Letter subject she gave me more than I bargained for.

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley, I need your help on how to

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Speaker 1: resolve a big mess with one of my girlfriends. I

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Speaker 1: have a nonprofit organization for homeless women, and I provide

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Speaker 1: clothing and toiletries for the ladies. I've been using part

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Speaker 1: of my living room to sort donations. An old friend

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Speaker 1: of mine recently lost weight and donated her old clothes

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Speaker 1: to my organization. I went by her house to pick

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Speaker 1: up the items, and I was happy to see that

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Speaker 1: she had two big black garbage bags full of clothes.

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Speaker 1: My trunk was already full, so she put the two

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Speaker 1: I saw it was a big brown roach on my

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Speaker 1: back seat. I didn't know how it got in there,

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Speaker 1: but I live in a humid city, so it could

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Speaker 1: have crawled in from the outside. I went on home

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Speaker 1: and put both bags in my living room, and I

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Speaker 1: the phone ringings. I went back into my living room

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Speaker 1: a few minutes later to find a roach crawling on

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Speaker 1: get a cell phone video of the bugs. I called

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Speaker 1: my husband at work and he came straight home. He

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Speaker 1: checked my car and found two small roaches in there.

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Speaker 1: He called an exterminator to come immediately to spray the

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Speaker 1: house and my car.

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Speaker 2: Be quiet, you, guys.

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Speaker 1: I called my girlfriend and to her I threw her

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Speaker 1: clothes away because they were full of roaches. I asked

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Speaker 1: her to reimburse us for the exterminator, and she told

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Speaker 1: me to go to hell. I sent her the roach

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Speaker 1: video and she blocked my number. How can she act

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Speaker 1: like this? Should we take her to court for the money? Really?

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Speaker 1: To court? Come on, now, I know you're mad and

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Speaker 1: grossed out and everything. And I definitely will be and

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Speaker 1: would be too because ew ew. But stop. Okay, she's

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Speaker 1: like anything back. You will not be reimbursed. You sound

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Speaker 1: crazy and ungrateful to her. Why because people with roaches

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Speaker 1: always always always act like is no big deal. They

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: I can't, for the life of me understand this logic,

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Speaker 1: but it is what it is. I think maybe they

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Speaker 1: see roaches so much that maybe they become immune to them,

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Speaker 1: or you know, they're just part of the furniture whatever.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: So you're just gonna have to take an l on

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Speaker 1: this one and go on with your life, okay, And

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Speaker 1: nothing is going to change. You're not going to resolve

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Speaker 1: this issue with her. Be glad you could afford an

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Speaker 1: exterminator so you wouldn't have to deal with as many

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Speaker 1: roaches as she's dealing with in her house. Okay, like her,

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Speaker 1: that's it. Nothing, Just move on, Nothing's gonna happen. It's

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Speaker 3: Steve, should we take her to court for the money?

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Speaker 2: Girl?

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Speaker 1: Stuff?

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Speaker 3: Do you know how much you got to go to court?

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Speaker 3: You're gonna have to take off work. You got to

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Speaker 3: miss days. You got to get some lawyers. How much

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Speaker 3: was the ex exterminator? The roaches just got there.

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Speaker 2: They hadn't even.

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Speaker 3: Had chance to set up. Your husband had the exterminator

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Speaker 3: come that day.

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Speaker 2: Now, let's just come to something.

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Speaker 3: You went over there, you picked up the clothes, your

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Speaker 3: damn self. You put him in the back seat. See

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Speaker 3: that what you get. See when you go picking up bags,

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Speaker 3: You could believe this. Now, they were full of roaches.

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Speaker 3: They that got out in the car. Litt's too, Lou

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Speaker 3: was there. They're making kids in this bank. Indeed, roaches

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Speaker 3: been down in that bag. That ain't no bag. That's

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Speaker 3: Now there there there making little roaches, big roaches. Now

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Speaker 3: You say, you live in a human city, so it

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Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you something. Was the windows down?

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Speaker 3: Because then sound like it it's hot.

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Speaker 2: She had the air on, so you had a on.

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Speaker 2: So now you already know they ain't came in through

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Speaker 3: I didn't know how I got in there, So you

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Speaker 3: are you could have crawled in from outside. So you

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Speaker 3: get home and you put both your bags down in

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Speaker 3: This ain't time for peaking. You got to look. When

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Speaker 3: you see a roach. Peaking is over the roaches peaks.

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Speaker 3: You got to look see.

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Speaker 1: Stomp one more time.

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Speaker 3: Roaches peak. You got to look see stomp. You got

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Speaker 3: to get these roaches before they get to them walls.

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Speaker 1: Who too late?

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Speaker 2: If one pegnant.

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Speaker 3: Roach get in that wall, it's a rap, good, Lord

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Speaker 3: of Mighty. Yeah, you know where they came from, right,

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Speaker 3: because when you came back and got distracted by the

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Speaker 2: You found they had started coming out the bag.

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Speaker 1: Woo.

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Speaker 3: They was on the window and the window seal. You

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Speaker 1: Okay, how hold that thought right there, Steve, we'll have you.

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Speaker 1: You ain't see that coming up at twenty three minutes

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Speaker 1: after the hour subject, she gave me more than I

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Speaker 1: You're listening morning show. All right, Steve, come on, let's

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Speaker 1: recap today's strawberry letter. Subject she gave me more than

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Speaker 1: I bargained for.

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Speaker 3: This damn letter is about roaches. You know, had us

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Speaker 3: all full of hope with the title. She ain't even

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Speaker 3: molding our bargain for house, and boy, what you're complaining

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Speaker 3: for right now? This lady got a girlfriend. She collect

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Speaker 3: clothing for homeless people. Her girl told her she got

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Speaker 3: two big bags over here. Now them bags been sitting

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Speaker 3: there for a while. You took him to hel and

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Speaker 3: fit in your trunk. You put him in the back seat,

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Speaker 3: put him in the back seat, and you noticed on

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Speaker 2: Home something was flying around in the car.

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Speaker 3: That was a roach. You got out, you took the

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Speaker 3: you got ain't no peaking. When you're dealing with roaches,

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Speaker 3: you got this look, see Stump, That's how this worked.

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Speaker 3: You got to be lst You got to look. So

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Speaker 3: now you get distracted, you come back. You peek in

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Speaker 3: the bag that's full of it's a garbage bag full

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Speaker 2: You notice that it was a roach. Had got out, was.

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Speaker 3: Crawling on the window seal, and another roach was crawling

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Speaker 3: on the mirror. They was they had been in that

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Speaker 3: bag for a while, so they was heading to the

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Speaker 3: light new lane. But now all roaches don't like life.

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Speaker 3: So a couple of the roaches and got out. That

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Speaker 3: band got up under something. You got scared, called your husband.

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Speaker 3: He came right home because I be damn here. I

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Speaker 3: have been working my whole life trying to get out

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Speaker 2: And now I'm over here. What what roach?

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Speaker 3: Plus you panic? Y'all call exterminator boom. But he went

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Speaker 3: in there. Now, let me explain something to you. Roaches

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Speaker 3: can survive in the car. They can breathe in the car.

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Speaker 3: Everybody done wasted a French fry down their little seat

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Speaker 2: And the seat. That's huge.

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Speaker 3: Everybody had a little rawn from a doughnut. One whole

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Speaker 3: french fry king pretty much hold a hundred roaches.

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Speaker 2: A week. One long lass French fry can feed a

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Speaker 2: hundred roaches for a week. I don't know that for

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Speaker 2: a fact, but it's just Steve, like, they can hang

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Speaker 3: Okay, So now you called your girlfriend and you told

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Speaker 3: full of roaches. Now, without doing anything, you asked this

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Speaker 3: was talking to her crazy, that's what See, you ain't

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Speaker 3: you gonna gave me funk air clothing. There's roaches in

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Speaker 2: You owe us.

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Speaker 3: And in front of the exterminator, sheetter hung up on you.

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Speaker 3: Your husband took a video of the roaches. Think who

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Speaker 3: need a video of a damn roach? Just because it's

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Speaker 3: a video of a damn roach, don't mean it's her roaches.

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Speaker 2: Cause see, let me tell you about law.

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Speaker 3: Once the roaches are transported, those are no longer her roaches.

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Speaker 2: Them is your roaches. These it's your roaches. Yes, that's

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Speaker 3: Once once roaches leave your property line, them are not

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Speaker 3: and they are now belonged to the new owners that

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Speaker 3: has the dope center for the harvest.

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Speaker 2: This is all court.

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Speaker 3: Cases that I'm like dealing with right now. So I'm

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Speaker 3: just gonna tell you in the court of common sense,

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Speaker 3: these are your roaches, and she cannot reimburse you for

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Speaker 3: your roaches. And you you crazy for writing us. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: this is just about roaches.

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Speaker 1: We don't care, and the lady with the roaches doesn't care.

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Speaker 3: Now, let me ask you a question, then, I want

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Speaker 3: an honest answer. Anybody in here didn't grow up and

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Speaker 3: didn't see no roaches at their house?

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Speaker 2: Oh the rooms man, you see the rooms. So now

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Speaker 2: why she acting brand new? You know, like she don't

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Speaker 2: know what the roach is?

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Speaker 3: Oh, my god, a roach.

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Speaker 1: But I will say this, Steve, having a couple of

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Speaker 1: roaches every now and again is different from an infestation,

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Speaker 1: like living with them, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, like she packed them.

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Speaker 1: Woman, Yeah, there was an infestation. She lived with roaches

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Speaker 1: on a daily basis. That's why it was no big

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Speaker 1: deal to her that.

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Speaker 2: Killroaches and continue conversations.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm saying, don't care. You sound crazy

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Speaker 1: to this one I played, asking Herminator.

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Speaker 2: Pool's house had been overrun with roaches.

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Speaker 3: We been there all night, just putting wine bottles on

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Speaker 3: top of the roaches to kill themaches I killed with the joker,

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Speaker 3: that's your book.

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Speaker 2: I didn't kill roaches with pool sticks, all kind of stuff. Man,

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Speaker 2: I'm not that comfortable.

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Speaker 3: Listen.

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