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Speaker 1: We got it for you here. It is the Strawberry Letter. Subject.

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Speaker 1: When I say crazy, I mean crazy. What'd you say, Steve?

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Speaker 1: I was just saying, oh, all right, here we go.

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm a thirty eight year old wife

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Speaker 1: and mother of four beautiful daughters. My husband and I

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Speaker 1: have been together for eighteen years and married for ten.

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Speaker 1: We have been living separately for the last three years

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Speaker 1: because my husband accused me of cheating in the craziest way.

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Speaker 1: Less than a year after our last daughter was born,

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Speaker 1: he set up a tape recorder in our home to

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Speaker 1: catch me cheating. He told me about the recording and

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Speaker 1: then played the tape from me. All I heard was

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Speaker 1: the baby's cooing and the little mermaid playing in the background,

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Speaker 1: but my husband swore he heard sex sounds on the tape.

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Speaker 1: He made copies of the tape and sent them to

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Speaker 1: his family and a few of our friends. They were

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Speaker 1: puzzled and advised me to watch him because he appeared

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Speaker 1: to becoming unhinged. After that, he stopped sleeping and he

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Speaker 1: started drinking heavily. He told me that our last child

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Speaker 1: is not his, and he started argument daily about this

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Speaker 1: imaginary boyfriend that I had. I was to stay at

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Speaker 1: home mom at the time, so he never wanted me

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Speaker 1: to leave the house, and if I did leave, he

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Speaker 1: would sniff my clothes for traces of cologne when I

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Speaker 1: got home. I eventually called his mom and told her

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Speaker 1: to come and get him. Because my older daughters were

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Speaker 1: afraid of his erratic behavior since he's been living with

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Speaker 1: his mom. He lost his job, got arrested, and was

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Speaker 1: in legal trouble for a while. That was two years ago,

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Speaker 1: and now he's back on his feet and has been

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Speaker 1: in counseling for three months. He wants to come back home,

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Speaker 1: but my daughters don't necessarily want him to. They are

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Speaker 1: enjoying the peace and stability without him. Am I crazy

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Speaker 1: to even consider taking his paranoid behind back, Please advise girl,

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Speaker 1: not without some serious medical help, Okay from a board

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Speaker 1: certified psychologist or psychiatrist. Because I just say this because

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Speaker 1: of his daughters and how they deal. If his own

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Speaker 1: daughters don't want him back in the house, I think

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Speaker 1: this is a major problem. I mean, they are afraid

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Speaker 1: of him. That's not good. He's their dad. The good

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Speaker 1: news in this letter, I will say, is that that

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Speaker 1: was two years ago, and after living with his mom,

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Speaker 1: losing his job, like he's say in the letter, getting arrested,

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Speaker 1: being in legal trouble, he's back on his feet and

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Speaker 1: has been in counseling for three months. So I would

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Speaker 1: say this, there's hope. There might be a glimmer of hope,

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Speaker 1: a light at the end of the tunnel or something.

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Speaker 1: But I wouldn't let him back in the house with

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Speaker 1: just three months of counseling. I mean, remember, come on,

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Speaker 1: this man was sniffing your clothes. He sent out tapes

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Speaker 1: to your family and friends. Even you know they advised

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Speaker 1: you to watch him because he appeared to becoming unhinged.

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Speaker 1: You gotta take all that to consideration. You know, three

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Speaker 1: months of counseling does a whole lot. I just wouldn't

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Speaker 1: let him in with three months of counseling. I don't

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Speaker 1: think you should disrupt your peaceful and stable home right

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Speaker 1: now without some serious intervention from professionals. And let me

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Speaker 1: remind you that he wants to come back, and this

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Speaker 1: is not about what he wants. This is about you

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Speaker 1: and the safety of your home, Okay, and your kids.

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Speaker 1: That's what I say, Steve, Well, this is gonna be

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Speaker 1: an interesting take on him. Just thirty eight year old wife,

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Speaker 1: mother four beautiful daughters. I've been together for eighteen years

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Speaker 1: with your husband married ten They've been living separated for

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Speaker 1: the last three years to three years. They ain't been

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Speaker 1: together three years. That's a long time. Because your husband

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Speaker 1: accused you of cheating in the craziest way. After the

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Speaker 1: in our home to catch me cheating. He told me

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Speaker 1: about the recording, then he played the tape for me.

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Speaker 1: All I heard was babies cooling in the Little Mermaid

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Speaker 1: was baby cooling. My question to you is, normally, when

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Speaker 1: y'all do make love, do you cool? My question to

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Speaker 1: I don't know, baby cool. If you've been doing baby

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Speaker 1: talk in his ear, he has a case. If your

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Speaker 1: specialty ain't been baby talk, then we have a damn problem. Now.

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Speaker 1: The other thing is when y'all do make love, do

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Speaker 1: y'all play cartoon music? Because the Little Mermaid is playing

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Speaker 1: in the background. Most grown ups like Luther Pee Bow,

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Speaker 1: you know, Age Town, knocking the boots. You know several

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Speaker 1: things you could play. You know they thirty eight so

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Speaker 1: you know what you know? Ain't listening to Joe, They said,

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Speaker 1: taking my mind. You know all this hip, but y'all

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Speaker 1: didn't listening to the Little Mermaid. Now your man is crazy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because he swore he heard sex sounds on the tape.

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Speaker 1: Then he made copient take send it to his family

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Speaker 1: and friends. They are called you and say careful, he's

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Speaker 1: coming unhead hod. Okay, we'll have part two of Steve's

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Speaker 1: I say crazy, I mean crazy. We'll get back into

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Speaker 1: All right, come on, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry letters.

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Speaker 1: Subject When I say crazy, I mean okay. This dude

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Speaker 1: had lost his rabbit ass mind to put a recorder

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Speaker 1: in the house. They've been married all these years, eighteen years,

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Speaker 1: married for ten four beautiful daughters. He didn't decided to

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Speaker 1: record her and played the tape back all you his

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Speaker 1: baby cooling and some little mermaids in the background. But

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Speaker 1: your husband swottered. He heard sex sounds on the tape.

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Speaker 1: So he made copies of the tape send them to

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Speaker 1: his family and a few of our friends. They was puzzled.

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Speaker 1: They advised you to watch him. Be careful, girl, he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be in the trash man. Something wrong with him.

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Speaker 1: He's coming unhinged. So after that, he started sleeping. Then

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Speaker 1: he started drinking heavily. Then he told me that your

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Speaker 1: last child ain't his. And he started arguments about his

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Speaker 1: imagine about this, imagine their boyfriend that I had. You

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Speaker 1: was a stay at home mom, so he never wanted

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Speaker 1: you to lead a house. And if he did, he

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Speaker 1: would sniff my clothes for traces of cologne when I

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Speaker 1: got home. Now, let me tell you something, clothes sniffing,

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Speaker 1: close sniffing is not a trait of somebody who drinks.

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Speaker 1: This man than got on some drugs. This ain't drinking.

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Speaker 1: This is no longer alcohol. And I'm gonna show you

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Speaker 1: how I noticed he started sniffing. Clones close sniffing ain't drinking.

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Speaker 1: That's a heavier drug. Now. He eventually called his mom

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Speaker 1: Them as drugs. That's not alcohol. Alcohol is different. Okay,

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Speaker 1: And you know this house, sir, because I know alcoholics.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, you're a lot of alcohol. And then I

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Speaker 1: know a lot of junkies. This is junkie behind here, junkie.

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Speaker 1: See that was two years ago. Now he back on

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Speaker 1: his feet. He'd been in counseling for three months counseling junkie,

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Speaker 1: A alcohol counseling junkie. Oh, this is how you're figuring

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Speaker 1: that stuff out. O. See, that's how you do it.

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Speaker 1: He wants to come back home, but my daughters don't

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Speaker 1: necessarily want him to. They're enjoy the piece and stability

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Speaker 1: without him. And I say to you, ma'am, it's been

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Speaker 1: three years. Yeah, it's been three years. You've done three

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Speaker 1: Why what now? What's different? Counsel You need to find

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Speaker 1: out about what the counselors for. You need to get

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Speaker 1: real serious about this because you're your kids don't even

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Speaker 1: want it back. When the children got better sense than

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Speaker 1: a If the kids don't want to do back in

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Speaker 1: the house, you have to consider that. You know, am

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Speaker 1: I crazy to even consider taking his paranoia behind back? Paranoi?

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Speaker 1: Alcohol does not produce paranoia. He's been on some type

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Speaker 1: man was on something else. Now I don't know what.

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Speaker 1: He didn't put on the weed. You know, it's a substance.

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Speaker 1: You can sprinkle on the weed. You know, ain't nobody

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Speaker 1: dropping nothing in drinks, that's a whole nother high. If

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Speaker 1: If you're putting it on the weed, that's a different high.

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Speaker 1: If you're taking peels for someone you know a lot.

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Speaker 1: All my friends have been involved on a regular basis.

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Speaker 1: I have recovering everything in my life. Everything. Okay, I

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Speaker 1: got pardners. I can't have a glass of Kanyac ground

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Speaker 1: Oh dahn, So you're just gonna drink, you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: bad So I'm just saying I don't know that I'd

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Speaker 1: be so readily taken back. You've been separated three years.

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Speaker 1: Three months versus three years is not long enough. I

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Speaker 1: would let him come over and visit the kids, of course,

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Speaker 1: see how that go for about a year before you

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Speaker 1: even consider and see if you can get the man back.

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Speaker 1: But he has to get rid of these thoughts that

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Speaker 1: all these thoughts about who you're sleeping with. Because cooling

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Speaker 1: you're not having. That's not an adequate sex. Okay. He

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Speaker 1: that begs the question, what is adequate sex? What well,

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Speaker 1: baby clowns are you making? Uh? Huh God, I wanted

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Speaker 1: pecake man. That's not adequate sex, adequate sexy? Oh no

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Speaker 1: you didn't, you black? You really black brandies s? Break

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Speaker 1: my shock? Hold on, who wait a minute, don't stop,

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Speaker 1: get it, get it, Come on, big bath and get it.

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Speaker 1: Wait it, you get caught up. Okay, trick me really

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Speaker 1: really back in, streak me like a pancake. That's that's adequate.

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Speaker 1: That's when you say it's that's for sure. Yeah, we're

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