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Speaker 1: Strawberry, Thank you, my good friend. Junior subject Boogie wonder Land.

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen, Shirley, My husband and I have owned a

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Speaker 1: lounge for almost ten years, and over the years it's

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Speaker 1: transitioned into a few different things.

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Speaker 3: We used to sell fish and wings.

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Speaker 1: Then we stopped doing food and went to a live

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Speaker 1: jazz and wine tasting. No one came to that, so

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Speaker 1: we started catering to the younger crowd, and that was

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Speaker 1: a big problem because they don't know how to act.

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Speaker 1: So four years ago my husband decided to make it

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Speaker 1: an old school lounge and we put in shag carpet

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Speaker 1: and plants to make it look like the seventies. The

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Speaker 1: neighborhood where the lounge is has gotten pretty bad over

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Speaker 1: the years, but we wanted to keep it in the

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Speaker 1: area because it's where my husband grew up. All of

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Speaker 1: his old friends and his family come to the lounge

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Speaker 1: and hang out, and he doesn't charge them for drinks

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Speaker 1: at all. All of the men have nicknames, and they

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Speaker 1: want to come to the lounge to cheat on their

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Speaker 1: with married men. My husband is cool with it all

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Speaker 1: as long as a lounge has people in it. I'm

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Speaker 1: not in the business of running Boogie Wonderland with old

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Speaker 1: people that don't spend money. We have no smoking signs,

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Speaker 1: but my husband will not enforce it because his uncle

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Speaker 1: comes in there and smokes.

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Speaker 3: I found out last week that.

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Speaker 1: My husband allowed a group of folks to bring in

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Speaker 1: birthday party. I'm sure he let them bring in their

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Speaker 1: own alcohol too. It's time for us to close the

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Speaker 1: Boogie Wonderland. How do I convince my husband to let

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Speaker 1: it go for good? Well, it sounds like you're into

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Speaker 1: the Boogie Wonderland for business, but your husband uses it

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Speaker 1: to kick it with his friends and family and not

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Speaker 1: for profit. Making money doesn't seem like a priority to

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Speaker 1: him now, does it. It's his social hangout, so it

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Speaker 1: will be hard to convince him to let the business go. Clearly,

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Speaker 1: you're ready to go, and you're right, there's no way

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Speaker 1: you can make money. But the way your husband is

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Speaker 1: running things, it's time for you guys to get out

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Speaker 1: before you start losing all your money because giving away

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Speaker 1: free drinks and letting people bring in their own own

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Speaker 1: drinks and food will be a disaster for your business.

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Speaker 1: You and your husband need to have a serious conversation

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Speaker 1: about where this business is going, and you got to

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Speaker 1: let him know how you feel.

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Speaker 4: Steve, Oh, just let a flat out. Just don't make

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Speaker 4: no damn sense. I don't know. I mean, what your

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Speaker 4: husband's in it for is not for the business of

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Speaker 4: making money. I don't know what y'all bottom line look like,

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Speaker 4: your p and l all this here. I don't know

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Speaker 4: what your return on investment is. I don't know how

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Speaker 4: much it costs to run the place. I don't know

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Speaker 4: how much in free alcohol he's given away versus how

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Speaker 4: much he's making. You didn't say if it was profitable

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Speaker 4: at all, but it don't sound like it is. Y'all

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Speaker 4: have no rules of regulation for this place. Y'all just

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Speaker 4: open up, let people do what they theyre In the

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Speaker 4: cooking food, y'all used to sell wings and fish and

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Speaker 4: y'all stopping. Then y'all went to live jazz and wine

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Speaker 4: tastes where they work at? Where do live jazz and

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Speaker 4: wine tass work at in the hood. That's not a

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Speaker 4: you know y'all calling it a lounge. You have a tavern.

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Speaker 4: This is a tabbing this place where old people go tapping.

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Speaker 4: This place, let me tell you. It's places in the

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Speaker 4: hood where old people go taverns. Uh vfw hall. That's

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Speaker 4: another place where bingo. Now they not that they making

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Speaker 4: a few things over you your live jazz and wine tasting.

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Speaker 4: Nobody came to that. Then y'all started catering to the

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Speaker 4: younger crowd. I don't know why you surprised him for this.

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Speaker 4: That was a big problem because they don't know how

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Speaker 4: to duh, duh. Come on, now, you know what this happened.

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Speaker 4: You know what happens at these places. So four years

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Speaker 4: So you put in shag carpet and hanging plants, and

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Speaker 4: you know that it's gotten pretty bad over the years.

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Speaker 4: The neighborhood, y'all got it. Put the place up in.

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Speaker 4: But your husband want to stay there because that's where

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Speaker 4: it up, kicking it. They just they in the backyard.

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Speaker 4: And then all the men got nicknames. Oh I know this.

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Speaker 2: Place right here, O t.

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Speaker 4: Old ot that show for oldest. See, I'll tell you

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Speaker 4: what we do. What give me the old names, and

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you what their nickname is.

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Speaker 1: Ralph, Ralph, Ray, Ray, Earl e.

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Speaker 2: Herman, he Dog, I know all the nickname I got,

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Speaker 2: we got Jerome, Jerome romy Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, y'all know what these is. When we come back,

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Speaker 4: I'll show you the nicknames of the rest of these people,

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Speaker 4: and we're gonna talk about because they want to come

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Speaker 4: to the lounge with these nicknames to cheat on their

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Speaker 4: wives and play spades with women that don't mind messing

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Speaker 4: around with married men. We're gonna find out who these

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Speaker 4: women are, what their name is, what the nickname is,

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Speaker 4: and how they're working out these arrangements while they play

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Speaker 4: in spades, and they don't put up to no smoking signs.

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Speaker 4: But his uncle coming there is.

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Speaker 3: Smoke, uh huh, and he says nothing. Yeah, he don't

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Speaker 3: say it, damn.

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Speaker 4: And everybody scared of his uncle. So ain't nobody.

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Speaker 4: All right? All right, listen, his uncle is Actually he

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Speaker 4: don't have fortunes.

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Speaker 1: our Today's Strawberry Letter subject Boogie Wonderland.

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Speaker 1: All right, Come on, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry letter.

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Speaker 1: The subject is Boogie Wonderland, one of your favorite songs

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Speaker 1: about Earth running fire.

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Speaker 4: It is a great song of mine. Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 4: wonderful group. This wife got a problem with her husband.

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Speaker 4: They've owned a lounge in their neighborhood for quite some

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Speaker 4: time where he grew up and as obviously not making

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Speaker 4: ain't got no rules established in there, he got no

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Speaker 4: smoking signs, up. But his uncle, Herman, who they call affectionately,

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Speaker 4: he dog. He dog coming there and smoke anyway, So

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Speaker 4: don't nobody say that because everybody kind of scared of him.

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Speaker 4: You know, he been locked up four times. Everybody kind

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Speaker 4: smoking because he dog talking about how to hear we

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Speaker 4: can't smoking lounge. We smoke in jail. You know when

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Speaker 4: that stayed logic, you kind of have to I don't

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Speaker 4: even understand it here jail. I don't even understand it.

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Speaker 2: Hill.

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Speaker 4: If you finished die, you had last record you had

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Speaker 4: for sigarette, I can't have for cigarette in here? Howey

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Speaker 4: work though? Oh now she's also upset because they've made

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Speaker 4: the lounge sep of things. They used to sell fishing

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Speaker 4: wings and they stopped doing that, so they turn it

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Speaker 4: into a live or jazz and wine tasted. Now, if

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Speaker 4: they wasn't paying for that Ean j and they wasn't

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Speaker 4: paying for that, that that crown and that Jack Daniel,

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Speaker 4: What the hell make you think they finish come in

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Speaker 4: here and listen to jazz and buy wine? What what neighborhood?

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Speaker 4: They just down there bind wine? They got some shot

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Speaker 4: bleed and so that what Charlotta nay. You know, wine

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Speaker 4: ain't really you know, you're trying to charge for ban

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Speaker 4: of shivets and dog and any any green springs. Don't

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Speaker 4: really wild Irish roads that don't. You got the thunderbird,

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Speaker 4: you got hood drink you Mickey's ao, you trying to charge.

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Speaker 4: Ain't nobody buying that? You know. Now they're down there doing, yeah,

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Speaker 4: the hanging plants and shag carpet.

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Speaker 3: And turning to an old school.

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Speaker 4: And now y'all got wicked chairs and them bushes that

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Speaker 4: actually plumes. You got them plumes back there, and you

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Speaker 4: know everybody take a picture. You know, women ain't what

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Speaker 4: they was, and men ain't what they were, and me

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Speaker 4: ain't got nicknames. And so give me some old names,

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Speaker 4: and I'll tell you what their nicknames are. Johnny, Johnny,

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Speaker 4: Jojo Jojo, what's so with you? Jojo? That's Johnny Willy

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Speaker 4: Willy Well see, Willy could go a lot of different ways.

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Speaker 2: I had several days and it could be just Willy.

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Speaker 4: It could be big Will.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it could be w La.

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Speaker 4: You know what w La? What's that will lay.

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Speaker 3: A Ricky?

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Speaker 4: H see are all see all?

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Speaker 3: My favorite hood name is Craig. Yeah, you love it,

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Speaker 4: That's sea dog dog Craig and Sea Dog. So you know,

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Speaker 4: now they day Needs who Stanley standing out? Oh that's

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Speaker 4: Sway Stanley Stanley, Melvin EM and em and now they

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Speaker 4: in here they dating these women that they play spades

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Speaker 4: So all the husbands down there cheating on their wives

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Speaker 4: with these cheating women. Now you know you got to

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Speaker 4: go over there. This this is all Bernard Debt. Bernadette

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Speaker 4: is down there. That's a hard name. Odetta. Yeah, Oldetta

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Speaker 4: cheating and everybody scared of old Detta. Bernice. Bernice down

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Speaker 4: there do like she wanted to do. Oh, Brenda, Brenda

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Speaker 4: is good, but Brenda cool. She ain't really made up

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Speaker 4: her mind yet. But she's just down there for farm.

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Speaker 4: But everybody won't Brenda, uh Colristles, it's down there just

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Speaker 3: About Betty.

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Speaker 4: Betty. Betty worked behind the ball. Thelma ain't really doing

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Speaker 4: she herself too early. Pretty much cool. Yeah, she got

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Speaker 4: in that thirsty. She hang on hoping somebody holler at her.

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Speaker 4: And then you got feel steel down there. Everybody want field.

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Speaker 4: She got new wigs. She went down there to the

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Speaker 4: hot one that blind. So that's what's happening down at

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Speaker 4: the lounge, y'all's got one more name, Got one more name,

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Speaker 4: go ahead, Audrey, Audrey Jates and playing with nobody. She

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Speaker 4: down there talking about everybody.

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Speaker 3: Never sounded so good.

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