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Speaker 2: All right, nephew, thank you. Subject. I told him to hush.
Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley, my wife's brother, Antwine is separated from
Speaker 1: his wife and temporary living with us. Temporarily living with us,
Speaker 1: he owns an upscale barbershop and is considered one of
Speaker 1: the best barbers in town. But as customers know, he's
Speaker 1: messy and repeats everything he hears. I slipped up and
Speaker 1: I had a conversation with him, and I regret it.
Speaker 1: He told me about one of his friends and had
Speaker 1: a sexually transmittent infection, and he said the guy didn't
Speaker 1: know how he got it because he has never cheated
Speaker 1: on his wife. I got drawn into the story and
Speaker 1: I said that maybe his wife is a cheater and
Speaker 1: gave him the disease. That was it, That's all I said,
Speaker 1: and Antoine agreed with me. My wife was there and
Speaker 1: she agreed too. The next day I went by the
Speaker 1: shop and Antoine was still talking about his friend's disease.
Speaker 1: He quoted me, and I still he quoted me, and
Speaker 1: I told him to hush and.
Speaker 2: Stop being messy. It was too late.
Speaker 1: The next day, his friend with the disease popped up
Speaker 1: at my house and he walked right in and threatened me.
Speaker 1: He told me not to ever mention his wife again
Speaker 1: or spread lies about her. I guess he forgot that
Speaker 1: I'm a retired police officer and I'm almost a foot
Speaker 1: taller than him. I told him he had less than
Speaker 1: thirty seconds to leave my house. I went to the
Speaker 1: barbershop and told Antoine to find somewhere else to live.
Speaker 1: That situation with his friend could have ended up really badly,
Speaker 1: but luckily I kept my composure. Later on, my wife
Speaker 1: jumped in in the mix and she said that she
Speaker 1: said that I did say that about the man's wife,
Speaker 1: So I have no right to be mad at Antoine.
Speaker 1: She can leave with her messy brother as far as
Speaker 1: I'm concerned, and yes, I told her that I am
Speaker 1: pissed with both of them. Am I wrong for telling
Speaker 1: Antoine to get out of my house?
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. You're not wrong, course not.
Speaker 1: It's your house, so it's your rules, as the saying goes,
Speaker 1: because you're right, that situation when the woman's husband her
Speaker 1: little husband, could have ended very badly. I can't believe
Speaker 1: you held it together like that when he just walked
Speaker 1: up in your house and got in your face. Your
Speaker 1: wife is wrong for going against you, although maybe she
Speaker 1: was just being protective of her brother, but still it's
Speaker 1: a no on how she handled everything. You don't go
Speaker 1: against your husband period. Now, if Antoine can come to
Speaker 1: you like a man and apologize and stop running his
Speaker 1: mouth down at that salon of his, maybe you guys
Speaker 1: can work your situation out. But it's too hated right now,
Speaker 1: it really is.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he.
Speaker 1: Has somewhere else to go, so let him go there,
Speaker 1: because you and your wife are going to have to
Speaker 1: deal with what you said to her when you were
Speaker 1: mad and what she how she sided with her brother.
Speaker 4: Tommy, you don't bring your std behind to my house.
Speaker 2: St I S T I S T.
Speaker 3: D don't get me to start calling us a name.
Speaker 2: T is TD.
Speaker 4: Whatever you got, whatever you got, you don't bring it,
Speaker 4: bring your behind up at my house with it. You
Speaker 4: really need to be going to the clinic. That's where
Speaker 4: you need to be gone. That should have been the
Speaker 4: first stop you made for you get it. You try
Speaker 4: to start trying to h check somebody.
Speaker 3: You need to get yourself checked. You need to go
Speaker 3: down there.
Speaker 4: You and your wife need to go down there and
Speaker 4: get yourself together. Why you ain't checking huh? She seems
Speaker 4: to be the problem. And Antoine, let me tell you something.
Speaker 4: You can't stay here no more. Matter of fact, you
Speaker 4: need to stay with the STD people too. You need
Speaker 4: to stay with them at the house him and his wife.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, call I got to call like what you
Speaker 4: want me to call it? Call it to get you
Speaker 4: need to stay with.
Speaker 2: Commit No, go back to the go back to this.
Speaker 4: If you you ain't, you're stay and you're not staying here,
Speaker 4: all right, big brother gone reel, You're not staying here
Speaker 4: at this house.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry? Did I go too far?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: You're walking around with this disease that your wife then
Speaker 4: gave you. You're walking around checking everybody and it ain't
Speaker 4: got yourself checking. You need to get that in order.
Speaker 4: You know what I don't understand you're talking about that
Speaker 4: they got an upscale barber shop? Who got upscale barbershop?
Speaker 4: And disease is with it? Who got who hands that?
Speaker 4: Who has an upscale barber shop with syphilis over there
Speaker 4: sitting in the chair.
Speaker 2: But well, you know it's one of the three.
Speaker 4: Call them gone reel both of them, committee, it's one
Speaker 4: of them. So all I'm saying is is that soccer spot.
Speaker 4: If one of them two, they've been even fruit with it. Okay,
Speaker 4: So y'all gonna start talking to him like the kids
Speaker 4: the committee and sit your little hand down. Okay, alright, alright, alright, alright, alright,
Speaker 4: So we were talking about these herpes. Let me see
Speaker 4: you might get back to this ship. I'm sorry, my bag,
Speaker 4: what do we what?
Speaker 3: What? What are we discussing?
Speaker 2: I mean, it isn't s T I T I.
Speaker 3: Everybody don't know what that is.
Speaker 2: S T I actually transmitted infection. I told you what
Speaker 2: it was. Now.
Speaker 4: And Korn is a big time gossiper down at the
Speaker 4: barber shop, Okay, big time gospel down there. He's got
Speaker 4: everybody business out in the street, and we've seen these
Speaker 4: kind of people before.
Speaker 3: He mess it all right, But let me just try
Speaker 3: to give you a little something. Black men don't tell
Speaker 3: other black men to hush. Hush is not a word
Speaker 3: we use hush.
Speaker 4: We use shut the blankety blank up that you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, So hush. I'm kind of when I'm
Speaker 4: little worried about you. You know, here's what you gotta understand.
Speaker 4: By Antoine Antwine living with you because of what? Because
Speaker 4: he divorced? Yeah, why because he was over there mess
Speaker 4: it with he see his wife.
Speaker 3: His wife don't even want me.
Speaker 4: It's the reason why Antoine by himself and living at
Speaker 4: your house. Now, he ain't got nowhere to stay. Therefore,
Speaker 4: now he got to fan somewhere to stay. Hopefully. The
Speaker 4: guy that came by the barber shop talking back, I
Speaker 4: guess he's gonna have to stay over there with him.
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's out.
Speaker 3: And be a monster is TV. Let me see how
Speaker 3: many more?
Speaker 2: Is t T? I?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 2: Hang on what I.
Speaker 3: Didn't get all of the names that I wanted.
Speaker 2: To do, Thank god?
Speaker 3: All right?
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Speaker 2: All right, it's.
Speaker 1: Time now to recap today's strawberry letter. The subject is
Speaker 1: I told him to hush. Okay, So a man wrote
Speaker 1: in A married man, his wife's brother, whose name is Antoine,
Speaker 1: is separated from his wife. So Antoine is living in
Speaker 1: this man in his wife's house. His wife is Antoine's sister. Okay,
Speaker 1: So Antoine owns an upscale barbershop. Somehow word got out
Speaker 1: that sexually transmitted infections are going around with this one
Speaker 1: particular client. And so Antoine told his brother in law,
Speaker 1: who he's living with, if that's the case. The brother
Speaker 1: in law said, well, maybe his wife gave it to him.
Speaker 1: All right, It got back to the husband. The husband
Speaker 1: came to the brother in law's house, who was a
Speaker 1: police officer who is one whole foot taller than this husband,
Speaker 1: and he told him don't keep his wife's name.
Speaker 2: Out of his mouth more or less.
Speaker 1: So anyway, after all this stuff happened, the husband went
Speaker 1: and told Antoine he could no longer live in their house.
Speaker 1: So now Antoine has no place to go, and the
Speaker 1: husband doesn't care. The wife got on Antoine's side, husband
Speaker 1: told her she could leave with Antoine too. And now
Speaker 1: the husband is asking is he wrong for putting Antoine out?
Speaker 1: That's the case. Tommy said, Hi, what did it? Upscale?
Speaker 1: Barbershops and STIs don't go together. And and Junior, you say, what.
Speaker 6: As a person that has spent a lot of time
Speaker 6: in barber shops?
Speaker 2: Uh huh oh, my brothering them own a barber shop.
Speaker 2: I play own a barber shop in Houston.
Speaker 6: I know would go on in the barber shop when
Speaker 6: you whatever happens, it's gonna come out this barber shop.
Speaker 2: Don't care, don't call your job.
Speaker 6: Everybody in here know but we we definitely know if
Speaker 6: you got an S T I and you come here,
Speaker 6: it's a lot of moving around, ain't You ain't got
Speaker 6: too many friends in here. Once you come here, people
Speaker 6: start getting up. We got mask on everybody, like Michael Jackson.
Speaker 2: We all got gloves on.
Speaker 5: Everybody got a glove.
Speaker 2: We ain't touching you.
Speaker 5: You in the front of the barber shop.
Speaker 2: We all in the back.
Speaker 5: You come to the back. We go to the front.
Speaker 5: We're not being back cause we don't know how.
Speaker 2: You got it. Uh huh, because you didn't do nothing wrong.
Speaker 6: You know this is the problem. You ain't do nothing wrong,
Speaker 6: and everybody just well, ma'am, if you didn't didn't make
Speaker 6: your wife had some way got in there.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: You didn't get it by eating a sandach.
Speaker 6: We know that that something for that DA ain't would
Speaker 6: happen to be somebody did something that We ain't crazy.
Speaker 5: But you get you get it, You get it, you
Speaker 5: know you get it.
Speaker 2: You get in a chair.
Speaker 5: We brushing you off, We cut your We brush you off.
Speaker 2: With a long handled broom. Just get all this half.
Speaker 2: You get this hair off for you. We're not touching you.
Speaker 2: You're not knowing this, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Every time you come around, people start scratching their neck.
Speaker 2: It's like, how am I itches?
Speaker 6: Yeah, everybody, this is a real itchy letter.
Speaker 5: This is like ooh, something's wrong here. This this is
Speaker 5: not normal.
Speaker 2: And yeah, if the dude went to s t I.
Speaker 5: You have every right to talk to him in your house.
Speaker 5: How you want to talk to him? You can't tell.
Speaker 5: You don't bring your wife's name up, no more in.
Speaker 2: Your that's great.
Speaker 5: You crazy? And you in here infected? How to light
Speaker 5: side you down? She need to be quiet.
Speaker 6: Coming in here, contaminating my my area lifeule you down?
Speaker 2: Are we missing all this.
Speaker 5: For anybody?
Speaker 6: You can't come in here talk without your antibodyoutic. I'm
Speaker 6: been here free talking without antibiotics. We take your pill
Speaker 6: every six hours. We know, but are we missing the point?
Speaker 1: Guys?
Speaker 2: That is the man's wife is on him. We're not
Speaker 2: missed pointing you need that.
Speaker 5: That's something he don't want to believe. Your wife would
Speaker 5: never Oh yes she did. What Wait do you emtionally
Speaker 5: get the ft I s A anybody?
Speaker 3: No? No, I don't. Well okay, well.
Speaker 6: If anybody go in that back room at the strip club.
Speaker 6: Have you seen him come back there scratching somebody's back
Speaker 6: there and you wipe back down there. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 6: that boy coming out at you went back there in
Speaker 6: that back room down there. You ain't get this at restaurants, Nope,
Speaker 6: they got they got health inspectors.
Speaker 2: They would have saw that. You know, he's in denial.
Speaker 2: Then about his wife, he's.
Speaker 6: In she at the restaurant, and the health inspect would
Speaker 6: say that, turn that blacklight off.
Speaker 2: Who is that scratching about the scratch mark?
Speaker 3: Is help? It's up everybody.
Speaker 2: About his wife? Yeah, he definitely that crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but then he say, didn't he say keep my
Speaker 4: wife at your mouth, don't want your wife and.
Speaker 6: Even you're the only one, you don't.
Speaker 1: Ever he he told me not to ever mention his
Speaker 1: wife again and spread lives about her.
Speaker 3: That's no, that ain't been spread. That ain't what's been spread.
Speaker 3: Something been spreading.
Speaker 2: Wow, we're just trying to figure out what that is.
Speaker 1: And how little is this man doctor's appointment?
Speaker 5: What is that? Keep talking to us.
Speaker 1: And you right, I'm like, we need to see your papers,
Speaker 1: junior paperwork.
Speaker 2: This is a lot. And how did they find out?
Speaker 2: Don't take long.
Speaker 4: The first day he put that Calaman lotion on it.
Speaker 1: The mosquito still use killing my love, Shiity black boys
Speaker 1: breaking out.
Speaker 5: On your face? Why these black Buck's showing up?
Speaker 2: What is this on your face?
Speaker 1: Is that.
Speaker 5: We're just looking at you?
Speaker 2: Break down? All right?
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