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Speaker 1: We're ready. Yes, please tight We got him for you.

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Speaker 1: Here it is strawberry letter. All right, thank you nephew.

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Speaker 1: Subject this bomb has got to go. Dear Stephen Shirley,

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Speaker 1: my husband and I have been together for ten years.

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Speaker 1: He has the biggest heart. His empathy toward his fellow

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Speaker 1: man is what made me fall in love with him. However,

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Speaker 1: his big heart has been a big problem lately. He

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Speaker 1: does community outreach for a struggling adult and last year

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Speaker 1: he met a guy that was trying to get his

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Speaker 1: life back on track. So my husband help this man

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Speaker 1: get a job and an apartment. The problem is now

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Speaker 1: this man is one of my husband's best friend and

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Speaker 1: I can't stand him. It's not because of his past

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Speaker 1: that I dislike him. It's because he's annoying, rude, and

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Speaker 1: a dirty person. My husband treats him like he's one

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Speaker 1: of our kids. My husband loans him money and has

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Speaker 1: even pitched in a few times to help pay help

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Speaker 1: pay his rent and utilities. This guy has showed up

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Speaker 1: drunk to our house several times and it's unacceptable, unacceptable

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Speaker 1: because we have small children. On the occasion when he

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Speaker 1: comes to my house, he doesn't speak. He just goes

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Speaker 1: straight to the fridge or pantry. I have taken food

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Speaker 1: or beers out of his hand and said hello, do

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Speaker 1: you know how to speak? My husband acts like I'm

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Speaker 1: wrong and I'm the one being rude. Then I mention

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Speaker 1: he's dirty and smells like a trash dumpster. I told

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Speaker 1: my husband that enough is enough, but he insists that

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Speaker 1: it's our duty to help those who are struggling. Can

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Speaker 1: you believe my husband wants our children to start calling

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Speaker 1: him uncle? I really want this vile man out of

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Speaker 1: our lives, but my husband insists he's a good man

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Speaker 1: and I need to give him a chance. Well, I

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Speaker 1: have tried, but now I need to know how to

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Speaker 1: get rid of him for good. Please help, And yes,

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Speaker 1: you have tried. You've gone along with your husband for

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Speaker 1: this long. This is ridiculous. I mean, this is ridicule.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know where to start. Really, your husband

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Speaker 1: is the one that's wrong here. He has put his

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Speaker 1: family at risk and subjected you and the children to

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Speaker 1: the bad manners and rudeness of this man. Not to

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Speaker 1: mention the smell and the dirt you say he has

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Speaker 1: you pull wants this in their home. I don't care

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Speaker 1: how nice or or and how sweet or how big

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Speaker 1: your your man's heart is. You don't bring strangers into

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Speaker 1: your home with your family like this, especially when you

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Speaker 1: have small children. He's come in drunk before. Come on,

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Speaker 1: what kind of example is he setting? Going in your refrigerator,

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Speaker 1: your pantry. No, ma'am, we don't do this. Listen. This

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Speaker 1: is your house too, and you need to start acting

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Speaker 1: like it. Okay, you can say no and ask this

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Speaker 1: man to go and put him out and change the locks.

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Speaker 1: This is your home too. You have to protect your

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Speaker 1: children and your family. If your husband isn't doing that, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you need to sit your husband down and let him know. Look,

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Speaker 1: even if you have to give him an ultimate ultimatum here,

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Speaker 1: either he goes or I go, because this is ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: This is not your husband's best friend. He's paying his rent,

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Speaker 1: his utilities. Come this is so crazy to me. No,

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Speaker 1: your house too, your rules. Okay, you can put him out. Steve,

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Speaker 1: you're still mad about the list, Yeah yeah, yeah, but

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Speaker 1: I'm even more mad about this damn letter now. So

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Speaker 1: when we come back, yes, we ain't ain't. We ain't

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Speaker 1: got to recap nothing. We're gonna get funky up out

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Speaker 1: of here's what we're gonna do that when we come back. Funky.

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Speaker 1: We gotta recap today's Strubberry letters. Subject the bum has

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Speaker 1: gotta go. I know you don't want to, but let's

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Speaker 1: give her quick recap all right here it is, Uh,

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Speaker 1: she fell in love with her husband because he's got

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Speaker 1: such a big heart, and he helps humanity. He tells

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Speaker 1: community outreach with struggling adults. He met this guy, uh

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Speaker 1: and you know, trying to get his life back on track,

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Speaker 1: and so he he helped a man find a job

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Speaker 1: an apartment. Well not a man's one of your husband

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Speaker 1: best friends and you can't stand him, and not because

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Speaker 1: of his past. You just don't like him because he's annoying, rude,

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Speaker 1: and he's a dirty person. My husband treat him like

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Speaker 1: he wanted our kids and his cousin loaning money, pitching

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Speaker 1: This guy that showed up drunk to the house to kids,

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Speaker 1: you don't want it because they've got small kids to

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Speaker 1: come to your house. He don't speak. He goes straight

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Speaker 1: out of his hand and said, oh, hello, did you

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Speaker 1: know how to speak, and then your husband act like

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Speaker 1: you wrong and everything. And then I mentioned he's dirty,

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Speaker 1: him a chance. Well, I have tried, but I need

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Speaker 1: Please help. Okay, you've come to the right place. I

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Speaker 1: mean to get your ass out of here. Bids. The

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Speaker 1: one thing I know how to do is get you

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Speaker 1: out of my damn house. First of all, he dirty.

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Speaker 1: He walked his ass right up in the house and

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Speaker 1: then opened up the refrigerator. You ought to have a

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Speaker 1: Tuebi four in your hand. And whoever he touted the

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Speaker 1: and then say, oh, hello, as sitting the refrigerator with

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Speaker 1: your dirty ass sitting up in here. Your husband pitching

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Speaker 1: in for renting all this here. You could be buying

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Speaker 1: shoes or something with that money. Now you do have

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Speaker 1: to help the less fortunate. I got that, But to

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Speaker 1: help the less fortunate got to try to help themselves too,

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Speaker 1: and manners. You don't have to be or well off

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Speaker 1: to have manners, coming in your house touching refrigerator. Then

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Speaker 1: he wanted kids to start calling him high uncle fucking

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Speaker 1: can come uncle funking and we're gonna call him. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna call him all right. Now, listen to me. He

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Speaker 1: going into pantry and all this hill. My husband act

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Speaker 1: like you wrong, and then I mentioned he's dirty and

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Speaker 1: he smelled like a trash dumpster. Now listen to me.

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Speaker 1: You got the babe, sir, You can't just come in

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Speaker 1: here now after the kids is calling your uncle funky.

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Speaker 1: You want this vile man out your lives, but your

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Speaker 1: husband and sists he's a good man. To give me

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Speaker 1: I need help getting him out. Well, I got a

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Speaker 1: couple of things you can do to get him out. Now.

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Speaker 1: I want you to get you remember them little bitty

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Speaker 1: pocket knives that you can kind of clean your fingernails with. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but it's a look. You gotta really pinch to get

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, shoot his ass up on

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Speaker 1: the ceiling like a cat in a cartoon. You want

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Speaker 1: to try that. Here's another thing you could do I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about how to get rid of him soon is

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Speaker 1: he opened the door of the house. Pepper spray his ass,

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Speaker 1: just a QUI shot it. Don't take a lot, just

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Speaker 1: like that. Everybody ridden this to me. That's all. Don't

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Speaker 1: do this here. Don't do that. It's gonna get on

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Speaker 1: this here, Jeff, and throw his ass into something. Here's

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Speaker 1: another thing you can do to get rid of them,

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Speaker 1: people who stink real bad. If you throw a match

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Speaker 1: I've seen it happen. You know that strong a roma,

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Speaker 1: that strong year in the roma. Yeah, you want to

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Speaker 1: You standing there, You ain't got no ever. This All

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Speaker 1: you did was throw a match. Here's another thing you

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Speaker 1: can do to stop him from coming back, because I

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Speaker 1: know he got one when he come by. Take the

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Speaker 1: showing you some things that help you get rid of

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Speaker 1: uncle funking uncle fun guy, and these things that help

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Speaker 1: out looks all I got to say about. But that

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Speaker 1: little beauty pan knife, that baty one. Yeah, well you're

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Speaker 1: gonna harlly bleed from it, but you know something wrong.

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Speaker 1: That's what you want, all right? Thank you, Steve. You

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