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Speaker 1: Queen Sugar is the critically acclaimed drama series on Owned

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Speaker 1: from Academy Award nominated filmmaker Ava du Varney and executive

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Speaker 1: producer Oprah Winfrey. Queen Sugar is a visually stunning family

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Speaker 1: drama that is as powerful as it is poetic and

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Speaker 1: the very definition of prestige TV. Season one is now

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Speaker 1: streaming only on Hulu so you can catch up before

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Speaker 1: at ten nine Central only on Own, and if you

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Speaker 1: missed the premiere, you can watch it anytime anywhere on

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Speaker 1: the watch Own app. Welcome up, Hold on tight, we

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Speaker 1: got it by your strawberry letter. My dad's wilding out

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Speaker 1: in Mexico. That's the subject today, exactly, nephew, Steven Shirley.

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Speaker 1: I'm twenty five years old and my emotionally fragile dad

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Speaker 1: it's fifty six. Recently, my dad had a midlife crisis

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Speaker 1: and quit his federal job and moved to Mexico. At first,

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Speaker 1: he was partying and having wild sescapade seccapades daily, and

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Speaker 1: after doing this for about five months, he called to

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Speaker 1: tell me that he fell in love and he's getting married.

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Speaker 1: Despite his foolishness. I was happy for him until I

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Speaker 1: found out that his fiance is twenty two years old,

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Speaker 1: Then she speaks no English and he speaks no Spanish.

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Speaker 1: The worst part is that she was a prostitute and

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Speaker 1: that's how they met. Let him read the thenn he confessed.

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Speaker 1: I love it. Then he confessed, and he spent his

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Speaker 1: at a strip club. He plans to marry this woman,

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Speaker 1: live with my grandma for a year. I called my

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Speaker 1: grandma and told her everything. The wedding was scheduled for

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Speaker 1: out that his name is misspelled on his birth certificate.

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Speaker 1: I praised God for intervening. My dad thinks they're in love,

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Speaker 1: but I'm afraid that once this girl get what she wants,

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Speaker 1: gets what she wants, she'll leave my dad. I love

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Speaker 1: my dad too much to watch him be this stupid.

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Speaker 1: What can I do to stop this? Please help me?

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Speaker 1: I mean, thank you, nephew, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: adding some color to this craziness. All right, Um, I

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Speaker 1: really don't think there's anything you can do, because You're

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Speaker 1: dad is certainly old enough to know better. He's just

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Speaker 1: not doing better. He knows, um, even though you did

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Speaker 1: say he was emotionally fragile. Uh. The sad part is

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Speaker 1: there's nothing you can do. He's a grown man. I

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Speaker 1: know he's your dad, and you love him and you

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Speaker 1: want to help. But he's making his own choices right now,

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Speaker 1: albeit very bad, bad choices. But he's not listening to you.

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Speaker 1: He's not listening to anyone. And I doubt very seriously

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Speaker 1: with this woman who used to be a hooker and

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Speaker 1: all of that. Uh, he's just not making smart decisions

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Speaker 1: right now. His life is in a downward spiral, although

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Speaker 1: he doesn't know it yet. The best you can do

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Speaker 1: right now is just to keep praying and hoping that

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Speaker 1: God continues to intervene when he did when he uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, has something to do, you think with the

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Speaker 1: misspelling of his name on the birth certificate. But this

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Speaker 1: is this is really crazy. I mean, your dad's throwing

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Speaker 1: his whole life away on this woman and he already

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Speaker 1: prayer because he's a grown man. You have to keep

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Speaker 1: him in prayer. Jay, what you got? I like the

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Speaker 1: math on this. The mathis how old is he? He's

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Speaker 1: fifty six in the lady is home, she's twenty two.

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Speaker 1: Fifty six goes into twenty too? How many times? Many

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Speaker 1: times as he can? That's what I'm talking right, is

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Speaker 1: many times? Is Papa can't do it? Papa? Don Papa, don't,

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Speaker 1: Papa don't, Yes, Papa, doude, you get one time to

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Speaker 1: enjoy yourself? What man? I know that definitely don't want

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Speaker 1: Every man wants a woman. I don't care what ship

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Speaker 1: you still every man was speaks no English, so she

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Speaker 1: caf back. I don't know what you're talking about. It

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Speaker 1: makes your papa has a pretting up and make sure

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Speaker 1: his willers are tightening up and everything. Papa enjoy himself, please,

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Speaker 1: this is Swiss life. This is Papa's life, goodhead. I'm

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Speaker 1: with Papa. Papa yourself. Man, I'll tell you, junior, idiotic decisions.

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Speaker 1: Come on, guys, junior, next, I think we I think

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Speaker 1: there's something here that you all are not realizing is

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Speaker 1: let's look at this. This goes to show you you

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Speaker 1: don't have to speak same like to find what's love

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Speaker 1: got to do with this? This is love. Let me

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Speaker 1: s I don't condone prostitute. Okay, but at least the

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Speaker 1: if you're trying to pull awaight, Shirley, you're trying to

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Speaker 1: bring some money in, Okay, your money to the house.

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Speaker 1: You bring some money, c C, I bring some money.

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Speaker 1: T Yes, money. Okay. There comes a time when you

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Speaker 1: know a strip club is necessary. And I understand the

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Speaker 1: man blue his hole for one k, but sure isn't

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Speaker 1: he allowed to do that? Now? You say, see you

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Speaker 1: don't speak on English over here, say see, I'm a

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Speaker 1: black woman. You know we have something I want to see.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I love the fact that they don't speak

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Speaker 1: the same language, but they speak the same body language.

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Speaker 1: And that's what's about to get married. It's body language

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Speaker 1: is love. This is this is But this has to

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Speaker 1: be the dumbest answer ever from you. There would be

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Speaker 1: days he was just look at her eyes. No me, Poul,

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Speaker 1: j Alright, listen, we have part two of this. We

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Speaker 1: want to hear from Junior as well, and we'll wrap

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Speaker 1: up the letter when we come back. Queen Sugar is

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Speaker 1: the critically acclaimed drama series on Owned from Academy Award

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Speaker 1: nominated visionary filmmaker Eva du Burnay, the director of Selma

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Speaker 1: In a game changing move, a team of all female

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Speaker 1: directors brought on to create the first season, and season

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Speaker 1: two will be no different. Queen Sugar follows the three

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Speaker 1: Borderline siblings, Charlie, Nova and Ralph Angel as they struggle

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Speaker 1: to move forward with their lives while striving to honor

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Speaker 1: the legacy of their father following his unexpected passing. Together,

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Speaker 1: they must learn to rely on each other as they

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Speaker 1: on all thirteen episodes before the two night season premiere

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Speaker 1: and if you missed the premiere, you can watch it

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Speaker 1: we go with part two of today's Strawberry Letters. Don't

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Speaker 1: forget if you have relationship issues, we do want to

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Speaker 1: You can ask us. Just submit your letters to Steve

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Speaker 1: Harvey dot com. Steve Harvey dot com. Okay, now this letter.

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Speaker 1: The subject is my dad is wilding Out in Mexico,

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Speaker 1: written by a twenty five year old woman about her

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Speaker 1: fifty six year old in love with the old former

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Speaker 1: bring back to to live with his mother for a year.

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Speaker 1: This is a complicated, crazy story. Uh, he's in love.

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Speaker 1: He's been down there while and out having these sex

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Speaker 1: capades with these women, and he's spending four ok this

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Speaker 1: dad four oh one k This dad did all of this.

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Speaker 1: The daughter is worried about him. She says he's emotionally fragile.

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Speaker 1: He's only fifty six years old too. Uh. The dad

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Speaker 1: thinks that he's in love with this twenty two year

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Speaker 1: old woman, he said, But the daughter says once. She's

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Speaker 1: afraid that once the woman gets what she wants, she'll

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Speaker 1: leave her dad. And she loves her dad too much,

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Speaker 1: and she she hates to watch him be the stupid

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Speaker 1: So what can she do to stop this? Is her

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Speaker 1: question in the strug letter. Yeah, so so, so what

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Speaker 1: are you saying, Junior? Leave your daddy alone? I'm in fact,

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Speaker 1: I'm motivated to go to Mexico. I just booked my

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Speaker 1: flight this weekend. Go down here and see what's happening.

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Speaker 1: But this is perfect. He speaks no Spanish, she speaks

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Speaker 1: no English, and yeah, they communicate through apps. Yeah. You

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Speaker 1: know how many men who have women who speak English

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Speaker 1: and ain't getting a damn thing understand what I asked?

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Speaker 1: And see your junior here go senior, Junior for be Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't go so uh cornando Tina know, gok the serious? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: burritos and tacos on me? Oh yeah yeah, come anything

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Speaker 1: here for Winter's Winter's bull riding is good too. Yeah

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Speaker 1: he doesn't understand anything. Yeah no, no, like your central

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Speaker 1: like hero, slap my behind too. I'm doing myself. Maybe

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Speaker 1: those tress No, I ain't got no felonist enough. This

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Speaker 1: relationship is, this relationship is working fine. Taking off clothes.

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Speaker 1: You're a junior, senior junior me a suta kana at

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Speaker 1: capets the mark on how you say? Yeah, I rubbed

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Speaker 1: the case on myself that he has the market in Trinidad.

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Speaker 1: What but surely wait, she said, how do you say so?

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Speaker 1: She had an English moment. Yeah, uh how liberal liberal,

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Speaker 1: my little kennel tinga. I'll go billing off. We'll get

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Speaker 1: your three friends and come on in. You know that.

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Speaker 1: Don't know what he said up exactly what? We need

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Speaker 1: a translator everyone, So yeah, a little saprisso's uh so

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Speaker 1: air ben out a year or maybe? Um know what

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Speaker 1: she said? Can I go down to the bank and

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Speaker 1: get my full one k and spending all over? Yes?

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Speaker 1: That already for people che jan stupid, my god, we

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Speaker 1: go yes, that means yeah we're out. Yeah alright, listen

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Speaker 1: instagram me your thoughts at my girls, Shirley. Okay, this

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Speaker 1: today's letter. My dad is wilding out and make nothing

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Speaker 1: you guys crazy. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning

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