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Speaker 1: is just straw Barriletto. Subject is he hunting deer or

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Speaker 1: something else? Dear Stephen Shirley. I married my high school

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Speaker 1: sweetheart and we have one child together. We had joined

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Speaker 1: the Coastguard. He had joined the Coastguard, and I chose

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Speaker 1: to put aside my career planned in order to follow

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Speaker 1: him around wherever he is stationed, because I was very

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Speaker 1: much in love with this man. We are now in

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Speaker 1: a very small town, and I find myself lost and lonely.

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Speaker 1: On his days off, he goes hunting with his buddies

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Speaker 1: and he just hangs around his buddies all the time

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Speaker 1: while I take care of our one year old son.

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Speaker 1: Every day, every time I ask him to spend time

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Speaker 1: with me and our son, he always suggests that one

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Speaker 1: of his buddies comes with us. I cooked our first

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Speaker 1: turkey for Thanksgiving this year, and he insisted that we

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Speaker 1: spend Thanksgiving at his buddies house instead. I feel like

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Speaker 1: he has neglected me, and I have complained to him

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Speaker 1: about it, but nothing's changed. I am full of resentment

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Speaker 1: now because I can't help but think I should have

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Speaker 1: continued with my college classes and never married him. But

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Speaker 1: I'm in this situation, so I have to make the

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Speaker 1: most of it for my son. When I address all

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Speaker 1: of his concern all of my concerns with him. He

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Speaker 1: comes off very selfish and our arguments have been really

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Speaker 1: stressing me out. If it wasn't for the fact that

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Speaker 1: he does really love hanging with his buddies, I think

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Speaker 1: he was hunting something besides. Dear. If he's cheating on me,

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Speaker 1: then I will have to reconsider everything. At this point,

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Speaker 1: I have no life and no friends in this area

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Speaker 1: that where we live. What is up with my husband?

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Speaker 1: Please advise? Wow, you're very much in love with him,

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Speaker 1: he said. At first, I think you're concentrating on the

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Speaker 1: wrong person here. I think you're concentrating way too much

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Speaker 1: on him and not enough on you. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: cannot change this man. Surely he showed some of these signs.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you guys were dating and you gave

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Speaker 1: up everything to be with him. You stopped college everything,

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Speaker 1: you know. That's one thing that and I'll say this

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Speaker 1: woman should never, you know, stop being who they are

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Speaker 1: for a man. You should never stop doing that. If

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Speaker 1: you want to change, you're gonna have to be the

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Speaker 1: one to do the changing. So far, all I see

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Speaker 1: is you going along with everything he says and done.

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Speaker 1: You cooked a turkey for your family, he insisted, that

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Speaker 1: you go over to his buddy's house for Thanksgiving. Something's

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Speaker 1: going on here. Either. He doesn't like you, he doesn't

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Speaker 1: enjoy you anymore. He's not into family, and you're you

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Speaker 1: don't like any of this either, I mean, but you do.

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Speaker 1: You go along with it. You go along with whatever

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Speaker 1: he asks. You even gave up your career. Like I said, Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't have to do anything to make you happy.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you haven't said that he's done anything for

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Speaker 1: you in this letter. You're deserable, and like you say,

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Speaker 1: you're full of resentment. Now. I think it's gonna stay

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Speaker 1: that way unless you start changing some things about yourself.

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Speaker 1: The only person you can change. We say this all

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Speaker 1: the time is yourself. By the way, please stop being

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Speaker 1: so agreeable. You got to learn to maybe negotiate, you know,

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Speaker 1: to get what you want. And if that doesn't work,

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Speaker 1: then it doesn't sound like this as a man for you,

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Speaker 1: and you and the baby probably need to move on. Okay, Steve, Okay,

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Speaker 1: See here's because I'm from the country, I have such

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Speaker 1: an interesting knowledge about hunting. I don't like hunting myself.

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Speaker 1: I've had to do it many times when I was younger.

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Speaker 1: But when I was able to make the choice. I

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Speaker 1: didn't like hunting. It's just not for me. But I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna tell you something about hunting. But we canna get

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Speaker 1: that into a second. Now, you married your high school sweetheart.

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Speaker 1: He joined the coast Guard. You dropped everything because you

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Speaker 1: so no matter where he went was stationed, you went.

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Speaker 1: On his days off, he goes hunting with his buddies,

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Speaker 1: And I take care of one year old son every day.

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Speaker 1: And then when you're ask him to spend time with

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Speaker 1: buddies come with us. You got a couple problems here

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Speaker 1: them damn deal and his buddies, because he would one

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Speaker 1: of them all the time. Now that's a little odd

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Speaker 1: right there. I cooked out first turkey for Thanksgiving this year.

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Speaker 1: He assisted you spend Thanksgiving that your buddy's house. Now, ma'am,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna you know, judge you're cooking. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how you are what this year first turkey, I

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Speaker 1: don't know if he didn't had your other food and

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Speaker 1: decide at it. You know he wasn't gonna do the

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Speaker 1: turkey at the house too. But I'm well, this ain't

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Speaker 1: about your cooking. How dare you? It ain't about your cooking.

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Speaker 1: It's probably not up. But I understand the woman's hurting,

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Speaker 1: and you should be. And because you complain and he's

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Speaker 1: neglected you and nothing's changed, and now you are full

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Speaker 1: but think you shouldn't have gave up everything and followed

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Speaker 1: this man. But you know you ain't love. That's what

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Speaker 1: people do all the time. There is a way to

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Speaker 1: correct this, But I'm gonna give you some information when

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Speaker 1: we come back about hunting that might be able to help.

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Speaker 1: All right, Steve, we'll have part two of your response

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Speaker 1: coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour. Is

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Speaker 1: he hunting deer or something else? As the subject? We'll

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Speaker 1: get back into it right after this. You're listening to show,

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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 he hunting deer or something else? Did

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Speaker 1: we ever find out where this letter was written from? Yeah? Alaska? Alaska? Yes, Alaska?

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Speaker 1: Well hold on, that changes everything. Hold on so to

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Speaker 1: do so. So now that could be Alaska. It's Alaska.

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Speaker 1: All the towns is small in Alaska. And this changes

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Speaker 1: the game, because see, I was gonna give you some information.

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Speaker 1: You very much in love with him. On his days off,

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Speaker 1: he goes hunting with his buddies, and it just hang

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Speaker 1: around him all the time. And y'all got a one

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Speaker 1: with y'all, he suggests that one of his buddies come along.

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Speaker 1: Then this year, you cook your first turkey. First turkey

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Speaker 1: probably I don't know if you bought that turkey or

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Speaker 1: he went out and got it. Look hunting from the first,

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Speaker 1: but you cook your first turkey now, and he assisted

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Speaker 1: that y'all go over his buddy house to eat. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's not talk about the cooking now. You know, maybe

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Speaker 1: had your chicken, and a turkey way bigger than a chicken.

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Speaker 1: So if you can't cook a little as chicken, he

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Speaker 1: probably don't see nowhere in hell he's gonna be able

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Speaker 1: to enjoy this damn turkey. But that's neither here, nothing, no.

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Speaker 1: Thank you gave up your life to follow this man,

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Speaker 1: and now you regret it, and you're starting to feel resentment.

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Speaker 1: And you should because you could have continued with your

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Speaker 1: college classes and never married him. But you in this situation,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to find somebody new in Alaska. It's just hard.

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Speaker 1: You ain't gonna talk. I don't know where you're gonna

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Speaker 1: find nobody new in Alaska. That's some cold brothers up

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Speaker 1: there hunting. Well, I'm gonna tell you about hunting now.

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Speaker 1: For you to say that a man is hunting every weekend,

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Speaker 1: if he was down in the lower fifty States, I

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Speaker 1: would understand, because hunting is seasons. If you the biggest

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Speaker 1: prize people hunt for down here is like dear elk,

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Speaker 1: those are the big prizes down here. But those hunting

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Speaker 1: seasons are very short. It's not all the time. You

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Speaker 1: can't just hunt for deal any time up in here.

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Speaker 1: You got to wait on the first frosty hidden stuff.

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Speaker 1: You eat a damn deal the summertime, your ass might

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Speaker 1: not make it. So you know you it's a hunting

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Speaker 1: season because it's very short. Now you change a game

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Speaker 1: when you say the man live in Alaska, because damn

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Speaker 1: it's cold up there all the time. They I don't

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Speaker 1: know what hunting sea. I don't elk moose, you know, deal, dear,

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Speaker 1: you know caribole. I don't know what y'all doing, y'all

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Speaker 1: y'all love there well hunting. You know y'all down there

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Speaker 1: hunting out eating beaver meat. It's too much, you know,

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Speaker 1: you're down there fighting them grizzlies here come to them

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Speaker 1: salmon taking another run. So I don't know here in

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Speaker 1: question is is he bringing anything home to eat? That's

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Speaker 1: Do he stink? Do he smell like dear musk? You

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Speaker 1: don't squirted dear musk on your ass. She's not gonna

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Speaker 1: if you know how DEAs smell. But then funking little

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Speaker 1: something stough. Oh this ain't Rudolph. Now no, no, hey,

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Speaker 1: can I can I drive this late the night? Sente? No,

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Speaker 1: The problem is you're not happy. You've approached him and

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Speaker 1: then you're unhappy. I don't know that it's a woman,

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Speaker 1: but he with his buddies, you're unhappy. I don't you know.

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Speaker 1: got a lot of years. You got to stay with this.

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Speaker 1: If you're staying with it just for your son. Where

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Speaker 1: You need to get a ticket. You come down here

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Speaker 1: growing in public CROs, get your sash. So the eat.

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Speaker 1: You know, Turkey a cooking, all that game you ask food,

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Speaker 1: That's what's wrong. He don't like cooking. It's hard to cook. Elk,

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Speaker 1: with Junior. Right now you open the elk, you're listening

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