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Speaker 1: All right, everybody. Time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And

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Speaker 1: if you need advice on relationship, dating, work, sex, parenting,

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Speaker 1: and whatever else you're going through. Submitter Strawberry Letter to

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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey FM dot com and click submit Strawberry Letter. Uck. Well,

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Speaker 1: here we go. It's time for this damn strawberry and

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Speaker 1: this one gives me great pleasure to read. Here we go.

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Speaker 1: Subject My ideal man is on this radio show. Look

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Speaker 1: out Jay, watch out there now I'm already taking Dear

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Speaker 1: Stephen Shirley, this is my fourth time writing you, so

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Speaker 1: I pray you respond this time. My daughter's leaving home

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Speaker 1: for college in the fall, and I'll be an empty

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Speaker 1: nesting I got divorced twelve years ago, so mama is

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Speaker 1: single and ready to mingle. I've been praying for God

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Speaker 1: to send me a man. And then I heard your

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Speaker 1: show one morning and you were talking to your longtime

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Speaker 1: friend that's on the show about how he needs a woman.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned that this older gentleman is single and he

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Speaker 1: lives in his big house all alone. He had He

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Speaker 1: was saying that he has only one fucking three spoons

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Speaker 1: in his house, and you guys laughed at him. My

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Speaker 1: heart went out to him, and from that point on

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Speaker 1: I was intrigued by him. I love his personality and

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Speaker 1: sense of humor. So Steve, if you don't shet your

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Speaker 1: black ass up from laughing and pay attention, because we

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Speaker 1: got something here for your ass hit mute Jake, So Steve,

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Speaker 1: and I love his personality and sense he was. So Steve,

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Speaker 1: would you be able to play matchmaker for me other

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Speaker 1: than promoting his hot sauce? What else does he do

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Speaker 1: for a living? Damn? Like this radio showing enough all?

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Speaker 1: He got his radio in Highstole. That's a lot, lady.

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Speaker 1: He's to you really well anyway, I don't need any

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Speaker 1: of his money because I'm retired and I have a

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Speaker 1: big house that's paid for. I run a nonprofit that helps.

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Speaker 1: Steve called I'm trying to hold I got me, Steve

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Speaker 1: har Okay, I'm I don't need any of his money

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Speaker 1: because I'm retired and I have a big house that's

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Speaker 1: paid for. I I run. I run a nonprofit, Steve,

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Speaker 1: Come on now, I run a nonprofit that helps senior

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Speaker 1: sis with your expectation, its black ants even help nobody

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Speaker 1: get around that. I know it's nothing that help nobody

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Speaker 1: get round, okay, but it does not take up all

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Speaker 1: of my I love to travel and explore new places.

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Speaker 1: I love the water, but I can't swim. I'm a Christian,

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Speaker 1: I'm family oriented, and I'm a people person. I love

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Speaker 1: to dance, watch movies and let loose and show my

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Speaker 1: silly aside. Steve, I'm I'm just looking for someone that

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Speaker 1: would be all into me and give me the attention

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Speaker 1: I deserve after raising my child. Now it's my turn.

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Speaker 1: I'm not even sure if this man is single, but

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Speaker 1: I would like to meet him if it is okay.

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Speaker 1: If he is, and it's okay with you. You said

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Speaker 1: you've known him for years, so please give me your

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Speaker 1: honest opinion about him. If he's a great guy, would

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Speaker 1: you be able to hook us up when the pandemic

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Speaker 1: is over? Thanks? Call him? Yes, sty All right, So

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Speaker 1: your ideal man is on this radio show, and this

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Speaker 1: is your fourth time writing in, and thank you for

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Speaker 1: being a loyal listener, and I'm glad. I'm so glad

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Speaker 1: we are able to respond this time. I know I

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Speaker 1: got you. I got you. So you're a divorce empty nest,

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Speaker 1: your daughter is leaving for college and then the fall,

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Speaker 1: so you know This is good. You've been praying to

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Speaker 1: God to send you a man. You think God is

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Speaker 1: working through this show because your ideal man is on

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Speaker 1: this radio shows. Oh all right, so we know it's

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Speaker 1: Jay Anthony Brown. He has a hot sauce lide. He

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Speaker 1: lives in a big old house, and your heart went

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Speaker 1: out when you heard he has one fourth and three

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Speaker 1: spoons at the house. Girl, My advice to you is

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Speaker 1: to sh you chose shot, baby girl. Yes girl, Go

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Speaker 1: on Instagram. Maybe you can holler at Jay on his DM.

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Speaker 1: Or maybe you guys can get together into don't know

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Speaker 1: how to go on. Maybe they could go on a

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Speaker 1: zoom date, you know, like to him, should call it

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Speaker 1: DM to him mean this Monday, his zoom ain't working now,

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Speaker 1: that's true. That's true. Or maybe you can cook recipes

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Speaker 1: for his with his gourmet hot sauces, you know, hotter

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Speaker 1: than a mole foul, you know, pepper girl. He has

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Speaker 1: all of these great seasonings. Jay Anthony Brown is a

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Speaker 1: great funny guy. He loves music. He is creative. But

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something, baby girl. Steve Harvey knows

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Speaker 1: him better than I do, so I'm gonna let his

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Speaker 1: longtime friend be your matchmaker. Go ahead, Steve, but you

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Speaker 1: just sho girl. I want to thank you from the

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Speaker 1: bottom of my heart. That's so sweet for writing this

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Speaker 1: letter to me. The advice that I'm about to give you,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be heard felt filled with more knowledge than

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Speaker 1: you can imagine. We come back off this break. Tell him, Carl,

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Speaker 1: I've known this boy nineteen eighty six, here about to

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Speaker 1: drop the knowledge eighty six? How many? How many years

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Speaker 1: is that, y'all? A long time? That's over? What thirty years? Years?

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Speaker 1: All right? Let him have it, uncle. We come back.

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Speaker 1: Part two coming up next row. You're listening to show.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's recap to day Strawberry letter. The ideal

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Speaker 1: man is on this radio show. A woman rode in

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Speaker 1: says her ideal man is on the Joe. She loves

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Speaker 1: his sense of humor. She know he has a hot

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Speaker 1: he do for a living? She don't need his money

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Speaker 1: because she's retired. She got a big old house. She's

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Speaker 1: an emptyness at girls going off to college and she

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Speaker 1: wants to't gonna live her life. Something happened twelve years ago.

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Speaker 1: She got divorced twelve years ago, and she wants to know.

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Speaker 1: You know, she doesn't know if he's single, but if

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Speaker 1: the pandemic is over. She loves it sensing him well.

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Speaker 1: The person on the show're referring to his Jathony brownham,

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Speaker 1: I've known Jay for exactly thirty four years. Thirty four Yeah,

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Speaker 1: oh you wit, Yeah you wit. Ain't nobody else got

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Speaker 1: no damn hot sauces there, and Junior don't live. Junior

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Speaker 1: live by his house but by himself. But a damn sure,

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Speaker 1: ain't no big ass house. When you're been zooming here,

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Speaker 1: we see the same kitchen everything, Jay, you'd have been

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Speaker 1: whole kitchen and everything. So it ain't me and Jay.

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Speaker 1: We have been friends for a long time. First of all,

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Speaker 1: let me tell you a little bit about Jonathon Brown,

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Speaker 1: since he human extraordinary, one of the greatest comedians I

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Speaker 1: ever met. He launched, he helped me launch my comedy career.

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Speaker 1: As you know today, no one taught me more about

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Speaker 1: performing than Jay. Anthony Brown not a single living soul,

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Speaker 1: No one more than j Anthony Brown. I was inspired

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Speaker 1: business from Joy Anthony Brown. Loyal to a flaw Friendship

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Speaker 1: exemplifies the word of friendship. He is there for you.

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Speaker 1: The term may day goes back with me and him

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Speaker 1: all the way since eighty seven. We got so close.

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Speaker 1: There were no cell phones. Whatever we got in trouble,

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Speaker 1: But you're not looking for a friend, No, you're looking

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Speaker 1: for mad. You want someone who's dedicated, loyal, problem solving,

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Speaker 1: you want that. You want someone who's willing to work

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Speaker 1: You want someone to ride out the rest of your

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Speaker 1: someone to laugh and go dancing with all of that.

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Speaker 1: This is not the one. What Steve, why could you

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Speaker 1: say that? This old bastard. The moment you piss him off,

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Speaker 1: the marriage is over. I don't give the damn. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'll admit Jay and I both have made some mistakes,

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Speaker 1: made some bad choices in our life. I happened to

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Speaker 1: more try. He don't give a damn about love. Don't

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Speaker 1: hear it back, don't say it to him. Steve, Are

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Speaker 1: you serious? He right down? Jay's Steve telling the truth.

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Speaker 1: This is a comedic crucifixion. His ass is on the cross. No,

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Speaker 1: Jay is the coolest dude man. If you want to

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna we canna have some fun, not the

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Speaker 1: rest of your life. He could do it for a

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Speaker 1: Anthony Brown, the rest of his life. He promising you nothing.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. He don't break promises. He

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Speaker 1: just don't get you. No, no, no problem. Now see,

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Speaker 1: he beat there. He tell you're gonna write He's gonna

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Speaker 1: I didn't tell y'all it's gonna write it, Jake. You

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Speaker 1: We need to boot up. We need to see tomorrow

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Speaker 1: we up, then we'll come back and get booed again.

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Speaker 1: It takes a special woman to want that. Now. I

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Speaker 1: after the hour, I got a pore for y'all. About

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Speaker 1: fourth of July, we were two. We're here. You're listening

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