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podcasts. Coming up at four minutes after the hour, it's my strawberry letter for today and

the subject is he won't buy her anything else. Okay, we'll get into that in just a bit. Right

now the nephew is up with today's prank phone call, what you got for us, NPR?

You know, sure, there's some people have no boundaries. I mean, some people just go,

some people go too far, you know what I mean, they just don't have boundaries. Are you saying that?

I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, it's the, the person that goes for it, it's the nervous

some people, Jimmy, some people just go, just go a bit too far. You know what I'm saying?

This from the person that, yeah, this is the line all the time. Yeah, but this right here,

this right here is just blatant, this is just blatant disrespect and that's what I can't,

I can't stand it. Listen, the title of this is your wife is cheating on both of us.

Now see right there. Now that's why I brought a line. That's what somebody who I'm going to

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