Child Protective Services

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A CPS worker calls a father about reports of child neglect, but the father gets angry and denies everything, leading to a confrontation.

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Speaker 1

Hello.

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Hello.

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Uh I'm trying to speak to the man of the house, please.

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It's me.

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Uh Mr.

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Mr.

Jason.

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You got him?

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All right.

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How you doing, sir?

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All right.

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Who's this?

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My name is Mark.

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Mark's giving you a call actually from uh Child Protective Services.

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Uh how's your day going today so far?

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Oh, I'm good, but you you sure you call in the right place?

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Yeah, definitely.

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You you you you're you're Mr.

Jason, correct?

Correct.

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All right.

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Now your your your girlfriend or your wife, I'm not sure if you guys are married or not, is Miss Stephanie, uh I presume.

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Right.

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But uh that's it's my girl, but um saying her last name, but um um now you said you call him from where again?

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Uh Child Protective Services, sir.

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And uh really what's going on here, uh uh Jason is that you um you guys have five children, am I correct?

Okay.

Okay.

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Now, what we're having is we're getting uh we we've been getting, sir, a few reports that these kids aren't being taken care of properly.

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Nah, nah.

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Nah nah nah nah nah report from where?

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I I you know we we take care of these kids that ain't and shouldn't nobody be feeding y'all no garbage like that that we ain't taking care of no kids.

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Nah.

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We got five kids.

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It's hard out here, but we take care of them kids.

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I don't I don't even know, sir.

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So we're getting, sir, uh we're getting reports that uh you guys are uh not feeding them properly, that some nights and some days these kids actually go without eating.

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Uh that they don't have proper uh clothing attire or nah that ain't true.

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All them kids, uh every last one of the kids, they wear designer, they uh you know, uh fashionable.

It's nah.

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Ain't nobody not taking care of the kids.

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I don't even know where you're getting that from.

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Are you guys actually are you combing their hair and brushing their teeth in the morning?

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Come on, man.

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Like like you

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gotta be b.

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You you you gotta be playing.

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No, no, no, no, I'm not actually.

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That leads me to something else.

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Uh I've actually had a visit with the uh at the school today.

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And I visit with uh a couple of the children.

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Now the younger son, uh I met with him today, and we talked and and I asked him a few questions.

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Uh I I said uh I told him I said I have a few more questions I want you to answer.

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And to be honest with you, Mr.

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Jason, he he he stood up and looked me in the eye and said, that

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and I and I I just I was blown away by it.

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And I said, wait a minute, excuse me, what did you say?

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You hear what I said.

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I said, F that.

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Yeah, but but now now I'm the from my understanding.

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I asked him, I said, where did you hear that kind of language being said?

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Where did you hear that from?

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And he said he heard it from his father at home.

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That's like I don't talk like that around my kids.

Speaker 2

That's that's a bunch of like that ain't you you're you're you're you here you are saying it now.

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You're cursing now.

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I'm cussing to you, but I don't cuss to my kids like that.

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I don't talk to my kids like that, man.

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Sir, if you're talking like this in front of me, then nine times out of ten you're doing it in front of the kids.

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Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

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Listen, I'm a grown man.

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You can't you calling me, telling me about my kids, and you gonna tell me how I can't talk to you.

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I don't talk around my kids like that.

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That's what I'm trying to tell you.

Speaker 2

Well look, sir, let me let me let me bring this to a nutshell for you.

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We're what we're doing today is we are coming by there, and we're gonna have to bring we're we're we're gonna have to bring all five kids in.

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Uh uh, hold on, hold on, listen.

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You coming a

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to get who?

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Five kids?

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You're not coming.

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Listen to this.

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Now I'm gonna keep it real with you.

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Now I've been trying to hold my composure since you got on the phone.

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First of all, I don't appreciate you calling me like this with no like this.

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Now, the first three, those ain't mine.

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They dad live up the street.

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You might go find him in the pool hall somewhere.

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You're not coming to get them last two.

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Sir, I'm coming to get all five children, sir.

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Yeah, listen to this, sir.

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You will not be coming to get those last two.

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I can guarantee you you won't be coming to get those last two.

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I guarantee you have to get I have to bring all five children in.

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That's just uh that those are that's my assignment.

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That's what has to be done.

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Okay, well, check this out.

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Assignment, my if you step foot up here, look, I'm not gonna even keep playing myself.

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Man, I do what I'm supposed to do by all those kids.

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You not taking those last two out of here.

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I'm taking all five children.

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Are you hearing me?

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Hey, check this out.

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Are you listening to me?

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Yo, man, who the f you talking to?

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I'm like, yo, who you keep raising your voice at like that?

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I'm a grown man.

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You better slow it up.

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I don't give a f who you are.

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You better not be calling me with that, sir.

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I'm bringing a van in there at four o'clock, and we're hauling these kids in the protective services.

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Do you understand that?

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Hold on, let me tell you something.

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See, that's where you're f up at.

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And you won't tell me what time you coming down here.

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That's some real gangster sh.

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Bring your

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Down here at 4 o'clock.

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I swear to God, I will be waiting on your ass, sir.

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I don't want any problems.

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I'm letting you know.

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No problems, my ass.

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Four o'clock.

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Show up at 4 o'clock.

Uh-huh.

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Just 4 o'clock.

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Ain't nothing else to talk about.

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I want you to have all the kids' things packed in a bag.

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Listen, don't talk about it.

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Be about it.

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Okay?

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Don't talk about this no more.

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Be about it.

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Four o'clock.

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You're gonna have a life skin all over your ass.

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Four o'clock.

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So I got I got one more thing I need to say to you before I get before I get there today, okay?

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I don't want to hear that.

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Four o'clock.

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So I got one more thing I want to say to you.

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Four o'clock.

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Say it, man.

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Four o'clock.

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That's what I got to say to you.

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But I got one more thing to say to you.

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Can I say it?

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Say it.

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Say it.

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This is nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey morning show.

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You just got pranked, baby.

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You just got pranked by your sister.

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Who?

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Jason, this is Nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey morning show.

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Man, listen.

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Hey, listen, I'ma tell you something.

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Hey, man, your sister Regina put me up to this, man.

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And look, Regina need a s with.

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That's what need to happen.

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Man, y'all playing games with me.

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Got these kids over here struggling and sh like.

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Excuse me.

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I mean, you better be glad you said you you you was uh nephew Tommy, because somebody pulled up here at four o'clock.

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They was getting a mu stomped in the top of their damn hood.

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For real.

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I wasn't playing that shit.

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You know, damn.

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That that you scared the hell out of me.

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That's just point blank, man.

Speaker 2

Hey man, I gotta ask you, man.

Speaker 2

What is the baddest radio show in the land?

Speaker 1

Oh man, Steve Harvey morning show, man.