October 29, 2025 • 13 mins
The Strawberry Letter heard on The Steve Harvey Morning Show Wednesday, October 29th, 2025. Subject: "Hands on Your Knees "
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and if
you need advice on relationships, on work, sex, parenting, and more,
please submit your Strawberry Letter to stevevarvifm dot com and
click submitt Strawberry Letter. We could be reading your letter
live on the air, just like we're going to read
this one right here, right now, and you never know,
it could be yours.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It could be yours.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Buckle up and hold on tight. We got it for you.
Here it is Strawberry Letter. Well, thank you, nephew. Subject
hands on your knees here, Stephen Shirley. I'm writing for
help with my wife and her addiction to screen time.
Her need to be up to date on everything on
social media is driving me nuts. She follows cooking videos
(00:41):
and my daughter and I have to pretend the food
is good. I am the cook of the house, so
I can't stand when she's messing around in the kitchen
wasting food and seasoning. There was this cabbage boil that
went viral, and she made the cabbage and we were
in the bathroom for a full two days trying to
get it out of our systems. It did help me
(01:01):
lose a couple of pounds. Though. My wife also gets
a lot of romantic advice from people half our age
on the internet, and I can't get into most of
those physicians anyway. I'm forty nine. I have a belly now,
so I can only work with a few positions nowadays.
It's not enjoyable if I'm in pain. What I am, though,
(01:23):
is a good dancer, and I've been using viral dances
as cardio. I can do most of them, and I
go into the garage to do them, so my wife
won't try to record me. She has told me that
I'm excluding her from my fun side. But sometimes I
want to be alone and have fun by myself. So
she did something so low down. She put cameras in
(01:46):
the garage and was recording me dancing over the course
of a few days. I'm wearing tattered clothes and I'm barefoot,
living my best life, thinking that I am dancing alone
in the garage. I have my fan and I was
popping that thing like crazy. She sent the videos of
She sent the video of snippets of me on our
(02:08):
family group chat. I was yelling hands on your knees
very loudly on one video. She plays too much. I
will be the butt of my family jokes forever. How
do I get revenge? Also? How do I get her
to act her age and stop doing everything that she
sees on social media? Excuse me, you're basically doing the
(02:30):
same thing. How do you get her to act her age?
You're the one yelling hands on your knees while dancing
barefoot by yourself in your garage. I'd say both of
you have a little growing to do. You know you
did some viral dances in the garage. You said that
phone and all devices, let's say, can be bad if
it takes valuable time away from what's important. And what's important,
(02:53):
of course, is your spouse and your family. I mean
you were both very distracted and not paying attention to
each other or the marriage right now. Marriage takes work,
It won't fix itself. You guys have your own separate
lives and you're both taking each other for granted. So
I agree with you wife. He is addicted to her
phone and it's not a good look, and it's time
(03:14):
to change some things, or you'll look up one day
and you won't even recognize each other again. You've been
on your screen stuff too, because you said you saw
viral dances. She already told you that you're excluding her
from the fun. That was a good place to invite
her in, but you didn't. So I ask you, when
(03:35):
was the last time you guys went out together? When
was the last time you had a date night? You
like to dance? How about putting on some music, asking
her to dance, or take her out to dinner instead
of eating TikTok meals. You need to figure out stuff
to do where you don't have to have your phone
with you every second of the day and invite her
to join you. You got to catch these issues while
(03:57):
they're still fixable and you're both flexible and open to
these ideas. Don't wait till it's too late, Steve, this is.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
One of them letters that I can put in the
category of I could care. I mean, I really, I
don't even I'm not gonna try to help nobody in
this letter. All I have is comments, I don't care
(04:24):
you in your garage with camera, she cooking videos you
and your daughter?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
What's wrong?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Ain't nothing wrong?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So what all right?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I'm writing to help my wife with her addiction to
screen time, where you wrote the wrong person because I
don't care. Nothing about her screen time. All I have
is comments, her need to be updated on everything on
social media, driving me nothing. Once again, let me just
(05:00):
say right in here, I don't care. I do not care.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Okay, let's go.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
She follows cooking videos and my daughter and I have
to pretend that the food is good. I'm the cook
in the house, so I can't stand it when she
mess around in the kitchen wasting food and season. I
don't see nothing in this letter but help them what
I'm trying, Sureleane, I'm gonna read the letter. I'm just
see why I can help try. That was this cabbage
(05:29):
ball that went viral, and she made the cabbage and
we was in the bathroom for a full two days. Now,
let me comment right here. I know that video. I
made that cabbage ball?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You did really?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah? I did it? Yeah? How you take a whole
head of cabbage and you seizon it and then you
drop it into grease and you and you Frida or
something like yeah something. Well, I can't be what I
have my chef doing. Oh, it ain't worth. Don't even
waste you all time. All they can do has look good.
(06:06):
It ain't worth. It ain't nothing, It ain't nothing you
need trying now. I ain't go to the bathroom for two days.
You had some bad cabbage. Oh okay, it did help
me lose a couple of pounds, though again right here,
the fact that you mentioned of getting rid of excess
(06:28):
waste is of no concern to me.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
All right, hang up the rest of the letter.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I'm gonna help you out with.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Okay, good, all right, we'll have cartoon your response coming
up Steve at twenty three minutes after the hour Today's
strawberry letter subject hands on your knees. We'll get back
into it right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I don't know if you've heard yet, but there's a
brand new comedy, sorry, the hilarious Tracy Morgan coming to
Paramount Plus November third, and it's called Crutch. Tracy plays
the stubborn but lovable Francois crutch Field in this super
relatable multi generational family story set in the vibrant world
of Harlem, and his life gets appended when his two
(07:18):
grown kids and two bright grandkids move in. So Crutch
with all his signature swagger and zero filter, is the
one they all come to lean on. Check it out Monday,
November third, streaming exclusively on Paramount Plus.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
All right, come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter.
The subject is hands on your knees. I know you
said you didn't care about it, but do need some
help in their marriage?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Well, they don't read it, surely, because the letter's ignorant.
He's writing me for help to get his wife a
hood ditching to screen time.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
How ready do hot care?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
She got to stay up to date on social media
and everything, and it's driving the crazy. She'd be watching
all these cooking videos and he don't like that because
he the cook in the house and she and he
wasting food and seasoning. She did the cabbage boil. She
with the cabbage ball that went viral. She made the
cabbage and we was in the bathroom for a two
full days. Okay, I saw that cabbage ball. I made
(08:16):
that I made. I know exactly what they talking about
hand a chef making. It wasn't that good. Wasted time,
It wouldn't don't even don't even do that, y'all. Now
you can't cook because it just looked good. It's like, whoa,
that's a good way to try cabbage because you know not.
I like cabbage, but it ain't nothing, it ain't worth.
Don't do it. It did help me lose a couple
(08:40):
of pounds. Okay, that's impacted waste he talking.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
About now, No, we're not talking about that.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
He talking about it. My wife also gets a lot
of romantic advice from people half our age on the internet,
and I can't get into most of those positions anymore.
I'm forty nine and I have a belly. Now, dog
forty nine and you can't get into positions?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Boy, I was forty nine? Whoa boy?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I was still what?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Okay, boy, well, let.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Me tell you something forty nine. I don't know what
the problem is. Get rid of your stomach. If you
got if you are mad and you got a stomach,
that's prohibiting you from getting into sexual positions. You got
to get rid of this stomach, because let me tell
you what else is stopping you from doing. You cannot
sit on the edge of the bench and put your
socks on you finnh throw up.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Because of belly. I'm telling you, man.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
If the belly is stopping sexual positions, it's some stuff
you cannot do. You can't be walking in public and
your shoelace come off some time, because now you got
to bend over, and then you got to do breathing exercises,
and then you got to tie your shoe up in
steps because you can't stay down there the whole time
(10:06):
and make both boats and then titan.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You help this man.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I am. He got to bend over, do the criss cross,
stand up, breathe, go down, put one loop in, standing
back up, breathe again. All right, you have got to
take the elevator, cause them steps to kill you. Hey,
(10:36):
forty nine, and he can't participate in sex. Boy anyway,
it's not enjoyable. If I'm in pain, pain pain, man,
you in pain? What am I though? Is a good dancer.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
With that stomach?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
You ain't?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
I can tell you right now.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
If you think having sex is hard, dancing with a billy,
I've been using viral dancers as cardio. I could do
most of them and go into the garage and and
and and do them. So my wife won't try to
record me. She'd have told me, I'm uh including excluding
(11:22):
her from my fun side. Sometime I want to be
alone and have fun by myself. Every man needs that,
every woman needs you. Got to have something fun that
you go do by yourself. I enjoy fishing alone, completely alone.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Okay, Marjorie and got into fishing. I think you're over
sharing right here, and you don't want to get in
trouble though, I be just let the record show.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I do enjoy fishing with her, because she done got good.
I got us some gloves, she could take the hook
out the fishing. I weigh at all that sort of
together are so uh, he'd like to be alone and
have fun. She did something low down, though. She put
cameras in the garage and started recording while he was dancing.
(12:16):
Over the course of a few days. I'm wearing tattered
clothes and I'm barefoot. Now you're just in the garage
as a slave, and now you're in there with shirts
at barefoot.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You in there look just like to run away together. Yeah,
you got.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
This big dumber hanging over these tatnic shorts, and you
live in your best left thinking I'm dancing alone. I
had my fan. I was popping that thing like crazy,
see right there, popping popping that thing like you crazy?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
What what thing? Though?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I'm talking about your stomach.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I didn't say she said.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
The video snippet from me to our family group chat.
I was yelling hands on your knees loud me. She
played too much. I'm gonna be the Butter family jokes forever.
How do I get revenge? How do I get her
to act her age and stop doing everything that she
sees on social media? Ain't neither one of y'all acting
y'all age. That's one thing Shirley said. And that's why
(13:17):
I don't care about this letter. Thank you for writing us,
Thank you for allowing me not to care. I don't
care what you do. Hands on your knees, Hands on
your knees, all right, leave.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Your comments on today's put your hands on your knees.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
The stomach is gonna hang over further.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Steve Harvey f them and check us out on the
Strawberry Letter podcast on the Free iHeart Rate.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Get your stomach off me right now now.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Coming up next, it is Tommy and for Junior and
Sports Talk. Right after this, you're listening to the Steve
Harvey Morning Show
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and if
you need advice on relationships, on work, sex, parenting, and more,
please submit your Strawberry Letter to stevevarvifm dot com and
click submitt Strawberry Letter. We could be reading your letter
live on the air, just like we're going to read
this one right here, right now, and you never know,
it could be yours.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It could be yours.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Buckle up and hold on tight. We got it for you.
Here it is Strawberry Letter. Well, thank you, nephew. Subject
hands on your knees here, Stephen Shirley. I'm writing for
help with my wife and her addiction to screen time.
Her need to be up to date on everything on
social media is driving me nuts. She follows cooking videos
(00:41):
and my daughter and I have to pretend the food
is good. I am the cook of the house, so
I can't stand when she's messing around in the kitchen
wasting food and seasoning. There was this cabbage boil that
went viral, and she made the cabbage and we were
in the bathroom for a full two days trying to
get it out of our systems. It did help me
(01:01):
lose a couple of pounds. Though. My wife also gets
a lot of romantic advice from people half our age
on the internet, and I can't get into most of
those physicians anyway. I'm forty nine. I have a belly now,
so I can only work with a few positions nowadays.
It's not enjoyable if I'm in pain. What I am, though,
(01:23):
is a good dancer, and I've been using viral dances
as cardio. I can do most of them, and I
go into the garage to do them, so my wife
won't try to record me. She has told me that
I'm excluding her from my fun side. But sometimes I
want to be alone and have fun by myself. So
she did something so low down. She put cameras in
(01:46):
the garage and was recording me dancing over the course
of a few days. I'm wearing tattered clothes and I'm barefoot,
living my best life, thinking that I am dancing alone
in the garage. I have my fan and I was
popping that thing like crazy. She sent the videos of
She sent the video of snippets of me on our
(02:08):
family group chat. I was yelling hands on your knees
very loudly on one video. She plays too much. I
will be the butt of my family jokes forever. How
do I get revenge? Also? How do I get her
to act her age and stop doing everything that she
sees on social media? Excuse me, you're basically doing the
(02:30):
same thing. How do you get her to act her age?
You're the one yelling hands on your knees while dancing
barefoot by yourself in your garage. I'd say both of
you have a little growing to do. You know you
did some viral dances in the garage. You said that
phone and all devices, let's say, can be bad if
it takes valuable time away from what's important. And what's important,
(02:53):
of course, is your spouse and your family. I mean
you were both very distracted and not paying attention to
each other or the marriage right now. Marriage takes work,
It won't fix itself. You guys have your own separate
lives and you're both taking each other for granted. So
I agree with you wife. He is addicted to her
phone and it's not a good look, and it's time
(03:14):
to change some things, or you'll look up one day
and you won't even recognize each other again. You've been
on your screen stuff too, because you said you saw
viral dances. She already told you that you're excluding her
from the fun. That was a good place to invite
her in, but you didn't. So I ask you, when
(03:35):
was the last time you guys went out together? When
was the last time you had a date night? You
like to dance? How about putting on some music, asking
her to dance, or take her out to dinner instead
of eating TikTok meals. You need to figure out stuff
to do where you don't have to have your phone
with you every second of the day and invite her
to join you. You got to catch these issues while
(03:57):
they're still fixable and you're both flexible and open to
these ideas. Don't wait till it's too late, Steve, this is.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
One of them letters that I can put in the
category of I could care. I mean, I really, I
don't even I'm not gonna try to help nobody in
this letter. All I have is comments, I don't care
(04:24):
you in your garage with camera, she cooking videos you
and your daughter?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
What's wrong?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Ain't nothing wrong?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So what all right?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I'm writing to help my wife with her addiction to
screen time, where you wrote the wrong person because I
don't care. Nothing about her screen time. All I have
is comments, her need to be updated on everything on
social media, driving me nothing. Once again, let me just
(05:00):
say right in here, I don't care. I do not care.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Okay, let's go.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
She follows cooking videos and my daughter and I have
to pretend that the food is good. I'm the cook
in the house, so I can't stand it when she
mess around in the kitchen wasting food and season. I
don't see nothing in this letter but help them what
I'm trying, Sureleane, I'm gonna read the letter. I'm just
see why I can help try. That was this cabbage
(05:29):
ball that went viral, and she made the cabbage and
we was in the bathroom for a full two days. Now,
let me comment right here. I know that video. I
made that cabbage ball?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You did really?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah? I did it? Yeah? How you take a whole
head of cabbage and you seizon it and then you
drop it into grease and you and you Frida or
something like yeah something. Well, I can't be what I
have my chef doing. Oh, it ain't worth. Don't even
waste you all time. All they can do has look good.
(06:06):
It ain't worth. It ain't nothing, It ain't nothing you
need trying now. I ain't go to the bathroom for two days.
You had some bad cabbage. Oh okay, it did help
me lose a couple of pounds, though again right here,
the fact that you mentioned of getting rid of excess
(06:28):
waste is of no concern to me.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
All right, hang up the rest of the letter.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I'm gonna help you out with.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Okay, good, all right, we'll have cartoon your response coming
up Steve at twenty three minutes after the hour Today's
strawberry letter subject hands on your knees. We'll get back
into it right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I don't know if you've heard yet, but there's a
brand new comedy, sorry, the hilarious Tracy Morgan coming to
Paramount Plus November third, and it's called Crutch. Tracy plays
the stubborn but lovable Francois crutch Field in this super
relatable multi generational family story set in the vibrant world
of Harlem, and his life gets appended when his two
(07:18):
grown kids and two bright grandkids move in. So Crutch
with all his signature swagger and zero filter, is the
one they all come to lean on. Check it out Monday,
November third, streaming exclusively on Paramount Plus.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
All right, come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter.
The subject is hands on your knees. I know you
said you didn't care about it, but do need some
help in their marriage?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Well, they don't read it, surely, because the letter's ignorant.
He's writing me for help to get his wife a
hood ditching to screen time.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
How ready do hot care?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
She got to stay up to date on social media
and everything, and it's driving the crazy. She'd be watching
all these cooking videos and he don't like that because
he the cook in the house and she and he
wasting food and seasoning. She did the cabbage boil. She
with the cabbage ball that went viral. She made the
cabbage and we was in the bathroom for a two
full days. Okay, I saw that cabbage ball. I made
(08:16):
that I made. I know exactly what they talking about
hand a chef making. It wasn't that good. Wasted time,
It wouldn't don't even don't even do that, y'all. Now
you can't cook because it just looked good. It's like, whoa,
that's a good way to try cabbage because you know not.
I like cabbage, but it ain't nothing, it ain't worth.
Don't do it. It did help me lose a couple
(08:40):
of pounds. Okay, that's impacted waste he talking.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
About now, No, we're not talking about that.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
He talking about it. My wife also gets a lot
of romantic advice from people half our age on the internet,
and I can't get into most of those positions anymore.
I'm forty nine and I have a belly. Now, dog
forty nine and you can't get into positions?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Boy, I was forty nine? Whoa boy?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I was still what?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Okay, boy, well, let.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Me tell you something forty nine. I don't know what
the problem is. Get rid of your stomach. If you
got if you are mad and you got a stomach,
that's prohibiting you from getting into sexual positions. You got
to get rid of this stomach, because let me tell
you what else is stopping you from doing. You cannot
sit on the edge of the bench and put your
socks on you finnh throw up.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Because of belly. I'm telling you, man.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
If the belly is stopping sexual positions, it's some stuff
you cannot do. You can't be walking in public and
your shoelace come off some time, because now you got
to bend over, and then you got to do breathing exercises,
and then you got to tie your shoe up in
steps because you can't stay down there the whole time
(10:06):
and make both boats and then titan.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You help this man.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I am. He got to bend over, do the criss cross,
stand up, breathe, go down, put one loop in, standing
back up, breathe again. All right, you have got to
take the elevator, cause them steps to kill you. Hey,
(10:36):
forty nine, and he can't participate in sex. Boy anyway,
it's not enjoyable. If I'm in pain, pain pain, man,
you in pain? What am I though? Is a good dancer.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
With that stomach?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
You ain't?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
I can tell you right now.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
If you think having sex is hard, dancing with a billy,
I've been using viral dancers as cardio. I could do
most of them and go into the garage and and
and and do them. So my wife won't try to
record me. She'd have told me, I'm uh including excluding
(11:22):
her from my fun side. Sometime I want to be
alone and have fun by myself. Every man needs that,
every woman needs you. Got to have something fun that
you go do by yourself. I enjoy fishing alone, completely alone.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Okay, Marjorie and got into fishing. I think you're over
sharing right here, and you don't want to get in
trouble though, I be just let the record show.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I do enjoy fishing with her, because she done got good.
I got us some gloves, she could take the hook
out the fishing. I weigh at all that sort of
together are so uh, he'd like to be alone and
have fun. She did something low down, though. She put
cameras in the garage and started recording while he was dancing.
(12:16):
Over the course of a few days. I'm wearing tattered
clothes and I'm barefoot. Now you're just in the garage
as a slave, and now you're in there with shirts
at barefoot.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You in there look just like to run away together. Yeah,
you got.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
This big dumber hanging over these tatnic shorts, and you
live in your best left thinking I'm dancing alone. I
had my fan. I was popping that thing like crazy,
see right there, popping popping that thing like you crazy?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
What what thing? Though?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I'm talking about your stomach.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I didn't say she said.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
The video snippet from me to our family group chat.
I was yelling hands on your knees loud me. She
played too much. I'm gonna be the Butter family jokes forever.
How do I get revenge? How do I get her
to act her age and stop doing everything that she
sees on social media? Ain't neither one of y'all acting
y'all age. That's one thing Shirley said. And that's why
(13:17):
I don't care about this letter. Thank you for writing us,
Thank you for allowing me not to care. I don't
care what you do. Hands on your knees, Hands on
your knees, all right, leave.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Your comments on today's put your hands on your knees.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
The stomach is gonna hang over further.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Steve Harvey f them and check us out on the
Strawberry Letter podcast on the Free iHeart Rate.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Get your stomach off me right now now.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Coming up next, it is Tommy and for Junior and
Sports Talk. Right after this, you're listening to the Steve
Harvey Morning Show
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If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.