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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Time now for today's Strawberry Letter.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
And if you need advice on relationships, on dating, on sex,
on work, on parenting, and more, please submit your Strawberry
letter to Steve Harvey f M and click submit Strawberry Letter.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
We could be reading your letter live on the air,
just like we're going to read this one right here,
right now.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Okay, cool, we should do naked radio, all right, Buckle up,
hold on tight.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
We got it for you here.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
It is a letter subject. He took it out at
the dinner table.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Dear Stephen Shirley, my friend hooked me up with a
great guy. And before I met him, we had great
conversation and he seemed to be a cool guy. He
sent me a picture of himself and I sent him
a picture too. He had a beautiful smile, and I
commented that he had perfect teeth.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
He told me that he had false teeth.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
I asked him why he chose false teeth over implant,
and he said that implants were too expensive. It was
no biggie, So we continue to get to know each other.
After two weeks, we went out on our first date
to a very nice restaurant for dinner. I was so
glad to finally meet him. We ordered our food and

(01:11):
started eating, and the conversation was so good that I
didn't realize he had taken his entire top row of
teeth out.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
He saw how I was looking at.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Him, and he said, see, you can't even tell when
I take my teeth out.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
I look the same. Wait, there's more. I was at
a loss for words.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
His teeth were in a container beside his plate, and
he was just eating and talking like all of this
was okay.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
I had lost my appetite.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
I know being single can be lonely, but there is
no way I can be seen with this bald mouth
man Steven Shirley. I do not have a problem at
all with false teeth, but you can't just take them
out on the first date and not let me know first.
After the day after the date, I called a friend
that set us up and told her that his teeth

(02:04):
were a deal breaker, oh and his lack of table manners.
She said that I was being bougie, and I have
to be more open minded and willing to work with
some men to turn them into the ideal man. I
beg to differ, but maybe I'm being too insensitive.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Maybe I'm being insensitive. What do you think.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Hey, listen, miss bougie. I'm with you all day, Okay.
Manners are important, hygiene is important, and taking your teeth
out at the dinner table it's very unhygienic. It's unacceptable, okay.
I mean, it's one thing to have dentures, but leave
them in your mouth.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Take them out at home at night and put them
in the container, and then put that container on the
nightstand like normal people do who have dentures and false teeth.
I don't agree with your friend about your being bougie.
It's okay to like what you like and not like
the fact that he had dentures and to come out
at the dinner table that's ridiculous and set him in
a container next to a plate at a very nice restaurant.

(03:07):
You're single here, not desperate, okay, and you don't have
to settle no matter what your friend says.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
All right, Steve, that's it for me.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Well, very good answer, Shirley.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
I agree with everything you said, but let me go
at it from this here right here, went out on
the date with this man. You'd been talking and y'all
sent a picture and you told the man boy, you
got you got some your teeth. Look, you got a
beautiful smile, and you got perfect teeth. Then he right
off the dribble, told you he had false teeth. I

(03:42):
asked him why he chose false teeth over implants. He
said the implant was too expensive. All right, let's stop
this letter right here. Let's go back over because I
need some things that y'all need to see what I saw. Okay,
he sent you a picture of himself. You said he
had a beautiful smile. I commented that it had perfect teeth.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
For no damn.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Reason at all, he told me he had false teeth.
How old is this man?

Speaker 4 (04:11):
Here? Were he cool with this? Here?

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Maybe you got some perfect teeth. These ain't my teeth.
These ain't mine?

Speaker 4 (04:22):
These false teeth?

Speaker 3 (04:24):
So already know we're talking about an older couple here.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
This ain't no too forty year olds at dinner.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
So I asked him why he chose false teeth over implants.
He said the implant was too explicive. We're talking about
a cheap ass man here. Now, there's a lot of
things you can save money on, yo, Damn teeth ain't
one of them. Spend some money on your damn mouth. Now,

(04:55):
if you want to go to Walmart and get you
them tank tops, where when you put it on, the
be down to your belt.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
That's cool.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
I've often wondered where then people get them tops from them?

Speaker 4 (05:07):
Is Walmart tank tops.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
So I don't care how big your ass is, you
can put this tank top on.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
It's gonna fit. Stupid.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah, that ain't the Nike tank top. That's the Walmart
tank top.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
That armhole.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
I don't care how what size you are. This tank
top fish. That's where you save money at. You want
to go to the grocery store and you don't want
to buy them manty green beans, I got you buy
you now at green Beans, they steal green beans. The
label is white and the brightness black. All they say
is green beans.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
I got that.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
You don't save money on your damn teeth. So y'all
got to know each other. And after two weeks you
went out on the first date to the nice restaurant.
You finally met him, You ordered your food, You start eating.
The conversation was so good that I didn't realize he
had taken his entire top royer teeth out. He saw
how you was looking at him. He said, see, you

(06:03):
can't even tell when I take my teeth out. I
looked to say, Hold up, partner, hold up, let me
correct your ass or something.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
We might not have seen when you took him out.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
We didn't see you take him out, but we damn
show sitting here looking at you, trying to figure out
where the hell is your whole rower teeth. You can't
take sixteen teeth out, and don't nobody know it? We
didn't see you take him out. Hey, dammit, we look
at you now and you now hell you talking about?

(06:36):
You can't even tell? No, I didn't No, I didn't
see you take him out, Pardoner.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
All right, hold that thought, Steve. We'll be back at
twenty three after the hour. Comejing up today's letter. He
took him out at the dinner table.

Speaker 5 (06:48):
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Speaker 2 (07:24):
All right, Steve, come on, let's recap today's strawberry letters subject.
He took him out at the dinner table.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
This man she'd have met. They talking on the phone.
They exchange picture. She saw the man smile and said, wow,
you got perfect teeth right out the blue. No damn
reasoning at all, no need to confess this.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
He said, these false teeth.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Wow, that lets me know he already old, because he
didn't see no problem with it. And then she said, well,
why did you choose false teeth over implants? He said,
cause day two expensive? Okay, he cheat, he cheap. If
you'll cut money on your damn teeth, lady, your ass

(08:06):
is finn to be wearing. Your first Christmas gift is
gonna be one of them Walmart tank pout. I can
promise you that because his ass is cheap. So they
finally go out to dinner after two weeks. It went
on the first date, nice restaurant. Glad to finally meet
the man. You ordered your food and you start eating
conversation was so good that I didn't realize he had

(08:30):
taken his entire top row.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
Of teeth out.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Now he saw how I was looking at him, and
he said, see, you can't even tell when I take
my teeth out. I look the same food.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
Listen to me.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
She didn't see you take the teeth out, but you
said in the letter right here, he saw how I
was looking, cause see after you took him, she didn't
see you take him out, but somewhere in the conversation
she would just stay had a choke damn mouth. And
then you see, you can't even tell when I take

(09:05):
my teeth out.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
No, we can't tell when you take them out, but
we can tell that they out.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Right. So now she looking at you and you're talking
about See you can't even tell I took them out. Yeah,
we can. Why when you talk and your top lip disappear?

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Where your lip at?

Speaker 4 (09:24):
And what is you eating without the top rope? What
damn plate?

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Help me question?

Speaker 3 (09:35):
I need to know what you are the partner that
you can eat without that whole.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Damn top rope.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Now, what I want everybody to do is, at one
point today take your top lip and cover your front
teeth with it. Now, put something up your mouth and
keep chewing, but keep your top lip covering them teeth.
You can choke your ass to death. You finn to
be swallowing food. So hoo, this man's digestive track is

(10:04):
shot because he ain't chewing up nothing. He's just swallowing food.
Now I take I look to say. I was at
a loss for words. His teeth was in a container
beside his plate, and he was just in eating and
talking like everything was okay. I can't talk to you,

(10:31):
and half your damn mouth is in the glass looking
at me, because I'm trying to figure out it's just
a magic trick, because high half your mouth in a
glass looking at me. My goodness, I don't know if
you'd never been over somebody house and they had their
dentiance in the glass, but it looked like the teeth

(10:54):
is looking at you because they are, because the teeth
don't want to be in the glass.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
They want to be in the mouth because that's what
they be long.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
I know being single can be lonely, Yes it is, baby,
but there's no way I could.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
Be seen with this bald mouth man.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Steven Shirley, I do not have a problem at all
with false teeth.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
Yes you do, Yes you do.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
This whole damn letter is about false teeth, and you
got a problem with them, so it's okay. It's just
you don't like false teeth. You got the right to
like what you like, right. Some men don't like women
with wigs. I don't give damn what you got on
long as you're cute, I could care less.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
It's men don't like fake nails. I like them.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
It's men don't like our lashes. Please put them on.
I like all that extra blink blink, give me all that.
I do not have a problem with false teeth. But
you can't take them out on the first date. You
can't take them out with me? Ever, No damn first date,
At no point is our answer a dinner? Can you
reach up in your head pull a whole a damn

(12:00):
teeth out there?

Speaker 4 (12:03):
Ain't got nothing to do with the first date. You
can't have fox. Take your damn.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
Teeth out your heads over, set them down on the table.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
I don't give it, damn.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
If you don't put him in a glass, you can
wrap them up in your handkerchief and put them in
your top pocket.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
I don't want to know that they uped down.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
Oh, man, I don't give a damn if you know
how to spin them teeth on your finger like a basketball.
You want to be sitting up in here and launching
your teeth go round in the song.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
But what about her friend, Steve? You gotta speak to her?

Speaker 4 (12:34):
Hold up, wait a minute.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
I don't give a damn if you take your teeth
off and set them in the champagne bucket.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Brow.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
I can't see it. But when the waiter come over
there to pour another glass.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
After the date, I called the friend to set us
up and told that his teeth was a deal breaker.
Oh and his lack of table man, she said, I
was being bullgy. Ain't nobody bush right, just ain't bush
sitting up? I don't give it, damn how much money
I ain't got. You can't pull your damn tee fout nast.
I don't care how fine years sitting over there half
and you pull your teeth out your mouth.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
I'm getting up and getting in my car. Date is over,
Damn date is over.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yes, all right, listen, we gotta go left me.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
You're damn right.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Pusher comments on today's Strawberry letter on Instagram and Facebook at.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
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Speaker 2 (13:25):
Also check out the Strawberry Letter podcast on demand now
coming up at forty six minutes after the hour more
of the Steve Harvey Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Right after that, Good Morning, This is Shirley Strawberry.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
And my New Year's resolutions are the same as they
have been for these last few years. Just don't make
any because I never keep them. Happy New Year, from
the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
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