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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if
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never know, it could be yours.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
It could be yours. Buckle up and hold on tight.
We got it for you. Here it is Strawberry Letter.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Thank you, nephew. Subject. He's mad because I don't care
who dog is done. I don't know. Is that Stella
Junior's dog over there?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Just holly now? He mad?

Speaker 4 (00:45):
He got to get him take care of a little puffy.
I told him I'm buying him the letter that type.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Stuff like that type. Damn dog ain't no good when
they break in.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
All right, Here we go with the lever as Junior
takes care of Stella.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Dear Stephen Shirley, My live in Lover is a trip.
He moved in with me nine years ago, and I
made room for him and his dog. I let his
son stay here for a few months last year, and
I put him out because he broke my kitchen faucet
and didn't have money to fix it. We didn't speak
for months, but he called me recently and said he

(01:28):
joined his mom's church and he stopped popping pills. He
said he wanted to see me, but he didn't want
to come by the house because he's still upset with
his daddy. He came up to my job the next
day looking like he hadn't eaten in a while. It
started out with him asking if he could borrow twenty
dollars and I gave it to him. Then he came
clean about what happened to my kitchen sink. He said

(01:52):
his daddy was trying to have sex with my neighbor
on the counter and she grabbed the fawcet and pulled
it out. He had no reason to lie on his daddy,
but I was looking at him side eyed. Anyway, The
neighbor walks around her yard in her nightgown, and believe me,
she ain't got nothing a man should want. I asked
this young man why he was telling me all of

(02:14):
this and going against his daddy, and he said it's
because I've been good to him. I ended up giving
him a little more money before he left because he
is trying to get an apartment. I told my honey
exactly what his son had told me, and he said
all of it's true, and he never wanted his son
to take the blame for it. I told him is

(02:34):
out now and that's the end of it. He asked
if I was going to talk to to the neighbor,
and I assured him that I wouldn't. It's been a
week and my honey said he can't believe how I reacted.
I told him I am fine, but I'll never sleep
with him again in my life. I'm sixty two years old.
So what does he expect me to do? Is the

(02:55):
punishment too harsh? No, this isn't punishment at all. I mean,
he still get everything, he's still he already had, except
one thing. I mean, I'm really shaking my head at
this letter. First, stop giving.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
His son money.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
He's a grown man. Let him figure it out and
trust me he will. Don't be an enabler to this
young man. And I get it. He told you about
his dad and a neighbor lady, but that doesn't mean
you owe him anything.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
He can get a job right. His dad, on the
other hand, why are you still with him?

Speaker 1 (03:28):
I know you said you're gonna stop sleeping with him,
but it's not enough that you simply don't have sex
with him anymore. That's not enough. I mean what he
did was foul, and he is the one who doesn't
care when you really think about it. He's the one
that's been doing the neighbor. Remember and in your house.
Remember she's the one that broke the sink. Remember your

(03:48):
kitchen sink. Put your man out too, you put his
son out. Put him out. You've been with this guy
for nine years and what nothing? Get him out so
you can move on because he's doing nothing for you,
nothing but doing the neighbor. It doesn't matter that you
say you don't care, you still shouldn't allow him to
treat you this way. I mean, where's your self respect?

(04:09):
And why are you keeping him anyway?

Speaker 2 (04:11):
For what?

Speaker 4 (04:11):
I don't get it, Steve, For me to come back
off vacation to this letter right here.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Is alarming to me.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
It's just this title of this letter. Is he mad
because I don't care? You don't care? Right, you don't care?
Watch how much I don't care. I bet you can't.
I'll kill me in this letter because there's so much
messing this letter. I don't even understand now having read
the whole letter. I have the luxury of coming to

(04:40):
some conclusions early. But I was having these sane conclusions
making notes while.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Shirley was talking.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Steven, Shirley, my living in Lover is a trip right there.
He moved in with me nine years ago, and I
made room for him and his dog.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
All right.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Let his son stay here for a few months last year,
and I put him out because he broke my kitchen
faucet and didn't have the money to fix it. How
old is this boy that come and stay with you
and break the kitchen faucet. That's what the story is
so far, and ain't got the money to fix it.
We didn't speak for months, but he called me recently

(05:23):
and said he joined his mom's church. Well, praise God, hallelujah.
But here go the second part of that sentence, and
he stopped popping peels.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Oh you're a junkie too, now, okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Oh, oh you're a junkie too.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Now.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
Oh Now, we ain't just great that joined the church. Now,
all of a sudden, you're gonna reveal that you are junkie. Now, okay,
now I'm popping on that. That's the part where I'm
not really caring about you no more. He said he
wanted to see me, but he didn't want to him
by the house because he's still upset with his daddy.
He came up to my job the next day looking

(06:06):
like he ain't eight in a while. Okay, now, let
me get this right. He you think he broke a
faucet that he didn't have the money to fix. You
put him out. He came back, he joined at Mama church.
He'd have stopped popping pills, and now it looked like
he ain't eate in a while. Sounds like he's still
eating pills to me. That's what it sounded like to me.

(06:28):
You come up on a job and look like you
ain't eate in a while. Nah, you're back to eating pills.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Who we come back?

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Okay, we'll have too of Steve's doesn't care response coming
up at twenty three minutes after the hour Today's Strawberry
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(07:20):
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come on, Steve, let's recap this letter today. It's called
He's mad because I don't care, and.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
The letter keyword is I don't care, And after reading
this letter, damn it, we don't either.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
All right, here we go.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
We gotta try to help you.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
I ain't got no help for you. You had him,
You got to live in love, have been with you
nine years. You made room for him and his doll.
You let his son stayed a few months ago, and
you put him out because he broke the kitchen faust
and didn't have money to fix it. We ain't speak
for most, but he called me up recently and said
he joined his mom's church. Like I said, praise God, allelujah,

(08:00):
and said he joined his mom's church, and he stopped popping.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Pill Okay, let's just keep it old school.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
You had junkies staying at chair, all right, he said
he can stop popping pills. He said he wanted to
see me, but he didn't want to come by the
house because he's still upset with his daddy. Well, we
don't know why yet, but we'll find out in a minute.
He came up to my job the next day looking
like he hadn't eaten in a while. Okay, Now, who

(08:28):
you know looked like they ain't ate in a while? Junkies.
Junkies always looked like they ain't ate a while. I'm
just telling you. I'm just telling you right now. And
then he proved it. And then it started out with
him asking could he bowed twenty dollars? Who the last

(08:48):
person asked you to ball twenty dollars? A junkie crackhead?
To be exact, twenty dollars is they number? That's that number?
If somebody asked you for twenty, that's the magic number twenty.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
What do twenty fix in your life?

Speaker 4 (09:06):
Twenty? And I gave it to her. Now, after you
now this, how much a junkie he is? After you
gave him the twenty he came clean. Now he ain't
get clean now. He just wanted to show you his
appreciation for fixing that fix that he needed. He said,

(09:26):
wanted to come clean about what happened to his kitchen. See,
he said, is daddy was trying to have sex with
my neighbor on the counter, and she grabbed a falcet
and pulled it out. Now, now you say later on
in the letter that she walks around in her nightgown
and she ain't got nothing nobody want.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Okay, I'm gonnas soume right now.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
This is a big girl, because I'm gonna tell you
right now, anybody can pull a falcet out the damn wall.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Be strong. That's a big girl right now. I'm just
gonna tell you right now, this is a big girl
went up.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
On that because i'dn't been up on a kitchen counter
before anybody ever pulled the whole falcet after damn walking.
It's a big girl right here. This a big girl
moved right here. Who you know, I can't pull the falster.
I thinking I'm strong as here This big girl that
got up on that couch man and just snatched that
whole whole fawcet out the damn wall. Because listen to me,
she grabbed a fawcet and pulled it out.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Who do that?

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Who?

Speaker 2 (10:17):
You ain't even?

Speaker 4 (10:18):
You ain't got monkey rich, you ain't got you ain't
got a crescent. Yeah, a plumber got to cut. A
plumber got to have a tool set. She reached over
there and grabbed it and pulled it out the damn wall. That'shu,
the plaster, the dry all everything he had told of
piping out. This a big girl. I'm just telling you
this a big girl. And so he had no reason

(10:40):
to low on his daddy. But I was looking at
him side eye. Yeah you damn night, because you're in
here telling on his daddy and stuff. But that's so
he can keep that twenty dollars pipeline open. See, you're
giving him twenty dollars because he backed to popping piels.
He a junkie, because twenty dollars is the junken number.
So when he peeled his twenty dollars and crack his
twenty dollars here, that's.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
The junking number. So now you eve.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Them twenty so to keep the junket pipeline open. He
thene told only damn daddy, I'll be damn told on
your daddy. And then you said, the neighbor walks around
in her yard and her night gout. And believe me,
she ain't got nothing a man should want. Well, your
husband don't want it no more either. But but now
y'all got to fix that whole whole kitchen, cause he
needn throw that wall out.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
I asked this young man why.

Speaker 4 (11:23):
He was, Uh, it was just it was just fast, Julie,
you got everybody listening to me. Got an apartment on house.
Go in there right now and pull your foss and
see if you can tell it.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
I said what I'm just you ain't got your saying nothing.
We got the after box.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
We ain't sit up here, figure Steve, right or not.
Just take your answer in any room in your house
and just try to pull your falter dout tacked to
your walk and see how long you be over there.
I'm just telling you right now, this is a big girl.
The rest my case, I stand no business when I
say this a big ass open right here. She ripped

(12:00):
the boxer out of tea him walk anyway, I asked him, said,
because and I asked him, why was he doing this
against his daddy.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
He said, because I've been good to him. That's right.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
You gave him twenty. Once you give a junkie a fix,
then you got him forever. So now I ended up
giving him a little more money because he left because
he's trying to get an apartment. Lady, Listen to me,
junkies can't get apartment. I'm telling you right now. That's
a whole lot of twenties.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
He stopped. He told you he tried to get an apartment.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
Lady, lady, you can't go from looking real hungry to
getting twenty.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
He asked for twenty, and.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
Now you gave him a little bit more because he
trying to get an apartment. Who come to you and
ask you for twenty? That's trying to get a damn apartment, lady.
Don't be stupid. I asked him why he tell now?
He said, you've been good to him. So I told
my honey exactly what his son told me. Now, see, you, stupid,
You go from learning that your man had big girl
up in there and told the false out the wall,

(12:59):
and you still refer to him as honey. And he said,
all of it is true, and he never wanted his
son to take the.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Blame for Wow admitted it.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
I told him, now, that's the end of it.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
He asked me if he's gonna talk about to the neighbor,
and I told him I wouldn't. It's been a week
and my honey said he can't believe how I reacted.
I told him I'm fine. I'll never sleep with him again.
I'm sixty two years old, So what does he expect
me to do? It's the punishment too harsh. No, it's
not too hard all y'all. Step I wouldn't have told

(13:31):
you nothing about to sink. I just left it at
my boy.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
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Speaker 3 (13:42):
Thank you, Steve. Sports Talk with Junior right after this.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
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Speaker 3 (13:47):
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