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November 11, 2025 13 mins

The Strawberry Letter heard on The Steve Harvey Morning Show Tuesday, November 11th, 2025. Subject: "His Pretty Smile Is All He Cares About"

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
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We got it for you here it is Strawberry.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Let up, all right, nephew, Thank you. Subject. His pretty
smile is all he cares about. Dear Stephen Shirley, this
is sure to make you laugh today. I'm a fifty
year old single woman, never married because I choose to
date losers. I thought my new boyfriend would be different,
but he is not. I've been with him for nine
months and everything was fine until he offered to get

(00:47):
our teeth done. He said we would do that instead
of buying Christmas presents for each other this year. His
friend is a cosmetic dentist that just got licensed to
practice at age fifty eight. That should have been a
red flag, but he and my boyfriend have been friends
since they were kids. The dentists offered to hook us
up on the price if we referred our other friends

(01:08):
to him for veneers. My boyfriend gave him the deposit
for both of us. I had a first visit with
him in his very shady looking office. It was clean,
so I trust, so I said, I trust the process.
He poked around in my mouth with sharp tools, and
then he said my service would be more expensive because
I needed a lot more work than he expected. I

(01:30):
felt like it was a scam, and I told my
boyfriend that I didn't trust him. My boyfriend told him
that he does trust the guy, and he's going through
with getting his teeth done. He told me that when
I save up my money, I can get mine done.
I thought this was supposed to be a Christmas gift,
but now I have to pay for it myself. My
boyfriend started the process already, and I'm pissed because he

(01:52):
acts like he has not done anything wrong. If we
stay together, it will be hard to kiss him with
his new perfect smile while I still have a gap
too dingy mouth.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
It's really my man.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
If he doesn't help me pay for mine, is this
a sign to break up with him and let him
spend Christmas alone this year. Yeah, you were right at
the top of this letter. This letter did make me
laugh today. I got to say this right off the bet.
I don't think it's him. I don't think it's these
other guys.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
You were with.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
I think it's you. I think you're the problem. You
have gaps in your mouth and your teeth are dingy.
These are your words. This man didn't complain about it.
He just stepped up and offered a solution. I mean
he was tired of looking at it. I can only assume.
But he didn't make fun of you. He didn't hurt
your feelings. He didn't break up with you like you

(02:44):
said you might want to do with him. None of that.
I mean, this is your mouth. And instead of you
being grateful that he's taking the initiative that should have
you should have taken to fix your own grill, you're
mad at him. You're the one complaining if you don't
have the money. That's something entirely different. But you didn't
necessarily say that, And now you're upset because your man

(03:06):
is still going ahead and getting his teeth done. I
think you should be happy, not considering breaking up with them.
I think you should go ahead and get your mouth fixed,
like you said, save up the rest of the money
and get your mouth fixed. Steve.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Wow, I'm surprised at your answer. Sure, I really am.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
You usually never take you never like be straight and
blurnt with people to hurt their feelings. And I felt
like you really really hurt this woman's feelings.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Whatever you know.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
I just think it's just such a hard answer for
her to diegest every day already said that the reason
that you don't have nobody is called you got a
raggedy mouth now and it's dingy and sure, And that
was my takeaway from me to save that for you,
that we are dealing with two raggedy mouth people.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
I knew you were gonna say all of this.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
See here, The story is wrong on so many levels.
First of all, she's admitted she don't know how to
pick a man. She's never been married up until now,
and she says it's her fault. She knows, she knows
it's her fault. She said, well, she's fifty years old

(04:25):
because I choose to date losers.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Okay, so your pickers off, we got that. Now here's
the real problem.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
You meet a man and he's dating you, again, he
decides as a gift instead of y'all buying Christmas gifts,
he gonna get y'all's mouth fixed.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Now, let me say something to you about men.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
When men say we gonna do something together, it's really
because he won't shoot it do it. He just throwing
himself in to golong. He really trying to get your
mouth fixed. Here the problem. His homeboy is going to
be the one to do it. They grew up together

(05:11):
as kids. According to the letter, he just got license
to become a dentist at fifty eight. I have questions.
I have serious questions. They tell them where he get
this license from? Is it in the States? Did he

(05:35):
go to a real dental college? On his certificate that's
on his wall? Anywhere on it does this say diffride?
These are things you need to look at. Most dudes

(05:56):
don't be decided to become dentists at fifty eight and
get license. And he's going to offer you all a
discount if you all tell your friends to come to
him for veneers. You went to the office. The office
is raggedy, and he was picking mind, and your mouth

(06:18):
was sharp objects and discovered what all your other men
is more damage in her mouth than we had originally thought.
I can't do it for this discount price, Godo.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
We'll have part two of Steveh's crazy response coming up
at twenty three minutes after the hour.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Boy, your mouth.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's pretty smile is all he cares about. We'll get
back into it right after this. You're listening Harvey Morning Show.
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(07:30):
let's recap today's strawberry letter. The subject is his pretty
smile is all he cares about it.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Here's a fifty year old woman that's been having problems.
She's never been married, and she admittedly says because I
date loses because I'm assuming her pickers off.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
She's dating another guy.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
And the guy tells her for Christmas, instead of spending
money on gifts, we gonna get our mouth fixed.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
He got a partner that Jess has become a dentist
at fifty eight.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Just nothing, just and he's offering a discount because him
and his boy grew up together. He's offering a two
for one discount, a two and two discount, whatever you
want to call it.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
If he bring you in.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
You went into the office. You concerned about to look
at the office. It was a little shabby. Look, he
just got this degree to do dentistry, just got it.
He ain't been making money at it for no years.
He done opened up his office right away. Who is
his first customer, his friend he grew up with. You
went in for a consultation. You didn't like to look

(08:37):
at the office. I'm concerned about him being a dentist
at fifty eight. Where did he get his dentist license?
Is it in America? Or has he gone to some
third world country? Is he get his dinnis's license from
the same place that's doing the men's have plugs?

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Now?

Speaker 2 (08:53):
I just need to know this.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
What is he get his dentistry from Turkey? You get
your teeth done a turkey too. You need to find
out and look, like I said, look very carefully on
his diploma and see if you see.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
The word devrye on that anywhere. Okay, now you go
to the office.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
He picked around in your mouth with some sharp objects
and he informs his friends. I cannot give her no discount.
It's just too much wrong up in here. God dog lady.
When you open your mouth and he went through there,
what did he find? So now it's going to be

(09:40):
more expensive. You not in on the two for one.
So you said, you decide you're not gonna get it
done right now. My boyfriend told me that he trusted
guy and he gonna go through with getting his teeth done.
Then he told you, when you save up your money,

(10:00):
you can get yours done. I thought this was supposed
to be a Christmas gift.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
It was.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Until the dentist looked in your mouth. This ain't gonna
get done by Christmas. You're gonna be all.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Up in the Eastern.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
You got east to work again. You have East to
work in your mouth. It don't say Christmas, ma'am. I
don't know what's wrong with your mouth. But he don't
see this getting fixed by Christmas. The dog oner this November.

(10:40):
You got more than thirty days before Christmas get here,
and you still he done decided. You can't get yours
fixed in thirty days. What is going on inside your mouth?
I don't think Jesai that shoe date loses. I think
that me and find out what's in your mouth? Lady,

(11:06):
You got to get your teeth fixed. That can't keep
being the reason to lose me.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Uh, he said.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
And you thought it was supposed to be a Christmas gift,
but now I have to pay for it myself. My
boyfriend started the process already, and I'm but he acts
like he ain't done nothing wrong.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Well, here and he started the process.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
If we stay together, it would be hard to kiss
him with his new perfect smile while I still have
a gap tooth ding your mouth, lady, why you not
understanding what's happening to him. It's gonna be hard to
kiss him with his perfect teeth. You think it's gonna

(11:48):
be hard for you to kiss him? Why you think
he took you down to his friend's office in the
first place. Yes, it's gonna be hard to kiss him
with his new perfect smile.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, what about him.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Ain't it been hard on him to past few months
with your gap tooth, den your mouth? This is unbelievable.
Is he really my man? If he don't help me
pay for mine? What is this a sign to break

(12:29):
up with him and let him spend Christmas alone?

Speaker 2 (12:31):
This year?

Speaker 3 (12:32):
You gonna be by yourself too, you know what I mean?
Christmas as you have had by yourself with your raggedy mouth?

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Is he my man?

Speaker 3 (12:43):
Should I let him spend Christmas alone? He gonna have
pretty teeth? He not finna be Christmas? His Christmas gonna
be full this year? He got in mouth right, you
know what I mean? Women, He grinning at at the
grocery store, he don at the Bingo hall, grinning he
down at the VFW, grinnin. Oh, you can get a

(13:10):
woman now, you got pretty smile, You can get a woman.
You can go down there. Man.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Oh no, no, no, I know where they go, I
know how they do it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Anyway, anyway, if you leave him, you're gonna be by
yourself for Christmas.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
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Speaker 2 (13:36):
Got to Get Your Teeth Fixed, though, Lady on.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
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