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The Strawberry Letter heard on The Steve Harvey Morning Show Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025. Subject: "How Did Pine Straw Get In There?"

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time now for today Strawberry letter, and if
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Letter live, just like we're going to read this one
right here, right now.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
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want to help you. We do, yes, we do.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Subject how did the pine straw get in there? Dear
Stephen Shirley. My husband and I have a four year
old son and a three year old daughter. We also
have two small dogs. We got one for my son
and he didn't want to share with our daughter, so
my husband went and went out.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
And bought her a dog too.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
We are happy with our little family, but we are
consumed with household chores and taking care of our children
and pets. I work out after work, so my husband
takes the children and the dogs to the park down
from our house at home yesterday and I assumed they
were still at the park. I called my husband, Daryl
and Linda from two houses down, answered the phone, answered

(01:10):
his phone. She said Daryl had to go get one
of the dogs that ran off, So I thanked her
and hung up. I started cooking and cleaning up a bit,
and incomes Daryl with the kids and dogs. He said
all of them had been to the park. He was
all dusty and dirty, but the children were spotless. He
said one of the dogs ran off and he slipped

(01:32):
in pine straw. When he ran after it. He had
tiny pieces of pine straw coming out of his shoe
and out of the back of his jogging pants. He
went to shower and put on clean clothes. A few
minutes later, Linda knocked on the door to return my
daughter's shoe that had fallen off, and Linda was full
of pine straw too. My children were not dirty at all,

(01:56):
but Linda and my husband were. Linda left and I
went to check the jogging pants my husband had on.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
How did he get the pine straw all up in
his pants?

Speaker 1 (02:07):
As soon as he got out of the shower, I
accused him of messing with Linda at the park. He
yelled for a good while, and it made him sound guilty.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Should I watch him and Linda? Now? Is that a question?
Is that a question?

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Girl?

Speaker 2 (02:23):
What do you think?

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:25):
You should? You should watch them that Linda start.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
With what the blank was she doing answering your husband's phone?
I mean, then why was she in your house alone?
You're you're grilling your husband. But please don't let miss
Linda off the hook. She had no business being in
any of this. They are both wrong, wrong and wrong.
They weren't caring anything about you or the kids. Both

(02:52):
of them need to be checked for sure. She doesn't
get to be in your house and which are a
man with no consequences?

Speaker 3 (02:58):
What is this?

Speaker 1 (03:00):
She's lying?

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Your husband's lying, and you know it because.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
They didn't say anything about the pine straw.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
That's so very obvious.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
That was why he was doing all that yelling and
stuff to distract you. Okay, this is really crazy here.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
I mean, both of them have pine straw.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
It sounds like to me they were rolling around in
the pine straw.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
All right.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Otherwise, how did they get how did they get the
pine straw all over them? And the kids were out
there too, and they got nothing, all right? I just
think you saw it with your own eyes, the pine
straw on both of them, no one else, not the dogs,
not the kids. No matter how he tries to yell
and lie about it, they're both guilty of rolling around
in the straw together. That's my conclusion after reading this letter.

(03:45):
What's another explanation you can think of? I don't think
there's one. You really don't need to watch them. You
really don't because you've seen and heard all you need
to know.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
Steve, Wow, Wow, wow wow? Did we read two entirely
different letters? Because I feel as though I did. Tommy
bear with me on this one, my brother, all right,
you know, you know it's amazing how women stick together

(04:21):
and you all don't review the facts properly.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Get your lives together.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Here we go, How did the pine straw get up here?

Speaker 4 (04:30):
D Steven Shelley, My husband, I have a four year
old son, three ye old daughter. We got two small dogs,
one for my son. He didn't want to share what
I'm doing. This ain't got nothing to do with it letter,
so my husband went and bought her a dog too.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
So what there we go.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
We are happy with our little family, but we are
consumed with household chores and taking care of our children
and pets.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
That has nothing to do with the letter either. Here
we go.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
I work out after work, so my husband takes the
children and dogs to the park down from our house.
I got home yesterday and I assume they were still
at the park. I called my husband, Sureley, you want
to prove your point so bad? Where did you get

(05:19):
she was up in their house? Linda nowhere in this letter,
because you have decided to side with Linda.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Listen and you all against Darryl.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yes, she wouldn't want it, answered the husband's phone.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Now, but you said she was up in their house.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
Linda ain't been to their house to later on, girl,
see you trying to make more out of this than
it is. I assume they was at the park. I
called my husband that you were right about this part.
Darryl and Linda from two houses down.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
Answered his home. They were together, that's obvious, but it
was not in the house. They was at the park like.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
A public place. Daryl, okay, stopped Linda from going to
the park.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
Now.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
She told him Daryl had to go get one of
the dogs that ran off.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
You just said, you all are consumed with housework and choice,
and going to get them dogs is one of them things.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
He had to run off. Ain't no telling how far
that dance.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Steve, hang on, we'll have part two of your response
coming up to twenty three minutes after the hour. The
subject of today's strawberry letter is how did the pine
straw get in there?

Speaker 2 (06:47):
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is how did pinestraw get in there?

Speaker 4 (07:33):
I'm trying to I'm here on behalf of Darryl, who
is in this Shirley on behalf of the wife and
is against Linda. Oh, this couple got a lot two dogs,
little kids, four year old, three year old dogs. The
lady works out after work, and so the keyd take

(07:55):
the kids, and the husband take the kids and dogs
to the park down the street from the house. A
lady came in from home yesterday and they assumed they
were still at the park, so she called her husband, Darryl.
Linda from two doors down answered his phone. I have
no idea how that happened. That's unexplainable.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
For you.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
Therefore have every right to want to know that, because
that right now I don't know how dumb Daryl really is.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Hey, baby, get that. Hey Linda, Linda, get that. That
might be joe Ann good that I'll be She answered
the phone.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
She said, Daryl had to go get one of the dogs,
that ran off, So I thanked her. So I'm assuming
that what Linda tried to do was throw some shade
by answering the phone, but also saying I'm sitting here
on the park bench and Daryl had to run off
to get one of the dogs.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
And it must have worked, because she said, so I
thanked her and hung up.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
I started cooking and cleaning up a bit, and in
come Darrel with the kids and the dog. He said
all of them had been to the park that's what
you said. That wasn't let d answer the phone. He
was all dusty and dirty, but the children were spotless.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
He said. One of the dogs ran off, and he
slipped in the pine straw when he ran after him.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
I played golf. One of my most dreaded moments is
when the ball is laying in pine straw. I have
slipped in pine.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Straw on the golf course. You can fall.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
I mean when he fell, he rolled around because he's
not as athletic as me. That is, darl He said.
They had been, but he was dusty. He said, one
of the dogs ran off, and he slipped in the
pine straw. When he ran after He had tiny pieces

(10:02):
of parent straw coming out of his shoe that you
gotta chase a dog, and out of the back of
his jogging pants. He went to shower and put on
some clean clothes. A few minutes later, Linda knocked on
the door to return my daughter's shoe that had fallen off,
and Linda was full of pine straw too.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
You know what, Linda, this hell for him?

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Man chewing the most.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
You know, you're asking phones, bringing shoes back with shoes
and evidence and all this here Linda is the other one.
You gotta start. You gotta no other one rules. It's
gonna be answering the phone and bringing shoes back right.
And Linda was full of parent straw too. My children

(10:45):
were not dirty at all, but Linda and my husband were.
Linda left and I went to check the jogging pants
my husband had off. How did he get pine straw
all up in his pants? He told you he failed,
That's what we all want to know.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
He failed.

Speaker 4 (11:05):
As soon as he got in the shower. He felt
Linda would helping look for the dog too, and she
felt everybody can't stand up in pine straw. People know

(11:25):
how to do that.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
You didn't know what pine straw was many to, So
how do you know how to stand up in it?

Speaker 4 (11:30):
I bet you will fall too. But then I accused
him of messing with Linda at the park. He yelled
for a good while and it made him sound guilty.
Oh no, see, you ain't got enough proof right here.
Pine straw is not an act of guilt, not So
you have to get more evidence to be to accuse

(11:52):
this man of this.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Because she had pine straw on her, because she was
at the park now with them kids in them dogs there.
You know, dogs can find you no matter where you go.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
So I don't know how you think they didn't find
them if they was messing around in the pine straw,
which I doubt very sisly at at in the daytime
at the park. Shirley, No, it was what Daryl said
it was. And then Shirley you said, and don't let

(12:26):
Linda off the hook. You need to talk to her for.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
What trick her for answering his phone. And she doesn't
know how Linda got pinestraw in her.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
That ain't her business.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
He brought them kids back spotless, which is good parenting.
Them kids were not dirty at all. You're not giving
Daryl no credit for the good job of parenting that
he did. And all you want to do is you
want to talk about how Linda got some parine straw
on her. The fact of the matter is how the
kids ain't got no pine straw on.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Them at all. You better be a parent, Daryl, gotta
be a parent, boy.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
Running after dogs and sacrificing your safety and rolling around
in that pine straw to get them kids back to
the house spotlets and clean. But ooh, no, you want
to accuse him of sleeping with Linda at the park
in the middle of the daytime with two babies and
a dog.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
How I thank you jailed.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Innocently post your comments on today's strubbery.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Cutting all and Linda was never at the house. Now and.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Do it with Daryl. You're listening to the Steve Harvey
Morning Show.
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