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January 22, 2026 13 mins

The Strawberry Letter heard on The Steve Harvey Morning Show Thursday, January 22nd, 2026. Subject: "My Mom Is For The Streets"

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and if
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
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 3 (00:21):
It could be yours. Buckle up and hold on tight.
We got it for you. Here it is strawberry Let us.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
All right, nephew, thank you. Subject.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
My mom is for the streets, all right, All right,
here we go.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Let's get into it.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Dear Stephen Shirley, My husband and I are in our
mid sixties, and my mother moved into the apartment below us.
She's a widow, but she's dated since my dad died
four years ago. She calls the men her her gentleman friends,
and two of the guys were younger than she is.
But I acted like I didn't notice. My mom overdresses

(00:57):
everywhere we go because she's seeking it. She sparks conversation
with men, and it's flirty and embarrassing because most times
she can't tell that the man doesn't want to engage
in conversation with her. She's always raised me to go
after men instead of letting the man pursue me. Now
that she's older, I feel like I'm the parent, so

(01:19):
I try to discipline her. When I tell her to
stop coming on to men in public, she goes off
on me right then and there. It makes people think
that I'm being mean to my elderly mom. I recently
got locked out of her apartment because I walked in
on her entertaining one of her newer gentleman friends. It
was totally innocent and they were watching TV, but I

(01:42):
felt like she shouldn't be in her pajamas without a
robe while a new man was in her home. She
told me to leave, and the next day I couldn't
get in. She had one of her other gentleman friends
come change her dead boat lock. I had to call
a locksmith to change it back while she was at church.
She's hell on wheels and I'm scared for her. I

(02:04):
don't want one of these men to get carried away
with her in the bedroom or try to rob her
or something.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
And oh, yes, there is sex involved.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
I live above her, so I can hear everything that
goes on how do I keep my mom safe without
making her feel like I'm telling her what to do
all the time.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
I'm just gonna say this right off the top, this
letter is not for me.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
If you give it to me, I cannot be responsible
for what I'm Thank you right now.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
I'm all over the place, go.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
To shit, all right, thank you?

Speaker 3 (02:37):
All right.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
This is really kind of a tough letter because your
mom is just good and grown.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
You're in your mid sixties, so your.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Mom has to be what eighty maybe if you're in
your mid sixties, So all you can really do at
this point is protect her from afar. You just can't
pop up in her house unannounced. That's why she's mad.
You're not respecting her space or her private see and
the fact that she's in the apartment downstairs should make
you rest a little easy, because she wants to live

(03:07):
her life and do what she wants to do. Other
people want their older people, I should say, want their independence.
They want their independence. They want to move how they
want to move, they want to do what they want
to do. That means they want their independence when it
comes to dating, when it comes to intimacy, whether it's
cuddling with just your ps and no robe on, So

(03:30):
what's wrong with that? And they even want to have sex? Okay,
obviously you said you can hear it. At least your
mom is close by. I do think you need to
get some camera set up the door, set up at
the door, you know, since you're so worried, and if
something crazy does happen, you can look at the video,
you know, and at least see her gentlemen friends coming

(03:50):
and going. That should put your mind at ease somewhat.
And tell your mom it's for her safety. Your mom
is trying to live her best life life right now, Steve.
All you want her to do is be faked. See.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Well, I've tried to fix what I'm thinking and I
just can't pull it together.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Couldn't do it.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
So well, y'all pray my strength here I go.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
I knew it. Girl.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Your mama, Wow, girl, your mama, your mama trip it.
I'm just gonna tell you I ain't got I ain't gonna,
ain't gonna have no advice for you.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
I'm just gonna tell you how your mama is.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
You got a mama, You, you and your husband, you
and your mid sixties. I'm thinking, let's say sixty five.
If your mama had you at twenty, she ate it five.
If she had you at fifteen, she atey. WHOA, that's strong.
Your dad died four years ago. He was probably he's

(04:57):
probably glad to get out of him. I'm just gonna
go keep it real with you. You say, they describe your mama,
your daddy would probably glad to just get on out here.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Man, let me go work out young. I't had nothing of.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
This right now.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
She calls the men her gentleman friends. See that's old
right there? Who is that? That's my genemy?

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Food?

Speaker 3 (05:16):
That's old.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Two of the guys are younger than her. Most people
she meet gonna be younger than her. That ain't a
whole lot of people still living that's older than her.
So stop stop telling us stuff that we already know.
Some of the men is younger than her. Hell, most
everybody she meet gonna be younger than her. What percentage
of people you think your mama can meet at eighty
five that's older than her?

Speaker 3 (05:38):
That like one percent of the population, ain't it?

Speaker 5 (05:40):
So?

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (05:41):
Even down at the retirement home or the nursing home,
she gonna be the old one down there, Okay, here
we go. My mom over dresses everywhere we go because
she's seeking attention.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
I think that's fly that you stay fly.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Till you die.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
I think you should over dress. That's what I'm gonna be.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
I'm gonna be an old man wearing old pimp suits, colors, ties.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Hats, brown, God, I'm I'm wearing.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
I'm rocking out of here, just like your mama. Uh.
She sparks conversations with men, and it's flirty and embarrassing
because most times she can't tell that the men don't
want to engage conversation. I've had that experience before, because
you know, I'm a year away from being seventy. So
it's like old women think, because I'm that age, that's

(06:27):
what I want.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
That's not. That's not.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
I've had an eighty year old women come here, Hey, Davy,
what's going on? Hey mama? Why you call me that
we round the same age?

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Hang on, Steve, We'll have part two of your response
coming up at twenty three minutes after today's Strawberry letter
subject my mom is for the streets. We'll get back
into it right after this. You're listening Steve Hardy Morning Show.

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Speaker 1 (07:29):
All right, come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter.
The subject is my mom is for the street.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
A slash girl, your mama? Wow, this wild one right here.
This woman is in her mid sixties. Her mama and
her daddy died four years ago, so now she out
there dating men that she calls her gentleman friends. That's
an old statement right there. But she's got to be
eighty to eighty five somewhere in there, could be a

(07:56):
little bit older than that. Then you said that your mom,
I'm over dresses everywhere to get attention. I think that's
cool to be dressed up when you're old. I think
that's pretty slick. She has conversations with men and it's flirty,
and she can't tell when men are put off by
r don't want to be bothered. I've been in that
position because you know, I'm like really really famous with

(08:18):
old people, you know, because God gave me all my
fame and glory in my lady years because he knew
I would have wrecked it. If I had this much
fame and wealth at thirty, I'd be in jail with
Puffy Gode.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
So he waited till I was old enough.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
I know, call it okay to say anything, you know.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Just you know, I'm just telling you.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
If I was thirty and hand this money and stuff,
I'd be sitting somewhere I looking crazy. But I didn't,
so he gave it to me when I was older.
My fan base is young and old. Most women that
love me is too old to be loving anybody. I'm
just gonna be real with you. They come up to
me all the time, Hey baby, and I'm be gonna well,
your voice is leaving too, So I'm used to that.

(09:06):
She don't know it because she ain't been out there
in a while. She raised me to go after me
in instead of letting a man pursue me. Now that
she's older, I feel like I'm the parent. I try
to discipline her. Didn't you just say your mama raised
you to go after me? She raised you to go

(09:26):
after me. I don't know no mama to done that
to her daughter. So this is new. I feel like
I'm the parent, So I try to discipline her. When
I tell her to stop coming on to me, and
in public, she go off on me right then and there.
And then it makes people think that I'm being mean
to my elderly mom because see you telling her to
stop talking to me, and guess what she's saying back

(09:48):
to her. Stop telling me what to do all the time.
You won't let me enjoy myself. And that's what the
people here leave me alone? Why can't I on my
left life? See you gotta let your mama have some
fun late, that's what it sounded like. So I recently
got locked out of her apartment because I walked in

(10:10):
on her entertaining her newer gentleman friends. One of her
newer gentlemen friends. It was totally innocent.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
They was watching TV, but I felt like she shouldn't
be in her pajamas without a row while a man
is in her home, girl, what is you worrying about that?

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Folk?

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Have you seen eighty year old women pajamas?

Speaker 4 (10:33):
You don't have to.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
Have you ever seen a.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
Sexy pair of eighty year old women pajamas?

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Do you know how thick they are? She probably need
a robe on.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
The robe is woven into the pajamas.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
That's how thick then pajamas is.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
So I don't even know what you was worried about
right there, and they was watching TV. She shouldn't have
on or pajamas without a role while a man is
in her home.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
She told me to lead. The next day, you couldn't
get in.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
She had one of her gentlemen friends come change the
dead boat lock I done had to call locksmith to
change him back. And I'm scared for her. I don't
want one of these men to get carried away with
her in the bedroom or try to rock now, unlet's
stop right here. You don't want one of these old
men to get carried away with her in the bedroom.
Listen to me. Take that off your plate or things

(11:27):
to be concerned about you. I'm telling you right now,
at eighty, it can only get so wild wiling at eighty.
It's different from wiling at sixty, which is different from
wilding at forty, which is different from wilding at twenty.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
What's the different high it's gonna.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
Get out of hand in they eighty. Tell me that
he got to sit on the edge of the bed.
He can't get his socks off. He bent over and
tried take his socks off. Now he wheezed it. He'dne
forgot to take the viaguar. Now he got to sit
there and wait on the viagara to kick in. He

(12:10):
donet fell asleep because it took too long. You got
to take an hour before he done set the timer.
He don't know how to set the timer because his
daughner just brought him my iPhone. Now he done fell
asleep on your bed, yo, Mama, laying over there waiting sexy.
When he wake up, he can't unbutton all them buttons

(12:30):
on them old pajamas that your grandmama got.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
So now he's sitting up in the here trying to.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
Rub her to get all bothered and hot and heavy,
but nothing is going through cutting through the fabric on
them pajamas. I'm telling you how hard it is to
wild at eighty. It is so hard to wild at eighty.
Now she need help getting out of her pajamas. He
didnet got up and bent over and trying to scoot

(12:57):
her out to pajamas. Now his back then went out.
He got the late back down. Now he backing bed
and getting knocked out. What's how hard it is to
wild at eighty?

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Okay, I got it, Steve, I definitely got it.

Speaker 4 (13:14):
My mom is I enjoyed this letter. I had no
help for you and your mama. And the reason I
can't help because I ain't ever.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Been eighty before. I don't even know what the hell.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Going on poster comments and on the history letter.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
I want to holler at your marble.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
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Speaker 3 (13:46):
After his teeth is on that pillow.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
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