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May 29, 2026 13 mins

The Strawberry Letter heard on The Steve Harvey Morning Show Friday, May 29th, 2026. Subject: "Potty Mouth and Smokey Clothes"

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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 (00:22):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
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Here it is Strawberry Letter.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Thank you nephew. Subject pottymouth and smoky clothes. Dear Stephen Shirley,
I'm a forty seven year old single mother and I'm
a daddy's girl. My mother passed away three years ago,
and my ten year old daughter and I have been
making sure Papa Bear takes care of himself. He keeps
my daughter every other Friday night to give me a break,

(00:49):
and they pop popcorn and watch movies. The thought of
my dad dating someone new and moving on had not
crossed my mind until my daughter told me about Sue.
The first time she and Sue met, it was very
confusing for my daughter because Sue called my dad Daddy.
She said that Sue smoked cigarettes and used a lot

(01:09):
of bad words. When she talked to Papa Bear, she
said Sue played Uno with her, but when she tried
to watch a movie with her and Papa Bear, he
told Miss Sue she had to leave because her smoky clothes,
or he had to leave because her smoky clothes caused
my kids asthma to flare up. My daughter can be
a brat at times, so I waited to meet Sue

(01:30):
for myself before I said anything to Papa Bear about
what I heard. Well, I met Sue last Sunday, and
my daughter wasn't lying at all. Sue smelled like a
casino and she was cursing with every other word.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
She said.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
She helped my dad cook dinner and it was really good.
So seemed like the only good thing about Sue that
she can cook. After we ate, she excused herself to
go smoke a cigarette in the driveway. My dad said,
I should really put all of my judgment to the
side and get to know Sue, because she's sweet to him.
I do not want Sue in my parents' home calling

(02:07):
my daddy daddy. It's way too soon and it's inappropriate
in front of my daughter. I hope Dad is going
through a phase and he moves on. They don't have
anything in common. Do you think my dad will figure
that out before they get serious? Well, I got news
for your daughter. They are serious. She is cooking for

(02:27):
your dad and everything. This is not your business. Your dad,
Papa Bear as you call him, is living his life
right now. You're the only one who hasn't at least
tried to move on. Your dad is moving on, and
Sue is the one helping him through it.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
She may not be the ideal choice.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
For you, or who you would pick for your dad,
but your dad likes her.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Pottymouth and all cigarettes, all of that. He likes her.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
She makes him happy and I do like that he
asked you to leave when it was affecting your daughter's aasthma.
But he also needs to let Sue know that her
potty mouth is inappropriate in front of his grand baby.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Now.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
I will say that he should do that, but it's
not for you to determine the timetable in which your
dad should move on. He has to move at his
own pace. It has been three years. But if Sue
doesn't start respecting his wishes concerning the baby, you're gonna
just have to stop letting your baby go over there,
because it doesn't sound like Sue is going anywhere. And

(03:29):
whatever you do, please don't try to force your dad
to choose between you, your daughter, and Sue, because you
will probably get your feelings hurt.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
He likes Sue.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Steve.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
Well, well, well, especially letter for me right up my alley.
We gonna just don't get to a potty mouth and
smoke it clothes, eh, whatever, that's what your baby don't like.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
That's what your little daughter don't like.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
An like she smell like cigarette because all the time
shut showed mouth.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
She say that to Sue, that was Sue gonna tell her, Well,
you're a forty seven year old single mother. I'm a
daddy's girl.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
My mother passed away three years ago, and my ten
year old daughter been making sure papa'll take care of yourself.
Every Friday they go together, they have popcorn and movie night.
And the thought of my dad dating someone new and
moving on it ain't cross my mind. Well, it ain't
cross yo, min. It's been on his mind for there

(04:36):
three years, cause see Mama gone, Papa gotta do something now.
And then you didn't know none of this until your
daughter came in there and told you about this woman
named Suit. First time her and Sue met, it was
confusing to your daughter called Sue called my dad, Daddy, Daddy,

(04:58):
Daddy yealthy watching him movie? So I can give you
something else to watch, Daddy. Now the baby is confused.
She said that Sue smoked cigarettes and use a lot
of bad words, so obviously the adjectives was coming in
before Daddy, like you want to go up these blanky blank.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Huh. But she said it in that voice.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
He blankety blank, Hey, Daddy, I wish the blank they
would Daddy? Is that is that blank movie old with Daddy.

(05:47):
I'm going to go out here smoke this blankety blank cigarette, Daddy,
because this movie take it to the blow.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
And uh. He told Sue.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
They tried to watch a movie with her and Papa Bag.
He told Sue she had leave cause us smoking clothes
caused my child's asthma.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
With a flail. My daughter can be a bread at time.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
So I waited to meet Sue myself before I said
something to him about it. Well, I met Sue last Sunday.
My daughter wasn't lying. Sue smelled like a casino. She
was cussing with every word.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
She said.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
She helped my daddy cook dinner and it was really good.
So it seems like the only thing about Sue is
that she can cook. That's where you're wrong at right. Oh,
it ain't just a cooking in the kitchen, Sue. It
now doing several things, Daddy girl, that you need to
hear about. And when we come back, I'm gonna tell
you what that is. Raise yourself and put your baby

(06:39):
in another room.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
We'll have part two Steve's response coming up to today's
Strawberry Letter, potty Mouth and Smoky Clothes at twenty three
minutes after the hour. Right after this, you're listening Steve
Harvey Morning Show.

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Speaker 1 (07:26):
All right, come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter.
The subject is potty mouth and smoky clothes.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
Well, it's forty seven year old single mother lost her
mother and her father. She's a daddy's girl and they
lost her mother, which is his wife, three years ago. Well,
to make sure today okay, her and her daughter been
going over that checking o, Papa bear, make sure everything's okay.
So every other Friday, just to give you a break,

(07:54):
your daddy has you bring your daughter over and they
watch movies together.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
They have popcorn. All that's going good.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Now. You never thought that your daddy would start seeing somebody,
even after three years.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
I don't know how much time you think it take
it over somebody.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
That don't mean you're over them, but it's time to
move on because life does continue. You didn't know she
was dating somebody, he was gonna see somebody else until
your daughter came in and told you about Sue. Sue
is this woman that smokes a lott and cuss all
the time, and you know you don't think that's appropriate,
but you think your daughter's a brat, so you waited

(08:27):
to meet him for your first self, to meet him
the first time yourself where you finally met Sue, and
guess what you said about Sue. You said, Sue smelled
just like a casino Dindy came back and said she
was cussing every other word. And then you said that
seemed like the only good thing about Sue is that
she can cook. She helped my dad cook dinner and

(08:49):
it was really good. Now I seem like all that
Sue can do is cook. That's where you're wrong. That's
all you seen what Sue do. Sue did what she
could do in front of you and the baby, which
would cook. But what Sue really do It ain't for
you and the baby. Crazy Papa Bear in that laying

(09:13):
it down, Papa being there, Papa bear in there putting
it on goldielocks, Papa Bear you know, winning the pool
drop off, honey, and he the whole jaw, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

(09:34):
And then your daddy said you really ought to put
all your judgment to the side and get to know
Sue because she is sweet to him. Now listen to
this sentence. He is sweet, she is sweet to him.
That key word is sweet.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
To him.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
What is the cigarette smoking, cussing woman doing that could
be sweet to your daddy? Now you being a daddy girl,
you ain't gonna want to hear this. But they in
that nicked somewhere. Really your daddy niked, Hey, daddy, girl,

(10:20):
she in that doing things, and your daddy got your
daddy jumping up on the ceiling like a cat in
a cartoon. All folk claws dug into the ceiling. They're
they're doing things. The fitty she ain't fitted no more
on the bed. It then come up on all folk corners.
That's how sweet she is to him. And then you

(10:43):
setting up been here and sue because and I don't
want sue in my parents' house. Calling my daddy daddy,
well it ain't the same daddy. You got them two
different daddies. When you call him daddy, it's parental. When
she called him daddy is consentual. Yeah, you call him

(11:04):
daddy is parental. She called him daddy is consentual as
in consentual sin. You can beat daddy when you bringing it.
Spank me, okay, put some punishment on me, make me
do right, make me do what you want me to do.

(11:27):
I said yes, you say no, we still.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Do it anyway.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
That's what a daddy do. Daddy pick you up and
speing your rhyme, and what daddy do? Daddy fry bacon
and what daddy do? Daddy put you on the marry
go round. Yeah, that what daddy do? Yeah, daddy pick

(11:53):
you up and throw you up in the air and
catch you.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
That's what daddy. That's why she called him daddy.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
Then she said, it's way too soon, and it's appropriate
in front of my daughter.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
It's been three years.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
Three years, that's over a thousand days. It's too soon
for who And it's inappropriate in front of your daughter.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
No, it's not.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Your daughter needs to know that life goes on. I
hope Dad is going through a phase and he moves on.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Well he, oh what phase? It's it? You forty seven?
You forty seven? Ain't no phase? He writing the last chapter.
That's a good one.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
Yeah, there ain't nothing left next sept the end. So
leave daddy alone. They don't have anything in common. Oh
yes they do. Do you think my dad will figure
that out before they get serious? Sureley said it best.
They already serious, So seriously over there cooking and calling

(13:03):
him daddy. How you think she got to calling him
daddy because some serious stuff didn't happening there.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
I've been called daddy before.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
It feels so good, Daddy and Poppy.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
That does something to you, guys, doesn't it?

Speaker 5 (13:20):
All?

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Right?

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Listening what's up on Instagram?

Speaker 4 (13:23):
You ain't figuring nothing now. Your daddy in that high
hell with that good right? Both in cussing.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Strawberry Letter.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
You can also check out the Strawberry Letter podcast on demand.
Coming up next, it is Junior and Sports Talk right
after this.

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