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March 19, 2024 13 mins

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a thirty four year old married woman and I'm staying at my cousin's house temporarily while I'm working on a project in Austin. My cousin is fifty two and her husband is forty eight. My room is on the other side of their house, by the kitchen. I've heard my cousin's husband on the phone mumbling late at night, damn near every night since I've been staying with them. He's usually on the couch every night until 3am, and then he goes to bed. My cousin is up and out early in the morning for work, and then her hubby is free to FaceTime some woman that has an annoying laugh........................................

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

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Thank you nephew. Subject she has no idea what he's doing.
Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm a thirty four year old married
woman and I'm staying at my cousin's house temporarily while
I'm working on a project in Austin. My cousin is
fifty two and her husband is forty eight. My room
is on the other side of their house, by the kitchen.

(00:45):
I've heard my cousin's husband on the phone mumbling late
at night, darn near every night since I've been staying
with them. He's usually on the couch every night until
three am, and then he goes to bed. My cousin
is up and out early in the morning for work,
and then her hubby is free to FaceTime some woman
that has an annoying laugh. She's tickled by everything my

(01:06):
cousin's husband tells her. I can't hear all of the conversation.
I just hear her giggling. I've seen him come in
from work, hanging up the phone as he reaches the
back door. The worst part was running into him recently
at the grocery store's seafood counter. I playfully said I
was surprised to see him in the store and asked

(01:27):
if he was cooking dinner. He told me, yes, he
was making dinner, but not at home. I almost choked.
He beat me to the house and he was in
the showers, so I assumed he was joking. When I
saw him in the grocery store, I went and peeked
in his car, and the grocery bags were on the
back seat. Around seven thirty pm, he threw on a
sweatsuit and headed out. I decided to ask my cousin

(01:50):
if she knew where he went. She said he was
going to the gym so he wouldn't have to get
up early in the morning to go. He walked in
at two am and slept on the couch. Cousin has
no idea what he thinks he's doing. Is it best
to stay out of this or can I give her
a few pints? Well, I mean, come on, I think
you already know the answer to your own question. And

(02:12):
I think you know what Steve and I are going
to say. We're going to say, this is not your business.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Of course.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, you're staying at their house.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
That's what I'm gonna say.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying as well. I know you
think you should be doing something because this is your
cousin you want to help. You feel compelled, you know,
to help her see this loser of a husband she
has for who he really is. But you have to
stay out of this. Come on, now, your cousin is
going to end up having some sort of misplaced anger
towards you, you know, and getting mad at you for

(02:43):
telling her all of this. You'll get put out and
you won't be able to finish your project that you're doing.
That's the reason you're staying in the house in the
first place. I say you stay focused on what you
came Therefore, hurry up and finish so you can get
out of the house asap. That is the only thing
you should be concerned about right now. Whatever he's doing

(03:05):
buying breakfast, I mean buying a dinner and all that,
he's sloppy with his cheating. She's bound to see what
he's doing if she even cares before too long. Anyway,
you don't have to have anything to do with that
who leaves groceries in the car in bags. I mean,
your cousin and her husband are going to have to
figure this out on their own. They do not need

(03:26):
your help, Steve.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Ugh, Can we do another letter? Can we? Can we
just do another letter? It's so odd.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
One we have for today?

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Just do it. It's just so obvious, though, why are we?

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah? It is of course.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
How many times have we had to tell people?

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Mostly me though, because Shirley will switch up on you
in a minute.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Early, Yes, about me just give your.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Well, I'm just saying I was really surprised, because surely
will girl, you have to tell her.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
I've heard you do it, maybe maybe a long, long,
long time ago.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Maybe, Oh so what has changed?

Speaker 1 (04:16):
This is not about me just giving me will.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
It's about this. Let we gotta do something because the
letter ain't.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Nothing you're doing glasses, Yeah, glasses.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
No, these are off. These ain't got nothing to do
with this letter. Oh really, I buck the glasses on line.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Okay, they're cute.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
I actually did the face fitting in and everything. I
don't have nothing to do that day.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Nothing back to the letter.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
You're a thirty four year old married woman. You're staying
at your cousin's house temporarily. You need to get out.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Now.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
You say, your cousin fifty two and her husband is
forty eight. Now, all of this stuff you're doing and really,
technically technically is speculation.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Technically, and I'll tell you why. I say.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
I've heard my cousin's husband on the phone mumbling at night. Okay,
what he say? What he say? Was he planning a
birthday surprise for his wife? Was he playing an anniversary
surprise for his wife? He was mumbling lay that night?

(05:31):
What did he say? Cause you don't know. And it's
every night since I've been staying with him. He's usually
on the couch every night to three of them, and
then he go to bed. My cousin is up earlier
and going out for work when her husband free to
FaceTime some woman that has an annoying laugh. So now

(05:52):
you don't know what they say at night, and you
don't know what she laughing that during the daytime, but
it's an annoying laugh. She's tickled by everything my husband
tells her, but you don't know what he's telling her.
I can't hear all the conversations, Jess hug Gigli Lady.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
This is a letter full of speculation.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
You don't even know what they say it and you've
admitted it three times already. I've seen him come in
from work, hang up the phone as he reaches the
back dose, So now you don't even know what he
said outside either.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Hang on, Steve, Hey, gu we'll have hear two of
your response, coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour.
Today's Strawberry letter, subject she has no idea what he's doing.
We'll get back into it. Get Steve's response at twenty
three minutes right after this. You're listening hard morning show.
All right, Come on, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry letter.

(06:58):
The subject is she has no idea what he's doing.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah, but then you don't either, because according to this letter,
you don't know a damn thing either.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Now let's go into this letter.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
You staying at your cousin's house because you working on
a project down in Austin. She fifty two, her husband
forty eight. You thirty four. My room on the other
side of the house, by the kitchen. Now listen to this.
I done heard my cousin's husband on the phone mumbling
that night. Okay, what he say?

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Huh?

Speaker 3 (07:26):
You don't know, because he mumbling and damnitar every night
since I've been staying there. He's usually on the couch
every night to three of them, and then he go
to bed. My cousin up in early after the house
going to work mornings, going to work, and her husband
free to FaceTime some woman that has an annoying laugh. Okay,
what she laughing at? You don't know that either. She's

(07:46):
tickled by everything my husband tells her husband. She's tickled
by everything my cousin and husbands tell her. I can't
hear all the conversation. What oh, you can't, So you
still don't know what's being said, what's being discussed. You
don't know nothing. I just hear her giggling. That's it.

(08:09):
So now you gonna break up the massage over some
giggling and some mumblet and you don't know what nobody said.
I've seen him come home from work, hang up the
phone as he reaches the back door.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Oh he outside talking.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Now, you don't know who he talking to on that
phone when he reached the back door. It could be her,
but you don't know that. It could be a business call.
But you don't know. It could be his boy. He
could be buying some weed.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
You don't know that.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
You see what I'm saying. The worst part, though, he
was what she thinks she got some information. I ran
her to him at recently at the grocery store seafood counter.
I playfully said, I'm surprised to see you at the
stove he had. I asked if he was cooking dinner.
He said, yeah, he making dinner, but.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Not at home.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Oh truth, truth, ye'all making dinner, but not at home.
I almost choked. He beat me to the house and
he was in the shower, so I assumed he was joking.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Well he wasn't.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
When I saw him at the grocery store, I went
and picked in his car and the grocery bags was
on the back seat. Okay, what's the problem. He told
you he was cooking dinner, but not at home. So
around seven point thirty he threw on a sweatsuit and
headed out. I decided to ask my cousin if she
knew that where he went. She said he was going

(09:35):
to the gym so he wouldn't have to get up
early in the morning. Okay, So he was heading to
the gym with his sweatsuit on. He walked in at
two am and slept on the couch long time at
the gym. Then after you go to the gym, you
gotta go eat somewhere. So he took the seafood and

(09:59):
he made dinner wherever he made it at. Somebody told
me one time, the lifestyle got kitchens in it. Really,
somebody told me somewhere Lifestyle got there. You can do
your hair down the lifestyle. You're a little facial down

(10:21):
the lifestyle. Somebody told me that. I ain't never been
in the lifestyle, but somebody, just somebody just told me that.
They say you can do You can rint an office
down at lifestyle. They got snack balls and everything that lifestyle.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
So you just go to the grocery store, get your dinner,
cook it there, work out, get your hair.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
Down that lifestyle. Some lifestyle gyms is open twenty four hours.
He walked into two am and slept on the couch.
My cousin has no idea what he's doing, and you
don't either. You have no clue. You speculating, but you
ain't heard him say nothing. You ain't heard him talk

(11:01):
to no woman. You know there's a woman on the
phone giggling, but you can't hear no conversations. He hang
up the phone when he get in the back door.
I got it, oh, I oh, oh, I got how
it looks.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
I see exactly how it looks. And one and one
is two? Yeah? Where But the.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Problem is you doing arithmetic, not her. Is it best
to stay out of this? Or can I give her
a few hits? Yeah, gonna give her some hits. You
as gonna be out of Austin though today, I tell
you that right now. I'm gonna tell you that right now. Yo,
he's been your last days in Austin. Gonna get your

(11:40):
little money together for the hotel and everything. But now,
what are you gonna tell your cousin? Right?

Speaker 2 (11:46):
He be on the.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Phone at night. I know, girl, he got a business.
He be mumbling, he don't want to wake everybody up.
He hang on the phone when before he comes through
the back door. He trying to spend quality time in here.
He trying to grasp job home. He went down at
the grocery store and bought some seafood, and he goes
where did he take it to? He told you he

(12:12):
was going to cook dinner somewhere.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, uh huh.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Well well where did he go?

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (12:19):
No, I thought you knew.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
See, lady, it ain't adding no for you.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Now. If this is the wife writing a letter, Sureley
would have a whole nother answer for her.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Girl. Leave him. You know what's going on with you? No, No, I.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
Still say a speculation because you need to find out
what's being said on the phone call.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
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(13:05):
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