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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter. If you
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Okay, you could hear yours brother, little bit, hold on
tightest time for the Strawberry Letter.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Is that your sexy Tommy imitation? Just like that was Tommy?
Thank you Tommy slash Junior.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
All right.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Subject, take my money, my house, and my car. Dear
Stephen Shirley, I'm writing this letter for my older brother
that is in love with a gold digger. That term
may not apply to new relationships, because I know a
man is supposed to provide for a woman if he's
sleeping with her, But too many times he's called me
to complain about her misusing and abusing his kindnesses. He

(01:06):
gives her money to go out with her girlfriend's most weekends,
and then she won't even call him till Sunday after
she's been out during whatever she wants to do.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
In case you are wondering.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
My brother is thirty four years old, but he's the quiet,
shy type. He manages several properties and he owns a barbershop,
but he doesn't cut hair. He has plenty of money
in free time, and all he wants is to spend
it with someone that loves him. He's asked his girlfriend
to move in with him, but she said it's too
soon now, so now he's trying to get her an

(01:40):
engagement ring to make things official. I hinted to her
that after two years he's ready to settle down, and
she said there is no way that they're ready for marriage. Supposedly,
my brother told her to take his money, his house,
and his car and whatever else she needs to be happy.
She knows she's got him right where she wants him,
and I can't stand by and let her play him

(02:02):
like that. I understand that I don't have a dog
in that fight, and if she's making him happy, then
I should butt out of it. But my question is,
if I have proof that she is sleeping with another man,
and she's been seen driving the man around in my
brother's car, should I tell him. My brother practically raised me,
and I want the best for him. So what do
I do in this situation? Will he hate me forever

(02:24):
if I tell him this? Well, the answer to that
question is maybe not forever, but he will be upset
with you. And look at this, you might not have
to do anything because your big brother has these are
your words now called you too many times to complain
about her misusing and abusing his kindnesses. So maybe he's

(02:44):
getting fed up in some sort of way. Because people
you know, are really feeling when they really are feeling
someone and you start to get all up in their business. Yes,
you do run the risk of them turning on you
if you tell them. I mean, that's a known fact.
I know you care about your brother. I can see

(03:04):
it in the letter. I know you do, and you should.
He's your brother. But whatever you say to him at
this point, he's not gonna hear it. He's not gonna
see it because he is not trying to hear it
and he doesn't want to. Your brother is a big boy.
He's a grown man who's gonna find out one of
these life lessons, life lessons that you get only by
the experience of being with someone like this, someone who

(03:29):
he let drive his car, and she's driving some other
man around in it. Okay, she's obviously a user, she's
taking advantage of your brother, but it's not your business.
I'm sorry, it's not your job to tell him this.
He will find out sooner or later because they always
find out, and just be there for him when it's over.
He will get over her eventually, But right now he's sprung.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Steve.

Speaker 5 (03:51):
You know how I respond about people don't mind and
they business. That ain't gonna change. But my response is
going to shock You's air is writing this letter for
her older brother that's in love with a gold digger.
Now she thinks that that might not apply to relationships,
because I know a man is supposed to provide for
a woman if he's sleeping with her. Well, see right there, now,

(04:14):
that depends on the arrangement of the arrangement, or shall
I say that depends on the agreement of the arrangement.
I will provide for you if I see a future.
I will invest in you if I see a future
or some promise. Now, if we're just kicking it, you

(04:37):
might ask me something, I might let you have it,
but you're not an obligation to me until I feel
obliged to help you because you show an obligation to me.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
So let's get that straight away.

Speaker 5 (04:51):
But she said too many times he even called to
complain about her misusing and abusing his kindness. He gives
her money to go out with his girlfriends, and she
been out doing whatever she want to do.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
She don't call him till Sunday.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
Now, Then she says, my brother's thirty four, but he's
a quiet shot type. He manages several properties, he owns
a barbershop, but he.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
Don't cut hair. Smart guy, smart guy.

Speaker 5 (05:16):
He has plenty of money in free time, and all
he wants is suspended with somebody that loves him. Now,
this sounds like a good dude, but he's smart too.
He bought a barbershop and don't cut hair. Lord, have mercy.
So that chair that he would normally be man and
making forty dollars a cut this boy and gave that
chair to somebody else and charging that dude for the chair.

(05:39):
And he can keep his forty for the cut. But
I'm gonna need one hundred and fifty two hundred a
week for the chair.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
Whatever it is.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
Man, I'm finna go owe me a damn barbershop. Appreciate
the idea. Man, I never thought of that. But he
don't cut hair. He got plenty of money in free time,
and he just wants somebody. So he asked his girlfriend
to move in here, but she says it's too soon.
So now he's trying to get her an engagement reen
to make things official. I think somewhere in there he's

(06:06):
been seeing her for two years? Is that correct?

Speaker 4 (06:10):
Two years? Uh? Huh, A couple of years anyway.

Speaker 5 (06:13):
Supposedly, my brother now he hitted that after two years
he's ready to settle down. She said, there's no way
they're ready for marriage, and it's gonna be obvious in
this letter. My brother told her to take his money,
his house's car, whatever else she needs to be happy.
She knows she's got him right where she wants, and
I can't stand by let him play it like that.
Shirley says he's a big boy and he's grown. That's

(06:35):
a true statement. What Shirley failed to tell you is
that your brother is whipped. Yes, yo, brother, he is whipped.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Hang on, Steve.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
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my car.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
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Speaker 1 (07:24):
All right, come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter.
The subject take my money, my house, and my car.
When we left, you were going to tell the difference
between sprung and whipped.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
This boy in this letter, this thirty four year old man.
This being used by this woman. He wants to move
it further to marriage, she said, has no way. I
wish too early to get married. I'll tell you why.
She said that he's giving her everything. He's told her
to take her his car, his house, his money, just

(07:55):
whatever else she needs to be happy.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
She knows she's got him right where she wants.

Speaker 5 (07:59):
And I can ain't stand by and let him play
like that, I said, Shirley, is absolutely right in saying
that he's a big boy and the grown man. She
just left off the fact that he's quipped. Shirley said,
he's sprung. There is a difference. Let me help you
understand something, ladies.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Sprong it is.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
When a man is around you and he feels all tingry.
Sprong is when a man is around you and he
feels all giddy. Sprong is when a man wants to
be in your company all the time. That's sprung. Okay,
sprung is wondering what you do where you're going. Quill
is different. She don't put something on this boy so

(08:49):
strong it's damned Neil voodoo the old saying is he
looking for her in the daytime with a flash?

Speaker 3 (09:00):
All right? Duleie noted?

Speaker 5 (09:01):
Okay, god boy, this is how he talked when he
around him. This this boy right here strong when they
in the bed. This boy, he boy, he can't control himself.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
And she got him. And that's what the problem is. Now.

Speaker 5 (09:23):
She knows she got him right where she wants him,
and I can't stand by and let him play like that.
I understand that I don't have a dog in this fight.
And if she's making him happy, then I should butt out. Well,
she's not making him happy, She's making him unhappy. He
always calls you to complain about she he's being misused.
But that whipped thing, that thing got him thinking it

(09:46):
can he can fix it. So now he want to
rush to get her a ring because he wants her
to move forward with this. But now the young girl
says that she has proof she's sleeping with another man
and she's been seen driving the man around in my

(10:07):
brother's car. Should I tell him? My brother practically raised me.
I want the best for him, So what should I
do in this? Will he hate me forever if I
tell him this? No, he won't hate you forever, because
this is a different situation. And here is the shaka. Yes,
you should.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Tell him what that is a shocker?

Speaker 5 (10:26):
Steve what, Yes, you should tell him. See this is
quite different. Oh, because listen to me. See normally it's
girlfriends that see their girlfriend's man out somewhere and see
him with a woman not in the act of nothing,

(10:48):
but then wants to report that you don't know what
that situation is over there, and that report and that
that ain't you gonna start to fire a house that
don't need to get lit this it's different. This is
a young sister trying to protect her older brother and
has proof that she's sleeping with another man because she's

(11:10):
seen another man in her brother car with her.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
You got to tell your brother.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
So the proof. It's because she has proof.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
She got proof.

Speaker 5 (11:19):
This ain't speculation. She's been seen in the car with
another man. Hey, man, that is so damn disrespectful on
her part and justice disrespectful on the dupot. And he's
your brother. This ain't your friend, this your brother. You
have got to go and tell your brother this. Will

(11:41):
he hate me?

Speaker 4 (11:41):
Father? He gonna be a little ticked.

Speaker 5 (11:43):
At you, but he gonna get over that because he
needs to know the truth. This is why she say
it's too early to get married, because she got access
to his money, his house, in his car. He knows
she'll give him anything and she can have her and
eat it too. Why would she get married and stop

(12:04):
the gravy train when the gravy train is rolling all
over town. You have got to tell your brother this information.
And I know y'all are surprised, but this is let
me tell you something. If my sister saw a girl
I was dating driving my car with another man in it.

(12:24):
My sister coming to me, then you come here. This
little halfer was down there on shap here with a
man in your car. Now she already knows what's gonna happened.
I'm finna get the key and I'm fins find this man.
Somebody getting asked for. You have got to tell your
brother because your brother has called you complaining she abusing

(12:47):
him and tricking him, and all this here he putting.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Up with that.

Speaker 5 (12:49):
He can take some more bad news. He been handling
the bad he's been handling all the bad news. Pretty
good something for junior.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
What I'm trying to figure out? Who? Who are you
right now?

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Because line is what you do?

Speaker 4 (13:02):
I thought this would be a good time just lie?
Who need to lie? Here?

Speaker 5 (13:06):
The lady in the left, the lady that's doing all
the receptive stuff, is already lied. Mm So wat should
the little sister pick up her lot? You don't aid
a bad line, okay, you ate a purposeful and good lite.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
You don't know the rules to lie, all right?

Speaker 3 (13:23):
Listen?

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Be married long This top today Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
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Speaker 5 (13:36):
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Speaker 3 (13:44):
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Speaker 3 (14:09):
All right, normally we would be doing junior sports talk
right here. But Junior, you have.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Questions about Discovery letters, take my money, my house in
my car.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah uh, you know, jose didn't mean none of that.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
What he doing?

Speaker 2 (14:22):
He that is not what Josey was saying about what
I'm asking you on is okay?

Speaker 4 (14:28):
Normally you are the.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Person who will go along and lie.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah, you saying this is not the time to lie,
and this is what we should tell the truth.

Speaker 5 (14:38):
Listen to me, Junior. It is rules to liar. You
got to know the lie by law.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Just what see this is this is a new person.
This is confusing you.

Speaker 5 (14:53):
Your lie Number one, I have to have a direct purpose.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
Number two rule of line.

Speaker 5 (15:02):
It should be done in order to save or rescue.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
Number three.

Speaker 5 (15:10):
Number three, the lie should be a preventive measure. You
want to prevent the feelings being heard? Yes, the shock
to have a purpose.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
Yeah, and it.

Speaker 5 (15:24):
Has to have a lie that's aimed at making something better.
And number four, the lie must be geared to hold
it on to what you have.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
What Yes, dogs are the fire law.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
I don't give a damn charity. These are the bylaws
of lions.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
What line makes something better?

Speaker 4 (15:45):
Steve? It does?

Speaker 5 (15:47):
If you if your wife say to you, where have
you been? Can you say I stopped at the stone?

Speaker 4 (15:54):
Okay? Why would I say I stopped at the strip club?

Speaker 5 (15:59):
Call?

Speaker 4 (16:00):
I wanted to see diamond dust one more time more.

Speaker 5 (16:03):
I came to this house, so we have to see you,
and you don't look nothing like diamond dust. And diamond
dust can slide down the pole on her butt with
no hands.

Speaker 4 (16:17):
Now, why would I tell you want.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
To see that myself?

Speaker 4 (16:20):
Yeah? Except but I'm not gonna tell you that.

Speaker 5 (16:22):
So the lie becomes necessary now, j in this letter, Okay,
the woman that's deceiving, the gold digger that's playing her
brother is lying to her brother. The young girl has
no reason to lie to her brother because it's not
saving anything and it's just nothing good. She has now

(16:42):
got tell her brother the truth. Man, you need to
learn these bylogs.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Just say it truth, You just say it truth you
you never say truth, you never.

Speaker 4 (16:57):
I say truth all the time.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
A lie, lie when the truth will do?

Speaker 4 (17:04):
I say truth all the time when I'm not lying.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Good morning, This is Shirley Strawberry and Tims. The season
for happiness and love and giving and family, Happy Holidays.
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