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March 19, 2025 13 mins

Today's Strawberry Letter is from a woman that is just over all of the smells that come along with her man. Listen to hear Shirley, Tommy, & Junior's advice!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
All right, nephew, thank you. Subject, there's always an odor.
Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm married to a man that works
hard and he plays hard. He's the king of his
castle and he does the cooking and cleaning at the house.
Me being the queen that I am, I let him
do what needs to be done. But there are times
that he needs help with some things. He's a country

(00:47):
boy and he fries bacon early in the morning. He
eats sardines, he likes chittlings for the holidays, and he
likes to hunt and will bring home whatever he's killed
after it's treated, and he'll cook that too. My husband
usually smells like a hot mess. My house usually smells
like a hot mess.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
With his stinky food.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Then there's the fact that he doesn't shower after he's
been in there cooking all day. I have to tell
him that he'd better not touch our bed before he
watches washes his body and his hair. The other night,
he had my sheet smelling like a smoker because he
got in bed after slow cooking a brisket. He's always
in need of a scrub down, and I do not

(01:30):
mind helping him get clean in the shower so he
won't smell so manly. He's proud of his smells and
his stinking food. He smokes cigars, and he started back
smoking weed. I'm telling you he can't do anything without
a strong smell attached to it. Imagine how his favorite
combat style boot smell after he's been working hard in

(01:52):
them all day. It's like nothing to him because he
leaves them in the kitchen by the door instead of
leaving them in the garage. After twelve years of marriage,
it's hopeless. I want to give him an ultimatum to
be more aware of his cleanliness, but I don't want
to be mean. He really is a sweet man, but
there's always an odor. If this is my only complaint,

(02:16):
do I sound silly to be so irritated by this?
Or can I tell him to do better? Well, yeah,
you can tell him to do better. And this might
be your only complaint, but this is a major, major complaint.
Come on, now, you said he does the cooking and
the cleaning, Well maybe you need to start cooking and
especially cleaning, since you can't do this, not even if

(02:38):
it's your husband. So you're saying he's a great guy,
but he stinks. That's what you're saying. You can't do
this cleanliness and smells. It's just a deal breaker, a
bad smell. It's just a deal breaker for me. It
should be for you and everyone else.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
You gotta be clean.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Why would you want to mix with somebody else's I
don't understand that. And yes, again, you can tell him
whatever you need to tell him. He's your husband, You
got a voice. You gotta let him know. Baby, I
love you, you're a great man. We've been married for twelve years.
But you gotta clean yourself up. We gotta clean this
house up, get these smells out of here. It's all

(03:17):
too much. And don't even think about sounding silly to
be so irritated by this. Yeah, you can tell him
to do better, and he needs to do better.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Tommy, there's always cloocks.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
We're gonna have to put some cloorocks everywhere in order
for us to get through the drama that we're going.
I'm trying to figure out. I'm trying to close my
eyes and just try to imagine all the nasty that
you've been laid out for us. We got bacon going,
we got sardines and chipping's going, all them three things
like that. Have you ever had all that cooking at

(03:53):
one time? Sardines, bacon hitting much. That's a lot. The
kitchen has absorbed a lot right there already. All right,
then we got we got stuff he didn't killed, not
now calling Shirley. That's what that means. Out side. We
got a deal hanging out there. He dead. You know that,
don't you. We got a couple of raccoons out there,
they dead, Okay, we find to cut them up and

(04:13):
they find to be something to eat, so we you know,
we we uh yeah, yeah, we gotta we gotta clean
that up. We got don't get me wrope. We got
a hog got there the hog dead, were waiting to
eat him. We got all this dead rope. All this
dead kill laying out there, that's just just thinking too
So now the whole patio toe up. Y'all understand this.
This is all the stuff we got around this house.
Y'all gotta understand how we live it. We living in

(04:37):
the woods. Evidently we're living in the woods. Okay. Now,
now he brings his nesty behind the bed. Now the
now the sheets smell like a smoker. You understand, Keep
it out a little. We're doing we were done, stuck
up everything. On top of all this, he got the narrative,
fire up some weed at a cigare We gotta what

(05:00):
is we doing? You got too You got too many,
You do too much. Either you're gonna smoke cigars and
sit down, or you're gonna be a hunter and sit down.
You can't be a chef, hunter, smoker, You can't be
all these things. You got to pick one so we
can figure out how we can fig that problem. We
got too many problems. Now, listen to these boots. We

(05:22):
need to put these boots. I'm not even up for
these boots being in the garage. I'm not These boots
need to be on the back of his truck. And
when he get ready, to go somewhere. He reached back
there and grab them boots. But them boots don't need
to come in the garage or the house. But you
got a nasty man, because see now you're talking about you.
You don't mind getting in there in the shower washing him.

(05:44):
He don't even know how to wash himself. This is
a problem. You got a nasty man. Then you got
the nerve saying he's a nice guy. It's a nice
it's a lot of nice nasty men. But don't nobody
want them at their house. You got a ansty man.
You gotta really make a decision. Do you want to
live the rest of your life like this? Because guess what,
he's not gonna change his nasty for you. He's been

(06:10):
nasty for twelve years year. Ain't none changed. The sardine
has been the same, Them chittling has been the same.
Them chittling should have been a dead giveaway. Who's eating
that every day?

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Who?

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Who?

Speaker 3 (06:20):
No?

Speaker 2 (06:21):
No?

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Just for the holiday?

Speaker 2 (06:23):
And we and guess what, let me tell you something
about them chitlings. They ain't clean.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
You know, he ain't cleaned up.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
You know they not clean? All right?

Speaker 3 (06:32):
Hang on, nephew, if.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
You sleeping with him. It's something wrong with you.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Well, have part two of the Strawberry Rescuints coming up
at twenty three minutes after the hour of today's Strawberry Letters.
Subjects there's always an older right there. I'm out.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
We'll be back with more right over.

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Strawberry letter. This subject is there's always an odor and

(07:36):
right there has turned a lot of people off. This
woman is married to a man that she says works hard,
plays hard.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
He's a king of his castle. He does all the
cooking and cleaning in his house. They've been married for
twelve years. She calls herself a queen, and she lets
him do what needs to be done well, according to
the title, what needs to be done is get these
odors out, clean yourself up.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
She says. He comes to bed sometimes smoking.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
The bed smells like a smokehouse because you know, I
guess he doesn't wash before he gets to bed. She
has to get in the shower with him and help
him shower and clean up and everything. He's a grown man.
They've been married for twelve years. He had her sheet
smelling like a smoker. His shoes smell horrible, his combat
boots smell terrible.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
He smokes cigars. He just started smoking weed.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
He cooks chillings in the house bacon every morning, which
is nothing wrong with that, but come on, now, you
gotta let some of this stuff air out.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
She wants to know.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
She doesn't want to be mean, she says, because he's
a really sweet man.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
But there's always an odor.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
So she says, if this is her only complaint, does
she sound lilly real sweet to be to be irritated
by this? And can she she's asking us, can she
tell him to do better?

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Junior?

Speaker 5 (08:55):
What you got, yeah, yell, yell, smell it, yea, smell it,
this whole little stink, Yeah it does. Look look at
all the stuff they didn't put in our thoughts. Brisket, chitlings,
soart thing. It's stank.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
Now I can, I can spell him as.

Speaker 5 (09:13):
Matter of fact.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
How big is he?

Speaker 5 (09:15):
Why he too big to be cooking this much? His
brisket is soart thing, it's chitting. Do you know?

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Do you know how much chilins fill.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Up a house?

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Everybody, No chilin's filip house anymore.

Speaker 5 (09:29):
That's why we don't eat the How you washing him?

Speaker 2 (09:32):
You gotta wash him.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
You ain't got a problem with this part.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
How big is he?

Speaker 5 (09:39):
You got to climb into tub with him? This whole
thing stank?

Speaker 3 (09:43):
It does you?

Speaker 2 (09:44):
How much love I got to help?

Speaker 5 (09:45):
I'm telling you right now. If I got to get
in the tub and wash my wife, I don't want
I don't want to marriage no more.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
But and Junior, he smokes cigars. You smoked cigars, So it's.

Speaker 5 (09:55):
Cigars, yes, But the weeds, the cigars, the brisket, chilings
things alone.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
I don't nobody just start smoking weed in the equation.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
He started back smoking weed.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
She said, he started back, Yeah, started back smoking it.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
She said, he can't do anything without a strong smell
attached to it. Okay, for sure, that's really something right there.
Wash him though, I were washing alone. Man, She gets
in the shower, Yeah, and washes him.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
You gotta wash herself when you get through with him.

Speaker 6 (10:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
And they can't have much company. They can't because of
all these smells. A No, it's just the two of them. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
What you know what, ladies, ladies always missed the signs
when that man came down that aisle twelve years ago.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
That man smelled like them, Dean, he did know what
twelve years what? He had all them smells on him
when he come down that up.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
He had women like a good smelling man. No, we're
like a good smelling man. I'm gonna give you some
people's name, man, there's some people's names that stink is
his name. Otis is his name.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
He's smelling.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Otis is his name? Charles?

Speaker 5 (11:30):
Does he breathe heavy? Because these are all people that
stink that I know.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Oh that your personal friend like he got have heavy breathing.

Speaker 5 (11:40):
This is a constant thing this man got, he got
he took it too much.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
But you know, told us about his friend Onion Arms,
because he had an older remember, yeah, he grew up
with a guy named Onion Arms.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Is his name, Dwayne?

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (11:58):
So okay, so you an I ain't smoking good Dwayne.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
I got a good d Wayne. We got a good wing.
We got a good in our family.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
We got he.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Cooked too much.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
It's too much stuff. He asked it, but you got
karla question.

Speaker 6 (12:14):
Okay, so junior, and you're finished, I don't want to
cook it. Yeah, okay, So I have a question. So
is there a way that maybe he could cook all
this stuff outside and not cook it in the house,
and not have all those different odors in the house
when he comes in, and maybe have that set up
that way changing it look like, well, so what it's

(12:38):
outside and out of the house.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
I don't think he has a smoker itself inside the
house because most people do that outside right right, you smoke? Yeah,
So I don't think he has that in there. But
the chitlings and.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
All that outdoor kitchen, yeah, I ain't outdoor kitchen.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
You know that eighteen ninety one that looks like eighteen
ninety This smelled like a wagon trail.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
That's yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
First of all, do you know what bothers me?

Speaker 5 (13:07):
Just how much he cooked it?

Speaker 1 (13:08):
This?

Speaker 5 (13:09):
How much wild game he got. Have y'all ever heard
meat being treated?

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Oh oh yeah, yeah yeah, I've seen it. That's got Yes,
you knew, yes, yeah, you.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Got deers and hogs and all that.

Speaker 5 (13:21):
Yes, dear, treat that because all my chicken come from
the store.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
I never cheat it. Put it in the oven. We treat.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
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next it is Junior and Sports Talk. You smell good,
You guys smell good on this show.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Thank the Lord. Carli, you smell heavily. Thank you back
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