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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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,
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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
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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.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
My daughter can be a brat at time.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
So I waited to meet Sue 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 3 (01:45):
She said.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
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 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
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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.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Do you think my.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Dad will figure that out before they get serious? Well,
I got news for you, daughter. They are serious. She
is cooking for 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
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is moving on, and Sue is the one helping him
through it. She may not be the ideal choice for you,
or who you would pick for your dad, but your
dad likes her. Potty mouth and all cigarettes, all of that.
He likes her. She makes him happy and I do
like that he asked you to leave when it was
effected in your daughter's asthma. But he also needs to
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let Sue know that her potty mouth is inappropriate in
front of his grand baby. Now. 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
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letting your baby go over there, because it doesn't sound
like Sue is going anywhere. And 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 3 (03:37):
He likes Sue.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Steve.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Well, well, well especially letter for me. Right up my alley.
We're gonna just go and get to a potty mouth
and smoke it clothes.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Eh.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Whatever, that's what your baby don't like. That's what your
little daughter don't like. Don't like she smell like, said
she'd be cussing all the time. Shut show damn mouth.
She say that to Sue. That was Sue gonna teller.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Well, you're a forty seven year old single mother. I'm
a daddy's girl.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
My mother passed away three years ago, and my ten
year old daughter been making sure papa bea'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, man. It's been on his
mind for damn near three years. Cause see mama gone,
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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.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Woman named Suit.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
First time her and Sue met, it was confusing to
your daughter called Sue called my dad, Daddy, Daddy, d
y'all through watching that movie, so I can give you
something else to watch, Daddy.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Now the baby is confused.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
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.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
To go up these blanky.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Blank stand.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
But she said it in that voice.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
He blankety blank, Hey, Daddy, I wish to blank they
would Daddy? Is that is that blank movie over with Daddy.
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I'm going to go out here smoke this blankety blank cigarette, Daddy,
because this movie takes it too damn long?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
And uh. He told Sue.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
They tried to watch a movie with her and power.
Then he told Sue she had to leave because us
smoking clothes caused my child's asthma of the flawl. My
daughter can be a bread at time. So I waited
to meet Sue myself before I said something to him
about it.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Well, I met Sue last Sunday. My daughter wasn't lying.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Sue smelled like a casino. She was cussing with every
word she said. 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.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Wrong now, right, Oh.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
It ain't just a cook. It in the kitchen shoe.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
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. Rate yourself and put your
baby in another room.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
We'll have part two. Steve's response coming up to today's
strawberry letter, Potty Mouse and Smoky Clothes at twenty three
minutes after the hour.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Right after this.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
You're listening Harvey Morning Show. All right, come on, Steve,
let's recap today's strawberry letter is potty mouth and Smoky Clothes.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
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 that they okay, her and her daughter
been going over that checking on Papa Bear, make sure
everything's okay. So every other Friday just to give you
a break. Your daddy has you bring your daughter over
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and they watch movies together. They have popcorn. All that's
going good. Now. You never thought that your daddy would
start seeing somebody, even after three years. I don't know
how much time you think you take it over somebody.
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 Sup.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
So is this woman that smokes.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
A lot 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 to meet him for your
first self. But 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. Dinny came
back and said she was cussing every other word, and
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then you said that seemed like the only good thing
about Sue is that she can cook. She helped my
dad cook dinner and 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've seen what Sue do.
Sue did what she could do in front of you
and the baby, which was cook.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
But what Sue really do It ain't for you and
the baby.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Papa Bear in that laying it down, Papa being there,
Papa Bear in there putting it on goldielocks, Papa Bear.
You know win did the pool drop off? Honey, and
he the whole jaw, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then your
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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 2 (09:20):
To him.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
What it's 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 naked somewhere. Really, your daddy niked pants down around
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his ankle. All he got to do is laid back.
She pulled the pants off around his ankle. Sweet to it, Hey,
daddy girl, she in that doing things, and your dadaddy
got your daddy jumping up on the ceiling like a
cat in a cartoon. All folk claws, dug into the ceiling.
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They're they're doing things the fitted she ain't fitted no
more on the bed and then come up on all
folk corners. That's how sweet she is to him. And
then you sitting up in 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
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them two different daddies. When you call him daddy is parental,
when she called him daddy is consentual. Yeah, you call
him daddy is parental. She called him daddy is consentual
as in consentual.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Six.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
You can beat daddy when you bringing it. Spank me,
put some punishment on me. Really, make me do right,
make me do what you want me to do. I
said yes, you say no, we still do it anyway.
That's what a daddy do. Daddy pick you up and
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sping you round. And what daddy do? Daddy fry bacon,
and what daddy do? Daddy put you on the merry
go round. Yeah, thats what daddy do. Yeah, daddy pick
you up and throw you up in the air and
catch you. That's what daddy. That's why she called him daddy.
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Then she say it's way too soon, and it's appropriate
in front of my daughter.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's been three.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Years, three damn years. That's over a thousand days. It's
too soon for who, And it's inappropriate in front of
your daughter.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
No, it's not.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Your daughter needs to know that life goes on. I
hope Daddy is going through a phase and he moves on.
Well he's he Oh what phase is it?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Forty seven? You forty seven? Ain't no phase? He writing
the last chapter.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
That's a good one.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Now there ain't nothing left. Next step d n to
leave Daddy alone. They don't have anything in common.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Oh, yes they do.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Do you think my dad will figure that out before
they get serious?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Sureley said it best. They're already serious.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
They so seriously over there cooking.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
And calling him daddy.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
How you think she got to calling him daddy because
some serious stuff isn't happening.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Now I've been called daddy before. It feels so good.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Daddy and poppy.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, that does something to you, guys, doesn't.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
All right?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Listen what's up on Instagram?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
You ain't figured nothing? Now you're daddy in the high hill.
They're good, right.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
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