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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Time now for today's Strawberry Letter and listen.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
If you need advice and relationships on dating, on work,
on sex, on parenting, and more, Please submit your Strawberry
Letter to Steve Harvey FM and click submit Strawberry Letter.
We could be reading your letter live on the air.
You hear that, just like we're going to read this
one right now.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Buckle up and hold on tight. We got it for you.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Here.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
It is Strawberry Letter.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Subject show business Isn't for everyone. Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm
a fifty year old, devoted wife with a big problem.
I've been married to a great man for twenty three
years and we have two kids in college. He's a
great provider and we both have solid careers, but he
has always had a big dream.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
He wants to be a big Broadway actor.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
My husband wants badly to be an actor, but he's
never been able to make it work. He's auditioned for
a lot of commercials, he's taking act he's take and
acting classes, and he has wasted our money on hustling
his way into some big auditions, but each time he
was rejected. The most he's achieved is some unpaid adult roles.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
In the local children's theater.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
To put it plainly, he can't act worth the darn
and he can't sing to save his life.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I love him, but it's the truth.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Our friends and family have sat through too many bad
productions and local plays, and I simply can't do it anymore.
We constantly have to lie and tell him he's good,
and we know that we are giving him false encouragement.
My biggest problem is now that our kids are in college,
he has come up with a crazy idea of moving
to New York so he can finally make it big
(01:36):
as an actor. He has no professional experience, but he
thinks he just needs to be discovered to get his
first big break. I don't know how to tell him
it's not going to happen without crushing his spirit. What
is a wife to do when you know your man's
hopes most likely will never be a reality. Steve, you're
a superstar, So what advice do you have for someone
(01:59):
who has to tell their spouse there definitely not going
to make it. He can't upgroup my life with a delusion.
Please help?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Well? Does he have any talent at all? Nothing? Nothing?
Because on one hand.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You definitely need to stop lying to him, you and
all your friends, and you all have to tell him
the truth. If you really love him like you say
you do, and those are really his friends, you guys
have to sit him down and tell him the truth.
Maybe he didn't take enough acting classes sometimes, you know,
maybe he needs more.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
You know, sometimes you can you know. Maybe.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
On the other hand, you don't want to be the
one to just kill his dream. This is a dream
of his, so you know, you gotta you have to
support him as a wife because you know he's going
to be crushed to know that you really don't believe
in him, all right, but obviously he believes in himself,
which is a good thing, no matter how many rejections
(02:57):
he's gotten, because I mean, actors say this all the
time about the rejections they have to deal with, and
they do have to deal with a lot of rejection.
And no, I don't think that you should uproot your life,
but I do think, you know, maybe you should have
one more good chance for him, you know, give him
a chance to pursue his dream. You know, pick a date,
(03:21):
set up some audition, send out some videotapes, video audition,
video auditions, and if he gets a bite. If he gets,
you know, a callback or something, maybe then he can
go to New York. If it's something something permanent, okay,
But I would encourage him to keep taking those classes
because I don't think he should kill his dream. I don't,
(03:42):
yes he has, I don't want to crush this time.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
If this time out for this too old, for this
fifty years old. You've been with this man twenty three years.
He ain't made it yet, the damn kids is gonna
have to make it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
He's a great provider, That's what he is.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Got a solid career, that's what That's what he is.
He's always had a big dream. He wants to be
a big Broadway actor. My husband wants badly be a actor,
but he ain't never been.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Able to make it work.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
He's an audition for commercials. He taking acting classes. He
don't wasted money hustling his way into some big auditions,
and every time he rejected because he can't act.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Your damn husband can't act.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
But what is this why he always get That's why
he got to hustle his way into these auditions.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Ain't nobody asked him to come down there?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
They had him at the other audition he can't act
the most heason achieving some unpaid adult roles in a
local children's theater.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Now, old fat ass is somewhere. He the tree, the tree.
You're in the children's theater. Your big ass is the tree.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
You're wrong.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
To put it plainly. He can't act worth for damn.
I said this two letters, two sentences in. He can't
act with for damn, and can't saying to save his life.
So if somebody had a gun on him and said,
if you can sound like any record out.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Today, I won't shoot you, his ass will be shot.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I love him, but it's the truth, and the truth
will set you free, friends and family that set through
too many bad productions.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
And local plays. And I can't do it no damn more.
Just send up lying to.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
His old as telling him he good, and we know
we give it him false encouragement. Your ass ain't nothing
but a tree.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Now he done came up with some crazy idea to
move in New York. You know how much you costs
live in New York, Tyler, Ain't I finna.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Hide his old ass and he ain't been nothing but
a tree. Steve, we come back. I'm gonna tell you
the rest of it. Tell but you don't want to
kill his dream. Ain't no damn dream.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
All right.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
We'll have part two of Steve's very sweet response coming
up at twenty three after the hour. Today's subject is
show business isn't for everyone. It isn't for everyone, and
it may not be for your husband. We'll be back
with part two at twenty three after right after this.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
You're listening hard morning show.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
All right, Steve, come on, let's recap today's Strawberry Letters.
Subject show business isn't for everyone.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Fifty old man been married to this fifty ye old dude.
Fifty year old woman. She's been married to this man
twenty three years. The kids and went off to college.
He'd been trying to make it as an actor all
this time.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
He can't. He'dn't been auditions. He always get rejected.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
He'd hustle his way into big auditions, he always get
to rejected.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
He can't act. You know, he'd have been in some
unpaid adult roles in the local children theater. We all
know what that means. He can't act with for damn.
He can't sing word for damn.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
He's a good provider, but other than that, he's not
worth for damn.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Now let's just speak clear. Wow, friends and family, the.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Sect through too many bad productions and local plays, and
you can't do it no more.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, you think you can't do it your friends, is
damn show time? Ah, he can't.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
He probably on them players where he's selling tickets to it.
Everybody in the plane got to sell fifteen tickets.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, that's probably what he did. He can't act.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I was scared when I first saw this letter that
but but because I thought it was about somebody I knew.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
But then it turned.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
On me because, oh no, he do want to be
a big Broadway actor.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I heard him up one making work. Now, I was
just saying it was somebody I know.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
He auditioned for a lot of commercial he just took
acting classes. But then it started going bad because he said,
but he can't act one for damn. So then I
knew it wasn't tom because Tommy asked, can act it?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Well, at first I.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Was very.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
He was on board.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Oh I was gonna do it, but then you know
it's said he can't act one for down and that's.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Tommy can really act though, so I had to back
up off. So it's not nobody. I know he has
no professional experience. He just thinks he needs to be
discovered to get his first big break. I don't know
how to tell him it's not gonna happen without crushing
his spirit.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
We got to get this spirit crushed.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
We have gotten it soon for y'all mess around, and
he find a place in Manhattan, and.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Y'all as gonna starve to death going up there trying
to be a starving actor.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Now listen to me. First of all, here's the truth.
This is not a dream that you're crushing. This is
his delusion. He's delusion.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
He's not dreaming. This is a delusion, man.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
And if you go tonight, if you go to New York,
it's gonna become a nightmare. Here's something else we need
to come to them, realization. All dreams don't come true.
They don't. I'm sixteen years old. I dream of Michelle.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Pierces, always making it about it.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
It's always about it, because then people can respect your transparency,
and maybe we can see.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Some of him here in me now. I dreamed of
Michelle piers at sixteen.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Okay, what happens.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Michelle pier has been married twice to everybody Buttelle Hart.
Michelle Piers came to one of my shows in Columbus,
Ohio with her husband. She said, Oh my god, that's
just handsome. I can't believe you've made it. She called
(10:56):
me handsome you she got you.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I knew she was lying near.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I like somebody else. Have never really heard that before,
and it through me.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
What do you mean like someone else?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
He back over here.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
No, he just said, if you.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Throw a rock in a pack of dogs, the one
that holler is the one you hit. Junior know he's
not attractive. Jy knows he's not attractive. Willa webbit, I'm
not I'm not getting this line. This show that got
(11:41):
a problem with it is the one that's ugglying.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I'm not getting in this line.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Now, Y'ALLU man, I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I agree with you.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, all dreams don't come true. I'm wanting to be handsome.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Now, if y'all, if you don't put this out of
his head, y'all ass gonna be in New York and
I can't tell you how much that's gonna cost. And
these great careers y'all got gonna be over because his
job don't transfer to New York.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Nigga.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
He's gonna be up there in the back of some
Broadway theater, swipping, sweeping, trying to be evident Champagne King
that he just gonna bust out singing.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Mo I can walk. Then he gonna get fired from
the mopping job.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
You need to stop this before it gets started. You
and your friends need to sit down. It's really not
your friends. Don't include your friends. You have to sit
down as the wife and go honey, listen.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Harry, Steve.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
You can't. You can't at or saying.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
All right, thank you, Steve.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
You don't stop this.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I'm gonna leave you your comments on Today's Strawberry Letter
of Instagram and Facebook at Steve Harvey FM.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Also check out Strawberry Letter podcast on demand. You're listening
to the Dave Harvey Morning Show.
Time now for today's Strawberry Letter and listen.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
If you need advice and relationships on dating, on work,
on sex, on parenting, and more, Please submit your Strawberry
Letter to Steve Harvey FM and click submit Strawberry Letter.
We could be reading your letter live on the air.
You hear that, just like we're going to read this
one right now.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Buckle up and hold on tight. We got it for you.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Here.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
It is Strawberry Letter.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Subject show business Isn't for everyone. Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm
a fifty year old, devoted wife with a big problem.
I've been married to a great man for twenty three
years and we have two kids in college. He's a
great provider and we both have solid careers, but he
has always had a big dream.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
He wants to be a big Broadway actor.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
My husband wants badly to be an actor, but he's
never been able to make it work. He's auditioned for
a lot of commercials, he's taking act he's take and
acting classes, and he has wasted our money on hustling
his way into some big auditions, but each time he
was rejected. The most he's achieved is some unpaid adult roles.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
In the local children's theater.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
To put it plainly, he can't act worth the darn
and he can't sing to save his life.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I love him, but it's the truth.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Our friends and family have sat through too many bad
productions and local plays, and I simply can't do it anymore.
We constantly have to lie and tell him he's good,
and we know that we are giving him false encouragement.
My biggest problem is now that our kids are in college,
he has come up with a crazy idea of moving
to New York so he can finally make it big
(01:36):
as an actor. He has no professional experience, but he
thinks he just needs to be discovered to get his
first big break. I don't know how to tell him
it's not going to happen without crushing his spirit. What
is a wife to do when you know your man's
hopes most likely will never be a reality. Steve, you're
a superstar, So what advice do you have for someone
(01:59):
who has to tell their spouse there definitely not going
to make it. He can't upgroup my life with a delusion.
Please help?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Well? Does he have any talent at all? Nothing? Nothing?
Because on one hand.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You definitely need to stop lying to him, you and
all your friends, and you all have to tell him
the truth. If you really love him like you say
you do, and those are really his friends, you guys
have to sit him down and tell him the truth.
Maybe he didn't take enough acting classes sometimes, you know,
maybe he needs more.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
You know, sometimes you can you know. Maybe.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
On the other hand, you don't want to be the
one to just kill his dream. This is a dream
of his, so you know, you gotta you have to
support him as a wife because you know he's going
to be crushed to know that you really don't believe
in him, all right, but obviously he believes in himself,
which is a good thing, no matter how many rejections
(02:57):
he's gotten, because I mean, actors say this all the
time about the rejections they have to deal with, and
they do have to deal with a lot of rejection.
And no, I don't think that you should uproot your life,
but I do think, you know, maybe you should have
one more good chance for him, you know, give him
a chance to pursue his dream. You know, pick a date,
(03:21):
set up some audition, send out some videotapes, video audition,
video auditions, and if he gets a bite. If he gets,
you know, a callback or something, maybe then he can
go to New York. If it's something something permanent, okay,
But I would encourage him to keep taking those classes
because I don't think he should kill his dream. I don't,
(03:42):
yes he has, I don't want to crush this time.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
If this time out for this too old, for this
fifty years old. You've been with this man twenty three years.
He ain't made it yet, the damn kids is gonna
have to make it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
He's a great provider, That's what he is.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Got a solid career, that's what That's what he is.
He's always had a big dream. He wants to be
a big Broadway actor. My husband wants badly be a actor,
but he ain't never been.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Able to make it work.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
He's an audition for commercials. He taking acting classes. He
don't wasted money hustling his way into some big auditions,
and every time he rejected because he can't act.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Your damn husband can't act.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
But what is this why he always get That's why
he got to hustle his way into these auditions.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Ain't nobody asked him to come down there?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
They had him at the other audition he can't act
the most heason achieving some unpaid adult roles in a
local children's theater.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Now, old fat ass is somewhere. He the tree, the tree.
You're in the children's theater. Your big ass is the tree.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
You're wrong.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
To put it plainly. He can't act worth for damn.
I said this two letters, two sentences in. He can't
act with for damn, and can't saying to save his life.
So if somebody had a gun on him and said,
if you can sound like any record out.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Today, I won't shoot you, his ass will be shot.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I love him, but it's the truth, and the truth
will set you free, friends and family that set through
too many bad productions.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
And local plays. And I can't do it no damn more.
Just send up lying to.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
His old as telling him he good, and we know
we give it him false encouragement. Your ass ain't nothing
but a tree.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Now he done came up with some crazy idea to
move in New York. You know how much you costs
live in New York, Tyler, Ain't I finna.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Hide his old ass and he ain't been nothing but
a tree. Steve, we come back. I'm gonna tell you
the rest of it. Tell but you don't want to
kill his dream. Ain't no damn dream.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
All right.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
We'll have part two of Steve's very sweet response coming
up at twenty three after the hour. Today's subject is
show business isn't for everyone. It isn't for everyone, and
it may not be for your husband. We'll be back
with part two at twenty three after right after this.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
You're listening hard morning show.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
All right, Steve, come on, let's recap today's Strawberry Letters.
Subject show business isn't for everyone.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Fifty old man been married to this fifty ye old dude.
Fifty year old woman. She's been married to this man
twenty three years. The kids and went off to college.
He'd been trying to make it as an actor all
this time.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
He can't. He'dn't been auditions. He always get rejected.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
He'd hustle his way into big auditions, he always get
to rejected.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
He can't act. You know, he'd have been in some
unpaid adult roles in the local children theater. We all
know what that means. He can't act with for damn.
He can't sing word for damn.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
He's a good provider, but other than that, he's not
worth for damn.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Now let's just speak clear. Wow, friends and family, the.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Sect through too many bad productions and local plays, and
you can't do it no more.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, you think you can't do it your friends, is
damn show time? Ah, he can't.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
He probably on them players where he's selling tickets to it.
Everybody in the plane got to sell fifteen tickets.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, that's probably what he did. He can't act.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I was scared when I first saw this letter that
but but because I thought it was about somebody I knew.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
But then it turned.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
On me because, oh no, he do want to be
a big Broadway actor.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I heard him up one making work. Now, I was
just saying it was somebody I know.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
He auditioned for a lot of commercial he just took
acting classes. But then it started going bad because he said,
but he can't act one for damn. So then I
knew it wasn't tom because Tommy asked, can act it?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Well, at first I.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Was very.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
He was on board.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Oh I was gonna do it, but then you know
it's said he can't act one for down and that's.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Tommy can really act though, so I had to back
up off. So it's not nobody. I know he has
no professional experience. He just thinks he needs to be
discovered to get his first big break. I don't know
how to tell him it's not gonna happen without crushing
his spirit.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
We got to get this spirit crushed.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
We have gotten it soon for y'all mess around, and
he find a place in Manhattan, and.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Y'all as gonna starve to death going up there trying
to be a starving actor.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Now listen to me. First of all, here's the truth.
This is not a dream that you're crushing. This is
his delusion. He's delusion.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
He's not dreaming. This is a delusion, man.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
And if you go tonight, if you go to New York,
it's gonna become a nightmare. Here's something else we need
to come to them, realization. All dreams don't come true.
They don't. I'm sixteen years old. I dream of Michelle.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Pierces, always making it about it.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
It's always about it, because then people can respect your transparency,
and maybe we can see.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Some of him here in me now. I dreamed of
Michelle piers at sixteen.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Okay, what happens.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Michelle pier has been married twice to everybody Buttelle Hart.
Michelle Piers came to one of my shows in Columbus,
Ohio with her husband. She said, Oh my god, that's
just handsome. I can't believe you've made it. She called
(10:56):
me handsome you she got you.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I knew she was lying near.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I like somebody else. Have never really heard that before,
and it through me.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
What do you mean like someone else?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
He back over here.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
No, he just said, if you.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Throw a rock in a pack of dogs, the one
that holler is the one you hit. Junior know he's
not attractive. Jy knows he's not attractive. Willa webbit, I'm
not I'm not getting this line. This show that got
(11:41):
a problem with it is the one that's ugglying.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I'm not getting in this line.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Now, Y'ALLU man, I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I agree with you.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, all dreams don't come true. I'm wanting to be handsome.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Now, if y'all, if you don't put this out of
his head, y'all ass gonna be in New York and
I can't tell you how much that's gonna cost. And
these great careers y'all got gonna be over because his
job don't transfer to New York.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Nigga.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
He's gonna be up there in the back of some
Broadway theater, swipping, sweeping, trying to be evident Champagne King
that he just gonna bust out singing.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Mo I can walk. Then he gonna get fired from
the mopping job.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
You need to stop this before it gets started. You
and your friends need to sit down. It's really not
your friends. Don't include your friends. You have to sit
down as the wife and go honey, listen.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Harry, Steve.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
You can't. You can't at or saying.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
All right, thank you, Steve.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
You don't stop this.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I'm gonna leave you your comments on Today's Strawberry Letter
of Instagram and Facebook at Steve Harvey FM.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Also check out Strawberry Letter podcast on demand. You're listening
to the Dave Harvey Morning Show.
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal
Gregg Rosenthal and a rotating crew of elite NFL Media co-hosts, including Patrick Claybon, Colleen Wolfe, Steve Wyche, Nick Shook and Jourdan Rodrigue of The Athletic get you caught up daily on all the NFL news and analysis you need to be smarter and funnier than your friends.