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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter. If you
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could be yours.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You never know, Ladies, tell me it's time for the
Strawberry Little My good friend, Shirley.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Strawberry, Thank you, my good friend. Junior subject Boogie wonder Land.
Dear Stephen, Shirley, My husband and I have owned a
lounge for almost ten years, and over the years it's
transitioned into a few different things.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
We used to sell fish and wings.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Then we stopped doing food and went to a live
jazz and wine tasting. No one came to that, so
we started catering to the younger crowd, and that was
a big problem because they don't know how to act.
So four years ago my husband decided to make it
an old school lounge and we put in shag carpet
and plants to make it look like the seventies. The
(01:02):
neighborhood where the lounge is has gotten pretty bad over
the years, but we wanted to keep it in the
area because it's where my husband grew up. All of
his old friends and his family come to the lounge
and hang out, and he doesn't charge them for drinks
at all. All of the men have nicknames, and they
want to come to the lounge to cheat on their
wives and play spades with women that don't mind messing
(01:24):
with married men. My husband is cool with it all
as long as a lounge has people in it. I'm
not in the business of running Boogie Wonderland with old
people that don't spend money. We have no smoking signs,
but my husband will not enforce it because his uncle
comes in there and smokes.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I found out last week that.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
My husband allowed a group of folks to bring in
a crock pot and put and cat's rolls for a
birthday party. I'm sure he let them bring in their
own alcohol too. It's time for us to close the
Boogie Wonderland. How do I convince my husband to let
it go for good? Well, it sounds like you're into
the Boogie Wonderland for business, but your husband uses it
(02:04):
to kick it with his friends and family and not
for profit. Making money doesn't seem like a priority to
him now, does it. It's his social hangout, so it
will be hard to convince him to let the business go. Clearly,
you're ready to go, and you're right, there's no way
you can make money. But the way your husband is
running things, it's time for you guys to get out
(02:27):
before you start losing all your money because giving away
free drinks and letting people bring in their own own
drinks and food will be a disaster for your business.
You and your husband need to have a serious conversation
about where this business is going, and you got to
let him know how you feel.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Steve, Oh, just let a flat out. Just don't make
no damn sense. I don't know. I mean, what your
husband's in it for is not for the business of
making money. I don't know what y'all bottom line look like,
your p and l all this here. I don't know
what your return on investment is. I don't know how
much it costs to run the place. I don't know
(03:06):
how much in free alcohol he's given away versus how
much he's making. You didn't say if it was profitable
at all, but it don't sound like it is. Y'all
have no rules of regulation for this place. Y'all just
open up, let people do what they theyre In the
cooking food, y'all used to sell wings and fish and
y'all stopping. Then y'all went to live jazz and wine
(03:28):
tastes where they work at? Where do live jazz and
wine tass work at in the hood. That's not a
you know y'all calling it a lounge. You have a tavern.
This is a tabbing this place where old people go tapping.
This place, let me tell you. It's places in the
(03:49):
hood where old people go taverns. Uh vfw hall. That's
another place where bingo. Now they not that they making
money at Bengo, but your husband ain't. That's transition to
a few things over you your live jazz and wine tasting.
(04:10):
Nobody came to that. Then y'all started catering to the
younger crowd. I don't know why you surprised him for this.
That was a big problem because they don't know how
to duh, duh. Come on, now, you know what this happened.
You know what happens at these places. So four years
(04:31):
ago your husband decided to make it an old school lounge.
So you put in shag carpet and hanging plants, and
you know that it's gotten pretty bad over the years.
The neighborhood, y'all got it. Put the place up in.
But your husband want to stay there because that's where
you're from. All his old friends and family. They come
(04:51):
to the lounge and hang out. He don't charge them
for drinks at all. So they just in that living
it up, kicking it. They just they in the backyard.
And then all the men got nicknames. Oh I know this.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Place right here, O t.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Old ot that show for oldest. See, I'll tell you
what we do. What give me the old names, and
I'll tell you what their nickname is.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Ralph, Ralph, Ray, Ray, Earl e.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Herman, he Dog, I know all the nickname I got,
we got Jerome, Jerome romy Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, y'all know what these is. When we come back,
I'll show you the nicknames of the rest of these people,
and we're gonna talk about because they want to come
to the lounge with these nicknames to cheat on their
wives and play spades with women that don't mind messing
around with married men. We're gonna find out who these
(06:13):
women are, what their name is, what the nickname is,
and how they're working out these arrangements while they play
in spades, and they don't put up to no smoking signs.
But his uncle coming there is.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Smoke, uh huh, and he says nothing. Yeah, he don't
say it, damn.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
And everybody scared of his uncle. So ain't nobody.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Gonna say this?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
All right? All right, listen, his uncle is Actually he
don't have fortunes.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
These response coming up at twenty three minutes after the
our Today's Strawberry Letter subject Boogie Wonderland.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening
morning show.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
All right, Come on, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry letter.
The subject is Boogie Wonderland, one of your favorite songs
about Earth running fire.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
It is a great song of mine. Yeah, it's a
wonderful group. This wife got a problem with her husband.
They've owned a lounge in their neighborhood for quite some
time where he grew up and as obviously not making
money because he used it as a hangout for his
friends and family that he doesn't charge for drinks. He
(07:28):
ain't got no rules established in there, he got no
smoking signs, up. But his uncle, Herman, who they call affectionately,
he dog. He dog coming there and smoke anyway, So
don't nobody say that because everybody kind of scared of him.
You know, he been locked up four times. Everybody kind
of lead heat dog alone. So he coming in there
smoking because he dog talking about how to hear we
(07:48):
can't smoking lounge. We smoke in jail. You know when
that stayed logic, you kind of have to I don't
even understand it here jail. I don't even understand it.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Hill.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
If you finished die, you had last record you had
for sigarette, I can't have for cigarette in here? Howey
work though? Oh now she's also upset because they've made
the lounge sep of things. They used to sell fishing
wings and they stopped doing that, so they turn it
into a live or jazz and wine tasted. Now, if
they wasn't paying for that Ean j and they wasn't
(08:23):
paying for that, that that crown and that Jack Daniel,
What the hell make you think they finish come in
here and listen to jazz and buy wine? What what neighborhood?
They just down there bind wine? They got some shot
bleed and so that what Charlotta nay. You know, wine
(08:49):
ain't really you know, you're trying to charge for ban
of shivets and dog and any any green springs. Don't
really wild Irish roads that don't. You got the thunderbird,
you got hood drink you Mickey's ao, you trying to charge.
Ain't nobody buying that? You know. Now they're down there doing, yeah,
(09:12):
the hanging plants and shag carpet.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And turning to an old school.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
And now y'all got wicked chairs and them bushes that
people next to chairs, and got that airbrush painting of
that nineteen forty Cadillac in the backroom. You know, everybody
posing next to that one, mealing down and they got
they leaning up against that chair on the back of
the big wicker chair with the circle back. Yeah, they
(09:43):
actually plumes. You got them plumes back there, and you
know everybody take a picture. You know, women ain't what
they was, and men ain't what they were, and me
ain't got nicknames. And so give me some old names,
and I'll tell you what their nicknames are. Johnny, Johnny,
Jojo Jojo, what's so with you? Jojo? That's Johnny Willy
(10:10):
Willy Well see, Willy could go a lot of different ways.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I had several days and it could be just Willy.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
It could be big Will.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, it could be w La.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
You know what w La? What's that will lay.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
A Ricky?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
H see are all see all?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
My favorite hood name is Craig. Yeah, you love it,
Craig Craig.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
That's sea dog dog Craig and Sea Dog. So you know,
now they day Needs who Stanley standing out? Oh that's
Sway Stanley Stanley, Melvin EM and em and now they
(11:10):
in here they dating these women that they play spades
with down there that don't care about Dayton married men.
So all the husbands down there cheating on their wives
with these cheating women. Now you know you got to
go over there. This this is all Bernard Debt. Bernadette
(11:30):
is down there. That's a hard name. Odetta. Yeah, Oldetta
cheating and everybody scared of old Detta. Bernice. Bernice down
there do like she wanted to do. Oh, Brenda, Brenda
(11:50):
is good, but Brenda cool. She ain't really made up
her mind yet. But she's just down there for farm.
But everybody won't Brenda, uh Colristles, it's down there just
going through her husbands.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
About Betty.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Betty. Betty worked behind the ball. Thelma ain't really doing
much or nothing. She want somebody to date her, but
she herself too early. Pretty much cool. Yeah, she got
in that thirsty. She hang on hoping somebody holler at her.
And then you got feel steel down there. Everybody want field.
(12:30):
She got new wigs. She went down there to the
beauty supply and came in on and she got that
hot one that blind. So that's what's happening down at
the lounge, y'all's got one more name, Got one more name,
go ahead, Audrey, Audrey Jates and playing with nobody. She
(12:57):
down there talking about everybody.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Your comments on Today's Letter on Instagram at Steve Harvey FM,
and check us out on the Strawberry Letter podcast on
the free iHeartRadio app, We're free.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Never sounded so good.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Coming up next it is Junior and Sports Talk Junior.
Right after this, you're listening Harvey Morning Show
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter. If you
need advice and relationships, work, sex, parenting, and more, please
submit your Strawberry Letter to STEVEVARVFM dot com and click
submit Strawberry Letter. We could be reading your letter live
on the air, just like we're going to read this
one right here, right now, and you never know, it
could be yours.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You never know, Ladies, tell me it's time for the
Strawberry Little My good friend, Shirley.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Strawberry, Thank you, my good friend. Junior subject Boogie wonder Land.
Dear Stephen, Shirley, My husband and I have owned a
lounge for almost ten years, and over the years it's
transitioned into a few different things.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
We used to sell fish and wings.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Then we stopped doing food and went to a live
jazz and wine tasting. No one came to that, so
we started catering to the younger crowd, and that was
a big problem because they don't know how to act.
So four years ago my husband decided to make it
an old school lounge and we put in shag carpet
and plants to make it look like the seventies. The
(01:02):
neighborhood where the lounge is has gotten pretty bad over
the years, but we wanted to keep it in the
area because it's where my husband grew up. All of
his old friends and his family come to the lounge
and hang out, and he doesn't charge them for drinks
at all. All of the men have nicknames, and they
want to come to the lounge to cheat on their
wives and play spades with women that don't mind messing
(01:24):
with married men. My husband is cool with it all
as long as a lounge has people in it. I'm
not in the business of running Boogie Wonderland with old
people that don't spend money. We have no smoking signs,
but my husband will not enforce it because his uncle
comes in there and smokes.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I found out last week that.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
My husband allowed a group of folks to bring in
a crock pot and put and cat's rolls for a
birthday party. I'm sure he let them bring in their
own alcohol too. It's time for us to close the
Boogie Wonderland. How do I convince my husband to let
it go for good? Well, it sounds like you're into
the Boogie Wonderland for business, but your husband uses it
(02:04):
to kick it with his friends and family and not
for profit. Making money doesn't seem like a priority to
him now, does it. It's his social hangout, so it
will be hard to convince him to let the business go. Clearly,
you're ready to go, and you're right, there's no way
you can make money. But the way your husband is
running things, it's time for you guys to get out
(02:27):
before you start losing all your money because giving away
free drinks and letting people bring in their own own
drinks and food will be a disaster for your business.
You and your husband need to have a serious conversation
about where this business is going, and you got to
let him know how you feel.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Steve, Oh, just let a flat out. Just don't make
no damn sense. I don't know. I mean, what your
husband's in it for is not for the business of
making money. I don't know what y'all bottom line look like,
your p and l all this here. I don't know
what your return on investment is. I don't know how
much it costs to run the place. I don't know
(03:06):
how much in free alcohol he's given away versus how
much he's making. You didn't say if it was profitable
at all, but it don't sound like it is. Y'all
have no rules of regulation for this place. Y'all just
open up, let people do what they theyre In the
cooking food, y'all used to sell wings and fish and
y'all stopping. Then y'all went to live jazz and wine
(03:28):
tastes where they work at? Where do live jazz and
wine tass work at in the hood. That's not a
you know y'all calling it a lounge. You have a tavern.
This is a tabbing this place where old people go tapping.
This place, let me tell you. It's places in the
(03:49):
hood where old people go taverns. Uh vfw hall. That's
another place where bingo. Now they not that they making
money at Bengo, but your husband ain't. That's transition to
a few things over you your live jazz and wine tasting.
(04:10):
Nobody came to that. Then y'all started catering to the
younger crowd. I don't know why you surprised him for this.
That was a big problem because they don't know how
to duh, duh. Come on, now, you know what this happened.
You know what happens at these places. So four years
(04:31):
ago your husband decided to make it an old school lounge.
So you put in shag carpet and hanging plants, and
you know that it's gotten pretty bad over the years.
The neighborhood, y'all got it. Put the place up in.
But your husband want to stay there because that's where
you're from. All his old friends and family. They come
(04:51):
to the lounge and hang out. He don't charge them
for drinks at all. So they just in that living
it up, kicking it. They just they in the backyard.
And then all the men got nicknames. Oh I know this.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Place right here, O t.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Old ot that show for oldest. See, I'll tell you
what we do. What give me the old names, and
I'll tell you what their nickname is.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Ralph, Ralph, Ray, Ray, Earl e.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Herman, he Dog, I know all the nickname I got,
we got Jerome, Jerome romy Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, y'all know what these is. When we come back,
I'll show you the nicknames of the rest of these people,
and we're gonna talk about because they want to come
to the lounge with these nicknames to cheat on their
wives and play spades with women that don't mind messing
around with married men. We're gonna find out who these
(06:13):
women are, what their name is, what the nickname is,
and how they're working out these arrangements while they play
in spades, and they don't put up to no smoking signs.
But his uncle coming there is.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Smoke, uh huh, and he says nothing. Yeah, he don't
say it, damn.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
And everybody scared of his uncle. So ain't nobody.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Gonna say this?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
All right? All right, listen, his uncle is Actually he
don't have fortunes.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
These response coming up at twenty three minutes after the
our Today's Strawberry Letter subject Boogie Wonderland.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening
morning show.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
All right, Come on, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry letter.
The subject is Boogie Wonderland, one of your favorite songs
about Earth running fire.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
It is a great song of mine. Yeah, it's a
wonderful group. This wife got a problem with her husband.
They've owned a lounge in their neighborhood for quite some
time where he grew up and as obviously not making
money because he used it as a hangout for his
friends and family that he doesn't charge for drinks. He
(07:28):
ain't got no rules established in there, he got no
smoking signs, up. But his uncle, Herman, who they call affectionately,
he dog. He dog coming there and smoke anyway, So
don't nobody say that because everybody kind of scared of him.
You know, he been locked up four times. Everybody kind
of lead heat dog alone. So he coming in there
smoking because he dog talking about how to hear we
(07:48):
can't smoking lounge. We smoke in jail. You know when
that stayed logic, you kind of have to I don't
even understand it here jail. I don't even understand it.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Hill.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
If you finished die, you had last record you had
for sigarette, I can't have for cigarette in here? Howey
work though? Oh now she's also upset because they've made
the lounge sep of things. They used to sell fishing
wings and they stopped doing that, so they turn it
into a live or jazz and wine tasted. Now, if
they wasn't paying for that Ean j and they wasn't
(08:23):
paying for that, that that crown and that Jack Daniel,
What the hell make you think they finish come in
here and listen to jazz and buy wine? What what neighborhood?
They just down there bind wine? They got some shot
bleed and so that what Charlotta nay. You know, wine
(08:49):
ain't really you know, you're trying to charge for ban
of shivets and dog and any any green springs. Don't
really wild Irish roads that don't. You got the thunderbird,
you got hood drink you Mickey's ao, you trying to charge.
Ain't nobody buying that? You know. Now they're down there doing, yeah,
(09:12):
the hanging plants and shag carpet.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And turning to an old school.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
And now y'all got wicked chairs and them bushes that
people next to chairs, and got that airbrush painting of
that nineteen forty Cadillac in the backroom. You know, everybody
posing next to that one, mealing down and they got
they leaning up against that chair on the back of
the big wicker chair with the circle back. Yeah, they
(09:43):
actually plumes. You got them plumes back there, and you
know everybody take a picture. You know, women ain't what
they was, and men ain't what they were, and me
ain't got nicknames. And so give me some old names,
and I'll tell you what their nicknames are. Johnny, Johnny,
Jojo Jojo, what's so with you? Jojo? That's Johnny Willy
(10:10):
Willy Well see, Willy could go a lot of different ways.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I had several days and it could be just Willy.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
It could be big Will.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, it could be w La.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
You know what w La? What's that will lay.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
A Ricky?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
H see are all see all?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
My favorite hood name is Craig. Yeah, you love it,
Craig Craig.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
That's sea dog dog Craig and Sea Dog. So you know,
now they day Needs who Stanley standing out? Oh that's
Sway Stanley Stanley, Melvin EM and em and now they
(11:10):
in here they dating these women that they play spades
with down there that don't care about Dayton married men.
So all the husbands down there cheating on their wives
with these cheating women. Now you know you got to
go over there. This this is all Bernard Debt. Bernadette
(11:30):
is down there. That's a hard name. Odetta. Yeah, Oldetta
cheating and everybody scared of old Detta. Bernice. Bernice down
there do like she wanted to do. Oh, Brenda, Brenda
(11:50):
is good, but Brenda cool. She ain't really made up
her mind yet. But she's just down there for farm.
But everybody won't Brenda, uh Colristles, it's down there just
going through her husbands.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
About Betty.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Betty. Betty worked behind the ball. Thelma ain't really doing
much or nothing. She want somebody to date her, but
she herself too early. Pretty much cool. Yeah, she got
in that thirsty. She hang on hoping somebody holler at her.
And then you got feel steel down there. Everybody want field.
(12:30):
She got new wigs. She went down there to the
beauty supply and came in on and she got that
hot one that blind. So that's what's happening down at
the lounge, y'all's got one more name, Got one more name,
go ahead, Audrey, Audrey Jates and playing with nobody. She
(12:57):
down there talking about everybody.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Your comments on Today's Letter on Instagram at Steve Harvey FM,
and check us out on the Strawberry Letter podcast on
the free iHeartRadio app, We're free.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Never sounded so good.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Coming up next it is Junior and Sports Talk Junior.
Right after this, you're listening Harvey Morning Show
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