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May 12, 2023 15 mins

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a 32 year old woman and I'm falling for a 43 y/o man. We met online and bonded because we were both very lonely for the last 10 months in quarantine. I work full time at a school and he is a screenwriter, waiting for one of his movies to get greenlit by a big producer. He said if that happens, he will be set for life. We decided to meet up and I asked him to meet me half way, since he lives an hour from me...............

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Time now for today's Strawberry Letter.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
And if you need advice and relationships, dating, work, sex,
parenting and more, please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve
Harvey FM and click submit Strawberry Letter.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
We could be reading your.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Letter live on the air, just like we're going to
read this one right here, right now.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Buggle up and hold on time, Come on season.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Bugging up and hold on tight. We got it for you.
Who it is?

Speaker 4 (00:32):
Saw me do that to me?

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Right now?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
All right?

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Thank you? Subjects? Is he a loser or a work
in progress?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm a thirty two year old woman
and I'm falling for a forty three year old man.
We met online and bonded because we were both very lonely.
I work full time at a school and he is
a screenwriter waiting for one of his movies to get
greenlit by a big producer. He said, if that happens,
he will be set for life. We decided to meet

(01:03):
up and I asked him to meet me halfway since
he lives an hour from me. He told me he
doesn't have a car, so I drove three hours to
see him. When I got to his apartment, he said
I couldn't come in because the couple he lives with
doesn't want strangers inside. He explained that he's staying on

(01:23):
their couch in exchange for some cleaning and other housework.
He said he didn't tell me because he didn't want
to scare me away. I was very put off by this,
but he offered to take me to lunch, so that
made it better. We had a nice meal and things
were going great until his card was declined at the restaurant.

(01:44):
He stepped away to call his bank and then asked
me to cover the bill. He was embarrassed, but I
assured him that it was okay. We decided to get
a hotel room so we could spend the day together,
but his card was declined again, so I put the
room on my credit card. He called the bank again

(02:05):
and said his account had a glitch, but he could
pay me back within twenty four hours. That night, we
had the most intense sex and amazing conversation. I haven't
been back to see him because he can't afford a
hotel room. I still haven't gotten my money back either.
He said he's falling in love with me, so I

(02:27):
don't want to mess this up. I'm trying to believe
in his dreams. Is he a work in progress or
he is he a loser? Please advise? Well, I'm going
to say a loser. Okay, that's what I'm going to say.
He is a loser, and I'm going to say it
to you too, loser.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
I think you're a loser too.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Because what are you doing having sex with a man
you met online? And you did all the work, you know,
to make this stuff happen. You drove three hours to
see him, You paid for the food because his credit
card was declined. You pay for the hotel room because
his credit card was declined.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
It was a glitch in that. He said, you gave
it up the first night. You made it way way.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Easy for this man, and you said, being lonely, that's
what this will do to you. I don't think that's
the reason, Just to give yourself away to some man
you didn't even know. This man is forty three years old.
Where is he working right now? Until he gets his
big break? Usually that's what writers and screenwriters do. They
have another job and they work on their stuff, you know,

(03:34):
and they're off time. If he's a writer, I mean,
surely you would have seen some of his work, maybe
published in a magazine or online, a local newspaper. Maybe
you know he would have written you a poem or something.
Did you even read or see the script that he
was waiting to get produced by some big Hollywood producer?

(03:56):
And is that really where he lives, where he took
you and said he couldn't take you in? All this
stuff just sounds suspect to me. I mean, you didn't
really think he was gonna pay you back? Did you?
You said he didn't pay you back? Did you really
think he was going to This guy is not just
a loser, he's a user. And I just say stay

(04:16):
away from him. Okay, don't worry about seeing him again.
He's not for you, Steve.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
What is my kind of letter right here? Thank you, sir.
This is my kind of letter right here, thank you.
First of all, I won't think you know.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
I just want everybody to listen to this letter right no,
right now, I just want you to know that the
talent that God gave me is about to shine through brightning.
You're about to see my ability to take foolishness.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Pointed out at levels.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
What a lot of people don't see see shut is
a nice Christian girl. You know she ain't had the
life out of had You know she ain't told as
many lies it is me. She ain't as much situations
as me, so she ain't gonna see this stuff. Here
go listen, Thank you two you old woman falling for
the forty three year old man. They met online and
bonded because we both were lonely. I worked full time

(05:06):
out of school. And he's a screenwriter here. What he
a screenwriter?

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Girl?

Speaker 4 (05:13):
That ain't even the real title for it. He a
screenwriter waiting on.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Here now this way, let me let me show you how.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
To go waiting on one of his movies to get
green lit by a big producer.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
What what.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Big producer Hugo green like this movie? Why would a
big producer go through everybody they know to get to him?
He said that if that happens, he'll be set for life.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
One movie.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Dog.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
Then you think, Holopoky, You think if Spielberg had just
made one movie he'd been saying. You think if Denzel
had just stopped at Mobile Better Blues, you think he'd
have been sent for life? Pard Nook, is you outing
your rabbit ass mind? You know how much stuff you
got to put together. You're talking about if he he'll

(06:10):
be sef left. We decided to meet up and I
ask him to meet me halfway since he lived hour
for me, she told me on account, So I drove
an hour to see him.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Okay, that's another thing.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
He'll screenwriter three hours to see him. Hold it right there, Steve.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
We'll have part two of your response coming up at
twenty three minutes after the hour subject is he a
loser or a work in progress?

Speaker 1 (06:34):
We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening
Steve Harvey Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
All right, come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter.
Subject is he a loser or work in progress?

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (06:47):
Now, in order for me to recap this letter, I'd
had to go too far. So let me just take
you through it. Because the subject is is he a loser?
All work in progress? Shirley call him a loser. I
got to agree with her one hundred percent. This man
has a completely I pointed out to you as we
go through the letter. Thirty two year old woman falling
four forty three You old man man online? Bond it

(07:07):
because we will lonely. I work full time out of
school and he is a screenwriter.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Right there, Good lord almighty, he ain't even an show.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
Nobody a screen that heatne written anybody taking movies out
in Hollywood right now? Okay, so let's go with that
right there, waiting on one of his movies to get
green lit by a big producer.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Boy, do you have any idea to process it is?

Speaker 4 (07:32):
To get to a big producer in Hollywood with your
new ass with this script. I ain't saying it can't
be done. Ain't saying you can't have dreams, but oh lord,
this one tough.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
He said. If that happens, he'll be set for life. Boy,
one movie is.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
Not gonna set your ass for life. I can tell
you it won't. That's not how this works. You gotta
put these things together, man, You got to start stacking paper.
You know, you think Brad Pip would have been all
right with one movie, Tom Hanks with one movie, now,
man Eddie with one movie.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
No, you got to put them together. We decided to.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
Meet up, and I asked him to meet me halfway
since he lives an hour from me.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
He he told me he.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
Don't have a car. All right, Come on, forty three
year old man, he told you he didn't have a car.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
You let that go. So I drove an hour to
see him.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
When I got to his apartment, he said I couldn't
come in because the couple he lived with.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Don't want strangers inside the house. Hour you done.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
Drove an hour to his apartment to find out he
don't have an apartment, that he's staying with a couple
that then told him your ass can't come in here.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
He explained that he's staying on that couch.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
What he's staying.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
This is a forty three ye old man staying on
his couch.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
See listen, I'm the last person can talk because I've
been homeless and lived in a car for three years.
I met women while I lived in a car. I
can tell you didn't go good. I can just tell
you didn't go good because when I would say, say
can I.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Come over your place? We in it.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
Car.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Hey.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
I met a girl at a one night show one
time we was driving around the car. Was gonna try
to go to the waffle house or something. She said,
you stay around here somewhere? Else said yeah, and she
said where right here?

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (09:33):
So I understand now you staying on the couch now,
and you staying on the couch in exchange for some
cleaning and other housework.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
So now he a maid, So.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
Hear that cleaning tarnets and doing dishes and carying out
garbage and stuff.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
And mopping flows.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
Okay, but he'll scream write him now, he said, he
didn't tell me because he ain't want to scare me away.
Your asking a gout in your car right then and
turned your ass around. But oh no, you ain't that smart.
I was very put off by this. You wasn't put
off that much because guess what you did. He offered

(10:13):
to take me to lunch, so that made it better. Well, oh,
play the food all right, here we go. So now
since that made the baby, we had a nice meal,
and things was going great until his card was declined
at the restaurant. So now it was going great because
he took brought you some lunch. Didn't found out he
couldn't pay for the damn lunch. He stepped away to
call his bank and asked me to cover the bill.

(10:35):
He didn't talk nobody at that bank. What he called
the bank and say he no, goodn't hall wear it
ain't no money in there. He stepped around the corner
and told you he called the bank. He talked nobody
at that bank. Matter of fact, they'd asked you and
bring his ass down there.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
So they could leave here overdressed.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
He was embarrassed, so I assured him that it was okay.
You such a nice person. We decided to get a
hotel room so we could spend the day together. What
wait a minute, what wait a minute? After all that
didn't happen, You're desperate ass. After you found out he
stay on the couch with the other couple that he
a housekeeper and.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
He'll screen right awaiting on the big producer.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
He ain't got no money, and he took you to
the restaurant and you ain't got the money. He called
a bank and then when told you, y'all gonna get
a hotel room. So he spend the day together, but
his card was declined again. If you can't pay for
the food, how the hell you gonna get a hotel room?

Speaker 3 (11:35):
So I put the room on my credit card.

Speaker 4 (11:37):
He called the bank again and said his accounts had
a glitch in it. You had the glitch is called
ain't no money. It's a big glitch. I've had three
years in it. Glitches, but he could pay me back
in twenty four hours. That night, we had the most
intense sex and amazing conversation. Hey, can I come back
on this next break? Yeah, because this is very important

(11:58):
right here to share with you why you had the
most intense six and amazing conversation.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
I'm gonna share with you why that happened.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
And I don't have the time in a little bit
of time we got left, but y'all need to focus
on it, Cau when we come back. You need to
find out how you can hell the most intense sex
with a person that ain't got no damn money.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Okay, all right, Well, in the meantime, post your comments
on Today's Strawberry Letter at Steve Harve FM and Instagram
on Instagram and Facebook. Check out the Strawberry Letter podcast
on demand. Coming up Part three of Today's Strawberry Letter,
Is he a loser or work in progress?

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Right after this, you're listening hard morning show.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
All right, see, we're back with part three. Here's the
Strawberry Letter with part three to it. The subject is
is he a loser or work in progress?

Speaker 1 (12:53):
So you left with telling us.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
You were going to do a show, So just brief amazing.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
Let me explain something to you. This woman to met
this forty three old man who's a screenwriter. They've been
on line and they met, and you're trying to figure
out if he a loser or if he's a work
in progress. Me and Sherley already said they loser. Just
a couple of bullet points to remind you why we
think he's a loser. He's waiting on the screen play
to get green lit by a big producer. That's one

(13:19):
he said. If it happened, it's gonna be set for life.
He forty three. Then you drive to meet him, and
you told him meet you halfway. He told you he
can't meet you halfway because he ain't got no car.
You drove all the way to see him to got
to his apartment, and then you found out that you
couldn't come in because the couple he lived with don't
want no strangers inside they house. Then he told you

(13:41):
that he was staying on they couch in exchange for
doing housework and other chores. Then he told you he
won't to tell you that because he ain't want to
scare you weight And instead of getting scared your ass stage.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
But then he offered to take you to lunch, so
that made it better.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
Then it took you to lunch, and when the bill came,
he couldn't pay for the damn lunch, so you put
it on your card. I don't know how good, how
good that damn meal was. But then right after that,
y'all decided to get a hotel room so y'all could
spend the day together.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
But his card got.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
Declined again if he couldn't take for the damn meal,
So how he gonna get a room?

Speaker 3 (14:19):
What hotel was?

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Y'all at Glenn's motive in listen to me, the hotel
room normally costs more than for you know, four hours
for twenty dollars, you know. And he said his account
had a glitch in it.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
Glitch.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
No, his account ain't had no money in it. That's
the biggest glitch of them all.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
He said.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
He bade you back in twenty four hours. Now this
is where we left off. That night we had the
most intense sex, an amazing conversation. Well, first, let me
deal with the amazing conversation. First of all, he a screenwriter.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
He know how to tell a story, and you asking
it to him.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
So that's a good ass conversation. Now let me tell
you why you had to intense sex. Because he was
screwing for opportunity. He was screwing for a chance. He
was screwing for hope. He was screwing for somewhere that lil.
He was screwing for another payment. He was screwing for
somebody to clean up this.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
Bank account of his. He was screwing for somebody with
a credit report.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
He was screwing for somebody that's working down at the
school center. He was screwing for anybody that could get
his ass off that couch because he tied.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
To do it housework to get for these white people
he living there with.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
That's why the sex was so intended against screwing with purpose.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
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