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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter. If you
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this one right here, right now.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
And you never know it could be yours.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Okay, you could be yours, brotherler, but hold on tightest
time for his straw Every letter.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Is that your sexy Tommy imitation, just like that was Tommy.
Thank you Tommy slash Junior.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
All right.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Subject, take my money, my house, and my car. Dear
Stephen Shirley, I'm writing this letter for my older brother
that is in love with a gold digger. That term
may not apply to new relationships, because I know a
man is supposed to provide for a woman if he's
sleeping with her, But too many times he's called me
to complain about her misusing and abusing his kindnesses. He

(01:07):
gives her money to go out with her girlfriend's most weekends,
and then she won't even call him till Sunday after
she's been out doing whatever she wants to do.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
In case you are wondering.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
My brother is thirty four years old, but he's the quiet,
shy type. He manages several properties and he owns a barbershop,
but he doesn't cut hair. He has plenty of money
in free time, and all he wants is to spend
it with someone that loves him. He's asked his girlfriend
to move in with him, but she said it's too
soon now, so now he's trying to get her an

(01:41):
engagement ring to make things official. I hinted to her
that after two years he's ready to settle down, and
she said there is no way that they're ready for marriage. Supposedly,
my brother told her to take his money, his house,
and his car and whatever else she needs to be happy.
She knows she's got him right where she wants him,
and I can't stand by and let her play him

(02:03):
like that. I understand that I don't have a dog
in that fight, and if she's making him happy, then
I should butt out of it.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
But my question is, if I have proof.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
That she is sleeping with another man, and she's been
seen driving the man around in my brother's car, should
I tell him. My brother practically raised me, and I
want the best for him. So what do I do
in this situation? Will he hate me forever if I
tell him this? Well, the answer to that question is
maybe not forever, but he will be upset with you.

(02:33):
And look at this, you might not have to do
anything because your big brother has these are your words
now called you too many times to complain about her
misusing and abusing his kindnesses.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
So maybe he's getting fed up in some sort of way.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Because people you know are really feeling when they really
are feeling someone and you start to get all up
in their business. Yes, you do run the risk of
them turning on you if you tell them. I mean,
that's a known fact. I know you care about your brother.
I can see it in the letter. I know you do,
and you should. He's your brother. But whatever you say

(03:10):
to him at this point, he's not gonna hear it.
He's not gonna see it because he is not trying
to hear it and he.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Doesn't want to. Your brother is a big boy.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
He's a grown man who's gonna find out one of
these life's lessons, life lessons that you get only by
the experience of being with someone like this, someone who
he let drive his car, and she's driving some other
man around in it. Okay, she's obviously a user, she's
taking advantage of your brother, but it's not your business.
I'm sorry, it's not your job to tell him this.

(03:41):
He will find out sooner or later, because they always
find out, and just be there for him when it's over.
He will get over her eventually, but right now he's sprung.

Speaker 5 (03:51):
Steve, you know how I respond about people mind and
a business that ain't gonna change.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
But my response is going to shock you.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
Here's a young girl that's writing this letter for her
older brother that's in love with a gold digger.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Now she thinks that that might.

Speaker 5 (04:07):
Not apply to relationships, because I know a man is
supposed to provide for a woman if he's sleeping with him. Well,
see right there now, if that depends on the arrangement
of the arrangement, or shall I say that depends on
the agreement of the arrangement.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
I will provide for you if I see a future.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
I will invest in you if I see a future
or some prompting.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
Now, if we're just kicking it, you might ask me something.

Speaker 5 (04:39):
I might let you have it, but you're not an
obligation to me until I feel obliged to help you
because you show an obligation to me. So let's get
that straight away. But she said too many times he
can call to complain about her misusing and abusing his kindness.
He gives her money to go out, but his girlfriends

(05:00):
and she's been out doing whatever she want to do.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
She don't call him till Sunday. Now.

Speaker 5 (05:06):
Then she says, my brother's thirty four. But he's a
quiet shot type. He manages several properties, he owns a barbershop,
and he don't cut hand.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
A smart guy, smart guy.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
He has plenty of money of free time, and all
he wants is suspended with somebody that loves him. That
this sounds like a good dude, But he's smart too.
He bought a barbershop and don't cut hair. Lord, have mercy.
So that chair that he would normally be man and
making forty dollars a cut, this boy that gave that
chair to somebody else and charging that dude for the chair,

(05:40):
and he can keep his party for the cut. But
I'm gonna need one hundred and fifty two hundred a
week for the chair. Whatever it is. Man, I'm finna
go owe me a damn bober shop. Appreciate the idea. Man,
I never thought of that. But he don't cut hair.
He got plenty of money, of free time, and he
just wants somebody. So he asks this girl in the
move any but she says too soon. So now he's

(06:03):
trying to get her an engagement reen to make things official.
I think somewhere in there he's been seeing her for
two years? Is that correct?

Speaker 4 (06:10):
For two years?

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Uh? Huh A couple of.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
Years anyway, supposedly my brother.

Speaker 5 (06:17):
Now she's he hited that after two years he's ready
to settle down. She said, there's no way they're ready
for marriage, and it's gonna be obvious in this letter.
My brother told her to take his money, his house's car,
whatever else she needs to be happy. She knows she's
got him right where she wants, and I can't stand
by let him play it like that. Shirley says he's
a big boy and he's grown. That's a true statement.

(06:37):
What Shirley failed to tell you is that your brother
is whipped. Yes, yo, brother whipped.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Hang on, Steve.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Today's Strawberry letter subject take my money, my house, and
my car. We'll get back into it right after this
you're listening Morning show. All right, Come on, Steve, let's
recap today's Strawberry letter, the subject.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Take my money, in my house and my car.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
When we left, you were going to tell the difference
between sprung and whipped.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
This boy in this letter, this thirty four year old
man that being used by this woman. He wants to
move it further to marriage. She said, it's no way.
I wish too early to get married. I'll tell you why.
She said that he's giving her everything. He's told her
to take off his car, his house, his money, just

(07:26):
whatever else she needs to be happy.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
She knows she's got him right where she wants.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
And I can't stand by and let him play like that,
I said, Shirley is absolutely right. He's saying that he's
a big boy in the grown man. She just left
off the fact that he's tipped. Shirley said, he's sprung.
Uh uh, there is a difference. Let me help you understand,
some ladies. Sprong is when a man is around you

(07:52):
and he feels all tingling. Sprong is when a man
is around you and he feels all giddy. Sprong is
when a man wants to be in your company all
the time that's sprung. Sprung is wondering what you do
where you're going till it's different, Twill she don't put

(08:14):
something on this boy so strong it's damn Neil voodoo,
the old saying, is he looking for her in the
daytime with a flash?

Speaker 2 (08:30):
All right, DULEE knowed?

Speaker 5 (08:32):
Okay, this boy, this is how he talked when he
around him. This boy, this boy right here, sprong when
they in the bed, this boy, he boy, he can't
control himself as she got it.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
And that's what the problem is.

Speaker 5 (08:53):
Now she knows she got him right where she wants him,
and I can't stand by and let him play like that.
I understand that I don't have a dog in this fight.
And if she's making him happy, then I should butt out. Well,
she's not making him happy, she's making him unhappy. He
always calls you to complain about he's being misused. But
that whip thing, that thing got him thinking he can

(09:17):
fix it. So now he want to rush to get
her a ring because he.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Wants her to move forward with this.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
But now the young girl says that she has proof
she's sleeping with another man, and she's been seen driving
the man around in my brother's car. Should I tell
him my brother practically raised me. I want the best
for him, So what should I do in this? Will
he hate me forever if I tell him this? No,
he won't hate you forever. Because this is a different situation.

(09:50):
And here is the shaker. Yes, you should tell him
what that is?

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Steve?

Speaker 5 (09:57):
What? Yes, you sh good tell him. See this is
quite different, oh, because listen to see. Normally it's girlfriends
that see their girlfriend's man out somewhere and see him
with a woman not in the act of nothing, but

(10:18):
then wants to report that you don't know what that
situation is over there, and that reporting that that you're
gonna start to fire a house that don't need to
get lit.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
This is different.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
This is a young sister trying to protect her older
brother and has proof that she's sleeping with another man
because she's seen another man in her brother car with her.
You got to tell your brother to the proof.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
It's because she has proof.

Speaker 5 (10:49):
She got proof. This ain't speculation. She's been seen in
the car with another man. Hey, man, that is so
damn disrespectful on her part and just is disrespectful on
the dupot. And he's your brother. This ain't your friend?
This your brother. You have got to go and tell

(11:09):
your brother this. Will he hate me fever. He gonna
be a little ticked at you, but he gonna get
over that because he needs to know the truth. This
is why she say it's too early to get married,
because she got access to his money, his house, and
his car. He know she'll give him anything, and she
can have her cake and eat it too. Why would

(11:32):
she get married and stop the gravy train when the
gravy train is rolling all over town. You have got
to tell your brother this information. And I know y'all
are surprised, but this is Let me tell you something.
If my sister saw a girl I was dated driving
my car with another man in it. My sister coming

(11:55):
to me, see you come here, mishe little heffer was
down there on here with a man in your car.
Now she already knows it shouldn't happen. I'm finna get
the key and I'm finn find this man. Somebody getting
asked for. You have got to tell your brother because
your brother has called you complaining she abusing him and

(12:17):
tricking him, and all this here he putting up with
that he can take some more bad news. He been
handling the bad He's been haling all the bad news.
Pretty good something for Junior.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
What I'm trying to figure out?

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Who?

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Who are you right now? Because lying is what you do.
I thought this would be a good time just lie?

Speaker 4 (12:34):
Who need to lie? Here?

Speaker 5 (12:36):
The lady in the left, the lady that's doing all
the receptive stuff, is already lied.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
M So why should the little sister pick up her lit?

Speaker 5 (12:44):
You don't aid a bad lie, okay, you ate a
purpose spoke and good lie.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
You don't know the rules to lie? All right? Uh, listen,
you gonna be married long this time? Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Instagram and at Steve Harvey FM, and check out the
Strawberry Letter podcast on demand. Coming up next to it
is Junior and Sports Talk right after that.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
You're listening morning show.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
All right, Normally we would be doing Junior sports talk
right here. But Junior, you have questions about the Discobberry letters,
take my money, my house, and my car.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, uh, you know jose didn't mean none of that.
What he doing he that is not what Josey was saying.
But what I'm asking you on is, Okay, normally you
are the person who will go along and lie yes,
you saying, this is not the time to lie, and
this is what we should tell the truth.

Speaker 5 (13:40):
Listen to me, junior. It is rules to lion. You
got to know the lie by law.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
Just what see this is?

Speaker 2 (13:53):
This is a new person. This is confusing you.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
Your lie. Number one has to have a die direct purpose.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
Number two rule of line.

Speaker 5 (14:05):
It should be done in order to save or rescue.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
Number three.

Speaker 5 (14:12):
Number three, the lie should be a preventive measure.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
You want to prevent the feelings being heart Yes, the shock.
It has to have a purpose. Yeah, And it has
to have a lie that's aimed at making something better.

Speaker 5 (14:32):
And number four, the lie must be given to hold
it on to what you have.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
What Yes, dogs are the bylaw. I don't give a
damn charity. These are the bylaws of lions.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
What lie makes something better?

Speaker 4 (14:47):
Steve? It does?

Speaker 5 (14:48):
If you if your wife say to you, where have
you been? Can you say I stopped at the stone?

Speaker 4 (14:55):
Okay? Why would I say I stopped at the strip club?

Speaker 5 (15:00):
Because I wanted to see diamond dust one more time more?

Speaker 2 (15:04):
I came to that house.

Speaker 5 (15:06):
So we have to see you and you don't look
nothing like diamond dust and diamond dust can slide down
the pole on her butt with no hands.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
Now, why would I tell you?

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Want to see that myself?

Speaker 4 (15:21):
Yeah, but I'm not gonna tell you that.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
So the lie becomes necessary now, Julie, in this letter, okay,
the woman that's deceiving, the gold digger that's playing her
brother is lying to her brother. The young girl has
no reason to lie to her brother because it's not
saving anything and it's just nothing good. She has now
got tell her brother the truth. Man, you need to

(15:47):
learn these bylogs.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
Just say it truth. You just say it truth.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
You you never say truth?

Speaker 5 (15:56):
You never.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
I say truth all the time. That's a lie.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Lie when the truth will do?

Speaker 4 (16:04):
I say truth all the time when I'm not lying.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Uh huh?

Speaker 2 (16:08):
All right, listen coming up at the top of the hour.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Finally, listen, guys, Finally there's a dating show for seniors.
What Senior Citizens will tell you all about it. Right
after this, you're listening

Speaker 2 (16:22):
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