Steve Harvey ( Strawberry letter)

0:00Hey, come on in, how y'all feeling out there today? I hope everybody is doing well, cause we're going to listen to Steve Harvey's morning show with the strawberry letter. And remember, I'm not the strawberry letter, I'm the strawberry podcaster. What they don't know is I can still hear it, and so can the neighbors probably, because they have the windows up too. I've been sitting in the hot tub on the patio, and I've heard my parents having sex loudly on a Sunday afternoon. I would love to move, but I can't afford rent and my car note. It's their house, but I don't, I deserve a little respect as long as I live here. The jokes about it aren't working. So would I be out of line to ask them to close the door and the windows during sex? Sorry to say this, but nope. You have no rights. You have no rights. It's their house, period. Your job is to be grateful. You have a nice place to lay your head

1:00and to get a job, some kind of job, save your money so you can get a place of your own one day soon. I know you got your rent and your car note and all of that, but that's up to you to get out, get a job and get your own place if you don't like what you're hearing. But I do understand, I do understand what you're saying. I hear you feel how you feel and your feelings are valid, but until you can move out your hands are tied, no child has ever been comfortable with catching or hearing their parents doing it. I don't know any child who's comfortable with that. Most kids think it's disgusting, even though that's how they got here. I get that part, but that's what grown people do and parents do it too, okay? You know that at 24. Of course they should close the door, but they might be doing it to help you. They know you don't wanna hear them. They're not that caught up. I think that's their way of helping you

2:01into trying harder to move out. They want you to start being more responsible and to get out on your own. Remember that even though you guys are really close, you and your parents are really close, they are not your best friends, they are still your parents. And parents everywhere have this thing about this is my house and I do what I wanna do in my house. If you don't like it, you can leave. That's just how parents are. But I say this, look at the bright side. I know it's embarrassing, but at least your parents are in love, they're making love, they're not arguing, they're not yelling, they're not trying to kill each other. So there's that. Steve. Well, your last statement, they're not trying to kill each other. You don't know that. I'm just gonna start with that. Well, interesting letter. So as I was listening to the letter,

3:04I figured, you know, I do numbers all the time. You 24 year old student, you live with your parents, your parents had you when they were 18, which means your parents right now, 42, 42, that's young to have a 24 year old. In the house living, that's young, man. So they still young, fly very much in love with your, and the love hanging out with them, cause y'all listen to the same music. Cause 42 years old, that's hip hop. You hip hop, y'all listen to the same music. Way different from me and my keys. Way different. You know, we get along great, but there's a huge issue that I'm having with them and I made jokes about it, but they don't seem to care. Sometimes it's far to be cool with my parents, and other time it gets to be too much. And why is that? Because I'm telling you as parents that are listening to this letter that we're about to read,

4:07your child really wants a parent, your child really wants to be parented. I tell all my kids, I like you, we can do some friendly stuff, but all your friends is up at the school. I'm your daddy. Now let's just be clear about that. Ha, ha, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, sometimes, but I'm not your friend. I'm your parent, and I'm going to play my role. But you are, I'm allowed to smoke weed in the house because it's legally in our state and it helps me with my cramps. No, that's not why you allow to smoke weed in the house. You and your child to smoke weed in the house because that's what they do. If it was illegal, they let you smoke it. They let you do whatever they do because they ain't trying to be your parents. They focus in on being your friend. Just gonna get old and I can see that it already has.

5:11All right, hang on, Steve. We'll have part two of your response coming up at 20. He is, miss that. They know good hell well when I get in the car. You know what we listen to? Daddy, can we listen to something else? No. Daddy, you heard a little baby's doing now. I don't know who little baby is, little baby, that damn baby. Black baby, white baby, new baby. But now she has a problem because she says, hanging out with him is cool with my parents and other times it gets to be too much. I'm allowed to smoke weed in the house because it's legally in our state and it helps me with my cramps. No, you allowed to smoke weed in the house because that's what they do. If it was illegal, they let you smoke weed. I'm allowed to have my boyfriend stay overnight

6:13because that's what they did. They had you at 18. At 18, that mean that the sex was going on before they was 18. So that's what they did. But he's gotta go to sleep in the guest room like he ain't snuck over there in the middle of the night. Hey, hell, he gonna stay in the guest room. I'm allowed to use profanity and I can express myself anywhere I choose around them because that's what they do. They cussin' around you. My kids can cuss around me now. That was an age when they lived in my house that ain't happened. But when you move out the house, you come back over, you can cuss. Now, you need to understand something now. There's no way you can outcuss me. Hey. Hey. Hey. I'm over here cussin' if you want to.

7:15I got some combinations, you're not quite familiar with. I put it together. But what I don't appreciate is how open they are with me. My parents' bedroom is below my bedroom. They have six near every day. You don't have to be at night. I can be getting ready to go to work at 3 and after noon and they are, and they're going at it. You know why they cussin', they cussin', they cussin', they cussin', they yo' frein', they ain't yo' parent. With the door open, they've jokily told me to stay upstairs if I don't want to see it or hear it. But what they do is they go out and they go out and say, I can see it or hear it. But what they don't know is I can still hear it and so can the neighbors probably. Because they have the windows up too. I've been sittin' in the hot tub on the patio. I've heard my parents having sex loudly on a Sunday afternoon. I would love to move, but I can't afford to rent and my condom is their house. But I don't, don't I deserve a little respect as long as I live here?

8:15The jokes about it aren't working. So would I be out of line to ask them to close the door and windows doing sex? Shelly said, you can't cause it's your mom is their house and technically she's right. But see, y'all, frein' so. Friends get to talk to friends like it won't do. I think you should sit them down as friends and say, mom, dad, the hell goin' on. I would use another word, like a cuss. Yeah, you know, but they allow you to cuss. This sugar honey iced tea y'all doing is some, it's some bull sugar honey iced tea. Cause all these fudge and neighbors is listening to y'all upstairs fudge and they can hear it. Now fudge, y'all need to stop. This is embarrassing. This sugar honey iced tea gon' have to stop.

9:17Cause you two ends is just too much. Since they let you talk any kind of way. And but now here's what you gon' have to do. You got to move. You got to move. And I wanna say this to you, young lady. You're obviously in school and stuff, you 24. Sometimes parents teach us what not to do just like they teach us what to do. I have a lot of boys that come to my mentoring camp who are from fatherless homes who have vowed when they have a child, they're not gonna do like they fathered the NFL. So when you do have a child and you're obviously waiting, remember these moments and remember the feelings you have. It's cool to be cool with your parents. But even you at 24 still want to have some guidelines. You want some parents. And this letter is for parents that's listed in it. Stop trying to be your kids. They need guidance and love and discipline.

10:18They would appreciate that. More than you sitting up smoking, we cost a little to have a sec with the dope. Wow, true. All right, Steve, thank you. Post your comments. All right, Steve. Thank you, post your comments. Thank you, post your comments. Thank you, post your comments. Thank you, post your comments. Thank you, post your comments.