1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: All right, Steve, before we get to the strawberry letter 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: of the subject, your mama has got to go. I'm 3 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: the world champion. Houston Astros are going visit the White House. Okay, Yeah, yeah, 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,479 Speaker 1: they're going. They're going. They're gonna be in the East Room. Yeah. 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:19,799 Speaker 1: They will leave their spring training facility in West Palm Beach, Florida, 6 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:23,080 Speaker 1: and fly to fly to Washington. The President will speak 7 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: and the Astros will present the President with a jersey 8 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 1: every weekend, every single weekend. Yeah. So, Steve, you have 9 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 1: any advice for the Astros? Yep, don't go take your 10 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: ass up there like the whole baseball team gonna be 11 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:47,919 Speaker 1: a bunch of Uncle Tom's and cool. Don't go up there, 12 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: pass not no jerseys. Don't go up there trying to help. 13 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 1: No damn body called social media ain't gonna look at it. 14 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,120 Speaker 1: They're gonna tell you that the Golden State Warriors didn't go, 15 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: So your ass s win either. I wish they would 16 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: ask me to kill my ass. I can't stay hill, 17 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: no fair, Okay, probably gonna say another word, just one word. 18 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: Alright on that note, let's move on, hold on tight. 19 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: We got to pull you here. It is to straw 20 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: up every letter. Thank you enough you subject your mama 21 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: has to go here Stephen Shirley, I'm hoping I can 22 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: get some advice on this issue because it's driving me crazy. 23 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: My husband's mom has been living with us and sleeping 24 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: on my couch for the past month. She left her 25 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: boyfriend because of his drug use and moved in with 26 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: his with her elderly father. One Saturday, she asked to 27 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: come stay with us so she could go to church 28 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: with us the next morning. Well, she never made it 29 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: to church, and a month later, she's still sleeping on 30 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: our couch. We are in a tiny apartment and she's 31 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: not on our lease. My living room looks like a campsite. 32 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,800 Speaker 1: I can't even have company over anymore. She doesn't clean 33 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: up after herself, she doesn't help with the kids, slash 34 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:20,519 Speaker 1: her grandkids. She doesn't help with the bills, nor does 35 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: she buy food. She doesn't have a car, so she 36 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: borrows my husband's car, and whenever I talk about her 37 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: going back to live with her father, she dances around 38 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: the subject. My husband doesn't think it's an issue. He 39 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: says it's his mom and she needs a place to 40 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 1: stay right now. But she will leave eventually, if our 41 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: leasing office finds out that she's still staying with us, 42 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 1: we could all get put out. I want her out 43 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:51,920 Speaker 1: of our tiny apartment dot dot dot, I've had it. 44 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: Please help. Well. I mean, it's just nothing like being 45 00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: a prisoner in your own home. It's nothing like that. Uh, 46 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 1: this doesn't look like it's going to be UM a 47 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: long time before your mother in law gets out though. 48 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: I mean, it looks like it will be a long time, 49 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: I should say, especially since your husband isn't on your 50 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: side and you said he doesn't think that it's an 51 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,079 Speaker 1: issue right now. This is a very tough, touchy subject 52 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 1: because it is his mom. But your husband needs to 53 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: man up in the situation. Um, he needs to man up. 54 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: He needs to have a conversation with his mother with 55 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: you by his side, so you can show her that 56 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: you guys are a unit. Uh, and you need to 57 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: talk to her about her plans. And he shouldn't put 58 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: her above you. He just shouldn't do that. He really 59 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: really shouldn't. Everything should be done respectively, of course respectively. 60 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: But I just say, this is starting to cause problems 61 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: in your marriage. Uh. Your options are to um, you know, 62 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: you guys get a bigger apartment. I don't think you're 63 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 1: gonna go for that because you don't want her staying there, 64 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:59,119 Speaker 1: but um, you know, or drive her back over there 65 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: to her dad so she can stay there. Pack her 66 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: up and take her back over there. Steve, Well see 67 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: you got tricked. See your mama's husband been living with y'all, 68 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: sleeping on the couch for the past month. Now this 69 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: now she left her boyfriend cause it's drug use and 70 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,359 Speaker 1: moved in with her elderly father. What's just where she 71 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: should have stayed. But here the trick came. One sadday 72 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: she asked me to come stay with us so she 73 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:37,919 Speaker 1: could go to churchwood Is the next morning. Well, she 74 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 1: never made it to church, and a month later, she's 75 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 1: still sleeping on our couch. Let's just deal with this. 76 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: For what you should have did was made I hand 77 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: get up. And that's first. You're gonna get your ass up, 78 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: and you're gonna go somewhere up in hill. Ain'tywhere in 79 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: the where my dad would walk past that couch and 80 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 1: then he ain't going to work at me in that sleep. 81 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: Somebody didn't get them to do so, So you should 82 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:12,280 Speaker 1: have roused it her and got her up at church. Mom, 83 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 1: I got it all you were were You're just doing 84 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:19,279 Speaker 1: what Mama said. You ain't being me. Come on, Mama, 85 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 1: let's go. As a matter of fact, every time you 86 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: go somewhere, you ought to have her go with you. 87 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: Work huh, work your boys, Mama. She never We're in 88 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: a tiny apartment and she's not on our least, and 89 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 1: my living room looks like a campsite. Then somewhere in 90 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: the letter, she says, if our leasing office finds out 91 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: that she's staying with us, we could all get put out. 92 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 1: Here is the answer to this, notify de leasing office. 93 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: That excuse me. We got too many damned people staying 94 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 1: in our apartment. And I think it's some people in 95 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 1: our apartment that ain't on the least. Could you come 96 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 1: by them all knock, gonna do and see who am 97 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 1: that ain't snitching, that's obeying the law. Listen, we got 98 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: a new president called down there the immigrations and tell 99 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: them you're having illegal on your couch. You don't get it, 100 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 1: You don't get it. Mama took downtown right away. Plastic 101 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: times required, drastic measures. I don't even see why we're 102 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: worried about this. Here you can get her out your house. 103 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:50,600 Speaker 1: You can do it. Shirley said her husband needs to 104 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:54,480 Speaker 1: man up. I disagree with this because you all have 105 00:06:54,640 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: to understand. So you can't man up. If you are 106 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: mama's boy, you can't be mama's boy and my man 107 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 1: at the same time. Women, y'all need to understand. Quit 108 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: asking your mama's boys to man Do you understand? Okay, 109 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say that to you. Now. Let's get 110 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 1: a couple other things straight. She don't clean up after herself. 111 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: What you should do is make it worse. Put some 112 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: more stuff on the couch. May Car had to clear 113 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,559 Speaker 1: the couch off to even lay on it. Do what's 114 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: the spoiling laundry up in there? You say it's a 115 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 1: tiny apartment. Put the iron and boy a crossing iron. 116 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 1: You gotta start. You set the table in there on 117 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 1: top of the couch. Come on right now, Steve, give 118 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: us your response Part two of today's Strawberry Letter. Your 119 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: mama has got to go. No, fama got to go. 120 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 1: She left her boyfriend because the drug used and moved 121 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: there with her Ellen father. I didn't want to stand 122 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 1: said that. She asked, cause she comes stay with y'all, 123 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 1: so you can go to church next morning. She didn't 124 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: even go to church. But she's still sleeping on our couch. 125 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: And we got a tiny apartment. She's not on our lease. 126 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 1: My living room looked like campsite. So now here's what 127 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: we have come up with. Ways to get rid of 128 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: your mama. First of all, notified the leasing off. Let 129 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: them know that there's someone in your house that you 130 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: did not put on the lease. And they stay in there. Well, ma'am, 131 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: do you know him? I think, so to come by 132 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 1: and knock and see for yourself. And oh, by the way, 133 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:03,079 Speaker 1: they are in illegal age all of that, and just 134 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 1: to make sure they get out of there. I think 135 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 1: she Mexic. No, that's how you get them out quick, 136 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: because we got Trump in the White House. Now this 137 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:20,679 Speaker 1: our Mexican mother in law. Donna look a little bit 138 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:23,199 Speaker 1: darker than you used to see it. But do not 139 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 1: let her complexion throw you because she's been in the sun. Boy. 140 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 1: So now well it's too late, we can't. Secondly, she 141 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 1: doesn't buy any food. So here's the next method of 142 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: getting her stove hug put a padlock on the refrigerator 143 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: and combinations on the cabinets. Put one of them coin 144 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: operated slots on the bathroom though, where it now caused 145 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:04,199 Speaker 1: money to go go in there. And if she do 146 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:11,199 Speaker 1: go in there, charge her for tarlet yeah, we charge 147 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 1: it for t quarter sheet, pay quarter or sheet a 148 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: dollar oftentimes won't get it Done'll be a quarter to 149 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 1: get in here. But that ain't a surprise. It's a 150 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:31,959 Speaker 1: quarter sheet that's gonna wipe you out. And we need 151 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:37,839 Speaker 1: the money first. Yeah, man, next thing you need to 152 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:43,319 Speaker 1: do is okay, First of all, let me do this 153 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:45,959 Speaker 1: right here. She doesn't have a call, she baws my 154 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: husband's call. Okay, ain't I'm a ride that call, but yourself. 155 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: Have them park out front. Let that be the take 156 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: off point for all they ride. And what she needed 157 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:06,079 Speaker 1: call to be outside. That's to take off point. Have 158 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:10,439 Speaker 1: an uber driver outside your house. My husband don't think 159 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: it is. Oh. And then next, get her a bus pass, 160 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: but not just any bus pass, a Greyhound summer bus. 161 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: Get her ass out the house and out the city 162 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,559 Speaker 1: at the same time. Tell her where to catch it. 163 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:29,319 Speaker 1: She get up on the next thing. You know, she 164 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 1: in North Carolina. Everything looking good. Uh, my husband doesn't 165 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: think this is an issue. Now we gotta deal with 166 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: your mama's board. Your next statement when you get undressed 167 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: and come out the shower neck it is, I don't 168 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:51,439 Speaker 1: feel right us in here making love with your mama 169 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 1: and the house shut off the love making. We got 170 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 1: to do something. Next thing you wanna do is immediately 171 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: inform him that he is sleeping on the couch too, 172 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 1: and your mama share that because you ain't sleeping in 173 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 1: him on. Here's the next thing you need to do 174 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:24,200 Speaker 1: to make shure she get her ass out. Remove one 175 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 1: cushion off that couch, that center cushion out that couch, 176 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 1: and throw it away. You can't rest no more, no, 177 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 1: because the couch ain't that long. Once you create either, 178 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: you take it out the middle. Even if you try 179 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 1: to bring them together, it ain't gonna work because I'm 180 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 1: just I'm going out on live him to say that 181 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:53,679 Speaker 1: his mama is a little heavy. Why cause most mama's 182 00:12:53,720 --> 00:13:02,559 Speaker 1: ear she a little heaven No, most mama's ear. So 183 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 1: now we've done all the things we do to make 184 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:09,440 Speaker 1: it illegal, let's do a recap. First things first, we're 185 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:13,080 Speaker 1: gonna notify the leasing office, let her notice in illegal 186 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: immigrant in there. And according to Trump, we should bring 187 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:24,319 Speaker 1: in ices. Okay, now that's right there. Tell her and 188 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,959 Speaker 1: then tell Elisan office. She is not a dreamer. She 189 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 1: way too hold. Don't left her no loop holes to 190 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: jump through. She is not a dreamer. She's a schemer. 191 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: Just get I asked some Trump cut him off. I 192 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 1: can't do this with you know more? Long is your 193 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:52,559 Speaker 1: mama in there? Thirdly, made him sleep on the couch 194 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:57,559 Speaker 1: with her. Here's another one. I just came on to 195 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 1: make that couch. Toldly on coming, take one league off 196 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:09,319 Speaker 1: the counchpecially Rock, we gotta get out of here. You 197 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 1: can email us your Instagram what's your thoughts on today's 198 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 1: Strawberry letter at my girls? Surely and don't forget coming 199 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 1: up in about ten minutes. Um, you're gonna break down, Steve, 200 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 1: you're gonna do this for us and move the dog 201 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 1: in there on the couch with tell do put the 202 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 1: dog blinging on the count all three on minute. We're 203 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: gonna talk about O J and the interview that he 204 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 1: did yesterday on a Fox. Yeah, pretty much. He confessed 205 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 1: that he did it hypothetically, of course, but pretty much 206 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: he confessed a lot. We're gonna get some moving out there. 207 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: We gotta go, we'll be back. You're listening to the 208 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: Steve Harvey Morning Show.