April 11, 2019 • 14 mins
Dear Steve and Shirley, my husband and I are in our early 30s and my best friend asked us to house-sit for her and her husband while they were out of the country for a month. They have a very nice beach house, so we jumped at the opportunity. Everything was going great and we loved it there, right until the third week, when a mutual friend of ours called me with some crazy news. The mutual friend said she had talked to the owners of the house and found out that there were hidden cameras all over the place............
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Buggle up, hold on tight. We got it for you here.
It is the Strawberry Letter subject My husband and I
were being filmed here Stephen Shirley. My husband and I
are in our early thirties, and my best friend asked
us to house sit for her and her husband while
they were out of the country for a month. They
have a very nice beach house, so we jumped at
(00:22):
the opportunity. Everything was going great and we loved it
there right until the third week when a mutual friend
of ours called me with some crazy news. The mutual
friend said she had talked to the owners of the
house and found out that there were hidden cameras all
over the house. I knew that the homeowners are in
(00:43):
some sort of an open marriage and they often had
threesomes and liked to watch others have sex, but I
had no idea that they would have cameras all around
the house that my husband and I were staying in.
I found out that the homeowners have several videos of
my husband and I having sex all over their house.
(01:03):
When I called them, they admitted it and said it
was no big deal. They said they really loved the
videos and there for their personal use only, and they
will never share them with anyone else. I curse them
both out. They said that if my husband and I
had the nerve to have sex all over their house,
(01:23):
then we had no right to be upset for being filmed.
She said it's their house, so they have the right
to keep the videos. I asked our mutual friends, and
they agree that my husband and I should not be
upset at all. This has ruined a lot of my friendships.
Do you think the homeowners are wrong or are my
husband and I to blame for this? What should we do?
(01:45):
Please advise, I don't think. I don't think your husband,
you and your husband are wrong at all. I mean,
they asked you to house sit while they were out
of town. This is your best friend. I think the
homeowners are absolutely wrong. They should have told you guys.
They should have told you guys in no uncertain terms.
(02:06):
You know, watch yourselves because we do have camera equipment
in the house. Um, this is spying. This is invading
someone's privacy and you're right to privacy. Isn't this illegal? Yeah? This,
I think this is illegal. You may have a court case.
You may be able to soothe them to at least
get your tapes. Back. Yeah, they should have told you. Uh,
(02:29):
you know, especially if they're using the film for their
own sexual gratification. And just because they have open, open
marriage doesn't mean everybody else does. And I think they
tricked you, guys. I think, um, I think you have
a case. This is really an invasion of privacy and
you all did it all over their house. Wow, who
(02:54):
slow down next time about that? I mean, I get
maybe it's the lure of the beach house and all
of that. You said you jumped at the opportunity, But yeah,
they're they're wrong. And uh, you know, if they don't
give you the tapes back, you might have to sue
them to get it back. Steve, Well, amazing, How don't
see that year? First of all, y'all in your early thirties,
(03:18):
your best friend asked y'all the house sit for her
and her husband. Why they out the country for a month? M. Now,
beach houses normally ain't in high crime districts. Not normally.
I don't know what state this is in. But they
asked you the house sit for a month. Why the
(03:41):
ask y'all? M what why? They asked? Y'all? Best friends?
Then Kate be their only best friends? Based on what
I read and left because I'm sure they don't swam
with some more friendly of people. Okay, so I am.
I ain't ain't buying it today today they're best friend?
(04:02):
No no, no no, no, no, they're best friends? Is really
over that clown they swing? So you jumped out the opportunity.
Everything was going great. We loved it right until the
third week when a mutual friend of always called me.
Now mutual friend means they friends with the wild couple too,
(04:24):
So now they called you with some crazy news. This
mutual friend said she had talked to the owners of
the house and found out that they were hidden cameras
all over the place now here where it gets kind
of crazy to meet. I knew that the homeowners are
(04:45):
in some sort of an open marriage right way. Hello,
y'all best friends. M y'all best friends. You ain't you
ain't think you knew this? I knew, she said. I
knew that the homeowners and some of us to open marriage,
and they often often had threesomes and like to watch
(05:08):
others have sex. Now you ask somebody the house, and
you know all about this right here, you know all
about it. But I had no idea they would have
cameras all around the house. You just said they like
to watch, Well, what you watch that? And that don't
evolve a camera? I like watching TV. Get what's involved cameras?
(05:31):
I like watching Netflix. Guess what's on Netflix? Bunch of
damn cameras. She couldn't have met life? Watch them live?
Do it live? If you like watching somebody live, you
ain't gonna record Hello, port is big who? You know?
Like watching other people have sex? But ain't gonna record it?
(05:53):
What's that? You're not being a thinking person. But I
had no idea they had cameras all out of the
house that my husband and I were staying there. Well,
what what the house? Where? What the house? You think
they had the camera's in? If it wasn't the one
y'all staying there, they ain't got but one. It's down
there at the beach. And you know they often have threesomes,
(06:15):
and they enjoy sex with threesomes, and they watch each other.
Where is the shock at? I found that the homeowners
had several videos of my husband and I having sex
all over the house. All y'all just down at the
beach house clown, y'all are all out on the poach. Everywhere,
(06:38):
all down there at the foot of the steps, in
the sand. Y'all all up in here, got saying all
in the little room flow. You're on the steps, They
got all of it. You in his office on his desk.
You just in here, clown, and you're on the kitchen table.
You to rate the all the cups and dishes on
the damn float. Wow, you didn't open up the refrigerator.
(06:58):
Set her ass on the same shelf that the ham
is on. Oh, y'all in here, clown. Y'all back there
on the washing machine. You don't cut that machine on
spin cycle. And y'all just in there, just hum and
y'allself happy, all right? Hang on, Steve, hang on, I'm
gonna tell you what she said when she called Part
(07:20):
two of your responses. A couple of the house set
a beach house for one of their friends that they
know is in some kind of open marriage, and they
have threesomes all the time often, and they watch enjoy
watching other people have sex. Then a mutual friend called
her and told her that they told them that they
got hidden cameras all over their house. Well found out
(07:45):
that homeowners had several videos of her husband and her
having sex all over their house. They was at foot
of the steps down that way where the stands tested
the saying. They started down that then they went under
the porch. They got some cameras down there too, they
under Yeah, just listening to waves. Then they came upstairs
and fell all in that bay winding. Then they just
(08:07):
on the couch, all in the float, one leg up
on the coffee table and kicked all the mints off
the damn coffee table. They just didn't climberator. Yeah, they
don't raked all the dishes off the table. Just breaking.
They're just breaking out of people that's watching all this
on the videos, tallying over invoice because you got paid
for all this stuff right now now you know the
refrigerator moved a ham out of the way and put
(08:29):
her ass on the same shelf that the ham is on.
You just in't here, just having fun, and you in
the laundry room putting on a spin cycle. Everybody that happened.
Then you called them and they admitted and said it
was no big deal. They said they really loved the
videos and they are for their personal use only. Now
(08:52):
this is a setup to get you hot or you
like what we did girl, the way he did this,
and then the way what you did to him. Girl,
We like that. Oh you were so hot. Oh well,
I think you hot to this trap game. You ain't
never seen the trap game. This how the trap game work.
Then they're gonna show you the videos. Let you see
(09:14):
him and let him Oh my, this is the part
of love. This is my favorite party. Then the guy's
gonna be talk, gonna piss you off at first, but
then he gonna this is my favorite party right here,
watch this watches Oh my god, oh my god, oh
my god. This guy's great, the Scot's great. High five
earl hi five girl. And they said this for their
(09:36):
personal use and they'll never share them with anyone else.
I cussed them both out. They said that if my
husband and I had the nerve to have They said
that if my husband and I had the nerve to
have sex all over the house, then they had no
right to be ableset or being filmed. She said it's
(09:56):
their house, so they had the right to keep the videos.
I asked our music friends, and they agree that my
husband and I should not be upset at all. This
is ruining a lot of my friendships. Do you think
the homeowners are wrong or all my husband and I
to blame for this? What should we do? Please advise?
First of all, Shirley said that they should have told you,
and I agree with that they should have told you.
(10:17):
Let me explain something. Get wild up in here. We
got We got cameras everywhere everywhere. Now, if you want
us to cut them off while you in here, we will,
But we films ourselves doing the wild thing. We don't
want that. They should have told you, but they didn't.
Now they didn't film you, they got video. They're on
vacation watching y'alls ass you and your husband. You don't
know it, but y'all's ass pun stars. I got you
(10:41):
might work down at Coca Cola song, but I got
news to you. I got you might be the director
of fifteen chick fil as and y'all ain't even moping
on something. That's how much y'all love the law. But
I got news for you though, y'all this pawn stars. Now,
Shirley says, you can take an ac court and sue
(11:02):
for these tapes, and I'm telling you you will lose
because you have no case. It's spying though, an invasion
of privacy. You're in the middle of their home. You no,
no, no no, no, this is their home. They don't have
to tell you nothing. These cameras in the privacy of
(11:22):
their home. I can promise you this ain't the case,
but I don't know. They don't have to tell them
that they are being filmed. If you in their house,
they can say them in security cameras, restaurant. Wow, they
can easily say these and security cameras. They did not
tell us that they were going to have sex all
(11:43):
over our house, so we didn't think it was necessary
to for one them. Well we're married. How about this
right here? How about this right here? Well, how about
this right here? I forgot to tell them that we
had these cameras in the house. How about this right
What you're not gonna do is be able to soothe
them fulfilming you in their house. Now, if they came
(12:03):
to your house and set up cameras, that's a lawsuit.
But you ain't gonna get nothing from them. No, how so,
I don't think you have a lawsuit at all. I
think you got to beg for them damn cameras back.
But I probably think what they're gonna have to do
you're gonna have to do a little tricky stuff get
them down. Yeah. I think you're gonna have to go
on and do what they really want you to do.
(12:24):
Them tapes. Yeah, you're gonna have to come and do
something with it. We'll get you the taper when you're
little action for what you do. They cannot take them
to court. They'll lose if they go to court. I'm
not a lawyer and I'm not expert on but I
don't see how you can possibly win if you were
filmed in someone else's home. I'll give you an example.
(12:45):
At the Playboy mansion. Playboy, you have this Playboy match.
Every square into that place is filmed except for one area.
They ain't nothing you can do about it. It's it's filmed.
But you notice of all the years, is all the
stuff that went on up there? You ain't ever heard nothing?
But does he tell the people that they're being fed
(13:07):
damn thing? Well, how do you know? How do you
They told me, Steve fake? Well, they tell some people.
So he made me a tent. We he was on
the radio station and he made me that tent in
the back, said this for Steve, where he can have
some privates you know, back you're a wild boy. Back
then I needed that. So but I'm saying they did
(13:28):
tell you what that they were being filmed, and they
they didn't tell me nothing. That's everybody went up there
new everybody I met you after that night. Ain't like
he said, Steve, everything's filmed. Be careful. He said, I
got your private tent back there where you can have
some private time. He knew how to treat ye. So
(13:49):
you know, but if you went down in that grottle,
inside that cave and that scimming pool, were no cameras
in that I did. I went down. I'm gonna tell
you one thing right now. What you Hefner was one
of the greatest you have to give. Let me tell
(14:09):
you what. That old boy right there play a persona
f al right, guys, we got to get out of here.
You can post your thoughts on Today's Strawberry Letter. It's
Steve Harvey FM, and check out our Strawberry Letter podcast
on demand. Okay, our Strawberry Letter podcast on demand. You
can hear today's letter. You're listening to the Steven Show.
Buggle up, hold on tight. We got it for you here.
It is the Strawberry Letter subject My husband and I
were being filmed here Stephen Shirley. My husband and I
are in our early thirties, and my best friend asked
us to house sit for her and her husband while
they were out of the country for a month. They
have a very nice beach house, so we jumped at
(00:22):
the opportunity. Everything was going great and we loved it
there right until the third week when a mutual friend
of ours called me with some crazy news. The mutual
friend said she had talked to the owners of the
house and found out that there were hidden cameras all
over the house. I knew that the homeowners are in
(00:43):
some sort of an open marriage and they often had
threesomes and liked to watch others have sex, but I
had no idea that they would have cameras all around
the house that my husband and I were staying in.
I found out that the homeowners have several videos of
my husband and I having sex all over their house.
(01:03):
When I called them, they admitted it and said it
was no big deal. They said they really loved the
videos and there for their personal use only, and they
will never share them with anyone else. I curse them
both out. They said that if my husband and I
had the nerve to have sex all over their house,
(01:23):
then we had no right to be upset for being filmed.
She said it's their house, so they have the right
to keep the videos. I asked our mutual friends, and
they agree that my husband and I should not be
upset at all. This has ruined a lot of my friendships.
Do you think the homeowners are wrong or are my
husband and I to blame for this? What should we do?
(01:45):
Please advise, I don't think. I don't think your husband,
you and your husband are wrong at all. I mean,
they asked you to house sit while they were out
of town. This is your best friend. I think the
homeowners are absolutely wrong. They should have told you guys.
They should have told you guys in no uncertain terms.
(02:06):
You know, watch yourselves because we do have camera equipment
in the house. Um, this is spying. This is invading
someone's privacy and you're right to privacy. Isn't this illegal? Yeah? This,
I think this is illegal. You may have a court case.
You may be able to soothe them to at least
get your tapes. Back. Yeah, they should have told you. Uh,
(02:29):
you know, especially if they're using the film for their
own sexual gratification. And just because they have open, open
marriage doesn't mean everybody else does. And I think they
tricked you, guys. I think, um, I think you have
a case. This is really an invasion of privacy and
you all did it all over their house. Wow, who
(02:54):
slow down next time about that? I mean, I get
maybe it's the lure of the beach house and all
of that. You said you jumped at the opportunity, But yeah,
they're they're wrong. And uh, you know, if they don't
give you the tapes back, you might have to sue
them to get it back. Steve, Well, amazing, How don't
see that year? First of all, y'all in your early thirties,
(03:18):
your best friend asked y'all the house sit for her
and her husband. Why they out the country for a month? M. Now,
beach houses normally ain't in high crime districts. Not normally.
I don't know what state this is in. But they
asked you the house sit for a month. Why the
(03:41):
ask y'all? M what why? They asked? Y'all? Best friends?
Then Kate be their only best friends? Based on what
I read and left because I'm sure they don't swam
with some more friendly of people. Okay, so I am.
I ain't ain't buying it today today they're best friend?
(04:02):
No no, no no, no, no, they're best friends? Is really
over that clown they swing? So you jumped out the opportunity.
Everything was going great. We loved it right until the
third week when a mutual friend of always called me.
Now mutual friend means they friends with the wild couple too,
(04:24):
So now they called you with some crazy news. This
mutual friend said she had talked to the owners of
the house and found out that they were hidden cameras
all over the place now here where it gets kind
of crazy to meet. I knew that the homeowners are
(04:45):
in some sort of an open marriage right way. Hello,
y'all best friends. M y'all best friends. You ain't you
ain't think you knew this? I knew, she said. I
knew that the homeowners and some of us to open marriage,
and they often often had threesomes and like to watch
(05:08):
others have sex. Now you ask somebody the house, and
you know all about this right here, you know all
about it. But I had no idea they would have
cameras all around the house. You just said they like
to watch, Well, what you watch that? And that don't
evolve a camera? I like watching TV. Get what's involved cameras?
(05:31):
I like watching Netflix. Guess what's on Netflix? Bunch of
damn cameras. She couldn't have met life? Watch them live?
Do it live? If you like watching somebody live, you
ain't gonna record Hello, port is big who? You know?
Like watching other people have sex? But ain't gonna record it?
(05:53):
What's that? You're not being a thinking person. But I
had no idea they had cameras all out of the
house that my husband and I were staying there. Well,
what what the house? Where? What the house? You think
they had the camera's in? If it wasn't the one
y'all staying there, they ain't got but one. It's down
there at the beach. And you know they often have threesomes,
(06:15):
and they enjoy sex with threesomes, and they watch each other.
Where is the shock at? I found that the homeowners
had several videos of my husband and I having sex
all over the house. All y'all just down at the
beach house clown, y'all are all out on the poach. Everywhere,
(06:38):
all down there at the foot of the steps, in
the sand. Y'all all up in here, got saying all
in the little room flow. You're on the steps, They
got all of it. You in his office on his desk.
You just in here, clown, and you're on the kitchen table.
You to rate the all the cups and dishes on
the damn float. Wow, you didn't open up the refrigerator.
(06:58):
Set her ass on the same shelf that the ham
is on. Oh, y'all in here, clown. Y'all back there
on the washing machine. You don't cut that machine on
spin cycle. And y'all just in there, just hum and
y'allself happy, all right? Hang on, Steve, hang on, I'm
gonna tell you what she said when she called Part
(07:20):
two of your responses. A couple of the house set
a beach house for one of their friends that they
know is in some kind of open marriage, and they
have threesomes all the time often, and they watch enjoy
watching other people have sex. Then a mutual friend called
her and told her that they told them that they
got hidden cameras all over their house. Well found out
(07:45):
that homeowners had several videos of her husband and her
having sex all over their house. They was at foot
of the steps down that way where the stands tested
the saying. They started down that then they went under
the porch. They got some cameras down there too, they
under Yeah, just listening to waves. Then they came upstairs
and fell all in that bay winding. Then they just
(08:07):
on the couch, all in the float, one leg up
on the coffee table and kicked all the mints off
the damn coffee table. They just didn't climberator. Yeah, they
don't raked all the dishes off the table. Just breaking.
They're just breaking out of people that's watching all this
on the videos, tallying over invoice because you got paid
for all this stuff right now now you know the
refrigerator moved a ham out of the way and put
(08:29):
her ass on the same shelf that the ham is on.
You just in't here, just having fun, and you in
the laundry room putting on a spin cycle. Everybody that happened.
Then you called them and they admitted and said it
was no big deal. They said they really loved the
videos and they are for their personal use only. Now
(08:52):
this is a setup to get you hot or you
like what we did girl, the way he did this,
and then the way what you did to him. Girl,
We like that. Oh you were so hot. Oh well,
I think you hot to this trap game. You ain't
never seen the trap game. This how the trap game work.
Then they're gonna show you the videos. Let you see
(09:14):
him and let him Oh my, this is the part
of love. This is my favorite party. Then the guy's
gonna be talk, gonna piss you off at first, but
then he gonna this is my favorite party right here,
watch this watches Oh my god, oh my god, oh
my god. This guy's great, the Scot's great. High five
earl hi five girl. And they said this for their
(09:36):
personal use and they'll never share them with anyone else.
I cussed them both out. They said that if my
husband and I had the nerve to have They said
that if my husband and I had the nerve to
have sex all over the house, then they had no
right to be ableset or being filmed. She said it's
(09:56):
their house, so they had the right to keep the videos.
I asked our music friends, and they agree that my
husband and I should not be upset at all. This
is ruining a lot of my friendships. Do you think
the homeowners are wrong or all my husband and I
to blame for this? What should we do? Please advise?
First of all, Shirley said that they should have told you,
and I agree with that they should have told you.
(10:17):
Let me explain something. Get wild up in here. We
got We got cameras everywhere everywhere. Now, if you want
us to cut them off while you in here, we will,
But we films ourselves doing the wild thing. We don't
want that. They should have told you, but they didn't.
Now they didn't film you, they got video. They're on
vacation watching y'alls ass you and your husband. You don't
know it, but y'all's ass pun stars. I got you
(10:41):
might work down at Coca Cola song, but I got
news to you. I got you might be the director
of fifteen chick fil as and y'all ain't even moping
on something. That's how much y'all love the law. But
I got news for you though, y'all this pawn stars. Now,
Shirley says, you can take an ac court and sue
(11:02):
for these tapes, and I'm telling you you will lose
because you have no case. It's spying though, an invasion
of privacy. You're in the middle of their home. You no,
no, no no, no, this is their home. They don't have
to tell you nothing. These cameras in the privacy of
(11:22):
their home. I can promise you this ain't the case,
but I don't know. They don't have to tell them
that they are being filmed. If you in their house,
they can say them in security cameras, restaurant. Wow, they
can easily say these and security cameras. They did not
tell us that they were going to have sex all
(11:43):
over our house, so we didn't think it was necessary
to for one them. Well we're married. How about this
right here? How about this right here? Well, how about
this right here? I forgot to tell them that we
had these cameras in the house. How about this right
What you're not gonna do is be able to soothe
them fulfilming you in their house. Now, if they came
(12:03):
to your house and set up cameras, that's a lawsuit.
But you ain't gonna get nothing from them. No, how so,
I don't think you have a lawsuit at all. I
think you got to beg for them damn cameras back.
But I probably think what they're gonna have to do
you're gonna have to do a little tricky stuff get
them down. Yeah. I think you're gonna have to go
on and do what they really want you to do.
(12:24):
Them tapes. Yeah, you're gonna have to come and do
something with it. We'll get you the taper when you're
little action for what you do. They cannot take them
to court. They'll lose if they go to court. I'm
not a lawyer and I'm not expert on but I
don't see how you can possibly win if you were
filmed in someone else's home. I'll give you an example.
(12:45):
At the Playboy mansion. Playboy, you have this Playboy match.
Every square into that place is filmed except for one area.
They ain't nothing you can do about it. It's it's filmed.
But you notice of all the years, is all the
stuff that went on up there? You ain't ever heard nothing?
But does he tell the people that they're being fed
(13:07):
damn thing? Well, how do you know? How do you
They told me, Steve fake? Well, they tell some people.
So he made me a tent. We he was on
the radio station and he made me that tent in
the back, said this for Steve, where he can have
some privates you know, back you're a wild boy. Back
then I needed that. So but I'm saying they did
(13:28):
tell you what that they were being filmed, and they
they didn't tell me nothing. That's everybody went up there
new everybody I met you after that night. Ain't like
he said, Steve, everything's filmed. Be careful. He said, I
got your private tent back there where you can have
some private time. He knew how to treat ye. So
(13:49):
you know, but if you went down in that grottle,
inside that cave and that scimming pool, were no cameras
in that I did. I went down. I'm gonna tell
you one thing right now. What you Hefner was one
of the greatest you have to give. Let me tell
(14:09):
you what. That old boy right there play a persona
f al right, guys, we got to get out of here.
You can post your thoughts on Today's Strawberry Letter. It's
Steve Harvey FM, and check out our Strawberry Letter podcast
on demand. Okay, our Strawberry Letter podcast on demand. You
can hear today's letter. You're listening to the Steven Show.
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Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.