Y'all know what time to y'all don't know y'all back a suit on, looking back to back down, giving them more like American buck things. And it's not doing me true good. It be Steve Hasten to move together for ste Please, Mommy, I don't join join you doing me home. You gotta turning, You gotta turn to turn them out. Turn't got to turn them out to turn the water the water go. Come come on your baby it uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody. Y're listening to the voice, Come on, dig me now, want and on it. Steve Harvey got a radio show man, Yeah, I do. Man. God been good to me, man, He's been so good to me. Wow. And you know why I say it like that. What makes it amazing is because it's been in spite of myself. I mean, you know what I mean by that. I mean I mean that he's been good to me in spite of all the craziness I've done, all the foolishness I've gotten myself involved with, and not only got but knowingly got myself involved with, all of the stupid decisions I've made. Put all that to the side, and he's still been good to me, bring it all and put it on the plate, and he's still be good to me. Man. That's amazing man. And I'm sure there's a lot of people that can say the exact same thing. I mean, come on, man, I got you, ain't famous, I got anybody, got no microphone in your face, I got nobody, ain't got no spotlight on you. I got nobody, ain't got no came in your face. I got nobody problem. Ain't your body blogging about you. But let me tell you so, if you break it down and be real about it, Oh, you haven't done something outside the box. You haven't done something ladies included, you've done something out the box. You woke up and went what did I do that for? Oh? We've all done it. So when all that said and done, God still loves you, man, God still loves you, still wants you the best for you, still considers you his child. And and it's willing, it's willing man to show you your future. He is willing to show you your life. He is willing to let you take a peek at the blueprint. Man. That's an amazing God right there, because I don't I know, I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. I'm glad it's him, you know. Today, Man, I want to encourage brothers out there. And when I say brothers, I'm talking to everybody that's of the male species. I don't care about your color. I really really don't. I don't even have time for that in my day. A matter a matter of fact. Sometimes when you get to discussing race, I just get tired of it. Sometimes I just wish, you know, some days I just want to wake up, just do me. You know, I got what what the skin tone is. I got that. But I just want to wake up some days and just going buy my business and do me. I don't want to have to deal with it. Sometimes I get tired of talking about the issues. Ain't gonna make them go away. But sometimes I get tired, so the damn talking to brothers, all the brothers of the male species. I'm talking about men today. Man, If if you ain't doing it all, if you're feeling empty, man, start today completing your process and your journey. And you know what I'm saying by that, if there's a part of you just missing as a man, and now, man, I'm talking to you, so you know some ladies listening, but you know what I'm talking about. It's it's some part of you that's missing as a man, if you ain't really been in touch with your kids like you supposed to now for whatever the reason is. And please no, I do understand how sometimes women can use children as pawns. It happens all the time. I've been through it. I've been through it, man, I know what it feels like, man to want to do something. But because you ain't got this, or you ain't doing this, then I ain't gonna let you have this. You gotta fight through, fellas, you got to fight through. You got to fulfill your end of a deal. And I got how difficult they're making it. I got how Man, it's gonna come with some drama, but you gotta fight through it. Because man, we need fathers to be fathers. That's really what we need. If you're a man out there and you are a father of a child, need you do your job. We I'm talking about the our community, our situation, us as a people, all of us. We need you to be a father. Period. Hey man, I ain't coming down on you. I'm just your boy. I'm your man, and I've been in the same predicament, in the same hole myself, where I couldn't get to them, where they were used as pawns, where they were told things about me that wasn't even true. I've been through it. You can't see them, you don't come on, okay, okay, I got all that. You ain't sent this. You ain't okay, hey, hey, got all that. If if you can call them sometimes, tell them you're thinking about them, tell them you love them. If you can get a letter to them, if you can get a message to your children through one of your relatives, start the process today. Be a father. It's your job now. Because you ignoring him, or you acting like they ain't over there, or you don't back him out of your mind because the situation got too difficult. I got that, I got that. But you got to step up and be fatherless. You got to write a letter. You gotta send the money. If she talking about it. If you don't send all the money, you ain't gonna see him. Send what you got if she if taking it over there's too much drama, Send it through a relative, Give it to a mama, give it to her sister, ask her to take it over there and do something for the baby, because okay, okay, you can't deal with the drama. I got that, and I know it's much to pay when you had to deal with that, because clearly I know hell have no fury like a woman scoring Please know. I know that, Please know. And that's a real statement. That ain't no saying. Steve got that, that's the truth. But do what you gotta do. Sometimes you have to apologize. Sometimes an apology goes a long way to your children. Just hey, look, because I've made this apology before. Hey man, look, I'm sorry. I wasn't there for you. I was out grinding and hustling and I wasn't paying attention to you, and I should have been. And I apologize now. I imagine, man, there's days where you was telling people I was your father up at the school and they wasn't believing you. I apologize for sending you through that. But now, man, I tell you what, I made some mistakes, and I got it together. I want me and you to move forward as father and son. I want me and you to move forward as father and daughter. I want to be in your life now. I ain't got a lot, but guess what I know a lot, because if you're a man and you a father, please know you know something that child don't know. You have information, you have experience. That's all they need sometimes to have somebody to talk to. That daughter yours just needs to know from her daddy, how should a man treat me? Dad? What should I look for in a man? See, they'll take that information from you because they know it's coming from the right place. And then you know that your son needs you because you know how difficult it is if you're trying to be a man without your daddy. You already know how funky that is right there. So come on, man, admit your mistakes and move forward. Call your kids, write a letter, get a phone number on them, send a text, drop a message, send a note up to the school. Do something. Man. If those of us that are fathers would just be fathers, I could shut the mentory and camp down. Now. I will say I apologize because I don't want you to think I'm coming down on you. But I've been through this myself. I ain't really coming down. I'm just reminding you this is our job. These are our children, this is our responsibility. We are men. There is no excuses you don't get, you don't get. Cut a break on that one. Sorry, you're listening ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, trapeze artists, monkey trainers, line tables, zoologists, people that work with plants, arabologists, legal herbs and illegal herb us. This is the Steve Harvey Morning Show. I mean Steve hark Church saying, man, Amen, Shirley Strawberry, Good morning, Steven. Think he covered everyone with that one. Yeah, be a good winning today are calling for? That's right? Never mad on a Friday? What up, Steve? What's up? Junior morning? Un covered everybody with that? I with Shirley Legal, Andy leading, ain't nobody here but us? Yea the stretch today, I would be ignorant. I don't know. I think he's gonna make it. Oh come on now, don't tease me. Don't tease me. Oh no, girl, I don't think I'm gonna let you down today. That girl, Okay, I see when Jay here and Tommy ain't here, that's too much room. I stretch out wild with your quickness. All right, everybody, good are you feeling today? You know I'm good man, I'm good you know today? I leave today, go get on the plane here in the Cairo today. Egypt. Yeah, I'll be there. Illinois, No, don't go to East Caro. That's sir. Somebody asked, you know about traveling. Was our concerned about the coronavirus? Yeah? Response to the coronavirus? Is this what what I had eaten chitlings for thirty five years? What is that mean? What the hen corona gonna do to me that they done? If you didn't ate chitlings for thirty five years, you have a built in antibiotics system. Oh wow, Yeah, there's some stuff that cannot offen stretch. Not really, you can't if you can eat chidlings for thirty five years? What this the coronavirus fault? What you're scared for? Boy boy ate chi? For some of our millennials, you know, Steve that listened to the show, please explains pig guts. I know, yeah, pucking pie. Some people think it's a delicacy, though it is in France. You know, in French you can buy it's a delicacy. I'll tell you right now, it ain't a delicac. Does it smell like a delicacy? Ignorant ass slave talk behavior that we should have gotten out of a long, long time ago, and I held on for thirty five years, almost forty some with some hot so I have no field. Corona cole, a lot of chips. All right, Steve, coming up your favorite segment on this Friday. It's called Asked Steve, and we're gonna do that, coming up at thirty two minutes after the hour, right after this. You're listening, all right, Steve, it is time for ask Steve, your favorite segment on the show. We're gonna ask you questions and Shirley, Yeah, could you remember to keep your damn question show? Go ahead, Steve Touchet. All right, Steve, here's a question for you. Uh. Um. KFC has a new item on their menu. It's two glazed donuts with a piece of fried chicken between them. Um, it looks so good. I just wonder will you be one of the ones that will uh partake in in that new um item at KFC? What if I wanted a heart attack like by Christmas? Yeah? I don't, I don't, but you know what I know? It's good. Yeah, it's so good. Damn it. No, it's good. Huh, but probably won't Cairo, so at least I won't get it this weekend. I think I'm gonna get it this weekend, but I may not eat the whole thing I do want to take. You know that's gonna be held, especially if you got big lips, You're gonna have glaze and grease on your limp. Talk about that all y'all with lips like blazes, greasy glaze. Yeah, you know it's black people. They black people don't even know what corona is yet. But if you look in any cake, Oh here, I know right where your mask. Next question? All right, come on you and you got one. All right, I'm having a situation. I think you probably expert at this. Yeah, somebody owe me some money, right, Oh, go ahead? Yeah, And I just want to back the day. What was probably the craziest thing you've done to get your money? Back? Set on his porch? Whoa set on his porch? Even if you come out the back door, you got to come around front because he had a German shepherd next door, so he couldn't climb the fence and go down the street. So I knew his ass had to come around. Yeah, I said around it. But now I still ain't get my money. Oh but we fought though, ya dog, he told me a dollar one dollar? You kidding? Still, dog, it's seventy one a dollar, partner, a dollar, And then you said you give it to me Friday. It's sat, it's Monday. I ain't got my money yet. Oh no, a partner, No, me and your ass been to throw hands. Oh okay over a dollar. Okay, meant something to you back then? Everything a dollar back then was equivalent. Right now, that dollar the equivalent to about five hundred thousand right now, what I thought you could say like ten dollars something? That dollar meant something to me back then. I'm talking about man, I didn't have that dollars like, oh, when you five hundred thousand today today? Now, I'm not gonna jump on you about this money today because I can't. But back then, one of us is getting my ass whipped today about this dollar, you know. And I didn't really do well in the fight either. I really can't say I wanted to fight. But somebody today he's getting the asship about this dollar today. And I mean that. Yeah, are you ready for my reading? Yeah? What set of items could you buy that would make the cashier the most uncomfortable at a story. You say something baby all see condoms? What else? And a pacify? Everybody, it's gonna be on com what everybody? Everybody's lying gonna start itching? Why is this grown ass man got some baby awesome condoms and a pacify? But I got on the track top, so the ain't no baby nowhere? Right, you got on the taptop? Hold up? She ranging it up, ma'am? Could your hair up? She waiting your hair up? She wait? All right, let's let's keep with the grocery star. Steve. Please, you're in the grocery store. What are your most must have items in your basket? What do you have to have if you go to the grocery store. If I go to the grocery store, gotta have it. I gotta have some probably some old bay season okay, okay. Uh, I'm gonna need a slab of baby backs. Okay, slab of baby backs, some old baby and I'm gonna need all some luminum fall. So you put the seafood seasoning on the ribs. Uh no, what now that go? Corn? Oh? Okay, oh okay, okay, okay, So that's your meal? Okay, yeah, all right, all right, thank you, good answer. All right, Okay, here go. You can fill in right now for one of your favorite bands. If the least sink of a band went down. Right now you can stare Bean, you can stampy and now miss a beat with right now lead Living Today Frankie Beverly and me plus your heart now whoo whoo boom boom boom boom. I know y'all saying to now. All right, nephew, Timmy's out today, but Junior is in and we're gonna run that prank back right after this you're listening show coming up at the top of the Hour's Frankie Beverly from the last still say, come on, Junior, here the prank. Everybody read dimp read dip running cat. Hello, Hello, I'm trying to reach uh Pastor Henry. It's Pastor Henry. Oh you doing s you know, as to a greater New Hope Baptist right, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I am my answers cold. My name is Patrick. My name Patrick Davis. Uh are you doing there? How are you doing? Sir? I went there to your church a bottom about two and a half years ago. I went there and me and yeah, we got our kids baptized there at Jo, are you coming back to us or are you? Uh uh, what's your current church? Well? We I'm we havn't been in a munic you know. But you you you baptized my my son and my daughter Kareem. You baptize them. I don't. I don't think you. I mean, I'm sure you do a lot of people. But yeah, I was about to say I do a lot. I can't really pinpoint a name like that. You said it was about a couple of years ago, two three year up between two and between two and three years ago. You you baptized my little girl and my son. O God, I bless on that. I'm I'm glad I was able to do that. Servously. I was wondering, how did you get my number? Using anything like this? You usually get handled with the church, you know, one of my deacons or my secretary. But uh uh did you um call the church and they gave you my number? Um? This this guy at the church, let me see, his name is oh do Dobs, brother brother Dobs, brother, brother Dobs gave you my phone number, my information, Brother Dogs. I got this from brother Dogs that I you I could reach you. Now you know him right, he's one of your deacons. Brother, I tried. That's a good man right there. I know him many years. Okay him, my rooson for wanting to talk to you directly. Okay, Like I said, you baptized my little girl Taylor and my son Kareem. What a baptizing exposed to be? You cleansing them and you watching them. Problem here my problems. You baptize my kids, but there ain't nothing changed. They they grade still back. He still didn't coveting it. I don't see where your back look. But if you don't him, if you just let me spend it, I don't see where your baptid has done anything I spent when I was there. I want that money back now now. Okay, now you conxcuse me. I'm not sure. I think you know we need to stop this madness right now because you're talking about your money back baptime. I'm more like with baptis your kids. I've been at this church for many years, so I won't doubt that I'm probably the pastor you you're looking for. But I just don't understand what you're trying to get at here about the baptism. Did I'm saying you're supposed when when when people get baptied, they're supposed to change them cleansing. Okay, I see, yeah, it's pleases them. But if my kids are let me let me ask you. I'm just trying to brother, I'm just just trying to get to the bottom of this, you know what I mean, because she's like, I don't when we've my church, I can't understand how you got my numbers. The bottom of it is, yo, Yo, baptizing ain't doing nothing. My kids were still grade band, they still this over well that why they haven't been coming to church. You said you're not going to any congregation. Maybe you guys need to come on back to church sitting or some sermons. You know. I even work with your one on one, But um, I can't. I can't do nothing about the grades in school. I mean and and and and overall that when you when you have to, damn, I should see a change in them. And I don't see a change. But all I was going to your church. I'm paying for these tithes. Well I'm not getting any hey man, all at the end of the day, path hand, I want my money back. That's what that's what we have. That brother, David, That's not how it worked. Brother, you hit you understand I'm not I'm not trying to raise my voice at you. But you y'a all over the y'all over the place. You want money back. I don't understand what can I do for you. I can tell you now, know you what you can do my kids. And I hadn't got a baptized over there with you all that time. I want your church. I'm paying knet time and playing knee tis, playing Kni ta, and I get my kids baptized. And but the high is gonna have nothing to do with the baptism. The time had something to do with all this path I spit over there, and I'm not getting anything, brother, And that's what you call all in the world. Am I gonna figure out how much cord you can? I know you think about that, and I know exactly. No, no, no, no, you're hauling my home with this nonsense. You're not even a number of congregation, and I just don't like it. So who do you think your boys just because you're gonna do go you're a man of the club. Don't mean that that's because I'm a man raised guy. Don't mean I can't cut your out. You understand that. Brother. If there's something you need to deal with, you need to talk to people at the church. Why do I need to talk for brother dogs when I'm talking to the problem right now. You're a problem, Bass, I'm a problem. I sut a bunch of tide money and I won't I know exactly how much I spent over there, and I want my money back. Brother? About that? That's what I care about? Your time? So I said, Yo, Tid, want me to spell it out? Oh, well, here, kids spell out. I bet they know how to spell it. Oh calling me about no? Damn behave your issues with your kids your back, Tid. That's the question you need to be asking. Is you living your life think to five? Huh? You know what? You know what? Brothers? I didn't got out beside myself, and I'm sorry, brothers. I should not be using five language, Skins. I think what's going on? We need to We need to get you and your children, your wife come on down the service on Sunday. I will sit with you as long as I can. I truly, I truly think counseling and talk is the only way out of it. We should not be fighting on this phone now once again, I hope you accept my apology for my language. Now, can I ask some go ahead? Son, I can hear you, okay. Brother Dobbs tells me that you and him are together, y'all together some mornings having called for you and brother Dogs are every morning that that I'm not there. You need a function or doing something for the building, ninteness to the church. Yes, you definitely. He's a good brother, like I told I know for many years, right right, And he's saying that when y'all having coff that y'all y'all listening to the radio, is that right? Yeah? Well I suppose y'all be listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show. Yeah, it's always on the radio. Hey, fast, it's so fun. This is this is Nephew timming Man from the Steve Harvey Martin's Your brother Dogs just got me to break phone call you. Uh now, the brother Dogs here about this. He did one game in your number. I'm too scared to cuss another word the thing out of my character. I didn't think I didn't did enough for a lifetop of that. I'm gonna tell you right now. I'm probably these reals didn't come. And I tell my congression all the time. I even slip up, so I think it would only be right to me for let me ask you something, man, what is the baddest And I'm talking about the band this twenty a man. You already know, man, the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Here you go, boy, that was a good Yeah. I liked that because I liked the bought it because he really he just kept it real. It was real, man. I apologize for my legs. I came outside myself. We shouldn't be on this phone fighting down to the church. Let's talk. But I don't give a blank your black ass calling me. Ain't got time for this. Yeah that was man? Who that was? That was good? Tommy Pastor coming up at the top of the hour, we'll have some entertainment and national news for you. Right after this. You're listening to morning show. As we previously told you, Little Boosey shared his opinions and thoughts about Dwayne Wade and his daughter Zaiah, who recently came out as transgender. Boosey got a backlash for his comments. However, Boosey feels that everyone has a right to their own opinion. Well, Boosey's mom reached out to her son after she saw his video on Instagram and told Boosey, quote, stay off social media. How Big Boosey got involved. That's their family and you need to stay out of other people's business. Boosey also said he got kicked out of the plat Planet Fitness Jim because of the controversy. He wanted people to boycott Planet Fitness. Boosey said he felt like everyone was ganging up on him. So, I mean, you know, and probably a lot of people were, you know, they didn't like to tell you something. The other day, I saw Bootsy at the Louis Verton on Rodeo Real Life, and I thought I couldn't quite place him. But I looked at him and then I was with my assistant to beat here. I said, Beatie, what is that dude right there? He said, oh, mister, h that's that's a little bootsy. I wanted tone. I said, a little bootsy. He said, oh, olg man, A real honor to meet you. I said, man, man, can I hug you? He said for real? I said, yeah, man, you might, dude. I said, can't really comment on what you said, but I just want to put my arms around you. Man, I said one thing about it. You funny to meet your ass is funny to me. Man, That little dude right here, and I I find out he was from bad and rude. Yeah, I know it's from bad rude, but you can hear it anymore. It was a cool little dude. You know. You know, we all make mistakes, we say stuff we shouldn't say all the time. He was just stating his appointment my opinion. Yeah right, but you know, look, look even your opinion can't be wrong sometimes and you just have to understand that. But I felt for it, man, because I know what they feels like. I told him, keep hanging in the man being strong. He's a good brother. Man. He just got in trouble with the cap shirt. Didn't he just go? Yeah he did. No, he been on social That ain't bother me and I don't about to get damn. Listen to your mom. Yeah someone had shirt? What what? What says? What he had on shirt? Ya? Ya? Y'all out here, y'all out here strolling too his song. He just thought he could wear a new shirt. Process he is now you give it about it anyway, Listen to your mom a little booty social media and y'all know what's happening. Now you're praising our shirts anyway, we give boosy water CAP's gonna do what to me? I said, they're gonna get you. Girl. Let me explain, dim news. Know who I am, don know who I'm with. I'm safe in sam I'm tough in the arms of Jesus when it's convenient, well well well, and if if they don't believe that, you can't come over here, because I got friends, Lord Jesus, I got friends. Lord, I got friend I swear, I swear to y'all. I got friends that loved me from far way from God to Dubai. We got a new chapter in Dubai. We got chapter in Ghana, from the East coast to the West coast. I am self proclaim, listen to this and here we go. I am self proclaim as I sit on this radio, the most famous que on this earth right now is a hard argument for anybody. Now. Jordan is a cute. Yeah, Chap is a qute. Fool with him like they fool with me though, Okay, now Shaq shacks deep, Jordan deep. They are frat brookes. But Steve Harvey side Gamble is the most single globally famous Q in this earth today. Wow, Ricke smiling, Oh hey, Ricky Smiley, tell him now, tell him, young cute who's the most famous cute ass? Tom Joinna, Oh, I don't got to tell you. Hell no, that's because that's because they took each other place, because them two together here. I still ain't. That's all I got to say. You under respect that about me? Man, all right, you had your you had your saying yeah, yeah, yeah, I flex this morning. Yeah, a little bos I'm having Steve Harvey is having a little Boosy moment like right now, right like right now as a queue, I feel like little Boosy and little dude, all all wrapped in the one. I'm saying what I want to say, and I'm living my best going back to the chapels. I'm living my all right now in all seriousnes all right, much lower to the nups out there, all respects, yeah, of course, no, no, no, for real, the nups are strong, k serious with all respect just messing with y'all. That's what I said, Rudo, go right back to it, trying to be crazy, all right. Yeah, we're coming up, coming up at Twenty minutes after the hour, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visited Chinatown. We'll talk about it right after this you're listening show In Trending News, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi towards San Francisco's Chinatown on Monday to send a message, Well, Steve. She said, there's no reason tourists or locals should be staying away from the area because of the coronavirus concerns. That's what we're doing, That's what we're trying to do today, is to say everything is fine here. Nancy Pelosi said, come because precautions have been taken, the city is on top of the situation. Pelosi did say she was concerned that President Trump's budget cuts nineteen percent of funding for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. However, as we told you before, President Trump says Americans should rest assured that he'll do whatever is necessary to keep people protected from the coronavirus. He says he's also ready to send or to spend whatever is needed to do that. The President called the risk low, crediting travel restrictions in place. He also point put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the response. The number of national cases has jumped to sixty At last check, just over eighty two thousand people have been infected by the virus. Worldwide. Twenty eight hundred people have died. Significant numbers there, eighty two thousand. Wow. Yeah, he just has to. Yeah, take for caution and be very very careful. They're telling you to wash your hands a lot, a lot a lot. Yeah, wash your hands, be careful. I mean that's one of the things you can do. Just be careful. Yeah. Well, you know this plane. Yeah, that's how you feel traveling internationally and everything. I'm child of God. I'm covering. Okay, I feel no man, but God, I mean, I'm gonna be careful. I see somebody there is a plane. Are you getting your ass off the plane? If you call for sneeze, you're off this damn play especially sneeze. Yeah. Yeah, you better wait till we end the forty five thousand feet or something, because you do it on the ground. If we tax it and you call, you ask yourself this. I don't care if I hear it from way in the back. Come on, let's go, setty false seat, Come on, how are we still on the air. How rong. I heard your ask, comfing, let's go. Got no time to working with this man for twenty years. How oh, I'm no heard the call. That's crazy. All right, so Steve, you got him off the plane. Now you can rest easy and go back to sleep. Coming off to look at to Cairo. All right. Well, listen, Steve, coming up at thirty four minutes after the hour, you're gonna read another email we got from a listener right after this. You're listening. So, Steve, it was this time yesterday that you read a letter from a listener. She was coming for you because of a response you gave in the Strawberry letter the previous day concerning a man who wanted to divorce his wife because she had recently become a Trump supporter. All right, well we got a response to the response from the response, so you have it from the Yeah. I was going through the Steve Harley film and I ran across from emails because you know, like for me, I just responded, I ain't even get mad yesterday at the ladies response. But I mean, what you want me to do? You know, I tell jokes for a living. You know a lot of people don't know that I was a stand up because they just know me from family fused, but this is what I've been doing, and so I was just happening to be going through the emails, and well I found a bunch of them, most of them I can't read on the airl Steve Harvey Nation came to my defense, but just let me grable one or two of them. Here, Steve Shirley, food number one and food number two. Carler and Junior, enjoy the damn day and continue blessing and uplifting your listeners. I usually don't get involved in things people say in regards to the Strawberry letter. They are entertainment and should be taken as such. This one seemed to bother me more than I would have expected. Not the letter itself, but the response of this Republican lady slash family. Yes, I think she's an undercover Republican trying to hide in plain sight. Why else would she defend him as she has? He fired people who leaked info. He's a great politician. What the hell has she been doing since this tweet? The oologists made his appearance. Look here, lady uncle slogist. Yeah, look here, lady uncle Steve parentheses if I may in this distance a nephew and surely have no reason to prepare an apology. I'm not saying that I want you to lose any listeners, but I don't think eight monkeys will stop this show. The next time somebody writes in with this foolishness, I'll be screaming the same thing with you. Leave her ass, leave her ass up down national radio with this BS. Listen, laugh and appreciate. That's what she should have done. Okay to the response of a response, The lady responded to the Strawberry letter because she was mad. Because Steve told the lady and the Strawberry Letter and her husband to divorce. Because the man said right, he went to see a lawyer. He thinking about divorcing her, right, so go ahead. Problems at her now. She was causing major problems at home. She was spending money donating to a Trump campaign. She had joined the Black Republicans. She was just acting crazy. He didn't like the fact that she spent the money, and he told her. She told him if he didn't like it, he could leave, so she started it. Then he saw a lawyer to talk about divorce because he didn't want to deal with it. This is an election year. He knew he was going to have to hear this all the way all the year, throughout November, so he didn't want to deal with it, and so me not carry I said, divorce her ass? Why because I don't care what. It's a strawberry letter, if you really man. Half the time I answer these letters is for entertainment value. Usually eighty five percent of the letters I respond to it just for entertainment. Only time I take sass when a young young man boy teenager called in and wants some advice or young girl. Yeah, because you know a lot a lot of people that you know may not have a father or uncle or something, so I gotta play a different role. But if you've grown and y'all in, y'all fittage, and she putting Trump signs up in your yard and you're taking them down, and she putting them back up, and she didn't told you she want to leave you, lay well, you see it again. You're doubling down, up, apologize. Trumpton coming up. Trumpton broke up. Families coming up at the top of the hour, right about two minutes from day, Mamas, what I care about him leaving her ass. Coming up next, Steve, the prank phone call. The nephew is not here, Juniors here though, we'll get into it right after this. Huh you're listening, coming up at the top of the hour, right about four minutes after. It's my strawberry letter forward today the subject my love life took an ugly turn. Wait till you got here this letter right now. Nephew's out, Junior's in with today's Yeah, the guys, Nephew's out. Junior's in with today's prank phone call. What do you have for us today, Junior? H I gotta do this, nephew, you know, with all my brilliant prankedness today goodness. Title prank is lit. You know it's that time of year. Yeah, yeah, Yeadnesday. Yeah, don't matter to me. I'm pranking in it. Run a cat. Hello, Hey, I'm trying to reach Dorsey. Yeah, this is it this cliff Man. I work at the post office with your wife. Yeah. How you doing, bro? I'm doing all right? Everything cool? Yeah? Everything good man? Everything good. Um. Like I say, my name is cliff Man. I wanted to reach out and holt you about a couple of things. If you if you got a minute, You got a minute? Yes, everything all right with my wife? Or something wrong or something? No? No, no, no, no no no. Your wife good, man, Your wife's good. I wanted to hit you up. Man. We've been working the post office quite a while. We've probably been in the same room a few times. Man. I don't know if you remember meeting me or not, but uh, okay, okay. But what I wanted to say, man, is trying to do better with my life, dog, and you know, just just trying to do better, you know what I'm saying. So you know, for Lent, Man, I gave up a few things. You know what I'm saying. I just thought that would be a good thing, man, to try to do the things that matter the most that you're addicted to, you know, you want to get rid of, you know what I'm saying, at least for Lent is what I'm trying to do. You feel me? Okay, I'm kind of confused. But what they got to do with me, well, basically, man, I'm giving up for lent. You know, I decided to give up messing around with your wife, you know, because because who hold on? Man, hold on, Man, I'm at work. I don't know what you come back, but back up and rephrase everything you just said. Well, like I said, Man, for Lent, I'm trying. I'm trying to give up stuff that I'm that I'm addicted to, you know, And I just decided that what they got to do with me and my wife though, and you well, that's what I'm trying to tell you. Man, I'm trying to give up messing around with your wife for Lynn. I mean, that's what I help giving up. I've given up messing around with your wife for Lynn. Man, we're talking about man, messing around with my wife? Man, got no time for no games right now? Who this man? Like? What's your name again? This is Cliff Man. I actually worked with her for the last ten twelve years. But but what I wanted to really let you know is, you know, her schedule probably gonna change because what we used to be doing we ain't doing. So she's probably gonna be coming home a little bit earlier, things like that. But I don't I don't want you getting addicted to it, because you know, after Lynn is over, then you know, we'll be back what we used to do. Man, what is you talking about? Man? Hold on my wife's going to be home in a minute. We're gonna talk about all the yep with me. Man, I'm about to go. Hold on, what what are you? Are you in the city right now? Can I can? I meet with you right now? Cliff? Right? Okay? But what I'm what I'm trying to say, Well, like I'm saying, I'm trying to do better, you know, I gave up trying to do better. That sound like a bunch of to me. I got something for you and my wife? True? Okay, Okay, okay, man, I mean, ain't you feeling me? Don't trying to do better? Though? I ain't feeling the thing you calling me telling me my wife. I think we need to meet up and talk about this face to face. Cliff, What you think? I mean? We talked right now. If you want to have a conversation, Na, No, no, you just tell me your address and me and my wife's gonna just come on over there. How about that and we all sit down and have a little power I don't know who thank you is, man, but me and my wife been together over fifteen years and we ain't never had no problems with no like this like you telling me on this phone. It sounds like a bunch of crazy to me. But somebody knick gonna today if true. So what you need to do? You need to tell me your name, your number, and I don't know why you called from this block phone, but you hit me. Hey man, I'm hearing you. Man, what I'm saying, the reason for the call was to let you know, you know, don't get used to her schedule because after Lyn it's gonna be back to the way it used to beat. That's all the phone call. Man, What the he's you talking about? Well? Getting uh not? What what's your what's your what's your what's your last name? Cliff? I'm gonna come find you. I'm gonna come see you now, Jack. My name is Cliff. Like I say, I work at the Cliff and I work at the post I was with. So okay, Well, how come you call from a block number, Cliff? What's your phone number? Man? Hey, hey man, listen, I'm not trying to have no confrontation with you. Man, it's already a confrontation. You can call my phone from a block number. I don't know you, you don't know me, and you're telling me you be my wife? Are you serious? Did you know she was married. I mean what you mean did you know he was married? Yes? Or no? I mean yeah, I know? I mean yeah, I knew she was married. Okay, what dad is you knew that from the jump, So that means you've been disrespecting me from the jump. So now I acted getting your na you just ConTroll off on yourself. So here regardless, I'm coming to see you today, Jack. Hey, and my name ain't Jack Man. My name Clip, but you're not. I'm not look here, I don't have no I'm not trying to have no confrontation. I just wanted you to be aware of the schedule. Yeah, okay, I'm definitely aware. Not Clip. Who then is you man? Another thing? Man? I want to see? Like, I know, I know your tattoo on your name on her lower back. I've seen that. Uh it's say Dorsey right there? Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa whoa? Hold on, hold on, man, you're telling me you haven't seen the tattoo on her back? Is that what you talk? Her lower back? Man? Right right right right on above a tail phone. Yeah, I've seen it, Dorsy your name Dorsey? Right man? Who the is this man? What's your real name. Hey man, they calm down, man, are you Are you cool with you call my phone? Are you school with the schedule changing? That is what I'm asking. What are you cool with her schedule change? And you see what I'm saying, her schedule are gonna come back the normal once lit is old with I gave up messing around with him for Lid, but not for you. Man, I'm not cool with the thing. I'm about to be cool in your face in a minute. Now, tell me your name, tell me your number and your real address, and we're gonna talk about our lives in person. Okay, all right, what my name? What's your name? My name? Tommy? Man? Okay, now we're getting somewhere, Temmy. What I mean? I mean while you need my last name because I'm gonna come see you. What you mean why I need your last name? Hold on? Hold on? Somebody to get in you on the phone. Hey, hold on, don't go nowhere. We're gonna get in you on the phone right now, and we're gonna settle this right now. Hold on, you're on the phone, color color for real? Yep, Tommy, who what you're scared up? Okay? Man? They call me nephew Tommy. Oh who my name? Nephew Tommy from Steve Harvey Morning Show. What No, she didn't set me up? Man, Man, your wife got me the prank. Call you man, she tells yourself. I left. I just left the house. Called him. That's why ain't asking the phone. It was over for you man. Y'all come on, man, y'all wrong for this man. This needs to be against the law. Man, Man, I gotta ask you, baby, what's the baddest radio show in the land? Man, Steve Harley Morning? So I guess huhn, Junior, what's up? I didn't found another email? Okay, here that's a good prank time. Here here I found another email. This is in response to the lady. They got mad at me because I told the man to divorce. The lady kept putting the Trump signs up in the yard they married. He tired them. Anyway. This lady said, I listen to your show every morning. Here Savannah Georgia. Even something. Now, I'm gonna read it just like it's written, y'all, even something twice. I am responded to the letter lady that wrote in and said she and six more listeners don't listen to your show no more. Well, I'm with you, who give a damn if she and the other don't listen to your show? Well, maybe they are upset because their husband left, they funker ass because they support Trump, and little do they know, Trump don't give a rats about them anyway. So with that being said, how they feel and what they eat don't make you all me sugar hunted iced tea anyway. So I hope somebody run and tell them a good listener a show saying we don't give a flying rats about either man. Thank y'all for just having these rich moments for me. Coming out next, it is the Strawberry Letter for today. We'll get into its subject, my love life took an ugly turn. Right after this. You're listening to Morning show Time now for today's Strawberry Letter, Steven. If you need advice on relationships, dating, work, sex, parenting, and more, please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve Harvey FM dot com and click submit Strawberry Letter. Anything you want to add to that Steve Yeah Higg or another email I found right this has got something to do with the Strawberry Letter. This, somebody said. Steve gave his opinion something he gets paid to do with which he has vast experience. I would ask Miss Anguish, that's parentheses angry plus anguish, do you get paid to give your opinion? Fourth, Because Miss Anguish decided to no longer tune in to the Steve Harvey Morning Show parentheses, which we all know is not going to land as long, I will in the meantime tune in via my car radio and my mobile phone simultaneously. And I got a multi case for my phone, so I got plenty of sale juice. Thank y'all, your boy, Nah, all right, what's that time? Come on? We could be reading your letter live on the air, just like we're gonna read this one, or your response to a letter you never know, just like this one right here, right now, all right, everybody's that time? Stile for the Strawberry Lettle my good friend, Shirley Strawberry, Thank you, junior. Subject my love life took an early and ugly turn, Dear Stephen, Shirley, I have a problem and I really need advice from the guys on the show. Okay, but miss Shirley, But Miss Shirley, you can take a stab at it too. I've been single for most of my life, and I finally figured out why I am a twenty eight year old man, never meant married, no kids, and I own my own home. I make really good money, and I have a leadership position at my job. My problem is that I'm starting to realize that I'm not the most handsome guy in the world. Okay, anybody, Yeah, I'm not hideous. I'm not hideous, but I don't have the characteristics that attract women that I'm equally yoked with. When I meet women, I feel like I should tell them everything about me just to pique their interest. I assume that if they know I'm well paid and successful, they will like me. That hasn't worked, so now I'm trying to I'm going to try online dating. I commend the guys on the show for accepting that they're not handsome, because I'm having a hard time facing the truth again. Anybody, Yeah, okay, all right, I'm ready. That's what I was waiting. Un Steve, come on, I am ready to date online, and I need a profile picture and a bio because the photo I posted hasn't worked at all. I am in shape, but I could stand to go to the gym, but I'm a likable guy. I've been on a day on one date with a lady I met online and she lied on her profile and the picture she posted did not look anything like her people talk. I never called her back after that date. I do not want to be the guy that posts a really nice profile picture online and when I show up to meet the woman, she is disappointed. I'm well groomed, I keep my hair cut, and I wear nice suits, but I don't get any second looks from women. I have female friends that have kept me in the friend zone for years, and now I know why. This is hurting my self esteem to a degree. Do you think I can be lucky in love without pretending to be something I'm not. I hope you can offer advice. Well, first of all, yeah, yeah, I gotta tell you, right, Steve, there are plenty of men who are unattractive, who have beautiful wives, girlfriend significant others. Okay, plenty, and from the sound of it, you could be one of those guys. I mean, this is according to you, you have all the makings. I mean, let's go down the list. You make really good money, you said, that's definitely a plus. You have a leadership position at work, what's wrong with that? You're well groomed. Women love that you're well dressed. We love that too. And you're not hideous. Okay, you're not hideous. And you said you're likable. Don't know, okay, you know what you don't well he I said all this I said was according to him, that's what I'm going by what he put in the letter. As always, plenty of women lying, plenty of women would consider you with those qualities. Okay, we like security, we like likable guys, leaders, cleanliness, well dressed men who don't have to be the most handsome. We like all of that. That's that's a plus. But with all of this you're working with, um, you just don't sound like a confident guy. You don't sound confident. Women like confident men. Okay, you said this is you know, this is messing with your self esteem to a degree. Well, you're just twenty eight, so part of you is still trying to figure life out. Uh you sure you checked your breath and all of that. You checked all of that because we don't like that. And the reason I didn't say that initially is because you said you're well groomed, You're you're a good groom You're you're well groomed. So um, I just think you've got to get your confidence up. I really do. I'm gonna go with that. Get your confidence up, Steve. All right, here we go. Now. First of all, brother, listen to me. I'm read I'm talking to you as another ugly man. This is from a dude that has struggled with his looks his entire life. See, first of all, you say you got a problem, you need to vite you. First of all, you got to get out of denial. You've been saying on most of your life. And I figured out why. I'm twenty eight, never been married, no kids, I own my home, I make really good money. I got a leadership position to my job. My problem is I'm starting to realize that I'm not the most handsome guy in the world. You're not the most handsome guy in the world. You ain't even one of them. See that's what your ass got to wake up and smell this damn coffee. I'm not the most handsome guy in the world. You ain't even one of them. Hold on, you ain't now one of them. We'll have parent two after the hour subject my love life took an ugly turn. We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening morning show. All right, Steve, come on, let's recap today's Strawberry Letters subject my love life took an ugly turn. Now, me being an unattractive man, I have to tell this man that I've been in this position. So I'm talking from experience. Now, I've been singing most of my life. Figured out why here twenty eight year old man, never been married, no kids, got his own house, make really good money, got a leadership position at his job. My problem is, I'm starting to realize that I'm not one of the most handsome guys in the world. Boy, you ain't now one of them. You ain't in the most handsome guys. You is now one of them. Then he said, I'm not hideous. Okay, let's stop right here because you might be. First of all, well did you get that word from? Where? Did you get the word I'm not hideous? You've heard this before. You've heard it somewhere, you've heard hit it. No, no, no, somebody said it to him. Somebody said he's hid his still. Yeah, that's why he's trying to deny it. I'm not hid it. You probably is. But now listen to me, dog, you can still be okay, But I don't have the characteristics that attract women. You got to develop the ones that attract women that I'm equally yoke with. Boy, you bet not to find a woman look like you. But I don't have the d to attract women that i'm equally yoke with. You don't want a woman you equally yoke with. You want a woman look way better than your ugly ass. When I meet women, I feel like I should tell them everything about me just to pique their entry. Okay, that's good. Most dudes do that anyway. I soon know I'm well paid and successful. They're like, get your watch man, fix you watching your shoes. Ugly dudes got to dress nice. You can't be ugly and dressed regular. You If you ugly, you got to dress exceptional. Thus explains my my commitment to wardrobe. I'm just trying because I know. My mama told me at nine, listen to me, you're not gonna be an attractive man. We don't have attractive men in our family. She told me when I was nine, so I never grew up there. She said, you're not gonna be an attractive man. Look at your dad, I said, with damn, well, I guess it's me and I started liking myself for what I was. Now now she said, I'm gonna he said, I'm gonna try online, Dayton. I commended guys on the show for accepting that they're not handled. That's right. So now what is your team has time? It looked like a damn turtle. I haven't seen that boyfriend. He ain't got no jaw line. He go from chin straight down to his chips. Except I like the guys who are accepting that they not handsome. You got to you ain't cute? So what is your dog? Because I'm having a hard time facing the truth? What is you having a hard time for? Why are you man? You ain't got a hard time facing the truth. You got a hard time facing yourself. It's because your ass is ugly. But you got to look your uplassing that man. Go man, I'm strong, I'm good with I'm everything. A woman looking for you gotta get your game up. Let me teach you something. Let me teach you something to man up. You gotta get your mind on manhood. To get your man up, you gotta get your mind up. See, manhood is a mental state. He ain't got nothing to do with how you look. Women looking for good men all the time. Women don't even really like cute ass men because they all of me is chumps. You're a pretty ass man more time in the middle than you need. A man that don't want to look at it self long, so and get his ass on out of the house and go to work. Now. I'm ready to try online dating, and I need a profile picture and a bio because the picture out post it hasn't worked at all. You don't have a good profile photos. You're gonna have a good profile photo on your ass is ugly. Put the picture up, dog, blurrid, blurrid, blurred. You take it out of focus. Him. You know I'm in shape, but I could stand and go to the gym. NW you're fat, Yeah, but I'm a likable guy. I've been on one day with a lady I met online and she lied on her profile picture she posted and didn't look anything like her. Okay, try to act. I never called her back after the day. I do not want to be the guy that posts a really nice profile picture. Sir, you don't have a nice profile picture. What did you keep talking for ugly ass people don't have nice profile pictures? Then when I show up to meet the woman, she disappointed. She's gonna be disappointed anyway. I'm well groom. You got to be super groom. I keep my hair cut. I wear nice suits. You gotta get ball of suits, nice shirts and time. You gotta get a nice watch man. You gotta get nice shoes. You got a nice call, so they want to go see that nice ass house you got yeah, yeah, and you gotta act like they missing something. We gotta help him on, all right when I when I come back, I'm gonna help you. Yeah, so you don't end up like Tommy being ugly your whole damn like thanking you cute. All right, We'll be back with Part three of the Strawberry Letters subject my love life took an ugly turn right after this you're listening show, all right, Steve, this is part three of the Strawberry Letter. We can recap a little bit. My love life took an ugly turn. Ugly as dude man having trouble really coming to the realization that's what it is, Shirley. Yeah, I know I'm sitting here. He's up and he needs to come on me. And Junior came to this long time. Junior, how long you've been hidden? I'm an I knew I was funny looking at fault. I don't know why I took him twenty years. He's funny looking at I was cute up until nine when my mama said, stopped looking in the mirror. You're not fitting to be cute. And at nine, so I've realized I've been ugly now fifty four years, and there is one place that you're really That's what I'm trying to tell you. Man, if somebody gonna love you, well, see he's been in denying. So we got to help you. So here's what you do. Bro. You gotta get a nice watch, your suit game got to get up. You got to be well spoken, and you got to be a supreme gentleman. That ain't a lady that can open the door around you. She can't hump gas, she can't pay for no meals. You're pulling out chairs, you're walking her to the bathroom. You stand when she come back to the table. You call and check on her. You text, you tweet, you do whatever you got to do. You check on it. You're sending flowers. You got to get romantic, man. You got to let your mental capacity outweigh your facial tenacity and now your memory, your facial tenacity period, and you got to know that. But you can't ever appear to be ugly. Walk around like you got it going on. And then you know when women gonna go, you know what he ain't He ain't cute, But I'm gonna tell you what though he'd be stopped. Look at it, girls, you see beautiful women with that. Ain't got nothing to see standing. Get your shoulders back, walk man, carry yourself with didn't smile all the time. Kirk Franklin said, you look so much better when you smile. That ain't gonna help you a lot, But you will look better when you SMI start because you can have what is good. Yeah, get your teeth fit to. What you cannot do is be ugly and have a ragged a heads mouth. You got to make sure your teeth is chicken and smile a lot. So you know, I'll make all my money smiling. If I look regular, I lose income. All right, Wait a minute, guys, hold on, hold time, we gotta take a break. Right here, we have Part four, of the Strawberry Letter coming up subject Yeah, Part four. They my love life took an ugly turn. They're trying to help this unattractive guy. Carla, you're listening show. Come on, Stephen, Junior, you have more for this guy in the Strawberry Letter who says his love life took an early an ugly turn. My love life took an ugly turn. Well, surely we had work for me. But my ugliness is I have to be able to do something like I have to be fun I gotta keep d Joe going, Oh yeah, if she don't laugh that long and look at me, she'll walk away. Women love us A man with a sensitive Yeah, they stopped laughing. I've had a girl stop laughing and walks move off because you looked at me too long. And I knew I was since fault. So I don't know how he don't know. For twenty eight years I've been funny looking. That's that's not a nice turn. But I came in the grips with it. But you're saying, Junior, that he need how to like you. But I hope he can sing. I hope he can. Hope his uglass can say I really do did I stay there all day looking out the steve. He sang all time. Yeah. That ain't good enough though, these jokes is better. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, so funny. Yeah. Women love to laugh. We really love to laugh. If you could sing no boy, who who boy? You talk about some money, you could make Eddie Lavert come on looking looking at Come on now do you see seal seal sweat? Come on? Got to get him to come on, Keith, keep my boy shut out, but my dude, but sweat No, ya know why he no, but he'd be getting it man, and he had him with it. He has sweatheir swag. You just met him another day. Little Boost, Look a little Boost. You just met little Boost. Little boos lands out here. Kill. That's not that's not a cute. Only Chance is the only cute rapper I ever seen. Chance Rap Chance, Chance, the rapper out of Chicago. He's the only cute rapper. Name another cute rapper that you can't t Drake Oh, Drake Tall Stop y'all need to stop that comments stop stop stop they can they stop no stop. If you tell it in the right t I would tell you in a heartbeat. He not cute. Cute is no, TI, I will tell you he not cute. He don't care nothing about that. He too much. I wanted telling you, we're telling you, well, you have to tell me. I'm sure Tiny will agree. I'm pretty sure Tiny Wheel too. Anybody hustling grand that hard is because they're not cute. T I don't have to be cute, TA gangster, and and and and and and a hustler. Now, let's stop this. Jay Z not cute. Let's stop. Let's go now. He looked good. Now what was y'all need to stop with this? It ain't no cute ass. Comedians Jonathany Brown, George Wass, send in a Tank, Earthquake, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Damon Wayne. Do I need to go on the list? Let me just keep fine. Cole is not cute. He was too cute when he put that velvet suit on. Now the eight him alive on that And I thought the velvet suit was fly hill. I thought it was killed. Mike, I'm not cute, Not Mike like somebody drunk ass uncle Mike is not cute. No, he not Mike l None of his roles be cute. Here junking. He played uncle Buck and he might. Dude, man, he is not too Joe torre Y tors On, Oh lord, stop right here talking about cute ass. We look funny, rich ass me. We'll have more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show coming up at twenty minutes after the hour. Right after this, you're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show. Guys, out of the Strawberry Letter. Today, we were talking about just an unattractive guy. Then you got into ugly comedian. Most successful people. Most successful men are not cute men. You're trying to make Kevin Kevin Hart. Kevin Kevin Hart just small. He is not small. He just small. And you know what other er, I just ain't cute. Shut up. I just saw Kevin Hark at the Super Bowl. He stopped, man with your old lad. I said, well, coming on up here with your little ugly Kevin. He fighting, get up on your toes, and then I picked him up. He ain't cute, just small, and he didn't disagree when we said Drake was cute. Drake Drake. Now come on down, all right there, y'all go, that's y'all want to go to that? A bunch of them you got, okay, Drake's not only cute, he's sexy too. Well well, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right. We'll have more of the Steve Hawks at thirty three minutes after the hour. Please don't leave out nephew, Tommy Ugly. We'll be back right after this. He's ugly. He ain't even heal. You're listening, all right, Come on, Stevens Junior, if you can take a break from cuton Ugly for a minute. Get your mpions out, everybody, get your pens out. I'm about to make an announcement about saying it soul. Get your pens out, get your mind right. I'm about to do it. 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It's been an impactful week, a great week. UM, leave us with some closing remarks, you know, Steve, UM, I think that, Um, what I want to share with you is something that prevents so many people from becoming successful. And that thing is called excuses. You know, it's it's it's it's amazing how when we want to justify a lack of effort, or we want to justify our procrastination, all we want to justify not doing something we said we were going to do. We want to justify just not getting started. We can come up with some pretty pretty impressive excuses. But you know the thing about an excuse, though, it serves no one except the person that's providing the excuse, the person you're giving the excuse too. It does nothing from them because their level of expectation for you was in place, and the fact that you didn't come through. I mean, how can you possibly think that this person is sitting there going, wow, that's great. You didn't come through. Now you're here, Okay, well I'm sorry that happened. So when will you get to it? All you're here, it's something like, oh wow, man, I didn't know that. And when you walk a guy and when you walk away, that person goes wow. I can't count on them. If you keep giving excuses, then after a while a person just goes I don't believe nothing, he says. And either way, man, the person that you gave the excuse too, I can promise you they don't think as much of you as they did when they first thought you were coming through. Folks, if you could learn to eliminate excuses. You know who taught me not to have excuses. My father follows a strong man man, students powerful. To me, it's the greatest dude to help the new. But he taught me about excuses. He says, Son, don't ever give me an excuse, because what that ain't gonna do me no good? He said, we ain't got nothing. At least you could give me your word, he said, we ain't got nothing else. We ain't got too much more than a part to piss in. But if you're gonna give me your word and tell me you're gonna do something, don't give me no excuse instead, because now we ain't got nothing, y'all. If you could eliminate excuses, if you could stop the allowing yourself off the hook, because that's all it is. The only person you're hurting with these excuses is you. I'll give you an example of how you hurt other people with your excuse. Sister. If you have a child and you keep promising your child that you're gonna do so, if you're a dad, then you don't live with your child, your boy or your girl, and you tell them you're gonna come by. That child is at the window and at the doorway, and they got their little bag pack, they got their lunch packs. I'm going with my dad and man on, man on man, the disappointment that had that child had when you and then you call in against what you say. I had to work, sorry man, but I had to work. Well, I got you here to work for guess what, And there's nothing for that child that was waiting on their dad. Yeah, I got you got to work. But what they got to do that don't stop the disappointment in the child. See excuses, man, they go a long wait many. They do far more damage than you can imagine. So after a while, if you keep doing that to that child, and you keep promising your child you're gonna do something, you never do it. Think about that, man, what that does to that child. If you're in a relationship and you keep promising the person you're in a relationship with it you're gonna do something for him, and you never do it. How long you think this relationship gonna las, You gotta do what you say you're gonna do. You can't create excuses. But then the person who really gets damaged to you, because when that child grows up and he can now stand on his own, and he can take his own self somewhere, and he can buy his own clothes, and now you want to come around and hey, that's my son. And then he's old enough to ask you questions. Yeah, I'm your sonbol Where were you when I needed you? Man? Where were you when I was standing in the window? Where were you when I was sitting on the porch man with my lunch box, just looking at every car that went by, hoping that my daddy would finally come through to my mama finally told me coming there off the porch. You see, man, Now you got to deal with that and all in excuses you was giving that boy or that little girl back then. It don't mean damn thing to them, you know, man, And it stops you so much. See, once you become a person that provides excuses, it ain't just to your children. It ain't just to your love one, your lover. It's to your job, it's to your career. And pretty soon you start giving excuses to yourself because it's a pattern of behavior. And you got to break that pattern of behavior because it's a no win situation for you. Stop making excuses, man, Why you just simply do what you say you're gonna do. It's much easier to do that. If you say you're gonna do it, be a man of your word, a woman of your word, and go do it. Period. Now, if you're not gonna do it, say that. Be a man of your word on that. See, that's what I do. When somebody asked me to do something, I distinctly tell him, amen, I'm not gonna do that. I'm sorry, but I won't be there that way. Ain't no hopeing you're looking for me? Well, he said, he wasn't coming, but I'm gonna see if he come anywhere. No, no, no. If I tell you I'm not coming, you're pretty much bank I ain't coming. But if I tell you I'm coming, you can look for it, and chances are I'll be there. It would take a lot for me not to do what I say. 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