Today's show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time y'all don't know y'all back a suit, looking back to back down, giving them just like the milling bus things and it's not me through good Steve to mother, please don't join jo. You gotta use that turn run. You gotta turn to turn them out. Turn, got to turn them out to turn the water the water. Y'all, come come on your baby, I sure will for a good morning everybody. You're listening to the voice, come on, dig me now. One and only. Steve Harvey got a radio show. Oh man, Steve Harvey got a radio show because God. Because God is simply amazing, Because God is off the chain, because God is over the top, because God is all that in a bag of chips. God is amazing. Man. God will take you places that you never ever thought you would go. Oh you know what. It sometimes it amazes me when I'm watching all people talk about themselves and their careers and where they're adding life and things and they and I hear people say, you know, always dreamed of being him. You know, I can understand when a person says that I've always dreamed of something like this would happen. To me, But I want you to think about that for a second. Did you really see it like that though? Did you really really see it just like that? Did you really know that God was gonna bring you through all he bought you through to get you to this place? Did you know that, in spite of the losses along the way that would crumble the average person, that somehow He kept you through it all and that's how you got here? Did you think of you know? I mean, you know, you know? I mean, since you're so busy talking about yourself now, have you forgotten all the times He was bringing you through when you didn't see no way that you was gonna get through? Do you remember that? So when you sit there and you say, I dreamed of this, this is what I always saw happening, I don't really think. So, I don't really think. If you take inventory, or real close inventory of your life and you look back on it all, stop looking at the moment right now, remember where you come from. See, that's what gets me emotional sometimes, that's what makes me tear up, because when something is happening to me in the moment, it ain't the moment for me. It's the memory of how I got there. It's the recollection of all the things, all the nights, all the days in that car, all the times by myself when I felt like I wasn't gonna make it. But somehow I'm standing somewhere and somebody passing out on the ward to me or somebody calling my name, that's that. Did you really think you was gonna make it? Then? So so so, since you're talking about this is what I always dreamed of? Did you really think in those moments right there that you would even be standing here today? That's why I try to I try to give people to understand, you know, and and and and this is kind of for young people today what I'm about to say. But then guess what I sometimes I have to remind myself of it. So I guess it's still kind of for everybody, you know, because I work with a lot of young people, and so many times, man, young people just don't understand what all it takes. And I know, and if you're a full grown a dot, if you're forty, you you really understanding where I'm coming from, because you know it's listen to me, young people or anybody that don't understand this, that you got to do some things that you don't want to do. In order to do what you want to do, you have to understand this principle of success or else you are not going to become successful. I got what you want to do. I got your ultimate goal? Is this, that, and the other? I got all of that. But in the meantime, though, there are some necessary steps that you have to take in order to become successful, and you cannot skip these steps. You can't jump over these steps just because you want to be rich, Friday, I got that. I got that. Everybody got that. But if you want this whatever you're talking about, whether it's money or success or fame or climbing the corporate letter or this is the position or you all, that's fine, and Danny, please hold on to your dreams. Dreams come true. But in the meantime, let me remind you of something that you gotta do some things you don't want to do in order to do what you want to do. Let's say you want to be rich and famous. Let's just say that's it for you. Let's sit there. It's a lot of other ways of being successful. Please don't think that's the only one. But I'm just saying, let's just say yours is rich and famous, and let's say some miraculous way God made you rich and famous. Next Friday, you rich and you famous? Next Friday? Can I share something with you? This is not going to last for you. You know why because you have not done the things that's necessary. You have not done the things that you have to do in order to do the things you want. So now you're rich and famous, how you gonna know how to budget money? How are you gonna know how to get up and keep clawing towards the top when you fall off your pedestal. See, it's so many things you got to know about something, and you think, because it's what you want right now, it's supposed to happen just now. It's a process. When you ask God for something, Please know, God know the process. He knows the necessary steps to take you through. Don't lose your patience with God because your dreams ain't coming true right now? Man? You know you know I think the best way y'all is for me. I just use myself as an example. I really do understand why God has given me the life he's giving me so far. I understand it. Being a homeless. Part Now I get to not being successful when I want it to. Part Now, I get it. I got the delayed entry into the field of choice for myself. I got it now. I've been wanting to be on TV and a little comedian since I was nine years old. But guess what, I didn't get there until I was twenty eight. But see I didn't get it then I was mad at God. You know what I won't I'm sending them here here. I got exactly what you want, But I got this process. I want you to go through to get here too, because see I'm fit to take you somewhere. You don't know nothing, but one day you're gonna have a radio show with You're a little stupid behind. You don't know this yet. I'm gonna bless you with a radio show. You don't even know it. That's why I say every morning, Steven Harvey got a radio show because see I didn't. I didn't see this one coming. But see God had a plan for me. It was in the blueprint of my life. So God said, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make your life a little rough for you. I'm gonna toss you up a little bit. I'm I'm gonna let you make some of these stupid decisions you wanna make it. I'm gonna make you learn from them. I'm I'm gonna let you be homeless for a little while. I'm gonna let you not get into your field of choice until you're twenty eight. I'm gonna have people talking about if we had only seen him when he was younger. I ain't gonna let you get your first can your name till your thirty eight. I'm gonna make you go through some things because one day I'm gonna put a microphone in front of your mouth, and I want you to honor me. I want you to talk about me. I want you to tell people what I bought you through. I want you to give people inspirational moments where they can see that your life was jacked up for a minute and I turned your life around for you. That's God dealing with me. See, So now I finally understand why I went through the life I went through, so I can have something to say. See, I ain't over here telling you about what I think a happened. I'm telling you what I know can happen. That God does make dreams come true. But sometimes it take a minute. Sometimes you're gonna have to do some things you don't want to do in order to do what you want to do. All right, all that you, I'm gonna be tripping a day. You're listening morning show ladies and gentlemen, let's have it. You know what I'm talking about, your undivided attention, Steve Harvey, Marty showing live. When I say live, I mean L I V E. Live. All is for living, because that's what we are. I it's for ignorant. It's what we're gonna be. V is for victory, is what we want to win. Is is for everybody. Put that again, that that's what's called alcromy. You know what I mean. That's a that's an alcronym. That's that's that's a word you say, but it acts like it's some melf. I wanted to call it an alcroemy. Yes, sir, yes, sir. Let the word be told and let what you're told be the word. Um, how that's girl. You better preve ever been to a church for the preacher and the deacon be jacking him up, But he don't really be saying nothing. I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna tell you about goodness. You want to hear about goodness? Shockly it's good two words. Good means hummy and next means it's all in a group. In the words of my favorite poet of all time. Oh no, no, no, not Angela mine or I ain't talking about Jamie Brown. Oh no, no, no, who is I'm talking about? Come on, Pastor Tupac. In the words of Tupac, I get a round. You know that you know? Tell me how do you want it? Come on, I'm preaching now, preaching now. In the words of another great poet, Deacon Q, I used to be exact, Cady phone you love. Yes. In the words Jane Brown, talking loud and saying nothing, Amen, the church said, man, yeah, Amen again, what is the correction you want? Sister or California early on announcement? What is it good California Love. That's the book of doctor Drew. Amen. Amen, Oh really, yeah, Well, let the church say this right here. Yes. In the words of Roscoe Wallace, you don't know that you weren't there, Aran Strawberry, good morning to you, Pastor Calin for real, good morning. We got the best job in the world and everybody, Yes, we do past the pastor good morning, I'm on fire to day yeah, good day, good day. All right, listen, uh all right, coming up more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show right after this. You're listening to Steven Show. All right, Steve. Fourth of July right around the corner, the biggest summer holiday of the year, I guess you can say so. I wanted to ask the guys, what's the worst, I mean, the absolute worst barbecue experience you've ever had, whether it be at a barbecue, a family reunion, some sort of celebration. I don't have a worst. I have a series of things you want to Yeah, I got, wait, we all got. We just go down to the ill. Go down this real quick. Though A boy called me up. He said, hey man, we're going over to this barbecue. My boy, barbecue man, he's off the chain. I get over there to his house. When he took that lead off, that old smoking wieners and hamburger pants, there was no barbecue EXACTECU. Now it's bread buzz over there. I'm a grown ass man. Though I didn't eat all day. Its two o'clock. I came over here to eat barbecuill. But he only ain't got the spatula, pushing the meat down like he doing something gonna kill this right here? Man, I was so damned disappointed me. So I go home with a fraternity brother. This is I'm in college. I go home a praternity brother for the Fourth of July. They cooking out everything, smell google look good. I'm like cool. He loaded my plate up, I got your straight tea. Here you go. Man, I'm eating and I'm eating. And then his uncle come over and say, how you like that coon? I said what I said? I smoked that coon all night. Last. Man, I my frat brothers raccoons. Yes, you know this man keeps some. But Tommy, it didn't look different. You know what? It has sauce on it? Always a questionable last, that's for real what I had a fight right there. If I don't know what it is, I'm not eating it. If they get famous for Bobby, this ain't in a state Saint Rendezvous, the Commissary. This ain't gates, This ain't this ain't blood souls, This ain't whitten molds. What where would come from? Man? How did it taste? Tommy? Though you ain't know what it has some sauce on I kept eating. I was like, this ain't good band that, But the fact that he didn't tell me that just made me hot. All right, here here we go. I want to just go on and talk about the one or the worst bob Q we been at and I have a serious routine. Will forever call her that is that nice thought she hated. Didn't nice for her to hate me. But two don't make it right. I'm not Michelle Obama ever made it a lot of my jokes was gonna get about here. Okay, Well, can I start with white? That she hate you as a little boy because I studied, and she will send me to the stove and I take too long, so she would give ever any one the boys and nickel to go to stove for she would never give me the nickel because I ain't got all day. While y'all look stupid ass down there trying to get the bread out of your mind. You fat, you nasty. You need makeups right now. I used to couldn't stand h So that's why I can't stand all the time, even when I stopped study. Well, I wonder when you're gonna quit being stupid? Dam I had speech impediment. I ain't stupid, my cousin, Charles, he's stupid, your damn son, he's stupid hen juvenile detention as we speak. How smart his ass? Oh man, that's why you didn't like it. And she didn't like when the family first came to my first comedy club. So she just had no love for little So this was she made. She prided herself on her potato set. Let me tell you something, everybody came. First of all, this woman put it heavy, heavy mustard in it. I've had it with a little mustard, t but heavy mustard, no damn mail. So you got no damn mail, heavy mustard. Now you know how you cut little cubes up in the potatoes? Yeah, the same size. Now did she sprinkle a whole bunch of celery seeds in it? The little bitty seal stand Now, the celery chunks and the potato chunks and the carrot chunks, all the same size, salary chunks in the potato salad, and all this with celery seeds on it, wrapped up in heavy, heavy ass mustless vest I call this my tanging potato salad. My daddy couldn't y'all itself. Men, Tan, you ain't enough. Why don't you Why don't you describe the flavor? But that's all this sugar honey iced TV. She couldn't stand bad food. Don't put that next to my barbecue that I'm over here doing now, Bill, Bill makes my potato salad for my place. Bill, don't don't put sugar honey iced tea over here. Gonna want it next to the barns inside on the stove. Ain't nobody go put it out here without somebody get confused and think me and my wife have made this hit. All right? Listen, Uh, we gotta get out of here because nephew Tommy is coming back with run that prank. That's right after this, run that prank back. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show coming up at the top of the hour. Miss Anne will be here with today's national news and headlines. But right now it's time for the nephew to run that prank back. What you got for us? Nap Apartment three sixteen, Apartment three sixteen, let's go cat down. Hello, I'm trying to reach a deal. Yeah, hey deal, how are you doing? Man? My name is bonn Dude. Uh, you're living. I'm trying to make sure I got the right dude. Man, you're living right apartments? Yeah, I live, going on okay, you're an apartment of three sixteen, right, yeah, it is something I need to be worried. I was going on my part. No, no, no, everything cool with your apartment. Man. Uh, I got your number from lady at the at the leasing office regarding what's in what's it in regards to well, actually, what's going to happen me is I'm in the move, took court and what I wanted to do, you know, Uh see me at every apartment I've always had. I've always lived in an apartment three sixteen and I know you in three sixteen, so they you know the girl at the office game, you know, because I don't want to move nowhere else. But I can't be in room three sixteen. I gotta be you know. It's just real superstitious, I know, but I kind of gotta have apartment. You say your name Vaughan, Yeah, yeah, I'm right. And who gave you my number again? One of the ladies at the leasing office when I was over there. Who was it? I can't really remember her name? Man? Uh, little little well listen to cut this, and I'm gonna tell you like this, man, don't call you for nothing like that. Man, Now, I ain't moving out of my apartment. Man, I've been standing up for four years when I moved out to the apartment, and I move in the house. You understanding all this back gone with you? Which is which? Whatever it is? It's three sixteen you one three two, that's on you, man, ain't want I gotta stay in three sixteen. Man. See, that's that's what I'm trying to say. I didn't sign the least, so I'm stuck with it. I got to get that apartment. So I'm gonna trying to tell you would you like to what's your apartment? Would you like to move to? And I don't get them to move your stuff? Nothing, ain't nothing moving on't think's gonna move with them numbers. You can add them up, divide them to do whatever you want to them. But I ain't moving. So you're gonna have to get that to your head. Man. And really, I'm because I don't know who gave you my number. Was like this, I meant working calling move because I don't even know. No Vaughn, no, no, you don't know me that. I asked them who was in three sixteen. They told me, none of your business going three sixteen. Man, Hey, listen, man, I'm trying to do this as respectful as possible. You know, Like I said, I really can't function unless I'm living in a disrespect me then doing disrespects for then, because I'm gonna show do this. You called me with like this. I don't give a favorite. Now, I don't care if that was your favorite scripture. Okay, hey tell me with like that. Man, see you now, you're gonna make this hard, Okay, so let me let me tell you this to you. I've already told the lady I want to be in three sixteen. She told me I needed to deal with dale. Nah. I'm trying to deal with you in a polite weight, okay, because like I said, I can't function man, unless I'm an apartment three sixteen, I can't. I can't even get them go to work. I cannot function. Okay, I have to have that apartment. No do right. It sounds like you got a problem on your hands. Man. Whatever your problem is, that's your problem. Ain't got do with me, okalled me? You know like that, like I say, I've been staying in three to sixteen. I'm gonna staying three sixteen until I moved to a house. You need to find something else to do. And really I'm stopping. That gave you my numbers to call me with is I can't believe it's what you're talking to. You talking to me first, where you come at me with them? Come at me with a number. I look like you, man, three sixteen? What excuse me, dog? What you're saying? You called me with this? I tell you what, man, come at me to come at my problem that you're gonna see it? Man, you understand what I'm saying. Hey, man, I'm trying to handle this respectively. Man, okay, all right, I'm trying to listen to me. So I'm trying to tell you, honestly, dog, I cannot function outside of them three numbers. I have to live an apartment three sixteen. It ain't my business, man, Yo. I don't want have to come move, Yo, but I do it. Hold on, what's running back? What you say? I said, I don't want to have to move? Yo? Said it down that me what you're gonna come move? I want? Hey, matter of fact, come yeah, come on, come move three sixteen, three sixteen I had for you. Come on, man, come on, come my man, Come on two teen silas, come on, move yet all kind of going on the world with number they've got three under six to five days. I mean it works, you want. I'm on my nine to five and you come in with you about three to sixteen. I'm gonna move somebody. That's all I got to say. Man, it's gonna be you for I did before I did with you, though I'm gonna get the least, and I was even giving you my number days. Hey man, I'm I'm just trying to tell you I have to stay under them numbers, man, I have to. I'm superstitious like that. I know, I know everybody ain't like that, but I just happen to be like that. You don't say everybody ain't like that. Man, I ain't got time to be dealing it. Really, everybody ain't got time you sit up listing like this. Ain't you look up the Christian man, other than I've been out this job looking what what apartment number did they give you? They gave me like three twenty nine or something like that. I don't I can't stay there man, that's why I'm gonna meet you. Man. Me did three twenty nine six o'clock tonight. How about them numbers? Okay, okay, so how about these normals right here? Hey? M sell them? Pointy nine Steve? What mean hey, Sem? Seven pointy nine Steve? Eight seven seven twenty nine? Se you ain't never heard that number before? What's what it's dound for me? That's the number to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Because this is nephew Tommy and you just got pranked by your co worker Limba. I mean make that listen. It's it's sounds crazy. Hell, I believes for us to had me rolling, got me about to take off and go to the least now offered college height Now who you say? Got me enough? Ain't you got a co worker name Limba Limbda? Ain't it about Limber covering for Linda right now? I wonder how the she take it? So I'm long she push of Man, God, y'all, ain't me going? No? Man, hey dell, I got one more thing to ask you. Man, there you are worked for real, ain't you? Yeah? Hey? Man? What's the bad radio show on the land? Man? Steve Robert Martin Show all right, man, get back to work. Man, your phone off the hook over there? All right, all right, right back to work. Numbers right man, He was trying to meet you right there, meet me right there. How about how the numbers work? That was funny. Really. You know the thing about us, man is and you know it's it's just a part of it. If you're from the culture, this this culture that we have to grow up in of defending yourself and and and scrapping and fighting. It's so many people that are part of that culture. Even if you even if you've moved on from it, you can't put you just can't put certain people that had it in a background because it's gonna resurface. Man. Yeah, you know, my mom used to say, we anticipate some bs all the time, the black people. We are, right, That's what mom like said. Joke. I wish a blanketing, Yes, I wish they read it. I'm no, I wish you would all right, more of this crazy ignorant show. Steve Harvey Morning Show. Right after this, you're listening to Steven Show. Steve, we have a couple of questions for you. As promised. This segment is called how old were you win? How old were you when you had your first kiss? Let's say, no Gwen has did what do you mean? You were traumatized? Made me do it. She snatched me off my bike. She stayed across the street. She was a big girl. She pulled me down off the bike and threw me up against the tree and kissed me real hard. And then what No, I just felt violent. I didn't cry. I didn't cry, number, It was just traumatized. And she was did She was actually on my TV show. Yeah, I remember, I remembering he was. They found her and they found Gwyen Harris and then she came on TV and talking my ya, I ain't mak you you want it? I looked at just a damn ye though, I told her, can't down. Man, I ain't seen Gwyen Harris. Man. I think last time I saw Gwen hass I was at a mama's funeral. Man. It might have been nineteen and you had no idea she was going to be on the sad no idea Wow Wow, And my first kiss was on my talk show Wow. And it was not a kiss. It was not memorable, very forceful. She was stronger, didn't she was handling my Lily. But were you in the in the were you at that age where you liked girls? You start to start. I never went through the phase where I didn't like girls. I like girls in kindergarten. Ok. Yeah, I had the girl on my show. But the first girl I ever walked home, I walked home in the sixth grade and carried her book Call to the Shepherd. You remember their name everything. Michelle Hawkins. Michelle Hawkers was in high school with me when I was walking and playing I want to go outside in the rain in the cafetier, and she wouldn't give me a date. And that song was on. And that's why that song go Outside means so much to me. Yeah, go out. She was on my show too, And when they all came out, I named every last one though. Wow, wow, that really threw them all. I'm sure they remembered you. Excuse me his name? What? What did you just say? Don't try to help him, junior? He just definitely said it. You don't never learn. He was voting that he was voted most difficult in high school. Let's just move on. Yes, yes, how old were you? How old were you when you heard your first earth winding fire? Song I know that's your favorite group. Seventeen might have been sixteen sixteen when I heard the first Earth Winning Five songs. Seventeen when I bought my first Heard Winning Five album, Wow, and what was the song? The first song I heard was Head to the Sky. Oh yeah, that was off the Head to the Sky album. But my favorite song on that album was Masquerade. Can this is what s beal? Masquerade? I want to know all we what we really see, all the outside and hiding what we really are all the endside. That's what you think. He's finished. You're something yo really not? Is a mask of rain. I don't give a dam with him. Don't trying to figure out. I figured it out, all right, Steve. Let's get to the news, ladies and gentlemen. Miss Anne Tripp, Okay, this is a trip with the news. Everybody in good morning. Wake up. Bill Cosby's waking up a freeman today. The acting comedian left prison yesterday after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his sexual assault conviction in the case involving a name Andrea Constant. The high court rule that Cosby should have never faced charges because of the non prosecution deal he entered into and returned for his testimony with the district attorney over fifteen years ago. And if you remember, early on when he was being charged, his lawyer kept saying that he had a deal, that he was not supposed to be prosecuted, and that's why he gave the information in an affidavit that he gave, but it seemed like nothing came of that. The President first Lady traveled to Serf Side, Florida today to meet with the families of the dead and still missing of Meanwhile, a few more bodies were recovered from the rubble yesterday of that beachfront condo building, and Serf Side Mayor Daniella Levine at Kava has the numbers. We've now recovered four additional victims. The number of deceased is at sixteen. Twelve next of kin notifications have been completed. That is four families still waiting to hear and that's sixteen now to eighteen. Actually after that, two more bodies were found, the bodies of children ages four and ten. One hundred forty five people still accounted for Sally. No live victims have been found since last Thursday. President Biden is concerned about the frequency of wildfires in the Northwest, and the presidents gathered Western state governors and others to talk about this, especially as it relates to climate change. We know this is becoming a regular cycle, and we know it's getting worse. In fact, the threat of Western wildfires this year is as severe as it's ever been. Mister Biden hoping to get those states to boost the wages of firefighters from only eleven and thirteen dollars an hour to at least fifteen, while the federal government would train and equiped National Guardsmen to fight fires as well. The NCAA's approved a temporary plan allowing college athletes to make money from the use of their name, image, and likeness starting today. According to the Associated Press, Donald Trumps his company along with its chief financial officer expected to be charged today with tax related crimes. His company, but not him, not yet anyway, and these these charges will allegedly stem from a former probe into the ex president's business dealings. Again, according to the Associated Press, Donald Trump's company, not Donald Trump, along with his chief financial offers suspect to be charged today with tax related crimes. Finally, the on the hungry side, I'll say today is national chicken wings day. Today we're gonna do some other roasted chicken wings. You go hungry. Now back to Steve Harvey Morning Show. You're listening to Steve Morning Show. All right, Steve, it's your boys time he's here. Well, you know what the song is called happy and my song is called nappy. You know how chemicals can hurt child. Her chemicals can change change. What will her chemicals do? You? Come on none, come on, come on, no, come just let it be never right now. I want to care what people say if they're not off the pain to pay. My hair is not meant to. Let it be. Let it be nappy right now, keep that hardcome of bone stone. Leave the election done the stone so I like it me just you've like to grease that's rubber three hair. That's what you're doing now. You won't hurt your fingers when you run through my hair. Take it a higher. If it's not just what you do, try to change, have some pride. Let it beat it beat all the way. You should know. You said Jesus jealous us love look so nice and you just want to be if you won't have been he let it be nap, Let it be nappy right now? Don't you want to be now and know that it's and all that is? Could letting me napp right now? Come out? I just want to be now annoying. I'm not gonna keep on. Get down a cock and we've what they send the front. No weeds are the freaking broken happy, happy to be happy napping? Just less of grease Roberts we have now, Come on, it's won't you run through my head? Number through your hair? If it's now? Come on, don't you be free princess all the times in your head? Don't you gotta do? Break it down right now? Come on? Do what I say. You shouldn't know. I shouldn't know what I'm talking about, says bring again. Let let it be nappy, break it down right, break it down. If you happy nappy the dug out too, Let it be nappy. Don't you let it be? I just want that food? Say take that hot as weird? Yes, yes, just like her? Come on, take a con God's little is Christians all right? More of this crazy ignorant show. Steve Harvey Morning Show. Right after this. You're listening Steve Show. If you've been worried lately that it seems like more and more Americans are being truly awful to one another. Steve, you talk about this a lot, Well you're not alone. A new survey finds that ninety three percent of Americans believe we have a civility problem in society and classified buying it as a major problem. So what's causing all this incivility? Well, it seems a lot of Americans blame social media. In fact, sixty three percent of Americans say social media is a major contributor to incivility in America, with most saying social media's impact is more negative than positive. So here's a question. Do you think social media is to blame for the incivility in this country? Why? And part two? Uh, you know we can answer this. Have you been the target of negative social media comments? Steve straight to you just want to get your takes, your show. I'm the whole reason we got to r Yeah, you're a survey says, I mean, you know what, what what? What has happened? Though, it is just my honest assessment of it. You have the right to feel how you want to. Social media could really be a good thing. But what has happened is it has given a platform to so many small minded people. In order to appear big, these very small people, they have to make the loudest obnoxious comments that they can. It's the only way they can stand out because they're nothing. They're nobody's in their life, in their world. They are nobodies. So they create these incredible personas in their own head online and they come in they attack like they like they are an authoritative figure about you and your life all of a sudden, and it's just misguided energy many and I think that's a big part of it. And hate is so much louder than love, but love is stronger. That's and that's that's the sadness of it. What do you guys think? I think you're right. I agree totally. Yeah, yeah, I think the problem they have is because when they're watching that video, they're not in the room. What video on social media? When you watching us on social media, you're not in the room. Do you think Junior is jealousy hate an abused platform? Yeah, you're sitting in your car, Roll run like that. They're not in the car, so he come eight. What about the comments when folks are doing good stuff like Stephen the mentoring camp giving back all of us on this show give back. All of us have our platforms and you know the work that we do. They don't magnify that. N see exactly. It's like the news. The more sensationalize, right, that's the better. They will put a spotlight on somebody who's robbed the bank and it is getting chased down the highway. They'll put a helicopter over top of them. Because that's what follow this idiot asked person for an hour and a half driving off the freeway, running through backyards and stuff. You know, you saved ten people's lives. Yeah. Thanks. If it bleeds, it leads, that's that's what they say. No, that's yeah, if it bleeds, it's lead. It's the first story they're gonna do. If it's negative, they're gonna do it right. Well, that's why sixty three percent of Americans say social media, uh, their impact is more negative than positive. I mean, you know, I mean it's sad to say, you know, no, man, it's sad news and and and like Jay say, if it bleeds, it leads. So what drives social media sites or these blogs is negativity because now you got people comment and they make money on clicks and They don't do anything to get to click, truth or not. They just want to click because they're trying to make money. It's sad, man, it's really really had it really is yep, pray far yeah yeah, all right, listen, we can keep this conversation going on social media, of course, go to Steve Harvey FM. Now up next, it is a nephew in the building with today's prank phone call. Right after this you're listening, coming up at the top of the hour, guys, right about four minutes after it's my Strubberry letter for today's subject variety is the spice of life, right yeah, but right now unless you marry right now. It is a nephew. He is here with today's prank phone call. What you got now understand? Yeah? Limo, thank y'all, man, thank you, thank you. This is this is all about mentoring. I like that. See good afternoon. How can you I'm trying to get cecil, Yeah, this secret cecil one of my boys. Game of your number, man, I'm trying to get a car service for the night. Okay, listen, this is my personal number. Do you have the main number? Man? I keep calling the main line, but there ain't nobody answering. I call that about six seven times. They keep rolling over to it like to a voice mail, or say okay, okay, brother, what's your name? Monday? And Tony? Okay, listen, Tony, I got a customer in the back. Let me get them happy, can you you got a few moments? Let me get the dough form and all hold the phone? All right, okay, cool? Oh I thank you. Have a good eating all right? Tom? Yeah? What's up? Yeah? Now you're saying you called the main line and you just keep going the voicemail or something like can you call the main line? But you know, I know I'm calling it the last minute. Do I'm trying to get a get a call for the night man? Okay? What you need? Listen, we gotta we got the suv. We gotta us Sudan or two. We got a couple of limits, white up black. What you need? If I could get a I guess like a black limousine be cruel? Okay, we got that. We got that. What time where I'm picking you up? What time? What it costs? You know for an hour? Because all I need is an out Where's it's sixty five hours? A nour But we only do three hour minimums. The first three hours sixty five okay, okay, okay, see we'll see. See all I need is an hour man really like forty five minutes? So do you think they will work with me where you can't get them? So you're dealing with me? Let me see. I'll tell you what I'll do you for one hundred and fifty dollars and I'll take k But now I want you to know. I'm gonna let them know everything. So I got to have either credit card or receive something on okay to let them know because I'm not no quicker brother. I'm gonna let them know everything that I'm doing with a forty five one fifty. I didn't give you one fifty. When you pick me up, that's no problem. Then where am I picking you up? And at what time? All right? I'm at ninety eight Village Drive. Ninety eight Village Drive, okay, when I need twenty? And where am I taking yourself? I'm going downtown on Capital Street, Downtown, the Capital Street, all right? And what time am I picking you up? You could get me like at eleven forty five to night, that would be good. Then forty five Okay, if at forty five minutes two an hour, you're gonna need then forty five to next two especially twelve forty five, twelve thirty four five, okay, good that. Um, let me see and downtown Capital. What you didn't give an address? I don't even know the address. I'm going to um to bank bank downtown all right? Right? Um? Can I ask you something tony right? Um? Yeah, And I'm trying to get any business. You know, we don't ask questions usually, but a banking knight's gonna be closed. I mean you you're not going to work because I gotta take you back. So you're dropping off to something somebody or something like that. No, No, I ain't dropping nothing, No, but I'm picking something up to see. What I need you to do is just right here. I'm gonna go in there, and I'm gonna be in there probably like about fifteen minutes. But when I come out, man, I need you to out of call running and we need to get side of there. Why man, you ask me to run you down to a bank at midnight and you kicking something up at midnight and I got to be ready to go when you come out. Me and my boys when we come out of there, just when when we get it, when we get back in the back of the limo, I need you to I need you to put the pedal down, man, and let's get out of there. Look here, yo, yo, young brother, Well I how old you man? I'm twenty four? Yeah, that's what I think. Look here, man, it sounds like you in some kind of shitting. I don't do that, brother. That's that's man. Yo. You're a driver, dog. Your job is to drive. If you pick somebody up, first of all, you ain't gonna be asking nobody where they're going. We're doing. You're supposed to drive. Let me start. What I'm telling you is, man, once we come out of the bank, drive, let me stop it. That's why I'm driving. Didn't working somewhere else driving because I was ignorant like you at one time. But let me tell you something. But I don't know your business and really don't care at this point in time. I'm not doing no crazy like this hit. Brother. Let me tell you something, man. What you need to do is get you young into some type of training school or something to find yourself a job. You're gonna go down and the enemy gonna blow your brains out. I ain't really trying to hear all this right here. What I'm trying to do is pay you this one. I'm fifty you driving me where I'm trying to go, and you ain't meet back to brothers. You can't get right now, not even you advice. You need to listen to me. That's what's wrong with you. You're now y'all crazy. Get rich right off overnight. Tight or you need to slow down because they got something, you feel me, they got hold on, Hold hold on, man, hold on what you know? You don't know nothing. You don't know, man, I need to know what. Brother, How are you gonna be preaching to mate? Dog? Because I've been in that, man, That's what I'm driving to Limo, because I've been that. Young brother. I'm trying to keep you from going that because you won't like it. Look at so that I don't know what to tell you at this point. First of all, I'm not doing it, so you can cut that out. Okay. Now I'm thinking of you and all the other young brothers to do this. Thumb you watch two many of the movies or something. Brother, you need to get your plate because they got a place for you. But let me tell you something they read mam mofa. I ready anything. My mamma told me. They didn't want me to know. They cut it out. Do you feel me? They looked at me every night where they wanted to fed me gubbage that I had to eat or die. You ain't ready for that, man, You ain't ready for what. I think. He got your land. Your brothers don't know what's going on out here. You got it too easy. See now you're talking about going down they robbing the bank. You ain't no bank robber. You'll sound like no thudal real a remo. The way you going, you ain't making nothing because they will blow your young I way about their paper. You don't understand that. And you show you ready for no jail because I say one more thing to you that yeah, what is it? All I want to do is tell you it is that I'm nephew tom Me from the Steve Harvey Morning Show and your boy Carddell Don got me the prank phone call you. I don't give a who you are. If you around with them folks down town, they're gonna blow you. Man. They're gonna get your hundred years under the jam. You did you just hear what I just said? Though? What you said something about when my partners you know? I no, no, no, no, I said, I'm nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey Morning Show, your boy the other another driver. Cordelle got me the prank phone call you if he tim Oh you mean Steve Harvey on the radio. No, man, no, no, no, this is are you serious? Man? He's Cecil, your boy. Cardell got me to prank phone call you. Man. I'm gonna get that. I'm gonna get that man. When you let my fire man, I don't know that. I mean my fight moved like fower. He say, be careful, he say, big Cecil, he'd been he been down there, he didn't done some time in that been that man, Come down, baby, come down man. I got one more question to ask you, man, what's the baddest radio show in the lad I want the Nephew Tommy, but Steve Harvey Morning Show. I got you baby, me and your boy Corn there got you. Yeah. Well I'm gonna get here, man, meet you brother. I owe you want to What do you think? Jay? I love it? I love it it is now my favorite go right with the one in the closet. Don't come out all classic classic, Come on that cloa, you man, listen to me. I can't do nothing for you. I'm calling long. I can see that dude sitting on the edge in this draw trying to help right there with it. This is right there with Tell him to shut up. See yeah, shut you, damn thank you, nephew. Up next, it is today's Strawberry Letter. Subject variety is the spice of life. Right right after this, you're listening to all right time now guys for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need advice on relationships, on dating, work, sex, parenting, and more, police submit your Strawberry letter to Steve Harvey FM dot com and click submit Strawberry Letter. Okay, we could be reading your letter live on the air, just like we're gonna read this one. Buggle up, hold on tight. We gotta for you Strawberry letter. Thanks No. Subject variety is the spice of life, right, Dear Stephen Shirley, I met a guy that I thought would be the man of my dreams when we first met. He's a man of God, and he would be a great father and husband to the right woman. But that woman is not me. I have a very high sex drive and this guy can't keep up, so I lust interest in him and we broke up. He still takes me out and very nice dates, and he visits me in my family every week and hopes that we might get back together. In the meantime. I'm not another guy, and he's willing and able to fulfill my sexual needs, but that is about it. I would not consider him as boyfriend material. He's more of a side piece type of guy. I was honest with my main guy and told him about my side piece. The main guy says he loves me, but for us to continue to date, I have to let the side piece go. So here's my big issue. To be honest, I actually enjoy having two guys, no one one that I can go out on dates with and the other one that I can just have wild sex with whenever I want. Yes, I want my cake and eat it too. I don't want to lose my main guy or the side piece, so I'm trying to figure out how to make it work. Men do it, so why can't I? Until I am really ready to settle down. Variety is a spice of life, right, So what should I do. Hey, you're single, right, listen, who am I to judge? Okay, do you boo? Uh? No one has ever said that men are the only ones who can't be players. Men and women. Yes, women do it every single day. The difference here is though, that you told you're you know, you're a so called main guy about your side piece. That usually doesn't happen. Guys usually don't tell, They just lie, you know, and asked about cheating and stuff. So, um, you know that's a little different for you to just be so transparent and open about it. I'm shocked that you're your guy is still hanging in there with you, quite frankly, knowing all of this. Um, but he did give you an ultimatum, you know, choose the other guy or him. So, I mean, you do what you want. It's your life. You're you're you're single. You know you've heard the saying it's a double standard. Women can't do what men doing. All that, it's your life. I'm not judging you on this one. I'm really not Do what you do, whatever you want to do, and see how it works out for you. If it's going so far, so good, then keep doing it. You're probably young. Anyway, you didn't get give your age, do you boom? Steve? Yeah, well I'm judging because you wrote in here, you must want to be judged. So this is strawberry letter. We judge, We give our opinions on it or whether you like it or not. If you didn't want it, you wouldn't have wrote in Now. If you're gonna just do you do you boot, then what's the damn letter? Fall? Just gonna do you boo? But that ain't what's going on. You really got a little situation here. Let me walk you through it. Lady. I thought it be you met this man. You thought he was a guy, your dreams man and god be a great father and husband to the right woman. But that woman's not me. Because see, you got this high sex drive and he just couldn't keep up with you. So you broke up. What to do because he can't bring it airtime? You wan't? Okay? Well, if you're gonna break up, you obviously ain't in love. So you know, Mike, we're gonna break up for something. Hell, it's either to add them money. So so you broke up with him, so damn, But here goes your problem. He didn't want to drop it at that, so he kept coming back, taking you out on wonderful dates. He visited you and your family every week, and hope that we can get back together. Now. He got feelings for you that you ain't got for him. But in the meantime, you didn't met another man willing to fulfill your sexual needs. But that's about it. In other words, you didn't met somebody that's just braking it, frying that bacon flipping, didn't payingcakes, bacon your beans, grilling you can't feel Come on now, cleaning your chidling. Oh remember you got a man. It is shocking your corn. Come on now, Yeah, he ain't here doing nothing. He peeling that potato. That's what he's doing. That's what he's doing. You know what he Yeah, yeah, that's what he's doing. He is a brethl. You just put it in. He just get your juice back. He ain't no man of guy. He ain't no great father, ain't no good hood. But Lord have mercy. Whenever you wanted, he got it for you. But it ain't got nothing else here, Bobbie que you. But he ain't got money for charcoal and light of flue. Come on, now he'll peel a potato, but you got to buy the sack. Come on, now, I'm I'm just telling it like it is. Now, I'm honest with your main guy, and you told him about your side piece. Your main guys stupid. This is what your main guys said. He loves me, but for y'all to continue to date, I have to let the side piece go. Then you said, so, here's my big issue. I actually enjoy having two guys, one that I can go out with on dates and other ones that I could just have wild sexual whatever I want. Yes, I want my cake and eat it too. Everybody want take cake and eat it too. Hell, I want my check and don't pay taxes. Amen. I wish they had ice water in Hell. And the list goes on and on it. Don't nobody give a damn. But you want to have your cake and eat it too. This life, you don't get to have your cake and too. I'm just gonna gonna put the nail in it for you. When we come back, we'll have Burton two of Steve's response coming up at twenty three after the Hour of Variety is the spice of life. Right right after this, you're listening all right, Steve Let's recap today's Strawberry letter. Variety is the spice of life. Right. Simple woman met where she thought was a man of her dreams. Turns out she like wild sex all the time. He can't keep up. She got mad, broke up with him, But the man still coming around, trying to put the relationship back together, going weekends with her families and everything. But she just ain't having it. In the meantime, she hadn't met a side piece, a thriller in Manila. She hadn't met somebody who is designed like a shock, is designed to hunt in the water. He'll killer, but all he can do is have six. He can't buy no room to have sex. He can't pay the rent on the place to have a sex. He can't wine and dine you to make you feel good before you have sex. All you can do is come in there with some sex. So now you have a decision to make you stupid. Aston told your main guy that you got the side piece. He didn't told you he loved you. Still want to date, but you gotta let the side piece go then. To be honest, I actually like having two guys to go out on date with and one that I can just have wild sexual or whenever I want to. Then she said, yes, I want my caking into everybody to do everybody do. Hell, I want the Chilene without having to cleaner. Want No, I was just fitting into this to this thing. I'm I don't really need chilens no more. But when I did though, yeah, I'm vegan right now. You see how long this is. Now here's a problem. I don't want to lose my main guy or the side piece, so I'm trying to figure out how to make it work. Here's where she wrong. Men do it? So why I can't I until I'm ready to settle down. Variety is the spice of life, right, So what should I do? Well, here's a deal. Here's your whole problem. If you think variety is a spice of life, but you said it until you're ready to settle down, Well, you're not ready to settle down. That's why you can't see the good in the first man, because you're not ready to settle down. All this is a waste of me in Sherley's time. You're not ready to settle down. You want to have multiple partners. Your only problem is when you get ready to settle down, the best guy gonna be gone because another woman is ready to settled down. And when she meet him, he gonna be gonna and his loving gonna be just enough, and he gonna get better at his love in any way. He gonna learn how to, you know, put it together. Really yeah, he can be taught, you know. Hold, let me let me just say that. A lot of times women, you know, when a man ain't a pleasing to you. Oh, let's just talk about it now. Maybe you ain't. Hello, maybe you ain't all you thank you with Well, let's just talk about it. Don't be half for men that they've never been like. You know, he ain't nothing. Well, maybe you two damn much when she said that, that's the problem, you know. Okay, so now let's just talk about it. You know what I'm saying. He might not be all that, but you might not either. Hello, maybe you ain't the hot five cracker you thank you all? Yeah, thank you Steve for saying that. Man. No, you're welcome, jay man. Some men have been disappointed. Yes, thank you. Hell, yeah, he wasn't what I thought it was gonna be. What hell when you took your clothes off. I wasn't all that, you know, moved didn't buy this anyway. So now we so we so we both standing that offended. What you're looking at me like I ain't all that, and I'm looking at you like you ain't all that. This is not about you. This has nothing to do with you. Now, this has to do with this letter. Do we could have we could she could have this problem again. See so a lot of times when you blaming men for not being this. This guy she described in the beginning of the letter, was a good man. Now all of a sudden, he don't have wild sex like I want to. Maybe you too, damn wild she is. Everybody don't want to get hilled. Wait what it is in the letter? It says I have a very high sex drive. That's in the top of the letter. Then seem to do was being whipped. Then she said, to be honest, I can actually enjoy having to guys one I can go out on dates with and the other one that I could just have wild sex with. See, wow, that's not standing. That's why it could be whipping. Every man don't like hot wax. Everybody like yourself I want everybody don't like getting bit on the side, and they stumbled, don't don't nipple the side of my stomach. That ain't fun, thank you. I said something I don't like clothes finds and they don't go there. Now that's wild. What you gotta see on the side of their stomach is pretty wild. I don't like none of that, you know. I don't want no feather on my butt. I don't like I don't fail the old booting. What I don't want a feather? Oh my boots. On that note, we have to go. Okay, you can email us or instagram us your thoughts on today's Strawberry Letter and Steve Harvey f M coming up and damn why do you bow? Who cares? You're listening to Steven Show? All right, it's time for something funny. Let's go with Junior's Truth Be Told and then I'm gonna give you guys a list of words. Steve, You're in on this as well. Let's start with the letter b okay that you guys are constantly messing up always. You know, people think that if you don't speak with them, then they have to be a problem. Yeah, you know, they think that they really do believe what wrong you? Yeah, what wrong would you? You know? So I get a text message from a family member that read, when family and friends go through life not speaking, there will come a day to regret it. It's called the funeral. Well, I want to respond to that family member, real civil truth be told. If I go first. What I'm trying to hope to do. If I go first and I don't have I read it to regret it, I really the fact that you sent it over there and you still haven't got a response, what that means. I'm not mad. I just don't speak to you like this. No, I don't have time like like this is This is people to understand. If you text somebody and you look at your text law and all other text messages, yea off from you, Dave respond you message back if the last message you got from me was married Christmas, I just don't talk that. That's not my fault. If you get telling people to tell me that you said call you, guess what I ain't called. I just won't you understand that I'm not mad at you. I just don't have to talk to you. So you could be mad if you won't do Yeah, okay, it is called a funeral. But then knowing you and why I'm not talking to you. I won't even be mad when I shouldn't. I can get up there with confidence. A lie like everybody else. He lies a great individual, someone who lived beyond aman, a life changes. I can get up that lot with the best thing. That's all I got to say. I think you gotta get before you figure out I'm not talking talking to if you send a bunch of I'm not talking, I just ain't talking. Sometimes it's good to cut people out. Ever again, you know I ever said everybody should not be in your life. I'm doing you're listening show, all right, jan Anthony Brown is here with comedy Roulette. What you got It is so simple, It's very simple. We have to explain. I know Steve gets upset, but we have new listeners by the hour, by the hourship we actually yah, it's championship team, championship team. So it's comedy rouletta. Here's how we do. We take five subjects, put them on a wheel. Fund the wheel. Look at me, Sherley when I said fun fun fund the wheel funding around and around where it stops. We do the damn thing. All right. Here we go number one. So you're telling me you don't know how you got naked pictures on your phone? Noion? Number two, the car always comes back on e yea, all right? Number three? What part of you on punishment do you not understand? All right? Four? I see that tooth missing? You see that too? I tell you won't get it. Number five. Nobody buys a bus pass just to be buying a bud okay, bunning, finn it cat. Let's do the teen. Let's do that phone, baby, Let's do that phone. Oh what you like this one? Number one? It's landed on number one? Are you telling me you don't know how you got naked pictures in your I have no idea how those pictures got you know what? This ain't my damn phone. Look at that? Look ain't my phone? Matter fact, I don't know how to feel what she really was showing me? What was the result of her mammocrant To see that, I get to say that she looks how to numb? You pushing it? Listen, listen, listen, listen. Let me just tell you, baby, these are the girls that are auditioning for the Vagina monologue. That's all. Listen. Listen, babe, don't be like that. But yeah, she's not naked. Looking at she looking soon as you're showing to me, I see she's not naked. Not only is she not naked, he was showing me pictures of her bathroom. She just happened to be naked when she took the pictures. That's all that is. You need some work in the bathroom. Definitely didn't happen to me. Nice cabinets exactly. I'm not telling I don't know how she sent the picture to me because she wants me to show you. Ask you what you think she told me to do. I'm just doing what she told me. She said, show it to you and see what you think. Now what you think? Baby, baby? Baby? This is this is listen, all these pictures. Was going into this new thing and I'm opening up online called booty Book Facebook. You can't do the book without you can't do the book without the booty Baby. You're gonna ask me about these neket pictures in this phone. She sent them to me so I could give him the lee Hanny for his God help help somebody. He sent me these neket pictures. She said she got a rash on her. Did I want to see it? I said, yeah, that's name. You a doctor. My name Ki. Okay. She was trying to tell to somebody name Ki stand your stand. I don't know how I told her. I thought I had the music. She said, look like that. Like that. Thanks guys for this week version of Comedy Roulette. You're listening show. Okay, Carl, You and I are just sitting here talking and I found the survey and the survey says, yeah, it's it's about bucket lists. So you know, when you think of bucket lists, it's things you want to do, you know, go to excited places before you like kick the bucket. Okay, um, yeah, you know people want to go to exotic places, travel and do all those fabulous things. But post pandemic, there's kind of a different thing topping the list that people want to do before they kick the bucket. According to a new you Go you Gov poll, the top thing on people's bucket lists is to get healthier and to lose weight. I love that one. That's at the top of mind. I love that. Yeah, yeah, get healthier for sure and lose some COVID fifteen pounds, right. Other people want to travel to an exotic location, achieve a wealth goal like pay off a student loan. Some people want to see a natural wonder, own their own homes, change someone's life for the better. I love that one too. What about you, Shirley, But I don't mean to cut your list off, but before we run out of time, what's on your bucket list? Okay? Um? I just wanted to take piano lessons and uh oh wow, I wanted to learn ballroom dancing. And then I guess this comes under get healthier and lose weight. I want to see that line on the side of my thigh. All right, girl, you betta go thigh goals? Yeah, thigh goes, ballroom dancing goals. Yeah? What about you? Carla? One? Two or three? Lose weights, travel, wealth, goal, debt free. I love it? All right, thank you girl. More of the Steve Harvey Morning Show coming up at thirty three minutes after the hour. Right after this, you're listening to Steve Morning Show. All right, Steve, it's your boys time, he's here. Well, you know what The song is called happy and my song is called nappy. You know how chemicals can hurt, your chemicals can change change, what will kill the student? You? Come on now, come on, come on, now I'll just let it. Just let it be nappy right now. I want to kill what people say if they not offer the pain to pay my hair is not meant to. Let let it be. Let it be nappy right now. Keep that hard come of bone stone, leave the down the stone so I can have me Just you've like crease, that's rubber three hair. That's what you're doing. Now. You won't hurt your fingers when you run through my hair. Take it a by if it's n that's what you do. Try to change. Have some pride. Let it beat it beat on the way. You should know your said Jesus, Jus Jus looks so nice. You just want to be nap. If you wanna have been happy, let it be napping. Let it be nappy right now. Don't you want to be now and all that it's Christian and all that it's good. Let it be nap right now? Come out. I just want to be now an I'm not gonna keep on getting a cock and weaves with lace and the front no weaves a lacing, the freaking broken happy happy to be happy to be napping. Just you, let's a grease Roberts. We have come it won't bring you un through through your half. If it's now, come on, don't be free, princess all the chosen your head down. What you're gonna do that? Bring it down? Right now? Come out do what I say. You shouldn't know. You shouldn't know what I'm talking about. Say take again, bring it down, break it down. The dug out letting is I just want that food? Say take that hot ass weird? Yes, yeah, just like her? Come on, take a comb. That is Christian? What is God's Little is Christian? All right? Coming up closing remarks right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, Steve, here we are last break of the day on this Thursday. Um, take us home with some closing remarks. You know, somebody sent me something a while back. You know, I keep stuff that people send me because a lot of people send me things when I know I'm going through something. A lot of people send me stuff when Just to say, Steve, if you're out there talking, man, here's a thought for you. And one of the things that I've learned in my life is that all of us are going to be tested. We're going to be tested and tried throughout our life. It's these tests that are presented to us that has allows us an opportunity to grow. Every test that comes your way is an opportunity for you to gain some valuable knowledge from it, and so throughout life you will always be tested. Everything that happens to you is not just because the devil is busy. Something's happen to you because God has to present certain things for you in order for you to learn how to deal with it, which better prepares you for what you ask for later in life, or to prepare you for what God is going to present to you later in life. So when you're going through hardships, you gotta understand that these hardships are preparing you for the future. And like I've been saying a lot over the past few weeks, if you think about all your hardships and your tough days and your rough days, your actual record for surviving bad days all the way up until this point, y'all, is one. And that's a pretty good track record. Now, in this test that God is going to present to you, somebody sent this to me on a plaque, and it's said that life has many ways of testing a person's will. I want you to hear me clearly. It says life has many ways of testing a person's will, either though by having nothing happened at all, or by having everything happened all at once. Do you know how true of a statement that is? You get tested by first of all, a person's will get tested by either having nothing happened at all. You know how hard it is man when you ain't got nothing going on? Do you know how hard it is man when you can't get nothing popping? You know how difficult life can be man when you just can't seem to get it right? Do you know the difficulties you face? Man who ain't nothing clicking on none of the cylinders, Man, ain't nothing happening at at all. That's a test, man, that's a real hard test. Man. That's when you're sitting up that man, going Lord, Heavenly Father. And now it's preparing you and conditioning you to get closer to God, because I'm telling you, man, you can't make it in this world without God. Now you can keep on trying this way if you want to, But I got news for you. You can lock in on this room. This is a fact. You can't make it through this life without no, God, you can't do it. You cannot do it. It's too difficult. And one of the tests to get you to draw closer to him is sometimes a person's wheel is tested by having nothing happened at all. But here's the other way you get tested. How about this one? All by having everything happened all that wants How many times that didn't happen? Man, when it just felt like man, it's raining cats and dogs on you. It's almost like, man, you can't catch a breaking. Ten minute ago, you couldn't catch a break to get something happened, and now all of a suddenly look like you can't stop this thing from happening. It's just snowballing on you. Man, that's a test. You know what. God has wanted you to get close to him too, so he can take some of that weight up off me, so you can take your troubles to him and tied to him, so he can prove to you that you ain't in this thing by yourself. See, you ain't in life by yourself. When it ain't you ain't got nothing happening, and you ain't got and you ain't by yourself in life when you got everything happened you need God, Man, I kid you not. And you know how I know what I'm talking about because you're looking at a man who tried it without it, And I knew better. My mom was a Sunday school teacher. I knew better than to turn away and try it in my way. But I did it for years, and I made you know what I want. I made a mess out of myself. I was turning myself into a big old glob or nothing. But he got my undivided attention one day when I was at a real low point. But one of them days, why I throughn't gonna rise no more. On one of them days, who I thought, Man, i'dn't had enough of this. I ain't never thought about killing myself. I ain't never thought about checking out. The thought has never crossed my mind. But I'm just talking about I just had some days, man, we'll just feel like, Man, this it like, yeah, I can't do no more this. Hire When I was living in that car, I had some days man when I just said, Man, I can't do this no more. I'm gonna go home. Man, I'm gonna go home my mom and daddy. Man, just see if I can stay there until I find a job. I almost did that because you know what, what nothing happened at all. I couldn't get nothing clicking. And right about then, man, I just say a Scottison, man, can you just show me a sign that it's gonna be our Next thing I knew I called as some machine in my mama's house and it was a message and it was a guy named Chuck Chuck Sutton that showed time with their part. Next thing, you know, man, next thing? You know? That weekend I was on TV for the very first time, and do you know something that I've been on TV every since that. But it was real dog for me for a minute. But he always comes. Life got a lot of ways of testing the people's will, either a boy having nothing happened at all or about having everything happening all at once. But either way, as a test you can pass. You've done all the rest of them, Ain't you got through it? Yeah? Yeah, that's it. Keep your faith, put some God in your life. You need it, so drop it on the floor, y'all have a great weekend. Hey y'all tell you mommy them I said, what's happening? Or Steve every contest no purchase necessary, void where prohibited. 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