Today's show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time y'all don't know y'all all suit all looking back to back down, giving them like the mosing bu things and it's not good. Steve Hartley, I don't joy. You gotta use that turn hur you got to turn to turn them out, got to turn them out, turn the water the water, yall, come come on your baby. H huh, I shall will. Good morning everybody, y'all listening to the voice, come off dig me now, one and only Steve hardy Man got a radio show. Wow man, how good has God been to me? You know? Today? Let me get right to it because I'm I'm kind of feeling this today, and I'm pretty sure that's just quite a few of you who go through the same things today. Today was just a little tough morning for me because I didn't want to leave home yesterday. You know, I wanted to stay home a little. I'd just gotten home, you know, I gotta go again. And sometimes, you know, just the weight of all that you have to do just gets on you sometimes and sometimes you don't feel like doing it today. Huh. You know, I'm just talking to those who feel this way every now and then, and I'm assuming that would be everybody, because I don't know nobody who can just ply through this thing without having those days. Well, what do you do when it gets hard to stay up? What do you do when it gets hard to be positive? What do you do when it seems like things aren't happening for you fast enough or in the time frame that you thought it was going. What do you do? And the reason that I guess I chose to speak about this this morning is because I'm having one of those days. Because I had one of those days yesterday. It's just a tough day. I really can't explain. It's nothing really in particular bad happened. It's just I think the weight of all that's going on started to feel heavy to me. And so what do you do when when you have days like that, when it's hard to be positive, when it's hard to stay up? Okay, here's what I had to start doing this morning. Now I haven't completed it. Can I just be real with your haven't completed it, but I am processing it out because I know what to do. You know, been there, done that, I didn't had that pain before. I know what to do. You know, if I sprain my finger, I know what to do now. You know the first sprain I had, O Lord, I thought it was broke. I thought I got me handac half. But now if I spray my finger, I know what to do. So since I've been in this position, in this hole so many times before, and God has always gotten me through it, I decided I've got to start the process today. Want to hear are some things Now, I'm gonna get to the big one last. And one of the things I do is I remember the plan, sit down, and I consciously think about the goals I've set. I go over them. See, I've gotten mine down on an iPad so I can pull them out anywhere I am and pull them up. And I've got two lists that I've made. I've got a list of things that I know I can accomplish if I just keep working hard, and if some couple of things just fall into place that I can see. Then I got a list of things that I'm planning on accomplishing. And then I have a second list. And the heading of this list is called only God can help me now. And on this list it's things that I'm aspiring for or things that I'm hoping to that in order for them to happen, I absolutely have to have God's help. That's my favorite list. It's the list that I have of the things that I don't see no way it can happen. I'm just operating on faith and the hope that God hear me, and so sometimes, man, when you gotta when I have this list of what only God can help me, now, that list is stuff that I cannot see. I'm just operating on faith that God is so much bigger than me, that he's so much more capable than I am, that I can actually acquire some things in my life, as He's proven to me time and time again up to this point, that He's willing to do for me. If I'm willing to just give him some of my life. That's the only way I can't explain my existence today. You know, I began the conversation with my wife, how do I write a book that becomes so wildly successful? That would be God. That's only God, Because if you can plan to sit down and write a wildly successful book, I'd have Benden sat down and did it, and so would you, So that would be God. How it got purchased to become a movie when that was not my intent when I wrote the book at all. Again, that would be God, right, there has to be, because if I can't explain it and it is by no doing of my own, then who did it? So when I get down in days like this, I remember the goal. I remember the plan. I remember the journey. I think about of all the things God has bought me to how did I even get to this point. Yeah. I might be having a little bummer of a day. Yeah I was a little down yesterday. Yeah, my bio rhythms is off, whatever they want to call it. Yeah, I'm just having one of those days. I feel a little bit heavy. I need a vacation real bad. I need some time off to just go and regenerate. But right now, man, I ain't got that. So guess what I do. I gotta start remembering the plan. I gotta start remembering the goals. I gotta start thinking about all the things that God has done for me and how He has bought me this far and the blessings that I have instead of what I don't have. And that's what I'm in the process of doing this morning, and on the commercial breaks, I'm gonna pull out my iPad and I'm gonna go over my two lists, and I'm gonna read my little list of what I think I can accomplish, and I'm gonna really read that only God can help Me now list, because that's the list that's big. That's the part where I've been telling y'all, I said, quit telling God how big your problems are, and start telling your problems how big your God is. See. And that's why I got to sit down to do this morning. And then sometimes, man, you got to stay still. That's the other part. You got to stay still. You gotta quit moving for a second, because sometimes it feel like you're running on a treadmill and you really ain't you going somewhere, but it feel like you're running on a treadmill. Well, when you get that feeling, sometimes you got to stay still. And then when you stay still, sometimes you gotta fight to stay positive. Sometimes you gotta fight not to let the devil win. You're in a fight, mam. I told you this. Now you're in a fight now, So trying to get you to get on that positive train so he can get you off the faith train. So God's delivery package. That's coming to you built on your faith that you can He can shake your faith and get you to thinking negative and then he wins. See. So when you start feeling negative, just know that that's the other force trying to throw your off track. And when you get through it all that he is the key, the big one. You want me tell it to you. You gots to pray, man, You got to pray. You gotta take it to God. You gotta say, hey, God, look I'm having one of these days. I need your help. I got business to take care of. You got blessings in front of me. You got stuff you to ship to me. You got blessings and packages that's on the way. I need to be sitting on Faith streets so I can receive the delivery when you get there. What I don't want to do is be it on be on doubted Way or or lack of Understanding Parkway, or Pity Parkway or some street like that, and the package keep going by. I need to be standing and sitting on Faith Street so when you drop that package down to me, I can go on and get it. You feel me. You got to pray. You got to stay still, you gotta fight to stay positive. You gotta remember the plan. You gotta go over the goals. Come on, man, God and brought you too far. Come on, pick yourself up today. I'm talking to Steve Harvey this morning. Hope y'all didn't mind. You're listening much me in the morning. You like that one? You like that one for? Would you like? Wake up? Everybody? It is? It is a steam harmy morning show. Wake up? Everybody would surely start being here do the road? Good morning, Shay, I'm awake all right, you know everybody with Color? For Rell, what's up? Color? How are you doing? Good? Holl are you up Church? Wait that everybody with Junior? What's up Junior? How you doing? Man? Let me try wake up everybody. It's just it just gonna have the same effect again, man, wake up everybody. The baby I think that's that Matt That I mean Teddy Pendergrad I mean Helen Blue Notes would have a whole different career. Junior was singing, singing for the first time. Can y'all get him out of the studio? Let me again, Let me again, everybody, you're killing I love being me. I love you. That is so funny. Union man, it was we're here, Yeah, everybody. It was the new lead singer for Hell in the Blue notes my main man, Junior man, let me hear hit just when her head Junior, come on and do with me. Let me hear that. Come on and go and let me hit you. Ok, Yeah, come on and go with me. Come on with my play. It'll be so nice, it'll be so nice. Come out j Auto too. Right after that, I'm so serious. I'm really serious. I got one more for one more? One more? You I got one more, Junior, one more? You got, you got? You got what I need? Let me hear that, you got, you got, you got what I need? Yeah, you got, you got, you got, you got what I need? Wait? Wait, GI do this all morning and I'd be I wouldn't even be mad. And you know what, he is so serious. He gives into it. He don't hold back. He don't hold back. Carlo wants you to do something from the nineties. What you want, Junior say, I want to hear something from the nineties. Come on, Junior, what's your pick besides Joe? To see what else you got? It? Never raining California. Come all right, Junior, I got one more, I got one more. I'm gonna lead a door open. Let me hear that, I'm gonna lead a dough boy. I got you here, man, I've been done it. I'm gonna leave the man Unfortunately, our top. We gotta go U coming up a thirty two minutes after the hour, ask bitter man. Right after this, Ye, you're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, Junior, let's go what you got okay, Shirley, I got it to Steve Harvey Morning Show and Walmart Family Mobile want to help you get ready for back to school this year. We're watching the inner for a chance to win a high end smartphone six months of Walmart Family Mobile service plus two thousand, five hundred dollars cast. I'm gonna say it again because you maybe you didn't hear me. Two thousand and five hundred dollars casts in and get rules at Steve Harvey FM dot com. All thanks to Walmart Family Mobile. Get forty gigabytes for under forty dollars a month from Walmart Family Mobile powered by a Team Mobile. Get all the info at Steve Harvey FM dot com. Shirley, all right, thank you, Junior. Coming up at the top of the hour, Guys, you don't want to miss this. Academy and Grammy Award winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson will be our special guest. Carlin and I will chat with Jennifer about a brand new project. We know what it is, respect the Aretha Franklin biopic as the Queen of Soul. She's gonna tell us all about her new original song in the movie. It's entitled Here I Am. We can't wait for that, Jay hud Jennifer Hudson the Princess Soul at the top of the hour. But right now it is time for ask bitterman, and please to disclaimer the man here. I'm here. I'm here, but the difference is I'm here not to help you this man. I'm here, but I am here, but you are straight. I'm here. All right, Here we go. You a here we go, you non helper, all right, here we go. This one is from Sherry and Charlotte. Sherry writes, I'm a twenty seven year old single woman, and I keep attracting broke bums that pretend to have their stuff together but eventually end up living with their mama, or sharing a car with their baby mama, or something crazy like that. I've met men at work, at church and even been hooked up by people, and it's always an issue with them. And it's not just black men either. Why are men like this? It's too much to expect a man to pay for dinner? Is it too much? You're not looking. You're not looking for the signs of brokeness. You're not looking out there everywhere they're all over looking his mouth and his teeth all jacked up. He broke, he broke. He you don't hand him. Look at his shoes. If the shoes that he constantly wears the same damn pair of shoes. He ain't got no money. He don't have no money. If every time y'all go to eat, he had you have to lean over him to make your order for food, he ain't got no money. You know, if y'all always at a window the order food, he ain't got no money. You are not looking for the broke signs and a man that the signs and let you know he don't. You got something else that you If you got to climb in the car on his side here, yeah, you're getting in first on his side. He opened the door for you. But if there's duct tape on any part of his car anywhere. Just walk around the car and he might not have duct tape. He might have that clear rid seller thing for a light. You know, he don't have no money. Was crying, all right, we're moving on horizon. Birmingham says. My wife and I run it the trip to Jamaica, and I couldn't go because of work, so she took my oldest daughter with her. My wife got home and complained that my daughter was out all night every night with bad hangovers. The next day, she said, my daughter came home looking a hot mess, like she had been rolling around in a barrel. I can't help but think she was with some of the natives, and how dangerous that can be. She's thirty years old, So should I talk to her about it or let her live her own life? That's oh man, they don't be called natives. They're not called natives. Okay, they don't want to be called natives all. They don't like that name. That's the first thing, you know. Yeah, like a crazy man. You know, your daughter want to rule around with me. She can't rule around with me. She come over here to have a good time. I'm giving a good time to rule around in the sun. You know, eat some planting, eat some beads and rice. You don't make a problem. You can't go, You wan't here. So what now you complain as one here? Now you complain, you send them by yourself too fine, Just women man with dead box side all out in the sun every day and you're making mad. Oh man, you're a crazy man. You're crazy ass man. They're looking at good night and the beach up put coconut oil and the butt every day and now you come playing your make complainment. You're a stupid man for sitting him here. That's what we do here. We look who be body seth You say, oh man, we get that one there cooking it alone. And the feat man suck a tool every night. It like when you suck a tool. Okay, you know what I think. We're moving on here. Your Salmon Texas, Yeah, Salmon Texas says I'm a natural born gambler and I always hit my numbers. But I'm dating a new woman that has me all messed up and affecting my luck. I love her and I'm thinking about marrying her, but I recently had a string of bad luck. When I took her to the casino with me. I also let her go inside the convenience store to get my scratch off, and she bought back losing to she brought back losers. Am I just losing my touch? Is this woman's moja off? Please? So we gotta go to Junior one more time to sing the Kenny penned red sound bad luck, you got bad luck, hit died, Junior hitted Junior, you got bad luck. So he don't know that from Jack He don't. He don't let me give you got bad luck. That's what you got. That's what he got. Bad The woman is bad love, sir, bad you got bad luck. That's what you got, what you got. So yeah, he don't know, he don't know. He can't go back there. But I like it. Junior, I like, yeah, he don't know anything from that. He was all out of that key. I mean that key was like all right, here we go Destiny and Jacksonville quickly. I'm a senior in college and I moved into my own apartment. My boyfriend is living with me, but my parents don't know it. They'll stop paying my rent if they find out. I think my boyfriend should be paying the rent so I can be honest with my parents. I've asked him what am I supposed to do when they come to visit, and he said he'll stay somewhere else temporarily. Is he afraid to tell my parents? Or is he trying to live rent free? But your man, let's go. Your handwriting is on the wall. If you go to one of these walls in your house, you'll see it, and he see it. It's on your wall. He is trying to live rent free. Just going one of your rooms and look on the wall because the handwriting is up there. He's trying to live rent damn free. If he's not with you paying for every damn thing, he needs to go to his damn mama house. Oh what helped? I d when you do that? All right? Thank you, bitter Man. Coming up next, Junior is in for the Nephew with Run that Prank back. Right after this You're Listening show. Coming up at the top of the hour, Academy and Grammy Award winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson will be our very special guest. Carl and I will chat with Jennifer about her brand new project Respect. I would be Aretha Franklin biopic as the Queen of Soul. We cannot wait. But right now Junior is in for the nephew. We'll run that prank back. What you got, Junior. It's called dreaming of your wife. Wow. Yeah, that's that's what he left, dreaming of your wife. Let's go cat. Hello. Hello, I'm trying to reach uh Winston. It's Winston. Hey Onceston. How you're doing man? If it's Kevin Man? I actually, uh, I work with your wife Writteney. We met a couple times man at h at the job. I think you might have been taking her lunch of something. I work alike on the floor above her. Hey, what's up, dude? Are you doing today? Man? I'm doing good? Man? All right? What's up? Yeah? Yeah? I wanted to reach out to you, man, and um I had something personal. I wanted to high at you about you know, personal? Yeah, what personal? Like what dude? Well, who is who is this? My name is Kevin? Like I said, Uh, I work. I work on the on the seventh floor. Your wife is on the sixth. But you know we met a couple of times, right, Yeah, I know you said that. I'm trying to pick your faith. What's up though, don't mean what's up? Okay? You're uh how is you and Renee's relationship going? Man? What how is y'all's relationship going? What they got to do? What you do? I mean? I mean y'all, y'all. I mean, I'm just y'all been getting along and they need meet me and Renee? Fine? But what they got? Watch? Hold on, hold on on? You say you want to talk to me about some person? You got some person, a boy, my wife? Well some person. I'm like, what what I wanted to tell you? Man? Is that for some reason? Man, I've been having uh off and on man, every other day, I've been having these dreams at night, Slee dream like what do well? Every one of these dreams man? Renee being them? Really? So? So you you work with my wife? Right? And you calling my phone telling me you haven't dream about my wife? Would just you know why are you dream about my wife? Well? This is you know what? Don't work about? Wor do you want to work right now? No? I'm not a word right now, but not not no, no, but nothing. Let me tell you something. Don't be calling me telling me you said I have a dream about my wife? What's going on with you my wife? What's your name? Kevin? I tell you what. I'm on my way up the right to hell. Now. No, man, I'm not at the job. I'm not where you at. Why are you at? Let's let's let the get up the tone. Why don't you up? Let's face to faith you nothing. You get my number, when you get my number, answer my question? No, I asked what I asked one of the guys at the job for your number, man, doctor. You know, I wanted to be man and man and just talk to you. You know, so y'all sit there, I have a conversation about my wife on the job. Okay, you know what this is? Uh uh? This show number my Paul liked. Right now, I'm gonna let me call you right back. Let me hold on, hold on, but not nothing to hold on? You called him? Come at you have to dreams about my wife? Well, man, I'm just I'm just trying to be real with you, and that's why I wanted to see. Yeah, and I appreciate that. I'm gonna be real with you too. I'm gonna go whoop you, but I wanted to just really want to see how your relationship is going. Man, Man, if you go say what you gotta say. Do okay, we because see the dog. If these dreams keep it happening, it must be faith. Man, it must be to me and hug are meant for each other. I don't know. I don't know what you smoke. I don't know who the hell you are, but I promise you this. When I get off my job today, I'm coming to whoop your and if I find out that you know what that they're calling my heart and hang it up. You ain't got me. Fact table don't even work. Okay, okay, well okay, look look look let me and man, man, why is she and all my dreams? Man? Why is she that? No? I don't want to hear you treat about why the fun? But because you shouldn't looked at that for my wife? What kind of do is you? Mankind? Doing that time yesterday? Looking at me wife? Every day? What kind of work you do? Hush you? You are gonna flow by? Is every why she can't beat me for lunch? No? No, no, I'm in the accounting department. Man. No, I don't know were you fore the being the book department is. It's about five more minutes, man, don't you understand that it's got to be fat if she keeps showing up, you know you know what? Uphlah? What? What's your last name? Dude? I got your number. You say you work on the seventh flow or the second flow before you work? Call I work on the seven flours. That ain't what You ain't got something to do? It's on last name, my last name? Well, why is she showing up in my dream? Why is she kissing me? And my reasons? Man? I don't let him tell you something. I don't know what the hell kind of dreams yours has happened? But when I beat you up, you're gonna swear guards. You're gonna with the mother with the king dreams. You understand me? Well, I get to your job tomorrow mornings. I don't give it. What do you call? Let's believe it would be outside waiting for you, Okay, making love to me? Man? In these dreams, it's just passionate man. Renee loved me and I love man. Let's I'm calling my wife's name, calling my wife's name. But what you want me to call you? Do you know me? Do you say you know me? Right? So you know why I am right? I miss you a couple of times. Man, if you know what I'm calling, Renee, when I get up there, call what you? Can't you my number? Oh gave you my number? Dog? You stop violent. I don't even want to tell you to do they gave me to do? You man, kill me? Get you leaving the dream sleeping and kissing my wife? Tell me they gave you enough. Why Why is your wife kissing me back? Why don't you kissing me? Seem about my wife? And I'm gonna call her. She would have got out the so with you? Do you need that? You can't you have anything else you want to say to me? In case? So? So? So? What I'm supposed to do when I'm sleep and she show up? I'm supposed to you a weak up. I don't give what you're doing. You do yourself all I can. I'm gonna call you a three way woot, Renee. I want you to tell me that with all the phone may man, I don't even want to go through. I thought we could call and talk reasonable life like me and dog. And if we're gonna talk back near walking, come see me face to face right now. You're coming on the phone. Come see me right now. Come see me right the hell? Now where you at? I come see you? You ain't got away? Show gad come seeing you don't want to do it? Man, I'm gonna take some sleeping pills so I can get back to my dream. You gonna take this book. This is what you're about to take that I got, I got everything I need to know. I will be on the sell flow to my wait for you. I got a special delivery for your Do you understand me? Nah? What? What? What? Let me call her first? Mama, I call Renee Beau. Don't you call her? How to hear you get a nub? Either way? How do you get my wife's number? Let me? Renee called me? Man, she told you, oh oh, hold, my wife's called you, so you don't call you know? Okay, okay, let me say this though to you. Let me say this to you. Wis your wife called me and she wanted me to call you. Oh so my oh my wife told you to call me right? Come right? Okay, But but listen to me. Whis what my wife don't proud? No, she wanted me to call ya. I'm nephew Tommy from the Steve Harkin Morning and show y'all rong for that, y'all roll for that doll. You know now you wrong for that dog. He said to go to Jocket, the heir out of whoever came. I'm do you, oh man, you dude, you you, oh man, Hey man. I got one more thing to ask you, Winston. What's the baddest that I mean, the baddest radio show in the land. Do you already know what the business is? Man? The Steve Harvey Morning Show player. You know, I don't know where he gets this stuff from. Too much, he plays too much. Call somebody up and tell him. Ro man that's married, probably been married for years. I've been dreaming of your wife. That's what they don't put on them the headstone. Here lies a man who played too much. Right, nailed that one, Jay, That's what you do. But that is his thing. That's what he do. He do what he do. That's how you do that better, Tommy. Tommy's under the weather today with his cold, he says. We'll see about that. Coming up by the top of the hour. Jennifer Hudson will be our special guest. Right after this. You're listening to The Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, ladies and gentlemen, our special guest this morning is a living legend at her very young age. Okay, from the great city of Chicago. We're all from Chicago, we have that in common. As a matter of fact, she is an Academy Award winning actress also a Grammy winning singer. Grammy Award winning singer. That is so major to have both of those accolades. She's making her blockbuster return to the big screen in our role as a Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin in the movie Respect. She also has the only original song in the movie. It's a titled Here I Am. Please. Let's find out more about the movie. It is in theaters tomorrow. Please get on your feet and welcome to the show the Princess of Soul. I know because I follow her on. I gee, Miss Jennifer Hudson, Miss Jennifer Hudson. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you, queen. We're following you. Queen, yank you, thank you. Welcome the Queen. They need the Princess or something, but thank you. You are all of that, you really are, Jennifer. We're going to just jump right into it. Respect. The movie is the true story of the legendary star Rita Franklin to journey to find her voice in the midst of the turbulent social and political landscape of nineteen sixties America. In case you didn't know, so, I gotta ask you this, how excited were you to be asked to star by the Queen of Soul herself? How excited were you? I mean, what an honor. I know, I am still in and excited, and I mean it's it's beyond because it was also a dream of mine to want to play her soul, and then for her to say she wanted you to play her it's I'm still taking it in. You know, it's nothing you get to take lightly. So it's like, did this really just happened? Did I do this? You know? And and you know, so it's a lot I can only imagine, especially if she herself asked you, and you know, as we read her biography and everything, all Aretha Franklin, every one, it was respect so there could be no other title for this movie. And I got to ask you this, how did miss Franklin, the Queen of Soul, impact your life in your career? Oh? My god, She's been such a huge pack and a blueprint everything, like even grown up in church thinking that's what I grew singing in church, singing amazing Grace. And then I didn't realize until we were something like women that her arrangement of amazing Grace too. She her song was my American Idol audition song, my American Idles fourth song. So she's always been a blueprint. And then I've been blessed to be able to tribute her, I don't know, numerous times throughout my career, and then also develop a relationship with her as well. So and then she became more of a friend of mother figure and just someone that's just been in my life personally as well. So she's been a huge heads had a huge impact in a blueprint for me. Yeah, I can only imagine, and yeah, I mean here, you are an Academy Award winning actress. You get a call? Is that how it happened? You got a call from Aretha asking you to play her. We had our first meeting fifteen years ago, right afou one of my oppertuputuring girls about me portraying her, And we were in New York and she said, what's your side? Something else? I'm sitting at the table with the Queen of song. I mean, oh my god. That was the initial meeting and then she called me a few about eight years I was on Broadway and she said, I've made my decision and it is you who I want to play me young lady. So it's always been thin in the back of my mind, like okay, um, just having it in mind of portraying her one day and every tribute I would look at as my audition for the role. M Well, what is your favorite Aretha Franklin song? Question? Because I'm a saying first okay, um, oh oh me, oh my um. Of course, ain't the way I thought for that to be in the film. And also I love All the King's Horses. That's another one of my favorites. Yes, okay. Jennifer so her album Young Black, rock Steady, that is my favorite song of all time. When I hear rock Steady, everybody knows I will go crazy, just the lyrics. I need to see you do this girl. I go absolutely crazy over that song. So that's what you know. Shirley was talking about our favorite songs and rock Steady is that one for me? All respect all? Yes, because her voice, her voice was so distinctive. She's my favorite thing. Remarkable. Can you talk about that? Her voice? She was annointment, hands down, like you can't be taught that. That was a gift from God and it is her calling and it obviously all her own and to me, the most amazing thing. It's like, how often do you run across artists or she's beyond an artist that that is one hundred percent great in every area, like vocally, the greatest vocalist. And then she's a really amazing musician as well, and songwriter, and it goes on and on annoying, you know, like she was music, yeah, and that was a gift. So she was gifted. That was she's anointed and that was her calling, you know. Yeah. And Jennifer, you have an original song in the movie Respect called Here I Am Singing My Way Home. It's featured on the soundtrack. Of course, tell us about the song and how that came about, please, Well, thankfully, Jamie Harman was who was the songwriter on the song, came up with the idea that Carol King should write it. And I was like, oh my god, this is genius. Of course Carol King, because Carol King wrote The Natural Woman, right, So it's like and her and Arepa Wood, you know, they had their relationship as well, and so we just sat and spoke from our experiences with her, and that's where the song here I Am came from. And then the singing my Way Home part. Carol said, Jennifer, you have to write on this, and that's my church roots coming in and the introduction. And I always say I'm singing my way home, and who can't say that. Arepa didn't sing her way home, you know, so I thought that was very befitting to have that as the bowl, you know, to put the cherry on top, and tribute to her in film by having Carol King write it. The title tracks for the film Wow Marl with Jennifer had at twenty minutes after the hour, right after this you're listening to show, all right, we are having girl talk with our girl, Jennifer Hudson, the Princess of soul. You know. The other thing about Areta was her fashion sense. I love the way she dressed. How much fun did you have in the movie with the fashions, Jennifer, I had a ball. I had eighty three costume changes and eleven wei changes. Made me feel that much more like, oh, this is what the queens feel like, because they had me feeling really royal and queenlike and our mind. Of my favorite looks was her birthday is it's the same from her birthday And I was like, who puts this home? Oh my god, so their birthday the Queen of soul is it this big old fur home and this golden dress is beautiful. And Clint Raymos is the costumem and Laurence Davis did the hare and Stevie did the makeup. Like everybody put their hearts into this project is a passion project for us all. Another Oscar winner, Forrest Whittaker stars as I Read the Franklin's Father, Reverend cl Franklin. Mary J. Blige is in and of course Marlin Wayne plays Wayans plays your husband. Tell us about their roles in the movie, Oh my god, well this is my third time playing for his daughter. He just makes to step your game up, like all of us as students instantly when he's on the set. So we're just really trying to absorb and learn from him. It's he takes cl to another level and really captures that Mary J. Blige, y'all. Like I'm like Okay, wait a minute on set, like, so you got Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson play Diana Diana Washington and read the Franklin like, I mean, it's like, what is that? You know what? I mean? To have her there, I couldn't imagine anybody else playing a role. And then Marlon Wayans like people are going to see him like they've never seen him before. When my son got done watching him, he's like, I want to fight. I want to fight Marlin. He's like it felt too real, you know, like he really brought tids to life on screen. And always I was like, man, Jamie Fox is like one of my favorite co stars. But then I was like, but then Marlin might be taking the title because Jamie didn't buy me gifts like Marlin. I mean, I got I know Jamie saying songs in between takes, but Marlin he brought me flowers, gives chocolates, he picked my food on set like in between takes. It was it was really a great experience working with all of them, though. That be kind of interesting though Jamie Fox and Marlon Wayam's both being comedian medians, you know, playing these serious roles. That's unique. People are gonna be really surprised by by Marlin. And then he did amazing, so awesome to see him in a different capacity. Jennifer, what do you think the Queen of Soul would say about your performance? You know, the only hope and place she would be pleasing. I know she would know it was from the heart. And I was like, man, I'm gonna do what you say. And that's how I was able to get through it, like knowing that she gave me the encouragement too, because other than that, I wouldn't have been able to and I would have never did it. And I think she would be pleased with that. But one thing I know for sure, she would say, Now, I'm the Queen of Sault. That's what she was saying. It's like, yes, ma'am, we all know I play all right, Jennifer, hang on if you could. Okay, we want to talk more with you. Okay, we'll be back with our girl, Jennifer Hudson right after this. You're listening to show. Okay, Hey, in case you didn't know, we are with our girl. Carlin and I having a little girl chat this morning with Jennifer Hudson, the star of the movie that opens on Friday called Respect. I'm sure you've heard about it, a little movie about the life of the Queen of Soul. A Ratea Franklin. We're here with that girl, Jennifer, Jennifer Hudson. I got a question to Jennifer, what could you say to the younger generation of people that don't know all of this history about the Queen of Soul? What would you say and to encourage them to go see this movie get the soundtrack so they can learn themselves something about them Yeah? Wow, you know, I said, with a bunch of boys all day. And I love that they are now learning of her through the project and knowing more about it, like because for all of us, we all know the songs, but sometimes you don't know who it is. And so I feel like that's the power of biopics, and it's the bridge that teaches the next generation of music and legends and icons like that. But it's so much greatness and I feel like the biggest takeaway I feel she would want them to have is owning your own voice. And that's the undertone of this because it wasn't until the Queen of Soul owned her own voice that we got our queen of soul. So if we all put the time to search within ourselves and find our voice and own our voice, what can get queen lives under there? So I think she would be an inspiration into them. So finding that, Yes, what did you find out about her that you didn't know? I know you've been friends with her and everything, but there had to be something that you learned. What was that one takeaway? It was quite a few, But I didn't realize how close she loved to doctor King and even thinking of like the struggle, how involved she was an activism and to know the cost of it, like during that time, to see the courage and the bravery that she had to us today listening to those songs, Oh, it's a dope song with a dope artist, But when you go back and you look at the circumstances and the conditions that they lived through and that she went through and still prevailed through to send up and be an advocate and using our platforms the way she chose to use a platform. She could have simply just been an artist and a singer and didn't send up for the people and become one with them and advocate for the everyone in her position. But she did, and that's power in that, and that's what makes her a she wrote. I'm not gonna say he wrote a she wrote, and you can't help but to respect that that much more when you see the conditions, in the circumstances and the post of it all. Yes man, respect, yes man, I know, definitely. I just she could do anything. She could absolutely do anything. She's really good. She's really good. I think she will inspire others to see that they can to as well. You know, that's right, that's right. Well, Jennifer, this movie I can't wait. Um. I think I told you off the air that I haven't been this excited since Black Panther to see a movie seriously and to see you playing her. I don't think there was any other choice to be made, but you quite frankly, you have the voice, you have the acting chops. You know, we love you. So I got there we go, Jennifer. So, what's been going on? Mommy? You know, we know you got the movie, respect, and you're working. But your personal life, how's your son? What's going on? You know what? He well, he's just hurnt here No twelve birth girl, and and he's going to seventh grade. Going on to an example, he is the sweetest kid ever. I'm a basketball mom, so when I own my uh yes, I keep, I keep a whole basketball team pretty much. I call it Camp David. It's him his cousins. I have eight boys in the house at one time, and everything is about basketball all day, every day. Basketball in the bedroom. Basketball, you gotta room in the bedroom and the pool in the garage. And I played with them too, so I love, love, love love going to their games. It's the best. Well, Jennifer, we love you so much. We're so proud of you. Congratulations and uh you may be up for another oscar you just never know. I'm thinking that. Respect. You're so welcome. Respect us in theater. It's nationwide tomorrow, and the Respect soundtrack, with Jennifer's only original song in there here I Am Singing My Way Home, will be available to download on all platforms. Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for the one, the only Princess of soul herself, Jennifer Hudson. Thank you all right. Coming up next, Junior is in for the nephew with Today's Frank phone Call. Right after this, You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Coming up at the top of the hour, right about four minutes after, it's my strawberry letter for today, the subject he left me in another state. Okay, we'll find out what that's all about in just a little bit. But right now the nephew's out, but Junior is in with today's prank phone call. What you got for us, Junior? Well, I don't know about getting left in another state, but in the state we in right now, it's prank mode and this is called church taladon church Calenda. Let's find out what you see is. Let's go get Hello. Hello, I'm trying to reach uh sister Alison. Alison. Uh, Alison, she's not here, man, she had worked. Um as you speaking. Hey, this is uh. This is brother Luster, brother Lust. How you doing today? All right, Lester, brother Lester right from the church. Okay, okay over at uh right right right right, your husband right with Jared. I'm sure. Yeah, this is Gerald, Yeah, okay, Okay, I met you a couple of times, Jered. We ain't seen you in a minute, though. Man, I've been working on Sunday and I said that I was gonna try to make it. But I told her, you know, I want to get involved. You know this year it's gonna be a better year. I'm gonna get involved. Man. We'll come all down. Man. We love to have you, that's for sure. Man. Can I get you a number where she can call me back? Well? Okay, yeah, sure. Um it's this about you know, lesson or something. What's going on? Actually the single ministry, Man, I'm over the Single Ministry and we're raising some money. So we're actually putting together a calendar and we wanted her to give us a call about it. Okay, so let me let me get you. Let me get you my number real quick. What women it? Okay, you said calendar? So the church is doing the calendar. But is it like the couples like we come man? Like how it always be like the couples come in and be like this is mister missus? I mean a calendar down? No, no, no, what we're doing to see a lot of the guys got together. What we're gonna do is the Mount Swimsuit calendar, and we're gonna we kind of put that together. Man. So let me give you my number, man, because I want to call all the guys were saying, if she get on the calendar, he'll probably get solid. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wold wold war war. Let's slow down, Slow down, brother, let's let's slow down. Okay. A calendar, A swimsuit calendar for the single ministry at the church. What it is, Gerald, We're gonna be the first church to who have ever done a swimsuit calendar. You see what I'm saying. No, wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute. You call it for us. My wife is to be in it. And you got the right number because yeare I mean? Because your wife is Alison? Right, Yes, my wife is Alata. And first of all, didn't what's this man about? All the guys y'all got together, y'all voted for about Okay, I'm trying to take this slow man. Oh God, hold my tongue right now, because I'm sure I don't understand where you're going with this man. Listen, we're gonna get sister Gieddre. She's gonna be Miss March. June is like pretty much in the middle of the year. We want your wife to be the big center fold. Please please tell me you're not tilling my house this morning. Talking about my wife to be in a Canada I swim through calendar. But dead on top of that, y'all all got together and y'all voted that y'all want my wife to be in a swim through Canada fad church. Okay, well wait, wait a minute, girl, I'm looking at us on the positive side? Man, what this is? See? Like I say, we're raising money for the Singles Ministry and the Single Ministry and getting ready to go on a big trip the singles Ministry. She's man, man, I the people that's been taking the ministry. Why are you calling and tell about my wife? Bid is something like this? You hold up that Jesus yelp, hey man, you you should feel honored man that your wife was a while y'all looking at my wife like that man coming in there and were trying to get hip and we're trying to do it. Y'all looking at my wife time at y'all want my wife to be in a swim through contest? Man? Do you understand what that is? Man? Ain't number some panties made? So y'all good at my wife time? My y'all want my wife to be here a panties? See what you gotta understand, Gerald, this right here, man is for the single ministry, which we got a big trip coming up, so we're raising money. Fun. What are y'all doing? Man, It's not something you do at the church. Man. You have car watches? Man without man, no little we watched cars. Man, y'all talk about Canada? Man, what are you doing? Man? What type of churches? This turning two? Man? See Gerald, the difference deals on this whole thing. Man, don't be upset about it. What it is? The man, we didn't found something that ain't no other church done before. You see what I'm saying. The reason ain't no other church done this? Because this is wrong? Man? What committee got to get on something like this? Man? What is wrong with you? Hey, dog, you gotta understand. Listen. We got sister Geddred, We got sister Dicky. Okay, uh you say that sign out on it. You got these women in the church and that ain't gonna put on swim suits with what I'm saying. We got them on our list. We got him on our list to come saying. Ain't nobody getting with man? What is wrong with you? Man? Hey man? Listen? Just to help us get started do you have a picture or sister Alison and a swimsuit. Look, man, I ain't giving you know. Put you my wife and no swimsuit. Man, No, this is just something we're trying to do for the minister. Dude, you know what you at the church? Did you work at the church for a turn? Part time? I'm at the church. Okay, are you there there? No, I'm not there right now, but I'm gonna be there for Chowhursu lating on this evening. Okay, what time do quid rehearsal start left? Telling the clock? But why you what's losing? What I want you to do is for me before you go to rehearsal. Can you just be right in the front right quick. I just want to we need to meet personally right quick, less of me and you. So I'm gonna come to the rehearsal and then let's talk about this face to face because it's over the phone to knowledge. This is not working right now and I need to meet the person that's called in my how talking about my wife doing our all this idiotic type. So leetlak in the front brotherfore you go through to see I've got something for you to see. Gay bout. So meet me in the front man, please before you go in left, because we ain't gonna talk about this no more over the phone. Let's talk about fift in person. Okay, fur, I mean you gotta calm down. Man, I don't even understand why you already like you know what. Yeah, I'm gonna come down, Lester. Seven. So it start at seven. Let's do six fifty five, Lester. I think this is gonna work for us. This is gonna help your keller to get out the way that you really really needed to get out. Man, I got something for you that's gonna help. Just calls. Please be outside at six fifty five. Please don't go on there. I'm gonna be outside. Can you bring a picture with you? Oh yeah, I got a picture for you. I got a nice picture for you. I'll tell you what. Me or Timmy will be outside waiting on you when you get there. You're in who Me and nephew Timmy from the Steve Harbin Morning Show. We're gonna be right outside in front of the church. Oh man, who did this name? Hey man, your brother Jason told me the prank phone call you man, god man, you know you know what you said, tell him, I said, if that food came to church, my often he would know that this is a prank phone call. Oh Dad, I'm glad it is. Man. Can you just imagine if how to draw up to that church acting the food it ain't? Man, Ger, I got I gotta ask you this here. Man, what is the baddest and I mean the baddest radio show in the land, man, the Steve Harvey Morning Show? Man? Come home, mister Alison, you know what when when Timmy goes, When Timmy comes back, I'm gonna ask him, just let the prank go. Don't tell people that it's a prank. Just let him just go, and then yeah, just let it just ride out, you know, and have him yea forever. Yeah, just hang up. And then they just have them all flustered and everything. What is that gonna do? Ja, Oh, go down in the church and act like a fool. That's what it's gonna do. Yeah, That's that's what that's gonna be. And then and then we feel that that's what we feel and yeah, lesstand now tell less than six fifty five. Can't you imagine the views on that if we trying to make an arrangement could you please be outside? I got something gonna get your calendar off the ground. Way, please be outside. Leave. But when we got together and voted, your wife should be on the cover man as a centerfold of wh Yeah. We got several people that already name Leicster. Yeah yeah, I don't know why. I don't know why his name is Leicester, but all we know. And then miss Allison, sister Alison, go be in June. Hey, Junior, aren't you're gonna be in Birmingham. Absolutely, I'm gonna be in Birmingham Labor Day Week in September, third, fourth, and fifth at the Star don't by the Hackle food getting back out here on this road. I'm coming. I'm gonna be in the back by myself though, because I ain't COVID friendly yet. I'm I'm really nervous, but I'm gonna be there. You'll be. I ain't taking no help on nothing, Jay. That club is big enough to stay away from people to wear ticket starting guys, Thank you, Junior, coming up Strawberry letter the subject he left me in another state. We'll get into it right after this. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show all right time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and if you need advice on relationships, on dating, work, sex, parenting, and more. Please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve Harvey FM dot com and click submit Strawberry Letter. We could be reading your letter a live on the air, just like we're gonna read this one right here, right now. So ladies and gentlemen, it's time for the Strawberry lettter with my good friend Shirley Strawberry. That's right. I get ready, Junior, you're gonna respond to this one, and Jay is gonna respond to this one. This one should be fun or not subject he left me in another state. Dear Stephen, Shirley, I'm in my mid forties and I've been married for three years. I'm on the go. My husband drove me to my hometown for one of my childhood friend's weddings. We went to visit my parents before the festivities, and then we checked into our hotel. Everything was cool and we were having a good time until later that evening. We went to the rehearsal dinner and I got to see a lot of my old friends. I looked the same as I did when I was twenty years old and my friends havn't aged so well. When other males gave me a compliment, my husband mumbled under his breath or sucked his teeth real loud. I've never seen him act like this, and he ignored me whenever I talked to him, whenever I tried to talk to him. I introduced him to my friends and he gave me a fake He gave them a fake smile and turned his head. We got into a big argument that night after he called me a flirt and an attention whore. He told me that he should leave my ass there to enjoy my classmates and soak up all of the attention without him. The next day, we rode to the wedding in silence. We got to the church and the real drama started. I saw one of my classmates that played in the NFL, and he is very handsome and successful. He spun me around and said I look amazing. I introduced him to my husband, and my husband told him to go to hell, and he walked off. I tried to play it off, but my classmate told me I needed to go handle that well. My husband never came back inside the church. Four hours later, he called to say he was back at home and I should get home the best way possible. I flew home the next day, but my husband was not home. I called and he said he staying with his dad. Is this a sign that my marriage is over? What did I do that was so wrong? Well, you know, from the sound of the letter, you didn't do anything that was so wrong. This crazy man you're married too, though, did But first of all, before I even get into that, I gotta say kudos to you for keeping it together, keeping a tight girl after twenty years. I know it was more people than just your husband, mad Okay, it was a whole bunch of people hating on you. But is this a sign that your marriage is over? The way your husband acted, calling you an attention store, an attention horror, leaving you all of that? Yeah, I would say this is a definite sign, because you, my dear, are married to a child that's right, maybe six or seven years old, I'm thinking, because that's how a baby acts when he doesn't get any attention or that he can't get his way. So instead of supporting you and allowing you to have some fun with your former classmates in your family, he gets mad and leaves you his wife of three years with no way to get home. That's abusive to me and controlling. I mean, it's beyond just jealousy. He's not a grown man. He's not a man. He's way too insecure, and he certainly doesn't deserve you. I say, let him stay with his dad, pack his bags, because you can do better. But a question, you never saw any of these signs while you were dating him, since you've been married for three years, I think I have to ask you that. But you did say you know that you'd never seen that side of him before. So this is something that's inside of him and just had to come out. And I think you can do better. Your husband sounds like a real loser. Okay, Jay, you know this is one of the very few times that I totally agree with miss Strawberry. Shright. I'm on it all the way because just by this letter, girl, you sound fine as hell. You just sound fine. We don't have pictures of what you look like, but I've been to some of these class for unions and it maybe one or two fine ones in there, and you was one of them. To hell with him, he left you, I'm sure it's fine as you sound. Oh, my god, you just sound so damn fine. And when you laugh your here go back like that's how fine women laugh. You have no problem getting a damn right, that's how they laughed. When fine women they laugh, here go all the way back like that because they find you would have no problem. Yeah, the head mother did so silly. He's just silly, you know. Yeah, he's mad. He mad. You're having a damn good time. You're looking good. Hit fat ass over the game button his jacket. Yeah, I know he was mad. Damn right, he was man. He had to leave. He didn't fit in. Oh my god, it's fine as you sound. I'm sure you would have no problem getting a ride ride. They'd fly your fine ass home. Ride home. It's ride a ride home. You sounds fly home. Yeah he left her, Yeah, but she just sounds fine. You're gonna be fine. Just I hope you know that you left. When you get home, you're you feel good about yourself. Twenty years fun, that's gonna happen in a lot of classrooms. I've been had a lot of plassroom. After twenty years, you don't even know somebody. These damn people, they look at you. He's like Jay I'm like, who you remember, man, I'm like, no glass? How about nae? I'm like, no glasses off. Everyone was hating her, you know they were glasses though? How about no? No? And I always do this. If your ads didn't speak to me in school, I don't remember you any damn. Way, hang on, we'll have part two of the Strawberry Letter coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour, subject he left me in another state. We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening to the Stave Morning Show. All right, guys, here we are. We're going to recap today's Strawberry Letter. The subject he left me in another state? Well, gee, let's find out, why, shall we? A woman in her mid forties wrote us, she's been married to a man for three years. About a month ago, they went to her hometown. They went back there for a childhood friend's wedding. They went to visit her parents. They went to um, you know, check in the hotel. Everything was fine. They were, you know, down there to have a good time, spend some time with friends. Well, they went to a rehearsal dinner and she got to see a lot of her old friends. And she did not hesitate to point out that she looks the same as she did when she was twenty years old. Okay, and she says her friends haven't aged well. When other males gave her a compliment, her husband would mumble under his breath or suck his teeth real loud. She said, she's never seen him act like this, and he ignored her whenever she tried to talk to him. She introduced him to you know, her friend. He gave him a fake smile, turned his head. They got into a big argument that night. He called her a flirt and an attention horror. This is your husband talking to you this way. The next day they drove to the wedding in silent and no words between him. They got to the church, she saw one of her old classmates who played for the NBL. He in the NFL, he's still find still successful. He picked her up, swung her around and and uh. She tried to introduce him to her husband. Her husband told him to go to hell. And I mean, it's just just just on and on, just different scenarios of her husband acting a darned fool at this wedding. So um. After this incident, her her husband went outside and never came back to the wedding. He ended up leaving her there, going home and telling her calling her and telling her to get home the best way she could. When she got home, finally, the next day, she took an airplane. She flew home. He had packed, he had left to go live with his dad. So there you have it. She wants to know, is the marriage over? And what did she do that was so wrong to get his fat behind? Don't worry about it, You'll be all right, don't worry about it. Yeah, I'm gonna say this, and I'm gonna say you fine, has consequences, and get left is one of yours. Yeah, yeah, you to get left. See that's the consequence. So you're gonna you're gonna have to learn to stop speaking to your friends because I'm gonna tell you what got your left When that NFL player picked you up and swung you around like in late Sings the Blues, You you finning getting left? See. See, you need to understand. Your next thing you need to work on is getting playing bees in place. That's what you need to when you start working on So you need a delta sky mile number. You're gonna have to need that because you're gonna be making a lot of flights. Okay. Also, you ain't gonna get left on the road. You're gonna get left in your city, So get you my old boy account left however you got to use. You're gonna need that. You're gonna need Airbnb because you need to ask to stay because you're gonna keep getting left in some of these places. So you didn't put some playing bes because you find I'm with Jay. I can tell you fine because it made me excited when you kept talking about how fine you are. We don't have no evidence it is. It just a fitling we got, especially especially when the dude you can't even recognize still say you fine. That that alone is an accomplishment. You don't even know who the hell he was. You don't know his name, You don't know that down or markets. All you know is you find But you laughing too much. You laughing too much, You enjoying this too much. You are NFL player, So your husband can't whoop his ass because he played it. That's the first problem. Didn't pick you up and swung you around in front of him. I'm gonna tell you that's a sign you finna get left, So get you some playing beas in place so you don't have to worry about where you gonna stay or get left. You can get home. You're gonna get home. Don't get left again. You're gonna get left again. Do you need to know this? That's the consequence of your fine? People fine, some people find bring another person, you know, like if you find hey, you might get your boyfriend and another phone number that ain't with you that you didn't get no numbers, but you didn't get left though we know that more back. I don't think your marriage one just worry about getting left that much fun. You're right, you finding too much for her own good? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, because she keeps she keep ragging by. She fought it in twenty years like you still finding you keep keeping all that. All this this one get you y'all that key kid, see all that right there, get your ass left right there. It's too much, key kid kid. When you heard your husband suck your teeth, you didn't turne it down. And ladies, no, they don't want you know, Like when a man goes out and y'all have a party or something, heaps somewhere just over there laughing y'all over. So what's so funny? I need to laugh too? You better believe it what you keep kidding about? Yeah, what's all this? As? That's why, that's why we always have to have the stiff, ready and available Jake. They somebody said, we find we must immediately put our arm out and show the distance like that. I like, yeah, we got the immediately put our arm out. We can't up that key kid with no woman. Just way too for me to be over here. I got to go. Yeah, you know what, Jay, it don't even start off like all right, just how I start off? It start out what the girl had? All? So? Who was that in the pink dress? Right? Who was that? So? Who's the comedian that making you lad? Who is that? I need to know? I like to laugh funny? Yeah, what's so funny? Yeah? Her husband's a loser. Yes, that's it. He can't handle it will be the last time she did. You knew the out of time? What did the here do locally? No more? No more weddings for her? All right? Thank you guys. Post your comments on today's Struwberry letter. It's Steve Harvey FM on Instagram and Facebook. Check out the Struwberry Letter podcast on demand. Coming up at forty six minutes after the hour, Sports Talk with Junior. Right after this, you're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, coming up at the top of the hour, Carla's Reality Update. But right now Juniors into the building with Sports Talk. What you got for its Junior? Okay, Shirley, Jay listen, Um today, everybody the sports ward is confused right now. I'm not understanding this. Okay, everybody know Dinnis Stroller used to play for the Lakers. Last He's just signed a one year, five point nine minutes. Let's just say six million dollar dan one year to play for the Boston Celtics. Okay, Dennis Stroll, the point guard, all right to play for the ball say one year, six million, But he turned down a full year, eighty four million dollar deal from the Lakers. What kind of math are we using in the NBA to day? One year six me? Yes, a lot of money. Is twenty one million a year? You just let walk out the dough for six million. Now, I'm not saying I'm the best at math, but Jay, we talked about this. Jay, if you give a child five cookies and you tell them and you ask a child, will you rather for eighty four cookies or five British? Should the child gonna go with the eighty four cookies? This is third grade math? Why did he do it? Why? Stupid? There's nothing else he could be but stupid. And I know nothing about basketball, but I know that. You know, like Junior and I were talking last night, a lot of ball players don't go to class. You know, they have other people take their test. But math was one class he should have went to, straight up. He should have just went now, he should have went to math because no, no, no, damn sense, eighty four million dollars. You know who else is mad at him? His entire family ain't talking to him. I wouldn't show up this Sunday for dinner. Yeah, here comes you're nine? Add nass in here? You try to play? Do you know how many pizza of chicken? Do you know how many piece of chicken that is? Can you count them? Because this don't make no sense? And Jay, this this is what we talk about all the time. What you try to do in life is trying not to become a Remember that time you trymember that that you like you don't become and he is definitely a member. That time Lakers offered you eighty four million dollars and your dumb has turned it down. Remember that time when you did try not to be a Remember that time Remember that time, Jay Jay I had a job, Right, I was cutting, y'all. I would think about one hundred and twenty dollars a week. Right, the video store offered me one fifty. I put the lawn mower down. Do you hear me? Do you hear what I didn't turned? I took twenty five more dollars. It's simply, man, I don't know if I want to throw the ball to somebody who is that stupid? I really don't know if you want to pass him the damn ball. I really all right? Coming up to the top three hour Carlos Reality Update. Right after this, you're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, here he goes, Junior's in for Tommy to introduce our girl. Let's go, oh, I got it here it is, I got it ladies and gentlemen, it is that time. It is time for Colin Farrell's Reality Update coming in. Yeah, hey, I don't do it every week Tommy. I'm sorry you've lost your job. You fired Tommy Jay Tommy, I love it. I love it. Thank you, Junior, you did a great job. Thank you. Shirley as usual, coming in hot, let's talk about real housewives up Atomac coming in hot, all right, So Jazelle and Robin they finally met up with newcast member Mia for cocktails because remember last week I told you she was like no. But anyway, they met up and Mia she got serious though. She talked about her childhood and the fact that she was raising in foster care due to her mother and father being on drugs, and it was real heavy, and Robin and Gizelle they were very supportive, kind of you know, shocked to hear that about MIA's upbringing. And then Robin mentioned that her ex husband's parents were addicted to drugs as well, and like I said, it got real heavy. So I guess they're trying to keep the friendship, you know, make this new friendship grow with Mia. Gizelle also she stopped by Ashley's apartment. Ashley gave birth to her second son, look cute baby Dylan, and then you know, of course, Gizelle Shirley had to drop and spill all the tea about the prior the sleepover they Can just had. Remember the party that Can just had at the town home, So she talked about that and they were basically they've come to the conclusion that Wendy is getting on their nerves showing off her new boots and her new booty. So they are like, she is really doing the most. And so the ladies they also went on their first trip h Williamsburg, Virginia. Candice set this up, so they had this party bus. They had to strip a pole on the party bus. So the ladies were getting it in dancing and Mia she's a former stripper, but she said she never danced on the pole. Okay, alrighty, So okay, you know, they all of the bus like okay, drinks right, okay, yeah, okay, okay, yeah yeah yeah yeah. And then once they got there, you know, the girls are trying to get settled into the house and they have their little lunch and it seems like Gizelle and Karen a beef and Gizelle was looking for an apology, and so the beef between Gizelle and Karen continues. Meanwhile, we're gonna move on to real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Okay, I'm just gonna say this. I am over Erica Jane. I don't believe her at all. I don't believe anything she's saying. And I want Garcelle to get to the bottom of this. What do you think, Shirley? I agree with you, and you know it's it's hard to believe she knows nothing, you know, right, yea, yeah, yeah, she's she's a little dramatic about all of this and she's just I don't know, it's something awful about that whole situation with her divorce and what's going on with her husband. So we shall see. And also Love and Marriage Huntsville. Oh, I want to say this too about Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Hit me up at Lips by Carla right now. Tell me if you think eric Erica Jane is. Is she acting? Do you think she's just putting on the front for the show to It's something going on? So hit me up and let me know what do you think about that? And moving on far run out of time. Love and Marriage Huntsville. We finally saw Oh he's not even here today, nephew Tommy and his beautiful wife Jackie. Yes, they were on the latest episode of Love and Marriage Huntsville. They were with Marceau and t Sha at their new champagne launch party in right here in Houston, Texas. So it was cool. It was cool to see Tommy giving Marceau advice on locations and you know what, how to get it popping in Houston. And also the new girl Tiffany, she is really starting mess. I said that last week, but she she really is starting mess. So we will keep watching Love and Marriage Huntsville, Real Housewives. I got you on that. Hit me up again Live Spark Carla and we will talk reality update. What's you guys, Shirley? All right, thank you, Carla. More of today's trending stories on the Steve Harvey Morning Show at twenty minutes after right after this, you're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, guys, here we go again. For the second time in about a week now, and un really airline passenger had to be restrained by flight attendants with duct tape. This time it involved an aggressive thirteen year old boy on board an American Airlines flight from Maui to Los Angeles. The boy reportedly got violent and tried to kick out the window by his seat. He also was physically fighting with his own mother, who couldn't get him under control. Ultimately, some passenger stepped in to hold a boy down while flight attendant taped him to his seat. The boy's behavior caused enough of a problem that the pilot had to make an emergency landing in Honolulu. What the heck is going on now? I say, don't duct tape him a tiny as restroom, put a whole flight, you know, put him in the lock behind up and put a whole damn flight. But a boy, yeah, a child acting out? Do you know what that sound like on the plane when you're kicking out, trying to carn the window and somebody house out, get the duct tape that's hitting for you to be acting? Yeah? What I thought they used to have the air marshals on every flight because they got to bring them back. I don't know why. Yeah, they seriously need to come back. Well you know why they cut them out, probably ain't want to pay them. Yeah, they didn't want to. They need them now more than ever after the pandemic. I mean, the pandemic is still going on, but yeah, after people have been in their homes for so long. Yeah, all right, Yeah, we're moving on. Geez. We'll have more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show coming up at thirty three minutes after right after this, you're listening Morning Show? All right, Junior, let's go what you got? Okay, Shirley, I got it to Steve Harvey Morning Show and Walmart Family Mobile want to help you get ready for back to school this year, we watched to Inner for a chance to win a high end smartphone, six months of Walmart Family Mobile service plus two thousand, five hundred dollars cash. I'm gonna say it again because you maybe you didn't hear me. Two thousand and five hundred dollars cash in and get rules at Steve Harvey FM dot com, all thanks to Walmart Family Mobile. Get forty gigabytes for under forty dollars a month from Walmart Family Mobile powered by Team Mobile. Get all the info at Steve Harvey FM dot com. Right now, it is time for ask bitter Man, and please to disclaimer bitter man. Here. I'm here. I'm here, but the difference is I'm here not to help you here, but I am here. But I'm here, all right, here we go. You all right, here we go, you non helper, all right, here we go. This one is from Sherry and Charlotte. Sherry writes, I'm a twenty seven year old single woman, and I keep attracting broke bums that pretend to have their stuff together but eventually end up living with their mama or sharing a car with their baby mama, or something crazy like that. I've met men at work, at church and even been hooked up by people, and it's always an issue with him. And it's not just black men either. Why are men like this? It's too much to expect a man to pay for dinner? Is it too much? You're not looking. You're not looking for the signs of brokens. You're not looking out there everywhere they're all over. Looking his mouth, If his teeth all jacked up, he broke, He broke. You don't have no money. Look at his shoes. If his shoes, if he constantly wears the same damn pair shoes, he ain't got no money. He don't have no money. If every time y'all go to eat, he had you have to lean over him to make your order for food, he ain't got no money, you know, if y'all always at a window the order food. He ain't got no money. You are not looking for the broke signs and a man, they're the signs. And let you know he don't you got something else that you if you got to climb in the car on his side head, yeah, yeah, you're getting in first on his He opened the door for you. But if there's duct tape on any part of his car anywhere, just walking around the car, and he might not have duct tape. He might have that clear rid celler than for a light. You know, he don't have no money coming up. It is our last break of the day, dude, without really we've done them all and the last one's gone. Man, then you should up looking for a last break anymore. And that's it. We're done, and we'll close out the show at forty nine minutes after the hour. Right after this. You're listening to show, all right, guys, here we are last break of the day on this Thursday. It's been a good day. It's been a great day. Yeah, yeah, send us some love up to me. Get well, Tommy, bring your tests. We need to really see that you was sick. Yeah, we love you and everything, but Yeah, another way. We need to see them test scores, buddy. Oh, we also need to shout out Jennifer Hudson. She was our special guest. Yes, we had such a great time Carla with her on and off the airs. As I as I said earlier, I'm in that movie and I can tell you now what I did in the movie. Um, there's a there's a segment in the movie where RUTHD. Franklin sings a song. Wau wait a minute, don't spoil it for it, because no, no, no, no, I'm just telling what I did it. We don't not spoil it. It was not smail the movie at all. But I'm directing and I have a video of it. I'm directing the background singers. You know. Then you think and think, think they have to watch me so they'll know when to come in. So that's what I'm doing. I'm that's amazing that Jennifer Hudson did not mention that earlier than one. Well, you know, some people are just selfish. They just treat selfish. They don't want to share the light with me, And it's okay. It's the question, was anyone on the Steve Harvey Morning Show in the movie. Respect. But you know what, here's here's a good thing about being black. You tell a white person you're in a black movie, and they will accept it. But black people they want to question every day when y'all share that, who was you? Yeah? I told all my white friends I'm in the Black Panther and they went, oh, really, yeah, I was in that movie. Yeah, you know I was in when I was in the color Purple. You know, so when you just you tell her, you tell a white person, they will buy it. They don't. Well, you black people, man, like, well, what scene? I didn't see? You think Jay? I did that to you. Jay, you didn't even know I did that year when you said this is mister two thousand, I said, rack, where was you in the movie and showing up? I went back and watch the movie. Jay wasn't umpire, Yes, he was down the first baseline. I didn't see. I said what your own people don't every time I don't believe you. Wow, Well, okay, well we'll watch you. Look out for you in the movie. Respect. It's gonna be quick. It's gonna be quick, chairman. It's not like a long scene if you go get popped on or something like that you'll miss it if you're like, if you turn to your neighbor, you'll miss it. If you like look over and you're like, hey, do you like this? And you won't even see me. It would be really quick. But we'll hear. We'll hear the background, we'll hear that, we'll hear your work. Yeah, you don't stop today. Do you do you have a question? First? Jay? Yes? I do. I don't. Now that we're locked up, and you know, some of us are just kind of coming out of COVID. Have you found yourself and I know I have. I need help. I'm at the point where I need help. Have you found yourself? Ordering more ushed off off Amazon than you ever would in your entire life? I got packages I have not even opened up. You know, I don't even know what I don't know what they are. I have no idea of a whole room in mind right right, I'm dedicated to Amazon. Do you do you ever order something to go? I don't remember ordering that did? Let me tell you what this is? Amazon? You know? Yeah, Walmart the remote to my TV. J rather than me look for the remote, just ordered another one on Amazon. I got it the next day. I just I can't find I just ordered another remote, did you hear me? I ordered some boots yesterday. It's ninety degrees outside. What you gonna do with them? What do I want some black level their boots for? But but you know it, it is such a good feeling when you look down at your doorstep and there's a package. It's just it's just it's just something that goes all over many yeah. Package. Yeah. And I've even talked to the ups and FedEx guys who's like, I'm like, don't be driving by here without dropping something off. Okay, really, you got stuff you can put on my house. I don't know what it is. Just surprised me, you know. Yeah, sometimes you people at home just leave it a year. I'll take it, you know. I don't know what it is, but I'm ordering more stuff I found that I've ordered. I've got seventeen thousand things to cut up a potato. I got so many to cut up a potato, to cut up one thing. I don't order it stuff for the kitchen. Yeah, you who cares? I didn't order that. I know I didn't. You ever ordered something It comes back too small and you just have to chalk it up to God because that you're not gonna be able to return it. I hate returning a lot. And then once you found out they do groceries over God, Oh, I know you ain't ordered them, surety, but I'm just letting you know they they do what Yes, yes, papers, toilet tissues like stuff you don't want to go in the store and get. They don't bring it to you. A man, it has changed your life and really has. Man, some stuff with COVID is gonna stay. Yeah, yeah, it is going nowhere. I mean, I've ordered so much pizza to dude to call me if he's coming this way. He said, I'm coming that way. Can I bring you one? I mean, right right, I have a question. Do you guys use COVID or the pandemic as an excuse not to do stuff now? Definitely? Definitely, absolutely, yeah, all the time, right absolutely hiding. Yeah, come over the man. You know this COVID thing is keeping right, Okay, Yeah, COVID, the COVID, the COVID, COVID. My baby graduating. Can't are y'all streaming anywhere? Take us home? Jay? All right, everybody, we will see you tomorrow On the Steve Harvey Morning Show. 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