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 amazing bus things. And it's not doing me good. Star to star, I don't join jo. You gotta use that turn out. You gotta turn to turn them out, got to turn them out, to turn turn the water the water. Come come on your baby, Uh huh, I shall well, I come on and everybody you are listening to the voice, come on dig me now, one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Well, okay, here we go. You know what's important, What's what can be a huge part of your success is if you if you find a balance, if you find a balance in your life. That's that's been very important for me. And I've really never phrased it this way until now, but I was kind of thinking about it after my wife and I mean we set up one night recently. Man. You know, I often come on here and this is kind of an inspirational moment of the show, and I try to remind people about that most important relationship between you and God. And that's that's the apex of it. That's that's the that's the top of the crime. You gott to form the relationship with God. If you don't, everything else struggles. It's hard to be a good husband without God. It's hard to be a good family man without God. It's hard to be successful without God. Man, it's hard to be hard to get through this thing called life without God. So that's clear. But at the same time, you can't talk about God. Twenty four seven. You got to go to work. Come on, man, let's just be real. I ain't your past, and I ain't at your church, but let's just be real about it. You know, if people tell you got to keep your mind stayed on Him and all like that, that's that's a true statement. Gott to keep your mind stayed in that area. I don't not here to tell you how to live, but you got to keep your mind stayed in that area of God, of doing the right thing, caring about people. That's what I took it as. Now, I could be wrong. I apologize if I'm not saying that the way you've been taught. I can only do me now. But after that, you got to go to work. You gotta have some fun. You gotta take care of your business and that's the balance you have to find so it once you focus on showing up your relationship with God, you got you gotta balance this now. Now you got to allocate some time I don't care who you are, for your family. If you're gonna have a family, you got to allocate some time for them. See, we can't just marry these women or make these kids and then neglect them. And fellas, especially if I'm talking to me about him, Ladies, you can listen to but listen. If you find yourself struggling in your life, man, and you can't seem to get it together, let's just go over a couple of things. The first two things, if you find yourself struggling, you can't seem to pull it together and reach your goals and get to where you want to go. Let's just do a check how is your relationship with God? And then next how much time are you taking to allocate for your family? Now, your family don't always live in your house, but if you made them, they yours and the responsibility to them is never lessing because you don't stay that no more. Because you and the girl broke up, you and the woman don't speak a man that don't ever release you from the obligation feel me when I'm telling you this now, because I'm not telling you something I'm wondering about. I've had to live through them years. So two things you can start looking at. If you're not where you want to be, and you ain't, you ain't really solid. You can't figure out why you keep spending your wills. Have you just done a random inventory? Man? Have you just checked on your relationship with God? Have you checked on the time you spending dedicated towards your family, your children that you've created? If them two things is out of saint man, that I can tell you right now, you can go on and get to explain in yourself away just like that. A man, how come you ain't where you want to be? I'm couz man, I really ain't. But if you really ain't, then you really ain't. The third thing is you got to allocate the necessary time for your business. You got to handle your business. All of this, man, is the way it works, and the order the order is God first, family second. Then you got to handle all your business. But as me, and this is what we do. If I don't handle my business, I can't take care of my family. True statement. But if your business is in front of your family, you out of order. Nah. That's all we're talking about, now, ain't it. See that's that's all we really saying here now, fellas you know, you know, I mean, I mean, come on, man, you know, let's let's have a real conversation about being better. You know, if you have created these children, you got to handle your business. You may not like the girl no more. You and the woman might have broken up, y'all might go your own way, But what that got to do with the child though? Man, you got to handle your business. They got to know who daddy is. That's your obligation, man, And God ain't letting you off the hook for that. Try it, Go ahead and try it, and thank you. Gonna get off the hook with that because you're not man, You just not. I'm sorry, man, dog Steve, why are you coming like that? Because I did it like that. I did it, man. I was over here trying to reshape my life, getting myself up on my feet when I was a homeless man and trying to come back. Man, I thought I had to take care of me first and then so I can neglect it, cared about them kids. Man, that ain't high work. Man, God CalPERS knee on my neck for a long time for that one right there, until I finally learned the lesson hold up, man, put these phone calls in, Go spend some time, do something. And then it started turning around for me. You know, I can't beat there all the time because I am out here on the ground in the hustle. But at the same time, Man, some more phone calls, some more letters, somemo, hahah he he's something, Then take care of your business man. You got to work hard to be successful. You know. Sometimes I don't put that in there. I just live in and I expect my sons to emulate that. But I gotta talk to him all the time. How hard you got to work to be something. It's all out of salt on it. Man. If you gotta target in mind, you gotta go. You gotta wake up every day trying to get there. And you can't get tired of it because it's it's it never ends. You're gonna always be this way. That's how life is designed and set up. You got to be a hard worker, man. If you're always looking for some time to chill and man, I want to go do it. I want to do you ain't gonna make it. In order to be successful, you have to do a series of things that you're uncomfortable doing, and work is the thing that most of us are uncomfortable doing. It's so much easier to chill, man. I wish I could kick back with a cigar man all the time, but I can't, man, and I can't because I got to work. Then the last piece of the balance balance piece is you gotta take some time out to enjoy yourself. But if you ain't where you want to be, you ain't got a lot of time to enjoy yourself. Quit thinking, man, that this balance is even. It's a whole lot of God, a whole lot of family, a whole lot of business, and a little bit of chilling. The chilling can't be equal to the family, the business, or your God. If the chilling is equal to any of them, you ain't gonna make it. Quit chilling, man, and go to work like a man. Do what you post to do. Work on your family, work on your relationship, work on your God, work on your business. And then when you chill, you might not chill is long, but your show gonna chill bigger, You're gonna ball bigger. Baby, you're listening, ladies and gentlemen, It is here to Steve Harvey Morning Show, Live and well. Full of gratitude today, baby full of it. Woke up this morning doing my meditation, and I got back to it this morning because I missed it a couple of days. Starting my day saying thank you Lord for everything, and I spent about seven minutes at it and just refresh it just so much better. Man, He's done so much for me. I have so much to be grateful for now. All the things I'm trying to accomplish steal, of course, are the things I'm wanting for, of course, omissions and goals I want to accomplish, of course, of course, of course, but I can't let that stop the gratitude for what I have, because really, I'm way further up the road than I ever thought i'd be telling, honest to God, true, I really am. It's like he shot me out of rocket ship. I don't know what I'm talking about. So Steve, shut your stupid behind, uh, say thank you and get on with your day. Charlie Starberry Colin for real, Mississippi Monica nephew, Tommy, Charlie, Julian's out today. What's on your mind today? Anything I can help you with? Well, I don't know. Okay, I'm kind of torn. You know. I don't have to get blood work done today, so it makes me a little nervous all the time. Yeah, so you know, I have to lie down and take it and I can't see the needle or the blood or I will pass out. So that's where I am. And then my other thing is a cap too. I know what you comm a phobia on a fear And he said, all I gotta do look it all the way ahead. And my other thing is, um, I want to color my hair again and I can't decide what color. Okay, okay, which one? Blood work or the haircut? Want blood work is first. Let's look at it like this, because I give blood work probably anybody on the show sometimes while we're doing the show. Yeah, because I got it as it. It can really help with the level of health you have, knowing what your blood working numbers are. It can really it can prolong your life if it finds something that needs to be addressed. Yeah, overall health issues. So I look at it like that. Oh, don't don't look at the blood, don't look at the needle. I watch all of it. I watched the blood going in, I watched the needle going in. I gotta stay focused. I can't be surprised that that right there. I don't need that like that. So I watch everything, but you can't watch it, and you'll be fine. Have color, I say blonde, Yeah, I say platinum. It always looks sexy to me. And I w a chick put a little bit calor got the little blonde in her, or they might call it all but the summer. I don't never know, but Monica would use a hair color and put some sex in its on her too, So I say, I say, some blonde up in there, you know, put some lighter colors up in it. Let it go all right? To tell me, I sew your hand up what last time I got blood drawn? I took those oculus things with me and I watched a movie that way. I wouldn't see it. If you oculars, gaggle, you got a girl, run that brank, Run that brank coming up next right after day. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, it's time to run that prank. Back with the nephew, nephew, what you got for us today? I don't want to ask you for too much. I just need it for a day, okay, Uh, we need you to be a slave for a day. Hey, Hey, what's twenty four hours? What's twenty four hours? We're done with that? Played for a day? Let's go. Hello. Hello, I'm trying to reach to you, missus Glinda, please miss Glenda. This is Gary. Gary. I'm with the Black History Okay. You you you participated last year in the in the Black History Parade? Am I right? Yes? I'm sure did. Okay. I got your name from one of the members on the committee, and we're trying to see if you can actually build some help for this year's Black History Uh, for this month. I should will be glad to help. Okay, listen, we're having an auction tomorrow and wanted to see if you could actually maybe build some help with the auction that we actually have going on tomorrow. Yes, do I need to donate anything or but no, no, we're not really trying to get some donation from you this time. We're trying to see if you have some time tomorrow to come out and actually help out with the actual auction. Okay, what time tomorrow? Probably like about nine o'clock in the morning. I can do that, Okay. Now we're asking that you wear something that you'll be comfortable in all day tomorrow possible, okay, okay, pretty much an all day event that we're trying to get you to do. Okay, I could be there around nine, but then we have to leave about four. Well, I'll tell you what. We'll see what we can, how we can work it out, but we definitely want you to come and be a part of what we're doing. So what is it that you really need be to do? Um? Well, actually, you know, we we we got a lot of people doing different things at the you know, at the auction, you know, so we just want you to come out and be of some help with everything that's going on. Okay, well, I want to be prepared. So what exactly do I need to do? Work the concessions stand something like that. No, really, what we had is actually you being a part of the auction, of being a part of the auction such as well, what we're doing tomorrow is we have already we already have fifty people who are signed up and you would be you know one of those people that are that are that are signed up to do the actual What is is we're having slaves for a day, and what we're gonna be doing is auctioning you off and somebody's gonna buy you tomorrow and you will be there for the day. Slaves. Yeah, you will be the slave for the day. That's what That's what we've decided to do with the Black history. We decided I didn't mean I don't I want to participate, but being a slave no, okay, But see what you what I want you to understand that this is a word that calls though you know, we want were the calls, but I'm not gonna be no play Well, well you I mean you don't have to call it a slave. I mean as a servant, you know, a butler. You know what I mean when you want to call it, I'm just saying, no, I ain't gonna be a slave. Okay, okay, man man, miss miss Glena. What I'm trying to explain to you this is a word to call for the Black history, and we're trying to get you to be there. Somebody may buy you for five hundred dollars tomorrow. No I'm not gonna do it, okay, are you? Are you? Are you turning us down for a word that calls miss Glen, Yes, I am turning your down. Don't call me with that kind of no more. I mean, I don't understand what the problem is. You don't. Sometimes we got to repeat history, so we don't go back to the history. Sometimes we got to do it again so we don't go back to what you understand. But it isn't seem like you. You're asking like a housene grow or something like you two up at your Housney grow house, nee grow? Who's the chairman of this? Excuse me the chairman? Last time I spoke with mister Wilson and we didn't have no like this, okay, and I understand that. But what I'm trying to explain to you is this is something that I don't want you to explain a thing to me. Do not call me with this kind of again. Are you gonna show up tomorrow? We can sell you? Do you understand me? Are you gonna show up tomorrow so we can sell you? We already have you. We're gonna say, I mean, we aren't listened to be sold tomorrow sall, Yo, we've got you listened to be sold tomorrow, ma'am, can we please make shoot on me sold? And you not call you again? Hey, listen, if you don't show up tomorrow, then we will come to your house and sell you there. Come too, if I got to come out, you will come to my house over here. If you want to listen, I will come there to sell you. If you're not gonna come out to the auction, come on to my house. You're bad. Come on to my mouse. Okay, I'll tell you, and you know what I need you to do this. You need to start saying yes sir and no sir to me right now. Okay, I need to get you in the in the frame of mind just being a crave for to day. Okay, I didn't hear what you said. Kiss my black I'm coming to your house tomorrow and I'm gonna sell you in front of your house. If you want to come down to the auction tomorrow morning, nine o'clock, you better not bring you my house. Do you better not? Do you understand me? I had a march for civil rights. I don't have time for no like that, and we got a black man for president. You I understand we got a black man for president, but right now we're trying to raise some money for black history and we need to sell you tomorrow morning. You're not gonna sell me. You're not gonna tell me you were. Don't call my Austen no more. Do you understand? Do not call? I understand exactly what you're saying. Can I tell you something else? Who else is gonna be sold tomorrow? Tell all now? Don't tell me. I got one more thing. I do need to tell you. What is it? That is? Nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey Morning Show. You just got pranked by your sisters, my sister, my sister. I can't believe that I'm gonna get huh. I can't believe you to did miss clemda? You all right? Oh all right? This is so crazy. I can't believe it. I'm gonna for this. It doesn't sound like you're gonna get sold. No way, hell no, you wouldn't getting on this auction block. Huh, No, no ways, listen, Lindon. Then there, I've been at the city, in the marches, I've done some of everything. Yes, ma'am, Well, I tell you what missus Glendon if it wasn't for people like you, we probably wouldn't be where we are today. That's right. We showed, thank you. We showed thinking. I just wanted to play a joke and did I get you? Yes? You did you? Sure? Indeed I got one more. I got one more thing to ask you. What is what is the baddest and I mean the baddest radio show in the land, The Steve Harvey Morning Show that the nephew Tommy, We love you, missus Glendon, Okay, love you too. Anybody want to join in just for a day? Got out there, everybody, all right? Thank you as the cello with Chief Love Officer Steve Harvey in the building, ready for your love questions. Right after this, you're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. Coming up at the top of the hour. Dave Chappelle has yet another Netflix comedy project coming up, and Beyonce and Zindea have an upcoming movie project together. We'll talk about that at the top of the hour, but right now it is time to ask the clo, Chief Love Officer Steve Harvey. This one is from Jen in Pittsburgh. Jen says, I was at my cousin's wedding and had too much to drink and ended up sleeping with a guy that is a distant cousin of mine. He's a white guy, so I never would have guessed it. He wants to see me again. Should we take a DNA test first? What? Yeah, a distant cousin. Should they take a test first? But he's white? It happens. I don't. I don't know where we're going with this question. A test fuff? I mean, I mean, look clarified that he white? What is that? Fun? Most most white people I'm not related to? Huh? Most ninety nine point nine nine of the white people in this world I'm not related to. And if that's why I don't take all of them are tests? You know, all like that, because I don't want it if I find out that I got a white relative somewhere and all this hell, I've been catching your as sitting over there, and your ass been sitting over there own gravy street. You ain't saying nothing me me and your ass cop instant problem. I'm suing. I'm gonna want whatever it is. You got anything, call I got, please Lord, Please Lord. If you got one percent of white and you like they said, if you got one your pries, and I hope to God this white person has more than me. Please Lord, Please Lord, God Father, God Man. Like if I found out Bill Gates with mom, we all, we all, Uncle Bill, But I'll be making a scene about it. I'll be on crying and stuff. Uncle. By what my life could have been so bigger? I could have been Rice Seacrest. I could have got the same contract had I could have had rush little boss contract. Oh God, yeah, okay, So should she take the test man? Hell? No? What you're sleeping with him? For all these people in this world? What you gotta take a test phone? No, you quit drinking. It's what you need to do here again, and I'll call he do gonna do that? Ancestry? Then you know his foe fathers swooping yours? Go ahead? All right? Moving on? Yeah to Shana and Albany. Shanna writes, my mother has been taking my husband to work since he let her borrow his car. Her brakes are in bad shape, so he didn't mind helping her out, But he's irritated because she expects gas money from him every week? Is she right or wrong? Wait a minute, whose car is it? It's her dad's car. The mother has been taking the husband's car. I mean, her mother has been taking her husband's car. She's been borrowing the car, got it, okay? The woman who wrote is Shana. Her mother has been taking her husband's car and borrowing her car and d and he's been dropping her husband off in his car. But but the brakes are in bad so he didn't mind helping her out. But he's irritated because she expects gas money from him every week. Is she right here? Yes, it's his card that she's borrowing. She's taking him to work, and she wants gas money. She wants to know right well you know she old. No, old people don't care. Now when I care you to work, it's for then I got to care myself back over him. I'm gonna need some gas money. But the last time you've been dropped off though, yeah, dropped off and somebody leaves have a driver because you don't drive well you know what I mean, though, just dropped off and I get dropped off all the time. But your ass ain't going nowhere? No, you leave me at a location then I want to go now and now I got to wait up man, Please, seriously, I ain't having any pardon now, but you know what the old see, dude, Bro, you would have to put gas in your car to go to work anyway, whether you let somebody else use it or not. But come on now, but bro, it's your mother in law. You know how they are. Yeah, yeah, that's true. She won't gas money because to take you to work cost gas. If you was driving your own car, you'd have to put gas in it. Now, she appreciates you using it, but don't she have to put gas in it too? All people don't look at it like that she's looking at I gave you my daughter people your car and give you spill it up, man, Yeah, give it a gas money. Dog, say don't, don't, don't do this all right? Caleb in Hampton says, I'm my sixty seven year old man and my wife died, so I've been entertaining women at my place. One of them was a close friend of my wife, and she says it feels strange to make love in her friend's home. She's the object of my affection, so I don't want to lose her. How do I make her more comfortable here? You're gonna have to get an apartment at home. You got to get a bachelor pad. Now. Yeahss is old and you don't know nothing about bachelor pass because it probably wasn't out when you was back kicking it. But Caleb, with this old ass biblical name, listen to me, Calor, you not a player. Your name says not a player. You see your name is more of an MMA or Russian or cage fighter. That's what your name says. You look middleweight champ for the MMA, cage fighting UFC division or than in that. Caleb, you're not a player. She does feel strange in her friend's house. You have to change that. You have to get a bachelor pad. But not because she was her friend. Yeah, that ain't bothering Obviously it's in her house that's bothering her. But she didn't manage to take her clothes off a few times so she can secure the bag. She's done this to secure the bag. Now, Caleb, she's the apple of your affection. You're gonna have to get a bachelor prib or you're gonna have to start going over to her house. Or is it some people stay that with her or something. Ain't no re decorating, nothing you can paint it. It's still her house. He laid up there and that health will come through that wall one night. Yeah, he laid up there and that health and step out that wall. I bet your ass to clear that room. And then so I wonder if you can afford a bachelor pad. But the don't know his name, Caleb, I don't know. It's not bothered that she's not bothered that that was her friend. All right, thank you, Cello. Coming up at the top of the hour. We'll have some entertainment news for you right after this. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Well, Netflix has announced its next huge project with comedian Dave Chappelle. Dave Chappelle is set to release four upcoming comedy special Steve that he's producing and hosting, called Chappelle's Home Team Chappelle's Home Team. The series will feature four comics handpicked by Chappelle, including this is our friend, didn't We may not know him as this name, Nathaniel Stroman, we know him as Earthquake So yeah, also comedian Donnelle Rollins, both of whom have at least thirty years of stand up experience. Chappelle stated that I've been doing this a long time and comedians like Quake and Donnelle are not only friends but have inspired my own career. Anyone in the comedy community knows these names and knows their time to shine is long overdue. I am proud to be a part of this moment. Chappelle's Home Team premieres February twenty eighth with Earthquakes him. Come on, Quake, He's absolutely correct about that. Man. When I talk about some of the really great ones that have done this, quake is long overdue, long overdue. Man. How this brother has not gotten a special? Oh, I know why he hasn't gotten a special, and I'm gonna wait to have him on the show to talk about it. But I know why he hasn't gotten a special, and it's simply because the decision makers didn't get him. But the decision makers didn't get media. Look what the decision again, The decision makers didn't get Kanye at the beginning. Turns out they were right eventually, but they didn't get him in the beginning. I don't get in. I'm just saying, you know. The turns out they saw something in his eyes when he was presenting the first tape at the record label. They went right, and they stayed away from it. Now now he's gonna turn out to be one of the most influential people in hip hop, one of not thee but one of. And I don't speak about hip hop up but Quake is just like the dude. Man. I remember when I first met Quake in Mobile, Alabama. I remember when he came to my hotel door and knocked on the door. And the reason he knew what my door was because he saw me go in it from the parking lot. That's how my life was back then. You could see my dough if you park in front of it. So yeah, okay, So it's important to Quake. And when your peers think you're fun, I mean, I think that would be a big boost for him. You know, I don't know. Yeah, he's a community comedian, comedian. I don't know nobody that does this, that don't think that, that don't think Earthquake is hysterical. He rips the room, Yeah, can't breathe. The problem has been whites didn't get Quake, but Quake didn't build his career on whites or four whites, and they were never comfortable enough to come see Quake where he was performing but that boy was ripping rooms. Man, I'm talking about for years. He's been ripping rooms for years. Yeah. Yeah. And when you when you're on a show, when you're on a show with Quake, every comedian is in the wings watching Quake. Ain't They don't watch everybody else now, but they Quake going up? Okay? And you say comedians comedian y'all are fans? Yes, Yes, I did a show one in Dallas at the Outdoor Ampathy of the sixteen thousand people, Joe Torrey, Bernie mac myself, Earthquake, and Bill Bellamy Man what order is that? He went the wrong order? But when oh and Jay Anthony Brown when Earthquake went on stage. And that was about the time he wrote that big joke he used to do about Mark Luther King and why Corretta Scott can never remarry, you know, because ain't nobody gonna measure up right? You know you're gonna find the data woman that's got a school name after him, that got the street named after him and got a national holiday. What is your ask him to say that? Corretta? Yeah. But the way he the way he wrote the whole concept was absolutely brilliant. I was sitting there, I couldn't breathe. I said, man, what is it about this dude? Why quake never got on the sitcom? Why quake never got in movies? Why Quake never got an HBO? Specially even why it only can be one reason, only one reason, because he was on everybody hates Chris later yeah, yeah, yeah, And he's also on the neighborhood saying back then right right, because they they didn't see it, and thank god that Dave Chappelle. People listened to him across the board absolutely. Use why don't we have a meeting with they? We should have a meeting with they, because they don't have meetings with they all the time, because they still have the power to green light. We have a meeting with they all the time. But they smile in your face. Hey, great job, give us some more information. And when they get behind your back, who's this guy? Get him out of here? On what they do? Bro, you know what I mean? Meetings out away. But like I mean, you know his name, it was, it was. It was a little tough for said. They entertained at the beginning. What's his name? This lady introduced Cedric one time at the at the opens. When we were promoting the Steve Harvey Show. She called Cedric, So Cedric the Educator. I went, were you just looking at her? Come on, man? She thought his name was the educator. Yeah, because they don't Yeah, I'm not talking about all of them. I'm just saying when they don't want to get it, they don't try. Yeah. Oh, he'll educate you. All right on comedy US laughs. All right, coming up in twenty minutes after Donald Trump has launched his own social media app. Won't get into that right after this boom, you're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. So, Donald Trump's social media app, Truth and truth Social. Truth Social launched Monday as you don't tell the truth This is crazy. Truth Social launched Monday as a Trump seeks a new digital stage to rally his supporters and fight vic Tech's limit on speech. This is a year after he was banned, of course, from Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Trump is hoping truth Social will attract the millions who followed him on Twitter as he hints that a third presidential run get out of here. Republicans were quick to use the launch of truth Social to raise money for their election efforts. The Republican National Committee and the Congressional Leadership Fund have been fundraising off the launched GEOP. House Minority leaders Kevin McCarthy sent a fundraising email Monday with the message, after over a year of musling by the liberal big tech tyrants, Trump is bad boom truth. They're the biggest group of fools and cowards I've ever seen. I've never seen it. I have absolutely nothing. You know, The Republican Party has just sold themselves. They stand for whatever Donald Trump tells them to stand for, and that's where they act. And for people to follow a person so blindly, you know what, at least I'll give the Democrats this, They will at least question Joe Biden. Well, yeah, because they don't stick together either, stick together. But them damn Republicans. Oh no, sir, Oh no sir. They get in that room and they say this is our agenda, this is our cause, and they ride or die and they come out that room and they commit it to the BS. And it ain't got nothing to do with the people. They don't care what you say. What did Donald Trump say? Yes, the election was rigged and stolen, if possible without one shred of evidence. Two years now that it was absolutely not rigged and stolen. But I need the evidence where it was if you're gonna make me believe something, and they have nothing, but Donald Trump keeps selling it. They let them white folks climb over that wall at the Capitol Building and I'm watching them deny. They just we have a subpoena. I'm not coming folks, they got over the wall. Get a subpoena. You get a subpoena to company court, and you don't go watch what happened to you. But nothing's happening to any of these politicians that are not coming in on the suspicion. What's happening here? Man? They did dismiss right here's place all right? Coming up at thirty four minutes after the hour, a Georgia woman has faked three pregnancies to get paid maternity lead from her job. We'll talk about that right after this. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. A woman named Robin folsom Of, the former director of External Affairs for the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency, has allegedly get this guy's has allegedly faked three pregnancies to get paid time off from work. She first told the agency, how's she doing? No, I don't know. She first told the agency she gave birth in July of twenty twenty, and she went on maternity leave three months later. Three months later, she told the agency she was pregnant again and informed them of the birth. In May of twenty twenty one, A man claiming to be the child's father emailed the agency and said Falsom needed seven weeks off to recover. Then last August, she claimed to be pregnant again, and this finally raised suspicion, which led to an investigation into her insurance record. There was no evidence of her ever giving birth or ever being pregnant. Bolsom resigned last October when investigators started interviewing her, and now she faces up to ten years in jail. I didn't know there was time for that. Could I ask you a question? You know? You know you don't care how she did. Now we want to know her plan no more, but I'm trying to If you say you're pregnant, was she coming to work like with pillows on her stomach looking pregnant? Where did baby's at? Exactly exactly? I would I would assume so, because you know you have to. You have to show that you're showing some kind of way eventually. But but when you leave to have the baby, where the baby at? Well, she didn't bring the baby to work. It didn't come back with no baby. Yeah, the baby's at home with the nanny with the face and the fake baby daddy. But they I'm surprised they didn't check into it or ask questions like you're asking Steve, you know, because she was able to do this three times. So let me ask you a question, ladies. So when you get maternity leave, what does that mean? I mean that means you after you have the baby, you stay home with the baby for a certain amount of time. I think I took off like six weeks. You stay home with the baby, you bond with the baby, but you get some time before the baby get here too. Dogs. But you remember with me, I was on bed rest. Yeah, I was in the hospital. So I was kind of like before and after. So it depends I worked. You I worked. Let's see, I have my baby on a Saturday. I worked that Friday. She worked up until I worked until the day I had Yeah, the day before I had the baby, I was at work when all mine was born. I was right. Did you take an epidural? What it was? It wasn't. I don't know how y'all do it. Hats all the most amazing thing I've ever seen. I was lord the playground. I took off. Yeah, so, I mean the insurance probably checked with the hospital because you had bills. You know, playing fall you have bills immediately. Oh it's not a game. Oh no, no, you have bills. And then the baby, you know, the theursary where you had your baby. All of that factors. Then, So how she was able to do this to get away three times? Who it cost? We could have had a cup? So I was at the house because I'm gonna say some money right there. How many times did you take off? Along? Again? Well, you know I was at work right up until the birth of all mine. Mean too, we have none of comments right up to it. Mister Harvey, come to the office. Yes, your wife is in labor, back hurting in everything. I was in labor. I'll get out there at the hospital. James traumatized. I know you've had a lot of jobs. So the question becomes really quickly, what's the weirdest excuse you you've ever given to get up work, you know, of course, not pregnancy. I had nightmares. I faked up carbon monoxide poisoned at one time because I have blue streaks on a couple of my fingernails and that's the sign for carbon monoxide. But it's hereditary. So I used to walk into the nurses office show it to him and they send my head home. Coming up next, frank phone call with the nephew. Right after this, I'm lying and see it. I was pranking you. You're listening to the Stave Harvey Morning Show. Coming up about four minutes after the hour. It is time for my strawberry letter. The subject for today is I'm the captain of this ship. We'll get into that and just a few I want to hear that one. But right now it is time for the prank phone call with the nephew. Nephew, what you got for us today? We all love him. Shirley Ball had him Girl Scout cookies. Oh yeah, girl Scout cookies. We all have a certain flavor we love. Take a listener. He up? Hell, So is this? Um? How are you doing? Then? My name is Glynn Man. I'm working. I work in building two. You work for Cludia, right, Yeah, what what's fun? So we probably met a couple of times. Uh do you have a girl? You have a girlfriend? Uh? Why what's up? Did you guys you guys live together or or what? What is this your business? Like? What? What? What's what's what's the deal? What's what's why are you asking about my girl? What? Let me ask you this here? What's what's what's going on with you and at the job? Uh? What what do you? What do you mean? What's like? Like? I mean you you know you know right, I mean so what like? What? What's what's the deal? What? What? Who are you like? Who the who? The are you like? What? What? What's the what is this for? Like? Why are you? Like? I don't even know you? Right? I just calmed down, bron, just climed down, Like I say, my name is being. I work at Gila too, you know, And I know I just tell you now, I know you. I know what you doing, Okay, I know what y'all doing at the job. I already know and a couple other people know what's going going on. And I know you got a girl. I know you got a girl at home. I know that. What so so what what? What? What the what? What is this about? Like why why do you call my phone trying to harass me about the book? Like who are you? Like? What? What? What is your problem? Like? Hey, man, hey, hey, hey, came now. Man, I ain't finished. I ain't trying to tell you a little secret or nothing like that. I ain't trying to do that, all right, but but but I'm gonna be real with you. Okay, all right, Like I said, you know, I got one of your names. I got your number from one of co workers. Okay, I got your number. I say, I want to I want to give the call and you talk to him about something. That's how I got your number. So yeah, who gave you ten? We'll get to that later. Okay, we'll get to that later. But let me but let me say this though. I know what's going on with you and the job, all right, and I ain't gonna say nothing about it. You know, that's just our little secret or whatever. But I do have something that I want you to do. Though, what what do you want? Due? But what what do you want? You call me bugging me about and all this book? Like what do you want? What do you? Well? Here it is man, listen, I ain't gonna say nothing about what you got going on. All right, that ain't that ain't even I don't even care about that. But here here's what I do want you to do. I do need some help from you. All right. Listen, my little girl is selling Girl Scout cookies and I want you to buy fifty boxes of them. All right, well be a cash out because she got to have them sold by tomorrow morning. Are you kidding me? Bro? You okay, so you're on some black man's books and listen to who the fuck give you my number because you want to call me asked me to box them cookies and you should just bet a man and ask me about it. Like, don't be calling my phone trying to give me that book. Like come on, man, like I ain't got no time for this. Like all I'm asking you to do is buy today I'm cookies. Man, That's it. You know what I'm saying. I'm just saying. I just want you to buy some cookie. I need you to buy fifty boxes little girl Scout cookies. Can you do that? No? No, no, no no no no no no no no no no no. You ain't gonna call and try to manipulate me and defying like you're you're talking? Are you trying to make me vise? So I ain't gonna do nothing for you disrespecting me, calling my phone, trying to act like you like, just trying to manipulate. I ain't down with that, bro. I ain't tell you. You don't want to buy my cookies though, So do you want me to call your your girl and see ship on my cookies? So you gotta say the away from my girl, man like, don't don't come near her. Okay, you don't call her, you don't come near hern't come near me. You just get get them out of here. I'm about to start this ninety figure out who you are, and come right after you, man like, because I ain't playing, bro, I ain't right. I'm gonna tell you what, man, I ain't gonna argue with you. I'm gonna argue with you, but I get off the phone right now. I'll get off right now, and I'm gonna your girl. I'm gonna call your girl and see if you want by some No, no, no, no, no, you ain't call nobody. You just get you. Yeah, I try to God, I'm gonna find out who you are. I'm gonna find out who gave you out number. I'm gonna call you up like yo, you'nna call me trying to right me? Okay, hey man, hey, hey, you know what angrean cool, we're still talking about it, all right. I'm gonna get the right like you so so so I'll get off the phone like you want me to, Adrian, I'll do that. But let me let me ask you this though. Let me ask you this though. You sure you want me to call you? Sure you want me to do that? And right, ain't isn't that her name? Man? You something? Individuals? All right? Look how much of these cookies? How much you want? A man? Tommy told me you would buy the cookies. Tommy, Yeah, Tommy told me you would buy the cookies. Tommy to a man. Hey man, check it out. This is nephew tim Me from the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Your co worker got me to pray phone call you. Oh my god, I'm gonna kill him, damn I was so Oh god, listen, so listen, Adrian. We have beat. We have beat all the names, so nobody knows the things at all. Okay, you're good bro, you're good man, and I you got me. Oh god, I'm I'm gonna go. I'm gonna take a nap. Man. I just used up all my Yeah, I'm done. Oh God, like, hey, where you go? I am going out? You up? Man, I can't believe you got me on this. Tell me this man one more thing before you go. What's the baddest and I mean the baddest radio show in the land, The Steve Harvard Morning hill Man, which is why he got played every morning. God, yeah, it's that time though, blackmailer do it? Yeah? Well, you know, just to hold down confusion? How much? Just a damn cook Yeah, but I'm something. How much is a box of Girl Scout cookies? Five dollars two? But but the hold downs some confusion. You'll do it. Yeah, y'all got two local grocery store hanging out or now they do contactless because of COVID they ship them. You have a link. Now, well, I'll just go physically. You said put your mask on. We bag all right? Here we go. March nineteenth. The Nephew is coming to Beaumont, Texas. March the nineteenth, Beaumont, Texas. That's the Julie Rogers Theater. Pickures. Don't see you right now. Let's start out the announcement over. I'm gonna be your hype man. Okay, you know like you're gonna be the main rapper. I'm wouna be the dude behind you with the boom box. All right, bet okay, let's go, Ladies and gentlemen. March nineteenth, Boatmont Texas and the coming to Town Julie Run. Just being up at Judgers Theater where ever. Saturday night April first through the third, Nashville, Tennessee. You got three nights, three nights, Nashville, Tennessee at Zany's Comedy Club, Pick one B one April eight through the tenth. It's the Comedy Zone, Charlotte, North Carolina, Charlotte been now, last time I was there with John hitting whoa hold out Easter weekend. All the white folks went to the beach black Tree. They had nothing to do. Hold out April through the ten, Comedy Zone shot at North Carolina. Oh okay, that's it, Thank you, hype man. See old baby, that's nephew Tommy coming to tad A mouth out square. You understand what it is that you love, Steven. This ain't fitting to be food. Continue to hype Steve, coming up next. Strawberry Letter. Subject, I'm the captain of this ship. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, it's time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need advice on relationships, work, dating, sex, parenting, and more, please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve HARVEYFM dot com. All you have to do is click submit Strawberry Letter, and we could be reading your letter live on the air, just like we're gonna read this one right here, right now, could be yours. You never know, you never know. Buckle up and hold on type. We got it for you. Here it is Strawberry LETTA thank you nephew. Subject, I'm the captain of this ship. I am to captain now, Okay. Dere's Stephen Shirley. I'm married and my husband and I have two children. He's in law enforcement, but he's not a police officer. I work as a teacher and I have my school kids and three children at my house. My husband is a dependent in more ways than one. It has been this way for the past three years. After he had an on the job injury. He no longer washes his own clothes, and he can't mow the lawn anymore. Those were the only two things he did before, and now he can't even do that. Nothing is physically wrong with him, but he says the anxiety from his injury has him leery of doing too much. So so here's what happened to him. He works at the jail in the evidence room, and he was on a ladder maybe six feet in the air, and he slipped. He didn't hit the floor, but he located his left shoulder trying to hold on a small boxbell and hit him in his eye. So he wore an eyepatch for a week. His shoulder was operated on, and he was off work for a full month. When it was time to return to work, he decided he couldn't drive anymore. So now I'd take him to work and pick him up, even with sex. I initiate it, and I have to do all the work while he takes special care not to injure his shoulder, even though he injured it three years ago. His coworkers are sick of him too, so something's got to give. When I stopped washing his clothes for him, he asked our twelve year old daughter to do it, and I told him that's inappropriate. We got into an argument and I let him know that I make all the decisions going forward, and he's going to be treated like one of the children, he said, since I'm the captain of the ship now he wants to take early retirement. Do you think I need to be more patient with him? Or is he playing me for a whole fool? Okay, this could all be cleared up. This could all be cleared up with a quick trip to the doctor. Okay, but your husband won't go. I'm sure. I mean, he already knows that if he went to the doctor, you would find out what you already know too, that there's nothing wrong with him. Now, yes, he's been playing you for at least two of the three years that since he had the operation. You're not even a doctor, and you know there's nothing wrong with him. He's just milking the situation to get you to do stuff for him. He's been lazy. He's just being lazy. He's lazy with sex, with his laundry, with everything. So my advice to you, wifeie, is to stop doing the things you do. You have been more patient than anyone else, I'm sure with him, even his coworkers are sick of him, you said, so stop driving him to work and picking him up. I'm sure he can do that himself. All he has to do is go to the doctor, make sure he's checked out. He's fine. Good to go, and tell your twelve year old daughter to stop, because you're right, she shouldn't do that. She's getting an allowance for it, is she. You didn't mention that, so she's probably doing that for free. He's just lazy and trifling at this point, and you don't have to treat him like a child. But you know, like I said, this could all be cleared up if you guys would just take a trip to the doctor and you'll find that he's okay. And yeah, he is playing you Steve. Wow, this letter wasn't what I thought it was gonna be about at all. I thought it was this man trying to assert the fact that he was captain into the ship. Yeah, based on the title. Yeah, I just thought that's what it was gonna be about. Oh, this is a really disappointing letter man. This is really really disappointing because I don't you know, I'm reading MA read this letter. I just don't like me in like this. I just don't now. I know it's a one sided story, and she's writing the letter, but she's writing the letter out of frustration. This dude right here, y'all married. I wish I knew how old he was because would really help me analyze. It's even better. But you got two kids. He's in law enforcement, but he's not a police officer the right away, I'm thinking traffic cop. Or he write tickets, but that ain't the case. She's a school teacher and you got your school kids and three different children at your house. Don't know what that means anyway. My husband is a dependent in more ways than one, and he's been this way for three years after he had on the job injury. He no longer watches his own clothes, and he can't mow the lawn anymore. Damn what did he do? Oh? We find out those are the only thing two things he did before, and now he can't even do that. Nothing is physically wrong with him, but he says the anxiety from his injury caught makes him liar of doing too much. Too much. You don't do nothing but wash clothes and motor damn lawn. And based on y'all's two jobs. That lawn ain't that big. I'm just saying so now now she describes what happened to him. He worked out the jail in everdence room. He up on the ladder one time he slipped, but he didn't hit the floor. He dislocated his left shoulder trying to hold on. Hear what help that ladder got out Monday. He grabbed up with that hand, and his fright ass damn near tore his shoulder out, trying to hear no mention to wait, how you think you pull your should out when you grab and don't fall. That ladder slipped and got out Monday, Monday got out money, but his fright ass grabbed something and ripped it. Ligaments out of his ass. All he tried to stay up under all that weight. He ain't in shape. She did not say was fat. I'm telling you that's what happened, She saying, how only is either and if you ain't working your ass gonna get first? Hold on hold one? Okay, okay, well at first two of Steve's response, coming up at twenty three minutes after the hours subject of today's Strawberry letter, I'm the captain of the ship, will get back into it right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter. The subject, I'm the captain of this ship, all right, this woman being married to her husband. They got a couple of kids. She a teacher. He in law enforcement, but he ain't no police officer. Now, he didn't got his ass hurt on a job. One day he was in the evidence room or boning letter, probably looking at some evidence he had obeiss. He was doing doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doom. And he moved up on that ladder and that ladder got out Monday his and she said he injured his shoulder, but didn't hit the floor. So that means he grabbed something trying to hang on. Now, his ass already overweight when he grabbed on. That was it all the weight told his shoulder dislocated. It ripped the ligaments all this hill. Fat ass should have just went on down. But now he tried to stay up. He'd hit the float, but he dislocated his shoulder trying to hold on. Then a small box fell and hit him in the eye. And then in the ever dis room. That small box is probably a jewelry box. It could be a room with a quarter sack of weed in it. It could be a little maybe a little couple of keys and cocaine was in the box. Maybe it was the box with some keys in it that had some finger his owner for arm robbery. But one of them in the last boxes hit him man dead in his damn eye. So he wore an eyepatch for a week. Now, that really makes you look like you hurt it. You got your arm in a sling and you got a patch on your eye. Now, he tried to figure out, Hi can play this. His shoulder was operated on it. He was all for a full month. Okay, it was time to return to work. He decided he couldn't drive no more to his punk hass playing this all the way out now now he can't drive black people on Black dudes only drive with one hand any damn way. So we already and know that. Now if his right arm was hurt, that's even better. That's the one we lean on rests on anyway. And if his left arm is hurt, then that's cool. Then we'll just do to lean the other way, lean up against the dope, both of his pimp poses. Eugen's got to rock the one you like it. So I take him to work and pick him up. Damn, even with sex I initiated and have to do all the work where he takes special care not to injure his shoulder this high. Know his ass is fat. See when you having sex and you don't want to injure your shoulder, the only thing he can do is lay on his sorry ass back, which is fat ass want to do anyway because he don't want to be up on his knees where he got to put that work in, hold his big ass up in all this here, My shoulder ain't my shoulder. Don't nobody to give a damn about the shoulder when you having sex? You know what I mean? Whole craps, how that got? How many hamstrings out and pull? You know, I mean to expect muscles out and toe you know what I mean? The head lacerations out of head and my head going put slamming into it too hard? You many times, man, I don't rip the ass muscle off? Yeah, any idea man? How many times out and told the tenders in the bottom of my feet trying to get my toes and getting more more grip on that sheet. You know what I mean. The injuries out and had doing sex and don't give a damn. I'll see you tomorrow. I'm don't stop, ain't fitting to stop. Chilotte horses bustle, pulls cramps right on, doing everything out of my arms and slipped off the corner of the mattress. I bust my mouth on the nightstand one time, kept going, kept swallowing the blood, so we didn't get on her and kept moving to hold A mission has got to be done. Hiss. The pundcast got a little hurt. Shows man missed me with this here hiss. Now he not his co workers is sick of him too, So something got to give. When I stopped watching his clothes for him, he has got twelve year old daughter to do it. He can't wash clothes. And then I told him that was inappropriate. We got in an argument and I let him know that I was making all the decisions going forward and he gonna be treated like one of the children. He says, says, I'm the captain of the ship. Now he wants to take early retirement. Do you think I need to be more patient with him? Or is he playing me for a whole fool a whole fool plus, so he playing the police department as fools. They tied in his ass. You're twelve year old, tired of washing his underwearing all this hill. How you can't wash clothes after three years with a shoulder injury? Obviously there's some type of male practice that did happened because of your shoulder? Ain't worth for damn? Three years after the operation? Did they operate on the right shoulder? That all the time? Did they operate on the right shoulder? I say, yes, they operated on the right shoulder, And I say, your man is full of it. He is just full of it. He is lazy. He has found a way to make an excuse for his laziness. And once you decide to be a lazy person, let me help you understand something, y'all, it carries over into every aspect of your life. So now you lays at the job, you lays at home. You don't want to do nothing to work, You're gonna do the home. You're lazy in the bed room. You're just a lazy person. So you can relegate your life to live in with this lazy ass person, or you can issue an ultimatum. You either get up and get back to work and be the man that I'm married, or me and you are done come back to you busting your lip on a knife, Stand though and cap what happens? All right, it happens. Listen, leave in your comments. Please on Today's Strawberry Letter on Instagram and Facebook at Steve Harvey FM, and check out the Strawberry Letter podcast on demand. Coming up next at Sports Talk with Tommy, Who's in for Junior today. We'll see how that goes. Right after this, you're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show. Junior's out today, but Nephew and the Uncle are in with Sports Talk. What you got now? I got something just to tell my uncle. So, like Steve, I did you know I did Baltimore, Maryland this past weekend. Guess who was in my hotel? Earl the Pearl Monroe. Man, shut your damn I know you better not say that to me. Earl the Pearl Monroe, the Pearl Monroe of the New York Knicks, Black Pearl Jake Black. What with the seven up spin moves? Earl the Pearl hurt the jerk, Munro. I don't know about hurt the jerk. I just know where everybody in the hood wanted to be pearl. What is hurt the jerk? Though? What is that? Came down the lane man? He had that cold ass move man where he would go dribbling to his right. He would cross the free throw line hard. Then he would pick the ball up. He would spend and he would take two steps and he laid up with the left on the glass. He couldn't nobody stop it because the spin he would spend damned the round him on the other side. It's coldest steak boy. You need to look it up. Is that why they called him the pearl because he was sold pearl the pearl money because he was a pearl. You just this dude was black magic Man. Here. Here's here's my other news on I need I need one of your cigars that's half smoked, because check this out, Michael Jordan has a half smoked cigar and it's up for auction and they starting off with five hundred dollars. So I definitely need one of your half smoked cigars so I can put it a fox. I think I started I think I'm gonna start this thing off by twenty five hundred though. Yeah, it's in the news. Michael Jordan half smoked cigars that he left in the ass tray. Somebody came along and got it. Now they're selling it. Tell them Steve Harvey lips. Yeah, that would be the difference. That's how you know if it's really my cigar. Now cast the moisture be damned near down to the label. Yo, that's the way you know it's mine. Yeah, you're gonna get paid. I'm finding get paid, So y'all be on the lookout. I will be auctioning out for a couple of Uncle Steve cigars, and who knows, I might grab a few of his items if I stopped by the house, I grab a few other things that I can sell on as an auction. Those parties at his house and you can steal his suits and come through the party. You could do an auction party at the house to be nice to auction. As soon as he lead a country again, gonna be a little bit different this time. Party coming up at the top of the hour for your ass. How to tell if you the one for him or her or if you're wasting your time. We'll get into that right after this. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. So, according to an online pole, here's how to tell if a boyfriend or girlfriend is serious about you. So, Steve, this is the same thing you stated in your book. Act like a lady, think like a man. So let's go over a few ways to tell if you're the one. All right. Number one, he refers to your relationship as we when talking about future plans. You agree, absolutely. Why would he mention you in the future if you're not gonna be that? Okay, wow, that's yeah, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, you see all the movies. What's the movies in the future? Richard Prye used to talk about, And you saw all the movies about the future and white people being it. That's because white people wasn't playing on us being him. Oh gosh, okay, yeah, we're starting to ask because we're still sticking around. Were a little shocking to all right, here's another one, Steve. His social media includes pictures of the two of you. Absolutely, I just had a conversation with a young guy because I know how important social media is to them and when they claim each other as exclusive. They will post each other. If you're not, you're not getting posted. I mean, just look at anybody, look at all of them. And so I know this kid just dating this girl. He told me he's in love with her, and he told me she's in love with him. But he ain't on none of her Instagram and she ain't on none of his. I said, I don't know what's happening, but don't look at real now. He mad at me. Why because you brought it to his attention. Yeah, all right, here's another one. Labels become a part of your relationship. When you're a significant other, stops introducing you as just a friend publicly, chances are you're the one and only this is mine. Well, I mean that's important because how many women are in relationships and don't know what it is? They don't have a description of it, right right right? They don't have what is this? You know how many women in relationships that's going what is this? They don't even know what it is? Because dudes are very smart. Now, m and if you will go along with us without a label or a title, cool, But you have to ask yourself, why don't I have a label? Or a title. Ask yourself that. Yeah, And the number one reason is is because you ain't that. Lord Jesus, you better tell you ain't. Nobody fitting to call you what you ain't. You only get to be mister president if you get the votes. You only get to be the boss if you get the promotion. Huh. You only get to be the owner of the company if you put up all the money. Uh huh. Hello church he man, Hey man again, go ahead, Steve. This is a big one in your book. I remember he brags about you, introduces you to his friend. Then you know, simple, man, this is the one man. This is my girl. Man another day, Man, we had such a good time. Man, my girl. Man, she'd be lighting it up. Man, we'd be going through it a little bit. Man, this girl she's smart. It's just simple. It's simple. It's simple. We want you and we that's how we mark our tor into a territory by bragging about you. So you heard me say this? She mind you heard that? So what you over here for with your head cocked to the side, sipping out your drink? Sideway Pardner and the and the last one, Steve, you have drawers at each other's house. Draws you like. That's true too. You gotta put them in the floor. My drawls is over here because I'm been fit to do some things. WHI I need new draws. Goodness, Okay, put back home? Not these all right? Too much your knees, hill, I got to get some fresh draws. We're gonna take intimacy to new heights with this next story at twenty minutes after right after this, you're listening to show, all right? 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That's right, We'll take you to the kitchen table with Sweedie and Tabitha Brown, check in with the LGBTQIA Acceptance Brunch, and we'll shine the spotlight on phenomenal black women entrepreneurs, sit in on a black family game night to talk about what keeps relationships strong and have an open, honest and much needed conversation about mental health in the black community. All that is going down. We'll have more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show coming up at thirty three minutes after the hour, and we'll also do a round of would you rather right after this. You're listening to the Steven Show. Time now, guys for another round of wood you rather? Would you rather be kissed on the lip or kissed on your neck? During intimacy? Oh? That nick? I can't handle it, I jumped out to one. I can't handle it at all. I can't candle it. I just ain't no good on this neck. I'm telling I who you want to you want to stop my performance. You get on that neck, I'm done. I can't do nothing for you. Well, I'm the direct opposite. Okay, if you open up your mouth started, look at me on my neck? You in for something? Something? Come with that. I intensifies all efforts. I'm talking about. Man, everything I'm doing, I start doing hard. Everything in me, not on my neck. My body's convulsing and stuff. I'm most of my actions is involuntary. At that point, I'd rather not. Let's keep this party. Would you rather? Would you rather be financially satisfied all of the time? Would you rather be sexually satisfied? Hey, you can buy it? Yeah, we can buy it. So I got enough money, you ain't got to wear about it. It feel good sometimes when you just got money, you ain't gotta do nothing. Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, I'm trying to tell you right now, I'm going with that money. Man financially said all the time, or sexually satisfied all the time. No, No, like Tommy said, you got enough money, you can buy whatever you get. Sexually satisfied now, I don't need them vote no no. With that money, that money made me feel like we just finished it. Feel waved off, all right, So would you rather post nude, just completely naked for a group of artists, or would you rather wear false lashes? Lashes? Put them lashes on? So fly? I ain't naked. Yeah, but he I don't know. He's artist. He knows, surely he knows, he know, he don't know. He don't need to be naked. Got I got two alms. It looked weird. I ain't got the other folks. I don't need to be knocking it from nobody. Nobody what the wife? She didn't seen it from all sides and I'm naked explaining to y'all what's going on? And then let's just be real, y'all from the side. Do you really want somebody looking at you from the side, you know, forward? Straight on? I'm all right, you know, on the scale of one and ten, I'm about seven, you know, straight on seven? You know, for my age, I'm an eight and a half. You know you look great? Yes, sideways. I can't explain that. No, damn, I don't really know what's happening. All right, all right, thank you, that's our round up? Would you rather for today? Coming up next? It is our last break of the day, and we'll have some closing remarks at forty nine minutes after from the one and Only Steve Harve. Right after this, you're listening to all right, guys, here we are, last break of the day. It's been a good day. Ye thank us home, Steve Hey my closing remarks today, it's gonna be a gonna share a personal, kind of a personal story with you. But it's also a story that I think is relatable to a lot of people. And I think a lot of people can put themselves into place, and I think the question I want to ask is who are you talking to and who are you listening to? That's an important question to ask yourself constantly. Who are you talking to and who are you listening to? If you want to change your life, if you really want to progress in life, if you really want to be what God has intended for you to be, if you really want to accomplish all your dreams and aspirations, you got to pay real close attention to who you talking to and who you listening to. These two things are critical. You know, I'm gonna share your story as much as I can without being too specific, but just to see if you can relate. I was in a meeting one time with some TV executives, and they were in this meeting to talk about how we could increase the ratings on my talk show. And whenever I take a meeting with news execs, I want I listen to them because if you have a way that I can improve, I'm always listening. But in the entire meeting of how to increase your ratings, all they would do and was telling me what I wasn't And that's not how you imp. You have to tell me who I should be. So you can't tell me what I am isn't working, because to me, clearly it is because who I am has gotten me this far. Now, if you can tell me what I need to add to that, I'm okay. But once again, you gotta be careful who you talking to and careful who you're listening to. So the list started. You know, the one thing I thought I would listen to was one of them said, don't cuss so much. Okay, I could take that, because that could be offensive to some people. Okay, So I took that. Okay, that's something I can't do. But really, to get to what you all trying to hell, I need to know what to do and then it started into things just negativity. And one of the things that one of the guys said to me was, don't talk about God so much. And I said, excuse me, He said, don't talk about God so much, and I threw me off a little bit. And I'm just looking at him. He said, because this isn't a religious show or a spiritual show. And I was thinking to him, well, it's not spiritual to youth, but the whole fact of me even being on a talk show is a miracle to me. The fact that I've reached the levels in this business that I have is a miracle to me. So this is not being spiritual for you, I understand. But my whole walk is nothing but grace and favor. So I was sitting there looking at him and I said, well, that's not going to happen because a long time ago, when I had nothing, I made a promise to God. I told God, I said, if you let me make it, when I get there, I'm gonna tell everybody it was you. And you know why I made that promise Because I was out of ideas, because I was out of moves to make, I was all out of what to do next. I was all out of bright ideas. You ever been there before where you feel like you just out, Well, guess what I told God? I was out and I was gonna step aside and let him in. And now I do whatever you tell me to do. I make the moves you tell me to move, and I go where you tell me to go. And if I make it, God, when I get there, I'm gonna tell everybody it was you. That's why when I started this radio show, I started the radio show the way I do when I was doing stand up. Before I started, I said, before I get started, I want to just say that God is everything to me, and without God, I never ever would have been nothing. I said that every single night before I started my show. Guess what, I was keeping my promise, So I wasn't gonna break my promise for some people at a talk show. See, but you gotta be careful who you talking to, and then even more so, you gotta be careful who you're listening to. Now. In that meeting with them, I found that it was my last meeting with them ever. They never met with me again, and I knew something was going on because Christmas, there was no Christmas gift sent to my set. There was no birthday gift sent to my set. Oh and next thing I knew, everything was canceled. But you know what, I never stopped talking about God. I never stopped talking about faith. I stopped listening. I don't listen to people that tell me what to do about my faith. And I look up, and today I'm in better shape than I'm ever been in in my life because I chose to honor Him in spite of what they were telling me to do. So now where are they versus where am I? It's because I pay very close attention to who I'm talking to, and I pay real close attention to who I'm listening to. And I spend more time talking to God and listening to God than I do anybody. And that right there is a true testament to why I am who I am today, because I am but by the grace of God. And I'll never forget that, and I'll never let nobody tell me different. Those are my clothes remarks today. You might see yourself in there somewhere if you do. That's good. Hey, look talk to God, y'all. He loved to hear from y'all. Have a good day. See you tomorrow for all Steve I re contest. No purchase necessary, avoid where prohibited. 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