Today's show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time y'all don't know. Y'all all suit giving them like the milling buss things and it's y'all Steve listening together for stuy. I don't join me. You gotta turn you burn, You gotta turn to turn them out. Turn, got to turn them out, to turn turn the water the water. Come, come on your baby, huh. I show will a good morning everybody. You all listening to the voice, come on dig me now, one and only Steve Harvey Man got a radio show. How good is God? Hum? Think about it? Just take a slight inventory of your own life and say it to yourself when you get through, how good is God? Think of all the small things, all this, because that's him. You breathe in, that's him. You steal him. That's him. You got another chance. That's him. You ain't out of him. That's him. You got any measure of health, that's him. You think it's more to it than it really is. That it already showed up to be. That's him. All of that. You got any dreams or aspirations, you dream of other things, that's him. All that, that's him, that's him, Him clothes you got, that's him. Every time you eat. That's why they had this thing called you say your grace. That's him. That's him, man, that's him. It's amazing when you take a small inventory how you find out how big God really is in your life. Now, the more you turn yourself over to him, the bigger he can be. For you. See, he'll only be as big as you let him. It's one thing about God. Now, he's a gentleman. He can make you do anything. You know. You get too big for him, you know you you you, you lose your humbleness. He can humble you. Now. God created man with the power of choice. We're the only creature he created that. He gave us the total power of choice when we mate, who we mate with. You know everything, all of it. Man. It's the choice what we want to be, how much you want to make, Where we want to live, what climate we want to live in. We can live in cold climates, hot climates. You know, we speak different languages. You can go learn another language. A bear can't do nothing but be a bear. He can't go learn how to be a fox. He can't go learn how to be an otter. He just can't an ostrich is an ostrich man. He can't come out of here and fight like a lion. A lion is a lion. A lion eat meat. He can't eat vegetables. I don't care how much meat ain't around. He'll lay down and pull up out of here and die because he can't eat grass. He just a lion man. You understand this that God gave us. We are the one creature he created that has total power of choice. You can make every decision in your life. What kind of watch you like? That's the one you can buy. You want to live in Switzerland, go ahead. You don't like Switzerland, you can move to Miami. You want to live your life a crime, go ahead. That's you. He gave you the power of choice. You want to do right? Come on, So now look at this thing. We are all the results of a series of decisions that we have made. If we could just identify that the problem is us, we could began the solution. See that's the problem, y'all, it's us. It's what we do. I threw my life down the hill. I can't tell you how many years based on some decisions that I was making. Now I can justify my decision with I wasn't happy and I was doing this and I was in miserying y'all on that ye yes to you when you get through. You made the decisions though, and you can look at this anywhere you want to, y'all. But at the end of the day, I'm just talking to people that's really really wanting to improve their position in life. And how do you do that? You got to have a solution. How do you come up with a solution? You got to identify the problem to even began to solve it. But if the problem ain't ever you, how are you gonna solve something that ain't you? See? Okay, let me look at this one. If somebody said, like I got a child of mine, man, I just do right here. Man, I don't even wanna get into it this morning, or I'm struggling with this this boy. But man, you go to people, you're asking why they do so? I just I just wasn't taking care of business. Why I just didn't take care of business? Boy, do you understand that your life is gonna be filled with you got to take care of business. So when you're gonna start, you know what I mean? You can't. You can't. You can't go through life blaming everybody. It's got to be you. See, you can fix you. You can't fix nobody else if you keep getting married and the marriages don't work. Hello, Hello, Hello, could it be you? South? Finally had to sit down and just make that decision. They don't need to be coming on the radio talking about nobody else and what they did to me, and y'all just don't know. No, no, no, man, what about the part you played in it? Because see, if you got a good marriage, you got a part to play in that. If you got a bad one, you got a part to play in that. Even if you just get down to you the one pick them? How about that? Mister? Mister, I made a decision. The problem is usually within yourself. Do you know That's the quickest, an easy way to fix your life. That way, you ain't got to check with nobody. Here's the beauty of going on and admitting that is you. You don't have to check or clear with nobody to start the repair process. You don't need anybody's permission. You ain't got to put it before the review board to see if it'll pass. It ain't got to go through Congress. You ain't got to hope that your local politician get their hands on it to make a phone call for you. You ain't got to ask any counselors to come in and sit with you. You don't have to check it in the rehab. All you got to do is decide the problem is me. I'm gonna start changing me. Identify the problem, and start with the part that you can own up to. Once you identify the problem, you can start planning on how to fix it or how to get to accomplishing something. But remember this planning is important. If you fail to plan, then please plan to fail. If you don't know how to make a plan, let's just start with the basics. Just make a list of what you want. Make this list and then go to God in prayer with an open mind and open your mind up to all the clean opportunities that are available here. Why a lot of people won't succeed because certain opportunities come along you don't want to do them. That kills me. Man, when I hear here, I ain't doing that. I know young comedians that come to me all the time talking about Man, what you're not saying. Man, Just take every gig you can no matter what they pay. Well, listen to me, son, you can go make that money that they pay, or you can make the decision to sit at home and make nobody. It's a comedy, a hard business. They ain't paying but one hundred dollars. You gotta drive, drive fifty miles. But if you drive fifty miles and you make the hundred and you stand on that stage for thirty minutes, you are now thirty minutes better than you was the last time you went on stage. Oh, man, you ain't man, they don't pay me, I ain't coming. You ain't gonna be a comedian, man, not not, not like this hill. A lot of people just don't want to do what's necessary to do. So when the opportunity presents itself and you open up your mind to it, man, then get ready to go on and do it. Man, identify your problem today, start with the part dash you to show ladies. Uh I Normally I would say ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, but not today. Ladies. Welcome to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Fellas we own. Boys and girls. Go to your wood this boss to get it. Get today. It's about to be one of them. Oh the day are you gonna embarrass me? Steve? You know what, Sherlly I think I am today. Today is gonna be the day that I dedicate almost everything I say to embarrassing Sherley. We're gonna do ask the CEO today, okay, and will also ask motivational questions from the crew. That's the only time I try to be sillious, okay. But other than that, though, let it rain. I'm gonna be embarrassing today as much as Tommy is stupid. I ain't, Man, that's a high. I'm talking about the degree I'm quit today. Man, it might be a yeah. I don't know. We can take all that in the emergency room. They call it cold ray. Let's go there, Let's go. I will be answering any questions today, any questions at all. Okay, we are going to You can ask me a serious question. You can ask me an opinional, opinionated question. All things are open and fair game today. All right, stupid, too cool, let's go Tommy. All your questions is most us okay, okay, and I and I embraced that. That's the problem. All right, y'all want to start it y'all scared. What's happening? We jump off off the time? Yeah, I didn't do it right here, so well you know you you know it ain't no time like right now time? Okay, huhen I start off the it's Timmy for show ugly. Then they just start damn show that. It really ain't even I don't know why he fights because he ugly for real? About this all weak though? No, but it's that's not gonna be ugly all week. Tommy, you're not ugly, thank you're not sly talking? She always trying to take up self righteous right Jelly? Don't thank you Sean either. That's a little false. Well, now, Steve, wait a minute, I can speak for myself here. Well, he ain't got to be really funny looking? Is still the same spot? Okay, I'll go We'll go with funny looking strange. Okay, Tommy, let's take ugly off the table. Matter. He's married. He's having strange looking but they ain't got nothing to do a lot of strange looking people married. Well, he had to find someone to marry him, his wife. It's what he needs to be grateful for right there. That's why he needs to be I need to be praising him for that guy, especially that girl you wouldn't got. I don't know what she was thinking. Surely she could have done better, man. Yeah, that's hill. Yeah, Steve, I told you about crushing people. What I tell y'all was gonna be today show. Come on, I'll tell y'all was going to embarrass you today. Yeah, and you let's get started out the gate. Yeah, and we'll be back with Moti. Is he ugly than me? Steve tell me that when we come back, I'll tell you that. I take come over here and ask me. You're listening show, It's time for something funny, guys. I want to ask the crew, how well do you have to know someone before? Yeah? Sexual? Okay, all right, you want to go there, let's go there? Steve says, what and it's book? Steve said, I mean, look, if you're trying to have a relationship, you ain't got nobody, no time to have sex. Yeah, you know, you just trying to do something that evening, Yeah, that that evening you can do something I've never I've never cared for that. I don't. I ain't like I ain't had a one nice stand but it never never was, never ever yeah, well, you always like to have a little more meaning behind your action, Steve. Look, look, let's lie to each other a mission. I love you, I love you, I was thinking about you. Let's turn. I like that part of it, get some fun. But you know, I'd rather afford to have some relativity to it. I don't want just this hill because I hadn't had that day, you know you like I've been young, like everybody else, I'd have had one nice stand. They're ever ever rewarding? Ain't your night standing? When they ain't ever been good rewarded? What are you saying? They are some of the greatest moments of all time. Your relationship in trouble. Well, no, my relationship is fine. But when I had one night stand. But way back in the day, those were great days. Wow, wonderful. I love so great. I ain't got to call her, she ain't got to call me. It ain't been to cost me arm And they lived relationships colls. You know that love coughs. So you meet someone, meet them dinner. Maybe we can get a quick bite. But now let's get on too. We're not finn wise. We had dinner talking, We're not gonna be talking. How fast is the bike, the bit is real? How much? How long atoke? Get them fries in your mouth and McDonald talk me to and eat this eat eat on the way your house, her house. You ain't come to my house. I don't know you're like that. I can't come. But you know her enough. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna put this whole glad trans back on and we've been to get down with it. Wow, all right, look at everybody good? Can we move on? Sex behavior? Yeah? I just think it's for me. It was just it was a waste of time for me. I only had one one woman that after it was over with, I look for her, man huh and she was gone, huh, yeah, I want to do I didn't find because the next worried out of my mouth was will you man sixteen at the time, he don't know you were older than thirty thirty? Yeah you want to continue this, it's such a romantic Well I was homeless. Hell yeah, you gotta do what you got to do. She looked good and having a partner. I don't understand. Okay, So more questions, more questions, or do you guys want to stick with that? Okay? How well do you have to know someone before you loan them money. M M. Steve, you go last on this one. Okay, I'm done with the loaning before yeah, before you okay Barty years, Yeah, I'm done. You met him in kind Yeah, it's gonna have to be that oh my mommything I got. No, that's you now, that's you now, back in the day, back in the day. Oh god, I was I was too given h six months. Okay, then you loan them some money. Okay, Junior. I had to know all your grandparents on both sides. Come on, Steve, we we we had we we had to have a friendship at least at the very least. Yeah, we had to be considered friends. Are really close, super cool? You know, maybe not, but we're real cool. Before you ask me for something, Okay, here's a good day. Right now. If you want ball money from me? Uh you uh, you don't really lend money now, No, but I'm giving money. He'll give you some, but I'll give you some money, but no, I don't want to be looking for Yeah. Okay, how well do you have to know someone before you let them stay at your house? Let them stay with you? That's a good one. Yeah, yeah, you can't stay at my house. I don't give a damn who My family can't stay. We can't stay. You're talking about come stay with me? Yes, yes, no, hell, I don't care who. You know, you can't temporarily until they get on their feet, like I don't never have they say, don't or let me play something teeth until you get on your feet. How what were you using when you walked over feet? Own them, get on them and go somewhere else. Now, I wouldn't let one of my children come live with us. Yeah, you know they transitioning because one of them talking about doing that, coming to LA and living, and so we'll let them stay with us until they get their place. Oh cool, my kids. But that's what I'm doing. I'm trying to into place this week. I didn't know I could have came over the kids. Children, you already know you can't come stay in No, hold on, hold listen, that's gonna get this out. You know you can't come stay in my house. I don't give a damn prus roll you got. You gave too many parties when your uncle was out of town. But I cleaned up now, No, no, I cleaned up. No good parties though. No, No, that time you threw the party and used my bed, but then made the bed. He used your bed, yeah, but then made the bed. But that's what the Cleansley person would do, is make up. Right, Hey, dog, change the sheets we slept. That's it, dog, You don't change your sheets after you sleep one night. Who did you have in now? Was that slab? Or her name was Kiwi? Remember that Kiwi? Let me tell you so Kiwi in now? It looked like a wild animal had been in my bed. Hey, look, we gotta coming up right after this nephew. Tell me he's running that prank back. Remember that time she put that party hat on. You're listening, coming up at the top of the hour and miss Anne will be here with today's national news and headlines. But right now it's time for the nephew to run that prank back. I got it for you, sir. We're going down to the church. Hot checks at the church. Oh no, Lord checks, Okay, okay, you're not gonna do this to the Lord. Now, you're not gonna continue to do it. Let's go cat. Hello, Hello, I'm trying to reach a Monica system. Monica Please, this is brother de Sean I'm calling Actually, I'm a member Greater Commissionary Baptist Church. How can I help you? Calling you actually about the offering? Now? Did you I know you paid your ties every Sunday? Okay, Now you paid a love offering as well? Right, yes, I do. Okay, Now this past Sunday, I'm looking at a check that you left us with the bank, right, right, check sunday? Okay. Now the check, ma'am was two hundred and fifty dollars, Am I correct? Right? Right? I wrote two checks for my ties and the love offering? Right, I wrote one for two fifty for the love offering? Okay? Now what is this call regarding? Why are you calling me? Well, what I wanted to tell you is that I hate to be a bar of bad news, but you your check that you wrote for two fifty actually has bounced. And wait a minute, you said my check bounce for two hundred and fifty dollars. Your check bounce. So what I'm doing is calling you about recouping the two fifth as well as you know you you cost us thirty dollars in bank fees. But wait a minute, now, I wrote two checks. I wrote a check for one hundred dollars. Did that one bounce? I don't see to it that that that one bounced. All I know is the one that the love offering has bounced. What did you put them in at the same time? Because I wrote him at the same time. They all go in on Monday, ma'am. Now I didn't put them in at the same time. I've been putting them in for the last two three years. The problem is why would people write there, what is your name? M brother Deshaun? And you was at this Sunday? I was. I don't think it matters when when I was there, man. The problem is it that I didn't put these checks in. And I don't understand why y'all write these checks to the track knowing that they're gonna bound, because a lot of people write that good well not right bad checks? Why one clear? Why the other one didn't clear? Maybe you didn't have enough money for both of them to clear? What what did you just say? Maybe you didn't have enough money in the bank for both of them to clear. And I don't understand why people might planning money in the bank at all. My checks clear. I don't write no rubber checks. Well, you wrote one on Sunday, and that's the problem. How are you gonna try to give a lotus? Wait a minute, I think you got me confused with somebody else. I don't write no bad checks. You didn't wrote this to be nice to you. I'm trying to be nice to you. Win. Can we expect the two fifty plus the thirty dollars? So thirty dollars. That's the bank feeds man for the doll gonna check bouncing. My check didn't bounce. I don't check my bank. And if my check clear, you're gonna pay me thirty dollars for calling me harassing me about a two hundred and fifty dollars check bounce. I don't why would you write check? What you want to? Sit up in the church and write these big number checks when you know you ain't got it in the bank. You see, I said, why would you write these checks when the money ain't in? Now? Let me tell you it's one thing. I don't write no bad checks. And you got a lot nerds calling me telling me my check bounce. Yo check is the one that has bounced. And you tell you what you do? Since my check bounce, you paid them, since you got all the money, and don't call me with this again. Hello, don't you hang upon me no more? When don't we gonna get this two fifty and this thirty dollars? Somebody from the church tollbody? I wrote a bad check, I'll write you did write a bad check. I didn't write no bad Yes? Why are you calling me? Why the treasure? Don't call me at church? The treasure is bis. I ain't never know the deacon called nobody about no bad check? Your fully? Thank you? You got the money? I ain't got Who in the hell is that in the background? Who is that a mind? Who it is? We're both going to the same check and you're gonna call me to my I wrote a bad check. You don't you call me no more? And if the check bads, you paid? Okay? Keep passed to know you talking like this? Do pass to no you calling me? Can you ask for that? Look? When are we gonna get this two hundred and eighty dollars? Is what we're looking for from you? I wrote a check for two fifty and not get two eighty. You put the thirty dollars with it? You put two fifty in there? It bounce thirty dollars cost us on bake fees. That's two eighty. Where can the church expect the money? Never? Not No two eighty. You will never get to eighty. You're gonna make me come by your and my check in But what did you say? I'm gonna do what You're gonna make me come by your house and get this money, bring you own, bring it? Bring you what is the address on this check? Check? I got it off the check bring ow. I bet you you'll be limping back and I'm watching you. You better not be spending no money nowhere. You bet not spend not until I get this two fifty plus thirty whatever I want to Okay, No, you know what I am. And you don't call me no more with this because my check did not bounce. I don't see how one check went through and the other bounce. Let me say this to you. We cannot accept you back into the House of the Lord no more until you are not don't you come in the Sunday until we get coming up in the Sunday, And I'm gonna make sure I find you because you the person I want to see you. And you know what, I'm gonna call the pastor right now and ask him because I don't believe my check bounce you fuller? What? Let me say this? Before you called pastor I got no, I'm anna called pastor. No, you should have talked with pastor before you call me with this information. I got one more thing I need to say to you. Ain't got nothing to say to me. You don't upset me with this I'm talking about. I bounced a check. You should have went to pastor before you called me with you. I tall a pastor. One I get, but I got one more thing to say before I leave. But you're listening. What What do you about to say to me? What do you have to say now that you're gonna pay them check? This is Nephew Timmy from The Steve Harvey Morning Show. You just got pranked by your girlfriend. What did you say? Baby? This is what did you say? I'd say? This is nephew Timmy, Baby, Bro the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Your girlfriend has pranked you. I'm gonna beat that. She's just left her. She didn't let me ask you? What more thake though? Baby? What is the baddest radio show in the land, The Steve Harvey Morning Everybody's done it Na. Everybody's written a hot check to the end. It didn't it didn't go through. You know you didn't done that. We need to get y'all black card because y'all church in church. Yeah, Lord, now I have not put money in the Lord knows that I've done that. Yeah, Lord knows. You didn't have not deliberately. You know, it just happens. But you know what something what do you amazed me back in the day is the church for some reason, I don't know how they get They get them check clear Monday morning that fast. It just it goes through any other check tape to Winnsday. Thirsty, they prey on it. They go right to the bank, right, Yes, that's one beaker's job. Your job is Monday morning, get these checks done there to that bank. That's your job. That's right, that's right. The big when they're collecting offering to me, Jay and Junior, we think about opening up a zoom missionary Baptist. Yeah, I mean all right, We'll be back with more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show right after you're listening string show. Now, it's normal for people, you know, to get nostalgic about things from their past. A lot of us do that, Like the Slinky, remember that toy, the Walkman, Remember the Walkman arcade games and even suits and hats for men? Remember pac Man and all that? Sorry and yeah, I still played pac Many. I can't play the new games. They too complicated. I can't play none of the sports game like NBA Live or Madden Football. I don't know what the wid the A B they gump, the ad they roll. I can't do that. Or you know what about being nostalgic about how you raise your kids. You know, we're disciplined and all that, things like common courtesy, like manners, things like that. To come back, Yeah, you're gonna get a whooping? Yeah yeah, did you? Oh I'm telling you're gonna get a whooping? Did you whip your kids growing up? What I'm asking still? Yeah? Well you think they ain't in jail? You're saving him. Temmy, I tried to beat him worse than my mama beating me. Oh that's pretty bad. Ain't None of my kids got it like I got it. I ain't now, But our parents before us really got it too. But we got it. I think we were the last of the kids that got serious beat downs. My kids, my kids and generation well some I really I really pledged my son. You Yeah, I pledged. I pledged. So what fright is here? They ain't cused, but they could, they could go ahead and get it there, they could, they could technically they should actually be in. But I Jewish manners were more prominent like they used to be. I mean, you know what I'm really proud of though. I think all of my kids are very very mantal manners are important. Everybody. Yeah, she's so sweet. Brand daddy, you know you have great kids. Brand being on your answer, you know it. She got a lot of clapback going on. You ain't heard nobody come up with you. I can't talking your daughter talking Visa talking so crazy? An I ain't seen it either. Oh good, you've just heard. I just have people coming over. Can I talk to you for I just can't do it no matter. I'm serious about her business? Though? What else do you guys wish would come back? Like products? Because they said iPad But I mean, you know, I wish Carol free marsterizer would come back? What act curl free yellow? About the red right? Yeah? Come at chess King, yep yo, chis chess King marry go around. Yes, yeah, I want them to come back, but I don't want to have to have the money I had back. Don't I want to come back poverty? Yeah, I have no design for that to come back. What was the famous what was the famous advice your dad about being poor? The best thing you could do for po people's fun is not Warner. I took that advice brand real close, especially coming out of home. Yeah, so Steve, it's time for today's headlines, ladies and gentlemen, Miss Ann Tripp, thank you very much. Everybody. Good morning. This is a trip with the news well, you know, as the US Congress continues to probe into the January sixth Capitol Hill riot, the Capitol was a scene of another violent threat yesterday. In the end, police took command into custody who had driven up to the Capitol building and said he had a bomb. As far as say, forty nine year old Floyd Ray Roseberry drove his pickup truck onto the sidewalk in front of the Library of Congress yesterday morning, told police he had a bomb and he was holding what he said was a detonator. Capitol Police Chief of Jay Thomas Major says, though he surrendered after they talked him down. The Tactical Unit step works close by took him into custody without incident. So you know, no farling, Noah, choke holding or anything this guy. Earlier in a live Facebook video, a man who appeared to be Rosebery warned viewers about having a bomb and told Democrats in the Congress and the White House to resign. Authorities say his truck did contain bomb making materials, but no bomb. North Carolina is still dealing with the after effects of Tropical Storm Fred. Rescue teams in the western part of the Tar Hills state say that two people are dead and some twenty others are missing as a result of the deadly flooding. Their crews have been searching for survivors inside the mobile homes and vehicles that were swept away by the floodwaters. The town of Canton was particularly hard hit. The mayors, Zed Smathers says, it's a sad time. Our hearts are sincerely heavy with the ones that are missing and the ones that have confirmed dead. Even though may not be in the Canton jurisdiction, they are part of the Canton and Haywood County Family Homes even bridges were destroyed a course businesses as well. Many residents are without power, and more wet weather is expected over the weekend. So in North Carolina is really getting it. Federal Aviation Commission Administration rather says it is an evergrowing list of incidents involving unruly passengers aboard planes, usually over the refusing of wearing masks. In one case, the steward felt the need to duct tape one casting pass near to his seat. The airline has since told its employees that duct taping someone is not to be done again. That's not what you should do. The FAA is instead pushing for higher fines. So far this year, though, the amount of fines levied on these unruly people have total more than a million dollars. Here's some depressing news as the death toll climbs in Haiti to over two thousand. According to an article by some seismologists and Business Insider magazine, it is only a matter of time before Haiti experience has yet another major quake. Because the country happens to sit on top of two subterranean parts of the Earth's crusts. Over this magna that's kind of liquid, kind of stuff. Plates that keep slipping past each other, which cause earthquakes. And finally, today would have been the birthday of the late great Isaac hay Is, a great talent, a great man, and a great friend who asked the questions. Now back to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. You're listening show. Now it's time lower the lights please, ladies and gentleman's junior's poetry. Let me just say this right quick, this poem right here. Yeah, forget that. The point of the poem is it's getting close to going back to scoop right yeah, And everybody that's uncles don't get appreciated because we helped. Now, I got a seventeen year old nephew asked by to be in the same grade with the fourteen years He didn't call me. You don't say that on the air. It's true. Hold on, hold on first of all, hold on what you want? What you want me to act like? It ain't hell? What? Okay? Then? My people they know you want to act like he not right? Should I be shamed of the fact that what he won't do, not tell you didn't damn? Niver caught the seventeen ye old, But I didn't think it was gonna happen, but they won great appaut like that now, I mean, would he go in the classroom. They think the teacher didn't walk through all I'm saying. But I'm just saying, he asked me for some stuff, and I just wanted to let him know this. Now. The name of the poem is I'm just hung here. I'll go, hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey, I'm just hung Stop asking me for cash, Okay, because when I helped you out, you don't do number. Walk in the other room and just talk trade, Go bag your mom and your daddy because they the one that had. Because I'm just uncle, I can do all I can do. Now that I know you're going back to school and you like new stuff, but I'm living out here in La Riden Highs. Hell man, it's even rough. Now. I'm not trying to beat me because I really do love you with all my heart, but I'm gonna get a jump on this. I'm gonna say no before you even start. I'm just huh. That's all I can do. That was called the style conversation. Definitely, that's what you're doing. You're sitting there looking for rhymes. There's no rhymes and it ain't got to be. It was called what you do? You have different styles? This was called the style of conversation. I don't get what I was talking to him. I don't this style of confusing. It was Donald Trump? Do you have? Do you have? Do you have any kids? Asking you for? Yeah? Just the fother. This was the style of time. It's called style of car. I created it. We know that you listen to most this one is just most deaf Nit. Why would I go listen to most most deafening? The style of conversation a style you made up. All right, we gotta go, We'll be back. You're listening to the Steven Show. Time Now for ask the CLO, our chief Love Officer. Submit your questions to Steve Harvey FM dot com and the CLO will be happy to answer them. This one, Steve is from Sean in Florida. Before I get furloughed from work, a handsome before I got furloughed from work, a handsome new guy started working at my job. We've been getting to know each other on the phone, and we just found out that he is my ex boyfriend's cousin. My ex boyfriend is on a teaching assignment in Dubai, so he's been out of the country for three years. I figured this will be a problem, but the guy told me we can see how things go and keep it casual for now. What does that mean, Cello, Well, it just means he's gonna continue pursuing you the way you have. You're having conversations, but his plan is to see if it can go further. But he's got to make sure you in line with it. So all it is is he's just saying, let's keep things like it is. But if he keeps talking you, talking you, it's not because he wants to keep things like it is. He just got to see if you okay. We're sleeping with your ex boyfriend's cousin. That's all it is, and if you okay with it, he gonna be okay with it. But he's but he's been doing a gentleman thing and allowing you the chance to make that decision. But that's what he means by we'll keep it casual. Okay, Yeah, you can't take it no more. She said she figured this be a problem DJ and fort Worth says, I have a big problem with my fraternity brother. He introduced me to one of his son's mothers, and she is beautiful. Oh to one of his I'm sorry, I said one of his. Oh that is right, okay, DJ and fort Worth. I have a big problem with my fraternity brother. He introduced me to one of his son's mothers, and she is beautiful and thick and just my type. He told me she was the devil and he couldn't stand her. I ran into her again at the club and we got drunk and had sex that night. She said she did it to get back at my frat brother. I'm cool with it because we're still having great sex. Often. My frat brother has threatened to jump on me if I don't leave her alone. Am I wrong? If it's just sex and nothing else. Don't your boy told you that was the devil? You meet the devil at the club? Y'all have sex dead night. I know that that ain't sound like the devil you do. And now she says she just did that to get back at her Boyfrid. I think I think your fred brother right. Man. Now, you go ahead if you want to, but y'all keep having great sex. We'll go ahead, man, go ahead, But I mean, look, man, you know I don't get a beat down. I mean, brow now your board and told you he gonna jump on me if you keep seeing her. You're you don't believe that he didn't believe the other part that he said you. You're kind of stupid if you ask me first of all, that move him on your boy's ex girl after he told you that he told you to quit seeing her, and now and now you're letting the wrong part of your body do the thinking. So now here's a deal. He gonna find out and he gonna jump on you, and you're gonna get your ass whoop. And then you got to just make the decision. Wasn't worth it? All right? It's kind of crazy, man. I don't even understand, but I okay whatever. Tyra and Charlotte says. I've been dating a man for five years and he has told me I'm the woman he wants to marry. I've a feeling that he's cheating on me, and when I asked him about it, he tells me that he's just making sure he gets some things out of his system before he gets married. I want to see. I don't want to sit around waiting for him if he's seeing other women, but I don't want to lose him. If he's really trying to marry me, should I follow my first mind and dump him? Yes, I'm a simple That's what you're intuition is for. You're dating a guy for five years. Obviously you all was supposed to be in some type of committed relationship. He turns around and tells you after you bust him, he wants to get everything out of his system, but I want to marry you. So if he marries you, how do you know it's out of his system? Right? Follow your heart, follow your mind, natural heart. Good answer, cello. You can submit your questions to Steve Harvey FM dot com. Now coming up next, the nephew in the building with the prank phone call. Right after this, you're listening to Steve Morning Show. All right, guys, coming up at the top of the hour, right about four minutes after, it's my strawberry letter for today, the subject I don't want to be this type of movie star. Okay, that is a subject. Yeah, but right now, wait till you hear this letter. Right now, it is a nephew here with the prank phone call. What you have for us today. Na, your wife gave me a disease. Hullo, it's gonna be crazy. You gave me a disease? Part two? All right, let's go Hello. Hello, I'm trying to each other. I'm trying to reach Dante. Yeah this is who this? Hey? How you doing? Man? Um? Just to be certain you, Dante is married to Tammy, right yeah, okay, cool? Cool? So listen man. Uh so you've heard about me, you know, maybe heard my name before because I used to day Tammy way before you guys got married. Uh you know my name is, My name is Marcella. So I just want to call and say how are you doing it? But I need to say okay, yeah, yeah, I know she mentioned you mentioned y'all used to be together before we Yeah, okay, I've heard about you. What's um? What's the phone call for? I needed to talk to you, man. And I've been holding this back at least four years. You know, I haven't said anything, and you know I can't hold it no more. Man. I'm going through so many issues right now. I just gotta I gotta get this thing. I gotta get this the grips on this thing that I'm going through. But you know, I wanted to come to you, man to man, talk to you about this situation. You know. I hate to bring it to you like this, but when me and Cammy were together, I ain't gonna say when we were together, Cammy gave me a disease. Man. So you know I've been holding this, you know, and I gotta say I wanted to hit you up. I thought about it two years ago. I wanted like, what do you mean like she gave you a disease? She gave me a disease about four plus years ago, this way before y'all got married. I'm from understanding y'all been married about three years, right, Yeah, oh my god. Okay, okay, and you're calling me. You're calling me to get me the heads up. Oh man, I'm calling because stude, these damn the medical bills and all this that's just completely out of control. I can't even you know, I can't take care of myself no more with this, you know, And I don't feel like I have to because she the one that gave me the day of the see. Okay, So you're calling because you want you want me to pay for you want you want us to pay for your medical bills. The dude, I mean, damn, dude, I mean, put yourself in my position. Man, I mean what some brothers pas with you. You know, I'm sitting over here with a disease somebody gave me, and you know they're going on what they like. Oh yeah, but this is so you're calling me telling me my wife gave you a disease. First of all, she would have told me that she. Secondly, now you're telling me like I might have some s. You gotta be kidding me, Well, what did she give you? What disease are you talking about? Man? At this point, you know, I don't even want to discuss it. I just want to get on board. Let's can we get some kind of understanding with the medical bills that I can't inside of control? Man, I'm not paying, okay, I'm not gonna pay for your medical bills, especially when I don't even know what those do. You mean what you mean she gave you a disease? Now I'm over You're freaking the out, dude, dude. I understand, you know, Bro, I hope you're good. I really you know, But I'm just saying, man, dude, I don't know what to do. No mom. Man, I really don't you know? Like I said, okay, yo, yo, you need tell me all right, you talking in circles. You're telling me something you have you caught four or five years ago? Well, what is it? Some it's soundturable. What the disease are you talking about? Man, Dude, I'm all I'm trying, dude, regardless of what it is, I'm trying to handle the medical fields on it. Man. That's what I'm trying to do. Dude. More kind of medical bills could you have for some you caught for years ago? Like four years ago? You should have been able to six sessions? What is it? Dude? She gave me the disease and now I need somebody to play these damn bilds. That's all I'm saying to you, all right, that's all I'm saying. It's Dante, Yo, I'm telling you what I'm telling you. Marcello's quit playing and tell me what the disease this is. It's Marcellus man, it's March Sellers. Okay, I'm telling your name. This I'm getting mad ya Yo. Gave me diabeat it what the diabees? The wife gave me diabetes? Man? Man, you must be coming. You can't. Can't somebody give you diabetes? What you mean she gave you diabetes? Man? Your wife cooking, It was cooking all them cakes and pies and you know all that sugar, you know, and they just cannot Bro had me thinking my wife gave you her piece or some man. You just don't know how to work out, you know how to eat? That's on you, man. I'm paying no bills for that diabetes. It's wrong with you. Man. Oh soo na na na not as funny. Yeah you laughing. You're laughing at me, Dune. Yet I'm laughing at you call my phone talking about my wife gave you diabetes? Bro? For real? Is ovid broy? Can I say something else? No, Dante, what what you want to say? I want to say this, Dante? You just got frank baby this nephew time me from the sea. Why morning? So your wife Camy got me to prank folks? Oh damn yo, oh step I got you back just twenty twenty I got you wow. Okay. See she told me about she told me about Marcello, but I never heard his voice. Bro, I was on fire. Oh my god, uhool, you're good man, Oh my god. Oh you have me some scary dude talking about the disease, especially a disease there's four years lingering. It's like whoa who oh my god, man, I was you know when she got home? I was about to be so man, hey, man, you gotta tell me this. Man, Come on, John Jake, what is what is the baddest And I'm talking about the baddest radio show in the lane? Y'all? Funny dude, this is Steve Harvey morning. Are you eating right? You ain't gonna die until now? I'm worried. Bro, I know you should catch it like that, brod Man, did I go too far? Too? Fuck? You play bar way too much? You played way too Come on, mysel, it's one You make me nervous every time I hear one of these. Now I'm gonna tell you something for real. That was pretty damn really when you flipped, say your wife gave me dive beating. That was that hard left joke that a lot of people don't know how to take. No, man, man, you don't get your That is crazy. And you got the sample of approval from you your uncle there and that means a lot to me right there. Thank you just don't. Don't get used to him much at all. Don't get your home, not not praise heaping. We've to do a bunch of explain Jesus. All right, all right, nephew, thank you, great job as usual. Up next it is the Strawberry Letter. Subject, I don't want to be this kind of movie star. We'll be back right after this. You're listening to the stew all right, it is time now, kids for the Strawberry Letter. And if you need advice on relationship and work, on sex, on dating, parenting, and more, please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve Harvey FM and click submit Strawberry Letter. Okay, buckle up, hold on tight, we got it for you. Here it is Strawberry Letter. All right, thank you, nephew. Subject listen, I don't want to be this kind of movie star. Okay, and listen. If you do have kids, please, they don't want to hear this letter, and you don't want them to hear this particular letter. Dear Stephen Shirley. Yeah, I'm disclaimer. Oh you can leave him in there and let them learn something. No, Steve, this is not a teaching moment for kids, all right, Dear Stephen Shirley. My girl and I have been together for three years, and I instantly knew she was the one when I met her. She cooks, watches sports with me, and she supports my dream to be an entertainer. Our relationship was just perfect until about eight months ago when I was on an adult website browsing through amateur home videos and I noticed one video with a background that looked just like my bedroom. After I zoomed in, I saw that it was my bedroom and it was a video of my girlfriend and I getting it on IM confronted her and she told me that she too wants to be an entertainer dot dot an adult film star. She told me that she has posted over twenty videos of our best work in the bedroom. Now, I'm not a shy person, but she should have at least told me first this is crazy, right should I should I have covered so I could have covered my face. She begged me to keep participating in the videos with her, so now it's something that we do often. She makes good money from uploading the videos to the site, so this has become a lucrative part time job for her. But I can't help but think that this could come back to bite me in the butt one day and keep me from becoming a successful entertainer. Last week, I told her that I'm out of the home video business with her. Okay, I told her that I want to settle down with her and have a normal lifestyle. Well, she is furious with me and said that she's been supporting my dream for two years, but I won't support hers. So Stephen Shirley, should I support my dream and make this thing work? Or should I leave this madness and move on? Please help? No, absolutely not. You cannot support this. This is madness. You need to move on from this. I mean, you know this isn't right. Come on, why would you want to do this? And and yes, people are going to find out. I mean you're in the entertainment business, so there's some leniency there, but you can never take these videos back there. They're going to live on the internet forever. This is your heart isn't into this. You don't want to do this? This is why is this her dream? Anyway? You've been with her for three years and it is a betrayal because she didn't tell you. You have to agree to this if you're going to have your butt out on video on the internet. Come on, now, this is craziness right here. Yes, she's wrong on every levels, especially because she didn't tell you if your dream is to be an entertainer, an entertainer, this is not the way to break into the business. I guarantee you that some people have yes, and they've gone on to do bigger and better things or whatever. But I don't think you need to be a part of that. No, she's wrong on every level for doing this. Should you should you support her? I don't think you should and make this thing work? No? No, Should you leave this madness and move on? For sure? Leave the madness. And if she's mad at you for not supporting it, you're gonna have to leave her too. Steve bro I don't see what the letter is for. In this whole letter, man, it's just madness. You know you're going along. You meet this girl, y'all been together for three years. You instantly knew she was the one when you met her. She cooks, watch sports with me. She supports my dream to be an entertainer. She do all that. She just waiting on this game to be old. Yeah, she watching sports. So we can get on here and make you damn movie. I'm watching these games, I ain't really watching the game. I'm looking upside your head because I need you in here to getting this damn movie right. Relationship was perfect to About eight months ago. I was on an adult website get browsing through the amateur home videos. Right noticed this one video headed background it looked just like my bedroom. Hold on, so I zoomed in. Huh, I it was my bed room. I'm surprised you recognized the bedroom for you recognize your ass. That was the shockle for me. But damn, you're talking about that's my bedroom. You wasn't paying no attention to the two people in the bed right, This is my bedroom. No, that's your behind. I zoomed in. It was it, and it was a video my girlfriend and I getting it on all you use proper grammar. It wasn't me and my girlfriend. It was my girlfriend and I. You might use proper grammar, but you're on you on the porno site. Wow. I immediately confronted her and she told me that she too wants to be an entertainer. See all these three years y'all been talking around, you ain't never uncovered that dog. You had to go on the portal site to discover. Yeah, she wants to be an adult film stock. She told me she'd have posted over twenty videos of our best work in the bedroom. I ain't no shop person, you know. Damn. You got to tell him. I could have watched her something, but you could have told me so I could have covered my faith. Or it's been to get out, and it's been to get out. Yeah, Oh it's gonna it's out. It's out. Now, somebody gonna recognize you. And let me tell you how it's gonna go. When we come back, I'm gonna tell you how you gonna get recognized. I can't wait for this, Steve. Yeah, your birthday, No, dude, on your birthday. If not, now win win. All Right, we're gonna have part two of Steve's response to the Strawberry letter. I told you guys it was crazy. Subject. I don't want to be this type of movie star. Okay, I don't want to be this type of movie star. Steve's responds. Part two coming up at twenty three after the hour. You're listening too, Let's recap today's Strawberry letter. Steve. Subject, I don't want to be this type of movie star. This dude met this girl three years ago. I knew she was the one. Perfect fellow low right away. They've been to have three years. Everything was perfect. About eight months ago, he looked up a wants to go he on a pinto sake. I'm just going through the home video and he noticed that that was a bad room that looked familiar. He zoomed in and the reason looked familiar because it was his bad room. But it was him and his girl in the video. Oh hell no, crazy, we're landing in fronted her right away. Baby, baby, it's a video menu. I know it is. You ain't the only one. I want to be a star. I want to be a star too. O god, I want to be an adult film star. Well, hold up, I posted over twenty videos of us doing your best work, and it has turned out to be lucrative. We're making money, man, he said, well, hold on, hold on, I ain't shot nothing, but she should at least told me so. I could have covered my face. See, this can't get out about me. But the problem, though, all is it's gonna get out about me. I'm gonna get to that in a minute. She begged me to keep participating. In the videos with her. So now something we do often, you just in't here just clown. She made good money from uploading the videos to the site, so this become a luke at the part time job for But I can't help but think that this could come back and then get where. He said, this could come back and bite me in the butt one day. Well, everybody else in your button, you might as well get it. Bit they up in it, they stand in it. And they said they could come back and bite me and keep me from becoming a successful entertainer. Last week I told him I'm out of the home video business with her. I told her, I want to settle down with her. See this what lost me in right here. So you want to settle down with a pound start out? Wow, you want to make hum you know what your point one? Because if you quit the videos and her dream is to become an adult film star and you quit doing it, she gotta get somebody else. Coastar didn't need damn movies. But here Coastar no, he he don't wanta do it no more. I told her, I'm out of it. I want to settle down. I want to settle down. She was furious. With me and said that I've been supporting your damn dreams for two years, but I want to support hers. So Stephen Siley said, I support my girl and make this thing work. Should I leave this madness and move on? You know, goddamn water. You need to get out, run, you know, do about four five more films and get out, do about four five more films and get out because she makes good money. And put that bag on your head. Paperback that paper bag, you know. Now, let me tell your problem, bro, it's out here. Somebody gonna find out. These are the ways that people can find and out. Flipping through the year book? What didn't he go to school? Didn't he go to school? Boards? Is he? Dunas? Here go another one, dude, dud, I'm flipping through the side right here. He don't know? Ain't he the band teacher? What? What? Hello? I'm looking at it d ry? Ain't that day daddy? Here's another one? Come on loud, Jesus, you ain't gonna believe what I seen on my granddaughter phone. Not grandma. That Deacon Patterson who he's a teacher and he's a band tea your he in charge of the cub Scouts pack six sixty nine. Yes he is good lord and missing. She hasn't turned it off. You know. He teaches to Sunday School class dared Sunday. I'm to get dressed a little earlier. Go down here, down Deacon Patterson, cause Dennis Patterson is doing the moden Patterson and he packed. Matter of fact, Dennis is packet. Come on, Grandma, I got to show this to Arline. She still Arline still goes out at night. Oh Lord, Lucy, get off the site ground. I can't they got here out thirty four videos counting them, and if him and the girl was in twenty you know, I think this to man that Steve were reading about on the Strawberry I beat dog gone. We didn't wear them, Ellen, Ellen, we find we's in the Strawberry letter. We finding. I've been to call Steve and Sherlan tell him we didn't found the victims in. They let him and he's a deacon of our church and he teaches Sunday school. Whild We're gonna collect her offering. Man, we got a chip in and make another movie. Grandmother, my niece find out what hull just trick itself. Oh my god, Hey listen we gotta get out of here. Guys, email us there, go to Steve Harvey f m oh boy, the Strawberry Letter. Today you're listening Steve Show. All right, guys, it is time for comedy roulette. Let's go, guys. It's very simple. You take three subjects. You put those three subjects on a wheel. Spun the wheel where it stop. We'll make it funny, because that's what we do. Put all right, here we go. Things you say when your baby mama calls asking for money again? Uh. Number two Excuses people make not to chip in on gas money when you're on a road trip. Here's the last one. All right. Reasons you give to not look a person in the eye, all right, all right, spun it, spun it. Give me the gasping. Let's do that. The reasons you give to not look a person in the eye. I can tell you right now why sometimes you can't look a person. Now, you know how people wear them glasses and they win them tight on their face, and to be sweat down in the lids. You can't look at that. You can't look at that. It'd be sweat down at the bottom of can't look at that. We can't do it, it'd be all sweaty in the lids. I can't look down when you ye. I'll tell you the reason why you can't look at people in the eye because it's missing. That's why I can't look you in the eye. Because he's what happened. I can't see. I don't know why if it's missing. I'll tell you why you can't look somebody in the eye. We just got through having hard, hard, steaming sex. I really can't look at you now. I can't just what we just did for real though. We just can't make no one contact. We're talking about thing reason why you can't look a person in the eye. Cast a breath, stink that good. If I'm looking in your eyes, that mean my head is up. And this is too much reason you can't look a person in the eye. But because for some reason you thought it would be cool to shave off your eyebris and drawing them all toward your boy here. Yeah, I'll tell you what he has another white cat. The people of the eye. Because when you're sitting in a corner by yourself and want nobody talk to you, that's because there's a strong body, older coming director from you. Ain't nobody's gonna look at you. All right, Well, thank you guys for two day's version of comedy Roulette. Thank you. Coming up more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show right after this. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, come on, Steve, you have a segment called I don't know who invented it, but i'd sure like to thank them. Well, I'm like to start this off, and we're gonna alternate, but I'd like to start this off with the guy that invented the salt shaker. Yeah, because if I had to get my salt off of a block licking it like a deal out in the backyard, that bothered me. I'm so glad they put it in a damn shake. That was ingenious. A salt shaker that way. I ain't got to use that box with the little white girl on it with the raincoat because it just pulled too much out. It's a spout. Somebody made the shaker, thank you? All right? All right? I got one whoever took that root bill and poured it over that ice cream and made that float. Greatest invention in the world, right back, A n W root bill over ice cream. All right, I'll tell you what I would like to Ain't the person who was the first one to say, I'm gonna whoop your ass, because I've been using that with my nephew for fifteen years and it is working. I'm telling you, I didn't know I'm gonna need that, but that is important. Whoever was the first said that, I like to think the person that came up with the terms sugar honey, ice tea. I can't tell you how many times that it came through for me. I ain't did some sugar tea and it and it has meant so much to me throughout the years. Thank you, man, Because you know, ain't got some manure? Was not cutting it? Ain't that some Ain't that some car cor that ain't it? That's some poop. No, No, that don't work. No, it don't work. That don't work. That's a good one thing. Okay, check this. The first slave that took them chitlings out that hole and said, you know what, we're gonna figure out someone that r him. I'm gonna work. Well, I'm gonna clean this a real good to see what I can do with it. I ain't gonna I'll be back y'all give me a minute now. Really, I don't really, y'all give me a minute now. I'm gonna come back. When I come back, I'll tell you what I like. I would like to thank the person who kept the grease and put it in the can on the stove. Come on, I like to thank them because that second back of fish is always better by you be crunching. I don't like to really thank them. Said I'm not throwing this away. I don't know what made him say it, but I'm not throwing this away. Put that in the Crisco can and let's just hold on, Joe. I don't say that, but thank yeah. I want to think whoever came up with running shoes himps was wearing dat us out at an alarming ridge. You know how hard it is to watch people walking and ran over platforms and and and stack heels shoes. Thank god, somebody came up with a running shoe. This is my invitation to my board Peanut. We were standing on the corner one day and this was Peanut running from the police. You're gonna get caught sound yeah, okay, okay, okay, okay, Sugar. How about this one that bottom TV only got volume. Whoever put that put that other TV on top that only had picture right there, the picture from the bottom, the sound is from the top, vice versa. Whoever came up with and put that TV on top of that, bow down to you, because every household of broken. That's good looking out, that's good looking up. Last one. Come on, whoever came up with protective custody, so when you go to jail, you ain't gonna be out there with everybody else if your asses them is a little chump day. Your ass on him the protective custody and don't have to worry about regular prison life. Thank you for protective custody. Okay, I don't know who invented it, but I'd sure like to thank them. Coming up more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show right after this. You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, Carlos, this is our girl chat segment. Okay, no boys allowed. You know how we do? First of all, two celebrations today on this Friday too. Now. First of all, today is National Radio Day. You know, yeah radio, Yes, we do. Yeah. Happy National Radio Day to all of our college eggs everywhere. We know what you do we know how you do it, and just keep doing what you're doing. Okay, we love you, we see you, and I mean, Shirley, hats off to you. You've been in the radio game for a minute. I've been in the radio game for a minute. But we gotta thank our listeners because we're nothing without them. So thank you all for waking up to the Steve Harvey Morning Show every day on National radio Day. They're the reason we do it. There would be no us without them, you know. Amen say that in Chicago when I used to work with the late great Doug Bank. So it would be no us, you know, if if it wasn't for you, I mean, who would listen? That's good, you know. But um, and before we run out of time, Uh, there's a second celebration today. It's another national holiday. All right, we gotta get to this. We need a drum roll here, someone please, Okay, drum roll. I'm beating on the desk. Okay, what's you guys? All right? But all right, today we have to say happy anniversary to our girl, Carla Farrell, seventeen years in the marriage game. Baby you and toush yeah it, yes, thank you, Yes, all right, Happy anniversary, Carla and Tag coming up more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show. We'll be back at thirty three minutes after the hour. Right after this, you're listening to the Steve Morning Show. Now it's time lower the lights please, ladies, Joe time for juniors three hours. Let me just say this right quick, this poem right here. Yeah, forget that. The point of the poem is is getting close to going back to school, right yeah, And everybody that's awful don't get appreciated because we help. Now. I got a seventeen year old nephew asked by to be in the same grade with the fourteen years. He didn't call me. You don't say that. Air hold on, first of all, God, hold on, what you want? What you want me to act like? It ain't hap Okay, my people they know what you want to act like. He's a scholar. Becase he not? Right? Should I be ashamed of the fact that what he won't to do not a fourteen year old? Damn Nick caught the seven teen yeld. I didn't think it was gonna happen, but not they won great appause that is what they like that. No, I mean, would he go in the classroom. They think the teacher didn't walk these all I'm saying. I'm just saying he asked me for some stuff and I just wanted to let him know this. Now, the name of the poem is I'm just hung. Yeah, I'll go, hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey, I'm just hung. Stop asking me for cage, Okay, because when I help you out, you don't do nothing but walk in the other room and just talk trade, go bag your mom and your daddy because they the one that had. Because I'm just hung, I can do all I can do. Now that I know you're going back to school and you light new stuff. But I'm living out here in La Rids Highs health. Man, it's even rough now. I'm not trying to be mean because I really do love you with all my heart, but I'm gonna get a jump on this. I'm gonna say no before you even start. I'm just hung. That's all I can do. That was called the style conversation. That's what you're doing. You're sitting there looking for rhymes that no rymes. He ain't got to be. It was called you know you have different styles. This was called the style of conversation what I was talking to him. It's just style, Donald Trump, do you have do you have? Do you have any kid asking you for? Yeah? Just fother This was the style of car style car I created. Do we know that you listen to most? This was just most? Why would I go listen to most? Most? Deafening? The style of conversation style you made up? All right, we gotta go, We'll be back. You're listening, all right, Steve. Here we are the last break of the day, on this last day of the week for us, this Friday. It's been an impactful week. UM leave us with some closing remarks. You know, Steve, I think that um I want to share with you is something that prevents so many people from becoming successful. And that thing is called excuses. You know, it's it's it's it's amazing how when we want to justify a lack of effort, or we want to justify our procrastination, all we want to justify not doing something we said we were going to do. We want to justify just not getting started. We can come up with some pretty pretty impressive excuses. But you know, the thing about an excuse, though it serves no one except the person that's providing the excuse. The person you're giving the excuse too. It does nothing from them because their level of exp dictation for you was in place, and the fact that you didn't come through. I mean, how can you possibly think that this person is sitting there going, wow, that's great, you didn't come through. Now you're here, okay, Well I'm sorry that happened. So when will you get to it all? You'll hear something like, oh wow, man, I didn't know that. And when you walk a guy and when you walk away, that person goes, wow. I can't count on them. If you keep giving excuses, then after a while a person just goes I don't believe nothing, he says. And either way, man, the person that you gave the excuse to, I can promise you they don't think as much of you as they did when they first thought you were coming through. Folks, if you could learn to eliminate excuses, you know, taught me not to have excuses. My father follows a strong man. Man. It's dude was powerful to me. It's the greatest dude to have a new But he taught me about excuses, he says, Son, don't ever give me an excuse, because what that ain't gonna do me no good? He said, we ain't got nothing. At least you could give me your word, he said, we ain't got nothing else, we ain't got too much more than a part to piss in. But if you're gonna give me your word and tell me you're gonna do something, don't give me no excuse instead, because now we ain't got nothing, y'all. If you can eliminate excuses, if you could stop the allowing yourself off the hook, because that's all it is. The only person you're hurting with these excuses is you. I'll give you an example of how you hurt other people with your excuse. Sister. If you have a child and you keep promising your child that you're gonna do so, if you're a dad, you don't live with your child, your boy or your girl, you tell them you're gonna come by. That child is at the window, and that the door waiting. They got their little bag pack, they got their lunch packs. I'm going with my daddy, and man on man on man. The disappointment that had that child had when you went and then you call in against what you say. I had to work. Sorry, man, but I had to work. Well, I got, you had to work for guess what, And there's nothing for that child that was waiting on their dad. Yeah, I got, you got to work. But what they got to do that don't stop the disappointment and the child. See excuses, man, they go alone. Wait many they do far more damage than you can imagine. So after a while, if you keep doing that to that child, and you keep promising your child you're gonna do something, you never do it. Ah, think about that, man, what that does to that child. If you're in a relationship and you keep promising the person you're in a relationship with it you're gonna do something for them, you never do it. How long you think this relationship gonna last. You gotta do what you say you're gonna do. You can't create excuses. But then the person who really gets damaged is you. Because when that child grows up and he can now stand on his own, and he can take his own self somewhere, and he can buy his own clothes, and now you want to come around and hey, that's my son, and then he's old enough to ask you questions. Yeah, I'm your sombol. Where were you when I needed you? Man? Where were you when I was standing in the window? Where were you when I was sitting on the porch, man, with my lunchbox, just looking at every card that went by, hoping that my daddy would finally come through to my mama finally told me coming there off the porch. You see, man, now you got to deal with that and all in excuses you was giving that boy or that little girl back then. It don't mean damn thing to them, you know, man, And it stops you so much. See, once you become a person that provides excuses, it ain't just to your children. It ain't just to your love one, your love on. It's to your job, it's to your career. And pretty soon you start giving excuses to yourself because it's a pattern of behavior and you got to break that pattern of behavior because it's a no win situation for you. Stop making excuses. Man, Why don't you just simply do what you say you're gonna do. It's much easier to do that. If you say you're gonna do it, be a man of your word, a woman of your word, and go do it. Period. Now, if you're not gonna do it. Say that. Be a man of your word on that. See, that's what I do. When somebody asked me to do something, I distinctly tell them, ain't man, I'm not gonna do that. I'm sorry, but I won't be there that way. Ain't no hope of you're looking for me? Well he said it wasn't coming. But I'm gonna see if he come anywhere. No, no, no. If I tell you I'm not coming, you're pretty much bank I ain't coming. But if I tell you I'm coming, you can look for me, and chances are I'll be there. It would take a lot for me not to do what I say I'm going to do because I just ain't made that way. I don't like the excuses. You can't get to where you're going with a bunch of excuses, all right? For all, Steve Every contests no purchase necessary, void where prohibited. Participants must be legal US residents at least eighteen years old, unless otherwise stated. For complete contest rules, visit Steve Harvey FM dot com. You're listening to