Today's show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time y'all don't know y'all back a suit, looking back to back down, giving them just like the million bucks things. And it's not through good Steve Hartley, I don't join Jo. You gotta use that turn ar. You gotta turn to turn them out. Got to turn out the turnout, turn the water the water. Y'all come, come on your thing. Uh huh, I show we off. Hey, good morning everybody. You're listening to the voice, Come on dig me now, one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. I've been saying it like that since I got it too. All right, I gotta go one for you today. Yesterday the other day, I was talking to you about the most effective weapon available to us as human beings, I think is prayer. I think prayer helps us in so many ways. But right now, what I want to do is I want to show you how prayer pays off. I want I want to show you what good it can do for you, even me. I use it every day, and and the days I don't use it, I feel it that that you know, the days that I go, you know, without talking to him as much, I notice it. I feel it. I feel a certain kind of way. You know, those are those that doubt starts slipping in again, that uneasy feeling of uncertainty slips in again, and that that wondering what I'm gonna do start slipping in again happens to me, happens everybody, man, I think, I really really do you know, if people would just keep it real with each other, stop being this Christian, this superman, because you ain't you ain't. There's a scripture that says that's none perfect, no, not one. That's everybody that covered all of us thought. So sometimes I think we're a little too hard on each other with that too, seeing us how we're not perfect, we immediately want to just just oh man, you just want to kill when we find somebody do something wrong. But if we go public, everything go public now called social media. But anyway, I just want to talk to you about how prayer pays off. It's called all eye and money. People got money, call it all eyes a return on investment. People are always looking for a return on investment. You know, nobody, nobody in business really gives you money without understanding the return on investment. They don't even give money to charities unless they think it can do something with the bottom line. A lot of companies work like that, I found out out myself. Sad, but it is true. So since everything is expected to work on a return on investment as soon because we're human beings. So since we're all human beings, whether you're in business or not, you're still in the business of living. I think when you pray, you should expect a return on your investment. You talk to him, you spend time opening it up to him, you bowed your head to him, you humbled yourself, you got on your knees. I mean, but really we're talking God here, So really, what you're doing ain't really about nothing. Be honest with You're a little bit that you do do on his behalf. It just pales in comparison with what he does. But let's just say you want to call yourself invested, well, let me show you how it pays off this because for me, this is for me. Now, pray pays off in different ways. That's what I had to learn. See, I was praying, but I was asking him specifically for what I wanted. I had the audacity, though, to turn around and tell him how to do what I wanted. That's amazing, man. I can't tell you how many blessings I blocked coming my way by putting my faith in what I said I wanted and how I wanted him to do it. I want you to give me this. I want that person to go away. I want this person to accept everything you say. Then I want to go over here, and I want this deal to happen like this, and I want that person to just step aside and let let me through. And then I wanted I was. I hadn't mapped out. God must have been chuckling really hard. He hadn't been gonna. Boy, I made you to be funny. But boy, you're funny now. So you're gonna tell me how to do it. And you've all heard this right here. If you want to make laugh telling me your plan, well, that's what I did. And that's how we pray. A lot of times we pray, and we pray in the prayer with telling him how to work it out. Well, here's the deal. This is what I've learned. Prayer pays off in different ways. There's a different return of my investment when I pray. See, sometimes when I'm praying for something a situation to dissolve itself or go away. Sometimes I get courage out of the prayer. Prayer provides me courage that's just to go on and look at it. I guess face it then. Sometimes when I'm praying about a situation, sometimes prayer gives me hanging power. Sometimes, man, it just I look up and I'm just handling it better. Sometimes prayer gives you laugh at off power. Sometimes, man, you just got to laugh at off whatever. Man you trip it? Do you know what that is? If you could do that? You know? Sometimes it it gives you a show of strength power. Sometimes prayer allows you to have the appearance that you got it all together. Nobody got to know the world. When the tornado, the hurricane that's swirling in your life, you're standing over that like the eye the hurricane you and it's all swirling around you. But you're standing that like the eye, you just as calm. That's what prayer does. So when you pray, man, it builds up a lot of things in you. You know what it's done for me. Prayer has built up character in me. It's made me have more character because I'm able to stand stronger on the things I say, because I've been praying. Because I've been asking God for all of those return of investments. I've been asking God for courage. I've been asking God for hanging that power. I've been asking him to give me the power to walk away. I've asked him to give me ignored power. I've asked to help me laugh at off. I've asked him to show me strength. But you know what I was doing, I was really praying, not really for them things be real with you, I was asking them to help me, Lord help me. You ever done that? You've asked God for help and then all of a sudden, the list of these things show up. See, sometimes how you want the problem to be solved ain't the best way. There's a lesson to be learned when we make mistakes. And sometimes you got to stay in that fire and you got to learn that lesson. But guess what, though, when you come out of it, you're gonna be better for it. You're gonna know more about it. Come on, y'all, pray. He's solid, His word is true, it lasts forever. He do what he's say gonna do now, all day, all night, twenty four seven, he do it all day all night and then some more. His word don't ever change. It's true. It works for me. It worked for you. It worked for Jake's worked for Old Steam. It worked for Kirk Franklin. It worked for Paula White, It worked for Billy Graham. It worked for Mother Teresa. It worked for Gandhi, It worked for the Princess Arabs. It worked, man, it worked for you. What you're waiting for? Why don't you put praying your game? Watch what happened to you? You're sitting in that jail sale and you're struggling with it, and they're telling you bloody and blood out, you can't get in you. That's foolishness, man, What you mean God can get you out of anything. Look, man, if you didn't read your Bible, he didn't got some people out of some sticky situations. I don't know what you're talking about. If Daniel was in the lions den and Jonah was in the belly of the whale, what you're talking about? Where you are? You just sitting in the sale with some dudes round and you're talking about what they gonna do. Man, you gotta be real. God can't nothing to do nothing. Nobody can't nobody do nothing to you. God won't give you to strift to handle. Prayer changes things. Man, you're listening to show, ladies and gentlemen, let me have your undivided attention, please, all right now, what's about to happen, what's about to pop off? What's about to go down? What is about to present himself? Is the focused most live is? Yeah? Ignanti said morning show on Earth. God like there are some who has ignorant moments. But to hold this igness for four hours truly is a guilt. That's my alarm that lets me know it's time to start this igness right here. So let it begin without further ado. Let's get it started. Steve Harvey, Good morning, Colin Farrell, Morning morning, Sunshine. What's happening to crew? What up? Junior? Man? Uncle? Ain't nothing but you and us and everybody else? Who's up? Family, Nephew, Tim, big dog and dog were in the building. Baby doesn't make it do what it does? Shot it plenty o you day is done and suny and b but not a sad shoot at you? Did he say the old day? He did? Yeah? Yeah, he turned in the channel. So just when he hit it, you you hit it go. I thought you was doing it. I got one for you too, just and Luther, Yeah, Oh, I thought he was asking you to turn to the OJ he was. Yes, I'm thinking he's trying to do a little DJ. He don't know what the hell he talking, right, you, what's wrong? Take my money, Joseph, Oh, you know you were never making a name that tune? Man, and it's back, son of shit, said oh, j I always want to be on this show. It's back. I bet you could do that call. I bet you could win. But they can only do a certain They do R and B seventies, eighties, who were champs, right, can't you can't win in the nineties. I ain't gonna win in the nineties. Name that tune in one note. I can't believe I was wrong. Hey, you know what, we are to do a version of it one day? Just have Dave just play just a little step and out. Okay, that'd be fun, that'd be great. And then you comment, no, you couldn't even get the rics. I didn't even know. I play against Julie Steve, against Julian Steve, against Junior. I swear to god, I thought I was right everything I didn't even group. Great group. They was good Julia. Uh huh. They were always believe who is that? Who is that? The son? Come on? Nah? You know lu Lutha was the eighties Lutha. He stay Lutha here, Yeah, the Temptations originally, then he say Lutha up on? What the Lutha is it? Luther al right? Uh, we're moving on because we're getting ready to fight up in here, coming up in thirty two minutes after the hour, asked the CLO in the building, Chief Love Officer. Right after this, you're listening to Steven Show. All right, guys, time now for ask the clo. The Chief Love Officer, Steve Harvey is in the building. Are you ready, sir? I know you are all right. This one's from Loadonna in Southwest DC. Lodonna says, I've been divorced for three years and I don't think dating is for me. Why is it that professional black men don't choose professional women, whether they're black, white, or another race. I'm a professor and my colleague is engaged to a woman that's a secretary. My brother is married to a woman that's a waitress that was a waitress when he met herb. I can't get a professional man to look my way, and I'm curvy and fine. What criteria are men looking for nowadays? Well? What should I be doing differently? First of all, they're looking for love. Please don't feel bad because a man is in corporate American and he's dating a secretary or waitress. He found what he liked. Now see if they were skipping over waitresses and the secretaries, See, didn't everybody have a problem with that? So it's not that stop looking at them. Your focus is you. That's all you got to worry about is you. And part of the problem you have a right now is you. Your focus is in too many places other than you. Just do you get yourself together. You've only been divorced three years. You know now you've narrowed your search down to only professional men. So let me ask you something, miss professional woman. If a man was a manager at home depot, he can't say nothing to you. If a man UH worked at the post office, he can't say nothing to you. See So if you want to have this, if you want to date by class, it's gonna be a little challenging for you because your night in shine and armor could be in the in the in the making. How did she say she was? She didn't say still, he didn't say Donna from self? Ohay, what's her name? Donna from She was born in Haylo. Donna? How you doing all right? Here we go? Okay. Patricia west Palm says, my parents will be celebrating thirty seven years of marriage in March. But I recently met a man that says he's my little brother. He's eleven years younger than me, and he's my father's twin. He told me his mom's name, and I remember the lady because she worked with my dad. He said his mom moved away before he was born, and now he wants nothing more than to meet his father. He wants my help with the introduction. Should I help him or not? See l O, Well, I mean you might as well, you know, I mean he came to you. You say he'd just split an image of your father. Might as well help him out, you know, I mean it is now. Let me ask you a question, though, Does your mother know about him? Doesn't sound because you say your mother y'all celebrating thirty seven years? Does your mother know about him? See? That's the problem. Yeah, that happened to me. You know what happened to us that happened. I found out later in life that I had a brother. My father had an outside child. My mother did not know, and she was not happy at all. My parents and marriage ended on that same principle. But my father was dead, so I can be mad at him. Yeah, I'd probably get over a little bit quickly. She did, because if he was alive, Lord, ain't nobody to cuss out at one point, she just got to go ahead and move on. Yeah. Yeah, but um, but I would I don't know. I mean, you know, I would. First of all, I would do I would take it to your father and let your father manage that situation. It's not a situation for you to manage. Yeah, I think you take it to your father and just let your father know that you're gonna love him no matter what you know, and just be that because it changes nothing about your father's relationship. Which you would change is nothing. A lot of people have made all kinds of mistakes in their lifetime. You know, you can't be held or you can't hold a mistake over your head for the rest of your life. Everybody want to make everybody pay when they discover they had a mistake. The lord's press says, forgive us our debt says, we forgive our debtors. The other line is forgive us our trustpasses we give those who trustpass against us. So you gotta start living like that if you don't, and you're gonna need forgiveness in a minute. So his mom is gonna be upset. Oh, she's gonna be. She's gonna be man, she's gonna be. No, I'm just saying my mom was upset too. Yeah, that that stuff happens. I can believe it all right, Um, Shady and Indiana. I just know I know her mom's gonna be mad. Shady and Indiana. I'm a twenty five year old married woman and I have a female friend that my husband used to date. We've been friends for years, and she gave me her blessing to date and marry her ex. My husband has a problem with us still being friends, but he's still friendly to her in person and on social media. My best friend said, there's something shady about that, and I need to watch them. Do you think that's okay for my husband to be friendly with her? Well, wait a minute, now, lady, you went to her and she gave her blessing to you. It's your friend, this, your friend shady that gave you her blessing because she used to date your husband and told you to go on and marry me and be happy. Now you all won't your husband. Your husband got a problem with y'all still being friends, but he friendly too in person and on social media. You do the man. I ain't gotta tell you nothing. Yeah, her best friend told you know, and how and how y'all still all that cool? Any damn way? Everybody cool? Everybody cool? You cool with her, hel she cool with you, He cooled with her, she cooled with him. It too many damn cool ass people in this story, the situation before you just said forgive. Maybe they all forget, forgave you each other. You don't sound like it in this letter. That forgiveness was in the other letter. No, these questions are separate, Shirley. I'm just saying, I'm just saying trespassing in this one, okay, right right, it's too much going on, this, all this consenting adults right here, all right? So what do you think she should do? She wants to know? Do you think it's okay for my husband to be friendly with her. I don't think it's cool for you to be friendly with So you got too many damn friendly people. But you can be friendly with it, but you don't want him to be friendly with it. Y'all need to make up your mind. All right, Cello, thank you. I would dissolve the friendship and move on. Okay, all right? Coming up next, the nephew is here, would run that prank back. Right after this, you're listening string show coming up at the top of the hour. Miss Anne is standing by with weather and national news. Also it's Groundhog Day guys, plus an entertainment news. Kanye West. Yeah, Kanye West is being sued by his Sunday Service performers. We're going to talk about all of these stories at the top of the hour, but right now, the nephew is here to run that prank back. What you got for his nev super Bowl trip? Super Bowl trip? Come on, kay, Hello, I'm trying to reach a Martina Please house. He's not in right at the moment. Can I take a message or somebody can help you with Actually I'm giving a call to make sure double checking on confirmation for mister and mississ No, man, now that may be mistakes. You're going by herself. I'm not going, so that should you should should be missing? That's all? Oh okay, all right, Well I'll tell you what we have. We have our schedule. We wanted to make sure we gave the confirmation and uh, you know, with a big weekend like this, we're double checking and making sure everybody's actually coming and getting their rooms because you know you're subject to get charged for it. And we definitely have the honeymoon sweet waiting on her. Who honeymoons week? Man, we've been married seventeen years. What's you talking about? Honeymoon sweek? Well, we got you, you see, mister and missus. What's the name on that missus? Martina? Is that right? Yeah? That's my wife? Yeah, all right, and we've got Tony as well. Who who is Tony? My name is Vernon? Say Whatno, my name is Vernon? Who the hell is Tony? So? Um, wow, we we have we're this is uh the wrong one. I think I got the wrong one. Man. Okay, did you guys make reservations here at the hotel and for the super Bowl weekend? My wife is going to this weekend to be with her six conte that's what she told me. Now, I don't know nothing about and those, but you know what, Yeah, keep talking to me. Yeah, okay, keep talking to me, because this is getting really interesting right here. She's coming to I have a mister and missus Martina, and only they're coming. We have the honeymoon suite here for the Super Bowl weekend, checking in tomorrow and checking out on Monday. I don't know, you know what this is right here? Because he now, I got said she told me she was going to see her seek auntie, and I told her cue I paid for the damn taking myself. I got my extra turning back and I paid for my damn self so she can go out there. And you're telling me this help for the main reservations and because this is let's looks, I mean with the hell now, h Victor, Victor, what's your name again? But my name is Vernon, Okay, mister Vernon, sir. I first of all, I do apologize. I'm just a you know, own calls here and in the reservations and basically they just got us calling because it's a big weekend and you know, if you if you don't come in your your card to definitely get charged. They got to stop. Y'all been not charged nothing to my card. Don't charge mat fact, I want to cancel this reservation. She can can fall back in as far as I'm concerned. This is the letter walk out up in here right now. Letn't walk out up in here right now because he this is this. Okay, let's let's just slow Let's slow down a minute. Let's slow down. Maybe that's just a mistake here. I mean, no man, uh huh the honey Doom suite at the nose one that she took, no wonder. I'm like, she told me she needed two hundred dollars for them hotel, me for the hotel room. Yeah. Well actually it's uh well, they must be splitting in here. It's it's it's about four hundred and something to night for this room. Excuse me. She didn't pay that much for my day Whitton ring. Wow. Okay, well I'll tell you what, sir. Is there anyway I can I can call back and speak to Martine, So I can I never in life call back to this, okay, because she if you call back here talking about this, because he I don't even normally answer this phone. Okay, this is her phone. She want to go run an airand from me. But don't you never call this phone back again because she she ain't coming, not this lifetime. She's not. But uh, you know what I would to thank you though, I appreciate you let me in on the room was up. Yeah, I knew it. Okay, Okay, mister Vernon, slow down something man hain't on. Okay, now listen. What I have to do is I have to talk to the person that made the reservation in order to cancel it. Now, definitely mean, but you're counseling right now, but I need to hear that from miss Martina that's counseled me. When did she get back? She's gonna even talk to you. You can cancel it now, I'm telling you now, counselor it ain't gonna be no honey news. Okay. We've been there for seventeen years, We got folks, and I'm sitting back here dog counceling. Now. I'm telling me to counsel. I cannot cancel it without speaking to her. I tell you what your best bids to counsel that, because if you put a charge on it, I'm will try to and find Joe. What's your name? Excuse me, what's your name? I'm Brian, Sir, Brian. If there's one charge with my critical I will find you, sir, what I mean missions? Do you have Tony's number where I can call him and maybe you know what? You know what? I'm gonna have Tony's number in the minute because I got her phone. I'm going to go through it and find it because this is some and she's gonna do with Tony. So if you called back here, you're not gonna get her because she's gonna be over there with that. Okay, sir. Now there's one more person that's on the schedule on the room, A one more person where they're doing the threesome. I'm not sure. Now I got another person on the on schedule on here. This can't get no words. Come on with it you want to, I'm sorry. You want the name of the want the name? Yes, come on with it. You can told me everything else. Okay. I got a a somebody named Nephew Tommy. Excuse me, Hey man, this is Nephew Tommy man from the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Your wife got me the prank phone call with you. I'm gonna I'm a DNA at that the DNA out. This is hey Man, okay, and that's who she's been talking to you on the phone. Yea, all right, yeah you got met Hey Berning. I gotta ask you, what is the baddest and I'm talking about the baddest man radio show in the land, Steve Harvey Mourning showing you're having ladies and gentlemen and an extraordinary bank phone call I'm having after you himself. Thank you, thank you, thank you, oh dear, thank you. Hey you're talking about the honeymoon. Sweet yeah, put it all. I liked him. I like ready set go people. I like people that in five seconds, Vernon was having it that you we know it's you know that you tire life already set. You don't even life, Steve, you have always been like that. You're always been like that. I've always done that way, always, even when you were a kid. Yeah, I mean where I stayed, you had to be already set because goal go down the street. You're being ready set go for it as a kid, though, I'm trying to think, do you know how many well I grew up in the neighborhood where you had to fight dog fight, fly fight or fly dog. You had to be able to fight, I mean, and we fought about everything because you know, back then, you know, we wasn't shooting each other, nothing like this. But we're gonna put these hands up. And everybody on my block, everybody around the corner on prim Rolls down lake View, everybody had hand m But what's the best thing about it? If you lose, you go home. If you win, you go home. Man, And you're playing two days after that, still be flush, man, It's gone right. One hundred and twelve hund twelve the day was it a rule? Everybody saying, hey, don't go out hunt twelve? That had to be a statement. But you couldn't go down one hundred, twelve hundred, eleven hundred, ten hundred and fifth if you're as could all right. Coming up at the top of the hour, we'll have some entertainment and national news for you. Right after this. You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show. In today's entertainment news, Kanye West is reportedly being sued by members of the Sunday Service cast and crew. The class action lawsuits Yeah Junior, which are which were filed last summer in Los Angeles are divided between the performers and the crew. It's about eight hundred people. Eight hundred people suing Kanye West. Performer Michael Pearson says he was paid a flat day rate of two hundred and fifty dollars. He wasn't allowed meal or restroom breaks, and many performers had to stand all day or sit on the floor because there wasn't enough chairs. As if that wasn't bad enough, some of the performers had to walk home because the shuttle wasn't provided for them. Kanye's opera allegedly violated California labor laws by not paying employees on time or in some cases ever, and denying them overtime, meal and bathroom breaks. What according to yes right Hill? What okay, okay? I can't go pay all right here? Yea already on the second verse? Watch this right right, I'm straight through these slavery clothes you got us win right doesn't designer originals. I'll have you, no, sir, I don't care. Any nobody gonna do that to me. I don't so how much money, No, it doesn't say how much, but it's a lot. As a class action, lawsuit. According to a source, no one knows how involved Kanye is or if he even knew what was going on, as it was also last minute. It was terribly run. Whether it was mismanagement, accidental, or on purpose. This is a very very strong case. But well, you know, I don't think it was Kanye per se. I've been and you know he's got people who run that stuff for him, and I just think of something incompetency on their part. I've never seen him do anything cruel to a person, you know, especially in that creative space, you know. But so I don't know that he's aware that the Minister of Music knows everything. Let's find out who that is. Now. The Minister of Music can tell you exactly what's happened. I bet you the Minister Music and somebody who should went to the past of the Minister of Music and say these people ain't been paid. No exactly, That's what I'm saying. I'm surprised he didn't know. Yeah, uh, getting to him, it is not. He's not easy that guy. Yeah, you know, you don't just walk over and strike up a conversation. Oh you can't approach the choir. I mean no, I'm not saying he's unapproachable, but it's lawyers to get to him. So if I'm in his choir, I can't go. You're not gonna be able to say a damn thing to him. That's what you want to hear. So I can sing for him, and we can sing for the Lord, but me and him can't talk. Well, you don't sing that good tim so well don't matter. But hey, let's get to this story. It's a sad one and entertainment news. This is out of Hollywood. Former Saved by the Bell star Dustin Diamond has passed away. We all knew him a screech on the show Saved by the Bell. Yeah, Diamond had stage four lung cancer and after the news broke just last month, his condition had rapidly, rapidly worsened in the past week. Be Saved by the Bell co star Mario Lopez tweeted, Dustin, you will be missed, my man. The fragility of this life is something never to be taken for granted. Dustin Diamond was only forty four years old. Wow wow wow Yeah all right, Steve Yeah, time for today's headline, ladies and gentlemen, Miss Anne True. Okay, here we go, thank you very much. Tens of millions of people from Pennsylvania to New Jersey to New York and New England now dealing with the back half of a two day snowstorm. Slippery white stuff and icy conditions all over the place. If you're by the shore, there's actually melted ice and water and flooding. They'll have all prompted strict travel advisories and restriction, states of emergency, scattered power outages, but not as many, they say, as they expected. Coronavirus testing is about to become a whole a lot faster and easier. That's because President Biden's developed a deal with the an Australian pharmaceutical outfit for an in home COVID test. Kid Now's without a prescription, and it delivers results within fifteen minutes on the user's smartphone. You could just do it at home. Meanwhile, the Associated Press report said an international investigation into the origins of the coronavirus is underway in China. A World Health Organization team has been sent over there to the two disease control centers that responded to the virus when it was first reported in Uhan. By the way, China has reported more than two thousand new domestic cases of COVID just the last month. President Biden hosted a group of Republican senators at the White House yesterday afternoon, and as main Republicans Susan Collins says, they explain their differences with him about the COVID relief package that they feel is much too expensive. It was a very good exchange of views. I wouldn't say that we came together on a package tonight. No one expected that in a two hour meeting. But what we did agree to do is to follow up and talk further on how we can continue to work together on this very important issue. Right now, it looks like there's a lot of real estate though between the numbers. The GOP wants to spend six hundred billion with a bee, but mister Biden is hoping for one point nine trillion with at the Reverend Jesse Jackson underwent what a rainbow push polkesperson says was a successful minor surgical procedure last Thursday. He is recovering, they say, today, in the hospital and his spirits are good and he looks like everything is good. The Reverend Jackson, who was diagnosed with Parkinson disease in twenty fifteen, is said to be on the mend after being admitted because of an abdominal discomfort that he had. You may remember he announced his condition to the world in November of twenty seventeen, and at that time it was said that he'd actually been diagnosed two years early at twenty fifteen, but of course our prayers with him. The Rainbow Pushed spokesperson says it was minor surgery and it was successful and that the Reverend Jaskin is on the mend in the hospital. Sad but not tragic news left. According to his wife, singer Tony Bennett, has been fighting Alzheimer's for the last four years, but she says he still sings every day. He's ninety four years old. We wish him the best as well. Now back to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. You're listening to show. Well, today is Groundhog Day, and naither the snow or the pandemic delayed the Groundhog Day virtual activities from Gobbler's Knob. We all know if groundhog punks Connie filled that is the shadow earlier. Well, it's a blizzard going on right now where he has yeah, yeah, really or whatever? Yeah, the fact we've taken our key from a groundhog. I'm gonna tell you something. Growing up in Chicago, this was a very very important day into us, very important growing How long has this been going on forever? O? My god? Yeah as long as I can remember. Yeah. Did you see the movie with Bill Murray? Oh? I love that. I love that classic. It is well he said that A long radio repeated. So we're in the middle of a blizzard right now. Thanks for nothing. Has the groundhog ever been wrong? I just do you understand that that's really not true? No, we don't understand. Uncle. We've got our host that ain't got nothing to do with it for that ain't real what y'all had an hog ever been wrong? You has been really waiting on this Dame Groundhoday, ain't even waiting on kay, Steve. Remember I got in trouble about Santa Claus. Okay, I'm waiting on time to change back. Damn about this warter groundhog day? All right? He said, warter Hawk called the calling you called it? Stay with me calling water Hall. It's a crown, you crazy man at water. I like the other hall better, the one that seemed Coulam. That's the one I liked. So we just found out that it's not actually groundhog Day. It is what Timmy, it's what hole or it's the sweat hogs from Welcome Back Carter. It's one of them. It's groundhog Day, Okay, groundhog Day. You don't care by a time. You want time change, that's all I care. All I want time gonna change, so it don't get dog till eight thirty, that's all I want. I'm with you. Spring forward, that's what we're waiting on to see and spring passed at home? Are you just calling it a hog? Now? Hey, if it's chitling's in there, it's all all right. Coming up a thirty four minutes after the hour, we'll have more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Right after this. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Today is the second day of Black History Months. We want to say congratulations to our Queen Stacy Abrams. Stacy Abrams has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Come on here yesterday, yesterday. This is such good news. Norwegian lawmaker Lars Heartbreaking said abrams work follows in Doctor King Junior doctor Martin Luther King Junior's footsteps in the fight for equality and for civil rights. Stacy Abrams voting rights organization Fair Fight Action has been credited for being on the ground and getting Georgia voters out to vote. Doctor King won the award back in nineteen sixty four, if you recall, and just so just so happy for her, happy for Queen, Yes, yes yes, and other Black history news. The Black Lives Matter movement has also been nominated for twenty twenty one Nobel Peace Prize. A Black Lives Matter calls for systemic change around the world. That's great news, forcing other countries to grapple with racism with their own societies, and that's really good news. The Nobel Peace Prize will be given out in October, and those are both very good nominations. Go ahead, girl, I'll tell you somebody else should get one as we look back on it historically. Colin Kaepernick, Oh yeah, I could see that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I see that. Yeah definitely, you know, I mean that's the way you kick off Black History Month for sure. Um yeah, I mean really really, I'm just so happy for Stacy Abrams. Um. You know, there's still a buzz that she may be running for governor again, of maybe of Georgia. Yeah, well Georgia blue. You made it blue. Your Republicans and Georgia are a little scared. They've already got up a website Stop Stacy or stop Abrams. They're already getting scared of her right now in case she might run. You know what I mean, they just stop. The opposing party just goes into automatic opposition, all tomatic, because for them it's just power position. To buddy, there's nothing else. That's all it is. Skip what she's staying for, what she willing to do, what she willing to fight for. Your Democrat willn't want you stop Stacy stopped to and man, we are already starting all. She hasn't made an announcement or anything, you know. Yeah, but she has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Congratulation. Yes, yes, you better do it. Congratulations. Yeah, we're all very very excited. I mean, Steve, it's it's a good time right now, um to be black. You know it really is. Because I'm gonna tell you something, Shirley, It's always been a good time for me. I'm gonna just be honest with you. It has been one of the great joys of life to have to win under the circumstances that I've had to win, to perform under the conditions that I've had to perform, and to thrive and all of the mess that I've had to manage to thrive in. It has been a great joy. And plus when I look back on it, I don't know what I would do if I wasn't black. I would have missed out on. Being black has been extremely funny to me, but has been extremely rewarding. It has been extremely empowering being black. Man has been my honor, my honor to walk in the room and be the only Black in the room. And it's like, we can about it anyway because this is the way God made us. But I mean, I've walked in rooms and been the only black in the room. Yeah, yeah, of course I knew it. Yeah, yes, yes, but walked in that anyway, and then had been fortunate enough to command the presence when I walk in. Yeah, I think rob me, man, God gave me a lot of that. I don't walk in the room and you don't know I'm in here. Oh Steve got when does Steve getting here y'all saw me said no one ever? Right, all right, thank you Steve. Coming up next, the Nephew with today's prank phone call. Right after this. You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show. Coming up at the top of the hour, right about four minutes after. It's my strawberry letter for today. The subject I'm tired of his grunting. Know what that? But yeah, it's not what you think, um, And maybe it is. We'll get into it in a few but right now, it is the nephew here with today's prank phone call. What you got for us, nep Well, it's Black History y'all. We've been talking about it this morning, and it gives me great pleasure to give you something that represents us to who we are. We need you to be a slave in Black History Month. What else do you want me to ask you to do? It? Get your Get your nephew, Steve. Please, let's go. God Dog. 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 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 bi with some help for this year's Black history. Um, for this month, I should be glad to help. Okay, listen, UM, we're having an auction tomorrow and wanted to see if you could actually maybevel some help with the auction that we actually have going on tomorrow. Yes, do I need to donate anything or but no, you need 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 will 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? The concession 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. Often somebody's gonna buy you tomorrow and you will be the slave for the day. Slaves. Yeah, you will be a 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 what we want were they call. But I'm not gonna be no slave. 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 no, I ain't gonna be in a slave. Okay, okay, 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 Glenna's Yes, I am turning your down. Don't call me with that kind of no more. I mean, I don't understand what what the problem is. You know, 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're acting like a housene grow or something like you two up at your housene grow. Housene 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 thing to me. Do not call me with this kind of again. Are you gonna show up tomorrow so we can tell you? You understand me. Are you gonna show up tomorrow so we can sell you? We already have you know we're gonna sell me. We ain't all listed to be sold tomorrow. Sell you. We've got you listed to be sold tomorrow, ma'am. Can we please make you don't be sold? And you not call here again? Hey, listen, if you don't show up tomorrow, then we will come to your house and sell you there. Come to my closet you 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 bad, Come on to my mouse. Okay, I 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 being a save 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 a clock, better bring you my house. You at a not do you understand me? I a march for civil rights. I don't have time for no like that. 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 sell me you and don't call my house 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 so tomorrow? Tell all? Now? Don't tell me. I got one more thing I do need to tell you. What is it? Bess? Is Matthew Tommy from the Steve Harby Morning Show. You just got pranked by your sisters, My sisters, my sister, I can't believe that I'm gonna get Huh, I can't believe you to did clemda? You all right? All right, this is so crazy. I can't believe it. I'm for this. It doesn't sound like you were gonna get stole. No way, he know you wasn't getting on this auction block. Huh, no no way. Because listen, have been there, I've been at the city end, the marches, I've done some everything. Yes, ma'am. Well, I tell you what, missus Glennon, 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, but that the Nephew Tommy. We love you, missus Glendon's okay, love you too. My favorite time. Frank right there, Oh my god, my house, you can kiss mind right, I help y'all live. But I'm not going to be no damn flavor. Man, I'm not doing that. You went back and saying, if you don't come down here, I'm coming down there and sell you at your house, your house. I wish you would. I wish you would. That's the first thing black people say. I wish you would over here with it. Come on, oh, man said said it best white people hold Black people wish about different creed. We wish that was crazy. This is Black History Month. Yeah, that's what we're doing on this shell. So yeah, oh, thank you man. Wow, that was Glinda and you do it well. All right, thank you, nev You Coming up next Strawberry Letters subject I'm tired of his grunting. We'll get into it right after this. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and listen guys. If you need advice on relationships, dating, work, sex, parenting, and more, please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve Harvey FM dot com and click submit Strawberry Letter. We could be reading your letter live on the air, just like we're gonna read this one right here right now. Buckle up and hold on tight. We got it for you here. It is Strawberry Letter. All right, subject, I'm tired of his grunting. Dear Stephen Shirley, My husband and I are both in our early seventies and we've been married for thirty years. My husband has gained a significant amount of weight in the last ten years, and he's changed in a lot of other ways. His table manners are terrible, and he throws food in his mouth and sounds like he's out of breath the entire time he's eating. He grunts and moans while he choose. Our grandchildren think it's funny, but it drives me crazy. It annoys me so much that I eat in the din. He moans and groans when he sits down, and when he gets up. He makes noises when he gets out of bed and when he lies down. Whenever he gets in the bed for the night, he sighs really loud and makes baby noises until he settles in and gets comfortable. I won't even mention sex because it's the worst part of my marriage now. Yes, he still tries to be intimate, so I play along, but his extra weight and the noises he makes are a big turn off. He snores like a grizzly bear and coughs throughout the night. If I sleep in the other room, his feelings will be hurt and I don't want to do that. He keeps his routine checkups and he does not have any health problems, thank heavens. The only problem the doctor noted was that he was overweight and wearing out his joints, which is why he grunts so much. My husband was told to do some cardio daily and follow a low carb diet, but he won't. He really suggested. He recently suggested we trade in our Lexus for an SUV so he'll have more room. He seems to be cool with all of the extra weight and grunting, but I'm not. Please tell me what to do to fix this problem. Well, it is a problems. It certainly is a problem, and honestly, I don't know if there's anything you can do to stop it. I mean it has to be on him to begin with. I mean, he has to do the work. You can help him, you know, do it once he starts, and support him. But he has to do his part. But you said in the letter he doesn't want to. So how to ask you? Can you talk to him? Can you bring the situation up, the subject up about what the doctor said. Tell him how much you care about him and how much you really would like for him to be healthy or healthier. Lose some weight. Maybe you guys can start walking together. You can suggest these things. What about you know, cooking some less fattening foods can be tasty, but you know, less fattening. You guys are in your seventies. You you know you mentioned that. So if he doesn't have any health issues now, some could be coming, you know, with him being overweight. The doctor already said it's taking a toll on his joints, so you know, he needs to be cognizant of all of that. You want him to be with you for a long time. You could tell him that and tell him to listen to his doctor. Tell him you know you'll be there for him, and he could at least try to do better. He could at least try to do better. That's all I got, Steve's all I got, Well, it ain't all I got. See y'all kill me. What y'all like to do? Is y'all like to answer these letters? Y'all keep dancing around? What's really going on? All? Right? Here we go? Yeah? You know? And then Carlin wants you to dance round it, you know, so she can you know air and it don't be offensive to nobody. You two are the non offensive on the show, you know. But don't try to tell Sometimes you have to get two people. Now, that's what I'm here for. My husband now and now early seventies. We've been together, being married thirty years. My husband has gained a significant amount of weight in the last ten years, and he's changed in a lot of other way. Well, let's just go on and get to this letter right now. Didn't gain too much. Damn with it. O Bob is up in there now. You know, Chucky Cheese is in the building now hammering hank. No, don't tell me about no fat shaming. She wrote the letter, her husband has gained a significant amount of work. When a person says significant amount of weight, oh that's weight right there? Ain't him pounds significant? And then he's changed in a lot of ways. His table manners are terrible. It's called he big, he big. How do you think he's gonna have neat ass table manners? He can't even tuck his shirty in no more. He don't use no napkin for what that food got to travel too far from the plate to his mouth, and every time he throws food in his mouth sound like he out of breath. I didn't ate with people like that. Now, let me tell you what I did like about the letter. He's left and he sounds like he had a breath entire time. He grunts and moans while he choose. Our grandchildren think it's funny, but it drives me crazy. Oh the kids is holly. Oh the kids is holly because they hear it. Now, the kids is Holly's driving you crazy. It annoys me so much that I eat in the den. He moans and groans when he sits up, and he when he sits down, and when he gets up. Now that's happening old people. Nah, that's getting That's how you get up. Yah, gotta make that large when you get up. Now, here's to sit down? Nor who what a relief? Yeah, that's getting up. That's sitting down. All right. We'll have part two of Steve's respond Steve, you're healthy. Maybe you can help him out. Coming up in twenty three minutes after the hour. Subject of the letter. I'm tired of his grunting. We'll be back right after this you're listening to show, all right, Steve, Come on, let's recap today's strawberry letter subject. I'm tired of his grunting. Lady been laying him in the early seventies. They've been married thirty years. Your husband and grain a lot away. The significant amount of buddy fat asses up in here just eating wrong. His table manners is wrong. He grunt and smacked when he chewing, and sound like he had a breath the entire time eating, and and and and and The grandchildren think it's funny, but it drives you crazy. Well, the grandkids gonna think it funny. You know. We had a minister that used to come to our churchen, used to smacking taste the whole time he was delivering the summon leave the garden, you understand, like the large sand y'all don't hear me. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, we hear you. It's just that we're hearing a lot of extra stuff too. Well. Now he makes noises when he gets up and when he gets down, when he sits up, and when he sits down. I told you before, that's getting up, that's sitting down. That's up, that's down. All right. Whenever he gets in the bed for the night, he sighed really loud and he makes baby noises until he's settling. Here we go, I know what that is, because that's I got, I got part of do that. So he gets in the bed and then heal yeah. And then when he get that cover upon him and get that pillar right, then he go yeah. It's kind of like old ass versions of nursery rhymes. Don't let that body all right now here we go. I won't even mention sex because it's the worst part of my match. Yes, he stills tried to initiate, so I play along. But that extra weight and the nass is a big turn off. I bet it is. And he got all his big ass, got all this weight in here. He trying to be sexy, sexy, been gonna he roll over on you. But little dude, he know he already was on you. See that's what's hard about when big ass people roll over on you. They don't realize that they was already on you. Now he'd roll this big ass over that nas all over here. Now it doesn't overlappt. I know, I know, ladies, I know you don't want me to go there, but I'm trying to fix it. And then ain't it just just his big ass ain't gonna now? Let me get to the park. He snowed like a grizzly bad cough throughout the night. I sleep out of the rooms and feeling get hurt. So I don't want to do that. Now here's depart. He keeps his routine checkups and he does not have any health problems, Thank heavens. What who the hell is y'all's doctor? You the diagnose full medical problems in this damn ledder? And then the doctor Terry, y'all ain't nothing wrong with him, his fat ass gotta wait problem. He wheezes when he talked, He got a small esophagus because he got a grunt, and make noises while he chewing and stuff. He has sex. He way too much, he's slopping. How many more medical problems you need? He got him at now he wants it. The doctor and told him to have a low carb diet and do some cardio daily. Old seventy year old people don't even know what that means. Quit eating so much and start walking. And we're not having breakfast, you do because cardio on a fasted stomach helps you burn more fat. Now that's all the help I got for you. Well, yeah, because you're into health, and I'm very much into health, but not in this letter. Lady Head wants to trade into Lexus so he can get an suv. That's because he's starting to get staying wheel burns on his stomach in that Lexus, you know, because he making all him right and left turns, and he get developer staring wheel burns on his big ass stomach in that little ass Lexus. He figured he get that suv. Bag about this wheel a little bit, he probably gonna have just gone and start driving a city busting, if you know what I mean, Because that's staring wheel is further way from me right there. That's all I got to walk and diet and lose some pounds and you know it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He seems to be cool with all this extra where he ain't cool with it. He just ain't doing nothing to get over and he's seventy. Yeah, he doesn't want to. But I'm gonna tell you something a doctor one time told me. He says, Steve, do you know any seventy year old, three hundred pound people? He said, bro, you can't do that in your old age. Your heart can't take it. That's right. He has got to get himself together. You have got to work with him. If you love him, you got to get him do it. And that weight is causing him to breathe heavy and strange and all that grunting to get up and down. That's what that's weight. That's like having ah. That's like somebody just laying a careful a can of ham on your chest at night. You know you ne had a whole ham pick fifteen pound ham at the store in the can and just lay it on your chest at night. That's how he feels. That's what all that breathing is for. He got a whole can of ham on his ass at night. So if she yeah, okay, we agree on that. If she helps a lot of hard saying cook low calorie meals, yeah, you know stuff like that. All right, Thank you, Steve. Post your comments on today's Strawberry Letter at Steve More Like a Whole pot, rolls ownership on Instagram and faithbook, and check out the Strawberry Letter podcast on demand coming up at forty six minutes after the hour. Junior Sports Talk right after this. You're listening to Steve Morning Show. All right, Junior, you are ready with sports talk. I presume take it away, Take it away. Talk about Shirley is. The super Bowl is on Sunday, and that means this week will be dominated by talk of the big Game. But if you're not from Kansas City, and you're not from Tampa, and you're from Texas, and you don't have any taste area, if you if you're from Cleveland, it ain't got no matter what you want to no matter. Hey, hey, hey, I'm in LA to tape NFL honor. So I'm I'm bitch and everything because I'm going to do this week. Go ahead, Junior. So I'm saying, so, who you ruff in the game? You ain't got Yeah, I'm pulling for Texas. The Texans aren't in the super Bowl. He asked you, who are you pulling for in the super Bowl? If you're gonna put your bed down in Vegas, who are you putting it on Kansas City over Tom Brady? Yeah? I don't give a damn about Tom Brady. Man. Well, I ain't never liked the Patriots because he either switched teams don't mean nothing to me. I do like Tampa Bay though, I really can respect though. You know, Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback ever played this game, and oh my god, hands down. But when we root for a team, though, are we rooting because it as a player we like on the team. Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you ain't got nothing in it, you see, y'all see like see like the Texans. Y'all should pick somebody the root for and get ready because he's gonna you do a lot of years. You ain't gonna be at it as many years. If y'all we won't do well, I tell you what you did already win one mode enough so you lead? How about that? Seem and Sean won't out Hopkins? Going a matter of fact, I'll be talking to Hopkins at the NFL honors he signed up. I'm gonna talk to hot Who is the coolest player you talked to on the NFL? Honest man? I I love the old school dude man Michael, Irvin him at, Ronnie Lott, mean Joe Green, Carl Michael used to be the receiver for the Eagles. Yeah, man, Franko Hass was cool. I love Terry Bradshaw Man. I like Aaron Rodgers. I met him, you know. Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, man, Me and Bet played golf together. Yeah, I like Bet. Bet was at your New Year's e party. Oh yeah, oh yeah, Better School yeah yeah. Oh no, Better Skood people man from Better Skood brother Man. Yeah, but man, one of my favorite celebrity family feuds when we have on the Hall of Famers against the rookies, and boy, everybody over there got a gold jacket or they through when they asked, Man, oh the rookies be mad mad. Yeah, I want to get one of them. Jackie boy, you know what you gotta do to get one of the damn Jackie You know these black news to Jackie Man, you're ask me to get you a contract. Don't worry about this damn jacket. All right, Junior, coming up? Thank you. Who you got, Julie, I've got Kansas City Chief. All right, all right, we'll be back with more of the Steve Harvey Morning right after. You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show passing on big plans for a night on the town in favor of a quiet Valentine's Day at home. Well, lots of us are going to be doing that this year. But that doesn't mean it can't be romantic. Our chief Love Officer, mister Steve Harvey is here to give us some tips to create a Valentine's Day. Yeah, like you know, some romance ambiance. H C. Hello, we need that from you. So let's tart about been in this house since last March? What the hell we've been doing here now? Yes? Well that's why we have a clo Yeah clo, come ony, women are calling about that. Women are the creators of It's the thought that count. So give me a budget, shure and give me a situation. How you want me to salve all right roses in the yard? I don't I don't know what the budget is. Let me think about the budget. So you have a couple of hundred bucks, Steve, let's talk decore the table, dinner, wardrobe. A couple of hundred bucks to spend. It's not a lot, I mean, it's just you know, I'm trying. I gotta think of where I can send them or what he can go get doing this pandemic, you know, So you gotta be creative. First of all. Here's what you do. And I'm not just saying this because they advertise on the show, but they do have a good deal one eight hundred flowers. Come on now that right there, get you in the door with some flowers. Women love flowers for the most part. And they got some great deal. So you are here two hundred, you weigh in twenty nine all that they got it for you. Okay, so cool. If you live in a wintry place and it is snowing, listen to me, fellers. Go out there, make a ball of snow about one foot Indian diameter, you know, just a big huge snowball. Then get a butter knife and carve it in the shape of a heart. Okay. Then take red koolaid and pull it on. Now I'm gonna drink that. It's okay, koolaid is cheap. And take outside and show it it's red heart. And then and then as the days go by, you leave the heart out there, and every time you go but you just say, hey, you melt my heart. Just keep going right there, so you write there. Now, if you live in a warm climate, set up a little small table on the back and just have dessert on the back porch with a linen tablecloth on it and a candle. You know, you know, look, look, you know you might have to put a jacket or coat on or something. But it's just dessert, not the whole meal. Just sit on the back porch with the candlelit. Have you one eight flower? One eight hundred flowers brought out there? And sit on the back porch on the candle and just say, hey, I just wanted to change the scene of me with the girl in my dreams. Understand, we can't. We can't do that, nicke though while we have it's good dessert, So we're not gonna be out there. I just said he was outside and I'm asking can it be nicked? Well, I'm just asking you. Do you have neighbors where you have where you live. Most people have have neighbors. Most people have neighbors, tom and most most wives don't want to sit outside naked. Ain't never tried it though. That ain't never tried. And there's a reason why they ain't never tried. But the ain't no bugs out. It ain't spring yet. You know what I'm saying, Hey, dog, why don't you get off zoom and because as soon as you cut your zoom camera, you sit there and look at yourself and you get dumber. And I don't want you to do something else to talk. Stop saying stupid is a skill set? You got it because it's not. It's you dog, ain't no skills. Just because you don't want to be out naked and handsome dessert, don't mean nobody else. There's some people want to have some naked dessert. I'll tell you what do you know anybody wants to sit outside ned and had desert? You know anybody? Anybody? I mean, I mean other than me. I haven't really asked nobody, but I mean, but I mean conversations to come up. You go. Sound it good? You got somebody you can go ask, Go in and ask them. Let us know how I go back. There's nothing to ask my wife to go sit out in a hand on the Steve Harvey Morning. Right after this, you're listening to say Morning show. All right, guys, things have gotten real. The former Vice President Mike Pence um went from flying on Air Force two to flying coach on American Airlines YEP. The former Vice President and his Karen Pence flew coach from Saint Croix to Charlotte, North Carolina, with Secret Service agents nearby. Word has it that Mike Pence and his family will move back to Indiana in the summer coach too. I presume right, yeah, I'm gonna tell you quickly. Air Force. You want to know a big ass drop off from air Force one to cook Man and Secret Service though. Yeah, from them taking your I got the least, get the first class ticket. I got the least need that clo hurting or something. I saw him in the airport. They showed a picture of them just sitting in the terminals. That the game. At least some warm nuts come home, lam nuts. You know, they passed our warm nuts. And first I just heard you said, who is he talking about that? On the day shot the kids in the car show. See, you know what the problem is. You haven't flown commercial per class in years, so you have no earthly idea about the warm nuts. What ever, that means a lot to us. The he pred minutes after the hour right after this, you're listening to the show. Well, today is Groundhog Day, and uh, neither the snow or this pandemic delayed the Groundhog Day virtual activities from Gobbler's Knob. We all know if groundhog counts Donnie Phil that is the shadow so on earlier, Well, it's a blizzard going on right now? We're here? Yeah, yeah, really gob or whatever? Yeah, the fact we've taken our keep from a groundhog. I'm gonna tell you something. Growing up in Chicago, this was a very very important day to us, very important growing How has this been going on? Whatever? God? Yeah, as long as I can remember. Yeah, didn't you see the movie with Bill Murray on? Oh? I love that? Yeah, I love that classic? It is what he said that a law park. The radio repeated the same over. I ain't sorry. We're in the middle of a blizzard right now. Thanks for nothing. Has the groundhog ever been wrong? Just do you understand that that's really not true? No, we don't understand. Uncle. We've got our home that ain't got nothing to do with it, But that ain't real. Had the ground hog ever been wrong? You has been really waiting on the damn ground waiting on? Okay, Steve, remember I got in trouble about Santa Claus. Okay, I'm waiting on time to change back. I don't damn about the war groundhog day, all right, he said, Warhols called it calling, you called it. Stay with me calling. I'm about to wall it's a groundhog, you crazy man? Care about two water. I like the other Hall batter, the one that seem con that's the one I liked. So we just found out that it's not actually Groundhog Day. It is what Timmy, it's water Hall, or it's the sweathogs from Welcome Back Carter, it's one of them. It's groundhog Day, Okay, groundhog Day. You don't care about a tag. You want time change, That's all I care all. I want a little time gonna change so it don't get dark till eight thirty. That's all I want. Spring forward, that's what we're waiting on to see and spring passed that hall? Are you just calling it a hog? Now? Hey? If it's Chipling's in there, it's all man, all right. Coming up is our last break of the day, and we'll have a course some closing remarks from the one and only Steve Harvey at forty nine minutes after right after this you're listening to show, all right, Steve, Here we are on our last break of the day for this Tuesday, and time for closing remarks. I think I spoke about this a little bit last week, but I want to make sure everybody got this. You know, I'm really, really, really looking forward to twenty twenty one. However, it goes even even with the bumps and lumps that it has taken so far this year. I mean, twenty twenty one for a lot of people has gotten off a little rough. Twenty twenty one for a lot of people has been like a new start. But the fact of the matter is, for all of us, all of us, twenty twenty one is a blessing to even be here. Of all the things that's probably in twenty twenty, have you realized have you stopping to take just a moment to look at yourself and go, you know what, I survived it. I'm here. You know this, All this talk about a vaccine, whether you should take it or not, all the number of cases in the United States, the number of deaths. I mean, man, it's it's just horrific news. But you still here. A lot of people lost, lost love ones, and that's that's just a hurtful thing. There's no way around it. I know exactly how that feels. But I'm still here. The blessing is I'm still here. I just got a call yesterday one of my frat brothers, man who I was just on the phone with last week. He died yesterday. Dog, I'm talking about a good brother too. Man, Brother Timothy Moore side Gamma Kent State University, one of the great brothers. Man was a professor at the Institute of African American Affairs down there, Kent State. Man. Just a stellar human being, man, great father, great family man. He passed yesterday. I was just talking with him. Man, we was just email, exchanging some ideas. He gone. But you know what I have to do. I had to keep looking in the mirror. I had to keep looking forward and realize, to God's grace and mercy, we still him. We still here. Man, man O, man o Man. So guess what with that fact right there, I'm taking twenty twenty one. I'm gonna do something with mine. As long as God give me breath, I'm gonna do something with mine. Whatever the day's left he has for me, I'm gonna do something with mine. I'm committed to waking up every day to put myself on the journey to become better. I'm putting myself in it every day to win. I'm putting myself in it every day to get stronger, wiser, just be a better man, a better husband, a better father, a better friend. Man, You can better yourself. The decision to better yourself is yours. This is yours. You don't need nobody's permission to better yourself. Stop sitting around waiting on accolades and affirmation from other people. You don't need that. Get together with your creator and get your own affirmation. I am better now, Thank you Lord. I feel stronger now, Thank you Lord. Then people, most people can't give you strength. I haven't met the person yet who strengthens me. I've yet to meet them. Oh, I've had some people to encourage me. I've had some people you know and tell me to hang in. God is the only person I meant that strengthens me, that gives me complete peace when the whole world around me is swirling. Do you know, man, that if you work on your relationship with God? Do you know that when the storm comes, you can handle it better. Do you understand that when it gets real hot for you out there, that you have a person a ride that you can get and feel like you tucked under his wings? Do you understand how important that is? See, we have a relationship with God. It don't mean that you ain't gonna have problem struggles, hardships, and things of that nature. Because you are This is life. Man. Quit thinking, Man, I'm being a Christian. Something always happened to me. It's something always happening to everybody. Everybody. You're not the only one. President Obama has stuff happening to him. Biden got stuff happening to him. Everybody got stuff. Kamala Harris got stuff happening to her. Stacy, every Tiger Woods got stuff happening in to him. Everybody got something happening to him. Welcome to life. That's what it is. But you know what you also have. You have the power of choice. Because God created us in his image, and when he created us in his image, he gave us the power of imagination, and he gave us the power of choice. You get to decide to do right or wrong. You get to decide to chase your dreams. You get the right to have dreams. Birds can't have dreams. They don't. Animals do what animals do. They mate a certain time of the year, they eat this type of food, or they either carnivorous or omnivore. They do vegetables. They don't have a choice. You're a human being. You have a choice you created in God's image, You can actually do the right thing. You can will yourself to success. You can actually be successful this year. Have you ever taken that request to God? Though? Have you ever just sat down and really, man, throw yourself at his feet? In which you know what, I'm nothing without you. I need you every step of the way, shape me and make me and mold me into the person you want me to be. Have you ever done that? Just try it? Just try it, man. It could be the beginning of something great for you. As a matter of fact, it will be the beginning of something great to you, because that's all I got for you. That's the only reason I am who I am today, because I decided to let him take the will because my driving skills is crazy. Those are my closing remarks. All right, y'all have a good one. Talk to God. He loved to hear from you, He really would, and he don't hold it against you that you ain't been over there in a while. Just go talk to God, y'all, have a good for all. 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