Today's show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time y'all don't know, y'all a suit on looking back to back down, giving them like theming bus bus things. And it's good. Steve has to mother start join you. Gotta gotta turn you gotta turn to turn them out. Got to turn them out, to turn the water the water. Come be, Come on your baby, huh, I sure will A good morning everybody. You're listening to the voice, Come on, dig me now one it only Steve Harley got a radio show today. I want to just share something with you along your way to wherever it is you're trying to get to. You know, everybody has a different definition for success, and I'm not. I'm not here to tell you what joy should be. I mean, please pursue whatever you think success. He is aim as high as you can though, that's for sure. My father used to say all the time. I'm sure you all have heard it in different variations, but he used to always say, aim for the moon. Just in case you miss, you'll still be amongst the stars. Just say that to me all the time. So that always was in me to aim high. Now he wasn't saying aim with the intent to miss. He was just saying, aim in case you miss, you're still amongst the stars if you aim for the moon. But if you just aim for that first flow winder and you miss it, you know, usually run into some type of wall and nothing happens. You slither down. You know. In my book, act like a lady, think like a man. I told her people that men love three ways. They profess, they provide, they protect, and that's the core essence of a man's love. Well, there's some other peas in life too. The number one thing you have to understand about trying to be successful, and I guess I call this the four peas. I may come up with five along the way. I don't know. I'm just talking as is given to me. So I'm gonna summer start by saying, as these are the four peas of success that you have to get ready for. Number one, it's pressure. A lot of it is applied by the circumstance of what you're trying to go for and what you're trying to do, but a lot of it also is self imposed pressure. It's what you put on yourself to make it. It's a sense of urgency, it's a sense of necessity. But pressure is the first thing I want you to be ready for. And pressure comes in a lot of different forms, but it's going to be pressured as an old saying that pressure buster pipe. See, that's why most people turn around because of the pressure of trying to be successful. I want you to get it in your mind that it is going to be a pressure rized situation on your rise to the top. Pressure, but understand that that it is what it is, is not going to change. That's it. Prepare yourself, get ready for there to be pressure. The second thing I want you to understand is when you receive this pressure, you have to persist. You got to stay at it. You got to develop a dog getness has a There's a song who says, why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat? Nothing but the dog in me? That's a funny line in that song, because really I was thinking about it one day. I was humming it and and and it, and it occurred to me, said, why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat? Nothing but the dog getting me? And you know, now you could take it in the literal says that the cat chases the dog because it's innately is in his spirit. That cats and dogs are a lot of times enemies. Now people have pets, and him proven that if you show love on both sides, they can exist. And that happens too. But naturally innately, when your cat goes by a dog, your dog don't recognize him. That's some barking going on. I'm talking I just walking through the neighborhood or something. So but the reason that this dog is so persistent towards this cat is just cause it's in him. It's innately in him. And what I'm saying to you, just using that as an analogy, is that you got to be you got to be persistent in that. You got to develop some dog in you now because pressure takes some fighting back. See if you don't fight back against pressure, pressure buster pipes, So what you think it will do to you? Pressure crack walls, pressure calls, explosions. So if you don't fight back to hold it in, you understand pressure does most people in the simple thing called pressure, the weight of what it feels like to want to be successful every single day, over and over and over and over and over. It's just too much pressure. People crack you got to persist. You have to persist. You can. The thought of giving up can come, but you got to get it out. You gotta persist. The next thing I want you to think about is another something that I've been thinking about for years and learn for years. It's called perseverance. To persist means to insist. Keyword in insist and persistence insists you must. You must insist that this is going to happen. Now, the persist I'm assuming means it's a proaction. It's some type of proaction. You go towards it to make it. You know, persist, You gotta be persistent. You gotta be constantly at insisting that it happens. You gotta be constantly at it. But the next thing I want you to remember is perseverance. Perseverance is important. Perseverance means that when you've done your best, when you've persisted, when you're fighting back against the pressure. Perseverance simply means I'm going to hang in here when if a crack come into pipe, I'm gonna hang in there. If the pipe bust, I'm gonna keep going. If I gotta put duct, take mud, whatever I got to put on this thing. Man I'm gonna use perseverance. I'm going to stay with it no matter what. So we're looking at the three things again. You got to understand that it's gonna be pressure that you're gonna have to persist. Keyword and persistence in insist. You have to insist that no matter what the pressure is, I'm gonna stay with it. But then perseverance if it goes wrong. Man, you got to get in there and keep fighting. But then Lord Him Mercy. Nothing helps you handle the three peas better than the fourth pea. You got to pray. You got to use prayer. You gotta talk to God. You gotta use faith. You gotta have some conferences with him late at night, early in the morning, in the middle of the afternoon, when you own the train, when you're driving. You got to talk to God. Man, you gotta get yourself some help along the way. Nothing is bigger than prayer. There is nothing bigger than prayer. Prayer will help you overcome the pressure. Prayer will help you stay persistent, and Lord Him Mercy, prayer will help you persevere. Them is the faux pas that just came to me today. God gave that to me. I'm passing it on you're listening show, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, let me have it undivided attention. It's the beginning, a new week, a new day, a new opportunity. Grateful to be here. Man. All of us that are listening today are surviving and actually doing rather well. I might add, if you think about it, Ladies and gentlemen, this is the quarantine version of the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Yo. We all locked into, all of us. We are all in separate locations. Now. Ain't nobody allowed to come into those studio? The radio Conglomerate or iHeart has passed out all the equipment, had engineers come to everybody's location and set them up. We're all plugged in all the way out to LA and Lord ha Mercy. This is the Steve Harvey Quarantine Morning Show, live and vivid, living color, and let the church say man, hey, man, man ay man, and again man so tired of quaw ranting? Yeah, I think that sermon should come a little bit later today. The complaints may have to well, we will see how I go. Shirley Strawberry, lady girl, please welcome back, Thank you, hey, Steve, Hey, everybody, you just pull back the curtain all the time. Don Yeah, I ain't don't need us acting like we all in the uniting tollers. We can't gather no, especially in LA. If two people standing anywhere together, the shots ring out, Colin. But I'm just saying anything anything lifted, No man. Hey, last night the mayor was on TV out here. The police are now. It's a fourth degree misdemeanus if you're disobeying the stay home rule. Huh. If you don't have real business right, take your man. I ain't trying to hear it, Ladies and gentlemen, The thirty third thousand Wonder of the World, Junior killed boys, spakes morning everybody. I'm so sick of being in here, yes, but at least but the good thing is you in here. Though I'm in here, Jay Anthony Brown, my quarantine attire is bathrobe, draws socks. Sometimes bathrobe and socks. One more time, robe draws and socks. That's my quarantine. Retired and winning for about a week. And the food. Jay Nephew, Thommy, I'm here one more week with her. I don't really know how this is gonna go. Hey, dog, it's gonna be more than where you get a week from though, one more week where you get that time. I'm just saying, one more week. You must have been listening to Trump in this Quarantine's got a random I'm just I'm just saying, yeah, yeah, you must be. I won't. I won't custody then my keys. I won't custody my kids. That's what I want to limit. Tell you something. I'm so crazy, but you know why. Yeah, you ain't quarantine? Okay, of course I am. Okay, Well, when we come back, I guess we'll be talking about something. Steve Harvey Morning Show. This the quarantine Show, but we live. Donte of them must not be there. He must not be there. I'm sorry you're listening to show. Well, guys, the Corona virus pandemic has changed everything New York. Yeah, is that the epicenter of this disease. Governor Andrew Cuomo uh blast arrogant and sensitive New Yorkers who are not practicing social distancing. Some people just will not stay at home. Um. Also, governors in Washington, California, Ohio, Louisiana, and Illinois have implemented shelter in place orders. Republican Senator Ran Paul from Kentucky has become the first senator to test positive for COVID nineteen and now Utah Senator Meant Romney will self quarantine after exposure to the virus. President and his response to the news of Romney self quarantine said, too bad. Wow, so quick, real quick. If you want to see some sense in a press conference, watch any of these governors and mayors from any city. Yeah, from Como is New York. Boy, so much sense. I like presidential I like the boy Washington. I like the mayor of Los Angeles that I've been talking now. I watched Donald Trump on television yesterday doing his State of the speech, and he was doing okay, trying to give out of information. And somebody said to him, and he said, you know what, you know, look, it's hard to be a rich guy and be president. Oh Michael, he said, because a rich man, I've lost billions of dollars since I became president. Billions. But it's okay. I haven't taken my salary. Now. I make four hundred fifty thousand dollars a year. You know, that's a lot of money for anybody, even even for a rich guy. That's a lot of money. I haven't taken my salary. I was just listening to this dude, going, man, it's this dude for okay, But un did you hear him say that they helped people that have died before that have never died. There are people dying who have never died before. He said, this is whose specialty is definitely not public speaking now or leadership. Now, here's what's interesting. I was listening to the retired army general who got down there and took over in Contrite, and he was saying, this is what the United States should do for logistical purposes. All of the equipment should come through the Army because they know how to do logistics and get it to everywhere it needs to go. Because what's going to happen is these medical supplies become available and then certain cities go by all of them. Then they'll have all of them in another city. I have none. He say. Logistics comes into play where you know how to give out certain for so much time. So it's the apply come in. Everybody gets a two weeks supply, then at ten days you resupply everybody. And that's what he was saying, and he was making a lot of sense. Man, But he told the truth of what I've always said. We live in a capitalistic society. The problem we have is the people who can make masks, who can make shields, who can make robes, can make the test first have to know where they're going to get money from before they make these tests. And so now people are bidding these jobs and they're charging like a mask that will normally cost two dollars, he says, now costing six to eight dollars because they know they need them. They're not even two dollars. They eighty some sent normally. Well, I'm just saying what the guy was saying on TV, and which is crazy. And he says, and that's the capitalistic society, he says, but it works in America. But the reason a lot of this stuff is delayed, Number one, the trillion dollars bill they're supposed to be coming from the House and the Senate is not finished yet, and so the money to buy this stuff from the people who do have the supplies, it's slightly held up. And that's that's ludicrous. And to yesterday he dumped that on the Democrats. The Republicans are ready, We've signed, and he know good and well that's the last thing Republicans want to do is giveaway handout money. So it's a bipartisan bill, but it's being held up by a bunch of difference. And that's my takeover. But a h y'all, glad, y'all doing well and your families just doing well? Yes, man, Hey, you know what I'd like to know what everybody quickly, what's a good thing that has happened to you since you've been quarantined, Julia, Oh, Man, I've been reading and educating myself. Man, I'm seven highly successful havings of successful people. Man, it's a great great Tommy. I'm more tuned into what my son is doing, my eight year old, I'm more tuned in. I've never been tuned in into him. I'm watching him now. I'm watching what he does. Jay, before the lockdown, I'm stacked up on medicinal things that I need. I really wentn't got me enough. I haven't many anybody needs everything? Shut up, Jay, more family time. I was talking and being together, dinner together, all of that. Yes, surely, well you know I'll echo what Carla said for sure, more family time. Um, But I realized that I really needed rest. I really needed some rest for myself, just some me time, and I took that. I really needed that to clear my head, to get my body back, you know, healthy and every instrong body was gone, sir, and you know I was gone. I was gone, But you're still stupid. It hasn't changed. The thing that I focused and I've really started focusing on is my physical health because I work so much that I don't have the time for it sometimes. And now what I'm doing is I'm taking real time to really think about what my body needs. Nutrition rise at this age because how I used to be able to lose weight out don't. I can't do it anymore like that. And so I'm starting to fine tune my workouts, watch my meals. Ain't nobody in here with me and Marger. There no grandkids and no kids, so it's just us, all right, some of these edibles, all of y'all. Coming up next, It's time to switch gears. Guys. We're gonna laugh a little bit, Church Complain with Reverend Motown Deacon Death Jam coming up right after that. You're listening. Coming up at the top of the hour, Missiana standing by with today's national news on the coronavirs virus pandemic. Of course, Plus I will also have us some entertainment news at the top of the hour. But first it is Monday. Time to laugh a little bit and a boy. Of course we need that, right Reverend Motown, Deacon death jam in the building with church complaints? Oh today, or deacon, if you don't mind, go hand path, I want to take this time to preach a little. You don't want to hear the complaints? Uh why I'm getting asking, I'm getting happen me. But I might have them next week if you don't want him this week. But we need to hear the word in this time of direcity and the words in this time of atrocitis. We need some words in this time a depravalative, and we need some words in these moments of quarantinedness. Yeah, yeah, I'm kind of stay with him, go ahead. My sermon today is how long will this quarantine go on? How long will this quarantine go on? I've been watching seeing in trying to find out when the quarantine will end. I've been hoping that it would be two weeks. But all of us sudden, don't Nobody seemed to be able to speak. They can't give us a time of day. They can't tell us when the virus is gonna go away. They can't tell us what day of the week it is. What all. I'm trying to find out how along I got to be in here with the kids. I'm so tired of being quarantine. I need some relief just for me. Sitting in this house with just my wife. I've discovered a few things about Huh that I don't like. Bossay as hell is what she is me up this wall, driveing me crazy. I'm about to lose my mind up out of him. I want to lose my mo I want to get that out of him. I want to get in my car, drive to the beach, drive my car across the beach, ride off into that deep blue old shit I just knowed my car ain't float it down. I don't want to kill myself, but I'm gonna drive Fiwe. I want to drive Firewe from here. I'm so tired of washing my hands. She didn't order from Amazon Prime a special surgical soap. Now we gotta wash all the way up to my damn elbow, Like let somebody open brad surgery. I just trying to wash my damn hands. I ain't on enough looking for tumors. I ain't trying to heal nobody from I'm just gonna washing my damn hands. I don't don't wash them for twenty seconds. I don't wash them twenty times. But as I'm washing my hands for twenty damn seconds, they clean. I ain't touch nothing. Every time I grab a fuck, I gotta wash my damn hand, star, wash my damn hands, watch my hands and sickle me. My hands is clean as can be. That's so tired of not being able to answer the door. Don't ring my doorbell, man, man, go to hell, fair ass, don't come by, you know why because I live with the President or the damn Center for Disease control her name and boundry. But she ain't running the damn thing. But you can't believe it if you let her tell it. I'm so tired watching videos. Yeah, every time I turn around, she locking in here with DJ Nice inst grown But he yes, he is D Nice is real nice. But I did nice to got on my damn nerves because nah, I got to type something to D Nice just caused Michelle Obama did I don't get a damn with shell doing. I just want to watch Netflix. That's another thing. Come on. My router went out the other day and caused Netflix not to come on my a TV because it didn't want to come on my TV when my TV didn't work. I was sitting there with rocking back and fall thinking about my our youngest son, Our youngest son. Winton had got an assignment in due Bye, that's in the UAE, and he went over there, and then his mama said that he ought to come back here. That I told her that was safer over that than any other place. She said she didn't care that he needed to come home. Then his girlfriend started saying, Winton, why ain't you whom I was going. You ain't his damn wife. You ain't got to listen to her. But I said, Daddy, I think I need to come home here. I said, get on the plane, come home to the house. He came home yesterday and then uber driver got through the gate. Because Winton know the code Uber. Don't give a damn by no coronavirus number two nineteen or nothing else. They trying to make the paper. He got a uber black. He came up to the door and guess what his Damn Mama wouldn't let him in the house. He no too, when we're starting to turn our children away in just for ronal WoT situation. So now I had to talk to my son through the dope. I couldn't hug him because she told me you can't hug nobody because you over sixty. I can't get the reason all these kids in here because I did some hugging before. I have told you I would die for my kids, she said, But you ain't gonna die causing your kids. I said, I ain't about it. This hill a crazy him. I'm about to lose my mind. So I've been phrase timing my sins. You didn't see went in and I just saw him through the door. But I got a special doctor and I got him a Corona test. But I want you all to do one thing about the Corona test. They shoved this thing so far off your nose and get to your eyeball, and it take a you turn that's far off and going your nose. Sure at the top of the our entertainment and national news, you're listening to st Morning Show and Today's entertainment, So tired ten minutes and now you still pret quarantine. I just wanted to s thank you, thank you. Seemed like the only way I will be able to get out of my house is I got to get the virus. Trying to listen that pastor that don't have service on Sunday, now, he wanted you everything he can. That's what man. Well, Yeah, some sad news to report, pastor, if you're still around in today's entertainment news, Legendary country pop singer, songwriter, actor, and Country Music Hall of Famer Kenny Rogers The Gambler passed away from natural causes. He was eighty one years old. Kenny sold over one hundred and ninety million records The Gambler right there, Yeah, that's right. His mini hit records include of Course The Gambler Lady written of Course, Yeah, Little Ritchie. They were great friends, Islands in the Stream. Kenny Rogers leaves behind his fifth wife, Wanda Miller, their two children and three children from Uncle Good number. Number. I'm a different numbers here, number, James, Tommy, we're all here, Ye, different numbers. That's Tommy though. Jay, We're all here, Uncle Jay and unc Steve. What number is y'all? See? If you keep going at the pace you're going you let us know what number you Yeah, you keep saying the ignorant as smash. You be saying you're gonna get two numbers your damn Yeah, just a problem with shell, stupid ass. You're gonna get another one at fifty two? You keep on. Okay, I'm just at so unc you had three? Where you at, Jake, We're all here. Number you don't want to you don't want to give your number. I'm on number two. You don't number two calling on number one? Call ain't going to weber one. Let me just say that we gather all the rice from all the weddings that we've had a small nation. You know, I'm in a gumbo. You know I'm in a gumbo. Wow? Who looked at Who looked at it that way? Wow? All the all the rice? I think Jay has more than all of us. Though, Oh my god, I think you're right, sir. Yeah, So I was gonna say, definitely our condolences to the gambler Kenny Rogers and his family. Wow did too? M All right, we're gonna switch gears here. Some good news. We're gonna shout out former reality star in New Yorker Bethany Frankel Bethany is about to deliver half a million masks to doctors, nurses, and other other medical professionals. Her foundation be strong. It is working with manufacturers for from all over the world. And we gotta say happy birthday to Jay Anthony Brown Watch birthday was this past Saturday. Yeah, I don't even remember having it in another world. Yeah, and wonder what I'm great. I am so blessed, so blessed. We love you Jay, Happy all right, see, come on time to get caught up on today's ladies and gentlemen. Miss Anne Trip, thank you, thank you, and I'm going to miss Kenny Roger's chicken. He had a franchise that chicken was amazing. Anyway, This is Anne Trip with the news. Of course, the biggest story, pretty much is the only story. The coronavirus, the pandemic. The numbers keep changing, but at last looked there at least three hundred and twenty one thousand cases worldwide, with thirteen thousand, seven hundred and fourteen deaths. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's under quarantine because her doctor tested positive for it. In Spain, the number of deaths jumped by thirty percent and only one day this weekend to more than seventeen hundred and ten percent of those are healthcare workers. Spanish operatic ten or Po Plastido Domingo says he's tested positive, so he's in quarantine with its family. In the UK, there are now five thousand cases, Syria has its first confirmed case. In they're reporting some five hundred and sixty two deaths, and in Italy they are over fifty nine thousand cases. The death told in Italy a whopping five thousand, four hundred and seventy six people have died in Italy. Here in the US they're over twenty six thousand cases reported, with three hundred and twenty six deaths. Either difference in that it looks like President Trump finally doing with some state and city officials have been pleading with him to do. Though he's calling out the National Guard to help out in the three states hardest hit by the virus, and there's more. In addition to large quantities of supplies, I've also directed FEMA to supply four large federal medical stations with one thousand beds for New York, eight large federal medical stations with two thousand beds for California, and three large federal medical stations and four small federal medical stations with one thousand beds for the state of Washington. However, there are shortages in protective medical gear all over the country. FEMA's administrator, Peter Gainer, was on CNN State of the Union. I can say that the hundreds of requests from virtually every state in the Union looking for the same exact things, and it's just not the demand nationally, it's the demand globally for all these items. In fact, some nurses in England get this posted pictures of themselves online wearing trash bags, who work to cover themselves because they say they had nothing else to wear. They are now over twenty nine th COVID nineteen cases in New York State, three three hundred and seventy seven desks. And although Mayor to Blasio is no doubt grateful that President Trump's finally sending into national garden and medical supplies, his honors tell CNN he hopes the President doesn't forget about the people, do what Franklin Roosevelt did in the New Deal and actually put money in the hands of people and local governments and hospitals, not big corporations. Forget bailing out the airlines right now. Bail out the people, bail out the hospitals, bail out the cities and states and counties. And Blasio would also like to see the President actually activate the Defense Production Act. Is that way he could simply order companies to stop what they're making and begin producing things like ventilator's mask and other active year twenty four seven. That's what they do, you know, during wartime. Now back to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. You're listening to the Steven Show. All right, Carla is here with some trending party in music news. All right, Carla, what's you guy? What's going on? Girl? Well, Steve Harvey, nephew, Tommy, all of us were part of this. This past weekend hip hop legend Shirley DJ d Nice Big Thing. He did a global party on Instagram. Live d Nice was on the ones and twos all day. Everybody checked in on I G Live, Steve and Marjorie Harvey, Ellen, Degenerous, Bruno Mars First, Lady Out Forever, First Second, Hermy, Anda Faroll, Yes, Jada Pekett, Smith, Dougie Fresh, Tina Knowles Lawson and her husband Richard Lawson. Erica Badude, j Low Common, Luda Look, Will Smith, Mary J. Blige, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders. That boy was that boy was doing that thing? Man, Yes, yes he was. I mean this was trending on CNN. They were talking about the Steve The New York Times, USA Today Essence Forbes. Everybody was saying that DJ Knice made being quarantine Saturday night bearable. I'm gonna tell you who else did a cole one on Sunday? Anthony Hamilton. Yes, from his house, ye, man. He said he sat on an automent and he had two of his good top players behind him and a dude off camerastick and boy, let me take you so he lound y'all know that's my dude. Yes, yes, Anthony Hamilton. Yeah. A lot of DJs though, that's that's so cool, social distancing party. Let me tell you what d Knice dial for me. He made my wife so comfortable. We finally, we finally, that's all I can say. We finally after DJ Knice, who we finally Saturday? You know what? We finally? I shall hope he playing next weekend. I swear to god. That's the gram live. Wow. It was funny you should say that, Tommy, why y'all finally to Shirley, y'all one, no, coming up at thirty four. I'm not answering that question, but coming up at thirty four minutes after the hour, Tommy excuses people are gonna use to not have sex, cannot but have sex right after. But did y'all finally question? Did y'all? There's no such thing as finally. Okay, you're listening. Well. The New York City Health Department says that having sex isn't a good idea right now people. The New York City Health Department released a statement saying, if you're going to have sex right now, only have sex with someone you live with, and try not to have sex with someone outside your home. I guess that's for all the cheaters out there. And obviously this corona has cut cheating way way right. Yeah, And I mean, you know this goes without saying, obviously, don't have sex with someone who is sick. And by all means people, what what? What? Wait? What depens on who's six? Yeah, let's let's talk about this handy sick you have. I don't give it, Tommy, tell me, listen to me. This is the this coronavirus? This, This is not an item for a condom. Condoms. Condoms don't fix this though, and I'm not and I'm not trying to put one on it. But what is just saying? Wow, man, somebody now, so you're willing to run the risk of dying either way. So if the corona don't get you, you cool with a STD you boy, you a little preexisting in it. I'm boy. I thought, no, no, no, no, no, Shirley, Shirley, for real. This is the thinking of some people. Yeah, he said he can have sex with a coronavirus person because he don't have a pre existing cause. If it's but you gonna have a condition then though, but I might have it with Harley. Wow. No orgy crazy, throw that out here. No orgies, no orgies. Yeah, some stuff is a given though with this, Yeah, you would think no, no, no, y'all, ladies, ladies, lady ladies. Tommy head, Tommy head, if it's Harley, Tommy See okay, Now if even I don't give a damn who it is, you can't, boy, you can't want it. You cannot be that's stupid. You just can't. You just heard ye, I'm sorry, gott I'm not gonna do this with you. I'm not gonna go against I'm not gonna go against Harley with you. I'm not gonna do that. You think I'm gonna see you and go against Haley with you? You think and you was? Can you think us? We can't that. I'm gonna go again Hally with you. So let me ask you question. So let me ask you a question though, So it don't matter that I'm me as your uncle just might might for my sister's sake, Just try to say your ragged ass like that's all I said. You you just for my just for my sister's sake, because I don't want to hear her mouth, you know, I don't want her mourning and crying and everything. Then I got the mourn too. I'm gonna be that crime. And but see, I'm gonna tell you right now, I'm talking at your funeral. I'm just gonna let you know that I'm talking at your funeral. So you're talking about what that's got to do with me and Haley? What does that have to do with us? Because if she is infected and you can be with her based on that, no, she's not affected. But here's the bigger part. She but if though that's the part nobody grabbing, she don't shoot. I can promise you that now you don't know. You don't you don't know that, you know, I know that for a fact. You don't know that fact. You don't know that, And you're not gonna do this to me. You don't. No, no, no, no, that's a fact. You don't know that. First of all, Halle caller than you it What does that have to do with me? All her men have been taller than her. She don't want a short man. I know Halle loves me. Speak to her on the plane. How are you gonna have scary and speak you're on the plane, Shelly, because it was thundering outside. Scary. But I've heard it all today, all right, Tommy, pull yourself together. Praying phone call coming up right after this you're listening show coming up at the top of the hour, right about four minutes after. It's my strawberry letter for today. Subject her family is ghetto and she doesn't even know it. M right now though, we'll get to it right now. The nephew is here with today's prank phone call. What you got nef gon't tell them what I guess? All right, Well this was my mom's favorite. Okay, my late mom, this was her favorite and when she loved to hear this one. It's called Aqua Boogie Right, Auqua Boogie, Right, Aqua Boogie, Aqua bogie current Aquie. Hello, Hello, I'm trying to reach a Quincy. Please. This is Hey. How are you? My name is Maurice, Maurice calling you from the power company. How are you doing today? My up? Well, listen, we're doing some testing in your neighborhood. We're trying to make sure we don't have to actually shut the power down out there. And uh, we're calling around quite a few people in your neighborhood, running some tests on individual homes and making sure the electricity is running correctly. Um, can I get you to do a few things swarm and see and the quicker we get through with this, sir, and it's possibility we won't have to turn your power off at all. I know you don't want us to have to come out and turn power off. And you got stuff in your refrigerator that can spoil and things like that, so we want to try to get this done and hopefully the power with the with the test that we run, it'll it'll run correctly and we won't have to do anything. Okay, I don't know about electricity though, you know what I'm saying, So no, no no, no, I understand that. Don't worry about that. Here's what I need you to do. Now. How big is your house? Well? Do you how many bedrooms? You got? Four bedrooms? Now you have upstairs downstairs? It's too sure, okay, all right, so here's what we need to do. Um, if you can't gonna take loan though, hey I got because I'm in a hurry. Man, ain't gonna have a lot of time. No, no, no, this this, this, this won't take long at all. So can I get you to take your breaker and shut down everything upstairs and we're gonna run a test on the stuff downstairs right now. It'll be real quick, all right, just shut just shut everything off. I want you to keep the downstairs open and keep that to the weekness so we can run our tests on this thing. All right, everything's shut, everything's down. Okay, you you turned off theything. I just turned off all the switches. Okay, here's what I need you to do. I need you to turn on your television and then turn it off downstairs downstairs. How many TVs you got downstairs? I got two TVs downstairs. Let's turn them both on. You just turn them on, Just turn them on. You got them on? I got one on. Let's try to turn that other one on. All right, they both on? Okay. Now you got a microwave in your kitchen. Yeah, I got a microwave. Okay, turn that on. It's already on. Man, I can see the lights one, it's got the clock on it. That's got that double hron thing that's going through there. It's a whole different type of current. I just want to mound on them about what you're talking about. But I gotta get to work, man. So the microwaves on, it's running. No, No, I want you to actually turn it on. I want you to actually push like a minute or two on that thing. Anything, Man, come on now, I mean what you gotta do. No, this is a test, sir. What I don't want to have to do is come out there and turn your power off. And I don't want to do that. You got a lot of food in your fridge. I'm sure right, all right, all right, he's look, it's on microwaves, zon tv'sons. Okay, now open your refrige. Man, the electricity works downstairs. Okay, but listen now, I know, but what we gotta do is we gotta make sure that this stuff isn't overpower. Now, can you open your refrigerator? Yeah? Yeah, Man, do you see the button that actually has you can turn you can push it in the lighter go out. You know what I'm talking about. Come on, man, you ain't got nobody to just be able to check something outside. Man, I mean I'm in the fridge. I understand. But push that button five times for him and see what it does. What the light button? Yeah, push that light button five times? Come on, man, it did it go off and on? Everything's going on? Man? The actually they wrong with the refricuate reficiate it is plugged then man, okay, now here's what I want you to do. Right there, and if you're in the kitchen, turn your sink on for men. Sink on. What they got through electricity? May see that's a nitral current. That's a nitral current. You wouldn't understand that, but I need you to turn that on for me too. Just turn it on. Full blast. Got it on, I got it on. Okay, now go in your master bedroom. I can set it off. Now let that water run. Go on your master bedroom, and go on the bath for me. I appreciate you helping me out on this. Man. Come on, man Quincy, I apprecientry. I mean everything that. It's everything where I'm in. I'm in the bath. What's plush that toilet for me? Quincy, see where plush that toilet for me? Plush the toilet? Yeah, plush that toilet. It isn't even electrical what it is. It's a it's a it's an awkward book and heard you need to get somebody. Um okay, I'm gonna plush the toilet. It ain't no electrical plugs in that in this area, man, right. I understand that you don't see what it is. This is an awkward book. Current that flows through that water plus that thing for me one time? Yeah, yeah, that's it. Okay, all right, Corey worse man. You ain't got nobody in the area that could come out here and just check it out. Man Quincy. I'm trying my best not to come out and and and and and turn your power off. And I know you got somewhere to go. Turn my power off. Man, you're supposed to be making sure the power of stay on, right, I understand that. Now, do you have a quincy? Do you have a blender? Yeah? I gotta blender, man, I gotta blender. I got a TV, I got a refrigerator, and they all work. The toile it works, everything worked, all right. What I want you to do is get this blender and we'll just throw you a few cues the eyes or something there and turn that thing on for him. Come on, man, we're almost done. I got to get to work, man, just work. Women who was coppreciated? Man, this is just the blunder. Come on, man, I said, I have semt you current be walking in this house. Man, you need to check the niche house. You don't have no problems with no smooth bevies or nothing in that thing. Do you see? Man? What the world? I got to do anything? Man, I gotta get to work. I'm just listen a minute. Minute's going too far. Somebody come out here or do this because I need to get to my job. And I understanding that job. Well, I could just call and help people go through the damn house playing scavenger hunt. I gotta get to work. Okay. Now listen to Quincy. One last thing. Are you able to shut that breaker? Put that breaker back on, and then shut off downstairs, and then go upstairs and check some stuff for me? Shut off what shut off the breaker downstairs? Go ahead and turn it. I'm not shutting off no breaker downstairs. I shut off the water upstairs. We didn't turn on every damn thing down here. You didn't have me. I got the blender. I didn't turn on the microwave, to ffridgerate, cool Man fresh and the tile us. I gotta get to work, Quinty. I needs you to lose this attitude you got. I need you get somebody down here to do this. My electricity in my house work. It worked for you. Call on the long thing ain't work. It's my ain't at work because I'm here doing this book, playing off and all. Get somebody in here, worth, I don't piss me off and make me turn it all the way off work and when I get back from work, this should be on. I got one more thing I need to say to you, Quinny. It's better be the last thing. That's his nephew Tommy from the Steve Hobby Morning Show. You just got prinked by your sister gown still better being a witness protection program? Manh let me turn it one on. Man, Hey man, let me ask you something. Man, what is the baddest I'm talking about the baddest radio show in the land. That's got to be The Steve Harvey Morning Show. And Tommy, uh you call me again. They're gonna be the show used to have Tommy on that right there, fairly goes to Miss Health right there? Can I do that? That's to Miss Helen. She loved that one. She really did. Okay, okay, youse, people go all over the house doing all this stuff. Why he's so crazy? All right, here we go, coming up Strawberry Letter. We'll get into its subject. Her family is ghetto. She doesn't know it. Welcome back right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. Time now for today's Strawberry Letter and listen. If you need advice and relationships on dating, work, sex, parenting, and more, please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve HARVEYFM dot com and click submit Strawberry Letter. We could be reading your letter live on the air, just like we're gonna read that right there, right now for you, chick. Buckle up and hold on tight. We got it for you. Here it is, strawberry letter. Ain't done that in a minute. Wow, thank you. You're welcome. What do you mean you haven't done that any well? You know when Steve is here, you don't let me introduce the letter? No more, shut up, I don't need all that's got your ignorant as well. She back, and you did it, so can we do the letter? Now? You're happily? He hate id. It's a lot going on, all right? Subject like me? My uncle do not like me. He loves you though, he loves you. Yeah, all right, subject her family is gathering, y'all. Both of y'all are correct? What your uncle and he do not like you? See that, But he loves you, loves you all right? Yeah, I love you the deaf boy. Ain't gonna let nothing happen to you. Do not particularly care for you. All right, here we go, Stephen Shirley, Yes it is. I grew up in a two parent home, and both of my parents earned college degrees and worked hard to provide a good life for me and my siblings. And I have a college degree as well. And I've been married for over twenty years to a great woman and we have two teenagers. My teenagers are well mannered and really smart kids. So here's my problem. I met my wife in college and fell in love with her, but I cannot stand her family. They are, for lack of a better term, ghetto. I must admit that as my kids grew up, I limited their access to my wife's side of the family, but I had to be careful so I wouldn't offend my wife. These people are Hood and they have a cookout for every occasion. They all live on the same street in five or six mobile homes, so they always are down to party, play cards, drink, get all loud, and act a fool. These kids are always part of their kids are always part of the festivities, and when my children were younger, my wife wanted our children to get to know their cud. That didn't last long because the Hood cousins started teasing my children about the way they speak and how they carried themselves. One of my sons will be graduating from high school soon and my wife has a party plan for him. She wants to invite her entire family to the party. That's in our community center, in our neighborhood. I have politely reminded her how much of a fiasco it might be, but she is dead sit on having her family included. I can already imagine a dice game jumping off by the pool if her uncle comes. I don't want to be disrespectful, but I need to put my foot down and set some ground rules. Stephen Shirley, how can I make this party work? Wow? Well? First, first, no alcohol. I have to say that, no alcohol, because that's when the stuff jumps off. No alcohol, okay, none, don't have any. They're gonna be mad. But you can't have any alcohol because they get that in them, and it's just no telling. You might want to have some security around, some playing close security, you know, let them mingle through the crowd and everything, because you know that's in case something does go down, you know. In the meantime, though, I gotta tell you this. I gotta tell you this. She gave us a lot of information in your letter. You know about you graduating from college. You and your wife have been together for twenty years. She's a great woman. You fell in love with her. Your kids are great, their hood cousins make fun of them and everything. I just say, in the meantime, this is a teenage party, you know. Remind people of that, so it should be okay because it's for the teenagers as long as a grown folks don't act a fool. The adults just have to behave You love your wife. You said that you love your wife. You fell in love with her, and you don't want to offend her, So please please be mindful of that. You know that these are her folks. She wants them to be included. She loves them, and really she wants them there. So I mean hood or not, ghetto or not as you call it, They're gonna. They're gonna be there because this is what the wife that you love wants. So no alcohol and a little bit of security might help you, steve. Well, how many minutes I got here before I get started on this. I just wanted to say that I completely and totally disagree with everything Shirley said. Your damn children need these people, Yes, they do. Try to give a damn both my parents and college degree. My mom and daddy ain't ever ain't My dad ain't even finished elementary school. My mama got a high school diploma, that's it. Ain't. None of my brothers and sisters been in no college. That's it. I went funk right out. I got a college degree as well. I've been married over twenty years. Everybody don't make it twenty years hip hip, hooray for you, partner. I'm just gonna tell him what because you know he think he's somebody. Yeah. You got these two teenagers. They well mannered and really smart kids. They book smart, they ass ain't street smart. Stupid ass need to get with these cuss and show them how to handle themselves out there in life. You got a family that's got five mobile parks down the street from each other, all him in trailer home. He needs to know these people because something could pop off. You need them people. Are you mad and stuff? You don't want them around there? For lack of better term. They get on everybody on the morning show from damn get over. It's a lot of good in the hood. But you think because you got this little degree, oh, you think you'll ass is somebody and you special where you ain't. You're mad at him? Yeah? Him, Yeah, And I'm gonna tell your wife when you come back. Yeah, sitting up here called he got a little punkhead degree. Alright, Steve, hang onto that two of your seveiary response coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour. Today's Strawberry Letters subject her family is ghetto. She doesn't know it. We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening morning show, all right, Steve, come on, let's recap today's strawberry letter, which you are so mad about. It's the subject her family is ghetto and she doesn't know it. Tell me so most ghetto people don't know. They get on called they from the ghetto. That's just where they from. That's just where they live. Now, you sitt't have been here because both your parents got college degree. Work hard, you and your siblings, you mad twenty great woman two teenage. Both of y'all got degrees. You met in college. But you can't stay in her family where her family probably can't stay you either. Your boosh ass coming over. See there, there are a lot of they lack for a better turn. Yeah, hit them. His snobby ass sitting up in here. You don't like nothing they do down there, So I'm gonna tell you about him. I must admit that as the kids grew up. I limited their access to my wife's side of family, but I had to be careful not to film these peoplehood. They have a cookout for everything. See, you think your kids is well mannered and smart kids, but they don't got no streets smarts, you know what I mean? A stupid ass book smart people. I know Bill Gates ain't got a college degree. Mark Zuckerberg ain't got a college degree. Hold on, let me show you. So, let's get it real of we're talking about college greed. Timmy got a college degree. Oh my don't have a college degree. Now, which one us you want your kids to be? That you want your kids? Timmy got a college degree. I ain't who you want your kids being, probably neither one of us. But if you had to pick one, would you pick his stupid ass? That's all I'm asking You got a college degree, ain't got a damn brain in his skull. So much for your little damn college degree. They have a cookout for every occasion. They live on the Stame Street in five or six mobile homes. They always down the party, play cars in Draden. Damn it, what's wrong with that? You got to do something. We've been working all week. We got to have some fun. We ain't got a whole lot of money, so we're gonna play cars. That's what doesn't matter what your punk ass kids. They don't know how to play spade. They can't play dead whizz, they don't know how to or, they don't play tongue. They don't shoot dice. Little punk ass kids gonna go out to college. Ain't gonna do a damn thing. He gonna get the ass hustle. They're gonna go in Times Square. Somebody gonna have a three card model game set up. Take all your little ignorant ass kids money. Somebody gonna have a shell game set up. Take all your kids money. Oh yeah, they're gonna but they're gonna go visit it. Everybody go to Times Square. Your little kids gonna come back broke. The kids are always a part of the festivities. Your kids probably need to learn how to play tongue. How to hell you grow up and don't know how to play tongue. You can't shoot no damn pool. My wife want our children to get they know their cousins. Because your wife is right, because she know you ain't taught them a damn thing. Set up here and taught them all that book knowledge and all that, and they stuff and they're getting their ass whipped every time they go to the playground. What I'm telling you what it sounds, this is what I'm reading in the letter. I'm reading all this in the letter. Your wife want them to know their cousins because they damn dadd is soft. They didn't last long casting hood cousins. They want them to come over and could start teasing your children about the way they speaking, how they care themselves. They aren't the last time they're gonna hit this. The hood cousins was getting them ready for life. Why are you mad because they sitting up in here and not not not honoring the value of these hood cousins. It's good in the hood. You need to let these hood tease your kids about the way they speak. They probably speak real properly, just like your ants. One of my sons we graduated from high school. My wife got a party playing. She want to invite her and tie party to the park. Five family to the party that's in our community center in our neighborhood. Oh oh, I see you live in a complex that's got a community center. Oh, now you're gonna old. You scared the hood people gonna come over that start squimming with all the clothes on and stuff like that. Gonna bring up grill out there, because you know, we travel with grills in our car. I had a grill in my car till I was thirty four years old. Sorry to mention, Yeah, kep a grill in my car, charcoal, light of fluid too, and a fishing rod. Hell yeah, hey, never know when I run across the lake, I need some need. I was homeless. I ain't on time to do them this punk ass letter, and you were sitting up in here. I politely remind her how much your fiasco be if I invite them people over the head. But she did say on having her family included. I can imagine the dice game jumping off by the pool if they uncle come, who don't like to shoot dice? Who? Hell no, I know you ain't say we can't shoot dice. He we can't shoot dice. Were at the swimming pool. Black people don't swim, So what does you think gonna do? Your uncle can't swim? He got some dice? Were standing around we doing then you hold on shut we're shooting dice. I don't want to be disrespectful. I need to put my foot down. You can kick the dice. Put your foot down. If they roll, kick it forward, hit point, you can kick the dice. Get a rethroat, baby, I need to make ground. Why can I make this party work? Your ass? Don't go now what you want to ask? So you're rolling around with a fishing pole because you get hungry, So you'll go get some fish and then catch and bring it back and cooking on the grills that's in your car. No, I take it up to the rest area because they got the cass iron grills already dug into the ground. We through parties my brother. My brother still got card parties at his house. When my older brother died. We stopped for six months because we was morning. But we're back now. Thank you. Sip your comments, son, Today's strawberry letters, fine, Instagram and Facebook coming up in forty six minutes after the hour. That the majority of my friends ain't got no damn college hoarding corma. We're gonna talk about that right after this. You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, So a mom in the UK who was well prepared with a stash of eighteen rolls of toilet paper. Eighteen rolls of toilet paper. Watched it all go down the drain, and I'm talking about literally Okay. It seems her kids on her stockpile of toilet paper and tossed it into the bathtub, and the bathtub was filled with toys and plenty of water, so the roles were just ruined. Okay, you hear me. People people are not feeling this. They're saying it's karma because she was hoarding. That's too much toilet paper to have. Uh. Speaking of hoarding, Costco usually has a very you know, lenient return policy. Uh. Posts on several Instagram accounts not the story is official one though, show that many stories are refusing to take returns on things such as toilet paper, paper, towels, rice, sanitizing wipes, and lysol. Yeah, if this is a policy. Many on the internet support the idea because they say, maybe people now will think twice about panicking and buying, you know, the next time panic buying and and hord. But y'all don't think we ain't supposed to whoop them kids ass though, But hopefully that many rolls a tilet paper. I'm sorry, that's ass right there, Steve. What do you think he with me right here? I don't even know why, See, because when my parents come in now yeah, and I'm standing there, come on just to look on my daddy face, gonna let me know. This is this my damn near the end of me. This is because all he gonna do, my man, my daddy gonna looking at and this cuss words out there, everyone of them. The tail end ends with a cuss. What does what you're thinking? Ye? Why did you? What made you crab? Just damn tilet thinking? Lost show? Damn. I'll tell you what. I bet you won't do it. No moto, there we go. I bet you won't do this. No, mom, I told you, I'm finna beat your ass with the toilet titian hand it to it and rolled. He'll slide him on his hands like gloves and just start tagging a politicsia ass Yep. They were just having fun, the little kids. They put it in there. You're gonna learn to day though. You're gonna learn all right. Coming up at the top of the hour, guys, excuses excuses that people use to get out of the house. Wait till you hear these we'll get into it right after this. You're listening to show. All right, guys, j is here. He's been so quiet all morning, but back with a vengeance. Uh, what do you have, Jake? Excuses people used to get out of the house. Excuses people have used to try to get out of the houses came from Miss Mona because niece Sarah Hoop of Instagram, and I added some more. People are really trying to get their ass out her at the house. Here's one. I'm gonna have to fill up the car. I'm gonna go fill up the car so when this is over, we'll be ready. Okay, I'm gonna That's what I'm gonna do right now. I'm don't work. That don't work. I'm gonna wait outside of Costcos because I heard they staggering the shelf with tilet paper and I want to be in line. That don't work. Excuses people are using to get out to heal. My baby mama needs some My baby mama's kids need food and I need to go take it to so I can't let them starve. Okay, I'm not going. Yeah, Excuses people are using to get out of the house. I have a Red Box movie that's way overdue. I need to take this. I need to take this back to day. Okay, these are excuses people are using to get out of the house. My baby got my my buddy got the hook up on some mask. He got the on some mask. I'm gonna go over there and get a couple of mine. Be right back. You might let this one. I need to go put air in the ties, because if you let a car sit up and not drive around, the air will seep out the car. Okay, I'm gonna I'll be right back. I'm right. I got one more for you. I don't just drive around and see what's open, and I'll be right back. Okay, you're trying to get out. I ain't. Man. Man says he finally had that ten dollars he owes me, and I'm gonna gonna get it now and I'll be right back. Ok he two hours away, but I'm gonna drive away over dollars. I got one, mother, go ahead, I'm gonna leave because I know you just need some time to yourself. So I'm gonna go and lit the last one. Come on, come on, I'm gonna go see if the test came in yet. No, I would buy you sometimes. Yeah, that's a good one. That's three hours sight, that's genius and one month. Just straight being honest, just straight, being honest. What I'm doing is excuses that people are using to get out of the house. This is straight honesty. I hope this don't hurt you feelings, but seriously, I need to get the f out of here. Okay, that's you know what I'm say. I don't care if I get it. I need Yeah, he went too far, But are you guys homebodies or you have to get out every day? I gotta get I gotta at least go run it. If I can go run three miles, I'm good. I got it out for that. T Let me tell you what I'm good. I don't like people anyway, so this is perfect. Yeah, you're self quarantine before do you leave? Do you leave a house at all? Well? I don't normally leave the house once I'm off work because I work so much. But I've discovered that I'm not. It took me. I've adjusted now, but I ain't know what to do it first. Coming up more of today's trending stories on the Steve Harvey Morning Show at twenty minutes after the hour. Right after this, you're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. The Steve Harvey Morning Show is dedicating this show to the medical workers and all the healthcare perpemis guys on the front line, okay, because they are risking their lives. Yes, yes, yes, yes they are. The saluts happen all over the world. In Paris, did you guys see this? Uh, the Eiffel Tower lit up a sparkling tribute to the medical workers last night. That was last night. I did, yeah, that last night. It was also in Spain. Every night citizens go out on their balconies and clap for the medical workers on the front line. And we also want to shout out to the grocery store staff. Okay, the grocery store staff, because they're working. They're still working. I did yesterday. Oh my god, would you say, Tommy, I did it yesterday. I want you know, you gotta get in line. You gotta stand like three feet away from each other. It takes you a minute to get in. It took me about fifteen twenty minutes to get in. But it's a it's a whole process. But they they are actually making sure they wipe down every basket. I mean they sanitize and everything you capt. They trying to make sure that you are comfortable, and then of course you're gonna sanitize it down too. But yeah, it is what it is. But they doing their job. If people at the grocery store doing I'm surprised your germaphobic tailed is out. You know what. I wouldn't have been at but I was trying to make some red beans and rice and I was missing one ingredient and I was not gonna cook it without having it, So I was right, yea one of them. All right. More of the Steve Harvey Morning Show. More of this craziness coming up at thirty three minutes after the hour. Right after this. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Well, guys, the Corona virus pandemic has changed everything. New York, Yeah, is at the epicenter of this disease. Governor Andrew Cuomo blasts arrogant and sensitive New Yorkers who are not practicing social distancing. Some people just will not stay at home. Also, governors in Washington, California, Ohio, Louisiana, and Illinois have implemented shelter in place orders Republican Senator Ran Paul from Kentucky has become the first Senator to test positive for COVID nineteen. And now you taught Senator met Romney will self quarantine after exposure to the virus. President and his response to the news of romney self quarantine said, too bad. Wow, listen quick, that's say something real quick. If you want to see some sense in a press conference, watched any of these governors and mayors from any city. Romo is the beat j Como is out of New York, A big boy, so much sense. I like presidential. I liked the boy out of Washington. I like the mayor of Los Angeles that I've been talking now. I watched Donald Trump on television yesterday doing his State of Day speech, and he was doing okay, trying to give out information, and he said, you know, look, it's hard to be a rich guy and be president. I've lost pell of dollars since I became president, Billy, But it's okay. I haven't taken my salary. Now make four hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. You know, that's a lot of money for anybody, even even for a rich guy. I was just listening to this dude, going, man, it's this dude for okay, But un did you hear him say that they help people that have died before that have never died. There are people dying who have never died before. This is a dude whose specialty is definitely not public speaking now or leaders. Now, here's what's interesting. I was listening to the retired army general who got down there and took over in Contrina, and he was saying, this is what the United States should do for logistical purposes. All of the equipment should come through the Army because they know how to do logistics and get it to everywhere it needs to go. Because what's going to happen is these medical supplies become available and then certain cities go by all of them. Then they'll have all of them. Another city I have none. He say. Logistics comes into play where you know how to give out certain for so much time so as to apply come in. Everybody gets a two weeks supply. Then in ten days you resupply everybody. All right, coming up, our last break of the day is the last break up the day. Wow, he said it right that time. You know what he's doing you know what he doing. Okay, come on Team Jay. All right, and some closing remarks from the one and only Steve Harvey the forty nine minutes after right after this, you're listening to show. All right, here we are our last break of the day, break up the day you're on today. I loved it. Yeah. Before we get out of your guys, before Steve does his closing remarks, we have to shout out truck drivers as well. We shout it out our medical workers and healthcare professionals on the frontline are grocery store workers, but truck drivers driving those double and triple shifts. Thank you guys, Thank you guys. All over the country they drive making sure that the grocery stores and the stores are stopped, their shelves are stopped. Soro. Thank you guys so much. We appreciate the purposes. Shout out on them on the front doing it getting it out. I want to, I want to. My clothes remark today is these are not my words. I'm going to read to you, uh, something that somebody sent to me to day from being or Gates and I thought it was just really really on point. So once again, these are not my words. I'm reading a message that Bill Gates sent out, and the subject is what is the Corona COVID nineteen virus really teaching us? These are Bill Gates's words, not mine. Everybody, he said, I'm a strong believer that there is a spiritual purpose behind everything that happens, whether that is what we perceive as being good or being bad. As I meditate upon this, I want to share with you what I feel the Corona COVID nineteen virus is really doing to us. Number one, it's reminding us that we are all equal, regardless of our culture, religion, occupation, financial situation, and how famous or how famous we are. This disease treats us all equally. Perhaps we should too if you don't believe me, Just as Tom Hanks. Number two, it is reminding us that we are all connected, and something that affects one person has an effect on another. It is reminding us that the false borders that we have put up have little value, as this virus does not need a passport. It is reminding us, by oppressing us for a short time, of those in this world whose whole life is spent in oppression. Number three, it is reminding us how precious our health is, and how we have moved to neglect it through eating nutrient poor manufactured food and drinking water that is contaminated with chemicals upon chemicals. If we don't look after our health, we will of course get sick. Number four. It is reminding us of the shortness of life, of what is most important to us to do, which is to help each other, especially those who are old or sick. Our purpose is not to buy toilet roll. Number five. It is reminding us how materialistic our society has become, and how when in times of difficulty we remember that it's the essentials that we need food, water, medicine, as opposed to the luxuries that we sometimes unnecessarily give value to. Number six. It is reminding us how important our family and home life is and how much we have neglected this. It is forcing us back into our houses so we can rebuild them into our home and to strengthen our family unit. Number seven. It's reminding us that our true work is not our job that is what we do, not what we're c not what we were created to do. Our true work is to look after each other, to protect each other, and to be of benefit to one another Number eight, it is reminding us to keep our egos and check. It is reminding us that no matter how great we think we are, how great others think we are, a virus can bring our world to a stand still. Number nine it is reminding us that the power of free will is in our hands. We can choose to cooperate and to help each other, to share, to give, to help, and to support each other. Or we could choose to be selfish, to hoard, to look after only ourselves. Indeed, it is difficulties that bring out our true colors. Number ten is reminding us that we can be patient or we can panic. We can either understand that this type of situation has happened many times before in history and will pass, or we can panic and see it as the end of the world and consequently cause ourselves more harm than good. Number eleven is reminding us that this can either be an end or a new beginning. This can be a time of reflection and understanding where we learn from our mistake, or it can be the start of a cycle which will continue until we finally learn the lesson we are meant to. Number twelve is reminding us that this earth is sick. It is reminding us that we need to look at the rate of deforestation just as urgently as we look at the speed of which toilet rolls are disappearing off of our shells. We are sick because our home is sick. It is reminding us that after every difficulty, there's always ease. Life is cyclical, and this is just a phase in this great cycle. We do not need to panic. This two shall pass. And finally, whereas many see the Corona COVID nineteen virus as a great disaster, I prefer to see it as a great corrector. It is meant to remind us of the important lessons that we seem to have forgotten, and it's up to us if we will learn them or not. That was a letter that was written by Bill Gates, and friend of mine sent it to me, and I just wanted to share with you all because Don seemed to sum it up so greatly about his views of the coronavirus, and I just felt the same way about it. You know, we should, We should all get hopeful about this situation, because one thing for shore, this two will pass. Nothing lasts forever. It's just you're gonna view your glass as half empty or half full. I choose to look at mine as half full. Those are my clothes. Remarks that Dave and it's Monday man. Y'all have a great week here. Yeah, all right, have a good one now, right, Thank you Lord for all Steve every contests. No purchase necessary avoid we're prohibited. Participants must be legal US residents at least eighteen years old, unless otherwise stated. For complete contest rules, visit Steve HARVEYFM dot com. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.