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 like amazing bus things and it's not good. Steve to mother Stuart Joy. You gotta use that turn arm. You gotta turn to turn them out. Got to turn them out, to turn turn the water the water. Come, come on your back. Uh huh, I show will good morning. Everybody listening to the voice. Come on dig me now, one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show, man, Yeah, I do. Man. God been good to me. Man, He's been so good to me. Wow. You know why I say it like that. What makes it amazing is because it's been in spite of myself. I mean, you know what I mean by that. I mean I mean that he's been good to me in spite of all the craziness I've done, all the foolishness I've gotten myself involved with, and not only got but knowingly got myself involved with, all of the stupid decisions I've made. Put all that to the side, and he's still been good to me. Bring it all and put it on the plate, and he's been good to me. Man. That's amazing man. And I'm sure there's a lot of people that can say the exact same thing. I mean, come on, man, I got you, ain't famous, I got anybody, got no microphone in your face, I got nobody. Ain't got no spotlight on you. I got nobody, ain't got no camera in your face. I got nobody problem. Ain't your body blogging about you. But let me tell you something. If you break it down and be real about it, Oh, you haven't done something outside the box. You haven't done something ladies included. You've done something out the box. You woke up and went what did I do that for? Oh? We've all done it. So when all that said and done, God still loves you, man, God still loves you, still wants you the best for you, still considers you his child. And it's willing. It's willing man to show you your future. He is willing to show you your life. He is willing to let you take a peek at the blueprint. Man. That's an amazing God right there, because I don't I know, I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. I'm glad it's him, you know. Today, Man, I want to encourage brothers out there. And when I say brothers, I'm talking to everybody that's of the male species. I don't care about your color. I really really don't. I don't even have time for that in my day a matter a matter of fact. Sometimes when you get to discussing races, I just get tired of it. Sometimes I just wish, you know, some days I just want to wake up, just do me. You know, I got what what the skin tone is, I got that, But I just want to wake up some days and just going buy my business and do me. I don't want to have to deal with it. Somebody. I get tired of talking about the issues. Ain't gonna make them go away. But sometimes I get tired, so the damn talking to brothers, all the brothers of the male species. I'm talking about men today. Man, If if you ain't doing it all, if you're feeling empty, man, start today completing your process and your journey. And you know what I'm saying by that, if there's a part of you just missing as a man, and and now, man, I'm talking to you. So you know, some ladies listening, but you know what I'm talking about. It's it's some part of you. That's missing as a man if you ain't really been in touch with your kids like you supposed to now for whatever the reason is. And please no, I do understand how sometimes women can use children as pawns. It happens all the time. I've been through it. I've been through it, man, I know what it feels like, man to want to do something. But because you ain't got this, or you ain't doing this, then I ain't gonna let you have this. You gotta fight through. Fellas, you got to fight through. You got to fulfill your end of the deal. And I got how difficult they're making it. I got how man, it's gonna come with some drama, but you gotta fight through it. Because, man, we need fathers to be fathers. That's really what we need. If you're a man out there and you are a father of a child, we need you do your job. We I'm talking about the our community, our situation, us as a people, all of us. We need you to be a father. Period. Hey man, I ain't coming down on you. I'm just your boy. I'm your man, And I've been in the same predicament, in the same hole myself, where I couldn't get to them where they were used as pawns, where they were told things about me that wasn't even true. I've been through it. You can't see them, you don't come on okay, okay, I got all that. You ain't sent this. You ain't okay, hey, hey, got all that? If if, if you can call them sometimes, tell them you're thinking about them, Tell them you love them. If you can get a letter to them, if you can get a message to your children through one of your relatives, start the process today. Be a father. It's your job. Because you ignoring him, or you acting like they ain't over there, or you to back him out of your mind because the situation got too difficult. I got that, I got that. But you got to step up and be fatherless. You got to write a letter. You gotta send the money. If she talking about it. If you don't send all the money, you ain't gonna see him. Send what you got if she if taking it over there's too much drama, Send it through a relative, Give it to a mama, give it to her sister, ask her to take it over there and do something for the baby. Because okay, okay, you can't deal with the drama. I got that, and I know it's much to pay when you had to deal with that, because I clearly I know hell have no fury like a woman scorn. Please know. I know that. Please know. And that's a real statement. That ain't no saying. Steve got that, that's the truth. But do what you gotta do. Sometimes you have to apologize. Sometimes an apology goes a long way to your children. Just hey, look, because I've made this apology before. Hey man, look, I'm sorry. I wasn't there for you. I was out grinding and hustling and I wasn't paying attention to you, and I should have been. And I apologize now. I imagine, man, there's days where you was telling people I was your father up at the school and they wasn't believing you. I apologize for sending you through that. But now, man, I tell you what. I made some mistakes, and I got it together. I want me and you to move forward as father and son. I want me and you to move forward as father and daughter. I want to be in your life. I ain't got a lot, but guess what, I know a lot. Because if you're a man and you a father, please know, you know something that child don't know you have information, You have experience. That's all they need sometimes to have somebody to talk to. That daughter yours just needs to know from her daddy, how should a man treat me? Dad? What should I look for in a man? See, they'll take that information from you because they know coming from the right place. And then you know that your son needs you, because you know how difficult it is if you're trying to be a man without your daddy. You already know how funky that is, right there. So come on, man and match your mistakes and move forward. Call your kids, write a letter, get a phone number on them, send a text, drop a message, send a note up to the school. Do something. Man. If those of us that are fathers would just be fathers, I could shut the mentor and camp down. Now I will say I apologize because I don't want you to think I'm coming down on you. But I've been through this myself. I ain't really coming down. I'm just reminding you this is our job. These are our children, this is our responsibility. We all men. There is no excuses. You don't get you don't get cut a break on that one. Sorry, you're listening, ladies, and gentlemen, be about it. The morning time is hell. They don't need to mess around. Don't more delays. Steve Harvey Morning Show on and cracking, full of life, vitality, excitement and gratitude. We welcome you to the Banner's Ride in Morning Drive to Steve Harvey Morning Show. Had you heard me? You hear me? Yo, hear Happy Friday, Steve all Day calling for real, never mad on a Friday. And Happy Father's Day to the fellows on the Steve Harvey Morning Show. All the days I want to see Yah the morning up Man, best mentor ever Morning Family, Morning Everybody, Janathany Brown, Good morning, mister Harvey. Happy Father's Day. That's everyday. That's it. That's all we're gonna get to say. It's man, that's one of the most fun fest y'all. What would you like? Would you like? I don't worry about that when it don't matter, It don't matter. You just want well, you know it is what it is. You know, we we know we're not gonna get the Mother's Day thing. We understand why giving birth is way bigger than just being there. You know, of course that ain't no problem, so you get it. Well, you know what. But you know, if you got it, daddy, you thank you, depreciate it. You know what I'm saying this how so people's missing? But that's a fair question though, because you have everything, what would you like? No, no, no, no, no, no no what you know? It's just you never use your imagination. Y'all ask us what we want, but we think of stuff to give you. You know what I mean? Just this laziness is what it is. Problems. We're lazy, damn the borderline trife for me. If you answer, yeah, su lazy, Yeah, you have everything you want some underwear? About the ask for my damn underwear? I got underwear. I don't fix nothing, work around the house? Okay, say something? And can I say something? And it's on the day, it's not you know, it's on the damn day you asked us what do we want? Whenever you thinking about the damn day, it's fried. It's day after them all. You ain't put a damn bit of thought in the two Friday or man, y'all must us with this hill till yesterday? He ain't. I ain't even seen a commercial for Father's Day. Ain't all the cards section it don't even grow. You can get a dinner reservation anywhere, sound anywhere. Just let them right and hope y'all do something for the me and in your life. There's good father this to your kids. At least maybe y'all try to try that. Well, I thought about you stopped thinking about cooking. No, nobody won't at a crack pod away, We'll be back is next whatever you're listening to show? All right, guys, it is time now for I asked the Cello chief Love Officer, Steve Harvey in the building. This one, Steve is from Leah and Saint Louis. She says. I'm a forty two year old married woman and I went to lunch with a man I met online. My sugar levels had been low that morning and I started feeling lightheaded. During lunch, I asked my date to drive me to my doctor's office. I thought he left, so I called my husband to pick me up. When I got out to the lobby, my husband and my dates were sitting side by side. I thanked my date for bringing me, as though he were a complete stranger from the restaurant. He looked confused as I left with my husband. Do I call him and explain what happened, or block him and move on. You should have stumbled your dizzy ass back in their doctor's office. Is she kidding me? Man? Yeah? I mean no, not at all. So the guy he just looked confused. Yeah, you might as well just call him and explained to him what you're trifling behind. Really, I just knew you were going to say, let this one go and just move on. What she's married, cheery and she on a dating site. She going to lunch? What to do? Ask him to take her to the doctor? Right? Okay, but how did how did the husband so he thought she thought he left, called her husband to pick him up. She go outside to men in the lobby. Right, that's what she gets. But that's what that's what she wants to know. Should she call him to explain or block him and move on? I'm just saying, what a minute you would? Why are you blocking him? What do he do? See you playing the trick game? And the trick game you got caught in it at least, old man, the explanation of what you did. I didn't know you, Shirley, Why are you missing this? She wants to date other men outside of her husband. You have to tell this dude what it is. He may be cool with that because she gonna date outside her marriage. What part of that you ain't getting that? Your sister is trifle him? Sure, Shirley, if you're going to date married, you're gonna have to tell these people you married. Yeah, well he knows. Now, all right, we're moving on. So since you liked him and hen, take you to the document as well. Tell him what happened. He'd probably be cool with it. Oh that's all you want to do, all right, I'm game. Really, I would move on. I would move on, all right. We are moving on. Veronica and Jacksonville says, I'm a thirty two year old single female and I've been married for twelve years. I got married really young, and now my husband is saying we need to branch out and seek other ways to jazz up our love life after having four kids. I'm all right with having sex once or twice a week, he says, I'm being selfish. And when he was upset last night, he said, I'm going to make him cheat on me. Was this an admission that he already cheated or was that a warning? Oh well, it's definitely a warning for sure. But it sounded mole like a promise. He's going it's going to happen. Ain't no married man gonna say that to his wife and if if, if it ain't in his head? Real good, Okay, because y'all been having conversations about it sex twice week. Folk kids as a lot, Folk kids is a lot? All right, all right? MJ and Gary Indiana writes, I'm a forty seven year old married woman and I had sex with a thirty one year old man behind the pharmacy where we work. The church next door to us, yes, and writing is better. The church next door to us has security cameras and there's a video of us having sex, but it's not clear. My manager wants whoever it is to come forward. I need my job, so I'm praying she doesn't ever figure out who The guy keeps saying he wants to fess up because she can't fire us for this, How can I keep him quiet? You can get five for having sex behind the wall at your job, now, food, I don't know who told you you can't get five for that. First of all, both you're not supposed to because and it's dirty. Y'all got on the white jackets. Now he wants y'all to confess and come forward. Don't be stupid. Don't listen to this dude, please don't. And didn't she say she was married? Yes? Forty seven thirty one year old boys. See thirty one year old boy, he's stupid. Let's tell it. Yeahs NW, you slept with a stupid person. Yeah, lady, that ain't you. That ain't true. That is not It's obviously clear. She talk about somebody volunteer. Isn't what with who? Yes, that's what I'm gonna have, happily married. I don't know what you're talking about, right man? Miss me? All right? Moving on Johnathan and Carrolton. Georgia says this summer, my wife's adult kids are coming to stay with us for a week, since we haven't seen their kids for almost two years. She has three children and seven grandchildren total. I have had some financial problems lately that I've hid from my wife and my family. My wife hasn't worked since I married her sixteen years ago, so I hate to let her down. Should I be honest and ask the kids to postpone the visit or keep it to myself and dip into my savings, dip into your savings dog gut it out. If you don't want to hurt the woman you love, you having some financial trouble and tell it. You could probably share it where if she ain't working now, unless the financial troubles is you hadn't bought some of the woman something with the money. Wow, I hope that's not it. You can bawling out go down there to pay their cash loan and mess your whole life up with that two hundred dollars loan. That's gonna cause you thirty grand to pay it back. All right, CLO, great advice today, Thank you. Coming up next, Junior is in for the nephew. Would run that prank back right after this you're listening to show coming up at the top of the hour. June teenth is now a federal holiday. We're gonna talk about this at the top of the hour. But right now, Junior is in for the nephew. Would run that prank back. What you got for is, Junior, are okay? Well, this morning is sleeping security guard. That's what we're doing. What we're doing, we're doing sleeping security guards. I read I feel security booth man. Help you. Hey, uh, this circuit. This stuff I can barely hear. Is this is this a security booth down by the by the gate? Yes, sir, this security booth. Yeah. Listen, man, it's some people, uh next door to me. They keep I'm hearing a bunch of scuffling and stuff going on, but I ain't you know, I ain't really show what's happening. I know, I know I'm hearing this lady scream or something. Man, But I I just okay, sir, if you can give us the unit number that you're in, we could have somebody come right over there and check that out. Hello, sir, sir um Hello, yeah, sir, okay, yeah, uh, I gotta i gotta sleep in this auto, man, So I'm okay. Honest. People the next day to me, man, they was, I mean, they were sitting there. I heard this lady screen and I just didn't. I ain't want nobody to, you know, start shooting or nothing, because I know they was arguing pretty pretty heavily than I heard it. I know they must have been fighting because I heard something I understand, sir. Sorry, what what unit are you in? Hello? Sir? Are you there? Hello? Hello? Hello, Yes, I'm here. Are you okay you you were security guy, right, Yes, sir, you called us about ten minutes ago and we've been trying to find out what unit cre in. Well, yeah, man, the people up here, man, they arguing. No, I'll be I'm hearing more people over that night and they've they're fighting, man, I know, I hear too's God be too mean and they're fighting this lady over I hate you, but tell me the unit, the unit, sir, Give some kids over that to, sir. We need to know the unit so that we can come out and investigate. Hello, hello, sir, Hello, Hello, hello sir. Huh hey, hey, look I cannot do this all day. I am trying to work. I cannot be around with you on the phone. Could you please give me your unit number? Shut over that they argument? Man? I know you, yes, you have said that, they don't argument. I heard you when you said that they will argument. Sir. If you just give me that unit number that either you're in or the union number you hear the no it's coming from, we could have somebody to come over there and check that out immediately. So what the union number are you in? Again? Sir? Do you do you do? You do you hear them arguments. See, let me put on her snort. I need the unit number. Let me see. Listen, I'm gonna put the phone up. Do you hear, yes, sir, but I don't hear the unit number. I need the unit number. Without the unit number, we're just having a conversation. Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, sure are you there? Yo? Um? Oh? Hey man, you checked on the people, No, sir, we have not checked on the people because we have not been able to get the unit number from you. Sir, Dude, this fall sleep every time he gets rid of filling fall. You got to hit it. Keeps following sleep. Hey man, come here, dude, this guy following sleep on the phone. I think it's unit out of him to keep falling asleep. Hello, sir, Love, Sir, Sir, Hey man, I don't know what unit he's in. Keeps falling asleep. Every time I asked you something if he falls asleep. He keeps telling me that over that fight. But I don't hen he won't kill me to you, I don't sorry, I don't know you. What's the would you wake up up? Please? Hey? I got a guy on the phone that he says it gets me here. Some screaming over his highest unit. But he's fallow asleep. I don't can't get him on, get him to tell me with the unit number. Hey, dude, come here, listen to this. Listen. Hello, I'm gonna need you to wake up, sir. Okay, sir, could you please give me the unity? I gotta ask you something? How come y'all all, y'all do just sit on y'all to watch cars come in and out that door, and of helping people that need help, like you want the number? You shut your housing at me. You need to do your damn job. You read a cop. I'm a read a cop. I'm a rending cop. Fall asleep. Would you just give me the youdn't number? Please? I give you the number, new yo, the number. You're ready for? The union number? Are you? Are you listening to me? Yes, I says to you, sir. It isn't a few timing from the Steve Harvey Morning Show. You just got rank by your co worker. Y'all crazy, y'all, ah, this is not funny, man, This is not funny. Y'all got me out here walking around this complex looking for people's hollering and screaming and out you're sleeping every thirty five second, man put it off. Okay, let me let me ask you something, man, what is what is the baddest radio show in the land. Steve Harvey Morning Show? Sleeping but Timmy kept on the sleep on him on the security guard juniors. Yeah, yeah, have you guys ever fo on the job though? Oh my god, can I tell you how I fell asleep? Yeah? I worked at Okay, I worked at a mental hospital and every day at lunchtime they let all the patients come in the dayroom just to hang out. Well, I went to sleep amongst the patients just out. I was just out, people walking around talking to themselves, just you know, humming. I'm completely out. Supervisor woke me up in five, my ass. So yeah, this is the story. So crazy story. And mister Brown, when you finish your nap, you're fired. Okay, all right, thank you. Coming up at the top of the hour, June tenth is now a federal Hallday, we'll talk about it right after this. You're listening to the Stave Harvey Morning Show. All right, So Juneteenth is now a federal holiday because yesterday President Biden signed into law a measure that makes June the nineteenth or Juneteenth, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. As we established Juneteenth as our newest national holiday, let us be clear about what happened on June nineteenth, eighteen sixty five, the day we call juneteenth. Vice President Kamala Harris said, speaking of how the enslaved people of Galveston, Texas were the last in the nation to be informed that the Civil War had ended and they would be set free. The news was brought to them by The news was brought to them more than two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves in the Confederate States. So there you have it. What happens on this federal holiday? Yeah? Is it a day off? Yeah, it's gonna be yeah. Thanks close, government closes yeah yeah. Yeah. So I have a not a problem. It's just that, like miss miss Harris was saying, how can we have a holiday for something that we can celebrate, But they don't want us to teach it to the kids in school about the damn day. That to me, that'll make sense. They don't want to talk about slavery. Well, they want to take slavery out of the history books they want to see. I want you to understand something. This is my opinion of it. This country doesn't like to admit that it's racist. The biggest racial s car they have it is slavery. So if we get rid of that, see, and you stop teaching it, this younger generation won't know nothing about it. And so now that is all this conversation of what y'all did to us, and then it doesn't allow young people to know the history of this country. It will remove our contribution to this country and in the first place, and then it will lessen the guilt that a lot of these people feel that part right and reparations that we might want to talk about. They get rid of all of that. Why is it okay to talk about the Holocaust but not slavery? Well, listen to me. The two shouldn't be pitted against one Jewish people. Jewish people not feel to let you play them, period, and we shouldn't let them play us. The two greatest atrocities in world history his slavery and the Holocaust. Those are two of the greatest atrocities, atrocities against human kind. Those two things cannot be forgotten. Now the Jewish culture not gonna let you play him. It's still people walking around with numbers on them. But it's still those of us walking around suffering from the Act the math of slavery because we live in a country that keeps inflicting policies as if we were. You won't pass to George Floyd Bill. You have an act that you've introduced over four hundred bills recently for voter suppression since Biden one. Oh okay, look man, what else you want? You know, you're trying to tell us that you've been that that is really raining. You've been paying on us the whole time, and then you got the vice presidents, as the former vice president says that this systemic racism is a left wing myth. Man, get out. You're talking about Mike Pitts, the formal president behind these people. So full of racist all right, Steve, come on, um, it's before you get too mad, right, ladies and gentlemen, Miss An Tripp, thank you very much. Yeah, this is Anne tripping. Yes, they called it the Northern War of Aggression instead of slavery and the Civil War. As expected, President Biden signed a measure into law yesterday. Yes, we just talked about it creating a new federal holiday honoring the other Independence Day, Juneteenth, but to his credit, to his credit, mister Biden at least acknowledged the bigger picture. Today also marks the sixth anniversary the tragic deaths at Mother Emmanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina. A killer motivated by hate, intending to start a race war in South Carolina, joined his victims in the Bible study class, and he took their lives in the House of Worship to reminder that our work to root out hate never ends because he only hides, and when you're breathe oxygen under that rock, it comes out. In short, this day doesn't just celebrate the past, it calls for action today. I wish all Americans happy Juneteenth. How Speaker Nancy Pelosi sees it as a very important continuum in light of this month's reveal about Black Wall Street and other lies and omissions in the history book concerning American Blacks and American history, this is an important step for America. One of the most momentous events in our history finally takes its official place of honor in our nation. That was Nancy Pelosi. Well, the Republicans gave it another try, but at they lost again. Yesterday, the Supreme Court turned back a challenge by Republican led states to abolish Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, but they failed. The justices decide there was nothing wrong with the health program as it is, and Santa Charles Schumer says he's hoping the Republican Obamacare challenges finally get life. The ACA is here to stay, and now we're going to try to make it bigger and better, establish one sin for all, affordable healthcare as a basic right of every American citizen. Right now, about thirty one million Americans have healthcare covers directly connected to Obamacare, and this is the third time that the High Court has upheld it well. Finally, a lot was made of the numbers of people leaving on the cities, especially New York City, last year to get away from COVID, but a recent survey shows that's still another exodus is about to happen. This is called recovery into resignation, take this job and shoving. Yeah, apparently corn to axios. As many as forty percent of workers are now thinking about quitting their jobs. A lot of them also thinking about changing careers. A lot of folks gott were working at home. They want they don't want to go to the office anymore. And a lot of others just want a different life. Now back to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. You're listening to show? All right, Steve, come on, introduce your boy. Let's see what's going on in that crazy MG Anthony Brown, Well, I found like it's going down Saturday night. The whole in yours truly will be there Raleigh, North Carolina. Your boy would be an out. I have a list of gifts. If you haven't got daddy a gift yet, These some gifts. If you see them, damn it, don't get them. Okay, this is what daddy don't want. Okay, or wool lime green housecoat and says do it daddy on the back. He don't want that. If you see it, a gold too with a light in it. Naw, that might be big in Atlanta, but the average daddy don't want that. Okay. Wooden shoes with daddy's name in it. Damn it, he don't want that. Don't matter. No wooden ass shoes, all right? A chicken feathers nobody, Hell, what got your chicken? Got your chicken feather vest, Daddy, which you think? How about this one? This is something Daddy definitely don't want. LaToya Jackson's greatest hits on download, which is one damn song? I know it's one song, all right, one song. Don't you come in that room? Say, daddy, guess what I got you? Fifty five pound bag or barbecue skin? Huh No, fifty five pounds? How about beard gum? Who the hell won't beard gum? Don't do no damn beard gum, beard gum? How about this one? Daddy, open the box? Look at that. I got your pilgrim hat. Here's something Daddy don't want. He don't want to lap dance from a knock knee gods stripper. Okay, now you save a lot of them. Yeah, you gonna. You're gonna save money on that, But he don't want it. Tell you what daddy really won't What he won't Daddy won't these nuts gonna hot it in the MOFO dot com or the daddy some of these nuts that in I did that yet, Daddy, some nuts, these nuts hotter than the MOFO dot com for all your nuts needs, watch your damn that well, you can't tell my kids something I don't want. What I don't want? Got them all up this one right here. You gotta being over that. You can just stand up. I can being over put my damns. All right, we gotta go, guys. Happy Father's Day. Thank you Jay. Coming up at thirty four minutes after the hour, we're gonna talk to Steve about being a dad and a granddad. This is sponsored by Fatherhood, which stars Kevin Hart. It's out on Netflix today and we'll talk about it right after this. You're listening to the Steven Show. Fatherhood is Kevin Hart's new movie that premieres today on Netflix. You don't want to miss it. This is a Kevin Hart that we've never seen. He is excellent in this role. It's about an emotional journey. He's a single dad. He's trying to connect with his daughter. I mean, what a really really good movie. You're gonna laugh, but you're gonna really cry in this movie because it tugs at your heart and you're gonna laugh a lot because it's Kevin Hart. But he's in a really dramatic role and you know it's just about him and his beautiful little daughter. It's a collection of just dad's and father figures and just a beautiful portrayal of black fatherhood. I feel good movie. It goes through all of the emotions. Like I said, You're gonna laugh, you're gonna cry, You're gonna feel lost, you're gonna feel doubt, you're gonna feel love, grief, all of that determination, all of that wrapped up into this movie called Fatherhood, which premieres today on Netflix. Okay, so Steve, yeah, you're a father. You know, one of the best we know. Not only do you father your own biological children, but you mentor many, many millions of boys around the world. So I want you to tell us about the first time you became a father. You didn't just have one baby. You had a set of twins, Brandy and Curly. Now, let's just be honest about my role as a father. Every last one of my children, every last one of them, wasn't complete. Damn surprised. They weren't expect you to look for that really pass them was a woman came in and said to me, I'm pregnant. You are crazy. Okay, so we haven't. The babies have conde, so you know what I mean. But I'll tell you though, it's been I think being a grandfather that's been even a little bit more special because I have, you know, some way of seeing my name continue through my grandsons. The granddaughters are a lot more, you know, precious. You know, I never get angry at my grandkids. I'm always in a good mood with them because, you know, thing that mine, So I don't really care. But I think the most gratified thing for me it's watching my children get it right now. They've all made a lot of mistakes, but I have to realize that, Boy, I look back at the mistakes I made, and nobody could keep judging me over and over for my mistakes because there was no cyberspace, you know, there's no Internet, was no Instagram. My children sometimes their mistakes get broadcast and they have to deal with it. And then they had the extra burden of being my child. So now here comes some most spotlight and so it's been kind of it's a tough spot to put them in, but they all have made the necessary adjustments and they've turned out to be some really really good young people man, and you know, proud of a lot of the accomplishments. Any advice you can give to people who are dealing with blended families because you have experience in that as well. I mean, it's not easy, it's difficult. If you think parenting is difficult, blending has an own set of challenges. I just the only thing that Marjorne I did was we removed the term step Okay, we don't have step children. We removed children, and they just saw kids not And you know, if you won't into that party, you welcome if you want to step outside of it because you're feeling some kind of way, they're gonna get to stepping. But me and Marjorie we saw it all right. Thank you, Steve. Happy Father's Day. Coming up next, Junior is in for 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 is three years later, we're still friends. We'll get into that in just a little bit, but right now the junior, the junior is here for the nephew with today's prank phone call. What you got for us? The junior, Tommy would have said like this, but it's mister Wiggins. Mister Wiggins, you got that right, Wiggins, none of that running. Hello. Hello, Hi, my name is George. I'm with Green Lawn Services. We came out and gave you a cut your yard yesterday, and uh, we're trying to make sure that you liked everything thoroughly. That we cut the front, the back. We also did your hedges, put some mulch in the flybds, the weed eating in the whole nine yards, and we also left an invoice on your doorstep. Want to make sure you got that as well, My man, I'm around man, look damn good, But I was trying to forget who cut it, sir, Yeah, we cut it as of yesterday. You were actually on our schedule and we did everything thoroughly. I'm actually just calling as a follow up, all right, I get sir. Are you mister Malone at fifty three oh one Zimmerman? Hell no, man, I'm Wiggins from three three man, you cut the wrong house. That's next, dough man. I guess you need to put your inboards on there though, so so you you're not mister Malone at fifty three oh one Zimmerman. Say man, I've just told you. I'm gonna sit to three h three and I'm mister wiggers. You don't cut the wrong du it. Y'all need to go and miss listen alone, how to get you one because you ain't cut. You got the wrong house. No, sir, y'all ain't coming over here trying to collect no money. Well, sir, hold on just a second, head. You're saying we didn't. You don't cut the wrong yard, so I don't don't know schedule. I ain't tell you come over here and cut. And you go there and talking Malone get your money. You can't ain't So there's no way we can charge mister Malone if we haven't cut his yard. Now, let's let's just you need to take the cut mister Malone yard and put the member us and here you you didn't cut, And at this sir, nothing want to cut the room. You go cut the right yard and get right that you ain't got. You ain't getting Okay, sir, I say that now, I didn't call no out of the cut. You go there, I haven't cut his right and get him boys, you can't get I understand that, sir. Listen. What I want to say is, uh, well we'll go over and we'll take care of mister Malone's yard. I understand that we've made a mistake, but I understand. I understood. You say that you didn't like the services. So wouldn't it be even right for you to actually go ahead and send the invoice in along with the check since you did like the services? Well? Ever did listening like yo retarded? Because then I just tell you cut the wrong or want to cut the right yard and get you money. You ain't got nothing but practice here. You're done. I understand that we cut the wrong yard, sir, I understand that, but you got the services, and you like the services. I don't want to have to come out there and get the money from you. We'll come on it, decuming, Come on it, decumbing. I got something. Come on over here and get you what you said you like. I wouldn't give them if I said the moon was green. You cut the wrong yard. You go get you money from the right one. You ain't getting charge you I got something. You come on over here. You see what you get. So I put them cut the room trying to get money. Money you ain't getting. Now you you can go get you from the right you're either right next door, go cut that. You leave that paper over there. I'm coming over there. You want to leave startsome, I'm starts ain't some come onund and do and be charging me no money? Now? Yeah, I got more heathen theil get if you want to come get it. You got your yard cut and we deserve to get all the money back to get to what. You come around here time and get some money. Now, I tell you don't cut come on yard like you know. I'm gonna tell how you don't make me whoop y'all behind this yard you come, I will whoop yall behind in the front yard that just got caught you mammy, ain't your path and you come trying to get the money. I'm hello, you don't you? I check? I got one more thing to tell you. Is you're listing? Are you can't standing now? I'm you took the rope? I've got one more thing to tell you. Is you listening? Mister Wickens. I'm look, this is Nephew timing from the Steve Harving Morning Show. You just got prank? Hello? What you listen listen to this morning? Yall? Look at your boy? Gary just brankd you man, Oh we la. Now I'm gonna go get hey. Let me ask something. Did they cut your yard? They cut the wrong yard? Man, y'all about to get Wiggs started in the blaxp Let me ask you something though, Man, what is the baddest radio show in the land? Man, it's the Steve Harvard Morning Here it is mister Wiggins, Miss Wiggins. You could say, you're I got all mister Wiggins. Mister Wiggins maybe comes on his vacation, gone on this w's who knows? That's probably don't tell them flunked out of class. Coolie Jay, I'm still tripping off when you said earlier, Yeah, in a mental institute. I've had. I've had all types of weird jobs. I am. I was a shag boy. Anybody golfers know what a shag boy is. Now, if you ever go into a golf course and scene where they have the tractor pick up the balls where guys hit them out field, okay, yeah yeah, But before they had the tractor, they had a little negro out there, which was me. Yeah. So you go back as far as you can and you wait till you hit the balls, and then you pick them up and then you get a bucket of balls, and each bucket you fill up, you get five dollars, and it's called shagging balls. Shagging balls. Now, wow, you have to wait to they hit all the balls out of the bucket because you could go up to pick up a ball which has happened and you get hit in the head with the ball and you don't get anything extra if you get hit. Job like that, pay five dollars a bucket. Five you get a bucket ball. And how many buckets would you get on an average day? Well in the day, if you got two or three buckets, you go home with that fifteen dollars. And you know, you're a young kid, that's a lot of money, forty dollars. But there's a lot of cheer, there's a lot of dodging, lot of dodging. Go home exhausted. And that's why you don't like golf. Huh, that's why he going to All right, thank you guys, Coming up next Strawberry Letters, subject three years later, we're still friends. We'll get into it right after this. You're listening Morning show time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need advice on relationships, on dating, work, sex, parenting and more. Please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve HARVEYFM dot com and click submit Strawberry Letter. We could be reading your letter live. It's just like we're gonna read this one right here. Who knows it could be your letter? You just never know. All right, ladies and gentlemen, Just time for the Strawberry Letter with my good friends. Shirley straw Berry, Thank you my good friend Junior. Subject three years later and we're only friends. Dear Stephen, Shirley, I'm thirty four years old and my significant other is thirty nine and we've been together for three years. I call him my significant other because he is yet to define our relationship. We started as friends, just like most couples do, and we got closer. He told me that he didn't want anything serious, but he enjoyed spending time with me. We started having sex a month after we met, and at that time I was very busy at work and helping my sister with her new baby, so I was not ready for anything serious either. Then my guy tore his acl and he needed something someone to help him out, so he came to stay with me for a week. I was crazy about him, so taking care of him came naturally. Whenever we're together and his phone rang, he'd tell the caller he was with me, and he'd call them back. This made me confident about the direction our relationship was going in, so I never asked him if we were boyfriend slash girlfriend. After two years, we were stuck together like glue. If you saw him, you saw me. That all changed last week when we double dated with one of my girlfriends and her fiance. They got engaged recently and they are so in love you can feel it. My friend asked my guy if he'd been thinking about marriage, and my guy spoke up and embarrassed me so bad. He said, we're not that serious yet. We're best friends and we love each other, but we are not exclusive. He told my friend that I'm aware of our status and I'm not pressuring him for a title. I sat there, looking stupid and holding back tears. He said he does plan to get married one day, when the time is right. What I heard is that I'm not the one. Is he wasting my time or is he dating others to get it out of his system before he proposes. I'm so confused. Okay, come on, now, I really do not want you to be confused right now. I don't want that. I need you to be good and woke, okay, because this man just told your good friends and you what he really thinks of you in no uncertain terms, and you heard him tell them, so please be clear. He said you're not a exclusive You are not exclusive, which means yes, he's seeing other people, okay, and that marriage will happen one day when the time is right. Well, if it's marriage you want with him, you can no longer sit back and allow him and him only to define this relationship. You have a say in this too. You're in it. Your feelings matter, and if you've changed and you want more, you have to let him know. It's been three years, and after three years you should feel extremely comfortable in expressing yourself to him, and with a lot of confidence. I might add, remember he had no shame, no trepidation when he spoke his mind to your friends, and you should do the same. You should do the same, otherwise you could be spending another three years in this holding pattern of a relationship, not know where it's going. And I know you don't want that. Steve, Speak up, girl, Steve, Well, this letter you've explained your situation thoroughly, So what you want our advice for? I don't understand. You're thirty four, he's thirty nine. I call him my significant other. He don't call you nothing. I call him my significant other. And then you justify by saying because he has yet to define our relationship. Oh no, that's because you ain't defined it. You just you just what what you ain't on him to do, because all throughout the letter he showed you what he gonna do, which ain't pretty much. Ain't about nothing. Well you say we started as friends just like most couples. That's not how usually works. But okay, as we got closer, he told me he didn't want anything serious. Dude, Okay, you typed this, so obviously you heard it. He told you he didn't want nothing serious, but he enjoyed spending time with me. We started having sex a month after we met. Well that's when he really enjoyed it spending time with you, because y'all was having sex and I was very busy at work helping my sister were her new baby, so I wasn't really ready for anything serious either. Well, see, you got into the relationship like a lot of people do. And you you was wanting something, but you're talking about you ain't want nothing either. Well, it don't sound like that in the letter, because all through what you had the table crying for later on if you ain't want nothing. See then my guy tore his ACL and he needed someone to help him out, so he came to stay with me for a week. I was crazy about taking care of him naturally. So now when he needs you for convenience, here he comes. Now he need a woman. Now, see he need nothing sious, but that see that torn ACL. That's a serious injury. So now let me cozy own up to this girl that I'm using, and I'm gonna stay at her house for a week. Called this serious now, But a minute ago he told you don't want nothing seious, But that injury didn't tip him up, So now he ain't come. All right, I'll tell you the rest every when we come back. All right, you heard him. We'll have part two of Steve's response coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour. Today's subject three years later, we're still friends, will get back into it right after this. You're listening show, all right, Come on, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry letter, the subject three years later, we're still friends? Well, lady, you're dating the man. You were just friends, you say, like most couples. Then are y'all got closer? And he told you I don't want nothing serious. He told you that top of the letter. But he said he enjoyed spending time with me. Well you know why because right after that, y'all said, y'all started having the sex a month after we met. Well, I know it was gonna hear will he enjoying this time? But you now now you was okay with that? You say, because you was busy at working. You was helping your sister with a new baby, So I was not ready for anything serious either. Ah, well that ain't what this letter say because you wrote the whole time in the letter you sound like you was thinking someone's gonna get serious. Right, Well, then you got towards acl He needed somebody to help him out, so he came to stay with me for a week. Because you know why it calls at l is a serious injury. So now he over your house for a week. You loved it because you're crazy about him. Think of him just came naturally, as it does with a lot of women, because a lot of women are very nurturing by nature. Women are the best nurturers in the world. So you had a chance to take care of somebody, to show him how much you love him and how serious you are. While he had that serious injury. Girl, you're making it happen and now here going apart that I really want you to talk about. So taking care of him came naturally. Whenever we were together and his phone rang, he'd tell the caller he was with me, and he called them back. This made me confident about the direction of our relationship was going on. Who so you're ignoring the fact that the phone ringing, just damn that you your takeaway? What that was? He tell everybody, I'm I'm with huh, I'll call you back. That gave you confidence. Girl, you forgot he told you this wasn't nothing serious and based on the conversation, he tell that to everybody. So now when the girls do call him on the phone, he hadn't already told him they got a torn a sill and he stayed with his friend. I'm with her right now, I'll call you back, And they cool with that because he hadn't told him they ain't got nothing serious. But mostly he hadn't told them you ain't serious. And if you don't think he told him that, that's why he's so coolly answering his phone, because why you gotta he put his phone on vibrated if he was trying to hide something he ain't got to, though, he can leave it open because you ain't serious. He told you that, but he told everybody else that. So now that made you confident about the direction your relationship with going in. So I never asked him if we were born for any girlfriend mistake. After two years, were tucked together like glue. Okay, if you saw him, you saw me. That all changed last week when we double dated with one of my girlfriends and her fiance. They got engaged recently and they are so in love and you can feel it. My friend asked my guy if he'd been thinking about marriage, and my guy spoke up and embarrassed me so bad. He said, he's not that. We're not that serious yet, see, because his acl fixed and he told you two years ago he wasn't looking for nothing serious. Sure, he said, we're best friends and we love each other, but we're not exclusive out. Now. I don't know why that affected you, because he'd been asking the phone the whole time. What he told my friend that I'm aware of our status and I'm not pressing him for a title. He told the truth. He told you he didn't want nothing serious. He ain't never gave you a title, and you know you're aware of it because he told you that, And you ain't pressing him for a title, because you said back in the letter you ain't never asked him if you was boyfriend and girlfriend. You said that, so you can't get mad at this guy in this letter at all. I sat there looking stupid and holding back tears. He said he does playing and get married one day when the time is right. What I heard is I'm not the one. Is he wasting my time? Or is he dating others to get out of his system before he promoted? What where do you get this stuff from that you keep reading into this? You said, is he dating others to get it out of his system before he proposes? He thirty nine? Right? What he thirty nine? Lady? What do you mean he trying to get this out of his system before he proposes? He never told you he wanted to marry you. He's never mentioned marriage to you. You ain't even his girlfriend, and he told it to you in front of your friends. Why you're still there hoping and waiting is beyond me. What are you waiting for? Lady? You know the answer to all of this. Stop reading more into something that ain't there. All you need to do is go in and say, look, I want a title. I won't know what his relationship is or we're gonna have to end it bye, and he's gonna just going over there to mother girls. It's called thank you Stoster. I'm it's done. Today's Strawberry Letter at Steve Harvey FM and Instagram and Facebook. Check out the Strawberry Podcast on demand coming up at forty six minutes after the hour. What Junior has a new poem for us right after this? Yeah, Father's Day. You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, Junior, you have so much stuff going on? Tell us what's happening in excuse me? Yes, it's time. Credissy will be the Steve Harvey Morning Showing. Walmart Family Mobile want to help you celebrate Father's Day this year. We want you to enter four chance to win a high end smartphone, six months of Walmart Family Mobile service plus two thousand and five hundred dollars cash. Fathers are it ain't get rules at Steve Harvey FM dot com all thanks to Walmart Family Mobile. Get forty gigabytes for under forty dollars a month from Walmart Family Mobile powered by Team Mobile. Get all the info at Steve Harvey FM dot com. Now Lucky's poem time, Ladies and gentlemen. It gives me great pleasure to enter dud this man and Jane. You've never heard this, so pay attention, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the mic. A man who are affectionate referred to as Jay Rapp. What does that stand for? A step far Junior's raggedy as unsayp oh, well, here it is then Father's Day. Fathers, you know you're pretty much not gonna gett nothing for Father's Day. We already established that at the beginning of the show. Also, there's some other things you ain't gonna be getting either, So listen up, fellows here and go. It's called Father's Day. Papa, giddies, Daddy, you ain't getting nothing. Let's get this out the way. You know, damn well, you ain't getting nothing. Each year on Father's Day. Well you might think you're gonna get something. You'll even take a back stand there in your draws while she looks at you and land Daddy, you ain't getting nothing. We do this every year. You start getting all giddy when Father Day getting near. Daddy, you ain't getting nothing. Let's just get this out so you're not surprised and looking sad while your lip is all poked out. Daddy, you're not getting nothing. Okay, So, Daddy, I hope you made it clear with the words I had to say. You ain't getting nothing. Zerro Goosey, not a Nathan. Don't it hold a ball ifty box on Sunday this Father's Day, d n z Ro naked be Father's Day, every father Day. She didn't getting none of that either, nothing ZrO not Jay Raps strikes again. I'm happy when you're right. See that was a whole one right there, wall boy pee kill Jay has nothing to say to his little protege. All right, coming up, thank you, Junior. Coming up at the top of the hour. Jay Rapped, coming up at the top of the hour, we'll talk about the most embarrassing father dad moments right after this you're listening to. All Right, guys, we've been talking about it all morning. We know that Father's Day is this Sunday. So Steve, Jay and Junior, I gotta ask you, guys, what was the most embarrassing thing your father ever did to you? And what's the best advice your dad ever gave you? Call myself going to fight my father. You know, I'm Monday. I was gonna stand up and he hit me in the stomach so hard I never I mean, this went all the way to my back. Was like, wow, he's not he not me. He just one punch, you know what. I'm like, Let's do this. That's exactly what I said. I said, damn it, let's do this. And he hit me in my stomach so damn hard that I passed out. Let's do this. You said, let's do this. He said, all right, let's yea. He said, all right, whoa? Okay, my daddy going to school with me as a student. Because I was talking in claid man my graves was slipping. He said, okay, I know you don't want to learn. I'll say I'll be there tomorrow. And he was there the whole damn day class to Claid, I ain't never focused on trying to do some homework, and Claid, I was the best thing in that day because my daddy is sitting right behind me, his big ASSAI a dis sitting right knees all out. Don't you know that A some space? I know space though, come out. I mean that whole day, even going to know my friends talk to me that entire day. He got a pen and paper, tablet and everything, like I have my locker with me. I I can't get no girls in here today day. Embarrassing thing, come on, embarrassing. Yeah, I don't really know. I had a great father. My daddy did not do a lot of talking, and his was to make you figure it out. So every summer I had to work construction with him, right I got older, and so his thing was he would be working on the job site and to make sure I was looking, he would look at me and go, I'm fit to do this right here, go up there and get that thing from now. I'm fitting to do this right hill up there and get that thing. Now. I gotta walk all the way up this hill and it's it's just at top of the hill, is just full of things, and so the first time he's sending them. Then my youngest brother, who's eleven years old of me, he was working with him too. I came back down the hill and I didn't have the right thing, and he said, what's that fall? I said, I bought it down hill. He said that what the hell would you bring that down here when I'm doing this here? And I told you to bring me that thing down here so I can do this hill. I want it so bad to go, Daddy, do this hill? What and get what thing? Man? Damn? Come on. But my brother looking at me, like, come on, man, just do the one smart thing you got to. So I walked back up that hill, came back down with two things in my hand. I damned wouldn't neither wanted them. He said, boy, I raised you to be a thinking man. Now I'm fitting to do this here. Go up there and bring that thing down here. When I came back down that here the third time, I had that whole wheel barrel, everything that was on top of that hell. I got down there and said okay, and my brother was just laughing. He said, man, you bought all the damn too was down here. He gonna get mad. I bet I'm gonna go back up there with not I wasn't bringing the wrong thing down here, he said, all right, and then get that to me. You know. I handed him everything out there, wheel barrel until I got to the last thing. And that's what the hell he wanted. That's how my daddy taught us. Huh, I said, Man, this dude right here, all right, Steve, thank you. Happy Father's Day to all the great fathers out Therapia Smith Harvey greatest Daddy Albanue mission Man, We'll have more of today's trending stories on the Steve Harvey Morning Show coming up at twenty minutes after. Right after this, you're listening to Dave Harvey Morning Show. The Steve Harvey Virtual Mentoring Program is this Father's Day weekend. Special guests include jeez La, Lakers star Taylor Horton, Tucker, Terrence Jay, and many more. And Steve, you said that during our mentoring sessions, you've found that the boys are dealing with so much pain because of all the deaths of these young black men. And on Saturday, You're going to be having a conversation and a panel called Past the Pain with some of the iconic fathers Tracy Martin, father of Trayvon Martin, Aubrey Wright, father of Dante Wright, and Michael Brown's Michael Michael Brown's father, and a lot of African American young men are dealing with the trauma that they see on the news. I did one campbell time at my ranch in Dallas, and I had the Little Elm Police department come and talk to the boys. And that's when I discovered it. When them police came and talk to them boys, all in black boys wanted to ask the police why y'all always kill us, killing them, and them officers was going, well, that's not all of us. That little boys stood up and said he was fifteen. He stood up and said, but it's too many. He said, officer, y'all don't never kill black keying us. Ever, he said, y'all just kill us. That's why we run. That's why we try to keep driving because if we stop, y'all gonna kill us. That's when I said, Okay, it's a level of stuff going on here that I haven't been noticing. So now we had to add some things to the program to help the boys deal with the pain. Right So, young man, they just thirteen to eighteen. Please go to the Harvey Foundation dot org for more details. Coming up, we'll have more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show at thirty three minutes after the hour. Right after this, you're listening Harday Morning Show. All right, So Juneteenth is now a federal holiday because yesterday President Biden signed into law a measure that makes June the nineteenth, or Juneteenth, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. As we established Juneteenth as our newest national holiday, let us be clear about what happened on June nineteenth, eighteen sixty five, the day we call Juneteenth. Vice President Kamala Harris said, speaking of how the enslaved people of Galveston, Texas were the last in the nation to be informed that the Civil War had ended and they would be set free. The news was brought to them by The news was brought to them more than two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves in the Confederate States. So there you have it. So what happens on this federal holiday? Wellday, yeah, is it a day off? Yeah, it's gonna be. Yeah. Thanks clothes, government clothes. Yeah, yeah, so I have a not a problem. It's just that, like miss miss Harrison was saying, how can we have a holiday for something that we can celebrate, but they don't want us to teach it to the kids in school about the damn day? To me, that will make sense. They don't want to talk about slavery. Well, if they want to take slavery out of the history books they want to see, I want you to understand something. This is my opinion of it. This country doesn't like to admit that it's racist. The biggest racial star they have is slavery. So if we get rid of that, see, and you stop teaching it, this younger generation won't know nothing about it. And so now that is all this conversation of what y'all did to us, and then it doesn't allow young people to know the history of this country. It will remove our contribution to this country and in the first place, facts, and then it will lessen the guilt that a lot of these people feel that part right and reparations that we might want to talk about, they get rid of all of that. Why is it okay to talk about the Holocaust but not slavery. Well, listen to me. The two shouldn't be pitted against one Jewish people. Jewish people not feel to let you play them, period, and we shouldn't let them play us. The two greatest atrocities in world history his slavery and the Holocaust. Those are two of the greatest atrocities, atrocities against human kind. Those two things cannot be forgotten. Now. The Jewish culture not gonna let you play him. It's still people walking around with numbers on them. All right, job, when we come back, last break of the day and Steve's closing remarks, you don't want to miss them. We'll be back at forty nine after you're listening show. All right, here we are our last break of the day on this Friday Father's Day weekend. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there. And I just want to say something to my kids, you know. I know sometimes you guys forget purposely about Father's Day, which is cool. I can deal with it. But the fondest memories I've had with my kids was when they would go on the road with me. And I don't know if Steve had this opportunity to do that. I take all of my kids on the road. I'm probably working at the Startdoom or something like that. I you know, lock them up in the room and then I go do my show, and then I had to take them home. Now, if you don't know my backstory about my kids, that got three kids, three baby mamas, we'll talk about that on another show. But anyway, anyway, taking my kids home, and I don't know if Steve or anybody, taking my kids home was the hardest part ever. It was the toughest part ever to drop them kids off. And it was so cool that each kid wanted to be the last one to go home, which which meant that's how much time they wanted to be with me. They were always trying to encourage me to take the other one home first. So it was so much fun. I'll never forget it, you know, just to have my kids on the road with me, and any dad who's taking the kids back and dropping them off a mom it is really, really, really tough. So happy father says with anybody who's ever been to bit and you know, I agree with you, But I want to say something man about my father. You know, our greatest influence in my life in terms of turning me into a man, because my father never spent any time talking to me about nothing else. I don't ever sitting down, I don't ever remember having a conversation with my dad about prayer or faith, or going to church or nothing. That was my mother. She did all of that. My father's only mission in life was to get me to understand that one day, son, you are going to be responsible for some people. And in order to learn how to do that, you got to start being responsible. Now. My father didn't allow me to have like goofy times and stuff like that. He was full of court pressing me man, and I tried to raise my sons like that. I didn't accomplish it, though I didn't. I didn't accomplish it because I just thought it was better to let him be a little bit more free and stuff like that, and because my kids had a different life than I had. You know, but my father knew exactly what I needed because I had nothing, and he knew that he was gonna leave here and I was gonna have to build this nothing into something. My kids don't have that problem. They started with something, so I didn't have to instill in them the same thing that my father instilling me, and I tried to find little ways to do it. But it's just not the same thing because they see it right there. We have our own room. We all have computers, we have our own bathroom in our room. You know, that's how my kids grow up with. We ain't gotta fight, We don't go to the we don't go over here. We ain't gotta do that. We don't live in the hood, you know. But my father knew differently. He said, this boy of mine, he lives in a place man's that's just wickedly rough. So I gotta get him now. I used to come home, man, crying to my mama because some boy had jumped on and beat me up. Man. My father coming in and see that. Who did it? I say, Rickett Many going back out there. I'm be on the porch. You go down there, you whip rick and you whoop Manning. I'm be on this porch. If you're whoop when you come home, we'll whoop you. Well, now we got to go downstairs and get these hands up. And I know people think that, well, you know that was you shouldn't make a child do that. You didn't grow up where I grew up. You didn't know what my father knew about it. And then my father was an essence of black man. My father used to tell me stuff man that I thought was so hurtful to say. But my father grew up in the time where they mistreated black people in your face all the time. And I watched my father and mother cry when I came in the house and found out that Marl Luther King was dead. That's I seen my mother and father standing there hole in each other crime. I heard my father say, white folks don't care nothing about us. They don't want us to have nothing. All this man talked about was peace and love. They don't want us to hear that. I watched my father struggle and suffer. Man but steady, always embedding in me the thought process of work hard, don't ask nobody for nothing. God bless the child that has his own. Get your own. Don't ask nobody for nothing. Work hard, boy. Look, if they tell you to be there in five, you be there at quarter to five. If they tell you they stay in to six, you make sure everybody going for you. Check out. My father raised me that way. I remember when I flunked out of college and I started working at for a motor company. Whenever they needed somebody to call over time they call I come in earlier everything. I remember one time a foreman called my house and asked my father was out there, and I wasn't there, you know, and I was staying somewhere else. And he told my father, said, mister Harvey, can I tell you something you don't know me? Sir, I'm a supervisor here for a motor company. You've raised one hell of a young man. He's one of the hardest working young man I've ever seen come through this door for a motor company. That made my father the proudest he's ever been. And my father told me, he says, son, that man telling me that was bigger for me than you told me you was going to college. He said, I ain't know none about college, no how he said, But when that man called and said you was one of the hardest workers he's ever seen come through that door. He said, that's what I raised you to be. He said, when I die and I lead as well, you let him always be able to say about Steve Harvey Slick's board that they can out dress you, they can outthrow you, they can outrun you. They can out eat you, they can outdance you, and they can outsand you. But don't you let no man live it say they can outwork you. He instilled it that in me, and I would not be who I am. It wasn't for that black man with a third grade education who raised a boy that turned out to be global. I thank God for him every day. Appreciate h schlick hardy, Hope, be proud of me. Those are my clothing remarks. See y'all Monday, Happy Father, This day. For all Steve Harvey contests, no purchase necessary void where prohibited. Participants must be legal US residents at least eighteen years old, unless otherwise stated. For complete contest rules, visit Steve Harvey FM dot com. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.