Y'all know what time y'all don't know y'all back a suit on, looking back to back down, giving the move like amazing buck bus things and the cubs doing me true good at Steve ha listen to mother for stay. I don't join joined me to be doing me. Har You gotta use turn hur the moment. You gotta turn to turn, got to turn out, turn the water the water. Come come on your back at it. Uh huh, I shore will a good morning everybody. You're listening to the voice. Come on, come on, y'all dig me now, one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show man. Is God good to me? Unbelievable? Yeah, it is. And I can only attribute it to one thing. It's just been a turnaround in my life. It's it's been me finally making a decision to see what all God has for me, but at the same time trying to be more God wants me to be instead of more of what I want to be. That's the trade off. You know, you gotta do something now, you know you know you want God's blessings. You gotta be willing to do something on his behalf. Now I'm not saying I got it right right now, because man, I just don't. I'm just being real with you. I don't. I don't have it all together by any stretch of imagination. I'm trying to get better in several areas. I'm praying about it. I'm working on it. But you know, it's a process, and I've I've grown to accept the process. But I'm improving in a lot of areas from day to day. But I'll tell you what, man, my success all is going on with me I can only attribute to this turnaround. And the turnaround was simple. I turned around and started looking at God. That was a simple move, man. I just turned around and started looking at him, and I was going, Okay, I get it. Now, you created me. You're the creator. You have a purpose for me. I understand that. Now. Now let me just walk in that purpose and let me get to doing that purpose. Now, my purpose and your purpose and their purpose and anybody's perfect purpose could be different, and the way you go about the purpose can be different. And that's the part that I've really grown up to. I've opened up my mind to understanding that everybody's different, nobody's quite the same, and that is not my right or position to judge, but to be of a forgiving spirit and understand and forgive those as I ask God to forgive me. See that's the key. That's the key, y'all. So when you out here and you stuck on this unforgiveness, understand in the large prayer as a segment that says, forgive us our trust passes as we forgive those who trust pass against us. There's another verges says forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debt us. It's two different versions, but either one it means the exact same thing. It means simply this that you are asking God to forgive yours like you forgive others. Forgive us our trust passes as we forgive those who trust pass against us. When I cross the line with you, God handle me the way I handle people when they cross the line with me. You feel what I'm saying to you, See, you understand that. That's the breakdown of it. Best way I can give it to you. Forgive us our trust passes as we forgive those who trust pass against us. Forgive me God for stepping over the line, like I forgive those that step over the line on me. That's the hard part. Man. That's the part man, I've really been working on. I've been really trying to get that together. And so I've learned forgiveness a lot better over the past five years than I have before. And it's paid off. I can't tell you how it was paid off, because now God's mercy and grace is all over me, because I've learned to become more graceful. Now I ain't graceful like him, I ain't merciful like him, but I've learned to become more more graceful, more merciful, because man, I can't live my life like that. I just got sick of me. Man, you're mad at me now I'm mad at you. You hate on me, Now I'm gonna hate on you. I ain't got time for that. Man. Love got you. Look here, you got somewhere to go. Hate take up time. It's time consuming. Hating Trying to seek revenge, it's time consuming, take up way too much of your time to seek revenge when vengeance ain't really yours. That's another one. Vengeance is mine, say if the Lord it ain't yours. So now when you go to seek it to take it out, guess what you're doing you're doing something now. Man, Now you off in the area that you've got no business being in, and instead of steady climbing your ladder like you're supposed to, you didn't take out time for vengeance to hate. I'm a hater. I'm gonna be a blogger. I'm a blog about so and so. When you're blogging about somebody, and most of these people you don't even know when you're blogging about somebody what you're doing, what you're hating. It takes time to hate. Man. I just decided, Man, I gotta take all my time and instead of have doing time and being active, I got to be proactive. See some people get that confused, being active and being proactive. Pro is positive. Pro means to move forward. You know, if you put pro in front of most words, it's a positive influence. You know, does the pros and the cons. The pros is the good side, the cons is what can go wrong the bad side. You know, if you're active, that's one thing, But if you're proactive, you're going forward in a positive direction. When you become a pro that means you the best of the best at whatever it is you chosen to be. I'm a pro so somehow, And I know English teacher grammatical god, the word pro a lot of times when you put it in front of something means positiveness. So now a lot of people think that if you just active something all to happen. Well, I'm doing something, and that's what happens. Man, We just find ourselves doing a lot of busy work that really ain't bout nothing, and it ain't going no where. It ain't got no direction or no purpose because we haven't tried to find out the direction or purpose. So you wake up and you and your wheels are spinning. You a hamster on a tread meal. You're running real fast, but you're just going in the same spot. You understand that's cause you're just out here being active instead of proactive. Why don't you get God in your life. Why don't you turn and face your creative and find out how to become more proactive so you can do things to move yourself forward. How you can get your life off the ground and get off the tread meal and really get it rolling in the direction that it need to be going. Man, I'm telling you God can make that change for you if he see you making the change for him. See the whole key man, the whole kids. You got to be willing to do something. You got to give God something to bless bless me God, and then you go sit on your couch and you ain't trying. Okay, bless me God with what? What? What? What are working with? He can't have the people hire you if you ain't put the app in. Come on, man, how you how you think this works? You know he can't heal your body if you ain't gonna take the medicine and you ain't gonna do none of the things to counteract. You know, you can't get lung cancer and then keep smoking and then expect the blessing to come. Come on, man, the blessing comes when you make a proactive step, when you try to do something on the positive side. Look, man, I'm gonna quit messing around with all these people. I'm gonna start going home. I'm gonna leave these women loan out here. You got to say, all right, man, I ain't going over that at night. I just ain't gonna get Then God can work with you. God help me stop seeing all these women. But you steady going over there calling them setting up stuff. We can't nobody help you, because once you get over there, you already know. See, you gotta get proactive. You gotta do something yourself. You make one step, he'll make two. That that's the key man. So come on, y'all. You know, but we can straighten this thing all the way out for ourselves. You don't have to be wondering what's going on all the time. You don't have to be confused anymore. You don't have to have your life in the rut. You don't have to hate waking up in the morning. You don't have to feel like your life is going nowhere. That is an answer for all of this. Turn around and look at God. Why what you got to lose? Why would you not try it? Just turn around and face him, Turn around and try to make yourself a more righteous brother. Just look, man, I'm gonna do better. You feeling all right, Let's go to dare. Y'all you're listening, ladies and gentlemen, get it together, brace yourselves, molata your business. Turn your radio on up, because it's about to go down. Ladies and gentlemen. Steve Harvey Morning Show is now officially on Shirley straw Billy. It's about to go down for good morning up, morning up. The food in the build, everybody's accounted for. Yes, Yeah, feeling pretty good. Man. Didn't watch CNN last night at all. Don't know what's happening. Just too tired to see what the hell he did today? Anything happened I need to know about. Rogerston't run his mouth, Hey man, let me tell you something, man, rogerston't gonna flip like a pancakes. Let me tell you something. He don't even look like he bill in mate, only people talking about it. I'm loyal. Ain't none of them people, ain't none of them hard. They all do white collar crime. They tell Yeah, ain't nobody in there for a yeah? They all in that. Man. Let me tell you something. Roger Stone ain't gonna do no time you're telling about he love. He'll never do. I testified against the president. When they tell you how many years you're gonna get, you're gonna you're gonna tell something. See what happened to Michael Cohen? Boy, Let me tell you something and trump them. They have been threatening this guy because that statements about I don't know, like ask his father in law. Oh yeah, no, be throwing stuff out like out of't know where, and it is always connected to something. You know what they said, Steve, when Roger Stone came out that day and said I will never testify against the president, that was his code for I'm gonna eat that part. Well, let me tell you something. He fin the same, he's been the president. Gonna have to part himself in a few years, right, right, But you know it and the beat goes on, don't it. Guys? Everything good man, Keep living your life from I still, even when things go wrong, I just keep expecting that it's all for a reason. I'm just looking for great things. That man's twenty nineteen. Man, I got it shaken. You know, maybe he wants me to take a break. You know, I don't know what the plan is. I'm just listening. But boy, let me tell you something. What are he gonna do for me? Though, I'm gonna need everybody be paying attention. That's all. Like he sucks all his teeth. I'm gonna get everybody's gonna was little. He sucked alway across too. I can't do well, you got you? Yeah, he had all of them. Damn man, he can flow with his littles. It just sounds right, Yeah, it was funny. Though you don't think I heard that. I know you've gone from who had the big lifts the whole time. You haven't understand y'all can't write the stuff being written about me. All right, guys, coming up at thirty two after the hour, we're gonna switch gears a little bit to some sad news. We're gonna pay tribute to the R and B Legend. He was a friend of the Steve Harvey Morning Show. James Ingram, Finger Extraordinary passed away yesterday and uh, we'll talk about that right after this. You're listening to show R and B Legend James Ingram, who hit number one on the charts with Baby Come to Me, and y'allma be there and one up suit y'all. I'm gonna be there. McDonald y'all, y'all, I'm gonna be there, compliment what she does, send her roses just because if it's vially she loves. Let them play man, no songs like that. James Eglan was a bad boy. What else was it? From here too? Um? Baby come to me, Baby, come to me. Let me put my arms around you like it was made to be. Oh boy, come on every verse two boy that was a jamboy. Who can laud made that famous on a boy? Him and Patty Money with that man. James Ingram was just a good spirited dude. Man. Yes, I heard Debbie Allenbie and Debbie him and Debbie was good friends friend. That's how I found out about it. Yeah, Debbie Allen post. According to TMZ, the cause of death was brain cancer. James Ingram and his longtime collaborator Quincy Jones co wrote Michael Jackson smash pyt and then you just mentioned Debbie Allen Steve. She's just heartbroken. She broke the news on social media like you said. She posted, I have lost my dearest friend and creative partner, James Ingram to the celestial choir. He will always be cherished, loved, and remembered for his genius, his love of family, and his humanity. I am blessed to have been so close. We will forever speak his name. Wow. Great dude, great dude. He had an right about He did have a few kids. I think about six kids or something. Six kids. I think he had wrong with no, not at all. Yeah. Yeah, they haven't said what it was what he passed from. Yeah, Yeah, Wow, yeah, do you'll remember just once? Just how can plate that at our eighth grade graduations? Just what can we figure? What do we keep doing it wrong? You better sing Harvard stuff in my soul? Man, right, it's all down in me. Man. I wouldn't get it, Junior saying I didn't get it, Tommy, the one put the melody to June. I don't know what you said to do what you did? Again? I said, just once? He tried. Try. I like the way you you fade your notes out one more times. That's how I hid in my head just once. See how see how all his words just fade out? Throw you, Jack? You know, you know, you know, Junior, when you throw you saying the note. What you're supposed to do is you supposed to take the bre and you're saying the note. Doubt you don't suck the note in? Jack? See it pulling that in trying to sing it? Just once? Okay, go ahead, just was just washed, just washed? What maybe try to Oh that's a compliment. My husband loves what she does. Send her roses just because if it's vily she loves. Let them play. Well, you a got to sing the song, all right, Try a little bit you man. Come on, that's tough arms tonight. She'll reflect that she allus you sweet asked of dance fine, hundred ways and one hundred way. Come on, Junior, may okay, try so I could just go ahead. I'm gonna do it low you go on top, no compliment what she doesn't okay, let me try to do it without looking at you. I can't look at you because I'm prob. All right, let's start over you alright, without compliment. What she does see her roses, just because if it's by you live, she looks. Okay, let them play. Okay, that was good. Wait on a minute. Did I just hit something? Get it? Hey? I just said, don't be laughing at me. Pick your face up. Maybe man, he just set up his trail and put his head shave me and Junior, I want you to hit that note because I was gonna boo. You like Apollo? Yes? Yes, yes? What about Secret gard? Oh yes yeah, secre Garden. There he was very white. He was in there like it was a movie. Yeah, El Debars, el de bars very white. Quincy Jones, Oh yeahs a little bit. Let me hear you want to read. I want to reach your mom come on, feelings is that if this was Joe to see you read? Yeah? All right, all right, we'll get it together during the break. Here coming up next, it is a nephew with run that frank back to me. We love you, James Ingram will miss you. You're listening to show coming up at the top of the hour entertainment news. But right now it is the nephew. He is here with today's prank phone call. What you got for his neph Can I borrow your freezer? Can I borrow your freezer? I need a freezer or something some here you go? Alied Equipment, does is tree on? How can I help you? I'm trying to reach Dale. Dale's the manager, right, Yes, Dale is the manager. How can I help you? Okay? Is Dale available? Is he there? Keep actually with a customer? Is there something that I can help you with? Or pass along the message? Okay? So y'all Allied Equipment? What what? What? What exactly do y'all have there? I'm gonna make sure I'm calling the right place. Oh yes, of course. Um it's a restaurant supply company. Um. So we have you know, everything from freezers, refrigerators to your basic restaurant supplies. Okay, do y'all do have freezings, because that's what I'm trying to do. What I'm trying to do is, uh, I've run out of freezer space, and I'm trying to see if possibly, you know, my back is up against the wall right now. I'm trying to see if I can possibly uh put something in one of you as freezes for a couple of days until I get freed up on this end. So that's why I wanted to see if you guys would allow me to do something like that. Is that possible? Um, sir, Sorry, I'm a little confused. I don't want to buy a freezer. You just want to put something in one of our freezers. I just want to put something there for a couple of days because I have a freezer, but mine is completely full, and I'm trying to see if I can put something you as freezer until, you know, for a couple of days, and then I'll come back and get it. Um. I'm so sorry. We don't do that. Um Uh. If you wanted to come by and purchase a freezer, I'm having to help you, but we don't allow outside vendors to put things in our freezers. That's that's yeah, that's I'm sorry. Okay, well I was sold. If Bale would hear what was going on, he might he might be able to help me though. Okay, Um, you said your name was Kevin. Okay, Kevin, if you just hold him and I will see if Dell can take your call. That's that's what the hell I asked it in the first place. Is speaks death. Okay, then please, Hey, this is Della. I can't help you. Hey, Dale, how you doing this? Is uh? Kevin Kevin, And I've been on the phone with with uh the salespersons. But let me tell you what I'm trying to do. Man. I'm um, I'm trying to use your You have a lot of walk in freezers that you all sell, right right, we do? Yeah? Okay, So what what I got is my freezer is completely full, man, and I'm I'm my back is against the wall. You can't highly recommended to give you a call? Is it possible for me to? Um, I need to keep something frozen for a few days. Uh, it's only gonna be like two days. My my freezer will be uh you know, half empty. In a couple of days. I just want to just need some somebody to just kind of help me out here. Is it possible for me to bring something over there to keep keep it frozen for a couple of the days. You know what? We got into show room, you know, with different displays so you can see what different kind of refrigerators look in your restaurants. But I mean, if you want to come and take a look at one, I could have yet if you're interested in buying one. But no, no, you're just there for show, you know, right right? No, No, I have a cooler, I have a freeze already, but like I say, mine is just full. In a couple of days it won't be And I really got to get this this stuff on frozen. Man, I'm gonna be in trouble. Like I said, I'm I'm my back against the wall over here. Man. And um, I can't remember who recommended you, but you can't highly recommended that you might be able to show me a little love on this look. I guess it comes back depends on what do you need? How much? How much do you have do you need frozen? I mean I don't even know what you well, well, I got um three bodies that I need to get um to keep, you know, to keep frozen. Man. You know we run the mortuary over here. This is bose body. Yeah we got three people bodies. Yeah, yeah, we got three bodies that and like I said, my my freezers full. Man. But in a couple of days, you know, these bodies, you know, the funerals would have happened, so we'll be freed up, you know. But right now I got I got three bodies coming in the day that I got to get in the freezer. Are you crazy? Are you damn mind? No? No, no, I'm dead serious. I'm dead sis. Bro. So I'm like I said, you can't highly recommend it. You know, I'm just trying to get somebody to show me a little love. Man. You got those freezes, you don't have nothing in them, you know, I just needed for a couple of days. You gotta be out of your mind. We're not talking about ice. This is a chicken wings or reports shoulder. He's a people. You are out of your mind, man, But but listen to me down, then listen to what I'm gonna you understand how serious is is I have to keep them frozen. That's the reason why I'm calling. I'm needing your help, man. Yeah, I understand that. Look, if you want to, I'll have you come in to buy your own freezer. You can put your own bodies in your own freezer. How much fun to show off my shoulder room with frozen bodies and the freezing. But just just don't just don't show that one for a couple of days, you know what I'm saying, don't just don't show it all wall just come you know what? You know what here? What we could do. We could put the bodies in there, just cover them up and people don't want to know what it is. Yeah, and then I get a buyer that comes in and the cover falls off it and I got a frozen dead body and my freezer. Is that even legal? I don't know. Man. All I'm saying is there's a deal. Man, you can't highly recommended. They told me that you would probably show me so love. I'm actually, you know, getting ready to load up and come your way. Dude, you can't those dead bodies away from my store. I'm telling you right now, I can't hook you up on this one, all right. I just can't do it. Okay, But we're shouldn't load up and come that weight though. Man, So you know what I'm saying, it's I mean, what am I supposed to do? I have no you know what? You want to come talk to me. You want to buy a freezer for yourself and you want to freeze your dead bodies on your own. I don't care. I'll tell you a freezer. I got no problem with selling you a freezer. But you're not bringing the bodies here. It's just not happening. So if Alonzo, if Alonzo calls you and green lights it is it, okay, then I highly down. Alonzo's gonna call me and tell me to put freak a body and wait on our showroom for freezers. I made out that. Okay, okay, but but but guess what Alonzo told me? What did alons I'm telling you, Alonzo told me to give you a call. He told me to give you a plank phone call. This is not from the Steve Hoping moment. Come on, are you serious? Yes? Yes, I'm having my chatter. Oh oh jeez, that guy, Well you just you just got franked by your GM baby. That's why happening right here? All right? Man, give me one more thing you gotta tell me this is right here Dale, what is the bad? And I'm talking about the baddest radio show in the land. It is the Steve Harvey Morning Show, my friend. You know, sometimes you need a freezer, you know, you know, you know montrearies need freezers too, and sometimes they get a little overloaded. You understand that. Yeah, I mean, it made sense, didn't it that I call a man on a bar a free nothing you do make sense? Three bodies, It was just three bodies. Quit trying to act putting normalacy to this. You just like my damn president, that that was low. That was the something that was so tious. You actually gotta take that back. This is playground talk. You gotta take that back. That was dis all right. Coming up at the top of the hour, we'll get into some entertainment news that's coming up right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. Some sad news and entertainment. This is according to TMZ. Grammy winning r and b Legend singer songwriter James Ingram has died from a battle with brain cancer. James had been fighting the cancer for an extended period of time. Actress and choreographer Debbie Allen reacted to the news on Tuesday, saying, quote, I have lost my dearest friend. James Ingram recorded several chart toppers eight in the eighties, including his number one duet with Patty Austin baby come to Me, Oh Lord, such great music. Yeah, one hundred ways and just once. He also won a Grammy for Yama Be There, his duet with Michael McDonald, and another four one hundred ways. He couldn't be denied with that one. James Ingram, of course, worked closely with Quincy Jones over the years, recording and writing hits. For instance, he and Q co wrote Michael Jackson's pyt Yeah, Young Thing, Yeah, Legend, Steve, We're losing all the great ones, man. You know, man, it's like it's it's really sad because music. Um, you know, I had Shaka Khan on the show the other day and I asked Shaka Khan. I said, Shaka, what's the big difference between artists of yesterday in your era and artists today? And she, without hesitation, she said, it's talent. Oh wow. And it's and I think, because you know what she's saying is she's saying it from this standpoint. It's not to saying that these artists today aren't talent, because there are something I can go down the list of some bad people out there. Beyonce is the Michael Jackson of She's a queen of partner. Yeah, she's She's the best female performer I've ever seen in my life. I've seen all of them. Wow, I've seen them all. You know. I never saw Ella Fitzgerald perform. I heard her, but and I've heard Whitney's voice. Whitney's voice is the best I've ever heard. But total performance, it's Beyonce. I've never seen that. There are some voices out there, you know, or some stylis you know, but of yesterday, what she was saying was it was so many it was nothing for you to do. But saying you know it was no you know, rap wing out then, you know, you had to be you had to be able to sing though. And even when rap first called on, it was still R and B out there. We still had adult contemporary music and the talent level was just outstanding. And that's what it is today. Man, It's just you've got to go every so often. Today they produced a single where you go, Wow, there's Beyonce Okay, that girl a Dale can say, oh my god. You know, you look around, you know, and you go, okay, Now, wait a minute. Christina Aguilara can flat out blow you know what I'm saying. Vivian Green can say, Lettuce can blow Leicia Keys give it to a jail Scott. You know, but Jill Scott came out in two thousands. That was eighteen nineteen years. That's crazy. Yeah, so Shako was back in the seventies. Yeah, yeah, you understand different. That era of singers you will never get again. I'm telling you you'll never get them again. Well the problem yeah, yeah, well anyway, yes, please rest in peace. James Ingram. All right, Steve, time for today's headlines, ladies and gentlemen. Miss Anne trip, Thanks everybody. Yes, this is an trip with the news. The weather is still the big story in many parts of the country this morning. In fact, more than seventy five percent of the US population is going to face subzero temperatures subzero this week due to something called a polar vortex, which is pushing frigid air south from the North Pole. Now in the Midwest they're really getting at The frozen air is being blamed for the deaths of at least three people so far in Chicago. Later today, the high is expected to be only fifteen degrees below zero. That's the high temperature ats believe it or not, more cold than it is in Antarctica right now. Heavy snow is in certain parts, so it has caused highway up pile ups and closures. Of course, thousands of airline flights have been canceled all over the country. It's so cold that mail delivery has been canceled in at least six states. Chicago police say they're investigating what looks like to have been a hate crime committed against Empire star Jesse Smollett. Authorities say that Smalllett, who is gay, was attacked by two men yelling rachel and homophobic slurs at him. They wrapped a rope around his neck, he says. The sixty thirty six year old actor also says they threw some unknown substance on him and then started beating him. Jesse small is reportedly in good condition, thank good, and they're looking for those guys. California Democratic Senator Kamala Harris was in Ohio earlier this week after announcing her intention run for president. The senator laid out her positions on the issues. For instance, Harris says she will not vote for a southern border wall even though the Republicans are in charge of the Senate, and she addressed the Dream Act or DACA recipients, we should not be trading on your life for the sake of the political games that this president is playing and trying to vilify young people like you who are doing nothing except being productive and believing in and living the American dream. Harris is the daughter of a Jamaican father and an East Indian mother, and she says she supports medicare for all and dealing effectively with climate change. Her critics claimed it as a prosecutor, her record was not that progressive. Well, you see that stuff working out on the campaign trail. Top officials in the nation's intelligence community strongly disagree with President Trump's boasts about what he's been able to accomplish with the North Koreans despite ongoing negotiations. The Director of National Intelligence says that Kim John Ill does not appear willing to completely dismantle its nuclear program, which is something that Donald Trump has been saying. Oh yes, he's been successful in getting the folks at Apples say they've disabled the group of chat and malfunction problems on FaceTime. It was a software glitch that allowed calls to activate other person's microphones remotely, even if they didn't answer the calls. And ending today, unfortune was said. And shocking news. Yes you heard Shirley and Steven, I'm talking about a Grammy Award winning singer James Ingram has died at age sixty six, reportedly of brain cancer. James Ingram was nominated for several Grammys and Oscars. He won two Grammys, one for Yamo Be There with Michael Donald McDonald and for this one Again. Singer James Ingram did at age sixty six. He will be missed. Now back to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. You're listening, Jesse, Smalalette and the rest of the Empire cast will have armed security as production of the show continues. Jesse, as we all heard on yesterday, was hospitalized after he suffered a horrific homophobic and racist attack. This is also according to TMZ. Jesse was brutally attacked by two men who beat him up, put his head in a noose and screamed, this is maga country. You know what magastands for Make America great again. This according to reports, Jesse arrived in Chicago from New York late on Monday and around two am, he said he was hungry and he went to a subway to get something to eat, to get a sandwich, when shortly after that he walked out and on his way home, someone yelled, aren't you that F word? Empire? N word. The two men, both white and wearing ski masks, viciously attacked Jesse as he fought back, but they beat him badly and fractured a rib. They put a rope around his neck, poured bleach on him, and as they left, they yelled, this is Maga country again. Make America great again. They're looking for him. Yeah, the President needs to say something, denounce what happened. Does yeh, he's not, but he should. I don't expect him to breathe a word about this. And the reason I don't think he's gonna breathe a word about it is because he created those hats. Yeah, there are people who put on those hats because make America great Again symbols symbolizers to them make They want to go back to a period when they identify America as great again. That's why when I see a black person with that hat on, I'm completely shocked because I'm trying to look at your black ass and try to figure out what period in the past you thought is we are to go back to it again? Where what you what sixties, seventies, fifties, eighties, where you're trying to get back to that was so great for us. That startles me when I see black people with that hat on. But the white groups that wear the hat that are racist. Now, everybody that has the hat on is not a racist. It's not a white supremacist hate group. Some people wear the hat because they interpreted make America great again something else. I don't see what that is, but they do. So you can't lump people together because they got a red hat on and call them a racist or a hate group. I don't believe that to be true. But when you put it on in the name of hat, then you're wearing the hat because that's what it does for you. And you got to look at the source where they had come from. It came from the dude that's in the white up. Real Talk coming up at thirty four after the hour, asked Steve, as we celebrate the tenth anniversary of Acts Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. Oh, show you that you're listening to show? All right, we're celebrating the tenth anniversary of your book, Steve, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. I cannot believe it's been ten years. I can't. Okay, God, yeah, yea. So we're taking time now to ask Steve relationship questions from um from Steve HARVEYFM dot com. Now here's a question. It's rather long, so get ready. Here's a question submitted from one of your loyal fans. Her name is Monica S. She says, Hi, Steve, you were great with women and how to understand how men really think and are. Here's the new dilemma. Now that women are stronger, more successful, and have a voice, many men feel less than or not good enough to quote, get her or ask her out. And I'm talking about many men. Can you do a show or start a movement for men on how to move with the cycle and not be intimidated. For today's woman to up their game as we women are to rise to the occasion. I have this conversation with my twenty two year old often So this is from Monica s Steve Well. I think let me let me let me start it by saying this, first of all, ladies. The the intimidation that men are feeling today, it's because when you, as women, raise your standards, when you raise the bar, that's a higher jump than we have to make. And it's not that it's men are intimidated to jump that high. It's just that they've never been required to in the past. So you've created a new dilemma. And you're absolutely correct, that is a new dilemma that's created. But it's a great new dilemma because men will respond accordingly. It'll take them a minute, but they're gonna find out okay, oh okay, So they didn't pull it together, Oh they got their self esteem together. Oh, they ain't falling for this trick no more. And then a man just has to make the adjustment that, okay, cool, this one's not for games. And what you've actually done is that you've you've eliminated the pretenders, so to speak. So the men that aren't about to rise up to climb over your bar, they've been knocked out. And it's not by intimidation. They really just wouldn't go. They're not at your level? So what you want? I'm not gonna ask you to dumb it down. But if a guy's not willing to step over the bar you've created, it's not that he's intimidated. He just don't qualify. Every man can't qualify for you. I'm sorry, And you shouldn't give every man a chance with you. It ain't no damn you know. This ain't no time to be man. I give everybody this shot to be fair to say what this is that nice? So what should she do? Should she move in different circles getting well? You know, as you elevate your game, you know, the game got to be exposed to different places. You know. It's other dating sites other than swipe right, swipe left. It's things going on other than bumble. It's stuff out there that you know, elite datas you know. You know, it's it's a lot of stuff out there that cost a little bit more to get one, and I don't know them all. But there's other places to meet. There's places you can go and associate that brings on a different client tale of people. But if you keep hanging around the same people, you go the same church, the same dude coming in every s They a whole lot of new dudes coming in. So you're saying she's got to change her surroundings, do some different things. Yeah, of course that's who she wants to attract. If you've elevated, you got to get where at. But for the time being, thought he wants to just don't nobody the one she don't want to go below down there where you are. I ain't down there. I'm just I'm down there. You woke up. Some women want to come down here. No they don't. There's bottom feeders, top feeders type. Someone's bottom feeders. I mean, you may end up with it, but you don't want to know. You're not Katherine. She's good Tommy until you don't head turbot? What is turbo? Maybe you need to get yourself some turbot? What what? What lake is? Daddy? And what is turbot? All right, we gotta move on, guys. Coming up next, it is a nephew with the pranking phone call for today. Right after this when you called a turbot's too fast? Shut up? You're listening Morning show, all right, guys coming up at the top of the hour right about four minutes after. It's my strawberry letter for today. Subject wait till you hear this one. You have to take the good with the bad. But right now the nephew is here. What is that marriage? Oh you'll see this is this is a crazy one, Steve. But right now, nephew Tommy is here with today's praying phone called neph What you get drug test? Time to take a drug test? Yeah? Yeah, people job, Yeah at the job drug test? That's right, baby? Yeah? Pass man? Yeah? Okay, what they want? I ain't get none. Well, listen to this later. Right here here it is hello. Hello, I'm trying to reach a Fay. Please, this is hello. This is Officer Rodgers from the Probation Department. Yes, sir, listen now you have been on probation for a little over a year now, all right, faith, Yes you correct. Now you're supposed to be serving two years probation too. All right now, I'm giving you a call. Actually I'm bringing you a bit of bad news. And I hate to do this, but you you came in for a couple, um, a couple of weeks ago and did did a drug test? Am I right? All right now, Fay, I don't I hate to bring you some bad news, but the actual drug test that you took has come back positive. Last. That's a lot. That's a lot. That's a last. Wait a minute, Wait a minute. Now, you came in a couple of weeks ago, you took a drug test. This drug test has actually come in positive. Now, what I want to say to you is this, you're gonna have to Actually my test wasn't positive. You got hold on a second. I either need you to come in to me or I don't, and I don't want to save the embarrassment of having to send a car out to pick you up. Now, embarrassment you're talking about stuff. I gave you some and my was good, ma'am. Right now, I got you have a positive drug Tell you have you you you come up positive? Man? Now you gotta if they use man, we use the one that you brought us now must have been the wrong one. Couldn't have been, man, sir. I'm sorry, sir, but I wouldn't have gave you no bad YearIn it just wouldn't me. Man, I don't want to have it back to jab. I don't even know how you would call me with this nonsense. I got children I'm trying to do right. I don't know why you would call me. I wouldn't have gave you no bad That's not me, said fly ma'am. Listen, you have to come in and do another three months now, Oh sir, y'all can come pick me up. I can tell you right now. I can ple in your hand if you want me to. Ma'am, your yearine has come back positive of drugs. Now, I don't I don't know any other way to explain it to you. You've been actually evidently using drugs again. First, I'm trying to tell you, I don't you know drugs. I've been clean for a year and some months. Now. You got the rum that's not my How do you telling you that? How do you know it's not yours? Ma'am? It's got your name on the lid. Everything you have come back positives, whatever dinner you put your name on it, because that ain't came back, would have came back good. You can't tell me and tell me I gave you some man. Can't call me and tell me that that's a negative, sir, that's a double negative. It's not a double negative, it's a double positive. You've actually come back positive, say he has written here on the actual cup. Maybe yeah, I'm more than one fake. No, No, we don't have more than one. Faith. You're the only thing I've actually double checked out myself. You need to either come in or we got to come out and hal you're behind in here. Well, I need you to come right now, because I got the right now right now? Are you trying to tell me that if I come and pick you up and take your year and now your YearIn is gonna come up negative? Is that what you're saying. Yeah, I'm telling you that you're a terrible positive. With that, my urine is gonna come up negative. Man, I hate to I don't want to come out all you're in in front of your family, But you're actually gonna be coming in and you're gonna do three months. That's all I can tell you. You're gonna confident, Sir. You got the wrong, say hell no, you got the wrong. It's one of the two. Might be both you got the wrong, you got the wrong, fake. I'm letting you positive, no positive. I'm trying to tell you I got kids, man, I ain't had no positive. Listen, ma'am, I'm telling you one more time. You either want to come in or want me to come and get you. Which one? Let me tell you what I want you to do. I want you to find out who you have because that ain't money. Don't put no. I'm gonna tell me nothing about you. Got some some that that is not good. I gave you some good at times. I got to for you out y'all. Keep picking up people, software kiddles and folks, y'all. I had, miss says time. Miss now, I've been giving your sad. I want to me I'm dad. I ain't getting a bad I'm calling a more like that. And where is my probation officer? You say your name is? What my name is? Officer Rogers? I don't know, Officer Roger. Like I said, you might be the reason why it came back past. You might be the reason I need to speak with, mister w that's my probation officers. Officer. Now, I have clean at all time. Mister you shouldn't be calling me. I should be calling you because I'm gonna ever DELI. I'm gonna have to come down the hall. You're behind him myself where you can bring your soul. And when you come here to bring mister with you here. Let you know, I'll have no positive you can come to my job. I got you got Let me know what. There's one more There's one more thing that I need to bring. Come on right now, come on, I got one more thing I need to say to you. Are you listening to me? What is it? Sir? This is Nephew Timing from the Steve Harvey Morning Show. You just got pranked by your sister Alan. I know one thing, y'all played too much. I'll play too much, but I'm coming to give mister rogers. She gonna get positive hell out of met me thinking I was doing to us and didn't know about it. To play with people like that, okay for you? All right? He No, I'm nervously. It's your sister. She putting me up to it. Baby. Well, when you ever see her, you see what she looked like. I'm gonna beat the hell out of her. I got one more question for you, baby. You got to tell me this. What is the baddest I'm talking about the baddest radio show in the land, The Steve Harvey Morning Show. You I got cut down? Oh yeah, thank you? Think real hard. I think she was not having it. Hey, let me let me thank Tampa, Tama y'all, y'all sol out six shows from me in Tampa, Floyd. I want to say thank you at the IMPROBM. I appreciate that we had a good time. I appreciate y'all coming to see the Nephew. The next stop is Colleen, Texas, brand new comedy club in Colleen, uh twice as Funny Comedy Club. I will be there fourteen, fifteen sixteen. That's Valentine's Night, Baby, bringing your baby, bring your single ladies, however you want to do it. Y'all come on out. The Nephew will be in Colleen, Texas February fourteen, fifteen sixteen. Take us on sale right now. All right, thank you Nephew. Up next it is the Strawberry Letter for today. The subject you have to take the good with the bad. We'll get into it right after this. You're listening Day Morning Show. All right, it is time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need advice and relationships, dating, work, sex, parenting and more, please please please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve Harvey FM and click submit Strawberry Letter. We could read your letter live on the air, just like we're gonna do this one. This one might need a little disclaimer at the beginning, so if you're around kids, you might not want them to hear this letter. Okay, please don't buggle up, hold on tight. We got it for you here. It is the Strawberry Letter. Subject you have to take the good with the bad. Dear Stephen Shirley, I need some advice on a different kind of double standard with men and women. Mike's boyfriend has a lot of flaws, and I overlooked them in the beginning because I was really into him and wanted things to work out. For example, when we met, he told me he lived downtown in a brownstone, So a few weeks later I went over to his place. I pulled up and he escorted me in through the basement door and told me he hangs out down there most of the time. So we started kissing and may came out on the couch and he had managed to take off all my clothes and most of his. When someone knocked on the door. He threw a blanket over me and went to answer the door. It was a woman at the door. He said it was his ex wife and she just stopped in to say hi. Then he asked me if I wanted to meet her. I was sitting there naked, mind you. She went away, and he told me that he rents a room in the basement from her, but she rarely comes down there. I know I should have left him alone then, but I didn't. Fast forward to when we finally had sex for the first time, this man had the nerve to joke about me having a squishy stomach, and he told me that I could have done a better job at trimming the hedges. Wow, if you know what I mean, that was it. I cursed him out and told him he's a borderline bum that lived with his ex and he has a big stomach and a little bitty everything else. Since then, he has not spoken to me. I did not mean to hurt him. I just wanted him to understand that he's not perfect either. Why do women always have to take the good with the bad, but men want us to be perfect and flawless. What can I do to get this man back? Please? Help girl get him back. You gotta run away and keep running. Okay, Why would you want to get back with a man who lives in the basement of his ex wife's brownstone. I don't understand. And what is she just stopping by to say hi for? Is this making sense to anyone? Anybody out of here? Go? Okay, I mean my answer is gonna be really short. I'm almost done. Okay, not only that, I mean the man insulted you twice. Okay, you don't have to take this from anyone. He said you had a squishy stomach and all of that. Girl. Please get yourself esteem up and listen to your gut when it tells you to leave and leave him alone. Please. Yeah, you already cursed and listen to your gut. Literally, somebody said, come on, you already cursed him out and called him a bum. Okay, level up, leave him alone? Okay, you could do better. You could do better, Steve Hell Yeah, just probably gonna be my favorite letter. How many minutes I got before we go to break? Just give me an ideal? You got about five? Good? Yeah? Good money? Here we go. Your ex boyfriend has a lot of flaws, and you overlooked him in the beginning because you was into him and you won't step to work. So first of all, he told you he lived downtown in a brownstone. What a sad Jo live downtown in a brown stough. So you go over to his place. You pull up. This didn't get shaken to you. He escorts you in through the basement. Dough told you he hang out down there most of the time. So right after you get on there called this grain hang out, y'all star kissing here what the letter took a turn and making out on the couch and hit the line in my favorite line. And he hadn't managed to take off all my clothes and most of his. He managed that and more. Damn they're all in his so y'all almost completely naked. Then somebody knocks on the door. He threw a blanket over me and went to answer the dough. This ain't the time to go to the dough if I'm almost naked. I never stopped for that. Yeah, even in my old house, the kid joy from the dough. Time, get your assay. I'm not fit to throw no blanket over and go to this dough. Yeah this, I don't need no blanket. I'm busy. Go to the door, answer the dough and it's a woman at the dough. Now he threw a blanket over you. He almost naked. I don't know if he went to the door with a sock on and a hoodie, so he had to do with a sock and a hoodie, just naked from the waist down, with just one sock and a hood It was a woman at the dough. He came back and told you it was his ex wife, and she stopped by to say hi. Then he asked me if I wanted to meet him. Hey, you won't meet him. She right outside the dough. She know you ain't him. I know you naked, but you're sitting under this blanket. I was sitting there naked. She went away, and he told me that he rents a room in the basement from her, but she rarely comes down there. I know I should have left him alone then, but I didn't. Fast forward, we finally had sex for the first time. Well, I know you couldn't at that time. No, not with that hoodie on in that one socket and his wife to him. It's kind of hard to be in the mood after that, ain't it. This man had the nerve to joke about me having a squashy stomach, and he told me I could have done him on a better job trimming the head and if you know what I mean. Well, well, that's was it. You cussed him out and told him he's borderline bum that live with his ex, and he got a big stomach and a little bit of everything else. Since then, he ain't spoken to me. Well, when we come back, we're gonna find out why you ain't saying nothing left to you. I'm gonna tell you why he ain't said a damn thing to you. All right, Well, Steve, we're gonna have part two of your response coming up at twenty three after the hour. Subject of the Strawberry letter. You have to take the good with the bad. We'll talk about it right after this. You're listening, all right, Steve, Let's recap today's Strawberry letter, and you have to take the good with the bad. That is the subject. Let's go dating. His man had a lot of flaws. I told you live downstairs downtown in the brownstone. Go down there, you go through the basement though you don't even see the living room. And then you did down to the basement. You down at the furnishing water heater. That's where you ask you downstairs with the furnace of the water heating, and how your ass at the negative. I've done a lot of stuff in mind, yeah, but getting naked over that by that furnace, that's that's touching gold. I try not to have my ass out when I'm about the hot water heater, that flame with that pilot on it. It's a hard place to beat naked on them dust balls down never, it ain't side of whales. It ain't sexy down there. That little light you see that ain't no cock. That don't count the that's the pilots man. Man, you get naked somehow, you wind up you naked. He almost niked. Somebody knock on the though. He go to through. It's a damn woman. He come out and tell you his wife. Ain't she over here? You want to meet him? You butt out neked. He asked you you want to meet his wife? Of course you told him no. She went away. He told me he rent the rooms rarely come down and fast forward. We finally had sex for the first time. I'm assuming you was back down there in the back capt Brownstone, Downtown, Brownstone. You you even moting downtown? You downstairs? You ain't just downstairs, you're in the basement. We cain't getting no lower in the house. Now you ain't downstairs, you're in the damn basement. You have sex down now. The man had the nerve to joke about me having a squishy stomach. Then he told me I could have done a better job trimming the head just down there, if you know what I mean. That was it. I cust him out. I told him he's a borderline bomb that lived with his ex wife. He got a big stomach and a little bitty everything else. That Since then, he ain't spoken to me. I ain't mean to hurt him. But let's let's go with what you said to him that you didn't mean to hurt him. You cussed him out. You didn't think that would hurt him, all right? Man? That maybe maybe not told him he was borderline bomb. Heard worse than that before. That ain't gonna hurt me. You live with your ex wife. That would have hurt me, because once you might ex I'm out, you're damn he got a big stomach. That would have bothered me a little bit. But you know, ain't nobody said that told me about I know it's there. They really bothered me. I don't even call it a stomach no more. I you know, I refer to it as income. You say what you called you can said I gotta, but if you want to, I call it income. Yeah, I'm doing well, so I can get past the stomach hit apart where you tried to take him to his knees. You got a big stomach and a little bit of everything that hurt that. That's where the pain come in. I know my stomach, I know where it ain't flat like it wll. But we all know what's under this and know why you didn't chose to call it a little bitty. It was the same size it was years. It's just the stomach them downside and got it looking at. That's what hurt his ass. That's the pain here. That's why he ain't called you pack. It's that little bitty everything else. And then I just wanted him understand. You know, he ain't spoken to me. I ain't mean to hurt him. I just want him to understand that he not perfect either. Well he know now why the women always have to take the good with the bad. But didn't want us to be perfect? Mean, what what what are you talking about? He ain't perfect. He stayed downstairs, under the downstairs, he in the damn basement that he renting from his ex wife who she don't want him, found out you was in there and didn't even want to come in there because she went, Good luck, baby. If this is who you want, he down here in this damn basement, you can have him. He got to shoot shots at you because he ain't nothing. You don't see what he did. He tried to bring you down to make himself look better. He got a big stomach any in the house that ain't here? What can I do to get this man back? What? That's the part of even I walked back with him, I think, what did he do? M He ain't said nothing you like, He don't live where you like, He ain't got the stomach your light. And now we didn't find out all of them little eaty bitty party that you don't like. His Jack Johnson can't even be called Jack Johnson? What Jay just say? James? He got he got another nickname like t t sweet pea, little mate, little mate, mighty mountain, tiny tots, no theater to come over here with your tater top looking at it. You take that big tater tops on, you look like three little tater topes looking at me. All the Stuffy said about her hies. Your tater is the same size as your top his. Your two little tat is the same size as your tie. You just follow here with three tater toes. He's in a bit too much. She got a squishy stumba. Yeah, yeah, he started it. Yeah, lady, I don't I don't see what you want with him. I really don't want him back with his ex wife at his ex wife's house. He stops by to say, Hi, all right, listen, we gotta get out of here. Please email us or instagram us your thoughts on today's Strawberry Letter at Steve Harvey f M. Now coming up in ten minutes. Lifestyle guru B Smith has Alzheimer's disease and her husband has a girl friend, and her fans are not happy about it. We'll talk about that right after this. You're listening, all right, Steve. We all know B Smith, the lifestyle guru, former restaurantur. Well, she's now sixty nine years old. She's battling Alzheimer's. Okay, oh yeah, they used to call her the black Martha Stewart. Her husband Dan has a girlfriend, and B Smith's fans are not happy about this. Her husband revealed his relationship with his white girlfriend on social media, and now B Smith's fans are upset about it. So, um, people are like, what happened to your vows? You know, when you take your vows your marriage vows in sickness and in help. Some people feel like the husband is being disrespectful. But before you judge, please take a listen to be Smith's husband explanation. This courtesy of The Washington Post. Yeah, listen to this talking listen. I believe in the sanctity of marriage, but I don't believe death. Do you part means that because you've made a commitment, if the person is not there, that you should sit there and watch your life shrivel up. And that's why I am where I am today, taking care of me and having someone else in my in my life. Yeah that was what. Yeah, it's um. People are really torn with this one. Yeah yeah, yeah. And I think the woman comes in, she she spends a night there at their home on the night, A couple of time in the house, yeah, a couple of nights a week. Yeah, that's yeah. People are really torn though. Down at the door. What did you just say? That was stupid? Wait? What about her about the woman staying at the house sometimes. Yeah, she stays there. She helps. Yeah, she helps the husband out, helping the husband out. She didn't caregiver for who for? She helps out. She helps take care of b Smith she does, and his daughter who they both raised. She also helps. And she seems to be fine with it as well. Yeah, she supported her. Yeah, they're all there. Okay, that's this is a tough one. Oh, it's very tough. Yeah, a lot of people are. I don't know, man, I don't know. I don't First of all, I don't know why he talked. This ain't the time to come out and make statement. He said he didn't want to hide it anymore. Okay, Yeah, he was the one to reveal the relationship on social media for media. What did you do? That fault? That's what he did. Yeah. Now, but let me say, because I know both of them met him before, I didn't notice about being I feel horrible about that. Alzheimer's is horrible, horrible affliction. It really is. It robs you of your mental capacity to remember, to think. I mean, it just takes the person that you are completely awake. Oh. Man, and this is his life now with his girlfriend Yep, his wife and his daughter and they are all taking care of Miss Belt with her. Fans are upset. They feel like maybe this woman is living off the lifestyle that you know, b Smith, this empire, that you know that's just right, and that he's being disrespectful for having this woman in the home with his wife. What about your vows in sickness and in health, they're saying, he seems to ignore the part about in sickness and in health. You know. Um, yeah, people are, they're very much torn with this situation. Look, he just didn't want to be He wanted to bring it out in the open. Well, look, I can't judge. Yeah, it's not fair for me to sit in judgment of another person's situation when I haven't been faced with that exact member. Man, I haven't. The last time I talked to There's nothing wrong. She was so healthy, full of life. Matter fact, we were at a restaurant. We were at her restaurant. That was a long time ago, but I remember that, and I saw at a place somewhere, and so she's always been this really beautiful and vibrant person. So to see her suffer from this and to hear about it is shocking. Now. To his credit, he did come out with an explanation and said it, Uh if now here's depart If Bee's daughter is okay, well his daughter together step his daughter. It's not her daughter, no, not her biological daughter. Now, so I'm assuming he met her while she was a caregiver for Bee. No, No, I'm not saying this woman as a healthcare provider, caregiver. She he has a relationship with this woman and she now is a part of take helping the family take care of her. She that's not her job. I'm saying that's what she's doing. Yeah, that's not her I'm not gonna say that's her profession. She was married to your part of it, to this really rich guy, um who owned a lot of parking space parking structures in New York where they live. But they're they're no longer together, obviously. But she stays over the girlfriend stays over a couple of nights and yeah, sometimes she stays over there. Yeah, and in their home y but and but his his thing is she's not really there. He can't reach her, you know anymore like that mentally, because she's been afflicted with I've seen the first hand the men. Yeah, my father had dementia. It's tough. Some days you know who I was. Some days he didn't. Yeah, and and didn't They write a book together before her this Alzheimer's took on, you know, such severity as it is now. They wrote a book called Before I Forget Wow. Yeah. Yeah. And he's been with her a long time, so he feels like he helped build that empire. Yeah, long time. Yeah. Yeah, they've been together over twenty something. Yeah, it's an interesting story. It's a sad situation. I can see both sides of what people are saying. It's not for me to judge. For him to come forward, he must have really resolved this in his mind. It's tough when your wife is in the house and your girlfriend staying over there. That Yeah, I ain't gonna I ain't gonna be running that by my family, all right, Steve, Uh, we gotta move on here. Coming up at the top of the hour. It is record cold in some parts of the country. And President Donald Trump jokes that we need global warming, but he said global whamming, and when he tweeted, you know, he's challenged in certain areas. Yeah, in certain areas. Sorry, we'll talk about it when we come back right after this. You're listening to the Stave Harvey Morning Show, and our deep freeze is blanketing the Midwest and Northeast this week, sending temperatures plummeting below zero in many areas. President Donald Trump is using it as an opportunity to poke fun at the claims of global warning. Warming displaced polar vortex is dropping temperatures in the Midwest down to as low as minus thirty degrees, with wind chills making it feel like it's minus sixty. Oh jeez, I do not miss home. I do not miss home, President Trump tweeted last night, in the beautiful Midwest, wind chilled temperatures are reaching minus sixty degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expect to get even colder. People can't last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with global warming? Please come back fast, We need you. His tweet was immediately slammed by science and climate experts, who reminded the president that global warming is what's causing extreme weather conditions. Also FYI in the tweet, the President actually misspelled warming like I said, he typed whaming of global whamming or whatever. No, No, are so job a m engines? Yeah? No, are just president having the same troubles as your nephew. Were all the troubles global yeah warming, global warming types. Our president is just like my nephew. Y'all, go, do the mater think than the president. I'm sorry to hear that, I really am. You want a cookie for that? All right? Another related Donald Trump news he has accepted rescheduling his speaking dates. Trump will now give the State of his Union on February fifth, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi canceled the original date that was set for January twenty ninth due to the government shutdown. Of course, Pelosi invited Trump on the rescheduled date on Monday, and he accepted the offer. Meanwhile, Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen has agreed to speak in private um to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on February eighth. He was originally set to testify in an open session, but canceled last Wednesday after claiming that his family was being threatened by mister Trump. Well, if you listen to what Trump was saying about his father in law. And then Juliani came on on Cuomo and said some more stuff about maybe we need to look into his father in law. That was like connection. So now once they got that out, so now if anything happens to the father in law, they can tie it back to ye what Trump said, and Giuliano said, So now he going up there to testify on the aide in a close session. Yeah. And I mean, I'm telling you, man, this ain't gonna go good. See. You can say what you want to say, but too many people that were brought in by this president are now indicted, all the President's men. What you're saying, this is who you've been running with. He's a liar, he's a crook. You you they worked for you. One of his aids wrote a book. Um, uh, what's the name of it by something about vipers. I can't think of the title right right now. He every picture you saw of the two of them, they were right together. He was one of the President's eight. He's been going around on his book tour talking about his book, and President Trump tweeted he was a low level assistant boy Papadopolis. Um I'll get his name, um, but anyway, yeah, he wrote he wrote it's a new book that's out it's something vipers. His name is Cliff Sims. Yeah, Cliff Sims. And the book is called the Team, Team of Vipers. Yeah. And so he's been all over the TV. He's been on CNN, he's been on the View, he's been everywhere and talking about you know, what has gone on in the White House and all of that. And every picture they show it's of him in close par Yeah. They're right together. And he was a low level employee. I'm like, what, he's right here with you every venture. Yeah, Team of Vipers, they're together. It's crazy. He just my five hundred extraordinary days in the Trump White House. Yeah. Team of Vipers, that's the name of the boy. Yeah, it's just gonna have you. Have you all noticed Sarah Huckabee. What about her, Steve, I'm just saying, keep her close after she's still there, though she has not, I can see it. You see something they send to me off. I'm gonna tell y'all what I saw, But I'm telling you I saw it when she was talking the other day. I can't say it on the air, but I'll tell you, but please keep a close, said Huckabe. Ain't got loan for this. She looks a little weary because Kelly Conway. Kelly Conway is actually good. She threw with this. She just she just hanging on because people that told her she gonna quick. Oh they talk about Kelly and Conway. She just gonna be spiteful. They hanging there. She wants to leave now. Her husband leaker. Yeah, they say she's a leaker to her. And you know her husband a big Trump opponent. He does not like Donald Trumpe. They live in the same house. Yeah, right, right, come on, now, that's sex. Ain't being good for the last two years the election. That ain't no good since he won. Oh, that's aggressive, It's not good. He don't even want you. All right, coming up, we'll have more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show right after this you're listening to. All right, There was an eye in the sky over Bill Cosby last week, and prison officials are not too happy about this. Someone flew a drone over the Pennsylvania prison. Bill Cosby was being escorted through the yard at the time. You know, he does get an escort because of his blindness. The prison was immediately put on lockdown for an entire your day. Officials believe someone in the media was trying to get a shot of Cosby, but no pictures or videos have shown up online yet. Cosby, of course, is joined three to ten years for sexual assault. I didn't know when he walking through the yard. The probably someone they're telling because if they get that picture, they're gonna split it with the god. Yeah, doc. The contraband. The majority of contraband is brought into prisons by gods. Right. Yeah, they got a lot of other ways. But guards are they're none of the most highest paid people in the world, and you get caught, get caught in situation like if something that makes you just be cool with them. There's some cool people in prison, man. People don't understand that. And when I say that, how can you say they're cool people? With their criminals? They are really some good people made bad judgment call and wind up in prison. I'm not talking about people who murdering and raping people. You just the evil person. But this is a lot of people that the committed non violent crimes. It just got busted doing something they shouldn't have been doing. And they some really really cool people, man, who deserve another chance. That victims have rights too, now, so yeah, you know, and another news, Steve, did you guys hear about this one? The FaceTime software flaw? Flaw that allows iPhone spying, a security flaw in the face I've been talking about sothern called me and showed me hot work. Oh he did? Really? Did you get it? What you mean? I mean? Did you understand what he was saying? Work? Well, it allows you to secretly listen to an iPhone owner's conversations without their knowledge, and Apple has confirmed the bug. You better believe they're working around the clock if you correct it old y'all, Sam Song androids Androids. They expect a software update sometimes before Friday of this week. The trick to spying on your iPhone friend is to make a FaceTime video call. Okay, and while it's still ringing, you can swipe up from the bottom of the screen and click ad person, select your own phone number. You will be able to hear the microphone on the phone of the person you called, whether they take your FaceTime call or not. That will break up a happy right. Yeah, that's deep though, big brothers. Yeah you can, Yeah, you can turn it off and then they can't do it up home. Get that software over right now, quit using it? You're awfully quiet, Steve, Are you scared now? I don't even know how to pick him? Wait before it was a book. He didn't answer our phone call, right, goodness, he didn't FaceTime. I really can't answer. You'll call now' gonna get me on this booth text me back. That's crazy though, you know that loring on evening? Yeah, think of the crazy stuff. You didn't say it though anybody all the time. Yeah, that's not what you want. You get home. Who's Sandra? Huh? Why you FaceTime? That's like Taragi's movie What Men Want? You can read their minds now? Yeah, all right, more of Steve Harvey Morning Show coming up right after this. You're listening to show some sad news and entertainment. This is according to TMZ. Grammy winning R and B Legend singer songwriter James Ingram has died from a battle with brain cancer. James had been fighting the cancer for an extended period of time. Actress and choreographer DeBie Allen reacted to the news on Tuesday, saying, quote, I have lost my dearest friend. James Ingram recorded several chart toppers in the eight in the eighties, including his number one duet with Patti Austin baby come to Me, Oh Lord, such great music. Yeah, one hundred ways and just once. He also won a Grammy for Yama Be There, his duet with Michael McDonald, and another four one hundred ways. He couldn't be denied with that one. James Ingram, of course, worked closely with Quincy Jones over the years, recording and writing hits. For instance, he and q co wrote Michael Jackson's pyt Yeah, pretty young thing, legend, Steve, We're losing all the great ones. Man. It's really sad because you know, I had Shaka Khan on the show the other day, and I, as Shaka Khan, I said, Shaka, what's the big difference between artists of yesterday in your era and artists today? And she, without hesitation, she said, it's talent. Oh wow. And it's because you know what she's saying is she's saying it from this standpoint. It's not to saying that these artists today aren't talented, because there are something I can go down the list of some bad people out there. Beyonce is the Michael Jackson of She's the Queen of Party. She's the best female performer I've ever seen in my life. I've seen all of them. I've seen them all, you know. I never saw Ella Fitzgerald perform. I heard her, but and I've heard Whitney's voice. Whitney's voice is the best I've ever heard. But total performance, it's Beyonce. I've never seen that. There's some voices out there, you know, or some stylish you know, but of yesterday, what she was saying was it was so many it was nothing for you to do. But saying, you know, it was no you know, rap wing out then you know, you had to be you had to be able to sing Dolly. And even when rap first called on, it was still R and B out there. We still had adult contemporary music and the talent level was just outstanding. And that's what it is today. Man, It's just you've got to go every so often. Today they produced a single where you go, wow, there's Beyonce. Okay that girl A Dale can say, oh you know you look around, you know and you go okay, Now wait a minute. Christina Aguilara came flat out blow you know what I'm saying. Vivian Green can say, let se can Blowsia Keys give it to a Jil Scott. You know, but Jill Scott came out in two thousands. That was eighteen nineteen years. That's crazy. Yeah, so Shackle was back in the seventies. Yeah, yeah, you understand that era of singers you will never get again. I'm telling you you'll never get them again. Well the problem, yeah, the great ones. Yeah, all right, Steve, coming up our last break of the day closing remarks. Okay, get ready people, right after this, you're listening. All right here we are last break of the day, Steve. I know you have some closing remarks for us today. What you got I mean, man, um, I've read some good books, man, Bishop Jake's books are basic instincts. Great book, man, just a great book. I really, for the most part, only have the time to read certain types of books, and the types of books I usually choose to read the self help books, you know, books where I can improve myself. You know, that would include the Bible. But there are some books out there that I've written spiritually based that are very very helpful. Also. And Joel Osteen has a book. I think I told you a little bit about it earlier this week. The name of the book is next level thinking. Next level thinking says it all. Because let me explain something. I don't care who you are. If you want to get to the next level, if you don't want to stay where you are, if you want to elevate yourself and get to the next level, you're going to have to change your current thinking. See listen to me, y'all. All of us have thought ourselves to where we are now. We ain't got nobody else to blame. Oh, you can choose to do it that way. Well, if they hadn't done me wrong, if I hadn't lost my job, I got all that. Things do happen in life. Admittedly, things come along that we have no control over that can set us back at times. I am fully aware of that. But in order to grow, you've got to pick up the slack and take the blame. Because you can't change another person. You can't make another person be something you want them to be. You can't stop everybody from hating on you. You can't stop the plant from closing. You might not be able to stop foreclosure on your home. You might not be able to get that child of yours to graduate. For nothing in the world. So there are things that are going to happen that you have no control over. The one thing you can really control is you. You can do something about you. So here's the deal. If you are somewhere in life and you desire to go to the next level. In order to get to the next level, I don't care who you are, you have to change some thinking. If I want to get to the next level that I'm trying to accomplish, I have to change some of my current thinking. Because we've all thought ourselves to where we are right now. We are all a product of our thoughts and actions, all of us, all of us, every last one of us. We are partly responsible and greatly responsible for where we are now. Thank you for the grace of God that many of us are in places that we couldn't have possibly worked ourselves into. And I want to volunteer my hand and stick it up in the air because I am one of those people. My life is covered with God's grace. I'll give him that. But let me explain something to you. If I don't put the work in, what can God? What does God put his finger on to bless? So what I'm saying is, we've all thought ourselves to where we are, and thank God for his grace that we are all. Some of us are further along than we even should be. I'm included. But if you have any intention of growing, expanding, developing, being more successful, being happier, more well liked, being more meaningful, more impactful of a person, you want to be effective in more people's lives. You want to be a catalyst for change, you are going to have to change your thinking. It will not happen unless you change your thinking. So as well as you might think I've been I'm doing, I want you to know something. The plan that I have for myself, the one that I'm confiding in God with on a daily basis, has required. As Joelo's Teams book says, that you're gonna have to develop some next level thinking. I met with a billionaire one time, and I'm feeling okay about myself, and I'm at this house and I'm realizing, Man, this dude right here is on some whole a nother And as we got to talking after hours and hours, he says, Steve, Steve, you're gonna have to elevate your things. I said, man, I'm a really positive person. He said, yeah, well, you're gonna have to let me see the phrase he used to me. He's I can't think of the exact phrase he said to me, but I got the message. You're gonna have to big up, meaning you're gonna have to supersize everything. If you want to change ten thousand boys lives a year, you gotta start thinking of how you can change a million of them a year. I went wow. He said, if you want to send ten thousand kids to school, he said, you should change your thinking. How do you send a million of them to school? He said, Man, if your goal is to make a thousand millionnaires, how do you make a million millionnaires? He said? That's how billionaires think. They just they level everything up. Everything goes up with them. They think up, therefore they act up. Therefore they become up, therefore they come up. It's crazy, man, You've got to develop next level thinking. I recommend Joel olds Teen's book. I kid you not, man, It's just a great book. But you gotta change the way you think everybody because you want to do better. You got to change those are my cold drop it Baby Day for all Steve Every contests no purchase necessary, void where prohibited participants must be legal US residents at least eighteen years old, unless otherwise stated. For complete contest rules, visit Steve Harvey FM dot com. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.