Today's show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time y'all don't know y'all have a suit on the don giving them like the million bucks things in the true good Steve listening to mogether for st PA, I don't join Jo, don't give me you turn, hur you go. You gotta turn to turn them out. Turn. You haven't got to turn them out to turn the water. The water got me? Come come on your bad h I sure will a good morning everybody. Y'all listening to the voice, Come on, dave me now what it only Steve Hardy got a radio show today. I want to just share something with you along your way to wherever it is you're trying to get to. You know, everybody has a different definition for success, and I'm not. I'm not here to tell you what joy should be. I mean, please pursue whatever you think success he is aim as high as you can though, that's for sure. My father used to say all the time. I'm sure you all have heard it in different variations, but he used to always say, aim for the moon. Just in case you miss, you'll still be amongst the stars. Just say that to me all the time. So that always was in me to aim high. Now, he wasn't saying aim with the intent to miss. He was just saying aim In case you miss, you're still amongst the stars. If you aim for the moon. But if you just aim for that first flow wind and you miss it, you know, usually run into some type of wall and nothing happens. You slither down. You know. In my book, act like a lady, think like a man. I told her people that men love three ways. They profess, they provide, they protect, and that's the core essence of a man's love. Well, there's some other peas in life too. The number one thing you have to understand about trying to be successful, and I guess I call this the four peas. I may come up with five along the way. I don't know. I'm just talking as is given to me. So I'm gonna summer start by saying, as these are the four peas of success that you have to get ready for. One, it's pressure. A lot of it is applied by the circumstance of what you're trying to go for and what you're trying to do, but a lot of it also is self imposed pressure. It's what you put on yourself to make it. It's a sense of urgency, it's a sense of necessity. But pressure is the first thing I want you to be ready for. And pressure comes in a lot of different forms, but it's going to be pressured. As an old saying that pressure buster pipe. See, that's why most people turn around, because of the pressure of trying to be successful. I want you to get it in your mind that it is going to be a pressure rized situation on your rise to the top. Pressure, but understand that that it is what it is, is not going to change. That's it. Prepare yourself, get ready for there to be pressure. The second thing I want you to understand is when you receive this pressure, you have to persist. You got to stay at it. You got to develop a dog getness has a There's a song who says, why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat? Nothing but the dog in me? That's a funny line in that song, because really I was thinking about it one day. I was humming it and and it, and it occurred to me, said, why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat? Nothing but the dog get me? And you know, now you could take it in the literal says that the cat chases the dog because it's innately is in his spirit. That cats and dogs are a lot of times enemies. Now people have pets in him, proving that if you show love on both sides, they can exist. And that happens too, but naturally innately, when your cat goes by a dog, your dog don't recognize him, that some barking going on. I'm talking about just walking through the neighborhood or something. So, but the reason that this dog's so persistent towards this cat is just cause it's in him. It's innately in him. And what I'm saying to you, just using that as an analogy, is that you got to be you got to be persistent in that. You got to develop some dog in you now because pressure takes some fighting back. See if you don't fight back against pressure, pressure buster pipes, So what you think it will do to you? Pressure, crack walls, pressure calls, explosions. So if you don't fight back to hold it in, you understand pressure does most people in the simple thing called pressure, the weight of what it feels like to want to be successful every single day, over and over and over and over and over. It's just too much pressure. People crack. You got to persist. You have to persist. You can. The thought of giving up can come, but you got to get it out. You gotta persist. The next thing I want you to think about is another something that I've been thinking about for years and learn for years. It's called perseverance. To persist means to insist. Its keyword in insist and persistence insists you must. You must insist that this is going to happen. Now, the persist I'm assuming means it's a proaction. It's some type of proaction that you towards it to make it. You know, persist, you gotta be persistent. You gotta be constantly at insisting that it happens. You gotta be constantly at it. But the next thing I want you to remember is perseverance. Perseverance is important. Perseverance means that when you've done your best, when you've persisted, when you're fighting back against the pressure. Perseverance simply means I'm going to hang in here when if a crack come into pipe, I'm gonna hang in there. If the pipe bust, I'm gonna keep going. If I gotta put duct, take mud, whatever I got to put on this thing. Man, I'm gonna use perseverance. I'm going to stay with it no matter what. So we're looking at the three things again. You got to understand that it's gonna be pressure that you're gonna have to persist keyword and persistence in st You have to insist that no matter what the pressure is, I'm gonna stay with it. But then perseverance. If it goes wrong, Man, you got to get in there and keep fighting. But then Lord Him Mercy. Nothing helps you handle the three peas better than the fourth pea. You got to pray. You got to use prayer. You gotta talk to God. You gotta use faith. You gotta have some conferences with him late at night, early in the morning, in the middle of the afternoon, when you own the train, when you're driving. You got to talk to God. Man, you gotta get yourself some help along the way. Nothing is bigger than prayer. There is nothing bigger than prayer. Prayer will help you overcome the pressure. Prayer will help you stay persistent, and Lord Him Mercy, prayer will help you persevere. Them is the faux peas. God gave that to me. I'm passing it on show, ladies and gentleman. Surprise, surprise, the King is broad. I just always wanted to say that, right, yeahn't didn't have a meeting anyway. This is the Steve Harvey Morning Show, and that's how I decided to start it today. You may not like the way I start the show, but you don't feel free to just hang in there because one of them you're gonna like. I can promise you that you're gonna one of these. You're gonna go, oh, he ought to do that every morning. Now I ain't gonna do that, but you're gonna want of them. You're gonna go, boy, that's the one I really like. I hope you do that again. I'll probably never do it again. I don't do nothing twice, right, But but revel in that moment when you get it, like some people like this opening right here, when you think of love, gotta get it on your mind. You come when you think of gotta get it, don't your mind, when you think of God, get it your mind. Seeing some people like that one, some people can't stand. But don't worry because I ain't gonna do it. Tommy so crazy halla for real hasy. What's happening to CHRL? What up there? Junior? Morning? Morning fan? How y'all doing ladies and gentlemen? Jams and brown? He's here of mister hoddy Tommy celebrate her birthday? What is it fifty? His birthday is actually well, he's fifty three, but he took off today. He's fifty three. Short years. You guys are ten years apart, Steve, What canny cake will he use to celebrate? Well? His stars with strawberry and then it is a shoutcake? It up, Jake. One time for Tommy's birthday, we gave him a hosted ding down and put a candle on it and told him it was his birthday because it was. It was big enough for him, such a big cake. He got kill you, ruining, hey, hold on, and when he gets enough, And then when he turned ten, we put ten candles in a honey barn. He was overjoy. We didn't start making him regular sized cakes till he was twenty five. Enough enough, Oh now he gonna drop a lie. You're here, Yes, enough is enough. We've had out fun. Let's stop now, okay, briffs, all right, guys coming up with thirty two minutes after the hour, we'll have asked the CLO with the Chief Love Officers Steve Harvey. Right after this, you're listening Steve Morning Show. All right, Steve, time now for asked the CLO. The Chief Love Officer Steve Harvey is in the building. This one is from Jerry in Kansas City. Jerry, Right, So, I'm dating a woman that I met at work, and I no longer work with her. She was the finest woman I'd ever seen, but I didn't approach her because everyone else at work tried to get at her. We've been dating for a while now, but I always feel like she's up to something. I can't touch her phone, looking her purse, or come in the bathroom when she's in there. I respect her space, but it's just odd how she locks the bathroom door every time. I'm starting to think she has something to hide. I'm forty seven and she's thirty five. So is this how younger women act? Well, hold of dolt, you're tripping cause she locked the bathroom. I locked the bathroom in time I go in the dog because I don't like nobody walking in on me when I'm in a bath food. It's just something about your pass round your ankles. That's just it's unnerving and we all need our private moment. Yeah, it ain't no way to look cool with your pass down around your ankles. It ain't know what you can't. You can't snap it. Nobody shot the damn dope. You can't do no to that. Hey, come on, now, come on, come on. Because you humble because they slap you, it ain't nothing you can do. So, dog, I don't know why you tripping about her locking the door and you know you can't touch your phone. Dog, what you're tripping for? Well? Going her purse. That's a rule. You don't know. You don't go into woman's purse. I don't go in Margie's purse to this day, I still don't. That don't mean she up to nothing. She don't want me in her purse, right, I think he's a little insecure, Steve. He said he's forty seven and she's thirty five. I don't want Margie going in my wallet and my pouch. And so if anybody can get her to stop, just tell her from me. This is not about you. Yes, I can't go in her damn damn purse, but she can go up my wallet and take money out whenever she needs. That's where the money resides. So, bro, I don't know really what you're tripping for. Man? Is this how young women? No? Man, but I don't what old man wants to go in the bathroom. She got the dough lock partner, she locks the dough Yeah, it's nothing wrong with that. I'm sorry. And it's just a woman thing. It's not a young woman thing. It's just a woman thing dating the girl. How about that? You scared? All? Right? Here we go? Uh? Moving on? Brenda and Maryland says. My ex boyfriend and I split up a month ago and the rental house is in my name. We just signed another lease right before we broke up. He's got another woman staying in the house with him already, and it's getting under my skin. The lady's car is in my garage and she put some sort of cute flag out on the front porch. I don't want him back, but I do want that lady out of a house that's in my name. If I tell the landlord, I would have to pay extra to terminate the lease early house. Should I handle this? Well? You don't want him back? Is he paying the rent? That's the question. If he's paying all the rent and you don't want him back, what difference do it make to you who in now as long as you get in the house paid for or is it that he's paying his half or are you trying to use it as a as a rental property and you can't rent it. I don't understand what she wants. Yeah, I don't get it. I don't understand sherley what I mean. Okay, so it's a rental house. Is she renting the house or is it a house that she owns that she's renting out. Now, if it's both in y'all's name and it's a rental house, but he's staying there and he's paying the rent in the rental house, but it's in your name, you don't want him back, but you don't want the woman. Now, well that that ain't high as So they're renting a house because she said if she tells the landlord, so they don't own it. They're just renting the house. She'll have to pay extra to terminate the lease. This is stupid, This makes no sense. So I don't know if she's paying half of it because they both signed. Now, if she's paying half of it and they both signed. That's why she's mad. Yeah, but she didn't say that. It's in both of them's name, right, Yeah, because she has signed it right before they broke up. That's risky though it is. It is risky because it's in her name. The house is in her name. She should just tell pay the extra, determinate the lease early. And he's staying there. She probably left because they broke up. Well, he didn't want to be there. Well, they won't leave, won't you put both of them out? Yeah? If it's in her name, she could do that. Yeah, because it's her credit. That's gonna so you had to save your perfect Yeah, I say, I say get out of the lease. I say, if it's not too much to terminate the lease, get out of it and let them have it. Get your name too. She might risk that too. Just because she terminated doesn't mean it's not gonna affect our credit. Yeah, that's yeah. I mean, it ain't tough for me. You know you're gonna get out of mind. Yeah, I just can't tell. Yeah, she shouldn't have left in the first place. Yeah, all right, here's qt in Charlotte saying I'm a DJ at a lounge that's tucked away in a trendy area of town. I just got the gig, and it suits me better than the younger crowd I used to work with. I was working last Friday and I noticed my best friend's boyfriend came in with another girl. I felt like being messy, so midway through my set, I started calling out names, and I shouted him out and said, I see you over there, player. I could tell that U. He couldn't really figure out who I was, and he didn't know I worked there. He paid for their drinks and they left. Do I casually mention this to my best friend or not? So his best friend is a girl. The girl's boyfriend came in with another girl, And now you want to tell the girl what kind of punk ass stuff is that? Dad? Or keep your now? I am nothing. What kind of punk ass stuff is day? Dad? You're gonna tell this girl you saw man? Just DJ? Mind your damn business a DJ. All right, we gotta go. Thank you, Fielo. Coming up next, church complaints with Reverend Motown and Reverend Adnoid and for dickon Depth Jam. Right after this. You're listening, Dave Harvey Morning Show coming up at the top of the hour. Miss Anna standing by with our national news. But it's time now for some laughter and some crazy fun. Here at church complaints with Reverend Motown and Reverend adnoid In for Deacon deaf Jam. We have a difference here today. You can tell by the heavy breathing that death Jam is not here. That breathing that you're hearing is coming from my brother who is a pastor himself at a very very very small congregation. Oh it's super small. Anybody sitting through this, ladies and gentlemen to handle church complaints. My oldest brother, real madd Nor boy here m chastis at church complaints. We are looking at your nick Zoom. We can see that here we go, Here we go, Here we go. Right. This is our second time book of them on the Zoom show that we do, Zoom Church Show that we do. And the Blurred Vision Boys from Alabama has canceled their second engagement because they could not find their way here. So the Blood Vision Boys of Alabama, what would you like to do with them? Would you like to book them again? I'm trying to figure out how to hell they can't find their way again. I've had the Five Blind Boys of Alabama for twenty straight years in the row show up. Now we got the Blood Vision Boys of Zoom and they can't find their way to this church. I do not understand. Twenty five years, the five Blind Boys from Alabama were all time, no problem. Every year we've had Stephen wanted to come in and play synthesize a form. We've had a Jose Felisiano playing funk good time form ben. We even had a track from Rachel Yeah, okay, and I'll be damned the Blind Vision boys. See the young ass boys ain't gonna know how to make it in golf from music all of me and they twenty he might be well. Sister Sarah would like to know would you like to lay hands on her baby? Her baby looks like he needs a nap. Would you like to come over and bless her baby? He looks like he needs a nap. The baby looks very tired. Are you willing to go with it and lay hands on the baby and bless him? He looks I've seen the baby and she bought him the church and I had a very special Benjamin Butch prayer for him because the Lord, that baby looked old, and I think it's more than the NAPTI baby need that, Nord. I know you're my older brother. You've seen this baby, Lord him, I've seen the baby. This baby looks so tired. I mean, this baby looks like he's working an eight hour shift. And this baby is just tired. I mean, I'll tell you what, though I saw him, he looked like an exhausted et, an exhausted et. He looked like he had been petting that bike all around the world. This baby looks so damn. I mean, this baby makes you tired. By looking at this baby, you and you know you owned something. Now, Nord I yawned three times right there, looking at him while I was praying the et over. Okay, we have a group in the church called White Wives Matter, White Wives Matter, and they're complaining that none of the sisters in the church will eat their colored greens. Is that anything you can do for the women of the church called White Wives Matter? Their greens are still there. Nobody wants to touch them. Not told him. I've told Cindy. I had Becky in the office, I had Mary Anne in now Ann Elizabeth, and I've explained to them. Stop trying to fit in with cooking. Come in and try tutoring, but please stop cooking for these black folks because white wives will never matter you. First of all, you ain't got an ounce of meat in the green and you seasoned it with dash, a salt free substitute. You've ruined. I can't tell you how many bunches of green and you don't cook them long enough. You got the greens in here tasting like kale. Now I'm gonna have one more talk with the White Wives Matter organization and PEO can't get to do you know, come on, you come to the church and you know, do pottery, you know, do some yard work. You're good at that. You got your bonnets and everything. Don't don't come in here cooking for black focus. We were also like you to say a prayer for coupon clipping is another thing, y'all really good? That go ahead that knowing. I'm so sorry, Karl. Deacon Carl Jenkins was stuck in over the weekend in the pair of skin of jeans and he had to be rushed to Graty hospital. We want to know if you'd be willing to say a prayer for him. No, I'm just gonna tell you that, No, we're not. I told Carl when we was at church softball game last week and he hit he hit up, he had a nice ball out in the center field and it was in the gap, and he never made it the first base. They threw him out from the out field, picked up the ball on the watering track, and through his ass out of the first base because then, damn skin of jeans, he couldn't get no stride. How you hit one in the gap. They pick a softball up from the warning track, relay it to sing the base, and they get your ass out at first base. We were down that running like one or the white wives. Okay, you know that there's a shortage on gas. There's a shortage on gas. There's also a shortage on Communion wine. But we have found a good sale on you who drinks? Would you be willing to you, you who drinks as Communion for next Sunday, Communica, we out of wine. We do have you who will you If we're gonna have to, then we're gonna have to. But speaking of you who and shortages, I wanted to say, have your birthday. The deacon death Jail since we're talking about shortages, all right, Thank you, Reverend Motown and Reverend Adnoid, the brothers right there for church complaints coming up at the top of the hour, entertainment and national news right after this, A man, you're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. The twenty twenty one I Heeart Radio Awards are set to go down later this month. Usher is set to host this year's show. Of course, he'll also perform. Other performers include The Weekend with special guest Ariana Grande, Bruno, Mars and Anderson Pack, Silk Sonic, Dojakat and Moore. Also set to appear on the show of Taylor Swift, Roddy Rich and Megan the Stallion. The night will feature a special tribute to Elton John as well. He'll be honored with the twenty twenty one Icon Award. Wow. Nice, nice, very and very deserving. Yeah. Yes. The twenty twenty one I Heeart Radio Awards air May twenty seventh at eight pm on Fox Live from the Doby Theater in Los Angeles. Yeah yeah, we're back. Yeah yeah yeah the award shows. Are you coming back for sure? Yeah? You know, we all back. I went to dinner last night with my wife. Yeah, yeah, the first time. It was interesting. Yeah. You know, you wear a mask in but once you get in there you take it off, right, And it was just interesting. You know. It wasn't pack pack pack, but you know, it was still nice. It was just really and nice dinner. It was kind of kind of interesting. You know, I haven't done thathing why I went on date? So the server? Did your server have a mask? Oh? Hell yeah, yeah, yeah, I can stand over me. I think that's the way it should be anyway. Yeah, yeah, I don't even damn you know, be over my food now with the potential of COVID just floating down into my glass of water? Well what you have? Because I love margor and Marjorie orders, She's created a menu. She's created a menu at this place called Marcel's or mar Souls or something like that. So her and Lorie created a dish that they make just for them when they come in there. And we had that. I can't tell you what it is because people go down there copy. Yeah, and then you know, we don't even do all that. We just want to keep it, you know, but you don't want Yeah, but I had a little surf and turf going on, you know, heavy surf and turf going on, heavy file. But I should have got that damn Tomahawks steak because it's got fat on it, and lord her she was flavorful. But I try to try to eat, you know, more healthy. Damn that next time I go down. Now, I'm gonna do like my wife. My wife told me what to get. My ass didn't listen. She's a queen. She a foodie, she tells everyone. We all go out. She orders for the entire table, all of us. Man, we're very happy. When they hand us the menu, we go no, no, no, no, she got it on the end, right, she goes, okay, guys, and then she orders for the table, so good too. We love whatever. She says. That's what we're having, all right, and I'll be down. Baby. You don't think that's too much, she said, No, no, I don't think it's too kay. What are you having the cocktails? Yes? Yes, she orders, that's right, from orders to dessert, everything, everything, and it's still a you know, I don't think that too. At the table, But then I get that bell and I was gonna county and it definitely ain't Africa we in Paris. Yeah, wow, well in its time. Now Steve to switch gears and for headlines now, ladies and gentlemen, miss and trip and thank you very much everyone, and good Monday morning. We're bad. Israel's military campaign of air strikes on the Gaza Strip is in its eighth day to day. Hamas reportedly still firing rockets into Israel. The death toll in Gaza reportedly close to two hundred, while the Jewish state reports ten dead. The United Nations Security Council conveni yesterday to discuss the ongoing hostilities over there and how to hopefully bring an end to them. The City of Columbus, Ohio, has reached a ten million dollars settlement with the family of Andrea Hill, the unarmed black man shot to death by white cops as he came out of his own garage with both hands raised, one of them holding a rectangular cell phone rectangular so look nothing like a gun. And the settlement is the highest ever paid by the City Columbus for a wrongful death. The City Council Columbus, scheduled to vote on it, officially approven it this morning. President Biden's being criticized by some and cheered by others over his remarks of our last year's Police Week at the time when law enforcement officers are to be honored. Mister Biden's proclamation reads, in part, this year, even as the COVID nineteen pandemic took a physical, mental, and emotional toll, our officers, adeputies and troopers demonstrated courage and dedication, and we honor those who lost their lives in the line of duty and thanked them on behalf of the grateful nation. This year, we also recognize that in many of our communities, especially black and brown communities, there's a deep sense of distrust toward law enforcement, which has been exacerbated by the recent deaths of several black and brown people at the hands of law enforcement, resulting in a profound fear, trauma, pain, and exhaustion from many black and brown Americans. Doctor Anthony Fauci was the commencement speaker this weekend at Embery University. He's urging graduates there to hopefully focused on fixing what the COVID pandemic revealed unacceptable disparities and helped experience by minority groups, especially An Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans and doctor Fauch. You also told the graduates that wherever possible, they should all fight against inequality, whether personally or professionally. The guy who crowdfunded twenty five million dollars to build Donald Trump's border role wrote border wall just got and died if a tax fraud. The guy's name is Brian Colephage. He founded We Build a Wall with trump buddy Steve Bannon. He's been charged with a tax case. New York grand jury separately found the crowdfunding effort to be fraudulent in August of last year, and then Trump partnered Steve Bannon, but he didn't pardon this other guy. Finally, in China already say that a student found a mistake in KFC's app which allowed her to order him rather to order unlimited amounts of chicken and no charge. So he told a few friends about In between them, they order about thirty thousand dollars worth of chicken in two years. The student sents to two years in jail. My question is who can eat that much chicken anyway, even if it is free. I don't know. I mean, I like chicken as much as the next person. Going to come on now back to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. You're listening to see, please introduce your friend, Uh, mister Brown, folks, he's here, Jay Anthony Brown. You know you always called me bitter. In fact, you gave me the name bitter man. I'm run with it, Thank you so much. It's a Monica enjoyed being confident. So what I put together is situations in life that are just fed up you. I'm gonna set it up, and these are situations in life that did you straight after up. For instance, you're eighteen years old. You're eighteen years old, you're living with your auntie. Your auntie says you can bring your little girlfriend over and entertain, but she sits her ass in the living room and watches wrastling all damn night while you got counting. That's fed up. That's completely that's the only damn TV. Yeah, with the flow the flow model. She's sitting there, right there in between you and the girl. She's sitting there. Yeah, that's completely effed up. But here's another one. Yeah, fft up, that's completely one. Your best friend borrowed some money from you, he passed away. At the funeral, you go ask the widow about money that your partner owes you. That's completely fft up. That's just you got that has happened. Well, not to me, but I was at a funeral where it happened at all. When we got outside, they damnly needed another casket. The timing of it all. Brother, Yeah, I'm sorry, sorry about your loss. But the dude walked past the casket, been over to the mother and said, you know, I'm sorry for your loss, but I wouldn't know if I could come by and get this money that he had old me. Her other son was sitting next to him because that was his brother in the casket. When they got outside, he had he almost killed this dude one more. You ordered your last meal on death row, your last meal. You got the stake, broccoli, potatoes, pie whatever. The dad, the execute you knew the awarden, the guard says, we didn't make the order for your last meal. And now the kitchen his clothes. That is the man that yeah, you don't do people like that. Yeah I ain't, so look man, you didn't. And what a fool man. I'm in the kitchen and that's yup. That's coming up. In thirty four minutes after the hour we'll talk about Bill Gates and him hooking up with a woman at at work. We'll talk about it right after this you're listening to, Well, it's good news. I guess that Bill Gates and his wife Melinda have now filed for divorce because the stories are leaking now that, um, you know he shot shot as Um, I guess he hit on. He holloed at a woman at his job, okay, or yeah, that he worked with. Yeah. So I've been trying to read about the story. So basically Shirley Steve guys. Okay, so they said that it was in back in two thousand and six, a female Microsoft employee, Um, they went, he emailed her and asked her out to dinner. He emailed her he should know of all people about the email paper tray when you were genius? Is stupid or just the marriage was just over at this point and he didn't give a darn Yeah, and then he followed up with it if Bills Bill Gates hadn't realized how much money he got, he shouldn't have to be doing that much hollering at nobody. I mean that, no damn body here, two hundred billion dollars. But his rap game is way off. You're right, he's a nerd. He's a nerd. Well, well, well, well I bet she haullered back. Yeah. Well, then there's another time, guys. He went to New York City and there was a woman that worked for his foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and they attended a cocktail party. So the woman says that Bill lowered his voice and said I want to see you. Will you have dinner with me? And she said she laughed it off and avoid answering him. You know, okay, Steve, you be Bill Kate? How did he say it? Jay? You beat the woman? You know? She like first he was at the thing. I want to thank everybody for coming. It's been great, so thank you all. Enjoy your dinner. Yeah, excuse me, um, Alison, I I um was sitting here pondering maybe you'd like too all. H yeah, I don't know. I don't know if you eat or not, but I thought maybe you know you and I could, I you know, get something to eat, maybe dinner. Sometimes I'd love to see you. Huh. Come on, okay, come on sure, all right, look ahead. First of all, Bill Gates got that much money, you have the DJ make an announcement. Man, have your attention please. The richest man in the world is in the club. Let me repeat, the richest man in the entire world is in the damn club. Okay, ladies, he's right over there. Okay, that's all you gotta do. Bill. You you try too hard, man, You try to hard so so s so Shirley. I walk up on you and here I go, so m hey, excuse me up? Yes, um, what's your name? Yes? I thought it was I'm gonna I'm I have a hotel room, yes, yes, I'm her friend. Do you have I have a room key? Yes? Do I need to get two room keys for you and your friends? Yes? We don't care. Hey, now, I like really a wild things to happen, got it? Just yes? But a ladies, ladies, before we go up, I'm talking like really really wild things. Yeah, okay, now I'm talking about it's gonna be like like really like over the top. Are we still talking? Let's what are you? Wow? Hey? This is gonna be great. Hey, listen what I have given you both an envelope and has a three million dollars into the piece. Before you come up, stop off and buy two monkeys each. One of you bring two markets. It's gonna be great. You're gonna give me three more millions. All right, listen, coming up, Junior 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. Write about four minutes after. It's my strawberry letter for today. Let's subject my mama saw the video. Oh we'll get into that in just a little bit. But right now Junior is in for the nephew with today's frank phone call. What you got for us, Junior, Well, the prank call phone call today, Shirley is blind Bob. That's what the nephew left, blind Bob idiot front of cat hell. Yeah, I'm trying to read you, uh that run the button? Yeah you now you run the bob a shop down that old Okay. Now, I'm trying to see if if y'all got any uh boot rounders down there where I can come in there and cut them how I've been cutting how a long time. I want to see if y'all got some room down there. They tell me you might, you might have had something come available. I got two boots open right now? You need a boot Yeah, I'm trying to get in there and get the cutting. Now you now how much you charge for bootfronts on a weekly basis two hundred dollars a week, two hundred dollars, eight hundred dollars a month. That they're good because your two hundreds. Now, when can I get down there so you can meet me? You know where? We can show me round the shop so I can know what I'm open from an eight to seven. That's that's two to two saddest, all right, because I want to see if I can maybe meet you there so I can get down there and you feel my way around. Come on, they're what I want to ask you? Do you mind doing for me? Do you think you could possibly put up some ramps where you got steps at and uh your phone? Could you take your mind if you take the phone and put it in breil for me? Oh wait, wait, wait man, what the hell I need to put my taking rampside and putting phones in and breal for what was going on with you? Well, I'm blind. You know I'm not gonna let that stop. Man. You know I'm still gonna Oh no, no, no, no, hell no man, you wait minute, you what I'm blind? But see but I've been cutting my hair for over ten years and folks say my hair could always look good. So I just figuring I'm gonna start cutting ham now, Oh well, yes what you mightn't cut the hand. It might be some good that you do, but just ain't cutting nor had in my shop not being blad that yeah, ain't that my shot man? No what ain't got no problem with that, man, But you you can't can't do it that? Well wait, wait, nothing to see. This is what they call it scrimination. You can't do that. You can't scriminade from people you're called they got some type of handicap blowns. Do you listen, let me care you something. Man. I'm not trying to be trying to put you out of being ad doing what you need to do. But you just can't do that, my shot man. I don't can't to call it discrimination, scrimination, scrimination or what not. Not not a shot. You just can't do it. But listen, not I know how to cut, hew, I know how to give folks aligning and stuff like. Now, I ain't try to use no razor or nothing like that, but I don't know, man, come home, dude, listen. Can't you flying something else to get into? But was I trying to cut out? Well? This is what I liked though, this is what I feel like. This my calling. You just can't do it in my shot. I'm sorry, I know, be goodness. See now that's what I don't I don't care to hear something like this here and now I've been I got the qualifications and I'm able to do it, and I want to be able to come down now. And I told you when I felt what I tell you, I said I wanted to feel my way around. Didn't I say that I don't need to feel your way back. I need you to be able to see what you're doing. I mean, I don't care, but you bein't able to cut no halt being blind. You got to be able to see to do that. This could probably do to do wonders for your shot. People to come from miles around to see somebody like myself cutting the hair that kind of in my shot? Did you hear what I said? I heard what you said. What I don't want you to do it? Make me mad about this? Now you're gonna get mad about shofing a bit blown to me. I'm offering and you can't read it that you're blind, doctor, I can't help you when you run, man, come on with that now, listen, I'm gonna tell you this here, and I'm gonna tell it to you straight. I'm coming down now to that barbershop. I'm gonna feel e booths out and I'm gonna start cutting now. One thing I don't want to do and have to get into no tussle with you now. I don't want that about getting no trusting with me, because did you bring your up in my shot? Thought much? You're gonna cut it. It's gonna be some plunging move around it. But but I'm coming down there and I'm coming down that is evening now. One thing you know where you're gonna keep going with my shot. You're gonna you're gonna get you what by blind man? And what you're gonna do, you ain't gonna see it coming either. You hit mena bring you as long as I got the money to pay my boot rental, you don't give a damn. I don't want your money. You're blind, can't cut no, man, You understand what I say to you. I'm understanding what you're saying. And if I got to call the law about you being discriminate to law, you can call anybody you want to call. That's money. You're not gonna do that. You understand what I'm telling you. Now, you bring you no time? My goodn't manney won't. I'll be waiting on you. I'm coming down that this eating then I'm coming and I'm coming to up y'all because you got the nerve the discriminade gives me. I don't know. I ain't got my coming to fire. But who came you? Mother? No, you're nothing daring hot fish. You frame of the call myney more they give me. They give me this number and say you is the one that do the hiring round the barber shop. You don't call my personal number. You called my shop. Don't call you No, what difference do that make? If I'm some man looking for a job, he did that. You don't call my personal phone. You're gonna watch your tone with me. What you're gonna do. I ain't gonna watching my shop. I tell you one thing you're gonna watch. You're gonna watch me get on your just why are you gonna get on you can't say me. I want to hang up on you. I got one more thing I need to say to you than This is Nephew timing from the Steve Harving Morning Show. You just got pranked by your cousin. I'm man, you ain't no good Hey, mister, I got to add you. Man, what is the baddest I'm talking about the baddest radio show in the land, the Steve Harvd moaning show boy. He man, Man, that's can't you set up a ramp and put your phone in breath? My man? What does I gotta do all that for? Ton'd y'all come down to the field. My way around I'm black. Oh man, you can't cut nor hand. Now you're blind. Man. When he said, now I'm gonna come down to that shop, I'm gonna get there. I'm gonna feel my web around was one of these booths, and I'm gonna get the cuttany. You ain't got no license. Now you gotta get the lights. He was like, come on, really, come down here with that me. You ain't doing that. I've been him. You gotta be able to see what you're doing. O't coming down letter with your how you you can't see me. But the other old black dude was just as logical as he couldn't be. You can't see me, yeah, coming down, People gonna come from Mars around to see me. What I'm going to do for your business. You didn't even do that up in him. But the reason he thought he could cut here because he's been cutting his own hair for ten years. But let me tell you something. You can't see and you try to cut your own hair, it's hard to do that when you can look in the mirror. Yea. In his defensess, we've all had headcuts where you could have sworn the Barbara was blind. And now let me tell you something. When I first got into comedy, I didn't understand. I was in the mall in Atlanta and I passed by a place called super Cuts and they had just got started. So I said, man, I need a haircut. I wanted to Supercards. It was two black people in there. They called my name. I sat down at a white person and boiling me tell you, so, this lady cut my handboard. I look so crazy. When I left, I went back in that complain and the black lady said, come over here, baby, sit down, let me try to strain yourself. Why did you let this white woman cut your hand? All y'all cutting? Yeah, I had that happened too long. I've had that anything happen, All right, Thank you, junior. In for Tommy coming up next Strawberry Letters. Subject my mama saw the video. We'll get into it right after this. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, guys, time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need advice on relationships, on sex, on dating, on work, on parenting, and more, please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve HARVEYFM dot com and click submit Strawberry Letter. We could be reading your letter live on the air, just like we're gonna read this one. Right. Yeah, that's a real letter. It could be yours. You never know. All right, ladies and Gentlemen's time for the Strawberry Letter with my good friend, Shirley Strawberry. Thank you, Junior. Subject my mama saw the video. Just Stephen, Shirley. I'm a thirty four years old and I've been dating a sexy chocolate man for four years. We have a very active sex life, and during the lockdown, we started spicing things up and filming our exploits around the house. He's very kinky and liked it when I dominate him and tie him up. We have a three year old son, and because of the lockdown, my mother hasn't been able to see him for almost a year. She told me, no matter what my son does, she wants pictures or videos because she misses him so much. I go through my phone almost daily and send any photos or videos I have of him and send them to my mother because I know that if I don't, you'll start hounding me and bugging me NonStop for them. Yesterday I was sending her videos and I accidentally selected one of my boyfriend and I having crazy sex. I sent it to her, along with some videos of my son playing and saying hi to his grandma, and I didn't even realize it until it was too late. I tried calling. I know, I tried calling to tell her not to play any of the videos, but she didn't answer. She lived several states away, so there was no way for me to go to her and take the phone before she saw it. I was hyperventilating and got me hyperventilating, and my boyfriend told me to just calm down and that everything would be okay, But it wasn't. The next day, when I woke up, I had a dozen misscalls from my mom, my dad, and my auntie. Not only did my mom get the video, but she watched it while she was at my auntie's house and both of them freaked out. I have never been more embarrassed or ashamed in my entire life. And all of my family has seen this or know about it. Will they ever respect me or my boyfriend again? He was ready to propose, but we're scared. Well you may as well now. They can't say too much at least if you're married, I mean, if he's the right one. Don't be scared now. And you know what, I knew this was gonna be bad. I knew it was when I saw mama and video in the same sentence. There's no good that could come out of that. There's just no good. And I'm gonna be real with you as always and tell you that sorry, there's just nothing you can do about this right now. Nothing is out there. Your folks have seen it, they've analyzed it, they've judged you. The whole family has seen it, and they can't unsee this. Whatever was on that tape. They can't unsee it. No parent, no parent wants to see their kid like this. They just don't. And kids don't even want us, you know, think that their parents are having sex. You know, that's just how that goes. But all you can do now is just to move forward because life does go on. You can't do any more videos. I wouldn't suggest that with you and your man for just don't especially on your phone. You know. I would offer a heartfelt apology to my parents. That's it. I mean, you don't own anyone else in the family anything. I mean, I would ask for forgiveness for sending it and know that time heals everything, It heals all wounds. Hopefully this is included in that It's not going to happen today or tomorrow, because it's going to take some time. You got to forgive yourself check and triple triple quadruple check from now on before you even touch your phone and press that sin button. You have to check because you got yourself in a world of trouble. I mean, you didn't kill anyone you know or anything like that. You didn't rob a bank. You were just having crazy, kinky, freaky sex with your man on film and you send it to your mom. Okay, which was terrible enough, but your parents definitely didn't need to be seeing that. So it's gonna take a while. I don't know if they'll ever forgive you or get over it, but you know it will lessen as time goes by, hopefully, Steve, I completely disagree with everything Shirley Strawberry just said. Now I know, Shirley, it's giving you the sound advice. Shirley is giving you the normal advice. Shirley is telling you what regular people should do and how to handle it when you're dealing with regular people. What I'm about to tell you, I am just telling you flat out it's not normal what I'm about to say. I don't expect anybody to understand what I'm about to say, and I know what I'm about to say may start off not sounding popular. When we come back, I'm gonna show you a total re enactment. Oh oh, don't ever bring it up. Don't mention the damn video. Act like you ain't seen it all the miss messages. Call your mama back and say, hey mama, hey girl, how you doing. Did you get the videos at the baby that ain't all I got, girl? Their videos about Louis or not? Did you see the one where where he was lipping them cars over so crazy? Don't bring it up. Have your boyfriend asked for your hand in marriage anyway? Don't ever mention it at track. You ain't send it when they started talking about it. You don't know what the hell she talking about. Well we come back. I'm gonna give you a total re enactment of how to handle it. What you mean, my mama saw the video is the subject of myself letter for it today. She didn't. We'll get back into it at twenty three minutes after the hour right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, we got a recap today's strawberry letter. The subject is my mama saw the video. Let's go Steve. This grandmother because of COVID, ain't seen her grandson. This woman is thirty four years Her and her boyfriend have a lot of kinky sex. So the mother told her to send him any pictures of video. She's sending stuff every day, and so the sexton got so canky theater and started video in it. Well, it were inadvertently she accidentally sent her mama not only the videos of a little baby, but she also sent the mama video a video of her and a boyfriend having sex. After she sent it, she realized it. She started hyperventilating, panicking. Her boyfriend told her, don't wear everything, Gonna be all right. She woke up. She had a dozen misscalls from her mama, her dad, and her auntie. Not only did my mom get the video, but she watched it while she was at my auntie's house and both of them freaked out. I've never been more embarrassed and ashamed in my entire life. All of my family has seen this or know about it. Would ever respect me or my boyfriend again? He was ready to poll pos, but we're scared. Shirley's response was in a nutshell, apologized never film again. Shirley gave a wonderful regular people answer. My answer is, don't bring it up, call her back, don't answer no questions about this video. Just talk about the baby in the video. If they bring up the video, you don't know what the hell they're talking about. Have your boyfriend asked for your hand in marriage? And y'all never ever bring it up. And if you don't know how to do it. Here's a reenactment. Shirley is going to be the mother. I'm the girl in the video. But I'm gonna show you how to answer the question. Jay is my daddy and Junior is my uncle. They've all seen the video and they have questions and I'm gonna show you how to handle it. This is the re enactment. Phone is ringing, Hello, baby, This is mama, Hey, mama, girl, how you been. Did you get the little up? Did you get the videos of Bana? Yeah, ain't all that girl, He's mamma. Ain't even cutest little thing You're missing, don't you. He's wonderful and yes, but I didn't call to talk about baby. Bernard. Well, that's all we're talking about, is this baby, Because you know you asked for baby videos, That's what I said. But baby, the other videos that you said, why would you send me? The trash is so nice because because Bernard is of age and he just doing Craig you're talking about the one where he was flipping over them tis no strong. I'm talking about the strong flipping your butt in the air, you know sometimes Bernard's but just be all up in that thing. I said, banas so crazy. That's all I'm seeing. Nah nah this uncle baby girl, Uncle Ray, Ray baby girl. I got a video on my phone and you is this you grabbing grabbing the sheets like that with this? Who is that? Nag? Said that Bernard was under the bed. See that time that Bernard was under the bed, and so when you know I pulled the sheets up looking for it. No, that's not that's not what we talked about. We talked about I saw this video. You Why is you all on top of the headboard like that? What is y'all doing in there? You? You don't climbs on everything? These little boys. I can't keep it. I'm just going down. What is you up on the headboard for? It is not time for that. This your daddy, Hey daddy. I need hey, hey baby girl. I need to know when where y'all get that much honey from it? I ain't never seen that much money in the room in my life. It was honey everywhere. Honey? And what why what were y'all doing with all little honey? What? What what's going on? Let me talk? You know, you know, but NOA like Winny to pool and that bad can't get enough honey And so you know that's where we had that honey because he plays whinny to pool with the honey. All right, baby goad, Baby, I wanted here to talk to you. I just want to know, baby, where did you learn all this stuff with? I just want to celebrand baby raised you as a Christian. You got all these whips and chains and baby, don't you know you know when Farah had all them slaves and stuff, ain't gonna telling what he was doing. You know. That's why. That's why when Faraoh had all them slaves, you know, I ain't gonna telling what they were doing. That's why you know I said, hey, let my people go. That was the story of Moses. Let my people go. By baby girl, I I had to volume up on it. What is all this? All this Holly Harder? What was that bout? You just sit there streaming on the video? Do you hard? You know how hard it was for them to building permis, Uncle, uncle, Uncle Ray Ray. That was hard building it. There's a lot of grunting and stuff trying to get them all all them stones up there to building peerms in the Pharaoh days. I love the Lord. Hey, daddy, I have a hey, I have another question. I've never seen you. Your mama ain't never been tied up like that, now I won't. I ain't nobody to tie your mom up like that. You, I mean, it was rope everywhere. What What was that about? What was that, Daddy? What did you talking about? Time? Mama off, Mama says, I don't trying to tell you, Mama, I'm talking about the rope that I saw in the video girl was talking about. I don't try to come rope in the video. Girl was in there watching this Tarzan movie. He was swinging. That wasn't the rope, Daddy, That was vine and my two assume there's a part three to this. Okay, all right, coming up, thank you. Coming up at forty six minutes after the hour of Sports Talk with Junior right after this you're listening show. All right, guys, Junior is here with today Sports Talk. What you got Junior? All right, Shirley. This weekend Saturday Night, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, and the late Kobe Bryant were among the members of the Hall of Fame Class of twenty twenty who were inducted to the NBA Hall of Fame this past Saturday Night. Now you recall these players and schrim It was delayed back in twenty twenty due to the pandemic. However, on Saturday Night, Vanessa Brian was escorted to the stage by Michael Jordan as she gave a movie speech about our late husband, Kobe Bryant. Take a list. Congratulations, baby, all of your hard work and sacrifices paid off. You once told me, if you're going about on someone, bet on yourself. I'm glad you bet on yourself. You overachiever. You did it. You're in the Hall of Fame. Now you're a true champ. You're not just an MVP, You're an all time great. I'm so proud of you. I love you forever and always. Kobe been Ryance ain't so good. It was a good speech, wasn't it. You know what it makes this special? It's like I've watched that that man's whole career, like for our generation Kobe, watching Kobe's whole career, watching him drop the eighty one point game, you watching him drop sixty on his last game. You know I mean that that was That's why it was so meaningful for me. Man. For a lot of You've seen a lot of players careers, and you know, like when Magic retired and was that was that a big thing for YouTube. I've seen everybody. I had Elgin Bayl on my sneakers. I had Aluile Sender on my sneakers. I had Will Chamberlain on my sneakers one year. Yeah, man, I've seen everybody. That dog on Kobe Bryant was every bit of what they said he was. Now. I was trying not to like him in the beginning, but he just kept scoring. He did. Manin who was only seen this boysked it at first? You know, I was, man, you know, young boy right out of high school. You got to go to college to come out of high school. You ain't Moses Malone. And I'm a good friend of mine. Nick van Exon play with Kobe Bryant man when he first got to the Lakers, and Nick said he knew right then he had to find him a new team because this boy came in practice was ducking on us. We don't even had this type of game, he said. He dunking on us, making us look bad. We just signed these hundred million dollar deals. We got to move said, and the rest of history they knew. Congratulates to Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett Man. It really is, Uh, Kevin Garnette went in. Yeah, Kevin. Kevin Garnette Man was one of my all time favorite players because I never heard. I used to go to games. He would say mL so loud you he was my favorite player. I just want to him. Let's go all right, all right, Junior, thank you. We'll be back with more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show coming up right after this. You're listening to Steve Morning Show. All right, Steve, So, it's graduation season and we want to say congratulations. Congratulations to the class of twenty twenty one. Congratulations guys, yeah, g yeah, Christina, what did you say? My grandaughter graduated college and I'm proud of you. Oh wow, awesome. Yeah, Mike from a trade school, granddaddy. That's good. My cousin graduated from Loyola degree in biology bas a degree in biology on Friday. Yeah, to graduate now through COVID because they kept on. Yeah, that's that's that's being determined that I misunderstood. I said, Sherley, why are you calling it that? I see what you said. You said she got to be asked degree in biologist. Yes, I'm misunderstood. I thought, yeah, listen, damn, degree in biology you might work out for all. I don't know what cutting up frog gonna do for you in life. But all right now, hey man, let me tell you something. I was from the country, right, so in biology in high school, the only thing I was good at was dissecting the frog because we should go frog gigging. When I was a little boy, we should kill frogs and we had to cut him and clean them for our grandma. So I knew how to gut a frog and cut him and clean them. I wasn't man, my frog would look delicious for what Yeah, yeah, for frog legs. You can go frog gigging. You had to go at night to catch and kill bull frogs, and I would dissect them, cut them open, clean them from my grandmother. So when we took biology, my frog was perfect, like dog. My frog was laid out like on ice. You ain't need no help, dog. My teacher was going, Wow, you're amazing at this. Yeah, I hate the yawn to put all this all this liquid on here trying to preserve it. I don't have missed it up. We can't Friday, and you're gonna be sick. You cooked this oka what frog taste legs? Come on now, they say it tastes like chicken. But the dog it's got a little different thing to it. I don't know how you make it. Some people salted and garlic and stuff deep fried. Best way, man, dog you get the bullfrog lands look like your whole thumb the bottom of them, and it looked like that whole look like a damn goose ile and shrimp off in Chicago started goose Hole. Every time I got off the plane in chicag the stake the goose hour dog dog. They got pictures of me up in goose Hode. We went one time it was snowing so heavily. We all went to Chicago. Steve had to get out in the snow. We was like, dude, like we're stopping goose I fried shrimp, fried frog legs. They got some other items, but that ain't what I went there for. Shrimp came in a bag. Ja, That's what was so cool. Got a bag of shrimps all over. I love back in the day though. Harold's Chicken, Yeah, that was the best. I don't wake up out of my sleep for some Harrold's chicken. Chicken was unbelievable to anyone. That's true. How about to be one of the three shy so yes, so, But back to the frog, like Steve, Okay, we were talking about graduates. How do we have graduates? It was a degree in biology from my cousin, Christina Jackson Pincham. Yes, that's my little cousin. Well, any advice, Steve quickly you have for any of our college graduates listening? Well, it's like this, you know, high school. I'll give it to you afterwards. Okay, all right, we'll have more of today's trending stories on the Steve Every morning show a twenty minutes after right after this you're listening show. All right, remember that tiger that was on the loose in Houston Line last week? Remember that, y, Well, the tiger has been found, thank you lord. Yeah. His name was India. Yeah, his name was India. He was a nine month old one hundred and seventy five pound Bengal tiger. And it's small. Oh well here's a baby, I mean just nine maybe nine hundred pounds. Loody. A woman named Gia found uh India who just happens to be the wife of the tiger's owner, Victor Quervos u Gia, led Houston police to a tennis club where the tiger was being kept India. The tiger again is only nine months old and he's being bottle fed. But authorities say, don't be fooled. This tiger will weigh up to six hundred nine hundred pounds, even Steve says, when fully grown. Yeah, I can't. And that's all muscle, right, yeah, no fat muscle and attitude, Okay, because that's what the Houston police said that the tiger had an attitude. India likes a lot of attention. Okay, don't get always something wrong with a tiger. I'd have met a friendly one, not even tig. And I didn't like that name anyway. Ticket All right, more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show coming up with thirty three minutes after. Right after this, you're listening to show. The twenty twenty one I Heart Radio Awards are set to go down later this month. Ussher is set to host this year's show. Of course, he'll also perform. Other performers include The Weekend with special guest Ariana Grande, Bruno Mars and Anderson Pack Silk Sonic Doja Cat and more also set to appear on the show with Taylor Swift, Roddy Rich and Megan the Stallion. The night will feature a special tribute to Elton John as well. He'll be honored with the twenty twenty one Icon Award. Wow. Very and very deserving. Yeah. The twenty twenty one I Heart Radio Awards air May twenty seventh at eight pm on Fox Live from the Adobe Theater in Los Angeles. Yeah yeah, we're back, Yeah, yeah, yeah, the award shows are coming back for sure. Yeah, you know, we all back. I went to dinner, oh last night with my wife. Yeah, yeah, first time it was yeah, you know, you wear a mask in but once you get in there, you take it off, right, And it was just interesting. You know, it wasn't pack pack pack, but you know, it was still nice. It's just real and she had nice dinner. It's kind of kind of interesting. You don't haven't done nothing. Why we don't date? So the server? Did your server have a mask? Oh? Hell yeah? Yeah, you know I can stand over me. I think that's the way it should be anyway. Yeah, yeah, I don't give a damn, you know, not even be over my food now. With the potential of COVID just floating down into my glass of water. Well, what you have? Because I love Marjorie and Marjorie orders, She's created a menu. She's created a menu at this place called Marcel's or myr Souls or something like that. So her and Lorie created a dish that they make just for them when they come in there. And we had that. I can't tell you what it is because people go down there copy yeah, and then you know, we don't even do all that. We just want to keep it. You know, you don't want Yeah, but I had no surf and turf going on. You don't have me a mint surf and turf going on. But I should have got that damn Tomahawks steak because it's got fat on it. And laughed him. But she was flavorful. But I try to try to eat, you know, more healthy damn net next time I go down. Now, I'm gonna do like my wife. My wife told me what to gift. My ants didn't listen, and she the queen, she a food it. She tells everyone. We all go out, she orders for the entire table, all of us. Man, we're very happy coming up in forty nine minutes after the hour. It is our last break of the day. Salute to all the graduates. Y'all did it, especially my grandaugh to Peyton. Congratulations that you'll give. That is it was? They got nothing else coming. All right, we'll have some closing remarks from the one and only Steve Harvey coming up right after this. You're listening Morning Show. All right, guys, here we are, last break of the day on this Monday. Getting here fresh start for this week. Yeah, a full week of work. Yeah, I'm putting. I'm sorry. Look but look who's not here. I ain't saying nothing. I didn't say nothing. I'm just saying I didn't say I just I'm saying that's all. Hey, Jay, did you want to say happy birthday to someone? Happy birthday to my daughter? Yes, happy birthday. You ken your happy birthday. That's all you're getting. Happy birthday, gift every birthday. Daddy love you. Just no, just no, daddy love you. That's the main day. Okay, So Monday, Yeah, I feel good. You know. I want to say something in closing to the graduates. First of all, congratulations to all the high school graduates out there. And this message is for all graduates, especially as a graduated with college degrees, always take my hat off to people who who excel in education. Is such an accomplishment to endure and and deal with all the requirements to get a degree in whatever it is, any major degree, two year, four year. The act of completing the task is absolutely it's daunting at times, and the majority of people who start out on the task to get degrees never finish. The majority, so when you do it, it's a major accomplishment and you should be proud and take some time out to enjoy it. You know, have yourself for celebration, but don't let the celebration extend into a year, year and into six months. You know, if you want to take a month off to enjoy yourself and give yourself a breather, I guess I could understand that, But let me explain something to you. You've had this major accomplishment, but your life is about to change drastically. For those people who have gone to college, I think that any one of them will tell you that, looking back on it, those were some of the best care free days of their life. Even though it was hard to get that degree, of which I never could accomplish. But for those who did it was a daunting cast. But I'll tell you what what happens after you get the degree. This thing called real life kicks in. There's no more just going to class, working a part time job to supplement your income. Some people put themselves through college. As difficult as that was, it was to prepare you for what is to come. So degree or no degree, once you into the work world, life as you knew it will never ever be the same. The candy portion of life is over and real life begins. What happens to that degree after you get it and you hang it on your wall. It's a sign that you have the ability to complete a task which is daunting. And I congratulate you all again. But now you got to prepare yourself to put in the real work because now real life is coming. And as I always try to teach my sons, I said, manhood is coming, and it ready or not, is coming. Now it'll knock and you have to answer the door. If you do not answer the door, manhood kicks the door in. I would imagine it's the same way for a woman, but I can't speak for women, but I would imagine it's the same thing for women, womanhood. That little girl thing is over, that young lady thing is over. It's womanhood now. And everything you do from this point on comes with greater reward or greater consequences every decision you make from now on. It can't be okay, well, we'll give you a makeup test. Okay, we'll talk to your professor and see if you can complete the task later on. Those days are done. If you miss work, you miss the day's pay. If you miss the day's pay, your check short. If your check short, it affects a lot of things, and one thing affects the other. What I'm saying to you is get ready to have to get ready every day. Do you understand what I'm saying? Get ready to have to get ready every day. Because as daunting as this challenge was, it was to prepare you for what's to come. And life becomes more and more daunting and more and more challenging. And what you do is you get better and better at handling it. It is never going to be as easy as it was. Don't expect it. Oh, I got this degree, My life going to get smooth. No, it's not. No, it's not your life is going to start getting real. And I'm not here trying to reign on your parade, Uncle Steve, trying to get you ready for what's to come. You're gonna ask your mom and your daddy and they'll tell you. They'll tell you it's been to get hard out here, because now you got the bad out because everything you do counts. See remember in the ninth grade when you started getting credits and everything was credited towards your graduation, and you thought messing around in the ninth grade wasn't gonna hurt you, and you find out you don't have enough credits. Well, guess what in life now it's even more requirements. You have to mature. You have to learn how to balance check books. You have to learn how to manage your life, manage your accounts, pay bills, show up. Discipline. You're gonna have to learn discipline. Do a discipline is doing what you have to do even when you don't want to. And you got to practice because they no makeup tests. You can't call the professor and you can't call your boss and do a makeup This is life. Get ready, y'all talk to God because you're gonna need him because it's about to get strong and for real out here. Enjoy your celebration, make it a period of time, and after that, get ready to get busy because this is life now, and life is not easy. It is difficult. You just get better at handling the difficulties. For all Steve Every contests, no purchase necessary, avoid 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.