Today's show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time. I don't know. Y'all have a sun giving them like the million bucks things and the to me good it hasten together? Please, I don't join jo do you turn out? You go you arm you gotta turn to turn out, turn you got to turn them out. Turn the water the water got me. Come come on your baby, I sure will. Good morning everybody. You are listening to the voice, Come on dig me now. One and only. Steve Harvey got a radio show. Yeah, man, Steve Harvey got a radio show. Trying to do something with it too, man. Uh you know, um, I was having a conversation the other day with a young person and they were telling me how they felt that their life was stuck, that their life was in a rut, that they didn't know what to do next. And one of the things that was causing them this sadness or this depression. I mean, they really really into something right now. One of the things that was causing it was the fact that they had made a list of things they wanted to accomplish by a certain age, and that age they just had a birthday recently, and they were looking at the list and the list hadn't been fulfilled, and because that list hadn't been fulfilled, they were really really sad about it, you know. Um. One of the things that they had on the list was marriage, kids, and I don't know everything else that was on the list, but that was one of them. And because she had reached a certain age and she wasn't married, and she didn't have the kids, and she had just celebrated her birthday, she's gone into this mode of sadness whereas really really taking a toll on her and us. As I was learning about her situation, I was thinking about it, and I just wanted to share this with you all this morning. That one of the things about making a list about what you want, which I happen to be a proponent of, I do it myself. I have people have dream boards, I have a gold sheet I have. I've been doing it for years. It's a It's a wonderful way to set goals and to keep it in front of you as a constant reminder. And I always go over this goal list every day, you know. I mean I go of it all the time, every day. Sometimes I miss a day here and there, but mostly every day I pulled my gold sheet out and I look at it, I read it. So I was going to these rallies and I was learning about, you know, people who were successful in how they kept their mind writing positive. And one of the things I learned was to make these dream boards, these lists, these gold sheets. And in making a gold sheet, and you make the sheet according to what you want, think about one thing when you made your gold sheet, about what you want it? Does your goal sheet have on it what God wants from you? Did you ask in any of this what was His will in your life? You know? Look, man, what we want oftentimes is not what He wants for us. And you know, if you're fighting against what you were created for, if you're fighting against his will, I mean, what do you want to happen? See? Don't be so hard on yourself when you look at your goal sheet and you look at what you've not become what you thought was a great idea. Don't be so hard on yourself because you just made a minded mistake. As do most people, we oftentimes make our goals and set our goals up without ever considering what is it that God wants from us. We keep talking about what we want without ever finding out and knowing what it is God wants for us. Well, guess what, man, Maybe you're fighting against the grain. Maybe you're just a salmon heading upstream. That's a tough fight upstream. Not all salmons get up to the spawning grounds, you know. Some of them don't make it upstream, you know. But all of them, nearly all of them, except the ones that's killed by prey. When they're spawned, they go out to the ocean. That's cool, because you're going because you're going with the grain. You're going downstream. You're going with the flow. That's but when it's time to go against the grain, it's tough. And a lot of us have just been going against the grain for all of these years. But you know what, listen, man, I did it. I know a lot of people who did it. Very few people get it right from the very beginning. Man, you got to stumble through life sometimes sometimes you got to fall through life. You gotta make a lot of mistakes, man, But these mistakes are not failures. You know, when you fail at something, don't look at it as a failure. Don't look at yourself as a failure. Because you're thirty and and your goals ain't reach that you had on your list. That was your list. What about the things that's going right. Stop looking at what you're not, take some time out and thank God for what you are. How about the fact that you keep waking up to be thirty. You know you get depressed by these birthdays. You really want to throw yourself in some depression. Miss a birthday, You really got a problem. Now look at where you are. You keep reaching birthdays. That's a glorious blessing. You keep waking up. You got your health, You've accomplished something. Something on your list is done. People spend too much time on the negative side, and you're just throwing yourself into depression. So what, you wanted to be married by a certain age and you wanted to have kids. Okay, cool, you could have done all that with the wrong person. There's a blessing in not being married to the wrong person. There's a blessing in not having kids and nobody to help you raise it. There's a blessing in that man talking to somebody who can tell it to you. You can marry the wrong person if you want to. I'm telling you you're gonna be up in some mess you can't count on. So instead of being angry because you're not married, you don't have kids, why don't you think God demand Maybe he spared you from some misery here. Maybe you could have married the wrong person. Maybe you have kids and you're not really ready to be a mother or a father. Got to look at the upside, man, Quit looking at what you don't have. Take some time to thank God for what you do have. When you do that, you make more room for blessings to flow into your life. I'm not saying how God thinks, because I really don't know, but I'm telling you if a person comes to me and I always give a person something and they never appear grateful, or they never say thank you, please, no, you can quit coming to me. Now. I don't know that's how God works because I've gone back to him several times without being grateful of thanking him, and he's feeling my basket up again. So I really think he's not like that. But I can't make the call for sure. But I think at one point in time, me, just just me talking, i'd be a little ticked off at somebody who was always taken, taking, taking, and never showing any gratitude. At one point in time, I would just stop the flow of the take you know, you just you can't take no more from me. That's what I would do. Now. I'm not calling it like that because I ain't him, but I know he's merciful, He's full of goodness and here and there and he'll forgive you again. And thank God he does that because he's shown enough done it for me. But wow, man, take some time out today and be grateful for what you have. Stop complaining about where you're not, and think about where you are, and then take it from there. And then next time you make a list, make sure on that list you have God's will. What does he want for you? Does God create give everybody a gift and a talent? Some of us never apply gifts and talents. We head off in another direction. Then you wonder why your life ain't where as supposed to be. Have you ever thought about what God gifted you to do? Have you ever thought about doing that? And stip skip what you want. I wanted to play in the NBA, but I gotta tell you something. At dribbling and shooting and running all at one time, throwing me off a little bit you know. It's so I'm doing what I do. It's pretty cool. You can look at it that way. Okay, you're listening show, ladies and gentlemen. Let me break it to you this way. It's Monday, it's on. It's cracking Steve Harvey Morning Show for your listening pleasure. Shirley Strawberry, Good morning, Steve, Happy Monday. Colin Farrell, Good morning. What's up Steve? Hey Crow, and welcome back that dog gone Junior? Whose new name? And I will explain it at the proper time. It's Jay Rap. You better tell a mark. Kids, that's who I'm is. Chamber, Jathan Brown, what up? Steve? Happy? Watch out there? And now are you doing? Man? One time? One time? Nephew Tommy yea yaye in the build top Monday. It is okay. He sounds a little down. He didn't sound like his normal self. He okay, Probably the shock hunting come to work. Maybe he's yeah, that's all I was gonna say. Maybe he's they're going in and zoom and hitting them Mike switches and yeah, be quiet. I'm not gonna say nothing. I'm not put the I ain't been switches. I like, yeah, hey, that's why his zoom don't work half the time, because it just it can't believe his own shocking. But hi, Jay, how are you welcome? It's going on. Let's start a full week, y'all. Let's get in a full week of work. Let's do it. Bumps, you slackers, y'all got people on the streets stopping me. And I'm really not happy about the things that I don't work. I'll come. You can't come every day like everybody else. Come. They don't understand. So I'm still here for a few more days, a few more days on the continent, the mother Lands, learning more and more and more. Culture is great. The people are the beautiful man. I got I got to get people over here. Man, y'all got to come see this. It really isn't just discover something new. Steve um Well, my team, my team went to Cape Town beautiful. Okay, yeah, they went to Capetown, not me. It was some little activities going on in Cape Town. I don't need to be around you know. First, I think it was age appropriate that I remained in joe Burg. All right, take your own ass sowhere, sit down for you going somewhere and fall out. So they had a good time. Capetown was gorgeous. Man, But this here, Motherland's still here all week. Let's go Shirley. All right, here we go, coming up in thirty two minutes after the hour, we'll have asked the clo. Right after this you're listening to show. Well, Steve, did you want to tell us a little bit more about Capetown before we get into the cello? As the cello? No, because as I thought about it on the break, it ain't nothing I can tell because I wasn't there. Okay, went down now you haven't you? Oh, stunningly gorgeous? How many people there? I have no idea? A lot? Did you count them? What do you know? What do you say? It's question make show. You can say you was dead, but you don't know how many people that what you're talking about? You went, I don't really know how many people? What? Oh? It looked at me like, oh yeah, all right, it's time for asking to blow Chief Love Officers Steve Harvey in the building. This one is from anonymous in Chicago. I have a female co worker that has the most horrible body odor. Her office and her car smell bad too. She's very cute, and classy and thinks she's a glamor girl. And whenever we're around other car workers, I'll stand away from her so nobody thinks it's me smelling like that. I can't really tell what the odor is, but it's bad. Things could get awkward if I tell her. But I would want to know if it were me, how do I tell this woman she smells badly? How? Well? Now let me ask you something. Is this a guy that wrote this or a woman? Um? It sounds like a woman to me, but it doesn't say it's just anonymous. It might be a guy. Yeah. See, I don't really know if it's just a co worker. I don't know that you can say nothing all right now? You mean you know what you're talking? One of y'all up in here smelling out have been saying something? What would you say? How would you say that? No, ass need to do something. It's something wrong with you? You you don't smell that? What is that? What is that? That's my five? And then my file back would be you got a mask on? You show with me? You know, I don't really know how to handle that one. I think that's a touchy situation. If you're a lady, you could pull her to the side. Y'all not gonna be friends no more. And if you're a guy, you really can I mean what you're gonna say though, you know you can't say nothing. You're a stake woman nothing a man. How do you? I mean, let me ask y'all this. Can you go to HR and have an HR talk to him? That's the thing. I think that's what I would do. Yeah, especially if it's not your friend, if she's just a co worker, and I think that's the best route of what you're saying to y'all. Yeah, here's what I would do. I would go on her Facebook page five her relatives, contact her relatives on the down low and say, hey, I need to say something to your sister or get your niece. You know what, you can see it, just like just go to HR like he said, that's the best. Now, So you didn't told my cousins on Facebook? Yeah, yeah, go to HR like I said, anonymously. All right, thank you anonymous. Hope you guys get that situation straight down. Suzanne and Menlo, New Jersey says, I'm sixty nine years young and my husband and I have been married for thirty two years. Our sex life has changed in the past two years, and all he wants is quickies. Are quickies. I started noticing how he changed when he started watching porn all the time on his iPad. I think he's lusting after the young girls on the videos. Do you think this is why he stopped making love and is doing quickies now? I have no idea anything. I have no He's sixty nine years old. He's still doing anything, so, oh, you can't quickly? Is still doing it things? It's clean years, all right? Karina and a high Point, North Carolina, says. My husband and I've been married for almost a year and we live in separate states. I got a promotion at a huge raise before the wedding, making me the first black district manager at my company. Before the wedding, we bought a house in Texas, where my husband lives, and the plan was for me to move and work remotely. Well, I can't do that now. My husband is an ear doctor, so he can work anywhere, but he won't compromise. I could take an emotion and move to Texas, but should I have to? H Well, I mean, y'all, married marriage is compromised. So the two of you have to figure out what the compromise is. He's an ear doctor, you say he could live anywhere. You got this big promotion. You became the first black person as a district manager for this company, which is a very proud accomplishment for you, I'm sure, and you probably worked really hard to get that. But now y'all married and y'all live separately, so the decision has to be made. And y'all had just bought the house where that he's living in in Texas, and you were supposed to go there and work remotely. So the change of plans happened on your side. So I think that's where because the home is there in Texas, his job is there in Texas, and you all's original plans with in Texas. Now you got this job. The change came on you. So to compromise, you know, might might have to come from your side of it. I don't know, right, Yeah, but he could move. But then y'allen bought this house, and the hardest it is by a house. It's hard to walk away from a house. She doesn't want to take an emotion. But yeah, I'm with you on that. I don't either, I said, I don't either. Yeah, all right, all right, Wow, that's a tough one right there. All right. Coming up next, church complaints with Reverend Motown and Deacon death Jam. Right after this you're listening. Coming up at the top of the hour, Miss Anna standing by with National News, and we'll have today's entertainment news. Later on, Carlin and I will talk about some of the OSCAR highlights from last night's ninety third Annual Academy Awards. Of course I got to talk about what everybody was wearing and all that. But uh, but right now it is time for some laughter. Here's church complaints with Reverend Motown and Deacon deaf Jam. Let's go oh, I'm so happy having back Deacon, thank you Path. The last week we had all young deacon substituted city in it so very perplexing. I didn't quite have the voice, you know, Foy, I got it, I got it. That ain't the voice. Got on your nerve. We already wanted it. That ain't what we're looking for. Go ahead, all right, let's get down the business here. I we got a problem. Deacon James Johnson is telling members that I uh, they can come by his house and get the Johnson vaccine shot. Uh, this is just an outrage. Please talk to him. He is not a doctor, and he didn't shot up square members already. You're gonna have to talk to them. Well, let me ask you, of coution. What is he shooting him up with? I don't know the pallet he's saying. He claims he has the Johnson vaccine. I don't. I don't know what he shouting, I exactly, I don't know what he's shooting him with. Well, are you dumb enough to go to set an injection to something? You know? You might as well get some booty put on while you're over there? Should you just taking it? Get ye? Know your word? No? Yes? Come on now, all right, we got another problem here, Deacon roy lord Hammer. He ordered some mask with Bible verses on him and got them all mixed up. Instead of John three sixteen, it says John sixty nine. Uh. In instead of Psalms twenty three is Salms nine ninety nine, and instead of Acts two and thirty eight is Acts seven seven seven ninety three eleven. You go, what do you want to do with these mans? He didn't arder. I don't. I don't know what to do with it. I think we can go ahead and use the mask. Most people hit in the churchen while know how they ain't gonna what it is with Jones or could be an address. What's the last when you said that was a pass that was asked, it was supposed to be asked two and thirty eight, but it's asked. Sam set them said ninety three and eleven. That's what it is. Yeah, well that's a song. So that's a nice man who I'm gonna keep the mask and just don't pass them off through no stints right centers only, yo, that's everybody. Yeah, well, I don't know if you want to walk around with John six to nine. I don't know that sn I just said, don't give them to saints. I don't care. So do you know the centers that I should? Yeah, I got to make sure I'm giving them to the right. That's calm, down to the shelter. Okay, all right, here's another situation. Awesome down that head on a KA side shirt with Oh you're gonna bring this up while I mean cart thats what you gonna do. That's why you can't snap out. See how that worked anyway, Let's just let that loan there. All the members whose heads are too big and their glasses can't fit behind the ears are asking to raise money to get extensions on their glass and that's your copy. No, we're just gonna have them, or just we're gonna call it, or what wam ministry, the wedge ill ministry, what that's the water as head ministry, And they just go around and just find other big head as people. And in that way, they don't understand because you're talking to somebody with glasses don't don't go behind the ear. They ain't gonna say that about choice not going behind you. Ill. You know what I say, I understand I here. The force is different today. I don't know what's going on. Sho Hello, minded mine said, I ain't show you need some help from Deacon Junior. No, no Lord standing back. This is pretty much unanimous by the members. A lot of members are asking they have they saying they have things to do because you just post your sermons so we don't all have to zoom in at the same time. Wow, oh y'all, y'all all mist think this Joel Oldstein or the part of high we ain't got No, we ain't even got to YouTube channel. If you ain't here for the zoo, then't by by you missed the word. We ain't got nothing else for you, because we ain't got nobody young enough they know how to post these post the messages. The youngest member of our church is fifty eight. That's right, that's right, that's all right. The grandkids don't come here to children quit coming here. We're just old. Yeah, we no longer have a youth quad. That they completely gone, the youth choids. Well, we do have a youth quad, but they sixty old folks quad is the four eighty five year olds. We gotta the Lord. Don't nobody want to hear listening to him? All right? They're saying, after cross one more time, so pass the We got an issue here. Deacon Dick Jefferson is asking that you tell the members to make sure they say Deacon be Folk saying his first name. I guess he's getting offended by this fast that's yo, Kyle. Why don't he call himself Richard? Why that chard path? I never understood that? Now? Who did? Who thought that? Was it? The only thing I can come up with was the first hundred original members named Richard M. All right, yeah, right down that line that I said that way, Well, they wanted to abbreviate that, so they it went around the front. Last question, pass it and we need to get this clear out. What can we say that's offficit, that ain't two syllables. That kind of makes us think, well that the only thing logic. Thank you for church complaints coming up at the top of the hour, Miss Anna standing by with our National News. Later on, Carl and I will talk about Oscar highlights right after this. You're listening to the Stave Harvey Morning Show. The Celebration of Life memorial service was held for DMX this past Saturday. A monster truck carried Earl Simmons, of course DMX DMX's casket in a procession escorted by hundreds of Rough Riders motorcycle bikers to the Barclay Center in Brooklyn. It was a two hour service for friends and family. Kanye West Sunday Service Choir performed. Of course, members of members of the Rough Riders were there. Eve was theres was Beats Unas was there too. Unas starred in um U in the movie Belly with DMX and um Yeah, I remember Belly DMX's children spoke of the memorial service, and we all saw on social media. One of his younger daughters, Sonova, honored her late father and formed his song Slipping. So all we can say now is rest in power, Rest in peace. D m X. Yeah. All I saw over here was I saw clips of the funeral possession. Oh, the casket in the big the big truck, and all I mean they had a string of bikes. Yeah you know, yeah, yeah. What he talked about loyalty and people being there for X when he was alive. You know, he was saying, everybody was here now, but he needed y'all, you know, when he was alive. And so he did a stern message about loyalty and honoring people while they're still here. And yeah, yeah I saw piece on social media too, Yeah yeah, yeah, um and other sad hip hop news. On Friday, we were all shocked and sattened by the news that shocked g one of the co founders of Digital Underground, passed away according to his father, Yes Tommy. According to his father, Edward Racker, the fifty seven year old was found unresponsive in a hotel room in Tampa. The cause of death is still unclear at this point, and authorities are set to conduct an autopsy. The first person I thought of when I saw that was, of course Tommy. It was like, man, one of my favorites. Man, yeah, I know that's your song. Such a that's your favorite song. I mean that came out. The song came out in the nineties, Humpty Dance. I think it was actually nineteen ninety and it would just say, Junior, I think it's ninety five and three of you at the Baby Dome doing the Humpty Dance. Let me see you doing that. I remember, I remember, I remember, I remember when he came over. When he came over to our Geneo, people camped out because you know, they would know a day advance who was gonna be on this show. I mean camped out when that group came over. The mane Yeah, I mean yeah, it was quite a shock, was in that group in Yeah. Yeah, on the ground. Man, we're losing a lot of things. We really really are, unexpectedly too. I mean, you look out from one day they're doing them because I'm about to ruin used to and he did that for sure, or what I looked funny, But you'll want making money. But yeah, I'm making money. Yeah, I looked it was fun though. That was Yeah, it was fun exactly. That's that's a good girl. Yeah. I called your fat me I'm skinny. Never stopped me from getting busy. Yeah, it will be men, music lives on. Stop because I'm about to ruin the image and astoun that used to a look funny. But yeah, I'm making money. See yeah, absolutely, rest in peace and condolences to his family. All right, Steve, time now for a headline, ladies, a gentleman, miss Anne Trip. Well, thank you very much, everybody, Good Monday morning everyone. According to the Washington Post, get this one of the experts that Derek Chauvin's lawyer used to claim that Jerk Chauvin wasn't guilty murdering George Floyd. Well, that doctor is under investigation. I tell you a little bit about him. A couple of weeks ago, doctor David follow Fowler testified that carbon monoxide from an idling police car is what killed mister Floyd, and that testimony enraged hundreds of doctors, apparently, who signed on to a letter calling for an independent review of Fowler's handling of in police custody deaths. Generally Fowler, as I told you a couple of weeks ago, was born in the former Rhodesia which is now Zimbabwe, and he was educated in Aparthei rule, South Africa. This guy ended up Chief Medical Examined of Maryland, overseeing a number of high profile cases, including that of Freddy Gray, who died after a riding a police van and where cops involve exonerated they say he might have done it before. Federal prosecutors are now considering more charges against Derek Chauvin over an incident that took place back in twenty seventeen, when a black teenager says Chauvin need him in the back, pressing down for seventeen minutes, making it hard for him to barely breathe. Prosecutors stay The video shows Chauvin striking nun armed black teenager in the back of the head and then pinning him to the ground with his knee for about seventeen minutes, ignoring complaints that the kid couldn't Breathe eventually got up and no charges wherever filed against him. A North Carolina sheriff whose deputy shot and killed an unarmed black man last week says he'll petition for the release of body camp a video of that shooting. Later on today, Elizabeth City Sheriff of Tommy Wootton says that forty two year old Andrew Brown Junior was shot and killed by deputies as they attempted to serve of a warrant last Wednesday. Volume a process that protects the investigation to ensure fairness for all. First responders are heard on radio traffic saying that Brown was shot in the back. The Brown family attorneys have been told that no weapons or drugs were found at the scene. Here we go again. A white woman has lost her job at a Virginia food bank after she went on a racist tirade against a black neighbor, using slurs and telling the woman that she was the wrong color so she didn't qualify. Finally, a two day memorial service was held over the weekend in New York City for Earl Simmons, better known as DMX. The ceremony was live streamed on DMX's YouTube channel. As you would expect, the stars came out, among them hip hop legends like Eve and Kanye Westbuster Rhymes, and DMX's old friend Jada Kiss. I've seen a dog in all kinds of different phases of his life and anybody I've seen him in his last year or two he was the app do you see ever was in life? I mean dogs life. Now back to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. You're listening, all right, Come on, Steve, introduce your man fit the grand ladies and gentlemen. He is here, Jake Anthony Brown. These are not jokes, These are not deeper. These are just smoking thoughts. Everywhere here we go. They're starting to the greatest material. The greatest material known to women is spandex. The greatest material known to men is latex. Smoke thoughts. These are smoke thoughts. Show if Jesus came back, would you try to get a selfie with him? These are smoke There, he's a He's are thoughts. There are no proppologists with small hands. They don't exist. There are no They don't how which small they do not exist? I've never found one. If you smoke weed, what you cook taste good to you. If you smoke weed, what you cook taste good to you. Every time you've never seen him. You've never seen him put fresh hot dogs out at the seven eleven. You've never seen fresh wood set out. You never have seen it, just it just there. You don't know how lone they've been there. These are smoke Thus, these are smoke thuts. You never seen them clean out the baptismal pool. You've never seen it. You seen him fill it up with water. You see people get in there. You ain't never seen him cleaning. These are smoke thoughts. If she says, let steward doggie style so I can do some checks, so I can fill out some checks, you ain't working with nothing. If she says, let's do it doggie style so I can fill out some checks, you ain't working with nothing, he's he's a smoke thoughts. When you make love, the man should never be louder than the woman ever, and it never should. You don't being here out holling me, don't be in here. Out here we go, Ladies, ladies. If you put a sweater on a big butt, you still have a big butt. Okay, if you put a sweater over a big button, last the nine leies. The best biscuits are at red laughter, better than your mama's, damn right, the best biscuits I had read laughs, These have been smoke thoughts by yours truly. J Three Brown, need to let that go. Thank you Jay. Coming up at thirty four minutes after the hour, we're gonna tell you about this is really something big, you guys, wait till you hear this quest Love Summer of Soul acclaimed documentary. We'll talk about it right after this. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Okay, so Steve. In nineteen sixty nine, the Harlem Cultural Festival celebrated Black history, music, culture, pride and fashion. Okay. Also in nineteen sixty nine, during the same summer as Woodstock, a different music festival took place one hundred miles away. However, more than three hundred thousand people attended the summer concert series known as the Harlem Cultural Festival. Artists like Stevie Wonder, Nina Simons, Lying the Family Stone, Gladys Night in the Pips, BB King, Mahalia Jackson was even there, and many many more. It was filmed, but after that summer, the footage sat an abasement for fifty years. Fifty years so the footage from the festival was never seen, largely forgotten until now. Okay, So last night, during the Oscars, the movie trailer for the documentary Summer of Soul dropped and it's directed by Quest Love, whose real name is a mere quest Love Thompson. Even though Summer of Soul centers around an amazing I mean amazing concert, this really isn't a concert film. It's not a concert film. This film is a celebration of black pride, culture and music. We're so proud of Quest Love and his directorial debut. Summer of Soul will be in theaters and on Hulu July second, so we'll all get a chance to share it and see it. Definitely great, you know, man, I guess because Woodstock may have overshadowed it because you know, Woodstock was first of all white, and we talk of nineteen sixty nine, Yes, yes, I mean, if you all really knew culturally what all was done that Blacks never got pressed for, never got any recognition for. It was crazy. And I'm not comparing this to the to the Kings of comedy to that, but for the first two years, they never wrote a story about us. So I can only imagine in nineteen sixty nine, in sixty nine, oh man, to have that line up Stevie Wonder, Nina Salone Simone Slide, The Family Stone, Gladys Knight in the Pill, bb King, Mahaya Jackson. Wow, you know, and don't nobody know. You gotta understand. Back, like in sixty nine, theaters weren't showing a lot of black movies unless they were black exploitation movies. So something like this, and I don't even know, I don't even know black exploitation was out in sixty eight. I think they hit like that. Seventies those things, yea. The theaters were segregated in a lot of black people, major theaters, so that that's one reason. And even the Watch the Watch Um Festival wasn't as big as it should have been. It was in the seventies, yea, when it could stay in the basement that long, right, Look, black people didn't get on MTV to Michael Jackson released them thriller that thank you. That's crazy. So yeah, I can't wait to see it. I think it'd be crazy. I definitely want to see it. Yeah. So again, it's gonna be in theaters and on Hulu July seconds. So we have this to look forward to. And let me say something man to young people about stuff like this. Oh that's old it's all it was. It's all it was. Hip hop is new. Yeah, it may have been here your whole life, but hip hop is new. Hip Hop wasn't born until the seventies and and we went crazy when somebody black was on television. It wasn't the black groups. I mean, there's only one outlet maybe, like you know history this Ed Sullivan. Sullivan was the only person putting black people on TV. What Johnny Carson came out and did it too, you know. Yeah, but so so yeah, up again to quest Love. Yeah, last night musical check it out? Yeah, yeah, July second, we'll look forward to Summer of Soul. All right, coming up next, the Nephew is here 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, about four minutes after. It's my strawberry letter for today. The subject you ain't my step mama. You ain't my step mama. We'll get into that in a little bit, but right now, the nephew is here with today's prank phone call. What you got for his? Next? The Postman? All weeds rings, tway, what's a movie? M hm, a movie? The postman always rings. Why are this? Okay? God dog if you hood it's wood. Hello, Hello, I'm trying to reach Carlos. My name Benny Man, Benny Phipps. Hey you. I want to make sure I got the right person. You You you work for a post office, right? Uh? Yeah? Okay? Do you deliver mail off of Murphy Road? Uh? Sometimes? Yeah? Yeah, okay, I live it. First of all, I wanted to make sure I had to write postman. Nah. It's been brought to my attention that there's a postman that has been stopping by my house and I'm what I'm not understanding is why are you bringing mail to my door? A post to just putting mail in the mailboxes on the street where everybody got their mailboxes at What you say, is that again? I live in Murphy Road. Murphy Road, Yeah, I deliver over there. Uh. But he's ain't delivering package at your house. No, I said, you've been bringing mail to my house and the post Here's what I'm trying to tell you, Carlos. My wife is at home all day, she don't work. And my understanding is you've been stopping by there on more than one occasion, on a daily basis, you're coming by there two three times, you know. But what I'm understanding it ain't no mail being brought over that. I'm trying to figure out, what are you doing at my house? Now? What really? Then brought all this to a head because you already know what's going on. Let me go on, let you know that call O. I do know what's going on. I picked up the clothes from the cleaner's this morning, and to my attention, it's a man's post office shirt in my pack. What color was it? It's blue light blue and I got a blue. Okay, but explain this to the me. How your shirt get in my house? Do you have my name on it? Because that can mean anybody's shirt. Okay, So so hold on. What you're trying to say, it's some it's mo post me and stopping by my home. Yeah, man, sometimes sometimes you know, we do have different guys in that in that neighborhood, you know, because I here's my problem, man. My problem is this is that my wife is at home all day every day, and my understanding is that you stopping body springing morning. First of all, you can call you can call the one one hundred numbers because how do you get my number to? Hey, I don't worry about that. I find ways. It's how you? How you? How you getting my address that you're stopping by that every morning? I just deliver what they give me to deliver, and do I put another in a box. And this is a package I don't get out. Excuse me, I don't do that. That wasn't me, dude. I just this morning and pick up clothes. And it is a post office shirt in there that belong ever done. It belonged to a man. That's got to be it must be yours. That's none of mine. Man, that's not mine. I have all mine. Okay, okay, okay, I'll tell you what. This is what we're gonna do, Carlos, Carlos, see what, let me tell you something. I know you're lying. See and what you're doing is you're delivering more than mails at my house and I know it. Carlos, you understand me, So listen to excuse me. That's not me. It can't be men. Let me let me tell you something. When you come on Murphy Road tomorrow, okay, I'm gonna be out there at them at the mailboxes, waiting on you for what for what whenas me and you gonna have this problem that we got tomorrow morning when you bring the mail. So when you bring the mail, bring too, Okay, Carlos, hold of me. Can you threatening me? I'm telling you, when you bring the mail, bring you to dude, Dude, I didn't come at you like that. You ain't gonna come to me like that. Dude. Hey man, you came up in my house and I know you said off his shirts in my house. Dude, that was not me. I don't know where you live, I don't know who you are, but you're threatening me. Dude, dude, Hey man, I'll see you in the morning at the mail boxing. Bring your Carlos. I'm out tomorrow, but I would come to your house with playing clothes on it. Whoop you'all? What you for me? Hey you? It's own where ring Road. I will roads bring your because what you're not gonna keep doing it's running up in my house while I'm out at work trying to earn a living for my family, and you up in my house laying up and you're leaving your clothes. I found some mason now, I guess that's what you use when you spray on them dogs. I found that too. I'm gonna bring some extra mames. I'm gonna spray you with that mad I will knock you out. So you're this, I tell I'm gonna be wanting car I can't wait till the morrow. Excuse me. I told you I wasn't the one. But if you want to put me ron for real, okay, cool. When I see your office when I see you tomorrow, it's old. It's whatever. Hey, you send to me all that. I tell you what. I will come over there some playing clothes and because you're not gonna make me lose my job, dogs, but whatever, it's got to be. I don't care if you if you're in the post office uniform, I don't give a damn off you and your put jobs, Carlos. But when you come to that mail box and I find you out there by the mail boxing, that's your man. Because I know you've been in my house, Carlos. I'm telling you I'm there, okay, so be it there, So bear, I got I got one more thing else. I want to tell you when you before you get there, tell me what you know I recalled me? What is you listening to me? Yeah? Is nephew, Timmy from the Steve Harby Morning Show. You just got pranked by your co workers. You you ain't this? Ain't this my road scowlers you all right, man, dude, I'm driving. Put on to the side of the road. I'm hanging out the trump I'm about to go cray. I don't know my way to your house right now. Put on my way to your house. I don't go for work, damn. Man. I got one more thing to ask you, man, what is what is the baddest radio show in the land Steve Harvey Morning Radio self, no doubt all the way. You feel good about that. I feel great about that. I feel absolutely outstanding about it. Really, Tommy, he shooting up, I feel wonderful about you did that. In other ways, you delivered on that one. He brought it, Jay, he brought it. I seal delivered ring bring bring you behind to the mail box pod? Yeah. Like I said, I mean, how many times in a prank phone call do you hear him get threatened? You don't think that somebody ain't gonna care one of these threads out times a week. Ain't. But he was cool because it wasn't him. But then but I'm coming by there and playing clothes because you can't. I ain't gonna let you mess up my job. Man, I'm bad. Yeah, I'm there. You know what I am there. Memorial Day Weekend, Orlando, Florida at the Improve Friday in Saturday, Memorial Day Weekend in Orlando, Florida at the Improve June twenty fifth through to twenty seven, Improv Talpa Florida, coming your way. I'm making a little Florida run. How about that? All right? So Memorial Day Weekend, Orlando, Florida, the Improv and then June twenty fifty, twenty seven, Tampa, Flarda the Improv. The Nephew is back. Yeah, and I'll never take off that long again. Help well like your decision? Yeah? Yeah, I didn't have a choice. Yes. And the plot thickens on Friday nights. If you want to catch me on Ready to Love on the own network, the plot gets thicker and thicker the new award winning Ready to When I having won an award yet nominated? Did you did you tell Jay that you're nominated for an mtv U Award TV Award. I didn't tell you, Jay, Wow, I had no idea. Congratulations manner gratulations, it's yours considered, yours. Just go get it down, leave down, go get it, get out there and just go get your ward. That's because claimate not be careful. Watch that turns away from I've been in that spot a lot of time. Watch your face if you don't win. Yeah, Steve, Yeah, all right, you ain't had to worry about that. Thank you. Nephew, coming up, you ain't my stepmama. We'll get into the Strawberry Letter 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, date works, dating work, sex, parenting, and more. Please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve HARVEYFM dot com and click submit Strawberry Letter because we could be reading your letter live on the air, just like we're gonna read this one right here right now. Muggle up, hold on tight, we got it for you. Draw up every letter. Thank you enough. Subject you ain't my stepmama. Dear Stephen. Sure, I've been dating a man for eight years and he proposed last month. Shortly after we met. He found out about a two year old daughter by a woman he had a one night stand with the child's mother was messing with two guys, so of course he took a paternity test. I drove him back and forth to visit his child, which was over three hours away. I was friendly with a child's mother, and his daughter and I became besties. When she came to visit. She stayed at my house and we did our nails and other girly things the whole weekend. She was a sweetheart. As she got older, her dad visited her more often to attend her soccer games. We were still very close and she called me all the time to check in and chat with me. Last month, she was at her dad's house when he proposed to me. After he asked me to marry him. She yelled no and ran from the room. I want to talk to her, and she said that she loves me as a friend, but she does not want me to marry her dad. She's a eleven years old now, so I figured she's old enough to know that marriage was always in the plan for her dad and I. She said, you ain't my stepmama, and you won't ever be my stepmama. I was shocked by her reaction and what came next. She said that her dad spends the night at her house when he comes to visit her, and he stays in her mom's room. I want to ask my man, and he put his head in his hands and started crying. I FaceTime the mom and she told me that my man's been sending mixed signals. She would not confirm or deny that they had sex. He swears that he sleeps on the couch. And I know his daughter knows a lot more, but he told me to leave her out of it. She started all of this, So why can't I ask her? You can't ask her crazy because she's a child. Okay, you're an adult. Talk to the adults in this situation. Sorry, this eleven year old told you all that because of course she doesn't want you to marry her dad. You have enough information. You have a lot of information. Your fiance sleeps at his mom's house, at her mom's house, in her mom's room, according to her, when he's there, and the one night stand mother of the child, the baby mama may not tell you. She may not confirm or deny that they're having sex. She's tricky like that, But they probably are if he's sleeping in the room. He says, he's sleeping in the couch, but he's still sleeping in her house. Why couldn't he get a hotel room, you know, if there's nothing going on otherwise, I don't understand why he's sleeping in a room. So again, talk to the grown folks. Leave this baby out of it. Yeah, you know, she said that, and she's upset and everything, and that's where you should leave it. Don't bother her with this. She's only eleven years old, she's not grown. You don't need to be talking to her about this. Your man said leave her out of it. That's his daughter. I think you should take his advice and leave her out of it. Find out what you know from him and the baby. Mama, Steve, you ain't my step mama? Always something little smart mouth kids somewhere calling shots. Two adults that's trying to make their life better. Another letter like this, Well, your man after he proposed found out he had a baby from a woman he had a one night stand with, took oppaternity test. Is his you. We used to drive him down there, three hours away to see the baby, wonderful child, and he was friendly with the child's mother. I don't know why, but I guess since you're going down there, might as well trying to be friends. You know these things almost never work out, but you know, relations for trying, and the daughter and you became besties. I don't really become friends with kids because they fickle, And the main reason is we ain't got nothing incoming. I'll give it. Damn. If you do need your nails done, that don't make her friends. So you went on. You got your nails and girly things. She was a sweetheart, and as she got older, the dad visited her more often to go to soccer games and stuff. Y'all still close, called ya all the time to talk. Now here's where it got tricky. Last month she was at her dad's house. Now, the guy at them proposed to you. You all obviously have separate places. So she was at her dad's house when he proposed to me. Then he asked you to marry him. She yelled no and ran from the room. Then you went to talk to you, and she said, she loves me as a friend, but she does not want me to marry her dad. Do you know why she don't want you to marry her dad? Because she has aspirations of your dad, her dad marrying her mother, and she'll have her two favorite people, which are her parents in one house. Kids have delusional thoughts like this all the time. So you figured she eleven years old, she old enough to know that marriage is always in the plan for her dad or not. Well, but you didn't know what was in her plans, her plans, and she figured, you know, her daddy would give it her mama. Now she dropped a bomb on you and told you that Danny stay in the room with her mama. When we come back, I'm gonna tell you why this letter is. Can all go to hell from this point on? All right, we'll have heard two of Steve's response coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour, Today's Strawberry Letters, subject you Ain't my Stepmama. We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, Come on, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry Letters subject you ain't my Stepmama. This man has a that has proposed to the letter writer has a daughter from a one night stand turns out as his. They had started traveling to visit his child. The woman that wrote this letter would take him three hours away. Has had a friendly relationship with the mother, and her and the daughter became besties, and they get their nails done. They had wonderful weekends. The girl has been a sweetheart. Well, time goes on. He's been spending more time with the daughter because going to a soccer games and stuff. And so he proposed to the letter writer at his house. The letter writer and the man who are engaged, living separate home. She proposed in front of the girl, will you marry me? The girl said no and ran out the room and said, she does not want me to marry her dad. So she's and then I'm telling you the reason she don't want you to marry a daddish because she has plans for her dad and her mama to be married. That's all it is. So now you go in there and try to reason with her, telling her the marriage has always been in the plan for her dad. Now she said, you ain't my stepmama, and you won't ever be my stepmoma. Well she's being certain about that, because how you gonna be my stepmama if my dadda and my mama get married. See, she Levin, So she don't know how to tell you the whole story. She just told you you ain't gonna ever be And then you got shocked by her reaction where it came up. She said, now let me tell you why I'm saying all this. Hell. My daddy spends the night at our house when he comes to visit, and he's staying my mom's room. Now, he would have let her take a dump turn. I went and asked my man, and he put his head in his hands and started crying. I be dog, why did you do that? You're disappointed? Dog. You couldn't have held it together until later on that night in the bathroom by yourself. You could have went out in the Carnie garage and head that moment. I understand we had all done some things and made ourselves cry. Ain't that right? J Man? Hallelujah? Yeah, they don't ever cry, But you don't cry in front of him when they come to you with just an accusation, damn what you're doing in here? They room sleeping? And then he put his head and started crying. Then she FaceTime the woman and she told me that my man has been sending mixed signals. She wouldn't confirm or deny that they had sex. Now he tried to fix it. Now that's too late. Now you had your hand in your head in your hand, crying, and she then FaceTime your damn girl. And now here he goes, this is this is fixed right here? He swears he sleeps on the couch. It's too late for that. And after you cried, that's like a boy. What is it? No? Why he can't crying? And the eleven year old don't have a fact straight? The couch is in the bedroom whatever they liveing in a one bedroom and it's in. Now, work it out, Steve, I love and you know I sleep in my drawers and I don't want my daughter to come out and see me legs all over sleeping on the couch out in Now, that's why I'm in Now. I can't stand huh. She was number the one night stand for me learn how to hold yourself together. And then she says, I know his daughter knows a whole lot more, but he told me to leave her out of it. She started all this? Or why can't I ask her? Shelley told you, why are you talking to any eleven year old? Ain't she told you enough. She got enough information, You got all the information. He cried with his head and his head were gonna be. This ain't the time for that. Do you cry when you buy yourself? Come on, I love it with what I was wanted to go that fall. You're laying that shout kissing me on my deck. She but my shirt on my chest and I ain't know what to do, so I you know, wasn't she nicked me on my chest. I didn't know what to do. I was holding her about it back of her head, kissing me hard. He did just kissing too hard. It was kissing just way, ain't too hard and nickname you know, I was just oh, no, Jesus. I had my clothes off and I couldn't find my shoeing them on the night when I'm trying to late coming home the next day because I couldn't find my shoe. And then she got a dog, and next day I got the dog, had ticket house and bearded with your bo That's why I had to take crediconted boy the new shoes, because I had a weight go hold. Because I drive back what it calls the gas pedal. Get caught tweets. My total all right, thank you Steve for that re enactment. Uh poster comments in today's Druwberry Letter at Steve Harvey FM. Okay on Instagram and Facebook. Coming up at forty six minutes after, Junior with Sports Talk. Right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, guys, let's give it up. Junior is here with Sports Talk. What you got, Junior? What you got then? But before I get to that, Jay, let me just tell everybody June fifth is going down. The third annual Curious Hope Sickle Cell Walk will be happening. We're in Dallas, Texas downtown at the Market Hunt Hill Bridge were back. We are back. Last year we took off and thanked uck Steve for the ten thousand because that's how we got the race back home. I appreciate your Hunt. I appreciate that. But you know what, it was a weekend. It's a great cause, but you know this weekend, man, I saw it. Did you see the did anybody see shout out to hell? Yeah? I saw that. I can take no listen to me. It came on a four m in the morning over here. You were like, yeah, I'm up. I can't go to sleep over here for some reason. Man, I've been here two weeks. Man, I'm so tired. I don't know what to do. Man, I was like that, man, just just cray. Man, I am a fan of UFC fighting down was mad. I've never seen that. And then listen hit the replay, go ahead, Dan, that was the second round. That was first person ever, Junior. I've seen somebody replay a fight on the radio that can't nobody to see. Let that be a first. Yeah, that's the first. But that's how we reacted though, when we saw him get knocked out. Great reaction. That sounds crazy, man, Because I know a guy that lives in Miami that sent me a picture of him and mess or mess fordal whatever his name is, a picture of him and her. I mean him and him, because you know both of the Cuba two Cuba kids grow up in Miami. I know you're gonna watch your fight, Steve. I didn't want to hurt his feelings when he sent me the picture of the dude. Yeah, but I was pulling for the night Man man, and he showed Julian night Man and so his corner was the board that just won the heavyweight title. From Cameroon. The Africans is over here in the UFC Hutton Hutton. They have a girl's fight on the car. Yeah, oh my god that the rose were waysaying it wasn't even don't pretty much know that ain't her name. But you know that ain't her name. You clearly know that you already know that ain't her name. But the fights was little man. I'm a fan. I'm at UFC fan. I watch it all the time. I didn't even know you. It's crazy. It's better than boxing. It is, Oh my gosh, it is. It is better than boxing. Man, I'm telling you, I can't wait for you. Ain't two sixty two. It's better than boxing. S all right, all right, junior, you made a believer out of me. Thank you for that. I'm coming up at the top of the hour comedy Roulette with the guys right after this you're listening to show. All right, guys, time now for comedy Roulette. Quick disclaimer please, jay or explanation. Here's how it go. We take three subjects, We put them on a wheel. We spund the wheel where it stopped because we comedians will make it funny. Watch us do it. Watch what we do all right, thank you, Jay. And today's categories are things you say because the check is late, dumb conversations neighbors come up with. Or things losers say to congratulate winners at the Academy Awards, which of course we're last night. Okay, yeah, all right, let's spend the wheel. Neighbors, I love neighbors, I love oh, okay, and honor of the Academy Awards. Things losers say to congratulate winners at the Academy Awards. Let's go guy, all right, here we go, comedy. Let things losers say, you know he only one because you black. That's the only reason you want. He went there at the gate. The gate, they say, when you losing the Academy Wards, you know God headed in the plans for you, just beautiful, than bring the Lord in the junior. I like this, say to the winner's Academy Awards, you know what they gave it because they gave it you because they thank you for to die. So that's really what this was all about. I mean, he's just trying to give you your trophy while you living. That's all this was man's things. Losers safe to congratulate winners at the Academy Awards, Steve, you won that thing, didn't you? Yeah, I ain't happy enough you won that thing, didn't you? Comedy let Things losers say to people who won, well, you know I already got two of them. Is by time you win something, you lose every damn thing. Wow, people say these things. When you lose. You're talking to the winners, you say, hey, you know what your suit was better than mine. That's why you got it, don't you know what? You know what he is. If we'd have had Martin Scorse directed Alan, we'd have wanted to you know what I'm saying, Just hey, no your owner on your own film, daddy people. Things losers say to congratulate winners at the Academy Awards, Steve Harvey, We just moved so I ain't got nowhere to put it in no house, like ye. Things losers say to the winners and when they don't win your movie, it still suck. Okay, in my opinion, your movie it still sucks. How about that? Things losing say to the winners at the Academy Award. You know when I cried, I knew you was gonna win. When I cried. When I cried, I think he was gonna win. You know what it is, man, They they they met the quota, they weren't given up and moment black people this year, that's what I won because they were fine. Okay, that's what she said. Things that losers say to congratulate winners at the Academy Awards. Let's close it out, just the last war. Huh. You know they called me for that role, but I was I was taping Ready for Love that note. Okay, we'll up Morning show coming up in twenty minutes after the hour. Right after this, you're listening to Morning show. Trending news from Louisville, Kentucky. Judge and Bailey Smith has pushed back the trial of ex police officer Brett Hankinson. If that name sounds familiar, it should. Hankinson was the only officer charged and that botched raid back in March of last year that caused Brianna Taylor's murder. Judge Smith said, because of a lack of a backlog of cases, I should say due to COVID nineteen the pandemic, well, the case has been pushed back from August to now February of next year. Hankinson was one of the officers who fired his weapon, and Hankinson was charged with wanton endangerment for firing into a neighbor's apartment. None of the officers involved were charged directly for Brianna Taylor's death. Hankinson and Miles Cosgrove were fired. However, Sergeant John matten Lee, the third officer who fired his weapon that night, still remains on the force. So the other two officers got fired. If you take the bullet that was in Brianna Taylor's body and compare it to the muzzle prints on the shell casings, you could determine which gun fired that bullet that's in that woman's body. Yeah, that's a fact, right, well, right, because each mule very unique, right. The black dude that was hired by McConnell, Daniel Cameron, Yes, that's married to his daughter some missing. All right, we gotta go, and we'll have more of a Steve Harvey Morning Show coming up at thirty three minutes after. Right after this. You're listening to show, all right, Carla, let's talk oscars. The oscars were last night, right, yes, yes, yes, yes, you know you and I we gotta watch all right. The movie Nomad Land was the big winner. Uh it won for Best Picture. Congratulations to um Francis McDermott and and Anthony Hopkins. They won Best Actor and Best Actress, so congratulations. I wanted Andrew Day to win for United States versus Billy Holliday, but that's okay. I did too. I was rooting for my girl, yes, and Yola Davis, I was, but my girls. Daniel Khaluya went home for Best Supporting Actor for Judas and the Black Messiah, so congratulations to him. His speech was crazy, fun, all right. He said thank you to my mom and dad for having sex, for having me. His mom and sister were there and they just both put their heads down, like did he really say that same? Yes, congratulations to her for a fight for you from Judas and the Black Messiah. That one for Best Song, and congratulations. We love Tyler Perry so much. Tyler Perry one. Yeah, the gene Her Schultz you man, Terry an award. His speech was great. Basically he was saying, resist hate. Did you see Holly Berry Yes peak dress Rockley Peak, Yes, Yes, Yes, it was different, it was different. Beautiful beautiful dress. Speaking of beautiful dresses. Oh my god, Regina King, I saw the show for me. She did it for me as well. Carla, she opened the oscars referred to George Floyd. I mean her, everything she did was so poignant last night. She looked beautiful, she spoke amazingly. It was just awesome. I loved Angela Bassett's dress. I'll take a lesson. We do have, Regina King. All right, let's do it. It has been quite a year and we are still smack dab in the middle of it. We are mourning the loss of so many and I have to be honest, if things had gone differently this past week in Minneapolis, I might have traded in my heels for marching boots. Yeah. I know, oh Dad, A lot of you people at home want to reach for your remote when you feel like Hollywood is preaching to you. But as a mother of a black son, I know the fear that so many live with, and no amount of fame of fortune changes that. Okay, fantastic, Yeah, congratulations again to Regina King. Honorable mention goes to Glenn Close for doing the butt Yes with littarell alry like sex a little dress and all baby did it. She did it was love was on point with the music. It was just you know, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. It was a good show. And shout out again like you say it to quest Love his movie, his documentary and Summer of Soul coming out. Yeah, all right, that's Oscar Talk coming up. At forty nine minutes after the hour, we'll have some closing remarks from the one and only Steve Harvey right after this. You're listening to Harvey Morning Show. All right, guys, here we are our last break of the day on this Monday, and time now for some closing remarks from the one and only Steve Harvey. Well, you know, I don't, I don't really all I've been thinking about a lot of things, you know, and I was thinking of just on a positive tip, you know, to just kind of just always encourage people to stay with it. You know. Oftentimes you know when you are you know, when you have dreams and aspirations, all of us, from time to time they get sidelined. All of our dreams and aspiration takes a hit along the way to attain in them. And there's always a detool on the way. There's always some confusion, a set of barrels set up. It's just really hard to see a vision from start to finish scott free with no troubles. So if you're in that position today and you're finding yourself waning in your dreams and visions, it seems like it's just not happening the way you want it. I want you to understand it's not going to happen just the way you want it. That is the way it works. And I know that's not great news, but it's the truth. Nobody gets where they want to be in life just the way they want it. So if you're thinking that you're gonna get the Scott free that you will just have a smooth sailing, that's not the way it works. Life isn't designed that way. So factor in the fact that you are going to have troubles and difficulties along the way. And if you stopped your visions or dreams because of that reason, right there, the rule is simple. Here's the rule. You can start again today. You can just start again today and guess what, you don't need anybody's permission. All you have to do is rewrite your dreams down on your vision board, rererereclaim victory, ask God for your helping, your strength, and get back to making your dreams and visions come true for your life. You all, listen to me. Stop waking up just going about the day seeing how it's going without any projects, without any visions, without any aspirations, without a plan to attain the things that you really want in life. Stop waking up like that with nothing to do. Make a plan at night, pray about it, ask God for help. You know, no, look, when you rake, when you make your plan, that's just the request. You're asking God to help you come true. Now to how you get there. It's gonna be difficult. It's going to be difficult, but once you started, that is no one who says you can. So y'all just get back into pocket, get back up on the horse, get back to dreaming again, get back to wanting to hope and to believe in again. Don't let the setbacks and the troubles of life stop you, because I got news for you. You're gonna always have them. You're going to always have them. And like today, man, even though I'm still in Africa, I just went back through my phone because what I do is when I see motivational phrases or scriptures that really register with me, I take my phone out and I take her the picture of it. And then I've created this album in my photo section called motivation, and I file all those picture is in my motivational thing. And when I find myself wavering, feeling a little uncertain, feeling a little shaky about decisions, I go back to my motivational folder in my photos, and I just started reading the little quotes I got in there. I just started going down the line. I've got some stuff in there, man, that I've had in there for years. Man, But I can still read from time to time, you know, like like, for example, I was today I read this when it says I can't cry about having a lot on my plate when my whole goal was to eat. I can't cry about having a whole lot on my plate when my whole goal was to eat. And man, I find myself doing that. Not tell my lord, I'm over burdened, Man, I'm tired. You know, I got all this, I got all that. Hey, Steve, did you hear yourself? You got all this and got all that what you're tripping for? And I gathered myself, you know, and then you know, you know, I have a lot of stuff in there. Like. One of them I read to day was, oh my bad, I'm sorry for bothering you. I forgot. I only exist when you need me for something. That's God tell me, oh my bad, I'm sorry for bothering you. I forgot. I don't exist when you need me for something. I have all these little things, man, that always motivate me. Here's another one. Winners are not people who never fail, but people who never quite Failure is a failure is a part of the process. Here's another one. I have not failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that don't work. Thomas Edison. I have not failed. I just found ten thousand ways that don't work. Do you see? Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you travel from where you started. That's a proverb. And I just keep stuff like that, and you know, always. And last one I read this morning was I want to inspire people. I want someone to look at me and say, because of you, I didn't give up. Yeah, that's always been important to me. 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