Today's show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time. Y'all don't know. Y'all have a sun giving them like the million bucks things and its not true. Good Steve to other fort I don't join Jo. You gotta use that turn you. You gotta turn to turn them out. Turn you love, got the turnout to turn turn the water the water go. Come come on your baby now. Uh huh. I show will a good morning everybody. You'll listening to the voice. Come on dig me now, one and only Steve Harvey oh Man got a radio show. Man got a radio show, and a whole lot more to man. God is good to me. I have no other explanation, if I have no other explanation of my existence and where I stand in this thing called life, except if it was not for the goodness of God Almighty. If it was not for His grace and his mercy, There's no way I could exist the way that I do. I would not be who I am or where I am. I am who I am and where I am simply because God is who he is. If it was not for God, I would have no testimony for you, because I would have failed every single test plain, pure and simple, I can sit here today until you flat out that it is purely because of God's grace and mercy that I exist today because of His favor. See now He shows us favor in life because of a combination of things I've discovered. And this is not the whole answer to life, I can assure you as not. But this is a combination that I've grown to understand better and better, and I wish I had gotten it earlier in my life. But here it is. If you take faith and you combine it with an incredible work ethic, then God has the greatest opportunities to show you favor. That's the best way I can explain success to you from my standpoint. It is to combination of faith and work that produces the most opportunities for God to show you favor. See a lot of times we want God to bless us, but we ain't doing nothing for him to bless So now we sideways in the equation a little bit. But see if you had the faith in God that God can do anything but fail, that God will get you through, that God will see you through, that that God is the God you serve as the greatest gift of all good things. If you kept that faith intact through it all and you produced an incredible work ethic that allows the most opportunities for God to show you favor. See without that what you want God to do? See, you can have faith and be sitting at the house watching TV. There's nothing being produced, no opportunities for God to show your favor. And you got to do some things man, that you are uncomfortable doing or don't feel like doing, or something that don't have the right payoff right in front of your face, with the faith that it will payoff later on. See, too many people are working for the right now reward, and the right now reward is not how it works. Sometimes the reward is coming later on up the road. But the only way you can know that is if you got to You got to apply the faith and see the reason you don't know that that's coming like that, or you have to have faith to believe that it is coming. Because faith is the belief in things that you cannot see. That's what faith is. You know you're standing at let me give you them. You're standing at the crosswalk with a walk sign on it and the sign flashing on the corner. Don't walk, then that the signs say walk, What do you think your chances are making it across that street? Is well pretty good because guess what the signs say walk. You can see the other side. There's other people in the cross walk walking, So guess what you strike out blindly? It don't take a lot of faith to get across that street. That's that's That's not why I'm talking to you about. I'm talking about the faith, the belief in things that you cannot see, the faith that what I'm doing today, I believe in my heart of heart that God wouldn't bring me this far to leave me. That God is a true and living God, that he keeps his promises, that later on, there's things that I'm working towards right now gonna pay off later on. See, too many people want to reward right now. See, that's not the exhibition of faith. If it's the right thing to do, if it's if it's a good thing to do, if it's a just thing to do, see if it's seeing in it it ain't God. You can just clear on up right there. You can stop all they wandering. If that's his voice talking to you, if it's the right thing to do, if it's sin in it. It's not God talking to you. Kill it. You you you can shut it down. You ain't got to wonder about it. Go down there in secret venge that ain't God. Go tell him off when you see him. That ain't God. Anything. That's God's sin in it, is not God's voice telling you to do it. So you can you can kill that conversation to date. That's how you know. But if you align yourself up man and you and what you're doing is just and right and correct and pleasing in the sight of God, it'll pay off for you later on. And see here's here's here's the best way I can tell to it. Here's another one. When you're going somewhere, when you're when you're on the road to going somewhere, and you know the somewhere that you're trying to get to. Let's say you've set a goal of for yourself, you know where you want to get to, you got a good idea, and you own your way to going there. Listen to me when it gets hard, and it is going to get hard, when it gets difficult, and it is going to get difficult, when it becomes challenging, and it is going to become challenging when it becomes all three of those things. When it don't look like it's gonna happen, don't stop and complain so much. But see, I know he didn't bless me. But in the middle of it, man, I felt a little heavy. And you got to be careful when it gets hard for you, because you'll find yourself complaining. And when you're complaining. See, what you can't do is you can't complain so much that you forget that the place that you're trying to go to, you actually own your way there still. See, don't get caught up into complaining and then lose sight of your blessing that's actually happening. It to you? What really, man, of all the times to register a complaint to God, to sit up and go, hey, man, I didn't want wanted to ease back into this thing. Ease back in, man, you in It's it's a tornado world around you. You You ain't got time to ease back in. You got it going and jump back in it. It is what it is. To whom much is given, much is required. Always appreciate the blessings. Don't get so caught up into complaints that you lose sight of the blessings. Man. God got a lot for you in your life, man, but you gotta have them two things, y'all. You gotta take that faith and you got to apply a crazy work ethic to it. And that creates the most opportunities for God to show your favor. And when God starts showing your favor, man, all of them seeds you planted, all of that, all of that wheat you've been sewing, all of that hard work you've been put in, God will pay it off. And he'll pay it off in ways that you don't even see coming. Okay, cool, you're listening to morning show. Ladies and gentlemen, may have you undivided attention, please to the beginning of the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Begins now. Shirley Strawberry, Good morning, Steve, Happy Friday, Asprakes, nephew Tommy in the building, Steve Harvey, Hello, Hello, We all jumped on top of everybody's Yes you did, including myself, So anybody got to feel bad by nothing? Every mighty good. Ready for the weekend? Yes, Yes, I'm actually look, I'm actually gonna have a weekend this weekend. I do appreciate well we have to say congratulations to you Facebook. See Facebook watch Steve on watch see the two two building. I love your Facebook show raise all the time, la luja and a pandemic. He is in control. God been good. I like that he'd been good to me. Man I I can't even. I don't know what to say. It's hard to explain her good hallelujah. You ever just got on your knees and just thanked him, Yes, didn't asked for nothing, but just went down. I did that the other night. I felt so good. I just thanked him for who he is. Yes, Amen, I didn't think of who it was. I just think that everything he done for me, which was sight unthinkable. Some of the holes he didn't got me out of. I hadn't dug some holes. Boy, you don't stand well he didn't done for me. You really don't know situation. I hadn't been in there. Heven just came and just snatched me. Joe, stupid be hand over here, sit down somewhere. We've all done some crazy, crazy things. I don't know if any of you all have done the crazy stuff out there. I don't know that now you probably are right about I'm gonna go out on a limb and just say I'm crazy. Tell us something you tell us on the air that you've done that's really crazy. Okay, asked me about a situation, and I'll tell you if I've done something. Okay, have you ever been caught? This is where he yet here? Yet? Go ahead, jump out of the window or so? How did you get away? Oh? I dated an older woman when I was in high school, Okay, and went by a house and I was not prepared for this woman at all. She was twenty six seventeen, and she put on the neglige and went in the room. And then I was sitting on the couch and didn't know what the hell to do, really, and the kick wenting and doing. A man walked in. He said, hey, no brother, what's going on? I tid And then he went in there and they had an argument. He said, well, I go out here and see myself. Well, ain't gonna be no night here for you to see when you bring your ass. I did that because my ass is going. I jumped down steps and did not touch nothing but the landing. I m foot never touched the step. Yeah, all right, well you're right then, Steve, you win coming up in thirty two minutes after the hour, asked the CLO. The cloth Chief Love Officer Steve Harvey in the building right after this. You're listening show all right, time now for asked the CLLO. But before we get into the CLLO, don't forget coming up at the top of the hour, our very special guest family member, the Reverend Al Sharpton. Sharpton is gonna talk out the March Washington, the fifty seventh anniversary. We'll talk about that coming up, all right, you don't want to miss it. All right, CLO, Chief Love Officer Steve Harvey, you're ready, let's go. This one is from Beanie in Nashville. Beanie says, I'm a thirty six year old bachelor with no children. I've been dating a little here and a little there, but women seem to be in to what a man can do for them financially, and they lose sight of dating for the purpose of getting married. I had a relationship for a year with a woman, and if I wasn't showing out money for something for her, she was pouting and saying I didn't care about her. I don't have a lot of money to splurge like that, but I don't mind taking care of my girlfriend and wife someday. How can a regular man win like this? Come on, beanie, no, no, no, stop crying though, stop come on, Then regular men win all the time. How does a regular man win by being an exceptional bloom in my head? That's how you win? See you, you you you, You bought into the buying thing because you you, you're sitting up in line. That to be the case. What you gotta do? You gotta kill him with kindness. You gotta be a better gentleman, be a bigger, a bigger, a bigger Conversationally, you gotta provide a lot of stuff that women can't get from other dudes. Man, anybody can buy somebody something. That ain't the problem. Benny Man, you know you gotta put some more work in relationships is work, and you gotta be a better You gotta your picker sound like it could be off too now a little bit? You know your pick? Yeah? You know, dog? Why don't you get into some more conversations before you get into the relationship For you gonna how to buy somebody to dance women pool? The lads already ain't got that much money. That's what you said. So why don't you get into some conversations for you get into the relationships. That's your problem. You're diving in head first, winding and dine and taking people's tough and then now how you start it is how you finished. I can't get it. You can't change horses in the middle of the stream though, So out of his league? Are you saying? No, no, no, you supposed to marry Oh yeah, you should marry us. But dog, you got to come in here with some You know, this is just how I take care of a woman. You want this or you want that, and she expects you to come in and buy her a life. Then you know, we got a little problem. Thank Paula, and Tampa says Paula. And Tampa says, I'm a fifty nine year old woman and I was dating a seventy year old gentleman that my daughter introduced me to. We hit it off and everything was fine, but we've never had sex. He always says that there was no rush. My daughters and I are very close, and my youngest was in town, so I told her about my new man. She said her older sister secretly dated him and it was disgusting for her to hook hooked me up with him. My daughter denied it. He said he begged my daughter to hook us up, and nothing indecent happened with her. I don't know who to believe. Why would my daughter lie? I don't know, ain't my daughter don't? I don't understand why you wrote me without this. You got seventy old man never had sex, and then your younger daughter came on and told you that your other daughter dated him. Okay, what, what's what's happening? I don't know what to tell you, small, Yeah, that's I don't know. I don't know why your younger daughter would come here and talk about she dated Even then the man said, nothing inappropriate to happen. And then you and the man ain't had sex? What? Yeah, you're about to sounds crazy? Wait? What what junior? Junior? Everybody hanging out at the nursing home. It sound like that seventy dude? Sound good at me because I'm sixty three. I'm seven years waiting now and I don't even feel like it. Man, you don't look, but I do wake up in this stuff. Be hurt now. I don't know how to hell. They started and you really don't act like it. Hell no, I ain't gonna have asked him? Do you know you're almost that age? Can you know? And my wife used to ask me a time, do you realize you fit now to? But she just stopped. Then then she she just stopped. She said because you And she told me the other day she said, you ain't gonna act like I quld ask so thank you? So? So why should her daughter lie? So? What are you saying to that? I don't know? Are you saying nothing? I don't care. I don't know about this letter. I don't I don't know who this dude is. The question don't make no sense. Why would she lie? Who lie? By what she's thinking? Her daughter is lying. Her younger daughter is lying to her that her older daughter dated the guy. I guess she's trying to figure out. Why would her daughter lie to her about it? You know, y'all too old for this? What is line for NASA seven? I'm not gonna ever tell a last Yeah, all right, we're gonna move on here. Uh deal with you. You gotta deal with your daughters, all right. Christine and Philly says, I recently married a man that I met online and we got married after dating for only five months. I'm his third wife, so I should have taken more time to get to know him. Instead, I ended up married to a man with multiple personalities. One day he can be really happy and all in love, and then the next day he might get mad at me over something petty and lock me out of our bedroom. He's made me sleep on the couch for the last time, and I'm ready to call it quits. He says, this is all part of marriage and we're still getting to know each other. Should we see counseling or should I leave? It's time to escape? You know nothing with he'd locked you out the bedroom though, this ain't counseling. His ass need help, and you need to get out for you need some type of health temper. Get out. This ain't counseling. He has a mental disorder. You ain't. You ain't got time for that. But would Bob Hoolis gets aphrenic something, I would suggest you get out now? Let me ask you this step. Would you say something to her about marrying a man she met online and only knew she already know that's stupid? Yeah, yeah, I ain't got to tell her that, But she got caught up. Yeah, who think that's a good idea? Right now? Him? Nate, neither him or her? Yeah, all right, yeah, slow down, slow down? All right, thank you, cello. Great advice is always coming up. Next, the nephew in the building would run that prank back right after this you're listening. Coming up at the top of the hour, Reverend Al Sharpton will be our very special guest. He's going to tell us about today's iconic march on Washington fifty seven years later to the day. The march will take place in our nation's capital, and the theme is get your knee off our Next. But right now, before we get too serious, the nephew is here to make us laugh like he always does. Would run that prank back. What you got for us, nevs. Well, surely it's morning time and the need to put some makeup on and get ready for our days. Can you do my makeup? Can you come less do my makeup? Let's let's let's let's let's I want to hear this. Let's run necat dog put a little makeup on. Hello, Hello, maw to Brandy police. Yes, this is Brandy, Brandy. My name is Carl. I'm calling I got a you can't highly recommended. You actually you're you actually are? I'm sorry, it is it may. I don't know if I'm saying r as a makeup artist, makeup style, that's what you what do you call it? It's makeup artist. I'm a professional makeup artists Okay. And you work at the you work at the makeup counter and correct? Okay, listen, I gotta I got a photo shoot coming up, and I wanted to see about um sometime this week maybe the follow a week. You could actually come and I hire you'd actually make me up for my photo shoot. Is do you do a lot of photo shoots at all? Or you? Yes? There I should do. I've been in the business for ten years, so I've been around several photo shoots. Okay, good deal. So what's I mean? You have any time this week that I can actually just come in and we can do like a trial run or something. Yeah, I'll actually be here Friday for about six hours with Friday work for you. I'm here. I start at eleven. At eleven, I mean I could come in later, maybe like around three on Friday, if if you, if can you squeeze me in at that time. I sure can. Okay, what's what's so good? Is there a certain makeup for men? It worked out the same as for women in photo shoots. You just need some type of crane foundation, something to even out the skin tone, powder you down to take way, the oils, cover up any blemishes, or anything like that. It's pretty much the same. Of course, you don't get the whole eyeshadow and lashes and stuff, but right, right, right, right right, I'm not but I just try to, you know, just trying to look good on camera. Um. Let me ask you this. How much makeup have you done? As far as um men? You know what I mean? Yes, okay, I'm very comfortable with it. You'll be fine, trust me. That's what I was really worried about it, if you were going to be comfortable with it, because I mean, have you done um I'm a little conscientious about a few things, you know what I mean? And um, have you have you how many butts have you done? I'm sorry? How many what like like like butts? You know? How many? How many butts have you made up? I haven't made up any but like are you like you mean like asses? Yeah? I mean you could seem I'm actually doing a nude photo shoot and uh, you know, I got a couple of scratches and you know, some old scars on my butt, and I you know, I could, like you said, you know, I'm a little shy about you know, some of that. So I was you could actually hope you can actually make sure that those cards don't show and you know you said you kind of um, you know, uh make sure everything is doesn't look oily, you know what I mean. And I just need to get my own money out. Well, but I I didn't when I didn't understand what you're talking about. I may not be the makeup art. I don't. I'm not, seriously, I'm not gonna do your okay, but I mean we're just talking about makeup though. I mean, you know you're talking about yeah, but I'm not about to put my makeup brushes that I use on people's faces on your ad like to tell your photographers to like photoshop that because okay, well that's where I'm coming in to see you on Friday. I want you to do everything and make me up there in the store so I can see what it looks like. I want to see what you were going to come into my job and make me do your like? What are you? What? Planted? Are you? Where? Did you think that was gonna work? You cannot come into my job. How are you gonna come to my job naked? Seriously? I mean well, I was gonna wear a robe. I'm not gonna do you know, walking there or not? Don't you even think about coming into my job? Who referred you? Who talks? You? Need to delete this number? Do not. I'm not about to get this job. I just done, Okay. I don't want to do with you. What is the problem with you doing? What is the problem? You're doing my butt and putting the makeup on it? Not I need to buy you some brushes. I buy you some brushes and you can take what I want you to buy me anything. I don't want you coming into my job. I don't want you calling me ever again to do any kind of work. I'm coming in there and I'm now listen, I'm a professional makeup artist. Clearly you don't know what that means. Solational. Then you will take out the part that's bothering you and do the job. Lady, you know what I mean? If I want to clear I want to call you before I get real ignorant, I'm not about to finish this conversation. Do not come into my job. Do not call me to do your That's not gonna happen. So so so, I guess it's says to go around and let people know that Brandy is not professional because you can't do. My reputation is good in the streets. Boo, you can't go around and tell anybody that I'm not profession Nobody ever called me to be there. Get some skincare for you? How about that? And then you won't need any makeup? Oh no, you then you're not gonna sit here now. So talking about my if I told you some of my deepest secrets to let you know, I want to come in there get some money, that's when you're bad for telling the stranger your deepest secrets. Okay, you know what, I'm coming up to your store anyway on Friday, all right, and I'll talk to your boss. I'm let them though. Don't don't let it fool you. You heard me. Don't come in my job. Look, if I lose my job over your foolishness, I guarantee you will be paying on my bills. Okay, Spottom line is I'm coming in there with my robe on Friday, somebody gonna do my butt. You your manager, but you're not coming in you know what? How about you come up here right now? How can I go ahead and take care of the situation right now? I'm here, Now can you come right now? I'm up there right now with my robe. Well, bring bring your butt up here right now. We'll see if your buck gets out, I'm not doing it. Okay. With the bottom line, who's your manager anyway? What's she? Is? She there? I am the manager? Now what Okay? See that's what the damn problem is. You got your little self a little position at your job. Now you're trying to throw your weight around if you if a person wants to get their butt done, okay, Look do you see avatar? The people have makeup all on they butt all on their back and every where. Not you call them, you call them and ask them to do your butt. Don't call me. I'm hanging up. Do not call me anymore. They are makeup artists. What are you look? This conversation is over. Yeah, it's over because you know what. You let me tell you something. You do you know who you're talking to. Do you know who you're talking to? Do you know who you're talking to? I know who I'm talking to. I'm talking to Brandy, But do Brandy know who Brandy talking to? Clearly somebody who is ignorant. Okay, well let me tell you who I am. This is nephew taught me from the Steve Harby Morning Show. You just got franked by your girlfriend, Carmen. You are lie ye, I'll get off the phone. I'll get I do that. I hope nobody's listening. Just made I got you good. I got you good. Good with the butt? Yeah, for real, get you some skincare. I got one more thing. I gotta ask you, what is the baddest And I'm talking about the baddest radio show in the land, all the damned Steve Harvey Morning Show. Some people need face makeup. Some people need ass makeup. You know what, Tommy, what bad? There are some stretch marks out there, call some old mosquito bikes. There are some things that need to be covered up. Okay, what do you look like when you take them off? See you got to worry about he's kind of thing. All right, enough of this, Thank you, nephew. Thank you, nephew. Coming up at the top of the hour, as promised the Reverend Al Sharpton right after this. You're listening. Our special guest is a friend of mine, a friend of our show. He's family member. He's a Reverence civil rights activist. He's a host of MSNBC's Politics Nation and the founder of the National Action Network. As he promised at George Floyd's funeral, uh, the National Action Network has spearheaded a monumental new March on Washington that would take place today at the Lincoln Memorial. It is appropriately theme, get your knee off our necks, and that's the truth. Please, welcome to the show. Our friend, Reverend Al Sharpton, good, good talk to you. Listen to march today. It's gonna commemorate the anniversary of doctor Martin Luther King, Juniors, I have a dream speech in our nation's capital on August twenty of nineteen sixty three, exactly fifty seven years ago. In light of all the hate that's going on around in the world. Have you prepared for today's turnout today? Well, we prepared by telling people if they come, and many already here gathering, that we were going to provide everybody that didn't have a face mask for a face mask sanitized love and would take everybody's temperashire coming in, but thousands coming. I was amazed even last night, every hotel full. And as important to me, Steve and family, is that the families of those that have suffered are here to see the support and to stand right in the Lincoln Memorial on those steps to speak this later this morning, right when Mona the King stood fifty seven years ago, to say that they dream of a day that their folks, their son, their daughters didn't die for the family of this young man shot in the back seven times in Wisconsin, his father and mothers week this morning, the brothers and sisters of George Floyda here, the mother of Brianna Taylor is here, the family of the mother of Ahmed Aubrey's here. All of these happened this year. Unless known, we have Eric Gander's mother, Michael Brown's mother and father, and we want that photo to say that doctor King had a dream that is still not realized. Here those that have been a victim of a broken dream, we must all come together to make these dreams come true. So we don't want to just remember a speech and act like that was yesterday. We still have things to do today. And that's what everybody's here to Scanary's family saying, we've got it straight out to criminal justice system. You know what, Reverend, I find it quite it's almost chilling fifty seven years ago on the day to day that we celebrate and commemorate this great march on Washington that this is also was the last day of the RNC. And this is really amazing because all of this stuff that you just mentioned that you're going to focus on, not one of those people, not There was not one speech on behalf of black Lives matter, not one speech on calming the divisiveness in our nation. Do you see? How do you see this playing out? Very well? I think it's the contrast. You know, you and I down these years have talked a lot about God. Only God could have had it Where the RNC was supposed to be in Shallotte, and it moved to Flatterer and then for whatever reason, they decided to move the last night to Washington too, and it's the night before this march, So it's almost like we're bringing the victims the answer what they would not address and we couldn't have planned that. Just like the one thing I shouted the pandemic, people ask me, I'll come. The whole world got shook with a George Floyd, I said, because in the middle of the pandemic, we were all locked down, no sports on TV, nothing but to lose, and we watched it to try to find out where we can get out the house, and people for the first time start seeing over and over again this man with the lee on their neck and a lot of white force has never stopped to see that, and so this is outrageous. That's why you see as many whites and blacks marching. Sometimes God can take a bad situation and make good come out of it if you just don't get you God's way, and you know something, that's exactly what I'm seeing because after watching this Republican National Convention, watching Donald Trump, find these black people. You ain't seeing these many black people around Donald Trump in four years. All of a sudden, they're just coming out of nowhere. I mean, it's it's alarming to me. Herschel Walker, the Attorney General down in Kentucky. And don't I don't think this brother understands the damage he's done to himself because now we were able to put a picture a face to the Attorney general that won't bring charges against these cops into Brianna Taylor. Man, I don't think this young dude realized that while he was up there talking about how we are to be supporting Trump. It that's got to explain your attitude. And I just saw so much about Blue Lives Matter, and every night they've had a different police officer, and last night they had one of the police, retired police captain that got killed in the protests, and I felt sorry for his wife. But that's the thing they showed. They don't show the cause of those protests or anything. Yeah, but they will not show it. And they act like we're anti police, we're anti police brutality. We're not again police were against police that break the law. They act like police have the right to shoot somebody in the back seven times that had no gun. Nothing. Now they say, well, we think he had a knife in car, but the cop didn't have X three vision to see what was in the car. He shot him. We ever got in the car several times. That boy may never walk again. Jesus, Hey revenue a hold on one second, Hey, everybody, we'll be right back with more al Shop Revenue House shop to run after this. You're listening, I, y'all, We're back with a very own friend of the morning show, Revenue Al Sharp. I had people at the funerals and when I did the eulogy, stand up eight minutes and forty six seconds. And people told me that watching on TV, said, you know, I stood up and after two or three minutes, I couldn't stand no more. How did that man have the strength to just press down on that man's next for eight minutes and forty six seconds unless he was full of hate? But what I mean, what gives you the energy to do that? Eight minutes and forty six seconds is a long time to be bending down on somebody. And that's what the kind of police we're against. We're not against police. The question is where are the police above the law? That's all we ask. They can't en boss the law. They're not gonna buy by the law. Wow, right there, let's let's stay right there for just one second. I'm gonna let you go because this is something I've been saying on the radio, and I'm happy you bought this up. I think the solution one of them, one of the solutions for this. First of all, the police training has to be refamed. But I just don't understand how you having a badge gives you the right to determine whether a person lives or dies today. And if we pay you through our taxpaying dollars to uphold the law, should you not also have to be answered to the same law that you're paid to a whold. If I shoot a man seven times in the back, already know I'm going to prison. If I choke a man to death, I know I'm going to prison. If I kill a person that I thought had a cell phone, I'm going to prison and I know it. But the police, they don't have to live by the same laws that they're paged the whole until we have mandatory police sensens where they get sentenced the same way civilians get sentenced. I think, man, this is crazy. I think this is crazy. Brother. I know you right that bot Why we watch today with this George Floyd Policing and Justice Act, which says exactly that has already passed the House of Representatives. If senators got to pass the twenty senators up this year and they don't see the numbers today that we're gonna put people around the country saying, if you don't vote for this act, we're not voting for you. We've got to really do what we've got to do to protect ourselves. They keep talking about we need we all have a conversation with our children. So we need to have a conversation with the country. Why do we have to explain to our children why they treated differently. No, we need to explain to y'all that we need to have equal protection under the law. Period. In the story, Man Revenew absolutely best man, Thank you so much, brother love hey Man, thank you very much. Man, Hey, that was a Revenew shop and everybody, you know. The thing I enjoy about reveneww is he's always on point. That's right. We'll be back with more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show right after this. You're listening to show, all right, listen, how many more days left before voting? What is it now? Sixty seven days? I think it's sixty seven? Wow, I can't believe it. Can I can I tell these devoted you know what, y'all because we talk about it before we go on the air. In the mornings, right, we talked about what we saw on TV last night. We were talking and the Republican National Convention. It was disheartening. It was really really disheartening because I've never seen such a large group of people totally ignore the biggest issue outside of coronavirus in this country today. Now, the reason coronavirus is number one because it affects every single life, whether you want to or not. Now, Black Lives Matter is not affecting everybody's life because they on on to they just ignore like it's not happening. But for this to be an administration of a country and to not once acknowledge the hurt that has to be going on in our community over what's happening to our people. You know, the only person I saw even try to address it was Ben Carson, and then he messed it all up a little bit later on in his speech. I said, Wow, this dude is trying to get somebody to prepare attention to this. But the entire convention ignored us. Man. They ignored everything about Black Lives Matter. They have ignored everything about the future of US country with coronavirus, and y'all, we can't do this again. We've got to vote like our lives depend on it, because they do. It does and they stood up in Michelle. Obama said, we have to have some urgency of this coming election. We have to vote early. We have to plan for it. I keep saying that. I know it sounds crazy, but you got to plan for it. You gotta lay your clothes out, you gotta because because we do that and everything else that's important to us. You know, we take the time to plan this is very important as well. We have to plan for this. I just hope it's important to the younger generation. Well, but you know what, time especially. Yeah, I'm concerned about the older people too. I'm just concerned about everybody taking this thing seriously, man, because of the efforts that the Republicans are doing to suppress our vote. When they took all those mailboxes out, they took them out of out of Democratic precincts. When they took all those mail sorting machines out, it was to slow the mail down. When they condisce and shut down all those polling places sixteen to turn it into one that was to frustrate you at the polls. Yeah, man, they're doing everything, y'all you're right. That's been going on for generations, Steve, generations. They want you to think that your vote doesn't matter. And you know people just feel like that. Yeah, and that's what If your vote doesn't matter, why they trying so hard, Why they try so hard so you not to vote. You got to think about these things. They think about mailboxes. Yes, they're closing, Yeah, they're closing polls. They're doing all kinds of stuff to suppress your vote. You matter, your vote matters. Okay, you've got to get to the polls. If you have not registered. We say this every day, several times a day. Go to vote for one one dot org. Vote for one one dot org. You can find out where your polling places. You can find out when you can early vote, and wear all of that. Okay, you gotta do this this year. Your life depends on. Oh give it. Dann were said, I'm going, I don't care, I'm getting there. Yeah. Hey, and listen, and we need everybody just playing it on voting. To make sure all of your relatives, all of your friends, all of your neighbors are voting. Man, this is not the time. I don't care if you live in the projects. The suburbs, the penthouses behind gates. We have got to go vote for the for the regular people out here who these policies will affect to the point of detriment. We got to get to these polls. Man. That's right, all right. Coming up next, we're gonna switch gears here. Nephew Tommy is here with today's praying phone call. We'll get get into it right after this. You're listening. Coming up at the top of the hour, guys, right about four minutes after it's my aberry letter forward today, the last one of the week, the subject I wish his wife would leave us alone? I mean nerve? Was she doing? Checking on nerve? What is going on? We'll find out in just a minute. But first the nephew is here with today's prank phone call. What you got for his nev? I left my ring, I left my ring cat dog. If you would hello, I'm trying to reach a mister, mister missus please all right. My name is doctor. I'm actually trying to reach your husband, Clarence. Is he Is he available? I have to check? Is that reason you're colin? Well, I'm actually the surgeon that actually did the procedure on removing his gallstone. How's he doing as any complications thus far? Well more complications? Okay, well listen, Uh, there's a couple little bit of things I want to discuss with you guys and see if we can maybe get him rectified. Is he around? Oh? Actually, actually, when we actually did the procedure on your on your husband and removing the gall stones, who, I will say that there's a bit of a mistake made and I'm hoping that he can come back in so we can kind of get it rectified. You know, it'll be actually thirty minutes and he'll be in and out. But actually, when I removed the gall stones, and I'm very embarrassed to say that I actually left my wedding ring inside your huss And I understand, man, I say, I actually left my wedding ring inside your husband when I actually removed the gall stones. And I'm hoping that he'll come back in so I can actually take it out and he'll be on his way. It's my last bold man, let me take it. What yeah, hello, hello, hello, mister, yeah, how are you doing? This? Is doctor who I actually did the surgery on you when you were came in and got your gall stones removed. I remember you that. I will say this, mister Clarence. I actually made a bit of a mistake when you were here, and my apology. If I can actually get you come back in, man, I can get you taken care of. But and then this is just a big mistake on my part. But when you guys came in and I remove your stones, I actually left my wedding ring inside inside of me. Yes, yes, yes, sir, your wedding ring. Sir. I know this is crazy, but yes, I have truly made a mistake and want to see if I can get this thing rectified and get this thing taken out. And and I tell you, man, I've been without my ring and my wife is raising holy hell about it. Yeah, but you know something, doctor, we got a problem with What do you mean I mean, I'm about to go back to work. I really can't be going back into the operated room for somebody to take a ring out of me that they left, that they left. Bad mistake, you know what I'm saying. Okay, I mean, you know, I realize your wife might be upset and you need your ring, but at this point that ring's gonna have to stay where it is. For a while. So I can't. I honestly can't allow but that ring to stay there another two or three days. I don't think you understand exactly what I'm going through. There's no way I can allow that. Yeah, I got to go back to work. But you know something, I mean you know, I mean, you know we're talking about a bad, bad, serious problem. You know we're talking about mal practice. I mean you know we're talking about me taking out more time and work when I'm ready to go back. I mean, you know, we're talking law suit all kind of stuff. Yeah, we need to get together. Can you hear me that? Yeah? Yeah, you need to come over here. Okay, my wife's upset too. I mean, you know I can't get back on an operating tape, sir. This won't take for seconds. It's actually for me to snip that thing and get that ring out of there. It won't take but a minute. I mean, you still have the same incisions there. I can go right back into what the same scar was and take that out and keep it moving. Go back into the same and you're gonna operate again. If you're cutting me over, sir, I promise you you won't even know I was there. I'll go in there and take that ring out, just that quick claw. Okay, but but let me ask you this. Yere, my wife, and my wife is about to go crazy. I'm I'm pretty I'm a pretty good guy here. But I mean, you know you got left for ringing. Man. I mean, you know, do you all have mal practice insurance? And sir, we have plenty of insurance. You know, it's really more about what I'm going through at home. So I'm doing this for years. Yeah, pretty much here at this point, I mean, no one actually from the hospital actually knows that I'm actually calling you. Wow, you know, I mean, that's a big, big problem. You said something about mal practice. No, I didn't say anything about mal practice. You guys actually said that. I didn't say anything. Okay, now let me okay, hold on now, drs hold on. Uh well, now let me ask you. This's here. Every time I've heard of somebody leaving something inside of somebody, you know, it usually end up being a situation where it sets up infections and stuff. Well, that's that's an eighteen carrec goal. That's not going to infect you at all. Yeah, I understand what you're saying, but good grief. I mean, I just I mean, I didn't even want to do the first surgery, but I didn't have any choice. You know what, I'll be honest with you. I tried to talk to you and be patient with you. If I gotta come over and put some core form up against your nose and knock you out in order to perform this procedure to get my ring, then damn it, that's what I gotta do. Oh, hold on that. That what I'm supposed to be doing. Why are you doing that? You hear that? Do you what he said? Yeah? Come on, you know I'm not gonna stand for these threats. Now. You know that's your problem with your ring. Now. You know, up until now everything was cool. Now you got a big problem. I tell you it's here. I'm at home right now. You're at home with my ring. You got my ring? You come getting right now? The way? No, okay, now I don't. I don't have a problem coming right over there to get my ring because I want I need my ring back. Let's do it. Come on over. Why want we got something for you? Down? Hey, listen, I don't care what the both of you are doing. The bottom line is that you have my ring. I got your ring. You just told me I had it, then it's inside of me. Well, i's don't say, sir, I'm not gonna continue to go back and forth with you. You're not gonna continue to do anything because you come over here, I'm gonna kick you out. You're already threatened to come over here and put Plora from them and no locking me out to go in the side of my body to come over here. Doctor, got problems. I'll tell you what. I don't want any problems out of your wife or out of you. Think it's only gonna take thirty minutes and everybody'll be happy after that. You won't make it back compan down. I understand everything you say. I got one more thing I need to say to the both of you all. Are you listening to me? I'm listening. It's doors listening. No, not really read tune you out. Well, where's the last thing I need to say to you? His nephew Tommy from the Steve Harbin Morning Show, y'all just got pranked by y'all. Niece teaches what then, Nephew timm it, Nephew Thomas, you this is me man, you get you hear that nextew Thomas and new thomm Yeah, I still got your rank and my ole man, you're messing with my heart talking about going back inside of my body. All right, let me let me let me speak to miss Dard. What Miss Darge? You all right? And Miss Dard? I got one more thing that What is the Baddest Radio Show in the Land by Steve Harvey Learning? So what, neshew? You come on over? You you funny? I love that you not a minutecause a while ago. Hold on, hold on, Darth waiting, hold on, hold on that door. Oh my god, that was funny. That was really funny. Made boy that high pitch man. You could come out over here if you want. You didn't have something, isn't you? You said, have to come over? He left some minute. Hold on, hello, hey man, I'm I'm a pretty good fellow. But I got to go back to work. He's got to go back to work. In the background with that hen worn to work, he said, wait a minute, Doc, you were doing good until you start outing. You're gonna put chlorophillip give my note and put me over. I tell you come over. How you gonna have a problem? Man? All right, thank you, nephew, love it, Love It, Love It. Coming up next the Strawberry Letter subject, I wish his wife would leave us alone. Who'll get into that Right after this, You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Coming up at forty six minutes after the our ESPN Stephen A. Smith will be our special guest. He's going to talk about, you know, the black athletes leading the charge toward racial justice. But right now it is time for Today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need advice on relationships, dating, work, sex, parenting, and more, please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve Harvey FM dot com and click that submit Strawberry Letter button and we could be reading your letter just like we're gonna read this one live right here today. That's right, yeah, buckle up and hold on tight. We got it for you. Here. It is the Strawberry Letter. Thank you, nephew, subject I wish his wife would leave us alone. Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm a forty something single female and my boyfriend is sixty nine years old. When we first started dating, he was my sugar daddy and he paid my mortgage, my car note, and sent me on vacation several times a year. But it wasn't all of the money or the gifts that got me so hooked on him dot dot It was the sex. This man is the best I've ever had, and he does not need any enhancements to get aroused. We've been together for five years, so I was shocked when he carelessly left his phone at home. Recently, he was at my house and we were watching a movie when his wife called me to let me know he had left his phone at home. She told me that she hopes I was enjoying him because it would be the last time I was going to see him. I put him on the phone and he sat quietly while she cursed him out, and then he left. The Next day, his wife called to see if he was at my house because he told her he was going to the car wash. I told her he was at the car wash getting my lexus washed that he pays for. She hung up. That really got him in hot water with her, and he told me he couldn't see me anymore. Why did I have to go there with his wife because now she's my relationship. Messed up my relationship with him. They have been married for thirty eight years, so he's tired of her. He told me that she let herself go over the years and won't have sex with him, so why block his happiness. She's called a few more times to ask how long we've been together and if he ever said he loves me. I told her to leave us alone and let us be. It's been three weeks since I've seen him, but he still calls her Texas daily. Should I move on or wait for him to come back to me? What do you want from us? Really? You've been dating and having an affair with a married man for five years, and in your mind, regardless if he had a wife or kids or whatever, you've been having a great life with you, sugar daddy. You know, he pays your bills, your mortgage, your wrench or carnot, sends you on trips, all of that, and then here she comes wifey with her worrisome behind, calling, bothering you guys and stuff. I mean, the nerve of her right, they've only been married for thirty eight years. Who does she think she is? Oh? Does she think she is? She's just the wife? I mean, really, I think that's your stank, disrespectful, entitled attitude. Do I have that right, you ask us, Yeah, you ask us, You ask us, should you move on or wait for him to come back to you? Well, it's been three weeks. He calls in Texas, but it doesn't sound like he's coming back, not anytime soon anyway. And whether he does or not, I don't really care, because I just don't like how cold and unsympathetic you were to his wife when she called. I just think that was wrong of you. I mean, you know how the game goes. You are the side piece. I don't care. You've been the side piece for five years. So because she didn't, you know, uh, stay in her lane and called you and everything, you got mad and went in on her and then you got him in trouble, so you lost him. I mean I think you lost your man. You lost him in the Great Sex and all that. So that's it. I don't care, you know whatever, whatever, Steve, Okay, sure, I really I'm kinda with surely on this. H What do you want us to say? Everything in this Atlanta wrong, ain't no right, They ain't no right in the Aleta but the beginning, I'm forty single female, my boyfriend sixty nine right there? Who right there at thirty years. That's wrong at thirty years thirty thirty eight, alardy your difference. I almost promise you he ain't got thirty years left. If I'm a gambling man, I just don't say he gonna get there. All right. He was your sugar daddy paid for everything. Then you trying to tell us what you got him so hooked on you was to set y'all been dating for five years, according to this letter. So he started at sixty four. He's sixty nine, all right, he don't use no mail enhancers whatever. Five years. Then he left his phone at home recently. You know why, because he's sixty nine. His old ass for got it. He drove out that damn. This is the beginning of where this relationship is. D oh. It starts with leaving the phone. Then he gonna forget what he left his car. Then he ain't gonna remember where you stay. Then ain't gonna lose and forget. His wife's name is called dementia, and he damned the head of there. And it starts with the phone. I'm just telling me now, all right, okay, you know you're watching the movie. Then you know he doesn't We've been together five years so I was shocked when he carelessly left his phone at home. I'm telling he forgotten. He was at my house y'all watching the movie. His wife called me to let me know he had left the phone at home. She told me that she hopens I was enjoying him, because he gonna be last time you seen. Then you put him on the phone. He said that quietly while she cussed him out. He took it like a man, and then he left. Next day, his wife called to see if he was at my house because he said he was going to watch the Car Closer. Part two of seas Response coming up in twenty three minutes after the hour. I wish his wife would leave us alone. We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening, all right, Steve, Come on, let's recap today's Strawberry Letters. Subject I wish his wife would leave us alone. Sixty nine years old, she forty thirty years difference. Then, all right, his sex is great, he boys, stuff, call payment, rit mortgage, everything, everything going good. Now this seventy started to catch up with his hands. He getting careless now, he leaving stuffy, started with leaving stuff. Then next thing you know, he's gonna be repeating on the self. It's all it's all just coming together, and I'm just letting her know that's what it's coming now. He's sitting up here, and he started with he leaving stuff. He'd left his phone at the house, y'all sitting up watching the movie. His wife called you and said, I hope you enjoyed him, because it's the last time you was gonna see you put him on the phone. He said that quietly while she cussed him out. Did he got him? Left? Now? The next day after he left, his wife called to see if he was at my house because he told her he was going to the car wash. Now she needs Joe help because she old too. Now she needs Joe help tracking his old ass because both of them got dementia and trying to work through it now calling you at your house. I told her he was at the car wash getting my Lexus watch that he pays for. She hung up. What you want you telling that? You stupid lady, You stupid. You don't even know how to play the game. That really he got him in hot water, and he told me he couldn't see you anymore. Why did I have to go there with his wife, because now she's messing up my relationship with him. They've been married thirty eight years, so he tied to her. He told me she left her to go. She excuse me. He told me that she left, let herself go over the years and won't have sex with him, So why block his happiness now? She didn't called you a few more times to ask Kyle Longe we the brother because she need information because she don't know how to go on Facebook or nothing, because she old. I'm telling you, these old people swinging on each other. Eventually this is gonna lead to a fight. And y'all, this is gonna be the slowest fight I've ever seen. Film it for us. Please. He never said he loves me, because he don't. He loved her. I told her to leave us alone and let us be Wait a minute, can I can I tell you something? Side pieces don't make the rules. You call her and told her leave us alone. I'm gonna tell you why high is working. It's been three weeks and you've seen it. You know why she told you. She told you the time before, and enjoy him now because this the last time you're gonna see him. Guess what your latter say, it's been three weeks since I've seen oldest can't take his ass over your house, Clara, because Claid Clara Claire. Oldest can't come over that no more because Claire told him. You're not going over Shamika house. No damn more. You got a young ass man because you forty, so you should make but Claire and oldest see O'Neil. Oh, my god, should I move on a way for him to come back to me? Come back to me, lady. Didn't you hear the ladies say he ain't coming over the animal? Didn't you not say it's been three weeks since you've seen him? Do you not understand? The side pieces don't make rules? Oh? Wow, side pieces don't make no rules. Wow. No, the man tells you the rules that his wife then laid out for him. You can go play poke on Wednesday night. That's your night. Hm. But Steve, I got I gotta ask you about that. Oh, I can't wait to answer sixty nine that old she didn't she she loved the sex with no enhancement. You get aroused. Yeah, that's probably that's okay. Oh, some men don't need nothing, Okay, Yeah, that's real that's very true. Oh she didn't had some sorry as sets. She doesn't to know. Oh yeah, oh she has some real bad sector before and think this in Uh, that could happen too, depend on who you've been with. But I'm telling you right now, these old people right here, he going through some things. He can't come back over there. Yeah it's over. It's a rap because this who gonna go to the tape with him? Because he know he on see you you just you were just sitting over here. You just saw the phone missing. She know everything. He walking rooms. Forgive why he went in Now he's sitting up there watching TV. Ain't got no draws on, oldest, go in there and put your pajamas on. Oh I ain't even know it. See she and she been with just man thirty eight years. He's been sick. She did took care of him. You're not fit to get huge. He got him nice too. Oh you can't even see the top right there. He got three different kind of eyeglasses for reading books, wof for just looking and woe for reading prescriptions. All right, well, listen. Post your comments on Today's Strawberry Letter at Steve Harvey FM, on Instagram and Facebook. Don't forget to check out the Strawberry Letter podcast Done Demand two. Coming up at forty six minutes after the hour, our friend ESPN Stephen A. Smith is coming up to talk about black athletes leading the charge for racial justice. Right after this, you're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show. Hey, y'all, listen, listen. Our good friend is back with us this morning. He is the star of ESPs First Take, my favorite sports show on Earth, and he uh and he's also the star of the Stephen A. Smith Show on ESPN Radio. Well, we want to get his first take on what promoted the NBA boycott, what resolution the players have come to since the outside of the boycott. He's gonna give us a little insight on what's going I don't have to ask him nothing. He gonna give it to us, ladies and gentlemen. My dog wanted only, Oh sci fi stephen A. Smith, that's for you. Welcome to what's going on? What's going on? Wonderful to hear from y'all. I hope y'all and y'all loved ones are all great during these crazy times. I want to make one correction, Steve, I gave up my radio show. A few months ago, I negotiated a new multi year deal that calls for me not just to be on the air, but to executive produce content for ESPN Plus through my production company as well. That I just jump started. I'm going to Steven congratula. That's called the game the exit plan. Yeah yeah, yeah. But if I start winning, MOI will well, Stephen, they give it to us. Man. What's going on with the NBA boycott? Well, well, the NBA players are backed. They met Thursday and they've elected to continue the season, uh and play the games. Or what happened was is that the Milwaukee Bucks, because of the shooting of Missus Jacob Blake and Kenosha, Wisconsin. It was right near Milwaukee, and the Milwaukee Bucks felt a lot of pressure to really really respond to it. They were pauled, obviously, as most of us does not all of us were by the shooting of yet another unawed black man, and so they wanted to speak up. Where people got a bit confused is that when the Milwaukee Bucks decided not to play, they didn't coordinate with anyone because they weren't asking anyone to join them. They felt so compelled to do something thing that the Milwaukee Bucks were going to forfeit their playoff game to the Orlando Magic just to make a statement on behalf of the shooting. What happened is Orlando found out about it, obviously, and they decided to join the Milwaukee Bucks. Houston and Oksey was supposed to play later that afternoon. They decided to join the Milwaukee Bucks. And the Lakers and the Potland Trailblazers found out about it, and they were going to be the Nightcap and they decided to join the Milwaukee Bucks. In the aftermath of all of that, there was a meeting that took place at at eight pm on Wednesday evening. Hey, Steven, a whole tight, the whole tight, right there, man, We'll be back with Mark stephen A. Smith right after this. You're listening, all right, We're back with my main man, friend and family are stephen A. Smith. A lot of players were arguing amongst one another in terms of where do we go from here? And that was the thing that frustrated the hell out of Lebron James because he he has this more than a vote movement that he's got going on, really trying to push people to the polls and to get them to make sure they vote in that their vote counts. So he's been pushing that. So he doesn't like the fact that they're appeared to be no plan, no coordinative plan of action, those things of that nature, and he ultimately ended up storming out of the room. When he stormed out of the room on Wednesday night, what happened was before he departed, all thirty teams voted on whether or not the season should continue. All but two elected to play. The two teams that said we don't want to play, we don't want to continue with the season was the Los Angeles Clippers and the Los Angeles Lakers, and their mentality is we're the two prohibitive favorite. Lebron is an iconic figure in this game. And in my estimation that Lebron and the Lakers weren't playing and Kawhi and the Clippers weren't playing, you have thereby deal legitimized the NBA playoffs, because whatever champion is crowned, nobody for one second is going to believe that that is a legit championship. The NBA recognized this, and the NBA was up in the tisney because on one end, they've already lost billions of dollars because the season of pandemics stalled. The season number two, they dedicated two hundred plus million dollars to build the bubble for these guys to play in where everything was okay and the players had collectively bargained and agreed to do this and thoroughly and more importantly, the owners were saying to me, stephen A. The league was saying to me, stephen A. Team executives were saying to me, stephen A, what are we supposed to do? We understand what they're feeling. We can't possibly put ourselves in the shoes of young black men. The flip side to it is that the league have not We've been their partners, we've been their supporters. We support Black Lives Matter, we support their positions, we support them speaking out. We've committed three hundred million dollars over the next ten years to various social justice courses. We've done all of this. Why are they taking this action when all it's going to hurt is their pockets and clearly our pockets, when we're in this together to try to overcome what's going on out here in the streets of America with law enforcement official and black men. What are we supposed to do? So that's the term all that's been going on over the last thirty six hours or so. But ultimately they met and the players agreed to go back to work and continue these playoffs. It's expected, not it's not extant, stone, it's not official yet, but the playoffs service it's scheduled, are expected to resume rather this Saturday, first game being in Toronto Raptors versus the Boston Celtics, and it we'll all go from there. I get it, now, you know what I thought? Well, I mean, we'll explain. Of course, none of us knew this, Thank you so much it. I do think that when Milwaukee, what I didn't know was Howard started. Milwaukee was willing to forfeit their game, correct, and that would have given the other team, what was it, Orlando, Yeah, yeah, series, that would have made it three too. Yeah, Orlando would have had a victory, right, yes, correct. But they joined in, which I thought was like super of the rest of the league. And I'm glad they canceled those games for the day. They made a really really valid point and I think message well taken in so now at this point, it's where do we go from here? I think we just got to get back to the business of voting right now. I was very surprised when you said that the two teams that didn't want to play with the Clippers and the Lakers, and you know, but Lebron is an activist too many and and and and a real important voice out there. So but but you know, let's let's just get people to the polls from here. Man, I thought you gotta get them to the polls. There's no question about, man, we understand how important this election is. Uh, there is no denying that. The flip side to it is that I've been on the players to make sure that you have a plan along the way. And you've asked that question, and I've asked that question. And here's the reason why. Oh boy, hold on, hold on, stephen A right there. We'll be right back. Hold on, man, we'll be right back with more stephen A. Smith right after this. You're listening, We're back. You know who's here. It's stephen A. Smith here. It is. When the NBA asked what do you want us to do? What can we do? You have to have an answer to that question. They've already dedicated three hundred million dollars, they plan on dedicating even more. Where do you want the money to go? What purpose do you want it to serve? Are you interested in addressing Congress so federal legislation can be enacted to make it a federal hate crime to for police officers to shoot unarmed the black men or unarmed the men period? What else do you want do you want us to address the state legislature? Do you want it to adjust to address local officials? What exactly is it that you want done? Because you have to have a plan, and then when you're the owners, we also have to appreciate the fact that this is a very very fair question to ask. We also have to understand that we can't disseminate a message that all police officers are bad. We just have to encourage those police officers who are fulfilling their duties to protect and serve, to hold the role of officers accountable, and assist in holding the role of officers accountable. So if you do that kind of stuff, that's what it comes down to for me. And the other thing is is that again, I don't know of any black movement that has never involved economic empowerment chess instead of checks sometimes, and unfortunately we don't do that enough as a community, and that is what bothers me, ladies and gentlemen. Steven A. Smith well said, stephen A. Smith, We love you boy. Appreciation of y'all. Y'all take it all right, coming up more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show right after this. You're listening, all right, stephen A. You can pull back to curtain. The light bulbs is on. We know what's happening. Now, tell us a little bit more, man, You do understand that they would have the players would have been in violation of the collective bargaining agreement in the event that these games not continued, because there's nowhere to collective bargaining agreement that says you should stop play because of social injustice. A police officer killing an unarmed black man is not the responsibility of the National Basketball Association if that was a reason, or any kind of social injustice has taken place outside that umbrella, if that's all it takes for you to postpone or dare I say, cancel the season, then the NBA owners were arguing, we can reach all the agreements in the world, But a black man could get shot in November for while being unarmed and cuffed by a police officer. You're trying to tell me we have to worry about our season being canceled. Then players have to be ready to answer questions like that, particularly when you're in the throne of an eleven plus billion dollars agreement with owners who all have lost collectively have lost an excess of two billion, and counting the players themselves. The players themselves have lost hundreds of millions of dollars already, and had they elected not to go back and play, they would have lost hundreds of millions more because the owners would have came to them and said, these are losses we've accrued. This is what we project we will lose next season in light of your actions, and as a result, since we are partners, you share in this loss. It is a fifty fifty split of basketball related income. We want our money and that's what the players we're facing. Hey, what about it. I don't respect what they did, as we respect where they're coming from. Of course we do, and by the way we support them. I don't think any black person should fail to support them because they're fighting for others the reality of the situation as any of us can get pulled over by law enforcement officials and find out self shot. But while we do so, it's also important that everybody right now, everybody ain't Steve, and everybody ain't Steve hawks. The average joe out there does not make up one percent of the population. And as a result of understanding that, we also have to understand that we can't disseminate a message that all police officers are bad. Okay, so they're all black police officers, they are all that team no police officers, they are all white police officers, So you can't castigate everybody. We just have to encourage those police officers who are fulfilling their duties to protect and serve, to hold the rogue officers honible and assist in holding the role of offices accountable. So if you do that kind of stuff, that's that's what it comes down to for me, ladies and gentlemen. Steven A. Smith, thank you, Stephen A. Coming up our last break of the day and some closing remarks. Break of the day and some closing remarks from the one and only Steve Harvey. At forty nine minutes after right after this you're listening to all right, Steve, here we are last break of the day, last break of the day again, sixty seven days now until the November third election. But by November third, we already we already want to have voted. Okay, yeah, our votes in by that time. Okay, yeah, but go to vote for one one dot org, get registered, find out where you can early vote, and you know, wait it out, wait your part. Yeah, come on, you were about to lose your job. Get this dance stance back off the boxes. Get all that. I'm gonna need you to get all that, y'all a while to get him out of there, though, y'all know that. And I agree with you, Tommy, I think he gonna yeah, like a kid in a grocery store. But when you're gonna find out that the US military guy more power than you think? Wait, did it send the National Guard for years? I love it. I love it, man. Yeah, that was gonna happen. Yeah, but don't nless. We can't get complacent, don't underestimate anything. Just do your part and get out and vote. Please, and take some people with you, like we were talking earlier, take some people with you to the polls. Yeah, you're ready, you're ready on Yeah. I want to say something and that I've been saying, But I have something. Since we like to watch movies and stuff, I would like for everybody on Netflix this weekend, I would like for you to meet this thing on Netflix called Meet the Trumps From Immigrant to President. It's a special on Netflix called Meet the Trumps From Immigrants to President. I want you to watch this special. So this is really really important for everybody to watch this special. But if you are a minority, when you see this, if you can tell me that this specialist a lie, you can vote for Donald Trump. But if you can watch this special on Netmix Netflix Trumps from Immigrants to President and you can see where they can back up what they're saying, and you can still vote for him, something's wrong with you. So I'm asking everybody, since you like watching stuff and most of us are still quarantine and playing practice and social distancing, just watch it on Netflix. I rest my case. I am trying to find every way to get people to get to these polls because I do not want you to miss the significance of this election. This election, the way we showed up for Barack Obama. We really need that type of turnout. Man. I don't know if we can get it, but I think we can get really, really close. But the numbers that did not vote last time with Hillary Clinton against him, that's unacceptable. What happened in Philly, what happened in Michigan, what happened in Wisconsin, what happened in Florida, what happened in Georgia. It cannot happen again. This is a very very important election. People. It's important for the common man. It's important for the working man, working person, working woman. It's important for those who are affected by policy, which is ninety five percent of the country. You have to vote. You have to get in there and stop this foolishness that's going on. I was so sick of the Republican National Convention trying to show all these black people like they've been there the whole time, and if you look in the scope of thing, it wasn't many at all. It's just where, all of a sudden did they come from. Now. I felt such a pain for the family that lost their father, who was a retired police officer that went down to the store in Saint Louis to go and look on their friends store. I felt so much pain for that family. I really really did. That was tragic what happened. It really really was, because that family didn't deserve that to happen. But what I also watched was how they made it all about the policemen. They made it all about themselves, and they made it all about that flag, and they turned all of the protesters, They turned all of them into rioters, looters, and unlaw abiding citizens. They never mentioned the peaceful protests and what had all the people in the streets in the beginning. It is sad man the way this Republican National Convention was run, how they ignored the depths, all the families that have been affected, one hundred and eighty thousand people in this country dead, and they kept saying his quick response to coronavirus was the slower's response of any nation, Which is why we're in the position we're in today. His lack of leadership and not having mandatory shutdowns and having some plowing form of plan from the government. That's what we should do. That's why we're in the position we're in. Folks. We have to vote, we have to get to the polls, and we have to prove the one way for show that they'll get the message that black lives do matter. 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