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 the stubbings be true. Good Steve listening to the other for st I don't join joining. You gotta turn you, you gotta turn to turn them out. Turn you lon't got to turn them out. Then turn the water the water go. Come come on your bad Uh huh, I shall will a good morning everybody. You are listening to the voice, come on dig me now, one and only. Steve Harvey got a radio show. Uh huh. Steve Harvey got a radio show. Yeah. Man, oh boh boah boy man. God has been good to me. I can't even I can't even put it into words, man, but I try, though, I try, try try. God does things for me just right on time. He's so cool with it. And I happened to run across Joel Oldstein on television like I often do all the time, and I was sitting there and he had such a timely message for me. A part of it was something that I've said oftentimes about if you really really want to be successful, if you really really want to change, if you really really want to prosper, if you really really want to achieve greatness, if you really really want to have something in life that's worth having, if you really really want to accomplish your goals, you got to push through all of it. He said that when you get closer to it, the more difficult it becomes. Did you hear me? He said, the closer you get to what it is you want or you need, or you have to have or you would love to be, it gets a little bit more difficult when you get closer. He told this story that's in the Bible that I've never heard before. This is what he said. He said that was a man who was paralyzed, and he had heard that Jesus was speaking at a house, and so he wanted to get there. So he convinced four of his friends to put him on a stretcher and carry him for hours to get to this house where Jesus was speaking. He said that along the way, these friends said that they went along because he had so much faith that if he could just get to him, it could be better that he could if he could just get over there end he could see him, that he might have a shot at getting held. And so he said, they took out along the way and they walked and they walked and they walked for hours. And then when they got there, the house was completely filled with people. That was absolutely it was packed wall to wall. There was absolutely no way for the men to get him on that stretcher end to see Jesus. This is a story that Joel Osteen said is in the Bible, and he was telling it now. I'm just repeating the parts of it. I got gathered and so he said. They were sat there and they went, wow, man, we walked all this weight and it's four and and and and and and and we can't get there, he said. And then the guy with the affliction told the four men, if you get up on the roof and cut a hole in it and lower me down, I bet I could see him men, and I better to be all right now. He then said, you must imagine how these four men must have felt when you carry somebody for hours on on on on on on the way. They had to carry some cloth connected by a couple of sticks, said the men. Shoulders had to be bruised, had to have deep gouges in them, not cuts, but just indentations were had carried the weight of this grown man for so many hours, and they looked at him in disbelief, like, man, what are you talking about. We didn't walked all this far. He said, yeah, but if you get up on that roof and you cut a hole in it and lower me down, I can see him and when he see me, it'll be all right. After sitting there and imploring the men, they went up and did just that, and then and then the story that Joel Osteen said, the man was healed. But the point he was making was he was saying that the closer you get to what it is you really want, the more difficult it's going to become. But you've got to push through. See, if you don't push through, you never know, so you can't get right to the answer. And because it gets really difficult, started creating those little saying that we got his people. Um, well, I guess it wasn't meant to be. I guess it wasn't a or its will Now, man, I guess you should not give up right now. I guess you should keep pressing. I guess you should do more, because see, in all of us, in all of us, when you've had enough, I want you to know something you do have a little bit more in all of us. You can do one more you know. That's one of my favorite things that I heard Joel Oldstein said, and it kind of made me feel good. He said, I always feel like I can do one more anything, And I tell my friends all the time, I can do one more man. I could do one more day. I can do one more anything. Now Here was the jewel that I never really knew that Joel Oldstein and God sent to me I needed to hear. He said that no matter what you're going through, no matter how long the challenge is you've been facing, God has an end date for it all. Did you hear me? No matter what you're going through, no matter what challenge you're facing, no matter what situation you've gotten yourself into, God has an ending date. All you got to do is keep pressing forward. All you got to do is hanging now. All you got to do is don't give up. All you have to do is don't turn back. That is an end date for all of it, even when you think you've had enough. And boy, have I had this conversation with God on several things that I've been going through and I'm going I've even told him, Look, I got it, man, He said, just keep hanging on. There is an end date to whatever it is you're going through. There's an end date to your illness, your sickness, yo, tired of being tired. There's an end date to this relationship that you can't seem to get through. Beyond over that's that's like a cancer to you. There's an end date. But you've got to hang in there. You've got to keep pushing forward. You cannot turn around. You must not go back, because when God gets you through this and you break through to the other side, the reward and the benefit is far greater than the struggle. I oftentimes look at some of the things that God has brought me through in my worst times, and when he brought me through, I went, wow, man, now that I understand that, Now that I'm on the other side and I have the benefit of the reward for it, would you do it all again to get there? Yes? I would. You're listening to ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourself for the opening of the Steve Harvey Morning Show today. It has been decided that the show will begin this way five four three two one in moaning time. M moan morning, Shirley Strawberry, Good morning, Steve Harvey with your devotion, good morning, always always calling for real good morning devotion. What's happening? Amen, motion, I got a story about that song, Junior morning. Is here about it? Man, nephew, Tommy top Top It's devotion time, true devotion. Yea, bless bless it. Author Cheese, Ja got it? What name it? I knew it? Said the same thing I knew it. Got it praise, said Joe the teachers that brings true love to me. I'm sorry, version, your devotion opens all lives transsions, please out because he thinks earth winning five versus the eyes of his brothers. Are you make it? I'm what hey? Swiss Beats called me yesterday after the radio show. He said, Keen, fifty people call me. They're sending me a clip. Have you seen Steve Harvey's tripping on this versus? He said, King, you got to be a part of this. Yes, I said, I don't know, Swiss. I gotta find out where it's gonna be. He said, la. I said, I'm supposed to be somewhere else. I said, give me a couple of days. Man, think about it. So you're gonna redo your schedule for them too? Yeah? Almost? Hey, log got that. What do the hosts do? Um? They don't really have kind of lost themselves, you know, Oh hell to bring him out? Yeah yeah, they can't do that day still and me the one of them great host. Yeah, I have a feeling this is going to be the longest versus battle. I don't know. One time is start. We got at least ten hours a hit. That's a marathon. Will you make it to work the next day? The question? All right, here we go coming up at thirty two minutes after the hour, asked the CLO with the Chief Love Officer Steve Harvey. Right after this, you're listening to the Steven Show all right? Time now for ask the CLO. Um. I don't even have to ask him if he's ready, because I know he is already. This one is from Dushaun and Shreveport. Dashawan says my thirty year old daughter Sean. Who up? Okay, I'm just asking who? All right? Yeah, my thirty year old daughter is having a son by my best friend. That's my age. My best friend was at the gender revealed party, so I asked him why was he there? That's when he told me it's his baby. I left and I have not spoken to my daughter at all since that day. My brother said, I can't be too upset because my daughter has grown, but I have every right to be upset at my friend. A few days ago, my friend told me he wants to marry my child. So how do I deal with all of this? Should I be supportive? Well? She thirty? I'm assuming your friend fifty. I'm gonna just go with that minimum fifty. Let's just say he fifty, he had the gender reveal, is his baby he won't to marry. The thing is is if your daughter wants to now thirty is up there? Yeah, so ain't like she a little bitty girl. So you know it's up to them, you know. And I understand you're being upset. I get it, Lord knows, I get it. But it's their decisions, and once they've grown, they get to make their own decisions. Ain't nonna need to you not speaking to hun stepping out your daughter's life over that? For why steal your daughter? Child and child? Okay? Yeah, but how long you've been looking at my daughter? Though? Look? You know what I'm saying she's pregnant. Yeah, I got that time. I got where you at because you got two young daughters, So I got it. Man, one keep that attitude. You got one. That's right sitting. You got one. But just keep that attitude because you're gonna need it. Say that attitude. How to keep that attitude? Right that, Tommy, because you call that big right down all right. Carter in New Jersey says, I'm a twenty nine year old single man and I live in the home up in. My dad just got divorced and he has asked me to move back in. I fixed the house up and replaced all of the furniture, and having my dad back in the house will cramp my style. My dad often reminds me that he paid off the house so I could live there and save money. How do I tell my dad he's not welcome? Whoa, well, wait a minute, don't hold on. Your father gave you the house and now you're telling him he can't move back in. And he told you he paid it off so you can have a house, so he could save money. Yeah, ungrateful, little cramp his style. The twenty nine year old son, well twenty nine year old when you were saving your money. Where were you saving your money? Fall? See, your father worked his whole life and paid off of you twenty nine. He didn't have a fifteen or thirty year mortgage, so he'd been paying on that house for you was born. Probably if it's a thirty year mortgage, in fifteen year mortgage half your life, he didn't paid the house off. I think the honorable thing for you to do is you didn't put new furniture, and to take your new ass furniture and get yourself a new ass apartment and let your daddy move back in the house that he spent his whole life working for, and you start working and buy your own damn house. You're ungrateful ass. He cramped my style style. Do you know what, Manytimes? You cramped your daddy's style and your mama's style. Ain't trying to have some quiet moments. You're in that crime puck ass in your room. You're gonna mess around it. Your daddy gonna talk to you like Kirk Franklin, keep on, but but he's not welcome. That's so harsh for your father. That's so harsh. Brother. You forgot what all he did for you. Now he down on his look divorce, probably lost everything, and now you ain't got no heart for your father. Man, get out of here, miss, get your new stuff and kiss my old all right, we're moving on. Tony in Colorado, Spring says. I just turned thirty and the lady I've been dating is twenty two years older than I am. I'm a flight attendant and she travels a lot, so I'm able to meet her on trips when I'm not working. But it's getting old and I want more of a commitment. We've never been to each other's houses, so I'm starting to think she's hiding a husband or another man from me. We've been together for close to six months, so shouldn't I know more about her personal life? Yeah, but you don't. And like you said, what'd that tell you? Now you had your little rolicating fun you to fell in love? She ain't now which one is the flight attendant thirty year old man somewhere just go you ain't in love like her? Well, she don't like you, that munch. That's what was that movie with George Clooney? Up in the air? No, thank you, Steve, but no it was up in the air. Yeah, this similar situation happened in that movie Tried, he showed up, he showed up in her house, Thomas married, got it up in the air. Cloy. Yeah, this one's from Kenneth in Oklahoma It wasn't it was. The George Clooney movie was basically the same scenario, except for the age difference. Kenneth in Oklahoma City clo says, I'm forty seven, just got divorced, and I'm trying to date. But the last lady I met was not honest about having a man. Her man called me and told me not to call her anymore. So I apologized and said, okay. I called the lady and told her that she should have been honest because I don't need any problems. Well, she had me on speaker phone, and her man heard me. He told me that I've been warned and now he's looking for me to be honest. I'm a little afraid. What should I tell about this crazy situation? You should be your punk ass probably gonna had to get out of town. The first thing you need to do is buy yourself a burn a phone, and your little sists ass need to start thinking about moving out of town because you scared it to him, buddy, he told you not to call you. Stupid ass call she had you on speaker yours. Sorry, an little scary ass got to get out of town. That's all you got by you. Coming up next, nephew, tell me he's really You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show. Coming up at the top of the hour of Miss Anna's standing by with today's national news and the latest on the investigation and yesterday's shooting in Boulder, Colorado, and entertainment news. Carla has some big news from the industry magazine Radio Inc. We'll talk about all of this at the top of the hour, but right now the nephew is here to run that prank back. What you got for us? Nav No hair wese Okay, we're not having that at the job anymore. No hair weave. Take a listen, let's go can Hello. Hello, I'm trying to reach Resa. Please Resa, sa Hi Resa. My name is Byron, Byron from the job. How are you? I'm okay, how are you buying? I'm good? Listen. I hate to call you after hours at your home, but there has been some new issues that will be going into effect. That was just tomorrow morning and we're calling everyone letting them know the new changes that have been issued that will take effect first thing tomorrow morning. So we're giving everyone a call. So don't be alarmed. It's just giving you a call letting you know what the higher ups have changed. Okay, okay, there's no problem. Minutes to listen, Okay, as up tomorrow, what's gonna happen is when you guys come in, you'll be issued a new key card, and that particular card will actually registers when you come in and go out. Okay, okay, all right. Second one is there will no longer be any personal Internet at the job any longer. You won't be able. They're actually putting a block on all computers. All the computers will no longer be able to go to a lot of these sites that you guys go to that you've been that's been available here in the past. Okay, okay, all right. The last one is reesa do you do you wear a hair weave? What do you wear a hair weave or a wig? Yes? Okay, Well here's one thing, and hopefully you can get this change about tomorrow. There's no weaves or hair or wigs gonna be allowed at the job site from this point on, so as up tomorrow morning, everyone must be wearing their natural hair. You're joking, h No, these are the issues that are going to be that are instated, and these are going to take effect as of tomorrow morning seven o'clock. What does hair weave to have to do with any of these changes? The first two I can understand punching in and being on the internet. Yes, that's something that the corporate But hair weaves and weeks you're getting interchanging ups are they're looking down upon it. Wigs and hair weaves they have to go. So I'm assuming that if you, like you said, you do have one, it doesn't come out of there taking it down now and prepare your hair to be natural as you come in to work tomorrow. I'm not taking my hair down. I've been here seven years and I've dealt with all the changes that y'all have made. But there's no way that I'm taking my hair weave down. I'm sorry. What's your name, Byron? Yes, my name is Byron, and I'm sorry. Let's get back to your weed. This has You're gonna have to do something. Is there's someone that you can call tonight to help you get your hair down and so you can look presentable with your natural hair tomorrow. No, my weave calls over two two hundred dollars and I'm not about to take that down. I mean, it takes a long time to take that down. Okay, I mean, is this something Maybe you can take it down and just wear it on the weekends because as of now, you're not going to be allowed to actually wear it on the property. And how will you know if someone has a weave or not? Are you gonna do head checks or something? Okay, ma'am, I'm not quite sure what they're gonna do to check it. But by you telling me that you have a weave, then I have to write it down that you have confirmed that you do, and we got to make sure that tomorrow morning you're not wearing one. But you don't know what my natural hair looks like from my weave? Are you heard how much I pay for it? So it's a good weave, ma'am. It's not about how good you know the quality of your weaver or anything. They don't want it. They want natural hair. I don't know what that means. But they're going natural, they're going green, they're going natural. I don't know what it is. They're going natural, and so will you tomorrow morning. You need to come in with your hair completely down. Okay, I'm gonna do it. I'm not taking my weave now. Okay, what is that y'all gonna write me up or something? Okay, ma'am. Do you not want your job? Yeah? I want my job, but this don't make no sense. You're talking about personal appearance. I can understand y'all have a dress coach and enforcing a dress code. That's one thing. But telling somebody to change that had you a lot your line. Man, you're crazy, ma'am. I'm not gonna I have other people that I have to call. Bottom line is, get your hat out and get your butt into work tomorrow, and let's not go back and forth anymore. Okay, Well, listen, buy ranch. You're a low mind. If you're thinking I'm taking my weave out, I'm not taking out at all. Risa is coming up in there with her hair and I'm gonna sit down in my desk and do my job. Y'all gonna have to drag me out that handsome weave. You gonna lost your mind, You and your powers that be or whoever they may be. You tell them that I said that. Women. Women listen. Are you telling me that you're coming in regardless with your hair on? Right? That's what I just said. Okay, are you then? Then we need to Why don't you go ahead and bring some boxes in because you may I'm not you bring it, man, I don't want to have to pack. You get your stuff and box it up, and you're losing your job because you can't take it. You know what? You can do that because I'm a caller the news station and tell them you're dragging me out of go behind some weeds? Who wrong? You're wrong, You're wrong, You're stupid? Behind? Are you gonna? You need to watch your language, young lady? Why I need to watch my language? I'm at home. You call me on my own home phone and my time. I'm at my house. I'm not on your flock. I say what I want to say on my phone. Okay? Can I say what I want on my phone and then I'll let you go and you can come into to work anywhere you want to tomorrow. What is it, Bob? And what else you got to say? I want to I want to tell you that your girlfriend Jennifer at your job got me to plank phone call you. This is nephew Tommy from the Steve Harby on his show. He just said, I know you. Hey, reason this is this is not your Jimmy Baby from the Steve Harby Morning. Your gentifer, your co worker, got me the prank phone call. You got my blood pressure up. I'm gonna kill it tomorrow and I'm gonna pull a whole weave out. You want to come down there and watch me drink out of the job. My man, blood pressure. You can't be doing that to me behind my weave. I pay too much money. I definitely have to be spending on my kids. Oh I ain't nothing like a black woman and her hell Oh man, Okay, baby, I got one more thing to ask you, girl, what is the baddest and I mean the baddest radio show in the land. Well, after this prank, he has to be the Steve Harvey Morning Show. And there you have it, and you played too much. Hey, we can't have it. Can't no front lace, back lace, side lace. You can't have it at the job. Okay, you're changing things here, all right. I'm just bringing you the message. Okay. By the fact, Carlin Sherley, We're gonna send y'all a little memo that y'all know what we're doing here. By tomorrow. It's gonna be a few things y'all can't do. Listen, my boss, Like what calling calling? Said caller sake? But like what don't call it? Say? But like what dope say? The things you've made up in your head? Yeah, I ain't, I ain't. I ain't quite figured it out yet exactly, Tommy, what would you have these two stop doing? Can't? All right? We gotta go look at the time coming up at the top of the hour, Gonna have to move like that call we ha huh no makeup for a month coming up at the time off of the hour, entertainment and national news right after this. You're listening, all right, guys, I got a big announcement. Drum roll please, gentlemen, you ain't pregnant? What is wrong with you? Drum roll? Moment? Oh yes, it would have been the flow down to the hospital. Go ahead, what you got? What I got? All right? Quickly? Our girl, Shirley Strawberry has been named one of Radio Ink's most influential Women in Radio. Let me say this again, Thank you guys, than Than Well, thank you Radio Ink too. Yeah, it just it never gets old. I appreciate them so much for recognizing it. You know, We've been doing this for a long time, and I just appreciate it because we love what we do. Every day we come in here and try to make a difference on the radio. Of course, I couldn't have done it without this great team led by the one and only Steve Harvey. We got Carla Farrell, we got Nephew Tommy, we got Junior. Thank you guys so much. But let me say this though, this is really well deserved, because I'm gonna tell you something flat out. When I first got this show, when it started in Los Angeles, I was on the radio for three days by myself. They knew right then. They moved to bring somebody in that booty other than me that could bring some type of servility to this show. I wasn't going to commercial breaks on time, I wasn't back selling, front selling. I didn't care nothing about the damn commercials. I didn't like the music we was playing. And they bought Shirley in. And when I first met Shirley, I thought said, while well, this is an attractive girl, but I don't like her because she too proper. You know. I wanted somebody in there, like, you know, Lord Hayes, or kill he and Sheryl Underwood, somebody crazy. But the people in radio knew what was missing from the show, and Shirley became an integral part of it. And for twenty one years, with the exception of seven month span, I've never done radio on the big scale without Shirley Strawberry. The Steve Harvey that you see on radio today. A huge part of that, and I'm very serious is because of this woman, Shirley Strawberry. I would not have made it this long. This show would not be on the air today has she not came in and stabilized it. And she taught me, and I'm very serious, she taught me a lot about radio that I did not know. And once she taught me, I was able to use my god giving gift. But she stabilized me. And Shirley has been with me through a divorce, children, I was married when we were working together. Man marriage. She's watching my kids getting married, grandkids. Shirley's been there for a whole time. So anybody on this show that owes a debt of gratitude to Shirley Strawberry. Is Steve Harvey, thank you, straight cash money. That was beautiful, best voice in all of radio bar none. It's quiver a little bit right now after that, but thank you for that. They ain't no me not in radio. Thank you. Time now for today's headlines. Yeah, they was gonna take my black ass out there. I know there was. I know white folks was talking about it. I know the laws. Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, please put your hands together for the lovely, the talented miss Ann Trip. Okay, I gotta follow that right anyway, This is a trip for the news and good morning. Everybody. Got to get serious. There's been another mass shooting, this time in Boulder, Colorado, a supermarket there where a gunman opened fire last night, killing ten people, including an officer of the law, the first one to arrive to help. A motive for the shooting is unknown, but a suspect at least is under arrest. But that's Boulder, Colorado. Is shooting ten people dead in the supermarket in Washington today. Gun control, by the way, as the topic in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Witnesses pushing for stricter background checks and other things. In Minneapolis, prosecutors are seated another juror for the murder trial of that white x Cob Derek Chauvin, a fourteenth member of the panel, was selected yesterday to hear the case against Vin, whose charge was second degree and third degree murder as well as second degree manslaughter for causing the death of mister George Floyd. Whever the judge wants one more juror a whole fifteen all in all, he wants twelve regular and three alternates. I guess he wants to make sure the trial continues no matter what. George Floyd was seen on video held face down on the ground, handcuffed behind his back, show of his knee on his neck for close to nine minutes. Opening arguments are set for this coming Monday. President Biden's dispatching a team to Mexico and Guatemala to help find a solution to the current crisis at the southern border. Authority say number of Central American migrants fleeting, fleeing their countries and seeking entry into this one is soaring, with the most immediate concern finding adequate space to hold the thousands of unaccompanied youngsters by his President, Harris says that for one thing, minus need to be relocated from the custody of Immigration and Enforcement to health and human services. The US Supreme Court has agreed to reconsider the death penalty given to Zook Sai Naieve, the Boston Marathon bomber last year in appeals court. Throughout Sarnaiev's death sentence, Sarnaiv was convicted of carrying out the bombing with his older brother Tammelin Tamlin, though was killed during the police pursuit. Four people were killed in all, hundreds were injured, including some who lost limbs who otherwise disfigured those people who were taking part in the marathon that day. Sarnaia's lawyers contend that he doesn't deserve the death penalty because he was only doing what his big brother told him to do and that he was afraid of him. The fence attorneys say they were not allowed to tell the jury the Tamerlin was previously involved in a triple murder. Finally, sad news the Los Angeles Lakers Association announcing the passing of the legendary Elgin Baylor Lakers, eleven time NBA All Star and Hall of famer Elgin Bayler scored an unheard of sixty one points during Game five of the NBA Finals against the Celtics in nineteen sixty two. By the way, he was eighty six years old. Now back to the Steve Harvey Warning Show, listening to show, Well, yesterday, here we go again. A man in Boulder, Colorado walked into a grocery store and just started shooting. Some people were there to get their COVID vaccinations. And this is just such a sad story because you can tell this country is opening back up, and just here we go again, starting off with mass shootings. Multiple people were killed, including a police officer. I don't know what to do. I mean, every time this happens, we talk about changing the gun laws, nothing ever gets done. We definitely need stricter federal gun laws. We need them now. We need to expand background checks on gun sales. Now, remember last week the gunmen in the SPA shootings killings, that mass shooting in Atlanta. He purchased his gun on the very same day. I mean, yeah, we will never change this in this country because it NRA makes too much money selling weapons. They will not stop selling the weapons because they are not going to reduce their profit line to create our safety in this country until something happens to their children and their family members. They see no reason to stop the profits. And you owe all of this to that amendment in the Constitution that says we have the right to bear arms. And these people in the Republican Party are committed to that, and they have to be committed to it because the number one supporter financially to the entire Republican Party is the NRA. Yes, and that's the America we live in. So stop saying this ain't our country, because it is. And the other thing, the way the suspect was arrested, you know, yeah where he was nice walked out, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. He killed a cop. He killed the police officer you're talking about the one in Boulder in Colorado. Yeah yeahah. So the policing, the way they police us and the way they police them. I mean, it's just that's that's the issue too. It's that it's the gun control and this country, like you said, see this country, this is America, man, Yeah, yeah, unfortunately, but this is just so sad. I mean, now you can't even go to the grocery store, get your shots, you know, I mean grocery shop. You can't. Yeah, yeah, for what did he kill these people? I mean why you know? It's just sick. Yeah, in the head. You have to be Yah. We're in a falling world and we have to come to the arms with that in America. This is what America is. A lot of times we can stop saying it's not because it is. And they're not going to change it because of profit. Yeah. All right, um, wow, our prayers uh coming up at thirty four minutes after the hour, Steve, you were on Ellen yesterday. We'll talk about it right after this. You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, So, Steve, you're a very special guest on Ellen Degenerous yesterday. You did a version of Ask the clo. Take a listen. I love this, Take a listen. We have some good questions for you, Liz Chekan. I think is that correct? Liz? How many times do have six in a week with your partner? As many times as you can? We don't know when you get it all in pray. You were so funny, Steve staring up. Yeah, I love what you had on. You looked good. Oh they yellow. Yeah, it was beautiful. Yeah. Uh oh, why do they call you blue cheese in case people don't know, because I beat dressing. You also talked about Africa, Steve, and how Family Feud they didn't want you to do it at first, and how it's like the number one show in Africa right now. Yeah, and going back to Africa in about three weeks to tape the second season in South Africa. Wow, God is good. It's a blessing. The time was arranged to own the international rights to it Family Feud, and so I produce it myself. My production company produces it and against everybody, and it is the number one show in South Africa. Yeah, that's amazing, Steve. I like what you said too. You talked about in Africa to Ellen. I think we have found a minority and a majority being Africa. For me, as a sixty four year old, sixty three year old black man, it was the first time in my life while I woke up every morning and I was no longer a minority, and that was the most incredible feeling I've ever had. Yeah, everybody should have that feeling. Husty for African Americans, you have to find a way to go to Africa, you will feel the way you've never felt before. And like I said long time ago, it's like going back home to a place you've never been. It's going home, but to a place you've never You've never been home before, and it's it's such an exhilarating feeling. And I look forward to it to not being a minority, and it's that's not in a racist way, but man to wait up and not have to factor in deal with that. I'm black today and I got to watch because when the police stop you over there, they just stop you, You get your ticket. They don't shoot nobody over there. Wow, black people don't get shot over there when they get stopped. They you can go places, you can do things. And Africa South Africa, Durban, Johannesburg by Tswanna, Ghana, Nigeria. You know all the places I've been, These are booming metropolis cities. Man, it's not the picture that they painted. The restaurant's exquisite, the hotels are really really baller. It's not what you think. And at the same time, you can go on a safari and it be everything you never thought of. You see animals in their natural habitat the vastness of Africa is so immense, man, you can't imagine that is as you can see, it's just animals. What man's It's powerful place to go. And they are so excited to see you, and they embrace you. And if you say, man, it's good to be home, they hug you, thank you for coming home, We love you. It's just a beautiful feeling. I wish every African American should go home. Let me ask you this, are you as famous over there or more famous than you are here or it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. They have everything. They follow me. They quote motivational speeches, they quote jokes, they know everything. My shows run over there. They quote me when I came out of the slave castles and I was crying. They were chanting for me. Oh they found out I was there. Hordes of people came around. We love oh you, Steve, we love you. Wow, I got any cost our crime? You know? All right, We're gonna move on. Switch gears here because the Nephew is coming up with today's prank phone call. Right after this. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show coming up at the top of the hour, right about four minutes after, it's my strawberry letter for today and the subject is his ex wife wants to sleep over. Oh, it's not what you think. It's not what you think. Get your mind out of the gutter. We'll get into it and just a little bit, because right now the nephew is here with today's prank phone call. What you got for his nest? Musty, fun Musty, that's right, that's right, Tommy, it's fun must okay, and we're gonna have to discuss it. Cat dog, let's go musty sun. Hello. Hello, I'm trying to reach the Banessa place i've been as My name is Robert. I'm the one of the owners. You know, my wife Michelle. We own the bare Yeah. Yeah, how can I help you? Okay, we've been uh I think we've had your son, Malik, probably close to a year now. I'm all right, Yes you have is everything? Okay? So everything's fine, Everything is fine. I don't think we have a problem that we can't clear up. Um. I have a question for you. Have you been noticing anything different about Malik? Um, like concerning hygiene at all? Hygiene? No, not that I can be called what are you talking about? Okay? How old is Malik? He's too Okay, Well, we all soon have come across a little glitch here that we're gonna try to take care of here at the at the daycare. Actually my wife didn't. I told her I would make the phone call and leave her out of it. I know you see her every day one. Yeah, but what glitch are you talking about? What? What is this glitch? I'm sorry, glitch? What is this glitch that you want to talk about? I'm confused? Okay, Well, actually what we're having is it seems like every day here lately for the last two months, Malik has been you know, very musty. You know, he hasn't been really sweaty, but just real musty. Okay, you clearly have the wrong child, because I give my son a bath every night, and most morning is before he lays to school, I give another bath again. So yeah, I'm pretty positive you have the wrong child. No, man, your son is Malik, right, and he's two years old. You guys have been here with us right close to a year now, correct, Yes, and okay, and he's a cute little kid with the curly hair. I know exactly which one is. So what I'm what I'm saying to you is that we are having problems. He's just he's just reeking. You know, he's real musty. Okay, you know what, my son does not reek. I don't know what child you're talking about, but you're not talking about my child. I just told you and make sure that he gets a bath every night. So that's not my child. My child is very clean. Okay, Well, what hang on, Vanessa. What I'm trying to get you to understand is I'm trying to This is why my wife and want to call. Okay, and I'm glad I'm actually the one that made the call. What we need to do. This is what I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna try a little experiment for the next month or so. Experiment. No, no, I'm sorry, Well what do you mean experiment? What kind of experiment? Well, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put some male deodorant on him for the next well just for the next month, and we'll see how it plays out. No, no, no, you're not You're not gonna put anything on my child. That's not gonna happen. Okay, Well, man, I'm trying to I'm trying to fix the problem here. I just wanted to call it doesn't have a problem. I already told you that my son is clean. You're not gonna put any DeArment on him, and if you do, it's going to be a problem. Do you understand me? Okay, man, I'm not trying to have an argument with you. What I want you to know is I'm not trying to either. But you're trying to You talking about putting Theodora on my child. You can't do that. I'm not gonna have to happen in Please don't make me have to come that to that school for you and your wife. Okay, man, listen, we're gonna have to do something about your child. Your child is musty, okay, And you're sitting here getting an attitude with me, and I'm trying to let you know your child is consience. Maybe you're the one that is musty. Maybe you and your wife are musty. My child is not musty. I keep telling you that I bathed him every night, Which part of that don't you understand? I understand everything that you're saying. Maybe it's the soap, maybe something that is not taking effect. I'm not sure. Okay, maybe he doesn't smell with because I don't know what child. You're not smelling my child. You are not using methy on my child. Do I need to come down there for you with the cops and shoe your entire establishment. You don't want that to happen. Stay away from my child, are you crazy? You know? Matter of fact, gras my son man, Your son is fine. Your son is in there with the rest of the kids. They're playing. You know, today is the first day I sprayed a little bit of melody odor and under that works. You crazy? Look, Cheryl, can you come up for me for a couple of minutes. I'm ringing right now. I'll be there within the hour, because you must be crazy. Mean you sprayed my son, Spram. I just sprayed a little bit of the older and on him, just to see if we can get your commission to do that. And I keep telling you, I said, there's nothing wrong with my child, and you took up on your shark to go and spray my child. And you weren't about to jo are you? I'm reading my right now? Okay, Well, what are you coming here for? The boy is you're the son of the leak is fine? Why are you coming here? You know he's curling that fine? If you're going around spread, how don't you space because clearly is you're smelling and riaking and funky as hell. I didn't give you no child. I'm gonna I promise you. I promise you. I'm a ah y'all because you were okay. Let me say this, man, your son is musty. He's been king for the musty. You know what. I ain't even trying to hear you because you're you're you're clearly crazy. How are you going around spraying people's kids? Hello? What's my child? Did you smell? The other? Kidding? You know what? I'm about to get in my car, coming on there for your because you must be crazy? Hello? Hello? Hello? Why did you hang up on me? I'm trying to fix the problem. Man, Well, I told you that I'm coming down there. I'll be there in telling one but I needed to let you know one more thing that's going on here? What could you possibly let me know? Because I'm on my waist right now. Where are you? Now? Are you in your car? Where are you? I am heading to my car, not to get in my car to come down differently because you must be crazy spraining my child before you get to your car. I need, I need to tell you one more thing about your side. Okay, please, you possibly have to tell me. I want to tell you. This is Listen to me, this is nephew. Tell me to Steve Harvey Morning Show. Your girlfriend Sheryl got me to play for call you must I'm standing here in the back a lot about them coming down. Never, I never knew exactly what I was about. I'm gonna get her. I say get it because I'm nigga, and I know my child musty. I know my child is clean and he doesn't smell. I amna get her. I just talked to right here in a cubicle. You gotta call it right now. I said, okay, just chill out, let will call it. I got it. You don't know, is Malik nice and clean? Milik is always nice and clean and smelling right, So, I don't know what the hell you were talking about. I was like my child. You got the wrong child. You are about to get it. You don't even know. Oh man, Vanessa, you gotta tell me one more thing. But what's the baddest and I mean the baddest radio show in the Lake, the one and only Steve Hard running shower. Come on, this is what I do. What I do, This is what I do? Mail deodoring on that hear then playing the other kid that thing? Find that more good reading for the last two months? Your baby funk. Okay, I'm just taking down here. Yes, you're gonna do it. You gotta do it to something that they means a lot to him. Yeah, yeah, switch like you feel good about yourself. Oh did you had a relase? You did? You had a relise? I heard like, yeah, I heard your exhale I did. All right, let me slow it down a little bit and let you know that it's gonna be sexy ap for a second. Yes, Ready to Love will be back on the own Networks hosted by Yours truly Thomas Miles Matthew tell me you ready to you are? Do realize you don't sound sexy? First? That bubble you know, you know, you know what it sounds like. It sounds like he ain't showing his bottom royal teeth, like he got it bag, like he got his bottom mouth pull back. Heason full right out, trying to talk like you from written us something like the earl of Fidget and or something April sixteenth. You can catch me and Burningham. Thank you so much. You know, I hate it when when the ugly people just hating on me. All right, look, thank you, nephew. I don't know if you got that. And we'll do it at the top with the Strawberry letter that's up next. Subject his ex wife wants to sleep over. We'll get into it right after this. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and listen. If you need advice on relationships, dating, work, sex, parenting, and more. Please submit your Strawberry letter to Steve HARVEYFM dot com and click submit Strawberry Letter. We could be reading your letter on the air live, just like we're gonna read this one right here, right now. Did you hear that? Buckle buck a love and hold on tight. We got it for you here. It is a strong very later. Oh please don't even try it. Subject his ex wife wants to sleep over. Dear Stephen Shirley. I've been married for two years and when I met my husband four years ago, he had just gotten divorced and he was in a bitter custody battle with his ex wife. His daughter is very sweet and she loves her dad, but the ex wife is dead set on her not having a relationship with her dad. When we met, he had to limit communication with his ex because she told everybody. He kept calling her to work things out, and he wanted his family back. I never gave it any of my attention, but it really bothered him. Now he only communicates with her by texting so she can't lie on him. They have joint custody and he pays her child's support. She didn't like the amount of child's support. The judge ordered him to pay, so he pays a little more every months. Nothing he's done makes her happy thus far. Meanwhile, we haven't had his daughters sleep over at our house in two years. I thought maybe if I befriended his ex that would help things out, but she told me not to ever call her phone again. A few months after that, she texted me to say her behavior was uncalled for and we could be cordial, but that didn't last long. She continued to deny visitation to my husband. We want to take his daughter, who's twelve years old now, to South Carolina with us for spring break. His ex wife said his daughter can't go on a trip with us unless she goes too. Same thing with weekend visits at our house. If the daughter sleeps over, the ex wife has to come too. I don't want this woman sleeping in my house. My husband said it may be the only way for him to enjoy time with his child. He is ready to seek full custody. What would you do in this situation? WHOA, I don't know, but I think you know that's a good place to start. To go ahead and seek full custody, go back to the court. I think your husband is in a horrible position because, you know, despite all the craziness from his ex wife, he wants to see his baby. Bottom line, he doesn't have many options because of this ugly acting woman. She's evil, she's out of line, and she's obviously a miserable, very bitter person, and she's abusing her power and using her daughter, putting her daughter right in the middle, using her as a pawn, and that's just wrong to do children like that. But on the other hand, you, I think, are an angel. I mean, you've been over backwards to be accommodating to this woman and that says you have love for your husband and for his daughter, your stepdaughter. Your husband is the very opposite of a deadbeat. Dad doesn't fit that stereotype at all. He pays more child support than the court ordered. You can't get a lot of dad's to pay even the child's even anything, let alone more so, that's good father who wants to be a major part of her life. The thing is, your daughter really is old enough to choose for herself what parents she wants to be with. She just can't because she's a miner. And I feel sorry in that regard, and because divorce is so hard on children. I don't even understand why this woman wants to stay in the house. Could it be that she still wants your husband? I would say the answer to that is yes. Does she want to make your lives a living hell because she's so miserable and unhappy? I think that would be a yes too. But you know, you got to think about what's best for the child, and right now until he goes to court, you know, I don't know, could you guys get two hotel rooms? Can you afford that? And you know, let the wife stand one and with the child, and you and the husband stand the other one. At least she won't be in your house. I don't know. Maybe this will work out until he and get to the court and fix that. At least he can see his baby. Steve. I don't really know what to say. This that a kind of stupid to me. I wouldn't even wrote in about this him. Well, you met your husband four years ago. The subject is ex wife wants to sleep over sleep over? Well, whoa So this lady is writing his letter and she's talking about her husband's ex wants to sleep over at their house. Yeah, he got divorced. Bitter custody battle, daughter sweet loves her dad. Ex wife don't want them, have no relationship. They met. They had limited communication with his aunt because she told everybody. He kept calling that work, trying to work stuff out because he wanted his family back. She ain't paid no attention, so now he only commuted by Texas, so she came loud it. He paid child support. She don't like them mount he paid mold. Don't nothing make her happen? Now they ain't had his daughter sleep at day house in two years. And the reason I'm reading this letter get us because I want you to see how some people use children as pawns to get back at the other party for whatever reason. We don't know why they divorced, but obviously whether it was her fault. But it takes two people to get a divorce. Somebody two people. Look, somebody may initiate the wrong, but when you get a divorce, two people did something that wasn't cool where you handle it or something. So it takes two people to get a divorce. So you thought that you should be friends, crazy healthful. He as a woman that don't care what her baby think. But you think you're gonna get her to start making sense to you. She don't care nothing about you because she don't can none about her child. When you use a child as a pawn in the relationship, the damage that you think you're doing to the other party, whatever you're doing to another party, multiply that by ten, because that's what's happening with the child. All right, Steve, hold that thought. Okay, we're gonna have part two of your response coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour today's Strawberry Letters subject his ex wife wants to sleep over. We'll get back into it right after this you're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, Steve, come on, let's recap today's Strawberry Letters subject his ex wife wants to sleep over? What now? Who do that? Who? First of all, let's be real about this. Anybody canna let you the ex wife stay? This is this woman's house. Ain't no woman letting your letting her husband when his ex wife sleep over because she demands it. Yeah, it would be different if some extenuating circumstances the house burned down and they needed a place to stay for a couple of days. Got that, But she won't let the baby come over the oas house and for two years and spend the night. The daughter loves her daddy. You try to befriend, You try to befriend this crazy woman that don't care nothing about her daughter. So now she said they want to take the daughter, who's twelve years old, to South Carolina with him for spring break. His wife said, his daughter can't go on the trip with us unless she go to nobody fend to pay for you to come nowhere break. His ex wife said, his daughter can't go on the trip with us unless she goes to same thing that we can visit our house. If the daughter sleeps over, the ex wife has to come to I don't want this woman sleeping in my house. My husband been saying it may be the only way for him to enjoy time with his child. He's ready to seek full custody. What do you think of this situation? First of all, sir, you're gonna have to find I know you wanted to see your daughter, but that ex wife demanded to sleep over the house. There's no reason that that should be the case. You've got to get a lawyer and get unsupervised visits, and you've got to get weak in rights to your daughter. Now, I don't know if they're gonna give you full custody, because for a court to take a child away from a mother, you have to be an unfit mom. Crazy don't count as unfit because she's not abusing the daughter. She just abusing the man, which in turn abusing the daughter. Ain't no court fit to do that. But let me tell you why you really can't have its health at your house. Come on, let's just go a couple of things. Let's just start with number one on sleep over your house. Wake up this crazy health for standing over you with a butcher knife. That's for start. Now you're walking all into kitchen, her crazy ass in there making sandwiches. This ain't your house. Can't be in here doing this in here. She down seat and bought a load of clothes over She downstairs washing a load of clothes and your damn laundry, Matt, don't let this health for in your house. Knocking on the bathroom though you and theyre in the bathroom. She knocking on the door. What's taking you so long? Hairy out, I need to get in there in your house. Even as she rearranging furniture. I don't like the sefa over here. I want it over here. Sitting up in here, snatch the remote out your hand, making everybody watch for the eight hours. Don't let this crazy health in your house. You go down stair. She walking around with her braun pants on, talking about what you want, what you want, not that, walking around the house, humming, gotta feeling, gotta feeling, a gotta feeling. Somebody's try to sneak in. My friend, be no like that. Oh no, that's just crazy health in your house, being here lighting candles and stuff. Let's say they all count of stuff going that kitchen, she and that got two chicken feet in there with a bird beak. Oh yeah, yeah, I feel bad looking man. But he has to go to court though and work out something and gets visitation and weekends. Gotta have weekends with your child. They already have joint custody though, I mean, but see if she you can enforce the joint custody. She can't make the rules of the joint custody because the father hasn't been ruled unfit, so he has to have weekends. He's paying child custody, I mean child support. He should have rights and a weekend with his daughter every other weekend he's without the mama. I have a question, So is it? Is it? Perhaps maybe spring break is her week and she doesn't want to give that week up, and that's why she's demanding to go. No, she didn't say this is not only the spring break. The girl ain't been today house in two years. Yeah, so this is way beyond the spring break. If she won't even let the daughter come to the house to see the man, right, yeah, because she being funky because she bid him. Yes, yeah, And I can't stand when they use the children as pawns. That's them in the middle and hurting the child. Yeah, you're you're holding this child. She wants to see her dad, and the dad wants to spend time with her. All right, thank you? All right, post your comments on today's Strawberry No. That's Steve Harvey FM on Instagram and Facebook. Check out the Strawberry Letter podcast on demand, please and coming up at forty six minutes after the hour, we'll have Sports Talk with Junior right after this you're listening show. All right, guys, listen up. Junior is here with Sports Talk. What you guys, Junior? Okay Brooklyn knits NBA start. Kyrie Irvin had the perfect response to this sports reporter's question. He asked Kyrie, if he wants to change the perception of himself, take listen. That's another route of human human struggle, worrying about other people's perceptions about who you are, Like, why would you ever care about that? You know? And I think that I felt victim to that in my past, of worrying about things that I can't control. You know, if the people understood what words could do to human being, especially where we are in today's society, then they wouldn't they wouldn't be invested in that, so I don't. I'm not here to dispel anything. You can continue to ask other people around me about what they think about me, and continue to write about mood swings like you know, human beings have mood swings, Like you go home and you're you're not happy with things, or you're mad at something, or you're happy. That's a mood swing. It's okay to be human, Like, I don't have to be perfect for anyone here, nor do I have to be perfect for the public. So I'm not here to dispel any perception. I'm just here to be myself. I love that. Yeah, I get paid to play basketball. That's what I do. Ye see, that's way better than my response because I like a nice short kiss my ass and how he took the time to write that old paragraph. Congratulations, brother, very good. Let me try to Let's try it right now. Uh, miss harm Uh your perception of people? Do you do you think you need to change that? Well, you know, based on people's perception of you, Well, based on the dissertation that was just performed by mister Kyrie Irvin of the Brooklyn Nets, I chose to go about it a much simpler way. Would just like to say to the following group of people, the media, social media, the press, haters, and all my exes, there's a center point. Okay, that whole area that is open to anybody of mine that's got a problem with him is just to That's how are you correcting him. That's just how you form everybody to feel about me and Kyrie. You're not doing the Kyrie thing. You do your own thing. Now, I'm gonna be very descriptive about what i want you to do. Take a deep breaths, Junior, Okay, thank you nothing. We'll have more of the stever Harvard Morning Show coming up right at my response with crazy you're listening morning show? Well, guys, in spring break time, people who thought they were going to enjoy all day, all night parties in Miami Beach for spring break, they're getting shut down in a big, big way. Okay. In a situation that Mayor Dan Gelbert says has gotten chaotic, He's extending curfews to curb rowdy spring break crowds from now until April twelfth, and overnight curfew will be in effect, which means everyone needs to be off the streets by eight p M official state has gotten so bad. Yeah, yeah, that's very early. Yeah, and it's still light. Right. It's gotten so bad that Miami Beach had to declare a state of emergency Saturday night because of the large crowds descending on the city. Not only that police had to use pepper spray balls against groups of partiers to get there get them to disperse. Meanwhile, Florida is one of the leading states now with a surge of variant cases in the US. Cases. Uh, they're on the rise in over twenty five states, while health officials warn against reopening two quickly. So now you have using pamper spray on these kids who are unruly doing spring break. I used to like party in college, but I don't know if you've ever been around tear gas. It's hard to dance when tear gass is in that room. It's really really hard to dance, keep your rhythm. You know, you can't kill it. Don't make no sense, but you know what I was looking at this footage, man ain't nobody got a mask on down about it? Nobody. The inconsideration that some of these young people have, like they have this one white kid on TV just haven't to be white. I'm just telling you. He said, hey, hey, we don't have to buy into this whole COVID theme. Yeah it's a boy. What yet some of them still this country, man, and we should still be under mandatory mask until they get the masses vaccinated, if that's what they're gonna do. I'm telling you, man, this makes no sense at all. But we're so free, we're too free. The countries that have this thing under control, mandatory mask. How is that a problem to put a mask on? Because Donald Trump told the Republicans not to and do these little ignorant states with these republic governors lifting the mask and lifting the bands. Understand, opening restaurants and stuff, because you got to get the economy back. I got that. But let them do the social distancing, let them do the space out seating, have some outdoor seating and stuff like that. I got that. Let the economy open, Let these businesses have a chance to survive. But you got to wear a mask. And people at the restaurant, the people that work at the restaurant are wearing masks. Yeah, they used to. They refused to side with the governor. They putting the mask on. That's right, that's right. But there's no one more way to wear a mask. It's no fun. But you know, to keep yourself healthy and others healthy, Why wouldn't you want to do that. There's gonna be another year and a half of these masks. I believe that. I really believe that because we can't stop. You won't. Every time thing consistently long enough, right, every time it goes down, the numbers go down. Then you know their spring break and people while out or you know, and they spread these super spreaders, you know, especially something. And if you own the place of business, wouldn't you want your people wearing mask? If they catch it, they can't come to work. You need them. Yeah, and you have just a business owner to refuse the service people. You say, no shirt, no service, no shoes, no service. They have a right to say, no mask, no service. They have put you our customers coming in clowning behind that night. Yeah, that's crazy. The mask is a hope. I'll never eat at this restaurant again. Bye bye. You ain't gonna be eating long now you're gonna be on the ventilator. Don't worry about it. Real hard that ventilator. Yeah it is. Yes, this is so ridiculous. I mean, you know, let's try to work together to rid ourselves of this pandemic. Let's try. Why can't you know? They just won't do Right now, we got violence and smash, shootings and shootings. All right, listen, we'll have more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show. It's exhausting. It's still exhausting. Coming up in twenty minutes right after this you're listening show. Another breakup to reports comedian Gary Owen. We all know him, well, his wife, can you do, because filed for divorce. She's ending their eight year marriage. Ye. Yeah, they had three adult kids. Yeah. You guys are comedians, so you know Gary. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of his comedy was about his wife, you know the fact that he was married to a black wife and he needn't Yeah, you know, but everybody was asking why no one knew why they divorced. And I gotta tell you, they are rumors swirling around that Gary cheated and she's not having it all right, ken, Yeah, she tweeted that, you know, when she met Gary, he didn't have anything, uh, you know, a broke down car and you know, good credit, no place to live, all of that. Yeah, she did. She, Um, she knows who it is. She says, you all know who. Claudia Jordan is, a beautiful Claudia Jordan. It's Claudia Jordan's friend. So one of her hashtags was not Claudia Jordan hashtag not Claudia Jordan, hashtag Claudia's friend. Another hashtag was hashtag no white women involved, because there was there were other rumors saying that he left her for a white woman or something. You know, she was tweeting, yeah, no women. Yeah, So I mean, you know, that's sad news and I don't know, teen years of marriage. Yeah, Ken, Yeah, she is all right. We'll be back with more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show coming up at thirty three minutes after the hour, right after this you're listening show. Well, yesterday, here we go again. A man in Boulder, Colorado walked into a grocery store and just started shooting. Some people were there to get their COVID vaccinations. And this is just such a sad story because you can tell this country is opening back up, and just here we go again, starting off with mass shootings. Multiple people were killed, including a police officer. UM, I don't know what to do. I mean, every time this happens, we talk about changing the gun laws, nothing ever gets done. We definitely need stricter federal gun laws. We need them now. We need to expand background checks on gun sales. Now. Remember last week the gunmen in the SPA shootings killings, that mass shooting in Atlanta, he purchased his gun on the very same day. I will never Yeah, we will never change this in this country because the NRA makes too much money selling weapons. They will not stop selling the weapons because they are not going to reduce their profit line to create safety in this country. Pie until something happens to their children and their family members. They see no reason to stop the profits. And you owe all of this to that the amendment in the Constitution that says we have the right to bear arms. And these people in the Republican Party are committed to that and they have to be committed to it because the number one supporter financially to the entire Republican Party is the NRA. Yes, And that's the America we live in. Yeah, So stop saying this ain't our country, because it is. And the other thing, the way the suspect was arrested, you know, yeah, where he was out, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He killed the cop, he killed the police officer you're talking about in Colorado, Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the policing, the way they police us and the way they police them. I mean, it's just that's that's the issue too. It's that it's the gun control and this country, like you said, see this country, this is America, man. Yeah, yeah, unfortunately, but this is just so sad. I mean, now you can't even go to the grocery store get your shots, you know, I mean grocery shop, you can't. Yeah, yeah, for what did he kill these people? I mean why you know, it's just sick. Yeah, in the head. You have to be. We're in a fallen world and we have to come to arms with that and America. This is what America is. A lot of times we can stop saying it's not because it is, yeah, and then not going to change it because of profit. Yeah. All right, um, wow, our prayers coming up. It is our last break of the day, and of course we'll have some closing remarks from the one and Emily Steve Harvey right after this. You're listening, all right, guys, Here we are our last break of the day on this Tuesday. Um wow. Praying for the people in uh Boulder, Colorado, of course, and also Junior a sports story you didn't get you, I got his man. Elgin Bayla passed man, So we just want to send our condolcies out to his family. El Bay Hall of Famer pass away from that crazy yeah, man, I had Elgin Baylor on my sneakers when I was a little boy. Really Jans and all of that one Yeah, yeah, Mike Michael late for me. Oh man, that was Elgin Baylor. I had Elgin Baylor on my shoes. I had lu All Sender, then he changed his name to Kareem and then I had Connie Hawkins. I had Connie Hawkers and Elgin Baylor, lu All Sender and Kareem same. I only had three people on my sneakers. Man, I don't know who Connie Hawkins fund the Phoenix Sons of boy with the fanal role that was. I wanted that shot more than anything. If I can fight a roll like Connie Hawkins, yeah, he said twice. I'm convinced now. Yeah, So our condolences go out to the family of Elgin Baylor. Yeah. Well, Lakers Organization fans. Yeah, yeah, legend, legacy. Yeah, I'm telling you, man, Yeah, I've seen You've seen a lot of players, all the great errors. I've seen all the great players that they talk about. You know, they're George Lake and Iwold that was before me, the little peach Baskets and all that. I wasn't here for that. But anybody that they talked about that they considered great, Will Chamberlain, Will Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Yes, Oscar Robertson, Yeah, yeah, Oscar Robinson, Bobby Dandridge and Junior Bridgeman the Milwaukee Bucks, and then Louil Cinder Kane boy boy boy. Trying to tell you and you know, man, I've been listening to this debate. Everybody's trying to debate who's the greatest between Michael Jordan and Lebron James. And you know what, I've come to terms because there's so much greatness in both of these I just started saying, it's just the two greatest basketball players of their era, because this dude, Jordan change basketball forever. There's no Jordan, there's no Lebron, there's no Kobe, you know, and so I just think that that dude changed where the game was. But Lebron, when you take a dude that every city he go to win a title, yeah, yeah, you got to you got to say, wait a minutem what and then three different his social consciousness. It's this dude is crazy in the community, in the culture. Yes, this dude about it man. And then to be playing basketball as long as he has. See he older than Jordan and he played the game being playing the game longer than Jordan and at this level here, Oh, Lebron ain't no joke, not with all that said that damn Michael Jordan. St Michael Jordan. Yeah, it's nothing you can say. You can't take nothing from him. He got six rings. But that boy was he changed in the national basketball and people used to get on Jordan about talking about he wasn't socially relevant and involved. He was, but he was born for a different purpose. He was born to usher basketball into the international level. That was his colleague. And then he became a businessman and now he does some incredible stuff. But he's always been doing stuff with his Jump foundation. People just never really gave him that du It's just Lebron is out there with it so greatness. Right then apology doctor J one of the great basketball players man played in the ABA, came to the NBA. See it used to be an ABA. That was a red, white and blue ball. When he came over to the NBA, that was it because he was in an ABA clowning. They said, well, he come to the NBA, he won't, he won't. What if he comes to the NBA, he won't, he won't. What to the NBA, d A all that plus so it was just some great players. Man. I've been very fortunate in my life. Man. I grew up in a great time because I think I saw the best entertainers and I've seen the best athletes. Muhammad Ali when he lost to Frasier in seventy one at Madison Square Garden and we went to school next day, they sent everybody home. I mean why because we were so sad. The teachers were sad. They sent us, y'all go home. Anybody's done in the Ali lost to Frasier. Yeah, you gotta watch one night in Miami, Steve, Yeah, you got to watch that. Haven't seen that? Yeah? I did watch something. What did I watch? Did you guys see Last Chance? You Have You? Yeah? I watch I love this series the basketball series. I saw the uh La College, La College. He's La College Eli. Yeah, great, great series on Netflix. Really is serious. I watched that whole Serious. That was really good. It's about Jason Basket Bay coach Crazy. Yeah, I love him. Yeah, we love crazy coach. We love crazy can these keys were here making in a great man though. Yeah. Well, y'all it's a great show. Listen, y'all have a great day. Thank y'all for joining us. We'll see y'all in the mall. Hey, don't forget everybody talk to God. He loved to hear from you. Don't matter if you ain't talk to me in a while. He's real understanding about that. All right, We'll see y'all the mall for all. Steve Every contests. No purchase necessary, void ware prohibited. 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