Y'all know what time of y'all don't know y'all back all suit on, looking back the back down, giving them more like theming buck bus things and its cub y'all good it. Steve harten to move together for studley, I don't join ya joined me in doing me? Honey, you gotta turn you gotta turn to turnow, got to turn out, turn the water the water go. Come come on your back a huh? I show will good morning everybody. You are listening to the voice one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Come on, y'all. I said that a little bit wrong this morning. But I'm tired. I just came out to the gym. I'm a little out of sorts right now, but it's okay. I'll pull it together. But let me tell you something, man, I got a clear cut message for you today. I really do you know. As I've gotten older, I've began to take some supplements. And supplements are to help your body in things that it doesn't produce as much as it used to. Supplements are designed to help you replenish what's been depleted in your body as supplements. Now, now people, I can tell you can speak a lot more aggressively and a lot more knowledgeable on this subject. But just giving you a just a brief overview of minderstanding of now, if you've been living your life for a while, supplements are necessary for most of us now. Also, if you've been living your life for a while spiritually, you may need some supplements because you've just been at it for a while. You don't got woe down a little bit, You're tied some people around you, ain't changing. Some people around you draining. It's just life just keeps on coming. Life don't ever get no easier. It just you become more knowledgeable about how to handle it. It does not get any either easier. You continue to lose loved ones, you continue to have to confront the challenges. It's just that over course of time you become experienced and you can handle them better. But life don't get no easier. But spiritually you get a little bit worn down. Well, you need some spiritual supplements too. And I'm just gonna flat out tell you, the more God that you can replenish yourself with, the higher the dosage of God that you are willing to put into your spiritual self, the possibilities then become limitless. You actually have the ability to make a conscious decision to supplement your body, and you have a conscious decision to supplement your spirit. You can do both. So what I did was, I could just tell you what I did. I was taking all these supplements. I started taking supplements where I was about forty five. I think that's when I began. I was thinking about it one day and I just went wild. Man. I started talking to some knowledgeable people. I found out I needed these things. But then spiritually, man, I started supplementing myself too. I started praying some more. I started trying to gain a little bit more knowledge and wisdom and understanding from scriptures and just try to make sense of all of it, you know, just just make a little bit more sense out of my life, make sure that I was on the right path. A matter of fact, get on the right path, find out my real purpose and my mission in life. And nobody can do that for you. That's something that you have to want to do. But I started supplementing my spiritual side of my life and supplementing my body. Now I happen to be right now about in the best shape I've ever been in. Technically, I can assure you though I am in the best shape spiritually I have ever been in. Now my body has looked better, it really has. I mean, come on now, at who I am in life, at the stage with the years I've been walking this earth. Man, I'm cool, But spiritually I'm in the best shape I've ever been in. And what it has done for me, y'all is it's gave me a peace and a calmness. You know, it used to be, man, I used to fight so hard against people who attack. Now, man, it ain't. It ain't as serious to me because now I have a full understanding that if I come under attack, that God is with me, because that's a promise he made. That's Isaiah fifty four seventeen. That's that's that's. Any weapon form to gainst you, any weapon form to give you, you shall not prosper. You can't. You can't come and get me. I'm not here for you to take down because you didn't put me here. So why would I feel a person bringing me down when they're not the reason that I'm here. So when you attack me, you have to be careful because I ain't ever by myself, I formed a relationship with the most high that I can rely on for protection, for coverage, and for peace. A lot of times when things used to stress me out, how to run this, how to handle this, how to deal with that? You know, famous rough Man. And then you put that together with some business, and you put that together with your family. You got a lot of stuff you're trying to tend to. I have a peace of mind about it now because I have someone who provides me with a sense of understanding and calmness that lets me know that this tool shall pass. That it ain't just a saying that I heard old people say that. It ain't just something my mama used to tell me. It's something that can really happen. Once you get an understanding, this tool shall pass. This is just another piece of life that you are now better equipped to handle. I'm telling you what it's done for me. A millions of people out there hear me. Man has done the same thing for them. I'm telling it new to some people, but there's some people that show enough understand what I'm saying. And then if you have known this but kind of forgot it, it's time for some supplements. So when you get like that, and now you find yourself in a situation with a disease or something, you gotta do something. Nah, you gotta start juicing all your greens. You gotta start detoxing your body. You gotta start purifying the system. See, the human body has always had a way to repair itself if you just give it a chance. Your mind has always had a chance to repair itself if you give it a chance, and your spirit always has a chance to repair itself, if you give it a chance. It's the only way I can maintain at this level, and it's the only way I have any chance of going further. I have to increase my dosage of spiritual supplements. I gotta talk to God a little bit more. I got to pray a little bit more. I got to understand his word a little bit more. That's all I'm telling you. Man, If you do that, if you just pray more, if you just study a little bit more, Man, just try to get it, understand it, ask him to help you understand. It will open up the possibilities of your life into a realm you never could have imagined. I'm telling you that's real. Okay, you're listening to jail. I have your divided attention please. This is the Steve Harvey Morny Show. Hope everybody's doing well today. This show is dedicated to people who are feeling absolutely wonderful about their position in life, meaning they are just grateful to be here. Oh, you may want to be a little bit further up the letter, and I got that. But if you are grateful for where you are, this show is dedicated to the grateful. This morning, Chirlett Strawberry, grateful, grateful, grateful. Good morning, Steve Carlin for rel very grateful. Good morning, Steve. What's up Crewe? I ain't know where the junior boy morning. U. You know I'm grateful, you know I'm great. And the food, nephew, Thomas, you're sighing the building. Grateful as always. I just wanted to let you ladies know that you all weren't here early yesterday and we were having a blast yesterday. Yeah, and then I came on shut all that. Yeah, I was out. Thank you, Shirley, thank you, Oh my god. Of course, when we're here, not really here, we're gonna tell you right, Nope, nope, now we want to now hell no, he just wanted to do Shenanigans and foolishness, that's all. How do you know that you sell one of those politicians at the impeachment hearing, Shirley. Ain't nobody tuning in to Hitt rules. It's not like putting them in their face. But you know you have Ca. You know Carl it gonna agree with you because she can went up with school for it. Anybody gotta go to school for this? I mean, hey, no, my education and the radio job, broad cast communication, I don't need no school for this. Speaking for myself, really, I'm talking really, I ain't got why I got. I ain't go to school for this? Junior, did you go to school for this? I didn't even know the hair class? Steve Tommy, did you go to school for this? I did not? I have to say I didn't, Steve. When you did your comedy, your stand up comedy, they have rules. When the lights come on, you know to wrap it up. Okay, everybod I don't. Everybody, you don't when you want to make a comedian who is seasoning? You're gonna make a man light? Okay? But I'm killing Yeah? And who you got next? Yeah? You got Timmy lunch meat for to come up in next? And say, I got I'm up here and you're gonna get me the damn like I'm gonna here ripping the room? Ain't nobody got no draws on right now? And you want me to walk off stage? Everybody? I just tell the dude in the back you could press it to you as long as you want. You wanna get carponal tunnel mess didn't life? Well, no, it depend on if I got my check, though I need my check first. Are there rules on family feud and ready to love? No no shoulders? Oh? Yes we do they have Okay, yeah, you don't do that rules. You just can't get on anything and do whatever you want to do. All right? Coming up at thirty two minutes after the hour. Thanksgiving week away, thanks Giving one week ago. We'll talk about it right after this. What you're listening to the string show? All right? But Thanksgiving just a week away. A lot of people are probably already itching, just itching to haul their Christmas decorations out of the attic. A lot of people have them up already or the garage. Yeah, they never took them down. Oh you didn't, I got hey, Hey, my Pardner mama, A tree was five feet tall. She kept it decorated all year long, set it in the basement with a sheet over it. Every Christmas, my boy and his brother had to go down and lift that trio. Don't tilt, none of them on him. It's off. Come up the steps to that tree v and take sheet off. Dad was. They didn't decorate every year. They didn't take them bobs off, the same galling everything. That tree was a raggings. Look at tree, I mean ragged ass. Look at tree, man garling old you know what it's been sitting out. You know it ain't sparkling no more. He's just call it. Yeah, man, that's so crazy. Well, anyway, as it turns out, unless you want to spad and an arm and a leg on a tree, you may want to wait a few weeks before you go tree shopping. Okay. According to the National Christmas Tree Association, Christmas Eve is the cheapest day to buy a Christmas tree, with the average price. Yeah, but I mean, of course it is. Yeah, the average price of a tree just fifty dollars last year. Yeah, of course that's too late. That's way too late, way too late. The most expensive day to buy a tree is Cyber Monday. With trees costing on the average about eighty four dollars last year, and don't expect any Black Friday deals on Christmas trees either, with the average price of a tree on that day about seventy nine dollars. Okay, that's the average price. Mmmmm yeah, I'm gonna stay out this conversation. You start growing your tree last Christmas. Yeah, I think that's awesome, though, Steve. I think three yeals ago, Doe what I mean I heard him? I didn't hear him talking. I think that's wonderful that because people don't know. I think that things like that exist. You don't open a new world to people to just for people to dream. I mean, you know somebody told it to me, right you learned how I found out about it? You know, I ain't even Yeah, yeah, you know how about the tree three years from You can't tell me back now? You know, because of because of this right here, you're gonna ask me how much it calls? We don't I really know that, don't I want to know that? And what's he gonna say to me at a little hating rne Okay, tree? Yeah, how much is this tree? Uncle Steve? How much? Come on? Tell the real Steve, do the real Tommy you were doing, Steve? How much is the tree? See? Still hate? Still? How much the damn tree? Man? Get tell me? You do know it's rude to ask people how much things cost, though you do, but yeah, that's kind of seal about the tradition of it all. Let's talk about the tradition what you do, Steve, and how you get the tree and all of that. Because he's a bit, Let's talk about what's on the table. How much is the damn tree? If he like, right now he ordered a tree for twenty twenty two, right now? How much is the treat? We're playing this far in advance. How much the treat? Wow? Okay, a tree? That's why he doesn't want to answer you. Wait minute, wait, wait, wait wait crazy thirteen hundred It ain't thirteen hundred, did see, Jane? You didn't made a mistake. You didn't miss the damn zero? How much? How much tree? What? Over here? He't over here? See the hate has spread it for something that growing out the ground. It's a special kind of tree. You guys, Okay, you're gonna have to quit act like you have been out there to the past. You're like you got one of the tree. I don't know when he told us about it. I can listen and appreciate and dream. I'm just saying it ain't like you know, your family already told us. You don't go in the field and do nothing. You ain't helped the lights though they put the lights on. See there, ain't you well what a tree liver in the forest? But which one? Which one? You know? You know, man, they have nurseries. They grow these trees. They're not They're not just in the woods. You know. They have tree farms, tree nurseries, and they grow them and they're gonna charge a lot of money. They're huge trees. But they're gonna charge your money. They're gonna ship it to you and then they're gonna put it up with the scaffold and then put the lights on it and then bring it to your house. It don't come with no gifts. But he ain't. We're not finished yet, Junior. You said, he said that was right. I know what he saw. Much is the tree? You said he missed to zero. Let's move on, Yeah, totally. The objective what was for us to all get treat You don't have to get the damn tree. You don't have to get the damn tree. I'm calling them about this here with your ignorant ass about what I'm doing in my household rights. He didn't got so big. Hey, you all listen now, you banned thirteen thousand dollars trees that dead tree last year. Tommy. It's the same three I had five years ago. They're artificial. I just pray that start through the house and make it smell right, all right, listen, coming up next, the nephew is here with run that prank back that's coming up right after this, run that tree backs. You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show coming up at the top of the hour, and Entertainment News. Julia Roberts says Harriet Tubman. Interesting, you heard me. We'll talk about it. Also in Music News twenty twenty, Grammy nominations were announced yesterday. Our girl Lizzo leads the pack. Lizzo in the lead, plusman sand will be here with today's national news at the top of the hour. But right now, nephew in the building would run that break back. What you got for his mother? Get mother? Let's go hell? Yeah, Roger, can I speak to Roger? Yeah? Roger. Hey this Calvin Man. How you doing. I go to the same church, y'all go too, Okay, I got your number from one of the guys at the church. Man. They told me that if I wanted to talk to y'all, I could reach out to you or whatever. How you doing today? I'm good, man, I'm good. I can help your your wife. Man. Does she I'm not trying to be disrespectful anything, but she seems to be real fit? Does she? Does? She work out all the time? Yeah? She go to January once in a while. Bro? Yeah, who who is this? Bro? Like I said, my name Calvin Man. We go to the same church. Listen, me and my wife been trying for a long time. Many actually have some kids. And to be honest with you, Roger Man, it just ain't happening, dog. I mean, we've been trying and trying. But what I'm trying to do now just find another type of way to make this happen. Now, you say your wife is in good condition, right, My wife is in good condition. Brother. What what did she got to do with you and your wife trying to have a baby? She You know y'all already got kids, don't you y'all got Like from what the brothers the church told me, y'all got three kids right there? We got three. I got two boys in the girl. Okay, here's what I'm trying to do. Man, I was hoping that I could find somebody, a female that would be a good seagant mother or what you know. What I'm saying is like because my wife, I mean, you know, we want to have kids, man, we want to have a brother. Hold on, brother, you just said you're looking for a seragant mother, and the brother church told you to call me. Well, no, no, no, anybody tell me to actually call you. I asked them about you and your wife. You know, I asked them for your phone number so I can actually call you myself. Man, wait a minute, So you've been you've been I and my wife. No, no, no, no, no, no, I ain't been. You're looking at it wrong. Listen what I was saying that your wife. It just seems like a healthy, healthy person. I want to be able to have a healthy child, man, I really do. Man, me and my wife. We listen. You called me about my wife and you want her to be a sagan mother for your wife. I don't even know while we're on the phone. Brother, here's the real deal, man, Me and my wife we can't have kids. We've tried and tried and tried, and you know, biologically, we've just been going through it and going through it man. And I was just you know, I've seen your wife. She healthy. I see y'all at church all the time, and I was just like, reach it out, man, maybe somebody wouldn't mind being the Saragan mother for for me and my wife so we can have a child. I'll figured a Faregan mother. I mean, hold on her, brother, You calling me to see if my wife can be a Seragon mother to your child. And I know it's crazy, it's crazy, and I think your mind, brother, of all the members in the church calling me to get my wife to have your baby. I know it sounds crazy, man, I don't but I ignorant. Brother. I'm sorry you sound ignorant. You man. There's so many place to go at doctor baby. I can take you down to a county court and I just can't show your kids need a doctor right next. But you can go to Africa like like like all the rest of them. People a gonna find your baby. You're gonna call me and my wife. It's twenty thousand members in this church. Do you know our stupid you sah brother, No, brother, brother, man, listen, man, I'm not trying to come across like that. Man, how are you trying to come across the brother? You didn't done it. Just hear me out, man, I don't want you to man, go and go ahead, brother, go ahead, man, Okay, we're looking for a Sarah gand mother. We look, we've seen your your wife and we thought she'd be a great Sarah good mother. And I know it sounds crazy for me to pick you out of all the people that go to the church. I understand that, man, I do. But listen, we would love for your wife to be the Saragant mother. And we're willing to pay for this. Man, but listen to him if you don't mind. We don't want to do this with no test tubes and all that way. They mixed my seed with her with with with her egg. We want to do this naturally. War war war warp. You just said. Man, you know you gotta understand a real man want to do I want to do it realistically, you know what I'm saying. I'm just saying that brother, are you telling me that you want to have sex with my wife? But I mean, I mean, you know you don't you want to have me lose all my christianity right now? Brother, you want to have a baby the real way though, you know what I'm saying. I don't give a damn having this fake way. You tell me you want to lay down in the ball my wife, But dum you already got three kids. Think about the people that can't have it going, doctor baby, Man, take your daring. Ain't gonna doctor damn baby because you didn't go sit down, psychiatric bro, I don't have your baby. Do you know what you sound like? Don't crazy? I know it sounds crazy, man, I do How do How do you get my number? Man? It means you get my number. I got your number for one of the brothers that the church. Now listen, I'm gonna just be real with you like a man. I wanted to come at you first and talk to you like a man and see you know if you was cool with the proposition. But look, come Sunday, I'm gonna go to your wife and just talk to her. What I'm just gonna go. I'm just gonna talk to your wife and says you lost your mind. I told you to answer no ny'sa'm me gonna go around me and ask which you I'm gonna do is talk to my wife. You called my wife? You right now, if you just called my wife, I'm gonna tell you what's really gonna happen. You call my wife wife next Sunday. I'm never gonna didn't go through this. I'm talking to her next Sunday. Next Sunday, I'm ana whoop ya. You ain't gonna do nothing to me. I'm gonna who your man and man wife. We decided a child too. You You ain't gonna stand in the middle of this. I'm asking the middle of this. He lost your man? You talk to my Wife's next? What you want too? I got one more thing I want to say to you. Man, Is you listening to me? Say? What the you gotta safe? You can get off my fuck? Best is nephew? Tiught me from the Steve Hobbin Morning Show. You just got play by your homeboy? What this is? Who this is? This? Listen this man? This nephew tell me man from the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Your homeboy got me to frank phone call you man. I'm over here. Man, my head is spinning. You got me. I'm ready to fight. Brother. Hey, I got one more thing, as big dog Man, what is the baddest I'm talking about the baddest radio show in the land, man, the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Man. Y'all got me this morning? Man got me man sage. Mother and y'all want to be a segregated or seg anybody. Neither of them and I don't want to be hid them two different things right now, your baby at a certain hut. Holiday Comedy Jam. Holiday Comedy Jam coming your way. That's Earthquake, Dandy Brown Kids Junior Space and hosted by yours truly nephew Tommy. That's the Holiday Comedy Jam. It's Friday the Scent of the twentieth at the met in Philadelphia. That's w D A S and Live Nation all wrapped up in the one holiday comedy jam. I can hit the jingle bells now. So to dress for that, do you have to have your sleeves cut out of the right side of your jacket and your because you had your shoulders. I'm asking suit out of nothing. I'm not doing that especially man. All right, listen, thank you Tommy coming up at the top of the hour Entertainment and national news sit down because he was you're listening Steve Morning Show. So yesterday twenty twenty, Grammy nominations were announced. Lizzo leads the nominations with multiple honors including Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist. Little Nozex has six nominations. R and B hip Hop, Beyonce, Her, India Iri, Lma, Meek Mill, twenty one, Savage, the Baby, Little Baby, uh in gospel, it was Kirk Franklin. The Grammys will be hosted by Alicia Keys yet again on Sunday, January twenty six on c B S. Yeah, so there you go. Nice. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah yeah, and India Iri again Grammy nominated, Yeah yeah, Lama any One, Savage, Wow, Yeah, Meek Mill, I mean every and Kirk Franklin our friend and family. You know, congratulations to him as well. Yeah, you had a good speech on he just takes Oh he did what text me today? I can't tell you. Oh, he wanted to know where to get a Christmas tree from. No, he was asking me. He was doing a church Christmas playing. You think Tommy would be in it, said, you got Tommy. You could have asked him what he wanted to run it by me and see if he'd be offended. I said, I don't. Why would it be offended. Tommy's an actor, Why why would it be? I know? But you know he wanted him to play the head elf in the workshop. I'm not no elf, y'all, y'all gonna quit this with this elf stuff. I'm not no elf. He didn't. You didn't. He didn't say you wasn't elf. He wanted you to play elf and anybody called you no elf. H I just said he was gonna make you the head elf. Well what is he if I'm the head? What is he? Well? Because you are a little taller than him. So he was gonna make you the head. Everybody gonna look up to you. What role is kirk? Kirk and kirker Elf? Two? We both else? No, he wasn't. He wasn't gonna beat it. He was gonna be us Santa Claus's son. Let me get to this Julia Roberts story. Please from Music to Movie News. Uh, Julia Roberts is Harriet Hobman. Can you see that? No? Yeah, A lot of people. A lot of people can't. Uh, that's um what one Hollywood executive reportedly suggested. That's according to Gregory Alan Howard, who wrote the screenplay to Eric Harriet. He says the film has been in development for twenty six years. Guys. He wanted to turn The Underground Railroad Conductor's Life into an action adventure film, but the climate and Hollywood was different at that time, and that's when the Exact floated the idea of Julia Roberts. When questioned about it, Howard does the Exact offered, Yeah, it was long ago. No one is going to know the difference. Woe. That's so you can act, but you have to draw on something else to play that role. I would think. Let me tell you think you have to have something to draw. Go ahead, Julia gonna need Harriet to come save her ass. If she played that role and get her to free, I don't think she would have played it. No, I don't think she would have too. I don't think this is anything that Julia Roberts would have even considered. Yeah, that's why I'm with you on that, Steve. Yeah, and I like Julia Roberts. And listen, if you haven't seen the movie Harriet. Please over the holidays, when you get a chance, please go to who thinks Harriet is a tall, slim white woman. I'm right, help me with what makeup? You want to piss black people off? Do that? Yeah? All black people here out of work all right? Time now Steve for today's headlines. Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together, the lovely, talented, the wonderful to miss and Trip. Thank you, folks. Good morning, doth Vader. This is Andrip with the news. Everybody, Good morning. Okay. Last night's Democratic presidential debate, ten candidates made their cases to the American people. Not up there where Beto Rourke, He's dropped down. Julian Castewell also has left the field. Meanwhile, former Assachusetts Governor de ball Patrick you know, has entered the race, and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has his name on a couple of Southern primaries. By the way, last night all the candidates made good points. For instance, New Jersey Senator Corey Booker spoke about President Trump's foreign policy. Here's a larger battle going on on the planet Earth right now between totalitarian dictatorial countries and free democracies, and we see the scorecard under this president not looking so good, with China actually shifting more towards an authoritarian government, with its leader now getting rid of even term limits. And so I believe we need a much stronger policy, one that's not led as President Trump seems to want to do in a transactional way, for one that's led by American values. Senator count Olaharas talked about how black people, black women in particular, are ignored by the Democratic Party although they used us for voting. Vice President Joe Biden talked about foreign policy under President Trump, saying this guy doesn't know what he's doing. House Intelligence Committee her testimony yesterday from star witness Ambassador Gordon to Sonlon, who answered questions for about seven hours. Sonlon said everybody was in the loop, that President Trump wanted Ukraine to announce that they were investigating the Bidens, and that it was as plain as the nose on your face. Was there a quit pro quo with regard to the requested White House call and the White House meeting? The answer is yes, that was Sonlon. However, the President spoke to reporters later he claimed not to have done that, and he also claimed not to even know Sonlin, even though he imported appointed him ambassador to the European Union. I don't know him very well. I have not spoken to him much. Is not a man I know well. It seems like a nice guy, though, but I don't know him well. I say to the ambassador. Is my answer? I want nothing. I want nothing. I want quel Chink should do the right thing. Gordon Sonner was barely known outside of his hometown of Portland, Oregon. He's the owner of several midsize hotel but he donated a million dollars to Trump's inaugural In sports, Colin Kaepernick's lawyer says that two teams seem interested in hiring him. The attorney on the Adam carroll A Show says something may happen within the next ten days. One team sought to be the Carolina Panthers, the other the Seattle Seahawks. I guess we'll see. Former First Lady Michelle Obama earned a Grammy nomination yesterday in the spoken Word category for the audio version of her best selling memoir, But so did Lizzo singles Hey, ymtter, that's the truth Girl. Back to the Steve Harvey Mourning Show. You're listening to the sty Show. A political reporter named Alexei mcammon has accused Charles Barkley of making inappropriate remarks while speaking to her off the record late Tuesday at a political unspecified event. Just FYI, Charles, Charles Barkley told me tonight, I don't hit women, but if I did, I would hit you. And then when I objected to that, he told me I couldn't take a joke. Alexeie McCammon said she hated being part of a story, but those who threatened violence should be held accountable and that she would never violate the off the record agreement, but insisted that Charles Barkley's comments had to be exposed. Charles Barkley issued an apology yesterday through Turn to Sports. My comment was inappropriate and unacceptable. It was an attempted joke that wasn't funny at all. There was no excuse for it, and I apologized. Barkley said in that statement, Wow, there's a lot in there, because I mean, I get you know, the me too movement and everything, but sometimes it is just a joke. I mean, is that wrong for me to say you know, absolutely naturally, I'm glad you say it. I mean, yeah, as a woman sometimes, I mean, but it depends ends on how the woman the recipient feels about it. If she feels uncomfortable or something like that, then you know, you can't take Well, I think she accomplished what she wanted to come. I think it should be reported. Yeah, it's not any charges. No, he apologized. This story is you know, because it's on social media. But you know, he apologized, and he's said some questionable jokes like that before, and I don't you know, so when she said that, um, she wanted to bring it. But if she doesn't know it to know, how many times I've heard that joke, idea, how many times I've heard that form of that joke. I don't hit women, but but if I did, I would hit you right or I wish you could be a man for just five minutes? Oh okay, oh yeah. Oh. But but from the woman's perspective, if she doesn't know it's a joke, you know, and she's feeling some kind of way, then that that's where the issue comes in. See. Yeah, the problem now though Shirley is nobody thinks anything is funny anymore. Yeah, there are no jokes you can tell anymore. There's no room for mist I'm about to tell she didn't accept there. She didn't accept it, she replied to Barkley's tweet from the Sports Network. She didn't accept his regret or any attempt to characterize it as a joke. Okay, cool. So if you don't want to accept the apology, it what you want the man to do. That's how she feels about it, and she's, you know, has a right to her feelings. Coming up at thirty four after the Hour and trending Sports news question, is it time to concede that Lebron James is the greatest basketball player ever? Wow, we'll talk about it right after this. You're listening to the Steve Show. In trending sports News. Guys, Lebron James set a record. Congratulations to him as he became the first player in NBA history to record a triple double against every single team in the NBA. Yeah, Lebron led the Lakers to their fifth straight victory, one twelve to one oh seven over the Oklahoma City Thunder. Now, Lebron is the fifth in NBA history with eighty six triple doubles, but the four players in front of him, Oscar Robertson, Russell Westbrook, La Lakers grade, of course, Magic Johnson and Lakers assistant coach Jason Kidd hadn't done it against all thirty teams in the league. So guys, all right, Tommy Junior, Steve. With that being said, now the trending question is, is it now time to concede that Lebron James is the greatest basketball player of them all? It's Michael Jordan included in that. Well, I'm the top three. I'm gonna yeah, he top three. I'm gonna say no, no, use your top three, I say, Jordan, Kobe, and Lebron. Okay, I give it that, but that doesn't constitute him being a great player. He just did a feat against every team against Sarah, triple doubles against steel that's impressive. Yes, your top three, and then we'll go to you your top three, Tommy h I mean, I think we all the Saint Jordan, Lebron. I gotta say magic. Yeah, I gotta say magic. Come on, mister Harvey, I think it's Jordan. M h uh, I think it's Oh, I think it's Jordan. I think it's uh Lebron, and I think it's Kareem. I'm dude with your boss. Yes, I just think he revolutionized the game of basketball. Uh. He had an unstoppable shot, He played d he got rebounds, and he won championships. And this dude was an unstoppable force. He was a beast. He revolutionarized basketball. They stopped dunking in college causing him. I just think Kam Dude jabbar Man was like the dude that came along and made the game so different to me. I mean, now, dude, I think Kobe should be in that. Yeah, I do. I think Kobe's a bad boy, the black mumble man. Would he be in your top five? We just did the top Hell yeah yeah, oh hell yeah hell Kobe? Hell huh. I was saying, it's a feat that that Kobe Bryant didn't that Lebron hadn't done. I mean Kobe dropped eighty in a game. That's from not passing. Yeah, that's coming over the flow every time and not throwing it. But's gonna put it out there. Nobody has jumped higher than Spud. Well, let's just make that understand. Hero, that's my boy. The didn't jump high, done every about it. Somebody's called you up high over everything. Let's give it up, yay I But okay, So the question is with this triple double against every team in the league that Lebron has done this to get he's not the greatest player yet. Huh. Well, I mean, you know what, the triple double against every team, that's the great accomplishment. But he does not have more triple doubles than Russell Rustaur Oh, yeah, that's true. He don't have more triple doubles than Oscar Robinson. I mean Russell Westbrook, Man triple doubles. It's been playing less time than Jordan, I mean, lebronn and you've done it forty in a row. Man, come on, just dude, yeah, just do this. That's not to take anything what Lebron is because he's my dude, man, Lebron. Yeah. And I'm just telling you, man that Russell Westbrook good lord triple double. And let's not get tiny archer ball people. Oh yos him poster comments on who you think is the world's greatest basketball player? And Steve Harvey FM on Instagram or Facebook coming up next, then Nephew with today's prank phone call right after this. You're listening coming up at the top of the We're right about four minutes after. It's my strawberry letter for today, subject my husband is raising my boyfriend's son. Yeah, yeah, sounds like you wrote that one. Tommy. You're involved some kind of way anyway. Right now, nephew, here with today's frank phone call. What you got for a snap? Right now? Girl, We're gonna have a birthday party, but we're gonna third day. They'll throw the birthday party with some curry gold for the kids. Here we go, curry Gold birthday party. Hello, Hello, I'm trying to reach you, um, mister, because mister, yeah, this is Benjamin Dixon. Trevor is my son. He goes to school with your son. Now yeah, uh he went to a birthday party that your son had last weekend. Am I right? Yeah? Well listen, I understand. Listen, I have a problem with you, mister, because I understand that you all are Jamaican and from jama But listen, you guys serve the children curry goat. You don't serve kids curry goat. Everybody's child doesn't eat curry goat. Pee. What happened to what happened to ice cream and cake and punch that maybe even a pizza at a birthday party for kids. But curry goat, that's out of the question. Oh you oh you mean, But I'm gonna understand. We are to bolt all you mean? All you mean middle feed to kid them curry gords, letts feed them anything. But when you're taught about Bridgren? So what when y'all thaw boat? Oh you mean? Oh you mean He'm a problem with me. Oh you'm a problem with me. I got a problem. I got a problem with any parents who who decides on their own that somebody else's child it's okay to feed them some curry goat. My child. Don't eat no goat. We eat chicken, we eat steak, we eat cow. We don't eat curry goat. Yo eat it a birthday of barty door and me start birthday party. I don't want you. And if you would have caught me, I deal with something. Talk so some rude more call me when you're when you're on buying on a guano me and a redgrand we can't even know who we are dealing with. And all okay, I need you to slow it down for me. Man, I understanding nothing you're saying. Tell me flot you call me. You can't tell me for Floyton, I'm my phone. You're calling off. Look man, all I'm saying is this is this is disrespectful to the child, to people's parents. You're going out on your own liberty deciding on what you're gonna feed somebody. You gotta feed them normal stuff. You can't do that kid a birthday parties. Here in the stakes. Man, it's pizza, it's ice cream, it's cake, it's punch down it hot dogs maybe, but not no damn curry goat. Man, I don't tell me what. You let me run this. So you're I'm telling you both both both disrespect You would disrespect me a car. I'm like for I'm my distes shocking you about calling your phone. I want to know why it is you're doing something like this, and I bet you these other parents don't know you've been serving. Go y'all kiss? Man? Oh you is ain't you? You want to meet me? I'm sure you all non farts. I'll come tell me. Oh you want? Oh you wanna hungry? Oh? Oh? Oh you are driend? Who the hell is you? I don't know you from my I'm rich. Now come tell fbody for the kind of with it? Yo. You know you know you know what can't you do it? You know somebody on the spring up knowing all? Are you do? You want to meet me somewhere? Is that what you want to do? Me me too, meet me with it? Meet me to right. No, y'all understand me, meet your refriend. I know. Oh yeah, I did hurt it up enough. You're gonna make me hurt you. Man if if if I come over that, you're gonna make me hurt you. You hit me that. I mean this man. Now, I call you because I'm a concerned parent about my child. Uh and then you got a nerd ahead to tell them you're the one that's in the row. Yo. Man me, you don't hell no brigand you kind of fun me. So come tell me feed the money I'm telling me about me? No, no wrong you yo, just telling the way in and oh I'm gonna comn you. I'm feeding some cory God yeah, your family and kind of leave me. You ain't gonna feed my family now. You don't bring my family in this man. You don't bring member. You don't bring my wife and my kids into nothing. You hit me if you wanted you I got I got one. You know what, man, I'm gonna tell you. I got something I want to tell you. You listening. This is Nephew Timing from the Steve Harvey Martin Show. You just got pranked by y'all sister Patsy. I'na believe you man like that? You Hey, hey, you just got pranked by your sister Patsy back she put me up to this dog boy, I tell you, man, I'm so sweat boy. I need to get a blood pressure check. I got a low I got a little tolerance tolerance, very low, boy, I tell you that. But anyway, I'm gonna still feed you and your family from churnicles. I better. I'm gonna have no right, sweet or nothing. You know, when you get angry, American people really counts in what you're saying. You went on you went on a Jamaican run. They're like, what that boy said, We gotta give us out out all of the Jamaicans out there. Baby, what is the baddest radio show in the land, Steve Harvey Morning Show. How you feel about that? Right? Terran for the kids though, for the kids. The curry gold he've been eating merchant kids birthday party and they feeding them something to day. You never ate before. The kids better eat that damn curry gold. Eat it. We're never going to a party at your house anymore, young man. Yes, you'd be back right after you get a piece of this curry goldsty food over there. Holiday Comedy Jam is going down Friday the twenties to be summer at the met in Philadelphia. Holiday Comedy Jam. 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That is the DMV Chicago, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Houston, Texas, all hosted by the Food Nephew You Tommy, Hey, Tommy, Yes, sir man, you know that that how they jam we're doing down in Philly. Yes, sir, well for nixt year. I'm just thinking ahead. You think we can just take that line a week out right there and then take it and see if uncle want to produce. You think you'll do it? I think I'll talk to y'all. I'm not producing nothing with y'all. You hear you're gonna do what I take? Noa, noa, Shirley. See what they're not gonna do is come to me with something after about we we then talking with these Hey shure, I'm talking says so surely ste over and over and over for years, for years about touring together. Oh they don't win and did it, but they were favorite nations and all like that. Now they come up with a little monkey ass I did they won't me signed up for that one if we ain't coming with no, okay, how about this? How about me? You Junior and Jay, we do it to you. Yeah, man, Nope, still know as much as you want to get back on stage, Steve your host, bring us out. You're gonna have your phone, don't All right, we gotta go. Thank you, nephew. Coming up next Strawberry Letters. Subject my husband is raising my boyfriend's son. We'll get into it right after this. You're listening to show all right, time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need advice on relationships, on sex, on dating, work, parenting, and more, please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve Harvey f M. All you have to do is click submit Strawberry Letter and we'll get it. We could be reading your letter live on the air, just like we're gonna read this one right here, right now today and welcome up. Hold on, take let's go baby. Here it is Strawberry Letter, all right. Subject my husband is raising my boyfriend's son. Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm just going to jump right in and get to it. I'm married and he's married. We both have families. I have three kids and he has four kids. One of my kids is his. Our affair has been going on for eleven years, and now we have a two year old son. He left me when I told him that I was pregnant. We both agreed for me to terminate the pregnancy, but he refused to give me the money. So I changed my mind because deep down I want it another child. I know it's his son because but he questioned it. I did a sibling test to confirm that my husband could not be the father. The two year old looks just like his real daddy and his real daddy's other kids. I'm writing this letter because my conscience is eating me alive. Every time that I look at my son, I know that I am living alive that could destroy my son's life and two families. His daddy acts like he does not exist, and that makes me so angry, and I want to come clean and get it off my chest. We both were in this affair, and we both made this child. I am ready to tell my husband and his wife about our affair and my son. It has taken me two years to come to terms with what might happen when I tell the truth. Am I wrong for wanting to put an end to these lies? To the lies? Should I let my husband raise another man's child? I've been a nervous wreck. Please help me figure this out. What you asked? Should you let your husband raise another man's child? But isn't that what you've been doing for the last couple of years. Your husband has been raising another man's child. The lies are endless here. You've been with this man for eleven years. Eleven years you've been having an affair on your husband and this man on his wife. He got mad when you got pregnant, refused to give you the money to terminate it, and deep down inside you wanted another child anyway, So that's what you did. And and I mean you just kept the lie going and going and going and going. Uh, you say, he questions the fact that it is his son. You did a sibling test to confirm that your husband is not the father. I think you're you're wanting to come clean for all the wrong and most selfish of reasons. Here you will be destroying everything. You will be destroying your marriage, his marriage, your kids lives, I mean not destroying their lives, but I mean, you know, once they find out this is a lie, this is this is so many lives are involved in all of this. And just because you're mad at your baby daddy, I mean, really, do you realize what you have done with all of this because you're mad at him, this eleven year affair, everything, I mean, this is just so wrong on every level. Uh, you know, I don't know how you're gonna come clean and tell your husband this and and he stayed there and forgive you in all of those things. What do you want to happen? Uh? You just want to end the lies to get some relief for yourself, But you're going to destroy all these other people's lives. Uh. You're not wrong for wanting to put an end to the lies, but you know who, no one should want to have to live with these kinds of lies. But doing this, you're going to destroy so many people and including your your your your son, once he finds out that the man he thinks is his dad isn't really his dad. I mean, the lies are endless here. You've tell one lie after another after another after another. Uh this you say, please help you figure this out. This is a hard one to figure out. And I bet you have been a nervous wreck. But you you did this, I mean for eleven years now, for eleven years. I just feel sorry for your kids, your husband, uh, the wife, and this two year old son that you have with this man, Steve. I have a problem here because yesterday I let Tommy do the letter and Junior begging me, uncle, can I do a letter now? Junior? This one I think might be a little heavy for you. Yeah. Yeah, this is heavy for everybody else. I wouldn't have done this yesterday, Julie, I don't think because I'm sitting over here like, who something a little? This is not the one I want to do one. Alright, let's go all right, man, oh man, this is a very difficult letter. Yeah it is. I don't have any jokes for this, so let me just get to it because I'm let me jump right into it. Is how she started best start of a letter I've ever had through. I want him, this lady to know I really respect her. Just coming clean, let me just jump right into it. I'm married, he married, we both got families. I got three kids, he got folk. One of my kids is his. I'll be there. Our fair been going on for eleven years, and now you got two year old son. Then after you told him he was pregnant, he left you. See, this is where you start to find out how stank a dude really is. Not only stank for the eleven year fan. But now let me explain to you what you was having in a fan with You was having a fan with a man who once you told him you was pregnant, he left you. You have a two year old son. He left when you told him he was pregnant, and then both of you agreed to terminate the pregnancy, but he refused to give me the money. How does that work? We both agreed to terminate the pregnancy, and then he refused to give me the money. Well, hold on, Steve, hold it right there. Okay, we gotta take a break right here. We'll have part two of Steve's response coming up at twenty three minutes after the hours, subject my husband is raising my boyfriend's son. Yeah, this is a mess right here. We'll be back at twenty three minutes after the hour. Right after this you're listening, all right, Steve. Come on, let's recap today's Strawberry Letters. Subject my husband is raising my boyfriend's son. Wow, because this woman is married, she's dating a man this married, They got kids. They both have families. She got three kids, he got full and one of her kids is he is the fabin going on eleven years. They got a two year old son. As soon as she told his married dude who and she's married too, that she was pregnant, he left her. But before he left, they both agreed to terminate the pregnancy, and then he refused to give me the money. This dude life in on a lot of levels. You do know you are too, but this dude's trifling. This goes to a whole nother level. So I changed my mind because deep down I wanted another child. I know it's his son, but he questions it. Then I did a sibling test to confirm that my husband could not be the father. I don't know what that means, sibling tests. I don't know what that is yet. Yeah, you all look just like his real daddy and his real daddy's other kids. Now you're writing this letter because you say your conscience is eating you a lie. Every time I look at my son, I know that I'm living a lie and and that that could destroy my son's life and two families. Then you mad because his daddy act like he does not exist, and that makes me so angry. The reason he don't act like he don't exist this because he questioned it any beginning, whether it was his or not. Then he refused to pay the money for the terminate the pregnancy, and then he left you when he was pregnant. Why are you angry now? He trifling? Everything he's done is trifling, and all of a sudden you want him to be what righteous? Here's your problem. The man act like he don't exist, and that makes you angry, and I want to come clean and get it off of my chest. We both were in this affair, and we both made this child. I am here we go. Listen to this. I am ready to tell my husband and his wife about our fair. Well, listen to me. Later you might not be able to tell both people. This could end very ugly after you make the announcement to one. See if you go over there and tell his wife, she could do something to you. And if you're going there and tell your husband, he might do something to you. So you're in a tough spot. Yeah, it's taking you two years to come to terms with what might happen when I tell the truth. Am I wrong for wanting to put an end too the lies? Should I let my husband raise another man's child. I've been a nervous wreck. Please help me figure this out. Hell, you need this latter boy. We have so many problems here because if you go and tell your husband, this could have end your family. If you tell his wife, it could end their family, and then your son is still left with a father who wants nothing to do with him. Go you damn So now if this man wants nothing to do with him and you destroy your family, who has a man who's raising this boy in it and the real daddy don't want to have nothing to do with it. But then the ugliness that you got this man raising another man's child the life. That's the quandry you are in. Because I want you to go for the son's sake, be quiet so he can have a father in his life. But then I feel bad because wow, this dude is fitting the bill, thinking he got something that ain't really his. That boy belongs to you and another man, and Steve, don't you think the reason she wants to tell him is so wrong too, just because he doesn't want to be a part of the kid's life. It's all anger. But she also I truly believe that this woman is torn up on the inside. Is I truly believe that. And it is a horrible thing to know that this is not this man's boy. And you got this man raising him. But if you love the man so much, you was with another man for eleven year eleven years, So I'm trying to figure out how you so concerned with the fact that he raising this boy that's not his when you was passing out your cookie that he thought was his. So you got a problem. Man, just really ain't a joke letter right here. You have a real situation. I think that because it's such a long deceit, this man should take care of his kids, but he don't want to. And then he has a father that thinks he is the father and he's taking care of him. So I hate to ruin the boy's life and he no daddy at all. Soul you may have to care as latiquely wow, Yeah, yeah, because man comes around and goes, I want to take care of myself, but as long as he had denial, man, I think you should lead it. Leave his dirty ass opening. All right. You can post your comments on today's Strawberry Letter at Steve Harvey FM on Instagram and Facebook, and don't forget to check out the Strawberry Letter podcast on demand now coming up at forty six minutes after the hour. Sex trafficking. We know that it is major in this country and around the world. We're going to delve into that and talk about it when we come back at forty six minutes after the hour right after this. You're listening, all right, So this is kind of a heavy subject, guys, but it's something that really needs to be talked about because it seems to be going on more and more now. Talking about sex trafficking. It is a crime when women, men, and or children are forcefully involved in commercial sex acts. In the US, any minor under the age of eighteen engaged in commercial sex acts is automatically considered a victim of sex trafficking under the law. Worldwide, it's estimated that there are four point five million victims of sex trafficking, and that's worldwide. That that's a huge, huge number, huge number. Wow. I mean it's going on. I've been watching the news and it seems like it's an epidemic over here in the United States. Now it's it's it's an evil time we live in and it's causing everybody's got to get your head on squivel and start paying close attention to everything around you. You see these men walking over to you, talking to you, and it's see and the conversation is odd. Something's going It is odd. Don't don't you know it sounds straight. No, it is strange. Yeah, and you should act accordingly. Blow your whistle, walk away, get some distance, go well. Um, in Atlanta, there's you know, there's malls. Uh Uh. Someone posted on Instagram where he was approached at a mall and um, I mean, if you guys, I mean honestly, I was approached in a store. I was in Marshall's one night and yeah, who would ever think that? Yeah you know, um, yeah, I was approached by by a woman and uh I knew, I knew something was odd. I didn't know exactly that's what it was. But after uh, my incident and then the very next it really bothered me and then the very next day this guy posted that he was approached at Lenox Mall. So then you know, when you put it together, our very own Monica, missus B Monica was also she was also approached in the Atlanta area. So just let it, just let it be a warning. It is serious out here. Be aware of your surroundings. Like Steve said, you know, getting your car, lock your doors. I mean that old adage, don't talk to strangers. I mean, seriously, even if you're an adult. So to report human trafficking. Here is the National Human Trafficking Hotline. And again, people, this is very very serious. Text help HLP or info I NFO. They're open twenty four hours, seven days a week. They speak English, Spanish and two hundred more languages. The number is one eight eight eight three seven three seven eight eight eight. Please be aware of your surroundings and we'll be right back right after this. You're listening to show, all right, come on, tell me, let's do this. All right, she is here. It's Carlo fer On with what Reality Update? Thank you that few? What's up through us? What you got to say? Steve? You you're ready at the gate? I'm ready. You got an updates, Ricky, Ricky, I'm trying to tell you man. And on the Kardashes, my damn, Kanye was singing at the Mormon church in Utah Sho and then just blurted out and it ain't nobody posting have more than one wife, just saying it all right, Well, thank you for your update. You got Kanye. Kanye just be triming. And just Kanye got through singing that Lakewood down in Houston and told everybody Trump was his daddy right up under the globe. Alright, Well that's your reality update from Steve. I got one for you real quick, Real Housewives of Atlanta. Your girl Ninie is back on the show. Yeah. Now, when we left off last season, you know you remember during the reunion show with Nini told Andy Cohen that her marriage to Greg was kind of in a rocket place because she felt alone while being you know, Greg's caretaker while he was battling cancer. You know, she had a lot of issues that she was dealing with. Well, this episode, the new episode, we see Nini and Greg. They are still together. Greg is cancer free yea, yea, and Nini is an ambassador for the National Cancer Society. So they were filming a public service announcement and just talking about his journey and what she went through. So that's that. But Nini is still not free ends with anybody on the show except your girl Marlow. They're still cool. Yeah, so now moving on, Shirley, is it me or is it kind of awkward watching Kenya and her husband Mark? It's beyond awkward. Yeah, it's a little something something that Kennedy. Yes, yeah, her husband is well, they are, and it seems like they're separated in real life, but on the show they are still together. Steve on this new season and Kenya has she's talking to her husband. She feels kind of lonely, and you know that distance doesn't help their marriage because he lives in New York and they fly back and forth and they have this long distance marriage. But Mark is all about the baby. They have this new beautiful daughter, Brooklyn. The baby first, she's so cute. But anyway, Kenya feels like she wants them a lone time with him, and he's like, hey, if the baby's now with us, I ain't trying to hear all that she cooked the breakfast. He was mad she didn't have eggs. She made them pancakes with bacon, and it just see that she had watching it ain't nothing that woman refrigerator. She ought to quit. We got to the starting, he could go out to the start. She got the pancakes and uhh yeah, I mean, yeah, you're here. That Shirley you get here just stupid. Don't worry about it, Go ahead, Carl. So anyway, so it's a little awkward, Tommy just I don't know what's going on with them, but there's something there. But his wife, Kenya, she's telling her husband that, you know, she's basically lonely. She needs some attention from him. So we'll see what happens with that. And then finally Eva and Cynthia, you know, they were beefing last season, not at all cool. It's amazing, but one season can do. Yes, three months apart back from yeah now we we buddies, they going looking at houses together and everything, and then on the episode later on the episode, Cynthia and Eva they went to New York. They were on the float for the World Pride Day Parade, and Ninie was there too, and so the show ended with Ninie getting off her float getting on Cynthia's float, and then it was done, done Dune. You don't know what Ni said, and that was the end of the episode. So I'll tell you next week. You can hit me up, hit me up at lips by Carla on social media on the ground, Facebook, and we'll talk about it more. We'll be back at twentieth. You're listening to the Steve Morning Show. Jesse small Lett is suing the city of Chicago. We haven't heard from him in a while, so he's coming back with a listen to me washing here free go back down now, So listen to this Steve. He's claiming that officials created a narrative that he was the mastermind of a hoax attack and that has cost him dearly now, according to TMZ. In the lawsuit, Jesse notes that the Assandaro brothers Abel and Ola were held for forty seven hours and they adamantly denied any involvement in the assault. Jesse says it was only it was only after they were assured they get immunity that they started spinning the tale of a fake attack on the streets of Chicago. Jesse insists the primary attacker was a white male. He says, to this day he doesn't know what involvement, if any, the Usandaro brothers had in the attack. He thinks the brothers were lured into the smear campaign by the cops. Jesse is suing the City of Chicago. He's suing the Ussandaro brothers and several officials, including a recently retired police superintendent Eddie Johnson. Wow, I don't know why this boy won't go somewhere and just sit your ass down. You see, don't do this. You free Joe away. You think this k' sue the city? City ain't got no money. We'll have more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show coming up at thirty three minutes after the hour. Right after this, you're listening to Steve Morning Show. So Yesterday, twenty twenty, Grammy nominations were announced. Lizzo leads the nominations with multiple honors including Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist in Gospel. It was Kirk Franklin. The Grammys will be hosted by Alicia Keys yet again on Sunday, January twenty six on c b S. Yeah, Kurk Franklin our friend and family, you know, congratulations to him. Yeah, you had a good speech on he just takes on train boys. Oh he did asked me today, tell you, Oh, he wanted to know where to get a Christmas tree from. No, he was asking me he was doing a church Christmas playing. Do you think Tommy would be in it? Said, you got time, You could have asked him what he wanted to run it by me and see if he'd be offended. I said, I don't. Why would it be offended. Tommy's an actor, Why why would it be I know? But you know he wanted him to play the head elf in the workshop. I'm not no elf, y'all. Y'all gonna quit this with this elf stuff. I'm not no elf. He didn't say you was an elf. He wanted you to play elf, and everybody called you no elf. I just said he was gonna make you the head elf. But what is he if? I'm the head? If? What is he? Well, because you are a little taller than him, So he was gonna make you the head. Everybody gonna look up to you. What role is kirk? Kirk and kirker elf two? We both else. No, he wasn't. He wasn't gonna be the He was gonna be us Santa Claus's son. Let me get to this Julia Roberts story. Please, from music to movie news. Uh, Julia Roberts is Harriet Tobman. Can you see that? No? Yeah, a lot of people. A lot of people can't. Uh. That's um what one Hollywood executive reportedly suggested. That's according to Gregory Alan Howard, who wrote the screenplay to Eric Harriet. He says the film has been in development for twenty six years. Guys. He wanted to turn The Underground Railroad Conductor's Life into an action adventure film, but the climate and Hollywood was different at that time, and that's when the Exact floated the idea of Julia Roberts. When questioned about it, Howard says, the Exact offered, Yeah, it was long ago. No one is going to know the difference. Woe. That's okay. You can act, but you have to draw some thing else to play that role. I would think, let me tell you think you have to have something to draw. Go ahead, Julia donna need Harriet to come save her ass. If she played every role and get her to Freed, I don't think she would have played it. No, I don't even think would I don't think this is anything that Julia Roberts would have even considered. Yeah, that's Why'm with you on that, Steve. Yeah, and I like Julia Roberts. And listen. If you haven't seen the movie Harriet, please over the holidays when you get a chance, please go to who thinks Harriet is a tall, slim white woman? Come right, all right, coming up, we will have our last break of the day, and of course some closing remarks from the one and only Steve Harvey at forty nine minutes after right after this, you're listening all right, Here we are our last break of the day. It's been a good Thursday. Huh good day? Yeah, yeah day, Yeah, good day. And the only thing that will make it better is you, Steve Harvey, with some closing remarks. What do you have for us today? Well, you know, I kind of wanted to share something with you all that I was doing my meditation I was reading this morning, and it hit me because I've often said, you know, after show or something, I was just you know, sometimes I just try to say something positive people. And one time I was talking after the show and I told people, I said, you know, there's a scripture that quotes something to this effect that God comes to give you life and give you life more abundantly. And so I said, that's what began. The process of me asking for my abundance was because of this scripture. And I just don't think this is just my walk with him that as a Christian or believe or person or faith that you should have to struggle through everything. You're going to have challenges, You're going to have struggles, but in every aspect of your life. I mean, come on, something has to change for you. And so in the scripture was saying that He comes to give you life and give you life more abundantly. I always thought that the abundance that he was talking about was material things of financial blessings, you know, things of that nature. But I've learned recently through my studies that having that He comes to give you abundant life does not just mean things. It means peace of mind, It means awareness of all His goodness. It means not worrying about tomorrow or having regrets about the past, which issues out a lot of a lot of wasted energy. It means things like that that He's present in your life, that you are aware of all the good things that your eyes are open to all he's done for you. And the big part of it is that he gives you your daily bread, that today is a very very special day and because it's unlike any other day you've ever had, and He's given you a new day. So when it comes to talking about an abundant life, I had to stop thinking that it was just talking about things or money and objects, innate objects, that really he's talking about an abundant life through having a peace of mind to having a realization that you have a companion who is not only your friend, but he's also your king, you know, your sovereign lord. That's what he means by abundant life. That you come to the realization that you're not alone in this matter. You come to the understanding that you have a very present if you just invited me in, that can help you deal, cope, handle and understand anything that happens in your life. That's what I came to the conclusion that having a life at having life more abundantly stood for. And once I came to this realization, it opened up a whole nother way of thinking for me, because it's just an amazing thing when you understand that you can have or say so in today and all you have to do is worry about today. I mean, concern yourself with today's matters, and don't worry about tomorrow, and don't show no regrets for the past. And you can have a life of abundance because you will now be living in the moment, in the presence, and you'll have His presence because you invited to me and even closer. That's what I learned about the abundant life, that it doesn't just mean monetary or physical things, that it actually means pace of mind, presence, a very present help in the time of trouble, a relationship, someone who gets it, who's always there. That's what that means. And that's what I wanted you all to think about today. So when you ask God to give you life, and he promised to give you life and give it to you more abundantly, think about what the whole abundant thing is really about. I wasted a lot of time thinking it was just a reference to finances or money or you know, it's not. It's so much more. And today I had an abundant life because today I didn't worry about tomorrow and today, because that's burning yourself with something you can't do nothing about. And I didn't have no regrets for my former life, Tada. I had an abundant day today, and it caused me to realize, really, man, you bless you got an abundant life. That's what I wanted to share with you. Those my closing remarks. Again, I got a little time on the back end, but that's what I really I just wanted to share that with You'll thank you for that. Yeah, it's great because when you do. When I first heard it, I thought the same thing too. I really did. Ye. I was convinced at what it was. But I was doing my meditation this morning and I was reading this section that explains a lot of stuff, and I said, wait a minute, man, No, the abundant life is He gives you peace of mind for today. He gives you awareness of His presence for today, and therefore it gives you a total and then it causes you to be grateful for what you have today, and it opens up your eyes to everything that's happening in your room right now, because by worrying, Uh, I watch this Shelley Luke twelve and twenty five by Waring Luke twelve and twenty five. By worrying you cannot add one hour, so by not being able to do that? Yes, better? All right to be with Kanye and the man. Go ahead. I don't know about I love it. 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