Today's show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time y'all don't know y'all back a suit, looking back to back down, giving them like the milling bus bus things. And it's not true. Good Steve Star, please don't joy. You gotta use that turn out. You gotta turn to turn them out. Turn got to turn out to turn turn the water the water. Come, come on your thing, I show we all a good morning everybody, and you're listening to the voice. Come on dig me now, one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Well, nothing changes about that. Nothing changes about that. Man. I was just so getting ready to come on to air this morning. I was just thinking, man, I was just having a reflective moment of just how really good God has been to me. I just it's it's it's man. Let me just say that again, how really good God has been to me. And here's a cold part. In spite of myself, you understand, in spite of all my shortcomings, in spite of all of my flaws and and and and in spite of all of what anybody has said about me, God, through his grace and mercy, just keeps me anyway. So many of us are exceptional people, but we refuse to just go ahead and be exceptional. We settle for the ordinary, We follow the pack, We try to fit in. Man, oh man, oh man, You know, I've heard my wife say this to my children all the time. When she's scolding talking to him, she'd be talking to him about leadership. You know, why are you following everybody when God clearly made you to lead? So many of us are born, and so many of you are born to be exceptional people, but we always trying to follow the pack. Why would you try to fit in? Why would you try to be like everybody else be ordinary? Why would you follow the pack when God has created you to be exceptional? The key word in exceptional is accept you. You ever done this right here? You know everybody did that, accept me. Everybody felt that way except me. Everybody said that except me. Everybody won't wanted that. Accept me. Everybody went over that except me. Everybody jumped in except me, accept me. See why have you saying that in your life? If you were not to be exceptional? See you got to say everybody accept me at one point in You're to I don't know who ain't done it? You know everybody wanted. Everybody voted no except me. See it? So you're not You're not created to follow the pack. You ain't created to fit in. You ain't created to, oh, you know, to be ordinary. You will create it to be exceptional, as exceptional as your fingerprint on your finger is. You were created to be exceptional. Why not make this the year that you go ahead on and be exceptional? Why won't this be the year that you decide in your mind? But just has to be a decision that we make. Now we're not following the pack no more. We're not trying to fit in no more. We ain't settling for ordinary no more. We're gonna be exceptional. But you know, you got you got to go ahead and follow that. You got to get on the exceptional path because that's what you were created for. Why be ordinary? You know? But all of this this comes to it has to start with a thought. You got to first think something thought to become things. A man is as he thinketh that's all you will ever be. So what are your thoughts today? Why not have exceptional thoughts instead of ordinary thoughts? Why not have exceptional thoughts instead of fitting the in thoughts? So why you want to be like everybody else? Why you want to be ordinary when you could possibly be extraordinary with a change of your mind, a change of your venue, And you don't have to be any other kind of way just because my mama was this way, my daddy was this way, or this the school I went to? This? What race I belong to? This is my sexual preference, this is my this, this is my dadd Why? How many? How many? How many excuses? You need? I'm an excuse? What? What? What? What? You? What's it gonna be this year that we let another three hundred and sixty five days slip by without improving our condition, our place, our spot, our life, the quality of life we have. We cannot afford to keep letting all these years go by without changing. You're an exceptional person. How many times have you set up and said, everybody did that accept me? You know I was only everybody jumped in accept me. I told him I knew it. Everybody voted for that. Accept me, And now look at him, man, it seemed like everybody went that way, accept me. Okay, do you get it? Do you understand what's being said to you that don't accept me is because couldn't it be because you're an exceptional person, and it's time for you to take control of that. It's time for you to start thinking different. It's time for you to start acting on what you think. It's time for you to start doing something about it. It's time for you to stop taking each and every day that God gives us for granted and letting them go by the wayside. Like you got plenty more. Well, you may have plenty more, but guess what what you're wasting the ones you got for I got you young, and you and you feel like you're gonna live forever. Da Okay, cool, But let me ask you something. See here here, here, here go the part about pose you do live? See see everybody willing about dying. But I got news for you. Suppose you keep on living. You want to keep living in the condition you in now. You want to keep living with the money you got now. You want to keep living with the relationship you got now. You want to keep living by yourself like you are now. You want to keep wanting the right relationship, the right man, the the right woman, but you keep getting the wrong one. You want to keep doing that for the rest of your life. Problem, ain't dying. It's problem is if you keep on living. Who wants to keep on living just the way they are right now? And if you can say I'm cool what I am, just the way I am right now, it in't cool. This conversation ain't for you. I ain't got no problem with that. You know, you wanna say, greatness ain't for everybody. Being exceptional, ain't for everybody becoming extraordinary. It ain't fun everybody. Heck, becoming successful ain't fun everybody. I got it. And you can come up with a way to justify your non existence in your ordinary life. All you won't, And that's fine and dandy. I ain't got no problem with it. Because some people just gonna be regular. Some people just gonna follow the pack, follow the crowd. Some people just wants to fit in. But if you're not that person, if you want to be extraordinary, if you want to be exceptional, if you want to be if you want to dad or be great at something, and you got to change your mind set. You got to get with your creating, find out what he created you fault. You gotta quit thinking of things just in your own thought process, you know, lean not to your own understanding I don't know what that is, but it's in there somewhere. Seeing. Once you lean, if you lean to your own understanding, you know what it's gonna do. It's gonna limit you, man, it's gonna limit you. Why not see what God got for you. I would rather know what God got for me than to think of all the things I could because I can't out think him out and tried it before. All right, it's just the beginning. We're gonna have a good one. Man. Let's go. You're listening tow ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, circus performers, athletes, talk show host social media influencers, inmates, faith based people, pastors, choir members, stripples. Yeah, yeah, and I remember former drug dealers. May I have your undivided attention. This is for Steve Harvey Morny Show. Different Altho call. That was altero call. That was just a call, that's all. That was. Charlie Strawberry. Hey, good morning, Steve. I love it. I love it. Colin for real, Good morning, Steve. What's up? Crew h the most promising young up and coming comedian that I know. Junior morning, uncle, my mentor, man, how you feeling lady and Jim mcking a prank, Nephew times your sid Top of the Morning, baby fairs it is the stairs. Yeah, I don't know. I just did it. No, I wasn't nothing with it. Ain't no that, ain't open it to no song, you know, just sang it to my damn self. For god, I was on the video really really it just I just started singing and where a pool you're on the radio, st You're nothing. You're having fun at your john Yeah school. You know. I was gonna ask you remember the other day a couple of days ago, we got really deep one morning when we opened the show and talked about our regrets and stuff. Yeah, doing it again. Well, no, come on, we're not doing that again. You can't handle We're not doing that again, Steve. I just wanted to. I just thought about something that I didn't regret in my life, you know, because you have you do have regrets. But one thing I do not regret, and that's well, I mean, should I say it ahead? I was just thinking it to myself. But anyway, one thing I don't regret is cutting off my six finger, because you know I had an extra finger on each hand. I got him cut off. It was most I was kissing because that extra fing on the back, I don't hear. I don't regret. I don't regret doing that. I just wanted to cause I tell you right now, if you shake my hand, I'm gonna snatch back. And that's what was happening when I was little. Nobody wants my hand. I can't even tell I shake your hand. Now. I'm gonna try to feel around because I'm probably a nub over there. It is. It's like where you used to start. That you's got to be at least a little shiny spot. Just yeah, that's my that's my. Did they charge your extra when you got your name? He did nail a nail. It was just about them. I'm just most people only got photos because the baby toe don't count. It's just tucked off in there. Yeah, but if you lose it, you will fall, Okay, yeah right now? Yeah, I forgot Carlin Broker. All right, coming up a thirty two. I got a pardner that ain't got a big toe, and he wears salmon. Oh, he gotta stay leading forward, all right, we gotta go. Coming up at thirty two after the hour, asked the CLLO right after this, you're listening to Steve Morning Show. All right, it is time now for Steve's favorite segment. It's called asked the CLO the Chief Love Officer. This one is from Lynn and Maryland. She says, I've been married for ten years and I thought I had a good marriage until I got into an argument over a game of Uno with my sister in law. I beat her three times in a row and she got mad and went off on me. She told me, that's all it is, and too many reverses right after you say it Uno, Right, Okay? Her sister went off on her. She told me, my husband does not like my natural short hair, my cooking is terrible, and my sex is boring him to death. My husband didn't say a word. Here we are a week later, and I'm still not speaking to him. He hasn't even apologized. Is it safe to assume he told his sister this stuff about me? Hey yeah, hell ye. He said you can't cook, you got shot him and your sexist draft. He said it. He said it to his sister. All this, all this because she said Uno, and you pull out draw she poured by fifty cards. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but he could have at least apologized something. He cannot listen to me if he cannot say, I was just Look, I was just with my sister and when he was talking, because you can't tell a woman you was talking to her about another woman. Yeah, she don't kill who the woman is? You got short hair? She don't. Hearn't like your short hair. He don't like your cooking, and he don't like you love it. That's everything? Ye When did you get all that him out? To draw? Four? All right? This one is from he don't like the way you look. Those are three very important things, right, that's everything? And if two out of three ain't bad over here, all right. Karan in Southfield, Michigan says, I'm a forty two year old woman and I was checking the texts on my man's phone yesterday. Yes, he allows me to check his phone whenever I want to. I can't across the text message about child support for a seventeen year old daughter. I asked him about it, and he admitted that he has another child and he didn't tell me about her because it might run me off. He is a total of five children that I know of. Should I even be planning a future with a man that hides children and doesn't pay all of his child's support, that's a good one. Steve well wait admitted you saw a text about child support. He could be behind. He got five. You know he could be behind. He didn't tell you about the child because he didn't want to run you off. He thought the foe was Max. You know five. Now you think about not marrying him. You know what I'm saying. He was right, you know, but I think you have to stop the fact that the matter is he has been paying child support. He might be in the reels a little bit. That don't make him a horrible person. Could have just got a little side tracked on something. But he trying to do right and take care of child. He didn't tell you about it. But how long have y'all been dating? How long they say they've been married to day? Did it say in the question? No, it isn't. Yes, she's planning. You know. You check your man phone. You found out, you found out he got some text in it. Found about another baby seventeen years old. What you're gonna do? He's seventy baby seventeen baby seven time? I supported almost over it. Yeah, you ride this one not got about another year unless he rids good point. Her point is that he was lying. Well, he didn't lie, he didn't tell you about it. The same thing, same. No, that's not that's not the same it is it is junior. Is that the same thing? Hell, Tommy, is that the same thing that the sixteen? Is that the same thing? Absolutely? Note it is holding information. It's different from lying. Stent of O mission we win, O mission YEA is different from omitting. Steve, he lied if he told her he had four kids and he got five? Lied? No, okay, Shirley asked me a question. Watch this just ask Is that a red shirt you have on there, Steve? No, what do you mean? No, clearly it's red. You just lied to me. No, I didn't. This shirt. This shirt is red and black. I think you were gonna say that. I knew you were gonna say that because you got riding on the side and what you're talking about. You know, you're looking at the wrong side of whatever. Right like most hill in Missouri says, I'm a thirty four year old man engaged to a beautiful forty three year old woman. Before we met, she was in a relationship with him. Man for thirteen years and her ex boyfriend got sick last year and she was overly concerned with his health. He's much better now, but she calls to check on him and is offered to take him food. I feel like she's doing too much and this dude is taking advantage of it. I told her that I want her to stop talking to him, and she said that I am being too controlling and making her have second thoughts about marrying me. Am I wrong? Well? You know, man, if she was with a man for thirteen years and he got really sick, when you break up with a person, it doesn't mean you don't you know. She may not be in love, but she wants loved the man, and she's just caring for him a little bit. And now I know that's hard on you because you're younger, she older, But you know, sometimes like that, But you know, she just seeing about him. The man sick. You know, he could have almost could have got out. He might have corona. You know, you don't ever know good. You gotta get some soup over there in a mask. You gotta get them too. Some hands sometimes flip that if the situation were reversed, he was the one going to his ex Oh, she have a hearted exactly. Yeah, so I understand. I understand his his doing the most and the dude probably is taking advantage of But now it's do you trust her? Right? See, if some of these relationships, you're gonna have to put your big boy pants. O good advice when it comes to exs. I ain't got no big pants or whatever. Coming up next, it is the nephew to run that prank. Tidy White is now right after this you're listening show. Right now, the nephew in the building with today's prank phone call, run that prank back. What you got next? Copper's funeral at the club, Coppa's funeral at the club. Let's go, let's let's go on on sending Topahon the right way at the club, cat Doc, Yeah, trying to reach your James James, James, Yeah, yeah, what's up? Hey, this this is a Gerald. Uh. I was a friend of uh uh your your friend Chopper, yeah, h and Chopper just uh passed away last week? Right, Yeah, I know they posed had the funeral and stuff over at uh at mon Baptist Church. And uh, I don't really know you, but me me and me and Chopper and a bunch of wrestlers. Man, we used to hang out at the club not too far from the house. You know. That's pretty much with Chopper world all the time at the club. Anyway, what a bunch of us was over at the club talking, man, and I was we was really want to reach out to one of the family members, you know, And then somebody said you was, you know, kind of a good friend of Hells And when we we we we decided to call you and see if you didn't mind. Do you think that you can talk to uh, some of the family members and see if they don't mind having the funeral at the club. At the club, let me let me try to explain something to you, Jane. What we're trying to do is, see, we believe that we believe you said at the club, come on the club, there's a funeral, and I understand it. But see, see, chop Choppa ain't really go to church a whole lot, you know what I'm saying. He didn't really really go as long as I've been knowing him. Now, he loved a lord and stuff like that. But I understand, But see, Chopper woodn't chop Chopper went to the club, so what I'm asking you will Let's have the funeral at the club. Hell no, bro, come on, we can't have no funeral at no club. Man, Come on. What what I'm saying is, though, is that he wasn't really no church going person. I believe that a person ought to be the last words are to be said over him in a place he's more familiar with. You know what I'm saying, player, No, I don't. I don't know what you mean. Playout now, Just just gotta be a funeral. This, This is this is church for I go to church and all my folks go to church. Now we we gotta do this thing up in church. This is a church thing. But you don't feel But do you understand where I'm coming from? No, that man ought to going on and and the last words are to be in a place he more familiar. Now, if he went to church, then I understand that. You see him, o bro, Hell no, no, see this his chance to get itself right, and we don't. We're gonna have him up in church in front of everybody. You know that don't make sense? Who's this again? I mean, who are you? My name is Gerald? But who is Gerald? I mean? How do you how do you relate to this? Are you preach your are you no? No? Are you no? No? No? No, I'm I'm I was friends with Chopper, and see I hung out at the club and still hang out there with a whole bunch of you know, was real good friends with Chopping, and we were saying that, you know, Chopper's the last words about Chopper are to be said at the club, because see that's what Chopper would. But five six days a week, that's what Chopper was. But what church are you affiliated with? I mean, what? Want to hell? What I try to talk to the family? Make me look stupid in front of the family, telling them to put the thing in a club? How that gonna go off? Well? See, see that's what I'm saying. You know them way more than we do, because see that you're talking about trying to move from a damn funeral add a church to a damn nightclub or strip club or something. No, not no strip club, just a nightclub. It's the same thing, ain't it. I mean you talking about having folks travel from across the country and meeting into the damn club. What kind of that? But that's what Choppa was. That's what Chopper was. I'm gonna look if I'm the one telling them to rooted to the damn club, You're gonna look like somebody that's trying to I'm gonna look like a fool. No, you're not. You're gonna look like somebody that's trying to keep it real. Come to the damn funeral if I will do something like that, Okay, okay, let me ask you this, hitting or Jane, do you think you can maybe get the body and bring it over to the club. No, he knows. Well, I'm just saying before they even do the funeral or whatever. Hell no, I ain't touching getting the walk in the dog by my self. Whatna touch the body for? Hell Now, we're just trying to say our last words. And Chopper man in a place that Chopper most no helmer Again, who do you you get my number? Somebody at the club had your number, said you was print. But what y'all call me? Of all folks, y'all called me. They say you good. You in with the family, and you can tell me with the family. But I ain't end in the family. Make me look stupid. Hell now, won't y'all? I get all of them to the family. Y'all call the family, y'all tell them that yourself. Man, I won't. I just want trying to get you to brain the body by man and let us no, I ain't touching no dead body. We just want to have one last drink with Chopper. Man. You have one with your boys and you you get together with him and y'all talk about bottom and let him know how Chopper water what kind of prisony? What what kind of we need to We won't chop up to be there? This Chopper, this is Chopper you talking about man? Bring y'all to the church. Y'all need to be up in the church. We want to have a Chopper at the club. Well, we don't know mo man, y'all fully well, we know looking like a fool at the damn funeral? What this about Chopper though? And then write it about Chopper? You break Chopper to that club, y'all tripping? Man, I ain't doing I'm just going to this funeral. I'm gonna care to say what I think about Chopping and I'm moving. If y'all want to clay in front of town of y'all call the family, y'all selling to that look I got one more thing I want to see. I don't even know you well what what what this is? Nephew Timmy from the Steve Harvey Martin Show. You just got pranked by your board. This nephew Timmy man from the Steve Harvey Morty Show. Your board told me to prank you. Man, I just know, y'all, Dame, this his nephew tim Me. No, no playoff. Oh man, I can't believe this. No, he didn't. I can't even believe he did that. Hey man, I got one more thing to ask you, man, what is the baddest radio show in the land, The Steve Hardy Moaning Show. What was that? Beats right there? Can y'all feel that in? Yeah, I know what that was? Blank blank you Chopper? That was well, that's what Chopper more familiar with. Chopp spent out his time at the club, wasn't at the church. You know, people want to be buried with a familiar with. That's something they've been around all that. I'm with you. People might not be having funerals at the club, but they're damn sure having to repass that club. I've had a bunch of man, a lot of a lot of them, Shirley, I'm telling sometimes you can't find a place to put a whole family before COVID. I'm the people that can. We rent the club and then they put a big picture on stage and they dance and have Yeah. Man, yeah, it's a celebration, right right, yeah, yeah, all right, more of this crazy ignorant show. Steve Harvey Morning Show right after this. You're listening stew all right, everybody show truly gamed it around for the Steve Harvey Morning Show. You're looking for a treat for the holidays. Nothing sets you right like some of my delicious, delicious I mean delicious nuts. Go to Hotter than the MoPo dot com to order my spicy spicy spicy hot nuts hotter than a moofo dot com and order some hot sauce witer hotter than a moofo dot com for all your hot sauce needs. Watch out, dare. Now, thanks for watching me on the Sister Living In That's it. I'm gonna just play this for your short version of it. This is my reaction listening to Shirley Murdocks as we laid. This is the reason I'm ticked off because this happened to me in the eighties. I was at a girl's house all night long, and I don't know why Shirley thought was necessary write it dawn song about such a bad memory for eight morning, and we slept the night. Now we get to back the hand of time. Yes we still this one simple fan. Ain't no woman we someone the night. We ain't just slept no nightem. I ain't been in your baby. You just gonn fed me over his last shin across your oh here. Yes, yeah, we always go to sleep a week, but you taste supposed to be No this still posts last night. We're supposed to be the gone, our separate way. I'm a snowing hard we had were just supposed to have a lovely view out the whole night. You got some love to g I forgot shoe, knew I was late snow and you can't sleep when I'm snowing like leg hanging all mine about the price we had to pay. Now up in this daylight, I can't find my drawls, stay down my shoe in the kitchen. Wow, I don't a webber tize jacket turned inside out. I'm trying to get to this car. What is you saying about my wife folk, I had it when you that's me. You don't want to hurt it. What you tain't different to do? She used to understanding that I'm right. She fron understand you know crazy, I said, Shirley, who you want? I can't stand that beil right there as we slept, Dan, what is the bell going off? What was the beil at one thirty? You forgot about your funking? You know, counting up. You ain't got to deal with the calls. I'm not the one got drivers in and explained it did nothing help, Like Tommy says, eight hundred miss owned calls, seventy nine texts, all of them from huck you better be dead. I'm driving home, trying to think on what I'm busting my mom on the sand classic. What was the beil at one thirty? Dude, you didn't run man, sent have been looking at me talking about that as the sunlight crossed your face. You ain't post be no light on me. But that was the wild night, though jacket with a little out. I need to find my hanging off shoot the stands in the kitchen. I went home. I ain't got no shirt. I just got a town. I couldn't even find I know you gotta go home and face your wife. I never counted up to calls. You know you ain't got going here to do. I know how old you want? Gonna have no draws on its demnitely old women. You can't explain that university? Why is your drolls? See what? I'm not taking the pants off? If I ain't got no draws on the pants gonna stay on all the night? Are they? Though? I didn't I didn't wear no How did you misplace them over there? I was it tilet at the airport and I didn't make it. I had a little accident on them, So I just left them in the because I stop, you're lying. It's time to get out of here. As we lie coming out more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, Steve, you sir said you don't like watching your beautiful grandkids. And they are beautiful, they are? And why what is that about the lead? I don't like watching them. I don't have a lot of time. Should have been here. I always gotta tell him, so boy, get down off of them. Stop pulling her hair? Why y'all argus, Papa Rose won't let me. Well your baby, you don't need to hills. Well, I don't like pepper Peak lass cartoon. I'm looking pig checking up in hill, Papa. Let's watch pepper Peak. Papa. Don't like understand Papa like watching Sports Center and seeing it and Netflix. That's what I'm gonna watch, Brave, Papa. I want to drink of that. You can't drink mccallu. And don't ask me no damn the grandkid Scotch, where is Marjorie? That's why they'd be having me watching that, Papa. We want a bad time story your papa don't know nod you know, tell but they don't be the ain't none that kids poked to Herede. Do they lead the kids with you, like like lead the house and just yeah, you know, they'll go to no Booze or something they know I don't want to go. Then they're watching, okay, watching kids, so I don't put them in the movie theater room. I got the big screen. All I got cartoons, I mean little movies, you know, The Incredibles and all this year they're gonna talk and ask questions all the damn Yeah, I leave, and then they're coming here, Papa and Emily Dan who is Emily? No, I don't know none of these people right here. I don't like none of the better. And then my kid because I have bought all of the iPads. Dad, we don't want our children raised on iPad. Quit dropping them off over here. What they need the iPad for? They need somebody to talk to other and me and your kids. Aren't your grandkids vegan or something? The two of them vegan. That's another thing coming in here. Carley left b J. Whitte one time. Yeah, well, he came in my office. I was eating some reals and I gave it, you know, and he was chest over Joe. His eyes got big. He kept looking at any Did you eat it a little bit more? Ginny? You look at it? Didn't eat a little bit more. Carley came in here, Daddy, what did you give him? Eating the real? He don't eat meat? I said, yes, he does. We don't do that at our house. You ain't ask you how coming in here asking me, man, and raise the kids. Watch these kids. I watched these kids like I won't to how long they've been in the water until they look like Prue all right, we'll be back with more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show right after this. You're listening to the stew All right, guys, it's time for comedy route. Let's jay. You want to explain it? Real question, very simple, it's very simple. Our comedy ability gets tested every week. Tell you what you do. Give us five subjects. Put them on a wheel, spending wheel with a wheel stop. We'll do the damn thing and we'll do it fast. All right, here we go. I got the categories, all right. First one, I think this eggnog has gone bad like that one? All right? Now that's a thin ass Santa. Next one, ho ho ho. Yeah. People don't decorate like they used to. And there's nothing under the tree. Let's go spind the wheel, Christal, what do you think it's on? Stoff? I don't know which one. People don't decorate like they used to. People who don't they don't decorate decorate. People used to go all out back in the day. The hot ass light bubs they used to put on the tree, the big one sixty waters man. You want to you don't have to use heat during the one of time, just landing your tree and your your whole living room, was it? Man? You go all out like they don't go all out like that. Out each watered them lights. He wanted them lights look like a table spoon. I remember, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll tell you why they don't decorate like these. You know, you can go to the neighborhood and all our houses be lit up, stuff all into the yard. Who is the lazy person? That just little bush? Who did that? They just put lights? Oh they bush shit and lamb on the They ain't no padded too. And then they go right back in the house like we're about to clap from it. I remember when you used to actually get your tree flocked. Remember that? Yeah, they take the white stuff and spray it on your too. You took the time to wait to get your tree flocked. Now they go for a raggedy green tree in the living room and that's it, just tree. What happened to them? A little bit in reefs that they used to hang in the window with the one candle in the room. But it was electric and it flickered and I missed it. We had them in all three of our windows. Yeah, you got an activity scene in your living room, but none of the wise man's got hands because of them broke all. But you don't care. But ain't none of the wise Ain't you got no hands to hand? I'll tell you what you ever walking somebody the house for Christmas. You're going over there and you're looking at the Christmas tree and you can see the metal pole in the middle. Why why y'all didn't put all the pieces out of the him tree? Here? Looking, I can see the tree is so draft. Ain't he got no water? What is going over here? I put this trifling Christmas tree? Christmas? All the little bristles that you ain't putting no water? The lights is weighing down ranches where all the silver sickles a little pencils when used to throw all over the tree and making yeah, And you take them out one at the time and put them back in the box, saving the next year last one. Remember the Nativity scene that used to get put outside in the yard. Yes, but every time you passed by a hood Nativity scene you had to explain it to the kids because items was always missing. First of all, the wise men walked because we didn't have the money for the camels. Secondly, we couldn't use a baby Jesus this year because but Linda wanted a cabbage patch dial. So that's in the box. Up May the Mary and Joseph is two pictures of Deacon Patterson and Sister Porter. All people don't decorate like they used to. It ain't no hay in the manger. This just look like burlap sad laid. We're gonna have money for the break coming up decks. You're listening to morning show coming up at the top of the hour, right about four minutes after it's today's Strawberry letter. The subject I left in the middle of the night. That the subject. But right now, nephew in the building with today's frank phone call? What you got for us? Now? How much money do we have any account? Past watching? Now came it came in three cents. I broke it up. Now, how much money do we have any account? Pastor? Pastor, Pastor, how much money do we have in the account? Let's go okay, Hello, Hello, I'm trying to reach Pastor Hayes. Pastor Hayes, how are you doing? This is? This is brother Lennie Thompson. How you doing? I'm good brother, and how can I help you? Today? Past I'm actually one of your members at the church, and I want to just commend you that you're doing a good job the way you are display in safety. Let me say that first and foremost. Okay, cool, thank you. You know, we just want everybody to be safe and healthy. And your name again, Brother Lenna Thompson. Okay, And and and other times I'm kind of about to be in the middle of dinner. How can I help your brother? Well, here's what I wanted to ask you, man, uh paras, I want to ask you this. I know, you know a lot of people are going through different things, and and people are, you know, trying to make sure they keep food and stuff in the house because you know, time like this, you know you kind of want to stay put, and but you want to make sure you got enough food and water and things like that. So but but but what I want to my reason for calling you is I wanted to ask you how how much money do we have in the account? Come again, the church account? How much money do we have in there? Brother? Brother? What what do you say? Your name was again, brother, My name is brother Lenna Thompson. Okay, Brother Thompson. How did you get my person to sell phone? Thembing to be calling me home this time of day. Well, I got this number from one of the brothers at the church. What what brother the church if they know not to give my person a number out too to people I don't know? Are you? Well, I'm a I'm a but I'm a but I'm a member though I'm a member. Well, how I long you've been a member? Because I've been pastor this church for ten years and your name ain't familiar to me? How long? How long have you been a member at my church? I've been a member of probably going on going on three years now, but I ain't I ain't been since, you know, since that day I joined. You know, you know, I don't kind of got caught out there, you know how I go? But wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait. So you you've been a member of my church two or three years? You ain't been to the church and two to three years? Are you calling me to ask me about finances of my church? Well, I'm understand what you're looking for. Well, I am a member, So I mean I do how to don't I how the right to know what we got in there? What we got in the account? Actually, you don't you don't have to write to that question. If you don't actively come to the church, you can't come to the church, sign up church, and then call me three years later asking me what we got going on at church? So I need to understand what is your purpose? Well, like I say, everybody going through hard times, I'm trying to see what we got in there, because you know, I need to pick up a few things from the stove. I don't have the money right now, but shouldn't I be able to lean it on my church? Though? You lean, We've done a lot of stuff in the community. We've been feeding the elderly. We got a food bank, we've been cashed happing people some money that when we can. But you ain't been at this church, and three years you can't call me outter three years and think I'm about to give you some money for something I don't even know if you're a real member. I am a real man. I'm a real member. So hold on, hold on, hold on, hold hold on, past, hold on, hold on, hold on, no, no, no, hold on, by boy. Look here, I'm trying to sit down here dinner with my family. You sitting here on my last nerve. Look here, brother, Thompson. I don't know you. I ain't never heard of you. You am not about to call here and try to get some money out of me. You ain't even member of the church. You can't I am a member of the church because you come to the church one time, you ain't been back in three years and you come to me for some money. I am a member your mama, you are not a member of this church, sir, I am a member of the church. Look, look, look, let me tell you something. I know. This ain't no time. Let me tell you where You can't join my church two or three years ago and called me three years later, get my number from somebody and ask me for money because you're going through hard time. Now, if you was a true member of the church, you'll understand how we work and how we give money to people that are struggling. I just delivered forty meals today to our elderly. Last week, we cash out people money to go pick up grocery. Comparing what do you need? Do you need my cash half? Then do you need my ca Boy? Boy, you gonna make me because you ain't even tithing, So how are you not tiring? And think you clod you I have fell on bad times, didn't I say I fell on bad times? You feel on bad times for three years? Hey, hey, you know it takes longer for some people. Okay, why are you? Why are you judging me in opposed to trying to figure out how to cash at me so I can get on a number of my church. I don't know if you some scam artists trying to get money from the church. Sir, I have never met you. I don't know you. Matter of fact, I'm about to call it the deacons to see who you are and why they would give my number to some points to call me and ask me for some money. Hey, let me say this to you. If you don't cash at me, then I'm funny that all the members that I know you, I know our church ain't no mega church. You know we got three four hundred members already know so. But but I would let every member know that you're not cash happening me to help me in a time and need. I will do that. Rob Thompson, you can let them know. You can Facebook, Instagram and you can put it on that tchektok and cag me in it. I ain't giving you a dime I don't know you. I ain't never heard of you. Matter of fact, you need to get off my phone. I got dinner with my wife about to go on, man, and I ain't got tired of me going back for with you. I need to know who gave you my number so I can call them up and tell them don't be giving my number some stranger who ain't been our church in two to three years and gonna ask me for some money, some cash out or if you don't get off this phone, who gave you? Um? Okay, so let me ask you something. So so you know Deacon uh, Marvin Diller, don't know Dickon Martha. Yeah, what about him? Do you know he listened to the radio every morning. Yeah, he's listening to the Steve Harvey Martin show. Pastor, Haze, you just got pranked by your boy, deacon mom. Boy, I see, and that's why Deacon marm about to get kicked off the board. Boy, you got me eye in my yard. Yeah. My neighbor's looking at me like I'm crazy. They know I'm not on the block or you almost made me because you can't be doing that during this time, man, past you all right, man, man, I'm good man, I'm good, baby, Baby, everything good. My wife man came out here, boy, and you ain't don't want her to set it off? Oh you don't want the first lady to go out? Okay, man, but no, we take care of our church man. We feed them, sending the money. Man, deliver meals. Man, make sure abody good during this time. That's good man. Hey man, before we get off, you gotta let me know twenty twenty, Baby, what is the baddest and I mean the baddest radio show in the land. Man, It's the Steve probably Morning Show with day ignorant nephew Tommy and there you have it, ladies and jail. I'm going Tommy and right. I wanted to hear Timmy how long before he cuts? Because he was right there. He was right. You know what, Jay, and I pull it back. I got to the land and I said, I'm not gonna I pull it back. Coming up at the top of the hour, the Strawberry Letter subject I left in the middle of the night. You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show. It's time for today's Strawberry Letter. And man, oh man, if you need advice some relationships, If you need advice un dating, work, sex, parenting, anything and more. Submit your strawberry letter to Steve Harvey FM dot com and click submit strawberry. Click needs that k on that uh right, Steve right, you want them to click submit strawberry letter right now. I'm like, I like what you said. Click straw hit that button, hit that thing right there. All right, let's go, all right, buckle up, hold old tight he she is sure the strawberry with the straw very left. Thank you, junior. Subject I left in the middle of the night. Here's Stephen Shirley. I need your honest advice here because I don't know how to handle this situation. I'm in my late forties and in a good relationship with a man my age. We are well above the age of foolishness, but recently we had a big disagreement. I was staying at his house the other night and I got a call from my ex husband, who I still consider a friend. My ex husband is still single and he lives alone, so when he called me at two thirty am, I figured there had to be something serious going on and I needed to go and see about him. So I got up and was leaving to go help my ex husband. My boyfriend got very upset with me and we got into a huge argument about it. I don't understand what the big deal is. I would help anybody. I may have shared too many details about my friendship with my ex husband, and I probably shouldn't have told him that my ex still has me listed as a beneficiary on his life insurance policy. Surely my man doesn't think I still want my ex husband or vice versa. My man said he was only angry because it was a safety issue for me to leave at two thirty, But I know it's deeper than that. So now I'm second guessing everything. Yea, I should have even maybe I shouldn't have even answered the late night phone call. Was I not supposed to go help my ex? What do you think please help? Okay? After he called at two thirty am and you ran off to as you say, go see about him. Yes, your man definitely thinks you guys have something going on okay, and that you guys still want each other. I mean, who does this? I don't get it. Who does that? Did your ex say something was wrong or seriously going on like you say in the letter. I'll ask it this way, what man is going to sit back and be okay with his woman running to another man at two thirty in the morning. How does this make sense to you? This is a man who happens to be your ex husband. I mean, does this really sound reasonable to you? He may have said that it was a safety issue with you, but it was way more than that, and probably that too. As a matter of fact, if it was a safety issue, if he thought he should have gone along with you, I can get and tell you he's not upset about you and the life insurance thing. That's not anything for him to be worried about, because that's a good thing. It's about you getting up out of that bed and going over to your ex's house. That's it. That's all. Let me ask you this, what if you were what were you going to do for your ex? Did he say he never you never said what it was. You just never said you never said what it was? Help him do? What I mean? Couldn't it wait until later in the morning? Otherwise it just sounds like a booty call, That's it. I don't see how you don't see that. You're right, you shouldn't have answered the phone when you saw it was your ex husband. You shouldn't have gone over there. It could have waited. Whatever was Your man is right to be mad. If he was at your house and a woman called him at two thirty in the morning, he got up to go see her, how would you feel. You would be mad just like he is. So I know you'd be highly upset and have a major attitude. Okay, So you were wrong. You should have stayed there and not answered the call. Okay, And you're gonna have to deal with this because your man, hopefully he'll forgive you. But I don't know, Steve, I can't believe this is written by a woman who's grown. I left in the middle of the night. The name of this letter should be how stupid this sound to you? Right, that's the title of this letter. Let's change this letter. How stupid this sound to you? Shirley. I need your honest advice, and Steve, yeah, I'm glad you. I'm glad you said honest advice because I want to hell you fitting to get him, Come on, bring it, because I don't know how to handle this situation. I remember late parties. Get a good relationship with a man my age we above the age of foolishness. No, no, no, stop right there, he is above the age foolish Thank you all up in foolishness. But recently we had a big disagreement. I was staring at this house the other night I got a call from my ex husband, who I still consider a Fred. Problem number one, my ex husband is still single. Problem number two. What's a little noise that's putting on the brake? And he lives alone? That's problem number three. So he called me at two thirty am. I figured there had to be something serious going on and I needed to go see about him. So I got up and was leaving to help my ex husband. That hell is wrong with you crazy? Let's go back to the title that I want to call this letter. How stupid this sound to you. We're laying in bed, phone ring, it's two thirty. You figure something seriously got to be wrong. So you sits up, You gets dressed, and you're going to see about your ex husband too thanty phone calls. It's prime booty time. Yeah, one more time, Prime booty time. Matter of fact, you're on the back end of a booty call two thirty late. The booty is in the process of having already answered the call. Wow, we're showering about now this rist all usually the big rist all. We'll be back with the rest of his to hell you talking about. We'll have part two of Steve's response coming out going right at twenty three after the hour left in the middle of the night. Or how stupid does this sound to you? You're listening to show? All right, come on, Steve, part two of your response to to this. This woman got a booty call at two thirty in the morning, her laying next to her new boyfriend. It's her ex husband who is single and lives alone, and you figured something had to be seriously wrong at two thirty any morning, So you gets up leading now yo, her boyfriend? Man, what are supposed to be you're getting up to answer? Or what is we all know is a booty call? Sharlon know that? So why are we sitting up here trying to act like this ain't what it is? My boyfriend got very upset with me. We got into a huge argument about it. I don't understand what the big deal is. I would help anybody. Oh, so now you're tricking You would help anybody. So anybody that calls at two thirty, you willing to get up and help them. Let me explain something to you, lady. Let me just dig off in my past a little bit here. I didn't call a lot of women at two thirty any morning and said, it ain't ever been nothing wrong. You haven't been sick, or it's not an emergency, not a toothy if I call you at tooth thirty going down. The only thing wrong with me. I'm lonely and through. I just need to be I need some coming. I need somebody to put me to sleep. I'm suffering from insthing new. I can't go to sleep. And you could be the bigg ass peel come rock a bye baby in the tree talking, come on, come and put me to sleep. But it took that in the moaning what a man called a woman. Something's going on. Someone's on the phone three o'clock in the moaning talking about how he can make it right. Did you hear me al Green saying about this far? Now hear you answering it, trying to figure out what the hell he's mad about. Because Al Green is at your house. I would help anybody. I may have shared too many details about my friendship with my ex husband so now you're running your mouth too, Okay, And I probably shouldn't have told him my ex still has me listed as a beneficiary on his life insurance policy. Oh well, maybe that was it. Maybe you was going over there and make sure you still be well. But see, but in order to make sure you the beneficiary, you got to provide benefit. See you get the beneficial, You got to be the benefit. You understand, see that one I'm talking about. Surely, surely my man doesn't think I still want my ex husband or vice versa. Why would you not. He didn't put you on the policy. This he the impitied me a sugar daddy. I'm no sugar daddy now, and when I'm gonna hello hello, this a matter of fact, your ex husband falls into the category a super sugar daddy. You rather dig I'm let and see. So now, if you got a sugar daddy, that's a super sugar daddy that can provide sugar, living and gold, you got to get over there and provide benefit so you can be remained the beneficial. Arey that's what you need to do now. My man said he was only angry because it was a safety issue for me to leave in two thirty, Your damn writer was a safety issue for you to leave. In two thirty, the damn safety issue was he might lose you to the man with all the damn. This man got a shore his policy. But I know it's deeper than that. Let me see what you say. Now. Maybe I shouldn't even have answered the late night phone call. Well maybe you shouldn't. Was I not supposed to go help my ex? What do you think? Let's talk about the help you to provide it. Break it down, Steve, break it down. He's locked out of his house. Oh and why do you have a key? He's sick and only you can make him better. It's two thirty in the morning. He didn't got some bad news, and now here you come to hold him, console him, shape and mold him. You better make a song out of this. Nah, two thirty, Come on in the morning. Somebody just can't sleeve. He picks up the phone and it called on me and I went out to do just to Skippy. Ain't happy on mine about to go out the door. I bought both fires. I'm about to give him some more because I'm beneficialing about used to be Maverick, used to be mavering. Now I gotta go and take care my beneficier status won't and I won't heal. Uh huh. He's leaving money when it ain't no more heal. He got me now, and I get it then, So I go o open open, letting me all right, listen, we gotta get out of here. Email us Instagram us her thoughts on today's Strubberry letter at Steve Harvey FM coming out more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show right after this. You're listening to Steve Show. All right, guys. Before we went to break, I asked this question, do you hold a grudge toward any family member? So have have you guys written off relatives or your entire family because of what a person did? Because you're holding a grudge? Junior me, Yeah, oh grudge. Now I love my sister. There's nothing wrong here. Think yeah, yeah, old grudge, hold on one right now? What happened? Yeah? I love you, Dan, I really do. But your friends probably gonna call you in a minute. I'm not talking about you. Yeah, don't get yourself in trouble. I'm grown sure. Okay, Well, I'm thinking with mo my time and money going into this, I should be able to say what I want to say. If I'm helping a family member, right a wrong? Can you say you know what I'm saying? So that for what it is. Yes, I took my daddy truck back. Daddy, Hey, bet your ass walking night? Did she gonna lie me? Said she gonna lie me? Yeah, my daddy truck back. Yeah, so get dad. Bet your fall ranging now? So if next thing you say gonna be the truth? Yeah, yes, I changed the bank account bad. Yes, yeah, we each grudge. He gets louder though stuff. No, I ain't paying the rent that is so, Hey, I feel better. How about your How long you've been holding this? June by three months? So glad Carl to put this in the show? What if? What if they don't hear you? Do you think I give a damn not for real radio? It's fun? Thank you just be heard? You know what this is so rejuvenat. I didn't even know. Man, I've been involved therapeutic. Man. You havn't therapy, man, Let it out. I do it all the time. Yeah, all these lives. No, I wouldn't come see my daddy. You know you're a damn lot. But I've been there. But I'm hearing out though what happened? I don't know. Y'all know what's going on? Show crazy, don't act or don't act. I think I just didn't think you'd say it, like, why wouldn't I couldn't wait for call to put this in the show. I've been waiting on this break how many months? Three? Say it out? If you're not yes, yes, you didn't tell me you was taking his money. I don't know how you say that? Then? Who? Thank you? Then? You know? Do you think I give it? Damn time? Once again? Call me? You ain't been calling by time. I've been trying to talk. Ain't nobody wanted to talk? Coming out more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, it's time for something funny, for something. I got something, a list, we all got some. Just let you know right away when it ain't none of your damn biby. Yeah you mayn't see it, yeah it but it ain't. Let it go. Let it go? What to keep? You know what you see, but it ain't you Biden instant. Sure, Yeah, you are going to have to do something. Now we have for you because you're not good this. You don't like this, coach, you bush. But listen, people's real blad. I want you to read them. This is really going on in people's lives. I want you to read at least two of these, all of you, and read it like you mean it. All right, all right. If you see someone open the exit door, okay, you're at the movies and they let nine people in the theater. Yeah, oh, come on, and you'll see they ask you to get out movie starting. If you're hanging out with some white folks at the park and they hear something and walk through the woods, let me tell you something that ain't got nothing to do with you. Now that he had one, lever had one? Let had one? All right, your homeboy, y'all been boys, see tight, y'all tight, just hang out. All of a sudden you see him ain't out hugged up with another dude. Ain't you gotta be careful, don't say anything? What about this? Then? If you see someone at the drive through take the money and put it in his pocket, that ain't your damn you. As long as you get your food, just get your food. You gonna call the police. You don't know you don't drive off from that wonder. You don't know what he going through. You don't know what happened at all. Man. If you in line, uh huh after amusement pause, okay, yeah, and somebody cut the line behind you, Yeah, that ain't your dad, come up here in front of me, but you cut You see him cut right there like that, right down you. That ain't your damn man, that's not right, not your business. Let me tell you that one if you win your wife huh and see your girlfriend with another man, huh, that really ain't so damn your Yeah, you shouldn't say nothing, not a thing, little good time. Nothing. You're in the grocery store. Did see somebody go over to the grapes and they eat about they four handfuls of break up pound. They eat complete. That's wrong, they eat a pound break I just said that eating grapes. That ain't tell Jake, is that that stealing? That's great about this j You have to bank and you have to win that. And the man next to you have to win. If you see him slide to know to the teller, Hey, that ain't none of your tailfel give me my twenties I and let me go get out, and I'm with you. You and you in a coffee place, right. You see and you see somebody get a handful of them sugars. I'm just a handful who in each hand. Too handful the packs put them in their pocket. That ain't joking. They don't bother anyway. That's too many sugars, not chiping too much. If you in the gail, uh huh. Yeah. And you see somebody working out with a trainer, huh. And the trainer tell him to do fifteen ls and he walked on and they don't do but six. I gotta tell not honest. It ain't got nothing to do with being honest. All right, more of this crazy ignorant show. Steve Harvey Morning Show. Right after this, you're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. Gander Browns for the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Man in the Street. Very simple question. The question is what is your favorite Christmas song? Joy to the world, jingle bells, Oh Holy Night, Silent night. I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. Melly Kaliki Maka Did you sing that for me? Oh? No, silent night. Grandma got run over by Randma got run over by Raindeer, Rudolf, the Red Riddles, ringing, sing a little bit for me, No, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays by in sync, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells, a rock jingle bell rocking, No, no, no, no nothing. Then then in then night a Merry Christmas, Pretty baby, Christmas, pretty baby. But Yall Brown, what's your favorite Christmas song? Baby like that one? Joy to the world, Solid Night, Holy Night, Santa Claus went to the Ghetto, Chester Roast Christmas Carol, I like the Mariah Carryway. The question today is what is your favorite Christmas song? Man Felice, no dog rocking around the Christmas Tree, Hang of the mistletoe. I'm gonna get no, you better. What's the name of that one? This Christmas fire? Five plasing bride, Randy? Can you sing a little bit? What is Christmas? Sing it? Oh? No, Michael Jackson, I saw Mommy kiss and Santa Claus? Can you sing it? White Christmas? Um the one from Charlie Brown Christmas the Christmas Tree? Oh no, that's not it? Is it? No, it's the other one. It's the is that that is my favorite Christmas song? Is Santa Claus comes to the Ghetto by Snoop Dogg and Nate Dog. You're listening show, all right, Steve, You sir said you don't like watching your beautiful grandkids. And they are beautiful, they are, And why what is that about the lead? I don't like watching them. I don't have a lot of time. She up been here always gotta tell him, so boy, get out off of them, stop pulling her half? Why y'all argut? Papa Rose won't let me well, your baby, you don't need to look in here. But I don't like pepper pig lass cartoon. I'm looking pig up in hill, Papa. Let's watch Pepper Pig Papa don't like understand Papa like watching Sports Center and seeing it and Netflix. That's what I'm gonna watch, Brave Papa. I want to drink of that. You can't drink McCall and don't ask me, no damn Scotch, where is Marjorie? That's why they'd be having me watching that, Papa. We want a bad time story. Your papa don't know. No damn what do you know? But they don't be They ain't none that kids post to hill? Do they lead the kids with you? Like like lead the house and just yeah, you know, they'll go to No Booze or something. They know I don't want to go. Then they're watching, okay, watching kids, so I don't put them in the movie theater room. I got the big screen. All I got cartoons, I mean, little movies, you know, the Incredibles and all this hill and they're gonna talk and ask questions all the damn Yeah, I leave, and then they're coming here and proper Emily Dan, who is Emmaly dog? I don't know none of these people right here. I don't like none. Then my kids because I'm bought all of them iPads, and Dad, we don't want our children raised on iPad. Quit dropping them off over here. But they need the iPad for they need somebody to talk to other than me. And see, your kids, aren't your grandkids vegan or something? Aren't there two of them vegan? That's another thing coming in here. Cary left VJ. Whitney one time. Yeah, well he came in my office. I was eating some ribs and I gave it, you know, and he was just over Joe. His eyes got big, he kept looking at any. Didn't eat it a little bit more Guinny to look at it. Didn't he eat a little bit more? Carl came in here, Daddy, what did you give him? I said, eating the real He don't eat meat? I said, yes, he does right now. And we don't do that at our house. You ain't ask your house coming in here asking me many sit raise these kids. Watch these kids. I watched these kids like I won't to how long they've been in the water until they look like pruney. Keep coming up closing remarks right after this. You're list s all right, Steve. Here we are our last break of the day. It's the last break up the day. Yes it is. And what are you doing? It's been a good day though, a good day. Oh you weren't. No, we're to it now. Okay, uh let me do this, you know. Um hey, uh, I got I got something I want to share with you all today. Um, you know today. When I woke up this morning, I had all because it was Super Bowl weekend and we were in Miami. I didn't do my usual meditation every morning, and I missed about three days in the row of my early morning meditation. I always get up is something I've been doing for a little while now. I started at last summer and I very really miss a day. I've been very very happy about that. The benefit of it is it gives me a moment alone before the hectic part of the day begins, and before the phone starts ringing, and before I you know, I used to wake up and look at my emails and my text and get started. And I stopped doing that. And it has been a big refresher for me and my life because I just felt like I was starting my day wrong. I needed to have some spirituality brought into my life first thing in the morning. And I found that. Ever since this summer that has been a very very important aspect. It's been very calming for me. It has been very very invigorating. It has helped me change the way a lot of my days start. But that alone time that I sped having my spiritual moment with my creator is the way I've chosen to do it. I want to tell you are something if you haven't tried that, give it a try. It's something about the early morning hours before you start hearing trafficking, before you turn the TV on, or answer emails or texts. It's something about the quiet of early morning before the house starts moving around, and plates clanging and stuff like that, and doors shutting. It's an amazing time to get in touch with your spirituality. And I suggest just give it a try. You know, it may not be for you. It may not. I don't. I don't know you, but it happens a lot. I was reading the scripture once doing this thing and it and it, and was saying that I'm paraphrasing it because it's showing't what it said exactly, but I will come with you in the early mornings and hear your cry. And so it's been very beneficial to me. And this morning in particular, after spending about three days not doing it, today I sat down and all I did in my journal, because I have a Bible, I have a daily devotional, I have a journal. All I did in my journal this morning was I began to write out everything I could think of that I wanted to thank him for. I just put a list of things I was grateful for. And the next thing I know, I had feeled up two pages, I mean two complete pages in my journal. You know. And now it's not a piece of notebook paper. You know, they're going to three ring binder, but it's it's a substantial piece of paper, and I filled it up because I was just I couldn't stop writing, and I was writing everything I'm thinking for safe passage in the airways. I thank him for my children's health. I thank him for guidance. I started thinking him for everything that he's done for me that I pray about, and the things that I that he's done for me that I don't pray about. I thank him for my breath. I thanked him for my measure of health. I thanked him for being able to have a lifestyle beyond my dreams. I was thanking him for the ability to dress myself. I was thanking him for meeting people, for taking on the mantra of two twenty twenty twenty of no complaints. I just decided in twenty twenty I didn't want to complain. So I've cut back on that. I haven't stopped completely. You know, I'm catching myself every now and then, but I've been so far. I've cut down on complaining drastically. And I thought thing for that, because instead of complaining whatever I feel like I want to complain about something, I find a way to be grateful. I find something to be grateful for. So I've I've replaced complaining with gratitude. Wow. Wow, what a game changer, What an amazing mental state that puts you in. If you could exchange complaining for gratitude. Gratitude is a very very underrated principle of success. Not many people talk about it. But the more grateful you are, the more things grateful God will give you to be grateful for. The more grateful you are, the more thing God God will give to you to be grateful for. That's a fact. That's a fact. And so I'm suggesting to everybody get up a little bit earlier and spend twenty minutes, fifteen minutes, let's start there. The more you can do, the better. But if you could start with ten quiet minutes with just you and you and God, and I don't care what faith you're in, just you and God. Just spend some time talking with him, thanking him, tell him what you want, tell him what you need, asking for the help that you want. But tell him you love him, and tell him you and tell him you're trying to get it right and you need some helping, and tell him what you want and thank him. It's an amazing way to start your day. Just give it a thought, y'all. That's all. Those are my close remarks. Um y'all have a great wicked for all. Steve. 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