Y'all know what time of y'all don't know. Y'all have a suit on, looking back to back down, giving the mother like the looking bucks bus things and it's cost me true good it. Steve has listening to move together for Steve Barby, I don't join by joining me. You gotta turn hur the You gotta turn to turn them out. Got to turn out to turn the water the water. Come come on your baby at it. Uh huh, I show will good morning everybody, y'all listening to the VARs, come on dig me now wanting on it. Steve Harvey got a radio show, man on man on man, grateful for it comes with a huge amount of responsibility. I didn't really know I was gonna have to be this responsible, you know, Um, can I share something with y'all? I started out to Finally I had gotten on track and was able to see a way to even pursue my dream. It has been a long, a long trip that I've been on, and I've gone through so many phases of it. It is rewarding along the way to accomplish your dreams. What I'm saying is this, let me, let me put it together. Because I got so much running through my head right now. You know it's it's one thing to accomplish your dream, but there's joy in the process of achieving it. See, some people are so caught up in the goal, the final goal, that they find no joy, no enjoyment in the process. If you have found what it is you want to do and you strike out on that journey, please understand you are far more blessed than the average person to know what it is you really want to do, to find your work in life, your purpose, to find out what direction you want to go in is such a blessing. The average person if you sit down and talk to them, oftentimes don't have their life on track. And it'd be some people that you're looking at you think God are going on because of their appearance, their swagger, or they walk like it, they talk like it, they look like it. But if you sit down and talk to the average person, the average person man does not know what their purpose is, has not discovered what they want to do, and have no idea how to get there. If you are on the other side of that, if you understand your purpose, if you have an idea of what you want to be, and you are on your way there, you are truly blessed, and in that blessing, you must recognize it as a blessing. You must recognize the fact that you are on the right side, and that there should be a sense of accomplishment and a feeling of pride in you that you are on track to accomplish your goal. See what used to happen was sometimes I used to keep my nose so on the grindstone that I wouldn't even look up and realize. Man, hey man, I know you're trying to get here, but Steve, hold on, man, can't you see what you've done so far? Can't you find just some joy in the process. See, a lot of us lose the joy of the blessings God has given us because we're looking at the end. Tomot, I ain't there yet. You on your way. I'm gonna give you an example. I had a friend who told me that they wanted to be a million now, and they asked me some questions and I told him, so they started the process, and I am telling you, this dude works extremely hard. So about a year later we were talking. He had found this business, he had set his goal, and he was working towards it. Then about two years later, I ran up into him again. We were talking about it and everything. It's a man, really really appreciate the advice. He said, Man, but this is all jacked up, man, because I still ain't made that million I was talking about. I said, well, hey, man, just just keep at it. It's coming. He's a man. Keep at it. Man. You know how long I've been doing this? Been two years now. And I didn't say that to him, but I said to myself, yeah, two years. He said, Man, I've been grinding so long. Man, it's just it ain't having it from me. I said, wait a minute, man, hold on, hold on. I said, about how much you're making right now a year, man, about two hundred and fifty thousand. I quit breathing. I said, well, my man, two years ago you didn't have a clue. Two years later, you're making a quarter of a million dollars. I said, man, do you understand how blessed you are? I said, man, your family was about to get put out two years ago. You don't bought a house? Yeah, man, but this ain't the house. I really won't. Ohoa Pardner, WHOA I got that? I got that house. You really won't make Mike call five eight million. I don't know, but man, y'all gotta high. You're making the payments. You drive it. You ain't out no more. I said, holder. Man, you got to stop. I said, you got to stop. I said, man, because right now, man, you you coming across. That's real ungrateful to me. And so he said, man, why are you tripping like that? Man? Man, you act like don't nobody want to have nothing but you? I said, whoa man? Where you going with this conversation? I said, Oh, I didn't come to you. I just came to you and ask you how you doing. And I'm trying to point out to you that the journey that you started on, that you are on your weight, and you are in the process of accomplishing your goals. And can you not feel some joy and some pleasure in your accomplishment. Quit tripping on the fact that you ain't made a million yet. You on your way. You don't went from your He thought, this dude was making fifteen thousand dollars a year. You making quarter of a million dollars in two years. May come on, man, can't you see? Can't you see? So he said? Eventually a man I kind of see what you're saying. But that ain't about nothing to me because I ran up into him a year and a half later. How you're doing, man, Man, I showed, wish I'd appreciate it my life when I had it like that? I said, what you mean, had it like that? Man? Just fell on some hard times. Man, I'm right back why I was. And then we talked. I said, hey, man, don't worry about it. I said. Once you know how to accomplish something, I said, you just reapply the same principles and start on over again. Man, you know how hard it is to be to start over. Okay, my man, Hold up, partner, you can't do yourself like this again. First you wasn't grateful for what you had. Now you're looking at the fact that you might have to start over, and you know how hard it is to start over. Maybe God said, okay, you ain't happy with this? Okay, didn't handle it your way? You obviously ain't happy with the way I'm bringing it into your life. You want to handle it your weight, Go ahead and handle it, because he will let you have it your way. Can I tell you that he will let you do it exactly the way? You want to it because he gives us all the power of choice. So then maybe he said, Okay, you don't appreciate the way I'm doing it. You don't like the favor I'm showing you. You think it's take it too long. I'm gonna let you do it your way. I'm not gonna turn my back on you. I'm just gonna let you do it your way. Just just say. Maybe he said that, and now he right back where it was. So what I try to get the young cat to understand was, man, appreciate your life for what it is, because like life, Jenny's got that song that he got out off this album. Still I still believe it could have been worse. And now that it is worse, what's on your mind now, folks, if you are on that side of life where you have figured out what you want to do, you know how you're gonna get that, and you know your purpose. You're accomplishing what the majority of people never ever do. So be grateful for your process. Don't tumble yourself, don't throw yourself off to cliff. It's gonna be all right. Success takes a measure of time. It is not easy. If success were easy, everybody would be successful. You're listening tow everybody. You're listening to the Steve Harvin Morning Show. Our leader, our feelish leader. Went to the game. He's on his way in. He can come and later. It is his show. You know what. He don't make No damn ja Jake, No, no, stop that he late, Jake. Let's just say that he late. He ain't here. You know, I don't like, no, not stopped it. I don't like when I'm late. That's all we talk. Well, you know when I'm late. I get it too. I understand what you're saying. Yeah, you know, but he late. Okay, he late. I ain't never like. Okay, thank you, thank you. Let's put that out there. I'm the Steve. It's late. But we went to the game, yes, and now the next morning he ain't here. That's what we're gonna talk about it all morning time. All as long as you dog all right, we're gonna talk about it. Tell me if you had a show last night and you didn't make it on Monday, yeah, he would have been dogging me on the scene about the game. Wasn't this morning? The game was last night. You gotta talk Jane. You're got ang. It ain't like the game just finished. Thank you, Jake. Jake. Let's talk about that Pepto Bismo who he had on? Let's talk about that. You know the was the NFL Honors Award. Yeah, he had the Pepto Bismo jacket on that. I didn't see it. I saw three people got upset stomach and all that with the three people behind him doing. I know, I ain't only one scene. I didn't see it that. Well, you know what. He's not here, but I tell you who he is here. Shelly Strawberry is here. What's up? Shot? Well, good morning, Jay? Did you hear your voice? Everybody? What's up? And I tell you who else is? Said Carlin for Rel is here? What's up? Carla? Oh? I started to call lean on Super Monday. Let's say millions of people though, Carla, take off on Super Bowl Monday, especially when they're yes, when their team loses, they do, oh my god. Well you know what, Jay, let me let you finish. Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, good time. JA. The city did the dog on, they did, they did everybody homes Yeah, my homes boy, m VP. That was a great game that was for any read you know, winning because he hadn't won in a long time, and that's his first one. That's his first first one. And it was really sad the way they put that ice water on that old man. That was not cool. Man. They didn't you didn't like that. They hold that water in kneed Lockdow right away and Gailorade. They shouldn't have done that. Baby, I'm talking about I'm talking about the Barbecue City. Then done the dog gone faint? Right? All right? So hold on. Coming up at thirty two minutes after the hour, we're gonna just talk more football, Uh, find out about what happened, talk about the commercials, all of that. That's coming up at thirty two minutes after. Right after this, you're listening to the string show. Super Bowl Monday is what they're calling it. That's right, super Bowl Monday. That's what this is. This is what bows normal. Super Bowl money. And and I fear this leader ain't here yet. He keeps texting late, I'm on my way. You know what they'll call it when I do that. Though, as soon as I say I'm late, I beat there in a minute. Then you know what, he dogs me out. You're right when you're talking about the person with the with the Pepto Bismo jacket on at the hills. Well, the rules are different when the jingle. That's just the way it is when you season what you say, team Tommy. Rules a little bit different when your names and the jingle. That's all I'm saying. You started jacket, okay, whatever, whatever, I know. You saw that jacket. I saw it. I saw it. If you saw the Pepto bismo jacket, right, yes, I didn't see it, yes, Okay, Then so I guess for the jacket he had, he could be I don't why is he know why? That's gonna be his story. But it's a pattern. Every loud jacket. He's late because he was not a pattern Jay a loud jacket. He don't come in on time. I don't know what you know. You're right, you're right, You're right. It's crazy. But he will be here. I think he'll be here here. He'll be here. And then when he gets here, are we gonna ask him about the jacket? Yeah? You know, Shirley, Okay, okay, Shirley, sure, don't don't let me down ask him. Sure. I'm not gonna say that. I will time in later, but I'm just saying, ask him about it. There's something specifically? Um, is there something specific? You want me to say? Why the hell did you wear that jacket? You know I'm not gonna say that pretty okay, sir? What you gonna What is you gonna say? Then? So see you were pretty fly? Tell us about the outfit? Yeah, I don't fly? You know, so I'm taking like Jack? Are you getting that from it? You just don't. You didn't like the jacket? No, I did not like the jacket. I did not like the Pepto Bismo Jack. It was a Pepto bismo jacket, shirt and tie all together. I did not like it. Na is anybody with me? I checked? Nope, right now? Jacket? Okay? Good? Yeah, wait talking about the jacket? Wait, what you changed? I know I have come to that check. I will change. I will change. But let's talk about the commercials yesterday the Big Game. What was your favorite? Let's go go? Okay? I think my favorite was the first one I saw, and I knew it was going to be my favorite. Uh. The little boy, the little black kid with the blond hair, the blind mohawk. Take it to the house kid, Yeah, run. I love the NFL h on the field favorite. Yes, and I knew it would be my favorite. I didn't. I did like the mc hammer commercial with it Can't Touch This with the chi That was funny. Popcorn. Yeah, that was funny though. I like the Reese's take five cliches. Yes, yes, you're like that style. I thought that was killed too. I liked it and you didn't like it, Tommy, nothing nothing yesterday. I didn't like this Saturday, man, I ain't like nothing, Junior. You didn't like Jason Memoir. The com commercial was hilarious. That was funny, man, it was okay, Wow, it was this guy. Did you like j Loo? Oh, let's talk about that hair tap show? Was anybody impressed? I liked? Yes, that wasn't no. Jano did the dog okay? Hold on? Yes, three Cara, both of them hit me don't live give me three? Okay? Okay, Junior, I don't really know the songs, but everything she did, I like everything she did. I like, here's the thing, just because you find don't make you a good singer. It just don't. I thought she was fine. I thought jay Loo looked a freaking many she did. Yeah, she absolutely beautiful. Yes, I really did. But I still waiting my time, Kira and Jennifer, waiting waiting for what. I just say this, say this. You got a real, much bigger and better show with Lizzo. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. Come on, but she wasn't as popular. I don't care. We're starting it is now after she won the and everything she might be performing. We got just that big. We didn't miss it and show nobody got it then crazy. I loved it. I loved it. I loved it. I love the performances. They lo was still the truth. Jenny from the Block is still the truth to me. I'm sorry, Yeah, well yeah, don't cost a thing. Yeah, waiting for tonight. I mean, she's got hits. Now, she's hits. It was just I didn't know Shakira was that talented with her playing instrument and she played the drum. She played drum chart. You know, I knew she could dance. That's a bad girl. I knew she could. He really is a bad girl. Yeah, but I really enjoyed the show. The halftime show I did it was amazing. I thought, I think a good job. I think the choreography, the dancing, they all right. Uh, I didn't get to seeing that. Coming up, We're gonna run that prank back with the nephew right after this you're listening show coming up at the top of the hour, we're gonna talk more highlights of the super Bowl. Uh see what Tommy? What else Tommy hated about the Super Bowl? I hated the referee you hie up on the hate man you today, you know, and and the refs. They could have woke something different, they really could. They could have woke out. Come on nine. Now it's super Bowl. Where's something different? We're looking like you work at foot lockers. Stop that right now it is time for the nephew on the super Bowl Monday, Uh to run that prank back. What you got for us now? Uh? This is the super Bowl party year, the super Bowl party. I got it, I got it. It is Come on nine. That's what I do. Twenty twenty, I'm brand new, banking new. It is cat Dog. Let's go hello, Hello, I'm trying to reach Gerard. Yeah, this is what's Carlos. Hey, this is this is Curtis Man. I'm um, I'm one of your abs in neighborhood. I'm about three, I think about three streets over from you. I'm reaching out to you, man, I know the super Bowl coming up? Are you are you? Are you playing on throwing your your annual super Bowl party this year? Many? How you get you said you're in the neighborhood. Yeah, y'all live in the neighborhood. I'm I'm three streets over from you. Oh okay, yeah, how'd you hear about the super Bowl party? Man? I mean, I mean everybody knows about it. I mean, you know, it's it's it's it's pretty big every year you got you know, I mean it's it's it's cars everywhere. I mean, you guys be me rocking for all through the NiFe on super Bowl Night. So I'm calling to see if are you throwing it this year? Um? Yes? And you I do it every year, man, I do it every year. A neighbors come over, everybody comes over. We have a good time. So yeah, we're gonna be doing it again this year. While what's up? Okay? So here here what I want to tell you, man, every year your party too loud, and it's people parking all in front of other people's houses. You know, I'm three streets old. It's people parking in my driveway to get to your house, and to be honest with you, just too loud. And I'm just telling you this year, if that is loud, this year, I'm calling the police this year. Man, this is what you really called me for. You really called me to threaten me, to tell me you're gonna call a police shut down my party. Bro. You know I mean too loud. Man, you've met everybody, and everybody in the neighborhood come to my party, man, I ain't. No, everybody in the neighborhood don't come because I damn so ain't been there. That's because you ain't get an invite. Hater. That's why you ain't getting no invite. You I said, you're a hater. That's why I'm not. No, I ain't no hater. I'm just telling you your stuff is out of control. Man. You gotta tone it. You gotta good control of your party. You don't have control of it. Man, you're telling me how to control my control your mouth. Start it. Let's start right there, all right. You ain't calling No, you ain't doing none of that. We ain't doing Oh yeah, yeah, hold on. You ain't telling me what I'm not gonna do all right. I just you're the one. You you the one to on the last party. You the one got people parking and people driveway and yeah, that's right. If it happens this year, I'm calling the police. You ain't calling nobody, You ain't calling it every person. I'm gonna tell you that right now. Okay, So how are you fenn stop me? How are you fenn stop me from making sure I got peace and on my street at my house. I'm gonna stop you with a size twelve right up, y'all. Okay, Okay, I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna tell you again. Control your party, get the noise level where it ain't disturbing everybody in the neighborhood, and stop people from parking in people's driveway. And I'm gonna tell you again, I'm about to have a party with my size twelve right up in your Hey, dude, it is what it is, then, it is what. Look for the police to be at your party, all right, Look for the people to look for the police to be at your damn party, because evidently you don't respect your neighbors. It's what it is, you know what I do, respect my neighbors, because all it neghbors in the neighborhood come except for you, because we already know you're on y'ar on that list. Yet I hated that's neighbor that be calling toe trucks and you know, complaining about leaves yard and all that. I know exactly who you are. That's why you never got to invite to the party because you do not even know me. Dude, you use the idea who I am use a buster? Use that? Okay, I'm but I'm gonna be the buster that's calling po poles to be over there on Sunday. Listen to snitch snitching, that's an I ain't ain't. That's not snitching. No, it's controlling the atmosphere and stopping it from being out of control. You are something so so you think people that's going to your party are to be at the park in my driveway. Listen, man, I'm gonna be real with you. I'm sorry if anybody man parked in your driveway, But that ain't nothing for you to just knock on the door and say, hey, excuse me. You know I'm trying to get out. You know, whatever, whatever, I make sure I put it on the flyers that we don't want people blocking driveways. But you know, obviously it happened, and I apologize for that, But that's no reason for you to be going on extra crazy and going to extra mount talking about I'm calling the police. You what are you're calling nobody? Man? Shut up? That right there is what's wrong with black people today. Instead of coming to me like a man, you're coming to me like a coward. Instead of coming to me like a man and saying, listen, now coming because the first thing you're talking about, oh, I'm gonna call the police, and then when the police come and beat your black pass up, you're gonna be on the other line complaining talk about is to be you want to be sure and doing this and that, don't you know that's how you get fucked up. Man. So it's black people. We gotta learn how to stick together and come together. If you want to come to the party. It sounds like you are silent Hayter on the loaf for real, like you really want to come to the party, but because you're the only person in the neighborhood that hasn't been invited, now you're talking about calling the police. I know exactly who you are? Who am I You that dude that live up two three streets over and you drive that that red pickup truck with the flannel shirts and all of that. You're the only person in the hood driving a red pickup truck and the flannel It's wrong with you, man, That's why you ain't getting no invite. And on top of that, all those dogs you got running around in your backyard, you need to clean them up. They'd be back there and everything, and then the other neighbors can't even have barbecues because your big rusty aass dogs running around. You got a nerve to be talking about you calling the police when we need to be calling the city on you. All that trash you got in front of your house. Man, get out of here. I'm gonna call the cops on you right now. If you ain't wearing the flannel shirts, with red pickup truck and the dogs running around with all in the front yard, in the backyard and all over the place. Who the are you that tell me? Say no more? I'm gonna tell you who I am. This is nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Yo just got pranked by your next dough neighbor, Brian, That's who I am. You know what? You know what? You know what? Now I'm definitely gonna kick you in his shot. Man, you had me going, Man, I hold when I run this prank, I hope the man with the red pickup truck in and the flanner sort ain't listening to it? All right, Man, I got one more thing. You gotta tell me what's the baddest and I mean the baddest radio show in the land. Man, you already know it's the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Okay, come on ya what this is gonna be your decade? And you know what, Jun I don't care, I say, you don't care. I don't here. Okay, I'm the prank I'm thank you, nephew. You are a prankster and you are the key. Thank you. Coming up at the top of the hour, we'll have some entertainment news for are you okay? Right after this you're listening to show? Well, good super Bowl Monday? Guess what? The wind just blew him bad? Guess what do we LOUI really in morning? Here? I come finally I got here. Wocome didn't know where I was. Man, I ain't gonna lie. I woke up this morning, I said, what what time is it? I had to go to the studio in Miami. You know, yeah, because I was at the game last night. The game was really really good. That was a good game, you know, really really good game. Man. It was funny because at halftime I had to go visit a friend in a sweet. Right, So I get to his sweet and he had a huge sweet. He's a different type dude, very well off. Let's just says he is not rich. He's wealthy, and he rents out three sweets every Super Bowl and has all the CEOs for all of his companies in him. So let's just stop there. So we're in one of the sweets. Everybody in there was a San Francisco fan except me, and so it was third quarter. Man, they having a blast. Early fourth quarter, they having a blast. I said, let me get out of here, man, before they see the hatred on my face. It worked out, man in Kansas City one, So that was great. It was it was the weekend. I'd rather been to Kevin hart Man. Kevin hart and I stood in up lobby when they helped though, where you walk around to the different suites and I stood there with Kevin Harf for twenty minutes, man, and we talked and talked, Man, what do the people, what do risk people talk about? What? Well, it wasn't It was a spiritual conversation. And he ended up he said, hey, Man, you gotta come and sit with me, Man, so I can show you uncle what's gonna happened. And so I told him I would. So it was just one of those really really cool conversations and that was really cool for me. Highlight them day really and then uh NFL Honors was Saturday night. Come on, come Onso suit We saw you baby. Yeah, look little Richard and pepped up bism a time. It was, well, it was a pepto bismo color to me, as far as I'm concerned, it was pepto bismo. Well, go ahead, check check. Might is more expensive than pepto bismo, it really is. We might have to give you might have to give another level HD time when you're buying by the yard is way more expensive. Listen to the Taylor. I'm just telling what I know. Pockets or no pockets, lining or no lining. When they take you to the future room, it's a whole different room. Has its own room. Yeah with everybody else, Bismo running by two twenty five per yard. But he had a pepto bismo suit. Is that time? That sounds like even it ain't hate. I'm just saying, I know what I saw. I saw, Steve. What what I just I just let y'all go, you know, right in front of you know, well, it's not really hate, Junior. It's confusion. I'm not confused. I'm not conm Fucial brings about confusial who ain't there? That's all it is. It ain't nothing. We ain't never even discussed the honors or nothing. It just we we stuck on the color. M What was the vibe? Like? How are the people? How they respond all of that? I know it's your second year. Always a killer night. It was a great Steve. You you did your thing. I came up with a resolution surely to all end all and help with racial diversity in the NFL. Oh really that was actually a good bit. Look, please share. So I just came up. I just told the brothers that I was speaking on the half of the black people in the NFL, even though y'all ain't asked me to. I just took it upon yourself. You know, I ain't ran this by nobody or nothing, so here it is for the first time. But y'all keep trying to get something without giving something. You got to negotiate. See, we keep wanting something, but we got to give them something. So I just decided on three things we could trade, okay, because everybody liked to negotiate, specially billion there. So I just opened it with what I think is, if y'all give us one black head coach, just one, okay, we'll give y'all two WHI eight cornerbacks. And then I said, now, listen to me. I suggest that you don't put them both on the same team. Yeah, bring it up a little bit. And then I just kept on and on and on it went. It was really good, man. But the NFL, honest for me, is it's such an amazing gig. But it's because I'm such a football fan and I know all them guys is in there, especially the old players man, the legends. I just it's it's just a great gig for me. Man. Wow. Well yeah, and you did a great bismos and coming up with twenty minutes after the hours, Steve, we'll have more super Bowl highlights right after this, you're listening Harding Morning show. Well, super Bowl fifty four was last night. Guys. What a game Steve Harvey, you were there? Uh, Kansas City Chiefs new Super Bowl champs. They won the game thirty one to twenty. Yep. I'm walking down the hallway and his lady goes, please please take a picture with me. And she was a nice lady, but I was trying to get to the suite, and so I said, well, man, I'm really trying to please. I just love you so much. Please, my son loves you. I said, okay, man, So she said she got it. She got it. It was Patrick Mahomes mother. Oh man. She was a nice lady. So the game gets started, she stays in the hall because she can't watch the game. She don't want to see it. Yeah, I feel her on that. So she came in there and asked Marjorie when she talked to her, to keep her company because she can't watch the game. So all the women were taking turns going out there, and she was a nervous rack man, this woman. I felt so for her. And then at halftime she went in and watched the halftime show, which was whoa amazing and Shakira did her thing. Man, can I tell you that was an incredible show? Them girls clowned? Man, Yes they did, Yes they did. They clowned. They got out now here. What's crazy? You know? Somebody got something to say about everything. A group of dudes that I happened to know now I gonna mention their name was against it. What Yeah, I had was texting a group of them and I heard a dude said, I wasn't impressed. Then the other dude said I wasn't I wasn't pressed by the talent. I got on the group says listen to me. I got on a group text because I know haters. When I hear I said, that's because you all are poor? And that was what statement. Yeah, you know your statement had nothing to do with the show I saw, So I figured my statement should have nothing to do with what the hell you said, y'all didn't like the show because your ass is poor? That went radio silad. I ain't you know I'm gonna text from nobody. Damn, I've the show was incredible. I really did what Timmy spit it out. He's but you can't say that. You can't say they poor they can't say them girls didn't have talent. They were. The girls were awesome. But you can't come back with poor though. You can't if you make a stupid statement to me. Why you got a problem when I make a stupid statement back to you. All Right, we gotta get out of here. Uh, congratulations to the Super Bowl Kansas City Chiefs. They are the champs. We'll be back with UH. Once you call it stupid, that certifies it. You're listening to all right, Steve, So you said you ran into Kevin Hart. You guys had a long heart to heart talk. And who else did you see at the game? Ran up into the legend secrecy entertain them. Oh yeah, Well, my son said, Dad, pull yourself together. When you turn around, you're gonna trip. I turned around, he said, Daddy, you tripping. I was holly all over a little VIP tailgate man me and seeing sat there that barn talked for the longest. Man. I had a good time with that boy, man, said the entertainer. Then at the beginning of the game, right, I'm looking out there and I didn't even know Yolanda Adams was performing. Oh yeah, so she sang America. So I'm sitting up in the booth. About probably thirty minutes, I feel a tap on the shoulder. It's Yolanda Adams. She came up in the suite. Somebody told me you was in here a little big brother, because you know Yo Yo was my little sister. I'm her big brother. She said, it told me up a big brother. I had just text her when I saw her singing. I said, let me see if I can read this text that I make it. Read it on that air see yes here. Oh yeah, So I got my little bogi. I got my little bogi that I made where I got my hand up like thank you Jesus, I made that emoji. I said, I'm at the super Bowl. You ripped it, little sister. She came up in the booth. I said, oh man. We hugged each other. She talking to Margie. I said, Yo, did you get my text? She said no. She opened it up. She said, oh my god, you really didn't know. I said no, I'm just sitting here and I saw you singing and you ripped it. So she came up in the booth. That was a very very pleasant surprise. And then the girl that sang the Stars Bad she came up in the look at you dog. It was like so cool. And then I was in there with some country western singer, no idea who he was? Okay, cool dude, you wanted to he proudly was the bomb. Did you see did you see? No? I just saw him on the jumble Trump. She was flies, Oh yeah with that green suit him. Yeah. Margie was flying to me. You know, Oh she's beautiful. Well when is she not? Is the question? At the NFL Honors. Boy, she was laughing so hard. I had Roger Goodale laughing so damn hard. I said. Yeah. He came up to me at the VP Telgate. He said, Steve Harvey, you're back next year, buddy close. I said, well, you know, not so fast, Roger. It's gonna cost you. You think we I was out there negotiating racial diversity. Wait till next year. One black head, because we're gonna get you two white cornerback. Hey, Julia, then the next one to hold him? I said, if you give us one black kicker and a holder, I need I need to set because I've never seen that in all my years of football in life, and a black holder. We're gonna get y'all two white punt returners. Oh my god, would you like to see that? Boy? Seriously? Man, these football players was laughing so hard. I actually thought I was I was I thought I was back Oh on stage, man thought. All right, coming up the nephew and the prank phone call for today right after this you're listening to show coming up at the top of the hour, right about four minutes after. It's my strawberry letter for today. Subject. My man told me to listen to Steve. But right now the nephew is here for today's prank phone call. What you got, nef what you got? Huh yeah? What day? Every Friday? Booty taxes? Wait, what booty taxes? I'm leaving. I don't understand together, right, yeah, yeah, that's what this is. Booty taxes tax booty guess we'll have to find out. That's all about what you say that booty ladies and gentlemen, booty taxes. Let's go, cadog. Hello, Hello, I'm trying to reach Kendrick Hedrick. You're doing man. My name is Anthony Man, Anthony Collins. They called me a c How you doing. I'm good, Bro, How are you going? I'm good? I'm good. Hey, listen uh, this right here, man, this this I don't even know how to put this though, But hey, listen, I'm calling you man because I got some issues. I'm getting ready to find my taxes and I'm going through all my expenses, all my receipts and all this kind of stuff. You know, I just I can't. I can't just let this go. Man. I didn't spend like twenty thousand dollars on your wife laying ship. And I'm trying to figure out. Oh well, bro, wait a minute, you asking me you know what I spend twenty thousand dollars on chick? I'm married too? Is that what you're telling me? So all I'm trying to do, man, is I'm trying to do it right off. That's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to claim no, no, no, no, the right off. Basically, what you're telling me is my wife. I ain't say all that. I ain't saying, but what you're saying, bro, all I'm saying is I'm trying to figure out is that all right? If I claim Melanie on my expenses? Man, I'm over twenty grand on on money I spent on Melanie last year. So let me understand something right quick? You asking me for permission you to claim my wife? When did you ask for permission my wife? Hap me with that? Okay, okay, okay, okay, let's do this here, grud. I ain't say I did that. You saying that. I'm saying, I just want to claim the taxes because I spent twenty k on it. That's all I'm saying. Okay, let's let's just let's do this, bro. Let's put melod on on the phone. Let's put mail on the mother ain't gonna look up. We ain't got a brainmeling this. We got a brainmeiling that. What I'm saying is we already in it, in it? What you mean? We ain't gotta blank or any and see any Maybe you must be outside joke here, man. All I'm saying is, do you have a problem with me claiming melody? You mother? Right? I do? Bro? I got a mother problem having this whole mother conversation? When how first of all, how did you get my information? How do you get my number? Bush? The ass round for your numb I ain't want to call you to me a week to call you. You know what I'm saying, I'm just trying to dude, I just spent twenty grand? Oh do you understand what I'm saying? When did you spend twenty grand? That's just I want to know. I ain't spent twenty grand on this mother, and I'm married to he, so what what the are you doing that you spent twenty thousand dollars on my wife? And then you want to claim next? Have me understand next? Hey, man, I ain't trying to go and to all my receipts on everything I did for Melanie. I'm not trying to do that. All I'm trying to do is is just I just want to. I want to. I want to know if you. I don't want us both claiming, because that's how you get in trouble. You already in mother trouble. Trouble is the last mother time you ought to be worried about? And you calling my mother phone telling me about some that you got going home with my old lady, and then you're telling me can I have your permission? You? Okay? So we gotta get some kind of resolution to this. A good resolution is a good ass was what's you mean a resolution that that's the only mother resolution we're gonna get Bro, ain't no other resolution. Ain't no other resolutions when when we ain't yourself to talk about, we ain't got a mother trying to talk about. That's the resolution I got back. I'll tell you what, Bro, I'm texting Meal right now. I've been texting her since we've been on this mother phone. Okay, what did you texting her? Father? Don't what you mean when am I texting her? Foot? She is a subject matter. So that's why the I'm testing her. But you better pray to God. This is some book. I hope to God. You y'all got y'all people up with me like this body. This ain't gonna go do it, Bro at all at all? Okay, So I guess I can't claim them at this point. Hell mother, now, so what you want to do, though, Bro, I'm already to tell you what because I'm gonna do and I'm waiting on meals with fun. So on this mother? See that glass she slowed in the mother She can't type fail. But somebody gonna get me some mount to day. Okay, the matter? Look at Brian, I don't know who this is on the other than the end of this room. I hope to God some somebout of the X files or something that I can't even fathom. You better pray to God. Y'all playing with me? This is some boot Okay, okay, So can I gonna tell you this your dog, and then I'm gonna get out your way, man, because I know how it's gonna go after this. Can I just gonna tell you something else. I don't know what the else you can tell me, bro. The only thing I can tell you, the only thing I can tell you, Kendrick, is that this is nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey more than show. Your wife, Melanie got me to pray. The phone call you dog well, y'all from ratting mother. You look that about how many it was telling about God? Ain't y'all ain't man, y'all ain't. And I'm sitting up at eating crackling, and I don't threw them the way because my fist French are already have uh. You all right, man, I gotta make sure you all right before we get off the phone. You're good, man. I gotta go get their drink. Yeah, yeah, I'm all right that she s all right? Sell me this man. It's twenty twenty baby, tell me this, what's the baddest that, I mean, the baddest radio show in the land, Man, Steve Harvard Morning Show with that rotten land lift. You tell them I did that? That was that was she already in it. I do know, I do know one thing about that print. He was bragging that he hadn't spend twenty thousand dollars on he damned show. Will have to spend twenty thousan I ain't spend twenty thousand. Yeah, Well you're gonna have to spend twenty thousand. Yeah. Game Comedy Laugh Fastest coming towards you. We are gonna be in Cleveland on the fourteenth, Cincinnati on the fifteenth, and on the sixteen, we will be in Memphis in the See it's comedy Laugh Fest. It's me, It's DL Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, Dion Cole and the One and Only Earthquake And we're gonna be rocking all weekend long, so you don't want to miss it. Takets are on sale rat now. Tickets are on sale rat now. Laying in the cut, Oh my God, Montgomery, Alabama, The Gump Baby. That is the fourteenth of Marge. That's Saturday night, Marge fourteenth, The nephew is coming to town. Stupid on the way, shirt get it every day. Yeah, but everybody don't. Everybody don't get that shirty stupid is on the way. Congratulations Tommy. All right, Coming up next, it is today's Strawberry Letter. The subject my man told me to listen to Steve. We'll get into it right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. Time Now for my Strawberry Letter for today and listen. If you need advice on relationships, dating, work, sex, parenting, and more, please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve Harvey FM and click submit Strawberry Letter. We could be reading your letter live on the air, just like we're gonna read this one right here, right now today. All right, ladies and gentlemen, it's time for the Strawberry Letter with my good friend Shirley straw Very thank you. Care subject my man told me to listen to Steve. To Stephen, Shirley, I have an issue with my man and he told me to listen to Steve, so I'm writing for advice. The issue with my guy is that he's very self centered and loves himself to death. He is looking at his phone literally all day and keeps it with him at all times, in the bathroom while he's cooking, and by his pillow every night. I've asked him several times to let me see his phone, and he told me that I need to listen to Steve Harvey, who says that a woman should never touch her man's phone. What if the man Steves ever, says Tommy, But he never Steve yet. If a man doesn't have anything to hide, then why not. He goes back and forth on his phone, sending messages to women and some guys day and night. He laughs out loud when he's really engaged with someone, and I'm sick of it. I think he needs the constant feedback from women on social media, and I see the types of comments they put on his page. He doesn't give me compliments unless I ask him if he likes what I'm wearing. So it's getting to the point where I want to see what's going on on his phone. I have nagged him about it occasionally, and I've asked him to delete both his Facebook and Instagram accounts for a month so he could focus on me and our relationship. He told me that would never happen. I have to admit that I go through his phone whenever I get whenever I can get my hands on it. And he loves to compliment women and ask them how their day was. I'm like, WTF now, the jealousy is eating at me. I know snooping is wrong, but surely what should I do? Is this just an innocent way for him to entertain himself or should I be worried? Please help? Okay, please don't fall into the the typical category of ignoring the red flags. The red flags are all in this letter. They're all. They're everywhere in this letter. You know you asked him to delete his Facebook and his Instagram accounts for a month so he can focus on you and your relationship. He told you that that would never happen. He told you that would never happen. Focusing on you and your relationship. What else do you need? He doesn't give you any attention. He has his phone everywhere. He's talking to other women. You see it. He doesn't give you compliments, but he loves complimenting other women. This man is not for you, Okay, He's not for you. This is not just an innocent way for him to entertain himself. And should you be worried, Well, yeah, if you stay in this relationship, yeah, because it's only probably gonna get worse. I think it's only gonna get worse. You don't have to worry if you're not in this relationship and allowing this man to do this to you. Okay, you say he's self centered and loves himself to death, Well why don't you start loving yourself and not allow him to treat you like this? Okay, this is crazy. I mean, if he's not the least he could do is give you a compliment without you having to ask for it. But he already told you, like I said, that this is never going to happen, him focusing on you and not the relationship. So the best thing you could do is listen to what he's saying. He said it, and and move on with your life. Okay, this guy, he's not the one. You know, he's not the one. And Steve never said that Tommy did back in the day. Steve, Yeah about true statement, Steve ain't told now. Steve Harvey Morning Show said that woman should not Steve to say that because my wife has my phone all the time. Now, let's let's really get to what's wrong him. I have an issue with my man and he told me listening to Steve. So here's you come now here. The letter starts with something that I don't understand. The issue with my guy is that he is very self centered and loves himself to death. And you say right after that, because he's looking at his phone literally all day and he keeps it with him in all times. Wait a minute, what what does that have to do with self centered and loves himself to death? That's what you just described is is a conceited person. Now, if he's self centered and he loves himself to death, does that leave room for you? And Charley's absolutely right, he told you it don't. Now he's looking at his phone literally all day, and he keeps you with him at all times. In the bathroom, why he's cooking, and by his pillow every night, by the pillar that's in the bed. Your pill ain't on the nice day, by his pillow at night. I've asked him several times to let me see his phone, and he told me, I need to listen to Steve Harvey, who said that a woman should never touch a man's phone. If the man don't have anything to hide, then why not? Now, lady, you just this, then this is what you're telling me and Shirley. He stay on his phone, says message to women and some guys day at night, lasts out loud. He's really engaged when he's engaged with someone, and I'm sick of it. So you need to see his phone for? What? You know? What's on the phone? What do you need? You need proof to validate what you feel? You already know what's going on. So what do you need to see the phone for so you can validate it or or or so you can go, Oh, I was wrong about that, because you're probably not. I got more for you later if you want it. What you know? Wow? All right, Steve, hang on to those thoughts. We know you have more coming up. Part two of of Steve's response at twenty three minutes after the hour, the subject of today's Strawberry Letter, my man told me to listen to Steve. We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening to all right, Steve. Come on, let's recap today's Strawberry Letters. Subject my man told me to listen to Steve. First of all you, man, I didn't tell nobody this. Tommy said this on the STA. I ain't said, I ain't said, here we go. Lady. You got this man who's you say, self center, loves himself to death. He's conceited, it's what you describe. But he has his phone with him all the time, in the bathroom, when he's cooking, he's doing yard work, when he's driving, when he's laying down at night, this by his pillow. And then, uh, you said that he's told you that. I said you shouldn't touch your phone. Then you said, if you ain't got nothing to hide, dear, why now? Now, here's what he does on his phone. He goes back and forth in the messages to women guys day and night. Laugh. I lie when he get engaged with somebody, and I'm sick of you know what's on the phone. So what do you need to see it for? I think he needs, you said, I think he needs the constant feedback from women on social media. And I see the types of comments that they put on his page. What you see the stuff that's on his ig and you see the stuff that's on his Facebook. Now that's where you're getting depart from that. He's self centered and he loves himself to death. The fact that he won't let you see the phone is because he has something to hide from you on the phone. You let me tell you what. Let me tell you something, Laby, just so you can be clear about this. What you're seeing the comments on social media on his Facebook page and his IG page, that's what you see publicly. The rest of the stuff is on the phone. I'm just telling you the truth. That's why you want the phone. Because you think you see the comments on social media. You are to see the comments on that damn phone. That's why he can't give you that phone. He doesn't give me compliments unless I asking me if he likes what I'm wearing. So it's getting to the point where I want to see what's going on on his phone. You already know now this lady said I didn't got to the point she nagging him about it. Now here's what she did to see where she really still. She told this man to delete his Facebook and his I G accounts for a month so he could focus on me in our relationship. This is where Shirley nailed it. He told you that would never happen. Not fitting the focus on this damn relationship. What but I'm not fitting the focus on you on this damn relationship. I got all this action going on on ig and faithbook. We're laughing and talking in front of your fai, laughing out live girl. You see the comments? Who girl, Scott, I'm not fine girl, You're gonna tell me I'm fine, fine though, I can't believe you think I'm pretty. So now he told you would never happen. Then you said, I admit that I go through his phone whenever I can get my hands on it, and he loves to compliment women and ask him how that day was. I'm like, WTL, Now the jealousy is eating at me. I know snooping is wrong, but surely what should I do? Is this an innocent way for him to entertain himself? Or should I be worried? Where do you think this entertainment is gonna lead to? Let me tell you something about men. We don't do anything for nothing, nothing nothing. If you play with five, you're gonna get burned. You can't fight temptation off if you keep inviting temptation in and the large Prayer says, and lead us not into temptation. Well, he goes into the temptemation. He O, I GM Facebook. He trying to stay clear, He walking it. You cannot be temptation all the time. Everybody succumbs to some form of temptation. It doesn't have to be cheating in a relationship. It could be going off to diet. It could be it could be saying something, could be spending money. It could be gossiping. It could be just setting your dreams down for a while to do other things. It's a lot of ways that you can yield to temptation. But this guy's form of temptation is all women. You can't keep getting in women's faces and end up not doing nothing. It does not work that way. I'm sorry, it doesn't work that way. No man can beat that type of temptation. If you're playing in that circle, you have got to take your ass home. If you keep going to the strip club, you're gonna end up with one of them strippers. Period. How the kids? What okay? All right? Lady, Why don't you get into relationship with somebody to care about you. Yeah, and this is not your husband, y'all ain't got no kids, lady, Get out of that, all right, poster comments on today's Strawberry Letter. It's Steve Harvey FM on Instagram and Facebook, and please don't forget to check out the Strawberry Letter podcast on demand and we'll be back with more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show coming up right after to this you're listening to. Congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs. They are the brand new Super Bowl Chiss baby, big fan of Steves if you if you heard her, Yeah, he ran into his mom and his mom said she was a big fan, and so with his son. Come to find out it was Mahome's mom. So there you go. You never know, Steve, you never know. The game was good. J Loo and Shakira killed halftime in my opinion. But what was your favorite commercial though? What was your favorite commercial? Um? Mine was I'll just I'll start it off. Was the kid, the black kid with the blonde mohawk I love. Yeah, Yeah, that was really good. He ran all through the neighborhood everywhere and then finally ended up on the field with the football. Really good commercial with the other kids. That was the other kid. Yeah, really nice one. And that was the first one I saw. I said, this will be my mis was good. You can't touch this eat Cheetos, the Cheetahs, the Cheetos popcorn. Yeah, that was good. And you can't touch this stuff you could you had that stuff? Yeah, that was funny. And Tommy didn't like this one, but I love the rece's take five cliche. Were you under the rock? We literally under You were at the game, so you didn't see the commercials, right, Steve, you were you know, they had a monitor, but you could see it, but you couldn't hear it, you know, Okay, I didn't really I didn't really get it. I can't comment on them. Here did yosh Anthony Anderson and his mom Miss Doris that I was cute? Yeah, that was cute. And pepsi and yeah commercial, Yeah I saw that. I saw that. That was cute. Yeah yeah that was Ellen de Generes. I saw Ellen and John Legend and Chrissy Tegan. Yeah, yes, that was cute. That was that was cute. Uh and the Deritos were little nas yes, oh yeah, yeah, Elliott, that was good. All right, Uh, we'll be back with who's the most annoying person at your super Bowl party? Will do that right after this. You're listening. All right, So the question is who was the most annoying person at your super Bowl party yesterday? A lot of people, of course, went to the super Bowl, went to super Bowl parties all over everywhere. Uh you know, we talked last week about how many chicken wings would be consumed and all of that. So I contributed to that. You had your I forgot to take mine out of the freezer, but don't tell anyone. Yeah I really did. Um. But you had your friends over, you went to someone's house, your family. So what happened? Who was the most annoying person? Oh my gosh, I threw a super Bowl party. That was just old dude in the cigar lounge. Man, he stayed in front of the TV for what was he explain? He just walked up and stood in front of the TV like we're not trying to watch the game. He just standing like his ass is the only one in him. I had to say old school so many times yesterday old school. Gee, he biting chicken in front of the TV. He dran ain't getting he's smoking in front of the TV. Hey, man, what did he not know? Anyone? I don't know. Yeah, we had to tell me every time, he said, he can't see. You don't need to be here because they out of here can see on my nose. I left the part the game in the truck. You can't see nothing for him. And it was your party. Love, Let's forget it. I'm out. Does your party though, yes, man, love your party. I left. It was a four quarter, it was getting games, getting good. He kept walking in front of if I saw that damn fealla one more time. Time what feather? That feather comes in front time? Don't I can't. I couldn't take it eating chickens fish he got. He just, I mean just in front of you. Haven't seeing people eat cheecken in front of the TV at home? Yeah, he did understand that biting party. Put the wing down by his side like he ain't got nobody behind. Man, if you don't see your own lass down. He had a good time. Sounds like, Junior, you didn't, but he certainly did. He go all right. Jake who was the most annoying person. Annoying person at the super Bowl party was the guy who don't believe in plates at all. He so he uses his hand, uses one hand as a plate and the other hand as a fork, and he's constantly picking stuff up with one hand, putting it in his other nash dass hand all day. I mean he went from the wings to the chips, to the ribs. I mean he touched. He touched every day. It's like he don't believe in plates. I don't dirty plate. We kept saying, get a plate. I'm good. Um, you know I'm good. I know you get well. No, old chel, he didn't believe in napkins either. You know he took that sleeve. He took that sleeve. No, not no, he didn't clean that sauce with all it. Yeah, Nash, just straight nasty. I had a double dipper at mind. You know, I think all of us know once you get a double dipper, were done with it. I had a double dipper at my party. This brother was he would take I made my famous nachos. Everybody likes my nicho. He would take it and then the chip would break, Yeah, and then he would he would he would take the nacho, the one that broke, dake that and then going to put that in his mouth, and then the one that broke, the part that broke, he gonna dip that and then to see that's nasty and then take that squirrel it around. Wow, he's swapping it, stopping it, and then gonna put that in him. I'm like, yo, dog, you can't. You can't dumb a dip, Yo dog. Deal chip, your chip can never double a deal. Oh my goodness. All right, guys, Well coming up, we'll have more of trending stories and stuff on the Steve Harvey Morning Show on the Super Bowl Monday. We'll be back in twenty minutes after the hour right after this you're listening to show. So Groundhog Day was yesterday, and you know groundhog punk Satani Phil did not see his shadow and predicts an early spring. This makes me very happy because you know very we do this every year. Why do we think that the groundhog really predicts all this? Why why do we do this? Well, it's tradition, it's ground as adults were not into its groundhog. Well, Tommy, it's the same way we sit around on a day to day basis hoping one day you're gonna get it. He's gonna be smart. But we're talking about a groundhog. He didn't see his shadows, didn't see his shadow. So now what where we at? What what is it? Did you see, we don't question the East bunny. Why are we giving the groundhog? Damn time? I mean light ground It was one of my favorite commies, falling apart the whole day, the whole morning. I'm not I'm not, I am not with this groundhog and his shadow, and I'm not with it dog. But Tommy, did you hear I heard that? Peta. They're they're a little upset about the use of the groundhog and they want to do away with Groundhog Day altogether. So you may want to get on board with them because they don't like it either. The groundhog is really cool because he has one heck of a pampered life. Yes, we got to get out of here for show and some trains coming out at thirty three minutes after the hour right after this. You're listening, all right, Steve, what you got? What's going on? It's time let's quit playing, y'all. Saying and Soul is back, bigger, better than ever. Just go to Steve Harvey Saying and Soul dot com and reserve your all inclusive package today. It's all inclusive food, drinks, events, fun, hotness, everything. It's gonna be special this year. It's gonna be Labor Day weekend. It's in Puntacana, Uh, the Dominican Republic. I got a letter on the website in case you're curious about it. While we're back. We're back because everything is cleared. Got a letter from the FBI explaining everything. I wouldn't go back if it wasn't safe. It's all good. It wasn't what everybody said it was. We've did all the checks and everything. Poota ConA, the first one we threw it was live, it was sold out. We halfway there already, folks. It's gonna be an event you don't wanna miss. We're gonna kick it off with an all white candlelight dinner under the stars out on the beach. We got live bands, we got the casino back, we got Kid Capri, we gotta showtime and dear Apollo on the beach. Sandy gonna be one of my favorites because we throw on a live cash tournament. We're playing Domino Spades, bid whis I know what you want. I've been listening to y'all. I got what you want, Dougie Fresh, Kid Capri, we got it working. And then last day we got something for the ladies. We got Margie's Beauty Ball while all y'all can come and get your makeup done, your hair, Drake Champagne, gett massages, all of that's on the house. Y'all fellas were smoking hand rolled cigars and then my girl Lisa Ray gonna host the pool party. Let me tell y'all if y'all ain't seen the videos, and Lisa Ray, host of last year's pool party. Them women was in now cutting up after the food and I'm proud and shamed to say it. At the same time, my wife was dead in the middle of it. Sit your ass down somewhere. They was having a good time. So we're gonna do it again or we all are heading out that night. We're gonna end it night with a concert. Last year was Anthony Hamilton. He was off the chain. It was incredible. I can't wait to tell y'all more about this. You will not be disappointed. It is live. We are halfway soul. Everybody's excited about it. So I'm gonna tell you right now. It's Labor Day weekend in September. If you want that number two, give us a call. 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I've played sports, not at a high level, but I've played sports and participated in sports and things of that nature, but never professionally. But I can tell you that there are some incredible lessons learned in sports. And when you have a child that wants to be involved in sports, as active in sports, they learn some things, you know. They learn how to handle winning, They learn how to work with other people, They learn how to handle defeat. They learn what it is to have to discipline yourself to go to practice. They learn rapidly how hard work leads to results. They learn very early a lot about goals setting achieving them. They learned a lot about stituitiveness. Sports is an incredible teacher for young people. Now that's not to say that you have to play sport to learn these lessons, because oh my god, you don't. Because nothing is a teacher like life itself. Life is a wonderful teacher. Failure is a wonderful teacher. There are so many things, man, that can be learned from sports and in life in general. But I encourage people to stay with it whatever you're doing. You know, you watch people play sports. If Kansas City had given up in the fourth quarter, that they would have said, oh well, we down, must not be God's will. Looks like we're not gonna win it. They would have never stuck in the came away with a victory. You know, if the forty nine has hadn't done the theme things that they did all year long, they wouldn't have got to the game. At the end. The one thing that failure has taught me is number one. Failure has taught me how to handle pain, how to handle disappointment. And that's a very valuable lesson to learn. See, if you never have failures, if you never have pain, if you never experience them, you don't know how to cope with them. Because that's a part of life, and they're constantly gonna be coming. So you have to learn to make the necessary adjustments in life. Life is a series of tests over and over and over and over. Now you may not see the exact same test, but I promise you you'll see something similar, or even if the tests ain't the same, it'll have some of the similar attributes to it. So you've got to learn from your mistakes, because your mistakes tell you how to cope. Coping is a great skill, or some people just have great coping skills. I'm really grateful to God that he gave me a tremendous set of coping skills. Now, develop those coping skills by a lot of failure. And so when you're failing out there, folks, it's sharpening you, it's getting you ready for the next chapter in your life, the next the next challenge, the next hurdle, the next set of circumstances, and soon you will discover that you'll get a little bit better and a little bit better at handling different things because you have the experience to handle them. Sports is a great teacher, but nothing is better teacher than life itself. And if you learn the lessons from life. Somebody told me one time the thing about pain, Pain always leads a gift. You never experience pain without it leaving you a gift. And that's exactly how you have to look at pain. When you experience a loss, when you're grieving, when you're hurting, when you've been disappointed by somebody, when you've been let go by somebody, when you've been walked away from by somebody, when a job comes and releases you, all of these things create a pain in you. But every piece of pain leaves you a gift. It leaves you a coping skill, It leaves you a set of strength that you didn't have before, because when you get beyond the pain and as you deal with the pain, it makes you stronger. Because you've heard all saying, if it don't kill you to make you stronger. All of us have become stronger because we didn't let something beat us or defeat us. And no matter how rough it was, we hung in there. Well, guess what the gift that was left behind the pain was you gain the strength. The other gift that's less be left with the pain is you gain an experience and understanding, and all of that develops you into a better person as the years go on. So in twenty twenty, embrace the pain, embrace it, thank God for it, deal with it, understand what it is, and be ready to take the gift that pain leaves and move forward. That's the way we're gonna handle it in twenty twenty. That's what we're gonna be in twenty twenty better for it. Yeah, let your church say, man, man man. And again of my closing remarks, Hey, listen y'all on a serious no, can't tell you something. Yeah, have a great weekend. Really have for all the work today, have for you. I have because I show did for all. Steve Harvey contests No purchase necessary, void where prohibited participants must be legal US residents at least eighteen years old, unless otherwise stated. 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