Y'all know what time y'all don't know y'all back, I don't have a suit on looking back to back down, giving the move like theming buck bus things and its cubs. Do me true good it, Steve ha listen to movie together for stum please by, I don't joy by joined me to be doing me. You gotta use turning them You gotta turn to turn them out, got to turn them out. Turn the water the water. Come come on your back that it h h. I sure will A good morning everybody. You are listening to the voice, Come on dig me now, one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Okay, I got something for you today. This is something that I've really been focusing on for the past couple of months, to be honest with you, and I want to share it with you today because I want to encourage you. Because there's something that's available to you that I've rarely spoke on before, and it's something that I've been really really discovering for the past couple of months. And I can't even tell you the difference is made in my life. I'm gonna have a conversation this morning about my understanding of grace you know, when I was a little you see, hear my mother singer song all the time. All I need is a little more grace, a little more grace. All I want is a little more grace, a little more grace. And I you know, I sang it with her, you know, of course, you know, walking around the house and stuff, and we had devotion service. I would sing it with the church people. But I ain't repay it no attention. I really really didn't. Now that I've gotten older and I've come in to a better understanding of a lot of things I didn't know about when I was younger. This is just my interpretation of grace. Now once again, y'all listen to me. I ain't nobody's pastor, I ain't nobody's minister. So you know, I'm pretty sure you can go to church and get a far more extensive definition of one I'm giving you. I'm just talking to people. You know. Grace is this thing that that God provides for us. And grace it's just things that you get that's really undeserving, you know. I mean, I look at my life as it is today. You now, look, I work hard, and I have faith in God that I do so things are going to happen in my life. But the way my life is now, I don't. I don't. I don't deserve all of this. I don't don't. I don't look at it that way. I have been the beneficiary of God's grace. I have aligned myself in a position to accept whatever grace God has for me, and it will be far abundant and exceedingly in anything you could think of. His grace supersedes anything you could possibly imagine. You know, the goals that I set, and the aspirations that I shoot for, and the things that I have on my dream board. I have the faith that God will give it to me. But what He does with grace, he gives you far more than that. He gives you what He has for you, not what you can see. You can't see all He has for you. It's impossible. Who are you? How can you possibly imagine what he can imagine? How can you possibly think how he can think? How how can you possibly do what he can do? How can it be that isn't a single mind living or a collection of minds that could have thought of Earth? What in your wildest imagination could have made you think of earth? The stars, the heavens, the oceans, the galaxy, the constellations. What in your mind? What in any man's mind. We can point at it and analyze it, but we show it couldn't have thought of it. So come on, now, I'm talking about lining yourself up with God's grace, which he will give to you if you if you want some of it now. But now here's the thing about grace. It can't be bought. If it could, if it could be bought, I'm telling you I would pour all the money I have and dump it into grace, because, after discovering what it is, it's this goodness that God shines on you simply as a reward of some type for his love for you and for you attempting for you attempting to do right, not because you get it right. Because if He judged us purely on how we are the right and wrong of it, we would all be doomed, all of us, every last one of us would be doomed because we all fall short, we all make mistakes, we all sin, we all get it wrong from time to time. Nobody's perfect man. Now I understand what my mother was saying about cleaning the house. All I want is a little more grace. All I need is a little more grace when the last time you ask God for some grace. Now I'm not talking to you like I know everything, because I'm telling you I just got hip to this a couple of months ago. I just really started focusing on this a couple of months ago, and I'm bringing it to you because I know to help you if you just benefit from His grace, which you already have, but if you're not aware of it, you don't know what's going on. Become aware of grace, Get aware of the fact that God does things for you simply because He loves you. He does things for you that you don't even deserve. Somehow, you just wonder how you just got over when you didn't even do the things to get over. Sometimes you don't even know how you got that job you got when you ain't even really do the things to get to job. How you end up where you are all education you thought you went and got and had, How you end up where you are today in a much better position than your education could have ever gotten you. That's grace. How I get every place I am today. I didn't plan this, man, If I could have planned my life the way it is. Don't you know how to have done it when I was living in that car? If I knew how to do it, No, I benefited from his grace. I'm just a beneficiary of his grace, of his goodness and his mercy. God's goodness is better than your goodness. God's goodness is better than your mother's goodness. It's better than your wife's or your husband or your booze goodness. God's goodness is different. His goodness man covers some stuff you can't even imagine. So why are you trying to put your life together when the last time you asked him for just a little bit of grace? When have you thought of your life in terms of the grace that it has already benefited from? Have you ever done that? Man? Just thought about you know you hear songs like my soul looked back and wonder how I got over. That's grace, That's all I can call it. Now. Like I said, you can go to church or somewhere ever you want to, and ministers that the wind at school to teach this thing way better than me. I'm just giving you from a layman standpoint. Man, have you thought about his grace, would you not bewall to be a beneficiary of his grace? Would it not say? Now, check this out. The better you try to do, the more grace he'll give to you. And that grace can't be bought, Like I said, it's free. You can't purchase grace. But the better you try to become the more the more grace he gets to put your way. So man, just try, why don't you just try to do better? Look, man, quick tip, mind, I'm gonna start next week. I'm gonna start at the new year. Now you now you do that every year, you know the ems at the new year. I'm eat better at the new year. I'm gonna I'm gonna gonna get in here and the new year. If you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it now. Man, you're gonna do not stop trying to do something, do it, stop talking about it, do it now. The best way to benefit from his grace is starting action now in old w now, right now today, what you're waiting on. All you're doing is delaying his opportunity to bless you. You know, man, you know, do you know how many times we do that? We delay his opportunity to bless us by not starting now. If you're gonna get healthy, why don't you start now? Now you're gonna trip a little bit called the holidays coming. But you ain't got to eat bad all the time. You could start eating correct today you could, you could, and then guess what that could be? Some grace on the end of that. I'm just giving you a little cheap analogy. But do you feel what I'm saying to you? Start thinking in terms of grace? What He has done for you and provided for you that you ain't even see coming. That you know, you keep calling them blessings and I got that a lot of it, and us all it is. But man, have you thought about the stuff that didn't happen to you? You can't account for I. For me, that's been grace and I'm beneficiary of it. And that's available to everybody that won't sull Next time you're talking to him, just check in with grace. See what that is. That's that's better than money. You're listening, ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls, I have your undivided attention. Please. This is what's called a PSA, better known as a public service announcement. You today will be tested, You will be extended, you will be privileged, and you will be rewarded. We are going to find out how well you drive in a car, how long you can hold coffee in your mouth. We will find out if you will be able to quiet your laughter, to wear self maintained and not draw any attention to bosses, from bosses or co workers. You will be tested on your ability not to laugh at things that you know good and well you're not supposed to laugh at. This is a test today. Come on board. We hope that you all fail. Yes, Welcome to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Shirley, Hey, good morning to you, Steve, Yes, Carlo, good morning, Happy Monday morning. Unc Jay, I am now on a championship team Baby, Championship team ladies and gentleman Thomas Miles your side. Top of the morning, top top top. Yeah, m that was interest. Well, so we're done with nephew Tom. I don't know. You don't even know who he isn't it Well, he knows you're all there, all here. Uh, we have yet to meet. We ain't talked, text called. Nothing's gotta be on you because he has not called tweeted, the only time I talked to Tommy is on the air with you all. So I have decided that this mentory 's just radio restricted. Oh god, I mean that's all we got, Conor Tommy, January is coming to a close. Twenty ninth day. What's happening. We're good, We're good. He won't let me you know what I'm getting the apartment. I'm getting set of it and just hold tight. I'm coming to change me. Guys, Guys, I said febrywhere twenty eight is what I am? Excuse me, excuse me, guys. That's not what he said. What is said January twenty second? Oh said, that's what I was coming to town. Okay, this is the first time here. So you don't need minnering until the twenty blastness and love is all over and you'd made several black stakes black you need mentoring going in the spring break? Yeah, to the twenty eight, No decisions to the twenty I'll see what I'm coming out more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Right after this, you're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, guys, it is time for something funny. I know you got it, man, I was listening to some l some old LTD this weekend. Steve Man, what who you know? You meet the guy? How bad they were? Man? I was bad? Dog dog dog bad? Oh your love this feeling fair? Your touch? Your touch has grown cold. Seems someone else controls your very soul. I'm fooled, down hearted. As long as I can, I can feel the presence or another man taking my peace. You would stay just to watch me dally drift away from lives with thing, can't stop the hurting, leaving on the run, taking awful grahammy like you, the only one I know why I can turn any time to carry on, So minute by minute by minute by I keep holding on. Man? Who else say somebody? Oh James? Sure you anyway? Anyway? Just say your man said lass show baby begins. So let's using pass by Gavin to make you cry. See the man with the brute, huh You see that he is sad? Oh so sad, so bad, so bad, so bad? Come on, she oh, intruders ill away. My mom, she's my favorite girl. Only get one, you only get one? Yack. I always love my mama. She brought me in this world. Talk about Mama. Come on, come, on, I want to know your name state huh tolocklock that one over, baby, I really want to be with you any bout chance waking up verse two column be by chance, I know if you don't do another, nope another, that's the way you go. Don't love than a down name? Now with down name now taking the right Carol Melbourne and the blue nose. Come on, see, Oh you don't know me by now you'm living know me up in here all the things. Yeah, it is that we've been rerou baby, I've gotten mine and woman, you know you got your shoe? Boy? What about this right here? Oh the greatest yes, etten, missing sir, miss you, miss you, miss you, miss you, miss you. That baby that's Harold Melbourne. Girl, I don't know shoot a body that. I just can't live without you. And that's why I'm confessing my love to you. Baby. Who else? Who else? You didn't do the dramatics? Yes? Wait, now you gave you roll at all? Nobody knows and he wasn't true. He tried and listen to this sweeter than you never sweet up my shot set him on the walks chain always No other girl could never. So now he's trying hard to get you back. But you know the fool's hearts made of cell of fane. You can see through that when he had your loves and the palms of his hand, she just wasn't said this mind I show him John, I'm thinking, no, I'm daddy hand have another go right that? By yosel oh, Let's give a toe, give to Let's give her toes to the food who lets you go, who lets you go? You can't hurt you no more, no no noo to the food who lets you go? Who lets you go? Now we're together, he cannot your nob Let's have another one. You you're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. Coming up at the top of the hour. We're gonna talk about miss Anne. She's gonna be here. We're not gonna talk about miss Anne. Well, we're gonna talk to miss Anne. Okay, look all right, he's gonna be here with our national news. But right now, you know what we're going to talk about, church and church complaints. Come on, gracious, gracious, heavenly fault. As we prepared to listen to the ungraphalism of the ungratefullest tess of the gratuity, we ask you that you bless us with the right mindset to handle these alterations. Come on here now to make sure that we are in line with compilation. That's right, what of the situation? That's right? That one more times he didn't get. We are asking that we are in line with the complation of the situation, thus bringing about an arbitration and albtraction. Lord Lord, Lord, and and uh and and I'm praying. You're praying now, you're praying. Now, go ahead, come on, I know him here. We're asking watch this now, we are we is asking, we is asking, uh, bibpetually, come on, we are asking Bob petually, Bob Petua, that you grant us these returvations. Huh. Come on, that was the word right there, and say that way one grant ask these returvation as we request them from on high, from on high. Somebody saying, you're you're praying, you're praying, preacher out, yes, let the church say almand almond again, am oh, we're praying. Now what you got decon, I pastor. Let's first of all, here we go, big skipper Flipper, the old school pimp from the South Side, says. Two of his girls then join our church, and he wants to join two, but only if he can use the basement on Friday night. He guarantees the church five hundred dollars east Friday. Deacon Lowell told him no, but I said I would bring it to you. I'm sure that's gonna be a hunt. Yeah, that's a big Skipper Flipper, the old school pimp from the south Side. Yeah. Well, sister Shirley, you know the wood says it's come ye one and all. That's what it's saying. Oh yeither label and a tide of laboring alone. Yes, you must come and join a fellowship. That's right. I think we are to let brother Skipper the Flipper huh, come on in here on Friday night. Bring in that five honey. I'm a Paul. I think it's gonna help Paul. Is not. Hell No, Paul has asked us because he used though church on every First Saturday for drag race that he has or Deacon Thoughton or thought that that drag race involved, cause I told him that ain't what it was. But we're gonna let him have it anywhere. Good God the matter, and they're gonna pay a thousand, But we're making some good side money. Then, so let the drag race begin and the pimping passed to end. My sister Larlin Flowers, I lost her fake eye again, and she's almost certain that little Dante Collins has it in his mob. But sack, but the boys say the sacks in his in his locker. She's asking that the church by her a new one and the cost is thirteen hundred and seventy five hours that pass. Who were Tell Sister lean Flowers, who is the boy that got the lettle? Dante Collin? Little Dante Marvels was my specialty as a boy. Yeah, we can draw circle and I'll shoot little Dante for the eye and I'll knock on his damn Dante. Won'ta have a damn Marvel in his bank shooting with the passtor because I was a Marvel shooting as little ball. No, they ain't got that, But that's how I know they're gonna lose. That boy ain't gonna be able to knock out man. So I will shoot a little Dante for the eyeball all right? Speaking of eyes past the blind, Billy Dixon is asking for the field the night security position that's open. He says he's qualified for the job. Now, Brother Titus Fleming wants the job, is well well Blind Billy Dixon pepper sprayed brother title now they boat blind. We need you to pick one of them for the job. Well, I have decided to go with h brother blind Billy because he's been blind the lord that boys hearing is off it. He's actually works on the communion committee and just watching you pull the wine in the communion car, he can tell when you to pull the into you need to stop right there. That too much now, So we're gonna go with brother blind Billy because he's been blind for real and long. Pepper sprayed, don't intensify nothing. Oh, I see where you're coming from, and then it is nice security. You ain't gonna be able to see them. Then he is not the man called They have on black and they're tunneling now. So if you're tunneling Brock, blind Billy gonna be able to hear that. And he knows how to pepper sprain. Now he doesn't know how to do that because he just listened where your voice he came at. Your boss, make sure you're through talking because that pepper spray give me your mother's hut. When real quick, pastor, we are saddened by the death of our sister Grata. Daniel's her funeral to schedule for this Wednesday morning. The problem past that she wants to a funeral to beat uh non traditional. She wants to be deep in bronze and set at rest right on the front pew where she sits. Well, since she did, what we're gonna do and she don't know, is we're gonna put in the casket painted braun, drop it in the ground and tell her she propped up on the front that what we're gonna gred ain't running nothing about, not a damn to here. Wow, there's your church complain all right, we're coming up at the top of the hour thing you pastored and returning that casket straight up in the ground flat. We got very her vertical and when her knees hit the lid, she's sitting up. You're listening, all right, ladies and gentlemen, it is that time, junior. You're ready? Absolutely, is everybody ready? Yes, I'm a rough room. I mean coming in. It's let me just tell y'all something here. I was I'm doing something different this week because I'm growing as an artist and so I saw something. I saw something definitely traumatic go on, and it changed my thought process. I saw some coffee wasted starbust, and it decided pushed me actually into writing limits. So you're not doing poems, no, No, this is limericks. I need to be doing limits, and I didn't. Yeah. Yeah, And for those out that they don't know what limerick is a limerick, it's just a short story about an individual. It's real quick. Three weeks so I changed over limericks and I just found the growth. Thank you, thank you, And so I just wrote some limericks about sure to you, Jay, Tommy and Carl It. Yeah, I just because I know y'all and I know he's Yeah. Let me start with Tommy the limerick about time. There once was a man name Tommy who walked around and nice silk put jammies. He was quick to get mad and then turned back glad. Oh Tommy is like a Suona. The truth this one, and I like to do one about my good friend Jay Anthony Brown. Grown to know Jay. Working with Jay on a daily basis, I've grown to know him and this is what I found out. Okay, there once was a man named Jake who had diabeting that would not go away. He could not. He sweets, but he might lose his seats. But Steve, anyway, this one by Carla, I do like that one. I looked at my face. There was was a lady named Carla on the Steve Show. She is the bawler who keeps it so straight and well up to date for color. Sometimes like the hall, I told everybody's been waiting on this when this is what I've been waiting to do. Shirley, Oh, Shirley, and I love you, says, I really do you. Broby would pick across. There once was a lady named Shirley. She is real boogie and curly. She keep Steve real straight and she loves her mate. But Shirley, don't come into early those are liberal again. There's once was a man named Timmy who walked around and silk pajama. He was quick to get mad and then turned back glad. Oh Timmy like an we don't know what leaving it yet, day y'all, that's just it. Uh huh, all right, thank you Steve engine miss and please, ladies and gentle mcchiefs here our very old miss and trip, thank you very much everybody. This is entered with the news, Well, I gotta take it down a little bit. In the wake of two young Guahamalan children dying this month while in the custody of US Customs, the Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, Kevin mcalleene says changes are being made. What we've done immediately, Secretary Nilsen and I have directed that we do medical checks of children seventeen and under as they come into our process. That's not a capacity we've had in the past. Commissioner mcalleen says his border agents did everything they could to save those children's lives as soon as they saw symptoms of illness. And Houston, a seven year old girl is dead this morning. Her mother is wounded after being shot in the family car. Get this. Police say the one was driving with her four doors in the car when a pickup truck pulled up alongside and the driver started shooting little Jasmine Barnes, against seven years old. She was killed. They say. The shooter is described as a white man in a red pickup truck. Police down there say they don't know the reason. Two employees of the DoubleTree Hotel in Portland, Oregon had been fired over a situation involving a young black man was captured on video. Jermaine Massey was a guest of the hotel. He was in town to attend a concert. He was in the lobby speaking to his mother on his cell phone when the seventy one year old white security guard guy named Earl Wesley Myers, told him to leave the premises, and he called the cops. Why are they coming? They're scoring you off the property? Because what and I'm staying here? Not anymore? How am I loitering in an area that is public? So this area is off limits after a certain time only if you're a guest. I am a guy. Young mister Massey showed his room key to the hotel manager, who still told him to leave, saying that Myers wouldn't have called the cops if something wasn't wrong. A cop comes, he makes the he makes the young man leave. Jermaine Massey leave, He complies, He leaves, checks into another hotel. The police claims in his report that Jermaine Massey was screaming and hollering and saying everything was racist, even though the video doesn't show any of that. None of that. Again, the Double Tree Portland says it's dismissed the security guard in the hotel manager. Despite the fact that the government remains in partial shutdown, President Trump has gone ahead and signed an executive order freezing pay for federal workers in twenty nineteen. The President center notice to Congress last August saying that quote, we must maintain efforts to put our nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and federal budgets cannot sustain pay increases. According to a data base called fact Checker, president Trump has issued a lot of false statements and misleading claims. Example, he says lad they say. Last January, second fact Checker series that the President made false claims about three of his favorite type dockets in just a two hour span, Iran, The New York Times, and Hillary Clinton and even took credit for having the best and safest year on record for commercial aviation and even though there hadn't been any commercial plane crashes in the US since two thousand and nine. We now all know who'll be competing for college football's national championship, Alabama's Crimson Title phase off against the Clemson Tigers on January seventh. And finally, the movie Aquaman continues to swim over everything else in the box office fifty two million over this weekend. This has been answered for the news. Now back to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. You're listening to show? All right, I want to ask you guys some questions. These are some questions that we found on Reddit dot com. Steve, what job do you have zero experience in but are confident you could do successfully? President of un I could do it now. I used to didn't feel that way when Obama was in. I didn't think God could do it at all. But now he got that right off the top of my head. And then you didn't even make that in a question. I love that. No, this is a bolt. I don't need that in a question. I bet you I can do it. I can't do it no worse, damn, I'm gonna make some mistake. But I take a couple of things I wouldn't have done, Like I wouldn't have done a travel band. I ain't saying nothing about sexuality in the military. Never old my damn. I don't give a damn who in that kid? Yeah, I don't get And then I wouldn't have asked me myself to come up day in January. If I'd have knew I was gonna be all type of hunkle toms and coons, he told you to stay. Hey, wait, yeah, I would have never asked my ass to come up there. If i'd have known what y'all was gonna do to me up there, I'd have just said nah to yourself. I called the Obama transition team and everybody saying, hey, I'm nah. I thought I'm being a good American. I got up there. You got to with me? Actually, damn what I come up I didn't know you what I thought. I was doing the right thing. I really feel in my heart I did the right thing. But you know, after that, knowing what I know now, what you wouldn't asked you to, I wouldn't ask me to. I was nephew cool after that. I didn't ask a lot of people that come up there. They went to but not the president. Man right, and people don't even understand how God work. He don't even understand. He takes what looks like your darkest moment, and if you just keep the faith, he got something. All things work for the good. Them who loved the Lord God. No, I love it now. I ain't perfect, but I do love him, though, and he keeps showing up in my life, man, just like he yours. I mean, look at all the wrong stuff you'ven't done, and then look at where you at to day. Now, technically we have no business being here, Lord Lord, ain't that? Yeah, that's grace and we all benefit from his grace. But we act like we don't. But you know, didn't here come them hate us? Right? All right, we'll have more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. Yay, it's time for comedy roulette. You gotta explain it. Yeah, you test out coming ability each week. Give us five subjects. Put them on the wheel. It's been the wheel. Wets stop, lets stop. We'll do the damn thing. All right, Here we go, Here we go. Number one, if you have a car, why is there a bus pass in your wallet? Right? Here's another one. Number two that's funny. That baby don't look nothing like you. That's the real. Number three. I'm not a scary person. But yeah. Number four, man, while you let your wife boss you around? Oh oh, we could do that one o yeah yeah. And number five, I got your trick or treat right here. I got you treat right here. I spend It's fun, the will it's got to be the last one. No, right, it is Halloween. I like, come on, what you got? What you got. I'm not a scary person. Okay, I like this, I like this. Let me have this, let me start this thing off. Okay, I'm gonna go with you the body, but somebody got to be in there with me. Okay, I'm not going in there by, My damn, I'm going there and I ain't gonnaway up there right right, I can see him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I respects. I'm out of here. Yeah, I'll tell you what. I'm not a scary person, but can you turn this out? I'm serious. No, No, I'm nervous. I know it's thirty degrees outside, but it's thirty in hit too. Oh yeah, I gets nervous. Ain't scared, but I'm nervous. All right. Look, I'm not I'm not a scared person. But but just for the night, we're gonna sleep with all these lights on. We need these lights right while I'm in hit By. Okay, I'm not a scary person, but if I hear some tire screeching close to me, I pee on myself. Keep that is true. I've seen him. I'm not a scary person. But and we've all probably done this. Have you ever been in the shower and you sweat? To god, somebody ran past the shower? What was that? What was that? But you got you got the curtain in your chest. I tell you what. I'm normally not a scary person. I know not, but I keep little over there at that baby, something like that baby don't feel I don't know what it is, but that baby scared me. First of all. He got too many muscles to me too. Yeah, this baby, don't trust it. I'm not. I ain't scared. I'm telling ain't scared. I'm just gonna go to the edge of the woods and take a look. If I don't see you, then I just but I'm not going all the way. No, I can't do it. I can't. I ain't really a scary person. But I don't shake hands with people that it ain't got all their fingers because I'm gonna jump. It's just a weird feeling and I'm gonna jump. Yeah, I'm gonna do one to steve close to that hut. I'm not a scary person. But if I go to church and I'm sitting next to somebody who starts rocking, I got to change my seat. Okay, yeah, I need to slide down God Jesus, all right, we'll be back with nephew Tommy's frank phone. You're listening to show coming up at the top of the hour, right about four minutes after today's strawberry letter. But up next, Nephew Tommy right here with today's frank phone. Call. What you got nef? Your son too fat? Tommy fat? They with me one more time? Your son too fat? Here? Here? Here? Were you overweighted as a child? Change? Oh yeah, he's overweighted as an adult. I can tell. I can tell he's still bitter about it. Let it go, yes, jeans and said husky on the back. Yes I'm still better. Yeah, yeah, run your son too fat? Hello. Hello, I'm trying to reach Kathy. Please. This is her. Hi Kathy, this is Kirby. I'm actually the owner at the daycare for mine's daycare where your son comes. Okay, all right, I'm sure you're a familiar with my wife, Anita. Yes, sir, all right, how are you doing today? I'm good? Oh, how's a little a little divine? How's he doing? He's good. He's laying down taking a nap. Okay, you guys have been coming here, I guess about a year now, right, Yes, since he was one. Okay, listen, I wanted to give you a call. I'm looking at some some informations I was I was divine doing at home? Is he Is he eating properly at home? When you say eating, what do you mean? I mean? Is he getting U meals every time he's supposed to get them while he's at home? Yeah, he's doing pretty good. Okay, Now there's there's there's no situation where you guys may be a shortage of food or anything like that. Are you uh as short as the food? No, sir, My husband works real good. We don't have a problem with as short as the food. Is there a problem with him? Well, you know we're looking at the records and look Levinus too, Yes, sir. Have you looked at the comparison of two year olds the majority of two year olds and in comparison to I guess I should say size in comparison to the bond side, you mean like in body way body size? Yeah, I mean he's a little tall. You know, he wasn't a small chat when his barney was ten pounds. But no, he's on the scale of right where he should be. He's just a little, you know, taller because his daddy is tall. But he's doing okay. So you you're you don't think he's anywhere in the in the ballpark of of of of obesity at two? You mean fat? I mean, I didn't want to be blunt, but but but miss Cathy, you're I mean, I mean your sons. Let me just say on a Sunday, I'm relaxing and we talking about you think my son is a little overweight or what he's what's the problem? Well, I mean I think he's fat, you know, and and the problem I'm gonna think I'm noticing the records of everything that's wait wait, wait, wait, we need to back up to you think he's sat I've never spoken to you, mister Kirby. Is that what she said? My name is Kirby. Okay, so every morning that I dropped him off for a year and I give my daycare money, Miss Benita has never said anything about his eating habits. So you're telling me that you think my son is sat with him. You deal with him on a daily basis. I don't deal with him on a daily basis. What I'm looking at as records that are showing me that he's eating way more than the rest of anybody at the daycare. And not only that, he's drinking probably a gallon of milk a day. A gallon of milk. Y'all only get snacks two times a day, and he's there only for breakfast and lunch. And how in the hell is he drinking a gallon of milk? And if he is man? But all I know is this, No, No, I'm blown away by this because you follow me on a Sunday calling my damn child fat. That's the problem. And your wife has never said a damn thing. Never has she said one thing to me in a year when she collected my damn daycare money. She ain't said my son is eating y'all at a house at home. Okay, Well, you know, my wife's a different person, and she tries to be cordial with everyone. He's the one who deals with me, mister Kirby. I've never met you, never met you. It's all of a Sunday. The reason why I'm calling you on a Sunday, ma'am, is that I know tomorrow if you're gonna be trying to drop your son off, I am gonna drop him off. I am. No, no, no, that's that's kind of the reason why I'm calling you. Now. Here's where we knew that either you can keep him at home. No, I'm not keeping him at home. My husband works and I work. I'm dropping my damn son off at six thirty like I do every morning. Man listening, if we can't get him, If you really want to get this, Nita on the side, because obviously you ain't the one that need to be talking to me, because if you're not there every day and I did with your wife, I'm telling you that your son is too big to be kiss coming every morning. If that's the case. And if he's eating at a house at home, I'll send him some extra, but what I pay my money for is what you're gonna feed him for two full meals and two snacks, and if he needs extra, I'll put some in his bag. But he's drinking a gallon of milk a day. Are you looking there? I don't care. There's no way possible that he can drink a gallon the milk of a day. Y'all. Here's here's here's the deal. I don't want you to have to stop bringing your son now, and I'm not and I'm not. Here's my second alternative. I will put him on a diet. Okay, I'll give him an apple in the day. You ain't, no, damn hum ain't. Are you from the health food program? No? I will. I will give him an apple and a glass of water in the morning, and I'll give him an apple and a glass of water in the evening, and then you guys can feed him when he gets home. You must be certified in the food program, especially if you're sitting the pre telling me, my damn son is going on a diet and he's not drinking no water and no apple. He needs a full snack. If the other kids is having an apple and water, then that's what you better be serving him. But if that ain't the case, in hell, no, he better get the full snack. So if that's graham crackers and apple juice, well, damn it, that's what my son better be getting. And if he won't anstra he better get it. I'm listening, all, I'm trying to tell you, is your son drink two money? Drink? Oh? Whoa, whoa, whoa. You need to back at the top. I know you did not cussing me. I know you try. Ready to cut to me. Let me tell you what say. You ain't got to worry about it. We don't have nothing else to talking about. My husband, me, your wife, and everybody that works at damn daycare better be there in the morning, because that's six thirty. We gonna be there, and my son he's coming a week and he gonna eat all week. If he want two gallons of milk, he gonna drink it. If he want two plates of food, he gonna get it. Because I tell you what we say, damn good money to come to that daycare. So then you're gonna bring your child up there. Then I'm gonna have to put him on some swim fast. Now I will put your child on swim fast. I was trying nothing give him to subspect it. But I will ask give him some slim fast, and you're gonna get a slim fast shopping. I'm gonna whop y'all that whoever gave it to him, whoever gave it to him, they gonna get a slim fast shipping. I'm the little kids would have some slimp fass. If he getting some, he better eat whatever they eat. And if they eat steak with damn it, he better have them too. If we had steak, he'd probably eat the whole damn cow he eatn't care. I'll pay for it, but he's been like getting a slim fast. I will shut it down about my child. Okay, I got something else you need to know about your son? What the else do I need to know? Besides you think my son is overweight? What the jelf? Can you tell me today? I need to tell you this. I need to tell you that. This is nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Your girlfriend Lucretia got me to prank phone call you. What did you just say? What the did you just say? This is Nephew Timmy from the Steve Harvey Morning Tell your girlfriend Lucretia got me to frank phone call with you. I'm gonna beat to that. She knows I don't play about my damn son at all. That's my only son. I don't play about him. I'm gonna be there. Is she there? Hear me, it's on. After that, it's just a it is on. I got one more thing I gotta ask you, baby, what is what is the baddest that, I mean, the baddest radio show in the land, Steve Harvey Morning Shell It I wouldn't. It's all. I hope you can hear me wherever you at laughing. What y'all think? Fat gang, Fat gang of kid y'all? Go to Thomas Miles dot com. Go to Thomas Miles dot com. All the information of anyway Thomasmiles dot com. Thomas all the information of anyone that's Thomas mccrank dot and see that's without your mentoring. That's without one mentoring session. Was that well, okay? Was that a bad move? It's a good move that I do. Okay move, Thank you, sir, Thank you sir. I'm gonna make some good moves. You're listening to show uh And now it's time for the letter. Listen. If you need some relationship advice, if you need some parenting advice, if you need help with your sex life, we're here for you. You can email us your letter and let let the code cracker and me help you out. Submit your Strawberry letter to Steve Harvey FM dot com and click strawberry letter. All right, I'll tell you on what when did your mom while you Steve, I want to hear it. I got into that Tussie on the back of the Oh tussy, I thought it wrong. I know, I didn't know no other words. Every other word. I know you be there to put a t on it. I thought it was tussy the whole time. That was Paul Ass because I was doing a commercial on tie. I want smoking out. I want put some tissie right here, some tis see right there. I want some tissie on me summer everyone. I want some tis. She came in that band from Miami and couldn't hear good and thought I was saying something milk wol you want I don't know, you see, I want some to see some tis see right here, some tissie right there. I want some tissye on me summer everywhere. And I'm doing that TV commercial in that mire, just putting tisson back of that door that how water bottle down with that cord on it. Yeah. I shot the first scene from Glory before Glory came out. Des title that. Oh all right, let's get to the letter. You're crazy, Steve. Here we go strawberry letter, all right, subject a stinky situation. Dear Stephen Shirley. I met a very nice man three months ago and we headed off pretty quick. He has been taking me on a lot of nice dates and we have really good time together. I thought I had finally met the man of my dreams until two weeks ago we ended up back at his house after a great dinner date. We both were ready to be intimate, and we knew it was about to go down, so we started taking off our clothes. He took his shirt off first, then his pants, and Stephen Shirley, a funk I had never smelled before, hit my face, hit me in the face. I realized that the smell was indeed coming from him, so I told him that I no longer that I was no longer in the mood and I needed more time to be sure I was ready for intimacy. As I left his house, I thought that maybe he had a long, busy day at work and didn't have time to freshen up before that date. But he's not a small guy, so he should have known better. I didn't say anything to him about it. A week later, I decided to give it another try to see what happens this times as things guided it, that same body odor hit me in the face again. Now I can't make it. Now, I can't make any more excuses for him. He is a grown man. When he's fully dressed, he looks clean, and he smells like a nice cologne. But when he starts taking his clothes off, it's unbelievable. I don't know how he can walk around like that? Am I wrong for not being honest with him and helping him work past the smelly issue? Besides the funk, he is a great and loving guy. What should I do? Oh? This is horrible. I mean, this really is bad. This is this is really really bad. This is because I mean, this is like a deal breaker right here. This is a deal breaker. Uh. And I don't know how he doesn't know it because we smell ourselves first, don't we before anyone else does? I mean, is this is this some sort of he's got to smell this? That's all I can say. If you like him, if you want to have a future with you him, you have to tell him. You should tell him. You have got to tell him. I don't I don't know if I would stick around for this. I don't know how great he is. I just don't think I would. Um, But it could be that he just doesn't know. Although I don't know how he doesn't know. Maybe he doesn't he has a bad sense of smell. I don't know. But this problem has to be addressed, and you have to tell him. That's all I can tell you. You have to sit him down and tell him. And if it's a medical issue, if he's sick or something, you gotta go to the doctor and get it checked out. This is bad. This is a deal breaker breaker. Steve. Well, first of all, let's get this clear. This ain't medical. Let's go through this. Let me tell what happened. You finally met the man of my dreams ago. We ended up back at this house after some dayton were both ready to be intimate. We knew it was about to go down. Key worried about to go down, so we started taking our clothes off. He took off his shirt first. He knowed to do this first because just to break in move okay, all right, took off his shirt first. Then his pain. Wait a minute, go back. What she gotta ease a person into it. You can't just snatch you know, he know, let me take your shirt off first. Ready, Now the pans Stephen shellon a funk that I had never smelled before, hit me in the face. It engulfed the room. That's what you're trying to say. I can't she had it had been contained in the pants. Pass got a belt on it, drawl wrapped around it, pass legs. It been oozing out the bottom the whole night. Yeah, all round. His ankles got funk on it, because that's the only outlet. When you got pass. You're walking, so and you when you walking, you're spreading and the people behind y'alling what is that? But you don't know. But when he pulled him passed down. I only got a minute. So I'm gonna have to tell you when I come back. Yeah, I'm gonna let you know what happened. Wow, when the pass came down? Why happened, and why continues to happen and how you can fix it? Okay, all right, we're gonna after this. Yes, when the pass came down? Well that part two if Steve's response coming up at twenty three after the hour you're listening to. All right, Steve, let's go when you left off in part one, you covered the top area. Now now part two it's the bottom area. So let's get to it. The Strawberry letter for today, A stinky situation. Let's recap Steve. This woman that meant the man in her dream. They'd been going out. He's lovely, wonderful. One day they went out. Weeks later, great dinner date. We both ready to be intimate. We knew it was about to go down, so we started taking our clothes off. He took his shirt off first, then his pass and, as the lady wrote Stephen Shirley, a funk that I had never smelled before hit me in the face. That's because it had been released. It's been locked up a belt, got it in, drawed, got it in, passed legs, hold it in once you pulled him passed down. Yea. We wrote a song about it, the Hot Tops. When the funk hits the face, Yeah, yeah, all the people start to jam. Come on, get with me? So now you with him? Now I realized that the smell was indeed coming from him. I told him I wasn't in the mood, and let's make sure it's ready here, she said, But he is not a small guy, so he should have known better. Wait, what did guy do it? Don't worry about that. A week later I decided to give it another try to see what happened this time? Things got heated the same body or to hit me in the face. Now, I can't make any excuses for him. He's a grown man. He's fully dressed, he looks clean, he smells like Knights cologne. But when he started taking his cloth off, its unbelievable. I don't know how you can walk around like that. In my wrong for not being honest when he helping work past the smelling issue, He's not wrong. He then't got used to it. He can't smell what you smell. It's stay. You ever been on people's houses and they got a smell to it? Ye, and you'll be going, man, how y'all sitting up in the hill? See they live in now? See he lived with the phone. Now let me tell you why he stayed. Because inside them pass it's crivices and cracks. Hey, word cracks. No, you worn what you want? It's the unleashen. It's like you've seen that movie Pods of the Cremin when the cracking, the cracking, cracking, that's what he got. The crackings in his pants right now, and the cracking comes up out the water. Hen' word crack and crevices. The cracking comes up and devours everything in his pad. It's too much, the cracking. He takes his pants down. It everywhere's all in the room. Flowers start dying, papers start burning on the edges. Your eyes is watering up. He's standing there a large man. This man needs a bath. First of all, he is not cleaning himself properly. He taking bird bad. He needs to get he tapping up on top. He gots to getting some water. He needs pine salt. I'm gonna just be real with you. He needs fox caps of pine saw in his bath water. Really your pine saw with well, don't he smell like about? See? He needed to run some bath water and put that little man in the boat from tide and bad. He need to drop tide bold. He is in tablets in that damn water with him. He got to get something bubbling in there. See, I can't tell you what I really want to tell you because I had to rethink my answer because there's a lot of words in that. A lot of people ain't gonna understand. But let's just say racks and crevice. Okay, we know what it is. Yeah, we got it. You know. Let me tell you what. Let let me tell what the real problem that center split that thing right there, it's it's got some something going on. It's got something going on that he's not cleaning himself. Problem. He used the bath room and he wiped it himself like he twels. See when you grown, you got to love you gotta do a little bit different. Yeah, you got to put a washcloth next to your toilet, which soap? You need a bidet. He needs an install a bi dated today. He to date and tell that damn shower out and move it over a little bit and need to put a date on it. Total Total has a toilet seat that you can buy, y'all. It's an automated toilet seat that you you don't have to buy them. See, I had a toilet that do the washing, drying, all that spray all that every single time you go in there, and it keeps me, keeps me baby fresh. If you don't have that money, they make a toilet seat that sits on top of your toilet. You take your toilet seat off and you install it, and it will shoot your hot water, it'll dried for you. It'll put pressure washing on it. He got to get pressure now. If he don't, if you don't have the money for that home deep O sales pressure washing that's gonna hurt, even on his lowest settings. Is not made for the human body. But he needed to just grin his teeth and bear with its. Yeah, under his privates, his privates he needs now now, he's not gonna do this here because it looked real scary. He needed he needed to pack awkle corn starts on him. Oh no, I had rash one time and I put awkle corn starch only h and forgot that I had it on. It was with this girl I was in college and pull my draw or she saw him white pellets. Only that girl started crying. I didn't know where she was crying about. I was thinking myself, feeling pretty proud. Hete don't be afraid of it and ain't gonna anything gonna buit. I looked down, saw him white balls and wit alkle corn starch on me. Anna, you're listening, Steven, show right up, Steve and Jay and and Tommy and Junior. Jay explains well, she Shelley called me up. Steven said she sawt us a little boy because you saw it. Okay, I actually did see this. Yeah, Nesta and I were having breakfast one morning outside and we see this little kid, this little white kid, roll up on the skateboard and turn around and he was talking to his dad. And he turned around and he was like, you're lying, dad, You're a liar. Stop lying, dad, you're lying. And he's still alive. It is still alive. And the dad was like, don no, I'm not lying to you. The da dad was arguing, looking at Daddy would have split the back of my head. That's what we were staying. There is no we didn't even say the word lie. We could even we had to say telling a story. And a grown person was never lying, never even if they were lying, yeah, even if yeah. So what you got now? So we got a list of things that white kids can say, but you definitely cannot say that as a black child. Right Like, for instance, I'm going to my room and please do not disturb me. Tell me whatever, tell me what happened. Man. I slammed the door in my house one day and my daddy came in there and took the dough off the in the garage. You don't have a Doughe just things that white kids can say that black kids can't. No, you hush, you hush. Wow Wow, no, no, you you hush. I got world white kids to say the black kids can't. Now right now, all black kids get out. Wow. Touched me, touched me, and I'm calling the authority first of all? Who talk? Oh, I got one right here? I got one right here. That's my father left. Oh wait, I like this right here. Wow, it's my party and I didn't have over here whoever I want? Yeah, Wow, it's really different. It's so different. You got one. You're not my friend to your parents. I did for you. I hate you every day you happen to you for real? Right Yeah. I was at the airport j and this little white kid was going through security. He was mad at his parents and then moving walk away. The entire time. He screamed to his dad, I hate you every day you go, Steve, what you got man? I was trying to think of one, really, just really what one that I thought? But I knew not to say, uh, the one right here? Okay, Hey, I wish I lived with Billy's parents. Okay, well you take your little no, take your ass on over there. I got one right here? How long do I have to live without my own phone? A lot of freedom? It's ignorant, right you say that? Man, they can say this, get away with what. I don't mean to say this, but I'm just gonna say it. This spaghetti sucks. Spaghetti that's getting hit spaghett right. Yeah, these are things white kids can say to their parents. I'm not going over to Grandmama's house. Stinks. What did you just say? What? What did you just say? By my mommy? Damn it, Mom, you're getting on my nerves. We can't say that to our parents. We can. It's different. A Hey, I'm all enough to make up my own mind. But no, no, no, First of all, you ain't got no right right hey, got girl? Over? Hey, mom, dad? We don't want to have to hear this. Me and Rebecca going to the room, girl, but not go down the hallway to see you cut lights on in here? I got one. I got one. Oh my god, spinach again. Yes, we're all dead. We're dead with every one of these. Blair's mom cooks better than you can. Blairs Mom mom, all right, more of this crazy ignorant show. Steve Harvey Morning Show. Right after this you're listening to show, Well, it's time for something funny and Jay, this is about stuff you say to your neighbors under your breath. Please explain. This has to do what we see our neighbors all the time. We're not that fond of them sometimes so we speak. But under our breath was saying little things, little little insulting things like, hey, hi, do you need to kind of done? Jack? Keeping it? Keeping it one hundred? You got one jack? Jay? How are you doing? Are you my man? You need some curtains? How are you doing? Franklin's good to see it. Hope the boys stay home this time takes vacations. Let's see us. Come my nephew, Perkins, how are you good? Good? I should do something with that damn boat restricts. I done this, s Kennedy, Hey ain done than well? Across the street us smell dann dn kill. How you guys doing the jake too? Stupid ass kids with kid Yeah, stuff we say to our neighbors under got to be sick. Come on, Smith's good to see it all right, now, I wouldn't be pushing my mom a deadlock man. She got to do something. Three pey, how are you good? Good cup? Your fat as wife from swimming naked on him? Probably the hell out my dog. Mon mister Anderson going, yeah, how you got folk claws on block and don't none more? Four cards? Yard is a mask. Stuff we say to our neighbors under our breath. Come on with us, I go, old boy, I see you have a good in the game. So glad over there. Because he cut my grass. He killed my flowers, spoke to me and cut my grass. Wow, that's bad. That's a dragon. Right hey, Johnson's It's good to see y'all. All right now man, now now we good. We could tell you right now. I know a baby when to eat paper. I know that baby eat paper. You gotta tell me no more. I know that baby eats piper. Baby, he's smarting. Now you gotta bring them now. Were good stuff, birthday stuff, we say to our neighbors under our breath. Tommy, go Leonard, Hey, nice day to day, good good good last night? Damn police know you you called them? Stuff we say to our neighbors under our breath. El herman, how y'all doing tell me y'all. Put y'all mommy in the hole, say that black people don't do that. Hey, mister Mitchell, what's going on? Yeah, I'm good. You don't see that dog do in your yards. You just don't see stuff. We say to our neighbors under our breath. We stop curtains, ain't cations going on? All right now? Ain't the wind that damn line? He ain't killing that way too much? No, I don't even know how they touched both they stumped. All right, now, I'm good man, Come on, nephew. Stuff we say to our neighbors under our breath, Kindly, kindly, y'ards, looking good, looking, real good. You come over with this lyne though, you come over, I'm telling you that you know what damn you know you know my sign, You know your damn side. That properly line means something invisible, but it means something. You know what that line man, that's my line. All right, I think we have time for two more Jay and then Steve close it out. Stuff we say to our neighbors under our breath. Let's go, hey, hey, what's going Yeah, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good. I'm who whip out that night, got into a fun Yeah okay, yeah, come on steam close it out stuff. We say the right. Sydney, Hey, you'd invited me over your little stink as barbe everything. I know, I know you ran out of room. I came home. All right, guys, thank you, that was good. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right? Have you, guys, ever worked with someone? We all work together, so listen to this. Have you ever worked with someone and found out that he or she was making more money than you? Ever day about? Is that a question? Really? All right? If so, you know there's no worse feeling. You immediately want to rush into your boss's office. Huh, he just happens a beata boss and asked for a comparable raise. Now this according to an article and a Women's health dot com on their website, you should first research why your coworker makes more money and see if your pay is below I could raid. Then go in and negotiate with your boss by pulling together your accomplishment since being on the staff, is it okay, that's how you get a raise. Okay? If you find out someone's making more of that, okay, that's good advice. Yeah, do not say you got it. That is not a that's not a good phrase of you when you want to raise or you got it? Yeah, talking to you when you talk to your boss. I want to why do you need a race because you got you got it? No, you're right, Ja, Okay, don't point out stuff they are buying for themselves if you want to raise. I see you coming here with a new suit every day. Come what I need to know? Wh I come. That's not a good point. Don't don't go click at the card, look at it then I'm on the bus. Don't don't go there with that. Bring out your accomplishments. What do you bring to this company? That's why you want more money? Steve was making that upset me. So what did you do about it? To him? At RA that didn't laugh Steve as CEO, though I have been at this a lot longer than you. I've been in this business longer than you. I've had more failures than you. You so therefore wasn't going there? He was it? She brought it up on piece of theater. Since you brought it up the rass I want to talk about I just been out here longer than you. But you got like two or three mozy rods. Didn't me though, I mean it's a it's a scream them two three, you know what. I look at it? No talma you got boy? What did you rephrase to the commas? That's what problem. Don't where about them? Zero commas? Down commas? Boy, man, your money your commas? What a comma? Gool? No, no, the comma go right here? Hey man, When you sit up around some ricky people and listen to them talk, they ain't got nothing doing, no damn zero. I heard the common conversation. Got it up? Yeah, man, Well I look at it like this. The MoU make that means we're still making so you know what I'm talking about. I'm looking at it like that. So thank you for keep making it because we all right, we'll have more of this Steve Frvery Morning Show right after this. You're listening show. All right, ladies and gentlemen, it is that time, junior. You're ready? Absolutely, is everybody ready? Yes, I'm a rough room. I mean coming in it's time for j Let me just tell y'all something here. I was I'm doing something different this week because I'm growing as an artist, and so I saw something black. I saw something definitely traumatic go on, and it changed my thought process. I saw some coffee wasted starbust, and it decided pushed me actually into writing limits. So you're not doing poems, No, no, this is limericks, but it hit I need to be doing limits and yeah. Yeah. And for those out that they don't know what limerick is a limerick, it's just a short story about an individual. It's real quick. Three weeks I changed over limericks and I just found like the growth, thank you, thank you, j And so I just wrote some limericks about chair to you, Jay, Tommy and Carla. Yeah, I just because I know y'all know. Let me start with Tommy. It's the limerick about Tommy. There once was a man named Tommy who walked around and nice silk put jammis. He was quick to get mad and then turned back. Lad. Oh, Tommy is like a suona. Okay, And I like to do one about my good friend Jay, Anthony Brown. Grown to know Jay working with Jay on the day basis, I've grown the norm and this is what I found out. Okay. There once was a man named Jake who had diabetes that would not go away. He could not eat sweets, but he might lose his seats. But Steve away this one by Carla just that I do this that I looked at my face. There was was a lady named Carla on the Steave Show. She is the baller. She keeps it so straight and well up to date. But Carlor sometimes like the hollo. I know Everybody's been waiting on this, when this is what I've been waiting to do to him. Come on, Shirley, Oh Shirley, and I love you, says I really do you. Rob will pick across. But there once was a lady named Shirley. She is real boogie and girly. She keeps Steve real straight and she loves her mate. But Shirley, don't come into early those are lim again. Please. There's once was a man named Timmy who walked around and silk pajohnny. He was quick to get mad and then turn back glad, Oh Timmy, like we don't know what listening again? Who we hear a day, y'all? Uh huh, all right, thank you you're listening show. Steve. Here we are end of the show with just one more thing. You're closing remarks today, I want to still stay on the encouraging tip, and I want to talk to people about something that you should make in two and eighteen. These are just suggestions, folks. You know, I don't know everything, but these are some things that I do to personally keep myself moving forward in a positive direction because I'm always trying to accomplish something new. You know, I'm never satisfied. Well, it's not that I'm never satisfied. I'm never complacent. I don't I don't believe in sitting still. I don't believe in and not moving forward. I just don't see it. You know. Every day I try to wake up an approach and attack a new challenge. I've always setting goals out there because it just gives you something to aim for throughout the day. One of the things I want to remind people of something that I do up you're invited to do the same is, you know, have a life, feel with a mission, have a life filled with a mission. You can have several missions in life. Forget your life filled with missions. Remember the show Mission Impossible, and remember that tape recording that used to come on every day and tell the guy what to do and then at the end of it the tape with self destruct, but that became the mission. It became the purpose, the task at hand, and until you completed that task, you came back in. And that's what the whole show is. It's really funny thing, you know. It's tape recording comes on and then it fearses and disintegrates, and that's your mission. I still do that, man, It's sort of a funny analogy. But I try to create a mission in my life all the time. And in order to accomplish your mission, one of the things you have to do is you have to surround yourself with people who are about the same mission. That will be no missions accomplished in life solely by yourself. I don't I can't think of anything that you can accomplish solely by yourself. You know, even if you want to have a relationship with God, Yeah, you can have a relationship with God, but to draw closer, you know, you gotta have some type of toolge. You know, you gotta read some scriptures. Somebody's got to show you another way to approach it. Somebody go, Man, if you're going through this, read this or read that, and it sort of helps you with your goal. Even in that. But I don't know anything that you can accomplish mission wise alone. So you need to surround yourself who with people who are like minded. As a motivational speaker, sometimes when I'm going I use my motivational pictures that I keep in my phone and I put them up on a big screen and I show them to people. And one of my favorite pictures is a picture of these lions walking and then expressing on the lions face because they've they've woken up from their nap and they're going out for the hunt. And if you look at lions when they're walking to go out on a hunt, they all have that same determined look on their face because they're all about the same mission. You ever notice when lions ready to go out on the hunt, they leave the cubs back at the den because see, it ain't no time to play out here, because we're going out here to feed, We're going out here to hunt. So they leave the cubs back in the den when they go out on the hunt because they ain't got no time for no foolishness. And I have this picture in my phone of these lions just striding and if you look at all the looks on their face. They're serious. It ain't no playtime because everybody is on the same mission. Everybody is of the light mindedness, and it takes to accomplish the mission. And the caption says, surround yourself with people who are on the same mission. And I'm saying that to you today. Find someone who is about the business just like you are. Start hanging out with people who are goal oriented, who are success minded. Somebody was talking to somebody one time and they said, man, Steve, let me manage this something. Why rich people are always talking about money? That would get on my nerves. Okay, what else you want to talk about? You want to talk about what happened on the Real Housewives? What you want to talk about who's going on in the theaters today? We can talk about that. But when I get together with my friends, we get together. We on a mission. I even play golf with people who are on the same mission as me, you know, because we have like mindedness. I don't play golf with a bunch of single friends because see now, when we're not playing golf, we're not gonna be able to single mound. I need people just want to go play golf, Go to the clubhouse, have a cigar, get yourself a drink, get yourself somebody, and gonna go to your room because we gotta get up early to morning play this tournament game. We got going again. That's just it. Even when I play, I play with people of like mindedness. I don't play with people that's doing something else because I don't need the distraction. It's very important that you surround yourself with like minded people. Find them somewhere. See. It goes along with an old saying, you've all heard this. If you're the smartest person in your group, then you need a new group you got You can't be the smartest person in your group. Man, you gotta have somebody that knows a little bit more about the journey, or it's familiar with a certain thing that's gonna happen on the journey, or they can give you a suggestion when you get to that point. Everybody ain't got to be good at everything. Sometimes you have specialty people. It's like, you know, when you're assembling your team, all of your friends ain't the same. Some of your friends you don't have spiritual messages for you. Some of them just have uplifts. Some of them just cool to be around. Some of them do the same things you do. But surround yourself with people who are on the same mission. It will make your journey to the top a lot smooth. It won't make it easy, it will make it smooth. Uh. Y'all have a great weekend you already now, already already waiting on it. For all Steve Every contests. No purchase necessary, avoid where prohibited. Participants must be legal US residents at least eighteen years old, unless otherwise stated. For complete contest rules, visit Steve Harvey fm dot com. You're listening to Steven