June 5, 2026 • 6 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
So here's a question for you, guys. Did you ever
write love letters to your high school sweetheart or to
women period? I mean, do you think they work?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well? Yeah, how I lived in segregation. You ain't write
no letter. They mayn't stamp something about and licked them,
trying to hope that this girl would want me back.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
What'd you say? You dropped stuff off me.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'll tell you one of the deepest things I did was,
I was a senior in high school. Man, I wanted
this girl man so bad. I wrote the lyrics to
Devotion by Earth, Wind and Fire on a poster board,
rolled it up, put it in my I tucked my
T shirt in my pants, put it in the back
of my T shirt like a like a bow and
(00:48):
arrow case, and got on my bike and rode over
to her house and rolled um down the street till
she came out on the porch. And just because y'all
had no way of calling her, you know, so rolled
them down the street till she came came out. I
got off my bike and handed it to her. She
unrolled it on the thing and read the whole lyrics
to Devotion.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Oh did she cry? Or was she? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
She cried, Yeah, when the father came out on the
porch and put my to get your folk.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
This is before social media. Evil, what about you? Love letter?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Definitely high school? Sweetheart wrote it. Walked to the high school.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Sweet love was so brand new, as.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
My grandmama say, my nose was wide open.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
If you ain't had your nose wide open, you ain't lived.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Come on, man, no, I'm three generations from I'm three months.
That's two fod we over here texting. I made cassette tapes.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
That's what I had.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I had Quiet Stole Priss playing Paul's put you record
the song did.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
You Fall the Dog? That's what I had to do.
But we loved letters, but we had technoledgey. By this time,
we were paying paper boy. Yeah, y'all were paying a
paper in it man.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Pony express with my bike, yeah myself, I wad on
the three days and you know mail. It took three
days even locally, three days to get to somebody's house
locally to write a letter. Man, I ain't got no
time for this here. I gotta ride this over there.
Yeah yeah, yeah, I had pony express me and that
bike bore man I had.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
I wrote it.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I wrote a girl a letter one time, man, And
you know, I just wanted her to like and I
drove it over the house and put it in there,
uh uh mailbox, and I'm riding up the street and
then I come back down the hill just to see
and uh she would had reached out there and pull
the uh let out the mailbox, didn't even open it
(02:58):
and just tow it in hand.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
What man, that broke my heart.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Man, I know that was heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Hell yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
I had to write it on there, you know, Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
You know, got to put it in a mailbox, got
to make sure her mama and daddy don't get it,
having a name on and everything. As soon as I
came back down the hill, I said, man, she reaching
in the mailbox to get it. She pulled it out
the mailbox and tore it in half.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
A sharing.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Who knew you guys were so romantic?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
All right?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Switching gears now, So here's a question for the guys.
When you were a kid, how often did you do
things without adult supervision on a daily back and what
was it that you did.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Every day on supervision?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
What?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Who was on that bike moving around that neighborhood? Boy?
What are you talking about way back in the woods,
jumping ramps, breaking windows, what stealing wood? Building a love
how what we did it all?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
What we were doing.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Every single day. We made soccer on bikes. Just kick
a tennis ball to the goal all the way down
the street while ride the bike. Can't ride the bike.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
We ain't know nothing.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
We're just playing soccer on bikes.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
That we were doing baseball basketball at the park where
I wasn't supposed to be because people over there don't
know how to act.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
We was all over in the neighborhood. We was doing everything.
Didn't nobody know where I was between nine am and
five pm. They didn't know where I was.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
When the street lights came.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
My mama did. They had to call houses to find it.
Is he over there to them come on here here.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
It didn't know what he was. That was my job
was to play. You had an to play.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I have no idea what they passed the law for supervision.
Do you understand what the horror that my parents would
have been in had they seen what I was doing when.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I left you up to.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I was.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I was headed in the wrong direction a lot of time.
If I had kept going down the path for burglary,
b and E breaking and enter it. Armed robbery. I'd
probably be into that. I definitely would be in the arson. Oh,
I've set so much stuff all yeah, because animal abuse.
(05:30):
I'd being locked up for so much stuff we was doing.
I had a magnifying glass and burned up a whole
colony of ants one day. I had the whole white
out in entire colony of ants with magnifying man. All
my the stuff we used to do. Man bike robbery
and hate for a theft and hey Man. We used
(05:51):
to ride out to the white neighborhood and play baseball
with him because we had to. We had finally formed
a little Black Little league team on our street, but
we didn't have the money for gloves. So we go
out to the white neighborhood and play with the white
kids and they would give us their gloves and we
would go to the field and then give them their gloves,
and then they go out in the field. Then they
give them out they gloves and we go out in
the field, and we got to about the third inning.
(06:11):
Then we gave each other the signal. As soon as
they tossed us the gloves, we just headed to the
bikes and they were sitting there going, hey, what are
you guys doing?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Law they out there without no glove.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Well, you know, cause they just tossed them to us,
and we just on the third about third fourth inning,
we fit in the head on over to these bikes
because we got the glove.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Hey, Hey, where you guys going, What you guys doing? Hey,
come back, come back? That ain't that ain't What's all right?
We've got to go start this baseball team. We got gloves.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
One more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show, This Ignorant
Show coming up at twenty minutes after the hour. Right
after this, you're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show.
So here's a question for you, guys. Did you ever
write love letters to your high school sweetheart or to
women period? I mean, do you think they work?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well? Yeah, how I lived in segregation. You ain't write
no letter. They mayn't stamp something about and licked them,
trying to hope that this girl would want me back.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
What'd you say? You dropped stuff off me.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'll tell you one of the deepest things I did was,
I was a senior in high school. Man, I wanted
this girl man so bad. I wrote the lyrics to
Devotion by Earth, Wind and Fire on a poster board,
rolled it up, put it in my I tucked my
T shirt in my pants, put it in the back
of my T shirt like a like a bow and
(00:48):
arrow case, and got on my bike and rode over
to her house and rolled um down the street till
she came out on the porch. And just because y'all
had no way of calling her, you know, so rolled
them down the street till she came came out. I
got off my bike and handed it to her. She
unrolled it on the thing and read the whole lyrics
to Devotion.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Oh did she cry? Or was she? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
She cried, Yeah, when the father came out on the
porch and put my to get your folk.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
This is before social media. Evil, what about you? Love letter?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Definitely high school? Sweetheart wrote it. Walked to the high school.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Sweet love was so brand new, as.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
My grandmama say, my nose was wide open.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
If you ain't had your nose wide open, you ain't lived.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Come on, man, no, I'm three generations from I'm three months.
That's two fod we over here texting. I made cassette tapes.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
That's what I had.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I had Quiet Stole Priss playing Paul's put you record
the song did.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
You Fall the Dog? That's what I had to do.
But we loved letters, but we had technoledgey. By this time,
we were paying paper boy. Yeah, y'all were paying a
paper in it man.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Pony express with my bike, yeah myself, I wad on
the three days and you know mail. It took three
days even locally, three days to get to somebody's house
locally to write a letter. Man, I ain't got no
time for this here. I gotta ride this over there.
Yeah yeah, yeah, I had pony express me and that
bike bore man I had.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
I wrote it.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I wrote a girl a letter one time, man, And
you know, I just wanted her to like and I
drove it over the house and put it in there,
uh uh mailbox, and I'm riding up the street and
then I come back down the hill just to see
and uh she would had reached out there and pull
the uh let out the mailbox, didn't even open it
(02:58):
and just tow it in hand.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
What man, that broke my heart.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Man, I know that was heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Hell yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
I had to write it on there, you know, Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
You know, got to put it in a mailbox, got
to make sure her mama and daddy don't get it,
having a name on and everything. As soon as I
came back down the hill, I said, man, she reaching
in the mailbox to get it. She pulled it out
the mailbox and tore it in half.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
A sharing.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Who knew you guys were so romantic?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
All right?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Switching gears now, So here's a question for the guys.
When you were a kid, how often did you do
things without adult supervision on a daily back and what
was it that you did.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Every day on supervision?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
What?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Who was on that bike moving around that neighborhood? Boy?
What are you talking about way back in the woods,
jumping ramps, breaking windows, what stealing wood? Building a love
how what we did it all?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
What we were doing.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Every single day. We made soccer on bikes. Just kick
a tennis ball to the goal all the way down
the street while ride the bike. Can't ride the bike.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
We ain't know nothing.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
We're just playing soccer on bikes.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
That we were doing baseball basketball at the park where
I wasn't supposed to be because people over there don't
know how to act.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
We was all over in the neighborhood. We was doing everything.
Didn't nobody know where I was between nine am and
five pm. They didn't know where I was.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
When the street lights came.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
My mama did. They had to call houses to find it.
Is he over there to them come on here here.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
It didn't know what he was. That was my job
was to play. You had an to play.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I have no idea what they passed the law for supervision.
Do you understand what the horror that my parents would
have been in had they seen what I was doing when.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I left you up to.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I was.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I was headed in the wrong direction a lot of time.
If I had kept going down the path for burglary,
b and E breaking and enter it. Armed robbery. I'd
probably be into that. I definitely would be in the arson. Oh,
I've set so much stuff all yeah, because animal abuse.
(05:30):
I'd being locked up for so much stuff we was doing.
I had a magnifying glass and burned up a whole
colony of ants one day. I had the whole white
out in entire colony of ants with magnifying man. All
my the stuff we used to do. Man bike robbery
and hate for a theft and hey Man. We used
(05:51):
to ride out to the white neighborhood and play baseball
with him because we had to. We had finally formed
a little Black Little league team on our street, but
we didn't have the money for gloves. So we go
out to the white neighborhood and play with the white
kids and they would give us their gloves and we
would go to the field and then give them their gloves,
and then they go out in the field. Then they
give them out they gloves and we go out in
the field, and we got to about the third inning.
(06:11):
Then we gave each other the signal. As soon as
they tossed us the gloves, we just headed to the
bikes and they were sitting there going, hey, what are
you guys doing?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Law they out there without no glove.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Well, you know, cause they just tossed them to us,
and we just on the third about third fourth inning,
we fit in the head on over to these bikes
because we got the glove.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Hey, Hey, where you guys going, What you guys doing? Hey,
come back, come back? That ain't that ain't What's all right?
We've got to go start this baseball team. We got gloves.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
One more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show, This Ignorant
Show coming up at twenty minutes after the hour. Right
after this, you're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show.
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