Church Fees

The church will start charging late fees.  Fool #1 has a problem being the messenger.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Coming up at about four minutes after the hour. It's
my strawberry letter for today, and the subject is how
important is conversation.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
When you're in love? Right?

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Find out what that's all about in just a few
because right now it is time for the nephew and
today's prank phone call.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
What you got next?

Speaker 3 (00:20):
We're gonna go down to the church. Sureley, you know
church folk call the best folk took prank. This right
here is church fees, church fees. You understand church fees.
Were gonna pay these church fees. Let's go cat dog
if you would.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Hello, Hello, I'm trying to reach the church.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
Hey you got it?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Hey? How you doing? This is? This is brother Glenn
from the church.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Hey, brother Glenn, how you doing?

Speaker 2 (00:45):
I'm good, I'm good, I'm real good. Did you enjoy service? Born?

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Oh? I enjoyed it? Passive passa brought it down? Oh
my god, that was the word.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
For me, right right, right right? Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:00):
What do I owe the pleasure of this call?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
I wanted to give you some information that the that
the church has come up with, and we wanted to
let you know what was going on before next Sunday.
I didn't interrupt you, no.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
No, I actually I may sound a little a little
off a little bit. I'm trying to get getting ready
for my little davies, my little darlings, and I'm trying
to Your voice sounds so familiar to me. It just
sounds so familiar. Trying to place place that voice.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Okay, well, you've seen me at the church quite a
few times.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
I think I have. I'm just trying to place it.
I can't place it right now.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
But what can I do?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
What? Nevertheless, I just wanted here's here's what's going on now.
You're aware that for the last the last six Sundays
you've been actually coming into service late. Have you realized that, Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
I know, I'm sorry about that, but uh you know,
yes I have. I have my reasons though.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Okay, okay, well here's what's going on. The officials at
the church have gotten together and this is what they've
decided on, is that anybody who is late starting next
Sunday would be a fifteen dollar charge for that for
coming in and disrupting services. The fastest tired of service
being disrupted by people walking in late.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
That that could not come at a worse time. I
don't have fifteen dollars to give. Don't I don't have it. Oh, look,
I'm sorry. I'm sorry that we're late. I am We
are doing our best. I have three kids. I have
three young kids, two seven and nine, and they are

(02:32):
a handful and we do the best that we can
to get the church on time and to tell your book,
when we get there, it's doing praising worship. I mean,
pass ain't even preaching yet.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Sorry, I know it's not past is not up yet,
but he's he's stating that people coming in. It just
seems very disrupted to the service that's going on. So nevertheless,
like I said, this is a warning call, you know,
to let you know that if you are late on
next Sunday then they will be trying you fifteen dollars
a late charge and actually you won't be able to
even come in why until you until you played.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
A five twenty dollars, I can't even get in church
with we Look, okay, look I don't I don't owe nothing.
I don't owe you no explanations, but I need to
tell you something. We are me and my kids for
the last few Sundays that we've been late. It's because
my car broke down. We are on the bus man

(03:27):
public transportation.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Okay, I mean, and I understand, I understand outside civilitized
with everything that you're going through.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
But why are you called if you understand? Why are
you calling me about fifteen dollars? If you understand what
I'm going through?

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Well I didn't. First of all, I didn't know what
you were going Why are you raising your voice at me?
But why are you raising Did you just raise your
voice at me? You know what?

Speaker 4 (03:45):
You know what I think? You're raising your voice at you?
How dare you call me about this? About a feat?
And I'm there at church. I got my kid in there,
trying to raise them up where they should go, just
like the Bible say. And you know why to do
this and why I'm late? Why we gotta catch the bus?
Do you understand why that is? Brother Glenn?

Speaker 2 (04:06):
No, I do not.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
That is because they to their daddy ain't.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
And yes, it's Tracy. You have to calm down a
little bit now.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
Oh Jesus help me, Jesus, help me, Jesus.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Okay, listen, here's the deal. All I can do is
tell you this. I hope you can make it. Maybe
you can catch it earlier bus. You know what I
mean and get there a little earlier. But I'm just
stating the facts that as of next Sunday, if you
come in late, it's fifteen dollars late fee, and that's
what you'll pay in order to get in the service.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
You know what, Well, maybe next Sunday I just won't
be there. How about that? You know I'm already working
six days a week. The only day I have office Sunday,
I've been baking, breaking my back. Do you know I
work two jobs. I work two jobs, and they always
trying to take money out of my check, always trying
to pull me here and there, and I'm always tired.
I get two hours of sleep and then now the

(04:54):
church wants to dump another fifteen dollars charging me for
being at church when that's what I'm supposed to do.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
But you're coming in late, though, sister Tracy, you know what.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
You know what?

Speaker 4 (05:05):
Late ain't bad. Okay, I might be delayed, but I
ain't denied, and I'm getting there the best way that
I know how. For Oh, the bus, I have to
put my kids on the school bus. And long did
I have to get this on the school bus that
I have to get on the bus to myself to
work because I don't have a car, because they Daddy
ain't doing nothing nothing for them. Do you understand what
I'm saying to you? I need to understand that number one,

(05:29):
it's what hit daddy. For two, he in jail, been
there about five years he ain't And daddy number three
he decided to go ahead and walk out.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Ain't.

Speaker 4 (05:39):
I ain't heard from that that trace list in about
seven months now. He knows we struggling. He had the
nerve to take my wallet too.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
You don't.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
You don't even understand what I'm going through. You don't
even understand that I'm trying to make a better life
for me and my children.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
There is one one thing, Sister Tracy, that the Church
wants you to know before next Sunday that you definitely
need to know.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
Well, what more things does the church want me to know?
Beside fifteen dollars?

Speaker 2 (06:00):
The Chase just wants you to know that this is
nephew Tommy from the Steve Harby Morning Show. Your sister
Patrece got me the prank phone call you.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
I am gonna walk up.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
What are you you know?

Speaker 4 (06:18):
I ain't got time for that. No, I ain't got
time for that.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Oh, Patrese, your sister got you right.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Oh, I got something for her. How about that?

Speaker 2 (06:32):
She told me, she said she take my sister Corpros down.
She says, she got these kids. She ow me are struggling, struggling,
and she's trying to make it. But you gotta give
a hard time. She just wanted, she wanted, she wanted
you to put us. She wanted to put a smile
on your face.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
What she well, you want being settled out? I'm gonna
have to.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Say she did. Okay, right, Wow, Now that.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
I know you y'all were joking, and now I know
this is nephew Tommy.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Hey, I gotta ask you something, baby, what's the baddest
that I mean, the baddest radio show in the land.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
That's Steve Harvey Morning Show.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Come on now, come on up in here, come on,
give the prank or something. Come on, come on, come on.
It's what I do this weekend. I think I'm pretty
much sold out. I think I think they might have
my forty two tickets left. I checked last night by
forty two ticket left, uh for the Nephew Tommy at
the Helium Comedy Club. That is too Friday to Saturday

(07:35):
one on Sunday. Uh, most of them sold out. They
got a few of them left. You can get some.
Get it a way of getting as good. They trying
to get me to add the show out.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
I don't see. Please, No, we will, Junior, We'll wait.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
I tell him, come on now, Buffalo, New York. Y'all
better get ready, though, y'all laying in the cut all right?
That is Labor Day weekend. That is August thirty first,
that Saturday night at the Shade performing All Sinder Nephew
Tommy and Friends. It's the Nephew Timey House Party comedy
jaff You do not want to miss this man. Tickets

(08:18):
on sale right now. I will be in all white.
That's before Labor Day. We're doing all white. So once
y'all joined me, put on all white. Okay, we're gonna
make it look like a Frank at Beverlyn Comedy show
up in there. That's what we're gonna.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Look. What's up called cow about me?

Speaker 1 (08:37):
I can't now listen?

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Let hear me out.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
There are a lot of Marrows in Buffalo.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Let me tell you.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Let me tell you what I found out. Call like
Jackie Jackie's gonna be in Atlanta this weekend. She wants
to go to see Missy Elliott. Right, Yeah, I found
out mister Elliott has a Missy Ellie has a no
Comp tour. I ain't never heard about this before, no
comp tour. So but Timmy has a no comp no
comp tour?

Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (09:06):
What I got to do with you in Buffalo?

Speaker 2 (09:08):
All right, I'm coming up figure that out.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
You aren't mighty out coming up next, shrubbery little subject.
How important is conversation when you're in love? We'll find
out right after this.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
You ain't Missy Elliott.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
You're listening Hard Morning Show