FULL SHOW: Steve Harvey's Voicemail, Strawberry Letter: I'm Not As Strong As I Think I Am - 8.28.25 - The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today show is pre recorded.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Y'all know what time y'all don't know y'all at all, So.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Don't given a black all busy.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Listening to.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Show.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I don't join.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yah yeah, Joy.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
You love you.

Speaker 5 (01:24):
Gotta turn.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
I can't.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Got to turn the mouth. Turn you probably got to
turn the mouth the word of the money up. Look
make me come come on you're thinking that, I sure will.

(02:03):
Good morning everybody.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
You are listening to the varts, Come on, dig me
now one and only. Uh huh. Steve Harvey got a
radio show.

Speaker 6 (02:11):
Here you do.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Steve Harvey got a radio show. But like I said
the other day, you got something too, though, don't you.
God done done something wonderful for you. You just got
to thank Him for it, you know, in the midst
of all that's going on in my life and in
your life. You know, I always use myself as an
example because well, I mean that way. I guarantee one

(02:32):
hundred percent I know what I'm talking about here. Here's
the situation, you know, with everything that's going on in
my life and all the things I'm asking God for
in the midst of taxing and a very trying situation
that's very challenging for me right now. Man, God just

(02:53):
keeps on, keeps on surprising me. He keeps doing things,
And I want you to look at your life. Or
for a second, let's make two columns here. Let's make
a column of all the things you want from God.
You know, just do that throughout the course of the day.
You know, you know, run down the list of all

(03:14):
the things you're asking God for, all the things you're
praying for, the things you aspire to, what your dreams,
your visions.

Speaker 6 (03:22):
Whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Just make a column a list of all those things.
Let's make three lists. And then the second list, I
want you to make a list of everything that you've
been asking God for, so I guess that could be
a little bit of the same. But this third list,
I want you to do a check off point. I
want you to do a make a list of everything

(03:46):
that God has given you that you've asked him for.
Just think about it like that for a second. I
may be explaining a little wrong right now, but I'm
gonna pull it together for you. Make a list of
everything you're asking God for.

Speaker 6 (04:00):
Just just listed, you know.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's okay, it's a dream board. You can call it that.
I got one. It's a vision board. You know everybody's
got something you hope for. Make a list.

Speaker 7 (04:09):
Now.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
I want you to make another list of everything you've
asked God for that he's given you already. See this
is a good list because sometimes and what I've been
guilty of, and maybe you two in my request list
on my dream board. I keep focusing so hard sometimes

(04:32):
on the what I'm yet to receive. I keep focusing
so hard on the what I hope he gives me.
I keep focusing so hard on the things that I
yet not fulfilled in my life that sometimes, as he
starts checking off my wish lists, the things I've asked

(04:52):
for in the past that have come to pass that
he's given me, I sometimes, in praying for what I
want forget to thank him for what he's done for me.
And I'm currently in the middle of that situation. And
this morning when I woke up, I really, man, I
just got on my knees this morning and I quit
tripping for a second. I said, Man, hey, God, you

(05:13):
know what I really do need all them things I'm
asking for, and I'm really am believing that You're gonna
give it to me. But in the meantime, though, man,
have I overlooked some important details here. I had to
really look at what he's done for me. I mean, look, man,
take yourself out of it personally and look. Or you

(05:34):
can leave yourself in it however you want to be.
Some people can't do that, so just leave yourself in it. Then,
But man, I started looking at the eye part of me,
and I started looking around at what's happening overall. Like, man,
he has kept my family together and in spite of
the attempts to tear it apart. I look at all
of that. I look at how he's blessing my children

(05:56):
with the desires of their heart, which I pray for
my kids. You know, I want my kids to have
a better life than I've had. I really really do.
I don't want them to take as long as it
took me to get it together. I really really don't.
I'm trying to say, hey, man, if you go to college,
this is what you can be. Don't do like your
father did. Don't go three years drop I'll throw yourself
into a spiral. And then got to start to scratch

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all over again, you know, And for the most part
so far, you know, they're doing quite well of it.
You know, you know, they're getting kicked around a little bit,
but that's life. I started thinking of the blessings that
he's helped me overcome with some of the previous mistakes
I've made in relationships in my life. And then I

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started looking about the things he's blessed me with that
I've been asking him for. But since I've moved on
from it, I forgot to keep thinking because I got
to always thank God for a roof over my head
because guess what, when I was asking for the roof
and I didn't really have it, then he gave me one. Now,
since he gave it to me, what, I'm just cool
Now I can't ever go back to him and go, hey, man,

(07:00):
really do appreciate this roof over my head because there
was a time when I was living in a car.
But see, so every morning I wake up, I gotta
remember the fact that I have a home now, because
I got to look back and go, Man, that was time, Steve,
when you didn't.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Have no home.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
But see, we forget what God has done for us
because in our column, the won't column, the need column,
we oftentimes forget for the columns and the check marks
that He's already fulfilled in our life. You've got to
take inventory every now and then daily if possible. But

(07:35):
I know we humans, we're not gonna do that. I don't.
But you've got to take inventory of your life to say, hey,
what has God done for me?

Speaker 8 (07:45):
You know?

Speaker 2 (07:46):
And remember something else too. Change is good, but change
is challenging. Accept the challenge that it is. Look a
lot of you come up to me all the time
and say, Steve Man, thank you and boy you in
the morning. Man, I really be needing that well, like
honest said it a hundred times, but I'm gonna say
it again, y'all. I be needing it too. You know,

(08:09):
you understand sometimes what God is dealing with me.

Speaker 6 (08:13):
Is for me.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
But now I'm in a sharing position where I can
open up and if I just if I just quit
being so about me and become a little bit more transparent,
I can maybe some of me that's happening to me
is happening to you, and you can see some of
this in me. That's why I use myself as an example,
because man, I'm catching it too, y'all. I ain't perfect either.

(08:37):
So for those of you that come up to me
and say that I want you to understand these these
talks in the morning. Man, this is important for me
because man, I need these conversations from God. I need
God to continue to strengthen me, to show me the way,
to help me understand what's happening to me. And see,

(08:57):
as we've all those of you who have made the
decision to change, to become a better person, a better woman,
a better boy, better girl, a better man. For those
of you who's made the decision to change, change is
a challenge, and accept the challenge because it's gonna come.
Because right out of that here come to haters. Here
they come people you don't even know, discussing your life

(09:17):
and your change. If God see you really really mean
what you say in spite of what they say about you,
God will raise you above the freight. He'll keep promoting you.
He'll keep blessing you. He'll keep moving you up. He
will use you as a show off point. He'll show
you off, man, He'll he'll make you look good the

(09:40):
people man, who wish you'd fall all day long. And
so to all your haters, all your haters will end
up just watching you rise. Man, They will watch you
continue to grow. That's what God will do for you. Man,
you can fool the world, but you can't fool God.
God know your heart, He know your every thought.

Speaker 9 (09:57):
Man, you're listening to the seed Harvey. Morning shall.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Ladies and gentlemen, Today is today that the Lord has made.
Let us rejoice and be glad in it. That pretty
much sums it up. But in case you don't understand
what that's saying is you know when it says that,
that's you know how factual that is. Today is today
that the Lord has made. Can anybody else claim that?

Speaker 6 (10:26):
Nope?

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Ever seen anybody body say that. Can't nobody produce it?
This is all God produced. Man, He does it now
our job. All he say to us is rejoice, be
glad in it. Be grateful that you hear you made
another one. You might be missing somebody.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
I know I am.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
You probably are too, But man, ain't you glad you
still here? Let's take advantage of it. Let's do something
great today. Let's ay y'all make some space in your
life for God. Spend a little bit of time with
him today. It don't take a lot. You owe him
a lot, but it don't take much. Just spend some

(11:07):
time with him to day it'll give you a a
a A an abiding piece in yourself that you didn't
even know could exist. It's it's an uncommon piece, Yeah,
it is. We get into that, lady though, this deceive
Harvey Morning Show, Shirley Strawberry calling for real Mississippi Monic
and the legend that is Nephew tumbout Junior Junior steal out. Yeah,

(11:30):
I'm telling you right well when you bring it a
little back in here though, I'm just letting you know,
huh yeah, whenever he comes back.

Speaker 9 (11:39):
Though, But you're not saying we can't take off. You're
not saying that this is not for a month.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Excuse why does he talk every time.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Show?

Speaker 6 (11:53):
I can say what I want.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
You don't come to workout?

Speaker 6 (11:57):
I come, I don't come on Monday, missed the mont
so now.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
And you missed more than just Monday.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, and you know he gonna and all this here
and I don't care.

Speaker 8 (12:10):
I just.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
I'm a pressing.

Speaker 9 (12:13):
But but back to my question, though, you don't mind
if we take off? What is your problem with Junior?

Speaker 2 (12:20):
That's what I want to know, because he ain't told
nobody he was going to take.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
Off this show.

Speaker 10 (12:27):
We did, we know?

Speaker 11 (12:28):
Yeah, who tell you told me, you told me, tell
you Tommy.

Speaker 12 (12:44):
I'm getting ready to take vacations. What ye, But he
ain't said he was taking the He ain't on vacation.
But Steve, let's go back to nephew. We gotta run
stuff by him.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
And we on vacation. No, he feels that way, he
does feel that way.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
We're not doing that, sir.

Speaker 6 (13:02):
Is this something you want to do? Cherley and call
like y'all trying to go somewhere.

Speaker 9 (13:07):
If I do, I know who to call and it's
not you believeable if you've ruined this man?

Speaker 2 (13:17):
He called Monica, he tell her, he tell Monica everything.

Speaker 9 (13:20):
Well, she's an executive producer.

Speaker 6 (13:23):
You're talking about June.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Uh huh, okay, he told somebody.

Speaker 9 (13:27):
So now after the fact, coming up in thirty two
minutes after the hour, you see what kind of show
this is going to be. We'll hear from the nephew
who takes off every Monday and things. Seems to think
that's okay as he runs that prank back right after this.

Speaker 6 (13:43):
Is he still getting his check too?

Speaker 9 (13:46):
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Speaker 9 (14:21):
It is time now for the nephew to run that
prank back what you got for his nest.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
You are ready, Yes, do your job. I'm doing my
job here and my job is pranks. And my job
is also knowing when people want to go on vacation.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
No, sir, vacation regular.

Speaker 10 (14:45):
Alay.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
This right here is called church fees. Church fees. All right,
we got some church fees. We're going down there to
the church. We're pranking people at the church and let's
go church fees.

Speaker 8 (14:55):
Cat dog, if you would hello, Hello, I'm trying to
reach the chase.

Speaker 13 (15:00):
Hey you got her?

Speaker 8 (15:00):
Hey, how you doing this? Is? Uh? This is brother
Glenn from the church.

Speaker 14 (15:04):
Hey, brother Glenn, how you doing.

Speaker 8 (15:05):
I'm good, I'm good, I'm real good. Did you enjoy
service boring?

Speaker 14 (15:09):
Oh, I enjoyed it past the pasta brought it down?

Speaker 8 (15:15):
Yes, Oh my god. That was a word for me,
right right, right right?

Speaker 14 (15:20):
So what do I owe the pleasure of this call?

Speaker 8 (15:23):
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 14 (15:33):
No, I actually I may sound a little a little
off a little bit. I'm trying to get get it
ready for my little babies, 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 8 (15:46):
Okay, well, you've seen me at the church quite a
few times.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
I think I have.

Speaker 14 (15:49):
I'm just trying to place it. I can't place it
right now.

Speaker 8 (15:52):
But what Nevertheless, I just wanted here's here's what's going on. Uh. Now,
you're aware that for the last the last six Sundays
you've been at actually coming into service late. Have you
realized that?

Speaker 14 (16:03):
Yes, I know, I'm sorry about that, but you know, yes,
I have I have my reason.

Speaker 8 (16:09):
So 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, there would be a fifteen dollar charge for
that for coming in and disrupting service. The fastest tired
of service being disrupted by people walking in late.

Speaker 14 (16:30):
That could not come at a worse time. I don't
have fifteen dollars to give. 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

(16:53):
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 praise in worship, I
mean pass. They ain't even preaching yet.

Speaker 8 (17:05):
Sorry, I know it's not pass is not up yet,
but he's stating that people coming in. It just seems
very disrupted to the service that's going on. That's 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 charging you fifteen dollars
are late charge. And actually you won't be able to
even come in what until you until you plaid fifteen dollars.

Speaker 14 (17:29):
I can't even get in church with Okay, look I
don't I don't owe nothing. I don't owe you no explanation.
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 public transportation.

Speaker 8 (17:48):
Okay, I mean, and I understand, I understand. I sund
civilitized with everything that you're going through.

Speaker 14 (17:52):
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 8 (17:57):
Well I didn't at first of all, I didn't know
what you were going Why are you rasing yourvo Why
are you raising? Did you just raise your voice at me?
You know what? You know what?

Speaker 14 (18:05):
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 keys there, trying to
raise them up is the way they should go, just
like the Bible say. And you know why I gotta
do this and why I'm lated why we got to
catch the bus. Do you understand why that is, brother Gleed, No,

(18:25):
I do not. That is because they.

Speaker 8 (18:27):
To their daddy ain't And yes, so it's Tracy. You
have to calm down a little bit now.

Speaker 14 (18:32):
Oh Jesus help me, Jesus help.

Speaker 9 (18:34):
Me, Jesus.

Speaker 8 (18:34):
Okay, listen, here's the deal. All I can do is
tell you this. I hope you can make it. Maybe
you can catch an earlier bus, you know what I mean,
and get that a little earlier. But 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 14 (18:52):
You know what, Well, maybe next Sunday I just won't
be there, how about that? You know I'm already working
six days week. The only day I have office Sunday.
I've been breaking 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

(19:13):
church wants to dump another fifteen dollars charging me for
being at church when that's what I'm supposed to do.

Speaker 8 (19:19):
But you're coming in late, though, Tracy, you know what.

Speaker 14 (19:23):
You know what 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 that I have to get them on the school bus.
Then 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 under that.

(19:46):
Number one, it's what hit daddy. For two, he in jail,
been there about five years he ain't And daddy number
three she decided to go ahead and walk out. And
I ain't heard from that. Tras listen in about seven
than much. Now he know we struggling. She had to
nerve to take my wallet too.

Speaker 10 (20:03):
You don't.

Speaker 14 (20:04):
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 8 (20:09):
There is one more thing, sister Tracy, that the church
wants you to know before next Sunday that you definitely
need to.

Speaker 14 (20:14):
Know what One more thing does the church want me
to know?

Speaker 1 (20:17):
This?

Speaker 14 (20:17):
I fifteen dollars.

Speaker 8 (20:18):
The Church just wants you to know that. This is
nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Your sister
Patrece got me the prank phone call you.

Speaker 14 (20:28):
I am gonna walk una, are you? You know I
ain't got time for that. You know I ain't got
time for that. Oh hook for trees?

Speaker 8 (20:38):
Uh? Your sister got you, all right?

Speaker 14 (20:43):
I got something for her? How about that?

Speaker 8 (20:47):
She told me? She said, she tell my sister Carbroos down.
She says, she got these kids you over are struggling
and 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
us my.

Speaker 14 (21:02):
Well, you want being settled out. I'm gonna have to
say she did.

Speaker 7 (21:07):
Right.

Speaker 14 (21:08):
Wow, now that I know you y'all were joking and
now I know this is nephew Tommy.

Speaker 8 (21:16):
Hey, I gotta ask you something, baby. What's the baddest
and I mean the baddest radio show in the land.

Speaker 14 (21:21):
The Steve Harvin Morning Show.

Speaker 9 (21:23):
Babies thanking that you Coming up next, It is as
the clo our Chief Love Officer, Steve Harvey in the building.
Right after this. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.

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and hard work to get in the door.

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Then make that house a home. Now, all that effort
has built something hugely valuable.

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that can be tapped to fun what's next and Rocket
Mortgage is here to help you turn your home's equity
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Speaker 1 (22:10):
Coming up at the top of the hour.

Speaker 9 (22:12):
In entertainment news, the president and CEO of Essen's magazine
has stepped down. We'll talk about that some celebrity couple
news Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chief star Travis Kelcey
are finally engaged after two years. And in trending headline news,
the NAACP is suing the state of Texas we'll talk

(22:33):
about all of these stories. Yeah, at the time of
the hour. But right now it is time to ask
the clo. All right, clo, here we go. This is
from Yolanda and Saginaw. Yolanda writes, I cursed a woman
out at the grocery store for cutting me in line.
She apologized and said she just moved into the area

(22:55):
and didn't do it intentionally. Why is she my next
door neighbor? Why should I try.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
To be friendly with her?

Speaker 8 (23:06):
Now?

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yeah, you should, because I mean, you know, you jump
the gun. Somebody cuts in front of you at the line,
you know, you cuss them out. The lady apologized, could
have had a lot on her mind. Wasn't paying attention.
Is it really that important?

Speaker 4 (23:22):
Really?

Speaker 2 (23:23):
And I don't think it is. Now she your neighbor,
and I think what you should do is not this
is where you were, just where you need to lie. Yeah,
listen to me, Hey, listen, I was having a horrible
date day and I just I wasn't myself and I
won't apologize to you and welcome you to the neighborhood.

(23:44):
And I'm sorry. I didn't want us to get off
to a bad start. You see, you're probably a wonderful person,
and I'm not normally like that, So please forgive me
that that wouldn't hurt at all, that that's something I
like it. Yeah, I mean, why create an enemy when
you can live.

Speaker 9 (24:02):
In peace your next door neighbor? No, well, you know
want that all right? Moving on to Jaretha and Memphis,
Jaretha writes, my husband and I were at a house party.
I was ready to go, but he wasn't, so he
said I could go home and he would get a ride.
The next day, he told me that I'm too antisocial

(24:24):
for him? What was wrong with me leaving that boring party?

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Hey, no, it wasn't none wrong with you leaving it.
He's got to call you anti social because he wanted
to stay. I don't even know why. He should have
just said, hey, you could take the car come later,
and then he didn't even have to bring it up.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah, because he really didn't mind you leave it at all.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Now you go ahead, I'm want to stay here at
this house party jumping something in his head was right
after how party, and you got being now was gonna
straighten it right on out?

Speaker 4 (25:07):
Oh man?

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yeah, then coming in and putting you on the defense.
You too anti social. What was wrong with me leaving
that boiling party? Nothing?

Speaker 7 (25:16):
Nothing?

Speaker 9 (25:17):
So would you have left with your wife if she.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Wanted to go?

Speaker 6 (25:21):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
I can't.

Speaker 9 (25:21):
I can't send my wife home, right, that's my husband exactly.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
That that's not how because if something happened and I'm
not there, I'm not sending my wife out at night
to my go ahead, I'll get a ride. I'm not
finna do that. Send my wife home, I'm not dang.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
My husband would have been like I've been ready, I
ain't want.

Speaker 9 (25:42):
To go, exactly. I was waiting on you. Her name
is Daretha. So are they older or you think they're older?

Speaker 8 (25:52):
Right?

Speaker 6 (25:53):
Yeah? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (25:55):
And who the hell go to house party? I mean
people go, old people. Young people had rent out aired
Bee's and throw parties. I'm not throwing no house party.

Speaker 6 (26:09):
No more.

Speaker 9 (26:10):
Okay, all right? So he should have left with his wife,
all right, and not chastise her when he got home.
All right. Moving on to Akbar in Naples, Achbar rights.
I've been saving money to upgrade my wife's diamond. Our
oldest daughter fell and chipped her too, and she asked
me to borrow a lot of money to get it fixed.
If I do that, then the ring will have to wait.

(26:33):
What's more important, the ring or the too?

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Well, when your wife is talking to your little chip
two daughter explaining huw you know how you might still
be able to get a man with your mouth looking
all raggedy and everything, cause you tell that wool machine
and getting that ring. That baby didn't have a ragged knout.
Now my question is how old is you? The oldest
daughter is probably how old you think it?

Speaker 9 (26:59):
His name is for.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Maybe, so now he give her the money, get her
to fix.

Speaker 9 (27:08):
A lot.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
I'm just say this right here. I don't really know
much about innistry.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Work is expensive, no instrument.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
I don't. I don't know what it costs. I'll tell
you right now. You have got to get your mouth fixed.
You got to do that. Yeah, okay, you can explain
that little cut on your arm and all that hen
and how you got the back of your legs when
you as a baby, it's sitting have been there with

(27:35):
that hole in the middle of your head that ain't
put that chip on it.

Speaker 6 (27:41):
Into your hand.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
If you're gonna cut your tongue on it, you can
start a math. Get your tongue in that space. You
could do that that.

Speaker 8 (27:54):
It.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah, you could just put your tongue over that chip
every time you smile. Yeah, yeah, but you got to
get your tooth fixed.

Speaker 9 (28:02):
But he's torn though. He wants to know which one,
the tooth or the ring.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
CLO said the tooth.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
I'll tell you what going there and ask your wife
should we do? I'm trying to save upgrade this ring,
but our daughter need a new tooth.

Speaker 8 (28:19):
What what?

Speaker 2 (28:19):
How you want to handle this baby?

Speaker 6 (28:22):
Then you have no business falling right?

Speaker 1 (28:24):
She didn't look what she don't want you where she
was going?

Speaker 10 (28:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Do you need my ring? Size?

Speaker 8 (28:35):
Baby?

Speaker 9 (28:35):
Goudahead?

Speaker 4 (28:36):
It's bling up.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
She needs to get to saving up. Yeah, yeah, all.

Speaker 9 (28:42):
Right, last one, last one, CLO. This is from Wan
in Denton. Wan writes, I was having a water balloon
fight with my seven year old son, and my wife
ran outside and said, I can't hit her baby that
hard with the balloon. As long as is I'm not
aiming for his head, it's all good, Right? How do

(29:04):
I get my wife to stop babying our son?

Speaker 2 (29:08):
I busted is there in that head with that water balloon?
My boy before I've been knocked them out before. That's
the tar yet Yeah, I'm trying to hit you in
your head with this water balloon. Yeah, so you know,
stop but ladies, ladies, ladies, stop stop babying these boys.

(29:30):
Stop doing that. Stop.

Speaker 9 (29:33):
So what should she have done? I mean, she's worried
about her little boy. He's only seven. It's water, but
water can be heavy, you know that, traveling at a
fast seed.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
You know, I'm surely that same thing she said when
she was up there looking at it. So he got
a hit with the water balloon? And so what did
the boy cry? And all the boy was out there laughing,
having fun.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
It's that mother's son.

Speaker 6 (29:59):
Yeah, he came out.

Speaker 15 (30:04):
In her hair. He would have got it, all right. CEO,
all right, coming up of the Okay, coming up at the.

Speaker 9 (30:27):
Top of the hour, we'll have some entertainment news for
you right after this. You're listening hard morning show. Essence
recently announced that Carolyn Wanga has stepped down as president
and CEO of Essence Ventures. We all remember this past summer,

(30:47):
Wanga received a lot of backlash and online scrutiny about
this year's Essence Fest. Uh Sundial Technology and Media Group,
parent company of Essence Ventures, released a statement that read
in part quote, we are profoundly grateful to Caroline for
her leadership, vision, and unwavering advocacy of Black women and culture.

(31:08):
The statement went on to say, Caroline has left an
indelible mark on Essence and Beyond and we celebrate them anyways.
She has amplified our mission and impact end quote. Wenga
has been on health lead and she will move on
to her next chapter of her life and career.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
So there you go.

Speaker 9 (31:26):
So we look forward to Essence Best next year then, yeah,
I mean, or will they skip a year?

Speaker 4 (31:33):
See what you say?

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, the regime that they had in that before Michelle E.
Banks and uh, the young sister that ran all the
booking and stuff, and that was a bad crew right there.
They've been on struggle ever since they left.

Speaker 5 (31:55):
Yeah, so they have some rebampping to do and maybe
talking to their readers and the festival goers and give
me back and see what they can do to bring
that magic back to Essence.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (32:06):
And it was a big money maker for them as well.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah, tradition. We were there every year.

Speaker 9 (32:13):
Uh huh every year yeah, yeah, Tommy yeah, and other
entertainment news, yeah, and other entertainment news. And then he'd
take off the following Monday for work. Remember that, Yeah,
Taylor Swift in Kansas City chief football star Travis Kelsey

(32:36):
are officially now engaged. The two started dating in the
summer of twenty twenty three. Taylor's engagement ring is a
square oval diamond known as an old mine, cut in
a gold bezel setting. President Trump, remember he once said
that he hated Taylor Smith Swift. Well, he commented on
the couple's engagement news. He said, quote, I wish him

(32:57):
a lot of Luck's up. Finally, pase, yes, just take congratulations, can.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
Not take the high road.

Speaker 6 (33:08):
Ever, you don't know what I say.

Speaker 9 (33:10):
Sake congratulations and best wishes. That's what you say, all right?

Speaker 4 (33:16):
Finally.

Speaker 9 (33:16):
In trending headline news, the NAACP is suing the state
of Texas over a new electoral map. This is according
to the NAACP. The lawsuit accuses Texas of racially motivated
gerrymandering to silence black communities for next year's midterm elections.
The state of Texas is only forty percent white, but

(33:36):
white voters now control over seventy three percent of the
state's congressional seats. Derek Johnson, President and CEO of the
ACP set all this in the statement. So they're suing
the state of Texas.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Yeah, and Texas knew exactly what they're doing and they're
not going to change it.

Speaker 9 (33:56):
So with the lawsuit, Yeah, see them all.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Let's go and don't get out of the vote. Let's go, y'a.
I gotta register to vote. I mean get out of vote.

Speaker 9 (34:09):
You do, man, even though you feel hopeless, sometimes you
still got to.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Exercise that right right, I'm not begging nobody else to vote.
No more.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
Look at his face.

Speaker 9 (34:23):
You're not good yet. You don't want to bet?

Speaker 2 (34:27):
I don't. I don't understand why they cannot vote. I
don't understand how you cannot understand the significance because not
voting is not participating. Not participating is laying down and
dying in it. And they get to do exactly what
they ain't.

Speaker 9 (34:45):
No, but no, they're just as frustrated as you are
because they don't see the change they want when they vote.
That's the issue.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
But they don't vote. See you hit the crazy part.
You sit up here, because after the election is over,
we get the numbers.

Speaker 9 (35:02):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
You complain.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
About it. Don't go the way when you vote but
but then when the results come out, we find out
that you didn't vote.

Speaker 9 (35:13):
But then we still are staying responsibilbility on this platform,
steve to encourage people to vote. I mean, no matter
what we have to do, we still have to do
our part in encouraging them to vote. We have to
vote and encourage others to vote.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
That Latinos for Trump? How that work out? I don't
even understand, man, how you don't even understand all these
blacks for Trump? How that worked out for you?

Speaker 9 (35:39):
What?

Speaker 8 (35:39):
What?

Speaker 6 (35:40):
What part of what?

Speaker 2 (35:42):
What part of this that you don't you get? What makes?

Speaker 6 (35:47):
For years?

Speaker 3 (35:49):
You know, people every day at their jobs, they cause
every reparat.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
They're a huge of Latin Tino was voted for Trump.
A huge percentage of black men voted for Trump. Think
the number is twenty eight percent. Now that's that's what
And listen, man, we do we we I don't know.
I don't know how we don't understand this.

Speaker 5 (36:16):
What you vote didn't But if your vote didn't mean anything,
why they're doing all this redistricting, changing electoral map?

Speaker 9 (36:24):
That part they don't that's all that's the disconnect. They
don't get that part.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Yeahd in the sand and then pull it out and
want something to be different. Yeah, I ain't voting. I
ain't going down there and vote.

Speaker 9 (36:43):
Okay, bro sister, that's the vote for the opponents when
you don't do that. But we still got to encourage him, Steve,
don't don't get too frustrated.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
We still have to do it. Look it all.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
All right?

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Coming up in twenty.

Speaker 9 (37:05):
Minutes after the hour is.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Today all right?

Speaker 9 (37:11):
Ispen's Ryan Clark is doubling down on his comments that
Chris Brown is more talented than Michael Jackson.

Speaker 16 (37:17):
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Speaker 9 (37:57):
Ispn Sports media personality Ryan Clark is doubling down. Remember,
I guess a few months ago when he made the comments,
this was a few years ago. I guess that Chris
Chris Brown was more talented than Michael Jackson. And it
got everybody up in the arms. Everyone was, you know,
come on. Anyway. Ryan was a recent guest on the
Pivot podcast and he doubled down on that statement and said,

(38:21):
Chris Brown is the most talented artist that has ever lived. Okay,
I mean, it's your opinion. It's okay, ever, clock go ahead.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
I like Ryan Clark, but y'all sportscasters need to learn.

Speaker 6 (38:42):
From each other.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
Had that same compassion when he went at that Rihanna Beyonce, Yeah, it.

Speaker 6 (38:56):
Just do sports.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
Dog is in your lane.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Chris Brown is so incredible. That boy right here, man
is everything. And then Son, yes, yes, but the magnitude
of stardom, and I think you could ask Chris Brown this,

(39:21):
it's not even a comparison. It's not even close. It's
not it's not even close.

Speaker 9 (39:29):
He's like Michael Jackson's biggest fans.

Speaker 4 (39:32):
Yeah, he is.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
I mean the boy he gets emotional when he talk
about the man Michael Jackson, and he is Chris Brown
is I can't take nothing away from I've never seen
a performer like this.

Speaker 5 (39:45):
Yeah, yeah, he's on another level. His tour is selling
out all over the country. Everybody wants to go. He's
a bad boy like.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Michael Jackson, sold out the world. You can't even understand.
It's it's the Ron Jordan's argument. Yeah, it's it's it's
it's Chris Brown in this era. He is the guy.
He is the guy for sure. But I don't know nobody,

(40:16):
nobody will ever get to the magnitude of stardom, popularity
and all around the money, made the business, the album
soul of Michael Jackson. And you're free to have that opinion.
I think Chris Brown is everything. I can't take nothing
away for her.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
Yeah he's firing.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Yeah, but that Michael Jackson throusements he started.

Speaker 9 (40:52):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, but he's still saying Ryan
Clark saying that Chris Brown is the most talented artist
that has ever lived.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
All right, Ran, Yeah, that is his opinion, all right.

Speaker 9 (41:08):
Coming up at thirty four minutes after the hour, we
will check your voicemail. Steve at eight seven seven twenty nine.
Steve eight seven seven twenty nine, Steve. Right after this,
you're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. It is time now
to check your voicemail Steve at eight seven seven twenty nine,

(41:30):
Steve eight seven seven twenty nine, Steve, call and leave
a message. You just might hear your call on the air.
You ready, Steve?

Speaker 6 (41:37):
Yep? All right? Excuse me? Yep?

Speaker 9 (41:41):
Okay, that was a tiny bit better. All right, let's
hear from Roy and Shreveport.

Speaker 17 (41:47):
Hey, good morning, Steve. Now, my name is Roy, called
him Treeport, Louisiana. My question is, how can you live
amongst people? How can you live amongst people and invironment
and in the world what people portray to be help
and to turn around and stay if you're right in
your back, how can you sleep at night knowing family

(42:10):
is not going to be there, and knowing you've got
nobody to turn to. How do they expect us black
men to live in society and not do what we
have to do for our children. Even if to me
it's getting down and dirty, I don't understand it because
from where I come from, from my neck of the
woods man, it's no.

Speaker 9 (42:29):
Help down here periods.

Speaker 6 (42:30):
Why everybody leaving?

Speaker 17 (42:32):
I just needed some words of encouragement, man, because I'm
a father that's been through a lot, and that's trying
to do the right thing, and seems like everywhere I've
been turning man, you know, reaching out for just even
a few words and encouragement. Man, it's been a bump
the road, so you know, and I thank you for
everything I've been seeing. You know, your real inspiration to
me on TV. And you know, I appreciate everything you do.

(42:55):
That was the only thing I needed to know. Man,
How I'm only thirty three. How am I supposed to
keep with the things that's going on around me?

Speaker 2 (43:02):
Thank you? Yeah, Hey, I feel you. I know exactly
where you're at. Manhood is difficult. It's very difficult. It's
fatherhood makes another set of challenges. On top of that,
the responsibility of being a man is hard. But Roy,
you can do it. You can do it because you

(43:23):
have been chosen for the role. See, you didn't accidentally
become a father. God, don't make mistakes. You are a
father because you had to produce these children that you
are now responsible for. Don't let the devil get into
your head and start making you think that you got
to do something sideways to make it happen. See the

(43:45):
devil users all types of tricks. Look, man, stop looking
for support from people who ain't feel they role. You
know the Usually the people around you are not fulfilling
roles in their life. You can't expect them to supper
your fulfilling of your role in your life. So stop
looking for it. See you don't get disappointed if you

(44:06):
don't look for it. Stop expecting people. Your help will
come directly from the most reliable source available, and that
is God Almighty. Now, one of the reasons that your
phone call got picked is because you needed to hear
this message right here that God knows what you're up against,

(44:29):
and God is available. If Steve ain't available, if your
father ain't available, and if the support system around you
ain't available, God is available. Twenty four seven. Keep your
head up, put your eyes on the prize, and do
the right thing. It's hard to do the right thing

(44:49):
when the easy thing seem like it's right there and
you can go get this money.

Speaker 4 (44:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
But if you go get this money and it don't
go right, which it normally doesn't, children who have counted
on you now they daddy behind the wall. Do you
know how many men sit behind that wall. Made that
decision you made for the sake of their family and
ended up costing them the very thing that they was
trying to save and support. You can't do that, bruh.

(45:19):
So now not only can you not support them, you're
not even there to walk them to school and hug them.
Your time that you're investing in these children are much
more valuable than you can possibly know. The fact that
you are there and they can say I'm go tell
my daddy and you can walk them to school or

(45:39):
be there for them. I know, financially it can get
tough for you out here. I know this, but that's
something some talent that you have. I don't know. If
it's washing cars, detailing, I don't know, if it's rims.
I don't know, if it's working down at the tire store.
I don't know. But whatever you can do, and sometimes

(45:59):
you got fake until you make it. Man, You got
to take a job that you don't really care to
have until you get to one you won't. But do
the right thing, brother, and stay on the course. Don't
let the double fool you. Don't let him get you
down that wrong path. Man.

Speaker 9 (46:12):
All right, Steve, coming up next to it is the
Nephew and today's prank phone call. Right after this, you're
listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show coming up at
the top of the hour, right about four minutes after,
it's my Strawberry letter for today, and the subject is
I'm not as strong as I think I am. We'll

(46:36):
get into that find out what that's all about in
just a few I'm not as strong as I think
I am. Well, right now, the Nephew is here with
today's prank phone call. What you got for us, nep
Because you're as stupid as we think you are, you
really are.

Speaker 6 (46:53):
I'm trying and I'm trying to really make you proud
on that. Today. I really.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
Deep into archives of the Prancinary Book. You know, it's
the prank the What prankt the Prankinary, the Prankinary, the
Dictionary the prank No, not the Dictionary.

Speaker 6 (47:08):
With the Prankinary, the Prankinary Book.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
And I go deep into the archives of that, and
page three hundred and twenty one you will find Boogie snitching.
Boogie is snitching. This is in the Prankinary. So let's
just let's take a listen. Ketch Dog, if you would,
from the prankin eary, thank you, Hello man, I speak

(47:30):
to Boogie. Yeah this hey boogie, it's KB. Let me
ask you something, man. How you get out of jail
before Marcus got out of jail? How y'all go to
jail at the same time, but you get out a
month before him and he's still in there.

Speaker 10 (47:44):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

Speaker 8 (47:45):
Hold what is this?

Speaker 6 (47:47):
This KB?

Speaker 3 (47:48):
This Marcus brother? Tell me how you get out of jail?
But Mark is still in there and you've been out
over a month now.

Speaker 10 (47:56):
They say you hold up, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
On, No, they say you snitching, buggie. That's what's going on.
You up in there, snitching?

Speaker 10 (48:05):
Hold on brother? Hold on you so slowing down? Slow
it down a little bit. Ain't hold up? You know what?
I really don't need to be having this conversation with you,
But you come at.

Speaker 8 (48:16):
Me like this.

Speaker 10 (48:17):
It's called bail?

Speaker 1 (48:19):
How you how you?

Speaker 3 (48:20):
How you out on bail? But Mark is still in there?

Speaker 10 (48:24):
Tell me that, buggy man, how you gonna call me
with you know what?

Speaker 8 (48:29):
You know what?

Speaker 10 (48:30):
I ain't s in the trip with you, but you
now this, hold on, let me hold on, let me
pull it over right.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
All I know is they the one saying you the
one that snitched on my brother and that's why he's
still in there and you out.

Speaker 10 (48:42):
I don't know what you're getting this from, but I'm
gonna tell you what. I had to go to work.
I need to get the guy out of there. But
you ain't. You ain't hearing me. I went to jail too, bucket.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
You're gonna mess around and get y'all what for snitching?

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Man?

Speaker 3 (48:56):
Because that's what you've been out there doing.

Speaker 10 (48:58):
Mag What cause you talking about?

Speaker 3 (49:01):
You've been out there snitching. That's why you out, and
my brother Marcus is still in there.

Speaker 8 (49:06):
You you know what?

Speaker 10 (49:09):
You know what it's called. Damn, that's what this car
is called. Bell. I had to go to work. I
don't know what you tripping on.

Speaker 6 (49:16):
I'm tripping on?

Speaker 3 (49:17):
Is that the fact that you're out and my brother
ain't out. He's still in there. No, I'm gonna tell
you something. I'm looking for you, buggy, You hear me.

Speaker 10 (49:25):
I'm looking for you, man, But you but you know
you know where I'm at. You know where?

Speaker 8 (49:30):
You know what?

Speaker 10 (49:30):
Since you since you run around here like a little
it's like he is. Let me tell you what happened.
Let me tell you where. All I want to do
is go give me the bill. I'm jump in the car.
And then I was getting your mama some cigarettes. So
why are you coming at me like that? Okay, come
in the car with him, and then certain phase up one.
I tell him, now, don put that out. We just

(49:50):
going around the corner. He go here, stop putting it
out in the car. He throw to stop the one
and now we get pulled over, telling y'all, I jumped
out the car. Tell it all. I don't got with this.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
Who was smoking? You a marker?

Speaker 10 (50:04):
I don't even smoke. No, I had to go to work.
I go to work. I can't deal with that. I
told them dudes to put it out. Lord Porto, they
searching the car. How the hell you gonna be riding
like that? And Lord pull you on with they pop off.

Speaker 8 (50:19):
In the trunk.

Speaker 10 (50:19):
You gotta figure speak a box that back then when
no wires on? Now the hell you figure I'm a snitch.
You don't take no up scientists and know it. You
got to back there, Hell you guy, there main't them
me in that drinking water out of toilet. That ain't
them come at me that like that. You you won't
come in. You know exactly where I'm at.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
So just cause they got you up in there drinking
water out of tart, you gonna come up and start
snitching on everybody.

Speaker 8 (50:45):
You know what? You you?

Speaker 10 (50:46):
You guy had to go to work. Hell the hell
I used all my money trying to get out of
there on something.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
No, this can't be a but you got to go
to work. That can't be. But you got to have
some heart somewhere.

Speaker 10 (50:59):
Don't coming at me like that. I was just going
to the stove.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
Can I say something of you?

Speaker 10 (51:05):
Man? I want to No, no, what you can't say?
Let me let me tell you, Let me give you,
shoot you something says you gonna be the man. Man,
Let me shoot you a.

Speaker 8 (51:12):
Thing or two.

Speaker 10 (51:13):
Tell tell your brother just don't drop the soap.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
No, he ain't gonna drop the soap. I'm I'm gonna
tell my brother no, no, no, listen to me. No no, no,
no no, I'm gonna tell you don't.

Speaker 10 (51:26):
And I'm gonna tell you this, but you got to
tell me what you got to tell me.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
I'm gonna tell your boss everything about you, and then
you're gonna lose your little job.

Speaker 10 (51:35):
Oh no, it can't be you can no. You know
what what you studying for me?

Speaker 4 (51:39):
What you studying?

Speaker 10 (51:40):
Fun? I can't believe you called me with no like this.
Just lose my number, don't call me. No, come on
behind this.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
Let me say something to you right now, booget what
you got to say this? Nephew timing from the Steve
Harvey Morning Show. You just got pranked?

Speaker 10 (52:00):
Oh bug, didn't do me like that?

Speaker 8 (52:03):
Dog?

Speaker 10 (52:03):
You know this this ain't nothing to play with this
ain't this ain't nothing? Really play with it?

Speaker 6 (52:07):
All right? Bugie man, I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
Dog you okay, but no.

Speaker 10 (52:11):
Aim dog? You know what I listened to you. Man,
you an't supposed to do no boy like that were
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Dog.

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(53:50):
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(55:04):
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(55:24):
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Speaker 9 (55:34):
Nephew, thank you. Coming up next, it is my Strawberry letter,
the subject I'm not as strong as I think I am.
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Speaker 9 (56:15):
You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. It is time now
for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need advice on relationships, dating, works, sex, parenting,
and more, please submit your Strawberry Letter to STEVEARVFM dot
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(56:38):
your letter live on the air, just like we're going
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Speaker 6 (56:46):
It could be yours. Buckle up and hold on tight.
Begut it for you. Here it is strawberry letter.

Speaker 9 (56:51):
Thank you nephew. Subject. I'm not as strong as I
think I am. Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm a forty six
year old married man. My wife is forty, and we've
always had great chemistry. Our marriage was fine until my
wife's favorite cousin moved in with us. The cousin is
a very bad influence on my wife, and they have

(57:13):
been out drinking every weekend this summer. My wife comes
home drunk and passes out, and the cousin starts flirting
with me as soon as she hears my wife's snoring.
It all started with her playing in my dreads and
then rubbing my beer, trying to hold hands when we
were talking, and even running around in her bra and panties.

(57:34):
She's thick, but it's nothing I can't handle. I feel
like she wants attention, so I try not to be
mean to her, but she's driving me crazy in my
own home. I am afraid of what might happen if
she catches me on a night that I've had a
drink or too. I have dropped hints to my wife
about this. I told my wife that her cousin doesn't

(57:55):
go straight to bed when they get home from the club,
so we watch movies together. All my wife said is
that her cousin is a night owl and she loves
staying up late. She didn't get what I was trying
to say. My therapist said I should record every interaction
with the cousin to protect myself. He also said I
should tell the cousin it's time to move out because

(58:17):
she is coming between me and my wife. I can't
do that because then my wife will be upset with me.
I have to separate myself from the temptation and the stress.
Do I tell my wife that her cousin has flirted
with me? What if her cousin lies and says I
flirted with her too, I can't say that I didn't.
How do I get the cousin to leave? Not that

(58:43):
it matters now because she has clearly overstayed her welcome.
But you didn't tell us why the cousin is there.
I mean, usually when people move in, it's for particular reason,
and there's a time limit on how long they should stay.
So the why it's very important here but since we
don't have that information, we'll deal with what we do have,
and that is that the cousin does not need to

(59:05):
spend another day at your house.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
Period.

Speaker 9 (59:09):
Your therapist is right. Your cousin is coming. The cousin
is coming between you and your wife, and you can't
ever let that happen in your house. You mentioned the
word temptation and your letter temptation is real. This girl
waits until your wife goes to sleep and makes sure
she's snoring, then she goes after you with a vengeance.

(59:29):
I mean, this isn't the saint, right. I mean, she's
taking advantage of you guys, hospitality, of your kindness, especially yours. Okay,
this is betrayal in every sense of the word. She
is there to kill your marriage and destroy it. I mean,
I don't know how you don't see this and do
something about it immediately. So, if you love your wife

(59:51):
and you don't want to lose her or your marriage,
because that could be what's going to that's what's going
to happen here. You got to tell your wife that
the cousin has to go, give the cousin an exit
date immediately, and you should never let anybody bring havoc
into your home. I don't think you're taking this seriously
enough because you're enjoying the attention that you're getting and

(01:00:13):
you're kind of flirting.

Speaker 4 (01:00:14):
With her too.

Speaker 9 (01:00:14):
But don't be stupid. You gotta talk to your wife.
The two of you have to agree to get this
girl out of your life and out of your house,
a house before his cousin ruins everything.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
You don't need to risk this, Steve, listening to this
letter that's written from a man. See, I see all
the other stuff in this letter, and that's what makes
this letter even crazier than you know. Sherley, This letter
is crazier than you know, because I'm gonna tell y'all something. Man,

(01:00:45):
I've been a man my whole life, and I know
a lot of men, and once you're a man, there
are rules to this and we all know the rules.
But he acts like he don't.

Speaker 8 (01:00:58):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
He's forty six year old, married to his wife. Forty
had great Kendrashey until his wife's favorite cousin moved and
then they started having an influence on the wife. They
were staying out, getting drunk every weekend this summer and
pass out, and then the cousin starts flirting with me
as soon as she hears my wife snoring. Now, then,

(01:01:19):
he said, it all started with her playing in my
dreads and then rubbing my bed, trying to hold my
hand when we were talking, and even running around in
her bra and panties. She's thick, but it's nothing I
can't handle. Stop. Let's stop right here. Listen to me.
A Mandon wrote this letter, y'all. He noticed woman playing

(01:01:43):
in his dreads, in his bed, holding his hand, rubbing
his chest, running round in her bra and panties. Dog,
you know good and well, what's going on you? Forty six?
This ain't a new movie, man, everybody know what this is?

Speaker 6 (01:02:04):
Right here?

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
He says, she's thick, but it's nothing I can't handle. Well,
that's not true, dog, and it's not true that you
ain't handled it. It's something that happened here, and I'm
gonna tell you why. In just a second. I feel
like she wants attention. It ain't no feel like nothing.
You know what's happening.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
So I try not to be mean to her.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
So oh, so now you accommodate. See, y'all, this is
what I want you all to understand. I try not
to be mean to her, but she's driving me crazy
in my own home. That means now he's faced with
the options because if it's driving him crazy, he don't
know what to do.

Speaker 6 (01:02:46):
Man, I don't want it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
Man, she come a kill's penis on the trunk, playing
my damn my bed. All this here, I'm telling y'all.
When I come back, I'm gonna tell y'all what the
real deal is. And then y'all y'all help.

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
Me help here.

Speaker 9 (01:03:00):
Okay, we'll have part two of your response coming up
at twenty three minutes after the hour. Steve Today's Strawberry
letter subject is I'm not as strong as I think
I am. We'll get back into it right after this.

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Speaker 9 (01:03:47):
All right, come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter.
The subject is I'm not as strong as I think
I am.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
Well, no, bruh, bruh, br bruh. Nice title. I'm not
as strong as I think I am and all this here,
but I'm a man watching a man write a letter.
Now I'm gonna tell y'all. Let me go through this.
Try to get through this quick because I gotta get
to this part. I want to tell y all about
him and his wife been married for a while, she forty.
Her favorite cousin came to stay with her at a

(01:04:14):
great marriage. So she's a bad influence. They go out
on weekends, get drunk, she come home and she pass out.
And then when she gets drunk and pass out to cousin,
that's a bad influence on the wife starts flirting with him,
and she waits. She heard his wife snoring, and it
all started when she started playing in his dredge, holding
his hands and even running around in her broad and panics.

(01:04:36):
She's thick, but it's nothing I can't handle. That's not true, dog,
that's just not a true. But it's nothing I can't handle. Okay,
So what you write the letter for and I'm gonna
show you deeper why he ain't handling this well. But
it's nothing I can't handle. I feel like she wants attention,
so I try not to be mean to her. But

(01:04:58):
she driving me crazy in my own home. Wait a manue,
hold up, brother, So you know what she trying to do.
You don't want to be a mean to her, so
you accommodating it. But it's driving you crazy in your
own home. You know why he's driving him crazy because
he considering it. It stays on his mind. He go
when he ain't home, He goes, man, I got to
go to the house. She in here, ain't no telling

(01:05:19):
what's she going to? Now listen to me, and then
he says, I'm afraid of what might happen if she
catches me on the night that I've had a drink
or too. Bruh, that's not true. Stop saying that. Stop
trying to blame it on the alcohol. You thinking about
this sober, because you wrote this letter sober. So this
ain't nothing that might happen when you have a drink

(01:05:40):
or two. This is something that's on your mind right
now because she in your house driving you crazy. Now,
unless you drunk all the time in your house, there
would be no need for this letter. But you ain't
drunk all the time, and it's on your mind. And
I'm gonna tell you how I know something didn't happen.
I have drop hints to my wife about this. What

(01:06:02):
all you gotta do is tell her, baby, listen to me.
I'm uncomfortable with your cousin being here because when you
go to sleep at night, I don't like the way
she acts behind your back, and I think I don't think.

Speaker 4 (01:06:15):
She no good.

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
I want her out of our house. Period. That's all
you got to say. But see this her little statement
he made at the top. I'm not as strong as
I think I am. No, bro, you're trying to play
the both worlds. See I told my wife that her
cousin don't go straight to bed when they get home
from the club, so we watch movies together. All my
wife said is her cousbinan the night out and she

(01:06:37):
loves staying them life. She ain't get what I was
trying to say. Hold up, though, how is a woman
not gonna get what you trying to say? You ain't
said nothing. I assure you. Women ain't stupid when it
comes to they man, they ain't stupid at all. Now
they are act stupid because they start listening to their

(01:06:59):
heart instead of they head. But they not stupid people.
She didn't give it. Now listen to this line. My
therapist said I should record every interaction with the cousin
to protect myself. He also said, I should tell the
cousin's time to move out because she's coming between me
and my wife. Hold up, bro, I'm not as strong

(01:07:21):
as I think I am. As a Tyler letter. You
done wrote the Steve Harvey Morning Show and you got
a therapist. You then wrote the Steve Harvey Morning Show,
and you got a therapist, and all of us know
about this big thick thing is running around your house
and her braw and panties playing in your dreads. Now

(01:07:46):
listen to this line right here, He said, I should
tell the cousin to move out because she's coming between
me and my wife. Now listen to this line. I
can't do that because then my wife will be upset
with me.

Speaker 9 (01:08:01):
Brouh.

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
If your wife find out you're not gonna have no wife,
why would your wife be upset with you for trying
to be loyal and staying true to her and call
it out her cousin and not allowing her cousin to
ruin your marriage. Ain't no woman, that's stupid.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:08:21):
I keep telling you stop talking.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
Then she said, Then he said, I have to separate
myself from the temptation and distress. This is ongoing even
without the drink, y'all. Do I tell my wife that
her cousin has flirted with me?

Speaker 4 (01:08:37):
What if her.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
Cousin lies and said I flirted with her? Now watch
this suppose her cousin lies and says I flirted with
her too. I can't say that I didn't like that
right there? See that that See it's it's been some

(01:08:59):
panic playing back and forth between him and the cubs.

Speaker 9 (01:09:02):
I'm just telling you what I know, panny playing.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
It's been some panty playing between him and the cups.
They've been playing around because I ain't no way will
you run around in front of me panties own and
draw and my wife in their sleep. And I ain't
told her, but this didn't happen more than once, and
it's creating stress in your house. And now you wrote
to Steve Harvey Morning Show and told your therapist and

(01:09:26):
then you said I should tell my wife her cousin
flirted with me. What if her cousin lies and said
I flirted with her too, I can't say that I didn't. Well,
then your cousin ain't lying. See if you can't say
you didn't, then the cousin ain't lying. Hey, dog, who
did you think you was writing this letter to bro?

Speaker 6 (01:09:47):
All right?

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Post your comments on today's Strawberry Letter at Steve Record Stuff.

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Speaker 9 (01:09:58):
Free never sounded so good? You can tell Unloaded today
coming up at forty six minutes after the hour. We
got Tommy in for Junior and Sports Talk. Right after this,
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Speaker 9 (01:10:45):
All right, it is time now for sports talk, and
we got Tommy in for Junior. What you got for
is Tommy we talking football.

Speaker 6 (01:10:52):
Shirley.

Speaker 3 (01:10:52):
Preseason is over. Some have been waved, some have been cut,
whatever the difference on the difference.

Speaker 6 (01:10:58):
So that is.

Speaker 3 (01:10:58):
But anyway, y'all already know don primetime Sander says Shiloh
gonna be all right despite being dropped by the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers.

Speaker 6 (01:11:06):
Take a listen.

Speaker 18 (01:11:06):
I'm proud of my my kids, all of them, and
I prepared my kids for any and everything that could
possibly happen in life and in sports. That this part
of fathering, this part of parenting, this part of having
a relationship. So he is mentally where he needs to be,

(01:11:27):
physically where he needs to be. We're praying that he
gets h another opportunity to go with a team, but
if he doesn't, the plans have already been put forward
to what he's going to do next.

Speaker 6 (01:11:40):
So Seano is a man of many talents.

Speaker 18 (01:11:43):
I don't know, you guys know he's a man of
many talents, and uh, he's gonna be straight all the
Sanders are gonna be straight with the withdat football.

Speaker 6 (01:11:50):
You better believe that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
Yes, sir, I love to take care of mine, Okay,
I love that prime.

Speaker 2 (01:11:59):
Yeah, I mean, you know this not the end of
the world. I mean, you know everybody and then in
the football careers for the most part are so short anyway,
Like every football player has to prepare for the end
of that career because that's a sport you can't play
for a long time. You just can't play that sport
for a long time. You know, you Tom Brady was

(01:12:21):
at forty, but you know he ain't out there every
play or that boy that stuff that Lebron is doing it.
That's an exceptional mess because that's every play, eighty two
games season, all the years. That's exceptional. But you can't
play football that long. There's too many injuries, too many.
I'm hoping Shallow gets picked up. I'm hoping. I'm still

(01:12:43):
I'm still ruby he dee. I'm pulling for all the
Sanders because it started with a daddy men as daddy boys.

Speaker 3 (01:12:51):
So you go like that now now, But I like
the fact he's all he's prepared his boys for what.
You know, football don't work out. And that's what I
don't think every I don't think every student, like in
high school, junior high you got to have your mindset
what if this don't work out? I'm always in my
son here, Hey man, what if baseball don't work out?

(01:13:13):
You got to find something to do. We got to
figure out what else you like outside of sports. You
got fad of.

Speaker 1 (01:13:19):
Being an athlete?

Speaker 9 (01:13:20):
Yeah, yeah, parents use your brain bothering exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:13:26):
Yeah, because you know, especially for kids, man, you gotta
let him get prepared. You might be the best way
you at right now, but we got to get out
here on this national scale that that them numbers start dropping.

Speaker 1 (01:13:37):
Yeah, everybody good, a lot of talent.

Speaker 6 (01:13:42):
You got to prepare.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
Yourself for because now we ain't in high school. Now
you ain't.

Speaker 9 (01:13:47):
You got thank you, Tommy. Coming up at the top
of the hour, young woman on social media needs some
advice Steve. She says she's wasting away her twenties and
we'll talk about it right after this. You're listening into
the Steve Harvey Morning Show. This is from Elena on

(01:14:07):
Steve Harvey FM. Elena says, I'm twenty six and I
feel like my life never really got off the ground.
After high school, I drifted without many close friends and
never dated. I pushed through college and earned a degree,
but now I'm back living with my parents because I
can't seem to land anything beyond part time work. My

(01:14:28):
days are just the gem Aaron's and home again. I
know I'm healthy and capable, but nights hit me hard,
and I can't shake the feeling that I'm wasting my
twenties while everyone else is moving ahead. Will I be able?
Will I ever be able to catch up with my peers?
Or am I already too far behind?

Speaker 10 (01:14:47):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
Well, first of all, if you've got to stop the
comparison things, yes, thank you. Like I told you, comparison
is the greatest thief of joy. You don't even You're
not even giving your self credit for graduating, forgetting a degree,
for being healthy, going to the gym. You're not giving

(01:15:09):
yourself credit for them. You back home with your parents,
You don't even see that blessing. It's some people ain't
got nowhere to go. You back home with your parents,
You got a chance to save money, but you can't
find nothing worthy. Have you ever thought this is the
path that you are on, unlike your friends? And please
stop thinking that your friends, all their lives is just

(01:15:30):
or butter cups and daisies, because I trust me, it
ain't trust me, it ain't. And twenties is hard on everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
And especially.

Speaker 2 (01:15:41):
The majority of people I know blow their twenties and
end up spending their thirties fixing what they did in
their twenties. That part, I mean, your thirties is the
repair years. I got all that excess party and stayed

(01:16:03):
in college too long, hold these student loans back. Thirties
is repair and you know what, So this is what
I would do. Stop focusing on your friends, Focus on yourself.
What is your gifts? What is your talents? What are
you passionate about? And start looking in that and and

(01:16:23):
and ask God what your gift is. It's very simple.
And once you discover that, become passionate about your gift
and get on with your life and realize this, you're
only twenty six. At twenty six, I was so fall.
I wasn't a stick, I wasn't an eight ball, I
wasn't a qball.

Speaker 1 (01:16:41):
I was chalk.

Speaker 9 (01:16:46):
I was chalk.

Speaker 7 (01:16:47):
But keep going, Steve, You'll make it one day. You'll
make it one No, listen to me. You're only twenty six.
Stop berating yourself. A whole lot of people mess stay
twenties up. I know I did that through mine out
though window.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
Now I got married at twenty four, had twins at
twenty five. I'll go way too fast. I'm just now
recovering from that.

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):
You are grown with children of their own.

Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
I'm still climbing out that hole.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
Look, you're a grandfather down Quit it.

Speaker 9 (01:17:30):
See, keep going, you'll make it one day. Keep going.

Speaker 4 (01:17:33):
Don't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
It's no see, that's what.

Speaker 6 (01:17:35):
That's what the mob.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
Don't waller in the squalor. Get off and quit. Quit
creating squalor that ain't there. You're twenty six. You're actually
okay if you quit comparing yourself to your friends who
ain't doing all that great, if you really knew the
behind the scenes story, stop following them on Instagram. Stop
looking at their little life because you don't know how
it's going. Hey, man, I had this young dude. I

(01:17:59):
was talking to it one time. He's a very successful
young kid, and they having some merit of troubles, and
he was talking with some people I knew. He said
the funniest thing.

Speaker 7 (01:18:10):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
I had to laugh, But then I had to give
him some some some old school wisdom with him, he said,
because he was having some real marital issues. He was
just sitting there with his head down and he said, man,
you can't even cheat in peace.

Speaker 6 (01:18:26):
What I laughed?

Speaker 8 (01:18:31):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:18:31):
I laughed so hard I had to catch myself and
then I said, come in, come in, little man, let
me that's an oxy moron.

Speaker 6 (01:18:40):
That's that's something that.

Speaker 9 (01:18:44):
Of the Steve Harvey Morning Show coming up and twenty
minutes after right after this, you're listening to the Steve
Harvey Morning Show and trending travel news. On a nude cruise, Guys,
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(01:19:07):
New cruisers are free to roam in the buff except
in the dining room. It seems the cruise ships don't
want bear butts sitting on their dining room chairs. But
if you're on a new cruise and don't want to
wear clothes, you can eat at the self served buffet line.

Speaker 6 (01:19:22):
So there you go.

Speaker 9 (01:19:23):
You're planning on travel, Let me just.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
Say this about that. Every place I've ever seen that
alloud nudity, Yeah, everybody, I saw needed to have some
clothes on. I ain't elvow.

Speaker 1 (01:19:46):
So you've been on a new beach or something.

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
You yeah, yeah, you.

Speaker 17 (01:19:53):
Were.

Speaker 2 (01:19:54):
You broke the rules then, right, well, see they had
had the beach was nude. Half the beach was closed.
I sat on the wall. I pulled my lounge up
on the wall or you know, I'm right there at
the nude and the clothes beat. Now I saw some
people on with the clothes on that I needed to

(01:20:14):
then to get over on that other side so I
could see what really going on. So you know when
we going on because they was innim bikini right, but
everybody that was on the neckd side needed to put
their clothes on. I've never seen a group of fine
people had no newdest colin. I just never seen it.

Speaker 4 (01:20:32):
Coming up.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
We're playing on that look like somebody mama.

Speaker 9 (01:20:37):
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Speaker 9 (01:21:15):
It is time now for a round of would you rather?
Would you rather drink sweet tea? Or would you rather
drink kool aid? At the barbecue this Labor day?

Speaker 6 (01:21:23):
Sweet maid?

Speaker 1 (01:21:25):
Oh, y'all said two different things?

Speaker 10 (01:21:27):
Yeah? Why? Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
I mean, I'm right away sweet tea?

Speaker 1 (01:21:31):
Oh oh?

Speaker 8 (01:21:32):
Oh? Kool aid?

Speaker 9 (01:21:33):
What why sweet tea?

Speaker 6 (01:21:35):
It don't matter if both of them got two cups
of sugar. It don't matter.

Speaker 1 (01:21:38):
Sugar, you go get diabetes.

Speaker 4 (01:21:41):
Me you're drinking.

Speaker 2 (01:21:44):
I'm gonna go with that because I don't like orange
kool aid. If you make orange kool aid, I don't
want to talk to you.

Speaker 9 (01:21:49):
So oh you gotta mix it with a cherry.

Speaker 6 (01:21:52):
You gotta have cherry and lemon mixed.

Speaker 2 (01:21:54):
Yeah you have to.

Speaker 9 (01:21:57):
Yeah, I think I can cook?

Speaker 6 (01:21:58):
See there?

Speaker 9 (01:21:59):
Okay? Would you rather eat ribs with no napkins or
no white bread? Which ones?

Speaker 2 (01:22:07):
How about?

Speaker 6 (01:22:07):
Kid about no nack? I got a whole sleeve over here?
Why I got about a nack?

Speaker 9 (01:22:17):
So you want that white bread.

Speaker 2 (01:22:21):
I got big lips. I don't need no.

Speaker 1 (01:22:24):
Wow, true, that's true.

Speaker 6 (01:22:26):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:22:27):
I put that whole boone in my mouth and pull
it out and you won't even recognize it. You won't
even think it was.

Speaker 4 (01:22:32):
Body clean, clean that bone?

Speaker 8 (01:22:45):
All right?

Speaker 9 (01:22:46):
Would you rather you and your spouse give each other
massages after a long day? Or would you rather you
and your spouse take a hot bubble bath together.

Speaker 2 (01:22:58):
We're not going to do.

Speaker 6 (01:22:59):
Let me.

Speaker 3 (01:23:03):
Vade by yourself that you may get earlier than I think.
Let you don't get do what you need to do.
I don't know what you've been done all day?

Speaker 18 (01:23:15):
Now?

Speaker 6 (01:23:15):
What we ain't gonna do? To sit in this tub
and watch the rain roll around?

Speaker 2 (01:23:20):
You think you clean in your wife?

Speaker 9 (01:23:22):
He thinks he's cleaner than everyone on the planet.

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
No, I can't take no bath. That's what That water
way too hot? Yeah, that's how her bath water is.

Speaker 1 (01:23:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, I'm.

Speaker 10 (01:23:47):
All right.

Speaker 9 (01:23:47):
Would you rather find a dead person?

Speaker 1 (01:23:51):
Would you rather?

Speaker 9 (01:23:52):
Would you rather find a dead person in your attic attic?
Or would you rather twenty dead rats in your attic?

Speaker 6 (01:24:01):
I don't know what to do with those dead body?
What am I supposed to do.

Speaker 2 (01:24:05):
Yeah, I had him twenty dead rats up there. What
that means that the dcon is working.

Speaker 9 (01:24:11):
But what I can't do is.

Speaker 2 (01:24:15):
Explain the people when they come up. What does that
smell different?

Speaker 9 (01:24:25):
That's the decks around it. Would you rather coming up
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Speaker 9 (01:25:13):
All right, guys, here we are our last break of
the day. It's been a fun day. We've had a
good time today. We always want to thank our audience
for listening. Appreciate, appreciate one of you.

Speaker 1 (01:25:24):
Thank yes, that's why we know, buter one.

Speaker 9 (01:25:27):
Because thank you appreciated.

Speaker 2 (01:25:30):
Hey, y'all my closer remarks today, I want to do
them on this because we had this young sister called
in twenty six that just felt like her life was
going nowhere. She had graduated from college, she had moved
back in with her parents. All she do is go
to jail. She's only found part time work, she hasn't
found anything full time. It just feels like she's not

(01:25:50):
She's looking at her other friends and a life seemed
to be moving along and everything, and she's just sitting
there desponded. At twenty six. I try to remind her,
as I remind everybody, do you understand that your path,
the one that you are on, is uniquely yours. Stop
comparing yourself to other bodies, because I can promise you

(01:26:15):
there is no one on earth that's going through exactly
what you're going through, with the exact same set of circumstances,
with the exact same experience, and with the exact same outcome.
It's not happening. Yours is very unique. Your life is
unique to you. Now, that doesn't mean that somebody ain't

(01:26:38):
had the same thing happened to them. Occasions are occasions everybody.
Somebody's dealt with grief before, someone has dealt with the
firing before, somebody has dealt with the repoll before, Somebody
has dealt with the sickness before. So that's not what
I'm saying. I am saying that your path is uniquely yours.

(01:27:00):
And the moment you start comparing yourself to someone else,
it brings up the saying that I heard that It's
so true. Comparison is the greatest thief of joy. If
you want to not feel good about yourself and not
feel good about where you are, start lining up some

(01:27:23):
other people and putting yours up against theirs, and you
don't even really know the situation of the other person.
You're just putting it up there. You looking at their
Instagram and it looked better than your Instagram, and you
looking at your life and they showing you just the
good parts of day life. Well what they bad stuff at,

(01:27:44):
what they problems at, because you do know they haveing them,
don't you. You know everybody is going through some form
of failure somewhere. You know that everybody is not getting
it all right. You do know that, don't you? But Nah,
you sitting up here thinking you the only one that
ain't getting it right because you keep comparing yourself to others.

(01:28:04):
And when you compare yourself to others, you lose sight
of what God has done for you. Y'all gotta slow
this down. Man, don't fall into the comparison game, because
you will lose sight of what God has done for you.
If I look at Tyler Perry, I could find ways
to think I'm not doing well. If I look at

(01:28:26):
Michael Jordan, I could find ways to think I'm not
doing well. Tiger Woods I could find well. I can
look at Brad Pitton find ways to think I'm not
doing well. But guess what I am doing well if
I don't compare myself to them. You know, somebody asked
me a question the other day, Hey man, what other

(01:28:46):
celebrity would you trade lives with? And I went to nobody. Oh,
so you think your life is the best. No, but
I'm accepting of the one I have. I don't really
know what's going on in somebody else's house. I don't
want what's going on. I don't want who.

Speaker 6 (01:29:05):
They married to.

Speaker 10 (01:29:06):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:29:07):
I don't want the problems they have. I'm okay with
where I am. I have found peace in what God
has done for me. Gratitude eracist negativity. Comparison is the
greatest thief of joy. If you wake up in a

(01:29:28):
in a certain mood. Let's let's say tomorrow you wake
up on what they call the wrong side of the bed,
which I never have that. I don't wake up on
the wrong side of the bed. Long as I wake up,
I don't care what side I get up on, as
long as you wake me up. Guess what I start
with some gratitude, and that that dissipates, that disintegrates all

(01:29:49):
negative energy. It is hard to be negative and grateful.

Speaker 8 (01:29:55):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:29:55):
I learned that best lesson at my mother's funeral. We
were all sitting there crying on the front row, me
and my brothers and sisters, and the pastor got up
and everybody had been talking and I was the worst
day on my life. And he said to the Harvey kids,
I know y'all feeling bad, But Sister Harvey was a
stand out member here at this church for forty years

(01:30:16):
as a Sunday school teacher. Y'all haven't had a chance
to look around, but I want you to look around.
And that church was packed, he said. You haven't been downstairs,
but our overflow room is completely full.

Speaker 6 (01:30:31):
He said.

Speaker 2 (01:30:31):
You don't know this, but we had to put up
speakers outside in the parking lot because all the parking
lots that the church is full, we can't let nobody
else in the doors. That's the effect y'all's mother had
over forty years of a Sunday school teacher, he said.
And then I want you to think of all the
lives your mama has affected. Look at these people in here.

(01:30:54):
There's some people ain't been to this church in years,
came here to pay homage to your mama. He said,
you know how much good she did. And then he
told me the nugget that I needed. He said, joy
and depression cannot reside in the same space. Joy and
depression cannot reside in the same space. And what he

(01:31:18):
was saying to me was when it looks dark for you,
think of the good things. Think of all the stuff
you can be grateful for. When you start feeling like
you ain't got it going on, Because if somebody wish
they had it going on just like you, So be grateful,
show gratitude, and stop comparing yourself to others. Comparison is

(01:31:40):
the greatest thief of joy. Those are my closing remarks today.
Hey listen, y'all, do yourself a huge favor today. Talk
to God today. He would absolutely love to hear from you.

Speaker 6 (01:31:52):
You feel me, Let's go.

Speaker 9 (01:32:00):
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