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

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Y'all know what time y'all.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
Don't know y'all baby at all given back a million busy.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
Listening to.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Show to.

Speaker 5 (00:39):
Joy.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yah yeah, Joy, you know you.

Speaker 5 (01:06):
Love you.

Speaker 6 (01:10):
Know you gotta turn. I got to turn the mouth

(01:42):
the turn you probably got to turn the mouth, turn out,
turn the way up. Come come on you.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Uh huh I sure, well, good morning everybody you are
listening to the voice, Come on dig me now. One
and only Steve Harvey got a radio show man or
man o man. I thank God for it. I thank
God for all he's done for me, for all the

(02:21):
little things that I oftentimes failed to thank him for
that I take for granted for you know, I was
talking the other day to a buddy of mine. We
had gotten to this conversation about God and and in
the conversation we had narrowed it down and we were

(02:43):
talking about changing the way we are as people. You
know that everybody has to change. You know, nothing stays
the same. Everybody changes, and a lot of these changes
can be for the good, and a lot of them
are just just come with time.

Speaker 5 (03:01):
You know.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Sometimes it's aging that changes us. But no matter how
old you get, you still have the ability to improve
as a person. You may not have the foot speed
you used to have. You may not be as agile
as you used to be. Your energy level may not

(03:24):
be what it used to be. Your desire to do
some of the things that you used to do may
be gone. The thing that doesn't have to change and
will not change is you. You have the ability to
continue to grow as a person, even when far the

(03:50):
time and nature has taken its course. We were talking
about everybody can change and everybody has the right to
reinvent themselves as they get older, and I equated it

(04:12):
to jumping out of an airplane. You know, there are
some people man who get to a certain point in
their life and they and they jump from the airplane
is now almost a stunt of some kind. It's almost
like they lifed and got out of control. You ever
seen somebody jump out an airplane and the parachute don't

(04:34):
open and they life start and it seems like they
start spinning and tumbling and they can't get it together.
And I've seen some mid air rescues before. But then
there are times when you know when it hasn't worked.
You know, you jump out that airplane and at first
it's fun. I've never scot dived before, but I would
imagine when you first jump out of an airplane that

(04:58):
they people describe it as a a sense of being free,
and it's exhilarating when you first jump out the plane.
But if you pull that cord and nothing happens. It
never happened to me, but I can only imagine the
panic that's got to set in because no matter how

(05:19):
fun it was a moment ago, the flying over to
one another, the holding hands in the air, the breeze,
the descent, the feeling of all of a sudden, if
you reach for that cord and it's not there, you're
suddenly spinning out of control. And that's what happens in

(05:39):
a lot of people's lives. When you first start your life,
you jump out the plane, You free, You young, you
ain't got nothing to worry about it. But then you
get to a certain point in your life when you go, okay,
I'm gonna.

Speaker 6 (05:51):
Pull the cord now.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
And pulling the cord is an important thing because here's
the analogy my friend gave me. He said, man, use
your mind like a parachute. It works better when it's open. Well,
see what happens with a lot of people is they
they in life. They jump out the plane and they

(06:18):
and they having this free fall and it's fun for now.
But they get to a certain point in their life
where they got themself in a situation, or they've had
a little bit too much fun a little bit too long,
or you know, they wasn't open to nothing and they
just did what they wanted to do, or they started
getting involved with drugs or drinking or started running with

(06:38):
the wrong people. See, you jump out the plane. At first,
you're free falling this fun, but then after a minute, man,
something happens and they realize whoa and they reach for
the cord, and the chord don't work. Well. Now you're
in the panic stricken situation. And my suggesting that what
I've learned from the analogy that my friends shared with
me is that we all the sooner we can open

(06:59):
our mind to God, the sooner we could develop that
relationship with him. It's like pulling the chord and opening
a parachute. If you open up your mind to God,
God is like a parachute. You know, God can slow
your descent. God can turn this out of control freefall

(07:24):
into a nice ride for you. See, that's what happened
to me. I was spinning out of control. I had
gotten myself into a point. Man, Why I wasn't doing
real good? Oh, y'all would look at me and think, man, Stevie, Man,
Now I wasn't doing real good. I had spun out

(07:47):
of control. I was in a free fall, and I
reached for the chord, but I was so far away
the chord didn't open. Then I went to him and
I pulled the chord. When I went to God God,
I pulled the cord and open, and he slowed my descent.
And this is what I just believe. I don't believe

(08:07):
now that I age as fast as I was aging,
because I got that parachute open. Now, you know, I
take better care of myself eating, I work out more.
Now you know, I'm not out of control. I have
a direction now that win. Then got up under that
parachute a little bit, you know, And now I'm going.

(08:28):
You know, I'm still getting older, you know so, but
the descent is so slow. Now I'm able to enjoy
the ride. I'm guiding my parachute over. Sometimes we go
over to to a vacation spot over here, we float
back over to it. But you know, I'm still getting old.
I'm still going down, but the descent because I've opened

(08:49):
my mind to God. The parachute has slowed my descent.
And now I'm rocking back and forth. But I ain't
spending out of control no more. You know, I'm able
to enjoy the view now. You know, when you jump
out that plane and you pull that cord and it
don't work, you ain't looking at the view no more.
You're thinking of only one thing. How can I slow

(09:11):
this down? Well, now I'm able to enjoy the view.
I'm able to see all the beautiful things on the
horizon that God has for me. I'm able to see
all the beautiful things around me that He's provided for
me over these years because I've slowed my descent. I
use my mind like a parachute. It works better when

(09:32):
it's open. Open your mind to God, and so you
can see the view, so you can slow the descent,
so you can stop the out of control free fall
that you've been on. That you can get your life
together and see everything out on the horizon that God
has for you. You know, it turned out to be
a very true statement. Your mind if you use it

(09:54):
like a parachute. It works better when it's open. Y'all
you're listening, ladies and gentlemen. It's the same old, same old.
But I'm not used to it yet. I still haven't
gotten over the fact of how good God really is.
It just continues to amaze me. How he just does

(10:15):
it over and over and over again. I don't know
nobody that does it over and over and over again,
same way, same day, and responsible for so much. Man,
It's just incredible. That's all I can take. It's awesome.
It's there are no superlatives for it. God is God, period.
This is that Steve Harvey Morning Show. Sheirly Strawberry calling

(10:36):
for real Mississippi Monica Junior and the growing legend of
Nephew Tommy Jr. You know you seem like you're on
a run right now. I know today is coming where
the dark cloud will be coming. But right now, what's
going on? Oh No, I ain't the wrong. Let me
ask you. I know it ain't. I just said that. Yeah,
I'm just letting you know everything good. Let me ask

(10:57):
you one thing. He's starting. You know you do you
feel you a good Christian? Good question? I want to
hear from it, but as some days I am someday
all the time. Yeah, I'm doing the best I can.
Sometimes I don't. I guess sometimes I don't try as hard.

(11:19):
I guess sometimes I make other decisions.

Speaker 7 (11:21):
Why okay, because I think you didn't make a good
decision yesterday as a Christian when you said you were
healthy than me and Tommy. That's not the Christian thing
to do. Did you ever consider that part? You said
you was just the healthiest out of all of us
on the show?

Speaker 2 (11:38):
You think that was christian like considering our situation, did
you feel that? I don't. I don't know if it
was Christian like. I thought it was very factionate. I'm
talking about health and wellness.

Speaker 7 (11:53):
I mean, yeah, you said, well, I'm the healthiest one
out of all y'all because me and Tommy.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
So you ain't never been sick before. I've been sick
many times, many times, not metime. You though you aught
people sick, same counting his signals. But he's been sick
more time me.

Speaker 8 (12:15):
He fought it.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
I'm sixty seven, so I don't say you but is
that the Christian thing to do? Though? Mm hmm, Well,
I don't really, I don't really consider that very Christian.
But you answered this question so so you know that
you can do better by supporting me in time that

(12:36):
I could do better. And I have supported you and Tommy.
I called and checked on Tommy when he's in the hospital,
checked on his family, you know, ask him if they
needed anything. You know, I called you down at that hospital.
So that's doing that sound like he was dying. I
have stayed on the phone that sound make it be

(12:59):
the last person doing bitter is calling us, not coming
down there and seeing us, all of us. I'm not
a doctor's nothing. I can do what I get down there.
Everything I can do down there at the hospital. I
can do some phone you know what I'm saying. Come
down and get sit with people. You know you just
sitting the Flowers City, check on them, put your checking

(13:21):
them on the phone, FaceTime with them. Why would I
drive down there. It's not him, it's me. Why would
I drive down there to see how sick you are?

Speaker 1 (13:33):
I'm coming up in thirty two minutes.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Why a Christian, I don't see where it's sitting with
the sickest. That's not one of the commandments.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Come sit and run that break back right after you're
listening Morning show.

Speaker 9 (13:49):
It is time to have to run that brenk back
with the nephew, nephew, what you got for us today?

Speaker 1 (13:55):
I'm to give me some of that booty.

Speaker 8 (13:59):
Yes, it is time for booty taxes, all right, booty taxes.
And a lot of you guys out there are paying
for booty taxes. You just don't know that you're paying
for it. I've actually gotten fed up and I just
want to call the man that she's married to and
let's discuss these booty taxes. I mean, we got to

(14:19):
discuss this day. This This is gutten out of hand.
You understand what I'm saying. Booty taxes, cat dog? If
you would fire it up? All right, how about that
booty taxes?

Speaker 5 (14:32):
Hello? Hello, I'm trying to reach Kendrick. Hey, Kendrick. How
you're doing, man? My name is Anthony Man, Anthony Collins.
They called me a c How you doing, I'm good, bro?
How you doing? I'm good? I'm good. Hey listen, uh
this right here, man, this I don't even know how
to put this though, but hey, listen, I'm calling you
man because I got some issues. I'm getting ready to

(14:54):
file my taxes, and I'm going through all my expensive
all my and all this kind of stuff. You know,
I just I can't. I can't just let this go. Man.
I didn't spend like twenty thousand dollars on your wife
last year. And I'm trying to figure.

Speaker 10 (15:12):
Out, Oh well, bru wait, Manue, you asking me you
don't spend twenty thousand dollars on chick I'm married to?
Is that what you're telling me?

Speaker 5 (15:23):
So all I'm trying to do, man, is I'm trying
to do a write off. That's what I'm trying to do.
I'm trying to claim no, no, no, no, to write off. Basically,
what you're telling me is you my wife. I ain't
say all, man, I ain't.

Speaker 10 (15:37):
Saying what what what you're saying?

Speaker 5 (15:39):
Bro. All I'm saying is I'm trying to figure out
is all right if I claimed Melanie on my expenses? Man,
I'm over twenty grand on money I spent on Melanie
last year.

Speaker 10 (15:51):
So let me understand something right quick. You asking me
for permission to claim my wife? When did you ask
for permission my wife? Help me with that, brother?

Speaker 5 (16:02):
Okay, okay, okay, okay, let's do this here. Drug I
ain't say I did that. You saying that. I'm saying,
I just want to claim the taxes because I spent
twenty k on it. That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 10 (16:14):
Okay, let's just do this, brother, Let's put Melley on
on the phone. Let's put mail on.

Speaker 5 (16:18):
The mother phone. I ain't no, we we ain't got
a brain mail in this. We ain't got brainmailing it.
What I'm saying is already hear it, see in it?

Speaker 2 (16:26):
What excuse me?

Speaker 10 (16:27):
We ain't got a blame any see an it.

Speaker 11 (16:29):
Like you must be outside Joe mine.

Speaker 5 (16:32):
All I'm saying is do you have a problem with
me claiming melody? Mother?

Speaker 2 (16:37):
What did I do?

Speaker 5 (16:37):
Brouh?

Speaker 10 (16:38):
I got a mother problem having this whole mother face?

Speaker 5 (16:41):
Wait?

Speaker 10 (16:42):
How first of all, how did you get my information?
How do you get my number?

Speaker 5 (16:45):
Brous? I asked around for your number. I ain't want
to call you. Took me a week to call you.
You know what I'm saying. I'm just trying to dude,
I just spent twenty grand. You donder say what I'm saying.

Speaker 10 (16:55):
When did you spend twenty grand? That's what I want
to know. I ain't spent twenty grand on this and
I'm married to her, So what what the you doing
that you spent twenty thousand dollars on my wife and
then you want to claim that tep me understanding that.

Speaker 5 (17:12):
Hey man, I ain't trying to go and to all
my receipts on everything I did for Melanie. I'm not
trying to do that. All I'm trying to do is
is just I just want. I want to I want
to know if you I don't want to vote, claim it,
because that's how you get in trouble.

Speaker 10 (17:26):
Brother, you already and mother, brother, trouble is the last
mother time you are to be worried about it and
you call it my mother phone telling me about some
that you got going home with my old lady, and
then you telling me can I have your permission?

Speaker 5 (17:41):
You? Okay? So dog, we got to get some kind
of resolution to this.

Speaker 10 (17:47):
A good resolution is a good ass for what you mean?
A resolution? That's the only mother resolution we gonna get. Brother,
Ain't no other resolution, Ain't no other resolutions. W ain't
we ain't got elfice talk about. We ain't got a
mother thing to talk about. That's the resolution I got fighting.
I'll tell you what, bru I'm texting Mail right now.
I've been texting her since we've been on this mother phone.

Speaker 5 (18:09):
Okay, And I pray, what are you texting her? Farther?

Speaker 10 (18:12):
No, what you mean when am I texting her?

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Fuss?

Speaker 10 (18:15):
She is the subject matter. So that's why I'm texting her.
But you better pray to God.

Speaker 11 (18:20):
This is some molly.

Speaker 10 (18:21):
I hope to God you y'all got, y'all people stuff
with me like this, bidy, this ain't gonna go do
it brouh at all at all?

Speaker 5 (18:32):
Okay, So I guess I can't claim them at this point.

Speaker 10 (18:37):
Tell mother now, so what you want to do, though, bro,
I don't already tell you what I'm gonna do. And
I'm waiting on Mail's response on this mother she got.
She's slow than the mother. She can't fight fast for Somebody,
Go get me some maam today.

Speaker 5 (18:54):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (18:55):
But man, look at Brouh. I don't know who this is.
On the other than in the end of this song.
I hope to God there's something somebody X five or
something that I can't even fathom. You better pray to
God y'all playing with me? This is some boot Okay, Okay, So.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
Can I go on. Tell you this, your dog, and
then I'm gonna get out your way, man, because I
know how it's gonna go after this. Can I just
go and tell you something else.

Speaker 10 (19:22):
I don't know what the else you can tell me,
but the only.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
Thing I can tell you, only thing I can tell you, Kendrick,
is that this is nephew Tommy from the Steel Harvey
Morning Show. Your wife Melanie got me to pray fag
call you dog.

Speaker 10 (19:39):
Well, y'all from riding my boy.

Speaker 5 (19:44):
You look that's about come was talking about. I slept
for gone.

Speaker 10 (19:50):
Man, y'all ain't man, y'all ain't And I'm sitting up
at Eve crackling, and I done through.

Speaker 5 (19:59):
Them the way my all? You all right, man, I
gotta make sure you are right before we get off
the phone. You're good, man.

Speaker 10 (20:11):
I gotta go get in the drink.

Speaker 5 (20:13):
Yeah, yeah, I'm right all right. Tell me this man.
It's twenty twenty. Baby. Tell me this. What's the baddest that,
I mean, the baddest radio show in the land, man.

Speaker 11 (20:27):
The dam Steve Harvey Morris Show with that bright land
lip you telling.

Speaker 8 (20:37):
And that's how you jump started, you know, that's that
that's the first dose then I come back out later
with that second note. You understand what I'm saying. Stupid
is in the building. I'm being extra stupid this up
this week because I'm on my way to the Majestic
Dallas Fort Worth, Texas. Comedy is on the way. Nephew
Tommy's House, part of Comedy Jam. It's going down Saturday night.

(21:00):
That's me and my girl Dominique, my boy Tony Robinson,
the bill, and Stupid is in the house. In his
father's day. Bring your daddy, bring your baby, Daddy. We
gonna have some fun. Ignorance is landing in Dallas this weekend.

Speaker 5 (21:12):
All right.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Soon at Junior got.

Speaker 8 (21:14):
To walking, y'ut, I'm gonna come up in there and
lay y'all. That's how we do that thing, like a
little tag tea. All right, Stupid is on the way
this weekend at the Majestica.

Speaker 9 (21:22):
Certain thank you coming up next as the clo or
Chief Love Officer, Steve Harvey in the building.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Right after this.

Speaker 9 (21:29):
You're listening Harvey Morning Show coming up at the top
of the hour and Entertainment News. Now, Steve, you've been
mentoring you for over fifteen years for your Steven Marjorie
Harvey Foundation and over a decade, yes, over a decade
with the Disney Dreamers Academy. We're gonna have a full
circle moment coming up with one of your mentees who

(21:49):
is now a pastor. He's also a therapist and an author.
Full circle moment, that's all coming up. Yeah, that's major.
Right right now, it is time to ask the CLO
our Chief Love Officer, Steve Harvey in the building right
after this.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
That is not correct.

Speaker 9 (22:07):
Right now, it is time to ask the CLO our
Chief Love Officer, Steve Harvey.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Here we go Monroe and Lafayette.

Speaker 9 (22:14):
Says, my girlfriend broke up with me, but she can't
stand to see me with anyone else. She randomly posts
old pictures of us to create problems in my new relationship.
Why did she break up with me? If this is
how she's going to act, how can I stop her?

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Dog? You can't stop her. Why aren't you just going
by your business now? She can post all the pictures
she won't. You know what you probably need to do
is quit wearing that shirt doll that you had while
you were banging her, cause she posts that picture and
you've got that on that that date you was with
this new girl. That's your problem. See when you can
when somebody get rid of you, you got to get

(22:50):
rid of them. Sometimes you got to get rid of
the remnants of the relationship, the remnant all all in picture,
just sitting around, all that, all that, all that, all that,
that blanket y'all used to lay up, all that. You
got to get rid of the rim neicks. So that
shirt that you that's your favorite date shirt, you got

(23:13):
to quit wearing that because you're wearing that with your
new girl and make it look like you was out
with her last week. See what I'm saying, go to
she not gonna stop though, Yeah, that should go say
I've been through that shirt away. I don't even have
that shirt though. And then when a new girl look
in the closet, it ain't there. Turn out sound all right.

Speaker 9 (23:32):
Moving on to Chan and Arlington, Chan says, I'm twenty
eight and I hate my job, but it pays very
good money. My boyfriend said, to quit my job and
he float me while I find another job. My mom said,
it's a risky deal because he gets so mad all
the time. Do I take the risk or keep suffering
at my job?

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Well, no, you don't keep suffering. But you need to
find something else to do. If you want to have
a miserable life, wake up to go do something you
don't like doing for an extended period of time. If
you want to have a miserable life. I am a
proponent of chasing your dream. So you probably call the
wrong guy for this information because I say chase your dream.

(24:18):
At least you can wake up in the process of
pursuing something that you're happy about. Because I'm gonna tell
you right now, the job that you have is not
tied to your gift. Oh, it pay good, but it's
not what you gifted at. If you are gifted that
it would come natural to you. You would find enjoyment,
you would find purpose but finding your gift.

Speaker 9 (24:40):
But you're not suggesting that she quit and let her
boyfriend take care of her until she finds another job.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Though, Well, I'm saying what I said. But now if
you if you're quitting with the expectation of somebody taking
care of you, I don't know if that's the way. Yeah,
you know, if I were you, I would have enough
saved up. Well when I bounce, I got I got

(25:05):
a little hole money until I find something else. Okay,
you know, yeah, but I would not be dependent on
somebody else because, like your mama said, he get mad.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Too quickly, right right, you know yeah, I don't.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
I don't. I'm not giving nobody that control over me.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah, that's her, it's shelling. Okay, we cleared that up,
all right.

Speaker 9 (25:28):
Moving on to Jasmine and Cleveland, Jasmine writes, my husband
and my husband and I have an off and on
kind of marriage, and I ended up pregnant by someone
else on one of our breaks. He accepted my daughter,
but he keeps complaining about me cheating on him. He
was doing it, so why couldn't I?

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Well, you got a baby. Now, you remember what I
just said a minute ago. Sometimes when you end the relationship,
you got to get rid of the remnant. Yeah, your
remnant is a baby.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Can't get rid of it.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
You can't get rid of the baby. So that's a
constant reminder. You not only went and got with somebody else,
You brought somebody else back with you. So and if
you if you think a man gonna get half that,
no you no, you not only left him when you
came back. You came back with somebody with you. You

(26:23):
came back with a baby and his baby. So you
came back with a baby and another daddy. Yeah, see,
you came back with two people. That's a lot. How
you don't think he not understanding that? Me personally, I
don't know how he took you back. I don't know

(26:43):
if you don't go off and get pregnant. I'm most
strongly suggest that whoever you got pregnant with, he's willing
to take care of you, and he I don't know
that I'm gonna do that. I don't know that. I
haven't been in that position, but I don't know. Now
marrying a woman who has children, that's totally different. Yeah, completely,

(27:06):
that's completely different. Right, But you have a first of all,
and here's another new norm for us. On the Steve
Harper water Show, I've been on again, off again marriage. Wait,
how does that work?

Speaker 5 (27:18):
You know what? You know?

Speaker 2 (27:20):
I've heard on again, off again relationship. You got to
on again, off again married.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Okay, we're married now now we're not we're married.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Yeah, man, I'm gonna go see somebody else. I'm gonna
go see somebody else too when I'm pregnant with the baby.
What see we now that off section? Hastna get extended.

Speaker 9 (27:39):
Yeah, Jasmine and Cleveland. All right, moving on, this is
our last one. See this is Aretha and Bartlett. Aretha writes,
my twenty three year old daughter lives with me and
I've allowed her boyfriend to stay overnight. But I was
shocked to see two guys leave from her room last night.

(28:00):
Her boyfriend was not one of them. She said they
were watching movies.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
Is my child a tramp?

Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah? Sound like? And I'm gonna tell you right now.
And she ain't the Disney movie tramp either. I'm gonna
tell you that right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she ain't
that Disney movie tramp. I'm gonna tell you that right now.
She ain't tramped the dog. I'm gonna tell you right
now that little girl up been there you know, first

(28:29):
of all to me and left her room. Is my
daughter tramp? Well? Let me ask you someone, when the
last time two men left your room a bedroom now,
not a house. They wasn't in the house. They was
in the bedroom. Yeah, I ain't been in no movie
that I've never seen the movie. Who I went in
a girl's bedroom to watch the movie?

Speaker 1 (28:51):
Coming up? Thank you, Clo. Coming up at the top
of the hour.

Speaker 9 (28:54):
We have a very special guest from the Steven Marjorie
Harvey Foundation right after this you're listening.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Morning show.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Not everybody has promised our special guest this morning is
this was personal to me. This young brother attended to
Steve and Margye Harvey Minnering Camp in twoenty eleven, that's
thirteen years ago. He also came to the Disney Dreamers

(29:24):
Academy the next year. He has claimed that, well, I'm
his minnor. Back then and to this present day, this
young brother right here, when I tell you, has excelled.
He is a moor House graduate. He is a Rutgers graduate. Currently,
he is a pastor, a licensed therapist, and an author.

(29:45):
He's here to tell us about his full circle moment
and how minnering really works. Please welcome to the show.
For the first time. His name is Nicholas Young. We
call him Nick. This is Nick Young.

Speaker 8 (29:58):
Everybody, Good morning, Good.

Speaker 10 (30:05):
Morning, everybody.

Speaker 5 (30:06):
How are y'all doing? How you doing?

Speaker 9 (30:08):
Man?

Speaker 5 (30:10):
Bless blessed, blessed, truly.

Speaker 11 (30:12):
Truly honored and grateful to be on the show. And
I always am happy to tell people that that I
would not be where I am in any way, I
would not be on my two seeds.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
I would not be.

Speaker 11 (30:27):
I don't even feel like i'd be a high school graduate,
let alone three degrees if it had not been for
what the Steve Harvey Mentoring the Stephen Market Harvey Foundation,
a mentoring program did for me in my life.

Speaker 5 (30:40):
You all literally changed my life.

Speaker 11 (30:41):
And now I'm able to pour into people every day.
And it's only because you are poured into me.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
And that's that is really what it's all about. It's
not about me getting credit. It's about the results. It's
about the It's about the reward of it, not the awards.
And this brother is one of the rewards of minering man,
which makes it so. Also, I need to mention he
is a proud, proud member the greatest fraternity on planet.

(31:15):
That's them one and only. Oh makeer fight FIGHTQ. So
got that out the way, this step of pastoral adult.
Don't worry about that. I know I've seen you well
he I have seen him set out of hot before
they young. You know, the hot has changed since I

(31:37):
was stepping. These brothers got a whole nother hot. I
had to go to dance class and take it up. Now,
hey man, Nick, listen, you got a master's degree. In
divinity and you're licensed master social worker, what's the motivation
factor that kept you going?

Speaker 11 (31:57):
So that the motivation factor is a thank you, fostor
what God has done for my life, what you all
have done for me. I know there's a scripture where
Jesus hills a group of levers and one of them
just made up in his mind that he had to
come back. I feel every time that I get the

(32:20):
opportunity to pour into a young child, or pour into
a couple or family, anybody who's in front of me,
I feel like it's just me saying thank you to
the God who blessed me and the guy who used
other people.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
To pour into me.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Nick, how were you when you came to the camp.

Speaker 11 (32:35):
Thirteen between thirteen fourteen years old?

Speaker 2 (32:38):
Beat? I mean, this cat fought through some things, y'all.
When I tell you he fought through some things, it
is what perseverance is all about. This young brother I'm
talking about, they tried to take him out, when I
tell you they really that was a real plan to
take him out. But we gathered ourselves, we rally around him.

(33:00):
We gave him all a lot of support, love and
encouragement and especially prayer. And his brother got through. I mean,
he got through some tough times. Man. So congratulations.

Speaker 9 (33:09):
Man.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
Before we talk about this book you got, let's talk
about this full circle moment. You were at the camp
as a thirteen year old. I'm assuming you what to
How are you now? Nick, I'm twenty eight, twenty eight
years old this year from being a camp mentee to
now he's speaking at the mentoring camp this year. Tell

(33:33):
us how you felt when you got the call. What
is this full circle moment like for you?

Speaker 11 (33:38):
It's a tear jerkery. When I went to the camp,
I did not want to. I was dealing with bullying
at the time, and I did not want to complete
high school.

Speaker 5 (33:50):
My mom was having the hardest time in the.

Speaker 11 (33:52):
World, and me and my sister talked before I got
on the plane, and she said, just go down there
and do well, and she's and God's going to do
something for you. And my entire life changed because of
the camp and all that you are poor and all
that you all did. And so now when I got

(34:15):
the call.

Speaker 5 (34:16):
It's like, no way, there's no way I'm going to
get to go back.

Speaker 11 (34:21):
And pour into and pouring through mom and sons who
are just like my mom and me were years ago.

Speaker 5 (34:32):
It's humbling.

Speaker 11 (34:35):
I can't the words fail to express the level of
emotion I feel and being invited back to the place
that changed my entire life.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
You know, man, it's crazy because let me tell y'allself,
this is one example. The guy that runs my camp
now along with my son, his name is Toring. He
runs my him. He sets up the program for he
was a camp. He was a mentee at the camp
at thirteen years old. The other guy that comes down

(35:07):
and helps out every year and mentor the boys, his
name is Kendall. He was he's an engineer now. He
came to the He came as a gang bank. He's
an engineer now. Wow, yeah, man, we got the We
got a brother that's a young pilot that I sit
to pilot school because his dream was to become a pilot.
He's an airline pilot.

Speaker 5 (35:25):
Now.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
I got a kid down here that's on the Pro
Bass Fisherman Tour. He hurt my feelings because I wanted
to That's what I wanted to be. Hey, y'all, we're
gonna come right back with more with Nick Young. Right
after this. One of the mentees from the Steven Marge
Harvey Foundation, who has come full circle to be speaking
this year.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
We'll be right backs Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
All right, everybody, we're back in our special guests this morning.
His brother, Nick Young, who is having a full circle moment.
He's coming back to the camp as a speaker. Now,
this is what's makes this incredible. Was added thirteen, fourteen
years old. He was a mentee at the camp. He
is now a licensed therapist. He is a minister, he

(36:10):
is an author. He's a young man. I watched him
go to college, went to more House, he went to Rutgers.
We were part of all of that. I watched him struggle.
I watched him try to take him down. I watched
through prayer and just men rallying around one another.

Speaker 5 (36:28):
Man.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
When you got a circle of men, strong men who's
been there, done that, then seen it before, can put
your mind at ease and help you through it. That's
what mentring does. His name is Nick Young. Everybody, Nick,
we're in here talking about the program. But I said,
you're an author. You got a book that teaches children
about the power of therapy. Tell us a little bit

(36:50):
about the book.

Speaker 11 (36:52):
Yes, sir, mister Harvey, I had the God give vision
to plant a seed very early on.

Speaker 5 (37:00):
And I learned this in many.

Speaker 11 (37:01):
Ways from the programs with the Mentor Foundation, that when
you teach a child a way to go, it doesn't
it doesn't leave them. I know when I was at
the camp, you all told me, like, when you're on
the date, make sure you walk on the outside and
open doors. And I find myself still doing those things,

(37:22):
and so using that logic, I was thinking that when
you teach kids very early on the importance of taking
care of their mental health, how to regulate their emotions,
how to deal with relationships through mental health practitioners and therapists,
that when they get older, they will grow into adults
who know how to take care of their mental health,
how to remain sane, and how to help other people

(37:45):
take care of their mental health.

Speaker 5 (37:46):
And so I wrote a book.

Speaker 11 (37:47):
Called Carry the Caring Koala, a Child's Guide to Therapy.
It's available on Amazon, and the book has been really helpful,
has a workbook page, and it just really teaches kids
how to manage their emotions and relationships.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Now you say, what's the name of the book, Carry
the Carrying Kality, Okay, carry the Carrying Koala that's a
tongue twist. The young find that book. I just got
a koa l a. The two things that we teach
at the mentory and camp, the two main focuses is

(38:21):
dream building and manhood. I don't discuss your education with you.
I don't discuss your You know your educational background, where
you hope to go. If you go to school, fine,
But I want to know what your dreams are. And
we start with dream boards, and I teach young men
how to dream. I get their mind out of their
neighborhoods and the hoods and put them somewhere else. And

(38:43):
then I teach them what real men do. Real men
go to church, Real men go to work. Real men
honor God, Real men obey the law. Real men take
care of their children. Real men honor women. Real men
go to work every day. That's what manhood is. It
ain't in a video, it ain't in a in a chain,
it ain't on the set the rems. We teach those
two things, and those two things work. Our special guest

(39:05):
this morning, Nick Young, appreciate your man. I'll see you
in a couple of days. What day you speaking, man, Sunday?

Speaker 5 (39:14):
Sir?

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Oh you're doing oh you're doing the closes. Excuse me,
get my old ass. I have to wait closing remark,
know what?

Speaker 6 (39:31):
Okay, there you go.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
There you go, wait to go. Hey, y'all, Nick young, everybody.
We'll be back with more to Steve Harby Morning Show right.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
After, sir, you're listening Morning Show. All right, guys, it
is time now for one of these has to go.

Speaker 9 (39:47):
One has to go, sense of taste, sense of smell,
ability to get aroused.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
One has to go.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
Ain't you take you could take taste smell? Yeah, and
we aroused either one of them all both taste smell
or around hm hmm.

Speaker 9 (40:15):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
All right, moving on smell smell.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Smell okay, junior, yes, smell, okay, all.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Right, I changed to smell it. I'm gonna be scared
to taste it. I can't just okay, one of these
has to go.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
One of these has to go.

Speaker 9 (40:32):
Sense of taste food, it's a smell, all right. Humpty Dance,
Atomic Dog, come and talk to me. One of these
has to go. Humpty Dance, Atomic Dog, come and talk.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
To it's your favorite song.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
Yeah, that's my favorite.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
Well, I don't care what the purpose is, but Hampty
Dance can go.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
Yeah, okay, the Humpty dance, atomic dog.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Come and talk to me, you say, let me plain something.
You know what ain't fitting.

Speaker 6 (41:13):
Dog?

Speaker 2 (41:16):
Im out the ruin the image and the style that
you're used to. Boy, yeah, really, I don't know what
you could have said, and I would have got rid
of a tomic dog.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
That's the way of the world.

Speaker 9 (41:35):
Earth winding, fire, fire, atomic dog, atomic dog, earth winning
by that's the way.

Speaker 6 (41:43):
Of the world.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
Lenny Williams.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
By Joy Clinton's drinking.

Speaker 5 (41:58):
Dog.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
All right, one of these has to go.

Speaker 9 (42:05):
A treehouse, a tiny house, a house boatreuse man, Well.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
I ain't gonna be no good on that boat. But
I'm just saying I'm going on tiny house. Okay. That
has put that tiny house on the wrench for people
staying you ain't gonna stay hell, I'm not staying up
hit your you inside a tiny house. I'm too standing

(42:37):
in the door. I'm too damn big. Plus, I don't
like multitasking like that. You got to do it? What
do you mean?

Speaker 1 (42:46):
I mean multitask?

Speaker 5 (42:49):
What you know?

Speaker 2 (42:51):
I don't like turning on the TV, frying chicken and
use your bathrooms at the same day. I just don't.
I don't want to be that while I'm sitting at them,
I can vacuum, turn on the TV. HANDI bricked chicken
at the seven table put right next to the stove.
But you can do all of that. I can vacuum
the whole damn place, then turn on the TV without

(43:14):
a remote and fried chicken stuck while I'm sitting on
the TOI I don't want to be able to do that.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
And I can make the bed for me that time, right,
asking at its finest.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
In a tiny house, you can't even go in the
bathroom and rest your mind.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
All right?

Speaker 2 (43:35):
With you in the bathroom, you he is in the house.
You are sitting on the toilet trying to gather yourself,
and then you go, man, who left that tie over
there on the floor? And this dead need to be
made up? I showed which they stopped popping that baking
beast on me while I'm sitting here there going on

(43:59):
all right, to reach up and open up the window
so we can add out while much house people to
have him come build some executive homes on my property. Yeah,
and then let them feel me.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
Yeah, that's a great idea.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
I just want to picture you in the doorway that's
all I want to.

Speaker 9 (44:23):
All right, last one keelan and pop never mind, all right,
thank you guys. Coming up next, prank phone call from
the nephew right after this.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
You're listening.

Speaker 9 (44:35):
Morning show coming up at about four minutes after the hour.
It's my strawberry letter for today. And the subject is
he described a different experience. He described a different experience.
We'll get into that find out what that is all about.
But right now it is time for the ignorance. Because
it never stops on this show, it never stops. So

(44:57):
it's a prank phone call with the nephew right now.

Speaker 6 (45:00):
What you got now.

Speaker 8 (45:01):
We get insulted when we pull up into the church
parking lot and we don't get the park over there.
You know, the attendant pushes us back this way, and
I'm thinking, you know, maybe it's because of the car
that I'm driving.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
Maybe that's what it is. All right.

Speaker 8 (45:14):
So the title of this is the church parking lot,
the church parking lot. This goes out there, Oh you
church parking lot ministers. Okay, that's out there working and yeah,
telling us where the park and you know, you see
my car, it don't look good enough.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
The ugly cars is over that we're sending you over there.
All of a sudden, you just stopped the land.

Speaker 7 (45:35):
You appoint me that I got your time. I got
to go to the right yeah, orange Wan and you
keep pushing us back to this.

Speaker 8 (45:44):
Come on, man, And then when you get out the car,
start walking towards the church he got he can't make
an eye contact with you know, you know, he fits
you a mile out the way.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
In the lot.

Speaker 8 (45:54):
This right here is the church parking lot. Let's go
catch down. Uh yeah, Brendan, Hey, I'm trying to reach you.
How you doing, uh Britain? I want to make sure
I got the right person. You the person that uh
you work at the At the first of all, I
go to uh my name, my name is Calvin, brother Calvin.
But I go to Saint Missionary Baptist Church where.

Speaker 5 (46:16):
You yeah, so yeah, so everything all right.

Speaker 8 (46:20):
Everything's fine. Well, I got a little issue and I'm
trying to get to the bottom of it.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
Now.

Speaker 8 (46:26):
You work in the before service start. You work in
the parking lot on and yeah, and you tell people
where the park and stuff right right right?

Speaker 4 (46:37):
What you looking for some employment? You want to you
want to join us?

Speaker 5 (46:41):
No?

Speaker 8 (46:42):
No, no, what to see the issue I got, man,
I've been dealing with this probably about the last two
months now that okay, hold on, I'm trying to teach you.
So the problem is when I come to the church
last couple of months, man, I've been I've been like
my my, my, my regular card and broke down on it.
So I had I got an old van that I've
been about that. Yeah, yeah, you know, I got a

(47:04):
old van that I've been using to get around in.
So now for the last two months, I've been riding
in it when I come into the church. You know
you and I find out who you were, but you
keep sending me to the back of the parking lot.
And then but you know I noticed, now no bro,
no on the real So you sending me to the back,
and I'm noticing when I see cars that's like two ten,

(47:27):
twenty fifteen cars.

Speaker 4 (47:29):
Well brother, well listen, we don't have no set place
where we put model car. You know, I just I
just direct the traffic.

Speaker 8 (47:36):
Brother, Okay, So so you're trying to tell me for
the last two months, you just direct traffic, but you
got but you directed me to the back every time.
But a car behind me or a car in front
of me. It'll be going to the front.

Speaker 4 (47:49):
Now where you getting this information from me?

Speaker 2 (47:53):
I didn't seen you man or send people to the
front to park. I hadn't seen you do.

Speaker 5 (47:57):
No.

Speaker 4 (47:58):
No, I just I just put you know, the bigger
vehicles in the in the back and.

Speaker 5 (48:04):
Uh certain.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
You know, it's really no schedule if you come in,
I just I just direct you to the right of
the left. It's really nothing to it.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
Really, So you're not trying to say, so my my
van being raggedy ain't the reason why.

Speaker 4 (48:17):
I'm being No, no, no, no, no, no, that's not
what we're about. Now, Okay, Well, I'm sorry you feel
that way. I mean, so I guess this Sunday.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
Let me let me I'm gonna tell you about this Sunday.

Speaker 5 (48:31):
Gonna make sure.

Speaker 8 (48:31):
No, no, let me tell you right now when my
van pull up there Sunday, I'm gonna tell you right now,
if I get sent to the back, I'm gonna tell
you right now, it's gonna be No, it's gonna be
a problem if I.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
Get sent to the back.

Speaker 4 (48:44):
You know, now, you don't have to cut from just this.
Calm down, it's not it's not that serious.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
No, it is serious. I know I got a raggedy
ass man. I know that.

Speaker 8 (48:53):
I know that, but I see that's the reason why
I'm getting sent to the back. And I know it
because the car I had before y'all were sending me
up front. So already know I'm just saying. I'm telling
you right now, Brendan, I'm telling you right now, it's
gonna be a problem if I get.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
Sent to the back.

Speaker 4 (49:07):
Brother, you just singled me out.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
And no, no, or did you know I didn't single
you out?

Speaker 5 (49:13):
You?

Speaker 2 (49:13):
You are the person that has been sending me to
the back.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
Dude, No, No, I haven't.

Speaker 5 (49:18):
Hey, man, why you why are you sending Why are
you accusing me of.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
I'm thank because I didn't seen it?

Speaker 5 (49:25):
No, you are. You're calling me.

Speaker 4 (49:26):
You're calling me out of the blue, and you accuse
me of something that I'm not doing.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
You just sent my ragged ass band to the back.
You didn't done it. You didn't done it two months straight, Brendan,
you have done haven't. Yes, yes you have. You send
all the predy cars up front. That's what you're doing.
But I tell you what comes soundy gonna be a problem?

Speaker 5 (49:46):
Threatened me?

Speaker 4 (49:47):
I mean now, now listen, we we we can meet
up at it. We can meet up there to be
for any cars get there.

Speaker 5 (49:51):
Help about that.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
I don't care how you want to do it, Brendon.

Speaker 10 (49:54):
You actually do know how you want.

Speaker 5 (49:56):
To do it, So bring it then.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
Okay, I'm letting you know my car, Yeah, my vel
gonna build.

Speaker 5 (50:01):
Come give bent give Ben. It's me and you.

Speaker 4 (50:04):
How about that you want you and you want to
talk to Tony stuff?

Speaker 2 (50:06):
Oh okay, so you are you're sweating all up now?

Speaker 4 (50:09):
All right, so now like you already did, so, I
guess I'm matching.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
Okay, Well, no, I'm.

Speaker 4 (50:14):
Gonna listen brother, brother, listen, You're not gonna call my
phone and threaten me and tell me what you what
you think I did when I didn't do it.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
I told you man, you've been sending me to the
damn back man.

Speaker 5 (50:26):
That's what we passed. What you thought?

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Okay, that what it is. No, it's what I know.

Speaker 8 (50:30):
It's what I know, Brendy, it's what I know. Okay,
you didn't you didn't sit with you at right now? Okay,
you know you know what got work? You know what
I'll tell you what you are right now, Come sunny
that's that's Dan Brend.

Speaker 4 (50:40):
No no, no, no, no, no, no, how about what
you're doing right now?

Speaker 2 (50:43):
What you mean what I'm doing right now? I'm at
work right now?

Speaker 4 (50:45):
Oh oh so you you at work calling me about
some bull parking spot.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
Oh okay, oh look at the cussing Christian. Now look
at you. No, look at the cuss no you.

Speaker 10 (50:56):
No, no, no, matter of fact you.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
Okay, if you want to do something, let's do it now,
parking lot.

Speaker 5 (51:01):
I don't I don't care.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
We'll be at okay. Okay.

Speaker 4 (51:04):
That's one thing you're not gonna do is disrespect me.
I'm telling you that right now. Brother, Calvin, you bring,
I'm gonna.

Speaker 5 (51:10):
Fold you like a wet piece of paper. You don't
know who you with.

Speaker 10 (51:13):
Okay, I didn't been locked up.

Speaker 4 (51:15):
Six seven years. I'm just in the church trying to
get my life together. And you said you're just gonna
talk to me. You got another thing coming, brother, I'm
gonna tell you that right now. So you want to
get it off, meet me in the parking lot right now.
I give you an hour to get there.

Speaker 8 (51:27):
Your pieces tonight. Now you're trying to scare me with
your god, with your background. What it is you're trying
to scare me with your background or something like EVI
then you I ain't know you have been in jail with.

Speaker 4 (51:37):
The wrong one.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
I'm just gonna say this. Do you know Lester that
that also wants he also had a cars parking.

Speaker 10 (51:44):
Would you try by yourself out of this.

Speaker 5 (51:48):
You're talking about? I know a Lester?

Speaker 2 (51:50):
Okay, okay, Leicester is the person to tell me to
call you. This is nephew Tommy from the Steve Harby Morning.

Speaker 8 (51:57):
Brenda, your boy Lester in the parking lot got me
the frank funk call. I brought the lockdown out there?

Speaker 10 (52:10):
You man?

Speaker 2 (52:10):
Did I bring the lockdown out there?

Speaker 6 (52:16):
Strangle?

Speaker 4 (52:18):
Y'all got me out here talking reckless?

Speaker 5 (52:20):
I cast this.

Speaker 8 (52:23):
Hanging there, bro, and then do this for me. Man,
Tell me what is the baddest and I mean the
baddest radio show in.

Speaker 4 (52:29):
The last man, Steve Harvey Radio man.

Speaker 8 (52:33):
Hey man, if you see somebody's Sunday pull up in
a van, show them some love.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
But show them some love.

Speaker 4 (52:38):
I might have to call out this week, but my
heart can't take you.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
If nothing else has happened.

Speaker 8 (52:45):
Y'all ought to be in it ought to be in
your spirit to get up and go on this great
getting up Sunday. All right, this coming Sunday, y'all ought
to be getting ready to get.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
Up and go get your praise on. All right? Did that?
Did that jump started?

Speaker 9 (52:59):
Why couldn't you say good morning to the parking lot ministry?

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Water are coming? They got too much power? Put your power? Yeah,
your power wrong, there's no spirit in your power.

Speaker 6 (53:17):
Say it right?

Speaker 8 (53:18):
Yeah, but over here, over here, ain't none worse than
parking lot power.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
Nothing worse than that.

Speaker 7 (53:27):
Don't when they backing you into your spot and they
put that that hole like I can see too.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
I know I ain't just start driving.

Speaker 8 (53:35):
Yeah yeah, then they got right there, Yeah yeah that one.
Come on back, Come on back then, God, I'm coming.
I got I got a I got a camera in
the back.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
I know what I'm doing.

Speaker 8 (53:47):
Okay, thank you LP. Parking lot Power, parking lot power.
We're gonna have some power this Saturday night. And Dalla's baby,
all my Texas A and the buddies been calling me.
They coming to the show to see me. I am excited.
I am elated. And the nephew got some for you.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
Man.

Speaker 8 (54:06):
It's at the Majestic. It is Saturday Night. It is
Nephew Thomas House Party, Comedy Jam, We gonna jam, we
gonna party, we gonna laugh. All that wrapped up in
the one. It's the show you don't want to miss.
Don't about he have nothing like this. I'm sorry, I
think from the left side.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
All right, nephews, ain't nobody coming up next?

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Strawberry Letter. He described a different experience. We'll get into
that right after this.

Speaker 9 (54:27):
You're listening Hardy Morning show. Switching gears. Now it is
time for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need advice
on relationships, work, sex, parenting, and more, please submit your
Strawberry Letter to Steve Harvey FM dot com by clicking
Steveharvey dot com and submit your Strawberry Letter. Okay, we

(54:47):
could be reading your letter live on the air, just
like we're gonna read this one right here, and you
never know, it could be yours.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
It could be yours. Buckle up and hold on tight.
We got it for you. Here it is Strawberry Letter.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
Thank you.

Speaker 9 (55:00):
Few subjects. He described a different experience. Dear Stephen Shirley,
I'm in a long distance relationship with a guy that
I dated in high school.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
We both married other people, and we both.

Speaker 9 (55:12):
Got divorced last fall, so we decided to give dating
a try again. But he lives almost three hours away,
so I don't get to see him as much as
I'd like to. He came to see me over the weekend,
and this was our first time having sex in nineteen years.
I was so ready for it. He got in Thursday
and I went to his hotel room after work. I

(55:34):
took a shower, and then he put it on me
like he promised. He kept on saying that I had
been waiting for that moment for years, and he said
I'm by far the best woman he ever had sex with.
We went in for round two before I went to
work the next day. I had been twisted and turned
in the best way, and I could barely make it

(55:54):
through the day without having flashbacks. I went straight to
the room after I got off. I'm surprised that his
bed wasn't made and he was still in it. I
was expecting more sex, but he said he was still
tired from the night before, so we did an oral
exchange that put me to sleep. I woke up to
wrap my hair up and I overheard him in the

(56:15):
bathroom on the phone, talking low. He was describing a
sexual encounter he had earlier that day, but it was
definitely not with me.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
He said.

Speaker 9 (56:24):
It was the kisses that had him so turned on,
and it is hard for him to be intimate without
kissing and sensual touch. He didn't kiss me in the
mouth at all. He also said he kept eye contact
with whoever he was intimate with. He and I never
locked eyes. He was in there describing a different experience
than we had. Should I assume that he's not ready

(56:46):
to settle down? Can I tell him what I heard? Well,
I don't mean to be harsh here, but he only
wants you for the sex. Okay, whatever. Whatever gave you
the idea that you were in a relationship with this guy. Yes,
you knew him in high school, but like you said,
that was nineteen years ago. All you have in common now,

(57:09):
besides the sex, is that you're both divorced. He's single
and ready to mingle, but he's not thinking about settling
down with you, and he's more serious about the other
woman because they're kissing and making eye contact and stuff.
And you heard him say that turned him on, But
it wasn't like that with you, He said, you're the
best woman he ever had sex with.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
That's it.

Speaker 9 (57:29):
So you have the wrong idea about this guy. No,
he's not ready to settle down. I'll say that again.
You should get out well while you can if you're
looking for something more serious, because he's not serious about you,
and if you tell him what you heard, So what
I mean, what difference is that gonna make Steve?

Speaker 2 (57:46):
Some of these dudes. I can't help, y'all, brus y'all,
just man. I don't know if you don't care, I
don't know if you don't know how to be careful.
I don't know if you understand all of the powers
that women have. Let me start by saying, one of
the major powers that all women have that's exceptional is hearing.

(58:11):
They ask can hear. I don't know why God gave
it to them like that, but they have dog hearing,
A key in the back, no, downstairs, in the basement,
a dog here at she hid. Women have exceptional hearing.

(58:33):
You in the bathrooms on your phone, talking low, not
low enough? All right. I'm in a long distance relationship
with a guy that I dated in high school. We
both married other people. We got divorced, so last fall
we decided to give dating a try again. But he

(58:55):
lives almost three hours away, so I don't get to
see him as much as I like to. Now in
this we don't know how long you've been seeing him.
But he came to see you over the weekend. And
this is your first time having sex in nineteen years.

(59:17):
So I'm assume y'all thirty seven, eighteen year old high
school leave. I'm assuming y'all around thirty seven, so, and
he lives three hours away. So how did you all
find each other? Was this on Facebook? Have y'all always

(59:38):
stayed in touch? See, I don't know none of this.
It is our first time having sex in nineteen years.
I was so ready for it. He got in Thursday.
I went to his hotel room after work. I took
a shower. He put it on me like he promised.
Come through, boy, come through, Come through. Be able to
deliver on your promises. Do the rule of manhood. I

(01:00:01):
teach at the Mintory campus. Do what you say you
gonna do. That is the number one rule of manhood.
If you can master that rule right there, you will
have the respect of your peers, You will have respect
of your coworkers. You will have respect of your children.
You will have the respect of your mate, You will
have the respect of your employers. Anybody. All you gotta

(01:00:22):
do is a man do like you say you're gonna do.
He said, you're gonna put it on him. He came
in here and get to us that he waxed that
car till it shine. We come back, Steve, tell you
what all that car wax and got you.

Speaker 9 (01:00:39):
Hang on, we'll have part two of your response coming
up at twenty three minutes after the our today's strawberry letter.
Subject he described a different experience. We'll get it back
into it right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show.
All right, come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter.
The subject is he described a different experience.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
Woman in a longest relationship with a guy that she
dated in high school. Has been nineteen years. They hooked
up somehow they started seeing each other again. He lived
three hours away, but he came up over the weekend
to see her, and it was our first time having
sex in nineteen years. She came over after work, took
a shower, got into bed, and he put it on

(01:01:22):
her jest, like he promised it was a complete and
total waxing. The car is shined and polished. Now the
car is shining. He kept on saying that he had
been waiting for this moment for years, and he said,
I am, by far, the best woman he ever had

(01:01:43):
sex with. We need to keep this line in mind.
This is very important, by far the best woman I
ever had sex with. We went for round two. I
went to work the next day. I've been twisted. I
could barely make it through the day without flashbacks. She said.
I got he had. I had been twisted and turned

(01:02:04):
in the best way. And this boy you got flipped.
This boy was in here doing pancakes and it worked.
I went straight to the room after I got off.
I was surprised that his bed wasn't made and he
was still in it. I was expecting most sex, but
he said he was still tied from the night before.

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So we did an all exchange. That put me to sleep.
I woke up to wrap my hair. Here we go.
That's how you know you gotta get up and wrap
your hair. Gotta get that hair wrapped or else. Because
he come out of that bathroom, he ain't gonna know
who you are. So you gotta get that hair wrapped.

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And I overheard him in the bathroom on the phone talking.
I don't know why men don't understand this gift that
women have. Why are you in the bathroom talking women?
All women have an incredible gift. What is that gift?
It is called the gift of hearing. They can hear
any damn thing that's about them being said anywhere. Your

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ass could have been in the parking lot, in your
car with the windows roll up, in the radio on,
if you was talking about her, her ass would have
heard it. I'm telling you they have dog ass hearing.
German shepherd here, I don't know what you thought. He
was talking low. He was describing a sexual encounter he
had earlier that day. Well, that's why he was acting

(01:03:31):
like he was in the bed when you got there,
because he realized he had tossed the bed up. Now
he got to get in and act like he wasn't
doing nothing. He was describing it, but it definitely wasn't me.
He said he had kisses that he said the kisses
turned him on and it was hard for him beinim
without kissing the central tuck. He ain't kiss me in
the mouth at all, we see why you ain't won't
get kissed. You just said in the letter what type

(01:03:54):
exchange y'all had. Now, if you want mouth kissing, you
got to start talking. Speak up. You wasn't interested in
the mouth kiss minute ago. Now all of a sudden
he here mouth kissing this other girl. Now you won't
be mouth kissed too. That ain't what you said in
your letter. Y'all had a different type of exchange. You

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want mouth kiss it, you're gonna have to speak up.

Speaker 1 (01:04:17):
We got it, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
I'm just saying, and sensual touch. He didn't kiss me
in the mouth at all. He also said he kept
eye contact with whoever he was intimate, and I never
we never locked eyes. He was in there describing a
different experience that we had. Should I assume he's not
ready to settle down? He ain't settled down? What the
hell are you fittingh soon? He just had somebody over

(01:04:41):
at the room. But let me go back. This is
what he said in the letter. He said, you are
by far the best woman he ever had sex with.
Well not by far. So now he got to test it, now,
don't he He said by far? That means till now,

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So after you left, he called somebody over. But now
this is odd what you need to be because he
got to see if he got to make sure he
wasn't lying. Now and now hit the other part. He
came up for the week end to see you. How
did he end up with the other chit? So it
ain't just you just three hours away because he came
up to a hotel room with you. Now you find

(01:05:24):
out another woman was in there. So how many people
are three hours away? So you got competition in town?
Should I assume he's not ready to settle down? He
ain't settled down, and it ain't nothing you can say
to him, because guess what, y'all ain't got no clarity
on what your relationship is. Now, can I tell him
what I heard? Might as well? Why not tell him

(01:05:47):
what you heard and see what that changed? So what, yeah,
tell him what you heard? I heard you in that
talking about looking at this woman in the eyes and
y'allys kissing. You know what he gonna tell you, you
ain't kiss me crazy And then and then you're gonna
say you ain't looking me in your idea. You know
you're gonna say every time I looked at you, your

(01:06:07):
eyes in the back of your head, but your pupils
was in the back of your head. I saw the
whites of your eyes. Now, if you want to make
eye contact, you got to look at me when I'm
looking at you.

Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
Looking at the whites are kind of scary.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
And I do like kissing, but you didn't seem to
care for that. So now here we are, there's nothing
except you want to know. Was should I assume he's
not ready to settle down? He's not settled down. You
don't have to assume that he's not settled down. He
didn't tell you he was settled down either. He just

(01:06:46):
said he'd been thinking about this for nineteen years. Yeah, yeah, okay,
tell that I did it. Can I tell him what
I heard? You can?

Speaker 1 (01:06:56):
They've just been seeing each other since the fall. They
just got divorced in the fall.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
Oh you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:07:03):
Yeah, and you wonder how long they were dating.

Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
Yeah. I don't know if you've been up there to
see him, but it seemed like the first time.

Speaker 9 (01:07:12):
Well, yeah, definitely the first time.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
Because you hadn't been intimate in nineteen years with him,
but he ain't been You ain't been intimate with him,
but he been intimate, and he been intimate with that
other girl that's three hours away too, yep, on the
same day.

Speaker 9 (01:07:29):
Well, you can leave your comments on Today's Strawberry Letter
on Instagram at Steve BARBFM, and check us out on
the Strawberry Letter podcast on the Free iHeartRadio app where
free never sounded so good. Now coming up next to
his Junior and Sports Talk.

Speaker 1 (01:07:44):
Right after this.

Speaker 9 (01:07:45):
You're listening hard Morning show, and it's time now for
Junior and Sports Talk.

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
What you got Junior?

Speaker 7 (01:07:54):
All right, Charlotte, But first, let me just tell everybody
the June twenty ninth Gateway Arena, Atlanta, Georgia, come see
your favorite cousin. I'll be in concert with Michael Blaston.
Michael car You telling these jokes just to laughing jam Festival.
Gonna get your tickets at uh It's at ticketmaster dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
Can I say something, Michael Cary is the best joke
teller I've ever heard, man, Michael John Tayler, I've ever
heard nobody tells a joke better than Michael car Wow.

Speaker 7 (01:08:23):
How long you been know Michael Carlo since ninety Yeah? Wow,
it's a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
Man. Y'all started together right about the same time you
started before. Michael. When I first saw him, he was
on Venice Beach. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. When I
first saw Michael Cary, he was on Vesics Beach. He
was killing then. He's the most theatrical dude I've ever see,
best joke teller I've ever heard. Nobody tells a joke

(01:08:49):
better than Michael Car. My man, Michael Car, your brother.
We love you, man.

Speaker 7 (01:08:53):
All right, I'm gonna get into it, man. Game three tonight,
Game three tonight. Do you feel this final is missing something?
Up Boston leading to zero? Do you feel like Dallas
is here for this or you feel like this Boston
just too dominant?

Speaker 6 (01:09:11):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
You asking me that I thought it was missing something.
I was gonna say, Yeah, Cavaliers.

Speaker 6 (01:09:18):
Team choice.

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
There's that.

Speaker 7 (01:09:26):
It's that, and it's just the fact that it just
seems like Boston just the more dominant team, the more
aggressive team.

Speaker 2 (01:09:32):
So far they winning, so what. Yeah, you can't say
nothing about them right now. But I know Dallas got
to win two at home or else. This is a rap.
This is a rap because Game three is tonight is
in Dallas, so us Yeah, it is up to and
this is a must win This is a must win
for Dallas. Dallas has to win tonight, period. They have
to win tonight. Come on, Mavericks. Yeah, now we don't

(01:09:55):
win to night for the Mavericks, we pull it for you.

Speaker 7 (01:09:57):
If you don't win tonight, we just gonna ahead, go
ahead and just don't be down to his corn hole tossing.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
Let's get the corn hole the final. If they don't
win the night, it's down three. Oh, there's no way
you've come back on. Nobody's come back from that. But
you're not gonna come back.

Speaker 5 (01:10:14):
No.

Speaker 7 (01:10:15):
And then the other sports news, did you see what
happened to the Lakers head coaching search? Dan Hurley for
the head coach of Yukon? Turn down the Lakers man
turn him down. He's gonna stay at Yukon. Seventy million
six years was the offer.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
Well, I'm glad he turned it down. But see, you
gotta look, the cost of living in la is high.
The taxes in La is high. Connecticut, the taxes is different.
Cost of living is different. And then you got two championships.
You can coach these kids or you can go out
here and mess with Lebron and Ad and all the attitudes.
No man, I'd have stayed up there in Yukon, have

(01:10:51):
myself a good life and make money. And they that
thirty two million they fin to raise that. Trust me, yeah,
trust me. He didn't stay. He didn't turned down seventy
for thirty two because I was about to say, show
and them what have see. That's not why he's staying.

(01:11:11):
It's a different reason. We know why. Now. You can't
got money. They got all this nil money for these kids.
I'm telling you right now what they then gave his coach.
I don't know what the real number is yet, but
when it come out, it ain't thirty two no more. Right,
all right?

Speaker 9 (01:11:27):
Coming up at the top of the hour, a husband
needs some advice. His wife got a new booty and
she can't stand being the center of attention. We'll talk
about it right after this.

Speaker 1 (01:11:35):
You're listening.

Speaker 9 (01:11:37):
Morning show, all right, So Steve, this one is from
Rich and Little Rock. Rich says, my wife teaches seventh
grade math, and she recently had surgery to round out
her hips and give her a little more booty. She
returned to work, but things didn't go well because her
white coworkers asked a lot of questions. I told her

(01:11:58):
to admit that she had surgery and move on. The
day after that, there was a big bouquet of flowers
at her desk with a card that said they were
all glad her surgery went well. She called me upset
and crying. Now my question is, why would she go
get a bigger booty if she can't stand the attention?

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
Help me out here.

Speaker 2 (01:12:17):
Oh that's a woman, though, if you will meet it,
have an answer for that. We're talking about a woman.

Speaker 1 (01:12:24):
I don't know what are you saying.

Speaker 2 (01:12:26):
I have no idea why she cried now, I ain't
got her flowers. Yeah, glad the surgery went well. It
looks wonderful. We know of it. You know, got a
bouquet of flowers. You know, white people. It just it's
amazing they getting it too. Look if you look on Instagram,

(01:12:46):
they all getting it now. I remember when they used
to talk about black women. She got that bubble butt.
Un everybody won't that. Yeah yeah, all these white girls
on Instagram turning around showing you their button, all of
them now they want the bubble butt. We been wanting
the bubble but the bubble butt has been in since

(01:13:09):
the parties. Cab Callaway now was looking at bubble Butts
back then, Duke Ellington. Alla, so it's it's nothing new,
you know. I think what happened was the Kardashian craze
came along. Kim Tardashian, who took that look from them. Girl,

(01:13:36):
you know, she took that look from them. They took them.
All that boatox in the lips, they took that from them, yea,
all that all that tanning, they took that from Black
women have been the epitome for so long. Yes, for
so long they have been the bitch mall. Oh, didn't

(01:13:57):
nobody want to admit it. Didn't nobody want to admit it.
But black women have been the benchmark for beauty for
a long time because they are the lisen to me,
there are some gorgeous white women. I'm not excluding Latinos
from this group at all, because I'm not. I'm not
excluding no Latino from this black group at all. But

(01:14:20):
I am telling you women of color have been the
benchmark for beauty for a long time. They just wouldn't
admit it. They kept trying to make everybody else the benchmark.
Black women and women of color have been the benchmark.
They've always had the booty they've always had breasts, they've

(01:14:41):
always had the lips. They call it the exotic look. Oh,
it's just they women of color, curves.

Speaker 1 (01:14:49):
Baby body, ideaity, that's what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:14:52):
Now everybody wonted welcome to what we've always known. There
are gorgeous white women in this world. There are gorgeous
Russian women, Holish women, Italian women, French with gorgeous women
all around the world. That's not what I'm saying. The
benchmark we got right now, it comes from them sisters. Yes,

(01:15:18):
in that sun causing them, sisters, you're getting them both
tox in them full lips and drawing the outline and
your lipstick all on the top of your lips. That's
for them, sisters. Kim kar dashing. That looked from them sisters.
That's credit. That's where it comes from. They've been to
benchmark comes out. They want our rhythm, but not our blues.

Speaker 7 (01:15:42):
Yes, and you know what I know, you know about
how beautiful women are around the world, cause you know,
we worked at Miss Universe, at Miss I saw it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
At Miss Universe. Oh my god, Universe up. Yeah, yeah,
because it all around the world, you know, Junior, But
you know you raised your hand, You wouldn't this, No,
I just saw this beautiful wind already.

Speaker 7 (01:16:09):
World of just is you think about what you say
about what I saw, what I said.

Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
We'll have more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show right
after this.

Speaker 2 (01:16:22):
Take your head off.

Speaker 1 (01:16:23):
You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show.

Speaker 9 (01:16:28):
If you've ever wondered how much a social media influencer
can earn annually, here's who earned twenty twenty three's top spot.

Speaker 1 (01:16:37):
Hopper.

Speaker 9 (01:16:37):
This is a social media marketing platform determined that Kevin
Hart earned more than twenty eight twenty eight million dollars
in twenty twenty three, followed by Kylie Jenner, Chloe Kardashian,
and Mark Wahlberg, who fall within the fifteen and a
half to seventeen million dollar range. Other top earners are

(01:16:58):
artists and athletes like card b j Lo, Lebron, Steph
Curry and The Rock, who bring in between six and
ten million. Then there's DJ Khaled, Paris, Hilton Shack, and
Kim Kardashian who bring in a few million annually.

Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
So here's a question. Here's a question, Steve. Think about this.

Speaker 9 (01:17:14):
Guys, do you think social media ads will someday make
TV ads non existence?

Speaker 2 (01:17:21):
It's not no one day. It's happening now. Television has changed, y'all.
A hitch show used to be a seven point oh
a hit show TV show now is a point seven. Wow.
If you get a point seven in prime time, they
happy to have you. It used to be seven point
oh to hit the mark. Now it's a point seven.

(01:17:42):
Everything is shifted. Everybody has to have Look, that's why
all the tvnetworks have a dot com, CNN, dot com,
ABC thing, streaming apps, streaming, that's why because people don't
even watch TV like they used to. Normal people watch
you get on their phone.

Speaker 9 (01:18:02):
Yeah, all right, guys, we'll have more of the Steve
Harvey Morning Show coming up at thirty three minutes after
the hour, we will play around.

Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
Would you rather right after this? You're listening hard morning show?
It it's time now for a round. Would you rather?

Speaker 9 (01:18:17):
Would you rather a head full of course hair, a
head full of coarse hair, or a back full of
silky fine hair?

Speaker 1 (01:18:25):
Which one?

Speaker 2 (01:18:26):
Let's well, let's talk about one. Who who's junior? Why? Why?

Speaker 8 (01:18:32):
Why?

Speaker 1 (01:18:32):
Mean?

Speaker 2 (01:18:34):
You were trying to hang on me and Tommy. We
don't let out so we can go way hang on? Well,
well then I'm gonna go with the full of course hair.

Speaker 1 (01:18:46):
Then I just had course hair.

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
You're a haad full of course hair. Yeah, course hair.
No no, no, no, no, no, no, it ain't that.
It's the full part I'm talking about. That's what you
because it is half a head you got working right now,
my head.

Speaker 1 (01:19:06):
That's not true.

Speaker 7 (01:19:07):
See people be seeting me like why why Steve be
talking about your head on and they don't.

Speaker 6 (01:19:12):
See what you be.

Speaker 2 (01:19:13):
Okay, take your head off you if you would right
now to take the hand if you would, so we
can prove a point. Okay, and the handset now not
not keep the head set off to No, no, you
leave the hand set off because that's what it had.

Speaker 1 (01:19:29):
Let me let me see wonder.

Speaker 2 (01:19:32):
Okay, stay right there, ju Let me ask you all something.
Let me ask you something. Before his the strap over
the top of his head said, Scott, did you see
any hair right now?

Speaker 7 (01:19:44):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
Come closer. The light.

Speaker 6 (01:19:50):
Is the light?

Speaker 1 (01:19:50):
Yeah, I told you it's there.

Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
It's not right there right, stay right there because we
do see hair. Now turn sideway.

Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
Gone again.

Speaker 2 (01:20:02):
Lord, you gotta you gotta carry a light with you
where you go.

Speaker 1 (01:20:05):
You gotta just carry a life hat.

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
You know, get a flash like Sureley, this next question, I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
Thank you, all right, all right, light, I'm with you.

Speaker 9 (01:20:18):
Would you rather a big corn on both of your
baby toes, a big old corn? Or would you rather
a big bunion on both your feet? Which ones were going?
With corns or bunions?

Speaker 2 (01:20:28):
I'm gonna tell you well that corn. I've never had
a bunion that corner or breaking. I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:20:40):
I heard that tiny token where you're at though I
heard it. That's that's what a corn is.

Speaker 1 (01:20:44):
That that's what that's what he's saying.

Speaker 2 (01:20:46):
He's agreed. I used to wear size eleven and a
half more regators, and boy, let me tell you something
I couldn't. That's when I I don't know why I
would buy eleven of half when back then I was clear,
I was twelve, and I don't know why I was
doing that. I just didn't know. I didn't know the
growth pattern. I bought a series of them at eleven

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and a half. And lord Jesus, let me tell you something.
May you ever been standing somewhere uh huh and your
knees buffle, you know, just for no reason. So when
I see women take their shoes off, I could relate
because I couldn't take mine off.

Speaker 1 (01:21:26):
They stuck.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
I had to wear mine, all right.

Speaker 9 (01:21:31):
Last one, Would you rather be happily married, happily married
but broke, or would you rather be wealthy but with
your ex?

Speaker 2 (01:21:40):
Huh? That's poll all over again. I I'm not saying
sending me up shirt. I'm married. I'm not doing the
XT thing, and I don't give it. Tell you what
I could start over with Marjorie, me and her, we
could build it back up. I'm not going. I ain't
doing the X thing.

Speaker 9 (01:21:59):
That's all right, coming up next, last break of the day,
and we'll close out the show with the one and only.

Speaker 1 (01:22:05):
Steve Harvey right after this. You're listening Morning show.

Speaker 9 (01:22:10):
All right, guys, here we are last break of the
day on this Wednesday, Homp day.

Speaker 1 (01:22:15):
It's been a good day.

Speaker 2 (01:22:17):
Yes, hey, you know what I have closing remarks today.

Speaker 1 (01:22:20):
Okay, thanks to Nick Young.

Speaker 2 (01:22:22):
By the way, Yeah, I want to thank Nick Young
for calling in. Are the mentoring camps this week? The
boys come in today are two hundred and fifty boys
from around the country. I want to think of all
our sponsors. I want to think. I can't think of them,
all right, now, so don't let me start. But you
know who you are. I have a better list when

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I want to do it, mentoring works, mentoring changes lives.
I want to talk to you about though becoming successful.
You know I'm a faith based person, so I always
I always turn to faith when I talk about success.

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I always talk about God's grace and mercy. I always
talk about prayer, always talk about faith, always talk about
the element of God that will never ever change in me.
But I'm gonna add something to that today. I'm gonna
talk to you about the component that you have to have.

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And it's several things that you have to develop. But
I'm gonna tell you right now, your effort has a
lot to do with it. You can pray all you want,
you can believe all you want, you can faith about
it all you want, but faith with our works is dead.

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And that work you got to put in is called effort.
You cannot overlook the effort. You can read all the
scriptures you want, but if you ain't gonna do the work,
it ain't gonn happen for you. Man, the Bible is clear.
Faith without works is dead. I am telling you, if

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you have any any any thought any concept, any desire
to be successful on whatever level you choose to call that.
It don't make me no difference. If you want to
be successful, let me tell you something. It is going
to require a massive, massive effort. Don't you think for

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one minute that you can just walk through the door,
that it just swings open like you in a saloon
in a movie. Man, Them doors got bricks behind it.
Them doors got throwings on it, They got nails on it.
Them doors is broken. Them doors fall on you. Sometimes,
them doors lock in your face. It's hard, man, It

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is hard. It is going to take the greatest effort
you have. You know what amazes how people they find
people successful and they start talking about how lucky they are.
Do you know what lucky is? Luck is when hard
work runs up into opportunity. That's what lucky is. And
luck is how people describe other people's success. You ask

(01:25:15):
somebody who's really successful and find out how lucky they
thought they were to get that. No, sir, luck is
when hard work bumps up into opportunity. I can't tell
you how many times people have told me I was lucky.
I sat there and I listened to them, But lucky, No, blessed. Yeah,

(01:25:35):
lucky no, favorite, yes, lucky No. I have worked my
tail off. I have put in the work. I am
telling you I've put it in. Now. Once again, I'm
not saying this without faith, without favor, without grace, without mercy,

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without prayer. I am not saying this without that. I've
done all that. But the added component is I showed up.
I showed up. God can't show out for you if
you don't show up. If you want to see him
show out, you got to show up. God can't put
his finger on it to bless it if you ain't

(01:26:20):
got it stuck out there. You got to put out
an effort. Y'all, stop complaining about how hard it is,
because it's gonna be hard. And I got news for you.
It only gets more difficult. Life only gets more difficult
and more challenging. You know what happens though, We just
get better at the challenges and the setbacks. We just

(01:26:41):
get better at handling it. I was talking to a
young man yesterday who had a major problem in his life.
He was just telling it to me. When he got through,
he said, you, why are you just sitting there all calm?
I said, because I've seen this one before I've seen
it and done that because you thirty two and I'm
sixty seven, and what you explaining to me, it don't
even really sound to me. Oh, mister Harvey, how can

(01:27:02):
you say that this is a major problem? I said,
I got that. It's a major problem to you right
now with your coping skills. But I've coped with that
on a greater level. So now I'm gonna give you
the answer to it. You mean to tell me if
I just walk away and quit worrying about it, that's
all I got to do. Yeah, Because let me tell
you something. If you staying there worrying about it, what

(01:27:24):
does that change? What has worried ever accomplished? What has
worried ever accomplished? Man? But I feel so much anxiety
about this. You know what anxiety is. Anxiety is concerning
yourself about tomorrow, which you have no control over. More
people suffer from anxiety because they concerning theyself with something
that might happen tomorrow. And you don't even know what

(01:27:46):
tomorrow gonna bring, So you're tripping yourself out. I say, hey, man,
stop worrying about that and going about your business. Leave
it alone. What you mean, leave it alone. What can
you do to change it? You are telling me something
that somebody else is doing, and you can't change another person.

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So I'm telling you walk away from it and leave
it alone. And the moment they see that you ain't
concerned about it or move by it, they gonna quit
rocking your boat. See, people like to rock your boat.
When they look up in there and they see you
shaking and holding on, you can rock my boat all
you on. I ain't got nothing for you. I give
you none of my light.

Speaker 5 (01:28:25):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
I don't care who you are when you come for me.
And that's another thing. That's why I can't leave prayer
out of this. When you come for me, I must
warn you. You must be careful. You got to be
careful how you handle me. I'm on a mission from God.
I'm on an assignment from God. You got to be
careful with people that's on assignment. Man. You don't know

(01:28:46):
who these people are. You running up on people you
don't know who God then put on assignment. You gotta
be careful. Man. The Bible says, touch not my anointed.
You don't know who they are. You see you keep
on people like that, man, and then you wonder why
your life is topsy turvy and flipped all up down.
You got to be careful how you handle me, because
I got a relationship with God Isaiah fifty four seventeen.

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I no weapon, formed A gives me your prospert and
you don't say it wasn't gonna get formed. You just
say it ain't gonna prosper. You form them on me
all day. But you gotta watch yourself. Be careful. Touch
not my anointed. Have yourself a good day, stay anointed.
Talk to God. He'd love to hear from me. Appreciate it.

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