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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today's show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time y'all
don't know. Y'all have a sun giving them like the
million bucks things and it's not through good it. Steve

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listening to the movie Together to please, I don't join Jo.

(00:58):
You gotta use that turn you you you gotta turn

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to turn them out. Turn you haven't got to turn
them out? Then turn the water. The water got Come
Come on your baby, I sure will. Good morning everybody.

(02:05):
You are listening to the voice, Come on dig me now,
one and only. Steve Harvey's got a radio shop. Yeah, man,
Steve Harvey got a radio shop. Trying to do something
with it too, man. Uh you know, um, I was
having a conversation the other day with a young person
and they were telling me how they felt that their

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life was stuck, that their life was in a rut,
that they didn't know what to do next. And one
of the things that was causing them this sadness or
this depression. I mean, they really really into something right now.
One of the things that was causing it was the
fact that they had made a list of things they

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wanted to accomplish by a certain age, and that age
they just had a birthday recently and they were looking
at the list and the list hadn't been fulfilled, and
because that list hadn't been fulfilled, they were really really

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sad about it, you know. Um one of the things
that they had on the list was marriage, kids, and
I don't know everything else that was on the list,
but that was one of them. And because she had
reached a certain age and she wasn't married, and she
didn't have the kids, and she had just celebrated her birthday,

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she's gone into this mode of sadness whereas really really
taking a toll on her and us. As I was
learning about her situation, I was thinking about it, and
I just wanted to share this with you all this morning.
That one of the things about making a list about

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what you want, which I happen to be a proponent of,
I do it myself. I have people have dream boards,
I have a gold sheet I have. I've been doing
it for years. It's a it's a wonderful way to
set goals and to keep it in front of you
as a constant reminder. And I always go over this
goal list every day, you know, I mean I go

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of it all the time, every day. Sometimes I miss
a day here and there, but mostly every day I
pulled my gold sheet out and I look at it,
I read it. So I was going to these rallies
and I was learning about, you know, people who were
successful in how they kept their mind writing positive. And
one of the things I learned was to make these
dream boards, these lists, these gold sheets. And in making

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a gold sheet, and you make the sheet according to
what you want, think about one thing when you made
your gold sheet, about what you want it? Does your
goal sheet have on it what God wants from you?
Did you ask in any of this what was His
will in your life? You know? Look, man, what we

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want oftentimes is not what He wants for us. And
you know, if you're fighting against what you were created for,
if you're fighting against his will, I mean, what do
you want to happen? See? Don't be so hard on
yourself when you look at your goal sheet and you
look at what you've not become what you thought was

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a great idea. Don't be so hard on yourself because
you just made a minded mistake. As do most people,
we oftentimes make our goals and set our goals up
without ever considering what is it that God wants from us.
We keep talking about what we want without ever finding
out and knowing what it is God wants for us. Well,
guess what, man, Maybe you're fighting against the grain. Maybe

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you're just a salmon heading upstream. That's a tough fight upstream.
Not all salmons get up to the spawning grounds, you know.
Some of them don't make it upstream, you know. But
all of them, nearly all of them, except the ones
that's killed by prey. When they're spawned, they go out
to the ocean. That's cool, because you're going because you're
going with the grain. You're going downstream, you're going with

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the flow. That's but when it's time to go against
the grain, it's tough. And a lot of us have
just been going against the grain for all of these years.
But you know what, listen, man, I did it. I
know a lot of people who did it. Very few
people get it right from the very beginning. Man, you
got to stumble through life sometimes sometimes you got to

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fall through life. You gotta make a lot of mistakes, man,
But these mistakes are not failures. You know, when you
fail at something, don't look at it as a failure.
Don't look at yourself as a failure because you're thirty
and and your goals ain't reach that you had on
your list, that was your list. What about the things
that's going right. Stop looking at what you're not, take

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some time out and thank God for what you are.
How about the fact that you keep waking up to
be thirty. You know you get the pressed about these birthdays.
You really want to throw yourself in some depression. Miss
a birthday, You really got a problem. Now look at
where you are. You keep reaching birthdays. That's a glorious blessing.
You keep waking up. You got your health, You've accomplished something.

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Something on your list is done. People spend too much
time on the negative side, and you're just throwing yourself
into depression. So what you wanted to be married by
a certain age and you want it to have kids? Okay, cool,
You could have done all that with the wrong person.
There's a blessing in not being married to the wrong person.
There's a blessing in not having kids and nobody to

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help you raise it. There's a blessing in that man.
You're talking to somebody who can tell it to you.
You can marry the wrong person if you want to.
I'm telling you you're gonna be up in some mess
you can't count on. So instead of being angry because
you're not married, you don't have kids, why don't you
thank God demand Maybe he spared you from some misery here.
Maybe you could have married the wrong person. Maybe you

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have kids and you're not really ready to be a
mother or a father. You gotta look at the upside, man,
Quit looking at what you don't have. Take some time
to thank God for what you do have. When you
do that, you make more room for blessings to flow
into your life. I'm not saying how God thinks, because
I really don't know, but I'm telling you, if a

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person comes to me and I always give a person
something and they never appear grateful, or they never say
thank you, please, no, you can quit coming to me now.
I don't know thats how God works because I've gone
back to him several times without being grateful of thanking him,
and he's feeling my basket up again. So I really
think he's not like that. But I can't make the

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call for sure, but I think at one point in time, me,
just just me talking, i'd be a little ticked off
at somebody who was always taking, taking, taking, and never
showing any gratitude. At one point in time, I would
just stop the flow of the take. You know, you
just you can't take no more from me. That's what
I would. Now. I'm not calling it like that because

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I ain't him, but I know he's merciful. He's full
of goodness and here and there, and he'll forgive you again.
And thank God he does that because he's shown enough
done it for me. But wow, man, take some time
out today and be grateful for what you have. Stop
complaining about where you're not, and think about where you are,
and then take it from there. And then next time
you make a list, make sure on that list you

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have God's will? What does he want for you? Does
God create give everybody a gift and a talent. Some
of us never apply gifts and talents. We head off
in another direction. Then you wonder why your life ain't
where its supposed to be. Have you ever thought about
what God gifted you to do? Have you ever thought
about doing that? And stip skip what you want? I
wanted to play in the NBA, but I gotta tell

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you something. At dribbling and shooting and running all at
one time, throwing me off a little bit. You know,
it's so I'm doing what I do. It's pretty cool.
You can look at it that way. Okay, you're listening show,
ladies and gentlemen. It is here another great day. Oh man,

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thank you God, so appreciate it. I feel pretty good
today too. Man. Celebrating life today, I'm celebrating life. And
let me tell y'all something, No matter how it's going
for you, can you understand the fact that at least
it's going. Man, If you can wrap your mind around that,
no matter how it's going for you, at least it

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is going. And know this, this too shall pass. Lord
her Mercy, Oh that's good news, This too shall pass.
Did you hear me? Do you hear me? Caller? Do
you hear me? Sherlett? Do you stipp it? Do you
hear me? Junior? Do you himmy thomma too shall pass? Man?

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Man o, man o, man junior? What's on your mind today? Man? Well,
let me ask you this, unc man, Let me ask
you how do you even know what you're tim And
he is from God like people who are talking about
I was supposed to be doing this. I'm supposed to
be doing that. How do you know what your a
sigm it is from God? Well, you have to listen. See,
it's two things that I learned to do. I pray

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and I meditate. Now I learned the difference between those two.
Praying is talking to God. Meditating is listening to God.
Those two things are very important to come to terms with.
Now Here is the one key element in listening to God.

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And I learned this from Bishop Kenneth Oma in Los Angeles.
God's voice has no sin in it's it's sinless. God
ain't told you to go down there and tell them off.
God ain't told you to go over there and straighten
them out. God ain't told you to go quit and

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lead him hanging. He didn't. He didn't do that. That
That is not him. That's not his voice. His voice
is peace. His voice is love. So when you are
trying to determine your purpose, when you are trying to
determine your mission in life, when you are listening, he

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will reveal to you the loving thing to do, the
peaceful thing will do, the joyful thing to do, the
giving thing to do. That's what he will reveal to you.
Because all of your real purposes in life has something
to do with giving. You are not here to take.

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You are here to give and to serve in some
form of fashion. You ain't here to say on nothing.
You are here to give and to serve in some
form or fashion. We all have that cross put on
us at one point in time. It usually starts with
your family and then and then and then it can

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go from there or maybe that's your mission in life
to be a servant to your family, provider, a leader, guide.
But everything that has your purpose wrapped up into it
has some giving to it, and it comes with the
very high cost. And the thing that it's gonna cost
you is you're going to have to give up something

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that you love dearly to perform the duty of your purpose.
I just told myself something right there. All right, amen,
word day, Yeah, all right. Coming up at thirty two
minutes after the hour, we'll hear from the nephews. He
runs that prank back right after this. You're listening show,

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all right, it is time to start your morning off
with the nephew and run that prank back. What you
got now you're wearing my clothes. You're wearing my clothes.
Let's go kre Hello, I'm T Wilson. Yeah, this will
and you you you you on the cleaner though, right, Yeah,
that's me. I'm a happy I longe y'all have been

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over there? How many? How many years y'all been over there?
On the man? We've been here for We've been in
my fifteen years. Man, I've been a long time. Yeah, yeah,
I'm a happy. Uh. Now you you only my name Donnie? Man,
I'm sorry, my name is don Did you do you
know you've always been the owner there? Man? I thought
the thing was about fifteen years ago. Got all my

(14:29):
own equipment everything. We do everything in house, so you
ain't gotta where about going nowhere? You got the clothes
off here, I may show we take everything right here
in the house. Man, Okay, okay, letten listen, man, we
want to call see I've been uh, I've been. I
actually been bringing my clothes and you for about a
year now. Name my name is Donnie. Oh yeah, Donnie,
I don't I don't remember. I know it will be

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coming here. I know your faith though, yeah you ain't
know you You probably know me when you see me. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you're probably you probably know when you see but listen.
Uh hen when I had a problem, and now I
came in. But last week sometimes came in, I think
it last thirties. I came in to get my clothes.
I dropped off and uh nah, noah, I had brought
some clothes, probably about three weeks before that. Uh huh.

(15:13):
And and when I got home three you know, like
I said, three weeks. When I got on with that
with them clothes, I realized I was missing a shot.
And uh. And I was like, I don't I don't
know wear my shirt that I come fast. So now
just last week when I came back to pick up
some clothes, and nah, and it's what you know, I
didn't want to raise no no, having in your in
your store with nothing, but what I looked and I

(15:35):
looked at you. You was actually putting it. Took my
money and gave me, gave him a clothes. But when
I when I looked closer at you, I realized you
you you act you actually had on my shirt what
you had it? I had gone on and counter teen
and I went on out to my car and I said,
I'm not gonna wait and calm down, but you was
actually standing there. Give me my clothes. But you had

(15:57):
on my shirt too, Now you bro, you could have
gotten the twenty Yeah you ain't see me in your shirt?
I mean, or what what? What have your clothes? He
left your clothes up here long with the thirty day.
Okay wait wait wait wait wait, hold on, hold on,
hold on? What what what are you saying? If if
people leave their stuff long and thirty day? You start
way now? Now, hold on, hold on, I ain't won't

(16:18):
nobody shirt. Let hold hold on, hold on, don put
on the line about you. You ain't won't know about
the shirt, but you listen. Let me tell you something, man.
I mean I work every day. I work hard, and
I ain't buy my own I buy my own shirt.
I mean, I ain't got to worry nobody that shirts.
A matter of fact, I was just saying because you
said that that you felt like I had your shirt.

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I ain't won't nobody the shirt. But okay, we got
coming there him come I'm missing is if it's been
here thirty day? We don't. I mean, we we ain't
taking nobody clothes. But listen, I got a fee. And
he bring his stuff over there too, and he tells
me he has some parents, missing and he's coming there
one day and swell, he think you have his playing?
So who is it? He lied? Let let me tell you. Hold,
I mean I don't know. I mean I don't who

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did you? Who you are? Man? I'll fit out o
plase you got my shirt on it? His player? So
this is ridiculous man, you as you creating your own
wardrobe with people's stuff. Look, limita you something, man, I
didn't tell you. I don't want nobody in shriff, don't
call me in something my integritive. Come, I don't wrote
somebody else shirt. I don't have to wipe your shirt.
I got clean as you got man that you clean

(17:22):
people stuff, but then you wear it around the cleaners.
I don't have to wipe this ain't or nobody's around
no cleaners. I got my old you have you You
must not been up here, yaself. Do you see the
uniform we wear up here? That's how you know it
ain't say Wilson on my uniform? Man, I know it's
say Wilson on it. But why you ain't leave me
when other people stuff mister Wilson. Look at man, look
at I'm a Christian bro Listen, I'm trying to do

(17:44):
the right thing. I don't appreciate nobody calling me and
you can tell you, you can inquire and we can
get this fix, you know, figure it out, But you
don't call here saying that you've seen me waring. I'm
gonna go shirt. I'm gonna let the shirt go him.
I'm gonna let care what the home w doing. I
nine now, miss will do what I'm gonna do. But
if I come in there, if I come in there

(18:06):
one more time and see you quit one of my
shirts song, then guess what I'm gonna tell it off
for you. I don't beat you at your stough and
just tell you what you bring your back down here,
Come on down here me. It ain't a danging a duster.
Don't kill you quicking our wheel about coming here trying
to bother me about a shirt when you need to
quit wearing people stuff. See ain't got it? Why no, no, close,

(18:28):
But that's what you're doing. Then you got on my
shirt and got my boy playing. So I tell you what.
Let me tell you something before I open this clean us.
I'm from the penetection. And when you talk, when you
call somebody a line, you better rather back it up.
I come up in there. This ain't well. You look
you keep wearing everybody clothes in there. Let me tell
you something. I'm tell you what gola man, I'm telling

(18:49):
the truth. If you come up here with them, you
need to call your mama letting. No, it's gonna be
from snop slaying the flower brain because just like that
shirt you say you're missing, you're gonna be missing to
your camp. Brought me about the dirt. You're gonna get
your both beat if I keep finding out you wearing
people stuff looking on Wilson, don't don't get your butt
beat up on you. Hear me, I'll tell you what
you need to get off my phone. I but if

(19:12):
baby just coming out and I'm wearing his shirt, you's
wearing my shirts and you're wearing my friends plants. Man,
you look brothers, look Dinny my pucker. I don't Dinny
whoever you. I don't know who Donny you are, But
don't call him normal man. I don't even want your
business man. You don't have to. Don't bring your shirt.
I matter of fact, what's your I'm gonna look your
smile up any day. The money you think I'm gonna

(19:32):
get a fact. I don't need your money either, man,
I don't need to I got one more thing to
say to you. Was you listening to me? What you
ain't got a thing to say to me? I do
have somebody need to say to you? Your your feevering short?
When I do have somebody need to say to you?
What's your mystic? What? Listen, miff you call me from
the Steve Harvey Morning Show. You just got pranked by

(19:54):
your party. Who Hey, mister Wills, this is nephew timing
from the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Your boy got me
to plank phone call you? What? Hey, bro? You can't Hey,

(20:16):
we're to recept you can't call nobody? So me do
like that? Man? Why y'all some food? Man? Well, I'm
going to go somewhere and sit down. Man, I'm gonna
drink me some teafoonnna something shy. I knew we had
to be some my line because I ain't won't nobody
as certain? Man? Hey, man, I gotta ask you, man,

(20:39):
I gotta tell me. Y'all got a bone inside the
cleaners in the morning? Tell me this what ill? What
is the baddest radio show in the land? You already
know the Steve Harby Morning, your baby, I'm through with it.
Take it away, sir, going on all right, thank you,
nephew coming up next, asked the CLO. With our che

(21:00):
Love Officer Steve Harvey in the building right after this,
you're listening to Steve Morning Show coming up at the
top of the hour, and entertainment news. Nia Long and
Emia Duco are over. Okay, they're done. Mariah Carey wants
Nick Cannon to spend more time with their twins, and

(21:21):
our forever First Lady Michelle Obama has given up on
having Michelle Obama muscular arms. We'll talk about all of
these stories at the top of the hour, yes, but
right now it is time to ask the CLO Chief
Love Officer Steve Harvey. Phill and Queen says, I've been
going to the same dentist for a while, but since

(21:43):
my divorce, she's becoming a big flirt. At my appointment yesterday,
she rubbed my temples while I waited for her assistant
to come clean my teeth. She's not my type, but
something about her is kind of sexy. Should I cross
the line and do this? Woman? Now? Man not nobody
to be in your mouth, drill, dog, dog, Listen to me,

(22:10):
she's not really your type. Now you're gonna cross the line.
It's already ain't your type, so it ain't worth But
now when something go wrong, and it will go wrong
because she ain't your type, because once you cross this
line and do it, she gonna expect something that you
ain't willing to give. Next time you sit your ass

(22:31):
in the chair. Okay, show you here now, drill fall off. Yeah,
gums bleeding, no, dog, it ain't worth it. It ain't

(22:51):
worth it. Man, all you can all you can see
it and get a new dinner. Oh okay, then there's that.
I'm in your She's been his dentist for a while. Okay,
all right, Moving on to Catania in Chicago, Catania right
to My husband loves the stunt like he's got big money.

(23:11):
And wherever we go out, he plumps down our Amex
card to paper everyone's drinks and food. He blows our
monthly budgets and I'm sick of it. Why does he
feel the need to flex all the time? Why I'm bawling?
You know, he said, everybody thinking he more than he is,

(23:33):
you know, uh huh, that's all that is I mean,
wake you up at the end of the month, days
coming whoa, whoa. Let me tell you something. I didn't
have some American Express bills idn't open. It is set down,

(23:53):
ye staggering, stagger amount. I've been there. So can she
stop him? I mean, she's sick of it. He blows
the monthly budget. What what can she do? She gotta
talk to you about it. But just dude, he flex it.
You know, I got this man can't express. Everybody see me.
You know that's it's the male ego thing, you know,

(24:17):
cut it up, cut it up? Yea. The bill come
to me every time I sit down a neat so
and I don't. I don't want to flex. It's just
don't know about the paper. I know. I know, we don't.
I'm not picking up my check. When we go out
to Yeah and Shirley, Mississippi, they just sit there and

(24:37):
look thank you, and right on over to the head
of the table over the thing. I'll pick up now,
I'll pick up like I didn't even see it come
to the table. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Timmy here grab it.
But he the only one I grabbed one time, and

(25:01):
I did. I didn't do you write one time, Yeah,
you did. You did me right one time, but then
I saw that other time you opened it close and
set it back on and set it back. I've seen
Boomerang do that right. Moving on Mignon and uh Nasa,

(25:27):
she says, I met a man online and we went
up for dinner. We met up for dinner. He asked
for separate checks after dinner, speaking of check to see,
so I paid my bill and I went and sat
at the bar. Another man bought me a drink, and
the guy I had dinner with got mad. I didn't
consider dinner as a date since I paid for my food.
Was I wrong for leaving him at the table? Well?

(25:50):
I mean, you know, that's just a sign. I don't
know how being think now that you're not supposed to
pay for the food, you know. And all you women
that want to be uh you know or whatever independent
and want to be all, you know, bosses, what do
they call it? That's cool, you can be that. But

(26:12):
I would want to know if a man was willing
to do for me. I was wanting to know, and
you should expect that. And then if he doesn't pay
for your bill like you did, ain't gonna do like
you want to do because he ain't the one he
asked for. Separate check you can how the dude is
this man? A woman's time is value? What about my time?

(26:33):
Oh dog? You pass it out of their chance? You
get get up. She met him online and she just
wants to know. Was she wrong for leaving him at
the table? You say, no, clo as at the table,
you ain't going to say, this relationship ain't going nowhere? Right?
What else he want for free? And he got mad

(26:54):
because she left? Yeah, she got mad because he left.
And then somebody else bought her a drink because at
the bar he know what he got to do. That's right, Yeah,
all right, you did the right thing. Last one, Steve,
last one Deja and Baton Rouge says, I graduated from
college a year ago and I have a decent job

(27:15):
and an apartment. I am four months pregnant and when
I told my parents, they insisted that I moved back
home and dump my boyfriend. Will my parents resent me
if I don't do that? Well, I don't know if
you understand the difficulty that's coming your way, And I
think your parents do, and they realize you're gonna have

(27:37):
to have help and your boyfriend ain't gonna make a commitment.
That's obvious. And your parents are just being parents because
they know the road ahead for you. It's going to
be difficult. And if you live at home, you'll have
some help with the baby, yeah, you know. And if
you stay over there by yourself, it's gonna be hard

(27:59):
because he's not gonna help because if he was already
doing that already, right, he's not gonna help you. And
and it don't make him a bad He don't know
what to do. Yeah, yeah, they're young. They're young. He
doesn't know your parents know that. So you're telling her

(28:21):
to listen to her parents and go ahead and move back.
And well, are they gonna be resentful? Yeah? But I
think you are too, though. And I understand you got
a good job and you graduated in everything, but you know,
I don't think you understand what this pregnancy is now.
You can't know until you have the baby. And I've
heard women say that all the time, you can't know

(28:43):
what this is until that baby get hit. Ye, no idea,
because I didn't know what it was to mind got hire.
I wanted all the mind to go back, you know,
instructions to go back, and our parents didn't have instructions
ready for none of it. Some work. Yeah, so she

(29:06):
doesn't want her parents to resent her, but they're actually
trying if she you know, she doesn't move back home.
I mean, look, she can stay where you are, but
you go need some help, and help is back at
your parents house because you're gonna find out this boy
can't help. Yeah, all right, thank you, sa Hello. Coming
up at the top of the hour, we'll have some

(29:27):
entertainment news for you right after this. You're listening to show. Well,
Nia Long and Emi a Duca have they're they're over
his cheating scandal. Let's just put it like that. They've
broken up. Nia and emy have been together over a decade,
and according to People, Nia said the situation is unfortunate

(29:50):
and painful, and she plans to focus on her children
and rebuilding her life. Nia reportedly moved back to la
from their residence in Boston, but she and Emyu will
co parent their eleven year old son Kez. Wow. She mean, yeah,
what happened Junior? Junior? Nothing? Nothing inside voice, loudest hal

(30:19):
smooth ches, good stitches, Tommy god man, I'm sorry. Nothing,
you're sitting them by highly. I won't say nothing. I
speak very loud. Well, yeah, I'm glad she's getting her
life back together. Yeah yeah, that's love. You love you,

(30:41):
Yeah all right. Also in the entertainment news, Mariah Carey
wants her ex husband Nick Cannon to spend more time
with their eleven year old twins, Moroccan and Monroe. Had
to go ahead to get the zoom meeting plan put

(31:04):
on these kids computers. How many handy coming over today? Right? Yeah?
And twelve press the red button joint meeting will put
the video on so he can see you. Joy ain't
meeting with the video muted, so that all that noise
in the background. All y'all case say hid to him

(31:26):
at the same time, Daddy, daddy, daddy. Yeah. Nick thinks
it's crazy wonderful having all these kids. But how wonderful
can it be if you don't have time to spend
with them. You know, ye can talk, he can talk
all this mess, he won't. Children require time. Yes, it

(31:50):
ain't about the money. Yes, children are expensive, that's a gift.
But what they need more than your money is your time. Yeah,
because what the two children. The two things that children
need require time, guidance, and love the two most important
things to give a child. Guidance and love and uk

(32:11):
guide a person over the phone. Yeah. Yeah. And Nick
Cannon is currently recovering from pneumonia. Remember he was. We
reported he was in the hospital last week. He has
to go split his time amongst his eleven children when
he gets out, and he still has to work. You know,
I think, Well, he did say he needed he had

(32:34):
he needed rest. Yeah, he did say, and then he
already said enough. K y'all getting mad at me? Did
not Nick say he don't need no prayer, prayers and wishes.
He says, no prayers and well wishing. Cool. I ain't
got nothing for you. All I got now is these
damn jokes. Okay, So what's the holidays like in Nick house?

(32:54):
Are gonna be like? For Christmas? Oh Lord, have mercy.
First of all, he gonna forget somethbody horrible. I don't
forgot that, ain't. And then I'm gonna tell you something
right now. It's gonna be the wrong name on some boxes.

(33:18):
It's terrible, And it's gonna be some women expecting way mote. Yeah,
the baby mamas, you mean all of them come to Yeah? Yeah,
Now ain't none of his kids dry. That's a lot

(33:41):
of people, every last one of them kids. Damn me
in the cor sea, he said, dryway full, all these
corse kids. All these kids need help getting buckled in
all this something. Now one of them kids in junior

(34:08):
hate them all damn kids is in nurseries in elementary school. Yeah, man,
ain't now one of them doing more than colors in shape? No,
them colors shape out. Yeah. So our Mariah's kids the

(34:32):
oldest eleven years old? Whatever? Yeah, oh God, think of
your eleven year old hot dumb was dump I got one.

(34:53):
They ain't even teenagers yet. No, he can't teach now
one of them how to drive. He don't even know
no idea. See I see people coming. You know, Steve
how to do a better job with his kids. Hey man,
my kids grown, my kids off, making decisions on their own.
I can't stop my kids doing damn. Nah, you gonna

(35:16):
see though. Oh it's coming. M h hard to watch
leven of them. They can't even ride nowhere together. They
can't hell na caravan all the time. Yeah, which one
of them kids know how to drive a bus? The bus?

(35:39):
When they got gonna get their brothers and sisters. What
they can't from minute, Van ain't gonna cut it. You
need two sprunters. No, Tommy, Tommy, there's some people gotta
go with him. He needs to killy nanny huh oh,
teachers count or he need a need to play. He

(36:02):
need alright, he need all right, coming up with twenty
minutes after the hour, we'll have more. You're listening to
morning show. All right, it is time now for tell
me something good. Here's some good news. Music producer Metro

(36:25):
Booming uh huh partnered with the Stephen Marjorie Harvey Foundation
UH to spotlight single moms. Metro purchased tickets for twenty
six single moms along with their children to attend the
Atlanta thousands in Pittsburgh Steelers game. However, TMZ reports that
Metro himself chose not to attend so the mothers would

(36:45):
be the focus of the event. The Mom's rock. Single
moms are the real superheroes. T shirts the Single Mothers
or Heroes initiative is a meaningful way for Metro to
give back to the community. It's also a way for
him to honor his late months, So Steve, the question
is why is it so important for your foundation to
partner with people wanting to make a difference in the community. Well,

(37:09):
I mean, our focus has always been single mothers, because
that's how I started my foundation off to help single
mothers who were raising boys by the self. That was
the core of it. Marjorie got on board and created
the Girls Program, which is quite different. You don't have
to be from single parent homes, none of that. Margie

(37:29):
just takes girls from all different walks of life and
change their lives. And we look for partnerships of people
who share the same values that we do and have
some of the same concerns because if my foundation can
chip in some money, you know, to help help make
some things happen. Like Metro got in there, man, great great,

(37:50):
great great brother you know, and wanted to do this
for single mothers. And then we find out about it
and say, hey, man, well we got a group over here.
Can we help and join in and then we form
these partnerships. It takes a village, you know. It's it's hard.
And you know I said this before because you know,
as I try to fund raise for this ranch that

(38:12):
I bought for these kids, it's hard because when you're
well off and you start soliciting funds. Everybody want to go,
wouldn't you just do it yourself? Well, that's that's crazy,
because you know, I don't. I don't know how much
money you think everybody got, but there's an illusion to
how much money people really have. And I don't know

(38:34):
nobody that can just go do anything they want to do.
I don't have that kind of money. There are people
who do, but then you got to look at what
they doing, Like the Bill Gates Foundation could come in
there and do the whole thing, but then they're doing
hundreds of millions of dollars around the world for stuff.
So yes, So we always look for partnerships to keep

(38:55):
the thing going, you know, because it's very hard to
solicit funds when you well off, because everybody think, will
don't you just do it? Well, they have no idea
what you've already done and what you up against even
make the thing run. So we look for partnerships and
guys like Metell great people to partner with. You know.
We have several partnerships, you know, and sometimes we partner
with people because we just help them with our money

(39:17):
to move they calls along. We're about the uplifted edification
of people. So, Steve, you've heard, why is he asking
us for money? He got money? You've heard, and I
hit it. I hit that all the time. If look,
if I had all the money, I just do it.
I don't. That's just the reality of it. I'm sorry,
I don't. You know? All right? Coming up at thirty

(39:39):
four minutes after the hour, we'll check Steve's voicemail at
eight seven seven twenty nine, Steve. Right after this, you're
listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. It is time now to
check Steve's voicemail and listen. If you want to leave
Steve a message, call him eight seven seven twenty nine,
Steve eight seven seven twenty nine, Steve, you might just

(40:00):
hear your call on the air, uh, Steve. This caller
left to comment about the Strawberry letter the other day,
the subject my husband's assistant is very helpful. This letter
was about the married couple who were small business owners.
The wife used to help out and do payrolls. Yeah,
but it can't, you remember, but it can't. It came
too much for her, so they hired an assistant. The

(40:21):
assistant had the big legs and from the video interview,
she appear plaine and thin. But it turns out yep,
she had those big legs and eyelashes, and she and
her husband are eating lunch together, et cetera, et cetera.
So take a list and take a listen to this book.
I want to comment on the Strawberry letter. I feel
like the White Trust everybody could each other us jus

(40:41):
c are not? You know you can't control a man
must and over a woman. It's Nature's natural. When you
go outside DC all kind of giveful woman that eating
a must over again, it's nature, it's natural. But when
you come from my home inside my key, I don't
want no woman with no big legs up in my
home and my husband lusting over her. This is my

(41:02):
home where my fifa that she needs to go. Yeah,
I agree with you, but that ain't what's happening. Though
she hired and and and and she down at the office.
I'm sister, I ain't mad at you. I agree what
you said. You got every right to feel what you
want to feel. I have no disagreement what you're saying
at all. You have every right to problem is he

(41:23):
didn't hide the girl. Now, I think you should not
discriminate about hiring women because it got big legs. That's wrong.
That's what you're not fitting to do is get me
on that I didn't hire her because she got big legs.
You can't discriminate and gives big leg women with pretty eyelashes.

(41:44):
I can't stand all right, this collar just has love
for Steve Love. Good morning, Martine, and I listened to
the show every mor and y'all make my days. I
have bad days and turn on my radio and niffany, y'all,

(42:06):
I'll heat the work. Everything just so better. You thought inspiration.
You made somebody to day so much easier with things
you do. And I'm glad saying I'm glad, thank you.
I'm glad. I'm glad about thank you. Appreciate that. What

(42:28):
else you got? All right? Last color, uh see this
color is upset about some remarks you made about Kanye. Yes,
I was just listening to your show this morning. I
think it's really appalling that you guys call or would
consider a certified mental person stupid. Um. And I'm taking

(42:49):
up Kanye West, um, just to throw him under a
bus for a white bits basically the road every black
in America. UM. And I think it's really a well.
First of all, you don't know he certified nothing, So
you know, I ain't making no cause on it, you
know what? And here's what I get tired of, you know,

(43:12):
like right now, mental issue is a real issue around
this country, but not everybody. Every time somebody do something ignorant.
Every time somebody do something a paul, I don't know
what mental issue? Uh well, I don't know what mental
health has to do with you think a slavery was
an option? I don't think what you know? You wearing

(43:33):
a mega hat? I don't. I don't think you know
you wearing a T shirt say white Lives matter. I
don't know why you would go out and have discussed
the Holocaust. I don't know why Hitler would be your
favorite person. I don't. I don't know why. But that
don't sound like mental illness to me. And I'm not
messing the judgment about people who have mental illness, cause

(43:55):
it's real. But I don't set up here. You know
it kills me a wait minute, now, is he not
the same person who is a self proclaimed genius? Now?
To me, it's just me talking. I find it hard
to be a genius and keep doing stupid stuff now don't.

(44:17):
I don't know. That's just me. I just have to
struggled with that one right there. That's all I got
to say about it. Appreciate you calling, ma'am. I'm not
making a statement against mental illness, but you have no
right to certify him mentally ill, no more than I do.
But I do no stupid when I hid though. All right,
Coming up next the nephew and today's break phone call

(44:40):
right after this you're listening 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 his
ex wife got a real Christmas tree. Oh hell, we'll
talk about that in a few hate. Yeah, looking into

(45:04):
that in just a few because right now the nephew
is here with today's prank phone call. What you got
for us today, nephew. Well, if you're gonna prank somebody,
prank them about their babies because they get real sensitive
about their babies. Well yeah, yes, yeah, yeah, you gotta
go at them hard about their babies. Your baby got
my baby's name. We can't have both of them same name,

(45:27):
same school. That ain't gonna work. Let's go cat though. Hello, Hello,
I'm trying to reach a Patricia. Patricia, who is it?
How you doing? Listen? Um, my name is Floyd Floyda.
I want to give you a call. Your your daughter,
she'll tends middle school. Right. What's your name again, Floyd? Okay?
What can I just fight you? Well, like I said,

(45:49):
your your daughter, she goes she do go to middle school, right, yeah, okay,
Now her name her name is Dereka. Why you need
to know that? Okay, Well, it's something wrong. It's something no, no, no,
nothing wrong. I mean I don't mean to alarm you're
nothing like that. But let me see what you call. Well,
here's the situation. My daughter actually goes to middle school

(46:11):
along along with with your daughter. Okay, and and it's
it's a bit of a problem that that that has
arisen that me and my wife just found out about. Okay,
some issues Derek and your baby in in some kind
of like trouble or something. No, no, no, no, no,
nothing like that. But I think with nobody at that school,

(46:31):
she don't mess with nobody. She owned the honor roll
and everything. I don't have no problems out of Dereka,
right like none. Okay, I no, call me, let me know.
Let me tell you, miss miss Patricia, what the problem is. See,
my daughter name is Dereka. Okay, so, and and it
just blew me and my wife away that it was
another Dereca that went to school. Okay, all right, I

(46:55):
don't know too many Derecas. That's a unique name. That's cute, okay,
right right right, Well here's the problem me and my wife. Actually,
you know, when it was time to name my child,
we thought we was really picking a name that nobody
would have a tick out for their daughter. And to
have another Dereca in the school that blew us away.
And I guess the real reason why I'm trying to

(47:16):
call you, miss Patricians. See if if, if there's something
maybe we can work out, you know, maybe uh like
your Dereka does middle name or nickname she can be
called by in opposed to both of them being Dereka.
You really want our child to be the only one
with this name. Okay, wait wait wait wait now you

(47:37):
calling me? Are you asking me to change my baby's name? Well,
I mean you you ain't really gotta legally change I mean,
but just start calling us something else, you know. No, No,
wait a minute, so what you naming police or something.
Do you know how many and Louis and Patricia's out there?
What if I ask everybody in the United States to
change their name from Patricia? You know how crazy that is.

(48:00):
And I understand that you must be all drugs. Not.
What I'm trying to say is you know this, this
is something that we really have. Our baby girl was
this name and we didn't want nobody else to have this.
So does your Derek grab my middle name she can use. No,
we're gonna call her Dereka like we've been calling your name,
your baby d D. Let's call your baby d D.
Did you change y'all? Y'all change y'all baby name at

(48:21):
the school. I'm not calling I'm not calling my only name.
I don't give me what you call it, but I'm
not changing my baby name. Hey, listen, Okay, look, I'm
trying to call you and handle us like adults, you know,
but you've seen to see you're gonna push my front
to take me to another level. Obviously you ain't calling
me trying to handle us. He does ask me to
change my baby name, call my baby something else at
the schoolcause y'all want your baby name to be Derek

(48:43):
and the only Derek in the school. Hey, you know
many other kids at the damn school got the same name.
I understand that, but from my baby girl, and it
ain't schools to be like that. I'm sorry. I'm stay
up to that baby girl and your wife, but you
know I'm not changing my baby damn name. Now call
your baby. Do you know what I'm trying to do
is get it rectified that we can call you? Get

(49:06):
my phone number. I'm not a school. Ain't good you
my number? I got your number. Don't worry about how
I got it. The problem is that what we're talking
about right now? If can we what can we start
calling your child? I don't give it. I know that
school ain't called your number. Listen, man, all I'm trying
to do is figure out what can we start calling
your daughter? Don't the cut less she's been doing. Call

(49:28):
you and your wife down. Need to go out to
the statistics office and get your day of the name.
I kind you have to sum out to kind of
name beha, but my days keep the same day our name.
Let me explain something to you. I've been trying to
be calm with you even now. Shall but if you
anna find something else to call on, and I'm gonna go.
I'm gonna get all that you know, dumb number, how
do you get? No, don't worry about how I got

(49:50):
the number. Listen to what I'm trying to tell you.
If you don't find another name, I'm gonna start getting
the kids to call your daughter something else. You're getting
to call my daddy studding. I'm with an everybody who
called my buddy stop. Next, you're going to change your
baby names. I want my baby name to beat the
Derek John Ye give him, it's try. My princess is

(50:13):
supposed to be the only one named Derek had a
chain calling your baby stopping else at the school. I'm
going out of these kids starting tomorrow at school calling
your daughter. I'm going else. I'm not standing. I'm just
start with you like this number. Gang him off my
phone and don't come. Let me tell you something. I
got one more thing I need to say to you.
You listen to me? What are you listening to me?

(50:35):
I'm listening to do what this is Nephew Tommy from
the Steve Harby Morning to show you just got franked
by your girlfriend. I would get huh wait oh that
little Oh yeah, girl, ain't brank me on this. I'm

(50:57):
so sorry. So you solid Yes, I'm gonna give her.
I'na that is oh, I have so star. You got
my nerves bad this morning. Lord have mercy. Lord, I
gotta kiss my brain. I got one more thing. I
gotta ask you, darling, what is What is the baddest

(51:18):
I'm talking about the baddest radio show in the land,
Steve Hart the Morning Show. I listen to y'all every
morning crazy, y'all crazy and not have mercy. Y'all got
my blood pressure this, but I love y'all. I listen
to y'all show every morning. Well, I didn't. I don't

(51:39):
want to do it, but it's it's praising Frank time
right now. It's praising Frank time right now. I don't
want to do it, but I gotta do it. It's praise.
I want to do it. That state I don't want
to do. But if you're in your car right now,
blow your horn because that boy prank right that didn't
Did you do that thing? That boy pranked that thing

(52:00):
right there? Praise and Frank worship right now, Praise and Frank, Well,
who up? I had some prank and praise music right now.
I could cut up it now. I'm collected on offering
right now time. What I'm doing that is that is
matter of fact. We don't even We're not gonna pass
to play. Everybody walk around and drop it off like
they used to come on around this road and when

(52:23):
that road get through your road come That's how we're
gonna do it. That's how you keep it stupid. Greenville,
North Carolina, Stupidest coming to town one more time, Greenville,
North Cara Lina at the Greenville Convention Center. That is
decent of the twenty second on the Thursday night. Tickets
on sale right now and you can get those tickets
at Thomas Miles dot com. There is a Greenville button.

(52:45):
Click on that thing and get yourselves some tickets and
come on out and get your laugh on before Christmas, Greenville,
North Carolina. If you in South Carolina, come on up
and kick it with the Greenville folks in North Carolina
and we will give it to you. That's Nephew, Timmy
and friends. Ignorance at its best. Back to praise and
prank worship. I will be pranking again tomorrow. Please tune in,

(53:08):
don't miss me. I would be dropping off two more
pranks off If you miss this one today and you
just not tune it in, I'm gonna give it to
you again tomorrow and then another one. All right, Pranks
and praising prank worship is not closed. That is. That
might be one today, Thank you, might be one today.
Candidate for stupid, I just play want to do it experience. Yeah,

(53:31):
but he didn't want to do it. He didn't want
to do it right right. He's different when you're stupid
with a purpose, you know what I'm saying. When you stupid,
please stand the big church. Coming up back Strawberry Letters

(53:54):
subject his ex wife got a real Christmas tree. We'll
get into that right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey
Morning Show. It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter.
And if you need advice on relationships, dating, work, sex, parenting,
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(54:16):
reading your letter live on the air, just like we're
gonna read this one right here right now. You never know,
it could be yours. All right, everyboddy, buck up and
hold on tight. It's time for to Strawberry Little my
friend Shirley Strawberry, thank you, my friend Junior. Subject what
happened his ex wife got a real Christmas tree is

(54:39):
the subject of this letter for today. Dear Stephen Shirley,
I'm on my second marriage and there's an issue in
my marriage. My husband was married for eighteen years and
he's got two daughters and joint custody of them. I
have a daughter that lives with us. We've blended the
family nicely, and his daughters was sweet to my daughter,
but they like to remind her that their father is

(55:02):
not her father. My husband is not good at setting
boundaries for his ex wife. When we started dating, he
let me know that he and his are friends and
whatever he does for her is for his daughters. I
can accept that, but when it gets to be too much,
I step in to help him set boundaries. The other day,
he told me that since his ex wife and the

(55:24):
girls moved into a new house, he wanted to buy
his daughters a nice Christmas tree. I was against it,
but then I realized his daughter's feelings. Ben I considered
his daughter's feelings and I agreed to it. We got
a little seven foot artificial tree out of the storage room,
and I went and bought new ornaments. Saturday, he told

(55:45):
me he was picking up his daughters to get a tree,
and he took my daughter with them. I wasn't invited.
Two hours after they left, my daughter posted a video
in her Instagram story and they were shopping for a
real tree. They picked a giant, beautiful, real, fluffy tree.
I had assumed they would go to Walmart and buy

(56:06):
an artificial tree. My daughter said they took the tree
to his ex wife hows and he set it up
for them. He set it up for them and they
decorated it together. I was crushed because I decorated our
fake tree alone while they were gone. My husband always
justifies things by saying that his daughters shouldn't suffer because
he left their mother. Does he do it out of guilt?

(56:28):
Will his ex wife be forever a part of our family? Well? Yeah,
in a sense. She may not be a part of
your family, okay, but she is a mother of your
husband's daughters, and those are your stepdaughters. So the x
will always be in your life somehow, Okay, as long
as you know she's got the daughters in everything, you know,

(56:51):
My issue is with you though, really, I mean, this
is kind of petty. You're worried about a Christmas tree here.
I think you're saying it's about that, but what it
really is is that you don't want your man over there,
and you don't want him over there doing stuff for
them like putting up the tree. As a family. I
think you're jealous where this is concerned, But I'm telling

(57:12):
you don't be insecure. Because he still wants to spend
time with his daughters. That means he's a good dad. Okay,
He's right. He left their mom, not his kids, so
he wants to continue to show up in their life
for them as their father. He and the ex don't
have anything going on. I mean, if you guys can't
afford it, why don't you You know, if there's something

(57:34):
wrong with your tree, why don't you and your husband
and the girls go out and get a tree. You
didn't have to stay there and decorate the tree by yourself.
You could have waited until they came home and you
guys could have done it together. You know, he just
went with the girls to get a new tree. You
need to talk to him if you have a problem
with how he's moving right now, but he sounds like

(57:54):
a father who's just trying to do the right thing
to me. As crazy as that all seems, it sounds. Yeah,
I don't have a problem with this, Steve. Well, it's
a twofold situation. In my eyes. He's being a good
dad and he's being punished for that. But he's doing it,
and he's making a couple of mistakes the way he's

(58:15):
doing it. You know, first of all, when y'all this
is both of y'all second marriage, he set this whole
thing up by telling you that, you know, look, well,
I'm gonna do stuff with a daughter, and I'm gonna
do stuff for my daughter, and I'm gonna do stuff

(58:37):
for her, but the reason I'm doing it for her
is for my daughter. He said all of this up
with you in the beginning because he's active in that
life as he should be. Now you all say, you
all have blended the family together nicely, But the daughters
are sweet to your daughter, but they always remind her
that ain't your daddy. They do that. Kids gonna be kids.
They're gonna jockey for a position. Husband is not good

(59:01):
with setting boundaries for his ex wife and his ex
wife is flexing because she has two kids with him,
and she's taking advantage of it. Now, let's get to
the whole thing about what this letter is about. His
ex got a real Christmas tree. First of all, when
he picked up the daughter, when he picked up his

(59:24):
two daughters, and he took your daughter. He took your daughter,
which is his daughter, which is to with his biological daughters,
because he wanted to get them a tree because they
had moved into a new house. Well, now he's the

(59:44):
problem you made, dog when you took your daughter from
your new wife with you, and she posted it on
a story. So I'm assuming that these much these might
be teenage if they can post on stories and stuff.
Wait a minute, what did you say? Wait, say that

(01:00:05):
one more time, Steve, about the daughters. What just I
just wanted you to say that one more time? What
you said about the daughters. He has two daughters with
his ex. He has two daughters with his ex, and
then the wife had a daughter. The new wife has
a second wife has a daughter. Okay, well see that's
his daughter. Oh he has three daughters. Now, yeah, right,

(01:00:30):
separate them. If you separate them, they will help you
separate that. Yeah, Yeah, that's what the deal is. When
I come back, I'm gonna tell you the mistake he's
making with them. He's a great dad, but he's making
all right. We'll have part two of Steve's response coming
up at twenty three minutes after the hour. Today's Strawberry
Letters subject is his ex wife got a real Christmas tree.

(01:00:52):
We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening,
all right, Steve, Come on, let's recap today Strawberry letter.
The subject his ex wife got a real Christmas tree. Okay,
So on the break, I read this letter again. This marriage.
This man was married to this woman for eighteen years
and they got two daughters. His ex wife were married
eighteen years and they got two daughters. So I'm going

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to assume that these two daughters a teenager because they
got an Instagram and they posted story. She the woman
he's married to now, who's writing this letter, she has
a daughter from her previous marriage. I don't know how
old she is. But they treat her nicely, but they
do remind her that he's not your real daddy. That's

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our real daddy. But they treated nicely. And you all
have blended and they're sweet to the girl. Okay, cool,
So we got that out the way. Now the man
set this up by telling you, listen, I'm gonna do
some things for my wife, my ex wife, because we're friends.
But everything I do for is because of the daughter.
You're okay with that. Now let's get to what the

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problem is. It's a Christmas tree. He the ex wife
and the two daughters that moved into a new house.
He wants to get them a nice tree for their
house for Christmas. Okay, So he takes your daughter, which
is his daughter from this marriage, Christmas tree shopping with

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his daughters from his previous marriage, and he goes and
buys them a real Christmas tree, big old fluffy tree.
You then went to the storage room and went out
and got that little ragged ass see his tree. See
the box that's in the box you've been putting up

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for years. And so now you bought some ornaments for
the treat, some new ornaments. They went tree shopping. You
look on the Instagram you're daughter and posted they bought
a tree. They take the tree to his ex wife's

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house where his daughters live. They set the tree up
and they all decorated. Now you said earlier they went
Christmas tree shopping and you weren't invited. Okay, it was
just him and the girls. So that's cool because the
tree is for the girls. But it's at the ex
wife's house. I mean that's where the Yeah, so in

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a way, this would be cool. Here's the mistake he's made.
You've gotten to not make them kids feel and see
a difference. You've got to go above and beyond in
treating them the same and eat This is not your stepdaughter,

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this is your daughter. If if the daughters get a
real tree, everybody get a real tree. Yeah. See, he
should have bought two real trees. What he should have
because you can't make the quote unquote step daughter feel
step See. The reason we never used the word step

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in our family was because when you say step child,
it's usually like a step down, and it's like a
step down from the level that the regular children. And
that's why we never used that term. So now, but
you can't let him see or feel a difference. Now,
if his daughter's got a big fluffy Christmas tree, he

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should have got a big Christmas tree at his house too.
That's the mistake, key man. Yes, that would that that
would have cleaned this whole thing up. And bro, that's
all you got to do. Everybody got to get equal
and light treat the period. And you can't have your
new wife feeling some kind of way because you're doing

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all this extra stuff for your ex wife, because that's
how she's looking at that too. Oh she got a
treat and y'all all decorated tree together. I didn't know
you was gonna go over there and put it up
and decorated together. I wanted to surprise y'all when you
came home. Y'all come home late. I wouldn't decorated the
tree by myself, and y'all ass was over there having
family time. Right, You see why she said. When you

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see now, she's gonna be upset about that dog. And
this is your fault because you gotta do everything equal.
If you're over there having hot chocolate, you got to
come home have hot chocolate. You don't bought the Voca
pound cake from Nemon Marcus over there. You got to
come in your house with the Vaca pound cake. Okay,

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you don't see. That's what you gotta do now, Bro,
that's the mistake you make, and you've got to set
your husband down and say, hey, listen, we can't feel
like with second class citizens when it comes to special evince,
while your ex and your biological children get all the perks.

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So I think that's unfair. So you can do whatever
you want to do for them. I'm not stopping you,
but you needed to start doing the same thing over here.
See that real big fluffy treat that was beautiful, but
that would look good in this house too. Yeah, they
should go get one, see because they had a new house.
He feels like they should get a new treat. Well, well, well,
and you got to get to everybody else a new

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tree dog. Someday a thought came to my head because
a lot of mothers have mom guilt? Do dads have
dad guilt as well? Is that what he's dealing with?
Dad guilt as well? Yeah, because he said in the
letter they can't pay because I left their mother right right,

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and left their mother, not them m see. But then
also now you gotta be careful of the Disney dad
syndrome too, Yeah, exactly. See, when you do see the kids,
you can't be Disney Dad. And then all of a sudden,
when you go home to your family, ain't no Disney, right,
it's just the old tree. Oh man, you got Disney

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Dad mowed all the way around board. Bro. All right,
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minutes after the hour, we got Junior with Sports Talk
right after this. You're listening, It is time now for

(01:07:17):
Sports Talk with Junior, which you got Junior. Okay, Shirley,
for the last time it hit the barbershops. This is
one of the hottest topics that's going on, and I
just want to make sure we clear on this show
how we feel. But they're now saying that Dion Sanders
is a sellout, and I can't let that ride like that.
They are really upset. Tobody. He never understood HBCUs and

(01:07:40):
he never cared about HBCUs because if he did, he
never would have left. That is the issue they're having
because you can you say if he said in his
interview when he first got the job that HBCUs HBCUs
were great places to play football, and then he takes
a job at Colorado, he's still not for HBCUs. Let's
just quit saying this. This is this is crazy. He's

(01:08:03):
not a sellout for one to better his family. I
don't understand how people are mad about Dion saying is
taking this job in Colorado. That is not the issue.
The man did everything he could to put the spotlight
on HBCU, but he just won. Man, Can anybody tell
me who the coach was before Dan Stands at Jackson State?
Other people at Jackson State, anybody, I'm waiting anybody, come on,

(01:08:29):
So y'all gotta have a name. Why y'all mad at Dion?
Are all of the other great NFL players that could
go to HBCUs and pick up some of these jobs.
Eddie George did it, you know, the greatest coach of
all time, coach Eddie Robinson at Grammer spent his entire

(01:08:50):
coaching career that. But that was his calling. That's not
Deon's calling. See, y'all want people to be what you
want to fit into your par You don't know what
Dion is called to do. Deon didn't say he was
gonna be a Jackson State forever, nor should he a season?
And y'all talking about here sellout y'all miss me that

(01:09:12):
every last one of y'all would have took five million
dollars versus three hundred thousand dollars. Steve Harvey, You're never
lied right now, let me help you understand something. I
love the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Who is the Steve
Harvey Morning Show? If I ain't the Steve Harvey Morning Show,

(01:09:33):
who is the Steve Harvey Show? Now you let Siri
come up and tell me we're gonna get you fifty
million dollars a year. Man, Bye bye, get your ask
for serious subscription, not a seller. Go ahead. I just

(01:09:54):
want that same energy for Brett Farr, who stole from
the state. I want that black people are the only
race of people that's responsible for the actions of others,
and people are responsible for white people. All got to
stay at Jackson. So y'all, man, y'all stupid? All right?

(01:10:17):
Coming up at the top of the hour, a guy
on social media needs your help Steve about lending money.
We'll talk about it right after this. You're listening to
the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Well, great news, what a
Christmas present? This is w NC A star. Britney Griner
has been released from Russian pop. Yes, yes, yes, thank

(01:10:41):
you Lord, thank you. Yes. She was swapped for convicted
Russian arms dealer. Victor bout About, nicknamed the Merchant of Death,
is a former Soviet military officers serving a twenty five
year prison sentence in the United States on charges of
conspiring to kill Americains, acquire an export anti aircraft missiles,

(01:11:04):
and provide material support to a terrorist organization. Wow, but
the good news is Britney Griner is now in the
custody of American officials. She is there, yeah, she she,
I mean, this is just wonderful news. We were wondering
because she had a nine years sentence over there. Nine years. Yeah, yeah,

(01:11:25):
isn't it a blessing seas Chris, really really excessive sentencing
for that, But they were trying to prove a point.
But also there's a lesson to be learned from all
of us. When we're traveling, pay very very close attention
to what you have because, jess, cause it's legal over here.
They they got some rules overseas man. Yeah, yeah, so

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we have to be very very conscious when traveling. She
had been detained since February, when she was arrested on
drug smuggling charges at an airport in the Moscow region,
despite her testimony that she had inadvertently packed the cannabis
oil found in her luggage. She was sentenced, like we said,
to nine years in prison. That was in early August.

(01:12:09):
She was moved to a penal colony uh in Russia.
And we you know, it looked pretty hopeless for a minute,
you know, because it kept giving her time and all
of that. But look at look at God, look at
look at God. Yes, yes, yes, everybody did not give

(01:12:31):
up and kept you know, bringing awareness about this or not. Yes,
the custody of US of American officials. Yes, love it,
love it come home. Yeah. Now, this swap did not
include another American that the State Department has declared wrongfully
detained as well. His name was Paul Wheeland. But Brittany
Griner is coming home. She is in the custody of

(01:12:54):
US American officials. And we're just happy. This is right
before Christmas, right before Christmas. Has been there since February. Greatness,
its great news. Yeah yeah, yeah. She played for years
in the offseason for a Russian women's basketball team. Yeah,

(01:13:16):
anybody doing that. I believe I ain't going back over
there ever. Ever. Ever, Russian team will get ready to
lose because she ain't coming back. No. Yeah, ever, And
and hats off to the you know, the president, the administration. Y, Yes,
state officials, the State Department. They didn't give up. Now

(01:13:37):
you do know, you do know what they're going to
backtrack on all of this. And you know, Fox, it's
going in exchange for this arms dealer murder. Yeah, you're right,
we don't care, we don't care what. Yeah, but you're
right that's going to be an issue, you know, especially

(01:13:58):
if he decides to run in twenty twenty or all
of that. You know, you're absolutely right about that. Yeah.
But he did the right thing. The President did the
right thing in this situation and brought home I mean,
you know, when you think about it, he's really been
a champion for black women. I mean, we have the
first black UH Vice president, female, the first black United

(01:14:23):
States Supreme Court justice. Now he's doing this for Brittany Grimes.
You know, I'm gonna tell you something else too, And
how really important this Warnock decision was. It gave him
complete control of the Senate without need from tiebreaker and
all like that. Now, of course, you got Joe Manchin,
you had to contend with him and that, uh, that

(01:14:46):
one one other some lady. That's Democrats. But what this
does is this sets him up. He may run again. Yeah.
I think he may run again. Yeah, because if he
does it, run who do we have? That's right? All right,
great news, Britney Grinder has been released, and we'll be

(01:15:07):
back with more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show right
after this. You're listening to the Steven Show. A jury
in New York has found the Trump Organization guilty on
seventeen counts. I said, seventeen counts of tax fraud and
investigation of business practices over fifteen years turned up multiple

(01:15:29):
instances of the company offering employees perks such as free
cars and free apartments to avoid paying them taxable income.
CFO Alan Weisselberg, who had already pleaded guilty to fifteen counts,
was the prosecutor's star witness. Prosecution star witness. Lawyers for
the defense argued that he had acted on his own

(01:15:51):
and that the company was otherwise uninvolved in the scheme.
The company faces finds of up to one point six
million dollars in sentencing. Donald Trump was not named as
a defendant in the suit, so he's not personally liable
and they say they will appeal. Oh you're in trouble,

(01:16:12):
but but see but see listen, this is why he
doesn't want these tax forms showing up what the Chris
Leaves were found guilty of exacting, Donald Trump is doing.
It's the exact same thing. He's borrowing money using it
for his lifestyle. And since borrowed money is not taxable income.

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But if you're using it for your lifestyle, and that's
tax evasion. So if you take money and you buy
a car with it at an apartment and you borrow
the money to do that, that's not taxable income because
you borrow money. All right, all right, coming up at
thirty three minutes after, we'll play a round of would

(01:16:56):
you rather? Right after this you're listening, it is time
now for a round of would you rather? Would you
rather wrap all the Christmas presents for your family or
would you rather pack away all the decorations after Christmas? Hmm?
Oh man, uh, I'm packty decorations. I just packed really

(01:17:24):
see your get yeah? Correct? You don't want to put
on lights in the ornament, take your stuff, downds. You
ain't gonna be musing decoration next year, I want to man. Yeah,
it's it's a meticulous job, taking for shaking the directorations,

(01:17:47):
the decorations down. All right? Would you rather be the
lead singer? Now, Steve, this one's for you. Would you
rather be the lead singer on a popular, popular Christmas song?
Or would you rather be the star and a popular
holiday movie? I ain't gonna be dough that holiday, but
I ain't, but you know, hang on, Yeah, I'm gonna

(01:18:11):
god to know your bad this convism and as we
look around your time, boy, he are you temptations? I'm

(01:18:34):
not gonna get over ignorant as Christmas movie, but you
may be least singing. Yeah, my mind so hard in
my mind? Oh yeah, Junior, what you got? I went on?

(01:18:56):
I love to be at least singing like you cain't saying.
But the way he made it feel to see? What
about jealousy Christmas album? Take my money, take my mone'm
my house and my cap. I hit up you this chrisma?

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All right, yeah, I feel Would you rather eat only
fruitcake for holiday dessert or just not have any dessert
at all? I'm not gonna have none at all? That nothing,
that green stuff in it. I still ain't nobody still
ain't exprain give me a little okay, stand fruitcake dragon

(01:19:44):
as but fruitcake? So no dessert at all? But none? No, No,
I'm not fruitcake all holiday long? Not how long it
take to pick that green and red stuff out of there?
And we don't know what it? Yeah, I don't like
biting in the stuff and I'm not sure what is it?
Not sitting here, let sponge your ass. So all right,

(01:20:09):
that's today's rounded. Would you rather? Thank you white people
have been in fruitcake? Coming up after the hour, we'll
have our last break of the day and some closing
remarks from the one and only the Man the Legend,
Steve Harvey. Right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show.

(01:20:31):
All right, guys, here we are our last break of
the day on this Thursday. Yes, in my mind, what
you're doing, I don't know. I'm just doing Just do it.
I just go ahead, don't quit do it again though, No,
you know, I'm just trying to you know, what, what

(01:20:51):
would you do? Would you rather? Was? Would you rather
be lead saying on Christmas? Or the lead in the
Christmas movie? I don't even really know. No, Christmas movie.
But I can't beat that, y'all for Rutolf, you know,
warding like that was on the other night. I don't

(01:21:13):
even know what they be, do you know? I had
to watch it when it came out. But I never
really enjoyed The Wizard Olls. You know, I just really
my favorite all time, one of your favorite movies of
all of all time. I know how you got to
be mentally to like the Wizard of Alls favorite movies

(01:21:35):
of all kind of depressed ass yow, you had a
beautiful childhood and it got bad and Lollipop. Yes, that
Munchkins is too much in the movie that I can't
talk about. Which, well, well, I like the Whiz, let's

(01:21:56):
go with that. I was never that it wasn't much
of an old movie. Guy, I just didn't. But you
do love old songs, you know. My focus was somewhere
else because when I was growing up, man, Yeah, my
focus I was thinking of I kept trying to figure
it out. Man. I didn't know that I could have

(01:22:18):
prayed about it and made it a lot easier for myself.
So I was spending all my time thinking about it.
We're about it. But you had a praying mother, though Steve.
You know that I'm telling you right now. I'm the
result of her prayer because how I made it through
Sometimes I don't even know because this show wasn't me.

(01:22:39):
I was dandy making a series of dumbass to see
if people do that when they're young. You know, that's
what you do when you figure it out, you make it.
I mean back to back to back to back, because
we weren't listening to anything our parents told us. Look
where you at now you did it? Yeah, and you

(01:23:02):
keep on You're gonna be somebody one day, Keep on,
keep on say that all the time. Yeah, and I
believe you will, Steve, you come make But if you
wouldn't stand the monk, I believe you would have been
leasing in a group though. I mean if you was
doing like a Christmas special, just you singing, what would
your outphit look like? And you come out and hit
them notes? What would you look like? Ah? Dog? I

(01:23:24):
have a red sequence jacket, green sequence pants. Got the visual.
I got the patent leather boots, white shirt okay with
green and red sparkly ruffles on it. Yeah, with the

(01:23:47):
cuff sticking out under the jacket trimmed in green glittle
sounds like tall elf? Or you have a hat? I
dreaming wide christ must I? Who oh they told to

(01:24:18):
me by rapper Bump bum and my Droobe FEROUSI the
album fine, the nine is cold and oh oh he's

(01:24:53):
Brad Speed Dusty. Yes, no what gross old and open fire?
Get your boy Jack Frost, Jack Frost nipping at your nose.

(01:25:14):
You time cows being stung? Babe that dressed up like skimo.
Oh every body know who I don't know about Christmas boy.

(01:25:39):
This boy ain't through. He ain't what you're saying the
first noel S Brooks Britton. Soon it will be Christmas nine.
Whoa hello? Give me still, give me another? Jingle bell

(01:26:01):
jangle jangle bam oh jing all in the way, all
the way ah and oh what fun but fun we
have it y with a hood back on a one horse,

(01:26:28):
open sleeve, joined to the world, to the world the Lord,
it's cold. Let her yeah, come over, receive come on

(01:26:48):
now kay called he here Now, I said he here?
Now that's what at all about? Hey, y'all have a
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