Speaker 1: Y'all know what time of y'all don't know, y'all back,
Speaker 1: don't have a suit on, looking back to back down,
Speaker 1: giving them move like American buck things. And it's not
Speaker 1: doing me true good at Steve har listening to move
Speaker 1: to up Steve, please by, I don't join join me,
Speaker 1: be you doing me. You gotta use that turn you
Speaker 1: gotta turn to turn them out turn got the turn out,
Speaker 1: then the water, the water. Come come on your baby
Speaker 1: it uh huh, I sure will a good morning everybody.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the voice, Come on dig me now,
Speaker 1: one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll do man, God is good. Hey today, I just
Speaker 1: want to get right to it because this has really
Speaker 1: been pressing me. I woke up and this was on
Speaker 1: my mind and I wanted to share it with you
Speaker 1: because I know this for a fact. See I've lived
Speaker 1: this for a fact, and you know the majority of
Speaker 1: things I talk about in the morning before we get
Speaker 1: started with the regular show. It's something that I've experienced.
Speaker 1: I can only tell you what I know. And so
Speaker 1: I've really really understood why God has had my life
Speaker 1: go the way that is gone, because if I didn't
Speaker 1: have all these tests in my life, I didn't have
Speaker 1: all these tests that I passed, all these tests that
Speaker 1: I failed. If I didn't have all of those the
Speaker 1: good and the bad, what could I share with you
Speaker 1: in the morning? What could I tell you about hanging?
Speaker 1: What could I tell you about failing and then winning?
Speaker 1: What could I tell you about hanging in now when
Speaker 1: all hope was gone? How could I share that with you?
Speaker 1: Unless I've had those moments myself. I don't care what
Speaker 1: happens to you. I don't care what you're going through.
Speaker 1: Don't you dare dare give up? Under no circumstances. Don't
Speaker 1: you dare dare ever give up? It is the biggest
Speaker 1: trick that the enemy has is making us think we
Speaker 1: ain't gonna make it, to water down the illusion that
Speaker 1: there is a possibility that you might still have a
Speaker 1: chance to get over. The biggest trick he uses is
Speaker 1: when you make a mistake and you fall. He gets
Speaker 1: you to start to thinking it's final, that there is
Speaker 1: no resurrection, there is no redemption, there is no recovery.
Speaker 1: He just makes you think it's final. He is the
Speaker 1: master deceiver. Don't you dare dare ever give up? I
Speaker 1: don't care what besets you, befalls you, trips you up,
Speaker 1: what circumstantial situations may arise. Don't you dare dare ever
Speaker 1: give up? Because listen to me, these are tests that
Speaker 1: you are going through. And these tests, whether you pass
Speaker 1: the test or appears that you've failed the test, the
Speaker 1: test accomplishes the mission if you're smart about it. If
Speaker 1: you pass the test. Let's say you're going through a
Speaker 1: situation and you get over and it goes the way
Speaker 1: you want it to do, then what you've learned is
Speaker 1: if you hang in there, there's a light at the
Speaker 1: end of the tunnel. Okay, mission accomplished. If you fail
Speaker 1: the test and it doesn't go the way you want
Speaker 1: it and it goes the opposite and it turns out
Speaker 1: into a negative result, and in response you were looking
Speaker 1: for is a no. That's not final. That doesn't mean
Speaker 1: it's over, that doesn't mean it's time to turn back.
Speaker 1: It simply means that now you have learned a valuable experience,
Speaker 1: you have learned a valuable lesson. You now know what
Speaker 1: not to do. You are now because you know what
Speaker 1: not to do, another step closer to getting it right.
Speaker 1: Listen to me, it has to happen this way. You
Speaker 1: have to have the rain in your life to get
Speaker 1: the flowers in your life. You got to have the
Speaker 1: darkness in your life to appreciate the sunshine in your life.
Speaker 1: You got to have woes and worries to appreciate the joys.
Speaker 1: It is merely a test. So when you get through failing,
Speaker 1: and you get through stumbling, and you get through messing
Speaker 1: it up, all that's getting you one step closer to
Speaker 1: getting it right. Oh, my relationship ended. I'll never be
Speaker 1: able to find another person like that. Not only will
Speaker 1: you not be able will not only will you be
Speaker 1: able to find a person like that, you can find
Speaker 1: a person that far better than that if you don't
Speaker 1: give up. But see, sometimes you got to go through
Speaker 1: the bad ones to get to the good ones. Don't
Speaker 1: you dare dare ever give up? I don't care what
Speaker 1: happens to you if you lose a love one. And
Speaker 1: Lord knows, I've lost some people I've loved dearly with
Speaker 1: every inch in me. I've lost my mother, my father,
Speaker 1: my brother, and my best friend. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: know people who have lost their children. Goodness, man, I
Speaker 1: can't even imagine that. But they kept on going. What
Speaker 1: you're giving up for. Oh, I got you miss them,
Speaker 1: and I got you grieving, but I got news for you.
Speaker 1: Don't you let the devil make you think it's over
Speaker 1: for you because somebody else ain't still here. It was
Speaker 1: their time. Now. I'm not trying to lessen to blow
Speaker 1: for you, but I'm trying to get you up on
Speaker 1: your feet so you can stop all this old woe
Speaker 1: is me because the things is happening to you. You're
Speaker 1: not the first person that's happened to Come on, now,
Speaker 1: let's get a grip. Let's wrap your mind around this thing.
Speaker 1: You have got to move forward, if it's just in
Speaker 1: memory of those people. I was on one of the
Speaker 1: commercial breaks on Family Feud the other day and somebody
Speaker 1: asked me something and I forgot the question, but my
Speaker 1: answer was, I always wanted my mother and father to
Speaker 1: be proud of me, and in that absence and their demise,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping, just somehow man that they watching me, that
Speaker 1: they see their boy, that I'm down here, that I'm
Speaker 1: doing better, that I'm making something about myself, that I'm
Speaker 1: loving my wife, that I'm taking care of my kids.
Speaker 1: It's at my old man to see that about me.
Speaker 1: You know, I want my mother to see I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get my life together over here, you know, saying
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be a better person. My mom was
Speaker 1: a Sunday school teacher for forty years. She'd been praying
Speaker 1: for me for a long time. I just hope, man,
Speaker 1: and that's all I'm doing. It's just hoping that they
Speaker 1: see me so they ain't be proud of me. See you,
Speaker 1: you you, you you. You got to understand that when
Speaker 1: you make these mistakes, that when you fall and stumble
Speaker 1: and you get it all so wrong, it ain't over
Speaker 1: for you. Don't you dare dare dare ever give up?
Speaker 1: Don't stop thinking, man, because it ain't happening just the
Speaker 1: way you wanted to that it ain't meant to be devil.
Speaker 1: He got so many tricks to deceive you. You know
Speaker 1: why you're being tested right now, because there is no
Speaker 1: testimony without the test. You got to go through something.
Speaker 1: It's all good man telling you. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: share that with you. Don't you give up out there.
Speaker 1: I don't care what's happening. Don't don't, don't don't get deceived.
Speaker 1: The victory's coming. But you ain't gonna get it if
Speaker 1: you quit. Hang on, y'all, you're listening to show. Ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, undivided attention. Please, Capricombs, Aquarius, Leo's, Taurus, Gemini, Cancers, Libras,
Speaker 1: anybody I leave out, Pisces, Taurus, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio's, Leo's Virgos, virgols.
Speaker 1: I left their mount that ought to be a madge
Speaker 1: sat Okay, now if that's not if we left you
Speaker 1: out now it was too bad out on your nerves. Now,
Speaker 1: this is not a good opening. This ain't what I
Speaker 1: was open for. Aggravated myself. I named seven of them.
Speaker 1: I felt very comfortable, lady gentleman, Steve Harvey, Mortis show
Speaker 1: good Mortor, Shirley Strawberry, Leo checking in, Good morning, Steve,
Speaker 1: Colin Farrell, Libra checking in, good moning, Jill representing these councils.
Speaker 1: I ain't say I knew where he was going. Yeah, Tommy,
Speaker 1: towards the ball in the house, baby, I represent cap
Speaker 1: con Capricorn, ain't no Capricorn canco con ca Yeah, Capricorn. Well,
Speaker 1: how y'all feeling today? Good? God, good good? Yeah, nothing
Speaker 1: to complain about. Steve, Yeah, we bid that truly blessed,
Speaker 1: were working employed. We're here living here, well, I'm in Miami.
Speaker 1: Got here to oh Super in Miami. It was nice.
Speaker 1: It's nice down here. I had lunch outside, dinner, had
Speaker 1: to go to the right is meeting out. Jesse was
Speaker 1: in the writer's meeting last night writing the monologue for
Speaker 1: this weekend, Oh for the NFL. Don't like it? You
Speaker 1: like it? Well? I mean, you know the one thing
Speaker 1: about it, man, one thing about these jokes I do
Speaker 1: not If I don't like it, I do not have
Speaker 1: to tell it. O. No, no, no no. I was
Speaker 1: just trying to figure out what they're gonna let me
Speaker 1: get away with. Are you writing your entire monologue by
Speaker 1: yourself or you have no no, no, not awesome writers
Speaker 1: with me? But you know I pretty much. You know,
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about it for a while, so I
Speaker 1: had I wrote already written an opening joke and the
Speaker 1: clothes and joke already done that. I just wanted some
Speaker 1: feel ideas and they gave me. So we're gonna work
Speaker 1: on it. The feel of stuff that I want to
Speaker 1: put in the middle. Okay. You know, I take premises
Speaker 1: from people and then I turn it into my way.
Speaker 1: You know. That's that's how you get your system. Writing
Speaker 1: system works. So we'll see how it goes. Has anybody
Speaker 1: told Mark Curry that anybody throw what? Has anyone told
Speaker 1: Mark Curry that, you know what I think at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the show, Well, I don't look that. No,
Speaker 1: It's okay, because I've just come to terms with it,
Speaker 1: and I'm perfectly fine. And I just decided the biggest
Speaker 1: mistake I made was walking down the street commenting I
Speaker 1: should stay on the wall. I should just stay on
Speaker 1: the wall. Yeah, and said, and how to win the
Speaker 1: shopping There ain't nothing you do, no way in front
Speaker 1: of the window. All right, Steve, coming up your favorite
Speaker 1: segment of the show? Time for asked Steve at thirty
Speaker 1: two minutes after the hour, come old girl right after this.
Speaker 1: You're listening to show time now, Steve for your favorite? Yea,
Speaker 1: asked Steve. You're ready, Please keep your answer short. I
Speaker 1: can't problem with see that, all right, I'll go first,
Speaker 1: just off the top of my head, Steve, Uh, do
Speaker 1: you ever think and I don't know if I've asked
Speaker 1: you this lately, but do you ever think we'll have
Speaker 1: another black president anytime soon? Uh? Not too soon. It
Speaker 1: definitely won't have one in this election. They coun cored gone,
Speaker 1: So no, we're not gonna have one this election. So
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, you know, uh, the the best thing, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't. I just don't want Donald Trump to be
Speaker 1: president no more. But I have a sinking feeling the
Speaker 1: way this country is turning that they're going to reelect
Speaker 1: him unless we we have to get out in massive numbers.
Speaker 1: I mean like massive number Obama. Yeah. The rest of
Speaker 1: my answers is gonna be ignorant. Come on, all right,
Speaker 1: if you were a comedian, what other profession would you do?
Speaker 1: And why? I would be a junior high or high
Speaker 1: school basketball coach. I would love to coach on the
Speaker 1: college level, but cuss too much. And that's and I
Speaker 1: would do that because I like shaping young boys thoughts,
Speaker 1: processing lives, and being that coach would help me be
Speaker 1: a father figure to a lot of young men. Okay,
Speaker 1: great answer. Oh I like that, And I got one.
Speaker 1: I got one. What are three items you could buy
Speaker 1: at the grocery store? And how the cashier rolling on
Speaker 1: the floor? Uh? Oh, apple sauce? Yeah, because who buys that?
Speaker 1: He'll be in there buying some damn apple sauce. Fall.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine that being in the basket. Oh, another item,
Speaker 1: they'd probably be holing, laughing. Oh, buttermilk. But back there
Speaker 1: arguing cost buttermilk. Don't come in and down a gallant. Yeah,
Speaker 1: back there, just argus I don't want folk quartz, buttermilk.
Speaker 1: And probably the third item that would cost the most
Speaker 1: conflict for me at the cash register or would be
Speaker 1: uh probably box chore what Yeah, because I hate that
Speaker 1: vegetable with everything in me. It's the hardest to chew,
Speaker 1: damn thing I've ever seen in my life. It looked
Speaker 1: like it will taste good, but you can't chewing. So
Speaker 1: I would just be up those three items right there.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Tommy got carola? All right. I got a
Speaker 1: question super Bowl weekend, Miami. Would you rather be the
Speaker 1: best player on a horrible team or the worst player
Speaker 1: on a great team? Uh? I probably want to be
Speaker 1: the best player on the horrible team. Yeah, yeah, because
Speaker 1: at least I can live with myself at the end
Speaker 1: of the day. What I'm not gonna do is being
Speaker 1: on the championship team and I'm making no damn contribution
Speaker 1: at all. You know, everybody telling about why is he
Speaker 1: on the damn team? Right? I would rather be on
Speaker 1: the team going, why y'all on the damn anybody score
Speaker 1: other than me? Just st well, I gotta pass it
Speaker 1: to my damn saying well what okay? I like that?
Speaker 1: All right, Steve? If you could trade fives with anyone
Speaker 1: on the planet, who would it be? You could trade life?
Speaker 1: Someone you know, someone you you know? I mean, who
Speaker 1: would it be if you could trade? I know you
Speaker 1: love your life? I know you do. Rub Smith the billionaire,
Speaker 1: the black guy, the billionaire, yep, taking if I had
Speaker 1: why because he got about eight billion dollars that's seven
Speaker 1: hundred that's that's eight he got how many billions? I
Speaker 1: say he got eight that's seven billion, nine hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty million more than I've ever had Due the Master,
Speaker 1: he could do with Terrence J. Terrence J is gonna
Speaker 1: be working with him. Then. I don't know that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just kid. Really, I don't know. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't really know, man, But uh, I don't really have
Speaker 1: to be rich. Don't have to be rich. Why would
Speaker 1: I want to? You've seen that movie before. I don't
Speaker 1: know what what makes you think I'll feeling. Go back,
Speaker 1: But you're wrong about that ship. I'll be damned if
Speaker 1: you don't have to be rich. Oh wait, let me
Speaker 1: tell you what I'm not fitting it. Voluntarily go back,
Speaker 1: No One and upward. That's why I picked Robert because
Speaker 1: he cool, he got swaggy, dressed good. He's making a difference.
Speaker 1: He changing lives. He gave all them young boys that
Speaker 1: money at more House. You know, he got plenty of
Speaker 1: more left where that come from. He darvos making decisions
Speaker 1: about African Americans lives and welfare. You know, he just
Speaker 1: he just had twin daughters in decembol. Yeah. I don't
Speaker 1: need that. But you know, bank account though. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: that ain't bill. You know, I have famore kids. We
Speaker 1: just hate. Yeah, Terence Jay just signed a deal with him.
Speaker 1: I don't have the film and TV production company. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's good, That's really good. That's congratulations. Sorry June. All right, man,
Speaker 1: that was the last one. Well, Junior, I'm gonna let
Speaker 1: you ask me when we come back for going for you,
Speaker 1: all right, And nephews also coming up with run that
Speaker 1: frank back right. I just said that ship you're listening
Speaker 1: coming up at the top of the hour, entertaining in
Speaker 1: national news. Also, we're gonna get into nephew time he's
Speaker 1: run that prank back. Damn shaw. Gonna be crazy because
Speaker 1: it's knee almost on the floor and the rest of
Speaker 1: him is in U. It is time what you got.
Speaker 1: God may not be through with you, but we are.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. That that that that's it. God may not
Speaker 1: be through with you. I admit that, but guess what
Speaker 1: we are? We through witch. Yeah, it's cubicle. So I
Speaker 1: can tell your as God may not be through with you,
Speaker 1: but we are. Let me step out the cubicle. I
Speaker 1: love it this whole. I can talk to you like I.
Speaker 1: Let's go cat doc. Hello, I'm trying to reach our
Speaker 1: sister Takara. This is Brother Brinkley from the church. How
Speaker 1: you doing? Oh hey, how is it's? I'm at work?
Speaker 1: Can I call you back? Well? This is this is
Speaker 1: kind of urgent. I call your your house phone and
Speaker 1: I didn't get an answer, and I had this other
Speaker 1: number on file, so I wanted to reach out to you.
Speaker 1: But what I won't take long. But it really is
Speaker 1: an art. All right, Well, from that urgent matter, if
Speaker 1: you don't mind, all right, hold on, hold on, let
Speaker 1: me let me step away from my tubercle. Hello. Hello, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so what's speech truly? Okay, we have a bit of
Speaker 1: a problem here and we're gonna try to We're trying
Speaker 1: to clean up a lot of things here at the
Speaker 1: church in twenty twenty. You know, I hate to be
Speaker 1: the one to bring you some bad news. Let me
Speaker 1: just start by by saying this. God might not be
Speaker 1: through with you, but we are here at the church.
Speaker 1: It has been brought to our tension, uh, sister car
Speaker 1: that you guys are halfway coming to church and you
Speaker 1: you you might come once once out of a month.
Speaker 1: You're not tithing as we expected. You know, the church
Speaker 1: can't really depend on you. Um, it's you you got
Speaker 1: you know, you bring your kids. I think your brother
Speaker 1: comes to the church, but everybody is coming every now
Speaker 1: when then we cannot depend on you all to be
Speaker 1: the members and have the expectation of what we're trying
Speaker 1: to hold. Hold hold you say, you say your name
Speaker 1: is yes, and you work, you work under the Dacian.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I've never heard of you before. I have
Speaker 1: been officiated by the pastor as I'm over actually over
Speaker 1: the finance and we're going through all of the books
Speaker 1: and looking at all of the numbers of the of
Speaker 1: the members of the church, the directory, and we're noticing
Speaker 1: what people are pan Tide, what people aren't pan Tide,
Speaker 1: who's coming to church, who's participating in different in different
Speaker 1: uh ministries and whatnot. And Sister Dakar, I got I
Speaker 1: have to be honest with you. You you am maybe
Speaker 1: once every one of some mine we might see you
Speaker 1: might not see you, you know, and like I said,
Speaker 1: God may not be through with you, but we all well, okay,
Speaker 1: you been saying that this understen why I don't understand
Speaker 1: like y'all monitoring my my my church going like I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't. I have to go every single week. I
Speaker 1: mean when I came, why are you absence so much
Speaker 1: at the church? Explaining that, I mean, I have three kids,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean I have two jobs. Sometimes I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, I still pray. I don't understand how a
Speaker 1: church can are you y'all stir you got two jobs,
Speaker 1: But we're not getting tied like you got two jobs.
Speaker 1: You're not comiding like you got two jobs because I
Speaker 1: can't afford you Just you just said I got two jobs.
Speaker 1: That's what you just said and that those two jobs
Speaker 1: are in support my kids. I mean, I can't support
Speaker 1: the church and my kids is the same term. I
Speaker 1: can't do both. I mean I give when I can.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you something. What are you making on
Speaker 1: that other job? Are you serious? Are you really? You? Really? You? Really?
Speaker 1: As I didn't know the church? God? Is this deep
Speaker 1: with you really asking me how much I make and
Speaker 1: my fucking y'all that I hate to support my kids?
Speaker 1: Come on, now? Did this gotta be something? This is
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this to you again. God may not
Speaker 1: be through with you, but we are. You are gonna
Speaker 1: pay your tithes. If you're not gonna come to work
Speaker 1: on a consistent basis, then what what do you benefit?
Speaker 1: The church? Is that what the church is about? This
Speaker 1: can't be. I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna say this
Speaker 1: to you. You Let me tell you what the church
Speaker 1: is all about? The church. Hey, and you say, we
Speaker 1: go with you again one more time? I'm serious? Is no,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this. You're talking about this, that
Speaker 1: what the church is about. Let me tell you what
Speaker 1: the church is. The church is a hospital for cripple souls.
Speaker 1: You understand it. That's what Okay, that's what the church is.
Speaker 1: But when when we have the souls that are coming
Speaker 1: in to be saved, we are doing our job. And
Speaker 1: guess what those people that are coming and you know
Speaker 1: what they're doing. They're tithing. That's what they're doing. They're tithing.
Speaker 1: You said the Dakara. I'm sure your soul it's crippled.
Speaker 1: You're not coming and you're not tithing. You may give
Speaker 1: us a little some something when you show up. If
Speaker 1: you show up, Am I right a wrong? Okay? Hold up,
Speaker 1: let me get worth the straight. This is what you
Speaker 1: call me for in the middle of my work day
Speaker 1: to tell me that you're kicking me out the church
Speaker 1: because I don't give enough money to the church while
Speaker 1: I'm at my job that I can barely afford to
Speaker 1: pay my bills. With that of fact, I want know
Speaker 1: who you are. I've never met you in my life,
Speaker 1: and I don't you know what this church? You know?
Speaker 1: This church. I hate to say it, but if that's
Speaker 1: what the church is about, you had the nerve to
Speaker 1: call me sho okay na na, na na. Let me
Speaker 1: say something now you're being very unchristian like. Nah. So
Speaker 1: the car you're gonna watch you John and your language him,
Speaker 1: this is not Christian life. Well, well do you do
Speaker 1: you know brother Dwayne? Isn't that your brothers? Okay? And
Speaker 1: my brother Dwayne is who told me to call you?
Speaker 1: Really my brother? So so what is this about? M
Speaker 1: brother whatever? I don't know. What is your name? My
Speaker 1: name is nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Speaker 1: Your brother Duwayne got me to prank phone call you. No,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, yo, he's about to get me fire
Speaker 1: you from this job. I'm in the lobby screaming up.
Speaker 1: Thanks for looking at me. Oh my harsh you are right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's up? No? No, normal, Oh my gosh, that's oh
Speaker 1: my god. My heart is racing. Tell me that's the car.
Speaker 1: What is the baddest and I mean the baddest radio
Speaker 1: show in the land, Steve Harvey. God may not be
Speaker 1: through with you, but we are. That's how we're doing it. Baby,
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Speaker 1: on't stay right now? All right, God may not be
Speaker 1: through with you, but we are. Yes, come see stupid
Speaker 1: on the fourteenth and Montgomery aal about all right, nephew,
Speaker 1: thank you coming up from the top of the hour.
Speaker 1: We have some entertainment and national news right after this.
Speaker 1: You're listening to show well. Yesterday, Vanessa Bryant changed her
Speaker 1: profile image on her official Instagram account. She changed it
Speaker 1: to a picture of Kobe and Gigi. In the picture,
Speaker 1: Kobe is embracing Gigi, She's got her arm on his shoulder,
Speaker 1: and he's lovingly gazing down. And that picture is from
Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen NBA All Star Game in Toronto. Vanessa
Speaker 1: also posted a touching message on Instagram yesterday. I'll read
Speaker 1: some of it, she said. My girls and I want
Speaker 1: to thank the millions of people who've shown support and
Speaker 1: love during this horrific time. Thank you for all the prayers.
Speaker 1: We definitely need them. We are completely devastated by the
Speaker 1: sudden loss of my adoring husband, Kobe, the amazing father
Speaker 1: of our children, and my beautiful sweet Gianna, a loving,
Speaker 1: thoughtful and wonderful daughter and amazing sister to Natalia, Bianca
Speaker 1: and Capri. We are also devastated for the families who
Speaker 1: lost their loved ones on Sunday, and we share in
Speaker 1: their grief. Intimately, we aren't. There aren't enough words to
Speaker 1: describe our pain right now. I take comfort in knowing
Speaker 1: that Kobe and Gigi both knew that they were so
Speaker 1: deeply loved. We are so incredibly blessed to have them
Speaker 1: in our lives. I wish they were here with us forever.
Speaker 1: They were our beautiful blessings, taking from taken from us
Speaker 1: too soon. Wow, you know, I mean, you just feel
Speaker 1: her so much. You know, I don't even know how to.
Speaker 1: You know, this woman's strength that is required of her
Speaker 1: and these kids is something that's like abnormal. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's almost superhuman strength that's required at a time
Speaker 1: like this. And hopefully she has a great support system
Speaker 1: in According to these words right here, it sounds like
Speaker 1: it because you've got to have a a lot of
Speaker 1: people man have are coming to sit with her and
Speaker 1: check and pick the baby up and take You got
Speaker 1: to take a lot of little menial task off people
Speaker 1: at this point because the little stuff. You know, you
Speaker 1: hear the saying don't sweat the little stuff at this
Speaker 1: point in time, you you you can't have little stuff
Speaker 1: on you because the day to day, Yeah, you need
Speaker 1: every ounce of everything that's in you just to cope. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it's just phenomenal that this is even happening for
Speaker 1: her to issue any type of statement at this time,
Speaker 1: it's just amazing. I those amazing strength. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: she's got a for them, and she's probably oh my god,
Speaker 1: you're just yeah. So you know, to the prayer warriors
Speaker 1: out there, and we know you're out there, please keep
Speaker 1: Vanessa Brant and the entire Bryant family in your prayers.
Speaker 1: Also the other families who lost their lives in that
Speaker 1: horrific crash. Yeah. Snoop Dogg, Justin Bieber, and Meek Mill
Speaker 1: are among those who are calling for the NBA to
Speaker 1: change their logo to feature Kobe silhouette. That is actually happening.
Speaker 1: The current logo features a silhouette of Jerry West, another
Speaker 1: Laker's great who described himself as a surrogate father to Kobe.
Speaker 1: An organ petition is well on its way to having
Speaker 1: three million signatures, so they're not playing around, you know
Speaker 1: with the request to change the logo. Yeah. And now
Speaker 1: right now they're trying to find some place in LA
Speaker 1: to hold a memorial service for Kobe because they say
Speaker 1: they're expecting hundreds of thousands of people to show up.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, they were looking at the Colosseum,
Speaker 1: the coliseum, yes, the actual stadium, and then outside as well,
Speaker 1: because that can hold a lot more people. Yeah, all right, Steve.
Speaker 1: Time now for today's headlines. Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Anne Tripp,
Speaker 1: thank you very much, everybody. This is a trip with
Speaker 1: the news, and there is a lot of it these days.
Speaker 1: President Trump signed his revamped version of the North American
Speaker 1: Free Trade Agreement yesterday. He said it was the fulfillment
Speaker 1: of a campaign promise. This is a colossal victory for
Speaker 1: our farmers, ranchers, energy workers, factory workers, and American workers
Speaker 1: in all fifty states. And you can almost say beyond
Speaker 1: because it's all beyond. This is all over the world,
Speaker 1: even though it's at one beautiful border. Trump's calling in
Speaker 1: a momentous, historic, and joyous occasion. While experts say the
Speaker 1: difference between the original after agreement and the written one
Speaker 1: that Trump wanted actually is minimal. Minimal, however, is not
Speaker 1: the way Trump sees what's going on in Capitol Hill, apparently,
Speaker 1: where he's hoping that Republican senators hold a line against
Speaker 1: Democrats and refuse to impeach him. Maybe I'm being just
Speaker 1: nice to him because I want their vote. Does that
Speaker 1: make sense. I don't want to leave anybody out. Hey, Congressman,
Speaker 1: I already got your vote, one six to nothing. The
Speaker 1: hell with you, Yeah, President saying that senators were going
Speaker 1: to continue submitting written questions for each other today and
Speaker 1: in a day or two, maybe just tomorrow, vote on
Speaker 1: whether to allow new testimony to represent it in a
Speaker 1: Trump's impeachment trial. That's something the president does not want.
Speaker 1: Authorities investigating the helicopter crash to kill Kobe Bryant's daughter
Speaker 1: and seven others say the coptor was not equipped with
Speaker 1: something called a crash warning device because one wasn't required,
Speaker 1: Officials say, though it's not clear as to whether having
Speaker 1: one would have saved lives, but they say there wasn't
Speaker 1: one on there. We have a spokesperson for the National
Speaker 1: Transportation Safety Boards saying that we's helicopters slammed into a
Speaker 1: foggy hillside after a minute long high speed drop. There's
Speaker 1: no firm word as to whether the pilot was in
Speaker 1: control of the copter at that time. More than two
Speaker 1: hundred Americans have now been evacuated from Muhan, China, the
Speaker 1: epicenter of that coronavirus outbreak, flown to southern California, where
Speaker 1: they're being screened and temporarily quarantine. So far, the coronavirus
Speaker 1: has sixon thousands in more than ten countries, and now American, Delta, United,
Speaker 1: British Airways, Lion AIRA many have all announced canceled flights
Speaker 1: in and out of China for at least the rest
Speaker 1: of this month and maybe February. Courting to BuzzFeed News,
Speaker 1: Sociated Press says that a black cop in Maryland shot
Speaker 1: and killed a man who was sitting inside his police
Speaker 1: cruiser with his arms handcuffed behind his back. That cop
Speaker 1: has been charged shooting not caught on body camera, but
Speaker 1: the victim was African American. Also, students at Ball State
Speaker 1: in Indiana walked out of class early this week to
Speaker 1: protest the professor who actually called the police on a
Speaker 1: black student who simply didn't want to change his seat
Speaker 1: from where he was. And of course, Kobe Bryant, you
Speaker 1: know one an Oscar. He's going to be in the
Speaker 1: memorial part of this year's Oscars ceremony for his short
Speaker 1: and tight toun title to Dear Basketball. Now back to
Speaker 1: the Steve Harvey Morning Show. You're listening to show, Yogatti
Speaker 1: and jay Z's Rock Nation are continuing to put pressure
Speaker 1: on Mississippi officials to address the deplorable conditions of the
Speaker 1: state's prisons. We talked about this story a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago. Rock Nations Social Justice Armed Team Rock recently
Speaker 1: shared footage showing just how bad things are in the
Speaker 1: state pen. Videos and pictures taken by inmates show filthy
Speaker 1: facilities and unchecked violence, including a knife fight between two inmates.
Speaker 1: In response, the Governor of Mississippi, Tate Reeves, as vowed
Speaker 1: to shut down the Parchment Farms unit of the prison. Still,
Speaker 1: it's unclear of Reeves fully comprehends the situation, considering it
Speaker 1: was only a few days ago that he was trying
Speaker 1: to blame possession of contraband cell phones for the recent violence.
Speaker 1: Team Rock Nation and its attorneys aren't just trying to
Speaker 1: shine a spotlight on the situation. Tim Rock has contacted
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice and they want protective orders to
Speaker 1: keep inmates safe. That's so interesting that miss Mississippi Governor
Speaker 1: Tate Reads blames the murders and deaths at Parchment on
Speaker 1: inmates with cell phones. Our response to that is, had
Speaker 1: it not been for the inmates with the cell phones,
Speaker 1: no one would even know the conditions of the prison. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: well I agree with that. So his response is if
Speaker 1: they didn't have illegal cell phones, no one would know
Speaker 1: the conditions that he's blaming the murders and the deaths
Speaker 1: on the inmates with the cell phones. That's why ain't
Speaker 1: doing Yeah, yeah, that's what it's saying, sir. Sir. First
Speaker 1: of all, let me help you understand something about the
Speaker 1: judicial system. You cannot a cell phone in without your
Speaker 1: guard's help. True, your guards are making money by bring
Speaker 1: You can't bring a cell phone in without the guard's help.
Speaker 1: So your guards know that they can make money by
Speaker 1: bringing in the phones. They do all of that for
Speaker 1: money themselves. It's supplying demand. So for you to dump
Speaker 1: that on the inmates, the inmates can't get it without
Speaker 1: your guards, Pardner. The inmates go nowhere to buy phones,
Speaker 1: but no one wouldn't know that if you didn't have
Speaker 1: the phones. So White y'all wouldn't even be talking to
Speaker 1: us if they didn't have the ability to film it.
Speaker 1: What he's the governor. Hey, the governor, that's your statement,
Speaker 1: all right? Coming up with thirty four minutes after the
Speaker 1: hour Popeyes, they may have to get information, all right,
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Speaker 1: why right after this. You're listening too. Now, we all
Speaker 1: know Beyonce loves her some Popeyes Chicken. We all know this.
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Speaker 1: Popeyees just unveiled new employee uniforms which are really cute
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Speaker 1: like I work in popet. Ivy stuff is fly, The
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Speaker 1: So steam Chicken, the chicken sandwich Tommy may have one
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Speaker 1: forget the National Chicken can. No matter where that wind
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Speaker 1: don't matter. The National Chicken Council released its annual Chicken
Speaker 1: Wing Report, projecting Americans to consume a record breaking one
Speaker 1: point four billion with a bee chicken wings during this
Speaker 1: Sunday for Super Bowl fifty four. They need a pitch
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Speaker 1: Where is all? D damn chicken though? Who are you
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Speaker 1: Didn you turn around again? And then here come here
Speaker 1: come Pope. Bye. They come back with your most chicken
Speaker 1: like Like it's like a chicken wall. What is the
Speaker 1: national Chicken don't make no damn sense. Pretty soon you're
Speaker 1: gonna look up a basket around I'm gonna have some
Speaker 1: chicken nice cream. It's this stupid. It's stupid. There's too
Speaker 1: much Chicken new and you ought to be fed up
Speaker 1: with it now y'all feel about chicken out fit with
Speaker 1: Popeyes on it? Rocket rocketing to imre well, can I
Speaker 1: ask you a question, Tommy? What are you gonna have
Speaker 1: chicken wings this Sunday for the game all day? But
Speaker 1: they ain't got to be in the new That's right, Chicken.
Speaker 1: The world doesn't have to know about it. Huh. We've
Speaker 1: been in Chicken all the time, and all of a
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Speaker 1: fried chicken sandwich. Well, the commercial the new commercials on
Speaker 1: TV or back. They're saying the fried chicken sandwiches back,
Speaker 1: Popeye's fried Chicken sandwich is back. Okay, like this the
Speaker 1: same nothing get in formation about this Chicken. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be in no Chicken formations. You got to see
Speaker 1: this the new the new uniforms this is okay, Well,
Speaker 1: it's just like Ivy Park a little bit. Yeah, it does.
Speaker 1: But oh my gosh it picture I'm finishing. Ain't nobody
Speaker 1: just damn happy? Shut y'all? Chicken ass down do playing
Speaker 1: something to do. They're cute though, the uniforms are cute.
Speaker 1: Who shout out? They got good chicken and good uniforms.
Speaker 1: Getting formation? All right, going up? Vote that absolutely. With
Speaker 1: today's praying phone call coming up right after this you're
Speaker 1: listening to show coming up at the top of the hour,
Speaker 1: about four minutes after. It's my strawberry letter for today.
Speaker 1: Subject my husband is scared of his family. My husband
Speaker 1: is scared of his family. But right now the nephew
Speaker 1: is here with today's prank phone call. What you got
Speaker 1: for It's twenty twenty Uh huh, ignorant conference call. Ignorant
Speaker 1: conference We'll make it so ignorant. Hey, man him, I
Speaker 1: haven't done some incredible ones in my lifetime. I have,
Speaker 1: but this one takes the cake. Oh this is ignorant,
Speaker 1: this right here, Oh man, I can promise you it
Speaker 1: ain't gonna be better than it called. Oh it's up,
Speaker 1: it's upthing really ignorant conference call. Come on, cat dog,
Speaker 1: let's go. Yeah. Hello, This is Hannah. Hi. This is
Speaker 1: Frank checking in. Hey give it here. I'm the one. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: how's it going fine? I think I think we're waiting
Speaker 1: for for one other person. Just daling a second. Hello Sherman.
Speaker 1: Sherman Davis, general manager's assistant. How you guys doing everybody here?
Speaker 1: Hey Sherman, Yeah, I'm doing fine. Hello Sherman. Alright, alright, guys,
Speaker 1: we got let me make sure we got everybody here.
Speaker 1: Is Hannah here, yep, Hannah's here. How's it going all right?
Speaker 1: Frank yep, I'm on the line. Thank you, all right?
Speaker 1: Good good good And David yep, I'm here all right,
Speaker 1: my man, good deal, good deal. All right. Got some
Speaker 1: news for you guys. I need you guys to just
Speaker 1: bear with me for a second. I'm getting all the
Speaker 1: paperwork in. My UM assistant Cynthia is here, so you
Speaker 1: guys just give me a second. I'm gonna put you
Speaker 1: guys on whole for a second and I'll be back
Speaker 1: probably less than thirty seconds. Okay, all right, okay, we'll do.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Cynthia. Can you bring me all of them
Speaker 1: stuff on? These three guys? I mean to day. It
Speaker 1: is supposed to be. Uh, they're on hold right now,
Speaker 1: but today's day that we're giving them their severance packages
Speaker 1: and letting them go, and they'll be out of here
Speaker 1: probably by tomorrow morning. They're clearing their things out. They
Speaker 1: don't know it yet, but we're gonna at least give
Speaker 1: them their SEVENCE packages today. Okay. You know, they put
Speaker 1: it on my shoulders to break the bad news, and
Speaker 1: somebody's got to do it. So it's my job today,
Speaker 1: all right, So bring it to me and get it
Speaker 1: here here as soon as possible so I can hurt them.
Speaker 1: Get past this conference call. All right? Hello, did you guys?
Speaker 1: All right? Guysan, yeah, this I'm here. Guys. Yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: you never put us on hold? No, so are you
Speaker 1: about to fire us right now? What are you talking?
Speaker 1: Wait a minute? Okay, hang on, hang on, hang on, guys.
Speaker 1: What what what what's going on? What are you guys
Speaker 1: talking about? We're asking you what's going on? We just
Speaker 1: hurt you. We didn't put us on hold. We just
Speaker 1: heard all that. Yes, Separence packages. What I heard? I
Speaker 1: heard you're letting us go. M oh Sherman. Maybe you
Speaker 1: were talking about some other people Hey, guys, hang on,
Speaker 1: everybody just calmed down. Just give me, give me a
Speaker 1: second here, hang on, just let me let me. I'll
Speaker 1: be right back. Hang on. What is going on? Did
Speaker 1: you hear that? Okay, you all heard the same thing.
Speaker 1: Dad hurts that when you're talking about Cynthia. How do
Speaker 1: I up? Is this? Is this the whole button? Here?
Speaker 1: This is it? There we go? They can heard everything? No,
Speaker 1: they just they sit can ask me right now? I'm
Speaker 1: doing what he's telling me to do this. These three
Speaker 1: are supposed to be let go by the end of
Speaker 1: the day. I mean, I gotta do it. But it
Speaker 1: looks like the severances nobody can live off of this
Speaker 1: for even three freaking months. I already know that this
Speaker 1: is this is really tough. Oh all right, so look,
Speaker 1: bring me everybody's stuff. Let me at least after lunch.
Speaker 1: They all come in here and pick up their things.
Speaker 1: That's all I think that are. Okay, is this the
Speaker 1: right button here? Okay? Hello, it's not the right button.
Speaker 1: We can we might have to be kidding me. I've
Speaker 1: been with us. I've been with us for five years,
Speaker 1: all right, I've not I've not let you down for
Speaker 1: a quarter the company down for a quarter. This is
Speaker 1: this is ridiculous. I cannot believe this. And I'm on
Speaker 1: travel right now, so how am I going to come
Speaker 1: and get my things? But this is ridiculous. This is
Speaker 1: how you're gonna let us know? Dude, this is unprofessional,
Speaker 1: this is trash. I cannot believe you. If you only
Speaker 1: need a lawyers, I have someone, I have contacts, we
Speaker 1: can talk. But honestly, Sherman, this is this is, this
Speaker 1: is unaccessible. Let's not do the whole lawyer thing, guys. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's not do that, all right now, people get let
Speaker 1: go from companies. People get let go all the time.
Speaker 1: And you guys know this. This I on a conference
Speaker 1: call with other people. What are you? This is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Are you giving a personal business? Yes, yes, that's true.
Speaker 1: You're giving personal business to another. Uh, it's exactly. It's
Speaker 1: not a whole Yeah, you cannot be doing this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: email me that lawyer's number for sure. Yes, I guess
Speaker 1: you want to, David, thank you. I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 1: try to for you guys to learn it this way?
Speaker 1: All right, I'm okay, let's just say I'm not good
Speaker 1: at the conference button. I don't know how to put
Speaker 1: anybody call You're not do it. This is not a
Speaker 1: good message. It's not it's not appublic professional messaging. In fact,
Speaker 1: this is I'm mortified. I cannot believe this. I put
Speaker 1: fire into my life to this company. This is beside
Speaker 1: it your best employees. No, it is, it is. It's
Speaker 1: absolutely right. It is illegal. This is illegal. Yep, yep,
Speaker 1: I will I write in the state. Wait, wait, what
Speaker 1: do you mean you're recording it? What are you what
Speaker 1: are you recording it for? What? Yes? Can you tell
Speaker 1: me recording? David? Listen, I don't consent on being recorded.
Speaker 1: I want that known now. Okay, okay, can I can
Speaker 1: I ask you guys something? Do you guys? Are you
Speaker 1: familiar with your co worker named Barry Dillard? Yes, you'll
Speaker 1: have to answer this. Barry fired too. How are you
Speaker 1: gonna tell him? Let me tell you what's going on.
Speaker 1: Barry told me to call you. This is nephew taught
Speaker 1: me from the Steve Harvey Martin Show. All three of
Speaker 1: y'all just got prayed by your co worker Barry Dillard.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I have a heart attack. Oh my god, Hey, y'all,
Speaker 1: nobody has lost their job. Hannah Frank David. Nobody has
Speaker 1: lost their job. But your co worker Barry Dillard got
Speaker 1: me to prank phone call. Y'all right, so everybody's got
Speaker 1: the job we could. We're gone. Wow, okay, okay, I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm good now, good, y'all gotta tell me this, what
Speaker 1: is the baddest radio show in the land? Let me
Speaker 1: hear it clearly? Oh man, that is the conference call? Right?
Speaker 1: But I know this. You know you got all new
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Speaker 1: Strawberry Letter subject my husband is scared of his family.
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Speaker 1: is Strawberry letter, Thank you, nephew. Subject to my husband
Speaker 1: is scared of his family. Dear Stephen, surely, I've been
Speaker 1: married to a wonderful man for almost three years. It's
Speaker 1: his second marriage and my first. Everything is fine with us,
Speaker 1: except the fact that his mom and his aunts don't
Speaker 1: like me. My husband has never tried to fix this
Speaker 1: problem because I think he's scared of the women and
Speaker 1: his family. Recently, things got out of hand and my
Speaker 1: feelings were hurt. Here's what happened. His mom had a
Speaker 1: sixtieth birthday party and I didn't want to go, but
Speaker 1: my husband insisted that I go. When we got to
Speaker 1: the party, his mother gave me a fake smile and
Speaker 1: barely spoke. His aunts avoided me, so they wouldn't have
Speaker 1: to speak to me. My husband and I sat with
Speaker 1: his family, and they only talked to him the whole time.
Speaker 1: I was not at all surprised to see his ex
Speaker 1: wife and daughter there seated at the table right next
Speaker 1: to us. His mother spoke to him but ignored me.
Speaker 1: His daughter spoke to him but ignored me. His ex
Speaker 1: wife didn't speak to either of us. I told him
Speaker 1: that I will not be ignored by a child, and
Speaker 1: I was uncomfortable and ready to leave. He said I
Speaker 1: couldn't go because it would cause unnecessary drama. Then this big,
Speaker 1: burly aunt Anne stood up to give a toast. She
Speaker 1: thanked the family for coming, and she turned to my
Speaker 1: husband's ex wife and told her that she will always
Speaker 1: be an important part of their family. At that point,
Speaker 1: I walked out. My husband came behind me and I
Speaker 1: made him take me home. We fussed and cussed all
Speaker 1: the way home, and he said that he can't go
Speaker 1: against his family, and I knew they didn't like me
Speaker 1: when we got married. We're not speaking and I want
Speaker 1: to go upside his head. Every time I think of
Speaker 1: what he said to me. I want to cus his out.
Speaker 1: His aunt out too. Did I handle this all wrong?
Speaker 1: How can we fix things so that this doesn't keep
Speaker 1: affecting our marriage? Please help? Wow? All right, we meaning
Speaker 1: you and him, don't need to fix anything. Okay, he
Speaker 1: needs to fix this. This is his rude, ignorant family.
Speaker 1: And with marriage, you know, he's supposed to stick with
Speaker 1: and support you. You are his wife, leave and cleave,
Speaker 1: that's what he's supposed to do. I mean, if I
Speaker 1: were you, I probably wouldn't go to another family outing
Speaker 1: or event that they had until he has a family
Speaker 1: meeting and tells them to stop disrespecting you. I mean,
Speaker 1: you called him a wonderful man, wonderful man in the
Speaker 1: opening line of your letter, and that's what a wonderful
Speaker 1: man would do. He would talk to his family, find
Speaker 1: out what the problem is, and try to resolve it
Speaker 1: so you would be comfortable. I'm sure though, that you
Speaker 1: left out a good poor and of the details in
Speaker 1: this letter, like why he got divorced. You know, what
Speaker 1: was that all about? How you guys met, Why his
Speaker 1: folks don't like you? Because he said you knew they
Speaker 1: didn't like you when you guys got married. So I
Speaker 1: think there's more to this story. I think that information
Speaker 1: would be really helpful in this situation. Do they just
Speaker 1: not like you or is there a reason they don't
Speaker 1: like you. I'm not saying it's your fault, but you know,
Speaker 1: we definitely need a little more information. Okay, but I
Speaker 1: think you know he should check them about how they
Speaker 1: treat you. I definitely think that, Steve, Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know where to start with this best right here, Well,
Speaker 1: you're definitely going to get ready to say something crazy.
Speaker 1: I've been married to this wonderful man for three years,
Speaker 1: his second marriage, my first. Everything fine would accept the
Speaker 1: fact that his mama and it's fat ass hunch don't
Speaker 1: like me. She didn't say that, she said big and bird.
Speaker 1: I bet there is, though they caught me some of
Speaker 1: the most evil people. And don't tell me you're fat
Speaker 1: shaming and all that, cause I ain't. My husband has
Speaker 1: never tried to fix this problem because I think he's
Speaker 1: scared of the women in his family. I told you
Speaker 1: they was big. I said that earlier, and then you say,
Speaker 1: I think he's scared of Why you think he's scared
Speaker 1: because of the size. Recently things got out of hand
Speaker 1: and my feelings what hurt he was would happen his
Speaker 1: mama had a sixtieth birthday, So I would just like
Speaker 1: to say, as a sixty three old man, your mama
Speaker 1: in law as younger than I am, and they throw
Speaker 1: in parties and that's cool, but I don't have people
Speaker 1: over the house and stuff like that no more. I
Speaker 1: just stopped doing it. But anyway, they still doing it,
Speaker 1: and I didn't. You didn't want to go, but your
Speaker 1: husband insisted that I go. When we got to the party,
Speaker 1: is mama gave me that fake smiling badly smoke spoke
Speaker 1: his fat ass ans avoided me so they wouldn't have
Speaker 1: to speak to me. Big people don't like big See,
Speaker 1: big people don't like speaking to a lot of people
Speaker 1: because it takes extra breaths and they're trying to save
Speaker 1: all of them. Casey had to go up stair into
Speaker 1: the bathroom. My husband, I said, with his family, and
Speaker 1: they only talked to him the whole time. What y'all
Speaker 1: ain't said, well, how are you doing? Helen? Or none
Speaker 1: of that. Man, You're somebody fitn' get told to kiss something?
Speaker 1: Just hold tight. I was not at all surprised to
Speaker 1: see his ex wife and his daughter there. What hold on, Steve,
Speaker 1: hold on, We'll have Part two of your response coming
Speaker 1: up at twenty three minutes after the hour. Today's Strawberry
Speaker 1: Letter title, my husband is scared of his family will
Speaker 1: be back right after this. You're listening, She's Steve Morning Show.
Speaker 1: All right, come on, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry Letters
Speaker 1: subject my husband is scared of his family. Well, he
Speaker 1: got a right to be. This his second marriage. You
Speaker 1: say he's a wonderful man, but then you say, I
Speaker 1: think he's scared of the woman is family that's called
Speaker 1: his mommy and his fat air's areunch don't like you.
Speaker 1: Recently things got out of hand and my feelings was hurt.
Speaker 1: And here's what happened. His mammy, Steve had a six
Speaker 1: un That's what this is. See, that's what you That's
Speaker 1: what you called them when they're not listening. Your mammy
Speaker 1: didn't speak. Hey, listen to me. She's gonna be too
Speaker 1: many more mammies now, Your mammy, mammy, mammy, mammy, mammy, mammy, mammy.
Speaker 1: That's what that's what your wife trying to get under
Speaker 1: your skin. Your mammy, mammy, mammy, My wife and my
Speaker 1: mom ain't gonna beat your more. Mammy, mammy, mammy, mammy, mammy,
Speaker 1: that type of action. So they gave us snakes fakes
Speaker 1: bound then't fat ass answer avoided me so they wouldn't
Speaker 1: have speak to me. My husband, and I said, with
Speaker 1: his family, and they only talked to him the entire time.
Speaker 1: Then here's where the letter take a turn for me.
Speaker 1: I wasn't at all surprised to see his ex wife
Speaker 1: and his daughter there. They did this on purpose to you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the seton chard had all y'all sitting there together,
Speaker 1: right next to us. His daughter spoke to him but
Speaker 1: ignored me. His ex wife didn't speak to either one
Speaker 1: of us. She a real ex wife. She's speaking to
Speaker 1: his ass all you and the letter got a little stupid.
Speaker 1: I told him I will not be ignored by a child.
Speaker 1: What that's no problem with that ignorant ass. Baby a minute,
Speaker 1: ain't nobody spoke to you since you've been after party?
Speaker 1: Then you tell your husband I will not be ignored
Speaker 1: by a child. The damn adults is ignoring your ass.
Speaker 1: The child is just repeating learned behavior. Everybody else ignores you,
Speaker 1: so why ain't I? So I said I'll not be
Speaker 1: ignored by a child. I was uncomfortable and ready to leave.
Speaker 1: You should have been uncomfortable, he said, I couldn't go
Speaker 1: because he would cause unnecessary drama. I'm not sitting up
Speaker 1: in this house all these fat ass people. Ain't nobody
Speaker 1: talking to me. You've been talking to everybody all night,
Speaker 1: and you bring this little baby yours up in here.
Speaker 1: Now she ain't talking to me and your punk ass
Speaker 1: that wife sitting hello, stank ass over there. She ain't
Speaker 1: talking to nobody. Then his big Barrey are I told you.
Speaker 1: I told you, Shirley, Then big Anne, same as my own.
Speaker 1: Agnes stood her big wide ass up. No, hell no,
Speaker 1: I told you some big ass people in his family.
Speaker 1: She thanked the family for coming, and then she turned
Speaker 1: to my husband's ex wife and told her that she
Speaker 1: would always be an important part of their family. Where
Speaker 1: she ain't. You can make a toast all you want.
Speaker 1: Her ass is active family, and she know it ain't
Speaker 1: nobody steal in the family, scept the little girl, ugly
Speaker 1: baby that is not in the letter and should be.
Speaker 1: She didn't speak to this woman, that's right. At this point,
Speaker 1: I walked out. My husband came behind me, and I
Speaker 1: made him take me home. We fussing, cussed all the
Speaker 1: way home. He said he can't go against his family.
Speaker 1: You saw big barely ass on a stand up. I'm
Speaker 1: that's just on the hand. Aunt Helen's big ass was
Speaker 1: over there, ain't ain't Agnes this big ass was over there,
Speaker 1: Ain't Geraldine was in there, and ain't Bernard dead? Now
Speaker 1: what you need to do is try to figure out
Speaker 1: why he got an ex wife sitting at the table
Speaker 1: that ain't speaking to him, and ain't nobody speaking to you.
Speaker 1: Why does he have an ex wife because she have
Speaker 1: run up into the same problem I think she did.
Speaker 1: I want to go upside his head every time I
Speaker 1: think of what he what he said to me. I
Speaker 1: want to cuss his aunt out too, that I handled
Speaker 1: this all wrong? Yes you did. How can we fix
Speaker 1: things so this don't keep affecting our match? I can't
Speaker 1: help you right there. I don't know what you to do.
Speaker 1: I want to get back to the question where you say,
Speaker 1: did I handled this all wrong? I believe you did, Shirley.
Speaker 1: I want you to play the role very quickly. Now
Speaker 1: you are the aunt at big barely aunt Anne, stand
Speaker 1: up of the toast. Let's go all the way back
Speaker 1: to me when his daughter spoke to him but ignored me. Hi, Daddy,
Speaker 1: Hi daddy. You don't see nobody else, Mamma, tell me
Speaker 1: not to speak to her, just to speak to you
Speaker 1: all the way. Lean your little uglass over here. Do
Speaker 1: you see me? I'm not ugly, Daddy, You're not ugly.
Speaker 1: Stop telling this baby she's cute. Listen to me, sweetheart.
Speaker 1: You are not cute, daddy. No, no, no, I don't
Speaker 1: listen to me. That's who you look like. You look
Speaker 1: just like you, dad, and on a girl. It ain't cute. Wow,
Speaker 1: get up, Helen, say something. Watch this then I swear
Speaker 1: to God I'll bust a capital. Say something, Helen. All right, Um,
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Speaker 1: Steve Morning Show. Coming up at the top of the hour.
Speaker 1: It's Carla's reality update and TV show update. But right now, uh, Steve,
Speaker 1: your girls in the building, put your hand together for show.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Steve Harven, And I know you're in Miami
Speaker 1: and listen. I'm not even trying to watch the halftime show.
Speaker 1: If they ain't got Uncle Luke up in their trick,
Speaker 1: Daddy a Trina or something like that, ain't the trick
Speaker 1: of kids. Doesn't listen to me? That's what I need
Speaker 1: to see. What I needn't see that eight and nine
Speaker 1: at nine, I needn't see that Miami Night brought you
Speaker 1: on the tonk? What the I used to go up
Speaker 1: a Miami Night studio one eighty three years with a
Speaker 1: redixament out there? You know how much out street walking
Speaker 1: that parking lot club with what listening to me this week?
Speaker 1: On the top My Sorrow A Saraw of Zata five
Speaker 1: Beta Dion Warwick was on the show, calling service and
Speaker 1: then I gave her give the sisterly love and invited
Speaker 1: her to centennial festivities in June and watch the DC.
Speaker 1: She opened the gift right then put on the Zata
Speaker 1: blue and white crystal bracelet, then put on the z
Speaker 1: five be paying and then saying what the world need
Speaker 1: now it loves sweet love? You go saw right deon
Speaker 1: w That's what I'm talking about. See what others? Why
Speaker 1: are we talking about things? Hey, don't that girl vow them?
Speaker 1: Is the girl that's uh the lawyer that's fighting in
Speaker 1: the piacement. Don't she look like Vanessa Bell Callaway? She
Speaker 1: looked just like she loves and Alan Ducers, you need
Speaker 1: to get somewhere, sit down, Alan Decers, you ain't the
Speaker 1: only lawyer in town. It's Judge Joe Brown, Judge your Brown,
Speaker 1: good lawyer. Um Judge Matthist, good lawyer. They're gonna lose
Speaker 1: if you don't get Judge matthis that you're gonna lose.
Speaker 1: If you don't get maybe Lean, you're gonna lose the case.
Speaker 1: You bet gonna get to everybody. You're gonna lose. Desrous,
Speaker 1: you need to stop talking because somebody got some evidence
Speaker 1: or whatever was going on at the freaking egon party.
Speaker 1: Oh and last, without least speaking, the freaking digging party. Julia,
Speaker 1: what's you doing this? We said I can pick us
Speaker 1: up some chicken, you bring the baby off. You go
Speaker 1: to that new Herols in Hollywood and get us some ticket.
Speaker 1: And you know what, because I'm old school, stop playing
Speaker 1: junior like we're not gonna be together. It's Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: It's a super Bowl Love Junior bring bringing Cleves Junior
Speaker 1: dring this stuff. You're gonna field goal. You're gonna be
Speaker 1: a three party. Come on. If you don't want none
Speaker 1: of this, welcome. What did you say a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago in describe every letters porn out here? Girl?
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Update coming up right after Get
Speaker 1: this boy, you're listening to show tummy. It's on you, baby,
Speaker 1: Let me have it, Let me have it. It's that time. Baby.
Speaker 1: We got Colin Farrell with what reality update? That's right, nephew. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do TV show update and what TV show
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about Steve Power, Power Power. Okay, so
Speaker 1: we only have three episodes left. We're trying to find
Speaker 1: out who shot Goes. I think it's about three episodes,
Speaker 1: but we if we don't have three episodes left, we
Speaker 1: got three suspects left. Okay, we got one episode and
Speaker 1: three three suspects. So here we go on the Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm listening. You gotta hear this, you gotta hear this.
Speaker 1: Update on this show. Consulimantate, who was played by Loren's Tate.
Speaker 1: We got to see what he did on the day
Speaker 1: that Ghosts was shot, and I remember councilmant Tate was
Speaker 1: very angry when he found out Ghosts basically backstabbed him
Speaker 1: by joining his opponent's ticket for the race for the
Speaker 1: Governor's Racing York. Anyway, conslimant Tate was happy to help
Speaker 1: the police get Ghosts, but it just wasn't working. So
Speaker 1: the police was like, hey, they ain't gonna work like
Speaker 1: that anyway. Ghosts called his boys to come up and
Speaker 1: help him and kill ghost Who was ghost boys? Who
Speaker 1: did you said? Ghost call his boys up to help
Speaker 1: him kill Ghosts? Oh, I'm sorry, Conslimentate called his boys
Speaker 1: to come on. What's going on? Now? Who was his boys? Well? She,
Speaker 1: first of all, letitary some Councilmantate ain't kill nobody cause
Speaker 1: the Restate ain't never been a murderer in none of
Speaker 1: his movies. Yes, yes, society movies, that real movie. Know
Speaker 1: it was, yes that it wasn't up from nothing, that
Speaker 1: the dog ass movie Badass Light. Now he didn't do it.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, all right, who do you think? So there's
Speaker 1: two guys that came up that Conslimentate call Coop is
Speaker 1: one of the character's name and his son Harder. Who
Speaker 1: do you think played Coop. This person is very close
Speaker 1: to you now that see y'all don't understand see that
Speaker 1: Cedric the enter taintum ye know this. Don't watch all this,
Speaker 1: but I know all this is the shocker in the
Speaker 1: next three episodes. The key to this whole thing is
Speaker 1: his name is Ghosts. Yes, okay, you can't see ghost
Speaker 1: for the third episode is over. Who who tell you
Speaker 1: that said it ain't make it, said don't ever make
Speaker 1: it to get killed because he got money. See, so
Speaker 1: ghost ghost his ghosts. Why would he call him ghosts
Speaker 1: if he wasn't gonna be no ghosts? And Councilman Tate
Speaker 1: is not be no murderer, He's not. He wasn't there.
Speaker 1: He has an alibi, so no, he he was at
Speaker 1: the police station. And Tasha Saint Patrick h that's who
Speaker 1: you think it is. We're gonna watch. We're gonna figure
Speaker 1: it out. But shout out to said he did his thing.
Speaker 1: Coop did not make it, just like Steve said. And
Speaker 1: we have to shout out to Lawrenz Tate, his real brother,
Speaker 1: Lamar Tate. He played his brother on the show. And
Speaker 1: that was some great acting going on between the two brothers.
Speaker 1: So councilman got him? Use that, don't confuse him with lamar.
Speaker 1: Oh anybody nobody confusing man or kill All right, that's
Speaker 1: your TV show update, reality update. You can hit me
Speaker 1: up at lips by Carla. We'll be back at twenty
Speaker 1: minutes after. Okay, you're listening, all right? So Steve, you
Speaker 1: are down in Miami for the big super Bowl game,
Speaker 1: for the big game. This is super Bowl fifty four.
Speaker 1: So what's your day? Like, what are you doing today? Well,
Speaker 1: as soon as I get off the air, I got
Speaker 1: right over to due ESPN first take, but Steven A yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: and Molly Quinn and uh Max Kellerman that's my I
Speaker 1: like Max, yeah. And then right after that I do
Speaker 1: the Rich Iceman Show. Okay. Then I got to sit
Speaker 1: down and get these jokes ready for Sady. Okay, now,
Speaker 1: what's up? You're excited? Uh, you know, a little tense
Speaker 1: because you know, you know, I like doing well as
Speaker 1: a stand up so it's always a little you know,
Speaker 1: chance to live would have bit it. Booty picture? Huh
Speaker 1: booty picture? Okay are you saying nowcause you and Steven
Speaker 1: ain't gonna get into it on first take? Again, I
Speaker 1: don't care you know he's augmented a vast person. He
Speaker 1: don't go on he ain't on TV agreeing with Harlly. No, damn, yeah,
Speaker 1: you remember the last you told the last time what
Speaker 1: I told him? He said, this first take, it ain't
Speaker 1: just yo take. I love this first take, Partner, this
Speaker 1: ain't just yo take. Like it. We'll be watching. We'll
Speaker 1: be all right, one of the Steve Harvey Morning Show,
Speaker 1: and some trending news coming up at thirty three minutes
Speaker 1: after the hour, right after this you're listening show. Well. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: Vanessa Bryant changed her profile image on her official Instagram account.
Speaker 1: She changed it to a picture of Kobe and Gigi.
Speaker 1: In the picture, Kobe is embracing Gigi, She's got her
Speaker 1: arm on his shoulder, and he's lovingly gazing down. And
Speaker 1: that picture is from the twenty sixteen NBA All Star
Speaker 1: Game in Toronto. Vanessa also posted a touching message on
Speaker 1: Instagram yesterday. I'll read some of it, she said. My
Speaker 1: girls and I want to thank the millions of people
Speaker 1: who've shown support and love during this horrific time. Thank
Speaker 1: you for all the prayers. We definitely need them. We
Speaker 1: are completely devastated by the sudden loss of my adoring husband, Kobe,
Speaker 1: the amazing father of our children, and my beautiful sweet Gianna,
Speaker 1: a loving, thoughtful and wonderful daughter and amazing sister to Natalia,
Speaker 1: Bianca and Capri. We are also devastated for the families
Speaker 1: who lost their loved ones on Sunday, and we share
Speaker 1: in their grief. Intimately, there are enough words to describe
Speaker 1: our pain right now. I take comfort in knowing that
Speaker 1: Kobe and Gigi both knew that they were so deeply loved.
Speaker 1: We're so incredibly blessed to have them in our lives.
Speaker 1: I wish they were here with us forever. They were
Speaker 1: our beautiful blessings, taking from taken from us too soon. Wow,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, you just feel her so much.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how to you know this, This
Speaker 1: woman's strength that is required of her and these kids
Speaker 1: us something that's like abnormal. I mean, it's it's almost
Speaker 1: superhuman strength that's required at a time like this. And
Speaker 1: hopefully she has a great support system in According to
Speaker 1: these words right here, it sounds like it because you've
Speaker 1: got to have at a lot of people, man have
Speaker 1: them are coming to sit with her and and check
Speaker 1: and pick the baby up and take you got to
Speaker 1: take a lot of little menial task off people at
Speaker 1: this point because the little stuff. You know, you hear
Speaker 1: the same, don't sweat the little stuff at this point
Speaker 1: in time. You you you can't have little stuff on
Speaker 1: you because the day to day, Yeah, you need every
Speaker 1: ounce of everything that's in you just to cope. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it's just phenomenal that this is even happening for
Speaker 1: her to issue any type of statement at this time,
Speaker 1: it's just amazing, amazing, amazing strength. Yeah. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: she's got to up for them, and she's like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, you just yeah, man. Um, So you know,
Speaker 1: to the prayer warriors out there, and we know you're
Speaker 1: out there, please keep Vanessa Brant and the entire Bryant
Speaker 1: family in your prayers. Also the other families who lost
Speaker 1: their lives in that horrific crash. Yeah, coming up, our
Speaker 1: last break of the day and some closing remarks from
Speaker 1: the one and only Steve Harvey at forty nine minutes
Speaker 1: after the hour, right after this you're listening to all right,
Speaker 1: So Steve, there was a journalist Lindsay Granger is her name?
Speaker 1: Very just articulate, justum eloquent woman. She responded to another
Speaker 1: young lady, Felicia Sonmez, who is a national political reporter
Speaker 1: for the Washington Post, who tweeted some really nasty, derogatory
Speaker 1: things about Kobe Bryant just a couple of hours after
Speaker 1: everyone found out that he had passed away. Now, Lindsay Granger,
Speaker 1: the journalist, is on a talk show it's called The
Speaker 1: Daily Beast Live, and we gotta take a listen to
Speaker 1: what she has to what she had to say in
Speaker 1: response to what this woman, Felicia's sons tweeted about Kobe,
Speaker 1: and Felicia's Sonmez, by the way, has been placed on
Speaker 1: administrative leave. Take a listen to this. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the journalist Felicia, and she is somebody who has gone
Speaker 1: through sexual assault herself, and she said that in the
Speaker 1: Washington Post. She released an article a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago detailing her experience. So, as a journalist, which is
Speaker 1: not what we do. We are a talk show with
Speaker 1: a brit And I was a journalist for ten years
Speaker 1: prior to taking the shop. So as a journalist, it's
Speaker 1: our job to objectively report the news. I know that
Speaker 1: that would be tough of your someone who survived sexual assault.
Speaker 1: But when I'm looking at this story, she didn't give
Speaker 1: the story any context. And she got upset that she
Speaker 1: was being attacked on Twitter for tweeting a link that
Speaker 1: basically was condemning Kobe's character and accusing him of rape.
Speaker 1: But I think her job as a journalist was to
Speaker 1: put that in context. You have the responsibility and you
Speaker 1: need to have the journalistic acumen to write the full story.
Speaker 1: Go to the Washington Post and say, this man is
Speaker 1: a nuanced character. This man has a detailed, layered history
Speaker 1: that we need to discuss. But don't just tweet that
Speaker 1: out and be the political reporter for the Washington Post
Speaker 1: and tweet that and leave it there, because you're leaving
Speaker 1: yourself open to the attacks that you're now receiving. And
Speaker 1: so whether or not she should be fired, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that she should be put on leave like
Speaker 1: she was. I think it's inappropriate because we're in a
Speaker 1: time where we don't know what journalism is anymore. We
Speaker 1: have our president that attacks journalists, we have TMZ that
Speaker 1: broke the news to Vanessa Bryant that her husband passed away.
Speaker 1: You know, what are we doing now that we need
Speaker 1: to look at ourselves, people who call themselves journalists. We
Speaker 1: have journalists attacking a seven year old child which is
Speaker 1: blue ivy, and we look at them calling out her characteristics.
Speaker 1: We need to do better all together as journalists. And
Speaker 1: I look at this woman and I say, it was
Speaker 1: your responsibility just to do better and give it more
Speaker 1: time than two hours after the man passes away, to
Speaker 1: say what you think about him, if it's negative, and
Speaker 1: you know, don't hide behind somebody else's article. I stand
Speaker 1: behind a journalist named Jillian Sheldon. She sat at that
Speaker 1: Kobe trial for six weeks. She followed it in Colorado,
Speaker 1: in and out, stayed there, interviewed all the lawyers, interviewed
Speaker 1: the woman who was accusing him, and she said, how
Speaker 1: can we you someone's worst stay on this earth as
Speaker 1: a referendum on their character in totality, And we can't
Speaker 1: because just like Kobe, we all have flaws that we're
Speaker 1: all layered individuals. And we've seen the story time and
Speaker 1: time again too many times when it's a black man
Speaker 1: and a white woman that's an accuser. When that's the
Speaker 1: story and it goes down and he just goes and
Speaker 1: gets convicted by the public jury and We've seen the
Speaker 1: story too many times where women who are who have
Speaker 1: been sexually assaulted cannot give their voice to the public
Speaker 1: and give are not given the space they need to
Speaker 1: share their story. So this is a complicated thing to
Speaker 1: talk about. But I really think that as a journalist,
Speaker 1: if you're going to take that name, in that stance
Speaker 1: and that dignity of a position, you should probably do
Speaker 1: it properly and just try to tell the complicated story
Speaker 1: with as much care as possible. And that goes for
Speaker 1: everybody involved in this Kobe situation. Wow, who yet, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know how I could possibly follow
Speaker 1: that with any information. I think she had it spot on.
Speaker 1: You know the thing of it now, since we're closing,
Speaker 1: journalists are really supposed to be fair and impartial, and
Speaker 1: journalists are supposed to report the facts to us. But
Speaker 1: two things have happened. First of all, we have social media,
Speaker 1: which is main focus now is no longer on truth
Speaker 1: or facts, but on eyeballs and views and likes and comments,
Speaker 1: and the more clicks you can get, the more valuable
Speaker 1: you can become. So now we have found a way
Speaker 1: to monetize evilness. We have found a way to not
Speaker 1: be truthful and make money off of it. We have
Speaker 1: now found a way that you don't have to report
Speaker 1: the facts as long as you report something and you
Speaker 1: make it so interesting enough or is usually so dark enough,
Speaker 1: are so you know, exasperated and and and inflamed news
Speaker 1: reports that it draws eyeballs. That's one thing. The second
Speaker 1: thing that we have going on in this country is
Speaker 1: that we now have a president who berates people in
Speaker 1: the media, who applauds his staff when they put journalists
Speaker 1: in their place for asking perfectly legal questions. So, now
Speaker 1: from the top, for those of you who voted for Trump,
Speaker 1: for those of you who support Trump, who think that
Speaker 1: he's great for this country, this was your vote that
Speaker 1: has now allowed this type of behavior to act itself
Speaker 1: out in the White House. That's your vote. Did that? Now?
Speaker 1: I get tired of us turning around and somehow making
Speaker 1: it our fault. Because he lost the general election, they
Speaker 1: say upwards of four million votes, somewhere between three and
Speaker 1: four million votes. He lost the popular vote, he won
Speaker 1: the electoral so enough people turned out to vote to
Speaker 1: keep him from being president. But because we have this
Speaker 1: old archaic system called the electoral college, vote. He's the president.
Speaker 1: But this man who is in office, I ask people
Speaker 1: who vote for him, would you want your child to
Speaker 1: be him? That, combined with social media, have the climate
Speaker 1: that that woman is talking about where you can report
Speaker 1: the news without telling the family first. And how this
Speaker 1: woman feels like because it was a black man's crime
Speaker 1: against a white woman, that she can breaate his entire
Speaker 1: life's work, and like God has not this thing called
Speaker 1: grace and forgiveness that we've all partaken of in our
Speaker 1: life and all of us will continue to have to
Speaker 1: need it until the day we die. And that's created
Speaker 1: this climate today. I think what the lady said was
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