1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: Well, Tommy, we have to say congratulations to you on 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 1: celebrating your one hundred and fiftieth episode of your number 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: one dating show, and it's called Ready to Love. Congratulations Tommy, thank. 4 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 2: You, thank you. 5 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 1: Episode? 6 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 2: What you say? 7 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 3: No, thank you like no fifty episode? 8 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 1: That's what I said. Yeah, for anyone who doesn't know 9 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: about the TV episodes, it's amazing to get this far 10 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 1: with a show. So it's a milestone, Tommy, and we 11 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,599 Speaker 1: really are here to support you and to congratulate you. 12 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: That means you're doing something right. Okay, you're doing a 13 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: lot of things right. Your family and friends throw you 14 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: a big party? Was it at your house? At the show? 15 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:52,840 Speaker 1: The show? 16 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 2: Uh? 17 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,639 Speaker 1: Huh? All right? Did anybody get their invitation? 18 00:00:58,560 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 3: Think? 19 00:00:58,760 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: I was not the only ones? 20 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 2: Stop? You don't know that I was, So I wasn't coming. 21 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 2: That's what you get wide open. 22 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 1: Yeah. 23 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 2: The thing to do, all right, Okay, that's. 24 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 3: How we do. 25 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 2: That's I took the paper truck. 26 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 3: I'm doing the crossword puzzle. 27 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 2: I was stuck on down. 28 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:26,479 Speaker 1: What about when he sent you the pictures some look 29 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: out look out? I was like, wait, but I was 30 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:31,639 Speaker 1: looking for you, guys. I was looking for you Carla. 31 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: I was like, well I didn't get an invitation. Maybe, 32 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 1: Carla went, I didn't see you there. You know I 33 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: have been there. 34 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 2: I showed, I showed. 35 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 1: She was like, that's cold, that's my feelings were a 36 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: little hurt. But we'll get through it. We'll get through it, 37 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: make it. 38 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you something. People kept asking me, like, 39 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 3: did you go to Tommy's party for the way? 40 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 2: I said, yeah, I was. 41 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: There because we work, because you can't shut back up 42 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: the work, and that's wasn't now yeah me, No, it's 43 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: been terribly embarrassing. 44 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 2: Hope we get the two hundred. We'll see how that goes. 45 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 2: To see if y'all come out, I'll hang out. 46 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: I gonna tell you right now, I'll be busy. I'm 47 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: gonna tell you right now here so booked and busy, 48 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 1: see right there right there, But we're not good enough 49 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: to come to the one fifty. 50 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:25,080 Speaker 2: Oh you are down in that chair. 51 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: All right, congratulations again though, nephew. Okay, So moving on 52 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: to junior now, Junior sickle cell September is sickle cell 53 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: Awareness month, and Junior also this is the last day 54 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: of September. Of course, your work continues you're raising money 55 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 1: for sickle cell disease and help to find a cure 56 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:46,919 Speaker 1: so no child will ever have to suffer with sickle 57 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: cell And that is amazing that you do that. You 58 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 1: have your foundation Here's Hope, and you do your annual 59 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: five k walk to wait raise awareness and funds for 60 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: sickle cell research. So give us a website and everything. 61 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 3: It's Here's Hope dot org. K I E R s 62 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 3: Hope dot org. Yes it is. It's the last day 63 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 3: for awareness. It ain't the last day for me though, 64 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 3: that's sure. I appreciate the awareness, but Lord have mercy. 65 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 3: It's gonna go into October whether you want to believe 66 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:21,080 Speaker 3: it or not. And I'm twenty, I'm three sixty five 67 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 3: awareness that's what I have to do. But it's been 68 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 3: a great month. I've had a lot of speaking engagement. 69 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, this Friday, I'll be in Greenville, 70 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 3: North Carolina for the Robinson Sickle Cell Foundation as the 71 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 3: keynote speaker. And you know the thing about it, surely 72 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 3: is I Carl and time I go and I speak 73 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 3: about having a successful life even having the disease, because 74 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 3: like they don't see me, and you know, once they 75 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 3: tell you that it's over, you know, like they give 76 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 3: you this number. Everybody gets this number. You know, they'll 77 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 3: tell you that your life gonna end at nine, at 78 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 3: fifteen or twenty. And what happens is you snatched that 79 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 3: child's dreams away and now they don't have nothing to 80 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 3: look forward to. But once you make it past the number, 81 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 3: you still got to live. Because that's what happened to me, 82 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 3: because once they told me I was gonna die to eleven. 83 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 3: When I got to twelve, I ain't know what to do. 84 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 3: I said, way, I ain't supposed to be here eleven 85 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 3: they tell you was out. Yeah, yeah, and the doctor 86 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 3: can be wrong, and he was just wrong. Yeah, And 87 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 3: now here I am. We're healthy at forty seven, doing 88 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 3: the things that I love to do. And that's what 89 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 3: I want all people with living with sickle sell to 90 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 3: understand that you can have a successful life even with 91 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,839 Speaker 3: the diagnosis. When they tell you, ye, it's over, that's 92 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 3: not true. In junior, go ahead and live your life. 93 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 3: Get your life together and go ahead to live it 94 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 3: like that. 95 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 2: Once they and once you pass that number they gave you, 96 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 2: don't give me another number. Okay, no, they never do. 97 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,040 Speaker 2: Once I passed eleven. Don't don't hit me with thirty one. 98 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:54,479 Speaker 2: Don't give me another number. 99 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 3: I'm not, but that's Timmy. That was my pickup line 100 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 3: at fifteen, you know, four years past my dead you 101 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 3: got all the girls told you you got to love me. 102 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:10,359 Speaker 3: I'm special. I'm supposed to be here though. Women loved it. 103 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,480 Speaker 3: That's how I got girlfriends testimony. 104 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 1: Boy, wow, yeah, its powerful. 105 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 3: It is sure is a blessing man. 106 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 2: All right. 107 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: And finally, guys, we got a shout out to Mackenzie Scott, 108 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 1: now McKenzie Scott in case you that name sounds familiar 109 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 1: or it doesn't sound familiar, familiar at all. She is 110 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: the ex wife of billionaire Jeff Bezos. Okay, Mackenzie Scott 111 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: has donated a whopping get this number, guys, seventy million 112 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: dollars to the United Negro College Fund, all right, and 113 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 1: this is yes, thank you, And this is an addition 114 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: to the ten million that she donated back in twenty twenty. 115 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: The seventy million dollar gift will be used by the 116 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: UNCF Endowment Fund, which was created to help with finances 117 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:59,480 Speaker 1: at historically black colleges and universities HBCUs. Now in a 118 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 1: press come conference. In a press release, the President of 119 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 1: UNCF stated, quote, this is this extraordinary gift is a 120 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 1: powerful vote of confidence in hbc USED and in the 121 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,279 Speaker 1: work of the u n c F. It's a once 122 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 1: in a generation opportunity for HBCUs to build permanent assets 123 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 1: that will support students in campuses for decades to come. Awesome, Yes, 124 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 1: thank you, Mackenzie. God always giving, she always that's right, 125 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 1: that's right, you're listening. Stave Harvey Morning Show