1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,400 Speaker 1: Coming up at the top of the hour. Guys, right 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: about four minutes after it's today's Strawberry letter, the subject 3 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:10,400 Speaker 1: I'm in the military and I've never enlisted. Okay, right now, 4 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 1: nephew in the building with today's praying phone call. What 5 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:19,599 Speaker 1: you got for us? Nev, Me and my jeeves, Me 6 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: and my Jesus, the rentingy cat dog, if you would, 7 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: Me and my Jesus. Hello. Hello, I'm trying to reach 8 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: your sister. How you doing. I'm giving you a call 9 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: on behalf of Baptist Church. You are a member? They am? 10 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 1: I right, yes, I am? Okay, listen, um, I'm calling you. 11 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 1: They they some of the members have gotten together and 12 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: had a meeting and wanted me to give you a call. 13 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: It seems that a lot of them are complaining about 14 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: Sunday services that go on and one for me to 15 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: give you a call on their behalf so that we 16 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 1: can see if we can address the problem and talk 17 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: to you diligently as possible and try to get the 18 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: problem rectified. What's going on? Well, it seems like that 19 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:18,399 Speaker 1: a lot of members are complaining. I'm sorry, and what 20 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: is your name again? My name is man. I'm not 21 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 1: actually a member of the church. I've just been the 22 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: one that they've been asked to give you a call 23 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:28,839 Speaker 1: and try to talk on the members behalf. So maybe 24 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:32,039 Speaker 1: we can get this problem rectify that you that they 25 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: have uh as far as you are concerned, now, okay, 26 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 1: go ahead, I'm just trying to see what this is 27 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: in regards to go ahead. Well, it seems like the 28 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:43,040 Speaker 1: members of the church are complaining about that you're doing 29 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 1: too much shouting at church on Sunday, and it seems 30 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: to be going on every Sunday. You're running up and 31 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: down the aisle and you're shouting all over the place, 32 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 1: and it's me. I've been singled out about my shouting. Wellever, 33 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 1: Thendly is distracted. Man, you're distracting everyone from getting the 34 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: word and listen to the word and being involved in 35 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: the service. And that's the purpose of the call is 36 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: to see if we can get you to tone it 37 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: down something. Okay, So the whole church is complained about 38 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: me shouting the way people run up and down them 39 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 1: off every Sunday and almost playing cart wheels and flips, 40 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,399 Speaker 1: and they're singling me I complained about me. Well, ma'am, 41 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: I don't know how it is that you can see 42 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 1: everybody else doing cart wheels when you're the ones that 43 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: they say is the one that's doing them. Am I 44 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,959 Speaker 1: being singled out? Man? All I'm saying is that they're 45 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: saying that you're doing too much shouting and too much 46 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: running at this church. Now, I'm just the message. What 47 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 1: they can't tell me how to shout? They don't. They 48 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: can't tell me what's going on in my life? What's 49 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 1: gonna keep me from praising God? And they I mean, 50 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:46,959 Speaker 1: they could just they could go somewhere else with that, 51 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: But they're not gonna tell me that I can't praise 52 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: my God. They don't know how good God it's being 53 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: to me. And you know what, I understand that I 54 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: agree with you wholeheartedly. But it's becoming a distraction. I mean, 55 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: they was at the point last night talk should we 56 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: put some seatbelts on the pews so so you can 57 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: stay down some sea high They're gonna tell people they 58 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: can't shout in church, embrace God? What do we call 59 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 1: the church for? Well, you do come to we need 60 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: to be trying to plase God and get they all 61 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 1: shout on and stop looking at me? And what about 62 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:18,239 Speaker 1: what I'm doing. We're gonna need you to quit running 63 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: up and down these aisles and doing what I'm sorry, 64 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 1: you know, I'm trying to stay calm. I'm trying my best. 65 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: Who Jesus Chief sure that that's not happy? You can't 66 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: tell me I gotta stop shouting? Okay, man, But let 67 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 1: me ask you. Are you running now? Aren't you just 68 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: standing still? Talking? But I don't have to run right now? Okay, 69 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: what I'm trying to get you to do? Like if 70 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 1: I want to run up and down this street right now, 71 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: I can run up and down the street and place God. 72 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: But they're not gonna tell me to stop shouting at church? 73 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: Can we get you to be a little bit more 74 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: reserved as what we see? Man, let me let me 75 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 1: go ahead and go further on what they do the 76 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: spirit moves. Okay, well, let me move and tell you 77 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: what they've told me. Now, if we can't get to 78 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 1: the point where you can, you know, tone it down, 79 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: then we may have to ask you to leave. To 80 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 1: ask me, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, you let them ask me. 81 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: Why don't they want me to leave the church. I've 82 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: been at that church for fifteen years. I'm not leaving 83 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: the church. I'm gonna run up and down. I'm not 84 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 1: gonna run on the church. I don't even turn me 85 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: some flips where I'm not feel like not not not 86 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 1: not not listen, that's all. I'm okay, go ahead, I'm 87 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: gonna be there. I'm going to I am going to 88 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: be there on Sunday. Man, and I have been the 89 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: person that's been appointed to make sure that you're not 90 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: running up and down these outs and shotting like this. 91 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: You're got to keep yourself reserved so people can hear 92 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: the word of God. You are standing in people's word. 93 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 1: That's what you're doing. You're in the whale. If they 94 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 1: come trying to sit me down, I'm gonna get him 95 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:51,479 Speaker 1: a word. And ain't gonna be your God that hands 96 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: up on me here not listen. I'm trying to hear that. 97 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: Now you can. I haven't been in that church fifteen years. 98 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: If I want to run, dance, shout, jump, whatever I 99 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: want to do, I'm gonna do it. Ain't nobody gonna 100 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: stop me. You're gonna have to stop this. This past 101 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: Sunday was your last Sunday doing it. And you're nothing 102 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: to do with this done like I said, just why, 103 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:14,160 Speaker 1: And I'm telling you could tell the answers, the deacon boyd, 104 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: the deaconess, the minister's wives or who all asked you 105 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 1: want to tell let him put their hands on me 106 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 1: and see if I don't swing on them. I'm gonna 107 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: come right about the spirit and swing on. I'm telling 108 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:24,919 Speaker 1: you that now because he said you don't really push 109 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: me that I have tried. Let me ask you this 110 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:31,479 Speaker 1: here where you're trying to show that I'm saying, but 111 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 1: you make it you if you're making me revert back 112 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 1: to my own ways and you you really off, that's 113 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: what you're gonna do. Okay, Well, let me ask you this, 114 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 1: what is the god at right now? And you where 115 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: is the one that say the god was killing me? 116 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 1: When I was trying to be cold with you had 117 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 1: fired to tell you on me calling me with this polishness. 118 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 1: But now you've made the other side of me roll 119 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 1: he's up. Well, you wouldn't raised it up, and now 120 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: you wouldn't raised it up in me too. Guess what 121 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: come Sunday, You're gonna set you in that pew and 122 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: you ain't gonna say you know, here's I'm okay, I 123 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: like I'm were gonna see how well I'm shitting that 124 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:09,160 Speaker 1: people matter say first, say Sunday morning, I'm going the 125 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: past Oh yeah, well, Deacon you are whatever your name is, 126 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: I'm gonna telling my body God how you need to lose. 127 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: I would be talking to Pastor myself and letting him 128 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: know about this situation. You don't talk, You don't know. 129 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: We can call pass right now, we're just passing on 130 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: feel you don't talk to Pastor. I talked to Pastor 131 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,720 Speaker 1: Pat This hurt sifting. Yes, Like I said, I'm telling you, 132 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: oh Jesus, you feel old Jesus, not not not not 133 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: not see just like this here, you see how you 134 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: calling on it and you standing Yeah, cause I'm calling 135 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 1: on him to kid me from just really going to 136 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 1: cuss you out right there because you've been really hitting 137 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: my nerves. I got one more thing I need to 138 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: say to you, lady. You know you better say real 139 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: quick because you're gonna talk to this operator that's his 140 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 1: nephew timing from the Steve Harvey Morning Show. You just 141 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: got pray by your girl. I'm on the park. Okay, Jesus, 142 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: I got one more thing, baby, Let me ask you something. 143 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 1: What is the baddest I'm talking about the baddest radio 144 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 1: show in the land. Morning. How y'all feeling this morning? 145 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: H y'all feeling this morning? Has everybody all right? Alright? Alright? Alright? Greensboro, 146 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: North Carolina. I will be in the building that's the 147 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: Carolina Theater this Saturday night. Take it to on sale 148 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: right now. I will be in the building that's Greensboro, 149 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 1: North Carolina. The Nephew will be in the building, and 150 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 1: then laying in the cot yes on October to of Salisbury, Maryland, 151 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: the Nephew will be in the building. What Comic Cold, 152 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: What Comic Cold? And I will be there all right 153 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: and being last but not least chuckles. I couldn't hold 154 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: that that long. Chuckles. In Jackson, Mississippi, the Nephew is 155 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: coming to town eleven, twelfth and thirteen. I will be there. 156 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: Take it's on sale right now. Chuckle's brand new comedy 157 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 1: club in Jackson, Mississippi, eleven twelve and thirteen, The Nephew 158 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 1: will be in town. Take its own sale right now. 159 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: All right, you got it? You understand it right? Greensborough, 160 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,319 Speaker 1: then Salisbury and then chuckles in Mississippi. That's how I 161 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: do it the nephew come to town. Stupid is on 162 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: the way. That's junior. Yeah, that's how you close stupid out. 163 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 1: How your ass put your mouth together that fast. But 164 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:54,599 Speaker 1: I love it. I'm on my way. Well, I'm on 165 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 1: my way all right, and I might come. I might 166 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,079 Speaker 1: get scarf on my head if it's in style. I 167 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: don't know, because you don't have to think out the nail. 168 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: What do you mean to show up? All right? Think 169 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 1: enough you? Thank you. Steve. Coming up next my Strawberry Letters, 170 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: subject I'm in the military. I'm in the military and 171 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: I never enlisted. We'll get into it right after this