Speaker 1: Coming up at the top of the hour, right about
Speaker 1: four minutes after, it's today's Strawberry letter. The subject for
Speaker 1: today check this out, guys. I was willing to settle
Speaker 1: for a loser, but right now the nephew is here
Speaker 1: with today's prank phone call. Was able to do with
Speaker 1: the one the last. All right, thank you. Well, this
Speaker 1: is International Women's Day, like you say, and you know
Speaker 1: how mothers are about their children. You'll mess with them
Speaker 1: about their kids. Okay, you call this mom, messed with her,
Speaker 1: told her that her child could not color, her child
Speaker 1: would not stay inside the lines, and she went in
Speaker 1: on you, sir, I'll believe us. Your son going back
Speaker 1: to going back to pre kate. I think that's going
Speaker 1: back to pre k running kick. Yes, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: reach Ms Thomas, Please Thomas. My name is Mr Stapleton.
Speaker 1: I'm actually the principal over at elementary school. You're I'm
Speaker 1: looking at my records indicating that your son, Thomas is
Speaker 1: going to be starting his first grade ready, right, listen,
Speaker 1: Ms Thomas, Um, I've been going through actually all of
Speaker 1: the children's records that will be starting school, and I'm
Speaker 1: looking at your son's grades from his kindergarten. Well, no,
Speaker 1: not exactly. I mean there's been a few. Uh. I
Speaker 1: actually spoke with the teacher who he was under in kindergarten,
Speaker 1: and it seems like he just really wasn't up to
Speaker 1: par as the rest of the children. Now, his conduct, Now,
Speaker 1: he talked, but he gets his work. So what else
Speaker 1: is she saying that that ain't right? Well? What what's
Speaker 1: what it seems to be, ma'am, is that his grades
Speaker 1: weren't up to par as the rest of the other children.
Speaker 1: She did tell me he was a disobedient child, talking
Speaker 1: too different things. Come on, Okay, well man, listen, what
Speaker 1: we've decided here is we're gonna let a little actually
Speaker 1: do another year of kindergarten. No, y'all ain't gonna let
Speaker 1: him do another year kindergarten, No, sir man, that's that's
Speaker 1: the only choice I have a uh No. We got
Speaker 1: our letter in the mail with our report card the
Speaker 1: week after school started, and it said on the back promoted.
Speaker 1: And if I got to get about this couch and
Speaker 1: go get it, I'm gonna be because I'm telling you
Speaker 1: right now, we will be in the first grade kindergarten
Speaker 1: when that hard. I'm not sure what they told you
Speaker 1: about him, but it must be the wrong. Well, if
Speaker 1: I understanding, he's he doesn't color as well as the
Speaker 1: rest of kids. He's all he's out of lines when
Speaker 1: he calor. He doesn't know his numbers completely. And that's
Speaker 1: kind of what we need when you first come into
Speaker 1: into the first grade. When I can show you on
Speaker 1: this paper he did satisfactory all the way through. Now
Speaker 1: you're about the off and I'm already sick calling me
Speaker 1: with some about my son blank and kindergarden. He that
Speaker 1: kind of he does not color well, man, color ain't
Speaker 1: to do with the dad guard kinder garden. He is
Speaker 1: going to the first grade, and I'll be down there
Speaker 1: on August four. No, I will not be able to
Speaker 1: allow you to get in the school on August when
Speaker 1: you I'm sorry, uh, and let me get let's tell
Speaker 1: you what. Let me go and get my pencil pen
Speaker 1: because I don't live that far from this school. And
Speaker 1: if y'all aren't read it down there causing some comflict,
Speaker 1: I need to get up and go down there because
Speaker 1: I'm not telling my baby when he come home the
Speaker 1: day that he ain't going to the day come first, man,
Speaker 1: I hate to say it, but I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: refuse education from him. You know what, I just went
Speaker 1: back and put him in public school. I know that
Speaker 1: was a stake in the first place. Food which I'm
Speaker 1: talking about some coloring. Give me your name again, sir Stapleton. Man, waitmen,
Speaker 1: I got the number them mind. I pulled up this
Speaker 1: report card. I got the numb in your name on
Speaker 1: the back of this paper. I'll tell you what I
Speaker 1: just tinted fourth. We'll be coming in there, going to school,
Speaker 1: and I might make a trip around that this evening
Speaker 1: when I come from the doctor. The bottom. I'm not
Speaker 1: want to hear that coling ain't got nothing to do
Speaker 1: with nothing else. It's not only color. Here's a rhythmic
Speaker 1: tickets back. No, um, are you working with him at home?
Speaker 1: Are you're doing anything at what you're trying to say.
Speaker 1: I'm an incompetent parent. I'm just asking, as a parent,
Speaker 1: are you working with your child? Working with my child
Speaker 1: every day? He can read better than you. Probably No,
Speaker 1: he can't read the prinsip don't read better than you,
Speaker 1: because obviously you read that role on that paper that
Speaker 1: he's supposed to be going back to kindergarten when I
Speaker 1: know the paper saying from it going to the first grade,
Speaker 1: and I'm not listening to no more this about him
Speaker 1: going backwards. Now, if you got a problem with your
Speaker 1: paper work, maybe you need to go talk to your
Speaker 1: secretary of somebody in there that wrote my baby name down.
Speaker 1: Your son's name, Thomas, ma'am, No, it ain't him, baby,
Speaker 1: I know it ain't him. You're not gonna sit up
Speaker 1: and tell me my son is flocking kindergarden. He is
Speaker 1: not going back to that kindergarten. Don't bring your son
Speaker 1: down here, do you hear me? I care you once
Speaker 1: be ready to me and my husband, but we will
Speaker 1: be down the back shoes, uniform everything. You hear me,
Speaker 1: I will not be able to allow him in education
Speaker 1: right now. I will come to that right now and
Speaker 1: make that correction on that paper for you. Can your
Speaker 1: daddy is not going back to No can'd gone for
Speaker 1: no coloring? Can you bring him down here and let
Speaker 1: him color from me? So I can you tell my
Speaker 1: color in the rim and taking all themselves? No, uh no,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Uh, we will be down there. I was
Speaker 1: still touring and four I would have this poor card
Speaker 1: in my head that says you have been promoted to
Speaker 1: the first guy that he's gonna have a mile on
Speaker 1: this face, and so are you. I got one more
Speaker 1: thing I need to tell you. Are you listening to me?
Speaker 1: I'm listening. You ain't saying nothing. Yeah, you better say
Speaker 1: something that sounds like the first glade because I'm not playing.
Speaker 1: I would go down to this day on the administrative office,
Speaker 1: and I had because my son would be in that
Speaker 1: first grade. Are you raising your voice? Who are you
Speaker 1: raising your voice? You're talking crazy to me. I'm cracking
Speaker 1: it in what ground? Woman? I don't need to be
Speaker 1: expended to you. Why I'm trying to Did you graduate? Honey?
Speaker 1: I am a college degree person. I have a great job.
Speaker 1: My husband and I do well for ourselves and for
Speaker 1: our children, and that's why we're not You're not even
Speaker 1: if you're not even at right now. Man, I told
Speaker 1: you that when you call here right on the doctor
Speaker 1: to call me now part of missing my phone call?
Speaker 1: Can you color because your son can't come? Color? God? Question?
Speaker 1: Ask me? Can I color you white? Black? Y asks
Speaker 1: me on my color? No? I ask you can you
Speaker 1: color like the racist lines? And that can you color? No?
Speaker 1: My coloring and me, the color ain't got nothing to
Speaker 1: do with none of this. It's just a race thing.
Speaker 1: He's trying to make sure you send him back. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to send him back. I want to
Speaker 1: send him back to color to get his coloring together.
Speaker 1: You what, that ain't got nothing to do with nothing.
Speaker 1: And if you're the head person down there, now, you
Speaker 1: aren't competent and you aren't in a literate call me
Speaker 1: and tell me that my son has to go back
Speaker 1: to the first grad. I got one more thing I
Speaker 1: don't want. I'll tell you what I'm through with. This
Speaker 1: guy comes through with this guy. I'm gonna say one
Speaker 1: more thing and I'm gonna be out here. Are your listening,
Speaker 1: I'm listening. That's his nephew, Tommy from the Steve Harvey
Speaker 1: Morning Show. You just got prank by your girlfriend for
Speaker 1: late Shore. I'm ob folicious. I am going to You're
Speaker 1: about to get to play. I mean, I'm write everything,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna everything. I'm gonna beat her because you know
Speaker 1: I don't play when it comes to back. That's all right,
Speaker 1: all right, but one more question. Now, what is the
Speaker 1: baddest I'm talking about the baddest radio show in the land.
Speaker 1: That's Steve. Baby. You can't mess with nobody but the kid.
Speaker 1: You cannot mess with no mama about her child together
Speaker 1: around here. You're gonna have to get it together. Next Friday, Baby,
Speaker 1: the Nephew will be in Washington, d c. At But
Speaker 1: there's the Blues and Jazz Supper Club. I would be there,
Speaker 1: that's all. I'm being the club. I'm gonna be doing
Speaker 1: my thing. Some people think I'm gonna be cooking all
Speaker 1: this think I'm gonna say it ain't ever been clear
Speaker 1: what I'm about to do. But one thing is for show.
Speaker 1: This comedy is for you, Jazz and Blue Supper. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be doing a little comedy to I like it.
Speaker 1: I like it, I like it, I like Steve, and
Speaker 1: I won't to come and see me. Your guess is good.
Speaker 1: It's what I'm gonna do, all right. Thank you guys
Speaker 1: very much. That was great coming up today's Strawberry Letters
Speaker 1: subject I was willing to settle for a loser. We'll
Speaker 1: get into it right after this