Speaker 1: Coming up at the top of the hour, right about
Speaker 1: four minutes after. It's my strawberry letter for today subject
Speaker 1: I'm stressed out in my classroom, but right now the
Speaker 1: nephew is in the building with today's prank phone call.
Speaker 1: What you got for us today?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Well, Shirley, A lot of pairers hate to hear it.
Speaker 3: Some of them get the call. You know, it happens
Speaker 3: sometimes your son didn't make the team. I'm gonna say
Speaker 3: it again, your son, Oh wow, didn't make the team.
Speaker 3: Let's go cat though.
Speaker 4: Hello.
Speaker 5: Hello, I'm trying to reach missus Lydia.
Speaker 4: This is she Mass.
Speaker 5: This is coach Watkins up at the up at the school.
Speaker 4: How are you, hey, Coach Watkins? I'm fine. What can
Speaker 4: I do for you?
Speaker 5: Listen, we've had Maleik out for the last week and
Speaker 5: a half. He's been coming to practice here at the
Speaker 5: Junior High School and wanted to reach out and give
Speaker 5: you a call about everything that's going on.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Well, I know he's really excited. He can't
Speaker 4: wait to start the season. He's ready working.
Speaker 5: Well, you know what, I'll be honest with you. He's
Speaker 5: a great kid, and he's got a good heart, and
Speaker 5: he's really really really trying and trying to produce as
Speaker 5: much as possible.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, he loves the game and he's been
Speaker 4: playing since he.
Speaker 6: Was a little kid.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you know, this is you know, this is
Speaker 5: the seventh grade. This is the first time some of
Speaker 5: these kids have played organized football, and this is the
Speaker 5: first time playing school football. And it's it's a big
Speaker 5: it's a big transition that if you've been playing little
Speaker 5: league ball, a pop warner or whatever you want to
Speaker 5: call it, it's a it's a big difference, in a
Speaker 5: big transition to go from one to the other.
Speaker 4: You understand, Yeah, I do understand. But Malika's been working
Speaker 4: really hard, yes, and he's ready.
Speaker 5: Well well, well let me let me say this. My
Speaker 5: main reason for calling you is letting you know that
Speaker 5: league as of right now is not going to be
Speaker 5: able to make the cut as far as what you well,
Speaker 5: he's not going to be a make the cut as
Speaker 5: far as being on the team for this year.
Speaker 4: Now, I got wait a minute, you said, wait, wait,
Speaker 4: you said that Malite is.
Speaker 6: Not gonna be able to make the team. It's not
Speaker 6: gonna make the team.
Speaker 5: He's a great kid, you know, he's a great.
Speaker 7: You know he's a great kid.
Speaker 4: But wait, maan, Now, he didn't play proper warner and
Speaker 4: he was a stunning quarterback, So what are you talking about.
Speaker 4: He's not gonna make the team this year? He was
Speaker 4: the best they had out on that squad.
Speaker 5: Okay, and you know what, I've heard a lot about him.
Speaker 5: I heard he did a great job. Heard about him.
Speaker 6: Wait a minute, what man, have you seen his stat?
Speaker 6: Twenty touchdowns in the season.
Speaker 5: I understand what are the kids is out there doing that?
Speaker 5: But you know what, but right now, we got a
Speaker 5: lot of different kids that are coming into this particular school,
Speaker 5: so you know, the competition has gone greater and greater
Speaker 5: than what we could possibly understand.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, when this is seventh grade, first of all, everybody.
Speaker 6: Makes the team.
Speaker 4: Nobody gets cut in the first place. You got an
Speaker 4: A team and a B team. So you're telling me, my,
Speaker 4: he ain't made.
Speaker 5: None of them teams? Right right now, miss Lydia. Uh
Speaker 5: you know? Uhlik? Like I said, Milika is a great kid.
Speaker 5: I like it.
Speaker 6: I know what Milik is.
Speaker 4: I know that he's a great kid and he's a ballplayer.
Speaker 4: Now I make sure that, so don't come telling me
Speaker 4: that he's not good enough to make.
Speaker 6: The cut on this seventh grade team. Well, don't come
Speaker 6: telling me who is the quarterback?
Speaker 7: Who?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you tell me what's going on?
Speaker 4: Who is the quarterback?
Speaker 5: Well? Actually, right now, my son is the quarterback?
Speaker 6: Your son?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean you know now, my son, yeah, is
Speaker 5: actually the quarterback. He hasn't done any pop warn or anything,
Speaker 5: but he really has what it takes to be the
Speaker 5: quarter never.
Speaker 6: Played football before, or he's never played organized.
Speaker 4: Football, but he's going to be the quarterback for the
Speaker 4: seventh grade team. Is that what you're telling me?
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, my son is actually a shorting quarterback, but
Speaker 5: that my son don't make.
Speaker 6: The teach and my son scored twenty touchdown twenty catch down,
Speaker 6: zeph What you're telling me?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 6: Hell no, I'm calling up to that school tomorrow.
Speaker 5: I will be up there tomorrow. Let me explain something.
Speaker 5: What I say? No, no, no, no, no, no no no no.
Speaker 4: I don't know what this is.
Speaker 6: It's nepotism or whatever you got going on around here.
Speaker 6: But hell no, my son ain't Nathan what. Hell no,
Speaker 6: it's gonna be smoking the city tomorrow.
Speaker 5: When I get up there, missus Lydia, What I want
Speaker 5: to say This is that if your son would take
Speaker 5: a year off lord and try to get itself together
Speaker 5: and get the fundamentals together together, a greater football player
Speaker 5: when he gets to be headed to the eighth grade?
Speaker 5: Was the wrong this all last year?
Speaker 7: What you going about?
Speaker 6: This fundamentals together? Your son ain't never even price But.
Speaker 5: You know what, I've worked with my son and you know,
Speaker 5: and it's a little it's a little awkward for me
Speaker 5: to try to talk about what my son has done.
Speaker 6: Yeahs behalf for you talking about because you don't know
Speaker 6: what your son has done, because ain't nobody ever seen
Speaker 6: in your touch. You just got this dream probably something
Speaker 6: that you ain't did you want to live viciously through him?
Speaker 5: Hell no, that's that is not it. I don't like
Speaker 5: all in school. I played in high school, and let
Speaker 5: me play this. I'm trying it through the best that
Speaker 5: I can and the best of my ability to make
Speaker 5: sure that everybody gets a good and fair shot at
Speaker 5: what's going on.
Speaker 6: I say not but he but he don't get to play,
Speaker 6: So what about getting shot?
Speaker 5: Get the work out to be some ble?
Speaker 6: Throw that to the mother mothers.
Speaker 5: That's some bull. I bet you.
Speaker 4: I guarantee you this my son to be starting this year.
Speaker 6: I guarantee you this.
Speaker 5: You don't want none of that, Okay, right now, all
Speaker 5: I can say is I need Malik to actually bring
Speaker 5: his cliques back because my son's gonna need him to
Speaker 5: play in what I fuck them?
Speaker 6: Your son ain't getting Your son's running down that field,
Speaker 6: We're gonna run barefoot. He ain't get mine nothing, man.
Speaker 5: From my records. Understanding is that the cliques actually came record, the.
Speaker 6: One that told you that my son. I can't fight
Speaker 6: your records' thinking about your records, you your mama.
Speaker 5: And the day she bushed your ma'nam. I'm not gonna
Speaker 5: sit here and go back and forth with you. All
Speaker 5: I'm trying to say is this that maleigue to do.
Speaker 6: You started looking for a new job. Get your resume together.
Speaker 5: Hey, you know what, ma'am. I'm not gonna go back
Speaker 5: and for I got one more thing I need to
Speaker 5: say to you.
Speaker 4: Nothing that you ain't got nothing else to say to me.
Speaker 4: My son to be playing, and I'll be up there tomorrow.
Speaker 5: I have one more thing I need to say to
Speaker 5: you or you listen.
Speaker 6: Only thing you need to tell me is who I
Speaker 6: need to talk to tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Now, I'll let you know that as soon as I
Speaker 5: tell you this are you're listening?
Speaker 4: I'm listening.
Speaker 5: What this is, Nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Speaker 5: Your sister Aina got me to prank phone call you.
Speaker 7: What hell? An?
Speaker 6: I thought that was really cool.
Speaker 5: You got here? You want about said the school wasn't
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Speaker 2: Right now in my new top Yeah, long time. You
Speaker 2: need to get your resume together because you're gonna need work.
Speaker 7: You're trying to live by careiously through him.
Speaker 5: Because not run down the side all your.
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 5: Oh man?
Speaker 1: What every parent of us student athlete is.
Speaker 3: If you involved with your sportsman?
Speaker 2: You know, touchdowns last year, he ain't making team. Who
Speaker 2: is your boy? Oh there's some of that nepartism.
Speaker 5: Boy, Yes, she did say it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know how you think of this stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, tell me that one right there that
Speaker 2: said my new top three.
Speaker 3: Big up to all the coaches. That's coaching all about children.
Speaker 5: We love y'all.
Speaker 3: We appreciate y'all. Man, We put our kids in y'all hands,
Speaker 3: and y'all try to make athletes out of them.
Speaker 2: So damn that if you don't play mine, I'm the
Speaker 2: lady on.
Speaker 1: The phone, all right, great one king of pranks, all right,
Speaker 1: thanking of you. Coming up next, Strawberry Letters, subject I'm
Speaker 1: stressed out in my classroom.
Speaker 5: We'll find out why.
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