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Speaker 1: Coming up at the top of the hour, right about

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Speaker 1: four minutes after it's time for today's Strawberry Letter. But first,

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Speaker 1: all right, let's get back into it. Tommy, Oh, it's

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Speaker 1: all Monica. Well no, no, he asked you after Junior.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about crushes right now, and we're all single

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Speaker 1: in the room. We're all single in the room. If

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Speaker 1: we hypothetically speaking, ladies and gentlemen. We went to Junior.

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Speaker 1: Steve went to Junior. Junior said out the gate, Monica Barnes,

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Speaker 1: what's happening? Yeah, okay, So Tommy, who you want to

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Speaker 1: be next? Tom I'm going with Color because I'm gonna eat.

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Speaker 1: She gonna cook. I've been in Mexico with cars excugely silent,

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Speaker 1: feel like we did something. Go ahead, all single, we're

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Speaker 1: all single. I just make a mess of it. So

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Speaker 1: all three yeah, yea, but didn't find out about each other. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and we don't share knowingly knowing it would probably be

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Speaker 1: too late by the end. All right, if I had

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Speaker 1: to just pick one, you know, I know I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: want I regret this because I don't like to be

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Speaker 1: corrected all the time. But it probably had to be

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Speaker 1: surely well, thanks to the only one left. Thanks, you're home.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be home. You're gonna be home though. Oh

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Speaker 1: that's right, I forgot. I'm sorry. I don't share. You

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Speaker 1: had a nice outfits though, after restaurant whatever? Whatever. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Well when we come back with this, the ladies turn. Okay,

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Speaker 1: here's the prank. Hello. Hello, I'm trying to reach Franklin. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is Franklin. Franklin, how you doing? This is Roosevelt

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Speaker 1: giving you a call from Human Resources? Hey, what's up? Roosevelt?

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Speaker 1: What could I do? All right? Man, I'm calling you

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Speaker 1: from Human Resources Trains the Partners. Where you been here?

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Speaker 1: You've been driving trucks for us for quite some time? Now?

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Speaker 1: What do you? Six? Six, six and a half years

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Speaker 1: right now? Man, I'm eight and a half years okay? Eight? Happy?

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Speaker 1: And how you doing? Man? I'm good man enjoining this

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Speaker 1: road life. Man. I love working with you guys. Man,

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Speaker 1: the benefits is there? I mean, I'm supposed to get

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Speaker 1: a call from you. I mean, I'm I'm sure you

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Speaker 1: on the road right now. You're probably driving. I wanted

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Speaker 1: to give you a call, and is it's a bad time?

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Speaker 1: Can you talk right now? Yeah? I actually told ope

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Speaker 1: but man, I had to get something to eat. Then. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: so listen, let me tell you what's going on here

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Speaker 1: with uh GTP. What we're doing is we are doing

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Speaker 1: some job exchange, and uh some of the drivers that

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Speaker 1: we have have been pulled out of a pool and uh,

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Speaker 1: some of you guys are gonna be actually driving in

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Speaker 1: different places. Now. So for the next six months, within

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Speaker 1: the next thirty days, you're Franklin, You're gonna be um,

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Speaker 1: You're You're gonna be driving trucks in South Africa. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna be or for about six for about six about

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Speaker 1: six months, you're gonna drive in South Africoa. Hold on,

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Speaker 1: holda hold, yeah, listen, I ain't got no file in

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Speaker 1: the South Africa. But yeah, rather mind, I'm not going

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Speaker 1: on the South Africa. I don't a job on the

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Speaker 1: right handside of the brow. And I love Africans. I

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Speaker 1: love everything about Adaca, but I'm not going on. I

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Speaker 1: got a family out here in the United States of

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Speaker 1: America and you're trying to tell me I gotta go

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Speaker 1: to South Africa. Come on, man, what type of do

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Speaker 1: you on that? It's it's frequently, it's part of the job. Exchange.

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Speaker 1: Just what it is, man, Okay, you change I got

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Speaker 1: going on? Man, I don't want to be part of

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Speaker 1: that job exchange. No, No, I'm not going to No,

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Speaker 1: damn South America. This is not happening. This is Listen

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Speaker 1: to the tracking six months and you'll be back in

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Speaker 1: the States. Okay, let me say this. A national geographic

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Speaker 1: program y'all got going on. Man. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: y'all got going on that. Y'all calling me. I'm in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the talking, trying to eat me at

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Speaker 1: cheeseburger from being on the road or one night, and

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Speaker 1: you're talking about sending me to South Africa? What type

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Speaker 1: of you on? Man? There's some foreign exchange program y'all

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Speaker 1: got going on it. I'm not being part of this.

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Speaker 1: You pulled my name out of pool like it was

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Speaker 1: a so soon to come tell me that I'm up

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Speaker 1: to be driving in south of that This must be

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Speaker 1: a joke, you know, I don't know. I'm not so listen.

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Speaker 1: You're this is a good thing, though, Franklin, I think

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Speaker 1: you're gonna like it and know it's not a good thing.

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Speaker 1: What are you telling me it's a good thing. I

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Speaker 1: got wife and kids, but I'm what then, are you

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Speaker 1: talking about South Africa? Do they even have roadways out there?

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to fight. Are you serious? You're not here,

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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not hearing this correct, brother, I'm not

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Speaker 1: hearing this correct. Mr Roses, though I don't salad what

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Speaker 1: my kids playing? Just telling me to South Africa? Are

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Speaker 1: you serious? Okay this flank? Hear me out here? Man?

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Speaker 1: Let me like I said, they pulled names out of

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Speaker 1: the pool, and uh, you and about fifteen other guys

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Speaker 1: are gonna be going to different parts. What type of

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Speaker 1: pool you pulled it in? You better put me back

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Speaker 1: in the shallow part. You're going to the deep end, pulls.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to South Africa. I'm not gonna Southria.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not taking on malarious shots, so

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Speaker 1: I don't even gotta pass. What do you want me

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Speaker 1: to go to about that? Well, listen to me, Franklin.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get you all the shots you need within

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Speaker 1: the next thirty days, so you'll be shut go. I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to go around go to South Africa and

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Speaker 1: Trump won't let me back into country because of y'all.

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Speaker 1: I'll quit right now. I'm not going to South Africa.

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Speaker 1: It's a job exchange, Franklin, let's tap a job change.

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Speaker 1: So what what what we're exchange it? You're bringing South

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Speaker 1: Africans over here, and then you're bringing me over with it, y'all,

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Speaker 1: I'll leave me. I'm not going. My wife is not

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Speaker 1: going to be happy about this. I'm not going my

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Speaker 1: like someplace. Basically, tell you that your salary actually doubles

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Speaker 1: the six months while you're over there. Don't try to

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Speaker 1: don't try to tell me about that with South African

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Speaker 1: dollars or American dollars. What is it? What is it?

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Speaker 1: Don't try that American dollars, frank Franklin, it will be

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Speaker 1: American dollars. I'm not going to South Africa. I am

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Speaker 1: not going that of fact, this my last day and broke.

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Speaker 1: Y'all could come pick up this and it's talking like

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Speaker 1: because I'm not going to South Africa. I don't care

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Speaker 1: how you spell it or you say it. I ain't going. Okay, Okay, Franklin, Listen,

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Speaker 1: you've been in the Country company eight a plus years

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Speaker 1: and I just gotta tell you you are obligated. You've

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Speaker 1: been chosen out of the pool. All you have to

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Speaker 1: do is six months. You're gonna get paid double, Your

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Speaker 1: family is gonna be fine, You'll be back. And I

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Speaker 1: ain't obligated to do but driving truck like I do

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Speaker 1: everything day, I'm not going You can't tell me about

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Speaker 1: being obligated. Let me tell you what I'm obligated to do.

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Speaker 1: I'm obligated to throw It isn't the truck. I'm forth

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Speaker 1: here and trying right through your human resources window because

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Speaker 1: I ain't going to South Africa. And I keep telling

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Speaker 1: you that I told you that since you got in

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Speaker 1: the damn phone, I ain't going nowhere. Okay, uh, but

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Speaker 1: but but but but let me ask you something, Franklin.

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Speaker 1: You've been here for what is for eight something years? Man?

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Speaker 1: You don't you don't want to continue your job here

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Speaker 1: with the company. I don't give a about this job

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Speaker 1: right now, trying to send me overseas like you're setting

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Speaker 1: me up problems. I ain't going out of fact. Let

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Speaker 1: me turn this truck on right now. I'm coming down

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Speaker 1: and see you Mr Roses out. Okay, hold on, h

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Speaker 1: do you know um Jermaine? Yeah, I know Rivers. What

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Speaker 1: do you gotta do with it? Okay? Let me go

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Speaker 1: and on say this Frankly, this right here that you're

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Speaker 1: talking to is nephew Tommy and your boy Rivers got

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Speaker 1: me the planking phone call you. You just got pranked

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Speaker 1: by your boy Jermaine Rivers. Oh that wait till I

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Speaker 1: see River. So you ain't no roses though, and I

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Speaker 1: ain't gotta go to South Africa. No god, uh man,

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Speaker 1: this is nothing. Man, I'm just listening on the road

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Speaker 1: or Rivers. You want to play it with us? Want

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Speaker 1: to put some sugar and check? All right? Franking before

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Speaker 1: we live? Man? Ill me this what is the baddest

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Speaker 1: radio show in the lands, The Steve Harvey Morning Show.

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Speaker 1: You can't send, you can't send. You can't tell black

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Speaker 1: people they got to leave here man, coming up at

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Speaker 1: the top of the hour. Like I said, right about

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Speaker 1: four minutes after Today's Strawberry Letter.