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Speaker 2: All my life, grinding all my life, sacrifice hustle peg price.

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Speaker 2: One slice got the brother Geist swap all my life.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Welcome to another edition of Club Shaha. I am

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Speaker 3: your host, Shannon Sharp. I'm also the propriet of Club

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Speaker 3: Shahe and the guy that's stopping by for conversation on

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Speaker 3: a drink today. When we started Club Shahe, we told

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Speaker 3: He's one of the most recognized and beloved global entertainers

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Speaker 3: He's an Emmy Award winning TV personality and talk show hosts,

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Speaker 3: New York Times bestselling author, National Association of Broadcaster Hall

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Speaker 3: Fan A comedy legend, top rated radio personality, popular game

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Speaker 3: show and TV host, producer, actor, writer, fashion entrepreneur, media monger, investor,

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Speaker 3: A true true renaissance man, not other than the great

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Speaker 3: Steve Harvey.

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Speaker 1: Steve all that that centro I've ever had? Did I

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Speaker 1: leave it to thing? Are? Probably did, but don't worry

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Speaker 1: about it. The card on is so big, Steve, the car.

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Speaker 1: We're out of time. How you doing, hey, man, I'm good.

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Speaker 1: First of all, let me say this, man, I don't

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Speaker 1: do a lot of podcasts. I've only done a few,

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Speaker 1: But when you call man, I had to do it.

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Speaker 1: Because of all the people on television, your commentary, you're

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Speaker 1: the one dude that thinks just like me. Man. You

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Speaker 1: ain't probably said nothing. I ain't disagreed with nothing. I

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Speaker 1: ass baritone that you'd be mispronouncing words? Me, you and Perkins,

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Speaker 1: Me and you and Perkins going to have a podcast

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Speaker 1: talking about Yeah they said it. Steve.

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Speaker 3: I know you, I know you. You you know, health

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Speaker 3: is wealth, and you're doing the right thing. But would

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Speaker 3: you would you would your grace me and have a

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Speaker 3: drink with me. This is actually is my own kind.

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Speaker 3: I actually do that. Don't worry about that. Pull that

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Speaker 1: I drink. I drink a little bit of a little bit. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I ain't gonna be drunk. No, no, no, no, We're not

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Speaker 1: never been drunk before in my life. Man. That's a

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Speaker 1: good thing. Yeah, I've never had more than one drink.

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Speaker 3: That's a good thing too. My brother, to all the success,

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Speaker 3: yank you brother. We're gonna send your here. We're gonna

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Speaker 3: send your way with a bottle of death.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's smooth. You know we need now is a cigar. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's all right. I appreciate it. No, that's pretty good, man.

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Speaker 1: So how you been, man? I'm good, you know, working

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Speaker 1: on my health, man, most important thing right now. I'm

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Speaker 1: good man. I really can't. You know. I've entered a

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Speaker 1: I was kept talking to God about these deals, you know,

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Speaker 1: figured it out. Man. God said, I want you to

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Speaker 1: I just went home. He said, I know you asking

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Speaker 1: and then we'll go from now. Right. But I had

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Speaker 3: So you were thinking that because the deals weren't happening,

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Speaker 3: I follow you, and I see you exercising, I see

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Speaker 3: Man, are you said that you were struggling sleep? Was

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Speaker 3: it because you have a hard time? Because I think

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Speaker 3: people that are successful really have a hard time turning

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Speaker 1: It never relaxes, so you can't sleep. That's exactly right,

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Speaker 1: That's exactly it. And the whole thing is you got

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Speaker 1: this here. But really, man, when you hustling and grinding, yes,

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Speaker 1: that's that's a cost for everything. Correct. You know, you

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Speaker 1: don't get here free. This come with a cost, and

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Speaker 1: just it. You know, people they got mad at me

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Speaker 1: I don't. I would give anything to be fully healthy.

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Speaker 1: lock and load. Man, you ain't eight If you sleep

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Speaker 1: eight hours, you sleep a third of your life. One

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Speaker 3: But Oprah has open didn't sleep like that trying to

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Speaker 1: Now she can sleep, she.

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Speaker 1: No, she ain't got to wake up for she can lay.

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Speaker 3: You from a small town in Welk, West Virginia. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: what was life like growing up in that small town?

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Speaker 3: How how long did you stay there until I was five, Okay,

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Speaker 3: See That's why I think kind of like when you

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Speaker 3: no running water. We drank whale water. I went outside

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Speaker 1: She was crushing me. Who in this neighborhood had been

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Speaker 1: I don't know you paused you that? Yeah, I was

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Speaker 3: But you had to work. If you miss school, they

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Speaker 1: You bring six, i'm'a bring six. Now. If you bring six,

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Speaker 1: Of course not. I didn't get it. I thought all

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Speaker 1: But we down what were doing? You know, I don't

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Speaker 1: even want I don't. I got so sick of I

429
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Speaker 1: was so sick of going to church. I asked my

430
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Speaker 1: big brother one time, said, let me ask you something,

431
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Speaker 1: how hot is hell? Because if he could have gave

432
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Speaker 1: me a number that I could work with, like one

433
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Speaker 1: twenty six, I was just gonna, like just gonna go

434
00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:29,640
Speaker 1: to Hell right, because dog, I ain't on the sports

435
00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:32,399
Speaker 1: teams or nothing, because I'm in church all the time.

436
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Speaker 1: But I didn't get it. I didn't get it until

437
00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:40,080
Speaker 1: I didn't really get it until I was homeless. I

438
00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:43,399
Speaker 1: ain't really get it. And everything she said to me

439
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Speaker 1: I heard it over and over and over and over

440
00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,840
Speaker 1: and over. But as you right as a child. No, man,

441
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Speaker 1: I didn't get it. I ain't see it. You say

442
00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:54,320
Speaker 1: you went to Kent State? Why did you go?

443
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Speaker 3: And you said about the guy that was saying that

444
00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:59,000
Speaker 3: he wanted to be a doctor. You had told me

445
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Speaker 3: that you weren't a good student. Why would you go

446
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:02,520
Speaker 3: to college if you're not a good student?

447
00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,080
Speaker 1: A man tell you the truth. My best friend, Ricardo,

448
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,640
Speaker 1: I heard he was going to Kent State. I didn't

449
00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,760
Speaker 1: even apply for college. But see, Kent was where they

450
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:16,480
Speaker 1: had killed the four kids the National Guard, so a

451
00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:21,440
Speaker 1: lot of blacks quit going to college down there. So

452
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,960
Speaker 1: they had this thing called Cleveland Scholarship program that would

453
00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:26,760
Speaker 1: give you free room and board if you went to

454
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Speaker 1: Kent State. So he had signed up for that program.

455
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Speaker 1: So when I found out he was going, I had

456
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Speaker 1: no ambition of going to college. It never crossed my mind.

457
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:38,639
Speaker 1: I was gonna work construction with my daddy. It was

458
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Speaker 1: like my two brothers. That's why I was gonna go.

459
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Speaker 1: I was gonna be a construction work and every summer

460
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Speaker 1: when I was in high school, I worked construction with

461
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Speaker 1: my daddy. That's when I knew this ain't for me. No,

462
00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,440
Speaker 1: I gotta do something else. Yeah, that's hard work, boy,

463
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,560
Speaker 1: just standing out on this bridge, it hot, with a

464
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,280
Speaker 1: hot tar mop in my hand. I said, no, I'm

465
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Speaker 1: gonna go to college. But I went there. I didn't

466
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,679
Speaker 1: have no steady habits or nothing, because I had worked

467
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,960
Speaker 1: all through high school pick and pay and grocery stores

468
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,200
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. I had a bike, and when

469
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 1: I was a senior man, I had enough credits while

470
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 1: I was through with school at twelve o'clock at one o'clock,

471
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:15,880
Speaker 1: I was on my job. What da he can stay?

472
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:17,120
Speaker 1: How you done?

473
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Speaker 3: Because I wasn't done with my college. I wasn't done

474
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Speaker 3: with high school at twelve o'clock. I ain't have no

475
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,199
Speaker 3: credit and I was. I was an okay student. I

476
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,879
Speaker 3: wasn't great. But you did enough. You did so you

477
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,679
Speaker 3: applied it. It was you wouldn't apply yourself. You were

478
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Speaker 3: a good student. You didn't apply yourself? Did I was

479
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:37,840
Speaker 3: a better criminal? You talking about cheating? Boy, knew who

480
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 3: the set nature. We had systems.

481
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna graduate right because we had systems, right, you know,

482
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 1: we was getting tests. I was doing everything. I ain't

483
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,160
Speaker 1: gonna lie to you. I did everything, man, just graduate.

484
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,919
Speaker 1: So I had plenty of credits. Wasn't no aids or

485
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 1: nothing like that. Only air of a guy was in

486
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,120
Speaker 1: gym physical. I got straight a's in gym, right because

487
00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 1: I loved anything to do with that. But I got

488
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,360
Speaker 1: out of school. I had enough. Plus Cleveland Public School, Man,

489
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 1: come on, we had a Vale Victorian and all that,

490
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:07,439
Speaker 1: and I didn't even know what that was.

491
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Speaker 4: Right.

492
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was at the graduation, just sitting there. We

493
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 1: had six hundred ninety five people in my graduating class. Wow,

494
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 1: I graduated six ninety six ninety five.

495
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Speaker 4: That's a huge school for back then.

496
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Speaker 1: No, it was three thousand people at our high school.

497
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:26,160
Speaker 1: We was number one track team in the state every

498
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Speaker 1: year I was there. And Teddy Ginn just won the

499
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Speaker 1: first state football championship for East Centy school in the

500
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Speaker 1: history that Glenville bought special place. I went to school

501
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 1: with Teddy Ginn. Okay, yeah, it's a special place. Man.

502
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Speaker 3: I heard you saying that when you did construction, you realized,

503
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Speaker 3: like you were standing on that bridge with that hot

504
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,240
Speaker 3: tar up in your hand, this issu ain't from me.

505
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Speaker 4: Is that? And I tell kids the exact same thing.

506
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Speaker 3: What you said, have a lot of jobs as a kid,

507
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 3: because it let you know what you don't want to

508
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,600
Speaker 3: do as an adult. Because if you a kid with

509
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 3: all that energy and you don't want do that when

510
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 3: you get on the door that you get older, you

511
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:02,960
Speaker 3: don't want no parts of that.

512
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Speaker 1: Man. It was, it was crystal clear to me. I said, Man,

513
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Speaker 1: I'm not the laborer, dude. Now, my father made us

514
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:12,720
Speaker 1: no hard work. I've been working on farm since I

515
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: was a kid. I was plowing behind a mule when

516
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:21,120
Speaker 1: I was eleven by myself. Wow, handling a till plow

517
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 1: with that little one.

518
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm working.

519
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 1: So I always knew what hard work was. But that

520
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 1: that thing I had wrote on the paper when I

521
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,960
Speaker 1: was ten, that never left my mind. I want to

522
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 1: be on TV. I kept like I watched everybody that

523
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Speaker 1: was on TV. Bill Cosby was the greatest influence because.

524
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Speaker 4: He was on I Spy and early sixty.

525
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Speaker 1: In sixty six. So when he came on TV, he

526
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 1: was the first black person that had a speaking role.

527
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Speaker 1: So I'm looking at this dude. Here he talking to

528
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Speaker 1: white folks and telling them what to do. And then

529
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,720
Speaker 1: moremad Lee was out here right okay saying I am

530
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,199
Speaker 1: the greatest right. So I had worked that had we

531
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 1: had the same birthday, man, So I adopted Muhammad al

532
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 1: l as my mentor in my head. And when I

533
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: met him for the first time, I cried for thirty

534
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:22,400
Speaker 1: minutes NonStop. I got the two pictures of my heroes.

535
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,439
Speaker 1: I met Richard Pride, I got the picture of the

536
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,439
Speaker 1: day I met Richard Pride, and I had a photo

537
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,360
Speaker 1: the day I met Mohammad Ali, and I'm in tears

538
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 1: and both them photos because they meant that much to

539
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 1: me that Mohammad Ali talking to white people, the way

540
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 1: he was talking to him, calling rounds, I am the greatest.

541
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 1: The thing he said that stuck with me the most

542
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,879
Speaker 1: was he said, I said I was the greatest before

543
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: I was the greatest. Wow. And that etched in my brain.

544
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 1: So that's what taught me to manifest things before it happens.

545
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,120
Speaker 1: I was saved all the time. And so those were

546
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 1: the two greatest influences in my life. Man, that pushed

547
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,879
Speaker 1: me to want to follow that dream and pursue it.

548
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 3: You know, you didn't know what you wanted to be

549
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 3: on television. You just wanted to be on TV. I

550
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 3: had no idea. I didn't even think it was comedy.

551
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 3: I knew I was quick quitted as a child, as

552
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,479
Speaker 3: my mama used to take me to church on Friday

553
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 3: nights and get me prayed for because it's something.

554
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,400
Speaker 1: Wrong with this boy. Because this boy just saved whatever

555
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: on his mind. I couldn't cut it off, Shannon. If

556
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:36,199
Speaker 1: you said something to me, I said something back. And

557
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,679
Speaker 1: what I had to say was pretty shocked. And I

558
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 1: got a lot of ass whippings for that. I got

559
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 1: put in the principal's office for that. A lot of times.

560
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: I just couldn't cut it off. My mama thought something

561
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: was wrong with me. I didn't know that was my gift,

562
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: but I didn't know how to harness it. I didn't

563
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 1: know how to work it man, and I was just

564
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 1: find it off. It took me until I went to

565
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 1: kiss and a girl named Ida Washington who married one

566
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,119
Speaker 1: of my best friend's name Wayne Nawles. When I was

567
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: a freshman, she was a sophomore. She set me down.

568
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:12,880
Speaker 1: She said, Steve, can I talk to you? I said yes.

569
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: She said why did you come to college? Would you

570
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: say a good question? Yeah, I said, I don't know.

571
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: It's free. She said, you don't belong here. Wow. She said,

572
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: you wasting your time. She said, you be You don't

573
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 1: even belong here. She said, you don't know it, but

574
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,200
Speaker 1: you gonna be a star one day. Wow, And I

575
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: will what. She was the first person ever told me that.

576
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: I was a freshman sitting there going that sound good.

577
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: I I won't that, but I don't. I have no

578
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: concept of how to make it happen. And then as

579
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: a freshman I heard Richard Pryde album. I was listening

580
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: to wont It and I and then I went and

581
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 1: got Everything Callsby Dead, everything Pride did. And then in

582
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six, Pride came out with Bi Centennial Nigga.

583
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: In that album, I memorized everything, everything, every joke he said, everything.

584
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 1: So when the dudes was in the room getting high,

585
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: I get a chair, stand up in the chair, do

586
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: Pride do cos Me? I do stuff I had written,

587
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: but I still didn't know it was comedy at that time.

588
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,240
Speaker 3: So were you? So when did you start writing jokes? Okay,

589
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 3: you fell in love with Pride, you fell in love

590
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 3: with Cosby. You know what they did. So when did

591
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 3: you start writing jokes and started morphing and moving in

592
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 3: that direction?

593
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 1: Well? It was by accident, really, because the comedian named

594
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: aj Jamaul Okay was a friend of mine and he

595
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: worked at IBM and I worked at General Electric and

596
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 1: he was doing comedy, but I didn't know what that was.

597
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: And he would come to me and say, hey, man,

598
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: I wrote this joke. What you think because he knew

599
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: I was funny, right, and so I would correct it.

600
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: I would say, no, man, say this, this and this right.

601
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: And he would give me ten dollars every time I

602
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: gave him a joke, So I'll make it extra forty

603
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 1: dollars a week. Right, you know, I'm going, like you

604
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 1: this nineteen eighty man, that's cool. I ain't know what

605
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 1: he was doing with the joke, right. I never heard

606
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 1: of a comedy club before. I had never heard of

607
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,239
Speaker 1: how I could be a professional comedian. And then one

608
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 1: day I was over his house turning these jokes in

609
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: and this girl named Gladys Jacobs was there and she said,

610
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: you the dude that's writing these jokes for Jamal and

611
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: I went yeah. She said he the funniest. He the

612
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: funniest comedian at the comedy club. I said, really, with

613
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: your jokes? Yeah, I mean he wrote his own. But

614
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 1: I wrote you he and I was going, what what

615
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 1: you talking about? She said, at the comedy club. He

616
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: the funniest one. I said, what are you talking about

617
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: comedy club? She said, you ain't never been to old

618
00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 1: comedy club. I said no, She said, why are you

619
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: writing him? Don't sit here? Why don't you do them yourself? Now,

620
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: I'm twenty six, about to be twenty seven, I got

621
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: two kids, twins, I'm struggling, I'm lost. I still don't

622
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: know what I want to do, but that I want

623
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: to be on TV was just in the back of

624
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: my head. You did so. She said, I'm gonna pick

625
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: you up Tuesday night and I'm gonna take you to

626
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 1: this place called Hilarities Comedy Club, and I want you

627
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,719
Speaker 1: to see what they do. So I went down there.

628
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 1: She picked me up. We rolled forty minutes down. The

629
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: Hilarities is in Cleveland. It's in akron, Ohick Kyle Hogle Falls, Ohio,

630
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: right between Cleveland and Acting. Now I'm dust down there, right,

631
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: but I can't stay. Yeah, I go in and she

632
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: say sign up for next week. So I sign up.

633
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: I don't even know what I'm doing, and I'm sitting

634
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: down there and I'm watching these comedians go up and

635
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: it's ten of them. It's amateur night, right, And I'm

636
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: not laughing. She say, why you laughing, because I'm rewriting

637
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: all these jokes. Oh okay, I'm just not I'm sitting

638
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: in there going man, he should have said this, he

639
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: should have said that. And finally got to number ten

640
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: and they call this guy's name and he ain't there.

641
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: And they called his name again and he ain't there,

642
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: and they said, well he's not here. We're gonna go

643
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: the next week's list. Give it up for Steve Harvey.

644
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: Now I'm and I hear her say give it over

645
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: to Steve Harvey. I turned to her and say, it's

646
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: a dude in here, got the same name I got.

647
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: She said, you a stupid son of a bitch. She

648
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: was a hood chicks. He said, you a stupid son

649
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 1: of a bitch. She looked at me so disgusting. You

650
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: just a stupid son of a bitch. And I guess

651
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 1: I was. She said that's you, and they kept clapping,

652
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: and he said, where is Steve and she said here

653
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: is Oh. He said, Steve, come on up. I just

654
00:32:55,920 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: ran up on stage, man, and I was standing at

655
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: his room full of all whites, and I said, hey, y'all,

656
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: listen here. I ain't even supposed to be here. I'm

657
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: on next week's show. And they started laughing. You know,

658
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: white people laughed different, that's you just said that in

659
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: front of black people. Well why is your ass?

660
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 4: Why are you up there?

661
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 1: Immediately, but white people thought it was the joke, and

662
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: then I was lost. I didn't know what to do.

663
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: She said, tell him about when you was boxing. She

664
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: just hollowed out. So I was telling her on the

665
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: way down about this dude named but No Taylor that

666
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: I had fought at Golden Glove and it was a

667
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: big duel, and it was a whole joke about how

668
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 1: he had punched me one time and he didn't have

669
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: nothing but left hook. He didn't have none but the

670
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: left hook to the kidney. That's all he had. You

671
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: could whoop his ass the rest of the fight. But

672
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: if he got that left hook in, he was gonna

673
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: crumble your ass. And he got it in, and I

674
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: imitated how he got in the ring because he was pigeon.

675
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 1: Told it a's white folks was dying laughing, so they

676
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 1: got a laugh. And then I said, well, man, I

677
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: gotta laugh. Let me keep telling joke. So I wrote

678
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: another joke for Jamal that I hadn't sold him yet,

679
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: and back then I can't do this joke now. But

680
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 1: it was a joke. This is eighty five. It's a

681
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:23,399
Speaker 1: joke about AIDS, right, which was perfectly acceptable back then.

682
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: Nobody knew the horror of it. It hadn't quite So

683
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 1: I did this joke and they was dying laughing. Horrible joke,

684
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:34,800
Speaker 1: completely horrible, right, distaste for everything, knowing what you know today,

685
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:39,439
Speaker 1: But then died laughing. I walk off stage. They bring

686
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: all ten of us back up, they have a clapof.

687
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:47,240
Speaker 1: I went in the clapoff. I win fifty dollars. You hooked.

688
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: An agent came up to me and said, man, how

689
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 1: long you been doing this? It's been to be been

690
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 1: at just about three years, huh, I said yeah, saying

691
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 1: I look right at him in lie problem. I got

692
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: the fuck fifty dollars. I'm driving home forty minutes. I'm

693
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:10,919
Speaker 1: crying the entire ride home. Gladys looking at me. She said,

694
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 1: what you're crying for? It ain't but fifty dollars, I said,

695
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: you don't understand. I went to work the next day

696
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,280
Speaker 1: and quit my job with fifty dollars.

697
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 3: So that was the moment that you says, Okay, this

698
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 3: is what I want to do with my life.

699
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: Ain't got nothing else. This is the brightest light bulb

700
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: ever came on for me. That light bulb had never

701
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: switched on better for me at nothing. Lincoln Electric, General Electric,

702
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: Corfee cleaningrib Joint, Amway Products, Shackley Products, did Gregory Bohemian

703
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: die Al Williams Insurance, Commonwealth Insurance. I had all these jobs.

704
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: The light bulb went off. I was born that night,

705
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: and I went to work next day and quit my job.

706
00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 1: Came home and told my mama I quit my job.

707
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: She tried to talk me back into it. Told my brothers,

708
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: they said, man, you crazy. Created a lot of problems

709
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 1: with my ex wife. That wasn't her fault, man, that

710
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,720
Speaker 1: was me. I just I shouldn't have been nobody's husband

711
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 1: at twenty four. I made a lot of mistakes, right.

712
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: But I told my father, and my father again said,

713
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: well boy, if you think you can make it, go ahead,

714
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 1: And so that was it. I struck out.

715
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 3: You lucky because a lot of fathers back then it

716
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 3: was like if you went to school, you did school

717
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 3: and you came and did what the father did, or

718
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 3: you dropped out of school and did what the father did.

719
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 4: Your dad was.

720
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 3: Very unique, Steve. I don't know if you realized it

721
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 3: at the time, but you probably do now. He encouraged

722
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:42,760
Speaker 3: you to follow your dreams.

723
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: Because my daddy was funny man. He told me one

724
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: time he came to see me, I was selling out

725
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,959
Speaker 1: arenas you know. My father told me he's a boy.

726
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:54,800
Speaker 1: I could have done that shit you doing? How that

727
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 1: did it? Look at you? My father would cry all

728
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: the time, look at it. He come to show man.

729
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 1: My mother never saw me live because my mama saved.

730
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,359
Speaker 1: She didn't want to hear to cuss. It. Can't cuss

731
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:11,720
Speaker 1: my daddy. He came down there, fuddy cussing. My daddy

732
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 1: was down there cussing with me.

733
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 4: My father, so go ahead, go ahead, fish.

734
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 1: My father was the front row one time in Mississippi

735
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: at the DeSoto Center. He came to see me, hire

736
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 1: and my brothers, and he turned around. They was laughing,

737
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:29,399
Speaker 1: and this lady said, you laughing real hard at this show.

738
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 1: He said, you know who the fuck that he is

739
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 1: up there? That's my boy. I made that motherfucker right there.

740
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 1: That's my little motherfucker that looked that motherfucker come out

741
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:41,800
Speaker 1: of ease here. It's motherfucker down here. Because my father

742
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: man was a hard ass cat, but he was the

743
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: one that encouraged me to most me did.

744
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 3: I'm looking at guys like Samuel Jackson to Moran Morgan Freeman.

745
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 3: Samuel Jackson found success at forty. Morgan Freeman was fifty two.

746
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 3: You almost forty, you said thirty eight when you got

747
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 3: your big break? Do you think that really helped you?

748
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 3: Because you didn't have success so early. It made you

749
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,320
Speaker 3: appreciate the trials and tribulations that you had gone.

750
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: Through gone through to get to this point. You know

751
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: it really did. Man. See, the thing I learned is

752
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: gifted people. God almost runs you through the furnace with

753
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: your gift before he allows the gift to manifest this Okay,

754
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: like you, you had to go through all the different

755
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: levels before you became a pro, correct, and it made

756
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,320
Speaker 1: you appreciate your career. You weren'd hard, Yes, your ass

757
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 1: was a dog man. You came to every practice, everything

758
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 1: because you appreciated it. Yes, if he had gave you

759
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:44,839
Speaker 1: that at eighteen, you to mess it up right, if

760
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 1: he'd gave me this at thirty, I'd have ruined it.

761
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:52,720
Speaker 1: It's no way I could have this much success these

762
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: checks at thirty. I'm telling you right now, I would

763
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 1: have used all my powers for evil. A dog ain't

764
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: nowhere it work. I would have been abusive. It's no way.

765
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:16,720
Speaker 1: The women that I would have gone for in my thin,

766
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:24,280
Speaker 1: well built bro cast light, if I had any money

767
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: to go with that, if I could have got the

768
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: haircut I could afford to get later on, if I

769
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: could afford the wardrobe I could afford, then, oh, Lord,

770
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 1: have mercy. I would have ruined it. I would have

771
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 1: taken it and thrown it out the window. But he

772
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 1: shaped me. He took all these years to gather me.

773
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 1: He let me live in that car a little over

774
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: three years now. I had learned a lesson. When I

775
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 1: was homeless. I was good, and I told him. I said, hey, God,

776
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: I'm good. You know I got it. I don't know

777
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: what you're trying to tell me, but trust me, I

778
00:39:56,040 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 1: got it. Try to tell me you got my undivided attention. Yeah, man,

779
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 1: she said, nah, a little bit longer, Yeah, I got.

780
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta, I gotta. I gotta put keep

781
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:07,839
Speaker 1: you in this furnace a little bit more.

782
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 3: When you're living in the car, what's your besides obviously

783
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 3: you're living in a car, But what's your lowest?

784
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:15,760
Speaker 4: What? What?

785
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 1: What? He's like? Damn?

786
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 4: Where did that go wrong? Should I have done this?

787
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 4: Should I have said?

788
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 1: What?

789
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 4: Where did that go wrong? What's your lowest?

790
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: Pensacola, Florida. You know, I used to park my car

791
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:34,799
Speaker 1: in a like expensive parking lots like Ritz Carlton, you know,

792
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 1: stuff like that. You know, high end hotels, right cause

793
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 1: they had the bathrooms. They had linen towels in the basket,

794
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 1: and they had the bathroom doors that went all the

795
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,240
Speaker 1: way to the floor, right. So I would take them

796
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 1: linen baskets and run hot water over the whole basket

797
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: and get some soaping, go in there and shut the door,

798
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: and I leather up and and shower, and then I

799
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 1: wait till I don't hear nobody. I go out there

800
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 1: and get another basket, wait it all up, and come

801
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 1: and get all the soap off of One time, man,

802
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: I was catching it real bad man. You know. I

803
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 1: was in Pensacola, Florida, and I went into this bathroom

804
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 1: and I got this soap and I leathered up. But

805
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: there was a convention and they had let out, and

806
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:22,879
Speaker 1: so it was just me and coming in the bathroom continuously.

807
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,919
Speaker 1: So I couldn't couldn't get back out there to get

808
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: to neck to fresh cloths. So I set the toilet

809
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: lid down, and that soap just dried on me. And

810
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 1: I was sitting there, man, and just tears. I said, man,

811
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 1: look at my life. I'm washing up in bathrooms. I've

812
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 1: been taking baths and washing up at rest stops and

813
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 1: gas stations. I'm going home, man, I quit this enough.

814
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:55,399
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go home. Call my daddy, asking him, because

815
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,359
Speaker 1: my father had a simple rule. Once you leave here,

816
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 1: do yeah, you can't come back. So I said, let

817
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 1: me call home, ask him, can I can I just

818
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 1: come home for six months? Find me another job. I

819
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:11,919
Speaker 1: remember thirties now, man, and see if I can start over.

820
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 1: So I go home. I call him. He ain't home.

821
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,360
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody at home. But I had an answer machine

822
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: and they attic. So I called an answer machine and a

823
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 1: message came through from dude named Chuck Suddon. Rest in peace.

824
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 1: He passed now, he said, Steve, his Chuck suddon from

825
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: showtime at the Pollow. I just saw a videotape of

826
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 1: yours are extremely funny. We gotta opening Sunday night. This

827
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,359
Speaker 1: is a Thursday. We gotta open this Sunday night at

828
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: showtime at the Apollo Hall of New York. If you

829
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 1: can get here, let me know. Now. This is after

830
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:44,960
Speaker 1: I done got up off.

831
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 4: This tor toilet. But you got drive soap on you.

832
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: So I just put my clothes on and I went out,

833
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: got me a my quarters, and I called the house.

834
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 1: And then this machine comes up. I still got soap

835
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: on me. I got my clothes on. I'm giving up.

836
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: I'm going home. I'm gonna drive to Cleveland. I'm gonna

837
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: go home. He said, if you can get here Sunday,

838
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Click call me if you can make it. Now.

839
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 1: I'm in Prinscola, Florida. I got thirty five dollars, he said, Sunday.

840
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:18,280
Speaker 1: How the hell I'm gonna get to New York by Sunday.

841
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: So now, man, I'm in the car. I'm wiped out again.

842
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: The first chance I got to be on TV and

843
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:29,439
Speaker 1: I can't even get there. Oh, dog, you don't know, man,

844
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 1: that moment for me was so crushing. I feel it.

845
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: I don't like telling it because I feel it. Man, Hey,

846
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:43,800
Speaker 1: it crushed me. So I said, ah, this is God really.

847
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 1: So I went back to check the machine make sure

848
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 1: he said this Sunday. I called him back. He said

849
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: the same thing. It's a great tape. If you can

850
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 1: make it this Sunday, let me know. And when I

851
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: got ready to hang up, it beaped again. Now this

852
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: time it didn't beat before another beat came through. So

853
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 1: that means another message, said Steve Harvey is Tom Sober

854
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: from the comedy Caravan. I don't know where you are,

855
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 1: but I got an opening tomorrow night in Jacksonville, Florida,

856
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:12,839
Speaker 1: at the Punchline on Bay Metals Boulevard. If you can

857
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: get there, I got a hundred and fifty for you.

858
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 1: I called Tom. I said, hey, man, I'm in Pensacola.

859
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,959
Speaker 1: I can make it Friday night. I went and made

860
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 1: the one hundred and fifty dollars. I was so funny.

861
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 1: He fired the guy whose place I was taking and said,

862
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,759
Speaker 1: if you do a Saturday night, I'll give you another

863
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty. Saturday morning, I called showtime and

864
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 1: the apollo asked Chuck. I said, hey, man, it is

865
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 1: that thing still open for Sunday? He said, sure, it

866
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: is for you. I said, I'll be there Sunday. I

867
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 1: performed Sunday Night. Now. I got three hundred dollars. Eastern

868
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: Airlines was open there and I got a ninety nine

869
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 1: dollars ticket. Flew all the way to Hall of New York.

870
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: Everything I had in two bags. Went to the Hall

871
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,239
Speaker 1: of New York. Two o'clock in the afternoon. They said,

872
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 1: you can't come in here till six. I said, man,

873
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: I ain't got nowhere to go. Just let me. I'll

874
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 1: go upstairs. I won't move security. Let me go upstairs.

875
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:04,359
Speaker 1: I asked him, can I go get some chicken? Four

876
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: hours later, he said, man, I told your ass you

877
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,359
Speaker 1: can't go nowhere. You know this hall and they don't play.

878
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: I said, man, I just gotta give me something to eat.

879
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: He said, if you ain't back in twenty minutes, this

880
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 1: door lock. I got back in twenty minutes. Six o'clock

881
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 1: came all the comedians on the sixth floor. I meet

882
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 1: a dude named Dwayne Johnson, not the Rock then nam

883
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:29,799
Speaker 1: Dwayne Johnson. I met a dude named Dale Hughgley. I

884
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: met another dude named Jamie Fox. Wow this nineteen ninety one,

885
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 1: ninety two. We looking at each other. Man, I never

886
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: heard of them. They had never heard of me. I

887
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 1: saw a couple of pictures in comedy club. That was it.

888
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 1: I met him. We started going on stage with six

889
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 1: comedians at night. All of 'em got booed off. But

890
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 1: when they started booing, Jamie Jamie ass starts singing and

891
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 1: the one they ass back. I had never seen nothing.

892
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:59,400
Speaker 1: I had never seen Apollo ordience stop booing before Jamie

893
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 1: Fox starts. I said, Man, who is this dude right here?

894
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 1: And then he went back to the jokes and they

895
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 1: got his ass. Now I'm last. Now imagine this man,

896
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:14,320
Speaker 1: I'm sitting him. Man, I mean I can't. I'm shaken, nervous.

897
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: I'm scared to death. Yea, ladies and Jeremy Cleveland, ohow,

898
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey. I went out there. I had just wrote

899
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: this joke about Mike Tyson getting in the fight with

900
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 1: Mitch Green. Yeah, and Mitch Green was talking and then

901
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 1: the eye took over, right, And I had just wrote

902
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 1: that joke and I did it for the first time

903
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 1: on showtime to pollow them black folks told that place

904
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 1: up holly laughing. I got standing ovation walked off. Two

905
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 1: weeks later, they said, would you come back again? I

906
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 1: went back. Two weeks later, they said, Mark Curry's missing,

907
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 1: Would you do us a favor and host Amateur Knight.

908
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey went hosted Amateur Knight. I've been on TV

909
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 1: every since, man, ever since.

910
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:08,479
Speaker 3: But did you know, like when you told that joke,

911
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 3: the Mitch Green joke, and they invited you back, did

912
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 3: you know I'm here to stay?

913
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 1: I I I I it was no way I was

914
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 1: going back. I was so ready the second time. I

915
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 1: wrote a set the second time that I thought was

916
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:26,359
Speaker 1: funnier than that. They was just waiting on that Mitch

917
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 1: Green joke. Right, I put a plastic shower cap on

918
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 1: my head. I was doing this thing about why they

919
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:33,840
Speaker 1: always go get the black dude at the fire with

920
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 1: the shower cap on to explain whatever. Right, they laughed

921
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:38,919
Speaker 1: at that, but they were waiting on that eye joke.

922
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 1: Do the high no problem. Then we get that. I

923
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: moved that eye joke right on up right, I did

924
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: that eye joke again. They ass fell out again, and

925
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 1: that was it, man, I was I was, and then

926
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 1: Chuck Sunnon said, hey man, it's between you and a

927
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:58,400
Speaker 1: few other people were considering making you the permanent host

928
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 1: of Amateur Night. I did that for one year. I

929
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:05,760
Speaker 1: was so good. They said, hey man, would you host

930
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 1: the entire show? And I said yeah, but I said,

931
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:13,319
Speaker 1: under one condition. You had to get rid of all

932
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 1: the warm up acts. I'll stay out here on this

933
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 1: stage and keep the crowd warm between acts and everything.

934
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:24,759
Speaker 1: And they let me do it because Apollo was dangerous place. Man.

935
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 1: The first year I had a warm up act. He

936
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 1: would go out there and they would get pissed. I

937
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: would hear them booing and stuff. Now I got to

938
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: go back out here and resurrect this dead ass crowd, right,

939
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:35,880
Speaker 1: So I just start doing it all myself. And I

940
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:37,319
Speaker 1: stayed on TV man.

941
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:41,399
Speaker 3: So we're gonna get back to that. Is that kind

942
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 3: of why you do the way you do it? Family

943
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 3: for you, bro, because I noticed, like I said, I

944
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,319
Speaker 3: haven't seen a whole lot of behind the scenes, but

945
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 3: it's like you in part life lessons on the audience.

946
00:48:55,440 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 1: That's comes from When I was homeless, I was so distraught.

947
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:05,839
Speaker 1: At one point I cut a deal with God. I said, God,

948
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 1: if you let me make it. When I get there,

949
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 1: i'm'a tell everybody's who it was, and i'm'a tell him

950
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 1: about you. So whenever we go to commercial break, I

951
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 1: try to give people that come see me. Instead of

952
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:21,320
Speaker 1: a laugh, I try to give him something, right, just something.

953
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 1: Now I'm old enough man that I don't I I

954
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:27,280
Speaker 1: don't done a lot. I try to give him something.

955
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,320
Speaker 1: And at the end of the show, everybody call it church.

956
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,240
Speaker 1: I had this moment. Now, at the end of the show,

957
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:36,400
Speaker 1: it's just all about the creating what he's done and

958
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:38,280
Speaker 1: how you can have a relationship with him and stuff,

959
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: you know, And like, I ain't no, I ain't no minister.

960
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 1: You understand. I'm I'm a I'm a h at best.

961
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 1: I'm a entry level I've been practicing entry level Christianity

962
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 1: for a long time, right cause I found out I

963
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: didn't do good at advanced Christianity. Ain't no need of

964
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: me doing that. I'm r I'll still slap you. You

965
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 1: understand you. You can't get up in my face. But for

966
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:05,959
Speaker 1: so long I still cuss. I shoot dice, I drank

967
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:09,399
Speaker 1: a little kangnac, I smoked cigars, and I gamble. Now

968
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:13,879
Speaker 1: I don't think that's all Christian like. But when I'm

969
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:16,800
Speaker 1: in Vegas, you know, I'm I'm trying to win my ties.

970
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:25,920
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to win my ten percent strong though, right,

971
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: So I try to shake.

972
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 4: Him loose.

973
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:34,359
Speaker 1: The Steve Harvey Show comes. How did that come about?

974
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:38,440
Speaker 1: I was on radio in Chicago. I had finished up

975
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 1: this show on ABC called Me and the Boys, Yeah,

976
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:44,800
Speaker 1: which got canceled, the highest rated show in the history

977
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 1: of ABC to ever get canceled. I finished the season

978
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 1: number twenty one out of one hundred and forty four shows.

979
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 1: But this dude, Matt Williams I think his name was,

980
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 1: who had the TV show Home Improvement with Tim Allen. Yes,

981
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 1: he had a deal where if his show the finished

982
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:02,320
Speaker 1: in the top ten and he could get the time

983
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: slot after him, and that was my time slot. So

984
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:08,719
Speaker 1: they took me off TV and they gave me a

985
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:11,319
Speaker 1: pretty large holding deal. After that, they don't do them

986
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,759
Speaker 1: deals no more. But they gave me a pretty large

987
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: holding deal. And I went and bought a house with

988
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 1: my holding deal, cause I figured that Hollywood I at

989
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: least be a homeowner, right, I bought my first house.

990
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:26,160
Speaker 1: My first house I bought was in ninety ninety five,

991
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: my first house was a million dollars and in ninety

992
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:33,480
Speaker 1: five for me, that was like crazy. I didn't even

993
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: go to the bank. I just cut the deal I had.

994
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: I took my whole holding deal four hundred thousand right

995
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: and gave it to a developer that was building the house.

996
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 1: He finished the house and then I worked it out

997
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 1: with him. That's how I bought my first house. And

998
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 1: so I was going somewhere with you, but I I

999
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:55,279
Speaker 1: w afive. Yeah, I bought bought my show, and then

1000
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 1: I was doing radio in Chicago and they called me

1001
00:51:57,680 --> 00:51:59,839
Speaker 1: and said, we have a show idea for you, and

1002
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:01,919
Speaker 1: they flew me out there lay this is my second show,

1003
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:03,760
Speaker 1: and they said, we want you to be a music

1004
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: teacher at this school, and your best friend is gonna

1005
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 1: beat This dude named George Winn and George Wynn played

1006
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:15,919
Speaker 1: on the show Cheers. He was the male man. Know him.

1007
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,399
Speaker 1: At the end of the bar, he said, you guys

1008
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 1: would be great together. I ain't know him, but I

1009
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 1: had met this dude in nineteen eighty nine names Sedrict,

1010
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:28,840
Speaker 1: entertainer who came through this comedy club. I was gigging

1011
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: at one night and I thought said was just the

1012
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 1: funniest dude I'd ever seen man in my life. And

1013
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 1: so I said, well, I do the show man, but

1014
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:43,760
Speaker 1: I want y'all to look at this guy named Sedjia entertainer.

1015
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:47,879
Speaker 1: He said, we've never heard of him. Okay, but y'all

1016
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 1: need to talk to this dude. So the dude, George Wynn,

1017
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:53,399
Speaker 1: said he wanted to do the show, but I didn't

1018
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 1: know him. Nothing against him. I just saidn't know him.

1019
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:58,760
Speaker 1: And I'd been on TV once and y'all took my show.

1020
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 1: So I figured, like this, this next time, i'm'a do

1021
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:03,400
Speaker 1: it show, We're gonna do it my way, right, And

1022
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:06,880
Speaker 1: so I said, so they boss said it out and

1023
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:09,439
Speaker 1: they like said but they said, but he's not as

1024
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 1: famous as norm. I said, but oh, but let me

1025
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: ask you something. Man who really looked like he be

1026
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:17,440
Speaker 1: my best friend. I'm finna be roommates. Why would I

1027
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 1: be roommates with this dude from Cheers? I don't I

1028
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:26,440
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even do that, right, So they was debating, debating.

1029
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 1: I said, I'll tell you what hit the deal. I

1030
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 1: either get, said the entertained i'm'na pass on the show.

1031
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 1: I was scared when I said that, hm, cause I

1032
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 1: didn't really have that kind of power yet, right, But

1033
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:41,919
Speaker 1: that's how strong I felt about it. So they said

1034
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:45,040
Speaker 1: we'll give him a try for one season. We did

1035
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:48,479
Speaker 1: a hundred and forty five episodes. That one season turned

1036
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 1: into syndicated show. Wow, said the entertainer. Man, funniest dude

1037
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 1: I've ever sat with in my life. Man.

1038
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 3: And then you ended up having a situation where you

1039
00:53:58,560 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 3: do the Kings of Comedy.

1040
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:02,840
Speaker 1: You said, Bernie mac d l.

1041
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:06,760
Speaker 4: How did they put that? How did they put that together?

1042
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 1: Steve?

1043
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 4: How do you guys come together? And says okay?

1044
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 1: D L said Steve, Bernie, See, the first year it

1045
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 1: was just me, Bernie has said okay, And that was

1046
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 1: rough Man and the guy, this kid came up to

1047
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:24,319
Speaker 1: his name Walter Latham, twenty six years old, and said, hey, man,

1048
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:27,920
Speaker 1: I want to create this thing called the Original Kings

1049
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 1: of Comedy, and I want y'all three to be it,

1050
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 1: and we only gonna do basketball arenas. And we looked

1051
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:36,280
Speaker 1: at him and said we're gonna do what? Dog? He said,

1052
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna do basketball arenas. I said, don't. We can't

1053
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:43,120
Speaker 1: sell out no basketball arena. He said, no, I've been

1054
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 1: looking at pole star all y'all, all three of y'all

1055
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: can sell out five thousand seats by yourself. He said,

1056
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:54,640
Speaker 1: if I put y'all together, we gonna sell out basketball

1057
00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:58,920
Speaker 1: arenas multiple times. So we used three of us were

1058
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:01,200
Speaker 1: sitting there talking about it, and we said, man, this dull,

1059
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:04,879
Speaker 1: crazy man can't do this. Right here she said, He said,

1060
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:08,839
Speaker 1: I got a sponsor, Royal, Crown Royal. He said, We're

1061
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:13,680
Speaker 1: gonna guarantee y'all X amount of night. It was like

1062
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:17,439
Speaker 1: a quarter of a million. And we we said, don't

1063
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:25,920
Speaker 1: you finna do what don't I looked at said said say, look,

1064
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 1: let's just get Let's just get the deposit, get on out.

1065
00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 1: If it don't work, let's get the deposit. The kid

1066
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:39,399
Speaker 1: paid us this deposit for the first night. And that's

1067
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:42,520
Speaker 1: how we got started. And uh, it was rough man,

1068
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:47,840
Speaker 1: because it was just the three of us, and the

1069
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:51,000
Speaker 1: first night we did it was a disaster. Man. It

1070
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:54,480
Speaker 1: was for me, great for Bernie and said because they

1071
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 1: went up first, right, said went up first. Now the

1072
00:55:57,160 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 1: deal was to do thirty minutes. Said went out there

1073
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:07,360
Speaker 1: did forty five. Bernie did fifty two. I don't know

1074
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:10,759
Speaker 1: if you've ever followed Bernie mad before. It ain't what

1075
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:15,440
Speaker 1: you want. They down there Bernie Didne cussed out everybody

1076
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:19,719
Speaker 1: in the crowd, and he's hystericause they're stomping. They'll rent

1077
00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:23,000
Speaker 1: about the fall. And we're performing at this arena in

1078
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:25,839
Speaker 1: Charlotte where the hockey players play. So they had put

1079
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 1: down the floor on top of the ice, all the

1080
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,759
Speaker 1: black people in there with coats, and then the dude said,

1081
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:33,280
Speaker 1: we gotta have a forty five minute in a mission.

1082
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:37,799
Speaker 1: What so you got, said Bernie? Forty five minute in

1083
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,279
Speaker 1: the mission? These black people just sitting down on top

1084
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 1: of this ice with the little sheet applied wood between

1085
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:47,360
Speaker 1: and they freeze it. Then here I come. Now the

1086
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:53,280
Speaker 1: disaster in that was my mama had died in December. Right.

1087
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:58,240
Speaker 1: Our first performance was December twenty sixth, the day after Christmas,

1088
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:02,360
Speaker 1: but my mama had died that month. My comedy special

1089
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 1: had came out December twenty first on HBO. Right, I

1090
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 1: ain't even watch it. I was in a blur. My

1091
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:13,200
Speaker 1: mama gone. Man. It was like for two months, man,

1092
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:16,880
Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna die sy'all. I thought. I said,

1093
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:19,439
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna make it, man, because I had lost

1094
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:23,840
Speaker 1: this girl. Man, I was devastated. So my special came

1095
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:27,800
Speaker 1: out right before the first night. I didn't even wasn't

1096
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:31,080
Speaker 1: even thinking. So I'm out there when I finally come

1097
00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 1: on stage, they freezing, and now I'm doing the jokes

1098
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:39,360
Speaker 1: from my special that I forgot had just came out.

1099
00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 1: That all my fans that heard these jokes, and I'm

1100
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:46,320
Speaker 1: about to just and they hollering out, punchline, do some

1101
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:50,440
Speaker 1: new shit. You know, black people stay, We heard that,

1102
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:54,240
Speaker 1: and I'm going, why are they saying this? And I

1103
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:57,720
Speaker 1: didn't even understand that my special had just came out, right,

1104
00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:01,880
Speaker 1: but I was so devastated. So that night, man, I

1105
00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 1: didn't do well at all. Right, the next morning, this

1106
00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:07,800
Speaker 1: comedian on the radio aks 'em we driving to the airport.

1107
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey don't deserve to be no king. I don't

1108
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:13,720
Speaker 1: know how he on the show. He wasn't shit. He

1109
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 1: on the radio, just eating my ass a lot. And

1110
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 1: I'm hearing this going to the airport. Now, I just

1111
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 1: stayed up all night. I ain't had no sleep, cause

1112
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:23,680
Speaker 1: I ain't I would. I just had a horrible night.

1113
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm writing cause then I finally realized they

1114
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 1: was repeating my special. So I'm writing all night. I

1115
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 1: ain't even go to bed. I stayed up. I sat

1116
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 1: on the plane writing. I got in Kansas City. I

1117
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 1: wrote all the way up the show time. I been

1118
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 1: up all night, man getting old jokes. We working and

1119
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 1: putting 'em together. Came up with a whole new set

1120
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 1: next night, Kansas City. Now we argueing. Now me and

1121
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:52,960
Speaker 1: the Bruhs is arguing, cause I'm saying, Bruhs thirty thirty

1122
00:58:53,200 --> 00:59:01,480
Speaker 1: thirty right ninety minutes, y'all got to help me. Forty

1123
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 1: eight fifteen minutes in the mission. Here I come. That

1124
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:10,720
Speaker 1: night I got standing on face. I had redeemed myself.

1125
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:13,280
Speaker 1: Run it now. And so the first year was rough

1126
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:16,680
Speaker 1: because I wanted to switch up sometimes. You know, we're

1127
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:17,440
Speaker 1: all kings.

1128
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:21,360
Speaker 4: You wanted to go first, Maybe go first sometimes the

1129
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 4: hey man, let.

1130
00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 1: Me sit in the rocking chair, Let me be second.

1131
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 1: Bernie sat in the rocking chair, and I went man,

1132
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:29,040
Speaker 1: because you got said one of them up. Bernie in

1133
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 1: the rocket chair. You closing behind these dudes is rough.

1134
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:35,320
Speaker 4: So that's where we had our little that you and Bernie.

1135
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 1: But it hands. That was our only odds. That was

1136
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:40,560
Speaker 1: our only odds because I just man, y'all gotta give

1137
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 1: me a chance to win two and they ain't never

1138
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 1: want to spitch switch. So the whole year we did that,

1139
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:48,360
Speaker 1: and then we bought in Guide Tori and god Tory

1140
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:53,080
Speaker 1: hosted the show next year. He added, d L. Now

1141
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 1: we got a problem. We can't have Fox acts because

1142
00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:59,800
Speaker 1: who gonna go last? Now? So the argument was, Steve,

1143
00:59:59,840 --> 01:00:03,800
Speaker 1: you gonna last again? I'm gonna hell no, no, no, man,

1144
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:07,360
Speaker 1: we all getting the same check. Dog, I'm out here

1145
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:10,560
Speaker 1: working these said, it's hard to follow now, I gotta follow,

1146
01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:17,200
Speaker 1: DL said, and Bernie the Bernie by herself, mag Mac

1147
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:19,760
Speaker 1: was just he was of all of us, man, he

1148
01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 1: was that boy could put some pressure on you. So

1149
01:00:23,160 --> 01:00:26,240
Speaker 1: I said, I said, I'll tell you what I do.

1150
01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:28,920
Speaker 1: So then Walter said, well one one of y'all host

1151
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:31,640
Speaker 1: this show. Ain't nobody want to be the MC? My

1152
01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: hell shot straight up, I got it. I'm hosted. Cause

1153
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:38,640
Speaker 1: that for me was cool. I make it like it's

1154
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:42,160
Speaker 1: my show. I bring everybody out, lay it out like that.

1155
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:45,560
Speaker 1: And then they switched over. Whenever we did, Saint Louis said,

1156
01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:49,560
Speaker 1: we clothes. Whenever we did, uh La DL clothes when

1157
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:53,600
Speaker 1: we did Chicago Bernie Clothes. You know, everybody moved it around, right,

1158
01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:56,400
Speaker 1: and then we settled it. And then the Kings was

1159
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:59,480
Speaker 1: really borned right at that moment. But we toured for

1160
01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 1: three years, man, right, and nobody but black people heard

1161
01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:05,480
Speaker 1: of us. That wasn't a white person in the crowd

1162
01:01:05,520 --> 01:01:08,680
Speaker 1: for three straight years. Wow, never did a article. We

1163
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:12,560
Speaker 1: just did black radio. We sold out the MCR Center

1164
01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:15,760
Speaker 1: four times, two weekends in a row, sixty four thousand.

1165
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:19,760
Speaker 1: We sold out the Georgia Georgia Dome forty four thousand.

1166
01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:24,600
Speaker 1: We sold out the United Center six times. Thought we

1167
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:27,440
Speaker 1: was walking through this country. Then the dude in the

1168
01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 1: USA today, black dude came did a article on us,

1169
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:35,080
Speaker 1: and that was it. We was making so much money

1170
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:38,760
Speaker 1: after that. Man, couldn't mm what happened?

1171
01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:39,080
Speaker 4: Why?

1172
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:44,160
Speaker 1: Why did it end? After the movie? Man, that was

1173
01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:48,680
Speaker 1: probably blessing of a curse. Yeah, The Four of Us,

1174
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 1: it was the largest comedy movie ever in the history.

1175
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:56,720
Speaker 1: It was the largest comedy tour in the history. But

1176
01:01:56,920 --> 01:02:00,240
Speaker 1: these white boys came along called blue collar comedy. It

1177
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:06,680
Speaker 1: was Larry Cable Guy, Jeff Foxworthy, Ron White and Bill

1178
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:11,400
Speaker 1: Ingvill and they said we gonna show them Kings. Who

1179
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:14,600
Speaker 1: the real Kings is. So they came out with the

1180
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:18,920
Speaker 1: blue Collar Comedy tour. They couldn't fuck with us. They

1181
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:22,840
Speaker 1: wasn't even close. They wasn't even pole star came out.

1182
01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:26,880
Speaker 1: Kings was kicking. They ass we was filling up buildings. Man,

1183
01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:31,040
Speaker 1: And they thought they like, I don't think Fox was

1184
01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:34,520
Speaker 1: in that bill ingvill Has said We're gonna show them

1185
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:37,440
Speaker 1: what the Kings really looked like, right, And they started

1186
01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 1: selling tickets, but they couldn't compete with us. Man, The

1187
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:43,439
Speaker 1: Kings of comedy was was we was, and plus we

1188
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:46,520
Speaker 1: was that other kind of funny, right. We was tag

1189
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:49,840
Speaker 1: your mouth out funny. We you get up out your chair,

1190
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:52,919
Speaker 1: your asshole still in the city. You know that type

1191
01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:55,480
Speaker 1: shit was happening, right because when black people laugh, they

1192
01:02:55,520 --> 01:02:57,040
Speaker 1: get up and run to the back of the room.

1193
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:06,880
Speaker 1: Off take all the popcorn. They were the black people. Yeah,

1194
01:03:06,960 --> 01:03:09,880
Speaker 1: they were letting us have it. Man. And so when

1195
01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:13,000
Speaker 1: it ended the thing that the blue collar comedy to it,

1196
01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:18,360
Speaker 1: there was they stayed together. We split up. You wish

1197
01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:19,920
Speaker 1: you to stay that kept it together, could have kept

1198
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:25,040
Speaker 1: it together, couple. We tried everything, but you know, dudes

1199
01:03:25,440 --> 01:03:28,360
Speaker 1: felt like they was movie stars. I never saw myself

1200
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:30,520
Speaker 1: as a movie star. I always yeah, I want.

1201
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:33,160
Speaker 3: I was gonna ask you that because you you kind

1202
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:35,320
Speaker 3: of like stayed in your lane. You see said brand start,

1203
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:38,640
Speaker 3: Bernie did movies. You kind of stayed. I mean, you

1204
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:40,919
Speaker 3: had had a couple of roles, but that didn't seem

1205
01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:42,720
Speaker 3: to be That didn't seem to be your passion. That

1206
01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:44,080
Speaker 3: didn't seem to be where you wanted to go.

1207
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:47,560
Speaker 1: Never read for a movie. Man, didn't care nothing about it.

1208
01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:51,160
Speaker 1: I was a TV star. I want to be on TV.

1209
01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:54,160
Speaker 4: So TV and radio was your with your.

1210
01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:57,840
Speaker 1: Because I could do this, I could do this, I

1211
01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:01,120
Speaker 1: could become household if I stay on T right. You

1212
01:04:01,160 --> 01:04:03,520
Speaker 1: know you got hey Man to be famous in the movie.

1213
01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:06,840
Speaker 1: You know how long it take to be Denzil. Yeah, yeah,

1214
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:08,479
Speaker 1: that's then. They've been in this a while.

1215
01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:10,960
Speaker 3: I remember him in Glory because they feel glory in Savannah,

1216
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:13,440
Speaker 3: if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, so that was like a

1217
01:04:13,480 --> 01:04:14,439
Speaker 3: eighty five eighty six.

1218
01:04:14,560 --> 01:04:19,080
Speaker 1: He was a gangster though, this dude. You believed him. Yeah, yeah,

1219
01:04:19,240 --> 01:04:21,840
Speaker 1: I can only play me. Yeah see, let me just

1220
01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:25,480
Speaker 1: do TV or I just do me. I ain't wait, Harvey,

1221
01:04:25,720 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 1: I ain't been no acting class. And to do this here.

1222
01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:32,000
Speaker 1: I'm not fit to care. Finnish city here, and just care.

1223
01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:35,840
Speaker 1: I don't really like you. I can't cry cry with

1224
01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:38,400
Speaker 1: you at we in the scene. I'm finished cry. I

1225
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:42,840
Speaker 1: don't even know your ass. My father died. Well, okay,

1226
01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:45,680
Speaker 1: I don't know you all your daddy. So me trying

1227
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 1: to work these tears up. This probably ain't have it.

1228
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:51,040
Speaker 1: Just let me go be me. So I knew, but

1229
01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:54,000
Speaker 1: Bertie got a lot of rolls, said, got a lot

1230
01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:57,360
Speaker 1: of rolls, and uh, they just wanted to do it man,

1231
01:04:57,400 --> 01:04:59,760
Speaker 1: and that was cool. Then I understood it. So I

1232
01:04:59,880 --> 01:05:04,160
Speaker 1: just new. But the thing that they did, though, well,

1233
01:05:04,160 --> 01:05:06,880
Speaker 1: they went and got so many roles they stopped doing

1234
01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:12,080
Speaker 1: stand up me. I felt so strongly about stand up

1235
01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:15,840
Speaker 1: I never stopped. When I got my TV shows, I

1236
01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:18,640
Speaker 1: steal toured on the weekend, and I never went back

1237
01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:21,560
Speaker 1: to comedy clubs. Once I was in the Marinas, That's

1238
01:05:21,560 --> 01:05:24,560
Speaker 1: where I stayed. So I just stayed in big theaters

1239
01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:28,040
Speaker 1: and arenas. I was going to the Staples Center, No

1240
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:32,080
Speaker 1: Kill Madison by myself, take two people with me, Radio

1241
01:05:32,120 --> 01:05:35,680
Speaker 1: City Music Hall, I was selling. I stayed right there

1242
01:05:36,320 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 1: while the guys was doing the movies. They got stepped

1243
01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:42,840
Speaker 1: away from the They stepped away from them from the craft, you.

1244
01:05:42,800 --> 01:05:47,000
Speaker 3: Know, But but you walked away at the height of it, Steve,

1245
01:05:47,160 --> 01:05:49,960
Speaker 3: you walked away from the stand up and really hadn't

1246
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:50,439
Speaker 3: come back.

1247
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:51,680
Speaker 1: Would you be willing?

1248
01:05:51,720 --> 01:05:54,800
Speaker 3: What would it take Steve Harvey to do to do

1249
01:05:55,320 --> 01:05:57,160
Speaker 3: the crypt the crypto dot coms?

1250
01:05:57,600 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 4: What would it take for you to do so?

1251
01:05:59,880 --> 01:06:00,240
Speaker 1: Five?

1252
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:00,800
Speaker 4: What would it take?

1253
01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:02,720
Speaker 3: How much would it take for Steve Harvey to do

1254
01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:04,800
Speaker 3: what they doing on Netflix? You say, everybody you see

1255
01:06:04,840 --> 01:06:07,920
Speaker 3: Chapel Quake, all those guys had special little Netflix. What

1256
01:06:07,920 --> 01:06:09,720
Speaker 3: would it take for Steve Harvey d to give to

1257
01:06:09,760 --> 01:06:10,680
Speaker 3: give a sixty minutes?

1258
01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:15,440
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, I have to be done with

1259
01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:19,960
Speaker 1: the TV career, because once I do the special, I'm

1260
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:22,640
Speaker 1: gonna be done with my job. Man, you cursed up

1261
01:06:22,680 --> 01:06:25,360
Speaker 1: a store, You killing everybody? Steve, No, they gonna they

1262
01:06:25,400 --> 01:06:27,880
Speaker 1: gonna take me off TV. It ain't no where to

1263
01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:31,600
Speaker 1: cancel culture to live. See. The reason I stopped was

1264
01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:35,800
Speaker 1: because I saw, Okay, I got family feud, I got

1265
01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:39,360
Speaker 1: little big shots, I got all this stuff being offered

1266
01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:42,400
Speaker 1: to me. At one point in time, I had seven

1267
01:06:42,520 --> 01:06:46,840
Speaker 1: shows on TV all at once in one season. Wow,

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01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:52,520
Speaker 1: I had Funderdome, Little Big Shots, Amazing Grace, Celebrity Family Feud,

1269
01:06:52,640 --> 01:06:56,960
Speaker 1: Family Feud, I had two other shows Showtime that Apollo

1270
01:06:57,040 --> 01:07:01,240
Speaker 1: had came back on Fox. I worked seven days a week. Man,

1271
01:07:01,280 --> 01:07:03,640
Speaker 1: I went through a forty one week period with seven

1272
01:07:03,680 --> 01:07:07,640
Speaker 1: days of taping, and I knew that if I performed

1273
01:07:07,680 --> 01:07:10,400
Speaker 1: as a stand up, that whole TV career that gumble

1274
01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:15,960
Speaker 1: and I was making enough to really solidify myself in television.

1275
01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:20,240
Speaker 1: So in twenty twelve, I had to walk away because

1276
01:07:20,280 --> 01:07:22,040
Speaker 1: I was at the height of everything and I had

1277
01:07:22,080 --> 01:07:26,200
Speaker 1: everything going for me. So now, Man, then I watched

1278
01:07:26,280 --> 01:07:29,640
Speaker 1: Chapelle and Rock and all these boys get sixty million

1279
01:07:29,680 --> 01:07:34,720
Speaker 1: here and all this here, I thought about it. I couldn't.

1280
01:07:35,480 --> 01:07:38,280
Speaker 1: I couldn't dump what I had for that right because

1281
01:07:38,320 --> 01:07:41,560
Speaker 1: I knew the longevity I was gonna make it up. Yeah, anyway,

1282
01:07:41,680 --> 01:07:45,880
Speaker 1: So like today, man, I've been this is for the

1283
01:07:45,960 --> 01:07:48,360
Speaker 1: probably been the first year I've been thinking about it,

1284
01:07:49,120 --> 01:07:54,520
Speaker 1: just doing one mode and I'll probably had to call

1285
01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:57,160
Speaker 1: it something like fucking I'm out or something like that,

1286
01:07:58,960 --> 01:08:01,280
Speaker 1: because I know that's gonna be it. It's gonna be

1287
01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:04,320
Speaker 1: career ending, right, because what I really want to say,

1288
01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:06,800
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do is special unless I can say

1289
01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:09,320
Speaker 1: what I really want to say. I wanna be like

1290
01:08:09,480 --> 01:08:12,640
Speaker 1: rock and have selective outrage, you know. I wanna be

1291
01:08:12,720 --> 01:08:15,600
Speaker 1: like Chappelle and really say something, but what I really

1292
01:08:15,600 --> 01:08:18,080
Speaker 1: got in my heart to say. If I say it,

1293
01:08:18,120 --> 01:08:19,320
Speaker 1: I'm my career is over.

1294
01:08:19,960 --> 01:08:22,839
Speaker 4: Why hasn't radio been your most consistent staple?

1295
01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:30,439
Speaker 1: Because it's theater of the mind. Look, man, when it

1296
01:08:30,479 --> 01:08:35,080
Speaker 1: comes to a dull contemporary radio, ain't nobody done it

1297
01:08:35,120 --> 01:08:39,960
Speaker 1: this long? Ain't nobody been consistently number one. I've been

1298
01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:43,080
Speaker 1: since the year two thousand. I've done twenty three years

1299
01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:48,080
Speaker 1: of black radio, black radio. I got the largest market

1300
01:08:48,120 --> 01:08:51,360
Speaker 1: share today. I got the largest number of people today.

1301
01:08:52,320 --> 01:08:56,160
Speaker 1: Ricky Smiley is my dude. I introduced Ricky Smiley to radio. Yeah,

1302
01:08:56,160 --> 01:08:58,920
Speaker 1: I told him he was the dude. I put Earthquake

1303
01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:04,120
Speaker 1: in radio. I told him he was the dude. You know. D. L.

1304
01:09:04,280 --> 01:09:07,280
Speaker 1: Hugley got him in radio. I told him he was

1305
01:09:07,320 --> 01:09:10,639
Speaker 1: the dude. And they've all watched Bill belling me all

1306
01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:11,600
Speaker 1: of adele give me.

1307
01:09:12,200 --> 01:09:14,680
Speaker 3: I've had I've had Quake on. I've had said they

1308
01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:18,560
Speaker 3: entertained on. I've had Ricky Smiley on and talked to others,

1309
01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:21,599
Speaker 3: Why were you like this? Everybody's not like you, Steve.

1310
01:09:21,760 --> 01:09:24,240
Speaker 3: Everybody said, well, this is what Steve did. Steve said,

1311
01:09:24,280 --> 01:09:25,800
Speaker 3: let's go down, We're gonna do these things. We're gonna

1312
01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:27,160
Speaker 3: do this. We're gonna do the radio show.

1313
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:28,400
Speaker 4: Who is that?

1314
01:09:28,640 --> 01:09:29,080
Speaker 1: Said? No?

1315
01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:32,839
Speaker 3: Quate said he had you at his at Atlanta Uptown College.

1316
01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:36,000
Speaker 3: He said, they sold ex Somebody's like, nah, we're not

1317
01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:38,720
Speaker 3: doing that. Give them their money back. We're gonna do

1318
01:09:38,880 --> 01:09:41,559
Speaker 3: radio next morning. We're gonna get up early, we're gonna

1319
01:09:41,560 --> 01:09:43,120
Speaker 3: go get donuts and we're gonna go.

1320
01:09:43,080 --> 01:09:44,760
Speaker 4: Pass them out. And this is what we're gonna do.

1321
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:47,519
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah. Ricky smiling says, Steve Harvey did this.

1322
01:09:47,520 --> 01:09:49,519
Speaker 3: This this for the comedy he got me in radio.

1323
01:09:49,880 --> 01:09:52,280
Speaker 3: Quate said the exact same thing, said said the same thing.

1324
01:09:52,680 --> 01:09:56,439
Speaker 3: Why because everybody's not like you. Everybody keep talking about, well, black,

1325
01:09:56,479 --> 01:09:58,400
Speaker 3: black black, we want to see black succeed and they

1326
01:09:58,400 --> 01:09:59,759
Speaker 3: ain't trying to see black succeed.

1327
01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:05,200
Speaker 1: Why see, man, When I was a little boy, my

1328
01:10:05,280 --> 01:10:07,519
Speaker 1: mama told me something. Memory was talking about how your

1329
01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:09,800
Speaker 1: mama say something you don't it don't really register in

1330
01:10:10,720 --> 01:10:14,639
Speaker 1: She told me, she said, son one day, God gonna

1331
01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:16,479
Speaker 1: give you a big house up on the hill. When

1332
01:10:16,520 --> 01:10:19,040
Speaker 1: you get up there, you got to tell somebody else

1333
01:10:19,080 --> 01:10:22,479
Speaker 1: how to get on the hill. Didn't mean nothing to

1334
01:10:22,479 --> 01:10:27,360
Speaker 1: me thirteen, But I've always kept that because there's room

1335
01:10:27,439 --> 01:10:30,600
Speaker 1: at the top. Yes, because the top ain't crowded. You

1336
01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:34,639
Speaker 1: know a dude name this record guy Ricky. I can't

1337
01:10:34,640 --> 01:10:36,519
Speaker 1: think of his name. He had a book out. The

1338
01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:39,240
Speaker 1: title of the book was, ain't no traffic on the

1339
01:10:39,360 --> 01:10:43,400
Speaker 1: Extra mile. It ain't. If you go to extra mile,

1340
01:10:43,439 --> 01:10:47,240
Speaker 1: it's free. You can do doughnuts, you can flip your calls.

1341
01:10:47,240 --> 01:10:50,120
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody gonna hit you. It's room at the top.

1342
01:10:50,760 --> 01:10:53,639
Speaker 1: But we have an obligation as brothers to show each

1343
01:10:53,680 --> 01:10:55,840
Speaker 1: other how to get there. See, I ain't got to

1344
01:10:55,840 --> 01:10:58,840
Speaker 1: worry about you taking my market share, because what's for me.

1345
01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:02,559
Speaker 1: It's for me, Okay, see why I'm wearing them. But

1346
01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:05,960
Speaker 1: that's what that's what people get wrong. People think. People

1347
01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:08,320
Speaker 1: think if they blow out your candle, it'll make their

1348
01:11:08,320 --> 01:11:11,400
Speaker 1: candle brighter. Now your candle still a little last flicker,

1349
01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:15,400
Speaker 1: your punk ass, you think because your little bitch ass,

1350
01:11:15,479 --> 01:11:17,559
Speaker 1: then set up here, blew my candlelight. You think your

1351
01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:21,400
Speaker 1: candle fit to be same punk ass flicker. Dog, that's

1352
01:11:21,439 --> 01:11:24,400
Speaker 1: same punk ass flicker you've been having. Because you're trying

1353
01:11:24,439 --> 01:11:26,880
Speaker 1: to blow my candle out. That ain't how at work?

1354
01:11:27,600 --> 01:11:30,920
Speaker 1: You need more candles, man, right, And so my thing

1355
01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:35,120
Speaker 1: has always been to uplift, to teach people the way

1356
01:11:35,160 --> 01:11:37,960
Speaker 1: it's done, show them how to do it. So Ricky

1357
01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:41,000
Speaker 1: Smiley is a competitive of mine technically.

1358
01:11:40,520 --> 01:11:46,320
Speaker 3: But you put him over so d l a competitor,

1359
01:11:47,560 --> 01:11:50,360
Speaker 3: quite a competitor. So you're not concerned because that a

1360
01:11:50,439 --> 01:11:52,320
Speaker 3: lot of people are like, Okay, I got a big house,

1361
01:11:52,439 --> 01:11:54,000
Speaker 3: but I don't want you in my neighborhood. You get

1362
01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:55,519
Speaker 3: a big house somewhere else, and maybe as long as

1363
01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:56,799
Speaker 3: it's not as big as mine.

1364
01:11:56,960 --> 01:11:59,360
Speaker 1: No, you don't care. You can put a bigger house

1365
01:11:59,439 --> 01:12:01,320
Speaker 1: right next Dold maunt. What they gotta do with me?

1366
01:12:01,560 --> 01:12:04,000
Speaker 1: You can you gotta make dog, I can't sleep in

1367
01:12:04,040 --> 01:12:07,000
Speaker 1: all these rooms I got. Now, what I care if

1368
01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:09,680
Speaker 1: your house is bigger than my house? What I care?

1369
01:12:09,720 --> 01:12:12,640
Speaker 1: If you got more cars than me? I like my cars.

1370
01:12:12,720 --> 01:12:15,120
Speaker 3: But but see, excuse me, Steve, how have you been

1371
01:12:15,160 --> 01:12:17,960
Speaker 3: able to handle that? Because you know that people there

1372
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:19,840
Speaker 3: are a lot of people that smile and say things

1373
01:12:19,840 --> 01:12:22,439
Speaker 3: in your face, and you know they say things behind

1374
01:12:22,479 --> 01:12:22,920
Speaker 3: your back?

1375
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:27,400
Speaker 1: Dog, how how do you handle that? Who are you?

1376
01:12:29,240 --> 01:12:33,120
Speaker 1: First of all? Man? Real players? Yeah, them real dudes.

1377
01:12:33,640 --> 01:12:38,160
Speaker 1: They ain't reading blogs and they not blogging. They ain't

1378
01:12:38,200 --> 01:12:42,680
Speaker 1: on they ain't writing c in the comments section. Real

1379
01:12:44,160 --> 01:12:47,759
Speaker 1: bloggers are not shakers in movies, decision makers or power brokers.

1380
01:12:48,479 --> 01:12:50,400
Speaker 1: Give a damn what you say about me? You don't

1381
01:12:50,439 --> 01:12:52,760
Speaker 1: even know me. Most people talking about me don't even

1382
01:12:52,880 --> 01:12:54,960
Speaker 1: know me, right, you know how I know you know me?

1383
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:57,320
Speaker 1: You got my cell number? Right now? Dog? You ain't

1384
01:12:57,360 --> 01:12:59,960
Speaker 1: got my cell number? Dog? Or what what is your

1385
01:13:00,120 --> 01:13:02,280
Speaker 1: What you say about me don't even matter now if

1386
01:13:02,320 --> 01:13:05,439
Speaker 1: you got my cell number? Like, if Sad was somewhere

1387
01:13:05,479 --> 01:13:09,479
Speaker 1: dogging me, that'll hurt me. Cause this is a dude

1388
01:13:09,520 --> 01:13:13,080
Speaker 1: that we got history. Yes, if Richie Smiley was dogging me,

1389
01:13:13,520 --> 01:13:16,360
Speaker 1: got'll hurt me. If Quake was dogging me, that'll hurt me.

1390
01:13:19,560 --> 01:13:24,320
Speaker 1: If fifty cent dog me, I ain't never done nothing,

1391
01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:26,160
Speaker 1: fifty We ain't got no beat. But I'm just using

1392
01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:28,640
Speaker 1: h him as an neck, right, I wouldn't be as effective, right,

1393
01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:30,920
Speaker 1: I would be gonna like what you talking about me?

1394
01:13:31,040 --> 01:13:34,559
Speaker 1: Fault right? See my mind ain't down there. And then

1395
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:37,719
Speaker 1: I stay on the wall. If I stay on the wall,

1396
01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 1: even if you throw rocks up, if I stay on

1397
01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:43,040
Speaker 1: the wall, even if your rock hit me, how much

1398
01:13:43,080 --> 01:13:45,160
Speaker 1: steam it got you had to throw up on the wall.

1399
01:13:45,520 --> 01:13:48,759
Speaker 1: But if I come down off the wall to address you,

1400
01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:50,840
Speaker 1: you can bust me dead in the head with the rock.

1401
01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:54,040
Speaker 1: I don't give a damn about haters, man, They don't

1402
01:13:54,080 --> 01:13:56,519
Speaker 1: even know how I'm moving. You know, jay Z got

1403
01:13:56,520 --> 01:13:58,680
Speaker 1: hated when he cut the deal with the NFL. Joe,

1404
01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:01,679
Speaker 1: I haint no jay Z fault. Jay Z making moves.

1405
01:14:01,720 --> 01:14:03,960
Speaker 1: Y'all don't know nothing about y'all sitting over here in

1406
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:07,679
Speaker 1: your little punk ass life. You ain't got shit going,

1407
01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:11,160
Speaker 1: but you're steady knocking somebody that's out here shaking and moving.

1408
01:14:12,080 --> 01:14:16,000
Speaker 1: How they give a Shannon a podcast? Thing gave him nothing,

1409
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:18,800
Speaker 1: He took it. He went out and built it. He

1410
01:14:18,840 --> 01:14:23,040
Speaker 1: didn't gonna get permission. He built it. How he got

1411
01:14:23,080 --> 01:14:24,559
Speaker 1: these people? Dog?

1412
01:14:24,720 --> 01:14:26,720
Speaker 4: But you're worrying about that, Well, you know what my

1413
01:14:26,760 --> 01:14:27,479
Speaker 4: grandma used to say.

1414
01:14:27,479 --> 01:14:29,519
Speaker 3: Something you say, boy, Sometimes God will put you in

1415
01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:33,040
Speaker 3: place people don't think you belong. And anytime you're somewhere

1416
01:14:33,040 --> 01:14:34,960
Speaker 3: where people don't think you belong. You know, they say, Steve,

1417
01:14:35,479 --> 01:14:37,960
Speaker 3: he don't deserve that. Who are you to tell me

1418
01:14:38,040 --> 01:14:39,559
Speaker 3: what God has made him? What God has made a

1419
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:42,719
Speaker 3: mistake on me? He don't deserve this. He don't deserve

1420
01:14:42,720 --> 01:14:45,120
Speaker 3: to have Steve on the show. He doesn't deserve to

1421
01:14:45,160 --> 01:14:49,360
Speaker 3: have this. I'm like, broh, you got so much going on.

1422
01:14:49,360 --> 01:14:52,759
Speaker 1: For you, you don't want me to have a little success. Dog.

1423
01:14:53,760 --> 01:14:56,800
Speaker 1: The reason I'm doing this show, Thog, is cause of

1424
01:14:56,840 --> 01:14:59,840
Speaker 1: how you are, the way you move, what stuff out

1425
01:14:59,840 --> 01:15:03,439
Speaker 1: here you say. I've never heard a dude talking out

1426
01:15:03,439 --> 01:15:08,160
Speaker 1: loud that sound just like me. Dog, you you got

1427
01:15:08,160 --> 01:15:12,080
Speaker 1: that bravado? Fuck how you feel? Yeah? I said it,

1428
01:15:12,960 --> 01:15:16,280
Speaker 1: and you strong with it. That's why I came here. Man. Look, dog,

1429
01:15:16,360 --> 01:15:20,479
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. You the best dress dude

1430
01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:23,439
Speaker 1: on television in all of commentary. You're that.

1431
01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:25,280
Speaker 4: You heard Steve Harvey say it.

1432
01:15:25,479 --> 01:15:28,040
Speaker 1: He the best dressed dudel in all the commentary. Now

1433
01:15:28,040 --> 01:15:32,080
Speaker 1: I know who thinks he the best dress I know

1434
01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:36,200
Speaker 1: I got TV. I watched, But Dog, this dude right

1435
01:15:36,240 --> 01:15:40,880
Speaker 1: here be killing the game. I'll be watching you. You

1436
01:15:41,560 --> 01:15:44,080
Speaker 1: straight killing the game. I'll be watching I said that

1437
01:15:44,160 --> 01:15:46,680
Speaker 1: boy shop right there that cold right there. Cold. But

1438
01:15:46,880 --> 01:15:51,479
Speaker 1: then what you say though it skip your knowledge of sport.

1439
01:15:51,560 --> 01:15:56,200
Speaker 1: That's an instant you played the game. But your commentary

1440
01:15:56,600 --> 01:15:59,720
Speaker 1: about these dudes' life. What you try to say to

1441
01:15:59,800 --> 01:16:03,000
Speaker 1: you people, man, so they can learn from you and

1442
01:16:03,080 --> 01:16:08,240
Speaker 1: you and you use that hard southern tough grandma, granddaddy

1443
01:16:08,320 --> 01:16:11,320
Speaker 1: lodging to where they got to go. They might not

1444
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:14,400
Speaker 1: like it where he old? Yeah, I'm old to you,

1445
01:16:14,520 --> 01:16:16,680
Speaker 1: old to you, I'm sixty six, right the fuck you

1446
01:16:16,720 --> 01:16:19,360
Speaker 1: think that is right? I ain't twenty three.

1447
01:16:19,840 --> 01:16:21,360
Speaker 4: I've been your age. You ain't been, mind.

1448
01:16:21,479 --> 01:16:24,160
Speaker 1: Dog. See, I've been where you. I've been where you

1449
01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:27,040
Speaker 1: at already know that trip. You need to pay attention

1450
01:16:27,360 --> 01:16:30,439
Speaker 1: in case you get here, right, just in case, if

1451
01:16:30,479 --> 01:16:33,479
Speaker 1: you got any plan you old hey, man, old is

1452
01:16:33,479 --> 01:16:36,920
Speaker 1: the gold. Yeah. Now if you don't like old, here

1453
01:16:36,960 --> 01:16:43,280
Speaker 1: it is tomorrow, shoot yourself, step your ass out in

1454
01:16:43,360 --> 01:16:46,679
Speaker 1: front of the bus. What fucker jump up? Bill? You stop

1455
01:16:46,760 --> 01:16:50,280
Speaker 1: this old shit right away. Old is the gold, dog,

1456
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:54,240
Speaker 1: It's the whole goal in life. I'm so glad. Somebody

1457
01:16:54,320 --> 01:16:56,519
Speaker 1: asked me the other day. They said, if you could

1458
01:16:56,560 --> 01:16:58,720
Speaker 1: go back to any age, what age would you go

1459
01:16:58,800 --> 01:17:04,680
Speaker 1: back to? I said, sixty five, cause that the.

1460
01:17:04,640 --> 01:17:05,760
Speaker 4: Best I ever had.

1461
01:17:05,600 --> 01:17:09,960
Speaker 3: Do you wish in your twenties and thirties you had

1462
01:17:10,000 --> 01:17:13,080
Speaker 3: some of the knowledge that you've acquired in your sixties.

1463
01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:15,120
Speaker 1: But you know how much y'all have saved myself. You

1464
01:17:15,120 --> 01:17:18,200
Speaker 1: know the pain I would have been. I could have

1465
01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:24,400
Speaker 1: avoided homelessness. I could have avoided bad decisions I could

1466
01:17:24,400 --> 01:17:27,800
Speaker 1: have I could have avoided so many facts. I could

1467
01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:31,479
Speaker 1: have kept money I lost. I would I wouldn't have

1468
01:17:31,520 --> 01:17:33,960
Speaker 1: been with some of the people I've been with. I

1469
01:17:33,960 --> 01:17:36,080
Speaker 1: wouldn't have did somebod I wouldn't have went some of

1470
01:17:36,120 --> 01:17:38,720
Speaker 1: the places I went. See now I'm together. You know

1471
01:17:38,960 --> 01:17:42,800
Speaker 1: you know this. You don't see me on TMZ, go

1472
01:17:42,840 --> 01:17:45,640
Speaker 1: through TMZ. I'm not finna be on TMZ. You know

1473
01:17:45,640 --> 01:17:48,599
Speaker 1: why because I go home, right, I go home, Dog,

1474
01:17:49,400 --> 01:17:52,160
Speaker 1: I go home. Can't feel me in my house?

1475
01:17:52,320 --> 01:17:56,040
Speaker 3: Do you think people are actually Because what I've learned

1476
01:17:56,080 --> 01:17:58,479
Speaker 3: since I've been in TV, TV, celebrity is different than

1477
01:17:58,520 --> 01:18:02,000
Speaker 3: than athletes, than athletics, liberty. It's almost like like people

1478
01:18:02,080 --> 01:18:04,519
Speaker 3: are trying to catch you in something, trying to get

1479
01:18:04,520 --> 01:18:05,200
Speaker 3: you in the wrong.

1480
01:18:06,560 --> 01:18:09,519
Speaker 1: See, they they cheer for you when you coming up,

1481
01:18:10,920 --> 01:18:13,040
Speaker 1: but they can't wait to see you fall. But the

1482
01:18:13,040 --> 01:18:14,559
Speaker 1: ones cheering a lot of them is the one that's

1483
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:17,280
Speaker 1: trying to bring you down. It's the very same ones.

1484
01:18:17,880 --> 01:18:20,120
Speaker 1: See it's okay when they think they got a shot

1485
01:18:20,200 --> 01:18:22,479
Speaker 1: with you, but then we'll go w But when they

1486
01:18:22,479 --> 01:18:25,240
Speaker 1: see your shot actually worked and now you now, they

1487
01:18:25,240 --> 01:18:28,760
Speaker 1: look at you as over them, and instead of trying

1488
01:18:28,760 --> 01:18:30,519
Speaker 1: to hold you up, they wanna do everything in their

1489
01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:33,280
Speaker 1: power to bring you down. It's it's a funny. Denze

1490
01:18:33,280 --> 01:18:38,080
Speaker 1: Done taught me the best lesson much. We were at

1491
01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:41,120
Speaker 1: Sweet Georgia Brown, Sweet George whatever. It was out in

1492
01:18:41,280 --> 01:18:45,000
Speaker 1: La Uh. This restaurant used to be very popular and

1493
01:18:45,040 --> 01:18:47,760
Speaker 1: it was one of the nights Sam was up for

1494
01:18:47,920 --> 01:18:51,280
Speaker 1: Oscar something and we were standing there at this thing

1495
01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:53,960
Speaker 1: and Denzel said, i'm'a show you the difference between me

1496
01:18:54,040 --> 01:18:56,800
Speaker 1: and you. He said, I'm a movie star, you a

1497
01:18:56,800 --> 01:18:59,080
Speaker 1: TV star. He said, watch this. Just stay with me.

1498
01:18:59,720 --> 01:19:04,240
Speaker 1: People will come up. Oh my god, mister Washington, Oh

1499
01:19:04,280 --> 01:19:08,320
Speaker 1: my god, mister Washington. I watch every movie I go everywhere.

1500
01:19:08,520 --> 01:19:11,200
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. You it's so great something and

1501
01:19:11,200 --> 01:19:14,320
Speaker 1: it just cheating with reverence. He said. You know why, man,

1502
01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:17,479
Speaker 1: he said, because to come see me, you got to

1503
01:19:17,479 --> 01:19:20,320
Speaker 1: get a babysitter, get in your car, stand in line,

1504
01:19:20,360 --> 01:19:23,200
Speaker 1: buy a ticket, stand in another line, get your popcorn

1505
01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:25,599
Speaker 1: and stuff, go to a seat. Wait and I come

1506
01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:27,840
Speaker 1: up on the screen twenty five feet tall.

1507
01:19:29,400 --> 01:19:29,720
Speaker 4: He say.

1508
01:19:29,840 --> 01:19:31,920
Speaker 1: Then they leave and they don't see me no more

1509
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:34,439
Speaker 1: or less. They come to another movie. He said, I'm

1510
01:19:34,439 --> 01:19:37,000
Speaker 1: a movie star. He said, Watch how they come up

1511
01:19:37,040 --> 01:19:39,240
Speaker 1: to you when they know you as soon as they

1512
01:19:39,280 --> 01:19:44,040
Speaker 1: see me. Mister Washington, Oh my god, Stay, what's up? Man?

1513
01:19:44,680 --> 01:19:45,160
Speaker 4: They know you?

1514
01:19:46,920 --> 01:19:51,519
Speaker 1: Why stay? Remember that time? And I'm looking at him

1515
01:19:51,560 --> 01:19:54,160
Speaker 1: and he said, you see the difference. He said, The

1516
01:19:54,160 --> 01:19:56,400
Speaker 1: difference is I'm a movie star. You're a TV star.

1517
01:19:56,720 --> 01:19:58,920
Speaker 1: They got to pay to come see me. They invite

1518
01:19:58,960 --> 01:20:04,080
Speaker 1: you to their house every day. He said, no, they

1519
01:20:04,520 --> 01:20:07,760
Speaker 1: they think you are relative. He said, don't nobody have

1520
01:20:07,920 --> 01:20:11,320
Speaker 1: nobody come to their house less they like them. They

1521
01:20:11,400 --> 01:20:13,880
Speaker 1: invite you in their house. Then they're making Samwich is

1522
01:20:13,920 --> 01:20:17,080
Speaker 1: sitting in their drawers watching you. You a relative to them?

1523
01:20:17,640 --> 01:20:19,320
Speaker 1: He said, so, man, when so when you go out

1524
01:20:19,360 --> 01:20:22,400
Speaker 1: in public, you can You got to be different from

1525
01:20:22,439 --> 01:20:24,519
Speaker 1: them than me and Sam. Man, let me tell you so.

1526
01:20:24,560 --> 01:20:27,160
Speaker 1: I was on vacation with Sam one time. Samuel Jackson

1527
01:20:28,160 --> 01:20:30,680
Speaker 1: we used in Portafeino. We'd finished dinner one time, were

1528
01:20:30,680 --> 01:20:34,519
Speaker 1: walking back to go get on this boat. Hey, you're

1529
01:20:34,600 --> 01:20:37,479
Speaker 1: Samuel Jackson. I want to take a picture. He said,

1530
01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:44,360
Speaker 1: what's the magic word? Motherfucker? Not him? And I went Sam,

1531
01:20:44,479 --> 01:20:47,760
Speaker 1: and it froze the white dude. He said, no, I'm

1532
01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:51,800
Speaker 1: taking a picture. He said, I said what's the magic word? Motherfucker?

1533
01:20:53,080 --> 01:20:54,479
Speaker 1: And I'm going like, man, I don't even know the

1534
01:20:54,520 --> 01:20:57,160
Speaker 1: magic word, but I just want to give it to him.

1535
01:20:57,200 --> 01:20:59,840
Speaker 1: I was. I thought it was a ridlissm shit, and

1536
01:21:00,120 --> 01:21:04,559
Speaker 1: so his wife Latanya was gonna have Sam. Sam. No, man,

1537
01:21:04,680 --> 01:21:08,920
Speaker 1: fuck that, what's the magic word? Motherfucking? He done say?

1538
01:21:08,960 --> 01:21:11,600
Speaker 1: That's so harsh. The guy said, please, all right, come on,

1539
01:21:11,720 --> 01:21:15,200
Speaker 1: take god damn picture, Steve. Can I get a picture? Yeah,

1540
01:21:15,240 --> 01:21:18,720
Speaker 1: come on, you ain't gotta give me no magic word? Dog,

1541
01:21:19,040 --> 01:21:23,599
Speaker 1: I'm on TV. We different, Sam, cheat you any because Sam,

1542
01:21:23,680 --> 01:21:27,800
Speaker 1: look you one person with twenty five dollars. He don't

1543
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:32,000
Speaker 1: count what I'm I got to. I moved different when

1544
01:21:32,040 --> 01:21:34,440
Speaker 1: I'm in public. I got to be a lot more accommodating.

1545
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:39,320
Speaker 1: I'm loved by kids, old people. I got somebody grandmama,

1546
01:21:39,360 --> 01:21:42,599
Speaker 1: my grandmama. Love you. I gotta take pictures puppies and shit,

1547
01:21:43,360 --> 01:21:45,160
Speaker 1: you know I got I gotta beat that man.

1548
01:21:45,439 --> 01:21:49,439
Speaker 3: And I think it's amazing, Steve, that you've allowed so

1549
01:21:49,600 --> 01:21:53,839
Speaker 3: many people to eat off your plate. People don't realize

1550
01:21:53,880 --> 01:21:56,559
Speaker 3: how much money is out there, and I mean, think

1551
01:21:56,600 --> 01:22:00,200
Speaker 3: about all the billionaires and all the millionaires, and it's

1552
01:22:00,240 --> 01:22:02,080
Speaker 3: steal money out there plenty.

1553
01:22:02,560 --> 01:22:05,360
Speaker 4: But we haggle over a few.

1554
01:22:05,160 --> 01:22:08,720
Speaker 1: Dollars, see, cause you know what it is. We get

1555
01:22:08,760 --> 01:22:11,880
Speaker 1: to a point that we ask God to get us

1556
01:22:11,880 --> 01:22:15,400
Speaker 1: to and then we want to complain about it in

1557
01:22:15,560 --> 01:22:18,360
Speaker 1: safe guard it and act like it's fit to go away.

1558
01:22:18,800 --> 01:22:24,240
Speaker 1: There's a saying, man that I love. It says I

1559
01:22:24,280 --> 01:22:27,200
Speaker 1: can't complain about how much is on my plate when

1560
01:22:27,200 --> 01:22:30,920
Speaker 1: my whole goal was to eat right. So now, dog,

1561
01:22:31,120 --> 01:22:35,639
Speaker 1: you got all the groceries on this platter, my platter full. Dog,

1562
01:22:35,680 --> 01:22:39,000
Speaker 1: I can't let you have some, or I can't show

1563
01:22:39,040 --> 01:22:41,519
Speaker 1: you how to get a platter. They making money, They

1564
01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:46,240
Speaker 1: printing money every day. It's available, man, and you're getting

1565
01:22:46,240 --> 01:22:48,639
Speaker 1: more of it. And I think that's a big part

1566
01:22:48,640 --> 01:22:52,880
Speaker 1: of my success. I think because God will always keep

1567
01:22:52,920 --> 01:22:57,600
Speaker 1: me covered. Because I just honored the principle of I

1568
01:22:57,640 --> 01:23:00,360
Speaker 1: don't mind helping and share it. You definitely don't. Man,

1569
01:23:00,400 --> 01:23:03,920
Speaker 1: I've given people stuff if when the story do get told,

1570
01:23:05,280 --> 01:23:09,760
Speaker 1: I've actually thought about doing a documentary myself when the

1571
01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:14,640
Speaker 1: story does get told about the number of people that

1572
01:23:14,760 --> 01:23:20,400
Speaker 1: I help that I don't even know. Man, the kids

1573
01:23:20,520 --> 01:23:22,320
Speaker 1: me and my wife then sent to school that we

1574
01:23:22,479 --> 01:23:26,320
Speaker 1: don't even know, the scholarships we done passed out, the

1575
01:23:26,320 --> 01:23:29,240
Speaker 1: the things we've done. I'm talking about people. When the

1576
01:23:29,360 --> 01:23:31,439
Speaker 1: hurricane came through and wiped out the Bahamas, man had

1577
01:23:31,560 --> 01:23:33,559
Speaker 1: no idea how many people we went over there and

1578
01:23:33,640 --> 01:23:39,400
Speaker 1: helped what we did. And it's because I understand that principle,

1579
01:23:39,920 --> 01:23:42,840
Speaker 1: and I don't. The Bahamas don't owe me nothing, and

1580
01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:45,040
Speaker 1: the people that get these degrees don't owe me nothing,

1581
01:23:45,600 --> 01:23:50,120
Speaker 1: but God gonna give me back tenfold. Dog. I'm always working,

1582
01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:54,400
Speaker 1: I'm always good, I'm always showing up with some new project.

1583
01:23:55,040 --> 01:23:57,760
Speaker 1: I just keep showing up, man, and that that can

1584
01:23:57,800 --> 01:23:59,720
Speaker 1: only be God. Like you said someone a minute ago,

1585
01:23:59,760 --> 01:24:03,040
Speaker 1: you said that people look at your success and they

1586
01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:08,320
Speaker 1: say he don't deserve that. Well, grace ain't foul. Grace.

1587
01:24:09,080 --> 01:24:13,479
Speaker 1: Grace is God's unmerited favor. It's when God just do

1588
01:24:13,560 --> 01:24:16,759
Speaker 1: you some faith, he do your favor. You can't earn grace,

1589
01:24:17,080 --> 01:24:18,840
Speaker 1: you ever, hear old people say, all I want is

1590
01:24:18,840 --> 01:24:22,559
Speaker 1: a little more grace. You can't buy grace. Bruh. If

1591
01:24:22,600 --> 01:24:24,920
Speaker 1: I could buy grace, I wouldn't have no money in

1592
01:24:24,960 --> 01:24:28,120
Speaker 1: the stock market. I wouldn't have no money at Merrill Lynch,

1593
01:24:28,479 --> 01:24:30,599
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have a quarter nowhere. I would take every

1594
01:24:30,680 --> 01:24:33,000
Speaker 1: dollar I got and give it if I could purchase

1595
01:24:33,040 --> 01:24:37,200
Speaker 1: this one thing called grace. God's unmerited favor because he

1596
01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:41,439
Speaker 1: and He do above and beyond for you for me.

1597
01:24:41,600 --> 01:24:44,600
Speaker 1: I mean, really, dog, while I'm sitting right now, I

1598
01:24:45,120 --> 01:24:48,240
Speaker 1: can't even really explain it though. I ain't that damn funny,

1599
01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:52,880
Speaker 1: you know, really, not really, dog, I'm just God just

1600
01:24:53,120 --> 01:24:56,559
Speaker 1: he keep on blessed man, That's all it is.

1601
01:24:56,600 --> 01:24:59,559
Speaker 3: Man at your lowest, when you had the situation with

1602
01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:02,639
Speaker 3: the I think in miss universe and you misread maybe

1603
01:25:02,640 --> 01:25:04,360
Speaker 3: they was on the card wrong, and I think you

1604
01:25:04,439 --> 01:25:06,840
Speaker 3: probably read read the prompter what was in the prompter

1605
01:25:07,479 --> 01:25:08,519
Speaker 3: exactly what was in.

1606
01:25:10,120 --> 01:25:14,479
Speaker 4: And it came down So what so what what what.

1607
01:25:14,360 --> 01:25:16,479
Speaker 3: Was that moment like, Okay, you read what was in

1608
01:25:16,520 --> 01:25:19,840
Speaker 3: the prompter, clearly it was wrong. Now we got to

1609
01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:21,720
Speaker 3: come back and do have.

1610
01:25:21,720 --> 01:25:22,479
Speaker 4: A do over.

1611
01:25:23,600 --> 01:25:29,000
Speaker 1: Shannon hit the crazy part. They hand me the card. Okay,

1612
01:25:29,800 --> 01:25:33,519
Speaker 1: we had bought Miss Universe from Trump. The lady that

1613
01:25:33,680 --> 01:25:36,880
Speaker 1: used to work for Trump was mad because we had

1614
01:25:37,000 --> 01:25:40,200
Speaker 1: decided in rehearsal to change the way we do it.

1615
01:25:40,479 --> 01:25:43,920
Speaker 1: Like all pages they say, and they say, and second

1616
01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:46,560
Speaker 1: runner up is so and so, and then it's the

1617
01:25:46,640 --> 01:25:49,679
Speaker 1: two people standing there. Then they always say and the

1618
01:25:49,720 --> 01:25:53,040
Speaker 1: first runner up is miss so and so, and then

1619
01:25:53,240 --> 01:25:55,960
Speaker 1: that's really anti climactic because now you know who to win,

1620
01:25:56,120 --> 01:25:58,920
Speaker 1: is correct. So they had changed it in rehearsal all

1621
01:25:58,920 --> 01:26:02,760
Speaker 1: week long. We rehearsed, we're not gonna do We're just

1622
01:26:02,840 --> 01:26:06,800
Speaker 1: gonna do the second runner upright, she get out the way,

1623
01:26:06,880 --> 01:26:09,840
Speaker 1: and then next we're gonna announce the winner. The lady

1624
01:26:09,880 --> 01:26:12,960
Speaker 1: that worked for Trump didn't like that, and she put

1625
01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:14,840
Speaker 1: it on the card anyway, but she put it on

1626
01:26:14,880 --> 01:26:16,880
Speaker 1: the corner. It wasn't even up there in the one

1627
01:26:16,880 --> 01:26:19,439
Speaker 1: and two, so she put it in the corner. So

1628
01:26:19,479 --> 01:26:22,880
Speaker 1: when they handed me the card like this, I got

1629
01:26:22,880 --> 01:26:26,439
Speaker 1: it face down. My thumb is over number three anyway,

1630
01:26:27,640 --> 01:26:30,720
Speaker 1: So now when I read the teleprompter, it's got one

1631
01:26:30,760 --> 01:26:33,840
Speaker 1: and two on that, and I read, and the new

1632
01:26:33,960 --> 01:26:37,160
Speaker 1: two thy fifteen Universe. He is, after we'd have done

1633
01:26:37,160 --> 01:26:39,760
Speaker 1: this second runner up, and he said, read the next

1634
01:26:39,840 --> 01:26:42,840
Speaker 1: name on the card, Steve. In my ear, it's miss

1635
01:26:42,920 --> 01:26:46,640
Speaker 1: Columbia and the new why else? What I say, and

1636
01:26:46,720 --> 01:26:51,120
Speaker 1: the new twenty and fifteen miss Universe is it wasn't

1637
01:26:51,160 --> 01:26:54,600
Speaker 1: number one. More name on the card. I said, Miss Columbia.

1638
01:26:54,800 --> 01:26:57,200
Speaker 1: Great job, Steve, going to back. I go in the back.

1639
01:26:57,520 --> 01:27:01,360
Speaker 1: Two minutes in the back, they're out there, celebrate my boy.

1640
01:27:01,400 --> 01:27:04,360
Speaker 1: Come up to me, Terrell. He said, oh gee, he

1641
01:27:04,479 --> 01:27:08,360
Speaker 1: said the wrong name. I said, I ain't said shit wrong.

1642
01:27:09,160 --> 01:27:11,760
Speaker 1: I read the card and I read what was in

1643
01:27:11,800 --> 01:27:15,519
Speaker 1: the teleprompter. He said, no, brud, the ladies she put

1644
01:27:15,520 --> 01:27:17,719
Speaker 1: the name down here. He's supposed to read that one.

1645
01:27:17,840 --> 01:27:19,920
Speaker 1: And then I said, dog, that ain't what we rehearsed.

1646
01:27:20,200 --> 01:27:22,840
Speaker 1: So I've read the fuck it. I ain't stupid. I

1647
01:27:22,880 --> 01:27:25,080
Speaker 1: read the card. I said, alright, i'm'a go back out

1648
01:27:25,080 --> 01:27:27,000
Speaker 1: here and fix it. The dude said, where are you going?

1649
01:27:27,600 --> 01:27:29,600
Speaker 1: I said, i'm'a go out here and fix it. He said, no,

1650
01:27:29,760 --> 01:27:34,240
Speaker 1: we'll fix it tomorrow in the newspaper. Fuck that we live.

1651
01:27:34,280 --> 01:27:36,720
Speaker 1: I'm go fix this shit now, stupidest shit I ever

1652
01:27:36,800 --> 01:27:39,879
Speaker 1: did you I should you should have left it alone.

1653
01:27:39,920 --> 01:27:41,719
Speaker 1: I should have let him fix it in the news.

1654
01:27:43,439 --> 01:27:48,559
Speaker 1: My stupid ass walked right out there and took the

1655
01:27:48,680 --> 01:27:51,719
Speaker 1: full hit. Man. I took it dead in the teeth,

1656
01:27:52,320 --> 01:27:55,559
Speaker 1: like it was all my fault, and it wasn't. Cause

1657
01:27:55,600 --> 01:27:57,880
Speaker 1: if you say in the New two thousand, fifteen minutes

1658
01:27:57,960 --> 01:28:00,920
Speaker 1: Universe and he said, read the next aim on the card,

1659
01:28:01,080 --> 01:28:04,240
Speaker 1: either one of these names or what the next name was,

1660
01:28:04,280 --> 01:28:08,920
Speaker 1: missus Clark Boom? I read it right, boom great. So

1661
01:28:09,040 --> 01:28:11,920
Speaker 1: when I did that, man, the shit went crazy. I

1662
01:28:11,960 --> 01:28:15,840
Speaker 1: didn't know how crazy it was until after the show

1663
01:28:15,960 --> 01:28:18,719
Speaker 1: Man and I went to the press conference and the

1664
01:28:18,760 --> 01:28:23,840
Speaker 1: pre Columbian press was there. This dude was in my ass. Man,

1665
01:28:24,600 --> 01:28:26,639
Speaker 1: how could you do something like that? This has never

1666
01:28:26,680 --> 01:28:29,200
Speaker 1: happened before. I say, hey, man, shit happened. You know.

1667
01:28:29,240 --> 01:28:31,360
Speaker 1: I took I said I read the wrong name, but

1668
01:28:31,400 --> 01:28:33,800
Speaker 1: I really didn't. But I just trying to figure.

1669
01:28:34,240 --> 01:28:36,200
Speaker 4: You took one for the team, took all of it.

1670
01:28:36,320 --> 01:28:39,960
Speaker 1: Man to tell the Q card lady her job gone.

1671
01:28:40,439 --> 01:28:42,439
Speaker 1: The director asked, gonna be in trouble because he said,

1672
01:28:42,479 --> 01:28:44,439
Speaker 1: read the next name right? I ain't do none of that.

1673
01:28:44,520 --> 01:28:47,479
Speaker 1: I said, I read the wrong name. So I went

1674
01:28:47,520 --> 01:28:49,840
Speaker 1: to dinner with my wife to nobu that night. I'm

1675
01:28:49,840 --> 01:28:51,960
Speaker 1: feeling a little sick my stomach, but I went to bed.

1676
01:28:52,479 --> 01:28:56,200
Speaker 1: When I woke up the next morning, Oh my god,

1677
01:28:57,880 --> 01:29:01,320
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was the I ha never seen

1678
01:29:01,520 --> 01:29:07,720
Speaker 1: anything like it. Sky's falling, bruh. I was everywhere. I

1679
01:29:07,880 --> 01:29:13,280
Speaker 1: was the lead story of everything. I've never been ridiculed.

1680
01:29:14,360 --> 01:29:16,800
Speaker 1: A dude man that I really liked on seeing end.

1681
01:29:16,840 --> 01:29:25,720
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna say his name, TJ. Holme. He beat

1682
01:29:25,800 --> 01:29:31,759
Speaker 1: you up pretty good, told my ass man, I'm cool

1683
01:29:31,800 --> 01:29:35,439
Speaker 1: with the bro. When he first came down here Atlanta, man,

1684
01:29:35,520 --> 01:29:39,439
Speaker 1: I took him around him, hanging with him. We cool,

1685
01:29:39,960 --> 01:29:41,800
Speaker 1: I c i'm'na watch you see any that this dude

1686
01:29:41,880 --> 01:29:46,880
Speaker 1: is roasting me. How could he? Oh my god, that's

1687
01:29:46,920 --> 01:29:49,679
Speaker 1: gotta be the most absurd thing. What was he thinking?

1688
01:29:50,840 --> 01:29:54,160
Speaker 1: I sit have gone, damn TJ. But then a couple

1689
01:29:54,200 --> 01:29:58,160
Speaker 1: other people I thought I was cool with, you know,

1690
01:29:58,439 --> 01:30:01,120
Speaker 1: they just was. They was air. Everybody was attacking me.

1691
01:30:01,520 --> 01:30:04,000
Speaker 1: But it was a funny thing because I just wrote

1692
01:30:04,000 --> 01:30:06,400
Speaker 1: on my vision board I was asking God to increase

1693
01:30:06,439 --> 01:30:12,000
Speaker 1: my global brand and persana uh in forty eight hours,

1694
01:30:12,040 --> 01:30:17,760
Speaker 1: sharp my name had been googled four billion times.

1695
01:30:17,200 --> 01:30:17,439
Speaker 4: Wow.

1696
01:30:18,200 --> 01:30:22,000
Speaker 1: I was the most Google subject of the year on Google,

1697
01:30:22,360 --> 01:30:25,240
Speaker 1: four billion impressions in forty eight hours. I was the

1698
01:30:25,280 --> 01:30:28,280
Speaker 1: most famous person in the world. God had increased my

1699
01:30:28,360 --> 01:30:31,679
Speaker 1: global brand and persona. I sure ain't appreciate the way.

1700
01:30:32,080 --> 01:30:35,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I appreciate what you did.

1701
01:30:35,560 --> 01:30:38,680
Speaker 1: You didn't have to do. That was a It was a

1702
01:30:38,800 --> 01:30:42,040
Speaker 1: dark moment that happened on a Saturday. Now a week

1703
01:30:42,120 --> 01:30:47,080
Speaker 1: later it's Christmas. I've been getting beat up, man. I've

1704
01:30:47,160 --> 01:30:51,799
Speaker 1: turned down every interview request. I'm talking about every news outlet.

1705
01:30:52,280 --> 01:30:55,120
Speaker 1: I shut my social media down. I was getting cussed

1706
01:30:55,160 --> 01:30:58,760
Speaker 1: out in Spanish. I learned mold. All I know is

1707
01:30:58,840 --> 01:31:03,439
Speaker 1: I'm a punto all no idea what it was, but

1708
01:31:03,760 --> 01:31:08,880
Speaker 1: every last one of them poont I was that. So

1709
01:31:08,960 --> 01:31:11,479
Speaker 1: I said, let me cut this off. My kids had

1710
01:31:11,479 --> 01:31:14,599
Speaker 1: to cut they social media off. Man. It was. They

1711
01:31:14,680 --> 01:31:16,880
Speaker 1: was throwing bricks over my gate at my house in

1712
01:31:16,920 --> 01:31:21,439
Speaker 1: Atlanta with notes on it at drug cartel was serious, man,

1713
01:31:21,479 --> 01:31:24,519
Speaker 1: we have serious problems. To this day, I have armed

1714
01:31:24,560 --> 01:31:26,880
Speaker 1: security guards at my house twenty four to seven. To

1715
01:31:26,920 --> 01:31:29,680
Speaker 1: this day, they was doing a number on me. So

1716
01:31:29,760 --> 01:31:32,680
Speaker 1: for a week. I was just in the dark, man.

1717
01:31:33,040 --> 01:31:34,599
Speaker 1: And then I just said, man, I ain't gonna sit

1718
01:31:34,600 --> 01:31:36,320
Speaker 1: here and let these people beat me up like this.

1719
01:31:36,720 --> 01:31:41,800
Speaker 1: So on Instagram on Christmas morning, I posted in my backyard,

1720
01:31:42,320 --> 01:31:46,400
Speaker 1: I was smoking a cigar. I said Mary Easter, everybody

1721
01:31:47,120 --> 01:31:49,880
Speaker 1: I remember, and that was my post. And they said

1722
01:31:49,920 --> 01:31:53,280
Speaker 1: he back, Steve got back, and I waited and I

1723
01:31:53,320 --> 01:31:55,760
Speaker 1: came back on my talk show and in February I

1724
01:31:55,800 --> 01:31:59,240
Speaker 1: did no interviews about it until I bought Miss Columbia

1725
01:31:59,320 --> 01:32:01,880
Speaker 1: on my shoulder to apologize to her, cause I had

1726
01:32:01,880 --> 01:32:05,720
Speaker 1: to apologize to her father right cause her father was mortified. Man.

1727
01:32:06,200 --> 01:32:08,240
Speaker 1: And I would have never done that to nobody's daughter.

1728
01:32:08,320 --> 01:32:08,519
Speaker 3: Man.

1729
01:32:08,640 --> 01:32:13,080
Speaker 1: So but then after that, man, like my wife and I,

1730
01:32:13,160 --> 01:32:16,639
Speaker 1: we have thirteen villas across the world that have been

1731
01:32:16,680 --> 01:32:20,280
Speaker 1: given to us as gifts from different countries for being

1732
01:32:20,320 --> 01:32:23,120
Speaker 1: the most honest man on TV. We vacation for free

1733
01:32:23,120 --> 01:32:26,200
Speaker 1: all the time. We can go to villas in thirteen countries.

1734
01:32:27,040 --> 01:32:29,599
Speaker 1: You have a villa access to any time you want it.

1735
01:32:30,040 --> 01:32:32,000
Speaker 1: And then I got a T Mobile commercial out of

1736
01:32:32,000 --> 01:32:35,160
Speaker 1: the deal, the super Bowl commercial that year on T Mobile.

1737
01:32:36,080 --> 01:32:38,919
Speaker 1: I made more money than one uh super Bowl commercial.

1738
01:32:38,960 --> 01:32:42,759
Speaker 1: I made in all the damn uh miss Universe put together.

1739
01:32:42,880 --> 01:32:45,839
Speaker 3: So but now you on a piece of Miss Universe,

1740
01:32:45,920 --> 01:32:47,880
Speaker 3: Miss America, Miss.

1741
01:32:48,439 --> 01:32:55,479
Speaker 1: Just caf so you Universe, miss team something, miss our America.

1742
01:32:55,800 --> 01:32:57,680
Speaker 1: Cause when they told me to come back next you,

1743
01:32:57,760 --> 01:32:59,920
Speaker 1: I said, I'm not coming back, yeah, because y'all let

1744
01:32:59,920 --> 01:33:02,800
Speaker 1: me eat this bullet by myself. Y'all never said he

1745
01:33:02,840 --> 01:33:06,000
Speaker 1: read the teleprompter. The company never came out and said

1746
01:33:06,320 --> 01:33:08,800
Speaker 1: I'm the director. I told him to say that. Y'all

1747
01:33:08,840 --> 01:33:11,439
Speaker 1: just left me hanging. So I'm not doing this no more.

1748
01:33:12,680 --> 01:33:15,400
Speaker 1: I said, I'm out. I ain't doing it. My lawyer

1749
01:33:15,439 --> 01:33:17,240
Speaker 1: is sitting right over there. Man, he said, I tell

1750
01:33:17,240 --> 01:33:19,680
Speaker 1: you what, he gets owner ship or he don't own it.

1751
01:33:21,000 --> 01:33:24,320
Speaker 1: So then they gave me owner ship. I went right

1752
01:33:24,320 --> 01:33:27,080
Speaker 1: on back to work, smiling hard as hell.

1753
01:33:28,400 --> 01:33:30,599
Speaker 4: I've reason you lost everything twice.

1754
01:33:30,960 --> 01:33:34,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, in two thousand and five, you had seventeen hundred

1755
01:33:34,600 --> 01:33:35,080
Speaker 3: dollars left.

1756
01:33:35,200 --> 01:33:36,479
Speaker 4: This was after Kings of Comedy.

1757
01:33:36,560 --> 01:33:40,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got seventeen hundred dollars after you made what

1758
01:33:41,040 --> 01:33:42,760
Speaker 3: like thirty million dollars on that tour.

1759
01:33:42,920 --> 01:33:47,000
Speaker 1: No, we made more than that, and you got seventeen

1760
01:33:47,040 --> 01:33:48,000
Speaker 1: hundred dollars to your name.

1761
01:33:48,200 --> 01:33:51,680
Speaker 4: What dall happened to the money where you where you

1762
01:33:50,680 --> 01:33:51,840
Speaker 4: were you.

1763
01:33:52,640 --> 01:33:58,200
Speaker 1: It's called a divorce. M I got, I got, I

1764
01:33:58,240 --> 01:34:00,880
Speaker 1: got jumped on man like. But it was even before

1765
01:34:00,920 --> 01:34:05,519
Speaker 1: the divorce, right cause, not gonna say who did it,

1766
01:34:05,560 --> 01:34:10,360
Speaker 1: but they got in cohoots with my uh financial plan huh.

1767
01:34:11,120 --> 01:34:14,320
Speaker 1: And I was writing checks to the government, yeah, for

1768
01:34:14,400 --> 01:34:19,640
Speaker 1: seven years, right, writing tax checks, signing the tax checks,

1769
01:34:20,200 --> 01:34:23,799
Speaker 1: giving them to turn in. They was keeping them, taking

1770
01:34:23,800 --> 01:34:27,000
Speaker 1: the money out the account like. I was paying taxes

1771
01:34:27,080 --> 01:34:31,679
Speaker 1: right and keeping it for theyself. When my accountant passed,

1772
01:34:32,360 --> 01:34:34,320
Speaker 1: a lady went in the office and found a box

1773
01:34:34,439 --> 01:34:37,840
Speaker 1: on the floor, and I had seven years of unpaid

1774
01:34:37,920 --> 01:34:40,840
Speaker 1: taxes and I'm I'm thinking, I'm even. And then my

1775
01:34:40,920 --> 01:34:43,679
Speaker 1: lawyer said to me, hey, man, you ain't paid taxes

1776
01:34:43,680 --> 01:34:46,920
Speaker 1: in seven years. Ooh, so you haven't paid in several years,

1777
01:34:46,920 --> 01:34:53,880
Speaker 1: plus the interest. Then I had saved some millions, but

1778
01:34:55,400 --> 01:34:58,040
Speaker 1: before I split the assets, she took all of that

1779
01:34:58,120 --> 01:35:01,280
Speaker 1: out to pay moved it. See the funny thing. I

1780
01:35:01,360 --> 01:35:05,360
Speaker 1: got divorced in November two thousand five. Oh, but then

1781
01:35:05,520 --> 01:35:08,080
Speaker 1: they went on the rampage to destroy me and act

1782
01:35:08,120 --> 01:35:10,400
Speaker 1: like we was in a divorce fight. We were actually

1783
01:35:10,439 --> 01:35:13,200
Speaker 1: just trying to split some assets. Right. The divorce was

1784
01:35:13,240 --> 01:35:16,519
Speaker 1: over right. It was no fight for nothing, right, it

1785
01:35:16,560 --> 01:35:19,080
Speaker 1: was just let's split the assets. But you took all

1786
01:35:19,160 --> 01:35:22,800
Speaker 1: the assets, right. And I was stuck with this tax bill, right,

1787
01:35:23,439 --> 01:35:26,120
Speaker 1: so I had to pay seven years of back taxes

1788
01:35:26,160 --> 01:35:28,960
Speaker 1: with interest and get current. I was in the world

1789
01:35:29,040 --> 01:35:31,640
Speaker 1: of trouble man. So when I looked up man, I

1790
01:35:31,680 --> 01:35:35,280
Speaker 1: had one thousand, seven hundred dollars. But that's when I

1791
01:35:35,320 --> 01:35:38,320
Speaker 1: went to New York and signed a contract for syndicated radio.

1792
01:35:38,600 --> 01:35:41,639
Speaker 1: Here come God again, rescue with me. That just gave

1793
01:35:41,680 --> 01:35:43,720
Speaker 1: me a little bit of money. I wasn't making what

1794
01:35:43,840 --> 01:35:46,040
Speaker 1: I make now. I make like ten ten MILLI a

1795
01:35:46,120 --> 01:35:48,880
Speaker 1: year off radio back then, you know, cause I just

1796
01:35:48,920 --> 01:35:50,880
Speaker 1: wanted to get in a dose, right, And that kept

1797
01:35:50,920 --> 01:35:54,200
Speaker 1: me at least be able to survive, right. And then

1798
01:35:54,640 --> 01:35:57,519
Speaker 1: that was two thousand five. I reconnected with Marjorie in

1799
01:35:57,520 --> 01:36:01,799
Speaker 1: two thousand five, right after the divorced two thousand and six.

1800
01:36:01,960 --> 01:36:04,599
Speaker 4: Killed you reconnected, So y'all had dated before.

1801
01:36:04,680 --> 01:36:07,960
Speaker 1: I dated in the eighties. Really yeah, I dated in

1802
01:36:08,040 --> 01:36:08,479
Speaker 1: the eighties.

1803
01:36:08,560 --> 01:36:10,439
Speaker 3: I thought they say love is like a McLaren. Once

1804
01:36:10,479 --> 01:36:11,879
Speaker 3: it goes cold, it can't be reheated.

1805
01:36:12,080 --> 01:36:16,960
Speaker 1: Your mind. Ain't gonna cold red hot, poker hot hot,

1806
01:36:17,000 --> 01:36:21,600
Speaker 1: Tommy hot. I'm talking about Tabasco. So it's just I

1807
01:36:21,640 --> 01:36:25,640
Speaker 1: got in trouble right when we started dating. I became homeless.

1808
01:36:26,080 --> 01:36:29,280
Speaker 1: Wasn't no cell phones. I just had a house number.

1809
01:36:30,160 --> 01:36:32,519
Speaker 1: She had a little baby. I figured what I got

1810
01:36:32,520 --> 01:36:35,160
Speaker 1: to offer this woman. I'm in trouble now, so I

1811
01:36:35,240 --> 01:36:38,000
Speaker 1: just would rove off. We never had an argument or nothing.

1812
01:36:38,760 --> 01:36:42,920
Speaker 3: You know, Wow, why did you continue to believe in

1813
01:36:42,960 --> 01:36:45,479
Speaker 3: Look everything that you've been like you're telling me you've

1814
01:36:45,479 --> 01:36:48,479
Speaker 3: gone through a divorce and things happened with the taxes,

1815
01:36:48,520 --> 01:36:51,439
Speaker 3: and she took half the money, three quarters of the money.

1816
01:36:51,560 --> 01:36:53,519
Speaker 3: Here I was thought you were selling your money because

1817
01:36:53,520 --> 01:36:55,439
Speaker 3: you made all this money on Kings of Comedy and

1818
01:36:55,479 --> 01:36:58,400
Speaker 3: you got seventeen hundred dollars to your name. Why did

1819
01:36:58,439 --> 01:37:00,920
Speaker 3: you believe in love twice? How do you believe in lee?

1820
01:37:00,960 --> 01:37:02,400
Speaker 3: Could love find love again?

1821
01:37:04,320 --> 01:37:07,320
Speaker 1: Because of my mom and daddy. My mom and Daddy's

1822
01:37:07,320 --> 01:37:10,360
Speaker 1: married sixty four years. I saw what it looked like, right,

1823
01:37:10,880 --> 01:37:12,679
Speaker 1: I saw what it looked like when it was hard,

1824
01:37:12,800 --> 01:37:17,519
Speaker 1: when it was good. I watched a man honor a woman.

1825
01:37:18,080 --> 01:37:21,559
Speaker 1: I've never seen nobody love nobody like my daddy loved

1826
01:37:21,560 --> 01:37:24,960
Speaker 1: my mama. That boy with that third grade education. My

1827
01:37:25,040 --> 01:37:27,519
Speaker 1: mama taught my daddy how to read and write. I

1828
01:37:27,680 --> 01:37:31,639
Speaker 1: never seen nobody loved nobody like Slick Harvey love iloss Via.

1829
01:37:32,200 --> 01:37:35,360
Speaker 1: He'll kill you about her. And he embedded that in

1830
01:37:35,439 --> 01:37:41,559
Speaker 1: me and my two brothers. Anybody say anything about your mama,

1831
01:37:41,720 --> 01:37:45,320
Speaker 1: get that ass right there right then. If you can't

1832
01:37:45,320 --> 01:37:48,160
Speaker 1: get that ass, come come to this house, get your brothers,

1833
01:37:48,240 --> 01:37:51,120
Speaker 1: but go back and get that ass. She off limits.

1834
01:37:51,439 --> 01:37:54,479
Speaker 1: Ain't no jokes about your mama. Ain't no nothing that

1835
01:37:54,800 --> 01:37:57,639
Speaker 1: that carried me to this day. Man. You can't say

1836
01:37:57,640 --> 01:38:00,280
Speaker 1: nothing about ilas Via Harvey. She off limits. Man. We

1837
01:38:00,320 --> 01:38:02,800
Speaker 1: ain't playing them game. You start that your mama shit

1838
01:38:02,880 --> 01:38:05,320
Speaker 1: up at the school we finish fight. When they would

1839
01:38:05,320 --> 01:38:07,200
Speaker 1: suspering me for fighting, my daddy said, what was you

1840
01:38:07,240 --> 01:38:09,400
Speaker 1: fighting for? I say, he said something about mama, He

1841
01:38:09,400 --> 01:38:10,080
Speaker 1: said okay.

1842
01:38:11,680 --> 01:38:16,639
Speaker 3: He embedded that, like okay, how he felt about your mother,

1843
01:38:16,840 --> 01:38:17,439
Speaker 3: his wife.

1844
01:38:18,320 --> 01:38:19,679
Speaker 4: You cared that with your wi.

1845
01:38:19,640 --> 01:38:21,920
Speaker 1: I just saw it, man. I went, Wow, that's how

1846
01:38:21,960 --> 01:38:22,439
Speaker 1: you do it.

1847
01:38:23,400 --> 01:38:25,120
Speaker 3: And so you never had that before in all your

1848
01:38:25,160 --> 01:38:27,320
Speaker 3: relationships before, in the marriage, you never had that.

1849
01:38:27,600 --> 01:38:30,080
Speaker 1: What he had with your mom. You never had that.

1850
01:38:30,320 --> 01:38:32,679
Speaker 1: My first marriage, I got married when I was twenty four.

1851
01:38:32,920 --> 01:38:35,920
Speaker 1: I wasn't the man my daddy was. I was trying

1852
01:38:35,920 --> 01:38:37,599
Speaker 1: to do something he was doing, and I ain't had

1853
01:38:37,680 --> 01:38:41,080
Speaker 1: equipment for it. I ain't know how to problem solved,

1854
01:38:41,320 --> 01:38:44,200
Speaker 1: navigate and negotiate. I didn't know how to shut up

1855
01:38:44,240 --> 01:38:47,559
Speaker 1: in the argument. I was just losing the arguments because

1856
01:38:47,560 --> 01:38:54,400
Speaker 1: I kept him going. I messed that up. The second one,

1857
01:38:55,360 --> 01:39:04,599
Speaker 1: that one right there, dog another drink. I just said,

1858
01:39:04,640 --> 01:39:07,400
Speaker 1: I don't do too but you got me in here. Now,

1859
01:39:08,280 --> 01:39:11,880
Speaker 1: you got me in here? Deep shit, So okay. The

1860
01:39:11,960 --> 01:39:15,840
Speaker 1: second one, obviously, that was the worst one. Normally, after a.

1861
01:39:15,880 --> 01:39:19,200
Speaker 3: Really really bad dramatic experience, you're like, I'm double this.

1862
01:39:19,520 --> 01:39:20,439
Speaker 4: It ain't ain't for me.

1863
01:39:20,640 --> 01:39:23,160
Speaker 1: I was. Let me tell you something. When I got

1864
01:39:23,200 --> 01:39:25,360
Speaker 1: divorced in two thousand and five, I was living in

1865
01:39:25,400 --> 01:39:29,840
Speaker 1: Trump Towers in New York, right on forty eighth and

1866
01:39:29,960 --> 01:39:35,960
Speaker 1: first YEP. I said, after that, this what I'm finna do.

1867
01:39:36,600 --> 01:39:40,320
Speaker 1: I had learned about private jet traveling stuff. By the end,

1868
01:39:40,880 --> 01:39:42,479
Speaker 1: even though I ain't have no money, I had just

1869
01:39:42,520 --> 01:39:44,840
Speaker 1: signed this other contract trying to get back from that.

1870
01:39:44,920 --> 01:39:48,360
Speaker 1: Seventeen hundred. I said, I'm gonna put bus schedules on

1871
01:39:48,439 --> 01:39:51,040
Speaker 1: my walls. I'm gonna have a riveling departure times. Right,

1872
01:39:51,400 --> 01:39:53,360
Speaker 1: that's how many women I'm finna roll up in here

1873
01:39:53,640 --> 01:39:57,840
Speaker 1: in sixty b bus schedules rivaling departure times. I'm finna

1874
01:39:57,920 --> 01:40:00,280
Speaker 1: roll them up in here on a continuous basis. I'm

1875
01:40:00,320 --> 01:40:04,120
Speaker 1: finna live my best life. God said, now you ain't. Oh.

1876
01:40:04,120 --> 01:40:05,599
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, you about to be Nick Canell

1877
01:40:05,640 --> 01:40:12,320
Speaker 1: before Nick Cannon did. Nick is different. I know where

1878
01:40:12,320 --> 01:40:20,000
Speaker 1: the drug store at. So you was like, okay, outside,

1879
01:40:20,040 --> 01:40:22,960
Speaker 1: I don't want to say sorry. Nick. You said okay,

1880
01:40:22,960 --> 01:40:25,040
Speaker 1: I don't know where that came from. Nick, I swear

1881
01:40:25,080 --> 01:40:29,080
Speaker 1: to God it's a Kevin Hart prank. I didn't mean

1882
01:40:29,160 --> 01:40:31,080
Speaker 1: to say that. I don't even know did I just

1883
01:40:31,080 --> 01:40:33,120
Speaker 1: say I know where the drugs store at. You usually

1884
01:40:33,120 --> 01:40:35,120
Speaker 1: said that I don't even know where that came from. Man,

1885
01:40:35,280 --> 01:40:39,760
Speaker 1: See that's that gift that just fo Yeah. But yeah, man,

1886
01:40:39,800 --> 01:40:42,000
Speaker 1: I that was the plan. How did you How did

1887
01:40:42,040 --> 01:40:44,800
Speaker 1: you and Marjin Rican act? God said, no, you not,

1888
01:40:45,840 --> 01:40:49,080
Speaker 1: Now you not. You're not fin to do that. You're

1889
01:40:49,080 --> 01:40:53,040
Speaker 1: finna get yourself together now, don't you done? Lost? Everything twice.

1890
01:40:53,120 --> 01:40:56,519
Speaker 1: Why do it again? You want to do it again,

1891
01:40:56,640 --> 01:40:59,240
Speaker 1: or you won't see what I got for you. You like

1892
01:40:59,280 --> 01:41:01,880
Speaker 1: a cat Steve. The day after my divorce, I went

1893
01:41:01,920 --> 01:41:06,599
Speaker 1: to Veakers. I'm gambling. My bodyguard boomerang on the phone

1894
01:41:06,640 --> 01:41:10,400
Speaker 1: talking to this girl named Sharon in Memphis. He asked

1895
01:41:10,400 --> 01:41:13,600
Speaker 1: about Marjorie. Said, Marjorie doing pretty good now, and I

1896
01:41:13,600 --> 01:41:16,760
Speaker 1: hadn't talked to her in years. Boom tapped me on

1897
01:41:16,840 --> 01:41:18,679
Speaker 1: my shoulder, said, hey, man, I got a phone call.

1898
01:41:19,360 --> 01:41:21,240
Speaker 1: I said, dog, I'm gambling. You know, don't talk nobody.

1899
01:41:21,240 --> 01:41:22,920
Speaker 1: He said, no, dog, you need to take this phone

1900
01:41:22,920 --> 01:41:24,880
Speaker 1: cause I ain't. I thought something's wrong. So I got

1901
01:41:24,960 --> 01:41:27,040
Speaker 1: him from a roulette table. I said hello. She said, boy,

1902
01:41:27,040 --> 01:41:33,000
Speaker 1: what you want? I said, Marjorie? She said yeah, So

1903
01:41:33,120 --> 01:41:36,360
Speaker 1: I just said, so, how your punk ass husband. It's

1904
01:41:36,439 --> 01:41:40,599
Speaker 1: the first first thing I said, cause you punk ass

1905
01:41:40,640 --> 01:41:43,599
Speaker 1: dode to me. I still hold strong to that one.

1906
01:41:43,920 --> 01:41:47,559
Speaker 1: I've never retracted that statement. Okay, I said how your

1907
01:41:47,560 --> 01:41:49,680
Speaker 1: punk ass her husband doing? Because I had heard she

1908
01:41:49,720 --> 01:41:53,600
Speaker 1: had got married. She said, boy, I've been divorced three years.

1909
01:41:54,520 --> 01:41:58,320
Speaker 1: Oh light bull, go on, you start smiling. I'm talking

1910
01:41:58,360 --> 01:42:00,880
Speaker 1: about man like a head, like like a half light BULBN.

1911
01:42:00,920 --> 01:42:05,280
Speaker 1: The hadn't even been in invented then ding I ended

1912
01:42:05,360 --> 01:42:09,000
Speaker 1: up going to Memphis Meta for lunch. She told me

1913
01:42:09,000 --> 01:42:13,880
Speaker 1: about a divorce. I said, I'm divorced too. She said, boy,

1914
01:42:14,040 --> 01:42:17,240
Speaker 1: shut up line because it hadn't went public, right and

1915
01:42:17,280 --> 01:42:19,080
Speaker 1: it just she said, shut up. I know you got

1916
01:42:19,080 --> 01:42:23,160
Speaker 1: married again and I said no. She didn't really believe.

1917
01:42:23,200 --> 01:42:25,519
Speaker 1: It took me two weeks convinc her. We talked on

1918
01:42:25,560 --> 01:42:27,799
Speaker 1: the phone that New Year's Eve. She was in Hawaii

1919
01:42:27,840 --> 01:42:30,479
Speaker 1: with her kids. I'm on the phone with her all night, man,

1920
01:42:31,080 --> 01:42:34,599
Speaker 1: just remembering stuff. Hadn't seen her in Valentine's Day two

1921
01:42:34,640 --> 01:42:37,760
Speaker 1: thousand and six she came to New York. That was it,

1922
01:42:37,800 --> 01:42:42,320
Speaker 1: dog No I and God said, you that arrival and

1923
01:42:42,400 --> 01:42:45,679
Speaker 1: departure signed. You're gonna take that down off the wall. Wow.

1924
01:42:45,800 --> 01:42:47,880
Speaker 1: I showed her to you one time. You didn't get

1925
01:42:47,880 --> 01:42:51,799
Speaker 1: it then, but you and after her, man, I mean, really,

1926
01:42:52,160 --> 01:42:54,240
Speaker 1: you look at my career and my life after her,

1927
01:42:54,920 --> 01:42:56,439
Speaker 1: it's just been a rocket shit.

1928
01:42:56,479 --> 01:43:00,439
Speaker 3: You credit her for everything that we see. He's Steve

1929
01:43:00,479 --> 01:43:03,880
Speaker 3: Harvey sitting here today. You credit her for that. The

1930
01:43:03,920 --> 01:43:05,840
Speaker 3: man that you became, the way you dressed, the way

1931
01:43:05,880 --> 01:43:08,559
Speaker 3: you talkt the things that you have going on, good,

1932
01:43:08,640 --> 01:43:09,559
Speaker 3: great in your life.

1933
01:43:09,720 --> 01:43:12,760
Speaker 1: You said that woman over there, because I know what

1934
01:43:12,840 --> 01:43:15,160
Speaker 1: it is now. A lot of dudes won't do that.

1935
01:43:15,240 --> 01:43:17,360
Speaker 1: And I understand that you want to get your shine

1936
01:43:17,400 --> 01:43:20,160
Speaker 1: on you this and you that. But I was that before,

1937
01:43:20,800 --> 01:43:23,240
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't this or that. Right. I was a

1938
01:43:23,240 --> 01:43:27,880
Speaker 1: comedian before. Right, I was a TV star before. So

1939
01:43:27,960 --> 01:43:31,080
Speaker 1: you tell me what difference is. It got to be

1940
01:43:31,160 --> 01:43:34,000
Speaker 1: hurt right because for the first time, man, I had

1941
01:43:34,080 --> 01:43:37,360
Speaker 1: peace at my house. Uh, when you got peace at

1942
01:43:37,360 --> 01:43:40,639
Speaker 1: the crib, dog, you can plug in your battery pack

1943
01:43:40,680 --> 01:43:42,320
Speaker 1: and get rejuvenated to go out here and deal with

1944
01:43:42,360 --> 01:43:43,840
Speaker 1: the rest of this shit. You got to go deal

1945
01:43:43,880 --> 01:43:46,439
Speaker 1: with right, because d hey, man, you know them folks

1946
01:43:46,439 --> 01:43:49,320
Speaker 1: out there. The ain't not finna change racism out there.

1947
01:43:49,680 --> 01:43:52,840
Speaker 1: It's on TV, it's on the internet. It's alive. And well,

1948
01:43:53,439 --> 01:43:55,680
Speaker 1: she would give me the juice and the charge I

1949
01:43:55,720 --> 01:43:58,720
Speaker 1: needed to go back out there. She encouraged me. She

1950
01:43:58,960 --> 01:44:01,680
Speaker 1: told me I was something. When I felt bad, she

1951
01:44:01,760 --> 01:44:04,320
Speaker 1: gave me the But we was at the house, laughing,

1952
01:44:05,080 --> 01:44:07,759
Speaker 1: having a good time. Man, If you look at since

1953
01:44:07,800 --> 01:44:10,080
Speaker 1: two thousands, we got married in two thousand and seven,

1954
01:44:10,720 --> 01:44:14,320
Speaker 1: if you look at from two thousand and seven, I

1955
01:44:14,360 --> 01:44:17,840
Speaker 1: got Family Feud in two thousand and nine. The book

1956
01:44:17,920 --> 01:44:22,519
Speaker 1: came out two thousand and nine, MS Universe. After that,

1957
01:44:23,000 --> 01:44:26,320
Speaker 1: the talk show after that, Little Big Shots, after that,

1958
01:44:27,160 --> 01:44:32,160
Speaker 1: the Judge Show, the radio show got big after that,

1959
01:44:33,080 --> 01:44:37,719
Speaker 1: four books later, the movie came out, Think Like a Man.

1960
01:44:38,040 --> 01:44:43,519
Speaker 1: All this after that? What else is it? I just

1961
01:44:43,600 --> 01:44:46,600
Speaker 1: locked in with this check man, and she gave me

1962
01:44:46,640 --> 01:44:49,280
Speaker 1: a lot of good advice. Man. She made me see

1963
01:44:49,320 --> 01:44:51,639
Speaker 1: things in a different way, and it was her man,

1964
01:44:51,680 --> 01:44:54,720
Speaker 1: And it's okay, man. People don't want to do that now.

1965
01:44:54,760 --> 01:44:56,280
Speaker 1: I know they tired of hearing me saying, but what

1966
01:44:56,360 --> 01:44:58,200
Speaker 1: you want me to say? Should? I ain't got nothing

1967
01:44:58,200 --> 01:45:01,880
Speaker 1: else for you. Should. It wasn't just all me. She

1968
01:45:02,080 --> 01:45:06,240
Speaker 1: gave me the mindset to be me. And that's crazy. Man.

1969
01:45:06,600 --> 01:45:10,759
Speaker 1: It's like there's a dude named Nuri Mohomet. I wish

1970
01:45:10,800 --> 01:45:13,120
Speaker 1: I had my phone. Man, you could hear what this

1971
01:45:13,200 --> 01:45:17,840
Speaker 1: dude said about relationships. It's the coldest thing he said,

1972
01:45:19,720 --> 01:45:22,960
Speaker 1: other than your relationship with God. Who you choose to

1973
01:45:23,000 --> 01:45:25,360
Speaker 1: spend the rest of your life with is the single

1974
01:45:25,400 --> 01:45:31,040
Speaker 1: most important decision you'll ever make, because your other half

1975
01:45:31,080 --> 01:45:36,360
Speaker 1: will either will your other half will be your better half,

1976
01:45:36,400 --> 01:45:39,400
Speaker 1: will make you half of what you could be. She

1977
01:45:39,439 --> 01:45:43,799
Speaker 1: will either inspire you to greatness or reduce you to mediocrity.

1978
01:45:45,040 --> 01:45:46,680
Speaker 1: He and then he went on to talk about He

1979
01:45:46,760 --> 01:45:49,840
Speaker 1: quoted Minister Lewis Faa Khan and then at the end

1980
01:45:49,920 --> 01:45:54,720
Speaker 1: of it he said, so choose wisely. And that was

1981
01:45:54,760 --> 01:45:58,920
Speaker 1: the first time, man, that I'd ever chose wisely. And

1982
01:45:59,000 --> 01:46:01,479
Speaker 1: it was the best thing. Because a woman like an

1983
01:46:01,479 --> 01:46:04,479
Speaker 1: elevator button. Man, they can take you up or down.

1984
01:46:05,560 --> 01:46:08,120
Speaker 1: If you get the right one, you got something. You

1985
01:46:08,160 --> 01:46:10,960
Speaker 1: get the wrong one. But it's like a man to

1986
01:46:11,040 --> 01:46:12,599
Speaker 1: a woman. If you get the right man, you can

1987
01:46:12,600 --> 01:46:14,800
Speaker 1: go somewhere. You get the wrong man, you off. Like

1988
01:46:14,880 --> 01:46:17,120
Speaker 1: I heard you say one time, well I was laughing.

1989
01:46:17,240 --> 01:46:20,479
Speaker 1: Or you said you paid for a divorce. I said,

1990
01:46:20,560 --> 01:46:21,960
Speaker 1: this dude right here was committed.

1991
01:46:22,560 --> 01:46:25,080
Speaker 3: But see, I want people to say, she was getting

1992
01:46:25,120 --> 01:46:26,440
Speaker 3: the divorce already.

1993
01:46:26,560 --> 01:46:30,360
Speaker 4: I didn't break the home up because because you know,

1994
01:46:30,360 --> 01:46:31,439
Speaker 4: if people taking it one with it.

1995
01:46:31,560 --> 01:46:35,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, she was getting a divorce, had the money, right,

1996
01:46:35,960 --> 01:46:39,200
Speaker 1: what's wrong with that? Right, I'm trying to invest in

1997
01:46:39,280 --> 01:46:42,080
Speaker 1: my future. See these dudes killing that's what's wrong with

1998
01:46:42,120 --> 01:46:46,680
Speaker 1: this generation today. These young boys today? What does she

1999
01:46:46,840 --> 01:46:50,400
Speaker 1: bring to the table? The hell you mean? Man? What

2000
01:46:50,439 --> 01:46:52,680
Speaker 1: do your ass bring to the table? You got a

2001
01:46:52,720 --> 01:46:54,559
Speaker 1: woman that can come to the table, that can make

2002
01:46:54,600 --> 01:46:58,880
Speaker 1: another U what else she needs to slide up to

2003
01:46:58,920 --> 01:47:02,320
Speaker 1: the table with? What about your job? What happened to

2004
01:47:02,439 --> 01:47:06,120
Speaker 1: men who are supposed to be responsible? Do you know

2005
01:47:06,200 --> 01:47:08,719
Speaker 1: that it's our job to take care of a woman

2006
01:47:08,800 --> 01:47:12,639
Speaker 1: and some children, to have a family. That's our damn job?

2007
01:47:12,800 --> 01:47:14,479
Speaker 1: But what happens to the when the woman tell you

2008
01:47:14,560 --> 01:47:17,240
Speaker 1: I don't need a man's den? Well? They needed what? Okay,

2009
01:47:17,240 --> 01:47:22,840
Speaker 1: if you don't how that's working, you know how that's working.

2010
01:47:23,160 --> 01:47:26,320
Speaker 1: Who don't need no man? I'm independent? I can do

2011
01:47:26,400 --> 01:47:30,280
Speaker 1: for myself. Yeah, but what do you want to? Yeah? Okay,

2012
01:47:30,320 --> 01:47:32,799
Speaker 1: you can drop a transmission, you can say and blast

2013
01:47:32,880 --> 01:47:36,280
Speaker 1: your house, But hell do you want to if somebody

2014
01:47:36,280 --> 01:47:38,280
Speaker 1: could get out there and drop this transmission for you

2015
01:47:38,479 --> 01:47:40,840
Speaker 1: and saying blast your house, why don't you gonna get

2016
01:47:40,880 --> 01:47:43,400
Speaker 1: your nails done? I'm not trying to reduce a woman

2017
01:47:43,439 --> 01:47:46,400
Speaker 1: to nothing else be all you can be, But damn,

2018
01:47:46,520 --> 01:47:50,639
Speaker 1: who don't need a man? That's a lie? What man

2019
01:47:50,760 --> 01:47:53,599
Speaker 1: don't need a woman? I tell you what I tell

2020
01:47:53,600 --> 01:47:57,120
Speaker 1: you what I tell you what, Try to live without them.

2021
01:47:57,760 --> 01:47:59,880
Speaker 1: Try to live your life without women. This ain't by

2022
01:48:00,040 --> 01:48:02,240
Speaker 1: a lot of damn man, it's some bullshit without women.

2023
01:48:02,680 --> 01:48:05,880
Speaker 1: If it wasn't for what would you? Aristolo Nasi said

2024
01:48:05,880 --> 01:48:08,559
Speaker 1: it best. He said, if women did not exist, all

2025
01:48:08,600 --> 01:48:12,120
Speaker 1: the money in the world would have no meaning. Doc

2026
01:48:12,200 --> 01:48:14,880
Speaker 1: women is everything that it catch me out. They the

2027
01:48:14,960 --> 01:48:18,000
Speaker 1: licked man. But these young boys done forgot it because

2028
01:48:18,040 --> 01:48:21,200
Speaker 1: these women out here they trying to be They've had

2029
01:48:21,240 --> 01:48:24,360
Speaker 1: to be independent because they ain't got the right man.

2030
01:48:25,240 --> 01:48:28,839
Speaker 1: But this system of marriage is still good, this system

2031
01:48:28,920 --> 01:48:31,320
Speaker 1: of a man taking care of a woman. That's really

2032
01:48:31,360 --> 01:48:33,439
Speaker 1: how it's supposed to be. All the rest of us

2033
01:48:33,479 --> 01:48:36,519
Speaker 1: bullshit man, and y'all need to put tricking yourself with

2034
01:48:36,600 --> 01:48:38,639
Speaker 1: this new way of thinking, because there's no way of think.

2035
01:48:38,680 --> 01:48:40,760
Speaker 1: This new way of thinking ain't getting y'all no damn where.

2036
01:48:41,000 --> 01:48:44,400
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I got in trouble on one time. This

2037
01:48:44,600 --> 01:48:47,840
Speaker 1: group came after me because I said Marjorie belonged to me,

2038
01:48:49,320 --> 01:48:51,400
Speaker 1: and they said, she's not a possession, she's a person,

2039
01:48:51,439 --> 01:48:54,600
Speaker 1: she's a hu, she is she mine? What is you

2040
01:48:54,760 --> 01:48:58,080
Speaker 1: talking about? She belonged to me? But I got news

2041
01:48:58,120 --> 01:49:02,400
Speaker 1: for you, I'm hers. I belonged to her. See you.

2042
01:49:02,479 --> 01:49:05,040
Speaker 1: If you don't like that system, carry your punk ass on,

2043
01:49:05,400 --> 01:49:07,320
Speaker 1: go do something else and let me know how to

2044
01:49:07,439 --> 01:49:09,759
Speaker 1: work out for you. I want to belong to somebody.

2045
01:49:10,439 --> 01:49:13,479
Speaker 1: I want somebody to belong to me. I take care

2046
01:49:13,520 --> 01:49:16,040
Speaker 1: of my wife and my family, because that's you belong

2047
01:49:16,120 --> 01:49:16,679
Speaker 1: to somebody.

2048
01:49:16,840 --> 01:49:20,360
Speaker 3: In your previous relationship, did you feel like they belonged

2049
01:49:20,400 --> 01:49:21,880
Speaker 3: to you or you belonged to them?

2050
01:49:22,080 --> 01:49:24,960
Speaker 1: Yeah? I did my first marriage. Yeah, I felt that way.

2051
01:49:25,040 --> 01:49:27,599
Speaker 1: I just didn't have the equipment. I just wasn't the

2052
01:49:27,600 --> 01:49:30,040
Speaker 1: man I needed to be. Did the best I could.

2053
01:49:30,120 --> 01:49:33,320
Speaker 1: I just came up short. You know, I've apologized to

2054
01:49:33,360 --> 01:49:35,800
Speaker 1: her because it really was my fault. I got married

2055
01:49:35,840 --> 01:49:39,120
Speaker 1: too young. How's your relationship with her now? I mean

2056
01:49:39,120 --> 01:49:41,759
Speaker 1: we're cool. We called you, you know, we called you.

2057
01:49:41,760 --> 01:49:43,960
Speaker 1: You know. She gave me three beautiful kids. I got twins.

2058
01:49:44,000 --> 01:49:46,439
Speaker 1: My oldest son sitting over there, you know what I'm saying.

2059
01:49:46,520 --> 01:49:50,760
Speaker 3: So, how you got three kids? Marjor had kids? How

2060
01:49:50,880 --> 01:49:52,880
Speaker 3: was the blended family? How did that work?

2061
01:49:52,960 --> 01:49:57,400
Speaker 1: These? Oh that' shit hard that you're gonna get me

2062
01:49:57,439 --> 01:50:01,439
Speaker 1: cool by y'all like, Nah, that shit hard. They wasn't

2063
01:50:01,439 --> 01:50:04,000
Speaker 1: an agreement. They they went bolding. One night in Memphis

2064
01:50:04,040 --> 01:50:05,960
Speaker 1: when me and Marjorie first got together, we bought all

2065
01:50:06,000 --> 01:50:08,559
Speaker 1: the kids together, all seven of them, and all the

2066
01:50:08,600 --> 01:50:11,519
Speaker 1: girls went bowling and came back and decided they didn't

2067
01:50:11,520 --> 01:50:13,160
Speaker 1: want us to get married and said they don't think

2068
01:50:13,160 --> 01:50:15,639
Speaker 1: it's the right thing to do, and they need more

2069
01:50:15,640 --> 01:50:17,439
Speaker 1: time to get to know us. And I'm sitting up

2070
01:50:17,439 --> 01:50:19,240
Speaker 1: here looking at some people that they ain't got shit.

2071
01:50:19,960 --> 01:50:22,800
Speaker 1: I'm sitting y'all ain't got a relationship, a good ass

2072
01:50:22,920 --> 01:50:25,640
Speaker 1: job or career. I'm paying for colleges and shit, I

2073
01:50:25,680 --> 01:50:28,560
Speaker 1: don't know how I'm listening to y'all making some damn decisions.

2074
01:50:28,760 --> 01:50:31,400
Speaker 1: Y'all ain't got one boyfriend that doesn't work thus far.

2075
01:50:33,160 --> 01:50:34,720
Speaker 1: I don't know how to hear you. Finna tell me

2076
01:50:34,760 --> 01:50:37,879
Speaker 1: how to live. My sons was over there, cool with it, Brodery,

2077
01:50:37,920 --> 01:50:39,800
Speaker 1: Jason and Winning. They sitting over there, they cool with

2078
01:50:39,880 --> 01:50:44,639
Speaker 1: everything right there, four girls total just may have totally

2079
01:50:45,280 --> 01:50:50,000
Speaker 1: totally gainsty. Ain't none of them got nobody. Why am

2080
01:50:50,000 --> 01:50:51,920
Speaker 1: I listening? How did you win them over?

2081
01:50:52,200 --> 01:50:55,879
Speaker 4: I didn't you like I'm doing this, Melliam Marbwie.

2082
01:50:55,880 --> 01:50:58,280
Speaker 1: We doing this song, I love this girl, this girl

2083
01:50:58,320 --> 01:51:00,360
Speaker 1: best thing for me. Now we gonna work. Now, we're

2084
01:51:00,360 --> 01:51:03,760
Speaker 1: gonna create an atmosphere of love. And everybody's invited into it, right,

2085
01:51:04,360 --> 01:51:06,519
Speaker 1: and everybody want to come into it, can come into it.

2086
01:51:07,200 --> 01:51:10,920
Speaker 1: And it was a point man, where like all of

2087
01:51:10,920 --> 01:51:13,719
Speaker 1: them except the oldest one, my two daughters had graduated

2088
01:51:13,720 --> 01:51:17,360
Speaker 1: from college. Morgan was out of college. So the three

2089
01:51:17,360 --> 01:51:20,400
Speaker 1: girls were living on their own. Everybody else lived in

2090
01:51:20,400 --> 01:51:24,360
Speaker 1: the house, the three boys and the daughter Laurie grew

2091
01:51:24,439 --> 01:51:27,439
Speaker 1: up with four damn brothers, so she was and we

2092
01:51:27,479 --> 01:51:30,680
Speaker 1: could protect at the house with them brothers. Shitd and

2093
01:51:30,760 --> 01:51:33,800
Speaker 1: got out of hand. Now, you know, we can't watch

2094
01:51:33,840 --> 01:51:36,360
Speaker 1: it now because I'd have beens sawed off a bunch

2095
01:51:36,360 --> 01:51:41,519
Speaker 1: of these little you know. But like at the house

2096
01:51:42,000 --> 01:51:43,920
Speaker 1: or we had full control of what was going on.

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01:51:44,560 --> 01:51:46,920
Speaker 1: And it was hard, man, because they were trying to

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01:51:48,040 --> 01:51:50,120
Speaker 1: evolve and get to know each other. And you know,

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01:51:50,240 --> 01:51:53,040
Speaker 1: some of the relationships is really good and some of

2100
01:51:53,080 --> 01:51:55,840
Speaker 1: them is just they cordial, you know, But that's just

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01:51:56,000 --> 01:51:58,559
Speaker 1: the way it is, you know, And I love to

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01:51:58,560 --> 01:52:00,160
Speaker 1: tell you it was a coon by y'all. Member, we

2103
01:52:00,240 --> 01:52:03,160
Speaker 1: have some great family vacation. We've had some great times.

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01:52:03,200 --> 01:52:07,360
Speaker 1: Recently we got great holidays. But you know, I think

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01:52:07,439 --> 01:52:10,320
Speaker 1: for the closest, the boys are the closest, you know, right,

2106
01:52:10,640 --> 01:52:14,240
Speaker 1: and then Winting and Laurie is the closest of them all.

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01:52:14,800 --> 01:52:18,160
Speaker 1: Winting and Laurier they like they they mud together. They

2108
01:52:18,280 --> 01:52:21,320
Speaker 1: they mixed. But you know, and then the boys they good,

2109
01:52:21,439 --> 01:52:24,519
Speaker 1: you know, the sons, they all they all good.

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Speaker 3: You have all the you mentioned, You have thirteen villas,

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01:52:27,400 --> 01:52:30,559
Speaker 3: You have all these lavish places. Where did Steve Harvey

2112
01:52:30,600 --> 01:52:36,040
Speaker 3: go to relax to just be Margie's husband?

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01:52:36,880 --> 01:52:42,800
Speaker 1: Sixteen hundred acres an hour thirty minutes south of Atlanta.

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01:52:44,160 --> 01:52:46,880
Speaker 1: I bought the uh, well, we bought the Chick fil

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01:52:46,920 --> 01:52:50,720
Speaker 1: a ranch. Huh sixteen hundred acres? Is that where you

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01:52:50,760 --> 01:52:53,000
Speaker 1: be fishing at? I got nine lakes down the shop.

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01:52:53,000 --> 01:52:55,000
Speaker 1: You gotta come down there. I come out a beach.

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01:52:55,040 --> 01:52:58,559
Speaker 1: You no e old off, see Steve, you can come

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01:52:58,560 --> 01:53:01,040
Speaker 1: down there and fish, eat your fish. Ste I know

2120
01:53:01,120 --> 01:53:04,519
Speaker 1: I know that what everybody say from Steve. You I

2121
01:53:04,560 --> 01:53:07,920
Speaker 1: grew up in rural South Georgia. How you say you was,

2122
01:53:08,640 --> 01:53:13,559
Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be double nicoling June. Now I'm two sixes. Steve,

2123
01:53:14,280 --> 01:53:16,679
Speaker 1: I got eleven years on your Steve. I got, Steve,

2124
01:53:18,000 --> 01:53:20,240
Speaker 1: I got. I caught a fish so big to picture,

2125
01:53:20,280 --> 01:53:26,719
Speaker 1: weigh six pounds pass. I said, that's a sharp mess

2126
01:53:26,800 --> 01:53:29,160
Speaker 1: right there. I caught a fish so big to picture

2127
01:53:29,160 --> 01:53:34,479
Speaker 1: away six fronts. Boy, But I got some hogs down there.

2128
01:53:35,040 --> 01:53:36,519
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. I got a lake for

2129
01:53:36,640 --> 01:53:39,479
Speaker 1: you that I don't let nobody fish. What you got?

2130
01:53:39,800 --> 01:53:42,000
Speaker 4: What you got trout, crappy catfish.

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01:53:42,520 --> 01:53:45,519
Speaker 1: Trout is in there right now to feeding. But they

2132
01:53:45,600 --> 01:53:48,120
Speaker 1: gonna die as soon as it's seventy degrees, They're gonna

2133
01:53:48,120 --> 01:53:50,160
Speaker 1: be dead. I used to use them for winter fishing.

2134
01:53:51,240 --> 01:53:53,120
Speaker 1: But man, I had a guy come through and turn

2135
01:53:53,240 --> 01:53:56,680
Speaker 1: my lakes out from me. I killed off all the

2136
01:53:56,720 --> 01:54:00,679
Speaker 1: fish I bought it in. Nothing but big female bass

2137
01:54:00,720 --> 01:54:04,800
Speaker 1: out of Florida. Nothing but females, big mouth, So they

2138
01:54:04,840 --> 01:54:07,800
Speaker 1: ain't sitting on the beds nesting and all that. They

2139
01:54:08,400 --> 01:54:13,200
Speaker 1: steady hunting. Yeah, I got. I put four hundred pounds

2140
01:54:13,240 --> 01:54:16,400
Speaker 1: of blue gill in there, and they just walking around

2141
01:54:16,520 --> 01:54:18,040
Speaker 1: just eating it. Oh, I want to I want it,

2142
01:54:18,080 --> 01:54:19,080
Speaker 1: That's what I want to. I want to cut.

2143
01:54:19,080 --> 01:54:20,680
Speaker 3: That's what I want to pish it, because see if

2144
01:54:20,720 --> 01:54:22,200
Speaker 3: I catch them, when I catch you when they're bedding.

2145
01:54:22,320 --> 01:54:23,800
Speaker 3: See I throw out their bed. They're gonna try to

2146
01:54:23,840 --> 01:54:24,720
Speaker 3: get that lure out the bed.

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01:54:25,000 --> 01:54:28,320
Speaker 1: Yeah. See, but it's a dog fight now because I

2148
01:54:28,360 --> 01:54:31,439
Speaker 1: got one lake in the back. I don't let nobody

2149
01:54:31,479 --> 01:54:32,040
Speaker 1: fish it.

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01:54:32,080 --> 01:54:32,960
Speaker 4: While I was in there.

2151
01:54:33,680 --> 01:54:46,360
Speaker 1: Hogs, all hogs I loaded back then five pounders in there.

2152
01:54:47,040 --> 01:54:50,520
Speaker 3: So they probably like seven eight, No, sir, I got hogs.

2153
01:54:50,880 --> 01:54:52,360
Speaker 3: Oh you got you got from double digit?

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01:54:52,480 --> 01:54:54,880
Speaker 1: You got them? Your dog? I got a twelve pound

2155
01:54:54,920 --> 01:54:57,760
Speaker 1: I'll show you a picture. You catch a relief though, right, Yeah,

2156
01:54:57,800 --> 01:54:59,880
Speaker 1: all the time, I got chips in my fish. Okay,

2157
01:55:00,120 --> 01:55:02,880
Speaker 1: I monitor My fish is monitored. That's why I don't

2158
01:55:02,880 --> 01:55:04,760
Speaker 1: know nobody come back there. You I catch you with

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01:55:04,840 --> 01:55:09,840
Speaker 1: a string a fish your ass, No, you're gonna get

2160
01:55:09,960 --> 01:55:13,320
Speaker 1: I'll shoot your ass if I catch you any fish

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01:55:13,360 --> 01:55:15,240
Speaker 1: that you eat out of there, yeah I will. I

2162
01:55:15,280 --> 01:55:18,400
Speaker 1: got one. I got one pond where you can fish

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01:55:18,720 --> 01:55:22,360
Speaker 1: and eat. You know, any trout you catch, you can eat.

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01:55:22,720 --> 01:55:24,560
Speaker 1: But they're gonna be gone in a minute because once

2165
01:55:24,640 --> 01:55:27,600
Speaker 1: that water hits seventy they gonna die. But them bass,

2166
01:55:27,680 --> 01:55:31,680
Speaker 1: my hybrid bass for my kids camp that come down there.

2167
01:55:32,200 --> 01:55:34,880
Speaker 1: They can we can cook them. But I don't really

2168
01:55:34,880 --> 01:55:37,560
Speaker 1: got much of that going on. You know, I very

2169
01:55:37,640 --> 01:55:41,800
Speaker 1: rarely do that. You know, man, you gotta come down there.

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01:55:42,320 --> 01:55:44,840
Speaker 3: I'm gonna come down there. So that's so that's where

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01:55:44,880 --> 01:55:47,240
Speaker 3: you go. You got this big mansion on the Chattahoochie

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01:55:48,040 --> 01:55:49,520
Speaker 3: that's your Is that your prize?

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01:55:50,480 --> 01:55:53,280
Speaker 1: Yeah? I can't. I can't complain about that. That that

2174
01:55:54,680 --> 01:55:57,400
Speaker 1: hoochie that dropped in my man. My girl did that.

2175
01:55:59,360 --> 01:56:02,320
Speaker 1: My girl bought that house when COVID first struck right,

2176
01:56:02,720 --> 01:56:04,720
Speaker 1: And I told the baby, we can't buy no house

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01:56:04,840 --> 01:56:07,040
Speaker 1: like that. What are you talking about? I'm I they

2178
01:56:07,120 --> 01:56:10,360
Speaker 1: just sending me home. Family feud shut down in March, right,

2179
01:56:11,280 --> 01:56:15,960
Speaker 1: we take from March to the summer. We our income. Yeah,

2180
01:56:16,000 --> 01:56:17,920
Speaker 1: I said, bab, we can't do nothing like this right now.

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01:56:18,160 --> 01:56:20,640
Speaker 1: You know. Marjorie told me, she said, Steve, you don't

2182
01:56:20,680 --> 01:56:23,640
Speaker 1: know how much money you got. You make it. I'll

2183
01:56:23,640 --> 01:56:27,840
Speaker 1: watch it. She said, I can put this whole deal together.

2184
01:56:28,040 --> 01:56:30,040
Speaker 1: I said, Baby, it ain't the right time. She said,

2185
01:56:30,040 --> 01:56:33,520
Speaker 1: if I do it, when you sign the papers, I said, baby,

2186
01:56:33,800 --> 01:56:36,520
Speaker 1: I'm telling you cause I don't. I don't keep it right.

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01:56:36,920 --> 01:56:39,680
Speaker 1: That's how much I trust her, though. But you know,

2188
01:56:39,760 --> 01:56:41,720
Speaker 1: she don't do nothing. She don't do nothing without telling

2189
01:56:41,760 --> 01:56:43,760
Speaker 1: me any right, So we well, I know what's there,

2190
01:56:43,880 --> 01:56:47,080
Speaker 1: but I don't really. She did the whole deal herself. Man.

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01:56:47,360 --> 01:56:50,200
Speaker 1: She found the house and everything because Tyler built this house.

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01:56:50,320 --> 01:56:50,480
Speaker 2: Man.

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01:56:50,600 --> 01:56:52,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me tell you what this dude did when

2194
01:56:52,400 --> 01:56:54,360
Speaker 1: he first built it. He invited me over. I walking

2195
01:56:54,400 --> 01:56:57,440
Speaker 1: up the front steps, I told God, said God, I

2196
01:56:57,480 --> 01:57:00,800
Speaker 1: got to have something like this. How you can't nobody

2197
01:57:00,800 --> 01:57:03,440
Speaker 1: see you in the front or the back? I said, man.

2198
01:57:04,240 --> 01:57:08,760
Speaker 1: And then Tyler put it on sale for way more money,

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01:57:09,600 --> 01:57:12,520
Speaker 1: and it it. It sold to this dude that sold

2200
01:57:12,560 --> 01:57:15,000
Speaker 1: his arm and company. And I went out to Beverly

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01:57:15,040 --> 01:57:16,920
Speaker 1: Hills and got a house. And then when that was

2202
01:57:16,960 --> 01:57:19,440
Speaker 1: over with, I was going back to live in my house,

2203
01:57:19,520 --> 01:57:21,480
Speaker 1: my other house. I got a nice house. Man. The

2204
01:57:21,560 --> 01:57:24,560
Speaker 1: kids grew up here, and everything was moving back. And

2205
01:57:24,600 --> 01:57:27,560
Speaker 1: on my mama's birthday, I was very depressed. That morning,

2206
01:57:27,640 --> 01:57:29,440
Speaker 1: March twenty seventh, I was crushed.

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01:57:29,480 --> 01:57:29,680
Speaker 2: Man.

2208
01:57:29,720 --> 01:57:33,600
Speaker 1: We was out of work, going home, and she said

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01:57:33,640 --> 01:57:35,520
Speaker 1: I put an offer in on the house. She told me,

2210
01:57:35,560 --> 01:57:37,880
Speaker 1: i'ma she put off here. The real estate agent said,

2211
01:57:37,960 --> 01:57:40,920
Speaker 1: he will never ever sign for that much. He'll never

2212
01:57:40,960 --> 01:57:45,160
Speaker 1: take that amount. It's impossible. It's Harvey. He's wasting your time.

2213
01:57:45,240 --> 01:57:47,440
Speaker 1: She's She wrote him a long letter too. She said,

2214
01:57:47,440 --> 01:57:50,920
Speaker 1: this is not a negotiation. I am offering you this.

2215
01:57:51,240 --> 01:57:53,560
Speaker 1: My husband loves the house. He's been that we'll buy

2216
01:57:53,560 --> 01:57:56,400
Speaker 1: a sight unseen if you don't want this amount, it's okay.

2217
01:57:56,720 --> 01:57:59,640
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to insult you. On my mama's birthday,

2218
01:57:59,680 --> 01:58:04,080
Speaker 1: he called and said, I take the off. That's how

2219
01:58:04,080 --> 01:58:04,800
Speaker 1: I got the house.

2220
01:58:05,520 --> 01:58:05,920
Speaker 4: Wow.

2221
01:58:06,240 --> 01:58:08,800
Speaker 1: That girl and the house she really wanted was around

2222
01:58:08,840 --> 01:58:11,640
Speaker 1: the corner. It was on seventeen acres too, and I

2223
01:58:11,720 --> 01:58:13,800
Speaker 1: was gonna save my money and get her that house.

2224
01:58:14,120 --> 01:58:16,840
Speaker 1: She said, no, Steve, you go to work every day.

2225
01:58:17,320 --> 01:58:20,120
Speaker 1: I don't turn no corners. She said, well, I'm gonna

2226
01:58:20,120 --> 01:58:21,440
Speaker 1: get the one you want it. I said, babe, but

2227
01:58:21,480 --> 01:58:23,680
Speaker 1: you like the other one better. She said, we're gonna

2228
01:58:23,720 --> 01:58:25,760
Speaker 1: get the house you want, and she did it.

2229
01:58:27,040 --> 01:58:27,880
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get you out of here.

2230
01:58:27,880 --> 01:58:28,080
Speaker 1: On this.

2231
01:58:28,240 --> 01:58:31,120
Speaker 3: Being from Cleveland, obviously you're a Cleveland sports fan. What's

2232
01:58:31,160 --> 01:58:33,720
Speaker 3: your favorite sport? What's Steve Harvey's favorite sport to watch?

2233
01:58:33,760 --> 01:58:39,520
Speaker 1: Football? Football? Hell, there ain't even no question. They play

2234
01:58:39,640 --> 01:58:43,600
Speaker 1: hard from week one, they do they answer is in

2235
01:58:43,640 --> 01:58:47,000
Speaker 1: at week one? Yeah, ain't no low manager, ain't no sooner.

2236
01:58:47,120 --> 01:58:50,760
Speaker 1: Preseason over with hike. It's on and crack and here

2237
01:58:50,800 --> 01:58:56,240
Speaker 1: they come. Yeah. See basketball, you gotta wait till the playoffs. Right, Baseball,

2238
01:58:56,280 --> 01:58:58,800
Speaker 1: you gotta way to the player. I can't stand watching baseball.

2239
01:58:59,320 --> 01:59:02,640
Speaker 1: I'd rather be just. I'd rather watch some ants build

2240
01:59:02,640 --> 01:59:07,560
Speaker 1: a new hill. I'm a Cleveland Brown, die hard fan man.

2241
01:59:07,600 --> 01:59:12,120
Speaker 1: I've been dying with them boys forever. I'm a huge

2242
01:59:12,200 --> 01:59:16,800
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson fan. I have no problem with Deshaun Washington.

2243
01:59:16,800 --> 01:59:20,040
Speaker 1: I do have one suggestion, I s My only suggestion is,

2244
01:59:20,480 --> 01:59:23,160
Speaker 1: ain't no problem with getting massage. It's just you have

2245
01:59:23,440 --> 01:59:31,560
Speaker 1: got to stop turning over. Just stay face down, Just

2246
01:59:31,640 --> 01:59:37,040
Speaker 1: stay face down. All be good. Oh that does do

2247
01:59:37,200 --> 01:59:38,080
Speaker 1: not turn over.

2248
01:59:39,200 --> 01:59:42,560
Speaker 3: We're gonna rapple that, ladies and gentlemen, guys, ben put

2249
01:59:42,600 --> 01:59:44,040
Speaker 3: some hand together for Steve Harvey.

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01:59:44,200 --> 01:59:52,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, all my life, grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle,

2251
01:59:53,920 --> 01:59:57,200
Speaker 2: one slice got the all my life.

2252
01:59:57,280 --> 01:59:59,600
Speaker 1: I'll be grinding all my life all my.

2253
01:59:59,600 --> 02:00:03,440
Speaker 2: Life, been running all my life, sacrifice that will pay

2254
02:00:03,480 --> 02:00:06,720
Speaker 2: the price. One slice got to brow the dice, that's

2255
02:00:06,760 --> 02:00:07,840
Speaker 2: wall all my life.

2256
02:00:07,880 --> 02:00:13,440
Speaker 1: I've been running all my life. M hm