WEBVTT - Steve Harvey 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.560 My first marriage. I got married when I was twenty four. 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:08.160 I messed that up the second one. I don't need 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:13.760 another drink. I just said I don't do too. But 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:15.600 you got me in here now. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:21.680 All my life, grinding all my life, sacrifice hustle peg price. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:25.639 One slice got the brother Geist swap all my life. 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:29.040 I'd be grinding all my life, all my life, grinding 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:34.240 all my life, sacrifice hustle peg price. One slice got 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:36.600 the brother of Geist squat all my life, I'd be 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:39.839 grinding all my life. 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:42.879 Hello, Welcome to another edition of Club Shaha. I am 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.280 your host, Shannon Sharp. I'm also the propriet of Club 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.960 Shahe and the guy that's stopping by for conversation on 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.640 a drink today. When we started Club Shahe, we told 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:52.919 you we're gonna try to bring you the biggest atholie 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.320 entertainers and celebrities, and we think we've landed Moby Dick today. 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.520 He's one of the most recognized and beloved global entertainers 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:01.920 in the world, one of the most powerful voices in media. 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.080 He's an Emmy Award winning TV personality and talk show hosts, 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:09.960 New York Times bestselling author, National Association of Broadcaster Hall 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:11.800 of Famer. He has a star on the Hollywood Walker 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:16.119 Fan A comedy legend, top rated radio personality, popular game 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:21.440 show and TV host, producer, actor, writer, fashion entrepreneur, media monger, investor, 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:27.640 motivational speaker and innovative business leader, active humanitarian and global philanthropists. 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.720 A true true renaissance man, not other than the great 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:32.560 Steve Harvey. 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:36.679 Steve all that that centro I've ever had? Did I 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.399 leave it to thing? Are? Probably did, but don't worry 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:43.320 about it. The card on is so big, Steve, the car. 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.280 We're out of time. How you doing, hey, man, I'm good. 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.320 First of all, let me say this, man, I don't 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.360 do a lot of podcasts. I've only done a few, 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.480 But when you call man, I had to do it. 0:01:56.520 --> 0:02:03.120 Because of all the people on television, your commentary, you're 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:07.240 the one dude that thinks just like me. Man. You 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:11.000 ain't probably said nothing. I ain't disagreed with nothing. I 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:15.920 like your straight your honesty, your forwardness. Man, that country 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:23.040 ass baritone that you'd be mispronouncing words? Me, you and Perkins, 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:25.840 Me and you and Perkins going to have a podcast 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:31.000 talking about Yeah they said it. Steve. 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.120 I know you, I know you. You you know, health 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.200 is wealth, and you're doing the right thing. But would 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:36.840 you would you would your grace me and have a 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.240 drink with me. This is actually is my own kind. 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.560 I actually do that. Don't worry about that. Pull that 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:41.880 in there. 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.480 I drink. I drink a little bit of a little bit. Yeah, 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:46.359 I ain't gonna be drunk. No, no, no, no, We're not 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.160 gonna be drunk. No, we're not gonna be I ain't 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.080 never been drunk before in my life. Man. That's a 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.640 good thing. Yeah, I've never had more than one drink. 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.400 That's a good thing too. My brother, to all the success, 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:01.040 yank you brother. We're gonna send your here. We're gonna 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:02.200 send your way with a bottle of death. 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:09.480 Oh that's smooth. You know we need now is a cigar. Yeah, 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.040 that's all right. I appreciate it. No, that's pretty good, man. 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:18.560 So how you been, man? I'm good, you know, working 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:23.320 on my health, man, most important thing right now. I'm 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.040 good man. I really can't. You know. I've entered a 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:30.880 new phase. Okay. I was out the country recently and 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.760 I was kept talking to God about these deals, you know, 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.840 and we get right to the edge, and we almost 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:41.600 get there. Something would happen. Then we'd almost get to 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.920 another one and something would happen, and then I'll just 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:46.720 figured it out. Man. God said, I want you to 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.600 go home. And I came back out the country and 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.120 I just went home. He said, I know you asking 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:53.320 me for a lot of stuff, but I want you 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.280 to just take take a minute and look at everything 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.720 out and gave you. Look at everything out and done 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.760 for you. Now, just let me know you all right, 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.840 and then we'll go from now. Right. But I had 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:07.800 to come home, man, for the past couple of months 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.160 and just look at all he'd have done for me. 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:12.040 I'm good. 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.720 So you were thinking that because the deals weren't happening, 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.560 God revealed you you need to go home and be 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.000 thankful for what I've already given you instead of what 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:22.240 you don't have right now. 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.719 Cause my focus was into what I was trying to 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:28.280 make happen, and I was losing sight of what had 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.679 already happened. Right, And if you want more, you gotta 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:33.760 be grateful for what you have. But I was so 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.880 busy wanting the more. I forgot to focus and take 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.720 a look at what he'd already done. I came home, man, 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.159 and went home, sat around my house for a while, 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.880 went down to my ranch, did some fishing. Just look. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:47.760 I looked at all that space and stuff, and all 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.119 of a sudden I realized, I said, man, I'm really good. 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.520 I forgot Okay, God, I see what you were saying. Right, yeah, 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.880 I He'll give you some more. But would you mind 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.240 what you have? Would you just please please be little 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.600 bit appreciative or what I already done. 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.000 You mentioned your health as well, and I see you. 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.520 I follow you, and I see you exercising, I see 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.880 you eating. Right, What was the turning point that you said? 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.440 You know what, I'm I'm healthy, but I believe I 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.600 can do better. I can be more healthy. 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.560 Well, you know, man, I had a couple of health issues. Man, 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:23.320 I discovery I'm sixty six, man, So I got to 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:26.080 looking around, man, and I had had high blood I 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:30.960 had this thing called Charguson's which is immune disorder. Okay, 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:32.920 you know, I get my blood work done about four 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.680 times a year, Okay, but white blood count was low, 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.320 couldn't get it up. And then I was struggling with 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.240 a sleep apnel. Okay, you know, I was waking up 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.120 in the middle of the night. I had all this 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:44.880 going on, man, and I said, wait a minute, man, 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.080 hold up, I got I gotta do something. So I 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.360 went to this company, man, and I found this this 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:56.600 brother who was one of the top nutritional scientists ever 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:01.120 come out of Harvard named John John Lyon, and I 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:03.080 went to him and I said, hey man, I found 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.520 out that drinking green drinks is really good for you. 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.360 But I just can't gag it down every morning. You 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:13.200 know what I'm saying, kale like I don't really understand 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:18.520 k awful. I don't. It's not in the Bible. It's not. 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.760 Kale is for four legged animals only. You gotta have 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.960 a short, square teeth that's blocked at the top because 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.000 you gotta you gotta get that kale in your mouth 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.000 and work with it. You gotta have. And I just 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.680 gagged it down every morning. I said, hey, man, can 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.440 y'all come up with a green drink from it that 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.040 tastes good? And so we formally about a year and 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:39.640 a half. It took then a lot of tests, and 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:42.279 finally we came up with this product called it Elevate You, 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.520 this delicious green drink, and I started taking it. I 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.680 started feeling better, and it actually gave me more energy. 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.599 So then I was able to get in that gym 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.800 and I can started dressing some of these real issues. 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.200 And right now, man, I'm getting there. 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:01.080 Man, are you said that you were struggling sleep? Was 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.240 it because you have a hard time? Because I think 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.279 people that are successful really have a hard time turning 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.120 their mind off. Boys, They constantly thinking, They constantly like 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:10.680 I need to do this, I need to do this, 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:12.720 I need to do this, and so the mind is 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:13.600 constantly focused. 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.920 It never relaxes, so you can't sleep. That's exactly right, 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.680 That's exactly it. And the whole thing is you got 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:21.800 to turn your mind off. Yes, you know, they come 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.000 up with stuff like melowtnin or something like that, and 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.360 then they got a little thing called LDN and all 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.560 this here. But really, man, when you hustling and grinding, yes, 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.760 that's that's a cost for everything. Correct. You know, you 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.400 don't get to where we are people like this. You 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:41.480 don't get here free. This come with a cost, and 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.080 it's gonna cost you a lot of free time. It's 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.680 gonna cost you a lot of your time. And that's 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:48.400 just it. You know, people they got mad at me 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.520 one time because I did drop the video while I 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:53.040 was talking about if you want to get rich, you 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.720 can't sleep eight hours, and then here come all the 0:07:55.800 --> 0:08:00.680 haters online talking about Steve Harvey prefers wealth over health. No, 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:04.600 I don't. I would give anything to be fully healthy. 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:08.280 But at the same time, if you trying to get 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.000 it and talking about it, really have it, you gotta 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.480 lock and load. Man, you ain't eight If you sleep 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.320 eight hours, you sleep a third of your life. One 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.760 third of your life is spentially. Now you tell me 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.480 how you're gonna get successful in the United States of 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.800 America and you sleep a third of your life, help 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.640 me understand that, how that's possible? Then they're gonna, well, 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.200 open sleep Oprah billionaire, right. 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:33.760 But Oprah has open didn't sleep like that trying to 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:37.839 accumulate that. Your sleep she probably sleep twenty hours a day. 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.640 Now she can sleep, she. 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:41.560 Can be weak. 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.080 No, she ain't got to wake up for she can lay. 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.880 Opra can lay that probably about four five years. Wake up, 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.880 still have plenty of money. I sleep four five years, man, 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:52.240 I got to start over. 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:59.280 You from a small town in Welk, West Virginia. Yeah, 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.640 what was life like growing up in that small town? 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.440 How how long did you stay there until I was five, Okay, 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:06.839 so you and then spent a whole lot of time. 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:10.040 Then you moved to Cleveland, so most of your formative years, 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.640 what you remember is in Cleveland, correct. 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.520 Right, But that form because every summer I had to 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:17.840 go back, oh and work the farm. But my uncle 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.480 and grandfather, okay, because we had raised two hogs, right, 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.679 and we killed them in the falls, so we had 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.679 to go back in the summer. I had to go 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:27.480 work all the crops, cause that's what we ate. Come. 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.040 My daddy was a construction worker, right, so he couldn't 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.199 My father couldn't work in the winter time, right, So 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:34.960 we had to go down here and kill these two 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:38.680 hogs and get all these crops from the summer, you know, 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.400 put them in the salt salt house. You all like this, yes, 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.200 And that was work, man, You had to work. So 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:47.280 I really learned a lot growing up in the country. 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.040 But then I was city boy too, so I had 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.200 the best of both worlds. Man. You know, I ain't 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.280 flush it toilet. I was five years old. I ain't 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.440 know what that was, right, I ain't know they had 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.440 I ain't know you could cut your faucet on in 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.480 your house right. You know, so I learned a lot 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.520 of I was poor, but I ain't. I ain't really 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.280 know it because everybody around you was poor. Everybody went 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.640 to the bathroom outside, Yeah, ain't. Nobody had no water fall, 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.440 whale water, even the white people. 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:12.080 See you know what. 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:13.960 See That's why I think kind of like when you 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:15.440 say that you and I have a share a lot 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.520 of the same ideas, because I grew up in rural 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:19.000 South Georgia and. 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:19.559 I didn't take ah. 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.839 I didn't really take a shower in a house until 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:23.319 I was. 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.200 In the NFL. I was twenty one, really too. Yeah. 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.600 We had no indoor run in, no no indoor plumbing, 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.280 no running water. We drank whale water. I went outside 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:32.760 the first twenty years. I didn't know what it was 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.400 like to use a bathroom inside. See people, but I 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.240 see you see you said you sixty six, right, yeah, 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:40.840 I'll be fifty five in June. 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:44.720 This was the eighties. This wasn't nineteen sixty. This wasn't 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:49.160 nineteen fifty, nineteen forty. This was the eighties until. 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.880 Until my brother purchased my grandmother house in September of 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:53.520 nineteen eighty. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:53.840 Yeah. 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.679 Well, the first time I actually used the bathroom in 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:57.400 someone's house. 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:01.520 Other than that, I went outside. See that's you know, 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:06.480 the average person don't even know. They can't understand. Like 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.079 I talked to you a lot, a lot, you know 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:12.080 how a lot of young people, right, and they say, man, 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:16.360 like my son's dad, you saw everything get invented. Yeah, 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:20.360 color TV. You know, I saw we had TV. Well, 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.440 the one dude had color TV on that street. We 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.719 all went around his house. Just see color TV. Right, 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.559 it was thirteen inches, about twenty five people be packed 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.360 in it, you know, trying to watch his damn TV. 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.760 I saw cell phones get invented. So you know, at 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:35.839 the Internet, I saw all that. Man, So it's a 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:37.439 it gives you a different appreciation. 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.640 I think you said that you had a speech impediment 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.559 when you were growing up, and that you had a 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:48.280 teacher that said you weren't gonna make it because you stuttered. Yeah, 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.839 and there was someone in your community or someone in 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.959 Deli that says, slow down, say what you want to, 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.760 you know, take three and then start over again. 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.480 How did that make you feel? When you like, she. 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:03.120 Crushed my I'm a kid and she already crushed tea. Yes, 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.760 he's supposed to lift you that this dream killing herself? 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.920 You know, I said, what kind of you? Said the 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:15.280 fir class because she we had to write an assignment 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:16.640 what you want to be when you grow up? On 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.960 the first day of school, right sixth grade, and I write, 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.800 I want to be on TV. She called everybody name, 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:24.600 had him stand up. Then she made me come to 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:26.480 the front. I go to the front. I think I'm 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.440 finna get a gold star. I got the best answer 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:30.600 and right because I knew all my lambs were better 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:32.679 because Lone Cage had wrote on his paper he won't 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:34.959 be a doctor. His ass couldn't even read in the 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.559 reading group. So I don't know how lone it gonna be. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.080 No damn doctor. This has got to be. So at 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.319 least I wrote something that had a chance happening. Lone 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.079 ass got about a bigger chance of being a doctor 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.679 as I got to walk in my ass to the 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.600 moon by Friday. So when she called me up there 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.320 man and I she said, why did you write this 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.440 on your paper? And I said, because that was our 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:01.400 assignment for today. And then I had a little stuttering problem. 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.040 So I was studying a little bit, and she said, 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.960 who do you know on TV? In this neighborhood, and 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.320 so I started. By the tone of her voice, I 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:12.960 could tell that this wasn't going the way, This wouldn't 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.240 feel bold gold stop by this. He was trying to 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.360 break me in front of these kids. And she was 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:20.280 doing a damn. 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:21.000 Good job right too. 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:23.400 She was crushing me. Who in this neighborhood had been 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.280 on TV? Who in your family ever been on TV? 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.640 Who in this school been on TV? And what makes 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:30.760 you think you can be on TV? And look at 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.160 you standing there? You can't even talk now, you write 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.800 something more reasonable on your paper? She crushed me. Man, 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.120 I said, damn, this is a teacher, right, you know 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.760 this is in the sixty eight man. Right, I'm sitting 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:46.320 here looking at this lady like god dog. But I 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:48.920 just I kept my paper and took it home. And 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:50.760 Ma Mama said, your daddy gonna beat you when you 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:52.360 get home for being as smart at it, cause she 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:54.880 wuld call home, said your child is smart at right? 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.560 Cause I wanted to be on TV. Everybody a basketball player, 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.360 football player, right. I don't like tackle. R I ain't 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:01.959 like it. You know, you throw me on the ground. 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.319 I want to fight, you know, I ain't. I ain't 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.520 good at this right. So when my father came home, 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.880 she said, slick, this boy been a small attic up 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.679 at the school. And he said, well, what what'd you do? 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:15.280 I said, I wrote on the paper I want to 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.560 be on TV. My father said what's wrong with that? 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.080 And I saw a little glimmer of hope because I 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:22.800 wasn't gonna get this ass whop and I thought I 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.160 was gonna write. He said, well, your boy can be 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.000 whatever he want to be. And I it was like 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.240 a thought. I was finn't get executed, you know, because 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:31.960 when my daddy came home it was time for that. 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:35.080 He was the executioner, right. My mama was a judge, 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.120 she had down the sentence. My daddy was the execution 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.600 at the house. So I'm finna get executed. And then 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:43.280 when he said that, I the red phone rang from 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:48.360 the governor's oarfic. He gotta him free him, and he said, 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:51.240 you don't worry about that. You keep that paper and 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.560 you read your paper every morning every now and I 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.160 did that. I kept that paper till I was about 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.960 twenty seven years old. And then I got in comedy 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.200 twenty said I didn't get on I was twenty two. 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:05.720 I was thirty eight years old. Wow, so in school? 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:07.640 Were you a good student in school? 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:13.520 I don't know you paused you that? Yeah, I was 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.720 trying to figurette what are you? I was down. I 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:21.200 had perfect attendence because mission school was I would get murdered, right, 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:22.840 my father mouth. They didn't play that. 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:24.320 But you had to work. If you miss school, they 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.000 put you in the field. They wasn't sick. You couldn't 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:27.600 stay home because you were sick. You had to work. 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.080 Sick. Yeah, you had to work. What do you mean 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.960 you sick? Get your hands up to school and learn 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.320 yourself something? Right, I was. I couldn't be sick, right, 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:40.760 I went to school. I wasn't a good student, man, 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.560 because I just wasn't interested, right, I just were you 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.600 a class clown? Not at all? 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.600 So because a lot of times, Steve you don't, we 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.360 didn't they call it bullying. We called it picking or 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.600 he picking at such and such. The kids pick at 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:55.040 you because you had this speak. 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:56.520 Problem, or I have a studing problem, and you can't 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.440 have a studing problem at no public school in Cleveland, 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.160 m oh Man. And then big little boy with some 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.320 stuttering un I come in the room and they have 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:09.320 my silhouette on the chalkboard. They held my nose and 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.400 then my lips would go all the way to the 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:14.120 other end of the chalkboard and they say, Steve, guess 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.680 who that is? I know who the hell is? And 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.440 you know? And then they talk to me and they go, Lily, look, look, 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:25.000 literally listen T T T. So I took a speech 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:29.920 uh impediment or speech therapist came right, and that's when 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.120 I knew I was in trouble. Cause speech therapists for 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.840 people who stutter, they don't they've never studied, so they 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.080 can't fix a stutter, right, So they give you these 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.720 dumb ass uh do you drills? Yeah s A avoid 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.080 words with p R in it right, avoid words with 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:52.400 st in it. My name, Steve W Lady, where are 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.360 we going with this now? So now I gotta avoid 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.520 my own damn name Right now, I'm sitting here, man, 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:05.399 trying to what's your name? And man, it was just 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.000 a disaster. Man. I got picked on a lot. And 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.320 then but that's what that's where I started my wit 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.600 at because I had to develop comeback. Yeah, because I 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.760 was the target all day. And so when we went 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.159 to the basketball court, and that's the one game I 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.879 could play was hoops, because I had hops. I was 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:26.960 real thin, but Lord have mercy, I could fly. But 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:30.040 I would go to the court and stand behind the 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:34.240 chain link link fist, and I'd be talking so much trash. 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:37.480 I would put my lips up against the chain link 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.960 fence and nothing to be out there on the court 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:43.480 but my lips, and I'd be talking much trash man, 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.680 and everybody be dying laughing, And uh, that's when, that's 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.600 when I've learned my first lesson of how to study 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.800 the room. I was talking about this dude so bad. 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:58.000 One time. He got tired of me and he said, 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.919 a little man, keep on, I'm will hurt you. But 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.560 it was some girls watching. Oh you can't, you can't 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.120 let it go. No, I got to go hord, Yeah, yeah, 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.000 yeah yeah. So now I'm pressed up against the fence. 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.800 Now I don't see he the loop Rown. I'm watching 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.639 the game. I'm looking for him. I don't see. I 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.679 didn't know he had loop Rown behind me. When I 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:22.080 realized where he had, he had his whole hand against 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:24.880 the back of my head. He was pushing my eyes 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:29.680 and everything. That dude was hammling me. Boy, he got 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:33.359 me good. And that's when I first learned. Okay, you 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.120 got to learn how to read the room because all 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.960 these jokes and that was the beginning of it, you know, 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:40.320 was talking trash. Right. 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.639 So you you you're in Cleveland, you're going back, but 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:47.520 you're basically the majority of your years in Cleveland. What 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:51.680 was it about Cleveland that helped shape young Steve into 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:53.639 what we see Cleveland hard? 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:57.280 Man? Cleveland hard? You've been to Cleveland, I have it, 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:00.240 ain't it ain't it ain't nothing kind Cleveland. It's a 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.680 tough city, right. If you know, if you come out 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.040 of Cleveland, it's like coming out of Detroit. If you 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.080 come out of Cleveland, you can make it right. You know. 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:09.800 You look at the dudes like our senior Hall, right, 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:13.920 Drew Carrey. You know, cats like that come from Cleveland. 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:18.040 Man Arsenials. Uh, daddy was a minister over there cause 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.000 he went to John Adams, I went to Glenville. We 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:23.120 both went to Kent State, Okay, you know, and uh, 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:27.440 it's just a hard place. Man. It was a lot 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:30.680 of gangs, but it wasn't gangs like today. Everybody was 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:32.920 in a gang cause we had to cover each other 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:35.800 when we walked to school, right, So we was you know, 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:39.720 the Jets, and we had to cross Pee Wee Marquis 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:43.680 to Delamore's the Devil Disciples or Lord Noble Prophets. We 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:45.720 had to cross they territory to go to school, right, 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.160 So it was a track meet right all the way 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:49.800 to school and all the way back. Then you had 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:51.760 to have your dudes with you and the you know, 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:53.920 you know, we ride our bikes down the edge water 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:56.760 park and fight on Saturdays at the church parking lot. 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.760 You bring six, i'm'a bring six. Now. If you bring six, 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:05.000 you stupid, because I'm gonna bring nine. Whatever the greed 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:08.880 numberblehood that I padded it right, we go down there. 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:12.480 So everybody in my neighborhood had hands, right, we threw hands, man, 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:15.119 everybody could box. That's what got me in gold and 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:18.760 gloves all like that. And it was just my father's 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:23.160 rigid upbringing man about manhood. Do what you say you're 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:27.640 gonna do, be honorable, be tough, and never quit that that. 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:30.200 And then my mama was a Sunday school teacher. Okay, 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:34.000 So that combination of faith in my daddy's work, ethic 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:40.520 and manhood combined my mama's never pray, boy, pray, pray right, 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:43.560 go to church, go to church, love the Lord. The 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:46.000 Lord ain't gonna leave it. That's my mama just ingrained. 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:48.520 Don't understand that what she was saying when you were 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:50.760 that young, because a lot of times you don't realize 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:53.200 what they're saying is so impactful until you're much much 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:54.480 older and they're gone. 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:57.960 Of course not. I didn't get it. I thought all 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:00.480 this going to church just while we're in here, right, 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:04.800 Monday night prayer, mat Tuesday night Bible study, Wednesday night crop. 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:07.760 But we down what were doing? You know, I don't 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:11.359 even want I don't. I got so sick of I 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:13.119 was so sick of going to church. I asked my 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:15.240 big brother one time, said, let me ask you something, 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:20.440 how hot is hell? Because if he could have gave 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:23.000 me a number that I could work with, like one 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:26.040 twenty six, I was just gonna, like just gonna go 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:29.640 to Hell right, because dog, I ain't on the sports 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:32.399 teams or nothing, because I'm in church all the time. 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:37.080 But I didn't get it. I didn't get it until 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:40.080 I didn't really get it until I was homeless. I 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:43.399 ain't really get it. And everything she said to me 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:46.120 I heard it over and over and over and over 0:21:46.160 --> 0:21:48.840 and over. But as you right as a child. No, man, 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:50.880 I didn't get it. I ain't see it. You say 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:54.320 you went to Kent State? Why did you go? 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:57.080 And you said about the guy that was saying that 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:59.000 he wanted to be a doctor. You had told me 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:01.119 that you weren't a good student. Why would you go 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:02.520 to college if you're not a good student? 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:06.080 A man tell you the truth. My best friend, Ricardo, 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:09.640 I heard he was going to Kent State. I didn't 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:12.760 even apply for college. But see, Kent was where they 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:16.480 had killed the four kids the National Guard, so a 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:21.440 lot of blacks quit going to college down there. So 0:22:21.480 --> 0:22:24.960 they had this thing called Cleveland Scholarship program that would 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:26.760 give you free room and board if you went to 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:29.840 Kent State. So he had signed up for that program. 0:22:29.960 --> 0:22:32.120 So when I found out he was going, I had 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:36.120 no ambition of going to college. It never crossed my mind. 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:38.639 I was gonna work construction with my daddy. It was 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:41.000 like my two brothers. That's why I was gonna go. 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:44.639 I was gonna be a construction work and every summer 0:22:45.040 --> 0:22:47.159 when I was in high school, I worked construction with 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:50.720 my daddy. That's when I knew this ain't for me. No, 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:53.440 I gotta do something else. Yeah, that's hard work, boy, 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:56.560 just standing out on this bridge, it hot, with a 0:22:56.600 --> 0:22:59.280 hot tar mop in my hand. I said, no, I'm 0:22:59.280 --> 0:23:00.960 gonna go to college. But I went there. I didn't 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:03.679 have no steady habits or nothing, because I had worked 0:23:03.680 --> 0:23:06.960 all through high school pick and pay and grocery stores 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:09.200 and stuff like that. I had a bike, and when 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:11.080 I was a senior man, I had enough credits while 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:13.840 I was through with school at twelve o'clock at one o'clock, 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:15.880 I was on my job. What da he can stay? 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:17.120 How you done? 0:23:17.119 --> 0:23:19.080 Because I wasn't done with my college. I wasn't done 0:23:19.080 --> 0:23:20.919 with high school at twelve o'clock. I ain't have no 0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:23.199 credit and I was. I was an okay student. I 0:23:23.280 --> 0:23:25.879 wasn't great. But you did enough. You did so you 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:28.679 applied it. It was you wouldn't apply yourself. You were 0:23:28.680 --> 0:23:30.879 a good student. You didn't apply yourself? Did I was 0:23:30.880 --> 0:23:37.840 a better criminal? You talking about cheating? Boy, knew who 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:39.520 the set nature. We had systems. 0:23:40.080 --> 0:23:43.560 I'm gonna graduate right because we had systems, right, you know, 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:46.080 we was getting tests. I was doing everything. I ain't 0:23:46.160 --> 0:23:49.160 gonna lie to you. I did everything, man, just graduate. 0:23:49.240 --> 0:23:51.919 So I had plenty of credits. Wasn't no aids or 0:23:51.920 --> 0:23:53.760 nothing like that. Only air of a guy was in 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:57.120 gym physical. I got straight a's in gym, right because 0:23:57.160 --> 0:23:59.720 I loved anything to do with that. But I got 0:23:59.720 --> 0:24:02.360 out of school. I had enough. Plus Cleveland Public School, Man, 0:24:02.359 --> 0:24:06.240 come on, we had a Vale Victorian and all that, 0:24:06.280 --> 0:24:07.439 and I didn't even know what that was. 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:07.719 Right. 0:24:08.119 --> 0:24:09.879 Yeah, I was at the graduation, just sitting there. We 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:13.080 had six hundred ninety five people in my graduating class. Wow, 0:24:13.320 --> 0:24:17.040 I graduated six ninety six ninety five. 0:24:17.080 --> 0:24:19.040 That's a huge school for back then. 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:21.439 No, it was three thousand people at our high school. 0:24:22.720 --> 0:24:26.160 We was number one track team in the state every 0:24:26.240 --> 0:24:29.080 year I was there. And Teddy Ginn just won the 0:24:29.119 --> 0:24:32.960 first state football championship for East Centy school in the 0:24:33.040 --> 0:24:36.760 history that Glenville bought special place. I went to school 0:24:36.760 --> 0:24:39.760 with Teddy Ginn. Okay, yeah, it's a special place. Man. 0:24:40.520 --> 0:24:43.520 I heard you saying that when you did construction, you realized, 0:24:43.560 --> 0:24:45.440 like you were standing on that bridge with that hot 0:24:45.480 --> 0:24:48.240 tar up in your hand, this issu ain't from me. 0:24:48.880 --> 0:24:50.760 Is that? And I tell kids the exact same thing. 0:24:50.760 --> 0:24:53.000 What you said, have a lot of jobs as a kid, 0:24:53.359 --> 0:24:54.800 because it let you know what you don't want to 0:24:54.840 --> 0:24:57.600 do as an adult. Because if you a kid with 0:24:57.760 --> 0:25:00.600 all that energy and you don't want do that when 0:25:00.640 --> 0:25:02.000 you get on the door that you get older, you 0:25:02.000 --> 0:25:02.960 don't want no parts of that. 0:25:03.520 --> 0:25:07.040 Man. It was, it was crystal clear to me. I said, Man, 0:25:07.560 --> 0:25:10.560 I'm not the laborer, dude. Now, my father made us 0:25:10.600 --> 0:25:12.720 no hard work. I've been working on farm since I 0:25:12.800 --> 0:25:16.520 was a kid. I was plowing behind a mule when 0:25:16.560 --> 0:25:21.120 I was eleven by myself. Wow, handling a till plow 0:25:21.160 --> 0:25:21.920 with that little one. 0:25:22.040 --> 0:25:25.359 Yeah, I'm working. 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:30.760 So I always knew what hard work was. But that 0:25:30.760 --> 0:25:32.800 that thing I had wrote on the paper when I 0:25:32.880 --> 0:25:35.960 was ten, that never left my mind. I want to 0:25:35.960 --> 0:25:39.480 be on TV. I kept like I watched everybody that 0:25:39.600 --> 0:25:43.560 was on TV. Bill Cosby was the greatest influence because. 0:25:43.320 --> 0:25:46.280 He was on I Spy and early sixty. 0:25:46.200 --> 0:25:49.240 In sixty six. So when he came on TV, he 0:25:49.320 --> 0:25:51.720 was the first black person that had a speaking role. 0:25:52.320 --> 0:25:55.280 So I'm looking at this dude. Here he talking to 0:25:55.320 --> 0:25:59.680 white folks and telling them what to do. And then 0:25:59.720 --> 0:26:02.720 moremad Lee was out here right okay saying I am 0:26:02.800 --> 0:26:06.199 the greatest right. So I had worked that had we 0:26:06.240 --> 0:26:10.760 had the same birthday, man, So I adopted Muhammad al 0:26:10.840 --> 0:26:14.840 l as my mentor in my head. And when I 0:26:14.880 --> 0:26:17.840 met him for the first time, I cried for thirty 0:26:17.880 --> 0:26:22.400 minutes NonStop. I got the two pictures of my heroes. 0:26:22.440 --> 0:26:25.439 I met Richard Pride, I got the picture of the 0:26:25.480 --> 0:26:27.439 day I met Richard Pride, and I had a photo 0:26:27.520 --> 0:26:30.360 the day I met Mohammad Ali, and I'm in tears 0:26:30.359 --> 0:26:33.720 and both them photos because they meant that much to 0:26:33.800 --> 0:26:39.480 me that Mohammad Ali talking to white people, the way 0:26:39.520 --> 0:26:43.800 he was talking to him, calling rounds, I am the greatest. 0:26:44.440 --> 0:26:46.840 The thing he said that stuck with me the most 0:26:47.040 --> 0:26:49.879 was he said, I said I was the greatest before 0:26:49.920 --> 0:26:53.320 I was the greatest. Wow. And that etched in my brain. 0:26:54.600 --> 0:26:58.800 So that's what taught me to manifest things before it happens. 0:26:58.840 --> 0:27:01.120 I was saved all the time. And so those were 0:27:01.160 --> 0:27:04.960 the two greatest influences in my life. Man, that pushed 0:27:04.960 --> 0:27:07.879 me to want to follow that dream and pursue it. 0:27:07.960 --> 0:27:11.159 You know, you didn't know what you wanted to be 0:27:11.520 --> 0:27:14.879 on television. You just wanted to be on TV. I 0:27:14.880 --> 0:27:18.359 had no idea. I didn't even think it was comedy. 0:27:18.520 --> 0:27:20.720 I knew I was quick quitted as a child, as 0:27:20.840 --> 0:27:23.479 my mama used to take me to church on Friday 0:27:23.560 --> 0:27:26.000 nights and get me prayed for because it's something. 0:27:25.880 --> 0:27:29.400 Wrong with this boy. Because this boy just saved whatever 0:27:29.520 --> 0:27:32.560 on his mind. I couldn't cut it off, Shannon. If 0:27:32.560 --> 0:27:36.199 you said something to me, I said something back. And 0:27:36.280 --> 0:27:39.679 what I had to say was pretty shocked. And I 0:27:39.720 --> 0:27:43.000 got a lot of ass whippings for that. I got 0:27:43.040 --> 0:27:45.480 put in the principal's office for that. A lot of times. 0:27:45.640 --> 0:27:47.520 I just couldn't cut it off. My mama thought something 0:27:47.560 --> 0:27:51.359 was wrong with me. I didn't know that was my gift, 0:27:51.440 --> 0:27:53.520 but I didn't know how to harness it. I didn't 0:27:53.560 --> 0:27:55.760 know how to work it man, and I was just 0:27:56.600 --> 0:27:59.560 find it off. It took me until I went to 0:27:59.680 --> 0:28:03.800 kiss and a girl named Ida Washington who married one 0:28:03.800 --> 0:28:07.119 of my best friend's name Wayne Nawles. When I was 0:28:07.160 --> 0:28:10.840 a freshman, she was a sophomore. She set me down. 0:28:10.960 --> 0:28:12.880 She said, Steve, can I talk to you? I said yes. 0:28:12.960 --> 0:28:16.840 She said why did you come to college? Would you 0:28:16.840 --> 0:28:20.080 say a good question? Yeah, I said, I don't know. 0:28:21.040 --> 0:28:24.520 It's free. She said, you don't belong here. Wow. She said, 0:28:24.520 --> 0:28:27.760 you wasting your time. She said, you be You don't 0:28:27.800 --> 0:28:30.840 even belong here. She said, you don't know it, but 0:28:30.880 --> 0:28:33.200 you gonna be a star one day. Wow, And I 0:28:33.280 --> 0:28:35.800 will what. She was the first person ever told me that. 0:28:36.160 --> 0:28:39.080 I was a freshman sitting there going that sound good. 0:28:39.160 --> 0:28:41.200 I I won't that, but I don't. I have no 0:28:41.720 --> 0:28:45.880 concept of how to make it happen. And then as 0:28:45.920 --> 0:28:50.880 a freshman I heard Richard Pryde album. I was listening 0:28:50.920 --> 0:28:54.600 to wont It and I and then I went and 0:28:54.640 --> 0:28:59.520 got Everything Callsby Dead, everything Pride did. And then in 0:29:00.400 --> 0:29:06.520 nineteen seventy six, Pride came out with Bi Centennial Nigga. 0:29:06.600 --> 0:29:13.320 In that album, I memorized everything, everything, every joke he said, everything. 0:29:14.000 --> 0:29:16.280 So when the dudes was in the room getting high, 0:29:16.480 --> 0:29:19.680 I get a chair, stand up in the chair, do 0:29:19.880 --> 0:29:23.320 Pride do cos Me? I do stuff I had written, 0:29:24.160 --> 0:29:26.760 but I still didn't know it was comedy at that time. 0:29:27.160 --> 0:29:30.240 So were you? So when did you start writing jokes? Okay, 0:29:30.360 --> 0:29:32.120 you fell in love with Pride, you fell in love 0:29:32.120 --> 0:29:34.320 with Cosby. You know what they did. So when did 0:29:34.400 --> 0:29:37.760 you start writing jokes and started morphing and moving in 0:29:37.800 --> 0:29:38.320 that direction? 0:29:38.520 --> 0:29:41.640 Well? It was by accident, really, because the comedian named 0:29:41.680 --> 0:29:46.040 aj Jamaul Okay was a friend of mine and he 0:29:46.080 --> 0:29:50.680 worked at IBM and I worked at General Electric and 0:29:50.760 --> 0:29:53.400 he was doing comedy, but I didn't know what that was. 0:29:54.160 --> 0:29:56.000 And he would come to me and say, hey, man, 0:29:56.840 --> 0:29:58.960 I wrote this joke. What you think because he knew 0:29:58.960 --> 0:30:01.520 I was funny, right, and so I would correct it. 0:30:01.520 --> 0:30:04.120 I would say, no, man, say this, this and this right. 0:30:04.200 --> 0:30:06.840 And he would give me ten dollars every time I 0:30:06.840 --> 0:30:08.760 gave him a joke, So I'll make it extra forty 0:30:08.800 --> 0:30:11.640 dollars a week. Right, you know, I'm going, like you 0:30:11.800 --> 0:30:15.000 this nineteen eighty man, that's cool. I ain't know what 0:30:15.040 --> 0:30:19.080 he was doing with the joke, right. I never heard 0:30:19.120 --> 0:30:22.600 of a comedy club before. I had never heard of 0:30:23.560 --> 0:30:26.239 how I could be a professional comedian. And then one 0:30:26.320 --> 0:30:28.440 day I was over his house turning these jokes in 0:30:28.960 --> 0:30:32.040 and this girl named Gladys Jacobs was there and she said, 0:30:32.320 --> 0:30:35.360 you the dude that's writing these jokes for Jamal and 0:30:35.400 --> 0:30:38.280 I went yeah. She said he the funniest. He the 0:30:38.320 --> 0:30:41.880 funniest comedian at the comedy club. I said, really, with 0:30:42.440 --> 0:30:45.920 your jokes? Yeah, I mean he wrote his own. But 0:30:46.000 --> 0:30:48.960 I wrote you he and I was going, what what 0:30:49.120 --> 0:30:52.000 you talking about? She said, at the comedy club. He 0:30:52.120 --> 0:30:55.040 the funniest one. I said, what are you talking about 0:30:55.040 --> 0:30:57.400 comedy club? She said, you ain't never been to old 0:30:57.400 --> 0:30:59.480 comedy club. I said no, She said, why are you 0:30:59.480 --> 0:31:03.800 writing him? Don't sit here? Why don't you do them yourself? Now, 0:31:03.800 --> 0:31:11.480 I'm twenty six, about to be twenty seven, I got 0:31:11.480 --> 0:31:18.560 two kids, twins, I'm struggling, I'm lost. I still don't 0:31:18.600 --> 0:31:21.280 know what I want to do, but that I want 0:31:21.280 --> 0:31:22.720 to be on TV was just in the back of 0:31:22.720 --> 0:31:25.760 my head. You did so. She said, I'm gonna pick 0:31:25.800 --> 0:31:27.920 you up Tuesday night and I'm gonna take you to 0:31:27.960 --> 0:31:31.320 this place called Hilarities Comedy Club, and I want you 0:31:31.360 --> 0:31:33.719 to see what they do. So I went down there. 0:31:33.800 --> 0:31:35.600 She picked me up. We rolled forty minutes down. The 0:31:35.760 --> 0:31:40.880 Hilarities is in Cleveland. It's in akron, Ohick Kyle Hogle Falls, Ohio, 0:31:41.560 --> 0:31:44.800 right between Cleveland and Acting. Now I'm dust down there, right, 0:31:44.840 --> 0:31:48.320 but I can't stay. Yeah, I go in and she 0:31:48.440 --> 0:31:50.760 say sign up for next week. So I sign up. 0:31:50.800 --> 0:31:52.600 I don't even know what I'm doing, and I'm sitting 0:31:52.640 --> 0:31:55.400 down there and I'm watching these comedians go up and 0:31:55.400 --> 0:31:58.320 it's ten of them. It's amateur night, right, And I'm 0:31:58.720 --> 0:32:01.880 not laughing. She say, why you laughing, because I'm rewriting 0:32:02.120 --> 0:32:05.440 all these jokes. Oh okay, I'm just not I'm sitting 0:32:05.440 --> 0:32:07.160 in there going man, he should have said this, he 0:32:07.200 --> 0:32:10.960 should have said that. And finally got to number ten 0:32:11.000 --> 0:32:13.160 and they call this guy's name and he ain't there. 0:32:14.160 --> 0:32:16.120 And they called his name again and he ain't there, 0:32:16.160 --> 0:32:18.560 and they said, well he's not here. We're gonna go 0:32:18.600 --> 0:32:22.040 the next week's list. Give it up for Steve Harvey. 0:32:23.360 --> 0:32:27.760 Now I'm and I hear her say give it over 0:32:27.760 --> 0:32:31.440 to Steve Harvey. I turned to her and say, it's 0:32:31.480 --> 0:32:33.760 a dude in here, got the same name I got. 0:32:34.520 --> 0:32:37.320 She said, you a stupid son of a bitch. She 0:32:37.440 --> 0:32:40.640 was a hood chicks. He said, you a stupid son 0:32:40.680 --> 0:32:43.840 of a bitch. She looked at me so disgusting. You 0:32:44.080 --> 0:32:46.440 just a stupid son of a bitch. And I guess 0:32:46.480 --> 0:32:49.600 I was. She said that's you, and they kept clapping, 0:32:49.640 --> 0:32:51.600 and he said, where is Steve and she said here 0:32:51.720 --> 0:32:55.840 is Oh. He said, Steve, come on up. I just 0:32:55.920 --> 0:33:00.840 ran up on stage, man, and I was standing at 0:33:01.000 --> 0:33:04.920 his room full of all whites, and I said, hey, y'all, 0:33:04.960 --> 0:33:07.360 listen here. I ain't even supposed to be here. I'm 0:33:07.400 --> 0:33:10.080 on next week's show. And they started laughing. You know, 0:33:10.160 --> 0:33:13.800 white people laughed different, that's you just said that in 0:33:13.880 --> 0:33:16.360 front of black people. Well why is your ass? 0:33:17.640 --> 0:33:18.520 Why are you up there? 0:33:18.720 --> 0:33:23.000 Immediately, but white people thought it was the joke, and 0:33:23.040 --> 0:33:25.480 then I was lost. I didn't know what to do. 0:33:26.680 --> 0:33:28.760 She said, tell him about when you was boxing. She 0:33:28.920 --> 0:33:31.400 just hollowed out. So I was telling her on the 0:33:31.400 --> 0:33:34.320 way down about this dude named but No Taylor that 0:33:34.400 --> 0:33:38.600 I had fought at Golden Glove and it was a 0:33:38.640 --> 0:33:41.560 big duel, and it was a whole joke about how 0:33:41.600 --> 0:33:43.880 he had punched me one time and he didn't have 0:33:43.960 --> 0:33:46.880 nothing but left hook. He didn't have none but the 0:33:46.960 --> 0:33:50.040 left hook to the kidney. That's all he had. You 0:33:50.040 --> 0:33:52.440 could whoop his ass the rest of the fight. But 0:33:52.520 --> 0:33:55.000 if he got that left hook in, he was gonna 0:33:55.040 --> 0:33:58.960 crumble your ass. And he got it in, and I 0:33:58.960 --> 0:34:01.320 imitated how he got in the ring because he was pigeon. 0:34:01.360 --> 0:34:04.560 Told it a's white folks was dying laughing, so they 0:34:04.600 --> 0:34:06.480 got a laugh. And then I said, well, man, I 0:34:06.520 --> 0:34:09.080 gotta laugh. Let me keep telling joke. So I wrote 0:34:09.080 --> 0:34:11.719 another joke for Jamal that I hadn't sold him yet, 0:34:12.680 --> 0:34:16.200 and back then I can't do this joke now. But 0:34:16.239 --> 0:34:18.840 it was a joke. This is eighty five. It's a 0:34:18.920 --> 0:34:23.399 joke about AIDS, right, which was perfectly acceptable back then. 0:34:23.520 --> 0:34:27.000 Nobody knew the horror of it. It hadn't quite So 0:34:27.080 --> 0:34:29.680 I did this joke and they was dying laughing. Horrible joke, 0:34:30.320 --> 0:34:34.800 completely horrible, right, distaste for everything, knowing what you know today, 0:34:35.160 --> 0:34:39.439 But then died laughing. I walk off stage. They bring 0:34:39.480 --> 0:34:42.120 all ten of us back up, they have a clapof. 0:34:43.239 --> 0:34:47.240 I went in the clapoff. I win fifty dollars. You hooked. 0:34:48.320 --> 0:34:50.279 An agent came up to me and said, man, how 0:34:50.280 --> 0:34:52.799 long you been doing this? It's been to be been 0:34:52.840 --> 0:34:58.200 at just about three years, huh, I said yeah, saying 0:34:58.239 --> 0:35:01.960 I look right at him in lie problem. I got 0:35:01.960 --> 0:35:05.480 the fuck fifty dollars. I'm driving home forty minutes. I'm 0:35:05.760 --> 0:35:10.919 crying the entire ride home. Gladys looking at me. She said, 0:35:10.920 --> 0:35:14.239 what you're crying for? It ain't but fifty dollars, I said, 0:35:14.280 --> 0:35:17.640 you don't understand. I went to work the next day 0:35:17.960 --> 0:35:21.280 and quit my job with fifty dollars. 0:35:21.960 --> 0:35:26.200 So that was the moment that you says, Okay, this 0:35:26.239 --> 0:35:29.120 is what I want to do with my life. 0:35:29.440 --> 0:35:33.040 Ain't got nothing else. This is the brightest light bulb 0:35:33.080 --> 0:35:36.000 ever came on for me. That light bulb had never 0:35:36.040 --> 0:35:40.480 switched on better for me at nothing. Lincoln Electric, General Electric, 0:35:40.840 --> 0:35:46.440 Corfee cleaningrib Joint, Amway Products, Shackley Products, did Gregory Bohemian 0:35:46.520 --> 0:35:50.279 die Al Williams Insurance, Commonwealth Insurance. I had all these jobs. 0:35:50.719 --> 0:35:54.120 The light bulb went off. I was born that night, 0:35:54.920 --> 0:35:57.160 and I went to work next day and quit my job. 0:35:57.520 --> 0:35:59.640 Came home and told my mama I quit my job. 0:36:00.120 --> 0:36:02.480 She tried to talk me back into it. Told my brothers, 0:36:02.760 --> 0:36:06.160 they said, man, you crazy. Created a lot of problems 0:36:06.239 --> 0:36:08.799 with my ex wife. That wasn't her fault, man, that 0:36:08.920 --> 0:36:11.720 was me. I just I shouldn't have been nobody's husband 0:36:11.760 --> 0:36:13.839 at twenty four. I made a lot of mistakes, right. 0:36:14.880 --> 0:36:18.040 But I told my father, and my father again said, 0:36:18.080 --> 0:36:20.120 well boy, if you think you can make it, go ahead, 0:36:21.040 --> 0:36:23.279 And so that was it. I struck out. 0:36:23.719 --> 0:36:26.719 You lucky because a lot of fathers back then it 0:36:26.840 --> 0:36:30.560 was like if you went to school, you did school 0:36:30.600 --> 0:36:32.719 and you came and did what the father did, or 0:36:32.760 --> 0:36:35.000 you dropped out of school and did what the father did. 0:36:35.360 --> 0:36:36.080 Your dad was. 0:36:36.120 --> 0:36:38.040 Very unique, Steve. I don't know if you realized it 0:36:38.080 --> 0:36:40.800 at the time, but you probably do now. He encouraged 0:36:40.840 --> 0:36:42.760 you to follow your dreams. 0:36:42.600 --> 0:36:47.040 Because my daddy was funny man. He told me one 0:36:47.080 --> 0:36:49.000 time he came to see me, I was selling out 0:36:49.040 --> 0:36:51.959 arenas you know. My father told me he's a boy. 0:36:53.040 --> 0:36:54.800 I could have done that shit you doing? How that 0:36:54.920 --> 0:36:58.200 did it? Look at you? My father would cry all 0:36:58.239 --> 0:37:00.520 the time, look at it. He come to show man. 0:37:00.880 --> 0:37:03.400 My mother never saw me live because my mama saved. 0:37:03.800 --> 0:37:06.359 She didn't want to hear to cuss. It. Can't cuss 0:37:06.480 --> 0:37:11.720 my daddy. He came down there, fuddy cussing. My daddy 0:37:11.760 --> 0:37:12.960 was down there cussing with me. 0:37:14.600 --> 0:37:17.160 My father, so go ahead, go ahead, fish. 0:37:17.400 --> 0:37:19.759 My father was the front row one time in Mississippi 0:37:19.760 --> 0:37:21.960 at the DeSoto Center. He came to see me, hire 0:37:22.000 --> 0:37:25.880 and my brothers, and he turned around. They was laughing, 0:37:26.239 --> 0:37:29.399 and this lady said, you laughing real hard at this show. 0:37:29.440 --> 0:37:31.719 He said, you know who the fuck that he is 0:37:31.800 --> 0:37:35.560 up there? That's my boy. I made that motherfucker right there. 0:37:35.600 --> 0:37:37.799 That's my little motherfucker that looked that motherfucker come out 0:37:37.840 --> 0:37:41.800 of ease here. It's motherfucker down here. Because my father 0:37:41.920 --> 0:37:44.319 man was a hard ass cat, but he was the 0:37:44.320 --> 0:37:46.120 one that encouraged me to most me did. 0:37:46.800 --> 0:37:50.440 I'm looking at guys like Samuel Jackson to Moran Morgan Freeman. 0:37:50.520 --> 0:37:53.480 Samuel Jackson found success at forty. Morgan Freeman was fifty two. 0:37:53.960 --> 0:37:56.560 You almost forty, you said thirty eight when you got 0:37:56.560 --> 0:37:59.680 your big break? Do you think that really helped you? 0:37:59.719 --> 0:38:02.400 Because you didn't have success so early. It made you 0:38:02.440 --> 0:38:05.320 appreciate the trials and tribulations that you had gone. 0:38:05.160 --> 0:38:07.560 Through gone through to get to this point. You know 0:38:08.400 --> 0:38:11.000 it really did. Man. See, the thing I learned is 0:38:12.320 --> 0:38:19.520 gifted people. God almost runs you through the furnace with 0:38:19.680 --> 0:38:23.440 your gift before he allows the gift to manifest this Okay, 0:38:23.920 --> 0:38:27.680 like you, you had to go through all the different 0:38:27.840 --> 0:38:31.160 levels before you became a pro, correct, and it made 0:38:31.200 --> 0:38:34.320 you appreciate your career. You weren'd hard, Yes, your ass 0:38:34.400 --> 0:38:37.400 was a dog man. You came to every practice, everything 0:38:37.480 --> 0:38:40.400 because you appreciated it. Yes, if he had gave you 0:38:40.480 --> 0:38:44.839 that at eighteen, you to mess it up right, if 0:38:44.840 --> 0:38:47.640 he'd gave me this at thirty, I'd have ruined it. 0:38:47.640 --> 0:38:52.720 It's no way I could have this much success these 0:38:52.920 --> 0:38:58.600 checks at thirty. I'm telling you right now, I would 0:38:58.600 --> 0:39:03.719 have used all my powers for evil. A dog ain't 0:39:03.719 --> 0:39:08.200 nowhere it work. I would have been abusive. It's no way. 0:39:09.960 --> 0:39:16.720 The women that I would have gone for in my thin, 0:39:17.040 --> 0:39:24.280 well built bro cast light, if I had any money 0:39:24.280 --> 0:39:26.040 to go with that, if I could have got the 0:39:26.120 --> 0:39:29.120 haircut I could afford to get later on, if I 0:39:29.120 --> 0:39:33.480 could afford the wardrobe I could afford, then, oh, Lord, 0:39:33.560 --> 0:39:35.880 have mercy. I would have ruined it. I would have 0:39:36.000 --> 0:39:38.279 taken it and thrown it out the window. But he 0:39:38.400 --> 0:39:42.520 shaped me. He took all these years to gather me. 0:39:42.239 --> 0:39:44.960 He let me live in that car a little over 0:39:45.040 --> 0:39:48.000 three years now. I had learned a lesson. When I 0:39:48.040 --> 0:39:51.239 was homeless. I was good, and I told him. I said, hey, God, 0:39:51.520 --> 0:39:53.640 I'm good. You know I got it. I don't know 0:39:53.640 --> 0:39:56.000 what you're trying to tell me, but trust me, I 0:39:56.040 --> 0:40:00.400 got it. Try to tell me you got my undivided attention. Yeah, man, 0:40:00.520 --> 0:40:03.960 she said, nah, a little bit longer, Yeah, I got. 0:40:04.000 --> 0:40:06.239 I gotta, I gotta, I gotta. I gotta put keep 0:40:06.239 --> 0:40:07.839 you in this furnace a little bit more. 0:40:07.920 --> 0:40:11.400 When you're living in the car, what's your besides obviously 0:40:11.440 --> 0:40:14.960 you're living in a car, But what's your lowest? 0:40:15.080 --> 0:40:15.760 What? What? 0:40:15.760 --> 0:40:16.880 What? He's like? Damn? 0:40:17.840 --> 0:40:20.040 Where did that go wrong? Should I have done this? 0:40:20.120 --> 0:40:20.799 Should I have said? 0:40:20.840 --> 0:40:20.880 What? 0:40:21.040 --> 0:40:22.880 Where did that go wrong? What's your lowest? 0:40:23.239 --> 0:40:28.160 Pensacola, Florida. You know, I used to park my car 0:40:28.320 --> 0:40:34.799 in a like expensive parking lots like Ritz Carlton, you know, 0:40:34.880 --> 0:40:38.200 stuff like that. You know, high end hotels, right cause 0:40:38.239 --> 0:40:42.400 they had the bathrooms. They had linen towels in the basket, 0:40:42.719 --> 0:40:45.040 and they had the bathroom doors that went all the 0:40:45.040 --> 0:40:48.240 way to the floor, right. So I would take them 0:40:48.320 --> 0:40:52.360 linen baskets and run hot water over the whole basket 0:40:52.880 --> 0:40:54.960 and get some soaping, go in there and shut the door, 0:40:55.000 --> 0:40:57.960 and I leather up and and shower, and then I 0:40:58.080 --> 0:41:00.880 wait till I don't hear nobody. I go out there 0:41:00.920 --> 0:41:02.920 and get another basket, wait it all up, and come 0:41:02.960 --> 0:41:05.799 and get all the soap off of One time, man, 0:41:06.640 --> 0:41:10.279 I was catching it real bad man. You know. I 0:41:10.320 --> 0:41:14.239 was in Pensacola, Florida, and I went into this bathroom 0:41:14.280 --> 0:41:16.960 and I got this soap and I leathered up. But 0:41:17.000 --> 0:41:20.200 there was a convention and they had let out, and 0:41:20.239 --> 0:41:22.879 so it was just me and coming in the bathroom continuously. 0:41:23.160 --> 0:41:25.919 So I couldn't couldn't get back out there to get 0:41:25.920 --> 0:41:30.120 to neck to fresh cloths. So I set the toilet 0:41:30.200 --> 0:41:35.560 lid down, and that soap just dried on me. And 0:41:35.600 --> 0:41:40.759 I was sitting there, man, and just tears. I said, man, 0:41:40.800 --> 0:41:44.759 look at my life. I'm washing up in bathrooms. I've 0:41:44.760 --> 0:41:47.400 been taking baths and washing up at rest stops and 0:41:47.520 --> 0:41:52.120 gas stations. I'm going home, man, I quit this enough. 0:41:52.320 --> 0:41:55.399 I'm gonna go home. Call my daddy, asking him, because 0:41:55.440 --> 0:41:57.359 my father had a simple rule. Once you leave here, 0:41:57.400 --> 0:42:00.719 do yeah, you can't come back. So I said, let 0:42:00.719 --> 0:42:03.640 me call home, ask him, can I can I just 0:42:03.680 --> 0:42:07.360 come home for six months? Find me another job. I 0:42:07.400 --> 0:42:11.919 remember thirties now, man, and see if I can start over. 0:42:12.600 --> 0:42:14.960 So I go home. I call him. He ain't home. 0:42:15.000 --> 0:42:17.360 Ain't nobody at home. But I had an answer machine 0:42:17.400 --> 0:42:20.520 and they attic. So I called an answer machine and a 0:42:20.680 --> 0:42:24.160 message came through from dude named Chuck Suddon. Rest in peace. 0:42:24.200 --> 0:42:26.960 He passed now, he said, Steve, his Chuck suddon from 0:42:26.960 --> 0:42:29.200 showtime at the Pollow. I just saw a videotape of 0:42:29.239 --> 0:42:32.759 yours are extremely funny. We gotta opening Sunday night. This 0:42:32.800 --> 0:42:35.359 is a Thursday. We gotta open this Sunday night at 0:42:35.400 --> 0:42:38.200 showtime at the Apollo Hall of New York. If you 0:42:38.239 --> 0:42:42.960 can get here, let me know. Now. This is after 0:42:43.800 --> 0:42:44.960 I done got up off. 0:42:44.800 --> 0:42:48.520 This tor toilet. But you got drive soap on you. 0:42:48.680 --> 0:42:51.160 So I just put my clothes on and I went out, 0:42:51.360 --> 0:42:54.040 got me a my quarters, and I called the house. 0:42:54.280 --> 0:42:57.600 And then this machine comes up. I still got soap 0:42:57.640 --> 0:43:00.239 on me. I got my clothes on. I'm giving up. 0:43:00.239 --> 0:43:03.120 I'm going home. I'm gonna drive to Cleveland. I'm gonna 0:43:03.160 --> 0:43:05.560 go home. He said, if you can get here Sunday, 0:43:05.560 --> 0:43:09.160 I appreciate it. Click call me if you can make it. Now. 0:43:09.160 --> 0:43:13.440 I'm in Prinscola, Florida. I got thirty five dollars, he said, Sunday. 0:43:14.200 --> 0:43:18.280 How the hell I'm gonna get to New York by Sunday. 0:43:18.480 --> 0:43:21.200 So now, man, I'm in the car. I'm wiped out again. 0:43:21.680 --> 0:43:25.560 The first chance I got to be on TV and 0:43:25.640 --> 0:43:29.439 I can't even get there. Oh, dog, you don't know, man, 0:43:30.000 --> 0:43:34.480 that moment for me was so crushing. I feel it. 0:43:34.560 --> 0:43:38.080 I don't like telling it because I feel it. Man, Hey, 0:43:38.080 --> 0:43:43.800 it crushed me. So I said, ah, this is God really. 0:43:44.640 --> 0:43:46.719 So I went back to check the machine make sure 0:43:46.760 --> 0:43:49.799 he said this Sunday. I called him back. He said 0:43:49.800 --> 0:43:52.239 the same thing. It's a great tape. If you can 0:43:52.280 --> 0:43:54.719 make it this Sunday, let me know. And when I 0:43:54.760 --> 0:43:57.560 got ready to hang up, it beaped again. Now this 0:43:57.680 --> 0:44:01.200 time it didn't beat before another beat came through. So 0:44:01.239 --> 0:44:04.200 that means another message, said Steve Harvey is Tom Sober 0:44:04.239 --> 0:44:06.680 from the comedy Caravan. I don't know where you are, 0:44:06.719 --> 0:44:10.080 but I got an opening tomorrow night in Jacksonville, Florida, 0:44:10.400 --> 0:44:12.839 at the Punchline on Bay Metals Boulevard. If you can 0:44:12.880 --> 0:44:14.600 get there, I got a hundred and fifty for you. 0:44:15.040 --> 0:44:17.600 I called Tom. I said, hey, man, I'm in Pensacola. 0:44:17.920 --> 0:44:20.959 I can make it Friday night. I went and made 0:44:21.000 --> 0:44:23.440 the one hundred and fifty dollars. I was so funny. 0:44:23.840 --> 0:44:27.319 He fired the guy whose place I was taking and said, 0:44:27.320 --> 0:44:29.759 if you do a Saturday night, I'll give you another 0:44:29.760 --> 0:44:33.719 one hundred and fifty. Saturday morning, I called showtime and 0:44:33.760 --> 0:44:35.600 the apollo asked Chuck. I said, hey, man, it is 0:44:35.600 --> 0:44:38.160 that thing still open for Sunday? He said, sure, it 0:44:38.320 --> 0:44:40.600 is for you. I said, I'll be there Sunday. I 0:44:40.680 --> 0:44:43.920 performed Sunday Night. Now. I got three hundred dollars. Eastern 0:44:43.920 --> 0:44:46.000 Airlines was open there and I got a ninety nine 0:44:46.000 --> 0:44:48.239 dollars ticket. Flew all the way to Hall of New York. 0:44:48.280 --> 0:44:51.719 Everything I had in two bags. Went to the Hall 0:44:51.800 --> 0:44:54.239 of New York. Two o'clock in the afternoon. They said, 0:44:54.280 --> 0:44:56.319 you can't come in here till six. I said, man, 0:44:56.320 --> 0:44:58.799 I ain't got nowhere to go. Just let me. I'll 0:44:58.800 --> 0:45:02.040 go upstairs. I won't move security. Let me go upstairs. 0:45:02.680 --> 0:45:04.359 I asked him, can I go get some chicken? Four 0:45:04.360 --> 0:45:06.560 hours later, he said, man, I told your ass you 0:45:06.640 --> 0:45:09.359 can't go nowhere. You know this hall and they don't play. 0:45:09.640 --> 0:45:11.480 I said, man, I just gotta give me something to eat. 0:45:11.560 --> 0:45:13.640 He said, if you ain't back in twenty minutes, this 0:45:13.760 --> 0:45:17.400 door lock. I got back in twenty minutes. Six o'clock 0:45:17.440 --> 0:45:21.440 came all the comedians on the sixth floor. I meet 0:45:21.480 --> 0:45:25.239 a dude named Dwayne Johnson, not the Rock then nam 0:45:25.320 --> 0:45:29.799 Dwayne Johnson. I met a dude named Dale Hughgley. I 0:45:29.880 --> 0:45:34.400 met another dude named Jamie Fox. Wow this nineteen ninety one, 0:45:34.880 --> 0:45:37.920 ninety two. We looking at each other. Man, I never 0:45:38.000 --> 0:45:39.560 heard of them. They had never heard of me. I 0:45:39.560 --> 0:45:41.759 saw a couple of pictures in comedy club. That was it. 0:45:42.360 --> 0:45:45.120 I met him. We started going on stage with six 0:45:45.160 --> 0:45:48.279 comedians at night. All of 'em got booed off. But 0:45:48.360 --> 0:45:52.960 when they started booing, Jamie Jamie ass starts singing and 0:45:53.040 --> 0:45:56.160 the one they ass back. I had never seen nothing. 0:45:56.160 --> 0:45:59.400 I had never seen Apollo ordience stop booing before Jamie 0:45:59.400 --> 0:46:02.880 Fox starts. I said, Man, who is this dude right here? 0:46:03.239 --> 0:46:04.880 And then he went back to the jokes and they 0:46:04.960 --> 0:46:10.239 got his ass. Now I'm last. Now imagine this man, 0:46:10.320 --> 0:46:14.320 I'm sitting him. Man, I mean I can't. I'm shaken, nervous. 0:46:14.440 --> 0:46:17.600 I'm scared to death. Yea, ladies and Jeremy Cleveland, ohow, 0:46:17.880 --> 0:46:21.040 Steve Harvey. I went out there. I had just wrote 0:46:21.040 --> 0:46:24.799 this joke about Mike Tyson getting in the fight with 0:46:24.920 --> 0:46:29.200 Mitch Green. Yeah, and Mitch Green was talking and then 0:46:29.200 --> 0:46:32.400 the eye took over, right, And I had just wrote 0:46:32.440 --> 0:46:34.440 that joke and I did it for the first time 0:46:34.800 --> 0:46:41.960 on showtime to pollow them black folks told that place 0:46:42.120 --> 0:46:48.120 up holly laughing. I got standing ovation walked off. Two 0:46:48.200 --> 0:46:50.480 weeks later, they said, would you come back again? I 0:46:50.560 --> 0:46:53.920 went back. Two weeks later, they said, Mark Curry's missing, 0:46:54.200 --> 0:46:57.239 Would you do us a favor and host Amateur Knight. 0:46:58.600 --> 0:47:01.520 Steve Harvey went hosted Amateur Knight. I've been on TV 0:47:01.640 --> 0:47:04.080 every since, man, ever since. 0:47:04.880 --> 0:47:08.479 But did you know, like when you told that joke, 0:47:08.520 --> 0:47:11.160 the Mitch Green joke, and they invited you back, did 0:47:11.200 --> 0:47:12.640 you know I'm here to stay? 0:47:13.160 --> 0:47:16.319 I I I I it was no way I was 0:47:16.360 --> 0:47:20.160 going back. I was so ready the second time. I 0:47:20.200 --> 0:47:23.440 wrote a set the second time that I thought was 0:47:23.480 --> 0:47:26.359 funnier than that. They was just waiting on that Mitch 0:47:26.400 --> 0:47:29.799 Green joke. Right, I put a plastic shower cap on 0:47:29.840 --> 0:47:31.960 my head. I was doing this thing about why they 0:47:32.000 --> 0:47:33.840 always go get the black dude at the fire with 0:47:33.960 --> 0:47:37.040 the shower cap on to explain whatever. Right, they laughed 0:47:37.080 --> 0:47:38.919 at that, but they were waiting on that eye joke. 0:47:39.520 --> 0:47:42.920 Do the high no problem. Then we get that. I 0:47:43.000 --> 0:47:45.160 moved that eye joke right on up right, I did 0:47:45.200 --> 0:47:48.600 that eye joke again. They ass fell out again, and 0:47:48.640 --> 0:47:50.759 that was it, man, I was I was, and then 0:47:51.320 --> 0:47:54.680 Chuck Sunnon said, hey man, it's between you and a 0:47:54.719 --> 0:47:58.400 few other people were considering making you the permanent host 0:47:58.440 --> 0:48:02.239 of Amateur Night. I did that for one year. I 0:48:02.360 --> 0:48:05.760 was so good. They said, hey man, would you host 0:48:05.800 --> 0:48:11.239 the entire show? And I said yeah, but I said, 0:48:11.320 --> 0:48:13.319 under one condition. You had to get rid of all 0:48:13.320 --> 0:48:16.920 the warm up acts. I'll stay out here on this 0:48:17.040 --> 0:48:20.560 stage and keep the crowd warm between acts and everything. 0:48:21.239 --> 0:48:24.759 And they let me do it because Apollo was dangerous place. Man. 0:48:25.320 --> 0:48:26.920 The first year I had a warm up act. He 0:48:26.920 --> 0:48:28.440 would go out there and they would get pissed. I 0:48:28.440 --> 0:48:30.520 would hear them booing and stuff. Now I got to 0:48:30.560 --> 0:48:33.120 go back out here and resurrect this dead ass crowd, right, 0:48:33.400 --> 0:48:35.880 So I just start doing it all myself. And I 0:48:36.160 --> 0:48:37.319 stayed on TV man. 0:48:38.160 --> 0:48:41.399 So we're gonna get back to that. Is that kind 0:48:41.400 --> 0:48:43.160 of why you do the way you do it? Family 0:48:43.160 --> 0:48:47.120 for you, bro, because I noticed, like I said, I 0:48:47.160 --> 0:48:49.319 haven't seen a whole lot of behind the scenes, but 0:48:49.400 --> 0:48:54.960 it's like you in part life lessons on the audience. 0:48:55.440 --> 0:49:01.480 That's comes from When I was homeless, I was so distraught. 0:49:01.600 --> 0:49:05.839 At one point I cut a deal with God. I said, God, 0:49:05.880 --> 0:49:07.600 if you let me make it. When I get there, 0:49:07.920 --> 0:49:11.239 i'm'a tell everybody's who it was, and i'm'a tell him 0:49:11.239 --> 0:49:16.239 about you. So whenever we go to commercial break, I 0:49:16.320 --> 0:49:18.440 try to give people that come see me. Instead of 0:49:18.480 --> 0:49:21.320 a laugh, I try to give him something, right, just something. 0:49:21.960 --> 0:49:24.960 Now I'm old enough man that I don't I I 0:49:24.920 --> 0:49:27.280 don't done a lot. I try to give him something. 0:49:27.880 --> 0:49:30.320 And at the end of the show, everybody call it church. 0:49:31.000 --> 0:49:33.240 I had this moment. Now, at the end of the show, 0:49:33.760 --> 0:49:36.400 it's just all about the creating what he's done and 0:49:36.400 --> 0:49:38.280 how you can have a relationship with him and stuff, 0:49:38.280 --> 0:49:42.600 you know, And like, I ain't no, I ain't no minister. 0:49:42.680 --> 0:49:48.160 You understand. I'm I'm a I'm a h at best. 0:49:48.160 --> 0:49:51.080 I'm a entry level I've been practicing entry level Christianity 0:49:51.120 --> 0:49:53.000 for a long time, right cause I found out I 0:49:53.360 --> 0:49:57.000 didn't do good at advanced Christianity. Ain't no need of 0:49:57.000 --> 0:49:59.480 me doing that. I'm r I'll still slap you. You 0:49:59.560 --> 0:50:01.680 understand you. You can't get up in my face. But for 0:50:01.719 --> 0:50:05.959 so long I still cuss. I shoot dice, I drank 0:50:05.960 --> 0:50:09.399 a little kangnac, I smoked cigars, and I gamble. Now 0:50:09.600 --> 0:50:13.879 I don't think that's all Christian like. But when I'm 0:50:13.880 --> 0:50:16.800 in Vegas, you know, I'm I'm trying to win my ties. 0:50:16.920 --> 0:50:25.920 So I'm trying to win my ten percent strong though, right, 0:50:26.120 --> 0:50:27.120 So I try to shake. 0:50:27.000 --> 0:50:27.640 Him loose. 0:50:29.360 --> 0:50:34.359 The Steve Harvey Show comes. How did that come about? 0:50:34.600 --> 0:50:38.440 I was on radio in Chicago. I had finished up 0:50:38.880 --> 0:50:41.319 this show on ABC called Me and the Boys, Yeah, 0:50:41.680 --> 0:50:44.800 which got canceled, the highest rated show in the history 0:50:44.800 --> 0:50:47.400 of ABC to ever get canceled. I finished the season 0:50:47.480 --> 0:50:50.600 number twenty one out of one hundred and forty four shows. 0:50:50.960 --> 0:50:53.640 But this dude, Matt Williams I think his name was, 0:50:53.680 --> 0:50:57.160 who had the TV show Home Improvement with Tim Allen. Yes, 0:50:58.000 --> 0:51:00.560 he had a deal where if his show the finished 0:51:00.560 --> 0:51:02.320 in the top ten and he could get the time 0:51:02.400 --> 0:51:05.560 slot after him, and that was my time slot. So 0:51:05.600 --> 0:51:08.719 they took me off TV and they gave me a 0:51:08.960 --> 0:51:11.319 pretty large holding deal. After that, they don't do them 0:51:11.360 --> 0:51:13.759 deals no more. But they gave me a pretty large 0:51:13.800 --> 0:51:16.520 holding deal. And I went and bought a house with 0:51:16.600 --> 0:51:18.680 my holding deal, cause I figured that Hollywood I at 0:51:18.760 --> 0:51:21.520 least be a homeowner, right, I bought my first house. 0:51:22.239 --> 0:51:26.160 My first house I bought was in ninety ninety five, 0:51:27.280 --> 0:51:30.600 my first house was a million dollars and in ninety 0:51:30.640 --> 0:51:33.480 five for me, that was like crazy. I didn't even 0:51:33.520 --> 0:51:35.680 go to the bank. I just cut the deal I had. 0:51:35.760 --> 0:51:39.680 I took my whole holding deal four hundred thousand right 0:51:39.800 --> 0:51:42.680 and gave it to a developer that was building the house. 0:51:42.680 --> 0:51:44.680 He finished the house and then I worked it out 0:51:44.719 --> 0:51:47.920 with him. That's how I bought my first house. And 0:51:48.000 --> 0:51:52.560 so I was going somewhere with you, but I I 0:51:52.600 --> 0:51:55.279 w afive. Yeah, I bought bought my show, and then 0:51:55.440 --> 0:51:57.680 I was doing radio in Chicago and they called me 0:51:57.680 --> 0:51:59.839 and said, we have a show idea for you, and 0:52:00.000 --> 0:52:01.919 they flew me out there lay this is my second show, 0:52:02.239 --> 0:52:03.760 and they said, we want you to be a music 0:52:03.800 --> 0:52:08.200 teacher at this school, and your best friend is gonna 0:52:08.200 --> 0:52:11.560 beat This dude named George Winn and George Wynn played 0:52:11.640 --> 0:52:15.919 on the show Cheers. He was the male man. Know him. 0:52:16.000 --> 0:52:18.399 At the end of the bar, he said, you guys 0:52:18.400 --> 0:52:22.000 would be great together. I ain't know him, but I 0:52:22.040 --> 0:52:25.200 had met this dude in nineteen eighty nine names Sedrict, 0:52:25.400 --> 0:52:28.840 entertainer who came through this comedy club. I was gigging 0:52:28.880 --> 0:52:32.160 at one night and I thought said was just the 0:52:32.160 --> 0:52:37.279 funniest dude I'd ever seen man in my life. And 0:52:37.360 --> 0:52:41.080 so I said, well, I do the show man, but 0:52:41.160 --> 0:52:43.760 I want y'all to look at this guy named Sedjia entertainer. 0:52:44.480 --> 0:52:47.879 He said, we've never heard of him. Okay, but y'all 0:52:47.920 --> 0:52:51.600 need to talk to this dude. So the dude, George Wynn, 0:52:51.600 --> 0:52:53.399 said he wanted to do the show, but I didn't 0:52:53.440 --> 0:52:56.120 know him. Nothing against him. I just saidn't know him. 0:52:56.360 --> 0:52:58.760 And I'd been on TV once and y'all took my show. 0:52:58.840 --> 0:53:01.000 So I figured, like this, this next time, i'm'a do 0:53:01.080 --> 0:53:03.400 it show, We're gonna do it my way, right, And 0:53:03.440 --> 0:53:06.880 so I said, so they boss said it out and 0:53:06.960 --> 0:53:09.439 they like said but they said, but he's not as 0:53:09.480 --> 0:53:11.560 famous as norm. I said, but oh, but let me 0:53:11.600 --> 0:53:15.080 ask you something. Man who really looked like he be 0:53:15.160 --> 0:53:17.440 my best friend. I'm finna be roommates. Why would I 0:53:17.480 --> 0:53:22.480 be roommates with this dude from Cheers? I don't I 0:53:22.480 --> 0:53:26.440 I wouldn't even do that, right, So they was debating, debating. 0:53:26.480 --> 0:53:29.080 I said, I'll tell you what hit the deal. I 0:53:29.120 --> 0:53:31.560 either get, said the entertained i'm'na pass on the show. 0:53:32.360 --> 0:53:35.279 I was scared when I said that, hm, cause I 0:53:35.320 --> 0:53:38.520 didn't really have that kind of power yet, right, But 0:53:39.040 --> 0:53:41.919 that's how strong I felt about it. So they said 0:53:41.920 --> 0:53:45.040 we'll give him a try for one season. We did 0:53:45.120 --> 0:53:48.479 a hundred and forty five episodes. That one season turned 0:53:48.520 --> 0:53:53.239 into syndicated show. Wow, said the entertainer. Man, funniest dude 0:53:53.239 --> 0:53:55.080 I've ever sat with in my life. Man. 0:53:56.080 --> 0:53:58.480 And then you ended up having a situation where you 0:53:58.560 --> 0:53:59.680 do the Kings of Comedy. 0:54:00.280 --> 0:54:02.840 You said, Bernie mac d l. 0:54:04.760 --> 0:54:06.760 How did they put that? How did they put that together? 0:54:06.800 --> 0:54:07.040 Steve? 0:54:07.040 --> 0:54:08.640 How do you guys come together? And says okay? 0:54:09.120 --> 0:54:13.239 D L said Steve, Bernie, See, the first year it 0:54:13.320 --> 0:54:17.680 was just me, Bernie has said okay, And that was 0:54:17.800 --> 0:54:21.000 rough Man and the guy, this kid came up to 0:54:21.040 --> 0:54:24.319 his name Walter Latham, twenty six years old, and said, hey, man, 0:54:24.920 --> 0:54:27.920 I want to create this thing called the Original Kings 0:54:27.960 --> 0:54:30.120 of Comedy, and I want y'all three to be it, 0:54:30.360 --> 0:54:33.680 and we only gonna do basketball arenas. And we looked 0:54:33.680 --> 0:54:36.280 at him and said we're gonna do what? Dog? He said, 0:54:36.360 --> 0:54:40.200 We're gonna do basketball arenas. I said, don't. We can't 0:54:40.239 --> 0:54:43.120 sell out no basketball arena. He said, no, I've been 0:54:43.239 --> 0:54:47.000 looking at pole star all y'all, all three of y'all 0:54:47.200 --> 0:54:51.080 can sell out five thousand seats by yourself. He said, 0:54:51.080 --> 0:54:54.640 if I put y'all together, we gonna sell out basketball 0:54:54.680 --> 0:54:58.920 arenas multiple times. So we used three of us were 0:54:58.920 --> 0:55:01.200 sitting there talking about it, and we said, man, this dull, 0:55:01.320 --> 0:55:04.879 crazy man can't do this. Right here she said, He said, 0:55:05.000 --> 0:55:08.839 I got a sponsor, Royal, Crown Royal. He said, We're 0:55:08.880 --> 0:55:13.680 gonna guarantee y'all X amount of night. It was like 0:55:13.680 --> 0:55:17.439 a quarter of a million. And we we said, don't 0:55:17.480 --> 0:55:25.920 you finna do what don't I looked at said said say, look, 0:55:26.040 --> 0:55:31.080 let's just get Let's just get the deposit, get on out. 0:55:31.920 --> 0:55:35.120 If it don't work, let's get the deposit. The kid 0:55:35.160 --> 0:55:39.399 paid us this deposit for the first night. And that's 0:55:39.440 --> 0:55:42.520 how we got started. And uh, it was rough man, 0:55:43.480 --> 0:55:47.840 because it was just the three of us, and the 0:55:47.920 --> 0:55:51.000 first night we did it was a disaster. Man. It 0:55:51.120 --> 0:55:54.480 was for me, great for Bernie and said because they 0:55:54.520 --> 0:55:57.080 went up first, right, said went up first. Now the 0:55:57.160 --> 0:56:01.239 deal was to do thirty minutes. Said went out there 0:56:01.320 --> 0:56:07.360 did forty five. Bernie did fifty two. I don't know 0:56:07.360 --> 0:56:10.759 if you've ever followed Bernie mad before. It ain't what 0:56:10.800 --> 0:56:15.440 you want. They down there Bernie Didne cussed out everybody 0:56:15.440 --> 0:56:19.719 in the crowd, and he's hystericause they're stomping. They'll rent 0:56:19.719 --> 0:56:23.000 about the fall. And we're performing at this arena in 0:56:23.080 --> 0:56:25.839 Charlotte where the hockey players play. So they had put 0:56:25.880 --> 0:56:27.960 down the floor on top of the ice, all the 0:56:28.000 --> 0:56:30.759 black people in there with coats, and then the dude said, 0:56:30.760 --> 0:56:33.280 we gotta have a forty five minute in a mission. 0:56:33.480 --> 0:56:37.799 What so you got, said Bernie? Forty five minute in 0:56:37.840 --> 0:56:40.279 the mission? These black people just sitting down on top 0:56:40.280 --> 0:56:42.520 of this ice with the little sheet applied wood between 0:56:42.719 --> 0:56:47.360 and they freeze it. Then here I come. Now the 0:56:47.480 --> 0:56:53.280 disaster in that was my mama had died in December. Right. 0:56:54.440 --> 0:56:58.240 Our first performance was December twenty sixth, the day after Christmas, 0:56:58.760 --> 0:57:02.360 but my mama had died that month. My comedy special 0:57:03.000 --> 0:57:06.480 had came out December twenty first on HBO. Right, I 0:57:06.520 --> 0:57:09.040 ain't even watch it. I was in a blur. My 0:57:09.160 --> 0:57:13.200 mama gone. Man. It was like for two months, man, 0:57:13.560 --> 0:57:16.880 I thought I was gonna die sy'all. I thought. I said, 0:57:17.160 --> 0:57:19.439 I ain't gonna make it, man, because I had lost 0:57:20.160 --> 0:57:23.840 this girl. Man, I was devastated. So my special came 0:57:23.840 --> 0:57:27.800 out right before the first night. I didn't even wasn't 0:57:27.800 --> 0:57:31.080 even thinking. So I'm out there when I finally come 0:57:31.120 --> 0:57:35.920 on stage, they freezing, and now I'm doing the jokes 0:57:35.920 --> 0:57:39.360 from my special that I forgot had just came out. 0:57:39.560 --> 0:57:42.480 That all my fans that heard these jokes, and I'm 0:57:42.480 --> 0:57:46.320 about to just and they hollering out, punchline, do some 0:57:46.440 --> 0:57:50.440 new shit. You know, black people stay, We heard that, 0:57:50.920 --> 0:57:54.240 and I'm going, why are they saying this? And I 0:57:54.360 --> 0:57:57.720 didn't even understand that my special had just came out, right, 0:57:58.840 --> 0:58:01.880 but I was so devastated. So that night, man, I 0:58:01.880 --> 0:58:04.600 didn't do well at all. Right, the next morning, this 0:58:04.760 --> 0:58:07.800 comedian on the radio aks 'em we driving to the airport. 0:58:08.120 --> 0:58:11.000 Steve Harvey don't deserve to be no king. I don't 0:58:11.040 --> 0:58:13.720 know how he on the show. He wasn't shit. He 0:58:13.800 --> 0:58:16.240 on the radio, just eating my ass a lot. And 0:58:16.320 --> 0:58:18.480 I'm hearing this going to the airport. Now, I just 0:58:18.560 --> 0:58:21.000 stayed up all night. I ain't had no sleep, cause 0:58:21.040 --> 0:58:23.680 I ain't I would. I just had a horrible night. 0:58:23.840 --> 0:58:27.200 Right now, I'm writing cause then I finally realized they 0:58:27.320 --> 0:58:31.240 was repeating my special. So I'm writing all night. I 0:58:31.240 --> 0:58:33.280 ain't even go to bed. I stayed up. I sat 0:58:33.320 --> 0:58:36.320 on the plane writing. I got in Kansas City. I 0:58:36.400 --> 0:58:38.680 wrote all the way up the show time. I been 0:58:38.800 --> 0:58:42.040 up all night, man getting old jokes. We working and 0:58:42.120 --> 0:58:44.840 putting 'em together. Came up with a whole new set 0:58:45.160 --> 0:58:49.040 next night, Kansas City. Now we argueing. Now me and 0:58:49.040 --> 0:58:52.960 the Bruhs is arguing, cause I'm saying, Bruhs thirty thirty 0:58:53.200 --> 0:59:01.480 thirty right ninety minutes, y'all got to help me. Forty 0:59:01.600 --> 0:59:06.760 eight fifteen minutes in the mission. Here I come. That 0:59:06.920 --> 0:59:10.720 night I got standing on face. I had redeemed myself. 0:59:10.880 --> 0:59:13.280 Run it now. And so the first year was rough 0:59:13.680 --> 0:59:16.680 because I wanted to switch up sometimes. You know, we're 0:59:16.720 --> 0:59:17.440 all kings. 0:59:18.080 --> 0:59:21.360 You wanted to go first, Maybe go first sometimes the 0:59:21.480 --> 0:59:21.960 hey man, let. 0:59:21.920 --> 0:59:24.040 Me sit in the rocking chair, Let me be second. 0:59:24.400 --> 0:59:27.000 Bernie sat in the rocking chair, and I went man, 0:59:27.040 --> 0:59:29.040 because you got said one of them up. Bernie in 0:59:29.040 --> 0:59:32.000 the rocket chair. You closing behind these dudes is rough. 0:59:32.600 --> 0:59:35.320 So that's where we had our little that you and Bernie. 0:59:35.360 --> 0:59:37.760 But it hands. That was our only odds. That was 0:59:37.800 --> 0:59:40.560 our only odds because I just man, y'all gotta give 0:59:40.600 --> 0:59:42.760 me a chance to win two and they ain't never 0:59:42.800 --> 0:59:46.360 want to spitch switch. So the whole year we did that, 0:59:46.400 --> 0:59:48.360 and then we bought in Guide Tori and god Tory 0:59:48.400 --> 0:59:53.080 hosted the show next year. He added, d L. Now 0:59:53.080 --> 0:59:56.680 we got a problem. We can't have Fox acts because 0:59:56.680 --> 0:59:59.800 who gonna go last? Now? So the argument was, Steve, 0:59:59.840 --> 1:00:03.800 you gonna last again? I'm gonna hell no, no, no, man, 1:00:03.840 --> 1:00:07.360 we all getting the same check. Dog, I'm out here 1:00:07.400 --> 1:00:10.560 working these said, it's hard to follow now, I gotta follow, 1:00:10.640 --> 1:00:17.200 DL said, and Bernie the Bernie by herself, mag Mac 1:00:17.400 --> 1:00:19.760 was just he was of all of us, man, he 1:00:19.920 --> 1:00:23.080 was that boy could put some pressure on you. So 1:00:23.160 --> 1:00:26.240 I said, I said, I'll tell you what I do. 1:00:26.880 --> 1:00:28.920 So then Walter said, well one one of y'all host 1:00:28.960 --> 1:00:31.640 this show. Ain't nobody want to be the MC? My 1:00:31.760 --> 1:00:36.520 hell shot straight up, I got it. I'm hosted. Cause 1:00:36.560 --> 1:00:38.640 that for me was cool. I make it like it's 1:00:38.680 --> 1:00:42.160 my show. I bring everybody out, lay it out like that. 1:00:43.120 --> 1:00:45.560 And then they switched over. Whenever we did, Saint Louis said, 1:00:45.640 --> 1:00:49.560 we clothes. Whenever we did, uh La DL clothes when 1:00:49.600 --> 1:00:53.600 we did Chicago Bernie Clothes. You know, everybody moved it around, right, 1:00:53.920 --> 1:00:56.400 and then we settled it. And then the Kings was 1:00:56.480 --> 1:00:59.480 really borned right at that moment. But we toured for 1:00:59.520 --> 1:01:02.880 three years, man, right, and nobody but black people heard 1:01:02.920 --> 1:01:05.480 of us. That wasn't a white person in the crowd 1:01:05.520 --> 1:01:08.680 for three straight years. Wow, never did a article. We 1:01:08.760 --> 1:01:12.560 just did black radio. We sold out the MCR Center 1:01:12.680 --> 1:01:15.760 four times, two weekends in a row, sixty four thousand. 1:01:16.160 --> 1:01:19.760 We sold out the Georgia Georgia Dome forty four thousand. 1:01:20.280 --> 1:01:24.600 We sold out the United Center six times. Thought we 1:01:24.640 --> 1:01:27.440 was walking through this country. Then the dude in the 1:01:27.560 --> 1:01:30.080 USA today, black dude came did a article on us, 1:01:30.560 --> 1:01:35.080 and that was it. We was making so much money 1:01:35.080 --> 1:01:38.760 after that. Man, couldn't mm what happened? 1:01:38.840 --> 1:01:39.080 Why? 1:01:39.200 --> 1:01:44.160 Why did it end? After the movie? Man, that was 1:01:44.280 --> 1:01:48.680 probably blessing of a curse. Yeah, The Four of Us, 1:01:49.800 --> 1:01:52.120 it was the largest comedy movie ever in the history. 1:01:53.000 --> 1:01:56.720 It was the largest comedy tour in the history. But 1:01:56.920 --> 1:02:00.240 these white boys came along called blue collar comedy. It 1:02:01.200 --> 1:02:06.680 was Larry Cable Guy, Jeff Foxworthy, Ron White and Bill 1:02:06.920 --> 1:02:11.400 Ingvill and they said we gonna show them Kings. Who 1:02:11.440 --> 1:02:14.600 the real Kings is. So they came out with the 1:02:14.640 --> 1:02:18.920 blue Collar Comedy tour. They couldn't fuck with us. They 1:02:19.000 --> 1:02:22.840 wasn't even close. They wasn't even pole star came out. 1:02:23.080 --> 1:02:26.880 Kings was kicking. They ass we was filling up buildings. Man, 1:02:27.320 --> 1:02:31.040 And they thought they like, I don't think Fox was 1:02:31.080 --> 1:02:34.520 in that bill ingvill Has said We're gonna show them 1:02:34.640 --> 1:02:37.440 what the Kings really looked like, right, And they started 1:02:37.480 --> 1:02:40.280 selling tickets, but they couldn't compete with us. Man, The 1:02:40.360 --> 1:02:43.439 Kings of comedy was was we was, and plus we 1:02:43.480 --> 1:02:46.520 was that other kind of funny, right. We was tag 1:02:46.600 --> 1:02:49.840 your mouth out funny. We you get up out your chair, 1:02:49.880 --> 1:02:52.919 your asshole still in the city. You know that type 1:02:52.960 --> 1:02:55.480 shit was happening, right because when black people laugh, they 1:02:55.520 --> 1:02:57.040 get up and run to the back of the room. 1:03:01.640 --> 1:03:06.880 Off take all the popcorn. They were the black people. Yeah, 1:03:06.960 --> 1:03:09.880 they were letting us have it. Man. And so when 1:03:09.960 --> 1:03:13.000 it ended the thing that the blue collar comedy to it, 1:03:13.120 --> 1:03:18.360 there was they stayed together. We split up. You wish 1:03:18.400 --> 1:03:19.920 you to stay that kept it together, could have kept 1:03:19.920 --> 1:03:25.040 it together, couple. We tried everything, but you know, dudes 1:03:25.440 --> 1:03:28.360 felt like they was movie stars. I never saw myself 1:03:28.400 --> 1:03:30.520 as a movie star. I always yeah, I want. 1:03:30.920 --> 1:03:33.160 I was gonna ask you that because you you kind 1:03:33.160 --> 1:03:35.320 of like stayed in your lane. You see said brand start, 1:03:35.640 --> 1:03:38.640 Bernie did movies. You kind of stayed. I mean, you 1:03:38.640 --> 1:03:40.919 had had a couple of roles, but that didn't seem 1:03:40.960 --> 1:03:42.720 to be That didn't seem to be your passion. That 1:03:42.720 --> 1:03:44.080 didn't seem to be where you wanted to go. 1:03:44.240 --> 1:03:47.560 Never read for a movie. Man, didn't care nothing about it. 1:03:47.680 --> 1:03:51.160 I was a TV star. I want to be on TV. 1:03:51.640 --> 1:03:54.160 So TV and radio was your with your. 1:03:54.680 --> 1:03:57.840 Because I could do this, I could do this, I 1:03:57.880 --> 1:04:01.120 could become household if I stay on T right. You 1:04:01.160 --> 1:04:03.520 know you got hey Man to be famous in the movie. 1:04:03.800 --> 1:04:06.840 You know how long it take to be Denzil. Yeah, yeah, 1:04:06.880 --> 1:04:08.479 that's then. They've been in this a while. 1:04:08.600 --> 1:04:10.960 I remember him in Glory because they feel glory in Savannah, 1:04:10.960 --> 1:04:13.440 if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, so that was like a 1:04:13.480 --> 1:04:14.439 eighty five eighty six. 1:04:14.560 --> 1:04:19.080 He was a gangster though, this dude. You believed him. Yeah, yeah, 1:04:19.240 --> 1:04:21.840 I can only play me. Yeah see, let me just 1:04:21.920 --> 1:04:25.480 do TV or I just do me. I ain't wait, Harvey, 1:04:25.720 --> 1:04:28.360 I ain't been no acting class. And to do this here. 1:04:28.680 --> 1:04:32.000 I'm not fit to care. Finnish city here, and just care. 1:04:32.040 --> 1:04:35.840 I don't really like you. I can't cry cry with 1:04:35.920 --> 1:04:38.400 you at we in the scene. I'm finished cry. I 1:04:38.440 --> 1:04:42.840 don't even know your ass. My father died. Well, okay, 1:04:43.200 --> 1:04:45.680 I don't know you all your daddy. So me trying 1:04:45.720 --> 1:04:48.040 to work these tears up. This probably ain't have it. 1:04:48.440 --> 1:04:51.040 Just let me go be me. So I knew, but 1:04:51.080 --> 1:04:54.000 Bertie got a lot of rolls, said, got a lot 1:04:54.000 --> 1:04:57.360 of rolls, and uh, they just wanted to do it man, 1:04:57.400 --> 1:04:59.760 and that was cool. Then I understood it. So I 1:04:59.880 --> 1:05:04.160 just new. But the thing that they did, though, well, 1:05:04.160 --> 1:05:06.880 they went and got so many roles they stopped doing 1:05:06.960 --> 1:05:12.080 stand up me. I felt so strongly about stand up 1:05:12.120 --> 1:05:15.840 I never stopped. When I got my TV shows, I 1:05:15.880 --> 1:05:18.640 steal toured on the weekend, and I never went back 1:05:18.640 --> 1:05:21.560 to comedy clubs. Once I was in the Marinas, That's 1:05:21.560 --> 1:05:24.560 where I stayed. So I just stayed in big theaters 1:05:24.560 --> 1:05:28.040 and arenas. I was going to the Staples Center, No 1:05:28.200 --> 1:05:32.080 Kill Madison by myself, take two people with me, Radio 1:05:32.120 --> 1:05:35.680 City Music Hall, I was selling. I stayed right there 1:05:36.320 --> 1:05:39.280 while the guys was doing the movies. They got stepped 1:05:39.280 --> 1:05:42.840 away from the They stepped away from them from the craft, you. 1:05:42.800 --> 1:05:47.000 Know, But but you walked away at the height of it, Steve, 1:05:47.160 --> 1:05:49.960 you walked away from the stand up and really hadn't 1:05:50.000 --> 1:05:50.439 come back. 1:05:50.840 --> 1:05:51.680 Would you be willing? 1:05:51.720 --> 1:05:54.800 What would it take Steve Harvey to do to do 1:05:55.320 --> 1:05:57.160 the crypt the crypto dot coms? 1:05:57.600 --> 1:05:59.760 What would it take for you to do so? 1:05:59.880 --> 1:06:00.240 Five? 1:06:00.240 --> 1:06:00.800 What would it take? 1:06:00.880 --> 1:06:02.720 How much would it take for Steve Harvey to do 1:06:02.960 --> 1:06:04.800 what they doing on Netflix? You say, everybody you see 1:06:04.840 --> 1:06:07.920 Chapel Quake, all those guys had special little Netflix. What 1:06:07.920 --> 1:06:09.720 would it take for Steve Harvey d to give to 1:06:09.760 --> 1:06:10.680 give a sixty minutes? 1:06:11.040 --> 1:06:15.440 Well, first of all, I have to be done with 1:06:15.520 --> 1:06:19.960 the TV career, because once I do the special, I'm 1:06:20.000 --> 1:06:22.640 gonna be done with my job. Man, you cursed up 1:06:22.680 --> 1:06:25.360 a store, You killing everybody? Steve, No, they gonna they 1:06:25.400 --> 1:06:27.880 gonna take me off TV. It ain't no where to 1:06:27.960 --> 1:06:31.600 cancel culture to live. See. The reason I stopped was 1:06:31.640 --> 1:06:35.800 because I saw, Okay, I got family feud, I got 1:06:35.880 --> 1:06:39.360 little big shots, I got all this stuff being offered 1:06:39.400 --> 1:06:42.400 to me. At one point in time, I had seven 1:06:42.520 --> 1:06:46.840 shows on TV all at once in one season. Wow, 1:06:46.920 --> 1:06:52.520 I had Funderdome, Little Big Shots, Amazing Grace, Celebrity Family Feud, 1:06:52.640 --> 1:06:56.960 Family Feud, I had two other shows Showtime that Apollo 1:06:57.040 --> 1:07:01.240 had came back on Fox. I worked seven days a week. Man, 1:07:01.280 --> 1:07:03.640 I went through a forty one week period with seven 1:07:03.680 --> 1:07:07.640 days of taping, and I knew that if I performed 1:07:07.680 --> 1:07:10.400 as a stand up, that whole TV career that gumble 1:07:10.720 --> 1:07:15.960 and I was making enough to really solidify myself in television. 1:07:16.480 --> 1:07:20.240 So in twenty twelve, I had to walk away because 1:07:20.280 --> 1:07:22.040 I was at the height of everything and I had 1:07:22.080 --> 1:07:26.200 everything going for me. So now, Man, then I watched 1:07:26.280 --> 1:07:29.640 Chapelle and Rock and all these boys get sixty million 1:07:29.680 --> 1:07:34.720 here and all this here, I thought about it. I couldn't. 1:07:35.480 --> 1:07:38.280 I couldn't dump what I had for that right because 1:07:38.320 --> 1:07:41.560 I knew the longevity I was gonna make it up. Yeah, anyway, 1:07:41.680 --> 1:07:45.880 So like today, man, I've been this is for the 1:07:45.960 --> 1:07:48.360 probably been the first year I've been thinking about it, 1:07:49.120 --> 1:07:54.520 just doing one mode and I'll probably had to call 1:07:54.600 --> 1:07:57.160 it something like fucking I'm out or something like that, 1:07:58.960 --> 1:08:01.280 because I know that's gonna be it. It's gonna be 1:08:01.320 --> 1:08:04.320 career ending, right, because what I really want to say, 1:08:04.400 --> 1:08:06.800 I'm not gonna do is special unless I can say 1:08:06.800 --> 1:08:09.320 what I really want to say. I wanna be like 1:08:09.480 --> 1:08:12.640 rock and have selective outrage, you know. I wanna be 1:08:12.720 --> 1:08:15.600 like Chappelle and really say something, but what I really 1:08:15.600 --> 1:08:18.080 got in my heart to say. If I say it, 1:08:18.120 --> 1:08:19.320 I'm my career is over. 1:08:19.960 --> 1:08:22.839 Why hasn't radio been your most consistent staple? 1:08:23.080 --> 1:08:30.439 Because it's theater of the mind. Look, man, when it 1:08:30.479 --> 1:08:35.080 comes to a dull contemporary radio, ain't nobody done it 1:08:35.120 --> 1:08:39.960 this long? Ain't nobody been consistently number one. I've been 1:08:40.080 --> 1:08:43.080 since the year two thousand. I've done twenty three years 1:08:43.080 --> 1:08:48.080 of black radio, black radio. I got the largest market 1:08:48.120 --> 1:08:51.360 share today. I got the largest number of people today. 1:08:52.320 --> 1:08:56.160 Ricky Smiley is my dude. I introduced Ricky Smiley to radio. Yeah, 1:08:56.160 --> 1:08:58.920 I told him he was the dude. I put Earthquake 1:08:58.960 --> 1:09:04.120 in radio. I told him he was the dude. You know. D. L. 1:09:04.280 --> 1:09:07.280 Hugley got him in radio. I told him he was 1:09:07.320 --> 1:09:10.639 the dude. And they've all watched Bill belling me all 1:09:10.720 --> 1:09:11.600 of adele give me. 1:09:12.200 --> 1:09:14.680 I've had I've had Quake on. I've had said they 1:09:14.800 --> 1:09:18.560 entertained on. I've had Ricky Smiley on and talked to others, 1:09:18.960 --> 1:09:21.599 Why were you like this? Everybody's not like you, Steve. 1:09:21.760 --> 1:09:24.240 Everybody said, well, this is what Steve did. Steve said, 1:09:24.280 --> 1:09:25.800 let's go down, We're gonna do these things. We're gonna 1:09:25.840 --> 1:09:27.160 do this. We're gonna do the radio show. 1:09:28.000 --> 1:09:28.400 Who is that? 1:09:28.640 --> 1:09:29.080 Said? No? 1:09:29.400 --> 1:09:32.839 Quate said he had you at his at Atlanta Uptown College. 1:09:33.160 --> 1:09:36.000 He said, they sold ex Somebody's like, nah, we're not 1:09:36.080 --> 1:09:38.720 doing that. Give them their money back. We're gonna do 1:09:38.880 --> 1:09:41.559 radio next morning. We're gonna get up early, we're gonna 1:09:41.560 --> 1:09:43.120 go get donuts and we're gonna go. 1:09:43.080 --> 1:09:44.760 Pass them out. And this is what we're gonna do. 1:09:44.840 --> 1:09:47.519 Blah blah blah. Ricky smiling says, Steve Harvey did this. 1:09:47.520 --> 1:09:49.519 This this for the comedy he got me in radio. 1:09:49.880 --> 1:09:52.280 Quate said the exact same thing, said said the same thing. 1:09:52.680 --> 1:09:56.439 Why because everybody's not like you. Everybody keep talking about, well, black, 1:09:56.479 --> 1:09:58.400 black black, we want to see black succeed and they 1:09:58.400 --> 1:09:59.759 ain't trying to see black succeed. 1:10:00.160 --> 1:10:05.200 Why see, man, When I was a little boy, my 1:10:05.280 --> 1:10:07.519 mama told me something. Memory was talking about how your 1:10:07.520 --> 1:10:09.800 mama say something you don't it don't really register in 1:10:10.720 --> 1:10:14.639 She told me, she said, son one day, God gonna 1:10:14.680 --> 1:10:16.479 give you a big house up on the hill. When 1:10:16.520 --> 1:10:19.040 you get up there, you got to tell somebody else 1:10:19.080 --> 1:10:22.479 how to get on the hill. Didn't mean nothing to 1:10:22.479 --> 1:10:27.360 me thirteen, But I've always kept that because there's room 1:10:27.439 --> 1:10:30.600 at the top. Yes, because the top ain't crowded. You 1:10:30.640 --> 1:10:34.639 know a dude name this record guy Ricky. I can't 1:10:34.640 --> 1:10:36.519 think of his name. He had a book out. The 1:10:36.600 --> 1:10:39.240 title of the book was, ain't no traffic on the 1:10:39.360 --> 1:10:43.400 Extra mile. It ain't. If you go to extra mile, 1:10:43.439 --> 1:10:47.240 it's free. You can do doughnuts, you can flip your calls. 1:10:47.240 --> 1:10:50.120 Ain't nobody gonna hit you. It's room at the top. 1:10:50.760 --> 1:10:53.639 But we have an obligation as brothers to show each 1:10:53.680 --> 1:10:55.840 other how to get there. See, I ain't got to 1:10:55.840 --> 1:10:58.840 worry about you taking my market share, because what's for me. 1:10:58.880 --> 1:11:02.559 It's for me, Okay, see why I'm wearing them. But 1:11:02.600 --> 1:11:05.960 that's what that's what people get wrong. People think. People 1:11:06.000 --> 1:11:08.320 think if they blow out your candle, it'll make their 1:11:08.320 --> 1:11:11.400 candle brighter. Now your candle still a little last flicker, 1:11:11.880 --> 1:11:15.400 your punk ass, you think because your little bitch ass, 1:11:15.479 --> 1:11:17.559 then set up here, blew my candlelight. You think your 1:11:17.560 --> 1:11:21.400 candle fit to be same punk ass flicker. Dog, that's 1:11:21.439 --> 1:11:24.400 same punk ass flicker you've been having. Because you're trying 1:11:24.439 --> 1:11:26.880 to blow my candle out. That ain't how at work? 1:11:27.600 --> 1:11:30.920 You need more candles, man, right, And so my thing 1:11:31.000 --> 1:11:35.120 has always been to uplift, to teach people the way 1:11:35.160 --> 1:11:37.960 it's done, show them how to do it. So Ricky 1:11:38.000 --> 1:11:41.000 Smiley is a competitive of mine technically. 1:11:40.520 --> 1:11:46.320 But you put him over so d l a competitor, 1:11:47.560 --> 1:11:50.360 quite a competitor. So you're not concerned because that a 1:11:50.439 --> 1:11:52.320 lot of people are like, Okay, I got a big house, 1:11:52.439 --> 1:11:54.000 but I don't want you in my neighborhood. You get 1:11:54.000 --> 1:11:55.519 a big house somewhere else, and maybe as long as 1:11:55.520 --> 1:11:56.799 it's not as big as mine. 1:11:56.960 --> 1:11:59.360 No, you don't care. You can put a bigger house 1:11:59.439 --> 1:12:01.320 right next Dold maunt. What they gotta do with me? 1:12:01.560 --> 1:12:04.000 You can you gotta make dog, I can't sleep in 1:12:04.040 --> 1:12:07.000 all these rooms I got. Now, what I care if 1:12:07.040 --> 1:12:09.680 your house is bigger than my house? What I care? 1:12:09.720 --> 1:12:12.640 If you got more cars than me? I like my cars. 1:12:12.720 --> 1:12:15.120 But but see, excuse me, Steve, how have you been 1:12:15.160 --> 1:12:17.960 able to handle that? Because you know that people there 1:12:18.000 --> 1:12:19.840 are a lot of people that smile and say things 1:12:19.840 --> 1:12:22.439 in your face, and you know they say things behind 1:12:22.479 --> 1:12:22.920 your back? 1:12:23.000 --> 1:12:27.400 Dog, how how do you handle that? Who are you? 1:12:29.240 --> 1:12:33.120 First of all? Man? Real players? Yeah, them real dudes. 1:12:33.640 --> 1:12:38.160 They ain't reading blogs and they not blogging. They ain't 1:12:38.200 --> 1:12:42.680 on they ain't writing c in the comments section. Real 1:12:44.160 --> 1:12:47.759 bloggers are not shakers in movies, decision makers or power brokers. 1:12:48.479 --> 1:12:50.400 Give a damn what you say about me? You don't 1:12:50.439 --> 1:12:52.760 even know me. Most people talking about me don't even 1:12:52.880 --> 1:12:54.960 know me, right, you know how I know you know me? 1:12:55.000 --> 1:12:57.320 You got my cell number? Right now? Dog? You ain't 1:12:57.360 --> 1:12:59.960 got my cell number? Dog? Or what what is your 1:13:00.120 --> 1:13:02.280 What you say about me don't even matter now if 1:13:02.320 --> 1:13:05.439 you got my cell number? Like, if Sad was somewhere 1:13:05.479 --> 1:13:09.479 dogging me, that'll hurt me. Cause this is a dude 1:13:09.520 --> 1:13:13.080 that we got history. Yes, if Richie Smiley was dogging me, 1:13:13.520 --> 1:13:16.360 got'll hurt me. If Quake was dogging me, that'll hurt me. 1:13:19.560 --> 1:13:24.320 If fifty cent dog me, I ain't never done nothing, 1:13:24.400 --> 1:13:26.160 fifty We ain't got no beat. But I'm just using 1:13:26.240 --> 1:13:28.640 h him as an neck, right, I wouldn't be as effective, right, 1:13:28.800 --> 1:13:30.920 I would be gonna like what you talking about me? 1:13:31.040 --> 1:13:34.559 Fault right? See my mind ain't down there. And then 1:13:34.640 --> 1:13:37.719 I stay on the wall. If I stay on the wall, 1:13:37.800 --> 1:13:40.400 even if you throw rocks up, if I stay on 1:13:40.439 --> 1:13:43.040 the wall, even if your rock hit me, how much 1:13:43.080 --> 1:13:45.160 steam it got you had to throw up on the wall. 1:13:45.520 --> 1:13:48.759 But if I come down off the wall to address you, 1:13:48.760 --> 1:13:50.840 you can bust me dead in the head with the rock. 1:13:51.160 --> 1:13:54.040 I don't give a damn about haters, man, They don't 1:13:54.080 --> 1:13:56.519 even know how I'm moving. You know, jay Z got 1:13:56.520 --> 1:13:58.680 hated when he cut the deal with the NFL. Joe, 1:13:58.720 --> 1:14:01.679 I haint no jay Z fault. Jay Z making moves. 1:14:01.720 --> 1:14:03.960 Y'all don't know nothing about y'all sitting over here in 1:14:04.000 --> 1:14:07.679 your little punk ass life. You ain't got shit going, 1:14:08.200 --> 1:14:11.160 but you're steady knocking somebody that's out here shaking and moving. 1:14:12.080 --> 1:14:16.000 How they give a Shannon a podcast? Thing gave him nothing, 1:14:16.000 --> 1:14:18.800 He took it. He went out and built it. He 1:14:18.840 --> 1:14:23.040 didn't gonna get permission. He built it. How he got 1:14:23.080 --> 1:14:24.559 these people? Dog? 1:14:24.720 --> 1:14:26.720 But you're worrying about that, Well, you know what my 1:14:26.760 --> 1:14:27.479 grandma used to say. 1:14:27.479 --> 1:14:29.519 Something you say, boy, Sometimes God will put you in 1:14:29.560 --> 1:14:33.040 place people don't think you belong. And anytime you're somewhere 1:14:33.040 --> 1:14:34.960 where people don't think you belong. You know, they say, Steve, 1:14:35.479 --> 1:14:37.960 he don't deserve that. Who are you to tell me 1:14:38.040 --> 1:14:39.559 what God has made him? What God has made a 1:14:39.600 --> 1:14:42.719 mistake on me? He don't deserve this. He don't deserve 1:14:42.720 --> 1:14:45.120 to have Steve on the show. He doesn't deserve to 1:14:45.160 --> 1:14:49.360 have this. I'm like, broh, you got so much going on. 1:14:49.360 --> 1:14:52.759 For you, you don't want me to have a little success. Dog. 1:14:53.760 --> 1:14:56.800 The reason I'm doing this show, Thog, is cause of 1:14:56.840 --> 1:14:59.840 how you are, the way you move, what stuff out 1:14:59.840 --> 1:15:03.439 here you say. I've never heard a dude talking out 1:15:03.439 --> 1:15:08.160 loud that sound just like me. Dog, you you got 1:15:08.160 --> 1:15:12.080 that bravado? Fuck how you feel? Yeah? I said it, 1:15:12.960 --> 1:15:16.280 and you strong with it. That's why I came here. Man. Look, dog, 1:15:16.360 --> 1:15:20.479 let me tell you something. You the best dress dude 1:15:20.640 --> 1:15:23.439 on television in all of commentary. You're that. 1:15:23.840 --> 1:15:25.280 You heard Steve Harvey say it. 1:15:25.479 --> 1:15:28.040 He the best dressed dudel in all the commentary. Now 1:15:28.040 --> 1:15:32.080 I know who thinks he the best dress I know 1:15:32.560 --> 1:15:36.200 I got TV. I watched, But Dog, this dude right 1:15:36.240 --> 1:15:40.880 here be killing the game. I'll be watching you. You 1:15:41.560 --> 1:15:44.080 straight killing the game. I'll be watching I said that 1:15:44.160 --> 1:15:46.680 boy shop right there that cold right there. Cold. But 1:15:46.880 --> 1:15:51.479 then what you say though it skip your knowledge of sport. 1:15:51.560 --> 1:15:56.200 That's an instant you played the game. But your commentary 1:15:56.600 --> 1:15:59.720 about these dudes' life. What you try to say to 1:15:59.800 --> 1:16:03.000 you people, man, so they can learn from you and 1:16:03.080 --> 1:16:08.240 you and you use that hard southern tough grandma, granddaddy 1:16:08.320 --> 1:16:11.320 lodging to where they got to go. They might not 1:16:11.640 --> 1:16:14.400 like it where he old? Yeah, I'm old to you, 1:16:14.520 --> 1:16:16.680 old to you, I'm sixty six, right the fuck you 1:16:16.720 --> 1:16:19.360 think that is right? I ain't twenty three. 1:16:19.840 --> 1:16:21.360 I've been your age. You ain't been, mind. 1:16:21.479 --> 1:16:24.160 Dog. See, I've been where you. I've been where you 1:16:24.240 --> 1:16:27.040 at already know that trip. You need to pay attention 1:16:27.360 --> 1:16:30.439 in case you get here, right, just in case, if 1:16:30.479 --> 1:16:33.479 you got any plan you old hey, man, old is 1:16:33.479 --> 1:16:36.920 the gold. Yeah. Now if you don't like old, here 1:16:36.960 --> 1:16:43.280 it is tomorrow, shoot yourself, step your ass out in 1:16:43.360 --> 1:16:46.679 front of the bus. What fucker jump up? Bill? You stop 1:16:46.760 --> 1:16:50.280 this old shit right away. Old is the gold, dog, 1:16:50.640 --> 1:16:54.240 It's the whole goal in life. I'm so glad. Somebody 1:16:54.320 --> 1:16:56.519 asked me the other day. They said, if you could 1:16:56.560 --> 1:16:58.720 go back to any age, what age would you go 1:16:58.800 --> 1:17:04.680 back to? I said, sixty five, cause that the. 1:17:04.640 --> 1:17:05.760 Best I ever had. 1:17:05.600 --> 1:17:09.960 Do you wish in your twenties and thirties you had 1:17:10.000 --> 1:17:13.080 some of the knowledge that you've acquired in your sixties. 1:17:13.320 --> 1:17:15.120 But you know how much y'all have saved myself. You 1:17:15.120 --> 1:17:18.200 know the pain I would have been. I could have 1:17:18.320 --> 1:17:24.400 avoided homelessness. I could have avoided bad decisions I could 1:17:24.400 --> 1:17:27.800 have I could have avoided so many facts. I could 1:17:27.840 --> 1:17:31.479 have kept money I lost. I would I wouldn't have 1:17:31.520 --> 1:17:33.960 been with some of the people I've been with. I 1:17:33.960 --> 1:17:36.080 wouldn't have did somebod I wouldn't have went some of 1:17:36.120 --> 1:17:38.720 the places I went. See now I'm together. You know 1:17:38.960 --> 1:17:42.800 you know this. You don't see me on TMZ, go 1:17:42.840 --> 1:17:45.640 through TMZ. I'm not finna be on TMZ. You know 1:17:45.640 --> 1:17:48.599 why because I go home, right, I go home, Dog, 1:17:49.400 --> 1:17:52.160 I go home. Can't feel me in my house? 1:17:52.320 --> 1:17:56.040 Do you think people are actually Because what I've learned 1:17:56.080 --> 1:17:58.479 since I've been in TV, TV, celebrity is different than 1:17:58.520 --> 1:18:02.000 than athletes, than athletics, liberty. It's almost like like people 1:18:02.080 --> 1:18:04.519 are trying to catch you in something, trying to get 1:18:04.520 --> 1:18:05.200 you in the wrong. 1:18:06.560 --> 1:18:09.519 See, they they cheer for you when you coming up, 1:18:10.920 --> 1:18:13.040 but they can't wait to see you fall. But the 1:18:13.040 --> 1:18:14.559 ones cheering a lot of them is the one that's 1:18:14.560 --> 1:18:17.280 trying to bring you down. It's the very same ones. 1:18:17.880 --> 1:18:20.120 See it's okay when they think they got a shot 1:18:20.200 --> 1:18:22.479 with you, but then we'll go w But when they 1:18:22.479 --> 1:18:25.240 see your shot actually worked and now you now, they 1:18:25.240 --> 1:18:28.760 look at you as over them, and instead of trying 1:18:28.760 --> 1:18:30.519 to hold you up, they wanna do everything in their 1:18:30.560 --> 1:18:33.280 power to bring you down. It's it's a funny. Denze 1:18:33.280 --> 1:18:38.080 Done taught me the best lesson much. We were at 1:18:38.520 --> 1:18:41.120 Sweet Georgia Brown, Sweet George whatever. It was out in 1:18:41.280 --> 1:18:45.000 La Uh. This restaurant used to be very popular and 1:18:45.040 --> 1:18:47.760 it was one of the nights Sam was up for 1:18:47.920 --> 1:18:51.280 Oscar something and we were standing there at this thing 1:18:51.360 --> 1:18:53.960 and Denzel said, i'm'a show you the difference between me 1:18:54.040 --> 1:18:56.800 and you. He said, I'm a movie star, you a 1:18:56.800 --> 1:18:59.080 TV star. He said, watch this. Just stay with me. 1:18:59.720 --> 1:19:04.240 People will come up. Oh my god, mister Washington, Oh 1:19:04.280 --> 1:19:08.320 my god, mister Washington. I watch every movie I go everywhere. 1:19:08.520 --> 1:19:11.200 Thank you so much. You it's so great something and 1:19:11.200 --> 1:19:14.320 it just cheating with reverence. He said. You know why, man, 1:19:15.240 --> 1:19:17.479 he said, because to come see me, you got to 1:19:17.479 --> 1:19:20.320 get a babysitter, get in your car, stand in line, 1:19:20.360 --> 1:19:23.200 buy a ticket, stand in another line, get your popcorn 1:19:23.200 --> 1:19:25.599 and stuff, go to a seat. Wait and I come 1:19:25.680 --> 1:19:27.840 up on the screen twenty five feet tall. 1:19:29.400 --> 1:19:29.720 He say. 1:19:29.840 --> 1:19:31.920 Then they leave and they don't see me no more 1:19:32.000 --> 1:19:34.439 or less. They come to another movie. He said, I'm 1:19:34.439 --> 1:19:37.000 a movie star. He said, Watch how they come up 1:19:37.040 --> 1:19:39.240 to you when they know you as soon as they 1:19:39.280 --> 1:19:44.040 see me. Mister Washington, Oh my god, Stay, what's up? Man? 1:19:44.680 --> 1:19:45.160 They know you? 1:19:46.920 --> 1:19:51.519 Why stay? Remember that time? And I'm looking at him 1:19:51.560 --> 1:19:54.160 and he said, you see the difference. He said, The 1:19:54.160 --> 1:19:56.400 difference is I'm a movie star. You're a TV star. 1:19:56.720 --> 1:19:58.920 They got to pay to come see me. They invite 1:19:58.960 --> 1:20:04.080 you to their house every day. He said, no, they 1:20:04.520 --> 1:20:07.760 they think you are relative. He said, don't nobody have 1:20:07.920 --> 1:20:11.320 nobody come to their house less they like them. They 1:20:11.400 --> 1:20:13.880 invite you in their house. Then they're making Samwich is 1:20:13.920 --> 1:20:17.080 sitting in their drawers watching you. You a relative to them? 1:20:17.640 --> 1:20:19.320 He said, so, man, when so when you go out 1:20:19.360 --> 1:20:22.400 in public, you can You got to be different from 1:20:22.439 --> 1:20:24.519 them than me and Sam. Man, let me tell you so. 1:20:24.560 --> 1:20:27.160 I was on vacation with Sam one time. Samuel Jackson 1:20:28.160 --> 1:20:30.680 we used in Portafeino. We'd finished dinner one time, were 1:20:30.680 --> 1:20:34.519 walking back to go get on this boat. Hey, you're 1:20:34.600 --> 1:20:37.479 Samuel Jackson. I want to take a picture. He said, 1:20:38.280 --> 1:20:44.360 what's the magic word? Motherfucker? Not him? And I went Sam, 1:20:44.479 --> 1:20:47.760 and it froze the white dude. He said, no, I'm 1:20:47.760 --> 1:20:51.800 taking a picture. He said, I said what's the magic word? Motherfucker? 1:20:53.080 --> 1:20:54.479 And I'm going like, man, I don't even know the 1:20:54.520 --> 1:20:57.160 magic word, but I just want to give it to him. 1:20:57.200 --> 1:20:59.840 I was. I thought it was a ridlissm shit, and 1:21:00.120 --> 1:21:04.559 so his wife Latanya was gonna have Sam. Sam. No, man, 1:21:04.680 --> 1:21:08.920 fuck that, what's the magic word? Motherfucking? He done say? 1:21:08.960 --> 1:21:11.600 That's so harsh. The guy said, please, all right, come on, 1:21:11.720 --> 1:21:15.200 take god damn picture, Steve. Can I get a picture? Yeah, 1:21:15.240 --> 1:21:18.720 come on, you ain't gotta give me no magic word? Dog, 1:21:19.040 --> 1:21:23.599 I'm on TV. We different, Sam, cheat you any because Sam, 1:21:23.680 --> 1:21:27.800 look you one person with twenty five dollars. He don't 1:21:27.800 --> 1:21:32.000 count what I'm I got to. I moved different when 1:21:32.040 --> 1:21:34.440 I'm in public. I got to be a lot more accommodating. 1:21:35.040 --> 1:21:39.320 I'm loved by kids, old people. I got somebody grandmama, 1:21:39.360 --> 1:21:42.599 my grandmama. Love you. I gotta take pictures puppies and shit, 1:21:43.360 --> 1:21:45.160 you know I got I gotta beat that man. 1:21:45.439 --> 1:21:49.439 And I think it's amazing, Steve, that you've allowed so 1:21:49.600 --> 1:21:53.839 many people to eat off your plate. People don't realize 1:21:53.880 --> 1:21:56.559 how much money is out there, and I mean, think 1:21:56.600 --> 1:22:00.200 about all the billionaires and all the millionaires, and it's 1:22:00.240 --> 1:22:02.080 steal money out there plenty. 1:22:02.560 --> 1:22:05.360 But we haggle over a few. 1:22:05.160 --> 1:22:08.720 Dollars, see, cause you know what it is. We get 1:22:08.760 --> 1:22:11.880 to a point that we ask God to get us 1:22:11.880 --> 1:22:15.400 to and then we want to complain about it in 1:22:15.560 --> 1:22:18.360 safe guard it and act like it's fit to go away. 1:22:18.800 --> 1:22:24.240 There's a saying, man that I love. It says I 1:22:24.280 --> 1:22:27.200 can't complain about how much is on my plate when 1:22:27.200 --> 1:22:30.920 my whole goal was to eat right. So now, dog, 1:22:31.120 --> 1:22:35.639 you got all the groceries on this platter, my platter full. Dog, 1:22:35.680 --> 1:22:39.000 I can't let you have some, or I can't show 1:22:39.040 --> 1:22:41.519 you how to get a platter. They making money, They 1:22:41.600 --> 1:22:46.240 printing money every day. It's available, man, and you're getting 1:22:46.240 --> 1:22:48.639 more of it. And I think that's a big part 1:22:48.640 --> 1:22:52.880 of my success. I think because God will always keep 1:22:52.920 --> 1:22:57.600 me covered. Because I just honored the principle of I 1:22:57.640 --> 1:23:00.360 don't mind helping and share it. You definitely don't. Man, 1:23:00.400 --> 1:23:03.920 I've given people stuff if when the story do get told, 1:23:05.280 --> 1:23:09.760 I've actually thought about doing a documentary myself when the 1:23:09.800 --> 1:23:14.640 story does get told about the number of people that 1:23:14.760 --> 1:23:20.400 I help that I don't even know. Man, the kids 1:23:20.520 --> 1:23:22.320 me and my wife then sent to school that we 1:23:22.479 --> 1:23:26.320 don't even know, the scholarships we done passed out, the 1:23:26.320 --> 1:23:29.240 the things we've done. I'm talking about people. When the 1:23:29.360 --> 1:23:31.439 hurricane came through and wiped out the Bahamas, man had 1:23:31.560 --> 1:23:33.559 no idea how many people we went over there and 1:23:33.640 --> 1:23:39.400 helped what we did. And it's because I understand that principle, 1:23:39.920 --> 1:23:42.840 and I don't. The Bahamas don't owe me nothing, and 1:23:42.840 --> 1:23:45.040 the people that get these degrees don't owe me nothing, 1:23:45.600 --> 1:23:50.120 but God gonna give me back tenfold. Dog. I'm always working, 1:23:50.880 --> 1:23:54.400 I'm always good, I'm always showing up with some new project. 1:23:55.040 --> 1:23:57.760 I just keep showing up, man, and that that can 1:23:57.800 --> 1:23:59.720 only be God. Like you said someone a minute ago, 1:23:59.760 --> 1:24:03.040 you said that people look at your success and they 1:24:03.080 --> 1:24:08.320 say he don't deserve that. Well, grace ain't foul. Grace. 1:24:09.080 --> 1:24:13.479 Grace is God's unmerited favor. It's when God just do 1:24:13.560 --> 1:24:16.759 you some faith, he do your favor. You can't earn grace, 1:24:17.080 --> 1:24:18.840 you ever, hear old people say, all I want is 1:24:18.840 --> 1:24:22.559 a little more grace. You can't buy grace. Bruh. If 1:24:22.600 --> 1:24:24.920 I could buy grace, I wouldn't have no money in 1:24:24.960 --> 1:24:28.120 the stock market. I wouldn't have no money at Merrill Lynch, 1:24:28.479 --> 1:24:30.599 I wouldn't have a quarter nowhere. I would take every 1:24:30.680 --> 1:24:33.000 dollar I got and give it if I could purchase 1:24:33.040 --> 1:24:37.200 this one thing called grace. God's unmerited favor because he 1:24:37.520 --> 1:24:41.439 and He do above and beyond for you for me. 1:24:41.600 --> 1:24:44.600 I mean, really, dog, while I'm sitting right now, I 1:24:45.120 --> 1:24:48.240 can't even really explain it though. I ain't that damn funny, 1:24:48.920 --> 1:24:52.880 you know, really, not really, dog, I'm just God just 1:24:53.120 --> 1:24:56.559 he keep on blessed man, That's all it is. 1:24:56.600 --> 1:24:59.559 Man at your lowest, when you had the situation with 1:24:59.680 --> 1:25:02.639 the I think in miss universe and you misread maybe 1:25:02.640 --> 1:25:04.360 they was on the card wrong, and I think you 1:25:04.439 --> 1:25:06.840 probably read read the prompter what was in the prompter 1:25:07.479 --> 1:25:08.519 exactly what was in. 1:25:10.120 --> 1:25:14.479 And it came down So what so what what what. 1:25:14.360 --> 1:25:16.479 Was that moment like, Okay, you read what was in 1:25:16.520 --> 1:25:19.840 the prompter, clearly it was wrong. Now we got to 1:25:19.920 --> 1:25:21.720 come back and do have. 1:25:21.720 --> 1:25:22.479 A do over. 1:25:23.600 --> 1:25:29.000 Shannon hit the crazy part. They hand me the card. Okay, 1:25:29.800 --> 1:25:33.519 we had bought Miss Universe from Trump. The lady that 1:25:33.680 --> 1:25:36.880 used to work for Trump was mad because we had 1:25:37.000 --> 1:25:40.200 decided in rehearsal to change the way we do it. 1:25:40.479 --> 1:25:43.920 Like all pages they say, and they say, and second 1:25:43.960 --> 1:25:46.560 runner up is so and so, and then it's the 1:25:46.640 --> 1:25:49.679 two people standing there. Then they always say and the 1:25:49.720 --> 1:25:53.040 first runner up is miss so and so, and then 1:25:53.240 --> 1:25:55.960 that's really anti climactic because now you know who to win, 1:25:56.120 --> 1:25:58.920 is correct. So they had changed it in rehearsal all 1:25:58.920 --> 1:26:02.760 week long. We rehearsed, we're not gonna do We're just 1:26:02.840 --> 1:26:06.800 gonna do the second runner upright, she get out the way, 1:26:06.880 --> 1:26:09.840 and then next we're gonna announce the winner. The lady 1:26:09.880 --> 1:26:12.960 that worked for Trump didn't like that, and she put 1:26:13.000 --> 1:26:14.840 it on the card anyway, but she put it on 1:26:14.880 --> 1:26:16.880 the corner. It wasn't even up there in the one 1:26:16.880 --> 1:26:19.439 and two, so she put it in the corner. So 1:26:19.479 --> 1:26:22.880 when they handed me the card like this, I got 1:26:22.880 --> 1:26:26.439 it face down. My thumb is over number three anyway, 1:26:27.640 --> 1:26:30.720 So now when I read the teleprompter, it's got one 1:26:30.760 --> 1:26:33.840 and two on that, and I read, and the new 1:26:33.960 --> 1:26:37.160 two thy fifteen Universe. He is, after we'd have done 1:26:37.160 --> 1:26:39.760 this second runner up, and he said, read the next 1:26:39.840 --> 1:26:42.840 name on the card, Steve. In my ear, it's miss 1:26:42.920 --> 1:26:46.640 Columbia and the new why else? What I say, and 1:26:46.720 --> 1:26:51.120 the new twenty and fifteen miss Universe is it wasn't 1:26:51.160 --> 1:26:54.600 number one. More name on the card. I said, Miss Columbia. 1:26:54.800 --> 1:26:57.200 Great job, Steve, going to back. I go in the back. 1:26:57.520 --> 1:27:01.360 Two minutes in the back, they're out there, celebrate my boy. 1:27:01.400 --> 1:27:04.360 Come up to me, Terrell. He said, oh gee, he 1:27:04.479 --> 1:27:08.360 said the wrong name. I said, I ain't said shit wrong. 1:27:09.160 --> 1:27:11.760 I read the card and I read what was in 1:27:11.800 --> 1:27:15.519 the teleprompter. He said, no, brud, the ladies she put 1:27:15.520 --> 1:27:17.719 the name down here. He's supposed to read that one. 1:27:17.840 --> 1:27:19.920 And then I said, dog, that ain't what we rehearsed. 1:27:20.200 --> 1:27:22.840 So I've read the fuck it. I ain't stupid. I 1:27:22.880 --> 1:27:25.080 read the card. I said, alright, i'm'a go back out 1:27:25.080 --> 1:27:27.000 here and fix it. The dude said, where are you going? 1:27:27.600 --> 1:27:29.600 I said, i'm'a go out here and fix it. He said, no, 1:27:29.760 --> 1:27:34.240 we'll fix it tomorrow in the newspaper. Fuck that we live. 1:27:34.280 --> 1:27:36.720 I'm go fix this shit now, stupidest shit I ever 1:27:36.800 --> 1:27:39.879 did you I should you should have left it alone. 1:27:39.920 --> 1:27:41.719 I should have let him fix it in the news. 1:27:43.439 --> 1:27:48.559 My stupid ass walked right out there and took the 1:27:48.680 --> 1:27:51.719 full hit. Man. I took it dead in the teeth, 1:27:52.320 --> 1:27:55.559 like it was all my fault, and it wasn't. Cause 1:27:55.600 --> 1:27:57.880 if you say in the New two thousand, fifteen minutes 1:27:57.960 --> 1:28:00.920 Universe and he said, read the next aim on the card, 1:28:01.080 --> 1:28:04.240 either one of these names or what the next name was, 1:28:04.280 --> 1:28:08.920 missus Clark Boom? I read it right, boom great. So 1:28:09.040 --> 1:28:11.920 when I did that, man, the shit went crazy. I 1:28:11.960 --> 1:28:15.840 didn't know how crazy it was until after the show 1:28:15.960 --> 1:28:18.719 Man and I went to the press conference and the 1:28:18.760 --> 1:28:23.840 pre Columbian press was there. This dude was in my ass. Man, 1:28:24.600 --> 1:28:26.639 how could you do something like that? This has never 1:28:26.680 --> 1:28:29.200 happened before. I say, hey, man, shit happened. You know. 1:28:29.240 --> 1:28:31.360 I took I said I read the wrong name, but 1:28:31.400 --> 1:28:33.800 I really didn't. But I just trying to figure. 1:28:34.240 --> 1:28:36.200 You took one for the team, took all of it. 1:28:36.320 --> 1:28:39.960 Man to tell the Q card lady her job gone. 1:28:40.439 --> 1:28:42.439 The director asked, gonna be in trouble because he said, 1:28:42.479 --> 1:28:44.439 read the next name right? I ain't do none of that. 1:28:44.520 --> 1:28:47.479 I said, I read the wrong name. So I went 1:28:47.520 --> 1:28:49.840 to dinner with my wife to nobu that night. I'm 1:28:49.840 --> 1:28:51.960 feeling a little sick my stomach, but I went to bed. 1:28:52.479 --> 1:28:56.200 When I woke up the next morning, Oh my god, 1:28:57.880 --> 1:29:01.320 Oh my god, it was the I ha never seen 1:29:01.520 --> 1:29:07.720 anything like it. Sky's falling, bruh. I was everywhere. I 1:29:07.880 --> 1:29:13.280 was the lead story of everything. I've never been ridiculed. 1:29:14.360 --> 1:29:16.800 A dude man that I really liked on seeing end. 1:29:16.840 --> 1:29:25.720 I ain't gonna say his name, TJ. Holme. He beat 1:29:25.800 --> 1:29:31.759 you up pretty good, told my ass man, I'm cool 1:29:31.800 --> 1:29:35.439 with the bro. When he first came down here Atlanta, man, 1:29:35.520 --> 1:29:39.439 I took him around him, hanging with him. We cool, 1:29:39.960 --> 1:29:41.800 I c i'm'na watch you see any that this dude 1:29:41.880 --> 1:29:46.880 is roasting me. How could he? Oh my god, that's 1:29:46.920 --> 1:29:49.679 gotta be the most absurd thing. What was he thinking? 1:29:50.840 --> 1:29:54.160 I sit have gone, damn TJ. But then a couple 1:29:54.200 --> 1:29:58.160 other people I thought I was cool with, you know, 1:29:58.439 --> 1:30:01.120 they just was. They was air. Everybody was attacking me. 1:30:01.520 --> 1:30:04.000 But it was a funny thing because I just wrote 1:30:04.000 --> 1:30:06.400 on my vision board I was asking God to increase 1:30:06.439 --> 1:30:12.000 my global brand and persana uh in forty eight hours, 1:30:12.040 --> 1:30:17.760 sharp my name had been googled four billion times. 1:30:17.200 --> 1:30:17.439 Wow. 1:30:18.200 --> 1:30:22.000 I was the most Google subject of the year on Google, 1:30:22.360 --> 1:30:25.240 four billion impressions in forty eight hours. I was the 1:30:25.280 --> 1:30:28.280 most famous person in the world. God had increased my 1:30:28.360 --> 1:30:31.679 global brand and persona. I sure ain't appreciate the way. 1:30:32.080 --> 1:30:35.479 Yeah, yeah, I appreciate what you did. 1:30:35.560 --> 1:30:38.680 You didn't have to do. That was a It was a 1:30:38.800 --> 1:30:42.040 dark moment that happened on a Saturday. Now a week 1:30:42.120 --> 1:30:47.080 later it's Christmas. I've been getting beat up, man. I've 1:30:47.160 --> 1:30:51.799 turned down every interview request. I'm talking about every news outlet. 1:30:52.280 --> 1:30:55.120 I shut my social media down. I was getting cussed 1:30:55.160 --> 1:30:58.760 out in Spanish. I learned mold. All I know is 1:30:58.840 --> 1:31:03.439 I'm a punto all no idea what it was, but 1:31:03.760 --> 1:31:08.880 every last one of them poont I was that. So 1:31:08.960 --> 1:31:11.479 I said, let me cut this off. My kids had 1:31:11.479 --> 1:31:14.599 to cut they social media off. Man. It was. They 1:31:14.680 --> 1:31:16.880 was throwing bricks over my gate at my house in 1:31:16.920 --> 1:31:21.439 Atlanta with notes on it at drug cartel was serious, man, 1:31:21.479 --> 1:31:24.519 we have serious problems. To this day, I have armed 1:31:24.560 --> 1:31:26.880 security guards at my house twenty four to seven. To 1:31:26.920 --> 1:31:29.680 this day, they was doing a number on me. So 1:31:29.760 --> 1:31:32.680 for a week. I was just in the dark, man. 1:31:33.040 --> 1:31:34.599 And then I just said, man, I ain't gonna sit 1:31:34.600 --> 1:31:36.320 here and let these people beat me up like this. 1:31:36.720 --> 1:31:41.800 So on Instagram on Christmas morning, I posted in my backyard, 1:31:42.320 --> 1:31:46.400 I was smoking a cigar. I said Mary Easter, everybody 1:31:47.120 --> 1:31:49.880 I remember, and that was my post. And they said 1:31:49.920 --> 1:31:53.280 he back, Steve got back, and I waited and I 1:31:53.320 --> 1:31:55.760 came back on my talk show and in February I 1:31:55.800 --> 1:31:59.240 did no interviews about it until I bought Miss Columbia 1:31:59.320 --> 1:32:01.880 on my shoulder to apologize to her, cause I had 1:32:01.880 --> 1:32:05.720 to apologize to her father right cause her father was mortified. Man. 1:32:06.200 --> 1:32:08.240 And I would have never done that to nobody's daughter. 1:32:08.320 --> 1:32:08.519 Man. 1:32:08.640 --> 1:32:13.080 So but then after that, man, like my wife and I, 1:32:13.160 --> 1:32:16.639 we have thirteen villas across the world that have been 1:32:16.680 --> 1:32:20.280 given to us as gifts from different countries for being 1:32:20.320 --> 1:32:23.120 the most honest man on TV. We vacation for free 1:32:23.120 --> 1:32:26.200 all the time. We can go to villas in thirteen countries. 1:32:27.040 --> 1:32:29.599 You have a villa access to any time you want it. 1:32:30.040 --> 1:32:32.000 And then I got a T Mobile commercial out of 1:32:32.000 --> 1:32:35.160 the deal, the super Bowl commercial that year on T Mobile. 1:32:36.080 --> 1:32:38.919 I made more money than one uh super Bowl commercial. 1:32:38.960 --> 1:32:42.759 I made in all the damn uh miss Universe put together. 1:32:42.880 --> 1:32:45.839 So but now you on a piece of Miss Universe, 1:32:45.920 --> 1:32:47.880 Miss America, Miss. 1:32:48.439 --> 1:32:55.479 Just caf so you Universe, miss team something, miss our America. 1:32:55.800 --> 1:32:57.680 Cause when they told me to come back next you, 1:32:57.760 --> 1:32:59.920 I said, I'm not coming back, yeah, because y'all let 1:32:59.920 --> 1:33:02.800 me eat this bullet by myself. Y'all never said he 1:33:02.840 --> 1:33:06.000 read the teleprompter. The company never came out and said 1:33:06.320 --> 1:33:08.800 I'm the director. I told him to say that. Y'all 1:33:08.840 --> 1:33:11.439 just left me hanging. So I'm not doing this no more. 1:33:12.680 --> 1:33:15.400 I said, I'm out. I ain't doing it. My lawyer 1:33:15.439 --> 1:33:17.240 is sitting right over there. Man, he said, I tell 1:33:17.240 --> 1:33:19.680 you what, he gets owner ship or he don't own it. 1:33:21.000 --> 1:33:24.320 So then they gave me owner ship. I went right 1:33:24.320 --> 1:33:27.080 on back to work, smiling hard as hell. 1:33:28.400 --> 1:33:30.599 I've reason you lost everything twice. 1:33:30.960 --> 1:33:34.559 Yeah, in two thousand and five, you had seventeen hundred 1:33:34.600 --> 1:33:35.080 dollars left. 1:33:35.200 --> 1:33:36.479 This was after Kings of Comedy. 1:33:36.560 --> 1:33:40.800 Yeah, you got seventeen hundred dollars after you made what 1:33:41.040 --> 1:33:42.760 like thirty million dollars on that tour. 1:33:42.920 --> 1:33:47.000 No, we made more than that, and you got seventeen 1:33:47.040 --> 1:33:48.000 hundred dollars to your name. 1:33:48.200 --> 1:33:51.680 What dall happened to the money where you where you 1:33:50.680 --> 1:33:51.840 were you. 1:33:52.640 --> 1:33:58.200 It's called a divorce. M I got, I got, I 1:33:58.240 --> 1:34:00.880 got jumped on man like. But it was even before 1:34:00.920 --> 1:34:05.519 the divorce, right cause, not gonna say who did it, 1:34:05.560 --> 1:34:10.360 but they got in cohoots with my uh financial plan huh. 1:34:11.120 --> 1:34:14.320 And I was writing checks to the government, yeah, for 1:34:14.400 --> 1:34:19.640 seven years, right, writing tax checks, signing the tax checks, 1:34:20.200 --> 1:34:23.799 giving them to turn in. They was keeping them, taking 1:34:23.800 --> 1:34:27.000 the money out the account like. I was paying taxes 1:34:27.080 --> 1:34:31.679 right and keeping it for theyself. When my accountant passed, 1:34:32.360 --> 1:34:34.320 a lady went in the office and found a box 1:34:34.439 --> 1:34:37.840 on the floor, and I had seven years of unpaid 1:34:37.920 --> 1:34:40.840 taxes and I'm I'm thinking, I'm even. And then my 1:34:40.920 --> 1:34:43.679 lawyer said to me, hey, man, you ain't paid taxes 1:34:43.680 --> 1:34:46.920 in seven years. Ooh, so you haven't paid in several years, 1:34:46.920 --> 1:34:53.880 plus the interest. Then I had saved some millions, but 1:34:55.400 --> 1:34:58.040 before I split the assets, she took all of that 1:34:58.120 --> 1:35:01.280 out to pay moved it. See the funny thing. I 1:35:01.360 --> 1:35:05.360 got divorced in November two thousand five. Oh, but then 1:35:05.520 --> 1:35:08.080 they went on the rampage to destroy me and act 1:35:08.120 --> 1:35:10.400 like we was in a divorce fight. We were actually 1:35:10.439 --> 1:35:13.200 just trying to split some assets. Right. The divorce was 1:35:13.240 --> 1:35:16.519 over right. It was no fight for nothing, right, it 1:35:16.560 --> 1:35:19.080 was just let's split the assets. But you took all 1:35:19.160 --> 1:35:22.800 the assets, right. And I was stuck with this tax bill, right, 1:35:23.439 --> 1:35:26.120 so I had to pay seven years of back taxes 1:35:26.160 --> 1:35:28.960 with interest and get current. I was in the world 1:35:29.040 --> 1:35:31.640 of trouble man. So when I looked up man, I 1:35:31.680 --> 1:35:35.280 had one thousand, seven hundred dollars. But that's when I 1:35:35.320 --> 1:35:38.320 went to New York and signed a contract for syndicated radio. 1:35:38.600 --> 1:35:41.639 Here come God again, rescue with me. That just gave 1:35:41.680 --> 1:35:43.720 me a little bit of money. I wasn't making what 1:35:43.840 --> 1:35:46.040 I make now. I make like ten ten MILLI a 1:35:46.120 --> 1:35:48.880 year off radio back then, you know, cause I just 1:35:48.920 --> 1:35:50.880 wanted to get in a dose, right, And that kept 1:35:50.920 --> 1:35:54.200 me at least be able to survive, right. And then 1:35:54.640 --> 1:35:57.519 that was two thousand five. I reconnected with Marjorie in 1:35:57.520 --> 1:36:01.799 two thousand five, right after the divorced two thousand and six. 1:36:01.960 --> 1:36:04.599 Killed you reconnected, So y'all had dated before. 1:36:04.680 --> 1:36:07.960 I dated in the eighties. Really yeah, I dated in 1:36:08.040 --> 1:36:08.479 the eighties. 1:36:08.560 --> 1:36:10.439 I thought they say love is like a McLaren. Once 1:36:10.479 --> 1:36:11.879 it goes cold, it can't be reheated. 1:36:12.080 --> 1:36:16.960 Your mind. Ain't gonna cold red hot, poker hot hot, 1:36:17.000 --> 1:36:21.600 Tommy hot. I'm talking about Tabasco. So it's just I 1:36:21.640 --> 1:36:25.640 got in trouble right when we started dating. I became homeless. 1:36:26.080 --> 1:36:29.280 Wasn't no cell phones. I just had a house number. 1:36:30.160 --> 1:36:32.519 She had a little baby. I figured what I got 1:36:32.520 --> 1:36:35.160 to offer this woman. I'm in trouble now, so I 1:36:35.240 --> 1:36:38.000 just would rove off. We never had an argument or nothing. 1:36:38.760 --> 1:36:42.920 You know, Wow, why did you continue to believe in 1:36:42.960 --> 1:36:45.479 Look everything that you've been like you're telling me you've 1:36:45.479 --> 1:36:48.479 gone through a divorce and things happened with the taxes, 1:36:48.520 --> 1:36:51.439 and she took half the money, three quarters of the money. 1:36:51.560 --> 1:36:53.519 Here I was thought you were selling your money because 1:36:53.520 --> 1:36:55.439 you made all this money on Kings of Comedy and 1:36:55.479 --> 1:36:58.400 you got seventeen hundred dollars to your name. Why did 1:36:58.439 --> 1:37:00.920 you believe in love twice? How do you believe in lee? 1:37:00.960 --> 1:37:02.400 Could love find love again? 1:37:04.320 --> 1:37:07.320 Because of my mom and daddy. My mom and Daddy's 1:37:07.320 --> 1:37:10.360 married sixty four years. I saw what it looked like, right, 1:37:10.880 --> 1:37:12.679 I saw what it looked like when it was hard, 1:37:12.800 --> 1:37:17.519 when it was good. I watched a man honor a woman. 1:37:18.080 --> 1:37:21.559 I've never seen nobody love nobody like my daddy loved 1:37:21.560 --> 1:37:24.960 my mama. That boy with that third grade education. My 1:37:25.040 --> 1:37:27.519 mama taught my daddy how to read and write. I 1:37:27.680 --> 1:37:31.639 never seen nobody loved nobody like Slick Harvey love iloss Via. 1:37:32.200 --> 1:37:35.360 He'll kill you about her. And he embedded that in 1:37:35.439 --> 1:37:41.559 me and my two brothers. Anybody say anything about your mama, 1:37:41.720 --> 1:37:45.320 get that ass right there right then. If you can't 1:37:45.320 --> 1:37:48.160 get that ass, come come to this house, get your brothers, 1:37:48.240 --> 1:37:51.120 but go back and get that ass. She off limits. 1:37:51.439 --> 1:37:54.479 Ain't no jokes about your mama. Ain't no nothing that 1:37:54.800 --> 1:37:57.639 that carried me to this day. Man. You can't say 1:37:57.640 --> 1:38:00.280 nothing about ilas Via Harvey. She off limits. Man. We 1:38:00.320 --> 1:38:02.800 ain't playing them game. You start that your mama shit 1:38:02.880 --> 1:38:05.320 up at the school we finish fight. When they would 1:38:05.320 --> 1:38:07.200 suspering me for fighting, my daddy said, what was you 1:38:07.240 --> 1:38:09.400 fighting for? I say, he said something about mama, He 1:38:09.400 --> 1:38:10.080 said okay. 1:38:11.680 --> 1:38:16.639 He embedded that, like okay, how he felt about your mother, 1:38:16.840 --> 1:38:17.439 his wife. 1:38:18.320 --> 1:38:19.679 You cared that with your wi. 1:38:19.640 --> 1:38:21.920 I just saw it, man. I went, Wow, that's how 1:38:21.960 --> 1:38:22.439 you do it. 1:38:23.400 --> 1:38:25.120 And so you never had that before in all your 1:38:25.160 --> 1:38:27.320 relationships before, in the marriage, you never had that. 1:38:27.600 --> 1:38:30.080 What he had with your mom. You never had that. 1:38:30.320 --> 1:38:32.679 My first marriage, I got married when I was twenty four. 1:38:32.920 --> 1:38:35.920 I wasn't the man my daddy was. I was trying 1:38:35.920 --> 1:38:37.599 to do something he was doing, and I ain't had 1:38:37.680 --> 1:38:41.080 equipment for it. I ain't know how to problem solved, 1:38:41.320 --> 1:38:44.200 navigate and negotiate. I didn't know how to shut up 1:38:44.240 --> 1:38:47.559 in the argument. I was just losing the arguments because 1:38:47.560 --> 1:38:54.400 I kept him going. I messed that up. The second one, 1:38:55.360 --> 1:39:04.599 that one right there, dog another drink. I just said, 1:39:04.640 --> 1:39:07.400 I don't do too but you got me in here. Now, 1:39:08.280 --> 1:39:11.880 you got me in here? Deep shit, So okay. The 1:39:11.960 --> 1:39:15.840 second one, obviously, that was the worst one. Normally, after a. 1:39:15.880 --> 1:39:19.200 Really really bad dramatic experience, you're like, I'm double this. 1:39:19.520 --> 1:39:20.439 It ain't ain't for me. 1:39:20.640 --> 1:39:23.160 I was. Let me tell you something. When I got 1:39:23.200 --> 1:39:25.360 divorced in two thousand and five, I was living in 1:39:25.400 --> 1:39:29.840 Trump Towers in New York, right on forty eighth and 1:39:29.960 --> 1:39:35.960 first YEP. I said, after that, this what I'm finna do. 1:39:36.600 --> 1:39:40.320 I had learned about private jet traveling stuff. By the end, 1:39:40.880 --> 1:39:42.479 even though I ain't have no money, I had just 1:39:42.520 --> 1:39:44.840 signed this other contract trying to get back from that. 1:39:44.920 --> 1:39:48.360 Seventeen hundred. I said, I'm gonna put bus schedules on 1:39:48.439 --> 1:39:51.040 my walls. I'm gonna have a riveling departure times. Right, 1:39:51.400 --> 1:39:53.360 that's how many women I'm finna roll up in here 1:39:53.640 --> 1:39:57.840 in sixty b bus schedules rivaling departure times. I'm finna 1:39:57.920 --> 1:40:00.280 roll them up in here on a continuous basis. I'm 1:40:00.320 --> 1:40:04.120 finna live my best life. God said, now you ain't. Oh. 1:40:04.120 --> 1:40:05.599 I was gonna say, you about to be Nick Canell 1:40:05.640 --> 1:40:12.320 before Nick Cannon did. Nick is different. I know where 1:40:12.320 --> 1:40:20.000 the drug store at. So you was like, okay, outside, 1:40:20.040 --> 1:40:22.960 I don't want to say sorry. Nick. You said okay, 1:40:22.960 --> 1:40:25.040 I don't know where that came from. Nick, I swear 1:40:25.080 --> 1:40:29.080 to God it's a Kevin Hart prank. I didn't mean 1:40:29.160 --> 1:40:31.080 to say that. I don't even know did I just 1:40:31.080 --> 1:40:33.120 say I know where the drugs store at. You usually 1:40:33.120 --> 1:40:35.120 said that I don't even know where that came from. Man, 1:40:35.280 --> 1:40:39.760 See that's that gift that just fo Yeah. But yeah, man, 1:40:39.800 --> 1:40:42.000 I that was the plan. How did you How did 1:40:42.040 --> 1:40:44.800 you and Marjin Rican act? God said, no, you not, 1:40:45.840 --> 1:40:49.080 Now you not. You're not fin to do that. You're 1:40:49.080 --> 1:40:53.040 finna get yourself together now, don't you done? Lost? Everything twice. 1:40:53.120 --> 1:40:56.519 Why do it again? You want to do it again, 1:40:56.640 --> 1:40:59.240 or you won't see what I got for you. You like 1:40:59.280 --> 1:41:01.880 a cat Steve. The day after my divorce, I went 1:41:01.920 --> 1:41:06.599 to Veakers. I'm gambling. My bodyguard boomerang on the phone 1:41:06.640 --> 1:41:10.400 talking to this girl named Sharon in Memphis. He asked 1:41:10.400 --> 1:41:13.600 about Marjorie. Said, Marjorie doing pretty good now, and I 1:41:13.600 --> 1:41:16.760 hadn't talked to her in years. Boom tapped me on 1:41:16.840 --> 1:41:18.679 my shoulder, said, hey, man, I got a phone call. 1:41:19.360 --> 1:41:21.240 I said, dog, I'm gambling. You know, don't talk nobody. 1:41:21.240 --> 1:41:22.920 He said, no, dog, you need to take this phone 1:41:22.920 --> 1:41:24.880 cause I ain't. I thought something's wrong. So I got 1:41:24.960 --> 1:41:27.040 him from a roulette table. I said hello. She said, boy, 1:41:27.040 --> 1:41:33.000 what you want? I said, Marjorie? She said yeah, So 1:41:33.120 --> 1:41:36.360 I just said, so, how your punk ass husband. It's 1:41:36.439 --> 1:41:40.599 the first first thing I said, cause you punk ass 1:41:40.640 --> 1:41:43.599 dode to me. I still hold strong to that one. 1:41:43.920 --> 1:41:47.559 I've never retracted that statement. Okay, I said how your 1:41:47.560 --> 1:41:49.680 punk ass her husband doing? Because I had heard she 1:41:49.720 --> 1:41:53.600 had got married. She said, boy, I've been divorced three years. 1:41:54.520 --> 1:41:58.320 Oh light bull, go on, you start smiling. I'm talking 1:41:58.360 --> 1:42:00.880 about man like a head, like like a half light BULBN. 1:42:00.920 --> 1:42:05.280 The hadn't even been in invented then ding I ended 1:42:05.360 --> 1:42:09.000 up going to Memphis Meta for lunch. She told me 1:42:09.000 --> 1:42:13.880 about a divorce. I said, I'm divorced too. She said, boy, 1:42:14.040 --> 1:42:17.240 shut up line because it hadn't went public, right and 1:42:17.280 --> 1:42:19.080 it just she said, shut up. I know you got 1:42:19.080 --> 1:42:23.160 married again and I said no. She didn't really believe. 1:42:23.200 --> 1:42:25.519 It took me two weeks convinc her. We talked on 1:42:25.560 --> 1:42:27.799 the phone that New Year's Eve. She was in Hawaii 1:42:27.840 --> 1:42:30.479 with her kids. I'm on the phone with her all night, man, 1:42:31.080 --> 1:42:34.599 just remembering stuff. Hadn't seen her in Valentine's Day two 1:42:34.640 --> 1:42:37.760 thousand and six she came to New York. That was it, 1:42:37.800 --> 1:42:42.320 dog No I and God said, you that arrival and 1:42:42.400 --> 1:42:45.679 departure signed. You're gonna take that down off the wall. Wow. 1:42:45.800 --> 1:42:47.880 I showed her to you one time. You didn't get 1:42:47.880 --> 1:42:51.799 it then, but you and after her, man, I mean, really, 1:42:52.160 --> 1:42:54.240 you look at my career and my life after her, 1:42:54.920 --> 1:42:56.439 it's just been a rocket shit. 1:42:56.479 --> 1:43:00.439 You credit her for everything that we see. He's Steve 1:43:00.479 --> 1:43:03.880 Harvey sitting here today. You credit her for that. The 1:43:03.920 --> 1:43:05.840 man that you became, the way you dressed, the way 1:43:05.880 --> 1:43:08.559 you talkt the things that you have going on, good, 1:43:08.640 --> 1:43:09.559 great in your life. 1:43:09.720 --> 1:43:12.760 You said that woman over there, because I know what 1:43:12.840 --> 1:43:15.160 it is now. A lot of dudes won't do that. 1:43:15.240 --> 1:43:17.360 And I understand that you want to get your shine 1:43:17.400 --> 1:43:20.160 on you this and you that. But I was that before, 1:43:20.800 --> 1:43:23.240 and I wouldn't this or that. Right. I was a 1:43:23.240 --> 1:43:27.880 comedian before. Right, I was a TV star before. So 1:43:27.960 --> 1:43:31.080 you tell me what difference is. It got to be 1:43:31.160 --> 1:43:34.000 hurt right because for the first time, man, I had 1:43:34.080 --> 1:43:37.360 peace at my house. Uh, when you got peace at 1:43:37.360 --> 1:43:40.639 the crib, dog, you can plug in your battery pack 1:43:40.680 --> 1:43:42.320 and get rejuvenated to go out here and deal with 1:43:42.360 --> 1:43:43.840 the rest of this shit. You got to go deal 1:43:43.880 --> 1:43:46.439 with right, because d hey, man, you know them folks 1:43:46.439 --> 1:43:49.320 out there. The ain't not finna change racism out there. 1:43:49.680 --> 1:43:52.840 It's on TV, it's on the internet. It's alive. And well, 1:43:53.439 --> 1:43:55.680 she would give me the juice and the charge I 1:43:55.720 --> 1:43:58.720 needed to go back out there. She encouraged me. She 1:43:58.960 --> 1:44:01.680 told me I was something. When I felt bad, she 1:44:01.760 --> 1:44:04.320 gave me the But we was at the house, laughing, 1:44:05.080 --> 1:44:07.759 having a good time. Man, If you look at since 1:44:07.800 --> 1:44:10.080 two thousands, we got married in two thousand and seven, 1:44:10.720 --> 1:44:14.320 if you look at from two thousand and seven, I 1:44:14.360 --> 1:44:17.840 got Family Feud in two thousand and nine. The book 1:44:17.920 --> 1:44:22.519 came out two thousand and nine, MS Universe. After that, 1:44:23.000 --> 1:44:26.320 the talk show after that, Little Big Shots, after that, 1:44:27.160 --> 1:44:32.160 the Judge Show, the radio show got big after that, 1:44:33.080 --> 1:44:37.719 four books later, the movie came out, Think Like a Man. 1:44:38.040 --> 1:44:43.519 All this after that? What else is it? I just 1:44:43.600 --> 1:44:46.600 locked in with this check man, and she gave me 1:44:46.640 --> 1:44:49.280 a lot of good advice. Man. She made me see 1:44:49.320 --> 1:44:51.639 things in a different way, and it was her man, 1:44:51.680 --> 1:44:54.720 And it's okay, man. People don't want to do that now. 1:44:54.760 --> 1:44:56.280 I know they tired of hearing me saying, but what 1:44:56.360 --> 1:44:58.200 you want me to say? Should? I ain't got nothing 1:44:58.200 --> 1:45:01.880 else for you. Should. It wasn't just all me. She 1:45:02.080 --> 1:45:06.240 gave me the mindset to be me. And that's crazy. Man. 1:45:06.600 --> 1:45:10.759 It's like there's a dude named Nuri Mohomet. I wish 1:45:10.800 --> 1:45:13.120 I had my phone. Man, you could hear what this 1:45:13.200 --> 1:45:17.840 dude said about relationships. It's the coldest thing he said, 1:45:19.720 --> 1:45:22.960 other than your relationship with God. Who you choose to 1:45:23.000 --> 1:45:25.360 spend the rest of your life with is the single 1:45:25.400 --> 1:45:31.040 most important decision you'll ever make, because your other half 1:45:31.080 --> 1:45:36.360 will either will your other half will be your better half, 1:45:36.400 --> 1:45:39.400 will make you half of what you could be. She 1:45:39.439 --> 1:45:43.799 will either inspire you to greatness or reduce you to mediocrity. 1:45:45.040 --> 1:45:46.680 He and then he went on to talk about He 1:45:46.760 --> 1:45:49.840 quoted Minister Lewis Faa Khan and then at the end 1:45:49.920 --> 1:45:54.720 of it he said, so choose wisely. And that was 1:45:54.760 --> 1:45:58.920 the first time, man, that I'd ever chose wisely. And 1:45:59.000 --> 1:46:01.479 it was the best thing. Because a woman like an 1:46:01.479 --> 1:46:04.479 elevator button. Man, they can take you up or down. 1:46:05.560 --> 1:46:08.120 If you get the right one, you got something. You 1:46:08.160 --> 1:46:10.960 get the wrong one. But it's like a man to 1:46:11.040 --> 1:46:12.599 a woman. If you get the right man, you can 1:46:12.600 --> 1:46:14.800 go somewhere. You get the wrong man, you off. Like 1:46:14.880 --> 1:46:17.120 I heard you say one time, well I was laughing. 1:46:17.240 --> 1:46:20.479 Or you said you paid for a divorce. I said, 1:46:20.560 --> 1:46:21.960 this dude right here was committed. 1:46:22.560 --> 1:46:25.080 But see, I want people to say, she was getting 1:46:25.120 --> 1:46:26.440 the divorce already. 1:46:26.560 --> 1:46:30.360 I didn't break the home up because because you know, 1:46:30.360 --> 1:46:31.439 if people taking it one with it. 1:46:31.560 --> 1:46:35.840 Yeah, she was getting a divorce, had the money, right, 1:46:35.960 --> 1:46:39.200 what's wrong with that? Right, I'm trying to invest in 1:46:39.280 --> 1:46:42.080 my future. See these dudes killing that's what's wrong with 1:46:42.120 --> 1:46:46.680 this generation today. These young boys today? What does she 1:46:46.840 --> 1:46:50.400 bring to the table? The hell you mean? Man? What 1:46:50.439 --> 1:46:52.680 do your ass bring to the table? You got a 1:46:52.720 --> 1:46:54.559 woman that can come to the table, that can make 1:46:54.600 --> 1:46:58.880 another U what else she needs to slide up to 1:46:58.920 --> 1:47:02.320 the table with? What about your job? What happened to 1:47:02.439 --> 1:47:06.120 men who are supposed to be responsible? Do you know 1:47:06.200 --> 1:47:08.719 that it's our job to take care of a woman 1:47:08.800 --> 1:47:12.639 and some children, to have a family. That's our damn job? 1:47:12.800 --> 1:47:14.479 But what happens to the when the woman tell you 1:47:14.560 --> 1:47:17.240 I don't need a man's den? Well? They needed what? Okay, 1:47:17.240 --> 1:47:22.840 if you don't how that's working, you know how that's working. 1:47:23.160 --> 1:47:26.320 Who don't need no man? I'm independent? I can do 1:47:26.400 --> 1:47:30.280 for myself. Yeah, but what do you want to? Yeah? Okay, 1:47:30.320 --> 1:47:32.799 you can drop a transmission, you can say and blast 1:47:32.880 --> 1:47:36.280 your house, But hell do you want to if somebody 1:47:36.280 --> 1:47:38.280 could get out there and drop this transmission for you 1:47:38.479 --> 1:47:40.840 and saying blast your house, why don't you gonna get 1:47:40.880 --> 1:47:43.400 your nails done? I'm not trying to reduce a woman 1:47:43.439 --> 1:47:46.400 to nothing else be all you can be, But damn, 1:47:46.520 --> 1:47:50.639 who don't need a man? That's a lie? What man 1:47:50.760 --> 1:47:53.599 don't need a woman? I tell you what I tell 1:47:53.600 --> 1:47:57.120 you what I tell you what, Try to live without them. 1:47:57.760 --> 1:47:59.880 Try to live your life without women. This ain't by 1:48:00.040 --> 1:48:02.240 a lot of damn man, it's some bullshit without women. 1:48:02.680 --> 1:48:05.880 If it wasn't for what would you? Aristolo Nasi said 1:48:05.880 --> 1:48:08.559 it best. He said, if women did not exist, all 1:48:08.600 --> 1:48:12.120 the money in the world would have no meaning. Doc 1:48:12.200 --> 1:48:14.880 women is everything that it catch me out. They the 1:48:14.960 --> 1:48:18.000 licked man. But these young boys done forgot it because 1:48:18.040 --> 1:48:21.200 these women out here they trying to be They've had 1:48:21.240 --> 1:48:24.360 to be independent because they ain't got the right man. 1:48:25.240 --> 1:48:28.839 But this system of marriage is still good, this system 1:48:28.920 --> 1:48:31.320 of a man taking care of a woman. That's really 1:48:31.360 --> 1:48:33.439 how it's supposed to be. All the rest of us 1:48:33.479 --> 1:48:36.519 bullshit man, and y'all need to put tricking yourself with 1:48:36.600 --> 1:48:38.639 this new way of thinking, because there's no way of think. 1:48:38.680 --> 1:48:40.760 This new way of thinking ain't getting y'all no damn where. 1:48:41.000 --> 1:48:44.400 I'm sorry. I got in trouble on one time. This 1:48:44.600 --> 1:48:47.840 group came after me because I said Marjorie belonged to me, 1:48:49.320 --> 1:48:51.400 and they said, she's not a possession, she's a person, 1:48:51.439 --> 1:48:54.600 she's a hu, she is she mine? What is you 1:48:54.760 --> 1:48:58.080 talking about? She belonged to me? But I got news 1:48:58.120 --> 1:49:02.400 for you, I'm hers. I belonged to her. See you. 1:49:02.479 --> 1:49:05.040 If you don't like that system, carry your punk ass on, 1:49:05.400 --> 1:49:07.320 go do something else and let me know how to 1:49:07.439 --> 1:49:09.759 work out for you. I want to belong to somebody. 1:49:10.439 --> 1:49:13.479 I want somebody to belong to me. I take care 1:49:13.520 --> 1:49:16.040 of my wife and my family, because that's you belong 1:49:16.120 --> 1:49:16.679 to somebody. 1:49:16.840 --> 1:49:20.360 In your previous relationship, did you feel like they belonged 1:49:20.400 --> 1:49:21.880 to you or you belonged to them? 1:49:22.080 --> 1:49:24.960 Yeah? I did my first marriage. Yeah, I felt that way. 1:49:25.040 --> 1:49:27.599 I just didn't have the equipment. I just wasn't the 1:49:27.600 --> 1:49:30.040 man I needed to be. Did the best I could. 1:49:30.120 --> 1:49:33.320 I just came up short. You know, I've apologized to 1:49:33.360 --> 1:49:35.800 her because it really was my fault. I got married 1:49:35.840 --> 1:49:39.120 too young. How's your relationship with her now? I mean 1:49:39.120 --> 1:49:41.759 we're cool. We called you, you know, we called you. 1:49:41.760 --> 1:49:43.960 You know. She gave me three beautiful kids. I got twins. 1:49:44.000 --> 1:49:46.439 My oldest son sitting over there, you know what I'm saying. 1:49:46.520 --> 1:49:50.760 So, how you got three kids? Marjor had kids? How 1:49:50.880 --> 1:49:52.880 was the blended family? How did that work? 1:49:52.960 --> 1:49:57.400 These? Oh that' shit hard that you're gonna get me 1:49:57.439 --> 1:50:01.439 cool by y'all like, Nah, that shit hard. They wasn't 1:50:01.439 --> 1:50:04.000 an agreement. They they went bolding. One night in Memphis 1:50:04.040 --> 1:50:05.960 when me and Marjorie first got together, we bought all 1:50:06.000 --> 1:50:08.559 the kids together, all seven of them, and all the 1:50:08.600 --> 1:50:11.519 girls went bowling and came back and decided they didn't 1:50:11.520 --> 1:50:13.160 want us to get married and said they don't think 1:50:13.160 --> 1:50:15.639 it's the right thing to do, and they need more 1:50:15.640 --> 1:50:17.439 time to get to know us. And I'm sitting up 1:50:17.439 --> 1:50:19.240 here looking at some people that they ain't got shit. 1:50:19.960 --> 1:50:22.800 I'm sitting y'all ain't got a relationship, a good ass 1:50:22.920 --> 1:50:25.640 job or career. I'm paying for colleges and shit, I 1:50:25.680 --> 1:50:28.560 don't know how I'm listening to y'all making some damn decisions. 1:50:28.760 --> 1:50:31.400 Y'all ain't got one boyfriend that doesn't work thus far. 1:50:33.160 --> 1:50:34.720 I don't know how to hear you. Finna tell me 1:50:34.760 --> 1:50:37.879 how to live. My sons was over there, cool with it, Brodery, 1:50:37.920 --> 1:50:39.800 Jason and Winning. They sitting over there, they cool with 1:50:39.880 --> 1:50:44.639 everything right there, four girls total just may have totally 1:50:45.280 --> 1:50:50.000 totally gainsty. Ain't none of them got nobody. Why am 1:50:50.000 --> 1:50:51.920 I listening? How did you win them over? 1:50:52.200 --> 1:50:55.879 I didn't you like I'm doing this, Melliam Marbwie. 1:50:55.880 --> 1:50:58.280 We doing this song, I love this girl, this girl 1:50:58.320 --> 1:51:00.360 best thing for me. Now we gonna work. Now, we're 1:51:00.360 --> 1:51:03.760 gonna create an atmosphere of love. And everybody's invited into it, right, 1:51:04.360 --> 1:51:06.519 and everybody want to come into it, can come into it. 1:51:07.200 --> 1:51:10.920 And it was a point man, where like all of 1:51:10.920 --> 1:51:13.719 them except the oldest one, my two daughters had graduated 1:51:13.720 --> 1:51:17.360 from college. Morgan was out of college. So the three 1:51:17.360 --> 1:51:20.400 girls were living on their own. Everybody else lived in 1:51:20.400 --> 1:51:24.360 the house, the three boys and the daughter Laurie grew 1:51:24.439 --> 1:51:27.439 up with four damn brothers, so she was and we 1:51:27.479 --> 1:51:30.680 could protect at the house with them brothers. Shitd and 1:51:30.760 --> 1:51:33.800 got out of hand. Now, you know, we can't watch 1:51:33.840 --> 1:51:36.360 it now because I'd have beens sawed off a bunch 1:51:36.360 --> 1:51:41.519 of these little you know. But like at the house 1:51:42.000 --> 1:51:43.920 or we had full control of what was going on. 1:51:44.560 --> 1:51:46.920 And it was hard, man, because they were trying to 1:51:48.040 --> 1:51:50.120 evolve and get to know each other. And you know, 1:51:50.240 --> 1:51:53.040 some of the relationships is really good and some of 1:51:53.080 --> 1:51:55.840 them is just they cordial, you know, But that's just 1:51:56.000 --> 1:51:58.559 the way it is, you know, And I love to 1:51:58.560 --> 1:52:00.160 tell you it was a coon by y'all. Member, we 1:52:00.240 --> 1:52:03.160 have some great family vacation. We've had some great times. 1:52:03.200 --> 1:52:07.360 Recently we got great holidays. But you know, I think 1:52:07.439 --> 1:52:10.320 for the closest, the boys are the closest, you know, right, 1:52:10.640 --> 1:52:14.240 and then Winting and Laurie is the closest of them all. 1:52:14.800 --> 1:52:18.160 Winting and Laurier they like they they mud together. They 1:52:18.280 --> 1:52:21.320 they mixed. But you know, and then the boys they good, 1:52:21.439 --> 1:52:24.519 you know, the sons, they all they all good. 1:52:24.920 --> 1:52:27.360 You have all the you mentioned, You have thirteen villas, 1:52:27.400 --> 1:52:30.559 You have all these lavish places. Where did Steve Harvey 1:52:30.600 --> 1:52:36.040 go to relax to just be Margie's husband? 1:52:36.880 --> 1:52:42.800 Sixteen hundred acres an hour thirty minutes south of Atlanta. 1:52:44.160 --> 1:52:46.880 I bought the uh, well, we bought the Chick fil 1:52:46.920 --> 1:52:50.720 a ranch. Huh sixteen hundred acres? Is that where you 1:52:50.760 --> 1:52:53.000 be fishing at? I got nine lakes down the shop. 1:52:53.000 --> 1:52:55.000 You gotta come down there. I come out a beach. 1:52:55.040 --> 1:52:58.559 You no e old off, see Steve, you can come 1:52:58.560 --> 1:53:01.040 down there and fish, eat your fish. Ste I know 1:53:01.120 --> 1:53:04.519 I know that what everybody say from Steve. You I 1:53:04.560 --> 1:53:07.920 grew up in rural South Georgia. How you say you was, 1:53:08.640 --> 1:53:13.559 I'll be I'll be double nicoling June. Now I'm two sixes. Steve, 1:53:14.280 --> 1:53:16.679 I got eleven years on your Steve. I got, Steve, 1:53:18.000 --> 1:53:20.240 I got. I caught a fish so big to picture, 1:53:20.280 --> 1:53:26.719 weigh six pounds pass. I said, that's a sharp mess 1:53:26.800 --> 1:53:29.160 right there. I caught a fish so big to picture 1:53:29.160 --> 1:53:34.479 away six fronts. Boy, But I got some hogs down there. 1:53:35.040 --> 1:53:36.519 Let me tell you something. I got a lake for 1:53:36.640 --> 1:53:39.479 you that I don't let nobody fish. What you got? 1:53:39.800 --> 1:53:42.000 What you got trout, crappy catfish. 1:53:42.520 --> 1:53:45.519 Trout is in there right now to feeding. But they 1:53:45.600 --> 1:53:48.120 gonna die as soon as it's seventy degrees, They're gonna 1:53:48.120 --> 1:53:50.160 be dead. I used to use them for winter fishing. 1:53:51.240 --> 1:53:53.120 But man, I had a guy come through and turn 1:53:53.240 --> 1:53:56.680 my lakes out from me. I killed off all the 1:53:56.720 --> 1:54:00.679 fish I bought it in. Nothing but big female bass 1:54:00.720 --> 1:54:04.800 out of Florida. Nothing but females, big mouth, So they 1:54:04.840 --> 1:54:07.800 ain't sitting on the beds nesting and all that. They 1:54:08.400 --> 1:54:13.200 steady hunting. Yeah, I got. I put four hundred pounds 1:54:13.240 --> 1:54:16.400 of blue gill in there, and they just walking around 1:54:16.520 --> 1:54:18.040 just eating it. Oh, I want to I want it, 1:54:18.080 --> 1:54:19.080 That's what I want to. I want to cut. 1:54:19.080 --> 1:54:20.680 That's what I want to pish it, because see if 1:54:20.720 --> 1:54:22.200 I catch them, when I catch you when they're bedding. 1:54:22.320 --> 1:54:23.800 See I throw out their bed. They're gonna try to 1:54:23.840 --> 1:54:24.720 get that lure out the bed. 1:54:25.000 --> 1:54:28.320 Yeah. See, but it's a dog fight now because I 1:54:28.360 --> 1:54:31.439 got one lake in the back. I don't let nobody 1:54:31.479 --> 1:54:32.040 fish it. 1:54:32.080 --> 1:54:32.960 While I was in there. 1:54:33.680 --> 1:54:46.360 Hogs, all hogs I loaded back then five pounders in there. 1:54:47.040 --> 1:54:50.520 So they probably like seven eight, No, sir, I got hogs. 1:54:50.880 --> 1:54:52.360 Oh you got you got from double digit? 1:54:52.480 --> 1:54:54.880 You got them? Your dog? I got a twelve pound 1:54:54.920 --> 1:54:57.760 I'll show you a picture. You catch a relief though, right, Yeah, 1:54:57.800 --> 1:54:59.880 all the time, I got chips in my fish. Okay, 1:55:00.120 --> 1:55:02.880 I monitor My fish is monitored. That's why I don't 1:55:02.880 --> 1:55:04.760 know nobody come back there. You I catch you with 1:55:04.840 --> 1:55:09.840 a string a fish your ass, No, you're gonna get 1:55:09.960 --> 1:55:13.320 I'll shoot your ass if I catch you any fish 1:55:13.360 --> 1:55:15.240 that you eat out of there, yeah I will. I 1:55:15.280 --> 1:55:18.400 got one. I got one pond where you can fish 1:55:18.720 --> 1:55:22.360 and eat. You know, any trout you catch, you can eat. 1:55:22.720 --> 1:55:24.560 But they're gonna be gone in a minute because once 1:55:24.640 --> 1:55:27.600 that water hits seventy they gonna die. But them bass, 1:55:27.680 --> 1:55:31.680 my hybrid bass for my kids camp that come down there. 1:55:32.200 --> 1:55:34.880 They can we can cook them. But I don't really 1:55:34.880 --> 1:55:37.560 got much of that going on. You know, I very 1:55:37.640 --> 1:55:41.800 rarely do that. You know, man, you gotta come down there. 1:55:42.320 --> 1:55:44.840 I'm gonna come down there. So that's so that's where 1:55:44.880 --> 1:55:47.240 you go. You got this big mansion on the Chattahoochie 1:55:48.040 --> 1:55:49.520 that's your Is that your prize? 1:55:50.480 --> 1:55:53.280 Yeah? I can't. I can't complain about that. That that 1:55:54.680 --> 1:55:57.400 hoochie that dropped in my man. My girl did that. 1:55:59.360 --> 1:56:02.320 My girl bought that house when COVID first struck right, 1:56:02.720 --> 1:56:04.720 And I told the baby, we can't buy no house 1:56:04.840 --> 1:56:07.040 like that. What are you talking about? I'm I they 1:56:07.120 --> 1:56:10.360 just sending me home. Family feud shut down in March, right, 1:56:11.280 --> 1:56:15.960 we take from March to the summer. We our income. Yeah, 1:56:16.000 --> 1:56:17.920 I said, bab, we can't do nothing like this right now. 1:56:18.160 --> 1:56:20.640 You know. Marjorie told me, she said, Steve, you don't 1:56:20.680 --> 1:56:23.640 know how much money you got. You make it. I'll 1:56:23.640 --> 1:56:27.840 watch it. She said, I can put this whole deal together. 1:56:28.040 --> 1:56:30.040 I said, Baby, it ain't the right time. She said, 1:56:30.040 --> 1:56:33.520 if I do it, when you sign the papers, I said, baby, 1:56:33.800 --> 1:56:36.520 I'm telling you cause I don't. I don't keep it right. 1:56:36.920 --> 1:56:39.680 That's how much I trust her, though. But you know, 1:56:39.760 --> 1:56:41.720 she don't do nothing. She don't do nothing without telling 1:56:41.760 --> 1:56:43.760 me any right, So we well, I know what's there, 1:56:43.880 --> 1:56:47.080 but I don't really. She did the whole deal herself. Man. 1:56:47.360 --> 1:56:50.200 She found the house and everything because Tyler built this house. 1:56:50.320 --> 1:56:50.480 Man. 1:56:50.600 --> 1:56:52.360 Yeah, let me tell you what this dude did when 1:56:52.400 --> 1:56:54.360 he first built it. He invited me over. I walking 1:56:54.400 --> 1:56:57.440 up the front steps, I told God, said God, I 1:56:57.480 --> 1:57:00.800 got to have something like this. How you can't nobody 1:57:00.800 --> 1:57:03.440 see you in the front or the back? I said, man. 1:57:04.240 --> 1:57:08.760 And then Tyler put it on sale for way more money, 1:57:09.600 --> 1:57:12.520 and it it. It sold to this dude that sold 1:57:12.560 --> 1:57:15.000 his arm and company. And I went out to Beverly 1:57:15.040 --> 1:57:16.920 Hills and got a house. And then when that was 1:57:16.960 --> 1:57:19.440 over with, I was going back to live in my house, 1:57:19.520 --> 1:57:21.480 my other house. I got a nice house. Man. The 1:57:21.560 --> 1:57:24.560 kids grew up here, and everything was moving back. And 1:57:24.600 --> 1:57:27.560 on my mama's birthday, I was very depressed. That morning, 1:57:27.640 --> 1:57:29.440 March twenty seventh, I was crushed. 1:57:29.480 --> 1:57:29.680 Man. 1:57:29.720 --> 1:57:33.600 We was out of work, going home, and she said 1:57:33.640 --> 1:57:35.520 I put an offer in on the house. She told me, 1:57:35.560 --> 1:57:37.880 i'ma she put off here. The real estate agent said, 1:57:37.960 --> 1:57:40.920 he will never ever sign for that much. He'll never 1:57:40.960 --> 1:57:45.160 take that amount. It's impossible. It's Harvey. He's wasting your time. 1:57:45.240 --> 1:57:47.440 She's She wrote him a long letter too. She said, 1:57:47.440 --> 1:57:50.920 this is not a negotiation. I am offering you this. 1:57:51.240 --> 1:57:53.560 My husband loves the house. He's been that we'll buy 1:57:53.560 --> 1:57:56.400 a sight unseen if you don't want this amount, it's okay. 1:57:56.720 --> 1:57:59.640 I'm not trying to insult you. On my mama's birthday, 1:57:59.680 --> 1:58:04.080 he called and said, I take the off. That's how 1:58:04.080 --> 1:58:04.800 I got the house. 1:58:05.520 --> 1:58:05.920 Wow. 1:58:06.240 --> 1:58:08.800 That girl and the house she really wanted was around 1:58:08.840 --> 1:58:11.640 the corner. It was on seventeen acres too, and I 1:58:11.720 --> 1:58:13.800 was gonna save my money and get her that house. 1:58:14.120 --> 1:58:16.840 She said, no, Steve, you go to work every day. 1:58:17.320 --> 1:58:20.120 I don't turn no corners. She said, well, I'm gonna 1:58:20.120 --> 1:58:21.440 get the one you want it. I said, babe, but 1:58:21.480 --> 1:58:23.680 you like the other one better. She said, we're gonna 1:58:23.720 --> 1:58:25.760 get the house you want, and she did it. 1:58:27.040 --> 1:58:27.880 I'm gonna get you out of here. 1:58:27.880 --> 1:58:28.080 On this. 1:58:28.240 --> 1:58:31.120 Being from Cleveland, obviously you're a Cleveland sports fan. What's 1:58:31.160 --> 1:58:33.720 your favorite sport? What's Steve Harvey's favorite sport to watch? 1:58:33.760 --> 1:58:39.520 Football? Football? Hell, there ain't even no question. They play 1:58:39.640 --> 1:58:43.600 hard from week one, they do they answer is in 1:58:43.640 --> 1:58:47.000 at week one? Yeah, ain't no low manager, ain't no sooner. 1:58:47.120 --> 1:58:50.760 Preseason over with hike. It's on and crack and here 1:58:50.800 --> 1:58:56.240 they come. Yeah. See basketball, you gotta wait till the playoffs. Right, Baseball, 1:58:56.280 --> 1:58:58.800 you gotta way to the player. I can't stand watching baseball. 1:58:59.320 --> 1:59:02.640 I'd rather be just. I'd rather watch some ants build 1:59:02.640 --> 1:59:07.560 a new hill. I'm a Cleveland Brown, die hard fan man. 1:59:07.600 --> 1:59:12.120 I've been dying with them boys forever. I'm a huge 1:59:12.200 --> 1:59:16.800 Deshaun Watson fan. I have no problem with Deshaun Washington. 1:59:16.800 --> 1:59:20.040 I do have one suggestion, I s My only suggestion is, 1:59:20.480 --> 1:59:23.160 ain't no problem with getting massage. It's just you have 1:59:23.440 --> 1:59:31.560 got to stop turning over. Just stay face down, Just 1:59:31.640 --> 1:59:37.040 stay face down. All be good. Oh that does do 1:59:37.200 --> 1:59:38.080 not turn over. 1:59:39.200 --> 1:59:42.560 We're gonna rapple that, ladies and gentlemen, guys, ben put 1:59:42.600 --> 1:59:44.040 some hand together for Steve Harvey. 1:59:44.200 --> 1:59:52.520 Yeah, all my life, grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle, 1:59:53.920 --> 1:59:57.200 one slice got the all my life. 1:59:57.280 --> 1:59:59.600 I'll be grinding all my life all my. 1:59:59.600 --> 2:00:03.440 Life, been running all my life, sacrifice that will pay 2:00:03.480 --> 2:00:06.720 the price. One slice got to brow the dice, that's 2:00:06.760 --> 2:00:07.840 wall all my life. 2:00:07.880 --> 2:00:13.440 I've been running all my life. M hm