Speaker 1: My first marriage. I got married when I was twenty four.
Speaker 1: I messed that up the second one. I don't need
Speaker 1: another drink. I just said I don't do too. But
Speaker 1: you got me in here now.
Speaker 2: All my life, grinding all my life, sacrifice hustle peg price.
Speaker 2: One slice got the brother Geist swap all my life.
Speaker 2: I'd be grinding all my life, all my life, grinding
Speaker 2: all my life, sacrifice hustle peg price. One slice got
Speaker 2: the brother of Geist squat all my life, I'd be
Speaker 2: grinding all my life.
Speaker 3: Hello, Welcome to another edition of Club Shaha. I am
Speaker 3: your host, Shannon Sharp. I'm also the propriet of Club
Speaker 3: Shahe and the guy that's stopping by for conversation on
Speaker 3: a drink today. When we started Club Shahe, we told
Speaker 3: you we're gonna try to bring you the biggest atholie
Speaker 3: entertainers and celebrities, and we think we've landed Moby Dick today.
Speaker 3: He's one of the most recognized and beloved global entertainers
Speaker 3: in the world, one of the most powerful voices in media.
Speaker 3: He's an Emmy Award winning TV personality and talk show hosts,
Speaker 3: New York Times bestselling author, National Association of Broadcaster Hall
Speaker 3: of Famer. He has a star on the Hollywood Walker
Speaker 3: Fan A comedy legend, top rated radio personality, popular game
Speaker 3: show and TV host, producer, actor, writer, fashion entrepreneur, media monger, investor,
Speaker 3: motivational speaker and innovative business leader, active humanitarian and global philanthropists.
Speaker 3: A true true renaissance man, not other than the great
Speaker 3: Steve Harvey.
Speaker 1: Steve all that that centro I've ever had? Did I
Speaker 1: leave it to thing? Are? Probably did, but don't worry
Speaker 1: about it. The card on is so big, Steve, the car.
Speaker 1: We're out of time. How you doing, hey, man, I'm good.
Speaker 1: First of all, let me say this, man, I don't
Speaker 1: do a lot of podcasts. I've only done a few,
Speaker 1: But when you call man, I had to do it.
Speaker 1: Because of all the people on television, your commentary, you're
Speaker 1: the one dude that thinks just like me. Man. You
Speaker 1: ain't probably said nothing. I ain't disagreed with nothing. I
Speaker 1: like your straight your honesty, your forwardness. Man, that country
Speaker 1: ass baritone that you'd be mispronouncing words? Me, you and Perkins,
Speaker 1: Me and you and Perkins going to have a podcast
Speaker 1: talking about Yeah they said it. Steve.
Speaker 3: I know you, I know you. You you know, health
Speaker 3: is wealth, and you're doing the right thing. But would
Speaker 3: you would you would your grace me and have a
Speaker 3: drink with me. This is actually is my own kind.
Speaker 3: I actually do that. Don't worry about that. Pull that
Speaker 3: in there.
Speaker 1: I drink. I drink a little bit of a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna be drunk. No, no, no, no, We're not
Speaker 1: gonna be drunk. No, we're not gonna be I ain't
Speaker 1: never been drunk before in my life. Man. That's a
Speaker 1: good thing. Yeah, I've never had more than one drink.
Speaker 3: That's a good thing too. My brother, to all the success,
Speaker 3: yank you brother. We're gonna send your here. We're gonna
Speaker 3: send your way with a bottle of death.
Speaker 1: Oh that's smooth. You know we need now is a cigar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all right. I appreciate it. No, that's pretty good, man.
Speaker 1: So how you been, man? I'm good, you know, working
Speaker 1: on my health, man, most important thing right now. I'm
Speaker 1: good man. I really can't. You know. I've entered a
Speaker 1: new phase. Okay. I was out the country recently and
Speaker 1: I was kept talking to God about these deals, you know,
Speaker 1: and we get right to the edge, and we almost
Speaker 1: get there. Something would happen. Then we'd almost get to
Speaker 1: another one and something would happen, and then I'll just
Speaker 1: figured it out. Man. God said, I want you to
Speaker 1: go home. And I came back out the country and
Speaker 1: I just went home. He said, I know you asking
Speaker 1: me for a lot of stuff, but I want you
Speaker 1: to just take take a minute and look at everything
Speaker 1: out and gave you. Look at everything out and done
Speaker 1: for you. Now, just let me know you all right,
Speaker 1: and then we'll go from now. Right. But I had
Speaker 1: to come home, man, for the past couple of months
Speaker 1: and just look at all he'd have done for me.
Speaker 1: I'm good.
Speaker 3: So you were thinking that because the deals weren't happening,
Speaker 3: God revealed you you need to go home and be
Speaker 3: thankful for what I've already given you instead of what
Speaker 3: you don't have right now.
Speaker 1: Cause my focus was into what I was trying to
Speaker 1: make happen, and I was losing sight of what had
Speaker 1: already happened. Right, And if you want more, you gotta
Speaker 1: be grateful for what you have. But I was so
Speaker 1: busy wanting the more. I forgot to focus and take
Speaker 1: a look at what he'd already done. I came home, man,
Speaker 1: and went home, sat around my house for a while,
Speaker 1: went down to my ranch, did some fishing. Just look.
Speaker 1: I looked at all that space and stuff, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden I realized, I said, man, I'm really good.
Speaker 1: I forgot Okay, God, I see what you were saying. Right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I He'll give you some more. But would you mind
Speaker 1: what you have? Would you just please please be little
Speaker 1: bit appreciative or what I already done.
Speaker 3: You mentioned your health as well, and I see you.
Speaker 3: I follow you, and I see you exercising, I see
Speaker 3: you eating. Right, What was the turning point that you said?
Speaker 3: You know what, I'm I'm healthy, but I believe I
Speaker 3: can do better. I can be more healthy.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, man, I had a couple of health issues. Man,
Speaker 1: I discovery I'm sixty six, man, So I got to
Speaker 1: looking around, man, and I had had high blood I
Speaker 1: had this thing called Charguson's which is immune disorder. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, I get my blood work done about four
Speaker 1: times a year, Okay, but white blood count was low,
Speaker 1: couldn't get it up. And then I was struggling with
Speaker 1: a sleep apnel. Okay, you know, I was waking up
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night. I had all this
Speaker 1: going on, man, and I said, wait a minute, man,
Speaker 1: hold up, I got I gotta do something. So I
Speaker 1: went to this company, man, and I found this this
Speaker 1: brother who was one of the top nutritional scientists ever
Speaker 1: come out of Harvard named John John Lyon, and I
Speaker 1: went to him and I said, hey man, I found
Speaker 1: out that drinking green drinks is really good for you.
Speaker 1: But I just can't gag it down every morning. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, kale like I don't really understand
Speaker 1: k awful. I don't. It's not in the Bible. It's not.
Speaker 1: Kale is for four legged animals only. You gotta have
Speaker 1: a short, square teeth that's blocked at the top because
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta get that kale in your mouth
Speaker 1: and work with it. You gotta have. And I just
Speaker 1: gagged it down every morning. I said, hey, man, can
Speaker 1: y'all come up with a green drink from it that
Speaker 1: tastes good? And so we formally about a year and
Speaker 1: a half. It took then a lot of tests, and
Speaker 1: finally we came up with this product called it Elevate You,
Speaker 1: this delicious green drink, and I started taking it. I
Speaker 1: started feeling better, and it actually gave me more energy.
Speaker 1: So then I was able to get in that gym
Speaker 1: and I can started dressing some of these real issues.
Speaker 1: And right now, man, I'm getting there.
Speaker 3: Man, are you said that you were struggling sleep? Was
Speaker 3: it because you have a hard time? Because I think
Speaker 3: people that are successful really have a hard time turning
Speaker 3: their mind off. Boys, They constantly thinking, They constantly like
Speaker 3: I need to do this, I need to do this,
Speaker 3: I need to do this, and so the mind is
Speaker 3: constantly focused.
Speaker 1: It never relaxes, so you can't sleep. That's exactly right,
Speaker 1: That's exactly it. And the whole thing is you got
Speaker 1: to turn your mind off. Yes, you know, they come
Speaker 1: up with stuff like melowtnin or something like that, and
Speaker 1: then they got a little thing called LDN and all
Speaker 1: this here. But really, man, when you hustling and grinding, yes,
Speaker 1: that's that's a cost for everything. Correct. You know, you
Speaker 1: don't get to where we are people like this. You
Speaker 1: don't get here free. This come with a cost, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna cost you a lot of free time. It's
Speaker 1: gonna cost you a lot of your time. And that's
Speaker 1: just it. You know, people they got mad at me
Speaker 1: one time because I did drop the video while I
Speaker 1: was talking about if you want to get rich, you
Speaker 1: can't sleep eight hours, and then here come all the
Speaker 1: haters online talking about Steve Harvey prefers wealth over health. No,
Speaker 1: I don't. I would give anything to be fully healthy.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, if you trying to get
Speaker 1: it and talking about it, really have it, you gotta
Speaker 1: lock and load. Man, you ain't eight If you sleep
Speaker 1: eight hours, you sleep a third of your life. One
Speaker 1: third of your life is spentially. Now you tell me
Speaker 1: how you're gonna get successful in the United States of
Speaker 1: America and you sleep a third of your life, help
Speaker 1: me understand that, how that's possible? Then they're gonna, well,
Speaker 1: open sleep Oprah billionaire, right.
Speaker 3: But Oprah has open didn't sleep like that trying to
Speaker 3: accumulate that. Your sleep she probably sleep twenty hours a day.
Speaker 1: Now she can sleep, she.
Speaker 4: Can be weak.
Speaker 1: No, she ain't got to wake up for she can lay.
Speaker 1: Opra can lay that probably about four five years. Wake up,
Speaker 1: still have plenty of money. I sleep four five years, man,
Speaker 1: I got to start over.
Speaker 3: You from a small town in Welk, West Virginia. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what was life like growing up in that small town?
Speaker 3: How how long did you stay there until I was five, Okay,
Speaker 3: so you and then spent a whole lot of time.
Speaker 3: Then you moved to Cleveland, so most of your formative years,
Speaker 3: what you remember is in Cleveland, correct.
Speaker 1: Right, But that form because every summer I had to
Speaker 1: go back, oh and work the farm. But my uncle
Speaker 1: and grandfather, okay, because we had raised two hogs, right,
Speaker 1: and we killed them in the falls, so we had
Speaker 1: to go back in the summer. I had to go
Speaker 1: work all the crops, cause that's what we ate. Come.
Speaker 1: My daddy was a construction worker, right, so he couldn't
Speaker 1: My father couldn't work in the winter time, right, So
Speaker 1: we had to go down here and kill these two
Speaker 1: hogs and get all these crops from the summer, you know,
Speaker 1: put them in the salt salt house. You all like this, yes,
Speaker 1: And that was work, man, You had to work. So
Speaker 1: I really learned a lot growing up in the country.
Speaker 1: But then I was city boy too, so I had
Speaker 1: the best of both worlds. Man. You know, I ain't
Speaker 1: flush it toilet. I was five years old. I ain't
Speaker 1: know what that was, right, I ain't know they had
Speaker 1: I ain't know you could cut your faucet on in
Speaker 1: your house right. You know, so I learned a lot
Speaker 1: of I was poor, but I ain't. I ain't really
Speaker 1: know it because everybody around you was poor. Everybody went
Speaker 1: to the bathroom outside, Yeah, ain't. Nobody had no water fall,
Speaker 1: whale water, even the white people.
Speaker 4: See you know what.
Speaker 3: See That's why I think kind of like when you
Speaker 3: say that you and I have a share a lot
Speaker 3: of the same ideas, because I grew up in rural
Speaker 3: South Georgia and.
Speaker 4: I didn't take ah.
Speaker 3: I didn't really take a shower in a house until
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 1: In the NFL. I was twenty one, really too. Yeah.
Speaker 3: We had no indoor run in, no no indoor plumbing,
Speaker 3: no running water. We drank whale water. I went outside
Speaker 3: the first twenty years. I didn't know what it was
Speaker 3: like to use a bathroom inside. See people, but I
Speaker 3: see you see you said you sixty six, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll be fifty five in June.
Speaker 4: This was the eighties. This wasn't nineteen sixty. This wasn't
Speaker 4: nineteen fifty, nineteen forty. This was the eighties until.
Speaker 3: Until my brother purchased my grandmother house in September of
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, the first time I actually used the bathroom in
Speaker 3: someone's house.
Speaker 1: Other than that, I went outside. See that's you know,
Speaker 1: the average person don't even know. They can't understand. Like
Speaker 1: I talked to you a lot, a lot, you know
Speaker 1: how a lot of young people, right, and they say, man,
Speaker 1: like my son's dad, you saw everything get invented. Yeah,
Speaker 1: color TV. You know, I saw we had TV. Well,
Speaker 1: the one dude had color TV on that street. We
Speaker 1: all went around his house. Just see color TV. Right,
Speaker 1: it was thirteen inches, about twenty five people be packed
Speaker 1: in it, you know, trying to watch his damn TV.
Speaker 1: I saw cell phones get invented. So you know, at
Speaker 1: the Internet, I saw all that. Man, So it's a
Speaker 1: it gives you a different appreciation.
Speaker 3: I think you said that you had a speech impediment
Speaker 3: when you were growing up, and that you had a
Speaker 3: teacher that said you weren't gonna make it because you stuttered. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and there was someone in your community or someone in
Speaker 3: Deli that says, slow down, say what you want to,
Speaker 3: you know, take three and then start over again.
Speaker 4: How did that make you feel? When you like, she.
Speaker 1: Crushed my I'm a kid and she already crushed tea. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's supposed to lift you that this dream killing herself?
Speaker 1: You know, I said, what kind of you? Said the
Speaker 1: fir class because she we had to write an assignment
Speaker 1: what you want to be when you grow up? On
Speaker 1: the first day of school, right sixth grade, and I write,
Speaker 1: I want to be on TV. She called everybody name,
Speaker 1: had him stand up. Then she made me come to
Speaker 1: the front. I go to the front. I think I'm
Speaker 1: finna get a gold star. I got the best answer
Speaker 1: and right because I knew all my lambs were better
Speaker 1: because Lone Cage had wrote on his paper he won't
Speaker 1: be a doctor. His ass couldn't even read in the
Speaker 1: reading group. So I don't know how lone it gonna be.
Speaker 1: No damn doctor. This has got to be. So at
Speaker 1: least I wrote something that had a chance happening. Lone
Speaker 1: ass got about a bigger chance of being a doctor
Speaker 1: as I got to walk in my ass to the
Speaker 1: moon by Friday. So when she called me up there
Speaker 1: man and I she said, why did you write this
Speaker 1: on your paper? And I said, because that was our
Speaker 1: assignment for today. And then I had a little stuttering problem.
Speaker 1: So I was studying a little bit, and she said,
Speaker 1: who do you know on TV? In this neighborhood, and
Speaker 1: so I started. By the tone of her voice, I
Speaker 1: could tell that this wasn't going the way, This wouldn't
Speaker 1: feel bold gold stop by this. He was trying to
Speaker 1: break me in front of these kids. And she was
Speaker 1: doing a damn.
Speaker 4: Good job right too.
Speaker 1: She was crushing me. Who in this neighborhood had been
Speaker 1: on TV? Who in your family ever been on TV?
Speaker 1: Who in this school been on TV? And what makes
Speaker 1: you think you can be on TV? And look at
Speaker 1: you standing there? You can't even talk now, you write
Speaker 1: something more reasonable on your paper? She crushed me. Man,
Speaker 1: I said, damn, this is a teacher, right, you know
Speaker 1: this is in the sixty eight man. Right, I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here looking at this lady like god dog. But I
Speaker 1: just I kept my paper and took it home. And
Speaker 1: Ma Mama said, your daddy gonna beat you when you
Speaker 1: get home for being as smart at it, cause she
Speaker 1: wuld call home, said your child is smart at right?
Speaker 1: Cause I wanted to be on TV. Everybody a basketball player,
Speaker 1: football player, right. I don't like tackle. R I ain't
Speaker 1: like it. You know, you throw me on the ground.
Speaker 1: I want to fight, you know, I ain't. I ain't
Speaker 1: good at this right. So when my father came home,
Speaker 1: she said, slick, this boy been a small attic up
Speaker 1: at the school. And he said, well, what what'd you do?
Speaker 1: I said, I wrote on the paper I want to
Speaker 1: be on TV. My father said what's wrong with that?
Speaker 1: And I saw a little glimmer of hope because I
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna get this ass whop and I thought I
Speaker 1: was gonna write. He said, well, your boy can be
Speaker 1: whatever he want to be. And I it was like
Speaker 1: a thought. I was finn't get executed, you know, because
Speaker 1: when my daddy came home it was time for that.
Speaker 1: He was the executioner, right. My mama was a judge,
Speaker 1: she had down the sentence. My daddy was the execution
Speaker 1: at the house. So I'm finna get executed. And then
Speaker 1: when he said that, I the red phone rang from
Speaker 1: the governor's oarfic. He gotta him free him, and he said,
Speaker 1: you don't worry about that. You keep that paper and
Speaker 1: you read your paper every morning every now and I
Speaker 1: did that. I kept that paper till I was about
Speaker 1: twenty seven years old. And then I got in comedy
Speaker 1: twenty said I didn't get on I was twenty two.
Speaker 1: I was thirty eight years old. Wow, so in school?
Speaker 4: Were you a good student in school?
Speaker 1: I don't know you paused you that? Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: trying to figurette what are you? I was down. I
Speaker 1: had perfect attendence because mission school was I would get murdered, right,
Speaker 1: my father mouth. They didn't play that.
Speaker 3: But you had to work. If you miss school, they
Speaker 3: put you in the field. They wasn't sick. You couldn't
Speaker 3: stay home because you were sick. You had to work.
Speaker 1: Sick. Yeah, you had to work. What do you mean
Speaker 1: you sick? Get your hands up to school and learn
Speaker 1: yourself something? Right, I was. I couldn't be sick, right,
Speaker 1: I went to school. I wasn't a good student, man,
Speaker 1: because I just wasn't interested, right, I just were you
Speaker 1: a class clown? Not at all?
Speaker 3: So because a lot of times, Steve you don't, we
Speaker 3: didn't they call it bullying. We called it picking or
Speaker 3: he picking at such and such. The kids pick at
Speaker 3: you because you had this speak.
Speaker 1: Problem, or I have a studing problem, and you can't
Speaker 1: have a studing problem at no public school in Cleveland,
Speaker 1: m oh Man. And then big little boy with some
Speaker 1: stuttering un I come in the room and they have
Speaker 1: my silhouette on the chalkboard. They held my nose and
Speaker 1: then my lips would go all the way to the
Speaker 1: other end of the chalkboard and they say, Steve, guess
Speaker 1: who that is? I know who the hell is? And
Speaker 1: you know? And then they talk to me and they go, Lily, look, look,
Speaker 1: literally listen T T T. So I took a speech
Speaker 1: uh impediment or speech therapist came right, and that's when
Speaker 1: I knew I was in trouble. Cause speech therapists for
Speaker 1: people who stutter, they don't they've never studied, so they
Speaker 1: can't fix a stutter, right, So they give you these
Speaker 1: dumb ass uh do you drills? Yeah s A avoid
Speaker 1: words with p R in it right, avoid words with
Speaker 1: st in it. My name, Steve W Lady, where are
Speaker 1: we going with this now? So now I gotta avoid
Speaker 1: my own damn name Right now, I'm sitting here, man,
Speaker 1: trying to what's your name? And man, it was just
Speaker 1: a disaster. Man. I got picked on a lot. And
Speaker 1: then but that's what that's where I started my wit
Speaker 1: at because I had to develop comeback. Yeah, because I
Speaker 1: was the target all day. And so when we went
Speaker 1: to the basketball court, and that's the one game I
Speaker 1: could play was hoops, because I had hops. I was
Speaker 1: real thin, but Lord have mercy, I could fly. But
Speaker 1: I would go to the court and stand behind the
Speaker 1: chain link link fist, and I'd be talking so much trash.
Speaker 1: I would put my lips up against the chain link
Speaker 1: fence and nothing to be out there on the court
Speaker 1: but my lips, and I'd be talking much trash man,
Speaker 1: and everybody be dying laughing, And uh, that's when, that's
Speaker 1: when I've learned my first lesson of how to study
Speaker 1: the room. I was talking about this dude so bad.
Speaker 1: One time. He got tired of me and he said,
Speaker 1: a little man, keep on, I'm will hurt you. But
Speaker 1: it was some girls watching. Oh you can't, you can't
Speaker 1: let it go. No, I got to go hord, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. So now I'm pressed up against the fence.
Speaker 1: Now I don't see he the loop Rown. I'm watching
Speaker 1: the game. I'm looking for him. I don't see. I
Speaker 1: didn't know he had loop Rown behind me. When I
Speaker 1: realized where he had, he had his whole hand against
Speaker 1: the back of my head. He was pushing my eyes
Speaker 1: and everything. That dude was hammling me. Boy, he got
Speaker 1: me good. And that's when I first learned. Okay, you
Speaker 1: got to learn how to read the room because all
Speaker 1: these jokes and that was the beginning of it, you know,
Speaker 1: was talking trash. Right.
Speaker 3: So you you you're in Cleveland, you're going back, but
Speaker 3: you're basically the majority of your years in Cleveland. What
Speaker 3: was it about Cleveland that helped shape young Steve into
Speaker 3: what we see Cleveland hard?
Speaker 1: Man? Cleveland hard? You've been to Cleveland, I have it,
Speaker 1: ain't it ain't it ain't nothing kind Cleveland. It's a
Speaker 1: tough city, right. If you know, if you come out
Speaker 1: of Cleveland, it's like coming out of Detroit. If you
Speaker 1: come out of Cleveland, you can make it right. You know.
Speaker 1: You look at the dudes like our senior Hall, right,
Speaker 1: Drew Carrey. You know, cats like that come from Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Man Arsenials. Uh, daddy was a minister over there cause
Speaker 1: he went to John Adams, I went to Glenville. We
Speaker 1: both went to Kent State, Okay, you know, and uh,
Speaker 1: it's just a hard place. Man. It was a lot
Speaker 1: of gangs, but it wasn't gangs like today. Everybody was
Speaker 1: in a gang cause we had to cover each other
Speaker 1: when we walked to school, right, So we was you know,
Speaker 1: the Jets, and we had to cross Pee Wee Marquis
Speaker 1: to Delamore's the Devil Disciples or Lord Noble Prophets. We
Speaker 1: had to cross they territory to go to school, right,
Speaker 1: So it was a track meet right all the way
Speaker 1: to school and all the way back. Then you had
Speaker 1: to have your dudes with you and the you know,
Speaker 1: you know, we ride our bikes down the edge water
Speaker 1: park and fight on Saturdays at the church parking lot.
Speaker 1: You bring six, i'm'a bring six. Now. If you bring six,
Speaker 1: you stupid, because I'm gonna bring nine. Whatever the greed
Speaker 1: numberblehood that I padded it right, we go down there.
Speaker 1: So everybody in my neighborhood had hands, right, we threw hands, man,
Speaker 1: everybody could box. That's what got me in gold and
Speaker 1: gloves all like that. And it was just my father's
Speaker 1: rigid upbringing man about manhood. Do what you say you're
Speaker 1: gonna do, be honorable, be tough, and never quit that that.
Speaker 1: And then my mama was a Sunday school teacher. Okay,
Speaker 1: So that combination of faith in my daddy's work, ethic
Speaker 1: and manhood combined my mama's never pray, boy, pray, pray right,
Speaker 1: go to church, go to church, love the Lord. The
Speaker 1: Lord ain't gonna leave it. That's my mama just ingrained.
Speaker 3: Don't understand that what she was saying when you were
Speaker 3: that young, because a lot of times you don't realize
Speaker 3: what they're saying is so impactful until you're much much
Speaker 3: older and they're gone.
Speaker 1: Of course not. I didn't get it. I thought all
Speaker 1: this going to church just while we're in here, right,
Speaker 1: Monday night prayer, mat Tuesday night Bible study, Wednesday night crop.
Speaker 1: But we down what were doing? You know, I don't
Speaker 1: even want I don't. I got so sick of I
Speaker 1: was so sick of going to church. I asked my
Speaker 1: big brother one time, said, let me ask you something,
Speaker 1: how hot is hell? Because if he could have gave
Speaker 1: me a number that I could work with, like one
Speaker 1: twenty six, I was just gonna, like just gonna go
Speaker 1: to Hell right, because dog, I ain't on the sports
Speaker 1: teams or nothing, because I'm in church all the time.
Speaker 1: But I didn't get it. I didn't get it until
Speaker 1: I didn't really get it until I was homeless. I
Speaker 1: ain't really get it. And everything she said to me
Speaker 1: I heard it over and over and over and over
Speaker 1: and over. But as you right as a child. No, man,
Speaker 1: I didn't get it. I ain't see it. You say
Speaker 1: you went to Kent State? Why did you go?
Speaker 3: And you said about the guy that was saying that
Speaker 3: he wanted to be a doctor. You had told me
Speaker 3: that you weren't a good student. Why would you go
Speaker 3: to college if you're not a good student?
Speaker 1: A man tell you the truth. My best friend, Ricardo,
Speaker 1: I heard he was going to Kent State. I didn't
Speaker 1: even apply for college. But see, Kent was where they
Speaker 1: had killed the four kids the National Guard, so a
Speaker 1: lot of blacks quit going to college down there. So
Speaker 1: they had this thing called Cleveland Scholarship program that would
Speaker 1: give you free room and board if you went to
Speaker 1: Kent State. So he had signed up for that program.
Speaker 1: So when I found out he was going, I had
Speaker 1: no ambition of going to college. It never crossed my mind.
Speaker 1: I was gonna work construction with my daddy. It was
Speaker 1: like my two brothers. That's why I was gonna go.
Speaker 1: I was gonna be a construction work and every summer
Speaker 1: when I was in high school, I worked construction with
Speaker 1: my daddy. That's when I knew this ain't for me. No,
Speaker 1: I gotta do something else. Yeah, that's hard work, boy,
Speaker 1: just standing out on this bridge, it hot, with a
Speaker 1: hot tar mop in my hand. I said, no, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to college. But I went there. I didn't
Speaker 1: have no steady habits or nothing, because I had worked
Speaker 1: all through high school pick and pay and grocery stores
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. I had a bike, and when
Speaker 1: I was a senior man, I had enough credits while
Speaker 1: I was through with school at twelve o'clock at one o'clock,
Speaker 1: I was on my job. What da he can stay?
Speaker 1: How you done?
Speaker 3: Because I wasn't done with my college. I wasn't done
Speaker 3: with high school at twelve o'clock. I ain't have no
Speaker 3: credit and I was. I was an okay student. I
Speaker 3: wasn't great. But you did enough. You did so you
Speaker 3: applied it. It was you wouldn't apply yourself. You were
Speaker 3: a good student. You didn't apply yourself? Did I was
Speaker 3: a better criminal? You talking about cheating? Boy, knew who
Speaker 3: the set nature. We had systems.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna graduate right because we had systems, right, you know,
Speaker 1: we was getting tests. I was doing everything. I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna lie to you. I did everything, man, just graduate.
Speaker 1: So I had plenty of credits. Wasn't no aids or
Speaker 1: nothing like that. Only air of a guy was in
Speaker 1: gym physical. I got straight a's in gym, right because
Speaker 1: I loved anything to do with that. But I got
Speaker 1: out of school. I had enough. Plus Cleveland Public School, Man,
Speaker 1: come on, we had a Vale Victorian and all that,
Speaker 1: and I didn't even know what that was.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was at the graduation, just sitting there. We
Speaker 1: had six hundred ninety five people in my graduating class. Wow,
Speaker 1: I graduated six ninety six ninety five.
Speaker 4: That's a huge school for back then.
Speaker 1: No, it was three thousand people at our high school.
Speaker 1: We was number one track team in the state every
Speaker 1: year I was there. And Teddy Ginn just won the
Speaker 1: first state football championship for East Centy school in the
Speaker 1: history that Glenville bought special place. I went to school
Speaker 1: with Teddy Ginn. Okay, yeah, it's a special place. Man.
Speaker 3: I heard you saying that when you did construction, you realized,
Speaker 3: like you were standing on that bridge with that hot
Speaker 3: tar up in your hand, this issu ain't from me.
Speaker 4: Is that? And I tell kids the exact same thing.
Speaker 3: What you said, have a lot of jobs as a kid,
Speaker 3: because it let you know what you don't want to
Speaker 3: do as an adult. Because if you a kid with
Speaker 3: all that energy and you don't want do that when
Speaker 3: you get on the door that you get older, you
Speaker 3: don't want no parts of that.
Speaker 1: Man. It was, it was crystal clear to me. I said, Man,
Speaker 1: I'm not the laborer, dude. Now, my father made us
Speaker 1: no hard work. I've been working on farm since I
Speaker 1: was a kid. I was plowing behind a mule when
Speaker 1: I was eleven by myself. Wow, handling a till plow
Speaker 1: with that little one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm working.
Speaker 1: So I always knew what hard work was. But that
Speaker 1: that thing I had wrote on the paper when I
Speaker 1: was ten, that never left my mind. I want to
Speaker 1: be on TV. I kept like I watched everybody that
Speaker 1: was on TV. Bill Cosby was the greatest influence because.
Speaker 4: He was on I Spy and early sixty.
Speaker 1: In sixty six. So when he came on TV, he
Speaker 1: was the first black person that had a speaking role.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at this dude. Here he talking to
Speaker 1: white folks and telling them what to do. And then
Speaker 1: moremad Lee was out here right okay saying I am
Speaker 1: the greatest right. So I had worked that had we
Speaker 1: had the same birthday, man, So I adopted Muhammad al
Speaker 1: l as my mentor in my head. And when I
Speaker 1: met him for the first time, I cried for thirty
Speaker 1: minutes NonStop. I got the two pictures of my heroes.
Speaker 1: I met Richard Pride, I got the picture of the
Speaker 1: day I met Richard Pride, and I had a photo
Speaker 1: the day I met Mohammad Ali, and I'm in tears
Speaker 1: and both them photos because they meant that much to
Speaker 1: me that Mohammad Ali talking to white people, the way
Speaker 1: he was talking to him, calling rounds, I am the greatest.
Speaker 1: The thing he said that stuck with me the most
Speaker 1: was he said, I said I was the greatest before
Speaker 1: I was the greatest. Wow. And that etched in my brain.
Speaker 1: So that's what taught me to manifest things before it happens.
Speaker 1: I was saved all the time. And so those were
Speaker 1: the two greatest influences in my life. Man, that pushed
Speaker 1: me to want to follow that dream and pursue it.
Speaker 3: You know, you didn't know what you wanted to be
Speaker 3: on television. You just wanted to be on TV. I
Speaker 3: had no idea. I didn't even think it was comedy.
Speaker 3: I knew I was quick quitted as a child, as
Speaker 3: my mama used to take me to church on Friday
Speaker 3: nights and get me prayed for because it's something.
Speaker 1: Wrong with this boy. Because this boy just saved whatever
Speaker 1: on his mind. I couldn't cut it off, Shannon. If
Speaker 1: you said something to me, I said something back. And
Speaker 1: what I had to say was pretty shocked. And I
Speaker 1: got a lot of ass whippings for that. I got
Speaker 1: put in the principal's office for that. A lot of times.
Speaker 1: I just couldn't cut it off. My mama thought something
Speaker 1: was wrong with me. I didn't know that was my gift,
Speaker 1: but I didn't know how to harness it. I didn't
Speaker 1: know how to work it man, and I was just
Speaker 1: find it off. It took me until I went to
Speaker 1: kiss and a girl named Ida Washington who married one
Speaker 1: of my best friend's name Wayne Nawles. When I was
Speaker 1: a freshman, she was a sophomore. She set me down.
Speaker 1: She said, Steve, can I talk to you? I said yes.
Speaker 1: She said why did you come to college? Would you
Speaker 1: say a good question? Yeah, I said, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's free. She said, you don't belong here. Wow. She said,
Speaker 1: you wasting your time. She said, you be You don't
Speaker 1: even belong here. She said, you don't know it, but
Speaker 1: you gonna be a star one day. Wow, And I
Speaker 1: will what. She was the first person ever told me that.
Speaker 1: I was a freshman sitting there going that sound good.
Speaker 1: I I won't that, but I don't. I have no
Speaker 1: concept of how to make it happen. And then as
Speaker 1: a freshman I heard Richard Pryde album. I was listening
Speaker 1: to wont It and I and then I went and
Speaker 1: got Everything Callsby Dead, everything Pride did. And then in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six, Pride came out with Bi Centennial Nigga.
Speaker 1: In that album, I memorized everything, everything, every joke he said, everything.
Speaker 1: So when the dudes was in the room getting high,
Speaker 1: I get a chair, stand up in the chair, do
Speaker 1: Pride do cos Me? I do stuff I had written,
Speaker 1: but I still didn't know it was comedy at that time.
Speaker 3: So were you? So when did you start writing jokes? Okay,
Speaker 3: you fell in love with Pride, you fell in love
Speaker 3: with Cosby. You know what they did. So when did
Speaker 3: you start writing jokes and started morphing and moving in
Speaker 3: that direction?
Speaker 1: Well? It was by accident, really, because the comedian named
Speaker 1: aj Jamaul Okay was a friend of mine and he
Speaker 1: worked at IBM and I worked at General Electric and
Speaker 1: he was doing comedy, but I didn't know what that was.
Speaker 1: And he would come to me and say, hey, man,
Speaker 1: I wrote this joke. What you think because he knew
Speaker 1: I was funny, right, and so I would correct it.
Speaker 1: I would say, no, man, say this, this and this right.
Speaker 1: And he would give me ten dollars every time I
Speaker 1: gave him a joke, So I'll make it extra forty
Speaker 1: dollars a week. Right, you know, I'm going, like you
Speaker 1: this nineteen eighty man, that's cool. I ain't know what
Speaker 1: he was doing with the joke, right. I never heard
Speaker 1: of a comedy club before. I had never heard of
Speaker 1: how I could be a professional comedian. And then one
Speaker 1: day I was over his house turning these jokes in
Speaker 1: and this girl named Gladys Jacobs was there and she said,
Speaker 1: you the dude that's writing these jokes for Jamal and
Speaker 1: I went yeah. She said he the funniest. He the
Speaker 1: funniest comedian at the comedy club. I said, really, with
Speaker 1: your jokes? Yeah, I mean he wrote his own. But
Speaker 1: I wrote you he and I was going, what what
Speaker 1: you talking about? She said, at the comedy club. He
Speaker 1: the funniest one. I said, what are you talking about
Speaker 1: comedy club? She said, you ain't never been to old
Speaker 1: comedy club. I said no, She said, why are you
Speaker 1: writing him? Don't sit here? Why don't you do them yourself? Now,
Speaker 1: I'm twenty six, about to be twenty seven, I got
Speaker 1: two kids, twins, I'm struggling, I'm lost. I still don't
Speaker 1: know what I want to do, but that I want
Speaker 1: to be on TV was just in the back of
Speaker 1: my head. You did so. She said, I'm gonna pick
Speaker 1: you up Tuesday night and I'm gonna take you to
Speaker 1: this place called Hilarities Comedy Club, and I want you
Speaker 1: to see what they do. So I went down there.
Speaker 1: She picked me up. We rolled forty minutes down. The
Speaker 1: Hilarities is in Cleveland. It's in akron, Ohick Kyle Hogle Falls, Ohio,
Speaker 1: right between Cleveland and Acting. Now I'm dust down there, right,
Speaker 1: but I can't stay. Yeah, I go in and she
Speaker 1: say sign up for next week. So I sign up.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what I'm doing, and I'm sitting
Speaker 1: down there and I'm watching these comedians go up and
Speaker 1: it's ten of them. It's amateur night, right, And I'm
Speaker 1: not laughing. She say, why you laughing, because I'm rewriting
Speaker 1: all these jokes. Oh okay, I'm just not I'm sitting
Speaker 1: in there going man, he should have said this, he
Speaker 1: should have said that. And finally got to number ten
Speaker 1: and they call this guy's name and he ain't there.
Speaker 1: And they called his name again and he ain't there,
Speaker 1: and they said, well he's not here. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: the next week's list. Give it up for Steve Harvey.
Speaker 1: Now I'm and I hear her say give it over
Speaker 1: to Steve Harvey. I turned to her and say, it's
Speaker 1: a dude in here, got the same name I got.
Speaker 1: She said, you a stupid son of a bitch. She
Speaker 1: was a hood chicks. He said, you a stupid son
Speaker 1: of a bitch. She looked at me so disgusting. You
Speaker 1: just a stupid son of a bitch. And I guess
Speaker 1: I was. She said that's you, and they kept clapping,
Speaker 1: and he said, where is Steve and she said here
Speaker 1: is Oh. He said, Steve, come on up. I just
Speaker 1: ran up on stage, man, and I was standing at
Speaker 1: his room full of all whites, and I said, hey, y'all,
Speaker 1: listen here. I ain't even supposed to be here. I'm
Speaker 1: on next week's show. And they started laughing. You know,
Speaker 1: white people laughed different, that's you just said that in
Speaker 1: front of black people. Well why is your ass?
Speaker 4: Why are you up there?
Speaker 1: Immediately, but white people thought it was the joke, and
Speaker 1: then I was lost. I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1: She said, tell him about when you was boxing. She
Speaker 1: just hollowed out. So I was telling her on the
Speaker 1: way down about this dude named but No Taylor that
Speaker 1: I had fought at Golden Glove and it was a
Speaker 1: big duel, and it was a whole joke about how
Speaker 1: he had punched me one time and he didn't have
Speaker 1: nothing but left hook. He didn't have none but the
Speaker 1: left hook to the kidney. That's all he had. You
Speaker 1: could whoop his ass the rest of the fight. But
Speaker 1: if he got that left hook in, he was gonna
Speaker 1: crumble your ass. And he got it in, and I
Speaker 1: imitated how he got in the ring because he was pigeon.
Speaker 1: Told it a's white folks was dying laughing, so they
Speaker 1: got a laugh. And then I said, well, man, I
Speaker 1: gotta laugh. Let me keep telling joke. So I wrote
Speaker 1: another joke for Jamal that I hadn't sold him yet,
Speaker 1: and back then I can't do this joke now. But
Speaker 1: it was a joke. This is eighty five. It's a
Speaker 1: joke about AIDS, right, which was perfectly acceptable back then.
Speaker 1: Nobody knew the horror of it. It hadn't quite So
Speaker 1: I did this joke and they was dying laughing. Horrible joke,
Speaker 1: completely horrible, right, distaste for everything, knowing what you know today,
Speaker 1: But then died laughing. I walk off stage. They bring
Speaker 1: all ten of us back up, they have a clapof.
Speaker 1: I went in the clapoff. I win fifty dollars. You hooked.
Speaker 1: An agent came up to me and said, man, how
Speaker 1: long you been doing this? It's been to be been
Speaker 1: at just about three years, huh, I said yeah, saying
Speaker 1: I look right at him in lie problem. I got
Speaker 1: the fuck fifty dollars. I'm driving home forty minutes. I'm
Speaker 1: crying the entire ride home. Gladys looking at me. She said,
Speaker 1: what you're crying for? It ain't but fifty dollars, I said,
Speaker 1: you don't understand. I went to work the next day
Speaker 1: and quit my job with fifty dollars.
Speaker 3: So that was the moment that you says, Okay, this
Speaker 3: is what I want to do with my life.
Speaker 1: Ain't got nothing else. This is the brightest light bulb
Speaker 1: ever came on for me. That light bulb had never
Speaker 1: switched on better for me at nothing. Lincoln Electric, General Electric,
Speaker 1: Corfee cleaningrib Joint, Amway Products, Shackley Products, did Gregory Bohemian
Speaker 1: die Al Williams Insurance, Commonwealth Insurance. I had all these jobs.
Speaker 1: The light bulb went off. I was born that night,
Speaker 1: and I went to work next day and quit my job.
Speaker 1: Came home and told my mama I quit my job.
Speaker 1: She tried to talk me back into it. Told my brothers,
Speaker 1: they said, man, you crazy. Created a lot of problems
Speaker 1: with my ex wife. That wasn't her fault, man, that
Speaker 1: was me. I just I shouldn't have been nobody's husband
Speaker 1: at twenty four. I made a lot of mistakes, right.
Speaker 1: But I told my father, and my father again said,
Speaker 1: well boy, if you think you can make it, go ahead,
Speaker 1: And so that was it. I struck out.
Speaker 3: You lucky because a lot of fathers back then it
Speaker 3: was like if you went to school, you did school
Speaker 3: and you came and did what the father did, or
Speaker 3: you dropped out of school and did what the father did.
Speaker 4: Your dad was.
Speaker 3: Very unique, Steve. I don't know if you realized it
Speaker 3: at the time, but you probably do now. He encouraged
Speaker 3: you to follow your dreams.
Speaker 1: Because my daddy was funny man. He told me one
Speaker 1: time he came to see me, I was selling out
Speaker 1: arenas you know. My father told me he's a boy.
Speaker 1: I could have done that shit you doing? How that
Speaker 1: did it? Look at you? My father would cry all
Speaker 1: the time, look at it. He come to show man.
Speaker 1: My mother never saw me live because my mama saved.
Speaker 1: She didn't want to hear to cuss. It. Can't cuss
Speaker 1: my daddy. He came down there, fuddy cussing. My daddy
Speaker 1: was down there cussing with me.
Speaker 4: My father, so go ahead, go ahead, fish.
Speaker 1: My father was the front row one time in Mississippi
Speaker 1: at the DeSoto Center. He came to see me, hire
Speaker 1: and my brothers, and he turned around. They was laughing,
Speaker 1: and this lady said, you laughing real hard at this show.
Speaker 1: He said, you know who the fuck that he is
Speaker 1: up there? That's my boy. I made that motherfucker right there.
Speaker 1: That's my little motherfucker that looked that motherfucker come out
Speaker 1: of ease here. It's motherfucker down here. Because my father
Speaker 1: man was a hard ass cat, but he was the
Speaker 1: one that encouraged me to most me did.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at guys like Samuel Jackson to Moran Morgan Freeman.
Speaker 3: Samuel Jackson found success at forty. Morgan Freeman was fifty two.
Speaker 3: You almost forty, you said thirty eight when you got
Speaker 3: your big break? Do you think that really helped you?
Speaker 3: Because you didn't have success so early. It made you
Speaker 3: appreciate the trials and tribulations that you had gone.
Speaker 1: Through gone through to get to this point. You know
Speaker 1: it really did. Man. See, the thing I learned is
Speaker 1: gifted people. God almost runs you through the furnace with
Speaker 1: your gift before he allows the gift to manifest this Okay,
Speaker 1: like you, you had to go through all the different
Speaker 1: levels before you became a pro, correct, and it made
Speaker 1: you appreciate your career. You weren'd hard, Yes, your ass
Speaker 1: was a dog man. You came to every practice, everything
Speaker 1: because you appreciated it. Yes, if he had gave you
Speaker 1: that at eighteen, you to mess it up right, if
Speaker 1: he'd gave me this at thirty, I'd have ruined it.
Speaker 1: It's no way I could have this much success these
Speaker 1: checks at thirty. I'm telling you right now, I would
Speaker 1: have used all my powers for evil. A dog ain't
Speaker 1: nowhere it work. I would have been abusive. It's no way.
Speaker 1: The women that I would have gone for in my thin,
Speaker 1: well built bro cast light, if I had any money
Speaker 1: to go with that, if I could have got the
Speaker 1: haircut I could afford to get later on, if I
Speaker 1: could afford the wardrobe I could afford, then, oh, Lord,
Speaker 1: have mercy. I would have ruined it. I would have
Speaker 1: taken it and thrown it out the window. But he
Speaker 1: shaped me. He took all these years to gather me.
Speaker 1: He let me live in that car a little over
Speaker 1: three years now. I had learned a lesson. When I
Speaker 1: was homeless. I was good, and I told him. I said, hey, God,
Speaker 1: I'm good. You know I got it. I don't know
Speaker 1: what you're trying to tell me, but trust me, I
Speaker 1: got it. Try to tell me you got my undivided attention. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: she said, nah, a little bit longer, Yeah, I got.
Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta, I gotta. I gotta put keep
Speaker 1: you in this furnace a little bit more.
Speaker 3: When you're living in the car, what's your besides obviously
Speaker 3: you're living in a car, But what's your lowest?
Speaker 4: What? What?
Speaker 1: What? He's like? Damn?
Speaker 4: Where did that go wrong? Should I have done this?
Speaker 4: Should I have said?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 4: Where did that go wrong? What's your lowest?
Speaker 1: Pensacola, Florida. You know, I used to park my car
Speaker 1: in a like expensive parking lots like Ritz Carlton, you know,
Speaker 1: stuff like that. You know, high end hotels, right cause
Speaker 1: they had the bathrooms. They had linen towels in the basket,
Speaker 1: and they had the bathroom doors that went all the
Speaker 1: way to the floor, right. So I would take them
Speaker 1: linen baskets and run hot water over the whole basket
Speaker 1: and get some soaping, go in there and shut the door,
Speaker 1: and I leather up and and shower, and then I
Speaker 1: wait till I don't hear nobody. I go out there
Speaker 1: and get another basket, wait it all up, and come
Speaker 1: and get all the soap off of One time, man,
Speaker 1: I was catching it real bad man. You know. I
Speaker 1: was in Pensacola, Florida, and I went into this bathroom
Speaker 1: and I got this soap and I leathered up. But
Speaker 1: there was a convention and they had let out, and
Speaker 1: so it was just me and coming in the bathroom continuously.
Speaker 1: So I couldn't couldn't get back out there to get
Speaker 1: to neck to fresh cloths. So I set the toilet
Speaker 1: lid down, and that soap just dried on me. And
Speaker 1: I was sitting there, man, and just tears. I said, man,
Speaker 1: look at my life. I'm washing up in bathrooms. I've
Speaker 1: been taking baths and washing up at rest stops and
Speaker 1: gas stations. I'm going home, man, I quit this enough.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go home. Call my daddy, asking him, because
Speaker 1: my father had a simple rule. Once you leave here,
Speaker 1: do yeah, you can't come back. So I said, let
Speaker 1: me call home, ask him, can I can I just
Speaker 1: come home for six months? Find me another job. I
Speaker 1: remember thirties now, man, and see if I can start over.
Speaker 1: So I go home. I call him. He ain't home.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody at home. But I had an answer machine
Speaker 1: and they attic. So I called an answer machine and a
Speaker 1: message came through from dude named Chuck Suddon. Rest in peace.
Speaker 1: He passed now, he said, Steve, his Chuck suddon from
Speaker 1: showtime at the Pollow. I just saw a videotape of
Speaker 1: yours are extremely funny. We gotta opening Sunday night. This
Speaker 1: is a Thursday. We gotta open this Sunday night at
Speaker 1: showtime at the Apollo Hall of New York. If you
Speaker 1: can get here, let me know. Now. This is after
Speaker 1: I done got up off.
Speaker 4: This tor toilet. But you got drive soap on you.
Speaker 1: So I just put my clothes on and I went out,
Speaker 1: got me a my quarters, and I called the house.
Speaker 1: And then this machine comes up. I still got soap
Speaker 1: on me. I got my clothes on. I'm giving up.
Speaker 1: I'm going home. I'm gonna drive to Cleveland. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go home. He said, if you can get here Sunday,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Click call me if you can make it. Now.
Speaker 1: I'm in Prinscola, Florida. I got thirty five dollars, he said, Sunday.
Speaker 1: How the hell I'm gonna get to New York by Sunday.
Speaker 1: So now, man, I'm in the car. I'm wiped out again.
Speaker 1: The first chance I got to be on TV and
Speaker 1: I can't even get there. Oh, dog, you don't know, man,
Speaker 1: that moment for me was so crushing. I feel it.
Speaker 1: I don't like telling it because I feel it. Man, Hey,
Speaker 1: it crushed me. So I said, ah, this is God really.
Speaker 1: So I went back to check the machine make sure
Speaker 1: he said this Sunday. I called him back. He said
Speaker 1: the same thing. It's a great tape. If you can
Speaker 1: make it this Sunday, let me know. And when I
Speaker 1: got ready to hang up, it beaped again. Now this
Speaker 1: time it didn't beat before another beat came through. So
Speaker 1: that means another message, said Steve Harvey is Tom Sober
Speaker 1: from the comedy Caravan. I don't know where you are,
Speaker 1: but I got an opening tomorrow night in Jacksonville, Florida,
Speaker 1: at the Punchline on Bay Metals Boulevard. If you can
Speaker 1: get there, I got a hundred and fifty for you.
Speaker 1: I called Tom. I said, hey, man, I'm in Pensacola.
Speaker 1: I can make it Friday night. I went and made
Speaker 1: the one hundred and fifty dollars. I was so funny.
Speaker 1: He fired the guy whose place I was taking and said,
Speaker 1: if you do a Saturday night, I'll give you another
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty. Saturday morning, I called showtime and
Speaker 1: the apollo asked Chuck. I said, hey, man, it is
Speaker 1: that thing still open for Sunday? He said, sure, it
Speaker 1: is for you. I said, I'll be there Sunday. I
Speaker 1: performed Sunday Night. Now. I got three hundred dollars. Eastern
Speaker 1: Airlines was open there and I got a ninety nine
Speaker 1: dollars ticket. Flew all the way to Hall of New York.
Speaker 1: Everything I had in two bags. Went to the Hall
Speaker 1: of New York. Two o'clock in the afternoon. They said,
Speaker 1: you can't come in here till six. I said, man,
Speaker 1: I ain't got nowhere to go. Just let me. I'll
Speaker 1: go upstairs. I won't move security. Let me go upstairs.
Speaker 1: I asked him, can I go get some chicken? Four
Speaker 1: hours later, he said, man, I told your ass you
Speaker 1: can't go nowhere. You know this hall and they don't play.
Speaker 1: I said, man, I just gotta give me something to eat.
Speaker 1: He said, if you ain't back in twenty minutes, this
Speaker 1: door lock. I got back in twenty minutes. Six o'clock
Speaker 1: came all the comedians on the sixth floor. I meet
Speaker 1: a dude named Dwayne Johnson, not the Rock then nam
Speaker 1: Dwayne Johnson. I met a dude named Dale Hughgley. I
Speaker 1: met another dude named Jamie Fox. Wow this nineteen ninety one,
Speaker 1: ninety two. We looking at each other. Man, I never
Speaker 1: heard of them. They had never heard of me. I
Speaker 1: saw a couple of pictures in comedy club. That was it.
Speaker 1: I met him. We started going on stage with six
Speaker 1: comedians at night. All of 'em got booed off. But
Speaker 1: when they started booing, Jamie Jamie ass starts singing and
Speaker 1: the one they ass back. I had never seen nothing.
Speaker 1: I had never seen Apollo ordience stop booing before Jamie
Speaker 1: Fox starts. I said, Man, who is this dude right here?
Speaker 1: And then he went back to the jokes and they
Speaker 1: got his ass. Now I'm last. Now imagine this man,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting him. Man, I mean I can't. I'm shaken, nervous.
Speaker 1: I'm scared to death. Yea, ladies and Jeremy Cleveland, ohow,
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey. I went out there. I had just wrote
Speaker 1: this joke about Mike Tyson getting in the fight with
Speaker 1: Mitch Green. Yeah, and Mitch Green was talking and then
Speaker 1: the eye took over, right, And I had just wrote
Speaker 1: that joke and I did it for the first time
Speaker 1: on showtime to pollow them black folks told that place
Speaker 1: up holly laughing. I got standing ovation walked off. Two
Speaker 1: weeks later, they said, would you come back again? I
Speaker 1: went back. Two weeks later, they said, Mark Curry's missing,
Speaker 1: Would you do us a favor and host Amateur Knight.
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey went hosted Amateur Knight. I've been on TV
Speaker 1: every since, man, ever since.
Speaker 3: But did you know, like when you told that joke,
Speaker 3: the Mitch Green joke, and they invited you back, did
Speaker 3: you know I'm here to stay?
Speaker 1: I I I I it was no way I was
Speaker 1: going back. I was so ready the second time. I
Speaker 1: wrote a set the second time that I thought was
Speaker 1: funnier than that. They was just waiting on that Mitch
Speaker 1: Green joke. Right, I put a plastic shower cap on
Speaker 1: my head. I was doing this thing about why they
Speaker 1: always go get the black dude at the fire with
Speaker 1: the shower cap on to explain whatever. Right, they laughed
Speaker 1: at that, but they were waiting on that eye joke.
Speaker 1: Do the high no problem. Then we get that. I
Speaker 1: moved that eye joke right on up right, I did
Speaker 1: that eye joke again. They ass fell out again, and
Speaker 1: that was it, man, I was I was, and then
Speaker 1: Chuck Sunnon said, hey man, it's between you and a
Speaker 1: few other people were considering making you the permanent host
Speaker 1: of Amateur Night. I did that for one year. I
Speaker 1: was so good. They said, hey man, would you host
Speaker 1: the entire show? And I said yeah, but I said,
Speaker 1: under one condition. You had to get rid of all
Speaker 1: the warm up acts. I'll stay out here on this
Speaker 1: stage and keep the crowd warm between acts and everything.
Speaker 1: And they let me do it because Apollo was dangerous place. Man.
Speaker 1: The first year I had a warm up act. He
Speaker 1: would go out there and they would get pissed. I
Speaker 1: would hear them booing and stuff. Now I got to
Speaker 1: go back out here and resurrect this dead ass crowd, right,
Speaker 1: So I just start doing it all myself. And I
Speaker 1: stayed on TV man.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna get back to that. Is that kind
Speaker 3: of why you do the way you do it? Family
Speaker 3: for you, bro, because I noticed, like I said, I
Speaker 3: haven't seen a whole lot of behind the scenes, but
Speaker 3: it's like you in part life lessons on the audience.
Speaker 1: That's comes from When I was homeless, I was so distraught.
Speaker 1: At one point I cut a deal with God. I said, God,
Speaker 1: if you let me make it. When I get there,
Speaker 1: i'm'a tell everybody's who it was, and i'm'a tell him
Speaker 1: about you. So whenever we go to commercial break, I
Speaker 1: try to give people that come see me. Instead of
Speaker 1: a laugh, I try to give him something, right, just something.
Speaker 1: Now I'm old enough man that I don't I I
Speaker 1: don't done a lot. I try to give him something.
Speaker 1: And at the end of the show, everybody call it church.
Speaker 1: I had this moment. Now, at the end of the show,
Speaker 1: it's just all about the creating what he's done and
Speaker 1: how you can have a relationship with him and stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, And like, I ain't no, I ain't no minister.
Speaker 1: You understand. I'm I'm a I'm a h at best.
Speaker 1: I'm a entry level I've been practicing entry level Christianity
Speaker 1: for a long time, right cause I found out I
Speaker 1: didn't do good at advanced Christianity. Ain't no need of
Speaker 1: me doing that. I'm r I'll still slap you. You
Speaker 1: understand you. You can't get up in my face. But for
Speaker 1: so long I still cuss. I shoot dice, I drank
Speaker 1: a little kangnac, I smoked cigars, and I gamble. Now
Speaker 1: I don't think that's all Christian like. But when I'm
Speaker 1: in Vegas, you know, I'm I'm trying to win my ties.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to win my ten percent strong though, right,
Speaker 1: So I try to shake.
Speaker 4: Him loose.
Speaker 1: The Steve Harvey Show comes. How did that come about?
Speaker 1: I was on radio in Chicago. I had finished up
Speaker 1: this show on ABC called Me and the Boys, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which got canceled, the highest rated show in the history
Speaker 1: of ABC to ever get canceled. I finished the season
Speaker 1: number twenty one out of one hundred and forty four shows.
Speaker 1: But this dude, Matt Williams I think his name was,
Speaker 1: who had the TV show Home Improvement with Tim Allen. Yes,
Speaker 1: he had a deal where if his show the finished
Speaker 1: in the top ten and he could get the time
Speaker 1: slot after him, and that was my time slot. So
Speaker 1: they took me off TV and they gave me a
Speaker 1: pretty large holding deal. After that, they don't do them
Speaker 1: deals no more. But they gave me a pretty large
Speaker 1: holding deal. And I went and bought a house with
Speaker 1: my holding deal, cause I figured that Hollywood I at
Speaker 1: least be a homeowner, right, I bought my first house.
Speaker 1: My first house I bought was in ninety ninety five,
Speaker 1: my first house was a million dollars and in ninety
Speaker 1: five for me, that was like crazy. I didn't even
Speaker 1: go to the bank. I just cut the deal I had.
Speaker 1: I took my whole holding deal four hundred thousand right
Speaker 1: and gave it to a developer that was building the house.
Speaker 1: He finished the house and then I worked it out
Speaker 1: with him. That's how I bought my first house. And
Speaker 1: so I was going somewhere with you, but I I
Speaker 1: w afive. Yeah, I bought bought my show, and then
Speaker 1: I was doing radio in Chicago and they called me
Speaker 1: and said, we have a show idea for you, and
Speaker 1: they flew me out there lay this is my second show,
Speaker 1: and they said, we want you to be a music
Speaker 1: teacher at this school, and your best friend is gonna
Speaker 1: beat This dude named George Winn and George Wynn played
Speaker 1: on the show Cheers. He was the male man. Know him.
Speaker 1: At the end of the bar, he said, you guys
Speaker 1: would be great together. I ain't know him, but I
Speaker 1: had met this dude in nineteen eighty nine names Sedrict,
Speaker 1: entertainer who came through this comedy club. I was gigging
Speaker 1: at one night and I thought said was just the
Speaker 1: funniest dude I'd ever seen man in my life. And
Speaker 1: so I said, well, I do the show man, but
Speaker 1: I want y'all to look at this guy named Sedjia entertainer.
Speaker 1: He said, we've never heard of him. Okay, but y'all
Speaker 1: need to talk to this dude. So the dude, George Wynn,
Speaker 1: said he wanted to do the show, but I didn't
Speaker 1: know him. Nothing against him. I just saidn't know him.
Speaker 1: And I'd been on TV once and y'all took my show.
Speaker 1: So I figured, like this, this next time, i'm'a do
Speaker 1: it show, We're gonna do it my way, right, And
Speaker 1: so I said, so they boss said it out and
Speaker 1: they like said but they said, but he's not as
Speaker 1: famous as norm. I said, but oh, but let me
Speaker 1: ask you something. Man who really looked like he be
Speaker 1: my best friend. I'm finna be roommates. Why would I
Speaker 1: be roommates with this dude from Cheers? I don't I
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even do that, right, So they was debating, debating.
Speaker 1: I said, I'll tell you what hit the deal. I
Speaker 1: either get, said the entertained i'm'na pass on the show.
Speaker 1: I was scared when I said that, hm, cause I
Speaker 1: didn't really have that kind of power yet, right, But
Speaker 1: that's how strong I felt about it. So they said
Speaker 1: we'll give him a try for one season. We did
Speaker 1: a hundred and forty five episodes. That one season turned
Speaker 1: into syndicated show. Wow, said the entertainer. Man, funniest dude
Speaker 1: I've ever sat with in my life. Man.
Speaker 3: And then you ended up having a situation where you
Speaker 3: do the Kings of Comedy.
Speaker 1: You said, Bernie mac d l.
Speaker 4: How did they put that? How did they put that together?
Speaker 1: Steve?
Speaker 4: How do you guys come together? And says okay?
Speaker 1: D L said Steve, Bernie, See, the first year it
Speaker 1: was just me, Bernie has said okay, And that was
Speaker 1: rough Man and the guy, this kid came up to
Speaker 1: his name Walter Latham, twenty six years old, and said, hey, man,
Speaker 1: I want to create this thing called the Original Kings
Speaker 1: of Comedy, and I want y'all three to be it,
Speaker 1: and we only gonna do basketball arenas. And we looked
Speaker 1: at him and said we're gonna do what? Dog? He said,
Speaker 1: We're gonna do basketball arenas. I said, don't. We can't
Speaker 1: sell out no basketball arena. He said, no, I've been
Speaker 1: looking at pole star all y'all, all three of y'all
Speaker 1: can sell out five thousand seats by yourself. He said,
Speaker 1: if I put y'all together, we gonna sell out basketball
Speaker 1: arenas multiple times. So we used three of us were
Speaker 1: sitting there talking about it, and we said, man, this dull,
Speaker 1: crazy man can't do this. Right here she said, He said,
Speaker 1: I got a sponsor, Royal, Crown Royal. He said, We're
Speaker 1: gonna guarantee y'all X amount of night. It was like
Speaker 1: a quarter of a million. And we we said, don't
Speaker 1: you finna do what don't I looked at said said say, look,
Speaker 1: let's just get Let's just get the deposit, get on out.
Speaker 1: If it don't work, let's get the deposit. The kid
Speaker 1: paid us this deposit for the first night. And that's
Speaker 1: how we got started. And uh, it was rough man,
Speaker 1: because it was just the three of us, and the
Speaker 1: first night we did it was a disaster. Man. It
Speaker 1: was for me, great for Bernie and said because they
Speaker 1: went up first, right, said went up first. Now the
Speaker 1: deal was to do thirty minutes. Said went out there
Speaker 1: did forty five. Bernie did fifty two. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've ever followed Bernie mad before. It ain't what
Speaker 1: you want. They down there Bernie Didne cussed out everybody
Speaker 1: in the crowd, and he's hystericause they're stomping. They'll rent
Speaker 1: about the fall. And we're performing at this arena in
Speaker 1: Charlotte where the hockey players play. So they had put
Speaker 1: down the floor on top of the ice, all the
Speaker 1: black people in there with coats, and then the dude said,
Speaker 1: we gotta have a forty five minute in a mission.
Speaker 1: What so you got, said Bernie? Forty five minute in
Speaker 1: the mission? These black people just sitting down on top
Speaker 1: of this ice with the little sheet applied wood between
Speaker 1: and they freeze it. Then here I come. Now the
Speaker 1: disaster in that was my mama had died in December. Right.
Speaker 1: Our first performance was December twenty sixth, the day after Christmas,
Speaker 1: but my mama had died that month. My comedy special
Speaker 1: had came out December twenty first on HBO. Right, I
Speaker 1: ain't even watch it. I was in a blur. My
Speaker 1: mama gone. Man. It was like for two months, man,
Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna die sy'all. I thought. I said,
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna make it, man, because I had lost
Speaker 1: this girl. Man, I was devastated. So my special came
Speaker 1: out right before the first night. I didn't even wasn't
Speaker 1: even thinking. So I'm out there when I finally come
Speaker 1: on stage, they freezing, and now I'm doing the jokes
Speaker 1: from my special that I forgot had just came out.
Speaker 1: That all my fans that heard these jokes, and I'm
Speaker 1: about to just and they hollering out, punchline, do some
Speaker 1: new shit. You know, black people stay, We heard that,
Speaker 1: and I'm going, why are they saying this? And I
Speaker 1: didn't even understand that my special had just came out, right,
Speaker 1: but I was so devastated. So that night, man, I
Speaker 1: didn't do well at all. Right, the next morning, this
Speaker 1: comedian on the radio aks 'em we driving to the airport.
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey don't deserve to be no king. I don't
Speaker 1: know how he on the show. He wasn't shit. He
Speaker 1: on the radio, just eating my ass a lot. And
Speaker 1: I'm hearing this going to the airport. Now, I just
Speaker 1: stayed up all night. I ain't had no sleep, cause
Speaker 1: I ain't I would. I just had a horrible night.
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm writing cause then I finally realized they
Speaker 1: was repeating my special. So I'm writing all night. I
Speaker 1: ain't even go to bed. I stayed up. I sat
Speaker 1: on the plane writing. I got in Kansas City. I
Speaker 1: wrote all the way up the show time. I been
Speaker 1: up all night, man getting old jokes. We working and
Speaker 1: putting 'em together. Came up with a whole new set
Speaker 1: next night, Kansas City. Now we argueing. Now me and
Speaker 1: the Bruhs is arguing, cause I'm saying, Bruhs thirty thirty
Speaker 1: thirty right ninety minutes, y'all got to help me. Forty
Speaker 1: eight fifteen minutes in the mission. Here I come. That
Speaker 1: night I got standing on face. I had redeemed myself.
Speaker 1: Run it now. And so the first year was rough
Speaker 1: because I wanted to switch up sometimes. You know, we're
Speaker 1: all kings.
Speaker 4: You wanted to go first, Maybe go first sometimes the
Speaker 4: hey man, let.
Speaker 1: Me sit in the rocking chair, Let me be second.
Speaker 1: Bernie sat in the rocking chair, and I went man,
Speaker 1: because you got said one of them up. Bernie in
Speaker 1: the rocket chair. You closing behind these dudes is rough.
Speaker 4: So that's where we had our little that you and Bernie.
Speaker 1: But it hands. That was our only odds. That was
Speaker 1: our only odds because I just man, y'all gotta give
Speaker 1: me a chance to win two and they ain't never
Speaker 1: want to spitch switch. So the whole year we did that,
Speaker 1: and then we bought in Guide Tori and god Tory
Speaker 1: hosted the show next year. He added, d L. Now
Speaker 1: we got a problem. We can't have Fox acts because
Speaker 1: who gonna go last? Now? So the argument was, Steve,
Speaker 1: you gonna last again? I'm gonna hell no, no, no, man,
Speaker 1: we all getting the same check. Dog, I'm out here
Speaker 1: working these said, it's hard to follow now, I gotta follow,
Speaker 1: DL said, and Bernie the Bernie by herself, mag Mac
Speaker 1: was just he was of all of us, man, he
Speaker 1: was that boy could put some pressure on you. So
Speaker 1: I said, I said, I'll tell you what I do.
Speaker 1: So then Walter said, well one one of y'all host
Speaker 1: this show. Ain't nobody want to be the MC? My
Speaker 1: hell shot straight up, I got it. I'm hosted. Cause
Speaker 1: that for me was cool. I make it like it's
Speaker 1: my show. I bring everybody out, lay it out like that.
Speaker 1: And then they switched over. Whenever we did, Saint Louis said,
Speaker 1: we clothes. Whenever we did, uh La DL clothes when
Speaker 1: we did Chicago Bernie Clothes. You know, everybody moved it around, right,
Speaker 1: and then we settled it. And then the Kings was
Speaker 1: really borned right at that moment. But we toured for
Speaker 1: three years, man, right, and nobody but black people heard
Speaker 1: of us. That wasn't a white person in the crowd
Speaker 1: for three straight years. Wow, never did a article. We
Speaker 1: just did black radio. We sold out the MCR Center
Speaker 1: four times, two weekends in a row, sixty four thousand.
Speaker 1: We sold out the Georgia Georgia Dome forty four thousand.
Speaker 1: We sold out the United Center six times. Thought we
Speaker 1: was walking through this country. Then the dude in the
Speaker 1: USA today, black dude came did a article on us,
Speaker 1: and that was it. We was making so much money
Speaker 1: after that. Man, couldn't mm what happened?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 1: Why did it end? After the movie? Man, that was
Speaker 1: probably blessing of a curse. Yeah, The Four of Us,
Speaker 1: it was the largest comedy movie ever in the history.
Speaker 1: It was the largest comedy tour in the history. But
Speaker 1: these white boys came along called blue collar comedy. It
Speaker 1: was Larry Cable Guy, Jeff Foxworthy, Ron White and Bill
Speaker 1: Ingvill and they said we gonna show them Kings. Who
Speaker 1: the real Kings is. So they came out with the
Speaker 1: blue Collar Comedy tour. They couldn't fuck with us. They
Speaker 1: wasn't even close. They wasn't even pole star came out.
Speaker 1: Kings was kicking. They ass we was filling up buildings. Man,
Speaker 1: And they thought they like, I don't think Fox was
Speaker 1: in that bill ingvill Has said We're gonna show them
Speaker 1: what the Kings really looked like, right, And they started
Speaker 1: selling tickets, but they couldn't compete with us. Man, The
Speaker 1: Kings of comedy was was we was, and plus we
Speaker 1: was that other kind of funny, right. We was tag
Speaker 1: your mouth out funny. We you get up out your chair,
Speaker 1: your asshole still in the city. You know that type
Speaker 1: shit was happening, right because when black people laugh, they
Speaker 1: get up and run to the back of the room.
Speaker 1: Off take all the popcorn. They were the black people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were letting us have it. Man. And so when
Speaker 1: it ended the thing that the blue collar comedy to it,
Speaker 1: there was they stayed together. We split up. You wish
Speaker 1: you to stay that kept it together, could have kept
Speaker 1: it together, couple. We tried everything, but you know, dudes
Speaker 1: felt like they was movie stars. I never saw myself
Speaker 1: as a movie star. I always yeah, I want.
Speaker 3: I was gonna ask you that because you you kind
Speaker 3: of like stayed in your lane. You see said brand start,
Speaker 3: Bernie did movies. You kind of stayed. I mean, you
Speaker 3: had had a couple of roles, but that didn't seem
Speaker 3: to be That didn't seem to be your passion. That
Speaker 3: didn't seem to be where you wanted to go.
Speaker 1: Never read for a movie. Man, didn't care nothing about it.
Speaker 1: I was a TV star. I want to be on TV.
Speaker 4: So TV and radio was your with your.
Speaker 1: Because I could do this, I could do this, I
Speaker 1: could become household if I stay on T right. You
Speaker 1: know you got hey Man to be famous in the movie.
Speaker 1: You know how long it take to be Denzil. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's then. They've been in this a while.
Speaker 3: I remember him in Glory because they feel glory in Savannah,
Speaker 3: if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, so that was like a
Speaker 3: eighty five eighty six.
Speaker 1: He was a gangster though, this dude. You believed him. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can only play me. Yeah see, let me just
Speaker 1: do TV or I just do me. I ain't wait, Harvey,
Speaker 1: I ain't been no acting class. And to do this here.
Speaker 1: I'm not fit to care. Finnish city here, and just care.
Speaker 1: I don't really like you. I can't cry cry with
Speaker 1: you at we in the scene. I'm finished cry. I
Speaker 1: don't even know your ass. My father died. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know you all your daddy. So me trying
Speaker 1: to work these tears up. This probably ain't have it.
Speaker 1: Just let me go be me. So I knew, but
Speaker 1: Bertie got a lot of rolls, said, got a lot
Speaker 1: of rolls, and uh, they just wanted to do it man,
Speaker 1: and that was cool. Then I understood it. So I
Speaker 1: just new. But the thing that they did, though, well,
Speaker 1: they went and got so many roles they stopped doing
Speaker 1: stand up me. I felt so strongly about stand up
Speaker 1: I never stopped. When I got my TV shows, I
Speaker 1: steal toured on the weekend, and I never went back
Speaker 1: to comedy clubs. Once I was in the Marinas, That's
Speaker 1: where I stayed. So I just stayed in big theaters
Speaker 1: and arenas. I was going to the Staples Center, No
Speaker 1: Kill Madison by myself, take two people with me, Radio
Speaker 1: City Music Hall, I was selling. I stayed right there
Speaker 1: while the guys was doing the movies. They got stepped
Speaker 1: away from the They stepped away from them from the craft, you.
Speaker 3: Know, But but you walked away at the height of it, Steve,
Speaker 3: you walked away from the stand up and really hadn't
Speaker 3: come back.
Speaker 1: Would you be willing?
Speaker 3: What would it take Steve Harvey to do to do
Speaker 3: the crypt the crypto dot coms?
Speaker 4: What would it take for you to do so?
Speaker 1: Five?
Speaker 4: What would it take?
Speaker 3: How much would it take for Steve Harvey to do
Speaker 3: what they doing on Netflix? You say, everybody you see
Speaker 3: Chapel Quake, all those guys had special little Netflix. What
Speaker 3: would it take for Steve Harvey d to give to
Speaker 3: give a sixty minutes?
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, I have to be done with
Speaker 1: the TV career, because once I do the special, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be done with my job. Man, you cursed up
Speaker 1: a store, You killing everybody? Steve, No, they gonna they
Speaker 1: gonna take me off TV. It ain't no where to
Speaker 1: cancel culture to live. See. The reason I stopped was
Speaker 1: because I saw, Okay, I got family feud, I got
Speaker 1: little big shots, I got all this stuff being offered
Speaker 1: to me. At one point in time, I had seven
Speaker 1: shows on TV all at once in one season. Wow,
Speaker 1: I had Funderdome, Little Big Shots, Amazing Grace, Celebrity Family Feud,
Speaker 1: Family Feud, I had two other shows Showtime that Apollo
Speaker 1: had came back on Fox. I worked seven days a week. Man,
Speaker 1: I went through a forty one week period with seven
Speaker 1: days of taping, and I knew that if I performed
Speaker 1: as a stand up, that whole TV career that gumble
Speaker 1: and I was making enough to really solidify myself in television.
Speaker 1: So in twenty twelve, I had to walk away because
Speaker 1: I was at the height of everything and I had
Speaker 1: everything going for me. So now, Man, then I watched
Speaker 1: Chapelle and Rock and all these boys get sixty million
Speaker 1: here and all this here, I thought about it. I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I couldn't dump what I had for that right because
Speaker 1: I knew the longevity I was gonna make it up. Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: So like today, man, I've been this is for the
Speaker 1: probably been the first year I've been thinking about it,
Speaker 1: just doing one mode and I'll probably had to call
Speaker 1: it something like fucking I'm out or something like that,
Speaker 1: because I know that's gonna be it. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: career ending, right, because what I really want to say,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do is special unless I can say
Speaker 1: what I really want to say. I wanna be like
Speaker 1: rock and have selective outrage, you know. I wanna be
Speaker 1: like Chappelle and really say something, but what I really
Speaker 1: got in my heart to say. If I say it,
Speaker 1: I'm my career is over.
Speaker 4: Why hasn't radio been your most consistent staple?
Speaker 1: Because it's theater of the mind. Look, man, when it
Speaker 1: comes to a dull contemporary radio, ain't nobody done it
Speaker 1: this long? Ain't nobody been consistently number one. I've been
Speaker 1: since the year two thousand. I've done twenty three years
Speaker 1: of black radio, black radio. I got the largest market
Speaker 1: share today. I got the largest number of people today.
Speaker 1: Ricky Smiley is my dude. I introduced Ricky Smiley to radio. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I told him he was the dude. I put Earthquake
Speaker 1: in radio. I told him he was the dude. You know. D. L.
Speaker 1: Hugley got him in radio. I told him he was
Speaker 1: the dude. And they've all watched Bill belling me all
Speaker 1: of adele give me.
Speaker 3: I've had I've had Quake on. I've had said they
Speaker 3: entertained on. I've had Ricky Smiley on and talked to others,
Speaker 3: Why were you like this? Everybody's not like you, Steve.
Speaker 3: Everybody said, well, this is what Steve did. Steve said,
Speaker 3: let's go down, We're gonna do these things. We're gonna
Speaker 3: do this. We're gonna do the radio show.
Speaker 4: Who is that?
Speaker 1: Said? No?
Speaker 3: Quate said he had you at his at Atlanta Uptown College.
Speaker 3: He said, they sold ex Somebody's like, nah, we're not
Speaker 3: doing that. Give them their money back. We're gonna do
Speaker 3: radio next morning. We're gonna get up early, we're gonna
Speaker 3: go get donuts and we're gonna go.
Speaker 4: Pass them out. And this is what we're gonna do.
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah. Ricky smiling says, Steve Harvey did this.
Speaker 3: This this for the comedy he got me in radio.
Speaker 3: Quate said the exact same thing, said said the same thing.
Speaker 3: Why because everybody's not like you. Everybody keep talking about, well, black,
Speaker 3: black black, we want to see black succeed and they
Speaker 3: ain't trying to see black succeed.
Speaker 1: Why see, man, When I was a little boy, my
Speaker 1: mama told me something. Memory was talking about how your
Speaker 1: mama say something you don't it don't really register in
Speaker 1: She told me, she said, son one day, God gonna
Speaker 1: give you a big house up on the hill. When
Speaker 1: you get up there, you got to tell somebody else
Speaker 1: how to get on the hill. Didn't mean nothing to
Speaker 1: me thirteen, But I've always kept that because there's room
Speaker 1: at the top. Yes, because the top ain't crowded. You
Speaker 1: know a dude name this record guy Ricky. I can't
Speaker 1: think of his name. He had a book out. The
Speaker 1: title of the book was, ain't no traffic on the
Speaker 1: Extra mile. It ain't. If you go to extra mile,
Speaker 1: it's free. You can do doughnuts, you can flip your calls.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody gonna hit you. It's room at the top.
Speaker 1: But we have an obligation as brothers to show each
Speaker 1: other how to get there. See, I ain't got to
Speaker 1: worry about you taking my market share, because what's for me.
Speaker 1: It's for me, Okay, see why I'm wearing them. But
Speaker 1: that's what that's what people get wrong. People think. People
Speaker 1: think if they blow out your candle, it'll make their
Speaker 1: candle brighter. Now your candle still a little last flicker,
Speaker 1: your punk ass, you think because your little bitch ass,
Speaker 1: then set up here, blew my candlelight. You think your
Speaker 1: candle fit to be same punk ass flicker. Dog, that's
Speaker 1: same punk ass flicker you've been having. Because you're trying
Speaker 1: to blow my candle out. That ain't how at work?
Speaker 1: You need more candles, man, right, And so my thing
Speaker 1: has always been to uplift, to teach people the way
Speaker 1: it's done, show them how to do it. So Ricky
Speaker 1: Smiley is a competitive of mine technically.
Speaker 3: But you put him over so d l a competitor,
Speaker 3: quite a competitor. So you're not concerned because that a
Speaker 3: lot of people are like, Okay, I got a big house,
Speaker 3: but I don't want you in my neighborhood. You get
Speaker 3: a big house somewhere else, and maybe as long as
Speaker 3: it's not as big as mine.
Speaker 1: No, you don't care. You can put a bigger house
Speaker 1: right next Dold maunt. What they gotta do with me?
Speaker 1: You can you gotta make dog, I can't sleep in
Speaker 1: all these rooms I got. Now, what I care if
Speaker 1: your house is bigger than my house? What I care?
Speaker 1: If you got more cars than me? I like my cars.
Speaker 3: But but see, excuse me, Steve, how have you been
Speaker 3: able to handle that? Because you know that people there
Speaker 3: are a lot of people that smile and say things
Speaker 3: in your face, and you know they say things behind
Speaker 3: your back?
Speaker 1: Dog, how how do you handle that? Who are you?
Speaker 1: First of all? Man? Real players? Yeah, them real dudes.
Speaker 1: They ain't reading blogs and they not blogging. They ain't
Speaker 1: on they ain't writing c in the comments section. Real
Speaker 1: bloggers are not shakers in movies, decision makers or power brokers.
Speaker 1: Give a damn what you say about me? You don't
Speaker 1: even know me. Most people talking about me don't even
Speaker 1: know me, right, you know how I know you know me?
Speaker 1: You got my cell number? Right now? Dog? You ain't
Speaker 1: got my cell number? Dog? Or what what is your
Speaker 1: What you say about me don't even matter now if
Speaker 1: you got my cell number? Like, if Sad was somewhere
Speaker 1: dogging me, that'll hurt me. Cause this is a dude
Speaker 1: that we got history. Yes, if Richie Smiley was dogging me,
Speaker 1: got'll hurt me. If Quake was dogging me, that'll hurt me.
Speaker 1: If fifty cent dog me, I ain't never done nothing,
Speaker 1: fifty We ain't got no beat. But I'm just using
Speaker 1: h him as an neck, right, I wouldn't be as effective, right,
Speaker 1: I would be gonna like what you talking about me?
Speaker 1: Fault right? See my mind ain't down there. And then
Speaker 1: I stay on the wall. If I stay on the wall,
Speaker 1: even if you throw rocks up, if I stay on
Speaker 1: the wall, even if your rock hit me, how much
Speaker 1: steam it got you had to throw up on the wall.
Speaker 1: But if I come down off the wall to address you,
Speaker 1: you can bust me dead in the head with the rock.
Speaker 1: I don't give a damn about haters, man, They don't
Speaker 1: even know how I'm moving. You know, jay Z got
Speaker 1: hated when he cut the deal with the NFL. Joe,
Speaker 1: I haint no jay Z fault. Jay Z making moves.
Speaker 1: Y'all don't know nothing about y'all sitting over here in
Speaker 1: your little punk ass life. You ain't got shit going,
Speaker 1: but you're steady knocking somebody that's out here shaking and moving.
Speaker 1: How they give a Shannon a podcast? Thing gave him nothing,
Speaker 1: He took it. He went out and built it. He
Speaker 1: didn't gonna get permission. He built it. How he got
Speaker 1: these people? Dog?
Speaker 4: But you're worrying about that, Well, you know what my
Speaker 4: grandma used to say.
Speaker 3: Something you say, boy, Sometimes God will put you in
Speaker 3: place people don't think you belong. And anytime you're somewhere
Speaker 3: where people don't think you belong. You know, they say, Steve,
Speaker 3: he don't deserve that. Who are you to tell me
Speaker 3: what God has made him? What God has made a
Speaker 3: mistake on me? He don't deserve this. He don't deserve
Speaker 3: to have Steve on the show. He doesn't deserve to
Speaker 3: have this. I'm like, broh, you got so much going on.
Speaker 1: For you, you don't want me to have a little success. Dog.
Speaker 1: The reason I'm doing this show, Thog, is cause of
Speaker 1: how you are, the way you move, what stuff out
Speaker 1: here you say. I've never heard a dude talking out
Speaker 1: loud that sound just like me. Dog, you you got
Speaker 1: that bravado? Fuck how you feel? Yeah? I said it,
Speaker 1: and you strong with it. That's why I came here. Man. Look, dog,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. You the best dress dude
Speaker 1: on television in all of commentary. You're that.
Speaker 4: You heard Steve Harvey say it.
Speaker 1: He the best dressed dudel in all the commentary. Now
Speaker 1: I know who thinks he the best dress I know
Speaker 1: I got TV. I watched, But Dog, this dude right
Speaker 1: here be killing the game. I'll be watching you. You
Speaker 1: straight killing the game. I'll be watching I said that
Speaker 1: boy shop right there that cold right there. Cold. But
Speaker 1: then what you say though it skip your knowledge of sport.
Speaker 1: That's an instant you played the game. But your commentary
Speaker 1: about these dudes' life. What you try to say to
Speaker 1: you people, man, so they can learn from you and
Speaker 1: you and you use that hard southern tough grandma, granddaddy
Speaker 1: lodging to where they got to go. They might not
Speaker 1: like it where he old? Yeah, I'm old to you,
Speaker 1: old to you, I'm sixty six, right the fuck you
Speaker 1: think that is right? I ain't twenty three.
Speaker 4: I've been your age. You ain't been, mind.
Speaker 1: Dog. See, I've been where you. I've been where you
Speaker 1: at already know that trip. You need to pay attention
Speaker 1: in case you get here, right, just in case, if
Speaker 1: you got any plan you old hey, man, old is
Speaker 1: the gold. Yeah. Now if you don't like old, here
Speaker 1: it is tomorrow, shoot yourself, step your ass out in
Speaker 1: front of the bus. What fucker jump up? Bill? You stop
Speaker 1: this old shit right away. Old is the gold, dog,
Speaker 1: It's the whole goal in life. I'm so glad. Somebody
Speaker 1: asked me the other day. They said, if you could
Speaker 1: go back to any age, what age would you go
Speaker 1: back to? I said, sixty five, cause that the.
Speaker 4: Best I ever had.
Speaker 3: Do you wish in your twenties and thirties you had
Speaker 3: some of the knowledge that you've acquired in your sixties.
Speaker 1: But you know how much y'all have saved myself. You
Speaker 1: know the pain I would have been. I could have
Speaker 1: avoided homelessness. I could have avoided bad decisions I could
Speaker 1: have I could have avoided so many facts. I could
Speaker 1: have kept money I lost. I would I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been with some of the people I've been with. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have did somebod I wouldn't have went some of
Speaker 1: the places I went. See now I'm together. You know
Speaker 1: you know this. You don't see me on TMZ, go
Speaker 1: through TMZ. I'm not finna be on TMZ. You know
Speaker 1: why because I go home, right, I go home, Dog,
Speaker 1: I go home. Can't feel me in my house?
Speaker 3: Do you think people are actually Because what I've learned
Speaker 3: since I've been in TV, TV, celebrity is different than
Speaker 3: than athletes, than athletics, liberty. It's almost like like people
Speaker 3: are trying to catch you in something, trying to get
Speaker 3: you in the wrong.
Speaker 1: See, they they cheer for you when you coming up,
Speaker 1: but they can't wait to see you fall. But the
Speaker 1: ones cheering a lot of them is the one that's
Speaker 1: trying to bring you down. It's the very same ones.
Speaker 1: See it's okay when they think they got a shot
Speaker 1: with you, but then we'll go w But when they
Speaker 1: see your shot actually worked and now you now, they
Speaker 1: look at you as over them, and instead of trying
Speaker 1: to hold you up, they wanna do everything in their
Speaker 1: power to bring you down. It's it's a funny. Denze
Speaker 1: Done taught me the best lesson much. We were at
Speaker 1: Sweet Georgia Brown, Sweet George whatever. It was out in
Speaker 1: La Uh. This restaurant used to be very popular and
Speaker 1: it was one of the nights Sam was up for
Speaker 1: Oscar something and we were standing there at this thing
Speaker 1: and Denzel said, i'm'a show you the difference between me
Speaker 1: and you. He said, I'm a movie star, you a
Speaker 1: TV star. He said, watch this. Just stay with me.
Speaker 1: People will come up. Oh my god, mister Washington, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, mister Washington. I watch every movie I go everywhere.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. You it's so great something and
Speaker 1: it just cheating with reverence. He said. You know why, man,
Speaker 1: he said, because to come see me, you got to
Speaker 1: get a babysitter, get in your car, stand in line,
Speaker 1: buy a ticket, stand in another line, get your popcorn
Speaker 1: and stuff, go to a seat. Wait and I come
Speaker 1: up on the screen twenty five feet tall.
Speaker 4: He say.
Speaker 1: Then they leave and they don't see me no more
Speaker 1: or less. They come to another movie. He said, I'm
Speaker 1: a movie star. He said, Watch how they come up
Speaker 1: to you when they know you as soon as they
Speaker 1: see me. Mister Washington, Oh my god, Stay, what's up? Man?
Speaker 4: They know you?
Speaker 1: Why stay? Remember that time? And I'm looking at him
Speaker 1: and he said, you see the difference. He said, The
Speaker 1: difference is I'm a movie star. You're a TV star.
Speaker 1: They got to pay to come see me. They invite
Speaker 1: you to their house every day. He said, no, they
Speaker 1: they think you are relative. He said, don't nobody have
Speaker 1: nobody come to their house less they like them. They
Speaker 1: invite you in their house. Then they're making Samwich is
Speaker 1: sitting in their drawers watching you. You a relative to them?
Speaker 1: He said, so, man, when so when you go out
Speaker 1: in public, you can You got to be different from
Speaker 1: them than me and Sam. Man, let me tell you so.
Speaker 1: I was on vacation with Sam one time. Samuel Jackson
Speaker 1: we used in Portafeino. We'd finished dinner one time, were
Speaker 1: walking back to go get on this boat. Hey, you're
Speaker 1: Samuel Jackson. I want to take a picture. He said,
Speaker 1: what's the magic word? Motherfucker? Not him? And I went Sam,
Speaker 1: and it froze the white dude. He said, no, I'm
Speaker 1: taking a picture. He said, I said what's the magic word? Motherfucker?
Speaker 1: And I'm going like, man, I don't even know the
Speaker 1: magic word, but I just want to give it to him.
Speaker 1: I was. I thought it was a ridlissm shit, and
Speaker 1: so his wife Latanya was gonna have Sam. Sam. No, man,
Speaker 1: fuck that, what's the magic word? Motherfucking? He done say?
Speaker 1: That's so harsh. The guy said, please, all right, come on,
Speaker 1: take god damn picture, Steve. Can I get a picture? Yeah,
Speaker 1: come on, you ain't gotta give me no magic word? Dog,
Speaker 1: I'm on TV. We different, Sam, cheat you any because Sam,
Speaker 1: look you one person with twenty five dollars. He don't
Speaker 1: count what I'm I got to. I moved different when
Speaker 1: I'm in public. I got to be a lot more accommodating.
Speaker 1: I'm loved by kids, old people. I got somebody grandmama,
Speaker 1: my grandmama. Love you. I gotta take pictures puppies and shit,
Speaker 1: you know I got I gotta beat that man.
Speaker 3: And I think it's amazing, Steve, that you've allowed so
Speaker 3: many people to eat off your plate. People don't realize
Speaker 3: how much money is out there, and I mean, think
Speaker 3: about all the billionaires and all the millionaires, and it's
Speaker 3: steal money out there plenty.
Speaker 4: But we haggle over a few.
Speaker 1: Dollars, see, cause you know what it is. We get
Speaker 1: to a point that we ask God to get us
Speaker 1: to and then we want to complain about it in
Speaker 1: safe guard it and act like it's fit to go away.
Speaker 1: There's a saying, man that I love. It says I
Speaker 1: can't complain about how much is on my plate when
Speaker 1: my whole goal was to eat right. So now, dog,
Speaker 1: you got all the groceries on this platter, my platter full. Dog,
Speaker 1: I can't let you have some, or I can't show
Speaker 1: you how to get a platter. They making money, They
Speaker 1: printing money every day. It's available, man, and you're getting
Speaker 1: more of it. And I think that's a big part
Speaker 1: of my success. I think because God will always keep
Speaker 1: me covered. Because I just honored the principle of I
Speaker 1: don't mind helping and share it. You definitely don't. Man,
Speaker 1: I've given people stuff if when the story do get told,
Speaker 1: I've actually thought about doing a documentary myself when the
Speaker 1: story does get told about the number of people that
Speaker 1: I help that I don't even know. Man, the kids
Speaker 1: me and my wife then sent to school that we
Speaker 1: don't even know, the scholarships we done passed out, the
Speaker 1: the things we've done. I'm talking about people. When the
Speaker 1: hurricane came through and wiped out the Bahamas, man had
Speaker 1: no idea how many people we went over there and
Speaker 1: helped what we did. And it's because I understand that principle,
Speaker 1: and I don't. The Bahamas don't owe me nothing, and
Speaker 1: the people that get these degrees don't owe me nothing,
Speaker 1: but God gonna give me back tenfold. Dog. I'm always working,
Speaker 1: I'm always good, I'm always showing up with some new project.
Speaker 1: I just keep showing up, man, and that that can
Speaker 1: only be God. Like you said someone a minute ago,
Speaker 1: you said that people look at your success and they
Speaker 1: say he don't deserve that. Well, grace ain't foul. Grace.
Speaker 1: Grace is God's unmerited favor. It's when God just do
Speaker 1: you some faith, he do your favor. You can't earn grace,
Speaker 1: you ever, hear old people say, all I want is
Speaker 1: a little more grace. You can't buy grace. Bruh. If
Speaker 1: I could buy grace, I wouldn't have no money in
Speaker 1: the stock market. I wouldn't have no money at Merrill Lynch,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have a quarter nowhere. I would take every
Speaker 1: dollar I got and give it if I could purchase
Speaker 1: this one thing called grace. God's unmerited favor because he
Speaker 1: and He do above and beyond for you for me.
Speaker 1: I mean, really, dog, while I'm sitting right now, I
Speaker 1: can't even really explain it though. I ain't that damn funny,
Speaker 1: you know, really, not really, dog, I'm just God just
Speaker 1: he keep on blessed man, That's all it is.
Speaker 3: Man at your lowest, when you had the situation with
Speaker 3: the I think in miss universe and you misread maybe
Speaker 3: they was on the card wrong, and I think you
Speaker 3: probably read read the prompter what was in the prompter
Speaker 3: exactly what was in.
Speaker 4: And it came down So what so what what what.
Speaker 3: Was that moment like, Okay, you read what was in
Speaker 3: the prompter, clearly it was wrong. Now we got to
Speaker 3: come back and do have.
Speaker 4: A do over.
Speaker 1: Shannon hit the crazy part. They hand me the card. Okay,
Speaker 1: we had bought Miss Universe from Trump. The lady that
Speaker 1: used to work for Trump was mad because we had
Speaker 1: decided in rehearsal to change the way we do it.
Speaker 1: Like all pages they say, and they say, and second
Speaker 1: runner up is so and so, and then it's the
Speaker 1: two people standing there. Then they always say and the
Speaker 1: first runner up is miss so and so, and then
Speaker 1: that's really anti climactic because now you know who to win,
Speaker 1: is correct. So they had changed it in rehearsal all
Speaker 1: week long. We rehearsed, we're not gonna do We're just
Speaker 1: gonna do the second runner upright, she get out the way,
Speaker 1: and then next we're gonna announce the winner. The lady
Speaker 1: that worked for Trump didn't like that, and she put
Speaker 1: it on the card anyway, but she put it on
Speaker 1: the corner. It wasn't even up there in the one
Speaker 1: and two, so she put it in the corner. So
Speaker 1: when they handed me the card like this, I got
Speaker 1: it face down. My thumb is over number three anyway,
Speaker 1: So now when I read the teleprompter, it's got one
Speaker 1: and two on that, and I read, and the new
Speaker 1: two thy fifteen Universe. He is, after we'd have done
Speaker 1: this second runner up, and he said, read the next
Speaker 1: name on the card, Steve. In my ear, it's miss
Speaker 1: Columbia and the new why else? What I say, and
Speaker 1: the new twenty and fifteen miss Universe is it wasn't
Speaker 1: number one. More name on the card. I said, Miss Columbia.
Speaker 1: Great job, Steve, going to back. I go in the back.
Speaker 1: Two minutes in the back, they're out there, celebrate my boy.
Speaker 1: Come up to me, Terrell. He said, oh gee, he
Speaker 1: said the wrong name. I said, I ain't said shit wrong.
Speaker 1: I read the card and I read what was in
Speaker 1: the teleprompter. He said, no, brud, the ladies she put
Speaker 1: the name down here. He's supposed to read that one.
Speaker 1: And then I said, dog, that ain't what we rehearsed.
Speaker 1: So I've read the fuck it. I ain't stupid. I
Speaker 1: read the card. I said, alright, i'm'a go back out
Speaker 1: here and fix it. The dude said, where are you going?
Speaker 1: I said, i'm'a go out here and fix it. He said, no,
Speaker 1: we'll fix it tomorrow in the newspaper. Fuck that we live.
Speaker 1: I'm go fix this shit now, stupidest shit I ever
Speaker 1: did you I should you should have left it alone.
Speaker 1: I should have let him fix it in the news.
Speaker 1: My stupid ass walked right out there and took the
Speaker 1: full hit. Man. I took it dead in the teeth,
Speaker 1: like it was all my fault, and it wasn't. Cause
Speaker 1: if you say in the New two thousand, fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: Universe and he said, read the next aim on the card,
Speaker 1: either one of these names or what the next name was,
Speaker 1: missus Clark Boom? I read it right, boom great. So
Speaker 1: when I did that, man, the shit went crazy. I
Speaker 1: didn't know how crazy it was until after the show
Speaker 1: Man and I went to the press conference and the
Speaker 1: pre Columbian press was there. This dude was in my ass. Man,
Speaker 1: how could you do something like that? This has never
Speaker 1: happened before. I say, hey, man, shit happened. You know.
Speaker 1: I took I said I read the wrong name, but
Speaker 1: I really didn't. But I just trying to figure.
Speaker 4: You took one for the team, took all of it.
Speaker 1: Man to tell the Q card lady her job gone.
Speaker 1: The director asked, gonna be in trouble because he said,
Speaker 1: read the next name right? I ain't do none of that.
Speaker 1: I said, I read the wrong name. So I went
Speaker 1: to dinner with my wife to nobu that night. I'm
Speaker 1: feeling a little sick my stomach, but I went to bed.
Speaker 1: When I woke up the next morning, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was the I ha never seen
Speaker 1: anything like it. Sky's falling, bruh. I was everywhere. I
Speaker 1: was the lead story of everything. I've never been ridiculed.
Speaker 1: A dude man that I really liked on seeing end.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna say his name, TJ. Holme. He beat
Speaker 1: you up pretty good, told my ass man, I'm cool
Speaker 1: with the bro. When he first came down here Atlanta, man,
Speaker 1: I took him around him, hanging with him. We cool,
Speaker 1: I c i'm'na watch you see any that this dude
Speaker 1: is roasting me. How could he? Oh my god, that's
Speaker 1: gotta be the most absurd thing. What was he thinking?
Speaker 1: I sit have gone, damn TJ. But then a couple
Speaker 1: other people I thought I was cool with, you know,
Speaker 1: they just was. They was air. Everybody was attacking me.
Speaker 1: But it was a funny thing because I just wrote
Speaker 1: on my vision board I was asking God to increase
Speaker 1: my global brand and persana uh in forty eight hours,
Speaker 1: sharp my name had been googled four billion times.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: I was the most Google subject of the year on Google,
Speaker 1: four billion impressions in forty eight hours. I was the
Speaker 1: most famous person in the world. God had increased my
Speaker 1: global brand and persona. I sure ain't appreciate the way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I appreciate what you did.
Speaker 1: You didn't have to do. That was a It was a
Speaker 1: dark moment that happened on a Saturday. Now a week
Speaker 1: later it's Christmas. I've been getting beat up, man. I've
Speaker 1: turned down every interview request. I'm talking about every news outlet.
Speaker 1: I shut my social media down. I was getting cussed
Speaker 1: out in Spanish. I learned mold. All I know is
Speaker 1: I'm a punto all no idea what it was, but
Speaker 1: every last one of them poont I was that. So
Speaker 1: I said, let me cut this off. My kids had
Speaker 1: to cut they social media off. Man. It was. They
Speaker 1: was throwing bricks over my gate at my house in
Speaker 1: Atlanta with notes on it at drug cartel was serious, man,
Speaker 1: we have serious problems. To this day, I have armed
Speaker 1: security guards at my house twenty four to seven. To
Speaker 1: this day, they was doing a number on me. So
Speaker 1: for a week. I was just in the dark, man.
Speaker 1: And then I just said, man, I ain't gonna sit
Speaker 1: here and let these people beat me up like this.
Speaker 1: So on Instagram on Christmas morning, I posted in my backyard,
Speaker 1: I was smoking a cigar. I said Mary Easter, everybody
Speaker 1: I remember, and that was my post. And they said
Speaker 1: he back, Steve got back, and I waited and I
Speaker 1: came back on my talk show and in February I
Speaker 1: did no interviews about it until I bought Miss Columbia
Speaker 1: on my shoulder to apologize to her, cause I had
Speaker 1: to apologize to her father right cause her father was mortified. Man.
Speaker 1: And I would have never done that to nobody's daughter.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: So but then after that, man, like my wife and I,
Speaker 1: we have thirteen villas across the world that have been
Speaker 1: given to us as gifts from different countries for being
Speaker 1: the most honest man on TV. We vacation for free
Speaker 1: all the time. We can go to villas in thirteen countries.
Speaker 1: You have a villa access to any time you want it.
Speaker 1: And then I got a T Mobile commercial out of
Speaker 1: the deal, the super Bowl commercial that year on T Mobile.
Speaker 1: I made more money than one uh super Bowl commercial.
Speaker 1: I made in all the damn uh miss Universe put together.
Speaker 3: So but now you on a piece of Miss Universe,
Speaker 3: Miss America, Miss.
Speaker 1: Just caf so you Universe, miss team something, miss our America.
Speaker 1: Cause when they told me to come back next you,
Speaker 1: I said, I'm not coming back, yeah, because y'all let
Speaker 1: me eat this bullet by myself. Y'all never said he
Speaker 1: read the teleprompter. The company never came out and said
Speaker 1: I'm the director. I told him to say that. Y'all
Speaker 1: just left me hanging. So I'm not doing this no more.
Speaker 1: I said, I'm out. I ain't doing it. My lawyer
Speaker 1: is sitting right over there. Man, he said, I tell
Speaker 1: you what, he gets owner ship or he don't own it.
Speaker 1: So then they gave me owner ship. I went right
Speaker 1: on back to work, smiling hard as hell.
Speaker 4: I've reason you lost everything twice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in two thousand and five, you had seventeen hundred
Speaker 3: dollars left.
Speaker 4: This was after Kings of Comedy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got seventeen hundred dollars after you made what
Speaker 3: like thirty million dollars on that tour.
Speaker 1: No, we made more than that, and you got seventeen
Speaker 1: hundred dollars to your name.
Speaker 4: What dall happened to the money where you where you
Speaker 4: were you.
Speaker 1: It's called a divorce. M I got, I got, I
Speaker 1: got jumped on man like. But it was even before
Speaker 1: the divorce, right cause, not gonna say who did it,
Speaker 1: but they got in cohoots with my uh financial plan huh.
Speaker 1: And I was writing checks to the government, yeah, for
Speaker 1: seven years, right, writing tax checks, signing the tax checks,
Speaker 1: giving them to turn in. They was keeping them, taking
Speaker 1: the money out the account like. I was paying taxes
Speaker 1: right and keeping it for theyself. When my accountant passed,
Speaker 1: a lady went in the office and found a box
Speaker 1: on the floor, and I had seven years of unpaid
Speaker 1: taxes and I'm I'm thinking, I'm even. And then my
Speaker 1: lawyer said to me, hey, man, you ain't paid taxes
Speaker 1: in seven years. Ooh, so you haven't paid in several years,
Speaker 1: plus the interest. Then I had saved some millions, but
Speaker 1: before I split the assets, she took all of that
Speaker 1: out to pay moved it. See the funny thing. I
Speaker 1: got divorced in November two thousand five. Oh, but then
Speaker 1: they went on the rampage to destroy me and act
Speaker 1: like we was in a divorce fight. We were actually
Speaker 1: just trying to split some assets. Right. The divorce was
Speaker 1: over right. It was no fight for nothing, right, it
Speaker 1: was just let's split the assets. But you took all
Speaker 1: the assets, right. And I was stuck with this tax bill, right,
Speaker 1: so I had to pay seven years of back taxes
Speaker 1: with interest and get current. I was in the world
Speaker 1: of trouble man. So when I looked up man, I
Speaker 1: had one thousand, seven hundred dollars. But that's when I
Speaker 1: went to New York and signed a contract for syndicated radio.
Speaker 1: Here come God again, rescue with me. That just gave
Speaker 1: me a little bit of money. I wasn't making what
Speaker 1: I make now. I make like ten ten MILLI a
Speaker 1: year off radio back then, you know, cause I just
Speaker 1: wanted to get in a dose, right, And that kept
Speaker 1: me at least be able to survive, right. And then
Speaker 1: that was two thousand five. I reconnected with Marjorie in
Speaker 1: two thousand five, right after the divorced two thousand and six.
Speaker 4: Killed you reconnected, So y'all had dated before.
Speaker 1: I dated in the eighties. Really yeah, I dated in
Speaker 1: the eighties.
Speaker 3: I thought they say love is like a McLaren. Once
Speaker 3: it goes cold, it can't be reheated.
Speaker 1: Your mind. Ain't gonna cold red hot, poker hot hot,
Speaker 1: Tommy hot. I'm talking about Tabasco. So it's just I
Speaker 1: got in trouble right when we started dating. I became homeless.
Speaker 1: Wasn't no cell phones. I just had a house number.
Speaker 1: She had a little baby. I figured what I got
Speaker 1: to offer this woman. I'm in trouble now, so I
Speaker 1: just would rove off. We never had an argument or nothing.
Speaker 3: You know, Wow, why did you continue to believe in
Speaker 3: Look everything that you've been like you're telling me you've
Speaker 3: gone through a divorce and things happened with the taxes,
Speaker 3: and she took half the money, three quarters of the money.
Speaker 3: Here I was thought you were selling your money because
Speaker 3: you made all this money on Kings of Comedy and
Speaker 3: you got seventeen hundred dollars to your name. Why did
Speaker 3: you believe in love twice? How do you believe in lee?
Speaker 3: Could love find love again?
Speaker 1: Because of my mom and daddy. My mom and Daddy's
Speaker 1: married sixty four years. I saw what it looked like, right,
Speaker 1: I saw what it looked like when it was hard,
Speaker 1: when it was good. I watched a man honor a woman.
Speaker 1: I've never seen nobody love nobody like my daddy loved
Speaker 1: my mama. That boy with that third grade education. My
Speaker 1: mama taught my daddy how to read and write. I
Speaker 1: never seen nobody loved nobody like Slick Harvey love iloss Via.
Speaker 1: He'll kill you about her. And he embedded that in
Speaker 1: me and my two brothers. Anybody say anything about your mama,
Speaker 1: get that ass right there right then. If you can't
Speaker 1: get that ass, come come to this house, get your brothers,
Speaker 1: but go back and get that ass. She off limits.
Speaker 1: Ain't no jokes about your mama. Ain't no nothing that
Speaker 1: that carried me to this day. Man. You can't say
Speaker 1: nothing about ilas Via Harvey. She off limits. Man. We
Speaker 1: ain't playing them game. You start that your mama shit
Speaker 1: up at the school we finish fight. When they would
Speaker 1: suspering me for fighting, my daddy said, what was you
Speaker 1: fighting for? I say, he said something about mama, He
Speaker 1: said okay.
Speaker 3: He embedded that, like okay, how he felt about your mother,
Speaker 3: his wife.
Speaker 4: You cared that with your wi.
Speaker 1: I just saw it, man. I went, Wow, that's how
Speaker 1: you do it.
Speaker 3: And so you never had that before in all your
Speaker 3: relationships before, in the marriage, you never had that.
Speaker 1: What he had with your mom. You never had that.
Speaker 1: My first marriage, I got married when I was twenty four.
Speaker 1: I wasn't the man my daddy was. I was trying
Speaker 1: to do something he was doing, and I ain't had
Speaker 1: equipment for it. I ain't know how to problem solved,
Speaker 1: navigate and negotiate. I didn't know how to shut up
Speaker 1: in the argument. I was just losing the arguments because
Speaker 1: I kept him going. I messed that up. The second one,
Speaker 1: that one right there, dog another drink. I just said,
Speaker 1: I don't do too but you got me in here. Now,
Speaker 1: you got me in here? Deep shit, So okay. The
Speaker 1: second one, obviously, that was the worst one. Normally, after a.
Speaker 3: Really really bad dramatic experience, you're like, I'm double this.
Speaker 4: It ain't ain't for me.
Speaker 1: I was. Let me tell you something. When I got
Speaker 1: divorced in two thousand and five, I was living in
Speaker 1: Trump Towers in New York, right on forty eighth and
Speaker 1: first YEP. I said, after that, this what I'm finna do.
Speaker 1: I had learned about private jet traveling stuff. By the end,
Speaker 1: even though I ain't have no money, I had just
Speaker 1: signed this other contract trying to get back from that.
Speaker 1: Seventeen hundred. I said, I'm gonna put bus schedules on
Speaker 1: my walls. I'm gonna have a riveling departure times. Right,
Speaker 1: that's how many women I'm finna roll up in here
Speaker 1: in sixty b bus schedules rivaling departure times. I'm finna
Speaker 1: roll them up in here on a continuous basis. I'm
Speaker 1: finna live my best life. God said, now you ain't. Oh.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, you about to be Nick Canell
Speaker 1: before Nick Cannon did. Nick is different. I know where
Speaker 1: the drug store at. So you was like, okay, outside,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say sorry. Nick. You said okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know where that came from. Nick, I swear
Speaker 1: to God it's a Kevin Hart prank. I didn't mean
Speaker 1: to say that. I don't even know did I just
Speaker 1: say I know where the drugs store at. You usually
Speaker 1: said that I don't even know where that came from. Man,
Speaker 1: See that's that gift that just fo Yeah. But yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I that was the plan. How did you How did
Speaker 1: you and Marjin Rican act? God said, no, you not,
Speaker 1: Now you not. You're not fin to do that. You're
Speaker 1: finna get yourself together now, don't you done? Lost? Everything twice.
Speaker 1: Why do it again? You want to do it again,
Speaker 1: or you won't see what I got for you. You like
Speaker 1: a cat Steve. The day after my divorce, I went
Speaker 1: to Veakers. I'm gambling. My bodyguard boomerang on the phone
Speaker 1: talking to this girl named Sharon in Memphis. He asked
Speaker 1: about Marjorie. Said, Marjorie doing pretty good now, and I
Speaker 1: hadn't talked to her in years. Boom tapped me on
Speaker 1: my shoulder, said, hey, man, I got a phone call.
Speaker 1: I said, dog, I'm gambling. You know, don't talk nobody.
Speaker 1: He said, no, dog, you need to take this phone
Speaker 1: cause I ain't. I thought something's wrong. So I got
Speaker 1: him from a roulette table. I said hello. She said, boy,
Speaker 1: what you want? I said, Marjorie? She said yeah, So
Speaker 1: I just said, so, how your punk ass husband. It's
Speaker 1: the first first thing I said, cause you punk ass
Speaker 1: dode to me. I still hold strong to that one.
Speaker 1: I've never retracted that statement. Okay, I said how your
Speaker 1: punk ass her husband doing? Because I had heard she
Speaker 1: had got married. She said, boy, I've been divorced three years.
Speaker 1: Oh light bull, go on, you start smiling. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about man like a head, like like a half light BULBN.
Speaker 1: The hadn't even been in invented then ding I ended
Speaker 1: up going to Memphis Meta for lunch. She told me
Speaker 1: about a divorce. I said, I'm divorced too. She said, boy,
Speaker 1: shut up line because it hadn't went public, right and
Speaker 1: it just she said, shut up. I know you got
Speaker 1: married again and I said no. She didn't really believe.
Speaker 1: It took me two weeks convinc her. We talked on
Speaker 1: the phone that New Year's Eve. She was in Hawaii
Speaker 1: with her kids. I'm on the phone with her all night, man,
Speaker 1: just remembering stuff. Hadn't seen her in Valentine's Day two
Speaker 1: thousand and six she came to New York. That was it,
Speaker 1: dog No I and God said, you that arrival and
Speaker 1: departure signed. You're gonna take that down off the wall. Wow.
Speaker 1: I showed her to you one time. You didn't get
Speaker 1: it then, but you and after her, man, I mean, really,
Speaker 1: you look at my career and my life after her,
Speaker 1: it's just been a rocket shit.
Speaker 3: You credit her for everything that we see. He's Steve
Speaker 3: Harvey sitting here today. You credit her for that. The
Speaker 3: man that you became, the way you dressed, the way
Speaker 3: you talkt the things that you have going on, good,
Speaker 3: great in your life.
Speaker 1: You said that woman over there, because I know what
Speaker 1: it is now. A lot of dudes won't do that.
Speaker 1: And I understand that you want to get your shine
Speaker 1: on you this and you that. But I was that before,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't this or that. Right. I was a
Speaker 1: comedian before. Right, I was a TV star before. So
Speaker 1: you tell me what difference is. It got to be
Speaker 1: hurt right because for the first time, man, I had
Speaker 1: peace at my house. Uh, when you got peace at
Speaker 1: the crib, dog, you can plug in your battery pack
Speaker 1: and get rejuvenated to go out here and deal with
Speaker 1: the rest of this shit. You got to go deal
Speaker 1: with right, because d hey, man, you know them folks
Speaker 1: out there. The ain't not finna change racism out there.
Speaker 1: It's on TV, it's on the internet. It's alive. And well,
Speaker 1: she would give me the juice and the charge I
Speaker 1: needed to go back out there. She encouraged me. She
Speaker 1: told me I was something. When I felt bad, she
Speaker 1: gave me the But we was at the house, laughing,
Speaker 1: having a good time. Man, If you look at since
Speaker 1: two thousands, we got married in two thousand and seven,
Speaker 1: if you look at from two thousand and seven, I
Speaker 1: got Family Feud in two thousand and nine. The book
Speaker 1: came out two thousand and nine, MS Universe. After that,
Speaker 1: the talk show after that, Little Big Shots, after that,
Speaker 1: the Judge Show, the radio show got big after that,
Speaker 1: four books later, the movie came out, Think Like a Man.
Speaker 1: All this after that? What else is it? I just
Speaker 1: locked in with this check man, and she gave me
Speaker 1: a lot of good advice. Man. She made me see
Speaker 1: things in a different way, and it was her man,
Speaker 1: And it's okay, man. People don't want to do that now.
Speaker 1: I know they tired of hearing me saying, but what
Speaker 1: you want me to say? Should? I ain't got nothing
Speaker 1: else for you. Should. It wasn't just all me. She
Speaker 1: gave me the mindset to be me. And that's crazy. Man.
Speaker 1: It's like there's a dude named Nuri Mohomet. I wish
Speaker 1: I had my phone. Man, you could hear what this
Speaker 1: dude said about relationships. It's the coldest thing he said,
Speaker 1: other than your relationship with God. Who you choose to
Speaker 1: spend the rest of your life with is the single
Speaker 1: most important decision you'll ever make, because your other half
Speaker 1: will either will your other half will be your better half,
Speaker 1: will make you half of what you could be. She
Speaker 1: will either inspire you to greatness or reduce you to mediocrity.
Speaker 1: He and then he went on to talk about He
Speaker 1: quoted Minister Lewis Faa Khan and then at the end
Speaker 1: of it he said, so choose wisely. And that was
Speaker 1: the first time, man, that I'd ever chose wisely. And
Speaker 1: it was the best thing. Because a woman like an
Speaker 1: elevator button. Man, they can take you up or down.
Speaker 1: If you get the right one, you got something. You
Speaker 1: get the wrong one. But it's like a man to
Speaker 1: a woman. If you get the right man, you can
Speaker 1: go somewhere. You get the wrong man, you off. Like
Speaker 1: I heard you say one time, well I was laughing.
Speaker 1: Or you said you paid for a divorce. I said,
Speaker 1: this dude right here was committed.
Speaker 3: But see, I want people to say, she was getting
Speaker 3: the divorce already.
Speaker 4: I didn't break the home up because because you know,
Speaker 4: if people taking it one with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she was getting a divorce, had the money, right,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with that? Right, I'm trying to invest in
Speaker 1: my future. See these dudes killing that's what's wrong with
Speaker 1: this generation today. These young boys today? What does she
Speaker 1: bring to the table? The hell you mean? Man? What
Speaker 1: do your ass bring to the table? You got a
Speaker 1: woman that can come to the table, that can make
Speaker 1: another U what else she needs to slide up to
Speaker 1: the table with? What about your job? What happened to
Speaker 1: men who are supposed to be responsible? Do you know
Speaker 1: that it's our job to take care of a woman
Speaker 1: and some children, to have a family. That's our damn job?
Speaker 1: But what happens to the when the woman tell you
Speaker 1: I don't need a man's den? Well? They needed what? Okay,
Speaker 1: if you don't how that's working, you know how that's working.
Speaker 1: Who don't need no man? I'm independent? I can do
Speaker 1: for myself. Yeah, but what do you want to? Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 1: you can drop a transmission, you can say and blast
Speaker 1: your house, But hell do you want to if somebody
Speaker 1: could get out there and drop this transmission for you
Speaker 1: and saying blast your house, why don't you gonna get
Speaker 1: your nails done? I'm not trying to reduce a woman
Speaker 1: to nothing else be all you can be, But damn,
Speaker 1: who don't need a man? That's a lie? What man
Speaker 1: don't need a woman? I tell you what I tell
Speaker 1: you what I tell you what, Try to live without them.
Speaker 1: Try to live your life without women. This ain't by
Speaker 1: a lot of damn man, it's some bullshit without women.
Speaker 1: If it wasn't for what would you? Aristolo Nasi said
Speaker 1: it best. He said, if women did not exist, all
Speaker 1: the money in the world would have no meaning. Doc
Speaker 1: women is everything that it catch me out. They the
Speaker 1: licked man. But these young boys done forgot it because
Speaker 1: these women out here they trying to be They've had
Speaker 1: to be independent because they ain't got the right man.
Speaker 1: But this system of marriage is still good, this system
Speaker 1: of a man taking care of a woman. That's really
Speaker 1: how it's supposed to be. All the rest of us
Speaker 1: bullshit man, and y'all need to put tricking yourself with
Speaker 1: this new way of thinking, because there's no way of think.
Speaker 1: This new way of thinking ain't getting y'all no damn where.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I got in trouble on one time. This
Speaker 1: group came after me because I said Marjorie belonged to me,
Speaker 1: and they said, she's not a possession, she's a person,
Speaker 1: she's a hu, she is she mine? What is you
Speaker 1: talking about? She belonged to me? But I got news
Speaker 1: for you, I'm hers. I belonged to her. See you.
Speaker 1: If you don't like that system, carry your punk ass on,
Speaker 1: go do something else and let me know how to
Speaker 1: work out for you. I want to belong to somebody.
Speaker 1: I want somebody to belong to me. I take care
Speaker 1: of my wife and my family, because that's you belong
Speaker 1: to somebody.
Speaker 3: In your previous relationship, did you feel like they belonged
Speaker 3: to you or you belonged to them?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I did my first marriage. Yeah, I felt that way.
Speaker 1: I just didn't have the equipment. I just wasn't the
Speaker 1: man I needed to be. Did the best I could.
Speaker 1: I just came up short. You know, I've apologized to
Speaker 1: her because it really was my fault. I got married
Speaker 1: too young. How's your relationship with her now? I mean
Speaker 1: we're cool. We called you, you know, we called you.
Speaker 1: You know. She gave me three beautiful kids. I got twins.
Speaker 1: My oldest son sitting over there, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So, how you got three kids? Marjor had kids? How
Speaker 3: was the blended family? How did that work?
Speaker 1: These? Oh that' shit hard that you're gonna get me
Speaker 1: cool by y'all like, Nah, that shit hard. They wasn't
Speaker 1: an agreement. They they went bolding. One night in Memphis
Speaker 1: when me and Marjorie first got together, we bought all
Speaker 1: the kids together, all seven of them, and all the
Speaker 1: girls went bowling and came back and decided they didn't
Speaker 1: want us to get married and said they don't think
Speaker 1: it's the right thing to do, and they need more
Speaker 1: time to get to know us. And I'm sitting up
Speaker 1: here looking at some people that they ain't got shit.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting y'all ain't got a relationship, a good ass
Speaker 1: job or career. I'm paying for colleges and shit, I
Speaker 1: don't know how I'm listening to y'all making some damn decisions.
Speaker 1: Y'all ain't got one boyfriend that doesn't work thus far.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to hear you. Finna tell me
Speaker 1: how to live. My sons was over there, cool with it, Brodery,
Speaker 1: Jason and Winning. They sitting over there, they cool with
Speaker 1: everything right there, four girls total just may have totally
Speaker 1: totally gainsty. Ain't none of them got nobody. Why am
Speaker 1: I listening? How did you win them over?
Speaker 4: I didn't you like I'm doing this, Melliam Marbwie.
Speaker 1: We doing this song, I love this girl, this girl
Speaker 1: best thing for me. Now we gonna work. Now, we're
Speaker 1: gonna create an atmosphere of love. And everybody's invited into it, right,
Speaker 1: and everybody want to come into it, can come into it.
Speaker 1: And it was a point man, where like all of
Speaker 1: them except the oldest one, my two daughters had graduated
Speaker 1: from college. Morgan was out of college. So the three
Speaker 1: girls were living on their own. Everybody else lived in
Speaker 1: the house, the three boys and the daughter Laurie grew
Speaker 1: up with four damn brothers, so she was and we
Speaker 1: could protect at the house with them brothers. Shitd and
Speaker 1: got out of hand. Now, you know, we can't watch
Speaker 1: it now because I'd have beens sawed off a bunch
Speaker 1: of these little you know. But like at the house
Speaker 1: or we had full control of what was going on.
Speaker 1: And it was hard, man, because they were trying to
Speaker 1: evolve and get to know each other. And you know,
Speaker 1: some of the relationships is really good and some of
Speaker 1: them is just they cordial, you know, But that's just
Speaker 1: the way it is, you know, And I love to
Speaker 1: tell you it was a coon by y'all. Member, we
Speaker 1: have some great family vacation. We've had some great times.
Speaker 1: Recently we got great holidays. But you know, I think
Speaker 1: for the closest, the boys are the closest, you know, right,
Speaker 1: and then Winting and Laurie is the closest of them all.
Speaker 1: Winting and Laurier they like they they mud together. They
Speaker 1: they mixed. But you know, and then the boys they good,
Speaker 1: you know, the sons, they all they all good.
Speaker 3: You have all the you mentioned, You have thirteen villas,
Speaker 3: You have all these lavish places. Where did Steve Harvey
Speaker 3: go to relax to just be Margie's husband?
Speaker 1: Sixteen hundred acres an hour thirty minutes south of Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I bought the uh, well, we bought the Chick fil
Speaker 1: a ranch. Huh sixteen hundred acres? Is that where you
Speaker 1: be fishing at? I got nine lakes down the shop.
Speaker 1: You gotta come down there. I come out a beach.
Speaker 1: You no e old off, see Steve, you can come
Speaker 1: down there and fish, eat your fish. Ste I know
Speaker 1: I know that what everybody say from Steve. You I
Speaker 1: grew up in rural South Georgia. How you say you was,
Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be double nicoling June. Now I'm two sixes. Steve,
Speaker 1: I got eleven years on your Steve. I got, Steve,
Speaker 1: I got. I caught a fish so big to picture,
Speaker 1: weigh six pounds pass. I said, that's a sharp mess
Speaker 1: right there. I caught a fish so big to picture
Speaker 1: away six fronts. Boy, But I got some hogs down there.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. I got a lake for
Speaker 1: you that I don't let nobody fish. What you got?
Speaker 4: What you got trout, crappy catfish.
Speaker 1: Trout is in there right now to feeding. But they
Speaker 1: gonna die as soon as it's seventy degrees, They're gonna
Speaker 1: be dead. I used to use them for winter fishing.
Speaker 1: But man, I had a guy come through and turn
Speaker 1: my lakes out from me. I killed off all the
Speaker 1: fish I bought it in. Nothing but big female bass
Speaker 1: out of Florida. Nothing but females, big mouth, So they
Speaker 1: ain't sitting on the beds nesting and all that. They
Speaker 1: steady hunting. Yeah, I got. I put four hundred pounds
Speaker 1: of blue gill in there, and they just walking around
Speaker 1: just eating it. Oh, I want to I want it,
Speaker 1: That's what I want to. I want to cut.
Speaker 3: That's what I want to pish it, because see if
Speaker 3: I catch them, when I catch you when they're bedding.
Speaker 3: See I throw out their bed. They're gonna try to
Speaker 3: get that lure out the bed.
Speaker 1: Yeah. See, but it's a dog fight now because I
Speaker 1: got one lake in the back. I don't let nobody
Speaker 1: fish it.
Speaker 4: While I was in there.
Speaker 1: Hogs, all hogs I loaded back then five pounders in there.
Speaker 3: So they probably like seven eight, No, sir, I got hogs.
Speaker 3: Oh you got you got from double digit?
Speaker 1: You got them? Your dog? I got a twelve pound
Speaker 1: I'll show you a picture. You catch a relief though, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: all the time, I got chips in my fish. Okay,
Speaker 1: I monitor My fish is monitored. That's why I don't
Speaker 1: know nobody come back there. You I catch you with
Speaker 1: a string a fish your ass, No, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: I'll shoot your ass if I catch you any fish
Speaker 1: that you eat out of there, yeah I will. I
Speaker 1: got one. I got one pond where you can fish
Speaker 1: and eat. You know, any trout you catch, you can eat.
Speaker 1: But they're gonna be gone in a minute because once
Speaker 1: that water hits seventy they gonna die. But them bass,
Speaker 1: my hybrid bass for my kids camp that come down there.
Speaker 1: They can we can cook them. But I don't really
Speaker 1: got much of that going on. You know, I very
Speaker 1: rarely do that. You know, man, you gotta come down there.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna come down there. So that's so that's where
Speaker 3: you go. You got this big mansion on the Chattahoochie
Speaker 3: that's your Is that your prize?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I can't. I can't complain about that. That that
Speaker 1: hoochie that dropped in my man. My girl did that.
Speaker 1: My girl bought that house when COVID first struck right,
Speaker 1: And I told the baby, we can't buy no house
Speaker 1: like that. What are you talking about? I'm I they
Speaker 1: just sending me home. Family feud shut down in March, right,
Speaker 1: we take from March to the summer. We our income. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I said, bab, we can't do nothing like this right now.
Speaker 1: You know. Marjorie told me, she said, Steve, you don't
Speaker 1: know how much money you got. You make it. I'll
Speaker 1: watch it. She said, I can put this whole deal together.
Speaker 1: I said, Baby, it ain't the right time. She said,
Speaker 1: if I do it, when you sign the papers, I said, baby,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you cause I don't. I don't keep it right.
Speaker 1: That's how much I trust her, though. But you know,
Speaker 1: she don't do nothing. She don't do nothing without telling
Speaker 1: me any right, So we well, I know what's there,
Speaker 1: but I don't really. She did the whole deal herself. Man.
Speaker 1: She found the house and everything because Tyler built this house.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me tell you what this dude did when
Speaker 1: he first built it. He invited me over. I walking
Speaker 1: up the front steps, I told God, said God, I
Speaker 1: got to have something like this. How you can't nobody
Speaker 1: see you in the front or the back? I said, man.
Speaker 1: And then Tyler put it on sale for way more money,
Speaker 1: and it it. It sold to this dude that sold
Speaker 1: his arm and company. And I went out to Beverly
Speaker 1: Hills and got a house. And then when that was
Speaker 1: over with, I was going back to live in my house,
Speaker 1: my other house. I got a nice house. Man. The
Speaker 1: kids grew up here, and everything was moving back. And
Speaker 1: on my mama's birthday, I was very depressed. That morning,
Speaker 1: March twenty seventh, I was crushed.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: We was out of work, going home, and she said
Speaker 1: I put an offer in on the house. She told me,
Speaker 1: i'ma she put off here. The real estate agent said,
Speaker 1: he will never ever sign for that much. He'll never
Speaker 1: take that amount. It's impossible. It's Harvey. He's wasting your time.
Speaker 1: She's She wrote him a long letter too. She said,
Speaker 1: this is not a negotiation. I am offering you this.
Speaker 1: My husband loves the house. He's been that we'll buy
Speaker 1: a sight unseen if you don't want this amount, it's okay.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to insult you. On my mama's birthday,
Speaker 1: he called and said, I take the off. That's how
Speaker 1: I got the house.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: That girl and the house she really wanted was around
Speaker 1: the corner. It was on seventeen acres too, and I
Speaker 1: was gonna save my money and get her that house.
Speaker 1: She said, no, Steve, you go to work every day.
Speaker 1: I don't turn no corners. She said, well, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get the one you want it. I said, babe, but
Speaker 1: you like the other one better. She said, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get the house you want, and she did it.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get you out of here.
Speaker 1: On this.
Speaker 3: Being from Cleveland, obviously you're a Cleveland sports fan. What's
Speaker 3: your favorite sport? What's Steve Harvey's favorite sport to watch?
Speaker 1: Football? Football? Hell, there ain't even no question. They play
Speaker 1: hard from week one, they do they answer is in
Speaker 1: at week one? Yeah, ain't no low manager, ain't no sooner.
Speaker 1: Preseason over with hike. It's on and crack and here
Speaker 1: they come. Yeah. See basketball, you gotta wait till the playoffs. Right, Baseball,
Speaker 1: you gotta way to the player. I can't stand watching baseball.
Speaker 1: I'd rather be just. I'd rather watch some ants build
Speaker 1: a new hill. I'm a Cleveland Brown, die hard fan man.
Speaker 1: I've been dying with them boys forever. I'm a huge
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson fan. I have no problem with Deshaun Washington.
Speaker 1: I do have one suggestion, I s My only suggestion is,
Speaker 1: ain't no problem with getting massage. It's just you have
Speaker 1: got to stop turning over. Just stay face down, Just
Speaker 1: stay face down. All be good. Oh that does do
Speaker 1: not turn over.
Speaker 3: We're gonna rapple that, ladies and gentlemen, guys, ben put
Speaker 3: some hand together for Steve Harvey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all my life, grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle,
Speaker 2: one slice got the all my life.
Speaker 1: I'll be grinding all my life all my.
Speaker 2: Life, been running all my life, sacrifice that will pay
Speaker 2: the price. One slice got to brow the dice, that's
Speaker 2: wall all my life.
Speaker 1: I've been running all my life. M hm