Steve Harvey on Divorces, Showering In Bathrooms, Importance Of Women & Daughter Lori | EP. 78

my first marriage I got married when I. was 24. I messed that up the second one. [Music]. another drink. I just I just said I don't do two but. you know you got me in here now. all my life grinding on my. [Music]. life SWAT all my life I be grinding all. my life all my life been running all my. life sacrifice hustle paid the price.

wanna slice not to roll a dice that's. why all my life I've been grinding all. my life. hello welcome to another edition of Club. Shay Shay I am your host Shannon sharp. I'm also the Prada club and the guy. that's stopping by for conversation on a. drink today when we started Club Shea we. told you we're going to try to bring you. the biggest athletes entertainers and. celebrities and we think we've landed. Moby Dick today he's one of the most. recognized and beloved Global. entertainers in the world one of the.

most powerful voices in media he's an. Emmy award-winning TV personality and. talk show host New York Times. best-selling author National Association. of broadcaster Hall of Famer he has a. star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame a. comedy Legend top rated radio. personalities yeah popular game show and. TV host producer actor writer fashion. entrepreneur media Mogul investor. motivational speaker an innovative. business leader active humanitarian and. Global philanthropist a true true. Renaissance Man none other than the.

great Steve Harvey Steve all that I I. best intro I've ever had did I leave. anything on I probably did but don't. worry about yeah. the Cardone is so big Steve. we're out of time how you doing. I'm good first of all let me say this. man. I don't do a lot of podcasts I've only. done a few. but when you call man I had to do it. because of all the people. on television your commentary you're the.

one dude that thinks just like me man. you ain't probably said nothing I ain't. disagreed with. nothing I like your straight your. honesty Your forwardness Man. that country has baritone. that you'd be mispronouncing words it's. me you and Perkins me you in person. you're gonna have a podcast. tomorrow yeah they said it.

Steve I know you I know you you know. health is wealthy you're doing the right. thing but would you would you would you. Grace me and have a drink with me this. actually is my own kindness I actually. do that don't worry about that pull that. in there I drink I drink a little bit a. little bit yeah I ain't gonna be drunk. no no no no we're not gonna be drunk no. we're not gonna yeah I ain't never been. drunk before in my life man that's a. good thing yeah I've never had more than. one drink. that's a good thing too. my brother to all the success thank you. bro. we're gonna send you here we're gonna.

sit in your way with a bottle of this oh. that's smooth yeah all we need now is. cigar. yeah that's all right. I appreciate it no that's pretty good. man so how have you been. man I'm good you know uh. working on my health man most important. thing right now. um I'm good man I really can't you know. I've entered a new phase okay I was out. the country recently.

and I was uh. kept talking to God about these deals. you know. and we get right to the edge and we. almost get that something would happen. then we almost get to another one and. something would happen. and then I just figured it out man God. said I want you to go home and I came. back out the country and I just went. home he said I know you asking me for a. lot of stuff but I want you to just take. take a minute and look at everything I'd. gave you look at everything I'd have. done for you.

that now just let me know you all right. and then we'll go from there right but I. had to come home man for the past couple. months and just look at all he'd have. done for me. I'm good so you were thinking that. because the deals weren't happening God. revealed to you you need to go home and. be thankful for what I've already given. you instead of what you don't have right. now because your my focus was in what I. was trying to make happen and I was. losing sight of what had already. happened right and if you want more you.

got to be grateful for what you have but. I was so busy wanting them more right I. forgot to focus and take a look at what. he'd already done right I came home man. I went home sat around my house for a. while went down to the ranch did some. fishing just look I looked at all that. space and stuff and all of a sudden I. realized I said man I'm really good. right I forgot okay God I see what you. were saying right yeah he'll give you. some more but we appreciate what you. have could you just please please be a.

little bit appreciative on what I know. already done you mentioned your health. as well and I see you I follow you and I. see you exercising I see you eating. right. what was the turning point that you said. you know what I'm I'm healthy but I. believe I Can Do Better I can be more. healthy well you know man I had a couple. of health issues man that I discovered. you know I'm 66 man. I got to looking around man and I had. had high blood I had uh. this thing called Chargers which is. immune disorder okay you know I get my.

blood work done about four times a year. okay but white blood count was low. couldn't get it up and then I I was. struggling with uh uh sleep apnea okay. you know I was waking up in the middle. of the night I had all this going on man. and I said wait a minute man hold up I. got I gotta do something so. I went to this company man and I found. this song this uh brother who was one of. the top uh uh nutritional scientists. ever come out of Harvard named uh John. John Lyons okay and I went to him and I.

said hey man I found out that drinking. green drinks is really good for you. right but I I just can't gag it down. every morning you know what I'm saying. Kale like [ __ ] I don't really understand. it's awful I don't it's not in the Bible. it's not a kale it's for four-legged. animals only you gotta have short Square. teeth that's blocked at the top because. you gotta you got to get that kale in. your mouth and work with it yeah yeah. and I I just gagging it down every.

morning I said hey man can y'all come up. with a green drink from it that tastes. good and so we formulated about a year. and a half it took did a lot of tests. and finally we came up with this product. called the Elevate you this delicious. green drink and I started taking it okay. I started feeling better and it actually. gave me more energy so then right I was. able to get in that gym okay and I could. start addressing some of these real. issues and right now man I'm I'm getting. there man are you said that you were. struggling sleeping was it because you.

have a hard time because I think of. people that are successful really have a. hard time turning their mind off they. constantly thinking they constantly like. I need to do this I need to do this I. need to do this and so the mind is. constantly focused it never relaxes so. you can't sleep that's exactly right. that's exactly it and the whole thing is. you got to turn your mind off yes you. know and come up with stuff like. melatonin or something like that and. then they got a little thing called LDN. and all this here but really man when. you hustling and grinding yes that's.

that's a cost for everything correct you. know you don't get to where we are right. people like this you don't get here free. right this this come with a cost right. and it's going to cost you a lot of free. time it's gonna cost you a lot of your. time and that's just it you know people. they got mad at me one time because I I. did drop the video while I was talking. about if you want to get rich you can't. sleep eight hours right and then here. come all the haters online talking about. Steve Harvey prefers wealth over health.

no no I don't I would give anything to. be fully healthy right but at the same. time. if you're trying to get it and talking. about it really have it you got to Lock. and Load man right you ain't ate if you. sleep eight hours you sleep a third of. your life. 1 30 of your life you spent sleep now. you tell me how you gonna get successful. in the United States of America and you. sleep a third of your life help me. understand that how that's possible then. again well Oprah sleep over billionaire.

right but Oprah didn't sleep like that. trying to accumulate that yeah. she brought us lead 20 hours a day now. she could sleep. can lay that probably about four or five. years. they come still have plenty of money. right I sleep four five years man I I. got to start over. you from a small town in Welk West. Virginia yeah.

um what was life like growing up in that. small town how long did you stay there. until I was five okay so you didn't. spend a whole lot of time there then you. moved to Cleveland so most of your. former in the years what you remember is. in Cleveland correct right right but. that form because every summer I had to. go back oh and worked the farm but my. uncle and grandfather okay because we. had raised two hogs right and we killed. them in the fall right we had to go back. and in the summer I had to go work all. the crops because that's what we ate. because my dad was a construction worker. right so he couldn't my father couldn't.

work in the winter time right so we had. to go down here and kill these two hogs. and get all these crops from the summer. you know put them in the salt salt house. you know like this yes and that was work. man you had to work so I really learned. a lot. uh growing up in the country but then. our City Board truce I had the best of. both worlds man you know I ain't. flushing toilet till I was five years. old I ain't know what that was right I. ain't know they had I ain't know you. could cut your faucet on in your house. right you know so I I learned a lot I.

was poor but I ain't I didn't really. know it because everybody around you was. poor everybody went to the bathroom. outside yeah ain't nobody had no. waterfalls well water even the white. people so you know what see that's why I. think kind of like when you say that you. and I have a share a lot of the same. ideals because I grew up in rural South. Georgia yeah and I didn't take I didn't. really take a shower in a house until. I was in the NFL I was 21. really 22. yeah we had no indoor run and no no. indoor plumbing no running water we. drank well water I went outside the.

first 20 years I didn't know what it was. like to use the bathroom inside. see that's what she people but see you. you said you said you're 66 right yeah. I'll be 55 in June yeah this was the 80s. this one 1960. this wasn't 1950 1940. this was the 80s. until until my brother purchased my. grandmother house in September of 1988. was the first time I actually used the. bathroom in someone's house other than. that I went outside. see that's that uh you know the average.

person don't even no they they can't. understand like I talked to you know a. lot a lot I you know how a lot of young. people right. and they say man like my sons went dead. you saw everything get invented yeah. color TV you know I saw we had Pro TV. where the one dude had called TV on that. street we all went around his house just. see called TV right it was 13 inches. about 25 people we were packed in there. you know trying to watch his damn TV we.

I saw cell phones getting invented so. you know at the internet I saw all that. man so it's a it gives you a different. appreciation I think you said that you. had a speech impediment when you were. growing up and that you had a teacher. that said you weren't going to make it. because you stuttered yeah and there's a. someone in your community and someone in. the deli that says slow down say what. you want to you know take three and then. start over again how did that make you. feel when you like she crushed my I'm a.

kid and she already crushing my dear. teacher yeah she's supposed to lift you. that this dream killing. you know I said what kind of. because she we had to write an. assignment what you want to be when you. grow up okay first day of school right. sixth grade and I write I want to be on. TV she called everybody name had them. stand up then she made me come to the. front I go to the front I think I'm. fixing to get a gold star I got the best. house right because I knew all my lands.

was better because Lonnie cage had wrote. on his paper he won't be a doctor his. ass couldn't even read in the reading. group so I don't know how long it gonna. be no damn doctor this has got to be so. at least I wrote something that had a. chance right Lonnie ass got about a. bigger chance of being a doctor as I got. him walking my ass to the Moon by Friday. so when she called me up there man and I. I she said why did you write this on. your paper and I said because that was. our assignment for today right and then.

I had a little stuttering problem so I. was studying a little bit and she said. who do you know on TV in this. neighborhood. and so I started by the tone of her. voice I could tell that this wasn't. going the way I just wouldn't feel bold. gold star yeah this half of trying to. break me right in front of these kids. right and she was doing a damn good job. right she was crushing me who in this. neighborhood have been on TV. who in your family ever been on TV who. in this school been around TV and what. make you think you can be on TV and look.

at you standing there you can't even. talk. and you write something more reasonable. on your paper she crushed me man I said. damn this is a teacher right you know. this is in the 68 man right I'm sitting. here looking at this lady like God dog. but I just I kept my paper and took it. home right and my mama said your daddy. gonna beat you when you get home for. being a smarter because she had called. home said your child is smarter right. because I want to be on TV everybody a. basketball player football player right. I don't like tackle right I ain't like.

it you know you throw me on the ground I. want to fight you know I ain't I ain't. good at this right so when my father. came home she said slick this boy been a. smart addict up into school and he said. well what what'd you do I said I wrote. on the paper I want to be on TV my. father said what's wrong with that. and I saw a little glimmer of hope. because I wasn't going to get this ass. whooping I thought I was going right he. said well your boy can be whatever you. want to be and I it was like our. thoughts didn't get executed you know. because when my daddy came home it was.

time for that he was the Executioner. right my mama was a judge she had down. the sentence my daddy was an execution. at the house so I'm finna get executed. being when he said that I the red phone. rang from the governor's office he got a. hell of a priest. and he said you don't worry about that. you keep that paper and you read your. paper every morning every night. and I did I kept that paper towel about. 27 years old and then I got in comedy. between so I didn't get on TV till I was.

22 I was 38 years old. wow so so in school were you a good. student in school. I don't know. you pause too long yeah I was trying to. figure out what I was there. I had perfect attendance because missing. school was I would get murdered right my. fall of the month they didn't play that. but you had to work if you missed school. they put you in the field he wasn't sick. you couldn't stay home because you were. sick you had to work sick yeah you had. to work what do you mean you sick.

get your ass up to school and learn. yourself something right I was I. couldn't be sick right I went to school. uh wasn't a good student man because I. just wasn't interested right and I just. were you a Class Clown not at all so it. because a lot of times you know idea we. did they call it bullying we called it. picking oh he picking that such and such. did kids pick at you because you had. this speech probably I had a stuttering. problems you can't have a stuttering. problem at no Public School in Cleveland.

oh man and then big little boy with some. stutter now I come in the room and they. have my Silhouette on the chalkboard. they have my nose and then my lips would. go all the way to the other end of the. chalkboard and they say Steve guess who. that is I know who the hell is and you. know and then they talk to me and they. go lily look look. listen. so I took a speech uh impediment uh. speech therapist came right and that's. when I knew I was in trouble because.

speech therapists for people who stutter. they don't they've never stuttered so. they can't fix a stutter so they give. you these dumb ass uh these drills yeah. avoid words with PR in it right avoid. words with s t in it my name's Steve. um lady where are we going with this now. so now I gotta avoid my own damn name. right now I'm sitting here man trying to. what's your name.

and man it was just a disaster man I I. got picked on a lot and then but that's. what I that's why I started my quit at. because I had to develop comebacks yeah. because I was the target all day right. and so when we went to the basketball. court and that's the one game I could. play was hoops right because I had hops. I was real thin but Lord have mercy I. could fly okay but I would go to the. court and stand behind the chain link.

fence. and I'd be talking so much trash I would. put my lips up against the chain lick. since and be nothing be out there on the. court but in my lips and I'd be talking. much trash man right and I everybody be. dying laughing and uh that's what that's. when I learned my first lesson of how to. study the room I was talking about this. dude so bad one time he got tired of me. and he said hey little man keep on I'm.

gonna hurt you. but it was some girls watching oh okay. you can't let it go now so now I got to. go home yeah yeah yeah yeah so now I'm. pressed up against the fence now I don't. see he to loot rhyme I'm watching the. game I'm looking for him I don't see him. I didn't know he had loop around behind. me when I realized where he had he had. his whole hand against the back of my. head he was pushing my eyes and. everything everything was through the. field that dude was Hamming me boy he. got me good and that's when I first.

learned okay. you got to learn how to read the room. right because all these jokes and that. was the beginning of it you know was. talking trash right So you you're in. Cleveland you're going back but you're. basically the majority of your years in. Cleveland what was it about Cleveland. that helped shape young Steve into what. we see Cleveland hard man. you've been to Cleveland I have it ain't. it ain't it ain't nothing kind Cleveland. is a tough city right if you know if you.

come out of Cleveland's like coming out. of Detroit if you come out of Cleveland. you can make it right you know you look. at the dudes like Arsenio Hall right. Drew Carey you know cats like that come. from Cleveland man arsenio's uh daddy. was a minister over there because he. went to John Adams I went to Glenville. we both went to Kent State okay you know. and uh it's just a hard place man. it was a lot of gangs but it wasn't. gangs like today everybody was in the.

game because we had to cover each other. when we walked to school right so we was. you know the Jets. but we had to cross Peewee Marquee to. delamours the devil disciple or Lord. Noble prophets where the cross they. territory to go to school right so it. was a track meet right all the way to. school and all the way back and you had. to have your dudes with you and then you. know we ride our bikes down the. Edgewater Park and fight on Saturday we. went to church parking lot you bring six. I'm gonna bring six now if you bring six. you stupid because I'm gonna bring nine.

whatever the greed number was it ain't. gonna be that I patted right when we go. down there so everybody in my. neighborhood had hands right we threw. hands man everybody could box that's. what got me in Golden Gloves all like. that and it was just my father's rigid. upbringing man about manhood do what you. say you're gonna do. be honorable be tough and never quit. that that and then my mama was a Sunday. school teacher okay so that combination.

of faith in my daddy's uh work ethic and. manhood combined my mama was never. go to church go to church love the Lord. the Lord Ain't Gonna Leave You that my. mama just ingrained you understand that. what she was saying when you were that. young because a lot of times you don't. realize what they're saying is so. impactful until you're much much older. and they're gone of course not I didn't. get it I thought all this going to. church this world why are we in here.

right. Monday night prayer I mean Tuesday night. bible study Wednesday night what are we. doing. you know I only want I don't. I got so sick of I was so sick of going. to church I asked my big brother one. time I said hey let me ask you something. how hot is hell because if he could have. gave me a number that I could work with. like 126. I was just gonna like just go. and go to hell right because dog I ain't. on the sports teams or nothing because.

I'm in church all the time right but I. didn't get it I didn't get it. until I I didn't really get it until I. was homeless I ain't really get it and. everything she said to me I heard it. over and over and over and over and over. but as you write as a child nah man I. didn't get it I didn't see it you say. you went to Kent State. did why did you go you you and you said. about the guy that was saying that he. wanted to be a doctor you had told me. that you weren't a good student why.

would you go to college if you're not a. good student I don't hey man tell you. the truth my best friend Ricardo I heard. he was going to Kent State I didn't even. apply for college but see Kent was where. they had killed the four kids right the. National Guard yeah yeah so a lot of. blacks. quit going to college down there right. so they had this thing called Cleveland. scholarship program that would give you. free room and board if you went to Kent. State so he had signed up for that. program so when I found out he was going.

I had no ambition of going to college it. never crossed my mind I was going to. work construction with my daddy just. like my two brothers that's why I was. going I'm going to be a construction. worker right. and every summer when I was in high. school I worked construction with my. daddy that's what I knew this this ain't. for me yeah no I got to do something. else yeah that's hard work boy just. standing out on this bridge it hot with. a Hot Tar mop in my hand I said no I'm. gonna go to college but I went there I.

didn't have no study habits or nothing. right because I had worked all through. high school like Pick and Pay and. grocery stores and stuff like that I had. a bike and I when I was a senior man I. had enough credits while I was through. with school at 12 o'clock right at one. o'clock I was on my job how you you done. because I wasn't done with my College I. wasn't done what I had high school at 12. o'clock I ain't having no credit and I. was I was an okay student I went great. but you did enough you you did so you. applied it was you wouldn't apply. yourself you were a good student you. didn't apply yourself dude I was a.

better Criminal. you talking about cheating. well I knew who to set next to we had. systems right I'm gonna graduate right. because we had systems right you know we. was getting tests I was doing everything. I ain't gonna lie to you I did. everything man just graduated so I had. plenty credits right there wasn't no A's. or nothing like that only every other. guy was in gym physical I got a straight. A's engine right because I love anything. to do with that but I got out of school.

I had enough Plus Cleveland Public. School man come here. we had a valley Victorian and all that I. ain't and I didn't know what that was. right yeah I was at the graduation just. sitting there we had 695 people in my. graduating class wow I graduated 690. it's 6.95 that's a huge school for back. then though it was 3 000 people at our. high school. uh we was number one track team in the. state every year I was there and Teddy. Ginn just won the first state football.

championship for East Center School in. the history. that Glenville boy special place I went. to school with Ted again okay yeah it's. a special place man. I heard you said that when you did. construction you realized like you were. standing on that bridge with that hot. tarm up in your hand this ish ain't for. me is that and I tell kids the exact. same thing what you said have a lot of. jobs as a kid because it'll let you know. what you don't want to do as an adult. because if you're a kid with all that. energy. and you don't want to do that when you.

get an adult as you get older you don't. want no parts of that you hey man it was. it was crystal clear to me I said man. I'm not the laborer dude now my father. made us no hard work I've been working. on farms since I was a kid right I was. plowing behind a mule when I was 11. okay by myself wow handling the teal. plow with that little one yeah I know. exactly I'm working yeah so I always. knew what hard work was. but I that that thing I had wrote on the.

paper when I was 10 that never left my. mind right I want to be on TV I kept. like I watched everybody that was on TV. Bill Cosby was the greatest influence. because he was on I spy and early 60s in. 66 yeah so when he came on TV he was the. first black person that had a speaking. role so I'm looking at this dude he out. he talking to white folks. and telling them what to do right and. then Muhammad Ali was out here right.

okay saying I am the greatest right so I. had worked that had we had the same. birthday man so I I adopted Muhammad Ali. as my mentor right in my head. when I met him for the first time I. cried for 30 minutes. non-stop I got the two pictures of my. heroes I met Richard Pryor. I got the picture the day I met Richard. Pryor and I had a photo the day I met. Muhammad Ali and I'm in tears in both.

them photos. because they meant that much to me that. Muhammad Ali. talking to white people the way he was. talking to him. calling rounds I am the greatest the the. thing he said that stuck with me the. most was he said I said I was the. greatest before I was the greatest wow. and that etched in my brain. so that what taught me to manifest. things before it happens I would say all.

the time and so those were the two. greatest influences in my life man that. pushed me to want to follow that dream. and pursue it you know did you didn't. know what you wanted to be on television. you just wanted to be on TV I had no. idea I didn't even think it was comedy. I knew I was quick-witted as a child. right my mama used to take me to church. on Friday nights to get me prayed for. because there's something wrong with. this boy because this boy just say. whatever on his mind right I couldn't.

cut it off Shannon right if you said. something to me I said something back. right and what I had to say was pretty. shocked right yeah I got a lot of ass. whoopings for that I got put in the. principal's office for that a lot of. time I just couldn't cut it off my mama. thought something was wrong with me I. didn't know that was my gift right but I. didn't know how to harness it I didn't. know how to work it man and I was just. fine it off it took me until I went to. Kent State and a girl named Ida.

Washington who married one of my best. friends named Wayne Knowles when I was a. freshman she was a sophomore she set me. down she said Steve can I talk to you I. said yeah she said why did you come to. college. would you say good question yeah. I don't know. it's free she said you don't belong here. wow she said you wasting your time. she said you've been you don't even. belong here. she said you don't know it but you're.

gonna be a star one day wow and I went. what she was the first person ever told. me that I was a freshman sitting there. going that sound good I want that but I. don't I have no concept of how to make. it happen and then. as a freshman. I heard Richard Pryor album. I was listening to wanted. and I and then I went and got everything. Cosby did everything Pride did and then. in 1976.

Pride came out with Bicentennial [ __ ]. in that album I memorized everything. everything every joke he said everything. so when the dudes was in the room. getting high I get a chance stand up in. the chair do Pride do Cosby I do stuff I. had written but I I still didn't know it. was comedy at that time so were you so. when did you start writing jokes okay.

you fell in love with pride you fell in. love with Cosby you know what they did. so when did you start writing jokes and. started morphing and moving in that. direction well it was by accident really. because a comedian named AJ Jamal okay. was a friend of mine and he worked at. IBM. and I worked at General Electric. and he was doing comedy but I didn't. know what that was. and he would come to me and say hey man. I wrote this joke what you think because. he knew I was funny right and so I would.

correct it I would say no man say this. this and this right and he would give me. ten dollars every time I gave him a joke. so I'll make an extra forty dollars a. week right you know I'm going like yours. 1980 man that's cool I didn't know what. he was doing with the with the joke. right. I never heard of a comedy club before. right I'd never heard of. how I could be a professional comedian. and then one day I was over his house. turning these jokes in and this girl. named Gladys Jacobs was there and she.

said you the dude is writing these jokes. for Jamal. and I went yeah she said he the funniest. he the funniest comedian at the comedy. club I said really with your jokes yeah. I mean he wrote his own what I wrote and. I was going what what you talking about. she said at the comedy club he the. funniest one. I said what are you talking about comedy. club she said you ain't never been to no. Comedy Club I said no she said why are. you writing them jokes to him why don't.

you do them yourself. now I'm 26. 26 about to be 27. okay. I got two kids twins. I'm struggling. I'm lost. I still don't know what I want to do. but that I want to be on TV was just in. the back of my head you dig so she said. I'm gonna pick you up Tuesday night and. I'm gonna take you to this place called. hilarities Comedy Club.

and I want you to see what they do so I. went out and let you pick me up we. rolled 40 minutes down to hilarities. it's in Cleveland where's this now it's. in Akron Ohio Falls okay Ohio okay right. between Cleveland and Akron gotcha now. I'm that's down there right by Kent. State yeah I go in and she say sign up. for next week so I signed up I don't. even know what I'm doing and I'm sitting. down there and I'm watching these. comedians go up and there's 10 of them. it's amateur night right and I'm I'm not. laughing she said why you not laughing.

because I'm rewriting all these jokes oh. okay I'm just not I'm sitting there. going man he should have said this he. should have said that. and uh finally got to number 10 and they. call this guy's name and he ain't there. and they call his name again and he. ain't dead and they said well he's not. here we're gonna go to next week's list. give it up for Steve Harvey. now I'm eating a chicken wing and I hear. her say give it over Steve Harvey I turn. to her and say.

it's a dude in here got the same name I. got. she said you're a stupid son of a [ __ ]. she was a hood chick. you're a stupid son of a [ __ ] she. looked at me so disgusted you just a. stupid son of a [ __ ] and I guess I was. she said that's you and they kept. clapping they said where's Steve and she. said he is oh he said Steve come on up. I just ran up on stage man. and uh I was just standing there it's.

room full of all whites uh-oh and I said. hey y'all listen here I ain't even. supposed to be here I'm on next week's. show and they started laughing you know. white people laugh differently yeah. that's a you just said that in front of. black people well why is your ass. why are you up there immediately but. white people thought it was the joke. right. and then I was lost man I didn't know. what to do right. she said tell them about when you was. boxing she just hollered out so I was.

telling her on the way down about this. dude named Bernard Taylor that I had. fought at Golden Glove and um it was a. big dude and it was a whole joke about. how he had punched me one time and he. didn't have nothing but left hook. he didn't have nothing but a left hook. to the kidney right that's all he had. right you could whip his ass the rest of. the fight but if he got that left hook. in he was gonna crumble your ass right. and he got it in and I imitated how he. got in the ring because he was pigeon.

told it these white folks was dying. laughing so they gotta laugh and then I. said well man I Gotta Laugh let me keep. telling joke so I wrote another joke for. Jamal that I hadn't sold him yet right. and back then. I can't do this joke now but it was a. joke this was 85 right it's a joke about. AIDS right which was perfectly. acceptable back then nobody knew the. horror of it it hadn't quite so I did. this joke and they was dying laughing. horrible joke completely hope right.

distasteful everything knowing what you. know today right but then died laughing. I walk on stage they bring all 10 of us. back up they have a clap off. I win the clap off I win 50 dollars. you hooked. a agent came up to me and said man how. long you been doing this. they've been if you've been there just. about three years huh I said yeah. say I look right at him in life I ain't. had no problem.

I got the [ __ ] fifty dollars I'm driving. home 40 minutes I'm crying the entire. ride home right Gladys looking at me she. said what you crying for it ain't but. fifty dollars I said you don't. understand right I went to work the next. day and quit my job. with fifty dollars. so that was that was the moment that you. said okay. this is what I want to do with my life I. got nothing else.

this is the brightest light bulb ever. came on for me that light bulb had never. switched on better for me at nothing. Lincoln Electric generally electric and. carpet cleaning rib joint Amway products. shackle products Dick Gregory Bohemian. diet A.L Williams Insurance Commonwealth. insurance I had all these jobs right the. light bulb went off I was born that. night. and I went to work next day and quit my. job came home and told my mom I quit my. job she tried to talk me back into it.

told my brothers they said man you crazy. created a lot of problems with my. ex-wife that wasn't her fault man that. was me I just I shouldn't have been. nobody's husband at 24 I made a lot of. mistakes right. but I told my father and my father again. said well boy if you think you can make. it go ahead. and so that was it I struck out you. lucky because a lot of fathers back then. it was like. if you Dr if you went to school you did.

school and you came and did what the. father did yeah or you dropped out of. school and did what the father did your. dad was very unique Steve I don't know. if you realized it at the time but you. probably do now he encouraged you to. follow your dreams because he my daddy. was funny man. he told me one time he came to see me I. was selling out Arenas you know my. father told me he said boy. I could have done this [ __ ] you doing. how they did it look at you my father. would cry all the time look at he'd come. to shows man my mother never saw me live.

because my mom was saved right she. didn't want to hear her yeah okay. because my daddy. he came down there for the custard. my dad was down there cussing with me. look at my father. one time in Mississippi at the DeSoto. Center he came to see me him and my. brothers. and uh he turned around they was. laughing and this lady said you laughing. real hard at this show he said you know.

who the [ __ ] that is up there that's my. boy I made that [ __ ] right there. that my little [ __ ] that look. that [ __ ] come out of these here. my father man was a hard-ass cat but he. was the one that encouraged me the most. he did I'm looking at guys like Samuel. Jackson and Morgan Freeman Samuel. Jackson found success at 40. Morgan. Freeman was 52. he was almost 40. you. said 38 when you got your big break yeah. do you think that really helped you. because you didn't have success so early.

it made you appreciate the trials and. tribulations that you had gone to gone. through to get to this point you know it. really did man see the thing I learned. is. gifted people. God. almost runs you through the furnace with. your gift before he allows the gift to. Manifest this okay like you. you had to go through all the different. levels before you became a pro correct.

and it made you appreciate your career. you worked hard yes your ass was a dog. man you came to every practice. everything because you appreciated it. yes if he had gave you that at 18. you'd have messed it up right. if Peter gave me this at 30 I'd have. ruined it it's no way I could have this. much success. these checks at 30. I'm telling you. right now. I would have used all my powers for evil.

oh dog ain't no way it worked I would. have been abusive it's no way. the women. that that I would have gone for right in. my thin well-built. um. broke ass life if I had any money to go. with that if I could have got the. haircut I could afford to get laid on. right if I could afford the Wardrobe I.

could afford then oh Lord have mercy I. would have ruined it I would have taken. it and thrown it out the window but he. shaped me he took all these years to. gather me he let me live in that car a. little over three years right now I had. learned the lesson when I was homeless I. was good right and I told him I said hey. God I'm good you know I got it I don't. know what you're trying to tell me but. trust me I got it it's worth it whatever. you try to tell me you got my undivided. attention yeah but she said no a little.

bit longer yeah I got I got it I gotta I. gotta I gotta put keep you in this. furnace a little bit more when you're. living in the car once you. besides obviously you're living in a car. but what's your lowest what what way. like damn. what what did I go wrong should I have. done this should I say where did that go. wrong what's your lowest Pensacola. Florida. you know I used to park my car you know. like expensive parking lots like Ritz.

Carlton you know stuff like that you. know high-end hotels right because they. had the bathrooms they had linen towels. in the basket and they had the bathroom. doors that went all the way to the floor. right. so I would take them linen baskets and. run hot water over the whole basket and. get some soap and go in there and shut. the door and I leather up and shower and. then I wait until I don't hear nobody I.

go out there and get another basket wet. it all up and come and get all the soap. off right one time man. I was catching it real bad man you know. I was in Pensacola Florida. and I went into this bathroom and I got. this soap and I lather it up but there. was a convention. and they had let out and so was just men. coming in the bathroom continuously so I. couldn't couldn't get back out there to. get to to connect to Fresh claws right. so I set the toilet lid down.

and that soap just dried on me. and I was sitting there man. and just tears. I said man look at my life. I'm washing up in bathrooms I've been. taking baths and washing up at rest. stops and gas stations. I'm going home man I quit just enough. I'm gonna go home call my daddy ask him. because my father had a simple rule once. you leave here don't come yeah you can't. come back so I I said let me let me call.

home ask him can I can I just come home. for six months find me another job I'm. in my 30s now man. and uh see if I can start over so I I go. home I call him he ain't home ain't. nobody at home but I had an answer. machine in the Attic so I called the. answer machine and a message came. through from dude named Chuck Sutton. rest in peace he passed now he said. Steve it's Chuck son from showtime at. Apollo I just saw a videotape of yours. you're extremely funny we got an opening.

Sunday night this is a Thursday we got. to open this Sunday night at Showtime at. the Apollo Harlem New York if you can. get here let me know. now this is after. I done got up off this. toy toilet but you got dry soap on you. so I just put my clothes on and I went. out got meal my quarters and I called. the house and then this machine comes up. I still got soap on me I got my clothes. on I'm giving up I'm going home I'm.

gonna drive to Cleveland I'm gonna go. home. he said if you can get here Sunday I. appreciate it click call me if you can. make it now I'm in Pensacola Florida I. got 35 he says Sunday all right how the. hell I'm gonna get to New York by Sunday. so now man I'm in the car I'm wiped out. again the the first chance I got to be. on TV and I can't even get there. oh dog you don't know man that moment.

for me was so crushing I feel it I don't. like telling it because I feel it. man it crushed me so. I I said ah this is God really. so I went back to check the machine make. sure he said this Sunday right I called. him back he said the same thing saw a. great tape if you can make it this. Sunday let me know. and when I got ready to hang up It. beeped again now this time it didn't. beat before. but another beat came through so that.

mean another message said Steve Harvey. this time sober from The Comedy Caravan. I don't know where you are but I gotta. open it tomorrow night in Jacksonville. Florida at the punch line on Baymeadows. Boulevard if you can get there I got 150. for you I called Tom I said hey man I'm. in Pensacola I can make it Friday night. I went and made the 150 I was so funny. he fired the guy whose place I was. taking instead of you doing Saturday. night I'll give you another 150.

Saturday morning I call Showtime at the. Apollo asked Chuck I said hey man is. that thing still open for Sunday he said. sure it is for you I said I'll be there. Sunday I perform Sunday night now I got. 300 Eastern Airlines was open near I got. a 99 ticket flew all the way to Harlem. New York everything I had in two bags. went to the Harlem New York two o'clock. in the afternoon they said you can't. come in here till six I said man I ain't. got nowhere to go. just let me I'll go upstairs I won't. move security let me go upstairs.

I asked him can I go get some chicken. four hours later he said man I told your. ass you can't go nowhere you know this. Harlem they don't play I said man I just. got to give me something to eat he said. if you ain't back in 20 minutes just. don't lock I got back in 20 minutes six. o'clock came all the comedians on the. sixth floor. I meet a dude named Dwayne Johnson not. the rock not Dwayne Johnson. I met a dude named D.L Hughley I met.

another dude named Jamie Foxx wow this. 1991 92. we looking at each other man I. never heard of them they had never heard. of me I saw a couple pictures in comedy. club that was it I met him we start. going on stage with six comedians at. night all of them got booed off but when. they started booing Jamie Jamie asked. our singing. and they wore their ass back I had never. seen that I'd never seen the Apollo. audience stop booing before right Jamie. Foxx started singing I said man who is.

this dude right here and then he went. back to the jokes and they got his ass. now I'm last now imagine this man I'm. sitting here man I mean I can't I'm. shaking nervous I'm scared to death yeah. ladies and gentlemen Cleveland Ohio. Steve Harvey I went out there I had just. wrote this joke about Mike Tyson getting. in the fight with Mitch Green yeah. and Mitch Green was talking and then the. eye took over right.

and I had just wrote that joke and I did. it for the first time on Showtime at. Apollo. them black folks. tow that place up. Holland laughing I got Standing Ovation. walked off. two weeks later they said would you come. back again I went back two weeks later. they said Mark Curry's missing would you. do us a favor and host amateur night. Steve Harvey went and hosted amateur.

night I've been on TV ever since man. ever since. but did you know like when you told that. joke the Mitch Green joke and they. invited you back did you know I'm here. to stay I I I it was no way. I was going back. I was so ready the second time I wrote a. set the second time that I thought was. funnier than that. they was just waiting on their Mitch. Green joke right I put a plastic shower. cap on my head I was doing this thing.

about why they always go get the black. dude at the fire with the shower cap on. to explain whatever right they laughed. at that but they were waiting on that. Eye Joe do the eye no problem let me get. that I move that high joke right on up. right I did that odd joke again they ass. fell out again. and that was it man I was I was and then. Chuck son said hey man. is between you and a few other people. we're considering making you the. permanent host of amateur night I did.

that for one year I was so good they. said. hey man would you host the entire show. and I said yeah but I I said under one. condition you had to get rid of all the. warm-up Acts. I'll stay out here on this stage and. keep the crowd warm between acts and. everything and they let me do it because. Apollo was dangerous place man yeah the. first year I had a warm up at he would. go out there and they would get pissed I. would hear them booing and stuff now I.

got to go back out here and resurrect. this dead ass crowd right so I just. started doing it all myself and I stayed. on TV man. so. not we're gonna get back to that is that. kind of why you do the way you do it. Family Feud bro because I noticed. like I said I haven't seen a whole lot. of behind the scenes but it's like you. impart life lessons. on the audience. that's that's comes from when I was. homeless. I was so distraught at one point.

I cut a deal with God I said God if you. let me make it when I get there I'm. gonna tell everybody's who it was and. I'm gonna tell him about you. so whenever we go to commercial break. I try to give people that come see me. instead of a laugh I try to give them. something right just something I'm old. enough man that I don't I'd have done a. lot I try to give them something and at. the end of the show that everybody. calling it church I had this moment now.

at the end of the show it's just all. about the Creator and what he's done and. how you can have a relationship with him. and stuff you know and like I ain't know. I ain't no Minister you understand. I'm I'm a I'm a. at best I'm entry level I've been. practicing entry-level Christianity for. a long time right because I found out I. didn't do good at Advanced Christianity. ain't no need of me doing that I'm I'm. still slap you you understand you can't.

get up in my face but for so long right. I still curse I shoot dice. I drank a little cognac I smoked cigars. and I gamble now I don't think that's. all Christian like but. when I'm in Vegas you know I'm trying to. win my ties so. now when you tell the Lord. ten percent is strong my 10 percent. strong though right so I try to shake. them loose right. The Steve Harvey Show comes how did that.

come about. um I was on radio in Chicago. I had finished up uh this show on ABC. called me and the boys yeah which got. canceled the highest rated show in the. history of ABC to ever get canceled I. finished the season number 21 out of 144. shows but this dude Matt Williams I. think his name was who had the TV show. Home Improvement with Tim Allen yes he. had a deal where if he if his show.

finished in the top ten he could get the. time slot after him and that was my time. slot so they took me off TV. and they gave me a pretty large holding. deal after that they don't do them deals. no more but they gave me a pretty large. holding deal. and I went and bought a house with my. whole new deal because I figured if. Hollywood at least be a homeowner right. I bought my first house my first house I. bought was in 90. 95. my first house was a million dollars. and in 95 for me that was like.

crazy I didn't even go to the bank I. just cut the deal I had I took my whole. holding deal four hundred thousand right. and gave it to a developer that was. building the house he finished the house. and then I worked it out with him right. that's how I bought my first house. and so um. I was going somewhere with you. yeah I bought bought my show and then I. was doing radio in Chicago and they. called me and said we have a show idea. for you and they flew me out to LA this.

is my second show okay and they said we. want you to be a music teacher at your. school and your best friend is going to. be this dude named George win and George. win played on the show Cheers yeah he. was the mailman yeah Norm at the end of. the bar yeah he said you guys would be. great together but I didn't know him. right. but I had met this dude in 1989 named. Cedric the entertainment right who came. through this Comedy Club I was gigging. at one night.

and I thought said was just the funniest. dude I'd ever seen man in my life and so. I said well. I do the show man but I want y'all to. look at this guy named Cedric. Entertainer he said we've never heard of. him. okay but y'all need to talk this dude. so did the Georgia do George win said he. wanted to do the show but I didn't know. him nothing against him right I just. didn't know him and I'd been on TV once. and y'all took my show so I figured like.

this next time I'm gonna do a show we're. gonna do it my way right and so I said. so they both said out. and they like said but they said but. he's not as famous as Norm I said behold. but let me ask you something man. or who really looked like he'd be my. best friend I'm gonna be roommates why. would I be roommates with this dude from. cheers. uh. I I wouldn't even do that right. so they was debating debating I said. I'll tell you what hit a deal. I either get said to Entertainer I'm.

gonna pass on the show I was scared when. I said that. because I didn't really have that kind. of power yet right but that's how strong. I felt about it so they said we'll give. him a try for one season. we did 145 episodes that one season. turned into syndicated show wow said the. Entertainer man. funniest dude I've ever sat with in my. life man. and then you ended up having a situation. where you do the kings of comedy you.

said Bernie Mac DL. how did they put that how did they put. that together Steve how did you guys. come together says okay DL said Steve. Bernie see the first year it was just me. Bernie and said okay. and that was rough man. and the guy this kid came up to his name. Walter Latham 26 years old and said hey. man I want to create this thing called. the original Kings of Comedy and I want. y'all three to be and we only gonna do.

basketball Arenas and we looked at him. and said we're gonna do what dog he said. we're going to do basketball arenas. I said don't we can't sell out no. basketball arena he said no I've been. looking at pole star all y'all all three. of y'all can sell out 5 000 seats by. yourself. he said if I put you all together. we gonna sell out basketball Arenas. multiple times. so we used three of us were sitting. there talking about it and we said man.

this dude crazy man he can't do this. right here she said he said I got a. sponsor Royal Crown Royal. he said we're gonna guarantee y'all. x amount of night. it was like quarter of a million. and we we said don't even do what though. I look just say it says say. look let's just let's just get the. deposit. get on out.

if it don't work let's get the deposit. the kid paid us this deposit for the. first night. and. that's how we got started and uh it was. rough man. because uh it was just the three of us. and the first night we did it was a. disaster man it was for me great for. Bernie and said because they went up. first right said went up first now the. deal was to do 30 minutes right.

say it went out there did 45. Bernadette 52. I don't know if you've ever followed. Bernie Mac before it ain't what you want. data on there burn it and cussed out. everybody in the crowd. and he's hysterical they're stomping the. arena about to fall and we're performing. at this Arena in Charlotte where the. hockey players play yeah so they had put. down the floor on top of the ice all the. black people in there with coats and. then the dude said we got to have a 45.

minute intermission what so you got sad. Bernie 45 minute intermission these. black people just sitting there on top. of this ice with the little sheet of. plywood between and they freezing then. here I come now. the disaster in that was. my mama had died in December right. our first performance was December 26th. the day after Christmas but my mama had. died that month my comedy special had.

came out December 21st on HBO right I. ain't even watch it I was in a blur. my mama gone man it was like. for two months man I thought I was going. to die Shaw I thought I said. I don't make it man because I lost. this girl man I I was devastated so my. special came out right before. the first night I didn't wasn't even. thinking so I'm out there when I finally.

come on stage. they freezing. and now I'm doing the jokes from my. special uh-oh that I forgot had just. came out that all my fans that heard. these jokes and I'm about to just and. they hauling out punchline. do some new [ __ ] you know black people. Steve we heard that and I'm going why is. they saying this. and I didn't even understand that my. special had just came out right. but I was so devastated so that night.

man I didn't do well at all right the. next morning this comedian on the radio. asked him we driving to the airport. Steve Harvey don't deserve to be no king. I don't know how he on the show he. wasn't [ __ ] he on the radio just eating. my ass a lot and I'm hearing this going. to the airport not a stayed up all night. I ain't had no sleep because I ain't I. would I just had a horrible night right. now I'm writing because then I finally. realized they was repeating my special. so I'm writing all night I ain't even go.

to bed I stayed up I sat on the plane. right I got in Kansas City I rode all. the way up to Showtime I've been up all. night man getting old jokes reworking. and putting them together came up with a. whole new set next night Kansas City. now we are arguing now me and the. brothers is arguing because I'm saying. Bros 30 30 30 right 90 minutes y'all got. to help me. 40.

48. 15 minute intermission here I come. that night I got standing ovation. I had redeemed myself right now and so. the first year was rough because I I. wanted to switch up sometimes you know. we all Kings right you wanted to go. first baby go first sometimes in the. middle hey man let me sit in the rocking. chair right let me be second right. Bernie said in the rocket ship and I. went man because you got said one more. Bernie in the rocket chair you closing.

Behind these dudes is rough so that's. where we had our little is that where. you and Bernie budded heads that was our. only odds that was our only odds because. I just man y'all got to give me a chance. to win too and they ain't never going to. spit switch so the whole year. we did that and then we brought in guy. Tori and Guy Tori hosted the show next. year he added DL. now we got a problem we can't have four. acts because who gonna go last now so. the argument was Steve You Gonna Last.

again I'm going hell no no no man we all. getting the same check. dog I'm out here working he said it's. hard to follow now I got to follow DL. said and Bernie. [Laughter]. he was of all of us man he was the that. boy could put some pressure on you so I. said. I said I'll tell you what I do so then. Walter said one one of y'all host the. show ain't nobody want to be the emcee.

my hand was shot straight up I got it. I'm hosted. cause that for me was cool I make it. like it's my show I bring everybody out. lay it out like that. and then they switch up whenever we did. Saint Louis said with clothes whenever. we did uh La DL closed when we did. Chicago burning clothes you know. everybody moved it around right and then. we settled in and then the Kings was. really born right at that moment but we. toured for three years man right and.

nobody but black people heard of us that. wasn't a white person in the crowd for. three straight years wow never did an. article we just did black radio we sold. out the MCI Center four times two. weekends in a row 64 000. we sold out to. Georgia Georgia Dome 44 000. we sold out. the United Center six times I thought we. was walking through this country then. the dude in USA Today black dude came. and did an article on us and that was it.

we was making so much money after that. man. what happened why did it end. after the movie man that was probably. blessing on the curse yeah the four of. us. it was the largest comedy movie ever in. the history. it was the largest Comedy Tour in the. history. but these white boys came along called. Blue Collar Comedy Tour it was Larry the.

Cable Guy Jeff Foxworthy Ron White and. Bill Engvall and they said we gonna show. them Kings who the real Kings is so they. came out with the Blue Collar Comedy. Tour. they couldn't [ __ ] with us they wasn't. even close. they wouldn't even Post-Star came out. Kings was kicking their ass we was. filling up buildings man and they. thought. like I don't think Fox was in that.

Bill Engvall has said we're going to. show them what the Kings really look. like right and they started selling. tickets but they couldn't compete with. this man the Kings of Comedy was was we. was and plus we was that other kind of. funny right we was tear your mouth out. funny we you get about you check your. [ __ ] still in the city you know that. type [ __ ] was happening right because. when black people laugh they get up and. run to the back of the room yeah yeah. yeah.

take all the popcorn they with them. black people yeah they was letting this. happen man. and so when it ended the thing that the. Blue Collar Comedy Tour did was they. stayed together. we split up. you wish you would stay to kept it. together they could have kept it. together we tried everything. but. you know dudes felt like they was movie. stars I never saw myself as a movie star. I know I always knew yeah I went I was.

going to ask you that because you you. kind of like stayed in your lane you see. said branched off Bernie did movies you. kind of stayed I mean you had you had a. couple of roles but that didn't seem to. be that didn't seem to be your passion. that didn't seem to be where you wanted. to go never read full movie Man didn't. care nothing about it. I was a TV star. I want to be on TV so TV and radio was. yo with your with your back because I. could do this right I could do this I. could become household if I stay on TV.

you know you got hey man to be famous in. the movie you know how long it takes to. be Denzel yeah yeah that's then they've. been in this a while I remember him and. Glory because they filmed Gloria and. Savannah if I'm not mistaken yeah so. that was that was like 85 86. he was a. gangster though he just dude you. believed him yeah yeah I can only play. me yeah see let me just do TV right well. I just do me I ain't waiting Steve. Harvey I ain't been no acting class to. do this here right I'm not feeling the. kill.

trying to sit up here just kidding I. don't really like you I can't cry right. cry with you right we in the scene I'm. fitting to cry I don't even know your. ass. my father died well okay I don't know. you are your daddy so me trying to work. these tears up just probably just let me. go be me so I knew but Bernie got a lot. of rolls said got a lot of rolls. and uh they just wanted to do it man. that was cool and I understood it so I.

just knew but the thing that they did. though. where they went and got so many rolls. they stopped doing stand up right me. I felt so strongly about stand up I. never stopped right when I got my TV. shows I steal to it on the weekends. right and I never went back to comedy. clubs once I was in the marinas that's. why I stayed yeah yeah so I just stayed. in big theaters and Arenas I was going. to the Staples Center Nokia Madison. right by myself take two people with me.

Radio City Music Hall I was selling I. stayed right there while the guys was. doing the movies they got stepped away. from the they stepped away from the. front from the craft you know but but. you walked away at the height of it. Steve you walked away from the stand up. and and really hadn't come back would. you be willing what would it take Steve. Harvey to do to do the [ __ ] the. crypto.com what would it take for you to. do. so far what would it take how much would.

it take for Steve Harvey to do what. they're doing on Netflix you see. everybody you see Chappelle Quake all. those guys have specials on Netflix what. would it take for Steve Harvey to give. to give us 60 Minutes well first of all. I have to be done with the TV career. because once I do the special I'm going. to be done with my time oh man you. cursed up a storm you killing everybody. Steve no they're gonna they're gonna. take me off TV it ain't no way the. cancer culture 2 live see the reason I.

stopped was because I saw okay I got. Family Feud I got little big shots. I got all this stuff being offered to me. at one point in time I had seven shows. on TV all at once in one season wow I. had fun the Dome Little Big Shots. Amazing Grace celebrity Family Feud. Family Feud. I had two other shows Showtime at the. Apollo had came back on Fox I worked.

seven days a week man I went through a. 41 week period with seven days of taping. and I knew that if I performed as a. stand-up that whole TV career they were. gone and I was making enough. to really solidify myself in television. so in 2012 I had to walk away because I. was at the height of everything I had. everything going for me. so now man then I watched Chappelle and. rock and all these boys get 60 million. here and all this here.

I thought about it but. I couldn't. I couldn't dump what I had for that. right because I knew the longevity I was. gonna make it up yeah anyway so. like today man I I've been this is for. the probably been the first year I've. been thinking about it just doing one. more. and I'll. probably have to call it something like. [ __ ] I'm out or something like that. because I know that's gonna be it it's.

gonna be career ending right because. what I really want to say I'm not going. to do a special unless I could say what. I really want to say right I want to be. like rock and have selective outrage. right you know I want to be like. Chappelle and really say something but. what I really got in my heart to say if. I say it my career is over why is Radio. been your most consistent staple because. it's theater of the Mind. look man.

when it comes to adult contemporary. radio. ain't nobody done it this long. ain't nobody been consistently number. one I've been since the year 2000. I've. done 23 years of black radio black radio. I got the largest market share today I. got the largest number of people today. Ricky Smiley is my dude I introduced. Ricky Smiley to radio yeah I told him he. was a dude I put earthquake in radio. yeah I told him he was a dude you know.

um D.L Hughley got him in radio I told. him he was the dude and they've all. watched Bill Bellamy all of Madea I've. had I've had Quake on I've had said the. entertain on I've had Ricky Smiley on. and talk to others why were you like. this everybody's not like you Steve. everybody said well this is what Steve. did Steve said let's go back we're gonna. do these things we're gonna do this. we're gonna do the radio show. who is that say it no Quake said he had.

you at his at Atlanta Uptown College he. said they sold everybody's like nah. we're not doing that give them their. money back we gonna do radio the next. morning we're gonna get up early we're. gonna go get donuts and we're gonna go. pass them out and this is what we're. gonna do blah blah blah Rickey Smiley. say Steve Harvey did this this for the. comedy he got me a radio Quake said the. exact same thing said the same thing why. because everybody's not like you. everybody keep talking about we are. black black black we want to see black. succeed and they ain't trying to see. black succeed why.

see man uh when I was a little boy my. mama told me something remember we was. talking about how your mama say. something you don't it don't really. register then she told me she said Son. one day God gonna give you a big house. up on the hill when you get up there you. got to tell somebody else how to get on. the hill. didn't mean nothing to me right 12 13. right. but I've always kept that because. there's room at the top yes because the. top ain't crowded you know a dude named.

uh This Record guy Ricky uh I can't. think of his name he had a book out the. title of the book was ain't no traffic. on the extra mile. it ain't if you go to extra mileage it's. free out you can do donuts you can flip. your call for anybody gonna hit you. right it's room at the top but we have. an obligation as brothers to show each. other how to get there see I ain't got. to worry about you taking my market. share because what's for me is for me. okay see well I'm worried about that's.

what that's what people get wrong people. think. people think if they blow out your. candle it'll make their candle brighter. no your candle's still a little ass. flicker your punk ass I don't know how. you think cause your little [ __ ] ass. let's set up here and blew my. Candlelight you think your calendar same. punk ass flicker dog. that same punk ass flicker you've been. having because you trying to blow my. candle out that ain't how I work you. need more candles man right and so my.

thing has always been to uplift to teach. people the way it's done show them how. to do it so Ricky Smiley is a competitor. of mine technically but you put him on. so DL uh uh uh. Quake a competitor so you're not. concerned because there are a lot of. people like okay I got a big house but I. don't want you in my neighborhood you. get a big house somewhere else and maybe. as long as it's not as big as mine no. you don't care you can put a bigger. house right next door to mind what they.

gotta do with me you can you gotta be. dog I can't sleep in all these rooms I. got now what I care of your house is. bigger than my house well I care if you. got more cars than me I like my cars but. but said excuse me Steve how have you. been able to handle that because you. know that people there are a lot of. people that smile and say things in your. face and you know they say things behind. your back dog how how do you handle that. who are you. first of all man real players yeah them.

real dudes they ain't reading blogs and. they not blogging. Dane on Dane writing in the comments. section. real. bloggers are not shakers and movers. decision makers are power Brokers give a. damn what you say about me you don't. even know me most people talking about. me don't even know me right you know how. I know you know me you got my cell. number right nah dog you ain't got my. cell number dog well what what is it.

what you say about me don't even matter. now if you got my cell number like if. said was somewhere dogging me right. that'd hurt me. because this is a dude that we got. history yes if Ricky Smiley was dogging. me that'd hurt me if Quake was dogging. me that'll hurt me. if 50 Cent dog me uh. I ain't never done nothing 50 we ain't. got no beef but I'm just using him as a. neck right I wouldn't be as effective. right I would be going like what what.

you talking about me for right see I'm. my mind ain't down there and then I stay. on the wall. if I stay on the wall even if you throw. rocks up if I stay on the wall even if. your rock hit me how much steam it got. you had to throw up on the wall but if I. come down off the wall right to address. you you could bust me dead in the head. with the rock I don't give a damn about. haters man they don't even know how I'm. moving you know Jay-Z got hated when he. cut the deal with the NFL y'all hating. on JC fall.

Jay-Z making moves y'all don't know. nothing about y'all sitting over here in. your little punk ass life you ain't got. [ __ ] going but you steady knocking. somebody that's out here shaking and. moving how they give uh Shannon a. podcast thing gave him nothing he took. it. he went out and built it he didn't go. get permission. he built it. how he got these people oh but you. worrying about that well you know what. my grandma used to say something she. said boy sometimes God will put you in. place people don't think you belong and.

anytime you're somewhere where people. don't think you belong you know what. they say Steve well he don't deserve. that. who are you to tell me what God has made. him what God has made a mistake on me he. don't deserve this he don't deserve to. have Steve on his show he doesn't have. deserve to have this I'm like bro you. got so much going on for you you don't. want me to have a little success no what. the reason I'm doing this show though. is cause of how you are the way you move. the wood stuff I hear you say I've never.

heard a dude talking out loud that sound. just like me dog you you've got that. bravado [ __ ] how you feel yeah I said it. and you strong with it that's why I came. here man look dog let me tell you. something you the best dress. dude on television in all of commentary. you hear that y'all heard Steve Harvey. say it he the best dressed dude in all. the commentary now I know who think he. the best dress.

and I know I got TV. but no this dude right here be killing. the game I'll be watching you I'll be. good killing the game Hollywood. do you straight killing the game I'll be. watching I said that boy sharp right. there that cold right there cold but. then what you say though. it skip your knowledge of sport that's. an instant you played the game. but your commentary about these dudes. life. what you try to say to young people man.

so they can learn from you and you and. you use that hard Southern tough Grandma. granddaddy logic it is to where they got. to go they might not like it where he oh. yeah I'm old too you old Steve I'm 66. right the [ __ ] you think that is right I. ain't 23 I've been your age you ain't. been mine dog see I've been where you. I've been where you at I already know. that trip you need to pay attention. right in case you get here right just in. case right if you got any plan uh you.

old hey man old is the goal yeah now if. you don't like old here it is tomorrow. shoot yourself. that's out in front of the bus. let's go jump off you you stop this. whole [ __ ] right away o is the gold dog. it's the whole goal in life. I'm so glad somebody asked me the other. day they said if you could go back to. any age what age would you go back to I. said 65.

[Laughter]. as I ever had do you wish. in your 20s and 30s you had some of the. knowledge that you've acquired in your. 60s but you know I'm gonna try to save. myself you know the pain. I would have been I could have avoided. homelessness I could have avoided bad. decisions I could have I could avoided. so many I could have kept money I lost I.

would I wouldn't have been with some of. the people I've been with I wouldn't. have did something I wouldn't have went. some of the places I went see now I'm. the guy you know you know this you don't. see me on TMZ. go through TMZ I'm not going to be on. TMZ you know why because I go home right. I go home dog I go home can't feel me in. my house do you think people are. actually because this what I've learned. since I've been in TV TV celebrity is. different than athlete than athletic.

celebrity it's almost like like people. are trying to catch you in something. trying to get you in the room. see they they cheer for you when you. coming up. but they can't wait to see you fall but. the one sharing a lot of them is the one. that's trying to bring you down it's the. very same ones see it's okay when they. think they got a shot with you but then. but when they see your shot actually. work and now you now they look at you as. over them. and instead of trying to hold you up. they want to do everything in their.

power to bring you down it's funny. Denzel taught me the best lesson we were. at all. Sweet Georgia Brown Sweet George. whatever it was out in La uh this. restaurant used to be very popular. and it was one of the nights Sam was up. for Oscar or something. and we were standing there at this thing. that Denzel said I'm gonna show you the. difference between me and you. saw I'm a movie star you're a TV star he. said watch this just stay with me. people would come up.

oh my God Mr Washington. oh my God. I watch every movie I go everywhere. thank you so much because it's so great. sometimes it is cheating with reverence. he said you know why man. he said because to come see me you got. to get a babysitter get in your car. stand in line buy a ticket stand in. another line get your popcorn and stuff. go to a seat wait and I come up on the. screen 25 feet tall. he said then they leave and they don't.

see me no more unless they come to. another movie he said I'm a movie star. he said watch how they come up to you. when they know you as soon as they see. me Mr Washington oh my God Steve what's. up man hey. Steve remember that time. and I'm looking at him he said you see. the difference he said the difference is. I'm a movie star you're a TV star they. got to pay to come see me they invite. you to their house.

every day oh he said don't they they. think you're a relative he said don't. nobody have nobody come to their house. unless they like them. they invite you in their house they end. up making sandwiches sitting in their. drawers watching you you're a relative. to them he said so man when so when you. go out in public you can you got to be. different from them than me and Sam man. let me tell you I was on vacation with. Sam one time Samuel Jackson. we was in Portofino we finished dinner. one time we walking back to go get on.

this boat. hey you're Samuel Jackson I want to take. a picture. he said. what's the magic word [ __ ]. that's him and I went Sam. and it froze the white dude he he said. no I'm taking a picture he said I said. what's the magic word [ __ ]. please and I'm going like man I don't. even know the magic word but I just want. to give it to him I was I thought it was. a riddle or something and so his wife.

Latonya was gonna Sam Sam no no [ __ ]. that. what's the magic word [ __ ] he. didn't say this so harsh the guy said. please all right come on take goddamn. picture. Steve can I get a picture yeah come on. we different Sam treat you any guy. because Sam look you one person with 25. dollars he don't care. what I'm.

I got I moved different when I'm in. public I got to be a lot more. accommodating I'm loved by kids old. people right I got somebody Grandma my. Grandmama love you I gotta take pictures. puppies and [ __ ] you know I got I gotta. be that man I think it's amazing Steve. that you've allowed. so many people to eat off your plate. people don't realize how much money is. out there and I mean think about all the. billionaires and all the Millionaires. and it's still money out there plenty.

but we haggle. over a few dollars. see because you know what it is we get. to a point. that we ask God to get us to. and then we want to complain about it. and Safeguard it and act like it's. fitting to go away there's a Saiyan man. that I love it says. uh. I can't complain about how much is on my. plate when my whole goal was to eat. right so now dog you got all these.

groceries on this platter my platter. full dog I can't let you have some right. or I can't show you how to get a platter. they making money they printing money. every day right it's available man and. you're getting more of it and I think. that's a big part of my success. I think because God will always keep me. covered right because I just honor the. principle of I don't mind helping and. sharing you definitely don't man I've.

given people stuff if when the story do. get told. I've actually thought about doing a. documentary myself. when the story does get told. about the number of people. that I help that that I don't even know. man the the kids me and my wife been. sent to school and we don't even know. the scholarships we done passed out. though. things we've done I'm talking about. people when when the hurricane came.

through and wiped out the Bahamas man. you had no idea how many people we went. over there and helped what we did. and and it's because I understand that. principle and I don't the Bahamas don't. owe me nothing right and the people that. get these degrees don't owe me nothing. but God gonna give me back tenfold. doc I'm always working. I'm always good I'm always showing up. with some new project I just keep. showing up man and that that can only be. God like you said some a minute ago you.

said. people look at your success and they say. he don't deserve that well Grace ain't. fail. Grace Grace is God's unmerited favor. it's when God just do you some Faith he. do you a favor you can't earn Grace you. ever hear old people say all I want is a. little more grace you can't buy Grace. bruh if I could buy Grace I wouldn't. have no money in the stock market I. wouldn't have no money at Merrill Lynch. right I wouldn't have a quarter nowhere. I would take every dollar I got and give.

it if I could purchase this one thing. called Grace God's unmerited favor. because he and he do above and beyond. right for you right for me I mean really. though why I'm sitting right now. I I can't even really explain it though. I ain't that damn funny. you know really right not really though. I'm just. God just he Keep On Blessing you man. that's all it is man at your lowest when. you had the situation with the uh I.

think it Miss Universe and you misread. maybe it was on the card wrong I think. you probably read read the problem what. was in the prompter exactly what was it. and it came down so what so what what. was that moment like okay you read what. was in the prompter clearly it was wrong. now we got to come back and do it have a. do-over. Shannon hit a crazy part. they hand me the card okay. we had bought Miss Universe from Trump.

yes the lady that used to work for Trump. was mad because we had decided in. rehearsal to change the way we do it. like all pages they say and they say and. second runner up is so and so right and. then it's the two people standing there. then they always say and the first. runner-up is Miss so and so and then. that's really anti-climactic because now. you know who the winner is correct so. they had changed it in rehearsal all. week long with rehearsal we're not going.

to do we're just going to do the second. runner-up right she get out the way and. then next we're gonna announce the. winner okay the lady that worked for. Trump. didn't like that and she put it on the. card anyway but she put it on the corner. it wasn't even up there in the one and. two right so she put it in the corner so. when they handed me the card like this I. got it face down my thumb is over number. three anyway. so now when I read the teleprompter it's.

got one and two on there right and I. read and the new 2015 Miss Universe is. after we had done the second runner up. and he said read the next name on the. card Steve in my ear right it's Miss. Colombia. and the new Wows what I say and the new. 2015 Miss Universe is right hey what. number one more name on the card right I. said Miss Colombia great job Steve going. the back I go in the back two minutes in. the back they're out there celebrating.

my boy come up to me Terrell he said oh. gee. you said the wrong name. that's why I ain't said [ __ ] wrong. I read the card and I read what was in. the teleprompter he said nah brother. ladies she put the name down here he's. supposed to read that one and then I. said dog that ain't what we rehearsed so. I've read the [ __ ] I ain't stupid. a ready card I said all right I'm gonna. go back out here and fix it the dude. said where you going I said I'm gonna go. out here and fix it he said no we'll fix.

it tomorrow in the newspaper. [ __ ] that we live I'm gonna go 50 [ __ ]. now stupid as [ __ ] I ever did. you I should you should have left it. alone I should have let them fix it in. the news. for the ass walked right out there. and took the full hit man I took it dead. in the teeth like it was all my fault. and it wasn't. cause if you say in the new 2015 Miss. Universe and he said read the next name.

on the card either one of these names. what the next name was Miss Coopers boom. I read it right boom great so when I did. that man this [ __ ] went crazy I didn't. know how crazy it was. until after the show man and I went to. the press conference and the Colombian. press was there. this dude was in my ass man. how could you do something like that. this has never happened before I say. Amen [ __ ] happened you know I took I. said I read the wrong name but I really.

didn't but I'm just trying to fix it you. bit the bullet you took one for the team. took all 11 man the tele the cue card. lady her job gone. the director has gonna be in trouble. because he said read next name right I. ain't do none of that I said I read the. wrong name. so I went to dinner with my wife to Nobu. that night I'm feeling a little sick in. my stomach but I went to bed when I woke. up the next morning. oh my God. oh my God it was the I had never seen.

anything like it sky falling bruh I was. everywhere. I was the lead story of everything I've. never been ridiculed. a dude man that I really liked on CNN I. ain't gonna say his name TJ home. [Laughter]. he beat you up pretty good. told my ass man.

I'm cool with the bro. when he first came down here to Atlanta. man I took him around. hanging with him wait cool I'm watching. seeing that this dude is roasting me how. could he oh my God. that's got to be the most absurd thing. what was he thinking. instead of going down TJ. but then a couple other people I thought. I was cool with. you know they just they was everybody.

was attacking me but it was a funny. thing because I just wrote on my vision. board I was asking God to increase my. Global brand and Persona uh-huh. in 48 hours sharp my name had been. Googled four billion times wow I was the. most Googled subject of the year on. Google four billion impressions in 48. hours I was the most famous person in. the world God had increased my Global. brand and Persona I sure ain't.

appreciate ways. I appreciate what you did Lord you. didn't have to that was a it was a dark. moment that happened on a Saturday now a. week later it's Christmas I've been. getting beat up man I I've turned down. every interview request I'm talking. about every news Outlet I shut my social. media down I was getting cussed out in. Spanish I learned more all I know is I'm. a punto that's all I know no idea what.

it was but every last one of them. punto I was dead so I said let me cut. this off my kids had to cut their social. media off man it was a they was throwing. bricks over my gate at my house in. Atlanta with notes on it. Edward drug cartel was serious man we. had a serious problems to this day I. have armed security guards in my house. 24 7. to this day. they they was doing a numb on me so for. a week I was just in the dark man.

and then I just said man I ain't gonna. sit here and let these people beat me up. like this so on Instagram on Christmas. morning. I posted in my backyard I was smoking. this cigar I said. marry Easter everybody I remember and. that was my post. and they said he back Steve got back and. I waited I came back on my talk show and. in February I did no interviews about it. until I bought Miss Colombia on my show. to apologize to her because I had to.

apologize to her father right because. her father was mortified man and I would. have never done that to nobody's. daughter man right. but then after that man like my wife and. I we have 13 Villas across the world. that have been given to us as gifts from. different countries for being the most. honest man on TV we vacation for free. all the time we can go to villas in 13. countries. you have a villa access anytime you want. it and then I got a T-Mobile commercial.

out of the deal the Super Bowl. commercial that year on T-Mobile. I made more money than one Super Bowl. commercial I made in all the damn uh. Miss Universe put together so but now. you own a piece of Miss Universe Miss. America Miss. something Miss. America because when they told me to. come back next year I said I'm not. coming back yeah because y'all let me.

eat this Bullet by myself y'all never. said he read the teleprompter the. company never came out and said I'm the. director I told him to say that y'all. just left me hanging so I'm not doing. this no more. I said I'm out I ain't doing it. my lawyer sitting right over there man. he said I tell you what he get ownership. or he don't want it. so then I they gave me ownership. I went right on back to work smiling. hard as hell. I believe you lost everything twice yeah.

in 2005 you had 1700 left this was after. Kings of Comedy yeah. you got Seventeen hundred dollars after. you made what like 30 million dollars on. that tour no we made more than that. hey you got 1700 to your name what the. hell happened to the money when you were. you. you. it's called a divorce. um. I got I got I got jumped on man like but.

it was even before the divorce right. because it's not gonna say who did it. but they got in cahoots with my uh. financial planner. and I was writing checks to the. government yeah for seven years right. writing tax checks signing the tax. checks. giving them to turn in. they was keeping them taking the money. out the account. like I was paying taxes right and. keeping it for theyself. when my accountant passed a lady went.

into office and found a box on the floor. and I had seven years of unpaid taxes. and I'm thinking I'm even and then my. lawyer said to me hey man you ain't. paying taxes in seven years oh so you. haven't paid in several years plus the. interest. then I saved some Millions. but. before I split the asset she took all of. that out the bank moved it see the funny.

thing I got divorced in November 2005. um but then they went on the Rampage to. destroy me and act like we was in a. divorce fight we were actually just. trying to split some assets right the. divorce was over right it was no fight. for nothing right it was just let's. split the assets but you took all the. assets right and I was stuck with this. tax bill right so I had to pay seven. years of back taxes with interest and. get current I was in a world of trouble. man so when I looked up man I had one.

thousand seven hundred dollars. but that's when I went to New York and. signed the contract for syndicated radio. here come God again rescuing me that. just gave me a little bit of money I. wasn't making what I make now I'd make. like 10 10 meal a year off radio back. then you know because I just wanted to. get in the door right and that kept me. at least be able to survive right. and then that was 2005 I reconnected. with Marjorie in 2000 five right after. the divorce 2006. okay you reconnected.

so y'all had dated before I dated it in. the 80s really yeah I dated in the 80s I. thought they say love is like it's like. Claire wasn't once it was cold it can't. be reheated your mind ain't go cold. red hot polka hot hot tamale. when we started dating I became homeless. right what no cell phone right I just. had a house number.

she had a little baby I figured what I. got to offer this woman I'm in trouble. now right so I just drove off we never. had an argument or nothing right you. know wow. why did you continue to believe and look. after everything that you've been like. you're telling me you've gone through a. divorce and things happen with the taxes. and and she took half the money three. quarters of the money here I was thought. you were selling your money because you. made all this money on Kings of Comedy. and you got 1700 to your name. why did you believe in love twice why do.

you believe in Lucas love find love. again. because of my mom and daddy. my mom and dad is married 64 years I saw. what it looked like right I saw what it. looked like when it was hard when it was. good I watched a man. honor a woman I've never seen nobody. Love Nobody Like My Daddy love my mom. that boy with that third grade education. My mama taught my daddy how to read and. write I never seen nobody love nobody. like slick Harvey love elorsville he'll.

kill you about her. and he embedded that in me and my two. brothers. anybody say anything about your mama get. that ass right there right there. if you can't get that ass come come to. this house get your brothers but go back. and get that ass. she off limits ain't no jokes about your. mama ain't no none that that that. carried me to this day man you can't say. nothing about a loss of your heart she. off limits man we ain't playing them.

games but you start that your mama [ __ ]. up at the school we finna fight when. they was conspiring me for fighting my. dad I said what was you fighting for I. said he said something about mama he. said okay. he embedded that like okay how he felt. about his your mother his wife. you carry that with your I just saw it. man I went wow that's how you do it. and you've never had that before in all. your relationships before in the. marriages you never had that what he had. with your mom you never had that my.

first marriage I got married when I was. 24. I wasn't the man my daddy was okay I. was trying to do something he was doing. and I ain't had equipment for it okay I. ain't know how to problem solve navigate. negotiate I didn't know how to shut up. in the argument right I was just losing. all commits because I kept them going. right I messed that up the second one. yeah I had that one right there though. need another drink.

I just I just said I don't do two but. you know you got me in here now you got. me in here deep Shannon oh okay the. second one obviously that was the worst. one normally after a really really bad. dramatic experience like I'm I'm done. with this it ain't about me I was. let me tell you something man when I got. divorced in 2005 I was living in Trump. Towers in New York right. on 48th and first yep.

I said after that this what I'm finna do. I had learned about private jet. traveling stuff by then even though I. ain't had no money I just signed this. other contract trying to get back from. that 1700. I said I'm gonna put bus. schedules on my walls I'm gonna have a. rival and departure time right that's. how many women I'm going to roll up in. here in 60 B bus schedules rival and. departure times I'm fixing to roll them. up in here on a continuous basis I'm.

fitting to live my best life God said no. you ain't oh I was gonna say you about. to be Nick Cannon before Nick Cannondale. Nick is different. I know where the Drug's still at. you he's like okay outside I don't want. to say sorry Nick you said okay I don't. know where that came from Nick I swear. to God it's it's a Kevin Hart prank. I didn't mean to say that I don't even.

know did I just say I know where the. drugs start you usually say that I don't. even know where that came from man see. that's that gift that just found yeah. yeah. but yeah man that was the plan how did. you how did you margin reconnect God. said no you're not. know you not you're not fitting to do. that you finna get yourself together now. I don't you don't lost everything twice. twice you won't do it again. you want to do it again or you want to. see what I got for you. you like a cat Steve the day after my.

divorce I went to Vegas okay. I'm gambling My Bodyguard Boomerang on. the phone talking to this girl named. Sharon in Memphis. he asked about Margie he said Marge. you're doing pretty good now and I. hadn't talked to her in years right boom. tapped me on my shoulder said hey man I. got a phone call. I said dog I'm gambling you don't talk. nobody said no don't you need to take. this phone cause I ain't I thought. something was wrong so I got it from the. roulette table I said hello she said boy. what you want. I said Marjorie.

she said yeah. so I just said so how you punk ass. husband. you punk ass dude to me I still hold. strong to that one I've never retracted. that statement okay I said how your punk. ass husband doing because I had heard. she had got married right. she said boy I've been divorced three. years. oh. light bulb go off you start smiling I'm. telling my man like a head like like a.

halogen light bulb and they hadn't even. been invented then. I ended up going into uh Memphis met her. for lunch she told me about a divorce I. said I'm divorced too she said boy shut. up line because it hadn't went public. right and it just she said shuttle I. know you got married again. and I said no she didn't really believe. it took me two weeks to convince her we. talked on the phone that New Year's Eve. she was in Hawaii with her kids I'm on. the phone with an all night man just.

remembering stuff hadn't seen her in. Valentine's Day 2006 she came to New. York. I was it dog she 115 cents no I and God. said you that arrival and departure sign. you're gonna take that down off the wall. wow I showed it to you one time you. didn't get it then. but you and after her man I mean really. you look at my career in my life after. her it's just been a rocket shot you. credit her. for everything that we see Steve Harvey.

sitting here today you credit her for. that the man that you became the way you. dressed the way you talk the things that. you have going on good great in your. life you said that woman over there. because I know what it is now a lot of. dudes won't do that and I understand. that you want to get your shine on you. this and you that yeah but I was that. before and I wouldn't this or that right. I was a comedian before right I was a TV. star before. so you tell me what difference is.

it got to be her right because For the. First Time man I had peace at my house. uh when you got peace at the crib dog. you can plug in your battery pack and. get rejuvenated to go out here and deal. with the rest of this [ __ ] you got to go. deal with right because he D hey man you. know them folks out there they not. fitting to change racism out there right. it's on TV it's on the Internet it's. alive and well she would give me the. juice and the charge I needed to go back. out there she encouraged me she told me. I was something when I felt bad she gave.

me the but we was at the house laughing. having a good time man if you look at. since 2000 we got married in 2007 if you. look at from 2007. I got family feud in 2009. the book came out 2009. Miss Universe after that the talk show. after that little big shots after that. the judge show the the the the the radio.

show got big after that. four books later. the movie came out Think Like a Man all. this after that. what what else is it I just locked in. with this chick man. and she gave me a lot of good advice man. she made me see things in a different. way and it was her man and it's okay man. it's people people don't want to do that. now I know they tired of hearing me. saying but what you want me to say [ __ ]. I ain't got nothing else for you [ __ ] it. wasn't just all me right she gave me the.

mindset to be me and that's crazy man. it's like there's a dude named Nuri. Muhammad. I wish I had my phone man you could hear. what this dude said about relationships. it's the coldest thing he said. other than your relationship with God. who you choose to spend the rest of your. life with is the single most important. decision you will ever make. because your other half will either will.

either uh. uh your other half will be your better. half will make you half of what you. could be. she will either inspire you to Greatness. or reduce you to mediocrity. he's and then he went on to talk about. he quoted uh Minister Louis Farrakhan. and then at the end of it he said so. Choose Wisely. and that was the first time man that I. never chose wisely. and it was the best thing because a.

woman like an elevator button man they. can take you up or down. if you get the right one you got. something you get the wrong one. but it's like a man to a woman if you. get the right man you can go somewhere. you get the wrong man you off like I. heard you say one time well I was. laughing so hard you said you paid for a. divorce yeah I said this dude right here. was committed but see I want people to. say she was getting a divorce already I. I didn't break the homework because you. know because you know people taking the.

one with it yeah she was getting a. divorce right. right what's wrong with that right I'm. trying to invest in my future hey CD. dudes kill me that's what's wrong with. this generation today these young boys. today what do she bring to the table the. hell you mean man what do yo ass bring. to the table you got a woman that can. come to the table that can make another. you. what else you need to slide up to the. table with what about your job what.

happened to men who was supposed to be. responsible. do you know that it's our job to take. care of a woman and some children to. have a family that's our damn job but. what happens to them when the woman tell. you I Don't Need a Man Steve well they. need to what okay if you don't how. that's working. [Laughter]. you know how how that's working who. don't need no man I'm independent I can. do for myself yeah but what do you want. to. yeah okay you can drop a transmission.

you can say and blast your house but. hell do you want to no if somebody could. get out there and drop this transmission. for you and sandblast your house why. don't you go get your nails done I'm not. trying to reduce a woman to nothing else. be all you can be but damn who don't. need a man that's a lie. what man don't need a woman I tell you. what I tell you what I'll tell you what. try to live without them. try to live your life without women this. ain't about a lot of Doubt man this is.

some [ __ ] without women if it wasn't. for women what would you Aristotle NASA. said it best he said if women did not. exist all the money in the world would. have no meaning. talk women is everything that it cats me. out they the lick man but these young. boys then forgot it because these women. out here they trying to be they've had. to be independent because they ain't got. the right man okay but this system of. marriage is still good okay this system. of a man taking care of a woman that's.

really how it's supposed to be all the. rest of us [ __ ] man and y'all need. to quit tricking yourself with this new. way of thinking because there's no way. to think this new way of thinking ain't. getting y'all know damn well I'm sorry I. got in trouble on the on one time this. group came after me because I said. Marjorie belonged to me. and they said she's not a possession. she's a person she's a human she is she. mine what is you talking about. she belonged to me but I got news for. you I'm hers. I belong to her see if you don't like.

that system carry your punk ass home go. do something else and let me know how. they work out for you I want to belong. to somebody right I want somebody to. belong to me I take care of my wife and. my family because that's why you belong. to somebody in your previous. relationship did you feel like they. belong to you or you belong to them yeah. I did my first marriage yeah I felt that. way I just didn't had equipment I just. wasn't the man I needed to be did the. best I could I just came up short.

you know I've apologized to her because. it really was my fault I Got Married Too. Young right you know how your. relationship with her now I mean we cool. we called you right you know we called. you okay you know she gave me three. beautiful kids I got twins my oldest son. sitting over there right you know what. I'm saying so how. you got three kids Margaret had kids how. was the blended family how did how did. that work Steve oh that [ __ ] hard. no that [ __ ] hard dog.

they wasn't in agreement they they went. bowling One Night in Memphis when me and. Margie first got together we brought all. the kids together all seven of them and. all the girls went bowling and came back. and decided uh they didn't want us to. get married and said they don't think. it's the right thing to do. and they need more time to get to know. us and I'm sitting up here looking at. some people that ain't got [ __ ]. y'all ain't got a relationship a good. ass job a career I'm paying for colleges. and [ __ ] I don't know how I'm listening. to y'all making some damn decisions. y'all ain't got one boyfriend that.

didn't work thus far. I don't know how the hell you finna tell. me how to live my sons was over there. cool with it Roger Jason to win they. sitting over there they're cool with. everything right they're full girls. total just may have totally against me. totally against it ain't none of them. got nobody. why am I listening how did you win them. over I didn't. you're like I'm doing this me and your. mama we doing this song I love this girl. this girl best thing for me now we gonna. work now we're gonna create an.

atmosphere of love and everybody's. invited into it right and everybody want. to come into it can come into it and it. was a point man world. like all of them except the oldest one. my two daughters that graduated from. college Morgan was out of college so the. three girls were living on their own. everybody else lived in the house. the three boys and the daughter Lori. grew up with four damn brothers and so. she was and we could protect Lloyd at. the house with them brothers right [ __ ].

and got out of hand now okay you know we. can't watch it now yeah cause I'd have. been to saw it off a bunch of these. little. [Laughter]. you know but like at the house or we had. full control of what was going on right. and it was hard man because they were. trying to. evolve and get to know each other and. you know some of the relationships is. really good some of them is just they. cordial you know but that's just the way. it is you know and uh I love to tell you. it was a Kumbaya member we had some.

great family vacation we've had some. great times recently we had great. holidays but you know I think for the. closest the boys are the closest you. know right and then uh Winton and Lori. is the the closest of them all went in. the Lord they like they they mud. together they they mixed but you know. and then the boys they good you know. the sons they all they all good you have. all the you mentioned you have 13 Villas. you have all these lavish places where. does Steve Harvey go to.

relax. to just be. Margie's husband. 1600 Acres. an hour 30 minutes south of Atlanta. I bought the uh where we bought the. Chick-fil-A Ranch. 1600 Acres I got is that where you be. fishing at I got nine Lakes down that. sharp you gotta come down there I come. out and beat you no Holo who thieves. Steve you can come down there and fish. no I'm gonna meet you fishes I know I.

know everybody said I'm from The Steve. you I grew up in rural South Georgia. yeah how you say you was I think I'll be. I'll be Double Nickel in June yeah I'm. two sixes. Steve I got 11 years on you Steve I got. Steve. so big the picture weighs six pounds. that's some Shannon Sharp. obviously.

I got some Hogs down there let me tell. you something I got a lake for you that. I don't let nobody fish what you got. what you got to do try out crappy. catfish is trout is in there right now. to feed them but they're gonna die as. soon as it's 70 degrees they're gonna be. dead I used to use them for winter. fishing right but man I had a guy come. through and turn my Lakes out for me uh. I killed off all the fish. about it nothing but big female bass out.

of Florida nothing but females big mouth. so they ain't sitting on the beds. nesting and all that they they steady. hunting yeah I got. I put 400 pounds of bluegill in there. and they just walking around just eating. it oh I wouldn't I wouldn't that's what. I want I want to cut that's what I want. to fish in because see if I catch them. what I catch them when they're batting. see I throw out the bed they're gonna. try to get that lure out the bed yeah. see but it's a dog fight now because I. got one Lake in the back I don't let.

nobody fish in why what's in there Hogs. all Hogs. I I I I loaded. back then. five Pounders in there. so they probably like seven eight you. know so I got Hogs you got some double. digits you got your dog I got a 12 pound. I'll show you a picture you catch the. relief though right yeah all the time I. got chips in my fish okay I mounted my.

fish is monitored okay that's why I. don't nobody come back there you I catch. you with a string a fish. yeah I will I got one I got one Pond. where you can fish right and eat okay. you know all right any trout you catch. you can eat right but they're gonna be. gone in a minute because once that water. hits 70 they're gonna die right but then. bass my hybrid bass for my kids camp.

that come down there they can do we can. cook them okay but I don't really got. much of that going on right you know I. very rarely do that. you know man you got to come down there. I'm gonna come down there so that's so. that's where you go you got this big. mansion on the Chattahoochee that's your. is that your prize. yeah I can't I can't complain about that. that drone we're looking to have a. Chattahoochee that dropped him man my. girl did that. my girl bought that house when covet.

first struck right and I told her baby. we can't buy no house like that what are. you talking about I might they just sent. me home Family Feud shut down in March. right. we taped from March to the summer we. our income yeah I said but we can't do. nothing like this right now you know. what Marjorie told me what she said. Steve you don't know how much money you. got. you make it I watch it. she said I can put this whole deal. together I said baby it ain't the right. time she said if I do it with you sign.

the papers as a baby. I'm telling you because I don't I don't. keep up right that's how much I trusted. them. but you know she don't do nothing she. don't do nothing without telling me. right so we well I know what's that man. I don't really she did a whole deal. herself man she found the house and. everything because Tyler built this. house man yeah let me tell you what this. dude did when he first built it he. invited me over I walked up the front. steps. I told God said God I got to have. something like this how you can't nobody.

see you in the front or the back I said. man. and then Tyler put it on sale. for way more money and it it it sold to. this dude that sold his arming company. and I went out to Beverly Hills and got. a house and then when that was over with. I was going back to living my house my. other house I got a nice house man the. kids grew up here and everything. was moving back and on my mama's. birthday I was very depressed that. morning March 27th I was crushed man we.

was out of work going home. and uh she said I put an offer in on the. house she told me how much she put off. here the real estate agent said he will. never ever sign for that much he'll. never take that amount it's impossible. Miss Harvey's wasting your time she. wrote him a long letter too she said. this is not a negotiation. I am offering you this my husband loves. the house he's been at we'll buy it. sight unseen if you don't want this. amount it's okay I'm not trying to. insult you on my mama's birthday he. called and said I take the offer.

that's how I got the house. that girl and how she really wanted was. around the corner it was on 17 Acres too. and I was going to save my money and get. her that house she said no Steve you go. to work every day I don't turn no. corners. she said I'm gonna get the one you want. I said babe but you like the other one. better she said we're gonna get the. house you won't and she did it I'm gonna. get you out here on this being from. Cleveland obviously your Cleveland. sports fan what's your favorite sport.

what's Steve Harvey favorite sport to. watch football. football. who's your favorite team they play hard. from week one they do. they are they ass is in at week one yeah. ain't no low managing ain't no sooner. the preseason over with hike it's on and. crack and here they come yeah see. basketball you got to wait till the. playoffs right baseball you gotta wait. to the play I can't stand watching. baseball yeah I'd rather be just I would.

rather watch some ants build a new Hill. I'm a Cleveland Brown die hard fan man. I've been dying with them boys. forever uh I'm a huge DeShaun Watson fan. I have no problem with DeSean Washington. I do have one suggestion my only. suggestion is ain't no problem with. getting massages just you have got to. stop turning over. just stay face down.

just stay face down it's all be good. just oh bad though do not turn over. we gonna rap on that one ladies and. gentlemen. guys let's put some hands together for. Steve Harvey yeah. all my life been running all my life. sacrifice hustle baby Christ want to. slice got to roll a dice that's why all. my life I'll be grinding all my life all. my life been running all my life.

sacrifice hustle baby price wanna slice. that's why all my life I be grinding all. my life. foreign.