First Summer Jobs - 05.26.25

Steve Harvey and the crew talk about their first summer jobs.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So school is about to end. We all know that,
all of us who have kids or kids in school
or whatever. Yeah, oh, some people are out. Yeah, so
school is about to end for a lot more and
all you want to do is party all summer. Okay,
but this year parents are telling kids, no partying, get

(00:20):
a job.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
All right, you've.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Been partying all year? Yeah, they are so So, guys,
I wanted to ask you, what was your first summer job?
Remind this about, you know, tell us about your first
summer job.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
I was outside, I was cutting yards all through the neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
How old are We're all more.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Gas camp, me and two buddies and we cutting yard
was making money.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
How old were you?

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
How are you going to start? Probably ten eleven?

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Oh wow, you were really young and that was your
first job and business sounds like first And.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
We split the month three different ways. You know. They
used to actually have an edger before they know, you know,
there used to be a piece of equipment that we
need to turn the sideways and that's how they ended.
What I was cutting. My boy was edged. I was like,
he over there sweeping. He ain't really did he's splitting
this wrong? Wait, we split this.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
He got too much. But you couldn't go back.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Whatever you agreed upon, that's what you're doing.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
So I had to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, all right, Jack, Your first job.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Summer, my very first real good job, was at work.
I don't know if they even have this restaurant. It
was called the ponder rosa steakhouse even for West Columbia.
It was in West Columbia. I lived in Columbia, Which
meant you had to catch the bus to go across
the bridge. The last bus would leave at ten o'clock.
I got out at ten thirty, and you had to

(01:51):
dress like a cowboy, like a real cowboy. Hey, hey,
you had to wear the cowboy shirt with the scarf
around the neck, with the cowboy hat. You didn't have
to wear boots, but if you had boots yet, but
you had to wear jeans. Now that meant I had

(02:13):
to walk across the bridge dressed like a cowboy to
catch the last bus. To catch the last buss. When
I tell you, I heard the in words so much.
Not only did they say it, sometimes they wouldn't even

(02:34):
go all the way to the end of the bridge.
They turn around and come back and call me the
inward the inward. Cowboy is what I remember mostly traumatizing.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
I'm sure you cowboy, I have a little cowboy.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
I was too dump I was too dumb to change clothes.
I kept on.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
All right, Steve, you've had so many jobs.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
When I ain't gonna be able to top that one?

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Right there.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Was your first summer job?

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Well, I mean my first job, my very first job
was I created myself. I was an entrepreneur. I bought
a red fly wagon with the gates on it, with
the red with the red.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Sides on it.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
And I didn't allow my friends. Yeah you know, wasn't
no riding in my wagon, pulled it up down the
street and all that. What you couldn't do that this
will work wagon. I just woke up in the morning
and left my house about nine, probably eight nine. I

(03:57):
left left that house about eight nine. Petty drug drag
my wagon looking for pop bottles, and I put a
pop bottle in my wagon because you could turn in
pop bottles for two cents, and my goal was to
find fifty pop bottles before I went home for lunch,
and that was a dollar. And then when I got through,

(04:17):
I get back out there with my wagon. I play
a little bit, but I dragged my wagon and I
try to make another dollar after lunch, and then that
was my day. I making two dollars a day and
I was hustling.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Work wagon. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.