Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 03.03.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we are, guys, our last break of the day.
It's been a good day. We've had fun today. Well
that's gonna be remark too, That's gonna be my clothes remark.
Because I want to share with people the difference between
fun and joy. Okay, because there is a difference. And

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I had to learn this, oh me too, So here
we go. You know, as I was growing up, just
like most of us, we had a daily quest when
we were young. As children, we only had one mission
in life. After school. We wanted to go play on

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Saturdays and Sundays, I want to go play. I could
not wait to go outside. I wanted to go out
in the snow. That I wanted to play because it
was fun. Now, what I didn't know was there should
be a cutoff point for having fun in your life.
But oh no, not me. I took it too far.

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I took fun to college. Now I know everybody that
went to college, whoa, we had a blast. I had
too much of a blast. And then after college kept
on trying to have fun. There's a cutoff point to fun.
And the thing I learned about it was, see fun,
you have to go do something, or go somewhere or

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be around a certain people in order to have it.
To go have fun, you have to manufacture it. You
have to buy a ticket, you have to be at
a certain place, you have to drink a certain amount.
You gotta be around the people that are smoking this.

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Now you can have fun if you make it to
this party right here, we gonna have so much fun.
And you keep looking for fun, But if you think
about fun, man, it's always manufactured. It's something you gotta
be doing, seen doing. You gotta be somewhere or thought
of somewhere. It's always the case in having fun and

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fun is always short lived. You know. Fun never lasts
a long time. You never hear anybody say, well, I
just had fun, fun, fun, fun, fun for fun don't
last a long time. It's a very fleeting thing. And
I was teaching my sons about fun one day because
we were in Vegas and they were going out and
I told him, I said, be careful out there, man,

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I'm going to the room. Dad, y'all come on, man,
we're gonna have some fun. I said, listen to me.
We've had a full night, went to see the fight,
everything was good, and now you're gonna go out here, man,
I'm gonna just tell you right now, it's dangerous out there.
Be careful, Oh dad, we're gonna have some fun. I've
discovered something about fun. If you stay, if you keep

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having fun, there's a time limit to fun. If you
stay at the club till it closed, it ain't finna
be fun no more. If you drinking and you fell
a buzz, but you keep on drinking, it ain't finn
to be fun no more. If you at a sporting

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event and everybody going out the parking lot, but you
y'all still try to have fun. State is not finna
be fun no more. Because fun I discovered. I taught
my children that night. Fun is an acronym. F you
in is an acronym, and I taught it to him.
I said, son, if you keep having fun too long,

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it's effed up now. That's what fun stands for. Too
much fun and it's effed up now. Boy. They laughed,
They laughed. They went out that night in Vegas. The
next morning I saw them. They looked dishovel. They're in
bad shape. Say what happened? Man Dad? At the club?
Man dude got shot and killed. Then the police surround

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the building. We stayed in there. Man, we ain't get
home in five thirty. You know why because they was
having fun and too much fun. It got fed up.
Now fu in it's efed up now, and that's what
fun is. They said, Dad, what about you? I said,
I like to have joy and said, what's the difference
between joy and fun? I said, joy is a feeling

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that I have on the inside that resides in me
most of the time, and when I'm with myself, within
myself or by myself. I found that I have a
residing peace in me that gives me a certain joy
that I enjoy being alone. I just enjoy just being

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with my girl. That's joy to me. That I can
sit up and watch my grandchildren play, That I can
take my family on vacation and watch them enjoy theyself.
That puts a joy in me. That joy that I
have is not manufactured or superficial. The joy that I have,
that residing peace is because I have a relationship with God.

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God has given me the peace that I have in
my life today. I wish I had discovered this years ago.
I could have saved myself a world of trouble, but
I didn't because I was like a lot of people.
I was pursuing fun, trying to have it as many
times as I could, going to have fun. If I

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could have understood about this residing peace, that it's okay
to be with me, that I don't need a bunch
of outside stimulation to feel good anymore. That I can
sit back, close my eyes and be grateful and find joy.
That I can sit up and just watch TV and
be in perfect peace and joy. That I can walk

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around and ride my bike or walk down to the
river and just have joy. I could put my headsets
on and listen to some music and just have joy.
Joy to me, is better than having fun. That's the difference, though,
between fun and joy. One is manufactured and one is

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provided with an everlasting peace and relationship with God. If
I wish you, I'd look for some of that joy
you feel me. Those are my closing remarks today. I
hope you got something out of it. If not, don't worry.
We'll be back to moll you like that one day
in the meantime. Y'all. This is something favorite here talk
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