Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 06.13.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we are, guys, last break of the day on
this Friday. It's been a good day. It's been a
good day.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
I want to say real real quickly about the mentoring camp.
Have a new group of boys down here this year,
one hundred and fifty strong. It seems like a good group.
We're working them through the paces. I want to thank
all the volunteer mentors who came down. You know, we
lost the United States Army support because it was disadministration

(00:27):
put it under the DEI. So they killed that and
the contribution that the US Army was making. They took
the funding and they took the soldiers.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
But I want to thank God for so many of
the soldiers that have helped me over the years heard
about it and they took their vacation time and twenty
of them came and volunteered.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Thank you for you.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
I thought that was outstanding man for them brothers in
the US Army. So I just wanted to say that, Junior,
you had a question for me.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
It was right up there that alley actually, because I
was asking what all the success you have?

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
You have? You know, you're a motivational speaker, your radio host,
your TV personality. And then here you are spending your
Father's Day weekend with some men you've never met, some
young men you never met before. What made you put
mentorship on this list because it seems like you had everything.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well, you know, I have a saying that says, your
career is what you paid for, but your calling is
what you're made for. And I discovered out of all
my success that the real purpose that God gave me
this vehicle of success for was to turn around and

(01:42):
do his work. God blesses you to become a blessing.
That's my mother imparted that on me. Even as a child.
She used to tell me something one time that I
didn't understand. I'd be on my way outter school, and
every now and then she said, boy, don't forget one
day God gonna give you a big house up on

(02:02):
the hill. You can't get up on that hill, and
don't take nobody with you. Now. I didn't get it
at the time, but my mother knew something that I
didn't know, that one day I would have a big
house up on the hill, and that it was my
obligation to teach other people how to get on the

(02:23):
hill too. And that's a big part of it. And
I just have discovered the older I Get Nurse program
is sixteen seventeen years old, maybe even yeah plans it
is older than that. Really, yeah, the minnoring camp is
older than that. I don't even know. Wow, I had

(02:46):
this minoring camp back in two thousand and three. It's
twenty some years old. Man, I've been doing this since Dallas.
I lost track. But anyway, I've just learned that all
of this fame and and and and and means that
God had graced me would had to have a purpose

(03:07):
attack to it. I've actually found my purpose in life.
I got the fame part, that's cool, but that's gonna
be over with one day.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Now.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
I won't do TV forever, you know, And that's that's
gonna go away. But my legacy won't go away. My
legacy is gonna be here after I'm gone. I've learned
something owning this ranch, as i've a tornado came through
and destroyed a huge part of the forest that I own.

(03:41):
So we got with the Department of Georgia Agriculture and
they tore down probably one hundred acres of trees, just
tore them out the ground. Just horrible tornado, so I
had to replace them, and I replaced ninety thousand trees,

(04:04):
replanted ninety thousand trees. Department of Georgia came down and
helped me do it. They send the people down there
that make roads and they plant these sprucelings, and I've
watched these brucelings grow over the years. But you know what,
I also realize a society becomes great when old men

(04:27):
plant trees under which the shade they know they'll never sit.
I know that I won't be here when them trees
get really, really big enough to create shade. I know
I'm not gonna be here for that. Those trees that
got took out the ground was one hundred years old. Man,

(04:51):
I won't even be here for when they're fifty years
old and they provide all that shade. But the saying
is a society now, it becomes great when old men
plant trees under which the shade they know they'll never sit.
And I've decided to be that type of person that
I'm gonna plant some seeds and stick some things in

(05:12):
the ground under which I won't see the result of,
but the results will be there after I'm long gone.
And that's why I meant to these young men. Some
of these young men gonna be grandfathers one day. I
may not be here when they become grandfathers, but I
put enough seeds in the ground to produce enough boys.

(05:32):
I have been able to see some boys turn into
some fine young men. I have lived long enough to
see that. And so as I build my legacy by
the grace of God and with the help of Marjorie,
and we have the Stephen Marjorie Harvey Legacy Ranch. That's
why I called it the Legacy Ranch. You know, it

(05:53):
was the Rock Ranch for years. They got a big
sign out there, Rock Ranch. I had to take the
crest out the ground and put my own family crest
in the ground because it's something we're doing, and we're
doing it to change the lives of boys and girls
to beg to make better young men and better young women.
So people have better families, your daughters have better choices

(06:13):
in men. And that's what it's about, man. And so
that's the purpose I have in my life. And I'll
continue that until I leave here I end my entertainment career.
But that thing right there, I'll never stop doing that.
Those are my closing wartsh, don't talk to God everybody.
He would absolutely love to hear from you. Y'all have
a great day, stay in peace, now holler.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
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