Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 10.09.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, here we are last break of the
day on this Thursday. It's been a fun day. Thank
you guys for listening as always. Congratulations again Steve on
your forty years awesome. That's crazy. I would like to
my close remarks is just a letter just about thankfulness
and gratitude. First of all, to a young kid that

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works for me out in La named Jason. Do I
know his last name? Of course, not no idea what
his last name is. Okay, okay, But he's so talented
with videos and editing and cutting and putting together social
media content. My team put together him and Chris Stelle

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put together a tribute to my anniversary, which was October eighth,
nineteen eighty five. October eighth, nineteen eighty five, I walked
into Hilarities Comedy Club. I won fifty dollars, went to
work the next day, October ninth, and quit my job
and made the announcement to my family and friends. I

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was gonna go be a stand up comedian. I had
complete and other pushback. Absolutely no one agreed with me.
Two people agreed with me. The most important was my father.
My father said, boy, if you think you can make it,
gone get out there and get the scuffling. That was
his exact quote. Slick Harvey said, gone, and get out

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there and get discoffling, because if I could have done
my life over, I'd have done something like that. You
only live once. Gone, take a crack at it. My
mother disagreed. You got a family, you got them kids,
you got a job. Keep making that check. Take care
of your family. Only other person supported me was his
brother from Cleveland named Russell Middlebrooks. Russell said, yeah, go

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for it, man, You funny it hell to me. Then
my other friend said, well, he gonna need more than
you to think he funny if he gonna make it.
So that was my entry level forty years ago. By
the grace of God, I made it. Now I was
looking at this montage they've created for me that's starting

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to go around a lot of people. Kirk Franklin texted
me yesterday and said number forty goat. He said, thanks, uncle,
So it's people are starting to see this montage. But
I was sitting there and the montage made me cry
because I forgot so much of this stuff. Because a

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lot of this stuff was long before phone cameras existed.
You know, people just found footage man of me at
the improv me my first night on showtime at the Apollo.
That was my very first time. That was the eye joke.
All of that, everything stemed from so many things, and
I was just looking. But I thought about what made

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me emotional was see, I know the backstory behind all
those pictures that kept coming up. I know exactly where
I was at that particular moment, and a lot of
those moments I was having on stage. It was some
dog stuff going on in my life behind the scenes
that nobody knew about. It was some life changing decisions
that I had to make behind the scenes that nobody

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knew nothing about. It was some decisions that I had
made that hurt myself and some people along the way
that nobody knew about. And it led me to understand
something else about God. When you ask God for something,
he'll give it to you. He will not reveal to

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you the cost. Because if God had shown me everything
I would have had to have gone through to get
to where I am today, I would have changed my
request because I just wouldn't have had it in me
to say, Okay, I'm willing to do that. I'm willing
to do this, so he just honests the request. He

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don't show you the requirements. But it's those requirements that
cost people they dreams. So I'm saying all this to
say this to anybody that's trying to accomplish forty years
of anything, or twenty or get to ten. Don't give up,
no matter what happens. Don't give up. Don't you dare
give up. Don't quit. If you quit, you'll never know

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what God had in store for you. But if you
can manage to hang in there, if you can manage
to keep putting one foot in front of the next,
if you can keep managing to get to your house
and lock that door at night and cry about it,
pray about it, take a shower, rest, sleep on it,

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do whatever you gotta do, and by the grace of God,
he wakes you up in the morning. That's a sign
from Him that he ain't through with you yet. So
just try to get one foot in front of the other.
Sometimes you can't even get the other foot in front
of the other. Sometimes you just got to be steal. Sometimes, man,
it's going so dark for you you don't know what

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step to take. Just be steal, sit there, whisper his name,
hold yourself, rock back and forth. I had a many
nights in that car, A many nights and days in
that car when I just held myself and I was
rocking back and forth, tears coming down my face. Man

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didn't know what to do. I just said, Lord, if
you wake me up in the morning, I just keep
on trying. And I just, by the grace of God,
I kept trying. I will give myself credit for one thing.
I just never gave up. That's the only credit I
can give myself. I just never ever gave up. I

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somehow kept the faith. I relied on Bible verses, scriptures.
My mama was sending me. I just never gave up.
You do your part, He'll do his, but you cannot quit.
I don't care what happens. Don't you dare give up?
Those are my closing remarks today. Thank you all for

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forty years of support. Some of y'all remember all the
way back to the forty Some of y'all got on
the truck at ten twenty fifteen. Whatever. Thank you from
the bottom of my heart. I appreciate y'all. Man, farty mold,
farty mold, That's all I need. Thanks you gentlemen, talk
to God today. The absolutely love to hear from you.

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