December 4, 2023 • 7 mins
Today in Closing Remarks, Big Dog points out an important destination for us.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, here we are our last break of
the day on this Monday, as we get closer to
Christmas day by day, getting.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
My closing remarks because I know y'all been wondering. So
I'm out of the country this time of the year.
God blesses me to be able to go around this
globe on many different things. Sometimes it's business opportunities, sometimes
it's visiting friends and stuff. Uh. Today I'm in Boswana.
(00:30):
Boswana is a very very special place to me because
the President of Boswana gave me my African name. My
African name is Matusi. Matusi means helper of people. After
sitting with me and talking with me and finding out
all that I was, he gave me my African name,
which is Matusi. And uh, everywhere I go in Boswana,
(00:55):
that's what they call me because the president named me.
That's like four years ago. And so I walk around Matusi.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
How are you? How are you?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Sir? It's very thing. But I'm bringing this subject up
to say this. If you are an African American, if
whatever you do, please before you leave this world, if
you can come home, just come home. It is something
(01:27):
that will happen to you spiritually. When you land on
this continent that your soul is from, it taps into
a piece of you that you've very rarely been able
to experience. And that is my love for coming here.
(01:47):
If I go to Ghana, it's the same thing. If
I go to Cape Town, it's the same thing. If
I go to Botswana, it's the same thing. If I
go to Kenya, if I go to Nigeria, wherever I go,
it's the same thing. I recommend to every African American
if you can just save your money, man and come home.
(02:11):
Coming to Africa is like coming to a place called
home that you've never been. I cannot tell you what
it feels like to wake up in the morning in
a place called Africa, and when you wake up you
do not have to factor in the fact that you
(02:31):
are black. It will be the first time in your
life that you can walk out your door, get in
your car, go to a restaurant and not have to
factor in the fact that you're black. And black people
know exactly what I'm talking about. We always have to
grapple with the fact that we the only one in
the department, the only one on the elevator, the only
(02:53):
one at the meeting, the only one with the job title,
the only one in the classroom, the only one in
the boardroom, the only one with that title, the only
one in that department, the only one going. We always
deal with that. We get in our car. Black men,
know what I'm talking about. If you hear police siren,
(03:14):
you automatically tighten up, don't you, because you know what
I'm talking about. If you come home, that feeling dissipates,
it's gone. You don't have to factor none of that in.
You walk in the restaurant. Do you know what it
feels like to walk in the restaurant and all of
a sudden, you're the majority and not the minority. You
(03:37):
know what it feels like, man, to go to the
grocery store and you the majority and not the minority.
You know what it feels like to go into a
beautiful neighborhood with luxury, high luxury homes and everybody in
them high luxury homes look just like you, and you
ain't got to go. Man, at least I made it.
Let me meet these people, see what they like now,
because they just like you. Do You know, when you
come to Africa, it looks like you in Detroit. It
(03:59):
looks like you in Philly. It looked like you in Cleveland.
It looked like you in Watch It looked like you
in Detroit. It looked like you in Miami. It just
looked like that. Because they walk like us, they move
like us. You know why, because they are us. I
was watching TV the other night. I just happened to
be thumbing through and I watched a video show. It
was an all African video show, just like us. Man,
(04:24):
I'm talking about exactly. If you cut the sound off,
you just thought you was at the crib watching a
video show. We moved the same. We understand the beat
the same, that beat that we live on in America,
that beat that made us all this money in R
and B, that beat that made us survive through gospel music,
(04:49):
that rhythmic beat that carries on in hip hop. You
know where that.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Beat came from.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It came from here, man. That beat is over here,
that drum beat, that baseline originated from Africa. It's us.
This is ours, man, this is ours. This is a powerful,
powerful place to come, powerful place to come. Everybody should
(05:13):
try and do this, man, before you leave this world.
I know look the flight time. I know the flights
can be expensive. I know it's hard to put you.
I know it is. I'm just but God can do anything.
Pray about it. Put it on your bucket list, put
it on your vision board. But come here, man, and
go see some of the cities that they developed. But man,
(05:36):
go on a safari. Go do that. See what See
how vast this continent is. This thing called Africa is amazing, man,
it is amazing. Now, I want you to know something. Now,
the animals that you gonna see out there, they ain't
the ones that's in the zoo. They ain't on no
feeding program. Somebody feeding them at eight twelve and three,
drop some hay over the wall. No, no, no, they
(05:57):
eat all day. I saw an elephant one time from behind.
I was on a safari and it was very steel.
So when I was going by out the corner my eye,
I thought it was a mountain. I thought it was
a mountain, and all of a sudden it moved and
it was an elephant. The elephant looked like a mountain.
(06:18):
I kid you not. It towered over this range over.
You've got to come here. You've got to come back
to a place called home to what you've never been.
I wish that for all black people. Man. It's a
special place. Y'all. Have a great day to day. See
y'all along. God willing.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Okay, Hey talk to God today.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Love to hear from the peace.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
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All right, guys, here we are our last break of
the day on this Monday, as we get closer to
Christmas day by day, getting.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
My closing remarks because I know y'all been wondering. So
I'm out of the country this time of the year.
God blesses me to be able to go around this
globe on many different things. Sometimes it's business opportunities, sometimes
it's visiting friends and stuff. Uh. Today I'm in Boswana.
(00:30):
Boswana is a very very special place to me because
the President of Boswana gave me my African name. My
African name is Matusi. Matusi means helper of people. After
sitting with me and talking with me and finding out
all that I was, he gave me my African name,
which is Matusi. And uh, everywhere I go in Boswana,
(00:55):
that's what they call me because the president named me.
That's like four years ago. And so I walk around Matusi.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
How are you? How are you?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Sir? It's very thing. But I'm bringing this subject up
to say this. If you are an African American, if
whatever you do, please before you leave this world, if
you can come home, just come home. It is something
(01:27):
that will happen to you spiritually. When you land on
this continent that your soul is from, it taps into
a piece of you that you've very rarely been able
to experience. And that is my love for coming here.
(01:47):
If I go to Ghana, it's the same thing. If
I go to Cape Town, it's the same thing. If
I go to Botswana, it's the same thing. If I
go to Kenya, if I go to Nigeria, wherever I go,
it's the same thing. I recommend to every African American
if you can just save your money, man and come home.
(02:11):
Coming to Africa is like coming to a place called
home that you've never been. I cannot tell you what
it feels like to wake up in the morning in
a place called Africa, and when you wake up you
do not have to factor in the fact that you
(02:31):
are black. It will be the first time in your
life that you can walk out your door, get in
your car, go to a restaurant and not have to
factor in the fact that you're black. And black people
know exactly what I'm talking about. We always have to
grapple with the fact that we the only one in
the department, the only one on the elevator, the only
(02:53):
one at the meeting, the only one with the job title,
the only one in the classroom, the only one in
the boardroom, the only one with that title, the only
one in that department, the only one going. We always
deal with that. We get in our car. Black men,
know what I'm talking about. If you hear police siren,
(03:14):
you automatically tighten up, don't you, because you know what
I'm talking about. If you come home, that feeling dissipates,
it's gone. You don't have to factor none of that in.
You walk in the restaurant. Do you know what it
feels like to walk in the restaurant and all of
a sudden, you're the majority and not the minority. You
(03:37):
know what it feels like, man, to go to the
grocery store and you the majority and not the minority.
You know what it feels like to go into a
beautiful neighborhood with luxury, high luxury homes and everybody in
them high luxury homes look just like you, and you
ain't got to go. Man, at least I made it.
Let me meet these people, see what they like now,
because they just like you. Do You know, when you
come to Africa, it looks like you in Detroit. It
(03:59):
looks like you in Philly. It looked like you in Cleveland.
It looked like you in Watch It looked like you
in Detroit. It looked like you in Miami. It just
looked like that. Because they walk like us, they move
like us. You know why, because they are us. I
was watching TV the other night. I just happened to
be thumbing through and I watched a video show. It
was an all African video show, just like us. Man,
(04:24):
I'm talking about exactly. If you cut the sound off,
you just thought you was at the crib watching a
video show. We moved the same. We understand the beat
the same, that beat that we live on in America,
that beat that made us all this money in R
and B, that beat that made us survive through gospel music,
(04:49):
that rhythmic beat that carries on in hip hop. You
know where that.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Beat came from.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It came from here, man. That beat is over here,
that drum beat, that baseline originated from Africa. It's us.
This is ours, man, this is ours. This is a powerful,
powerful place to come, powerful place to come. Everybody should
(05:13):
try and do this, man, before you leave this world.
I know look the flight time. I know the flights
can be expensive. I know it's hard to put you.
I know it is. I'm just but God can do anything.
Pray about it. Put it on your bucket list, put
it on your vision board. But come here, man, and
go see some of the cities that they developed. But man,
(05:36):
go on a safari. Go do that. See what See
how vast this continent is. This thing called Africa is amazing, man,
it is amazing. Now, I want you to know something. Now,
the animals that you gonna see out there, they ain't
the ones that's in the zoo. They ain't on no
feeding program. Somebody feeding them at eight twelve and three,
drop some hay over the wall. No, no, no, they
(05:57):
eat all day. I saw an elephant one time from behind.
I was on a safari and it was very steel.
So when I was going by out the corner my eye,
I thought it was a mountain. I thought it was
a mountain, and all of a sudden it moved and
it was an elephant. The elephant looked like a mountain.
(06:18):
I kid you not. It towered over this range over.
You've got to come here. You've got to come back
to a place called home to what you've never been.
I wish that for all black people. Man. It's a
special place. Y'all. Have a great day to day. See
y'all along. God willing.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Okay, Hey talk to God today.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Love to hear from the peace.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
For all Steve Harvey contests. No purchase necessary, void were prohibited.
Participants must be legal US residents at least eighteen years old,
unless otherwise stated. For complete contest rules, visit Steve Harvey
FM dot com. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show
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