Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 06.24.24

Today in Closing Remarks, Steve thanks all the father's who also made a choice to be dad as well.  

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'd see take us home with some closing please.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Yeah, you know, I wanted to address men today and
just pay a compliment to men. I'm talking to men
who who take the time out to be dads. If
you're a father, that's one thing. If you're a dad,

(00:27):
that's a whole another thing. You know, anybody can father
a child. You can commit an act of love or
act of lust and become a father, But it takes
another dude to become a dad. And I just wanted
to take some time out to recognize the dads out there.

(00:51):
You know, moms get a lot of the credit, and
as they should. I mean, being a mother is something special.
I think we all would agree to the fact that
a woman can have a child and give birth to
a human being. I mean that puts them in a
class of their own. We can't even begin to compete
or compare who we are and what we do.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
But we are valuable all the same.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
And there are men out there who have taken the responsibility,
after they've become fathers, to become dads. And this tribute
is just to you, just to say thank you for
being dads, for taking the time to honor your commitment
understand that it don't always work out with the mother.

(01:39):
I do understand that, but it has got to work
out for the children. I'm so happy for the men
who fight through the problems of the relationship to still
maintain a relationship with the child. That's so critically important,

(02:00):
it really, really is. I thank God for men who
take the responsibility of other fathers' children who have not, cannot,
or want, for whatever the reason is, take up the
banner of being a dad. Now a lot of men

(02:21):
who have stepped in and become dads and father figures
for children all around and because simply because their actual
biological father just ain't up to the task, for whatever
the reason is. But this ain't slamming nobody. I'm just
saying thank you for the dads who are dads. It

(02:42):
has been an honor to be a father and a dad.
And I want every man out there that's being a dad,
that's seeing about their kids in school, that's sending them
text that's checking on them, that's taking them to the park,
that's walking with them, that's whole in their little girl's hand,
that's putting their arm around their son and offering them

(03:04):
leadership and guidance, that's going through all the things to
help provide the necessary tools for this young person to
grow up and feel the security of a man. It
has been an honor for me to be a father.
Yesterday my daughters were born, Brandy and Carley, and they

(03:28):
grew me up quite a bit. They were twenty I
was twenty five years old when they were born. I
wasn't really equipped for the job fully, but they grew
me up, and ever since then I have tried to
uphold my end of the bargain. I fall in short,
sometimes I guess along the way, but at the end

(03:51):
of it, I always tried to make good on my
promise to them. I always tried to be the best
I could for them. And everybody makes mistakes in life.
And once again, this ain't a slam on nobody. I'm
just taking out the time to say to the dads
out there, thank y'all for being dads.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
For putting it down. It is an honor to be
a father.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
It's a beautiful thing to see a man with his
child playing with the baby walking, They little girl holding
her walking, these boys teaching them, throwing the ball with them.
You ain't got to have money to be a great dad.
Matter of fact, you don't have to have money at all.
You got to have love, you got to have some time,

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and you got to have heart for it. And it's
a lot of men out there that's got the heart
for it. And I'm appreciative of that because oftentimes men
get a bad rap. But it's a lot of good
men out there. It's a lot of good men that
found a way to take care of their children. It's
a lot of good men out there that have found
a way to take care of other men's children that

(04:55):
ain't stepped up to the plate.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Like I said, for whatever the reason. But this ain't
really about it.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
This is about the men who have given themselves unselfishly
to children so that they can say that's my daddy,
that's my dad. I mean, that's got to be a
reassuring feeling for a child and say I'm going to
tell my daddy. Not that it's gonna get you in trouble,
it's just I got somebody that I think is big

(05:23):
and strong. And there's a lot of men out there
that's being their kids hero that maybe your kid think
you better than Superman or Batman. And that's what it's
all about man. You just want somebody to feel that
way about you. So hats off to all the men
out there that's been being dad's, that's been giving it up.

(05:43):
That's taking care of your families, that's putting it in,
that's providing a place to stay, cars, protection, security, love, guidance, discipline.
That's what fatherhood is about. That's what being a dad
is about. My head's off to all of y'all. Don't
want y'all have a great day today. Hey, listen, talk

(06:05):
to God. He loved to hear it from you, from real.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
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