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Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - Kiki Shepard Tribute - 3.18.26 · Daily Inspiration: The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: All right, guys, here we are our last break of
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  Speaker 1: the day, and Steve, I'm just gonna hand it over
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  Speaker 1: to you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I just found out about the passing of
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  Speaker 3: Kiki Shepherd, and Kiki Shepherd was, I guess you would
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  Speaker 3: call it my co host on Showtime at Apollo. Let
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  Speaker 3: me let me tell you something about Kiki. When I
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  Speaker 3: first went to New York, the first time I performed
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  Speaker 3: on Showtime at the Apollo and I saw Kiki Shepherd.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I had been seeing Kiki Shepherd on TV
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  Speaker 3: on the Apollo before that for years and all the
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  Speaker 3: glamorous you know, outfits and everything, and I was just
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  Speaker 3: like in ah, wow, this Kiki Shepherd. And after I
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  Speaker 3: finished that first night, she said, you was good. And
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  Speaker 3: so the next time I came up there and I
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  Speaker 3: finished performing, she said, what your name is?
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  Speaker 2: I said, Steve Harvey. She said, they like you.
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  Speaker 3: And the third time I went up there was they
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  Speaker 3: asked me to sit in for Mark Curry, who was
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  Speaker 3: the host of Showtime at Apollo amateur Night and he
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  Speaker 3: had just gotten hanging with mister Cooper and I did
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  Speaker 3: the first night that Mark wasn't there, and Kei Key
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  Speaker 3: Shepherd said baby, listen to me. I've been here a
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  Speaker 3: long time. You something else with these people right here.
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  Speaker 3: And one thing led to another and the next thing,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm the full time host of Showtime at
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  Speaker 3: the Apollo Amateur Night. But then I did that so well.
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  Speaker 3: I became host of the whole show, and ki Key
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  Speaker 3: Shepherd was my co host. In exchange for what Kiki
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  Speaker 3: had done for me. She had gave me so much encouragement,
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  Speaker 3: made me feel so welcome, told me where they eat
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  Speaker 3: in Harlem, and all this here. She had been doing
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  Speaker 3: it for so long that I turned around and I
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  Speaker 3: I started doing little things for Kiki, you know, to
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  Speaker 3: try to make her life more comfortable, because as the
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  Speaker 3: show became more expensive, they were cutting back, and so
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  Speaker 3: I made sure they took care of Kiki. I made
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  Speaker 3: sure that they had the right hotel room, that she
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  Speaker 3: had car service and everything, because I usually let Kiki
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  Speaker 3: ride home with me at night. And then I just said,
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  Speaker 3: I just thought her car was mixed up, and she said, nah,
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  Speaker 3: didn't get a car service after the show, and we.
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  Speaker 2: Changed all of that.
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  Speaker 3: Every time I came to work at Showtime at the Apollo,
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  Speaker 3: Keiki Shepherd was there, encouraging me because the Apollo was
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  Speaker 3: a hard gig. Man, It was a hard, hard gig
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  Speaker 3: because that Apollo audience is different than any other place
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  Speaker 3: on planet Earth. And in the nineties, man, they were
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  Speaker 3: still on one and it was just a proving ground,
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  Speaker 3: as it probably still is today, but it was a
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  Speaker 3: proving ground back then.
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  Speaker 2: And she just kept encouraging me, kept encouraging me.
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  Speaker 3: And then I would look up and Kekeky would be
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  Speaker 3: on the side of the stage and then she'd come
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  Speaker 3: out there there for the Apollo moments and do her
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  Speaker 3: thing and everything, and the people.
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  Speaker 2: Loved Kekey Shepherd. She was just a warm person. Man.
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  Speaker 3: It really really hurt my heart when I found out
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  Speaker 3: she passed. And it was crazy, man, because she had
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  Speaker 3: just texted me maybe ten days ago, says Steve, is
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  Speaker 3: it still your number? I said yeah, And now she's gone.
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  Speaker 3: And what an incredibly warm person. But even she was
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  Speaker 3: still always trying to help people. She was throwing bowling
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  Speaker 3: parties and get togethers and always trying to raise money
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  Speaker 3: for kids and doing different stuff. Man, ke Key Shepherd
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  Speaker 3: was out of Texas somewhere. I can't remember, this little
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  Speaker 3: small town in Texas. Tyler Tyler She's from Tyler, Man.
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  Speaker 3: She was just a really, really cool person. So I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to take some time. You know, even though over
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  Speaker 3: the years, you know, you know, she and I weren't
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  Speaker 3: really like close close over the years. You know, if
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  Speaker 3: she needed anything, she knew she could call me. She
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  Speaker 3: could ask me questions and anything.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I put on a couple of shows with me over
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  Speaker 3: the years, but you know, we didn't have a relationship
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  Speaker 3: where we talked every week, see how you do. It
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  Speaker 3: wasn't like that. But she was just a kind person,
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  Speaker 3: and I wanted to take some time out to send
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  Speaker 3: out condolences out to the to the Key Key Shepherd's family,
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  Speaker 3: whoever it is, because that girl right there was special.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: She was just a kind person. Never heard her fighting
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  Speaker 3: with nobody getting into it. Kei Key Shepherd kept the peace.
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  Speaker 2: She tried. She tripped me out. One time.
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  Speaker 3: I had ordered some chicken uh from somewhere up there,
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  Speaker 3: and I took the skin off because I didn't want
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  Speaker 3: the skin. She said, boy, what you doing. He's in
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  Speaker 3: a dressing room meeting. I said, take the skin off.
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  Speaker 3: She said, take the skin off. That's the best part.
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  Speaker 3: And I went and Keiki took my skin from me,
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  Speaker 3: I said, okay, and put it between two slices of
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  Speaker 3: white bread. I said, okay, that's country right there. If
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  Speaker 3: you take the skin with the fried crust and put
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  Speaker 3: it between some white bread, that's country right there.
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  Speaker 2: So Takeky Shepherd's.
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  Speaker 3: Family condolences from us here on the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
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  Speaker 3: She was special, she really really was, and she'll definitely
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  Speaker 3: definitely be missed because she had an impact on a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people's lives. A lot of people eves with
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  Speaker 3: her elegance, the gowns, just the way she was man
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  Speaker 3: and she was so well loved at the Apollo Theater.
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  Speaker 3: Chuck Sudden has passed. He put me on TV from
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  Speaker 3: the Apollo Theater, and Kei Key Shepherd has passed. It's
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  Speaker 3: two Apollo legends, and I just wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that everybody knew that Key Key Shephard was truly an
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  Speaker 3: Apollo legend and will be missed.
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  Speaker 2: So that's it. I just want to say that about
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  Speaker 2: Kikey Shepping. Everybody good, sir, yes, sir, sir, yes, sir
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  Speaker 2: junior you good, little beaty, yes, sir, ugly you good
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  Speaker 2: who junior junior junior didn't you say time was uggly?
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  Speaker 3: We know we're looking at it, Yuss, he's still fighting it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be good. All the que people out there, take
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  Speaker 2: care of you all.
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