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Stgeve Harvey's Closing Remarks - Remembering Junior Bridgeman - 03.13.25 · Daily Inspiration: The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: You know what we were talking earlier about friendship. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's I really appreciate some of the true friends that
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  Speaker 1: I have. True friendship is really hard to find. And
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  Speaker 1: the older you get, the smaller the group becomes because
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  Speaker 1: you understand and eventually, as you get up in this age,
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  Speaker 1: you start to losing people. I want to say that
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  Speaker 1: I lost the guy that I considered a friend recently
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  Speaker 1: out of Louisville, Kentucky, Junior Bridgeman. Junior Bridgeman passed away
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  Speaker 1: man and I that hit me so hard the other
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  Speaker 1: day on the set because I was going out to
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  Speaker 1: do the last show and his guy, Charles, had texted
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  Speaker 1: me earlier said call me nine one one, his right
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  Speaker 1: hand man, Charles Alexander. But I was on the set,
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  Speaker 1: so I didn't respond. And then I texted him and
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  Speaker 1: I said I saw an article that Junior passed out
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  Speaker 1: and then his next text was I didn't get it
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  Speaker 1: because he texted I was on set, and I went
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  Speaker 1: down to the set and then my assistant came up said, amen,
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  Speaker 1: Junior Bridgeman died today and it broke my heart. And
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  Speaker 1: we had to hold off on the show because I
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  Speaker 1: had to go outside and get myself together. Man Junior
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  Speaker 1: Bridgeman out of Louisville, Kentucky, used to play for the
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks. Was one of the greatest men I've ever
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  Speaker 1: met in terms of being a Christian, in terms of
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  Speaker 1: being a husband, in terms of being a father, and
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  Speaker 1: then he happened to be a great businessman. But I
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  Speaker 1: had never seen that combination in a man before. Hardly ever,
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  Speaker 1: there's usually something flawed in a person. And I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying he was perfect, but Junior Bridgeman out of Louisville,
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky was one of the best men I had ever met.
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  Speaker 1: And sitting at his house, meeting his children, meeting his wife,
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  Speaker 1: I went to the Kentucky Derby for him. This man
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  Speaker 1: right here was a pillar in the community. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not using cliches. Junior Bridgeman was just a great human
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  Speaker 1: being out of Louisville, Kentucky and black people, you don't
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  Speaker 1: know what you lost. But he did so many things
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  Speaker 1: in terms of black people. In franchising restaurants. He was
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  Speaker 1: started off as a great franchisee. This dude was major.
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  Speaker 1: He ended up buying Coca Cola piece. He was in
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  Speaker 1: the bids to buy the Timberwoods, the Panthers football team.
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  Speaker 1: He was always in the running for something. He was
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  Speaker 1: up for buying Ebony magazine. He was a bid in
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  Speaker 1: for Bee t This dude was brilliant. Junior Bridgeman was
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  Speaker 1: one of the kindest, finest men I've ever met in
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  Speaker 1: all my dealings of business, in all of it, I
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  Speaker 1: never met a single soul that was better at all
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  Speaker 1: those things than Junior Bridgeman in Louisville, Kentucky. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you right now, man, this dude, this dude was special.
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  Speaker 1: We lost somebody man with that one. Junior Bridgeman, hands down,
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  Speaker 1: best man, one of the best men I've ever met.
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  Speaker 1: Of all the people I've met in my life, I
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  Speaker 1: will tell you right now, Junior Bridgeman was up there
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  Speaker 1: in the top three. And I'd have met some good people,
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  Speaker 1: but Junior Bridgeman was about it. Man. Our condolences go
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  Speaker 1: out to his family, his beautiful wife, his sons, to
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  Speaker 1: Charles Alexander, his right hand man, to the city of Louisville,
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  Speaker 1: to Louisville University, to the Milwaukee Buck family, everybody, because
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you flat out, you really can't find nobody
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  Speaker 1: say something bad about Junior Bridge. I've never heard it
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  Speaker 1: that dude was about a good person, noble and honestly.
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