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Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 10.17.25 · Daily Inspiration: The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. Earlier today, Junior asked me about association
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  Speaker 1: with different types of people, and I was reminded of
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  Speaker 1: an exercise a guy had done one time where he
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  Speaker 1: asked everybody to write on a piece of paper the
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  Speaker 1: names of your five closest associates and friends, and then
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  Speaker 1: describe them positive and negative, you know, smart, loving, caring,
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  Speaker 1: a loof, lazy, whatever the character this is. And he said,
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  Speaker 1: when you get through describing those five friends, you've just
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  Speaker 1: described yourself. Because your friends, you get to pick the
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  Speaker 1: people you call friends, and you normally pick friends because
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  Speaker 1: you all have things in common. So when you describe
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  Speaker 1: your five closest associates, you've described yourself. And I found
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  Speaker 1: that to be true back then, and so I went wow.
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  Speaker 1: I was listening to my buddy John Hope Bryant on
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  Speaker 1: a podcast and he made the statement, he said, if
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  Speaker 1: you hang around nine broke people, you will become number ten.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what, man, that makes so much sense.
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  Speaker 1: Association brings on participation, and as you select your friends,
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  Speaker 1: you get to pick. Now, stop that old, that old
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  Speaker 1: ignorant mess. You got to keep it real. Remember where
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  Speaker 1: you come from. Yeah, it's cool to remember where you
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  Speaker 1: come from. But you ain't got to stay where you're from.
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  Speaker 1: You can keep parts of where you're from, but you
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  Speaker 1: got to move on. In order to grow, you are
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  Speaker 1: going to have to go. I don't know anybody who
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  Speaker 1: has grown but has stayed the same. It can't happen
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  Speaker 1: in order to grow. Oh, you have to go. I
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  Speaker 1: know very few people who reach complete fame in their hometown.
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  Speaker 1: I very rarely hear this because somehow you gotta go
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  Speaker 1: where people see you differently. So what I'm saying to
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  Speaker 1: you is this, if association brings on participation, pay very
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  Speaker 1: close attention to who you associate with. Start picking better friends,
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  Speaker 1: start picking better people to hang out with. And you
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  Speaker 1: know what, don't just have people to hang out with
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  Speaker 1: just to have somebody to hang out with. That's a
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  Speaker 1: dangerous play. Do you know that it's okay to go
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  Speaker 1: somewhere and sit down and be by yourself. At least
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  Speaker 1: you get to have your own thoughts, You get to
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  Speaker 1: be in your own mood. What I have learned to
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  Speaker 1: do is I've this ass siated myself with people that
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  Speaker 1: bring me. No that come into my life to destroy
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  Speaker 1: my peace. If you are in my life to mess
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  Speaker 1: with my piece you out, you out, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: have to entertain you at all. Bye. No, man, I
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  Speaker 1: don't have no plan. I had a kid that, no
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  Speaker 1: matter what I did for him, he didn't listen to me.
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  Speaker 1: And I was mentoring him, and every time he came around,
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to menture this kid. He always had
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  Speaker 1: some pushback, but no matter what I said. And so
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  Speaker 1: one day I was living in Chicago and he gave
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  Speaker 1: me a call late at night and it was one
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  Speaker 1: of the kids that had come to my camp, and
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  Speaker 1: I could tell he was in a club somewhere. And
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  Speaker 1: he gave me a call one night, and he had
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  Speaker 1: somebody around him because he said I heard the guy say, man,
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  Speaker 1: you got Steve Harvey's number. This is a young kid
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  Speaker 1: I was mentoring, and so I was talking to him
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  Speaker 1: and he said, well, I don't agree with that, Steve.
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  Speaker 1: And it's the first time he had ever called me Steve.
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  Speaker 1: He had always been calling mister Harvey the whole time,
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  Speaker 1: so I knew he was around somebody flexing. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't agree with that, Steve. I said, oh, okay, that's different.
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  Speaker 1: I say, well, what is it you don't agree with?
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  Speaker 1: You don't tell me what to do like that? And
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  Speaker 1: I went, wow, cause it was he just all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden he became antagonistic and all of a sudden, man,
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  Speaker 1: he was just showing off, I said, little man, I said,
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  Speaker 1: watch your mouth now, I say, because I can tell
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  Speaker 1: you flexing in front of somebody. I said, but don't
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  Speaker 1: let this flex cost you something. Now, Oh, what's gonna
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  Speaker 1: cost me? You ain't you ain't never. You ain't never
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  Speaker 1: gave me no money or nothing. Okay, cool. I may
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  Speaker 1: not have, but this advice I've been passing out that's
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  Speaker 1: been trying to get you on the right track. We finish.
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  Speaker 1: Stop that right now, because I see you right now,
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  Speaker 1: you somewhere else, take your little advice. I don't need
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  Speaker 1: your advice. I said, bro, ain't no problem. You ain't
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  Speaker 1: got to get it no more. He called me three
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  Speaker 1: years later. He said, mister Harvey, I need you to
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  Speaker 1: help me. I said, oh, you need some help now,
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  Speaker 1: I said, what's somebody? Young man? He said, my bond.
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  Speaker 1: My bond is a half a million dollars. I need
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  Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars. Wow. I said, what you're in for? Man?
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  Speaker 1: He said, oh, I'm robbery? I said, brother, did I
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  Speaker 1: tell you did I not tell you that if you
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  Speaker 1: kept hanging with them, dudes, what you was gonna do?
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  Speaker 1: Association brings on participation. Yeah, I ain't got no fifty
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  Speaker 1: thousand for you because I may never see this fifty again.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying that long story to just tell you,
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  Speaker 1: don't let people destroy your peace. You don't have to
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  Speaker 1: be the one to go to person all the time,
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  Speaker 1: especially if it destroys your peace. Get on with yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Pick better friends, get in a better circle. Hang with
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  Speaker 1: people is like mine to trying to go somewhere like
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  Speaker 1: you for y'all. All right, goos, those are my closing remarks.
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  Speaker 1: Have yourself a great day. Talk to God today. He
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