Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 01.02.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we are, guys, our last break of the day.
It's been a good day. We've had fun today. Well
that's remark too. That's gonna be my clothes remark because
I want to share with people the difference between fun
and joy. Okay, because there is a difference. And I

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had to learn this me too. So here we go.
You know, as I was growing up, just like most
of us, we had a daily quest when we were young.
As children, we only had one mission in life. After school.
We wanted to go play on Saturdays and Sundays. I

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want to go play. I could not wait to go outside.
I wanted to go out in the snow. That I
wanted to play because it was fun. Now, what I
didn't know was there should be a cutoff point for
having fun in your life. But oh no, not me.
I took it too far. I took fun to college.

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Now I know everybody that went to college, whoa, we
had a blast. I had too much of a blast.
And then after college kept on trying to have fun.
There's a cutoff point to fun. And the thing I
learned about it was, see fun, you have to go
do something, or go somewhere or be around a certain people.

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In order to have it. To go have fun, you
have to manufacture it. You have to buy a ticket,
you have to be at a certain place, you have
to drink a certain amount. You got to be around
the people that are smoking this. Now you can have
fun if you make it to this party right here,

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we gonna have so much fun. And you keep looking
for fun, but if you think about fun, man, it's
always manufactured. It's something you gotta be doing, seen doing.
You gotta be somewhere or thought of somewhere. It's always
the case in having fun and fun is always short lived.

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You know. Fun never lasts a long time. You never
hear anybody say, well, I just had fun, fun, fun, fun,
fun for fun don't last a long time. It's a
very fleeting thing. And I was teaching my sons about
fun one day because we were in Vegas and they
were going out and I told them, I said, be
careful out there, man, I'm going to the room. Dad,

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y'all come on, man, we're gonna have some fun. I said,
listen to me. We've had a full night, went to
see the fight, everything was good, and now you're gonna
go out here, man, I'm gonna just tell you right now,
it's dangerous out there. Be careful. Oh dad, we're gonna
have some fun. I've discovered something about fun. If you stay,
if you keep having fun, there's a time limit to fun.

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If you stay at the club till it closed, it
ain't finna be fun no more. If you drinking and
you fell a buzz, but you keep on drinking, it
ain't fit to be fun no more. If you at
a sporting event and everybody going out the parking lot,
but you y'all still try to have fun. State is

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not finn to be fun no more? Because fun I
discovered I taught my children that night. Fun is an acronym.
F you in is an acronym, and I taught it
to him. I said, son, if you keep having fun
too long, it's effed up now. That's what fun stands for.
Too much fun and it's effed up now. Boy. They laughed,

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They laughed. They went out that night in Vegas. The
next morning I saw them. They looked dishevel They're in
bad shape. Say what happened? Man, dad? We was at
the club. Man dude got shot and killed. Then the
police surround the building. We stayed in there man, we
ain't get home to five thirty. You know why, because

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they was having fun and too much fun. It got
fed up. Now fu in, it's e ffed up now,
and that's what fun is. They said, Dad, what about you?
I said, I like to have joy and said, what's
the difference between joy and fun? I said, joy is
a feeling that I have on the inside that resides
in me most of the time, and when I'm with myself,

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within myself or by myself. I found that I have
a residing peace in me that gives me a certain
joy that I enjoy being alone. I just enjoy just
being with my girl. That's joy to me. That I
can sit up and watch my grandchildren play. That I
can take my family on vacation and watch them enjoy theirself.

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That puts a joy in me. That joy that I have,
it's not manufactured or superficial. The joy that I have,
that residing peace is because I have a relationship with God.
God has given me the peace that I have in
my life today. I wish I had discovered this years ago.
I could have saved myself a world of trouble, but

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I didn't because I was like a lot of people,
I was pursuing fun, trying to have it as many
times as I could, going to have fun. If I
could have understood about this residing peace, that it's okay
to be with me, that I don't need a bunch

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of outside stimulation to feel good anymore. That I can
sit back, close my eyes and be grateful and find joy.
That I can sit up and just watch TV and
be in perfect peace and joy. That I can walk
around and ride my bike or walk down to the
river and just have joy. I could put my headsets

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on and listen to some music and just have joy.
Joy to me, is better than having fun. That's the difference, though,
between fun and joy. One is manufactured and one is
provided with an everlasting peace and relationship with God. If
I wish you, I look for some of that joy

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you feel me. Those are my closing remarks today. I
hope you got something out of it. If not, don't
worry it. We'll be back tomorrow. God will it. Maybe
you'll like that one now, But in the meantime, y'all
see yourself a favor here. Talk to God. He loved
to hear from him.