Steve Harvey On Overcoming Stuttering & A Speech Impediment | Ep. 78 | CLUB SHAY SHAY

you had a speech impediment when you were growing up and that you had a teacher that said you weren't going to make it because you stuttered yeah and there's a someone in your community and someone in the deli that says slow down say what you want to you know take three and then start over again how make you feel when you like she crushed my I'm a kid and she already crushing my dear teacher she's supposed to lift you class because she we had to write an assignment what you want to be when you grow up okay first day of school right sixth grade and I write I want to be on TV she called everybody name had them stand up then she made me come to the front I go to the front I think I'm gonna get a gold star I got the best answer right because I knew all my laughs was better Kalani cage had wrote on his paper he won't be a doctor his ass couldn't even read in the reading group so I don't know how long it gonna be no damn doctor this has got to be so at least I wrote something that had a chance right Lonnie ass got about a bigger chance of being a doctor as I gotta walking my ass to the Moon by Friday so when she called me up there man and I I she said why did you write this on your paper and I said because that was our assignment for today right and then I had a little stuttering problem so I was stuttering a little bit and she said who do you know on TV in this neighborhood and so I started by the tone of her voice I could tell that this wasn't going the way I just wouldn't feel bold gold star yeah this half of trying to break me right in front of these kids right and she was doing a damn good job right she was crushing me who in this neighborhood have been on TV who in your family ever been on TV who in this school been around TV and what make you think you can be on TV and look at you standing there you can't even talk and you write something more reasonable on your paper she crushed me man I said damn this is a teacher right you know this is in the 68 man right I'm sitting there looking at this lady like God dog but I just I kept my paper and took it home right and my mama said your daddy gonna beat you when you get home for being a smart addict because she had called home said your child is smarter right because I want to be on TV everybody a basketball player football player right I don't like tackle right I ain't like it you know you throw me on the ground I want to fight I ain't good at this right so when my father came home she said slick this boy been a smart addict up at the school and he said well what what'd you do I said I wrote on the paper I want to be on TV my father said what's wrong with that and I saw a little glimmer of hope because I wasn't going to get this ass whooping I thought I was going right he said well your boy can be whatever you want to be and I it was like our thoughts didn't get executed you know because when my daddy came home it was time for that he was the Executioner right my mama was a judge she had down the sentence my daddy was the execution at the house so I'm finna get executed being when he said that I the red phone rang from the governor's office he got a Elder reprise and he said you don't worry about that you keep that paper and you read your paper every morning every night and I did that I kept that paper to about 27 years old and then I got in comedy when he said I didn't get on TV until I was 22 I was 38 years old wow so so in school were you a good student in school I don't know you pause too long yeah I was trying to figure out I was there I had perfect attendance because missing school was I would get murdered right my father month they didn't play that but you had to work if you missed school they put you in the field he wasn't sick you couldn't stay home because you were sick you had to work sick yeah you had to work what do you mean you sick get your ass up to school and learn yourself something right I was I couldn't be sick right I went to school uh wasn't a good student man because I just wasn't interested right and I just were you a Class Clown not at all so because a lot of times Steve you know I do we did they call it bullying we called it picky or he picking that such and such did kids pick at you because you had this speech probably I have stuttering problems you can't have a stuttering problem at no Public School in Cleveland oh man and then big lip boy with some stutter I would come in the room and they have my Silhouette on the chalkboard they have my nose and then my lips would go all the way to the other end of the chalkboard and they say Steve guess who that is I know who the hell is and you know and then they talk to me and they go lily look look listen so I took a speech uh impediment a speech therapist came right and that's when I knew I was in trouble because speech therapist for people who stutter they don't they've never stuttered so they can't fix a stutter right so they give you these dumb ass uh these drills yeah avoid words with PR in it right avoid words with st in it my name's Steve um lady where are we going with this now so now I gotta avoid my own damn name right now I'm sitting here man trying to what's your name [Laughter] and man it was just a disaster man I I got picked on a lot and then but that's what that's why I started my quit at because I had to develop comebacks because I was the target all day right and so when we went to the basketball court and that's the one game I could play was hoops right because I had hops I was real thin but Lord have mercy I could fly okay but I would go to the court and stand behind the chain link fence and I'd be talking so much trash I would put my lips up against the chain lick since and be nothing be out there on the court but in my lips and I be talking much trash man right and I everybody be dying laughing and uh that's what that's when I've learned my first lesson of how to study the room I was talking about this dude so bad one time he got tired of me and he said hey little man keep on I'm gonna hurt you but it was some girls watching oh you can't you can't let it go now so now I got to go home yeah yeah yeah yeah so now I'm pressed up against the fence now I don't see he to loot round I'm watching the game I'm looking for him I don't see him I didn't know he had loop around behind me when I realized where he had he had his whole hand against the back of my head he was pushing my eyes and everything was through the face all that dude was Hamming me boy he got me good and that's when I first learned okay you got to learn how to read the room right because all these jokes and that was the beginning of it you know was talking trash right So you you're in Cleveland you're going back but you're basically the majority of your years in Cleveland what was it about Cleveland that helped shape young Steve into what we see Cleveland hard man Cleveland you've been to Cleveland I have it ain't it ain't it ain't nothing kind Cleveland is a tough city right if you know if you come out of Cleveland's like coming out of Detroit if you come out of Cleveland you can make it right you know you look at the dudes like Arsenio Hall right Drew Carey you know cats like that come from Cleveland man arsenio's uh daddy was a minister over there because he went to John Adams I went to Glenville we both went to Kent State okay you know and uh it's just a hard place man it was a lot of gangs but it wasn't gangs like today everybody was in the game because we had to cover each other when we walked to school right so we was you know the Jets but we had to cross Peewee Marquee to delamours the devil disciple or Lord Noble prophets we had to cross state territory to go to school right so it was a track meet right all the way to school and all the way back and you had to have your dudes with you and then you know we ride our bikes down the Edgewater Park and fight on Saturdays at the church parking lot you bring six I'm gonna bring six and if you bring six you stupid cause I'm gonna bring nine too whatever the greed number was it ain't gonna be that I patted right when we go down there so everybody in my neighborhood had hands right we threw hands man everybody could box that's what got me in Golden Gloves all like that and it was just my father's rigid upbringing man about manhood do what you say you're gonna do be honorable be tough and never quit that that and then my mama was a Sunday school teacher okay so that combination of faith in my daddy's uh work ethic and manhood combined my mama was never pray boy pray pray pray go to church go to church love the Lord the Lord Ain't Gonna Leave You that my mama just ingrained did you understand that what she was saying when you were that young because a lot of times you don't realize what they're saying is so impactful until you're much much older and they're gone of course not I didn't get it I thought all this going to church this world why are we in here right Monday night prayer my Tuesday night bible study Wednesday night what are we doing you know I only want out I got so sick of I was so sick of going to church I asked my big brother one time say hey man let me ask you something how hot is hell because if he could have gave me a number that I could work with like 126. I was just gonna like just go on go to hell right because dog I ain't on the sports teams or nothing because I'm in church all the time right but I didn't get it I didn't get it until I I didn't really get it until I was homeless I didn't really get it and everything she said to me I heard it over and over and over and over and over but as you write as a child nah man I didn't get it I ain't see it you know what to do hit the Subscribe button and become an official member of Club shayshay where we do something before two something

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Length: 10min 18sec (618 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 26 2023