In December 2015, Steve Harvey crowned the wrong winner at Miss Universe in front of hundreds of millions of viewers, a career-ending catastrophe for almost anyone else. For him, it was just another chapter. This is the blueprint of a man who became, in effect, cancel-proof.

This episode examines how a kid from a West Virginia coal town with a severe stutter who flunked out of college and lived in his car for three years built a multimillion-dollar global empire. It matters as a master class in the mechanics of resilience and constant reinvention.

• The childhood teacher who called him a smart aleck, and the flat-screen TV he sent her every Christmas afterward
• The three years of homelessness in a 1976 Ford Tempo that forged the fearlessness needed to command the Apollo
• The Kings of Comedy Tour, the highest-grossing comedy tour in history at the time
• How his radio audience became a data-gathering operation that fueled the bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man
• How Steve Harvey Global and ownership of his own content made him “the casino, not the gambler”