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Steve Harvey gives his Dallas-area home to a local couple for some holiday cheer

Updated 11:40 a.m. Dec. 20: Revised to include video from the show.

A Dallas couple went to Steve Harvey with a problem and came away with a house full of solutions.

Harvey and a therapist, Spirit, were taking queries from his studio audience about what he termed "family holiday dilemmas," when he called on Bethany.

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Bethany explained that she and her husband were trying to figure out how to spend the holiday with both families as they live two hours apart. She explained that they have been married for five years and they have young twin boys, which made it difficult when they tried to visit both families on one holiday.

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Bethany's question: "We want to spend the time with them. What should we do?"

Spirit -- one name -- could relate. Her two families live in LA and New York. She suggested to come up with a rule, maybe to alternate the holidays.

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Harvey agreed that it was "the only way to solve that." After learning that the couple was from Dallas, Harvey had an idea for some other ways ... or two or three.

He started out, as all property owners do, saying, "Why don't y'all rent out my house for Thanksgiving?"

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Things really took off when he found out the couple lives in Oak Cliff, home to his first comedy club "On Camp Wisdom in Dallas, Texas," Steve explained, and then the host asked about "Red Bird Mall."

Harvey told the couple that he had a "ranch out at Lake Lewisville" with a house that's 10,000 square feet, along with a cabin that's 2,000 square feet.

"Is that big enough," Harvey asked. "I'll give y'all my house for the holiday and

can throw something big out there. I'll give it to you free ... I got a fishing pond. I got six lakes. ... You can go out there and straight be ballin'."

Harvey had a few requirements: "You gotta let a crew film some of the stuff."

"Don't go in my garage and ride none of my four-wheelers."

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And each adult in the family has to make a $25 donation to the Steve and Marjorie Harvey Foundation.

Watch the host stroll down memory lane (OK, Camp Wisdom) on Steve on Wednesday at 2 p.m. on NBC5.

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