Steve Harvey's Voicemail - 08.28.25

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time now to check your voicemail Steve at
eight seven seven twenty nine. Steve eight seven seven twenty nine, Steve,
call and leave a message.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
You just might hear your call on the air.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
You ready, Steve?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yep?

Speaker 1 (00:11):
All right? Excuse me?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yep? Okay, that was a tiny bit better. All right,
let's hear from Roy and Shreveport.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hey, good morning, Steve. Now, my name is Roy, call
him Treeport, Louisiana. My question is how can you live
amongst people? How can you live amongst people and any
environment and in a world what people portray to be
help and to turn around and say if you're riding
your back, how can you sleep at night knowing family

(00:43):
is not going to be there and knowing you got
nobody to turn to. How do they expect us black
men to live in society and not do what we
have to do? Five children? Even if to me is
getting down and dirty, I don't understand it because from
where I come from, from my neck of the woods, man,
it's no help down here. Period. It's ty everybody leaving.

(01:05):
I just needed some words of encouragement, man, because I'm
a father that's been through a lot, and that's trying
to do the right thing, and seems like everywhere I've
been turning man, you know, reaching out for just even
a few words and encouragement. Man, it's been a bunth
of road. So you know, and I thank you for
everything I've been seeing. You know, your real inspiration to
me on TV. And you know I appreciate everything you do.

(01:28):
That was the only thing I needed to know. Man,
How I'm only thirty three. How am I supposed to
keep going with the things that's going on around me?
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, Hey, Roy, I feel you'll know exactly where you're at.
Manhood is difficult. It's very difficult. It's fatherhood makes another
set of challenges on top of that, the responsibility of
being a man is hard. But Roy, you can do it.
You can do it because you have been chosen for

(01:57):
the role. See, you didn't accedent to become a father. God,
don't make mistakes. You are a father because you had
to produce this, these children that you are now responsible for.
Don't let the devil get into your head and start
making you think that you got to do something sideways
to make it happen. See, the devil users all types

(02:20):
of tricks. Look, man, stop looking for support from people
who ain't feel they roll. You know the Usually the
people around you are not fulfilling roles in their life.
You can't expect them to support your fulfilling of your
role in your life. So stop looking for it. See
you don't get disappointed if you don't look for it.

(02:41):
Stop expecting people. Your help will come directly from the
most reliable source available, and that is God Almighty. Now,
one of the reasons that your phone call got picked
is because you needed to hear this message right here.
God knows what you're up against, and God is available.

(03:03):
If Steve ain't available, if your father ain't available, and
if the support system around you ain't available, God is available.
Twenty four seven. Keep your head up, put your eyes
on the prize, and do the right thing. It's hard
to do the right thing when the easy thing seem

(03:24):
like it's right there and you can go get this money. Yeah,
But if you go get this money and it don't
go right, which it normally doesn't. Now, the children who
have counted on you, now they Daddy behind the wall.
Do you know how many men sit behind that wall
made that decision you made for the sake of their
family and ended up costing them the very thing that

(03:47):
they was trying to save and support. You can't do that, brouh.
So now not only can you not support them, you're
not even there to walk them to school and hug them.
Your time and that you're investing in these children are
much more valuable than you can possibly know. The fact
that you are there and they can say I'm go

(04:09):
tell my daddy and you can walk them to school
to be there for them. I know, financially it can
get tough for you out here. I know this, but
that's something some talent that you have. I don't know
if it's washing cars, detailing, I don't know, if it's rims.
I don't know, if it's working down at the tire store.

(04:30):
I don't know. But whatever you can do, and sometimes
you gotta fake it til you make it. Man. You
got to take a job that you don't really care
to have until you get the one you want. But
do the right thing, brother, and stay on the court.
Don't let the devil fool you. Don't let him get
you down that wrong path. Man.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
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