November 5, 2018 • 8 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh huh, I sure will A good morning everybody you're
listening to the voice, come on, dig me now, one
and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Man, If
if if I had time enough to tell the whole trip,
the whole journey, and y'all would be sitting up in
there going, okay, Steve, are we gonna play the show
(00:22):
this week? But man, it's been a lot of amazing
things has has happened to me over the years, um,
and and not all of them good. It's been some
amazingly bad things that have happened too. But I just
come on in the morning as a reminder to everybody
(00:43):
of of of the actual goodness of God. That you know, man,
that these mistakes that you're making, that these setbacks that
you keep having, that these falls that keep occurring in
your life, that they all are leading you somewhere. If
you just don't ever give up. That's the key. You
(01:03):
can never ever give up because you don't know how
the trip has been laid out for you. You know,
if somebody had told me, um years ago when I
had the dream of being on TV and then I
thought about being a one of one of the best comedians,
I could be. You know when when I when I started,
(01:26):
somebody had told me everything that was gonna have to
happen in order for me to get there, I would
have changed it. I would have I would have said, Okay,
well I ain't gonna be that. How about this? See
and and no one can know all of the events
of their life ahead of time. You know, it would
(01:47):
be so nice when't you know, to prepare for it,
see it coming, be aware of the haters, always knowing
when the backstabbing moment is coming in your life, all
always knowing when you're gonna get blindsided by the enemy.
We're really great to know that, wouldn't it. Well, that's
not how it works. So since no one knows exactly
(02:12):
the challenges and the pitfalls and the detools that's gonna
be set them, it's it's it's imperative that you just
don't give up. Because see, knowing these things, we as
human beings by nature, would choose another route. But it
ain't the route God God for you, though. See the
(02:35):
route God God for you. If you if you're trying
to do the right thing, if you're doing the best
you can, if you ain't out here just intentionally just
messing over, folks. If you're using faith, and that's the
belief in things that you cannot see. If you have
something on the inside of you to keep saying there's
got to be more to life than that, then that's
(02:57):
that's you. You, my friend, have a great chance here.
And if you've ever had that feeling and gave up
on it, just get it back. Just asked for it back.
Just say, hey, man, I'm getting back to the way
I used to be. Because there's a change that's available
in your life. But you gotta take it. You gotta
(03:17):
take a shot at it. Folks. There's a chance for
you to get it right, but you gotta take a
shot at it. Folks. There's a chance for you to
turn this whole thing around with God's help, but you
gotta take a shot at it. You see, this decision
is yours. The decision to lay down and give up,
that's yours. It ain't it just got too hard for me.
(03:38):
Life too much, man, life hard, and too much for everybody.
What I gotta get you to see is if you
don't lay down and give into it, there's some great
things in store for your life. Because all of the
things every lesson I've ever ever learned. The best lesson
has been a bout lesson. My father used to always
(04:02):
tell me. He said, so best lessons in life, the
born your value and learn the most is about lesson.
I didn't quite understand that being young, but I showed
God it now. Ain't no lesson like a bout lesson,
the one you pay for. Those are the ones that
hold to you, that stick to you, that that that
start turning you into who you're gonna be. Those are
(04:24):
the character builders. See, um, you got to be forged
to get to where you want to go in life.
So that's what the challenges and missteps is for. That's
what the failing is about. Now. I know you don't
like it. I didn't. I know you're not comfortable with
I wouldn't. I know you wish it was over sooner
than later. I always do. I always wanted to be
(04:46):
over sooner than later because the later manager seems like
it's so much I gotta go through. But let me
tell you something, man, if you can, if you can
ford your way through it and understand that you are
forged in life, I don't know. I was on TBN
one time when I was doing one of my motivational speeches,
(05:08):
and I began to wonder about this experience I had
at Ford Motor Company, and um one of the things
that I had came to the realization of was that
that job at Ford mot Motor Company taught me a
couple of valuable lessons. First of all, that I had
to be at work on time, because I always was.
(05:29):
I had a really really good work record. Man, I
was a great employee because I because I didn't want
to disappoint anybody. You know, I already saw the look
on my parents face when I flunked out of college.
I didn't I wanted my father to know that I
was a hard worker. And so when I got the
job at Ford, I wanted to prove to my father
(05:51):
my mother, you know, the the nay says, Hey, man,
I know how to stick to something. But my last job,
after the auto industry started going down, my last job
was in the fountry, and my job was to stand
at the end almost where the engines first come out
of the furnace. See, the engines are poured into a mold.
(06:14):
It's hot, melted down metal whatever they call it, lava
or whatever they poured into a mole and it goes
into this furnace that's extremely hot. And my job was
after the heat was applied to the engine block, it
would come through and it would it would go through
a hardening stage. But the way it was hardening, they
(06:35):
would cool it. Suddenly they would flush it with water.
It was just blast water on it. But the fire
and the high temperature is what made the engine block solidified.
It's because it's gotta get real hot, get melted down first.
Then it's got to get poured into a mole. Then
it's gotta be pressure hit with water and all of this,
(06:59):
and then it and it's real hot. Now it's still
hot even on this water been shodow. But when it
comes out the end of the side, there's a lot
of flashing in it. And flashing is a metal from
that ton dripped through the cast or molding on it,
just like flecks of extra pieces of metal. My job
was to hit this engine block in the front, which
(07:21):
is huge heavy rubber mallet, knock all the flashing off
the front, and when it came around back to bam,
hit it real hard again on the back side. And
that became the core of what the car is a
car without a great engine is nothing. It's just a
pretty looking vehicle over there. But if it can't do
(07:44):
what it was made to do because the engine block
then cracked. So you can have a car look real good,
but if it freezes an engine block crack your car,
you can It's it's over, man. You gotta get a
new block. The block is the core. But in order
for you for the car to do what it's gotta do,
it's gotta have a strong engine in it. In order
for the engine to be strong, it's got to be
forged and still come through fire, get poured in a mold,
(08:08):
cooled off, heated, knocked around, beat on the front end,
beat on the back end, in order for it to
be what it's gonna be. The moral of the story, folks,
is you got to get forged in fire to be
what you're gonna be. You got to get beat up,
you got to get pressure washed, you got to have
heat on you. You You gotta get melted down, you gotta
(08:29):
get poured into a mold. That's how you become who
you are. So the tough things that you're going through,
the difficult challenges and the setbacks. I know a brother
who went to prison, man. And and the whole reason
he ended up going to prison because he was looking
out the looting window, looking out in the yard and
I'm working out. And then the next thing you know, man,
this brother decided that he was gonna go out there
(08:51):
and work out. Well, guess what, he's one of the
top trainers in country today.
Uh huh, I sure will A good morning everybody you're
listening to the voice, come on, dig me now, one
and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Man, If
if if I had time enough to tell the whole trip,
the whole journey, and y'all would be sitting up in
there going, okay, Steve, are we gonna play the show
(00:22):
this week? But man, it's been a lot of amazing
things has has happened to me over the years, um,
and and not all of them good. It's been some
amazingly bad things that have happened too. But I just
come on in the morning as a reminder to everybody
(00:43):
of of of the actual goodness of God. That you know, man,
that these mistakes that you're making, that these setbacks that
you keep having, that these falls that keep occurring in
your life, that they all are leading you somewhere. If
you just don't ever give up. That's the key. You
(01:03):
can never ever give up because you don't know how
the trip has been laid out for you. You know,
if somebody had told me, um years ago when I
had the dream of being on TV and then I
thought about being a one of one of the best comedians,
I could be. You know when when I when I started,
(01:26):
somebody had told me everything that was gonna have to
happen in order for me to get there, I would
have changed it. I would have I would have said, Okay,
well I ain't gonna be that. How about this? See
and and no one can know all of the events
of their life ahead of time. You know, it would
(01:47):
be so nice when't you know, to prepare for it,
see it coming, be aware of the haters, always knowing
when the backstabbing moment is coming in your life, all
always knowing when you're gonna get blindsided by the enemy.
We're really great to know that, wouldn't it. Well, that's
not how it works. So since no one knows exactly
(02:12):
the challenges and the pitfalls and the detools that's gonna
be set them, it's it's it's imperative that you just
don't give up. Because see, knowing these things, we as
human beings by nature, would choose another route. But it
ain't the route God God for you, though. See the
(02:35):
route God God for you. If you if you're trying
to do the right thing, if you're doing the best
you can, if you ain't out here just intentionally just
messing over, folks. If you're using faith, and that's the
belief in things that you cannot see. If you have
something on the inside of you to keep saying there's
got to be more to life than that, then that's
(02:57):
that's you. You, my friend, have a great chance here.
And if you've ever had that feeling and gave up
on it, just get it back. Just asked for it back.
Just say, hey, man, I'm getting back to the way
I used to be. Because there's a change that's available
in your life. But you gotta take it. You gotta
(03:17):
take a shot at it. Folks. There's a chance for
you to get it right, but you gotta take a
shot at it. Folks. There's a chance for you to
turn this whole thing around with God's help, but you
gotta take a shot at it. You see, this decision
is yours. The decision to lay down and give up,
that's yours. It ain't it just got too hard for me.
(03:38):
Life too much, man, life hard, and too much for everybody.
What I gotta get you to see is if you
don't lay down and give into it, there's some great
things in store for your life. Because all of the
things every lesson I've ever ever learned. The best lesson
has been a bout lesson. My father used to always
(04:02):
tell me. He said, so best lessons in life, the
born your value and learn the most is about lesson.
I didn't quite understand that being young, but I showed
God it now. Ain't no lesson like a bout lesson,
the one you pay for. Those are the ones that
hold to you, that stick to you, that that that
start turning you into who you're gonna be. Those are
(04:24):
the character builders. See, um, you got to be forged
to get to where you want to go in life.
So that's what the challenges and missteps is for. That's
what the failing is about. Now. I know you don't
like it. I didn't. I know you're not comfortable with
I wouldn't. I know you wish it was over sooner
than later. I always do. I always wanted to be
(04:46):
over sooner than later because the later manager seems like
it's so much I gotta go through. But let me
tell you something, man, if you can, if you can
ford your way through it and understand that you are
forged in life, I don't know. I was on TBN
one time when I was doing one of my motivational speeches,
(05:08):
and I began to wonder about this experience I had
at Ford Motor Company, and um one of the things
that I had came to the realization of was that
that job at Ford mot Motor Company taught me a
couple of valuable lessons. First of all, that I had
to be at work on time, because I always was.
(05:29):
I had a really really good work record. Man, I
was a great employee because I because I didn't want
to disappoint anybody. You know, I already saw the look
on my parents face when I flunked out of college.
I didn't I wanted my father to know that I
was a hard worker. And so when I got the
job at Ford, I wanted to prove to my father
(05:51):
my mother, you know, the the nay says, Hey, man,
I know how to stick to something. But my last job,
after the auto industry started going down, my last job
was in the fountry, and my job was to stand
at the end almost where the engines first come out
of the furnace. See, the engines are poured into a mold.
(06:14):
It's hot, melted down metal whatever they call it, lava
or whatever they poured into a mole and it goes
into this furnace that's extremely hot. And my job was
after the heat was applied to the engine block, it
would come through and it would it would go through
a hardening stage. But the way it was hardening, they
(06:35):
would cool it. Suddenly they would flush it with water.
It was just blast water on it. But the fire
and the high temperature is what made the engine block solidified.
It's because it's gotta get real hot, get melted down first.
Then it's got to get poured into a mole. Then
it's gotta be pressure hit with water and all of this,
(06:59):
and then it and it's real hot. Now it's still
hot even on this water been shodow. But when it
comes out the end of the side, there's a lot
of flashing in it. And flashing is a metal from
that ton dripped through the cast or molding on it,
just like flecks of extra pieces of metal. My job
was to hit this engine block in the front, which
(07:21):
is huge heavy rubber mallet, knock all the flashing off
the front, and when it came around back to bam,
hit it real hard again on the back side. And
that became the core of what the car is a
car without a great engine is nothing. It's just a
pretty looking vehicle over there. But if it can't do
(07:44):
what it was made to do because the engine block
then cracked. So you can have a car look real good,
but if it freezes an engine block crack your car,
you can It's it's over, man. You gotta get a
new block. The block is the core. But in order
for you for the car to do what it's gotta do,
it's gotta have a strong engine in it. In order
for the engine to be strong, it's got to be
forged and still come through fire, get poured in a mold,
(08:08):
cooled off, heated, knocked around, beat on the front end,
beat on the back end, in order for it to
be what it's gonna be. The moral of the story, folks,
is you got to get forged in fire to be
what you're gonna be. You got to get beat up,
you got to get pressure washed, you got to have
heat on you. You You gotta get melted down, you gotta
(08:29):
get poured into a mold. That's how you become who
you are. So the tough things that you're going through,
the difficult challenges and the setbacks. I know a brother
who went to prison, man. And and the whole reason
he ended up going to prison because he was looking
out the looting window, looking out in the yard and
I'm working out. And then the next thing you know, man,
this brother decided that he was gonna go out there
(08:51):
and work out. Well, guess what, he's one of the
top trainers in country today.
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