May 24, 2024 • 10 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Y'all don't know y'all at all, So given them back
a million bus bush Yeah listening to show.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I don't joy, yeah, Joy, you.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Love you gotta.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Turn to turn the mouth turn. You probably got to
turn the mouth turn the water of the money.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Look me.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Come come out your.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Huh, I sure will coome on and everybody you're listening
to the voice, come on dig me now, one and
only Steve Harvey got a radio show.
Speaker 7 (02:12):
Man, 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 going to play the
show this week? But man, it's been a lot of
amazing things has happened to me over the years, and
(02:33):
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 of the
actual goodness of God, that you know, man, that these
mistakes that you're making, that these setbacks that you keep having,
(02:53):
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 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 years ago when I had the dream of
(03:17):
being on TV and then I thought about being a
one of one of the best comedians I could be,
you know, when I when I started, if 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
(03:37):
ain't gonna be that. How about this? See and no
one can know all of the events of their life
ahead of time. You know, it'd be so nice, wouldn't it.
You know, to prepare for it, see it come, and
be aware of the haters, always knowing when the backstabbing
moment is coming in your life, always knowing when you're
(04:00):
gonna get blindsided by the enemy. Were really great to
know that, wouldn't it. Well, that's not how it works.
So since no one knows exactly the challenges and the
pitfalls and the detours that's gonna be set them, it's
it's it's imperative that you just don't give up, because
(04:22):
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 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
(04:45):
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 that's you. You, my friend,
have a great chance here. And if you've ever had
that feeling then gave up on it, just get it back,
Just ask for it back, Just say, hey man, I'm
(05:08):
getting back to the way I used to be because
there's a change that's available in your life. But you
got to take it. You got to take a shot
at it.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Folks.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
There's a chance for you to get it right, but
you gotta take a shot at it.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Folks.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
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, to give up that's yours. It ain't
even just got too hard for me? Life too much, man,
life hard and too much for everybody. What I got
to get you to See? My father used to always
(05:45):
tell me, it says, some best lessons in life, the
one your value and learn the most is a bout lesson.
I didn't quite understand that being young, but I show
got 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 start
(06:05):
turning you into who you're gonna be. Those are the
character builders. See, you got to be forged to get
to where you want to go in life. See, that's
what the challenges and missteps is for. That's what the
failing is about. Now, I know you don't like it.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I didn't.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
I know you not comfortable with I wouldn't. I know
you wish it was over sooner than later. I always do.
I always want it to be over sooner than later,
because the later, Man, it just seems like it's so
much I got to go through.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
But let me tell you something, Man, if you can,
if you can.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
Forge your way through it and understand that you are
forged in life.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
I was on TV in one time when I was
doing one of my motivational speeches, and I began to
wonder about this experience I had at Ford Motor Company
and my last job after the auto industry starts going down,
my last job was in the foundry and my job
was to stand at the end almost where the engines
(07:10):
first come out of the furnace. See, the engines are
poured into a mold. It's hot, melted down metal whatever
they call it, lava or whatever. They pour it into
a mold 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
(07:33):
go through a hardening stage. But the way it was hardening,
they would cool it. Suddenly they would flush it with water.
It would just blast water on it. But the fire
and the high temperature is what made the engine block solidify.
It's because it's got to get real hot, get melted
down first.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Then it's got to get poured into a mole.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Then it's got to be pressure hit with water and
all of this and then it and it's real hot.
Now it's still hot even though there's water being shotter.
But when it comes out the end of the side,
there's a lot of flashing in it. It flashing is
a metal from that ton dripped through the cast of
molding on it, just like flex of extra pieces of metal.
(08:16):
My job was to hit this engine block in the
front with this 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 backside.
And that became the core of what the car is.
(08:38):
A car without a great engine is nothing. It's just
a pretty looking vehicle over there. But if it can't
do what it was made to do because the engine
blocked and cracked. See, you can have a car look
real good, but if it freezes. An engine block cracked
your car, you could 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
(08:59):
got to do, it's got to have a strong enginet it.
In order for the engine to be strong, it's got
to be forged and steal, come through fire, get poured
in a mole, 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 mall
of the story, folks, is you got to get forged
(09:20):
in fire to be what you gonna be. You got
to get beat up, you got to get pressure washed,
you got to have heat on you, you got to
get melted down, you got to get pulled into a mole.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
That's how you become who you are.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
So the tough things that you're going through, the difficult
challenges and the setbacks.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I know a brother who went to prison, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
And the whole reason he ended up going to prison
because he was looking at the little window looking out
in the yard at him working out. And then the
next thing, you know, man, this brother decided that he
was gonna go out there and work out. Well, guess what,
he's one of the top trainers in country today.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
You're listening
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Show m
Today show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Y'all don't know y'all at all, So given them back
a million bus bush Yeah listening to show.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I don't joy, yeah, Joy, you.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Love you gotta.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Turn to turn the mouth turn. You probably got to
turn the mouth turn the water of the money.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Look me.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Come come out your.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Huh, I sure will coome on and everybody you're listening
to the voice, come on dig me now, one and
only Steve Harvey got a radio show.
Speaker 7 (02:12):
Man, 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 going to play the
show this week? But man, it's been a lot of
amazing things has happened to me over the years, and
(02:33):
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 of the
actual goodness of God, that you know, man, that these
mistakes that you're making, that these setbacks that you keep having,
(02:53):
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 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 years ago when I had the dream of
(03:17):
being on TV and then I thought about being a
one of one of the best comedians I could be,
you know, when I when I started, if 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
(03:37):
ain't gonna be that. How about this? See and no
one can know all of the events of their life
ahead of time. You know, it'd be so nice, wouldn't it.
You know, to prepare for it, see it come, and
be aware of the haters, always knowing when the backstabbing
moment is coming in your life, always knowing when you're
(04:00):
gonna get blindsided by the enemy. Were really great to
know that, wouldn't it. Well, that's not how it works.
So since no one knows exactly the challenges and the
pitfalls and the detours that's gonna be set them, it's
it's it's imperative that you just don't give up, because
(04:22):
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 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
(04:45):
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 that's you. You, my friend,
have a great chance here. And if you've ever had
that feeling then gave up on it, just get it back,
Just ask for it back, Just say, hey man, I'm
(05:08):
getting back to the way I used to be because
there's a change that's available in your life. But you
got to take it. You got to take a shot
at it.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Folks.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
There's a chance for you to get it right, but
you gotta take a shot at it.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Folks.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
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, to give up that's yours. It ain't
even just got too hard for me? Life too much, man,
life hard and too much for everybody. What I got
to get you to See? My father used to always
(05:45):
tell me, it says, some best lessons in life, the
one your value and learn the most is a bout lesson.
I didn't quite understand that being young, but I show
got 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 start
(06:05):
turning you into who you're gonna be. Those are the
character builders. See, you got to be forged to get
to where you want to go in life. See, that's
what the challenges and missteps is for. That's what the
failing is about. Now, I know you don't like it.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I didn't.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
I know you not comfortable with I wouldn't. I know
you wish it was over sooner than later. I always do.
I always want it to be over sooner than later,
because the later, Man, it just seems like it's so
much I got to go through.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
But let me tell you something, Man, if you can,
if you can.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
Forge your way through it and understand that you are
forged in life.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
I was on TV in one time when I was
doing one of my motivational speeches, and I began to
wonder about this experience I had at Ford Motor Company
and my last job after the auto industry starts going down,
my last job was in the foundry and my job
was to stand at the end almost where the engines
(07:10):
first come out of the furnace. See, the engines are
poured into a mold. It's hot, melted down metal whatever
they call it, lava or whatever. They pour it into
a mold 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
(07:33):
go through a hardening stage. But the way it was hardening,
they would cool it. Suddenly they would flush it with water.
It would just blast water on it. But the fire
and the high temperature is what made the engine block solidify.
It's because it's got to get real hot, get melted
down first.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Then it's got to get poured into a mole.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Then it's got to be pressure hit with water and
all of this and then it and it's real hot.
Now it's still hot even though there's water being shotter.
But when it comes out the end of the side,
there's a lot of flashing in it. It flashing is
a metal from that ton dripped through the cast of
molding on it, just like flex of extra pieces of metal.
(08:16):
My job was to hit this engine block in the
front with this 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 backside.
And that became the core of what the car is.
(08:38):
A car without a great engine is nothing. It's just
a pretty looking vehicle over there. But if it can't
do what it was made to do because the engine
blocked and cracked. See, you can have a car look
real good, but if it freezes. An engine block cracked
your car, you could 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
(08:59):
got to do, it's got to have a strong enginet it.
In order for the engine to be strong, it's got
to be forged and steal, come through fire, get poured
in a mole, 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 mall
of the story, folks, is you got to get forged
(09:20):
in fire to be what you gonna be. You got
to get beat up, you got to get pressure washed,
you got to have heat on you, you got to
get melted down, you got to get pulled into a mole.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
That's how you become who you are.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
So the tough things that you're going through, the difficult
challenges and the setbacks.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I know a brother who went to prison, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
And the whole reason he ended up going to prison
because he was looking at the little window looking out
in the yard at him working out. And then the
next thing, you know, man, this brother decided that he
was gonna go out there and work out. Well, guess what,
he's one of the top trainers in country today.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
You're listening
Speaker 3 (10:00):
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