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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Huh, I sure will.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
But come on, and everybody you're listening to the voice,
come on, dig me now.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
One and only Steve Harvey got a radio show.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
If I had time enough to tell the whole trip,
the whole journey, and y'all will be sitting upending bad Okay, Steve,
are we.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Going to play the show this week?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
So? Man, it's been a lot of amazing things has
happened to me over the years, 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 of the actual goodness of
(00:47):
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 leading
you somewhere.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
If you just don't ever give up. That's the key.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You can never ever give up because you don't know
how the trip has been laid out for you.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You know, if somebody had told me.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
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 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 ain't
(01:39):
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
(02:01):
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 beset them, it's it's
it's imperative that you just don't give up. Because see,
(02:24):
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
(02:47):
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
(03:09):
getting back to the way I used to be because
there's a change that's available in your life.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
But you got to take it. You got to take
a shot at it. Folks.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
There's a chance for you to get it right, but
you gotta take a shot at it.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Folks.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
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.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
What I got to get you to see?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
My father used to always tell me, it says some
best lessons in life, the one your value and learn
the most is about lesson I didn't quite understand that
being young, but I show got it now, ain't no
lesson like a bout lesson you pay for. Those are
the ones that hold to you, that stick to you,
that start turning you into who you're gonna be. Those
(04:08):
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 challenge is 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 not comfortable with
I wouldn't. I know you wish it was over sooner
than later. I always do. I always want it to
(04:30):
be over sooner than later because the later, Man, it
just seems like it's so much I got to go through.
But let me tell you something, Man, if you can,
if you can forge your way through it and understand
that you are forged in life, I don't know. I
was on TV in one time and I was doing
one of my motivational speeches, and I began to wonder
(04:55):
about this experience I had at Ford Motor Company and
my last job the auto industry started going down. My
last job was in the foundry, 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. It's hot, melted down metal whatever they
(05:19):
call it, larva 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
go through a hardening stage. With the way it was hardening,
they would cool it. Suddenly they would flush.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It with water. It was just blast water on it.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
But the fire and the high temperature is what made
the engine block solidify it because it's got to get
real hot, get melted down first.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Then it's got to get poured into a mole.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
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 this water been shatter.
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 to drip through the cast of
molding on it, just like flex of extra pieces of metal.
(06:18):
My job was to hit this engine block in the front,
which 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. A car
(06:40):
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.
So you can have a car look real good, but
if it freezes an engine block cracked your car, you
could it's over man.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
You got to get a new block. The block is
the core.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
But in order for you for the car to do
what it's 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 steel come through fire,
get poured in a mole, cooled off, heated, knocked around,
beat on the front end, beat on the back end,
and order for it to be what it's gonna be.
The mall of the story, folks, is you got to
(07:20):
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 got
to get melted down, you got to get pulled into
a mole, 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, ma'am.
(07:42):
And the whole reason he ended up going to prison
because he was looking out 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.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Today, he took the Steve Harvey Morning Show
Come on.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Huh, I sure will.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
But come on, and everybody you're listening to the voice,
come on, dig me now.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
One and only Steve Harvey got a radio show.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
If I had time enough to tell the whole trip,
the whole journey, and y'all will be sitting upending bad Okay, Steve,
are we.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Going to play the show this week?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
So? Man, it's been a lot of amazing things has
happened to me over the years, 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 of the actual goodness of
(00:47):
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 leading
you somewhere.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
If you just don't ever give up. That's the key.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You can never ever give up because you don't know
how the trip has been laid out for you.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You know, if somebody had told me.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
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 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 ain't
(01:39):
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
(02:01):
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 beset them, it's it's
it's imperative that you just don't give up. Because see,
(02:24):
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
(02:47):
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
(03:09):
getting back to the way I used to be because
there's a change that's available in your life.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
But you got to take it. You got to take
a shot at it. Folks.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
There's a chance for you to get it right, but
you gotta take a shot at it.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Folks.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
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.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
What I got to get you to see?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
My father used to always tell me, it says some
best lessons in life, the one your value and learn
the most is about lesson I didn't quite understand that
being young, but I show got it now, ain't no
lesson like a bout lesson you pay for. Those are
the ones that hold to you, that stick to you,
that start turning you into who you're gonna be. Those
(04:08):
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 challenge is 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 not comfortable with
I wouldn't. I know you wish it was over sooner
than later. I always do. I always want it to
(04:30):
be over sooner than later because the later, Man, it
just seems like it's so much I got to go through.
But let me tell you something, Man, if you can,
if you can forge your way through it and understand
that you are forged in life, I don't know. I
was on TV in one time and I was doing
one of my motivational speeches, and I began to wonder
(04:55):
about this experience I had at Ford Motor Company and
my last job the auto industry started going down. My
last job was in the foundry, 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. It's hot, melted down metal whatever they
(05:19):
call it, larva 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
go through a hardening stage. With the way it was hardening,
they would cool it. Suddenly they would flush.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It with water. It was just blast water on it.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
But the fire and the high temperature is what made
the engine block solidify it because it's got to get
real hot, get melted down first.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Then it's got to get poured into a mole.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
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 this water been shatter.
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 to drip through the cast of
molding on it, just like flex of extra pieces of metal.
(06:18):
My job was to hit this engine block in the front,
which 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. A car
(06:40):
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.
So you can have a car look real good, but
if it freezes an engine block cracked your car, you
could it's over man.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
You got to get a new block. The block is
the core.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
But in order for you for the car to do
what it's 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 steel come through fire,
get poured in a mole, cooled off, heated, knocked around,
beat on the front end, beat on the back end,
and order for it to be what it's gonna be.
The mall of the story, folks, is you got to
(07:20):
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 got
to get melted down, you got to get pulled into
a mole, 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, ma'am.
(07:42):
And the whole reason he ended up going to prison
because he was looking out 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.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Today, he took the Steve Harvey Morning Show
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