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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on your I sure will. Good morning everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
You're listening to the voice, come on dig me now,
One and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. 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
(00:28):
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 God, that you know, man, that these
(00:50):
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 can never ever
give up because you don't know how the trip has
(01:12):
been laid out for you. You know, if somebody had told
me 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 start if somebody had told me
everything that was gonna have to happen in order for
(01:33):
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 no one
can know all of the events of their life ahead
of time.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
You know, it'd be so nice, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
You know, to prepare for it, see it come, and
be aware of the haters, always knowing when the backstabing
moment is coming in in your life, always knowing when
you're 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
(02:15):
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 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.
(02:38):
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 that's you.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
You, my friend, have a great chance here.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
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 getting back to the way
I used to be because there's a change that's available
in your life.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
But you got to take it. You got to take
a shot at it. Folks.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
There's a chance for you to get it right, but
you gotta take a shot at it.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Folks.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
There's a chance for you to turn this whole thing
around with God's help, but you got to 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
(03:47):
tell me, it says some best lessons in life, to
born 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 ball lesson
the one you pay for. Those are the ones that
hold to you, that stick to you, that that start
(04:07):
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 challenge is and missteps is for that's what
the failing is about.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
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.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I always do.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
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. 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 when I was doing one of my motivational speeches,
(04:53):
and I began to wonder about this experience I had
at Ford Motor Company and my lif last job after
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.
(05:17):
It's hot, melted down metal whatever they call it, larva
or whatever. They pour it 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 go through a
hardening stage. With the way it was hardening, they would
(05:38):
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 blocks solidify.
It's because it's got to get real hot, get melted
down first. Then it's got to get poured into a mole.
Then it's got to be pressure hit with water and
(06:01):
all of this, and then it and it's real hot.
Now it's still hot even though this water been 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 to drip through the cast molding
on it, just like flex of extra pieces of metal.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
My job was to hit this engine block in the.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Front, which 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 backside,
and that became the core of what the car is.
A car without a great engine is nothing. It's just
(06:43):
a pretty looking vehicle over there. But if it can't
do what it was made to do because the engine blocked,
then crack.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
See.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
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 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 steal, come through fire,
get poured in a mole, cooled off, heated, knocked around,
(07:13):
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 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
(07:36):
the tough things that you're going through, the difficult challenges
and the setbacks.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I know a brother who went to prison, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
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 today.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Link into the Steve Harvey Morning Show
Come on your I sure will. Good morning everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
You're listening to the voice, come on dig me now,
One and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. 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
(00:28):
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 God, that you know, man, that these
(00:50):
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 can never ever
give up because you don't know how the trip has
(01:12):
been laid out for you. You know, if somebody had told
me 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 start if somebody had told me
everything that was gonna have to happen in order for
(01:33):
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 no one
can know all of the events of their life ahead
of time.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
You know, it'd be so nice, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
You know, to prepare for it, see it come, and
be aware of the haters, always knowing when the backstabing
moment is coming in in your life, always knowing when
you're 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
(02:15):
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 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.
(02:38):
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 that's you.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
You, my friend, have a great chance here.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
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 getting back to the way
I used to be because there's a change that's available
in your life.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
But you got to take it. You got to take
a shot at it. Folks.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
There's a chance for you to get it right, but
you gotta take a shot at it.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Folks.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
There's a chance for you to turn this whole thing
around with God's help, but you got to 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
(03:47):
tell me, it says some best lessons in life, to
born 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 ball lesson
the one you pay for. Those are the ones that
hold to you, that stick to you, that that start
(04:07):
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 challenge is and missteps is for that's what
the failing is about.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
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.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I always do.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
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. 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 when I was doing one of my motivational speeches,
(04:53):
and I began to wonder about this experience I had
at Ford Motor Company and my lif last job after
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.
(05:17):
It's hot, melted down metal whatever they call it, larva
or whatever. They pour it 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 go through a
hardening stage. With the way it was hardening, they would
(05:38):
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 blocks solidify.
It's because it's got to get real hot, get melted
down first. Then it's got to get poured into a mole.
Then it's got to be pressure hit with water and
(06:01):
all of this, and then it and it's real hot.
Now it's still hot even though this water been 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 to drip through the cast molding
on it, just like flex of extra pieces of metal.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
My job was to hit this engine block in the.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Front, which 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 backside,
and that became the core of what the car is.
A car without a great engine is nothing. It's just
(06:43):
a pretty looking vehicle over there. But if it can't
do what it was made to do because the engine blocked,
then crack.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
See.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
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 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 steal, come through fire,
get poured in a mole, cooled off, heated, knocked around,
(07:13):
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 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
(07:36):
the tough things that you're going through, the difficult challenges
and the setbacks.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I know a brother who went to prison, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
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 today.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Link into the Steve Harvey Morning Show
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