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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on you, I sure will coome onring everybody you're
listening to the voice, come on dig me now, one
and only Steve Harvey got a radio show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
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
(00:35):
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,
(00:55):
that these falls that keep occurring in your life, if
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.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
You know, if somebody had told me.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Years ago when I had the dream of being on
TV and then I thought about being 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 me
to get there, I would have changed it.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I would have I.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
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. 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,
(02:01):
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 pitfalls and the detools that's gonna
be set them, it's it's it's imperative that you just
(02:22):
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. 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
(02:45):
messing over folks, if you 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 3 (02:59):
You, my in 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, but you got to take it.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
You got to 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.
Speaker 2 (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 3 (03:43):
What I got to get you to see?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
My father used to always tell me, it says some
best lessons in life, to born your value and learn
the most is a bout lesson. I didn't quite understand that,
being young, but I showed got it.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Ain't no lesson like about lesson and the one you
pay for. Those are the ones that hold to you,
that stick to you, that that start turning you into
who you're going to 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 3 (04:20):
Now. I know you don't like it.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
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 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
(04:43):
you are forged in life, I don't know. I was
on TBN 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 started going down, My last
job was in the foundry and my job was to
(05:07):
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 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,
(05:33):
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 it with water. It
was just blast water on it. 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
(05:54):
down first. Then it's got to get poured into a mole.
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 being 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 molding
(06:14):
on it, just like flex of extra pieces of metal.
My job was to hit this engine block in the 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
(06:36):
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 what
it was made to do because the engine blocked then 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.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
You got to get a new block. The block is
the core.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
But in order for for the car to do what
it's got to do, it's got to have a strong engine.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
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 get forged
in fire to be what you're gonna be. You got
(07:25):
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 3 (07:33):
That's how you become who you are.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
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. 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.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Well, guess what. He's one of the top trainers in
country today. He is the Steve Harvey Morning Show
Come on you, I sure will coome onring everybody you're
listening to the voice, come on dig me now, one
and only Steve Harvey got a radio show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
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
(00:35):
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,
(00:55):
that these falls that keep occurring in your life, if
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.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
You know, if somebody had told me.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Years ago when I had the dream of being on
TV and then I thought about being 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 me
to get there, I would have changed it.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I would have I.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
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. 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,
(02:01):
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 pitfalls and the detools that's gonna
be set them, it's it's it's imperative that you just
(02:22):
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. 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
(02:45):
messing over folks, if you 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 3 (02:59):
You, my in 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, but you got to take it.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
You got to 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.
Speaker 2 (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 3 (03:43):
What I got to get you to see?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
My father used to always tell me, it says some
best lessons in life, to born your value and learn
the most is a bout lesson. I didn't quite understand that,
being young, but I showed got it.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Ain't no lesson like about lesson and the one you
pay for. Those are the ones that hold to you,
that stick to you, that that start turning you into
who you're going to 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 3 (04:20):
Now. I know you don't like it.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
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 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
(04:43):
you are forged in life, I don't know. I was
on TBN 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 started going down, My last
job was in the foundry and my job was to
(05:07):
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 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,
(05:33):
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 it with water. It
was just blast water on it. 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
(05:54):
down first. Then it's got to get poured into a mole.
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 being 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 molding
(06:14):
on it, just like flex of extra pieces of metal.
My job was to hit this engine block in the 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
(06:36):
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 what
it was made to do because the engine blocked then 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.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
You got to get a new block. The block is
the core.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
But in order for for the car to do what
it's got to do, it's got to have a strong engine.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
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 get forged
in fire to be what you're gonna be. You got
(07:25):
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 3 (07:33):
That's how you become who you are.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
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. 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.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Well, guess what. He's one of the top trainers in
country today. He is the Steve Harvey Morning Show
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