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Speaker 1: All right, it is time now to check your voicemail.

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Speaker 1: Steve eight seven seven twenty nine. Steve is the number

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Speaker 1: you can call us and leave a message. You just

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Speaker 1: might hear your call on the air. Are you ready,

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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey all day? This is called This caller is

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Speaker 1: named Mark. He'd like your advice about doing the right

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Speaker 1: thing particularly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Man, what's up Steve?

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Speaker 3: Man?

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Speaker 2: You know to day Mark? Man? You know, I was

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Speaker 2: just calling to let you know, bro that you know,

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Speaker 2: I am a thirty seven year old you know, father

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Speaker 2: and all that mother, you know, all that good stuff. Man,

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Speaker 2: you feel you man. But the reason why you know

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Speaker 2: I was calling because I just want to ask you, man, like, well,

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Speaker 2: how do I stayed on the goods that stayed down

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Speaker 2: for the good side? Man? Because you know, like I

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Speaker 2: try and I try. You know, I'm going to do

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Speaker 2: the working dad. I'm trying to you know, you know,

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Speaker 2: just be a good all around person. But but it's

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Speaker 2: like that's not getting me to the point where I

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Speaker 2: need to be financially and mentally. Man. Real man, you know,

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Speaker 2: like as soon as I go do something, you know,

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Speaker 2: something bad or something you know I don't supposed to

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Speaker 2: be doing, then it felt like I get right to

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Speaker 2: where you know, well, I get that closer to where

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Speaker 2: where I need to be. Man, But you know, I

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Speaker 2: don't want to keep doing it like that because I

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Speaker 2: know the room and everything, man, and I don't want

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Speaker 2: to go back some good test stay. But I just

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Speaker 2: want to know about how do I stay down for

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Speaker 2: the good side? Man? It just man, it ain't working

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Speaker 2: for me, man, it ain't. Man. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: you probably live a life by leg because I'm I

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Speaker 2: know you said you've been to some things, but I

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Speaker 2: but I you know I'm out there, man, But you know,

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Speaker 2: just let me know something, O Ge, Please if you

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Speaker 2: get this, man.

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Speaker 3: All right, I got it. Man, Hey, brother, listen to me.

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Speaker 3: That's the battle in all of us in some form

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Speaker 3: of fashion. You trying to stay out them streets, some

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Speaker 3: dudes trying to stay out the strip clubs. Some dudes

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Speaker 3: trying to stay out the other chick's house. Some dude

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Speaker 3: trying to stay off drugs. Some dude is in here

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Speaker 3: battling against all types of everybody faced with something. There's

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Speaker 3: not a man living mark that gets to escape. Temptation

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Speaker 3: is coming. It is coming, So stop beating yourself up

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Speaker 3: about that. Now, you said a couple of things, I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna talk to them out of order. You said you

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Speaker 3: don't want to go back to the penitentiary. First thing

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Speaker 3: you gotta do it is not go back to the

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Speaker 3: thing that puts you there. That's a one thousand percent

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Speaker 3: show decision you have to make. If you don't want

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Speaker 3: to go back, then you can't go back to the

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Speaker 3: thing that sent you there. Now, doing the right thing

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Speaker 3: is hard, but when you do the wrong thing, the

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Speaker 3: consequences for that is hard too. See doing the right

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Speaker 3: thing in your case, Mark, trying to work a good job,

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Speaker 3: trying to go home take care of your family is slow.

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Speaker 3: Oh it's hard. But if you run out there to

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Speaker 3: get that fast money and they bust you, it's going

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Speaker 3: to be hard too. I'd rather have see Now listen

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Speaker 3: to me, Mark. Let me just say this as a OG.

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Speaker 3: Life is hard. It really is bro for all of us.

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Speaker 3: It ain't no easy street. It's just fill with challenges

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Speaker 3: and life is hard. But you got to accept you

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Speaker 3: got to pick your hard Mark. It's hard to go

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Speaker 3: to the gym and get in shape and follow that

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Speaker 3: ritual every day, but it's hard to be fat person too. Though, See,

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Speaker 3: it's hard. It's hard to open a business and try

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Speaker 3: to become an entrepreneur and go to the bank and

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Speaker 3: get a loan or find some people to help support you.

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Speaker 3: That's hard. But it's hard going down to a job

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Speaker 3: that you hate every morning. That's hard too. It's hard

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Speaker 3: to do the right thing. And then you got the

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Speaker 3: devil who is on your shoulder, and you got God

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Speaker 3: on your other shoulder, and that devil is whispering to

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Speaker 3: you because the devil got one mission in life. The

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Speaker 3: devil's job is to rob you of your destiny. So

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Speaker 3: he is going to whisper to what seems like the

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Speaker 3: easy thing, the best thing to do. Hey, Mark, let

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Speaker 3: me tell you something, man, You got to talk to

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Speaker 3: God and get some strength. You got to ask God

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Speaker 3: to help you, just like you said it to me.

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Speaker 3: Just say it to God. Hey God, I'm out here. Man,

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Speaker 3: I'm tripping a little bit right now. You know I'm

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Speaker 3: leaning the wrong way. Can you straighten me? Just help

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Speaker 3: me fix the mindset that I need to stay on

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Speaker 3: the straight path. That's the best thing I can give

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Speaker 3: you right now. Mark, But hit me back if you

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Speaker 3: need to talk again.

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Speaker 2: Bro.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for you great advice. Steve, great advice, all right,

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Speaker 1: thank you Mark. Coming up next, it is the Nephew

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