1
00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,480
Speaker 1: It is time now to check your voicemail Steve at

2
00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:06,240
Speaker 1: eight seven seven twenty nine. Steve eight seven seven twenty nine, Steve,

3
00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:07,480
Speaker 1: call and leave a message.

4
00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:09,240
Speaker 2: You just might hear your call on the air.

5
00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:10,080
Speaker 1: You ready, Steve?

6
00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:11,080
Speaker 2: Yep?

7
00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:13,080
Speaker 1: All right? Excuse me?

8
00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:18,480
Speaker 2: Yep? Okay, that was a tiny bit better. All right,

9
00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:20,240
Speaker 2: let's hear from Roy and Shreveport.

10
00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:23,720
Speaker 1: Hey, good morning, Steve. Now, my name is Roy, call

11
00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:28,600
Speaker 1: him Treeport, Louisiana. My question is how can you live

12
00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:32,880
Speaker 1: amongst people? How can you live amongst people and any

13
00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:37,400
Speaker 1: environment and in a world what people portray to be

14
00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:40,240
Speaker 1: help and to turn around and say if you're riding

15
00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:43,440
Speaker 1: your back, how can you sleep at night knowing family

16
00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,000
Speaker 1: is not going to be there and knowing you got

17
00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:49,320
Speaker 1: nobody to turn to. How do they expect us black

18
00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:53,800
Speaker 1: men to live in society and not do what we

19
00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:56,320
Speaker 1: have to do? Five children? Even if to me is

20
00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,319
Speaker 1: getting down and dirty, I don't understand it because from

21
00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:02,120
Speaker 1: where I come from, from my neck of the woods, man,

22
00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:05,160
Speaker 1: it's no help down here. Period. It's ty everybody leaving.

23
00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,360
Speaker 1: I just needed some words of encouragement, man, because I'm

24
00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:10,760
Speaker 1: a father that's been through a lot, and that's trying

25
00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:13,320
Speaker 1: to do the right thing, and seems like everywhere I've

26
00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:16,199
Speaker 1: been turning man, you know, reaching out for just even

27
00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:19,199
Speaker 1: a few words and encouragement. Man, it's been a bunth

28
00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:21,760
Speaker 1: of road. So you know, and I thank you for

29
00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,000
Speaker 1: everything I've been seeing. You know, your real inspiration to

30
00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:28,400
Speaker 1: me on TV. And you know I appreciate everything you do.

31
00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:30,319
Speaker 1: That was the only thing I needed to know. Man,

32
00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,960
Speaker 1: How I'm only thirty three. How am I supposed to

33
00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:35,760
Speaker 1: keep going with the things that's going on around me?

34
00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:36,440
Speaker 1: Thank you?

35
00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:41,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, Roy, I feel you'll know exactly where you're at.

36
00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:48,200
Speaker 2: Manhood is difficult. It's very difficult. It's fatherhood makes another

37
00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:51,640
Speaker 2: set of challenges on top of that, the responsibility of

38
00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,640
Speaker 2: being a man is hard. But Roy, you can do it.

39
00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,440
Speaker 2: You can do it because you have been chosen for

40
00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:01,640
Speaker 2: the role. See, you didn't accedent to become a father. God,

41
00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:05,320
Speaker 2: don't make mistakes. You are a father because you had

42
00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:09,240
Speaker 2: to produce this, these children that you are now responsible for.

43
00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:14,079
Speaker 2: Don't let the devil get into your head and start

44
00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:17,120
Speaker 2: making you think that you got to do something sideways

45
00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:20,480
Speaker 2: to make it happen. See, the devil users all types

46
00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:24,799
Speaker 2: of tricks. Look, man, stop looking for support from people

47
00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,960
Speaker 2: who ain't feel they roll. You know the Usually the

48
00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,640
Speaker 2: people around you are not fulfilling roles in their life.

49
00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,680
Speaker 2: You can't expect them to support your fulfilling of your

50
00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,880
Speaker 2: role in your life. So stop looking for it. See

51
00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:40,839
Speaker 2: you don't get disappointed if you don't look for it.

52
00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:46,360
Speaker 2: Stop expecting people. Your help will come directly from the

53
00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:51,880
Speaker 2: most reliable source available, and that is God Almighty. Now,

54
00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:56,000
Speaker 2: one of the reasons that your phone call got picked

55
00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:59,160
Speaker 2: is because you needed to hear this message right here.

56
00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:03,560
Speaker 2: God knows what you're up against, and God is available.

57
00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:07,560
Speaker 2: If Steve ain't available, if your father ain't available, and

58
00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:11,720
Speaker 2: if the support system around you ain't available, God is available.

59
00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:17,560
Speaker 2: Twenty four seven. Keep your head up, put your eyes

60
00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:21,960
Speaker 2: on the prize, and do the right thing. It's hard

61
00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,440
Speaker 2: to do the right thing when the easy thing seem

62
00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,320
Speaker 2: like it's right there and you can go get this money. Yeah,

63
00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:30,280
Speaker 2: But if you go get this money and it don't

64
00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:34,119
Speaker 2: go right, which it normally doesn't. Now, the children who

65
00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:37,480
Speaker 2: have counted on you, now they Daddy behind the wall.

66
00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,040
Speaker 2: Do you know how many men sit behind that wall

67
00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:43,800
Speaker 2: made that decision you made for the sake of their

68
00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:47,800
Speaker 2: family and ended up costing them the very thing that

69
00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:51,760
Speaker 2: they was trying to save and support. You can't do that, brouh.

70
00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,000
Speaker 2: So now not only can you not support them, you're

71
00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:58,840
Speaker 2: not even there to walk them to school and hug them.

72
00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:03,080
Speaker 2: Your time and that you're investing in these children are

73
00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,760
Speaker 2: much more valuable than you can possibly know. The fact

74
00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:09,160
Speaker 2: that you are there and they can say I'm go

75
00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,360
Speaker 2: tell my daddy and you can walk them to school

76
00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:15,240
Speaker 2: to be there for them. I know, financially it can

77
00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:18,200
Speaker 2: get tough for you out here. I know this, but

78
00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:23,480
Speaker 2: that's something some talent that you have. I don't know

79
00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:27,000
Speaker 2: if it's washing cars, detailing, I don't know, if it's rims.

80
00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,960
Speaker 2: I don't know, if it's working down at the tire store.

81
00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:32,960
Speaker 2: I don't know. But whatever you can do, and sometimes

82
00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000
Speaker 2: you gotta fake it til you make it. Man. You

83
00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:36,960
Speaker 2: got to take a job that you don't really care

84
00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,840
Speaker 2: to have until you get the one you want. But

85
00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:41,920
Speaker 2: do the right thing, brother, and stay on the court.

86
00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:43,760
Speaker 2: Don't let the devil fool you. Don't let him get

87
00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:45,240
Speaker 2: you down that wrong path. Man.

88
00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,000
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show,