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Now the devil's nightmare. Welcome back to another episode of It's Time to Man Up. Music, music, music. If it's in your blood, how do you approach that? Do you write songs?
Do you sing songs? Do you just listen to songs?
Well, my guest today does all of the above. And I had the privilege of meeting this man just a while ago and then experiencing or spending several days with him at our man camp. But with me today, Brian Robinson, better known as B-Rob. Welcome to The Man Up Show. Hello, hello, Mikita.
How are you today, my friend? I am doing well. I'm doing well. And I'll leave my listeners kind of hanging there for a moment on the whole B-Rob part. But so I'll initially I'll just address you as Brian and we'll as the story unfolds.
But music.
So music is your background though. Yeah, I've been doing it since I was A child in in the gospel choir. Baptist churches when I was growing up and That was my passion. Um My parents, of course, growing up in the South wanted me to play Basketball, baseball, and football every year. And I did that as well, but they didn't take to the music as much as I would have liked.
But It It's just something that uh God has given me a good voice and uh I grew up just wanting to do music. It was just a passion for me, really was.
So now you said, now you said from childless, so like how, Brian, how far back? Like, like, what's the earliest you can remember, you know, when you thought, hey, I want to be a singer one day?
Well, I remember going to a Calvary Baptist church when I was three or four years old.
Okay. And there was a singer that was there visiting. I think he was a gospel singer at the time, contemporary artist. And it was around Easter. It might have been Easter Sunday, but it was a song called He Will Rise Again.
And I cannot remember that artist's name. I could see his face.
Okay. Beard. It was the late 70s. I could see his face.
It almost looks like a. Kind of like an Alabama face, or you know, the group Alabama with the beard and the yeah, yeah, and that song just touched me. Um I want to say that was the first time I came to Christ that I remember. That was something that I just wanted to do. I wanted to, it was.
It's just something that I hung to. I later down the line, I picked up the guitar and started playing the piano a little bit. I've been I'm fifty years old and I've been doing it ever since. Probably hardcore since I was 14.
Okay. So so you so age three or four, you kinda you're you're drawn to music, you you pick up the so about what age were you when you picked up the instruments? About fourteen.
Okay, about about fourteen. You're like, man, this is this is it. I think it's kinda funny your story about how your you know, y parents wanted you, you know, to play sports and uh and uh but you know, yet you were more drawn to the music side of things, which is interesting 'cause there was uh Was it uh you can maybe help me remember, or our listeners out there probably already know where I'm headed with this, but because I remember going to it, was it the guy who did the song I Can Only Imagine, whose dad was not very fond of his singing skills and/or his desire to play instruments and follow the path of music. Uh, don't quote me on that. I'm thinking that was the story, but yeah, your story kind of reminds me like they wanted you to play sports, but you're like, ah man, music is my thing, you know?
And so that's amazing.
So, so, Brian, so how old. Were you 'cause I I know I know you don't I know you play the instruments, I know you you sing, but but you also are a s a songwriter, yeah? Yeah. Yeah, I've been. I wrote my first song probably when I was 15 years old, and That was about the time I want to say my mom came in the room and They kind of told me that I was adopted and there was a biological father that she left when I was eight months old in Dallas, Texas, because of a heroin addiction and a cocaine addiction and um He brought me back home and, um That was the She saw me playing the guitar when I was 15 and I started.
with three or four chords. and um just started writing melodies down and with lyrics down and uh She came in the room crying and she was like, you know, your biological father did the same thing. He did what? He played guitar and sang and the story goes he spent the last six hundred bucks they had, instead of getting diapers and groceries, he spent it on a guitar and, um He apparently broke the guitar and left the checkbook and the guitar in the driveway and grabbed me and my granddad came and picked us up from Savannah, Georgia and brought me back to Savannah, Georgia. And then we moved to a back back up to Augusta, Georgia.
So it was It's kind of wild how that played out. And I did not even know that my whole life. I grew up in baseball, really. I did not grow up in music.
So. But that's kind of a neat little story there. It's interesting, right? I'm remind what's in our DNA, right? And and that so your your birth father was was akin to to music and Playing the instrument and and lo and behold, that's what you end up are being drawn to as well.
L let me ask you uh something, Brian, on you mentioned the adoption. Was that once once you had the knowledge of that, was that Something easy to adapt to, or did you struggle with that for a while and that whole process of adoption? It was a hard thing because they did it all without my knowing growing up.
So The guy Randy Robinson who is my Adopted father, and I call my father because he's the one that took me under his wing when he was three. I thought he was my biological dad, so I guess. When they came to me as a teenager, the first thing I felt was hurt that I wasn't told the truth, you know, but. Yeah. You can't.
I mean, I guess they were trying to protect me. I don't know what their Their thought process wasn't there, but um yeah, their rationale or reasoning for that or Yeah, protect innocence, I guess. But I was, it took me a couple of years, but I was hurt. And then. And then of course things creep in your head where you're only half of that brother, or he treats them differently than he treats me, and I have three younger brothers as well.
So I was the oldest and And is that true? It may be. It may not. I ended up with the same situation. My daughter, who is 28 now.
I uh Had when she was 11 months old, and her dad was in the same kind of scenario. God kind of let me repay that. And I did, and she's still my daughter to this day. And she lives up in Michigan and um It was definitely Something to get used to mentally. Yeah.
Yeah. And, you know, as a parent, I mean, yeah, you can, and or as a child, right? You're saying that, you know, how it could kind of play in your mind and all the different scenarios that can run, you know, from a parent's perspective, perhaps it's like, well, I really want to, as you said, I really want to protect them. I don't want them to be hurt. And/or some might take the opposite approach and go, no, I want them to know.
But then the question becomes: so, at what age do you tell them, right? And to where you think they'll be able to handle it. And, or I think the fact that you were initially hurt is certainly a normal response to something like that. And then wondering, why wasn't I told sooner? Or in some cases, why was I told at all, type of thing, right?
But certainly, would you say that as you have processed that over the years, It it kind of molded you or helped you, you know, into becoming who you are today and it has made you a better man because of that, would you say? I would definitely say so. In fact, I wrote a lot of songs. about that And it has given me a lot of ammunition. To create different songs, and growing up as a father.
I was more open with my kids and my kids something to me to this day. And my wife was always On to me when they were teenagers about being. much of their friend. Which I get that, but I did not want to parent the way my parents parented, where I could not come to them and talk to them about things I was feeling, whether it be music. or what they wanted to do i tried not to push them in any sort of direction And my son was a big into sports, and I always told him: I said, I'm not going to be the booster club project.
president just because so you can get a starting Job on the team. I said, you're going to have to go out and earn that yourself because that's the way we were raised.
Nowadays, it's all about. who plays in in what travel ball league and It's it's really systematic and it's sad, but Like for my kids to be able to create their own individualities and personalities and And just teach them right from wrong so they can make their they have the tools to make their own decision, really yeah just just instill hopefully you know good morals in them right and and uh you know I learned something and and tried to teach my own children years ago. You know, you used the word earn and I would tell them you know with they might come to me with their hand out and ask for twenty dollars and I said well there's there's twenty dollars in the vault but but you that's not how you open the vault, you know, having your hand out. And they would look at me and go, Dad, like what like what do you mean? And I'm like, Well Always remember this: you'll learn more by what you earn than by what you're given.
I go, it's not to say dad's not going to give you things. I go, but when it comes to, you know, when it comes to having your handout, you're going to earn that $20, not just be given that $20, right? And at first, Brian, at first they were like, well, that ain't fair. I go, oh, no, I think you'll appreciate it down the road because it's more than fair. And then eventually they would come to me and they go, hey, Dad, how could I?
Earned $20. And even if it was just some menial things, Brian, you know, like, hey, stuff these envelopes, you know, just something, right? Where there was this sense of being able to say, I earned this $20. It wasn't just given to me, right? You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com.
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God bless you for making a difference around the world. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Now how how many children do you have? How many children? I've got three.
I've got McKenzie, and she was. I didn't adopt her, but she's been mine since. Was 11 because she has she still has a relationship with her dad, and yeah, they've we've never hindered that so um. He grew up. Karen No and everything and and she's able to make her own assumptions and her own judgments or whatever you want to call it on her life and her dad's life and that sort of thing.
And they've got a good relationship. We've got a good relationship. Then I've got a Son, who is 25, and he is an amazing specimen, an amazing individual. I'm going to try to get him into the man camp. in October.
And um she He's a funny one because he grew up Being the best looking superlative in school, being the most talented. being the athlete And um he comes to me Right before he's supposed to graduate high school, which I granted, I can't get him to go to school as a senior. And the principal kept calling me saying, if he misses one more class, I'm not gonna be able to let him graduate. I said, well, he's 18 years old. You telling yourself, I've already told him.
And I said, don't let him graduate then. And they still let him graduate. And that was one of the problems. him growing up is At his age, they started the participation trophies real young.
So we had to teach that. At a real young age with him, and he came to me, and everybody was going to Georgia Southern.
So he was like, I'm going to go to Georgia Southern with my friends. And I was like, no, you're not. I was like, how are you going to pay for it? I said, I'm not going to let you take out student loans, and I'm not going to pay for it because you barely made it through high school. I said, I tell you what, here's a business card.
Give this guy a call. He's going to put you to work tomorrow. And that guy's name was George Fuller, and he owns Four seasons landscaping company, and I used to do all his trucks when I worked at Ford. I used to finance all his trucks.
So Brooks called him and he's been working. in landscape ever since and that was about Seven years ago, and he is one of the highest-paid labor landscapers in Augusta. He gets almost $30 an hour and People actually fight over him. They call me and they say, Do you think Brooks will want to come work for me? His work ethic is amazing.
When he does a yard, he does it as fast as he can, but he does it. where it looks immaculate and um He does a lot of that stuff on the side and And that is something in the future that I would like to help him learn how to do with start his own landscape and business. But he's not ready, and we talk about that about once every six months because I'm ready. I see the Augusta National in his future. I'm just saying.
Oh, yeah, no, no, no. I've got connections there, too. We just, you know, he's not ready to venture out yet. He likes where he's at, and they treat him good. That's good.
Good. And then I've got my youngest daughter just turned 21. Her name is. Augusta, we call her Tori, it's Augusta Victoria.
Okay. And she is the smartest of the three. And what I mean by smart is she is very, very, she's a lot like her dad. He listens, she retains. And she asked questions and um He lives in Athens, and she has good morals because her and her boyfriend moved to Athens so he could go to school, and he is actually about to graduate.
It's been four years already, and She will not live with him because they are not married. But she follows him around and she kind of helps him manage his money. And he's very book smart. She's very street smart.
So it's It works out and they're a great couple. They have actually. Been seeing each other since they were 15 years old. Wow. And they have not seen anybody else.
There's kind of a generational gap there, I think. They're more like my great-grandparents. Yeah, it's interesting that this younger generation right now, how How it's It seems to be like throughout, even like studies and all the information out there that they have become the most conservative. And kudos to those your younger ones, your youngest one there, because it seems like they are just the most conservative of any of the several past generations, you know, from the baby boomers on.
So that's pretty amazing.
Well, let's.
So so you Music is a passion of yours. What what's your what's your favorite kind of music? My favorite worship music is my favorite kind of music. But you've played all kinds of music, though, right? Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I like. Like, I'm more into the blizzard stuff. Um,. The uh I grew up Southern Rock. And everybody plays it down here.
So I try to steer clear from it. I will play some. I mean, you have to play some depending on where you're at, but I wasn't a rocker growing up. I grew I was Let's see, I was in high school in the late eighties. In the early 90s, I graduated in 93, so that whole Grunge Seattle movement came out, and that was.
probably one of my favorite favorite genres But as As an adult, thirty thirty Years later, I look at it and I was like, man, we were angry back then. We were mad at the world. And I can't listen to a lot of that stuff anymore because it's so negative. And um, we kind of I think we become kind of like what we listen to all the time.
So it's oh, we're influenced yeah, right? Yeah, it's a manifestation of the artist and what the artist is doing.
So you have to kind of be careful. Even listening to Christian music nowadays, it's And that's something that I teach my kids as well. It's kind of like that old saying, What you put in your body comes out of the body and Yep. Yep. It's it's a it's a tough thing because Yep.
There's so much out there now. Garbage in, garbage out, right? Garbage in, garbage out. And so well, and I and I know I knew you I sensed you played all kinds of different types of genre. I know The y you came to camp and and I know you had sent me uh a song that you wrote uh one of the days down there while while you're out spending some quiet time with the with the Lord in the woods.
And take a minute and tell tell us tell our listeners about Worship You. What is what was the inspiration behind that? Power zones. It was kind of chilly that morning and I was It was funny because God led me through a path through the woods and and uh I found a Some sunlight coming through the trees right by a stream, and it was beautiful. And it it warmed me up.
And I just got my notepad out and just wanted to thank God for everything that he had done in my life. How he called me by name. how there's no coincidence to any of this Why I was there at that moment in time in my life at age 50. I think a lot of things have happened that are not coincidental because I don't really believe in coincidences. I think it was you that told me that coincidence is merely God showing up anonymously.
And I thought that was amazing. I took that to heart. I just Every opportunity I get It's real hard because nowadays we're In the real world, in this world, we're so inundated with technology, we're scrolling, we're going through emails. And we have to actually make time to collect our thoughts and And um I got away from doing that. And that gave me time that day fasting and just Being with God in the woods, being by myself with nature.
It just gave me time to collect my thoughts, and I just wanted to praise him. let him know that I'll always worship him and um It's It's It's just truly a blessing, it really is. That whole week was truly a blessing.
Well, and I know Man Camp's very impactful for many, many men. I can't say for 100%, but I know there's a demo version of Worship You with B-Rob. And before we run out of time, we got to know the whole B-Rob story. But there's a demo version of you on YouTube and I'm sure other music on YouTube as well with B-Rob. B-E.
R-O-B-R. Spotify Apple Music. Yeah. Sci-fi Apple Music. And you can check out my website.
That's B-E-R-O-B-Music.com. That's B-RobMusic.com. You can. See all that stuff there as well as my podcast, the Food for Thought faithcast, as well. Yeah, I knew you had to check it out.
The podcast, right?
So, how often do you do the podcast? The faithcast? I. I try to do it a couple times a week. I've been lately I've been I've been down to about one time a week, but I started recording with my little voice recorder i just started recording like one in two minute Inserts when I can't get into the studio to actually do it.
So I have those clips. I can start. Yeah, that's just something I started this week, so I'll start putting those clips out as well. It's actually been a good thing. I started out as a conspiracy theory, just open anything, go, but God hijacked it about a month in.
Hmm. Yeah. And it's it's it's really if you go back and listen to the first episode up until about the seventh episode, he hijacked it and that was a great thing because people started giving their testimonies about him on the podcast. And That changed my heart. And it almost changed, I'm pretty sure it changed my life.
And the podcast has been totally directed towards God now. And it's his podcast now. And so they can find your music. They can link to the podcast and the website again, B RobMusic. What?
Music.carl. Brobmusic dot com is where where they can find you and and I know you you're traveling now are you traveling to music uh with with with a group by yourself both what what what are you doing on the music side of things I have a couple bands that I play with about three times a year I played the big fair here in October And um I do a couple usually private parties Which pay more, but I normally just it's just me and my acoustic guitar normally.
Okay, wherever the Lord opens the door for you. Absolutely, absolutely. I love it. And 30 seconds, B-Rob, where'd that come from?
Okay. Okay, so B-Rob, everybody called me B-Rob as a kid because my name is Brian Robinson.
Okay, well, about. Eight or nine years ago The Lord woke me up to a lot of different things going on in. in society and in the world and kind of took some veil over my eyes and um So I changed my name on the internet kind of anonymously, so it's B-E-space R-O-B. And the E stands for Elliott, which is my middle name. It also means.
White. Be good, be gracious, be humble, be kind. Or just be Rob.
So it was just something. Yeah. I like it.
Something. And when I started sharing the stuff that I started sharing on social media, me and God had a we had long conversations because I had a job where I made a lot of money. I knew that if I started being Controversial on social media, which I don't think the truth is controversial, but back. Eight, nine years ago, it was very controversial, and we're finding that out now. But God said, walk out on the water.
I'll take care of you. In fact, you think you got a lot of friends now, you're going to see your true friends. And I'm going to give you so much more acquaintances. And it was a good thing, and he has done exactly that. That's good.
Well, and it was great spending time with you at camp. For the ladies listening out there to the show, you know, we have a lot of ladies that listen to the man-up show, believe it or not, and even have some on the man-up show sometimes. And for the men listening out there, man camp would be something that you would advise those ladies to encourage their men to go to and/or those men to attend. Absolutely. Absolutely.
I've been to a lot of three-day retreats where they break you down Feeling-wise and mentally, but this is something totally different. A week is different, and this is, I've never been to anything like this. And I'm going to tell you, it was good for my soul, my body, and my spirit. That's for sure.
Well, yeah, and I appreciate that, Brian. And that is kind of our mantra: being whole in spirit, soul, and body. 1 Thessalonians 5:23. And our objective, our goal is to equip men, give them the tools, send them back home to be that godly father, that godly husband, that godly man that God calls me to be. I'm excited for your future, and I want all of you out there to go check out Brian B Rob, aka B Rob, Robinson's Music, brobmusic.com, and go on to YouTube.
Go check out his podcast, Faithcast. Yeah, I think you'll enjoy that. It's been great getting to know you, and I look forward to our future together, Brian. Absolutely, absolutely, my friend.
So, thank you to each and every one of you out there. You know, you're so faithful every week. I hope you enjoyed the conversation today, all the way from the Gospel choir in elementary school to now impacting the nations. B. Rob's music is making a difference.
And I want to challenge you to go out today and make a difference and just live a Godfield and have a God-blessed day. Until next time. This podcast is made possible by the grace of God. And your faithful prayers, support, and generous gifts. May God bless you for your continual contributions.
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