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Today is our Labor Day special. That's right. I'm doing a whole show dedicated to Labor Day. It's Labor Day weekend, and I can think of no one better to have on the show with me today than a man who knows how to labor himself. And that is none other than the infamous Robbie Dilmore.
Welcome back to the Mad Up Show, Robbie. I know there's a lot of mothers out there right now are saying, you guys don't know a thing about labor. Yeah, you probably have a point. But then again, there's different types of labor. There you go.
Giving birth would be one form of labor. Oh, absolutely. But my father worked for Buick when I was growing up, so he was white-collar and he had very strong opinions, as did everybody he knew about labor and all the problems that that caused. And it caused me to have a great interest in labor as a young man as to, wow, why is my dad get so upset when anybody mentions labor union? And, you know, it's funny that even my career early on as a Christian car guy was affected by when I got called on there by Fox and friends, one of the first questions they said, well, how are you going to work with the unions?
Okay.
So you can see this. It's a big question.
Well, there's some.
So for our listeners today, hopefully you're going to find this as fascinating as Robbie and I and the history of Labor Day. How did it even come about? Why is it a national holiday? Why do people get an extra day off? From work, from laboring.
And so we're going to talk about that today. You already got me going, Rob. My mind, my wheel's turning. But So there's physical labor. Right.
There's the labor of giving birth.
So there are different types of labor here, by the way. But you mentioned the Christian Car Guy.
So for those who are tuning in, maybe for the very first time to the Man Up Show, and they're like, Christian Car Guy, that sounds like an oxymoron. What exactly does that mean? That's your radio show. But give our listeners a little quick backdrop on Robbie Dillmore.
Well, yeah, I was my father worked for Buick, so I spent my entire life for many, many years, over 40 years in the automobile business. And my father had me come up actually through the service department.
So I worked with a lot of labor guys checking. Cars, doing mechanic work, all that stuff, so I would understand that aspect of the car business. How young, like, how young would you have been when you first started in? Oh, I was 11, 12 years old. Wow.
Change in oil and undercoat in cars and all that kind of thing. My father had a real work ethic.
So you were breaking labor laws even way back then. I'm kidding. I'm going to keep going. Keep going. Keep going.
And so, yeah, for the first probably 15 years of my career was working in labor. I mean, it was. Parts department, service department, understanding how to fix cars and all those kind of things. Before I ever came into the sales department, finance department, began to understand that aspect of the business, he wanted me, my father did. to understand the labor aspect of it, which believe me, with no service department, no good car dealership operates.
I mean, that's the backbone of the thing, as does, you know, if you're going to manufacture cars, you better have labor. And Henry Ford. or the great car people of the ages. Really, what turned America around in Detroit and all those places had to do with. Those guys relationship with labor.
Service, right? I mean, service is everything, right? No matter whether this carb is or anything else. I mean, you're walking into a restaurant, you want good service, right? And you want to hire good labor, right?
Workers work. I don't know if a lot of people always say, I think it's spectacular. That One of the reasons that we live in the society that we do was the automobile business and Henry Ford had a goal and his goal was to make an automobile that was cheap enough so that his workers could buy it in less than three months wages. Wow. So, well, the original Model T, when it came out, I think in 1907 or 8, whenever it was.
The thing was like at at that time Would be similar to about $20,000 if you used inflation money. But by the by 19, I think it was 16 or 17, he had worked and worked and worked. And the whole reason for the assembly line was so he could get down the price of the car. But by that time, if I'm not mistaken, he had the Model T down to somewhere in the neighborhood of $400. Wow, $400.
$400 so that his workers could afford to buy the car. That was his whole thing. And so when he couldn't get it down low enough, you know what he did? He raised the wages. Let them make more money so that they could then afford it.
And what a marketing strategy, though. Get all those cars out on the road, people seeing them. Right. And then wanting one. And then they could afford them.
You see, there was the magic of the Model T was here came a car unheard of that everybody could afford, right? And because all those people could afford them, it created demand. That demand put more people to work. And of course, Dearborn, Michigan, you know. It bears that to this on the map.
Right, right. That's the magic of what happened. And it was because Henry's goal was to do something for the labor that was building the cars. Wow. You know, and it seemed like I remember reading maybe his biography or something, Robbie.
And at one point, there's a term in business called hostile takeovers. Right. Probably heard that term before. And my understanding, you may know more about this, and I think I have this story right. But that they wanted to do a hostile takeover of Henry Ford's business.
actually took him to court to try to prove him like i i like Legally insane, like institutional insane. And we're asking him questions about the. French Revolution, all kinds of crazy questions in court. And Henry says, Look, he says, Look, I have six buttons on my desk. If there's something I don't know, I just push a button and in through that door walks somebody who does know.
I don't need to know anything about the French Revolution. I build cars and I hire people around me. He was smart enough to hire smart people around him who knew what he didn't know. Is which is what made him so successful. And my understanding is when the judge heard his reply, he's like, Yeah, we need to throw this case out of court.
We're done. This guy's pretty smart, right?
So, have you ever heard that story before? I had not. Yeah, and I'm pretty sure it's pretty accurate to the way it all unfolded. But, anyways, so they didn't prove him insane, and Ford Motor Company became what it is today. And the United Auto Workers is a real force to reckon with.
Well, and you mentioned so you mentioned labor, and I want to test our listeners' knowledge out there, and maybe even test some of your knowledge with a few fun facts here in a minute. But you mentioned... uh uh unions and and can you talk and you'd asked me before we came on air You had asked me a question. Did I know where a term came from?
Well, maybe we start there and ask me. Yeah, yeah. I had asked the question: you know, did you know, have you ever heard the term redneck, where it came from?
Well, like we live in North Carolina, so I'm guessing that you've heard the term redneck. I have definitely heard the term redneck, but I do not know where it originated. Inform me and all of our listeners where that started.
So the idea, you know, as we're talking about Labor Day, how important labor is to where we are and how we are. is that the American Industrial Revolution led to, unfortunately, some horrible practices, child labor that was unbelievable, that people would work crazy hours. But it led to pra practices in the mines that were unthinkable. of what they the working uh Things that would that miners would have to face off in cave-ins and all this kind of stuff. And so, when the labor unions came about, you know, in the 1850s, 70s, 1870s, 80, and all that stuff, when they started to organize, they tried to send people into the mines to get these people organized.
Well, the union bosses, I mean, not the bosses, the mining bosses would hire these vigilantes or whatever to go take people and literally kill them if they began to organize the mines. And so, in West Virginia, These guys put on these red bandanas around their necks to show that they were organizing as sort of a secret code, whatever.
Solidarity.
Solidarity.
So, as they tried to, you know, get organized, they were wearing these red bandanas. And so, those West Virginia rednecks. You know, that was the deal, man. They were organized. In order to really save their families, save their lives.
I mean, I grew up in my household. My father had very little respect for the union.
So I wanted to research that for myself, and I end up with. A tremendous Respect for what the unions were in the 1800s and early 1900s, of course, what they are today is something to reckon with. Wow. And and certainly ha as you said then, helped Uh as I hear what you're saying, so it helped with with Again, with the with child, like not abusing child labor and setting kind of standards at kind of what age you could officially or should officially begin to work or could work, be hired and work, whether for a union or just employment in general, right? And that's still an ineffective, like, like, what's the, is it 14 or I'm not even sure what, like, you know, McDonald's can hire somebody at what age?
15, 16? Do they have to have a work release from their parents until they're, I think, 17.
Okay.
But I'm not exactly sure. But yeah, there's definitely all those laws in place. Yeah. Like McDonald's can't hire like an eight-year-old to work for them. There shouldn't.
And then even then they can't work them but so many hours based on all these things that the labor unions really did for us back then. But another thing they did for us, I think, has to do with what you're going to ask me.
Well well so so kind of a fun fact for those who maybe don't know like cause because you know everybody you know it's Labor Day weekend, everybody typically, well, I shouldn't say everybody. I mean, I know, obviously, in today's world, Nothing ever closes anymore. I mean, there was a day when stores would close, you know, a Sunday, people. Sunday, go to church day, you know, and pretty much everything or many things or most things would be closed, you know, to honor the Sabbath and not labor on Sunday. Although, a biblical principle would be work six days, rest one.
But labor goes way back to when he told Adam, hey, you're going to till the garden, you're going to work in the garden, you're going to do all that, right? You're going to work, you're going to have to sweat the brow, you know, and work the lands. But from a biblical perspective, we're technically only supposed to work six days a week. Rest our bodies, rest our minds, rejuvenate our spirits, right? And by attending church and fellowshipping with one another, whatever that looks like.
It could be a house church, it could be a synagogue, different types of churches that people can. can attend. But all that said, Um so yeah, so they they They put this in place many, many, many years ago. In fact, a fun fact people may not realize, even though they're enjoying the holiday. This weekend, and some will be off on Monday, right?
But is President William Howard Tapp? Half. Signed the act creating the U.S. Department of Labor. In his final hours as president, March 4th, 1913, 1913.
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So those of you listening out there, thank you. Thank President Howard, William Howard Taft. Yeah, I've never thanked Taft before. This was my first opportunity. Yes, thank you.
Thank you, President Taft, for setting all this in motion so that we could have benefits and wages and all that. And then there's a few fun facts I want to ask you too, because actually, Labor Day, so that was in 1913, but Labor Day goes. Back before then, you kind of, if people were listening, you kind of gave it away a little bit, but not really.
So, do you know the exact year, Robbie, when labor? Day was first celebrated. I know a little bit about it. I know it's in the 1880s, 82, 1882. Bingo, bingo, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
Robbie wins the grand prize.
Well, at least the first prize. I wonder if you knew that out there in listening land. That's exactly right. Yeah. Labor Day, 1882.
It became a federal holiday, though, in a different year. Do you know that year? 84. You did your homework.
Well, you did. 787.
Somebody sent me a website in the 74.
Well, but you did say you studied it too, though, with your dad. Yeah. Yeah. So, so, so, uh, so Americans first celebrated Labor Day 1882, and it became a federal holiday in 18. Oh, I misread this.
1894. Oh, wow. I was way off. You're off by a decade, dude. You're off by a decade.
And then nearly 20 years before. The creation of the labor department, which we just talked about.
So, uh, So there you go.
So that's one little fun fact. Let me throw one more at you. Let me throw another one at you. How about this is a quote here, ladies first.
So, you know, women had a role in the labor force. Big time. Do you know when they, when did they first officially kind of get engaged in the workforce? And do you know that? I don't.
I don't even know. I would guess they were probably very much involved in it in the 1870s as well, but I don't know.
Well, so this is interesting.
So the Labor Department, the first cabinet agency was led by a woman. Did you know that? I did not know that.
So the Labor Department was the first cabinet agency led by a woman. Let me say it that way. The Labor Department. And her name was Frances Perkins. And six women have held the title since then, giving us the record, giving the women the record, not just for the first, but for the most women's secretaries as well.
Well, in the labor department. And many of the women who followed in Perkins' footsteps have went on to blaze their own trail. Elaine Chow, Hilda Solis were the first Asian American and Hispanic women, the first Black woman to be in that role of Secretary of Labor, Alexis Herman, and then Elizabeth Dole. Really? Elizabeth Dole was the first woman to lead two different departments for two different presidents.
You know what those so one was labor. You know what the other department, Elizabeth Dole, would lead? She's Secretary of State or something. I thought she had a pretty good role. Transportation.
Oh, yeah. I should have known that. I feel badly. Transportation. So she was doling out the cards there.
So women have had an impact. There you go. Robbie is the man. Hey, go listen to his show, Christian Car Guy, a masculine journey. There's about 10 different radio shows Robbie has on Truth Radio Network, and you'll get a barrel full of laughs from this guy.
But so, so a couple of, so, so, women, though, Robbie, prior to. I think you mentioned the Industrial Revolution, but don't quote me on this. I haven't done a lot of homework on this, but prior to World War II, it was mainly men in the workforce. Ladies, don't get mad at me if I'm misquoting that, but I do know this because of World War II and all the men going off to war, I know a lot of women. Had had to, needed to jump into the workforce, even if they didn't want to.
Because at that time, even you look at the old shows, Father Knows Best and Leave It to Beaver and all these old, old, old, old shows. You know, the women, for the most part, were homemakers raising children and loving on their husbands and taking care of the home, which is a full-time job in itself. In fact, I have two daughters, Tawny and Kendra, who both are homemakers. We're home just raising children, loving on their husbands. Real labor, by the way.
Yep, real labor. Yeah. And have given birth to those children.
So, so, yeah. Um, Rosie the Riveter, right? Yes. That's the whole picture that we have of World War II. All these women that really stepped up and had a lot to do with us winning the war.
The success of the war, of which my mom was one. Really? My mom worked in a munitions factory making ammunition for World War II. Did she really? Yep.
So she jumped into the labor force and eventually my dad, who was in the 82nd Airborne in the military, met him on a Greyhound bus trip going headed west. Her and her girlfriend were going to California for a trip. Just an adventure. Boy, am I glad they did too.
So, yeah.
So, so, anyway, so, so, there, there's uh, so that, so the ladies got really, really engaged, and that's shifted the whole over time, shifted the whole home atmosphere as well. To fast forward to today, and now we got you know, in many homes, just to make ends meet, we got um, both the husband and wife both working now, right? And of course, obviously, a lot of single homes, unfortunately, because of divorce, and so moms having to single moms working, working two or three jobs, many of those single moms. Yes, yes, many of them.
So, this day off is like a huge deal, yeah, yeah, it really is. Hey, let me, since we're talking about women, let me just stick with one more uh fun fact here as well. Um, uh, women, women didn't always wear pants. Did you know that? Did you know for a long time just men wore pants in the family?
Unless you're in Scotland, then you know, unless you're in Scotland, that's right. I have a kilt, by the way. I'm not surprised. I do. I have a kilt because I researched the old family name.
Oh, really? Yeah. Yes, yeah. Like, there's a whole legacy there of Scotlanders. I have a lot of history in Scotland, not just in Russia, but okay.
Well, there you have it.
So, the whim, so this is a very lesser-known fact. The department, when females, any idea when females really started wearing pants to work? I would guess it was in the 40s because Rosie the Riveter, I think, had pants on.
So if you quote, fashion forward would be the phrase, but typically, or not typically, it really wasn't till where it kind of became. more appropriate, maybe accepted and appropriate. It was in the 1970s. Are you serious? Yeah.
Yeah. 1970s. And again, this is thanks to a woman named Elizabeth Duncan Koons, who is the director of the Women's Bureau and an advocate for women's rights.
So there you are, ladies. Pants proved to be very practical. Yeah. And the rest is history, so to speak.
So what other thoughts? My thoughts are this, that, you know, one of the coolest things that all that did that we're describing, even labor unions today in Michigan make sure that car salesmen get, car salesmen and women get off on Sunday, right? Yes. That what you talked about earlier is that we got to have rest. And you know this from all your gym work, right?
If you work a muscle and you don't rest it, it's not going to work out too good for that muscle, right? And it's the same thing with all of labor. And so, you know, God set up that whole deal, right?
So that we would be able to do this. And when you think about the church itself, right, in the Song of Solomon, there's this spectacular passage in the fourth chapter. chapter. That goes into the attributes of the bride of Christ. And this is Christ describing that bride, and he describes her in seven different ways.
I'm not going to share them all with you right now, but they are in alignment, according to Matthew Henry, with the seven spirits of God. I just want to talk about her neck. And since if you ever saw Nikita's neck, this sucker's huge. It was back in the day. That was big now, but back in the day.
They had a neck. I'm just saying.
Well, when God describes his church, the way he describes her neck is as the tower of King David, right? Very descriptive. And it's built in layers also as an armory.
Okay.
And on that armory hang a thousand shields and a thousand bucklers of the valiant men.
Okay.
Now, if you were to take and look, Rashi, who's a famous Jewish commentary, said that the word shield, not the word buckler, but the word shield should have been translated quiver.
Okay.
And if you were to look at a picture of the muscles of the neck, it looks like a quiver. And so the idea. of that quiver, as you might remember from Proverbs, is all those disciples. that go out Like little shafts of light. out of the neck.
It's good. That all have the shield of faith, right? And the idea of this neck is the tower that protects the head. Right, at the head of the church, so to speak. But as we do the great commission, which is what I know as a salesman, right?
I was always looking for the great commission. And I got a great commission when I found out that, like, if you go make disciples, what those are, every single one of them is your spiritual child. And they are arrows that are being shot down, thousands of them from the church. And filling up your quiver as well. Isn't that awesome?
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and follow today. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. What a relay. Wow. Man, if you've never considered that before, think about what Robbie just said.
Just get it. Hopefully, you got a visual as you were describing that. Wow. The labor of church. See, as we send out all these other disciples, as we talk about the Bible or we talk about things like that, what are we doing?
We're creating all these arrows, man, and it is a labor force that's unbelievable. a labor force and uh Labor Day weekend. Uh yeah and that is That's a great visual. We're we're almost out of time already, but it's crazy. And and what a what a great visual you just gave.
And and and if it man, I tell you what, you could do some real study in the the Song of Solomon is It is deep. An elephant can swim around in that rascal. I did a 25. Obsession series study of the Song of Solomon, and what an allegory. And if you've never done that out there, or maybe you don't even, maybe you don't even know what we're referring to, a book in the Bible, because I can't assume that everyone knows what the Song of Solomon is.
It's one of the books in the Bible. And what a love story. What an illustration, too, of God's love for his creation. And Jesus' love for his bride, right? Such a great allegory.
With so many more fun facts we could bring you and give you here on Labor Day. But I hope you've enjoyed this special session, this special show, Labor Day show with Robbie Dilmore. Robbie, real quick, how can more people find out more about all your shows? My stuff is always at Christian CarrGuy. It's just Christian Carr and then the word guy, all three together.
That's all.
So enjoy your Labor Day weekend and hope you found this somewhat enlightening and/or fun, our conversation today. And aren't we grateful? We're just grateful. And I want to kind of wrap this show up, re-emphasizing that biblical principle of what God the Creator established from day one. When you go back to the book of Genesis and you read where six days he labored.
Six days he labored on the seventh day He rested. Can I encourage you out there? Don't work seven days a week and don't use the excuse I have to meet my, you know, to pay my bills. And understand the principle of tithes and offerings along with laboring six days, and you'll find the God of the universe will supply all of your needs if you honor his principles. He'll honor you and bless you.
Work six days, rest one. God bless you. Thanks for tuning in to this Labor Day special today. Robbie Dilmore, Nikita Koloff. Enjoy your Labor Day weekend with gratitude and thanksgiving in your heart.
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