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866-348-7884, 866-348-7884. So as we approach Father's Day or just remembering the wisdom of our fathers, I want to hear something from you. Really, I love these stories. Like, what was something your dad told you that made you roll your eyes? Like, whoa, man, here we go again. Or you ignored it, and now you realize, man, it was spot on.

So maybe it was even about faith, even about faith. So I got Dr. Date the Word Carson with me today, one of my favorite things that we get to do. So believe me, if you call in with any kind of date, including Father's Day's date, I bet he's got scripture for you, and I know you can hardly wait.

So, Doc, Father's Day, is it, must be the 15th. So what have we got for 615 this year? Oh, I stumped the panel real quick.

Well, we want to look. A little Jeopardy music, Nick. We want to see if there's the really best verse of all for 615, you know, Romans 615, what then shall we sin because we're no longer under the law but under grace?

Certainly not. Romans 615. You know what I'm going to do, Robbie, as our listeners are thinking about the advice they get from their fathers, I love this question today because there's some advice I got from my dad. We'll share that I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. But for June 15, I'm going to the Date the Word app, which our listeners can get.

Just download, go to your app store, download the Date the Word app. You go to June and then you go to 15 and you're going to see a whole bunch of verses. And the verse that I really like is 2 Chronicles 615. You don't always have a verse from 2 Chronicles, but here's one. 2 Chronicles 615. You have kept what you have promised your servant David, my father. You have both spoken with your mouth and fulfilled it with your hand as it is this day.

2 Chronicles 615. God keeps his promise. He's a promise-keeping father. Yeah, so, you know, I know that you're thinking you need to call in. Well, please, please, please, we need to hear from you.

866-348-7884. So what's some advice that your father gave you? You rolled your eyes at the time, but it just turned out to like, whoa, this is exactly on the money. Maybe it was about God. Maybe he was telling you something about, you know, it's time to go to church. You know, the family that prays together stays together. I can hear my dad saying that. At the time, I thought, what in the world would that have to do with anything?

Didn't understand prayer to begin with, you know, anything. But I have to tell you the one piece of advice when you originally told me this thought, but by the way, while I'm saying this, 866-348-7884. So here's my father's advice on how to put your boat cover on, okay? My father loved boats. He just did. But he used to always say, now, son, when it comes to these boat covers, you have to really plan ahead because they fit like socks on a rooster.

Well, there's an image. I will never, ever, ever, as long as I ever live, not remember my father's advice on boat covers. Socks on a rooster. They fit like, and they do. I don't know if you just stretch and you pull because they have these crazy snaps. They actually, they're not unlike the cover on a lot of convertibles or even a golf cart.

They're just, you pull in that vinyl, especially if it's cold and that stuff tightens up and you pull and you yank. And I cannot do it without those words, socks on a rooster coming through. It's just tough.

Hard to do. I can see it. I visualize.

So maybe you got something like that. It's just a pleasant memory. You know, there's something that makes you laugh.

866-348-7884. Here's my other one that, when I think of my dad and I have wonderful, joyful memories. I love to work with my dad and he loved to just take on projects that just seemed crazy. Talk about roll your eyes like, well, son, today we're going to go lay brick as if he knew how to lay brick.

He was an executive for Buick Motor Company, right? Go lay brick. So we're laying all this brick in sand. It's not mortared in or anything.

We're just putting it in the ground, right? And so he's chewing gum at the time and he takes this gum out of his mouth and he puts it under one brick and he says, now, son, he said, someday when somebody unearths this house and they look under this brick, they're going to go, now, this is some new form of adhesive. And I can see him do it. I can see his playful attitude.

It was just my dad. It was like, we're sitting there having fun working and he was a lot of fun to work with and he just picks up this brick, puts a piece of gum on it. I don't know.

It's one of them things. So we are very lucky. We have Kenneth is in Yanceyville, North Carolina.

You need to call us 866-348-7884. Kenneth, you're on Truth Talk Live. Hey, brother, how are you?

I am so wonderful and so excited to hear what you have. Yeah. Well, just riding down the road, listening to you.

I try to catch your program when I can. And just the first thought came to my mind is when I was coming up and back then, none of my family was in church except for my mom. She was a good Christian lady. And so my daddy gave this advice, not from a scriptural standpoint, but as time would have it, I have the privilege now to be my daddy's pastor. I guess he's not a member of my church, but yeah, he actually attends another church on Sunday morning, but he's at my church on Sunday night and Wednesday night. And I'm the pastor.

I've been there for 19 years. And so anyway, the advice that he gave when I was young, I remember him saying concerning finances, he said, he said, don't never carry any more debt than what unemployment will pay. So, you know, at the time, I just couldn't see myself getting very far down the road if I didn't carry any more debt than that.

But then looking back on that was very good advice, you know. And I, of course, didn't know at the time, you know, scripture says that the borrower is enslaved to lender. Darrell Bock That's right. Darrell Bock And you know what, Kenneth, that's fascinating about that is you may know that I do the Christian Car Guy Radio Show, which is actually why I got into radio. And God called me on the radio for that very purpose, because he said these were God's work to me the night he called me to be on the radio. He said, Robbie, I want you to get on the air and talk about what breaks your heart every day. And the very thing that broke my heart every day was seeing people go into crazy amounts of debt to just get a two year new, in other words, the car they had was absolutely fine, sometimes still under warranty. But this new one had a video player, it had something that they had to have.

And yet they were so far in debt, and you just break your heart. So that was great advice, Kenneth, it really was. And how cool is it that you get a chance to be a pastor for your dad, right? I didn't get to do that. Did you get to do that? No. Dr. Carson? No, sir.

No. Darrell Bock That is really, really cool. This is great advice, because my dad gave the same advice about don't go into debt. Did he give you the one about, I like the unemployment ideas. Yeah, that's a good one. That's right. That's awesome. Well, stay with us, Kenneth, we got to go to a break. I'm very interested in what you got. We'll be right back.

You call us 866-348-7884. Father knows best. You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live! Today's show, Father Knows Best. In other words, what is some advice that your dad gave you? And by the way, Dr. Carson was just talking about some advice that was really good. And so, you know, when did he know best?

Maybe you rolled your eyes, maybe you didn't. But whatever it was, man, it made an impact and something you've never forgotten that you now realize the wisdom of your dad. 866-348-7884, 866-348-7884. We got Kenneth is in Yanceyville, North Carolina, Pastor Kenneth, it sounds like. And Pastor, you were making a comment right before the break.

Yes, sir. I was just, I mean, I appreciate your ministry. I'm always excited when I turn the radio on and you're on there. And I just, most of the time I listen just when I'm driving, because I don't have an AM station and I don't have an AM connection there in the house.

And I guess, I told my folks, I said, I guess the AM runs off of solar, because when it gets dark, the station kind of goes. But anyway, we appreciate what you do, brother. And hopefully today, Mike, I don't know, just me calling in, Mike would, maybe somebody else has had that same advice.

When I heard it, you know, a young man coming up, I just, I didn't give a lot of thought to it. But I look back on it a lot. Sometimes when I was a little overloaded in debt, I would remember it. And then, you know, a little later, but the Lord has left us.

And, you know, if you get to the, if you don't carry too much debt and, you know, try to stay away from the debt and then learn to give and you'll be blessed. I mean, it's just to get in a comfortable state, you know, when you're not. Yeah, those pieces of financial advice, you know, my dad was the same way, but you bring up a great point I want to speak to for a minute for people that listen to a lot of AM radio. It may be helpful for you to know that, you know, FCC regulations make us turn the power down at night.

It's 50,000 watts. I think I had heard that. And because the signal carries so much at night that you blast out other radio stations.

And so they're trying to keep it. But if you still have one of those, you know, there's some grandfathered in like WLS in Chicago, and you can hear them easily in Albuquerque, Mexico. We used to listen to Wolfman Jack at night. And that's the reason is that at night that just carries forever if you don't turn the power down. And there are certain stations like our AM 1030 in Raleigh, for those people listening in Raleigh, it's what they call a day timer because we literally have to turn that one off when the sun goes down. We don't have to turn it down. We have to turn it off. So you're right.

We run on solar. Thank you, Kenneth. You have a great day, my friend. God bless. All right, brother Robbie. Appreciate it, brother.

Bye bye. And I'm pretty sure that my dad had some advice about Wolfman Jack. Because we used to, you know, stay up till midnight or whatever, you know, sneaking the AM radio under the covers.

I used to listen to Cincinnati Red Baseball. Really? Under the cover with that AM radio. I didn't know that. That's why at night time it could go so much further out. Yeah, the sun, you know, the signal, the waves from the sun interfere with the radio waves.

So at night, you know, no interference. Right. Off it goes. And learning stuff. Yeah. Well, I thought that might be helpful for people.

I didn't realize it until I got into the radio world about 20 years ago. But, you know, I would be so delighted to hear your story, right? Something that your dad like, man, if I had just listened 866-348-7884, 866-348-7884, my dad told me, 10% of your income, son, save it.

Yeah. Now, I wish he'd also told me about tithing, but he did tell me about saving. And if I, you know, I hate to even think what I would be today had I taken that advice. Like, oh, man, dad, thank you. Well, knowing that. He loved me. My dad telling my sister, I hear him say it. He didn't say it directly to me, but he said it to my sister, don't go in debt. And then as I started learning and teaching, it was the 10-10-80 principle. Give 10% right off the bat. Save 10% right off the bat. Live on the 80%. And so what I would teach students at Liberty, I said, you've got to learn to delay gratitude as you start out and do 10-10 and live on 75. So that is, as Kenneth was saying, you're leaving that, there's a portion there. You're not spending every bit of it. So that rainy day, the boiler is going to break. You got a little cushion, but it's so tough.

Nikita, he pushes it, you know, Nikita Koloff does man up, et cetera, et cetera. I know his kids got this advice and he gives it to anybody who comes to man camp that you're supposed to keep, you're supposed to have 10% for ties and another 10% for offerings. This is a good point. And he says that there's nothing more wonderful. And then he's got others, like it seems to me, you're supposed to live on 60% as I recall based on all the different things, because you got money that you are saving, then you got an emergency fund, and then you got an investment fund, all sorts of things he had created all sorts of, but the idea of the ties and offerings, what he said, which was really neat, he said every once in a while, you know, God will put it on your heart to give a big gift. And if you begin to pray like, here's this ministry, I didn't know anything about this, you know, this right here, and then all of a sudden, if you're setting this money aside in a different place, he recommended you have an account for offerings where you just keep, and then all of a sudden you meet this missionary and you're like, oh man, and the Lord puts it on your heart to give him $10,000.

Well, you got $10,000. He said, you know, you give above and beyond anything you ever, you know, and guess what? You can't out give God. It was great advice.

As I was listening with Kenneth, I couldn't help but think about, I heard this advice from the pulpit from a pastor. He said, our luxuries have become our necessities. And as you were talking about someone needing to get a new car. And the reason they're going in more debt is because a luxury has become a necessity.

That's right. And you don't want to let that happen in your life. Delay the gratitude. We got Mike is in Dayton and I know his dad. I can hardly wait to hear this. I can hardly wait to hear yours. 866-348-7884. Mike, I know your dad had some amazing, wonderful socks on the rooster kind of advice.

What you got for us? Well, I had so many of them and it was really hard and the one I really kind of live by is make your yes be yes and your no be no. Oh, your dad must have known my dad. He says, yeah, he said that, you know, people will respect you and you just tell them, no, I can't do that or yes, I can do that. And then when you're training your kids, you know, same way, make it you make your yes be yes and your nos be nos, you know, don't him all around, you know, maybe it's okay with kids, but once you say no, you got to just go with it. You know, I mean, you have to just say, yes, that's it. No is no and yes is yes, you know, and that's hard to live by sometimes.

It really is. I got a scripture he gave me. I remember it's 537, Matthew 537. Hang on, hang on. Let's check the database over here. Before you say what Matthew, don't look in your computer.

Hey, you know, it's got to be in the serving them out as Matthew five. Come on, doc, you can do it. All right, Mike, we got to go to a break.

When we come back, the doc will have research that is that's the yes. Let your yes be yes. And you know, be no for whatever is more than these is from the evil one.

Tell the truth. All right, we'll load up with you. You're just going to pick 866-348-7884, 866-34-TRUTH. We'll be right back with a whole lot of Father Knows Best.

You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. Today is Father Knows Best. And that idea being like, we would love to hear, you know, what advice did your dad give you that at the time may or may not have, maybe it made great sense and you decided to keep it, or maybe it didn't, and whatever worked out that man, I mean, it was great wisdom and it turned out to be, you know, of great value to you. We would love to hear that story. 866-34-87. And we all could glean from the wisdom too, by the way, a lot of parents out there that need to tell their kids this stuff.

866-34-87-884, 866-34-TRUTH. And Mike, Dr. Carson, he tried to get by on a technicality during the break. He pointed out to me that since this was Matthew 537, that he only has them memorized up to 31 because there are only 31 days in a month. For those who don't know, date the word Carson is, you know, he has a date, a verse for every day of the year, and birthday verses, and all these things. But he's also got amazing ways to witness with this idea and all. It's his website.

Doc, give the elevator pitch. Yeah, www.datetheword.com. And then you've got an app, Date the Word, download it. And like, you can go right to today's date and 610. And there's just some great verses for today. Ephesians 610 is what I went with, Finally my brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. But there's also Daniel 610, and they found Daniel after he had been told not to pray, he went home and prayed. And you know, some people are told not to pray, and it doesn't affect them at all.

And that's a sad commentary. But here's Daniel being told, if you pray, you're going to be killed. And prayer was so important to Daniel. Not just killed, but eaten by lions.

Yeah, eaten by lions. And so anyway, we got verses for every date. But when I hear 537, I had to do a lot more work. But it was the Sermon on the Mount, yes. And it did say, Let your yes be yes, and your no, no, for whatever is more than these is from the evil one. So that's a great verse that your dad was giving you, Mike. Yeah, it really was. And it's a really good lesson to learn how to tell your children. And I remember my dad, many times I got in trouble. And he said, Okay, did you do it? Make your yes be yes, and your no be no. And the finger was coming out at you.

Yeah. And then he would say, Did you do it? Or did you do it?

Did you? And then, and then he would, he would, and then he would run to my sister to say, Did he do it or not? See, my dad had we kids, you know, he would take this completely different look on his face. And he would get and we would say he went Bob because my father's name was Bob Dilmore. So we'd go, did he go Bob Dilmore on you? Yeah.

Because if he did, it would make an impact. Like, you know, I could never imagine ever coming back when he had that look. And there was that. I don't know how to put it exactly, but you just would never know the look. Yeah.

Yeah. And it was this was not time to roll your eyes or do anything like that. It would not not go good for you. But Mike, God bless you, man. I know you had a great dad and I am so glad that you called in to share that.

We would continue to love anybody else, by the way. 866-348-7884. Come on now.

I know there's got to be great wisdom out there. 866. It's just simple. You just dial it. It'll be easy. It'll be fun.

866-348-7884. So I was thinking is during the break, we were talking about your grandfather's advice, but it made me remember my dad was a Jeep dealer in Albuquerque later on after the whole other things we were talking about. But anyway, we used to go, you know, when I was a little older, we would go out, you know, with four wheel driving in the Jeeps. Back then they were CJ5s and they went, you know, where only Jeeps would go. And he told me, son, never drive into a place that you can't back out of.

Now that's solid advice having grown up on a farm. Because later on, I violated that on numerous occasions on all sorts of different levels, not just cars. I've gotten into places I could not get out of, but I can assure you in a Jeep, especially if you're in the mountains, that goes to not just going uphill. Sometimes it's going downhill. Like how are you going to get back out of this crevice if you decide to go down there? Oh, yeah.

Yeah. I have a situation that happened to me that I put my truck where I shouldn't have because I violated that rule of your dad there. All of a sudden it's how do I get out of that? But my grandfather gave this advice that to this day, it's just an interesting advice. He says, don't start something on Friday, you can't finish on Saturday.

And I was like, what in the world does that mean? He said, well, when Sunday comes around, and we were farmers, when Sunday comes around, I'm going to go to church, we're going to worship and I'm going to rest. But if we cut hay on Friday, I can't get it up on Saturday, and it might be ready to get up on Sunday, then what am I supposed to do? And so that advice has stuck with me. And it wasn't a legalistic thing with my grandfather about going to church.

It was, that's what you do. You have to plan ahead. And I've got a good friend who constantly puts on Twitter on X now, Sunday morning church is a Saturday night decision. Well, my grandfather was making that decision on Friday. He was not going to start things that he couldn't finish on Saturday that would bleed over into Sunday. And you know, I heard this in a lecture from a rabbi, where he was advising people, and of course, they call it Sabbath or Shabbat. And he would say, you not only need to plan for rest, you need to plan for just as unbelievable celebration when you're shopping for your meals.

You pick out that special Shabbat dinner so that when you're right, thanking the Lord, you got something you can really thank Him for. I loved it. I loved it.

Oh, we had April and now we don't. Oh, I hope you call. Was it Ariel?

Ariel. Yeah, 866-348-7884, 866-348-7884 is the number to call in and share. Whatever it was that your dad, or maybe it was a grandfather, or an uncle. You know, a lot of us, you know, I had some wonderful uncles that poured a lot into our lives. You know, and those things that you treasure throughout, we'd like to treasure them with you. And we can't do that if you don't call.

866-348-7884. And you know, another thing that my father said, and I wish more people would say it, and I've said it to my sons, but it was that you never ever, I had two sisters. Okay. You never ever, under no circumstances, I never want to hear about it, there is no way you ever hit a girl. And it wasn't something he reviewed once in a while. I mean, it was quite regularly.

Now, what's this son? We never ever, he would see me sometimes get mad at my sisters who were older than me. And if there was any, like this was a serious, he got the look, okay. Like you don't, this is something you do not do.

And I'm so glad he did that. That was a thought that has never crossed my mind because it was just embedded into me that that was something that you do not, I certainly didn't roll my eyes at the idea. It was just something that you would never ever even consider. Well, as I was raising my children, there was two things we really stressed hard.

And off of Mike, be honest with me. Don't lie to me. We can deal with the fact that you broke something. We can deal with the fact that you may have hurt something. But if you lie to me, now I've got a bigger mess to deal with.

I've got to now deal with character. Do not lie. And you are never to be disrespectful to your mom.

You are always to treat her with the utmost respect. That woman gave birth to you. And I've heard some people say, the moms have said, I gave birth to you. I brought you into this world and I'll take you out. Well, I don't want my wife to ever have to say that. I want you to always treat them with respect. And that's just great advice from your dad. You don't hit a woman. You just don't do it.

Yeah, it was just embedded. And that's precious stuff. So as you're thinking, what have you got?

Because these are rare nuggets. Ariel, I hope you call back 866-348-7884, 866-348-7884, simple enough. Well, I was mentioning my wife and that brought up a memory for me. When I was dating my wife, I wasn't sure exactly where this relationship was going, but it was going. And her parents, after we'd been dating about three months, they came to Lynchburg and for whatever reason, it wasn't working out for them to meet me.

Well, I'm like, I'm investing three months so far in this relationship. And if they don't want to meet me, then why would I want to continue with it? And my dad knew something was wrong and said, what's going on? And I said, well, looks like her parents don't want to meet me.

Evidently, I'm not what they're looking for, for her to have as a husband. And he just looked at me and he said, how does she feel about you? I said, well, she told me she loved me. He said, don't worry about her parents.

Now, I thought he was crazy, but at that point, you know, go to bed. He was right. And so later on, Robbie, I had him as my best man because my dad told me not to give up on my girlfriend based on her parents. He had good advice. So I can't help it, you know, as I hear that story, you know, maybe I shouldn't bring this up, but I will anyway.

So I happen to know that Danita's last name is Hershey. Yes. And I know you grew up not very wealthy, right? And so I can't help but wonder, was your thought that they don't think I'm good enough for their daughter? Oh, absolutely.

Absolutely. And so, you know, that was, you know, part of that equation that, you know, it's interesting that your dad's advice, there's no doubt in my mind, he was like, son, you are good enough. Oh, he fell in love with Danita before I did.

He knew she was just a gem. Father knows best. 866-348-7884. We need these nuggets. You've got plenty of time over the break to call.

866-348-7884. We'll be right back. You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live! Today's question, it's kind of like the countdown to Father's Day. So we're thinking about, like, Father knows best. Especially for those of us who were born in the 50s or 40s or 30s, as the case may be, you remember those days that like, man. And hopefully, you know, we're making a resurgence of this idea of fatherhood being a gigantic issue in our culture. It's a gigantic issue. And fatherlessness is one of the curses that has come upon us in the 21st century.

There's no doubt in my mind that it leads to slavery, is what it leads to, as, you know, that was proven back through the ages. And so as fathers step in and they give their loving advice, right? Because the idea of that God knew is that the way that God ordained it would be that fathers would absolutely love their children, right? And with that kind of love, would only have the best in mind and the best kind of advice, right?

Yeah. We go to people who have our best interest in mind, and that's what a father's supposed to do. What's the best for you? I'm looking out for you. I don't want to give you advice what's best for me.

I want to give you advice for what I believe will be best for you. And, you know, for those fathers out there right now, as you're working with your children, you are their authority. But as they get older, you move from being an authority figure to an advisory.

Solomon will write for us to listen. Children, young men, young daughters, they're supposed to listen to their parents, listen to what they have to say. Children are supposed to obey their parents. But as you get older, and I dealt with this a lot at Liberty, am I supposed to obey my parents? I'm 19. I'm 20.

Okay. Well, I know you're becoming a young adult. My question is not so much are you supposed to obey them. The question is, are you supposed to listen to them? Which means you are supposed to honor your parents.

That means I'm going to listen to what you have to say. And it may not, you know, my dad would have wanted me to still be a farmer today. Now, great advice on who to marry, but he did want me to stay as a farmer. And I said, Dad, I can't. God called me to preach.

So then what do I do? I have to listen to the Lord. And that was a tough decision at 21. Yeah, it's funny, my father, I, you know, I really think if he had his way out of state in the car business, you know, because I remember, you know, some of the last years of his life, he would look at me and he goes, Don't you miss the car business? No, Dad, I really, really, really don't. Oh, son. He just, he just absolutely loved it. And there was no doubt that he, he, he, he wanted his son to love what he loved. And that, you know, that's totally understandable, right?

And your dad loved you and wanted you to love the things that he loved. And fortunately, we loved a lot of things in common fishing being one of the most wonderful. And when I think of those pieces of advice that he's given me for trout fishing, we've talked about many times. You know, that's totally invaluable. What's really, really neat to me is that I often because of boot camps and other things, take a lot of other young men, or men fishing that have never tied the first fishing knot, don't know how to put a sinker on a line, don't know how to hook, you know, how to unhook if, you know, they, they, they don't know how to hook them, and they don't know how to unhook them. And it's just really, really, really fun. Even this weekend, I took some young folks out.

And one of them caught a gigantic, I mean, probably, you know, four pound bass, it was beautiful. And I, you never saw a bigger smile, or, you know, the, his girlfriend took the picture immediately. And she was like, you got to send this to your dad, right? You got to send this to your dad, because that's what we'd love to do, right? We'd love to share with our dad when we have some kind of wonderful accomplishment. And so I know that's bringing back some memories.

Go ahead, call us 866-348-7884. But that, that, that love for the Word of God, right? If there was anything that I can tell you, some things are caught, not taught. And my father would not, he just wasn't the type to tell you to study your Bible or to pray or to, that just wasn't his, however, if you watched his habit and watched his things he loved to talk about. He loved to talk about the book of Revelation. To say that he loved to talk about that book would be understatement. He loved to talk about that.

But that love for the Word of God, that stuff is caught. Yeah. And there's some advice that we received through the years that you can't really put it into a straight sentence, but you know he models something for you. And my dad to this day, I don't need an alarm to get up because that's how my dad was pretty much. As soon as that first ray of sunlight hit the window, he was up.

Well, as soon as the first ray of sunlight hits my window, I'm up. And. That's because in your house 4,000 birds begin to sing at the top of the hour.

Well, that's true also. If you're ever on the phone with Dr. Carson and the time changes, there's cuckoo clocks and then there's cuckoo clocks. I'm just saying, how many cuckoo clocks do you have?

Oh, three or four. But it's the ones outside too. Oh, yeah. Those birds are singing. But he's got birds and clocks besides the cuckoo clocks. You've got regular birds.

That's right. And it's time to go. The rooster has crowed. The rooster has crowed.

And I'm not going to get a sock on that rooster. Time to get up. Let's go. I had a friend that used to call my dad Racehorse. And I go, why in the world are you calling him Racehorse? He says, because it just seems like he's always on the go. Let's go.

Let's go. And he's like a racehorse, just wanting to make things happen. Some fun memories.

Related to Stu in some way, apparently. You know, I think that, you know, another thing my father certainly, his work ethic was like, there was there was never any question that was interesting. That, you know, he would tell you that, you know, you need to begin work. I think at 11 years old, I think that's when he said that you're supposed to start your first part time job, that he started throwing newspapers, and all these things that that was, you know, that was what he modeled. And it was fascinating that I started at four.

Oh, that's right. You're on the farm. Yeah. Dad believed that I could be out there with him. And I look back, there's some things I wouldn't have world. But now I look back. They were lots of great memories of being out there in the fields with my dad at four, my grandfather, four years of age, starting to do things. Can you actually remember when you were four? Yeah.

Oh, I can. That's because you're out there milking cows. What were you doing? Well, Robbie, at four, I asked my grandmother about how to milk a cow. And she showed me and the next day she said, go down and milk the cow. I said, Granny, what are you talking about? She said, I taught you yesterday and you can't ever forget what I taught you. And I was milking a cow from then on. I go, I've got to be careful what I asked them to teach me. That's utterly ridiculous.

No, just kidding. You know, when we think about biblical advice, I would be wondering today, like, would Solomon call in and say, my dad gave me this advice. First Kings chapter two, it says, starting verse one, it says, Now the days of David drew near that he should die.

And he charged Solomon his son, saying, I go the way of all the earth. Here comes the advice. Be strong, therefore, and prove yourself a man. Wow, that is some serious instruction, advice. Solomon, show yourself a man and keep the charge of the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, keep his statutes and his commands, his judgment and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn. What's the reference again? First Kings chapter two, starting in verse one.

And I just love First Kings 2, too. Be strong, therefore, and prove yourself a man. And that's advice. If my sons were called in, I hope they would say, the advice my dad gave me is that he told us, be strong and prove yourself to be a man, a man for the Lord. Yeah, and the word he used there is the Hebrew word ish, which is a little different than Adam, which is like mankind, right? And so that word that he used for man starts with that aleph, which would, the alpha, like the idea of a man, somebody would take charge, right? Somebody who, when you look at the letters of that word, it's really a beautiful word. And it starts with that idea of the father, because that first letter is the idea of one and number one and the head of the house and all those things that goes with that.

And so as a man, that would be a great way to start. The second letter is a yud, which is that idea of the spark of God, like the light that comes on, right? That's obviously gonna bring wisdom, that's gonna bring illumination, that's gonna bring godly behavior. And that last word, letter in the word, is the letter shin, which is the letter that would start the word shalom or begin to rest, shabbat, you can hear it in there. And so there's a component of peace that's underneath this fire. It really is an amazing word.

And like I said, he didn't say show yourself to be mankind, he was telling him be a man, and it was pretty powerful stuff. Thank you, Doc. That's good stuff. It is. We'll be back tomorrow with more Doc.