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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, I'm Bob Lonsbury and this is your hometown program
of the Heartland, offering common sense to some three hundred
million Americans each weekend. My grandmother taught me how to read.
She was the bookkeeper and ran the cash register at
a gas station at Texaico station and down at Hornell,
New York. You can trust your car to the man

(00:21):
who wears the star. Back then, you didn't pump your
own gas. I wasn't thought of. You pulled up to
the pumps. There might be two of them, there might
just be one, and out would come an attendant, and
that attendant would usually be in a uniform, and sometimes
at Texaco or Chevron, that uniformed attendant will be wearing

(00:45):
a little clip on bow tie with a nice hat.
And they come out to your window and ask what
you want. You might say, I'd like two dollars worth please,
or you might say fill it up. And back then
people were more particular about what kind of gas she got.
You might say, filled up with high test right, Uh,
give me uh what Uh? All the least have stuff

(01:08):
in there? I can't remember. But while you're there, Uh,
they would also check your oil, right, so you'd pop
the hood a little bit when you pulled in there,
and they would wash your windows that so you're buying gas, okay,
You sat there in your car. Back then, they hadn't
invented gatorade yet, so you didn't have to go in

(01:28):
and buy yourself one. You sat there and they checked
your oil and if it was a little low, the
man you always have his rag. And the man would
walk over there and you have the dipstick in his
head and the oil the end would be resting on
the rag. He'd hold it there for you to see
and say you're a little low and uh uh, and
you'd tell him what way to oil you want in there,

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and he'd tell you what way to oil he recommended,
and uh, you'd get a quarter or two depending And
he went through a lot of oil back then, and uh,
he'd go and he put the oil in and uh.
They had a little like a spiccot that would stick
down in there side of the can. They tip that
up that would like glug glug glug glob empty itself
into your motor block. And he'd be back there with

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a big squeegee type thing and a rag washing your
front window, your rear window and about then boom, the
tank is filled, the oil can is empty. He'd put
the hood down, put the little thing back in, so
you're what's your gas cap, and the way you would go.
That's how it was at a gas station. And she

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worked twelve hour days, six to six, like I said,
running the register and keeping the books. It was her
and the guy who owned it a place named a
guy named Roy, and a man who pumped gas and
fixed cars. His name was Denny and Roy and Denny

(02:56):
would pump gas, check oil such like that. Mostly Denny
Roy was, after all the boss. My grandmother never pumped gas.
Women didn't pump gas then wouldn't be appropriate. And at
any rate, I lived with her at different times when
I was growing up, like three four five, I'd live

(03:19):
with her, and you know, I'd go to work with her,
and it was you know, it was just the way
life was.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
You know.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
You think, twelve hours at a gas station a little kid,
how did that go? Because I recall it, it went
all right. Was their boredom, yes, but back then kids
were just bored, okay. Kids did not act up. Acting
up was not one of the options. Remember Roy had
there was a garage in the back where he had

(03:50):
some older vehicles, and one of them was a fire truck.
And when I say older vehicles, you know, in the
early to mid nineteen sixties, something that was old then
was pretty old. And I don't think they had model
t fire trucks. But he had a fire truck back there,

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fire engine maybe, I don't know what you call him.
And it looked pretty model tish to me. It was
of that type. It had a crank in the front,
and it was you know, painted red, had an open cab,
if you will. Anyway, I was allowed to get up

(04:31):
in that old fashioned fire truck and sit there and
pretend I was driving it. And I spent many an
hour sitting there, my hands on that giant wheel, making
siren noises, pretending that I was save in the world
as a fireman. That's what they were back then, a fireman.
A firefighter wasn't advented till later when somebody said, you know,

(04:55):
we got women too. And at any rate, this is
about me learning to read. The gas station had the
paper delivered? There was delivered, it's not the right word
to say. Across the street there was a store, I
think it was called Gray's. There was a lady named
Missus Gray who ran it occasionally, very occasionally, she would

(05:18):
give me a little piece of candy or something out
of that store, and not enough to spoil me, but
plenty enough to delight me. But the paper down there,
the Evening Tribune, came out every afternoon, but they would
drop off there a stack of papers, and then Missus

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Gray would take and write on the top in pencil,
a lot of writing a pencil back. Then she'd write
the last name of who that paper was saved for.
You had to have a paper save right right, And
there'd be a stack, and you know, two or three
in the afternoon, my grandmother would quickly scramble across the

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street there and she would go get the paper that
was reserved for the gas station and bring it back
over and anyway, that'd be there, and people read it,
and it'd lay around. And I'm about three or four
years old, and she out of this paper, the Evening Tribune,

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she starts pointing out the letters and telling me their names.
And thereby, before too much time passed, she had taught
me the alphabet, my ABC's and you know, the first
to identify the capital letters. And then okay, they got

(06:43):
little small letters. Now here's what they look like. And
you know, pretty soon I had twenty six capital letters
learned and twenty six lowercase letters learned, and I had
learned my ABC's, And in demonstration thereof she taught me
that song A B C, D E, F G H I,

(07:06):
J K, L, M N O, P q R S
and t U v w x y n z. And
what's that last line? Now, I know my A B c's.
Tell me what you think of me? Is that how
that goes? Is that how it went when you were young?

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (07:26):
I think there was more memorizing back then. I remember
living with my grandmother. She taught me to pray. Today
we teach our kids to pray conversationally. Neil, by your bed,
Heavenly Father, thank you for today, Help me to sleep well,
help me to do better in school tomorrow whatever, help

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mom not to be mad at me tomorrow, whatever. And
then as a conversation, and then at the end, in
the name of Jesus Christ, Amen, right, and then of
bed day. Hop When I was young, it wasn't that way,
as you know, beside your bed, you folded your hands,
you bowed your head, you had good posture. You didn't

(08:09):
lean over on the bed, your spine was erect, and
you recited the prayer. Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I
should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my
soul to take. And then you'd hop in bed and
go to sleep. It's kind of morbid, you know, hold it.

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I might die tonight. Must I be reminded of this
fact every night? Subsequently, later on as a man, I
learned that that prayer has been said by American kids
at least since the time of the Revolution, and maybe
back then, before vaccines, before antibiotics, before municipal water systems

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and public big sewer systems. Back then, life was tough
for kids, by which I mean life was often short
for kids. Right now, we look at measles as a novelty.
Back then, they looked at measles as a possible death threat.

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As a different world. Anyway, it teaches me how to read.
It was first the letters okay, and then it was okay.
Now each letter, most of the time, will make a
certain sound. Let's learn the sounds that are attached to

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each letter. And that was the next step in the process.
There at the gas station by the river down in Hornell.
Welcome back, I Bob Lonsbry and this is your hometown.
In that last segment, I apologize as talking about how
I learned to read. I was a little kid living
with my grandmother, three four five years old. She ran

(10:05):
the cast register, kept the books at a gas station,
worked twelve hours a day, six to six, and I'd
go with her and newspaper there at the evening tribune.
She taught me my letters and then have me write
them out pencil on a piece of paper. She taught
me their names, she taught me the sounds they made,

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and then she had me sounding out words from the newspaper.
And before long she had me reading from the newspaper.
Folks stop off the gas station, get some you know,
gas and oil, window wash such like that, and they
look over and see me sitting there looking at the paper, saying, oh,

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look at him, pretend to read. And she'd say he
can read, and they'd say something along the lines approve him,
and so. Not to boast, but I was quite a
spectacle there at the gas station, reading newspaper stories to
people as they came through. But I learned to read

(11:08):
in a gas station while my grandmother was waiting on customers.
And that skill, if you will, has been the most
important thing in my professional life. It has allowed me
to make a living, and it has allowed me to

(11:30):
learn about the world. I learned to read at a
young age. I liked to read. I think I escaped
into books a little bit. Maybe you can relate to that.
And you know, I was able to learn about anything
I needed to learn out of a book. And as
I read, I learned about the proper form of an

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English sentence. I learned a lot of different words. I
learned how to spell those different words. I learned different
ways to write, different voices that were in writing. And
you know, I was a horrible student in school. I,
you know, was telling jokes and staring out the window

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and thinking about pretty girls. And I did not do
well academically. I think I got a perfect score on
the p s at, which caused a little bit of
a stir back in the day. But when it came
to grades on the report card, I was terrible. I
sucked out loud, that was It was bad. But I

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graduated and went out into life. The most useful thing
I learned in high school was how to type, and
I thanked that lady years later, Missus Spencer and Nancy Spencer,
for teaching me that. But anyway, the thing that was
most important to me was the ability to read, and

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reading allowed me to well get a profession. I you know,
became a newspaper reporter. My first job as a writer
was for that very newspaper, the Evening Tribune, from whose
pages I had learned to read some fifteen twenty years before.

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I have been able to, you know, I was born
into a situation of poverty. I've been able to, with
the Lord's blessings, you know, move with my family into
the middle class. You know, we've been able to you know,
raise and educate or in the process of raising and

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educating nine children, I you know, and this has all
come about because I could read, like really read and
understand the words. And not just financially. Have I been benefited.

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My love of this country has been tremendously enhanced through
reading history. And also I would say that the ability
to read the scriptures, to open up the Bible, and
to read, sometimes in read letters, the words of Jesus
Christ has made all the difference in the world to me. Right.

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I can turn to holy writ and I can see
what God has to say about things. And I'm not
holding myself out as any great person. I have stumbled
and fallen far more than I have stood up and
marched forward. But I'm going in the right direction. And
you know, I'm trying to be who I'm supposed to be,

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and I'm able to know who I'm supposed to be.
I'm able to ponder the circumstances of my soul and
of the status and circumstance of God by reading right,
and that unleashes, not just you know, as a reader,
the door to being a free citizen. I can read

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the Constitution and know what the rules of our country are.
I can read the Bible and find out what the
rules of the universe and the eternities are. Those are
powerful things. But if you can't read in a functional way,
you won't know what those read letters in the Bible

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say or what they truly mean, and you will have
no idea of what the Constitution says about our republic
or about your liberty. Being able to read is the
fundamental capability, if you will, of freedom. Anyway, I'll shut
my mouth. I bring this up because we have a

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report this week just passed than in the state of
New York, where a lot of us live, less than
half of the students in grades three through weight are proficient,
meaning the majority of students can't read at grade level.
And that's you know, doubly disconcerting because in this era

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of dumbing things down, grade level is pretty damn low, right,
and our kids, most of them can't even meet that.
As a matter of fact, many youngsters will walk across
the stage diploma in hand, functionally illiterate. Well, they can read,

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you know that sign and you know, maybe some instructions,
but most American high school graduates have never read a
book right cover to cover, and at any rate. I
worry about that because, you know, as a matter of policy,
in New York we spend more per student than any

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other state in the nation. I think we're at more
than two times the national average for spending per student.
We spend so much money but get so little for it.
We have one of the higher levels of you know,
reading difficulty. Anyway, I don't want to go on not
about this, but reading is something you get better at

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if you do, which is probably true of most things
in life. Isn't it. But in your life, with your reading,
do more of it. Book in hand, right, you look
at those words you read, you work on your abilities.
And the youngsters in your life and in your home,

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your kids, your grandkids, my gosh, absolutely read to them
when they're small, read with them as they get older,
have them read to you. And you know, I think
I might be ticking off, you know, grandchildren, whoever else
like that, or even my own children. But nine times

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out of ten I give him a gift. It's a book.
I have a son, Robbie, just graduate from high school
here a month or two ago, and he had a birthday,
turned eighteen a couple weeks back, and I gave him
four books. Right, I'm be honest with you. As he
unwrapped those and what they were, I don't know that

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he was particularly thrilled. Okay, I don't know that he
has yet opened them. I don't know that he will
yet or that he will ever open them. But I'm
going to be persistent. I'm going to send the message
the key to upward progress in our society, the key

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to fulfillment in our society, the key to being all
you can be as a citizen, as a son or
daughter of God comes from being able to truly read,
encouraging reading, promoting reading, pushing reading in ourselves, in our
loved ones, in our families, in our communities. That's huge, right,

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because when you can't truly read, you're in a cage.
You are chained, you are held down, you are held back.
And maybe that's why they teach our children so poorly.
Maybe they want to keep our children under their thumb.
But the way to set them free is to empower
their minds and to equip their lives with the most

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important skill that you can have, and that is the
ability to read. End of sermon, Thank you very much.
I'm Bob Lonsbury and this is your hometown, Blondsbury, and
this is your hometown. On a chitter chatter this week
about the rising prominence of Islam in American society and
in American politics, and a lot of folks point out that,

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you know, over in the Muslim world, things are very,
very different than they are over here in the Christian world.
And this is the Christian world. Culturally, the United States
is obviously and fundamentally a Christian nation, and Christian nations
have tolerance, they have diversity, they have freedom. In a

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Christian nation, you can be whoever you want, believe whatever
you want, live your life. In Muslim nations, it's overwhelmingly
not that way. In a Christian nation, you can be
a Muslim. Fine. In a Muslim country, overwhelmingly you can't
be a Christian in a Christian country. If you want
to convert to Islam, fine, not yet, that's your business,

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right between you and God. Go ahead, God bless you,
my brother. In a Muslim country, if you convert to Christianity,
well you can't. You can't, and in some places you'll
be put to death. Right in a Christian country, you
can be a Muslim. In a Muslim country, you can't

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be a Christian, not fully, not freely. There are very
huge cultural and religious differences, and you know, I think
that those are all very important and healthy conversations to have. Right,
we have to look at, you know, how is immigration
impacted other societies like in Europe and whatever, as they've

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had a large influx of new Muslim immigrants. You know,
maybe there are lessons to be learned, pluses and minuses possibly,
but no, it's something that we should look at. As
you know, apparently some of our politicians embrace and push
forward Muslim ideas and practices and beliefs. You know, we
ought to have a voice and whether or not we

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want to wrap our arms around those, whether we want
them imposed on our society. But I think that as
important as that is, it is of secondary importance because
the purpose of religion is not to structure a society.

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It is to save a soul. Right, religions invariably do
structure societies, But like I said, that's secondary. As wonderful
as it might be, Christianity, you know, if we can
be honest about it, invented the concept of freedom, invented
the concept of individual rights. Christian nations and societies have

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never been perfect, but they've always been moving forward and
moving upward, and they have always led the world in
terms of pluralism and freedom individual rights. Always anyway, that's secondary.
The first issue is saving. So that's the job of religion.

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And you know, in this country, because of its Christian culture,
you are free to make up your own mind in
terms of your faith. We have freedom of conscience here.
It is what first brought settlers to what's now the
United States, seeking freedom of conscience to worship God as

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you wish. That is not a right that exists in
most Muslim countries. That's not a put down on Muslim countries.
It's not a slam on Islam. It's just a reality. Right.
But again, you believe whatever you want. However, what decision

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you make will have an impact not just here but hereafter.
And this is where we enter the realm of faith.
And different people will have different faith. And you know,
any person can tell you about their faith, and that's good.
No one can prove that their faith is right. That's

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the very nature of faith, right. It's something that you
can't see, but is true, something which you can't prove,
not through science or logic or whatever like that. But
let me tell you what my faith is. The most
important thing about Christianity is that it is the way

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to God. Christianity teaches the world about the sacrifice of
the Son of God, the atonement of Jesus Christ. Christianity
quotes Jesus as saying, I am the Way and the
Truth and the Life, and no man cometh under the

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Father but by me. Used to be when I was
like in junior high, they had Jesus freaks. They called
them hippies. Who were Christians, and they used to do
this hand sign and it was you would hold up
your index finger, okay, like you're doing the number one,

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and that meant one way. And what that communicated was
there's just one way to heaven, and it is through
faith in Jesus Christ. And I mean no offense to
people of other faiths or of no faith. But the
Jesus freaks were right. There is just one way to heaven,

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and it is through faith in Jesus Christ. It is
through the acceptance of Jesus Christ as your savior and
as the savior of humankind. There is absolute truth. There
is a God. God created us. We didn't create him.

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And also we don't get to decide.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
What he says or what he stands for. We don't
vote on what we want God to do. We don't
get to make the rules. He does that right, we
are to have faith in him to learn obedience to him. Right,
Jesus said, if you love me, keep my commandments. And

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my belief is that Jesus Christ is the son of God,
that he was born of the Virgin Mary, that he
lived a perfect life, He taught wonderful, powerful truths, He
loved people, he invited to people to come to him.
He healed people of their afflictions, most notably and significantly

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their spiritual afflictions. And with his death, his suffering on
the cross, his suffering Gassemine, and his a death and
subsequent resurrection, he allowed us to be healed of the
greatest infirmity of all. He allowed us to be forgiven
of our sins, to be made clean, so that we

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might have salvation, so that we might live with God
for all eternity, that we might go to heaven. To
use the phrase that comes only through Jesus Christ, that's
what I believe. That's what Christianity teaches. And if your
church isn't teaching that with respect, your church isn't teaching Christianity.

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Now you might say, oh, you can't believe that. That's
disrespectful to other religions. I mean them no disrespect. And
I say these words in love and invitation. Come unto Christ,
Learn of him a pattern in your.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Life after him, keep his commandments, accept Him as your savior.
Become a Christian. And I believe that Islam is not
from God. I do not believe that Islam offers salvation
because Islam does not teach Christ. Now at that point

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they say, oh, no, we believe in Mary, we believe
in Jesus. With respect, you don't you believe he lived.
You believe he was a prophet. To call Jesus a
prophet is to completely miss the point. Jesus is the Messiah.
He's the son of God. He is not a messenger

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from God. He is God right. He and his Father
and the Holy Ghost together are the Godhead. He was divine.
He died for us. No man cometh under the Father
but by me, is what Jesus said, and I believe

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in so. Yes, there are cultural and political aspects to
the you know, looming back and forth between Christianity and Islam.
But the most important thing, the fundamental thing, is that
Christianity offers, as I believe, the only way back to
our heavenly Father, the only way to be saved. And

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that is awfully darn important. And that is a choice,
an opportunity which lies before each one of us. I'm
Bob b Lonsbury and this is your hometown. Welcome back.
I'm Bob Lonsbury and this is your hometown. It's also
a corn on the cob season. The sweet corn is ripe,
and it is at its peak right now, probably run

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to about the end of this month. You can get
it into September. You can get it, in fact until
the killing frost. But the bloom is off the lily
a little bit. The sweetest of the sweet corn is
right about now. And if you're blessed to live near
some farm market or there's a stand on the side
of the road where you've got some good amish people
will sell you some. I tell you what, that's a win.

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That is a glorious, glorious wind. It's funny thing. We've
got My daughter and her family are staying with us
for a while. They're moving up from Tennessee, and they
found a house. It won't close on it though, for
another couple of weeks, and so we've got a house
full of young kids. What a delight that is. And

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we're talking about a're going to get some corn on
the cob, And typically that delights kids, both as to
the taste and as to eating it, picking something up,
chomping away on it. Kids like that, including kids like me.
So I said, hey, I got corn on the cob,

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and the word comes back from the little grandson that
he does not like it. Eleven years of age does
not like corn on the cob. I lean in, I
look him in the eye, and I say, you must
never had it done right, because corn on the cob
is one of life's true and pure pleasures. Undeniably, that's
what they eat in heaven. He did not look convinced,

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and I said, come on, you gotta try. And I said,
when I make corner the cob, will you at least
try it? And he, humble good lad said yes. I
not so humble, not so good old man thought, I'm
going to make this corn on the cob, and this
kid is going to be bowled over. So the corn

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gets boiled and serve it up. Now here's the deal.
Corn on the cob is really about the butter in
the salt. You slather that with butter. I'm saying, you
got butter dripping off that thing, and then you put
salt on it, and then you put more salt on it, okay,

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And then I guess two salts is enough for you,
and then maybe put more salt on it. And then
you pick that up, you get it in your hands.
Now there are people who will stick those things in
either end. I don't trust them, but you pick that
something's not right about that. God gave you ten fingers.
You pick up that corn cob and those fingers and

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you get after it. Okay, So but some people stick
the things in the end. I don't judge them. I'm saying,
don't trust them, but I don't judge them. And so
I make this a cob of corn for the grandson.
And I tell you what, this corn stalk it out

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hit itself. That was a beautiful cob of corn rose,
a full rich lush kernels on there, My holy my,
and the butter was it was duly slathered, not margarine. No.
And well, Bob, we like to use spray on butter, Okay,

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right after you stick those little things in the end,
don't you. Okay, I don't judge you, but again I
don't trust you. You don't spray butter. You slather it on, okay, drippy,
drippy as salt, salt, salt. And I hand that out
to the boy and I say, hold a second, and
I pull out my phone right because what's going to happen,

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and I know this. What's going to happen is this
young man is going to come face to face for
the first time in his life with corn on the
cob from New York State, prepared by his own grandfather. Okay,
this is almost a communion. This is the communion wafer
of our people. All right, no disrespect intended, but this

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is the common sacramental meal. We will now eat corn
on the cob, and we will renew our commitment to
I don't know, farm to table or whatever you want
commit yourself to. And I but hold on, and I
get the phone, and I get that video thing on there,
and I get right up on his face, and I'm thinking,

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when he tastes that corn, it's going to be like, well,
like flipping on a switch on a light. It's like
the sun cresting over the horizon in the morning. He's
gonna be he's gonna go, oh my gosh. I guess
I did not know what corner of the cob was about.
So I got the video there, I'm right up in
his face. Okay, buddy, get after it, and he takes

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I was gonna say bite, but it was somewhere between
a nibble and a bite. It was not. It was
not a robust mouthful, let's say that. But it's somewhere
between a nibble and a bite, and I got the
camra on there, and as he takes that, there is
immediately in his face a darkening, a furrowing. It's my gosh,

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this kid does not like corn on the cob. Right, immediately,
I'm thinking mix up at the hospital at birth. Right,
this kid is not related to somehow he got some
different caddy wampus DNA's in there, and he ain't thinking
like the rest of us. My man, you got the
effective taste buds. We should get you to the taste

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bud doctor stat Okay. But he takes his little nibble
bite and he looks at me. His face was like
you could tell he was he hates corn on the cob.
I mean in every other way. He's a normal kid,
I mean above normally. He's an exemplary young man. He's

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an extraordinary lad, talented, good hearted, just the best, except
for this horrific and fundamentally disco qualifying defect. You don't
like corn on the cob. Well, that lays more for me. No,
that was about all it took. Okay, I'll take that, buddy.
And there was a tiny little nibble slash bite out

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and I got rid of it for him. That's what
family is about. Teamwork, kids, right, we all we each
we help each other out. And speaking of eating corn
on the cob, I don't mean to boast, and I'm
not looking to rub this in your face, um, but
I eat corn on the cob better more efficiently, more intelligently,

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and more effectively than well anyone I've ever met. Some
people they eat corn on the cob and when they're done,
there's all sorts of stuff sticking out, left over whatever
like that, and I look at them and I just
kind of shake my head. I can't figure him out

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how they could be and you're defective. Right, Here's how
you do it. Now, here's the thing. You got your
corn to cob, and you can go back and forth
like you know, back and forth in front of you,
or you can rotate it as you eat it. Okay,
back and forth is the right way. Rotated is clearly

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the your mentally troubled way. All right, No, no, no, no, no,
I'm authoritative on these things. Okay. Here's how you eat
corn the cob. You start at one of the ends, obviously,
and you pick the number of rows that you are
going to comfortably bite off. Four five rows most typical. Okay,

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And you said you aim your teeth. Aim your teeth, right,
You're a human being. You can do this. You have thumbs.
You can figure this out. Aim your teeth, and you
bite just those four or five rows, okay, And then
you move to the right or the left, and you
eat those same four or five rows right next to that.

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You don't leave some little pieces in there. You eat
the next corns okay. And you do that, one bite
after the other, all the way to the end. When
you get to the other end, okay, you should have
no debris left, no little pieces of yellow or golden corn.
You ate all that. You ate the corn right, if not,

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go back, start over, do it right this time. Right
after you've gone all the way over and you have
that four or five rows that they're all gone, you
rotate the corn cob at that point and you select
the next four or five rows, and you bring that
up to your mouth, and you again aiming your teeth,
because you are a higher animal, a bite on there, okay,

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and you repeat the process. Now, what will happen is
at the end you will have eaten four or five
rows about consecutive times, and the cob of corn you
will see is completely shorn of corn, and it's kind
of square on the side. That's the way to do it.

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I share this with you because I know you want
to make a good impression in the world, and there's
nothing that'll do that better, quicker, more effectively than being
an intelligent corn on the cob eater. A sad truth
my young grandson will never know. Your Hometown is a
production of iHeartMedia and originates each weekend under the auspices

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of radio station WHAM in Rochester, New York. I hope
that you will tune in again next weekend. Until then,
remember to do your best. I'm Bob Lonsbury and this
is your hometown.