You're listening to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast, where we do fast, fun, free, daily

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And right now, we're going to Rester.

Do you remember at the beginning of the Princess Bride when the grandpa character played by Peter

Falk, Colombo, he comes bursting into the room and laying in bed there is grandson played

by a young Fred Savage and the grandpa character goes over and he gives the kid a present that's

all wrapped up and the kid sets aside his pixelated Atari 80s video game.

He rips open the package and you can tell he's super disappointed to discover that the

present he got was a book and he says a book and then the grandpa is like, that's right.

And I was your age television, which called books and then he goes on to explain that this

is a special book that his father used to read to him and that he read to the kid's father

and today I'm going to read it to you and the kid's still on the impress like he's got

any sports in it and the grandpa's like, are you kidding me?

Fencing, fighting, some other stuff, giants, I think is in their true love.

That's definitely in there.

And the kid's like, yeah, I'll try to stay away from grandpa says, okay, wow, thank you

for your vote of confidence.

If you did, it's very inspiring.

And the scene is funny and charming and well acted, well written and it gives us a sense

of the dynamic between these two pals for the way that's going to play out for the rest

of the movie and that's great.

But the real take home, the really important thing from that scene is that we learned something

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