David Banks
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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And at the time, I thought that was a little bit odd.
But then I realized, well, they had no college.
They had no point of reference other than, and my dad would always say, if you can work with your head and not your back, do it.
And now he was clear, David, there's no shame in hard work.
And we all worked hard.
I mean, we, you know, I had paper route in fourth grade.
I pulled weeds, did gardening, all that sort of stuff.
But he said, if you have the option to work with your brain instead of your back, take it.
And he goes, the only way that's going to really happen is if you get education.
And again, they didn't really know what they were pushing us to.
And then my mom said, and you're not allowed to get married until you finish college.
And they didn't care who you married, how you married.
It's just like, get your education done and then take on other life things.
And at the time I thought, man, they're pretty dogmatic about this, but I was pretty compliant as a kid and through high school.
And so, but Ed, that advice has served me and my four older sisters so well.
So for two high school graduate parents, we have doctorates, graduate degrees, all advanced education.
educational, professionally driven careers from two parents who only went as far as high school because of their just insistence on you've got to get an education.
We have a lot of commonalities for sure.
And that's definitely one of them where my parents were the same way.
And there were seven of us and we all went on with advanced degrees and
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