Duck Call Room - Uncle Si & Sadie Robertson Huff Open Up About Their Anxiety Attacks

Episode Date: November 19, 2024

Uncle Si is so excited to have Sadie Robertson Huff in the Duck Call Room that he even did some preparation for interviewing her. Sadie and Si hype each other up about her new book, finding purpose in Jesus, and the utter embarrassment Sadie accidentally caused for her husband recently. Martin and John-David are thankful their wives are spending more time at Bible study groups, and Si admits he and Sadie have one big struggle in common.  - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you ready, Hunter? I tell you when. Because sigh, for the first time ever said, for the first time ever, we have a plan. I didn't know that. I'll take to run this mess today. Well, before you do, yeah.

No, he's in charge. You've got to say, welcome to the duck call room. That's first step. Then you've got to introduce our guests. Sadie, welcome to the duck call room. I got all that. Well, no, that's what I'm just saying. We usually can see you on your TV screen outside.

your studio from ours. We don't have that. So it's nice for you to actually be in here with us. I took the long journey across the warehouse. It's like a fat haul. You definitely took the wrong journey. I took the wrong turn, maybe. You're going to say, what did I do?

What am I doing here? And we apologize for the smell. We know it doesn't smell as good as yours, and it's not as visually appealed. Not as home. You could use a candle. A candle could go a long way. It's a north wall that, and the water seeps underneath.

it. Yeah. All right. We read a quick crank this thing all. Yeah, you've been waiting. Now, what you're about to see,

Sadie, I'm going to warn you, this is what happens when your great uncle has a reading assignment. Oh, gosh. Did you read the whole book?

Huh? Oh, buddy. No, I'm not going to lie to you. I just read, I read little snippets of it. Okay.

Well, I got this. I'm impressed. I'm ready. I got this. All right. Welcome to the podcast, everybody. And look,

I'm telling you, this is going to be the greatest podcast ever in the duck call room. As y'all know okay, we're improv. Nothing is written down. We have nothing planned.

Okay, but that changed today because of not just a guest because of we got the guest. We got Miss Sadie Robertson Huff here in the radio it's in this podcast room.

Here's the deal. I have a plan. It isn't written down but I fixed to put that young lady her uncle wants a couple of questions answered oh gosh so hey welcome to this is your life Sadie okay because I want to know from childhood okay to right now

okay I'm so nervous for you I want to know first how did you get here who are you because that's the first question who is really Sadie Robertson Puff. This is a simple question, huh? We're just jumping right in there.

Yeah, oh yeah. Is this like a new series on the Duck Clare Room called This Is Your Life? No, because look, they said, they messed up. Okay. Okay. They told me like a week before this happened, you've got to guess. Usually I'll walk in here and sit down, and if somebody's in that chair, I go, I don't think I've ever seen that person.

Beth, can you make, this time? Can you make no? They gave me a heads up. Let's not give me. That's the last thing you want to do with me. Yeah, and now I have a question of who am I. That's right. Who are you?

How did I go from birth to now and become who I am? You know, to put it simply, I guess I would say, I'll bring it back to when I was five years old, Uncle Sy, and I didn't know who I was. And everyone around me, my dad had given them an epic nickname, but I didn't have one. So I told Dad, Dad, why don't I have a nickname?

And I'm not cool enough to have a nickname like all my friends. And my dad said to me, Sadie, you are the original. That's just who you are. And I said, well, that's not a cool nickname. And he said, well, that's just who you are. You're Sadie. You're an original. And he called me the original forever.

And because of that, I started preaching a message to people called Live Original. And that shaped a lot of who I am as a person. but that's who I am just by one word and original. Were you ready for that question? I was not. Because that was, I mean, Bravo, I just pulled up your Wikipedia page because I had no idea how to answer that question any other way.

Hebrew's 12, okay, talked about, okay, I'm going to bring this into this, and it will get us to this here. I can't wait. Okay. Hebrews 12 says, maybe I can remember what it. we're surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. Did you grow up with a great cloud of witnesses? Well, I guess so. Hebrews 12 says it.

I do believe that, well, one, yes, a great cloud of witnesses heavenly, but I also grew up by a great surrounding a family like yourself and like my dad, who gave me that advice as to who I am as a person. He's the one that made you, okay, who you are saying, okay, you don't know. said you don't need a nickname. You're an original. Yep. Well, that's something to live up to,

and you've done that well, darling. Well, it was such good advice, and I don't think he meant for it. I mean, I guess he did and he didn't. I guess you don't know as a parent what's going to stick. And I think about that because honey's three and a half. And, you know, a year and a half from now, she'll be the age that I was. And I was preaching on the countertop when dad said, you're an original and it shaped so much of who I am. So those little things you speak over your kids hold such a big, carry such a big weight, you know, to who they'll become. I got to go to your book and read it. Johnny, do you sometimes you just wonder why we even came.

Oh, no. No, no. Because she's a freaking rock. She's a freaking rock star, Sadie. Just by the way, man, wow. Well, no, no, because that's why I want to say, okay. Who are you? Okay.

I mean, the lady's been on television. She's been on dancing with the star. Okay. She's actually a fantastic, okay, role model, okay, for young women. Amen, but hey, young women, old women alike. Well, no, no, I'm just saying, but that's saying something, okay? In the book, okay, week one, day five. Hey, stop right there.

Yeah. For the folks listening at home that cannot see sigh with the new book that Sadie has coming out, the book he is referring to is the next step, which is drop it. there we go. But our folks that are just listening don't know that. The people on YouTube can see it. And she's the best of an author. Oh, yeah, absolutely.

So I just wanted to clarify that for the people listening. I need to, like, travel with you, Zai. You're my hype guy. He's pretty good at it. I'm like, thank you. I feel so cool right now. In your book on day five, you say, okay, and I'm going to add one word, what you think, okay, and I'm going to add and believe becomes who you are.

It's true. Do you need this? Okay. I should maybe read alongside. Yeah, that's why I said about the witnesses. It seems like he's going to be referring to this. I just wanted you to make sure. This is great.

I didn't want you to have to remember. You can at least look up. Here's the deal, okay. From childhood to adulthood, okay? And I loved the way you said, well, when I was five, I didn't know who or what. I was 65 and I still didn't know who I was. But anyway, you know, you are surrounded by a great. great cloud of witnesses.

Okay. Your dad, mom, your siblings, okay? Then when you start school, your friends get involved, their witnesses. Then your teachers, your coaches, everybody you run into life, okay, is a witness to who you are. And are partakers of making you who you are. It's very true. It's very true.

And I think that can be a good thing and a bad thing. Well, no, no, it goes both ways. They bring some of them bring real good things to the table, and then you have those that bring bad things to the table. Yeah. And that's where you grow up and find out, okay, wait a minute. That's, now that ain't really me. Yeah, that's true.

And you got to line it up with the word of God to know if it's true or not, because if it does not agree with what God says, then throw it out the window. Oh, that trash away. Aligns with it, hang on to it. I always get, I got. I got this big plan, okay, because in the law enforcement, okay, our law enforcement, eyewitnesses are no good, okay, because you get 10 people, okay, what did you see? And there's 10 different stories.

Okay, okay. Well, here's what I'm going to tell you about one witness that you can count on. And the witness I'm talking about is, okay, is the one that when Moses said, the Lord, who do I say, sent me? He said, you tell them, I am sent you. Well, hey, look, you don't know it, but you're, it ain't a camera on you. Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 3165 days of year. But hey, the all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing God, oh, he's witnessing everything you're doing.

whether it be in daylight, dark, it don't make any difference. He's watching you. Okay. So, hey, there is a witness to what you're doing. Now, you might want to think about that the next time you do something wrong. Word. Because, hey, you are being watched, okay? Word.

But back to you. Okay. Back to you. Hey, I'm here. I'm here for it. You hype me out. I hope you up. I'll hype you up preaching the word all day long.

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Well, no, no, see, her podcast is, whoa, that's good. Yep. She's got clove awards. No, hey, I want a little bit of tattoo rub off on our podcast. Yeah, I know. How does it feel to have one of those clove awards? I know. Hey, y'all are next.

We got Unisham. Nah, we tread down some of the past on this. I ain't into awards. I ain't into awards. We're in having fun. That's right. I have started to notice some of your decor I've never picked up on in here. The giraffe with the side character riding the giraffe?

Oh, I wish I had one. I wish I had a pet one. Now, that is pretty cool. A fan sent that in. Would you ever ride a giraffe having the opportunity? This is why we don't have any awards. See, they had a big debate about this. You've got to be up here on it where you're looking over his horns.

Yeah, we didn't know if he'd ride in. That way, hey, you'd see everything. Or if he sat on him like a horse, you know. Yeah, if you sat on like a horse, all you'd be seen is his neck. It's a very large neck. You know, here's the thing. When your podcast,

awards are one thing, it's an honor. But when you have fans who send you a giraffe with your action figure riding it, I'd say that's winning just as much as the other. Well, no, no. And look, and your uncle sigh, your uncle sigh to the world. Amen.

That's right. So, hey. Come on. What more can ask for? I take that with great pride. Okay. You should. You really should.

That's pretty awesome. He is Uncle's side of the world. Now, back to you. Okay. We're still having, you had to tell me enough about you. Okay. Well, your question was so loaded. I didn't know.

All of it. Yeah, you go out to go better than, well, I'm a ritual, and that's all you did. That was the best answer anyone could have possibly given. Time out. Like, if that was asked, yeah, no. Well, no, I look, I've watched. All kinds of TV stars and all that. That's what they do.

They say, no, I want to know, really, deep down, who are you? Well, it throws everybody all. Wait a man, what do you mean? Who am I? I'm me. He's Uncle Sae. Yeah, I'm me. Like if you ask me out there, that I said, hey, what you see is what you get.

And I would say that's not a very good answer. Well, I know. That's why I keep, you know, going back to her saying, hey, now, hold it, holy, darling. Tell me about Sadie. Who are you and how did you get here? What did it take? I want you to tell the fans. She drove her minivan here.

No, no, I want to tell your fan how you pulled this off. Speaking of my minivan, for those who were at church yesterday, if you were stuck in traffic, is because I ran out of gas in my minivan in the church. There are some things that are truly genetic. Many vans and fuel issues are one of them, apparently. This is so funny. I've never ran out of gas before. Actually, I know I should never run out of gas, but I did yesterday.

And it was so funny because mom was with me and Christian was with me. And Christian just cannot fathom. Like, how could this happen? How this happened? And then mom was like, well, at the time I ran out of gas twice in one year with that one car. And I was like, this is my mom. Okay. So I grew up running out of gas in cars, okay?

But yeah, it actually happened yesterday. and I held up the entire church parking lot with my minivan, and six men had to push my car with one of them in the hood of my car, holding down the neutral to get to the gas station. Because who knew that a minivan, when you run out of gas, it just completely stops. Like, not just like the- That's how most cars were.

Not unless the car stops. The steering wheel will not turn. Oh. Oh, it locked. The park. It goes in part. You can't even get it in neutral. That's the problem.

They pushed you all the way to a car. gas station? Oh yeah. Yes. That's the problem with all this electric stuff. Yeah. Oh yeah. On the electric shifts and all that. The old days you could just grab, you could push a break and you'd get to neutral and you could go. Yeah. But now they've made it better where you just push a button. That is a long. That works every time until you got nothing to power that button. Until it locks. Yeah. And so thankfully this man knew what to do. So he opened the hood and he like had to press down the neutral but he had to literally hang out of the car. so a poor guy is

laying in my hood of my car his feet are poking out and there's six men behind the minivan pushing it up the hill so did Christian push on it? Yeah, Christian push but this was so funny. Christians are the kind that may just bail from the situation. No, no, no, no.

I don't want to be a social. If there's one guy you want pushing though, he could push it by himself. That would be me. I would have just walked off and I'll say, hey, I'll see you at church whenever you get killed. You're on, your own.

Can I just say something, though? He was so embarrassed. That's a long push. It was a long push. There's no close gas station. Yeah. Well, yeah. You're not a Walmart?

Walmart. Walmart. Okay, that's a little closer. Yeah, it was so unfortunate, but it was so funny too because the guy who, he like set in my seat to kind of help Sear because it really did lock and I couldn't do it. So we all get out of the car and they're pushing it. And then he, instead of like going straight to go to the gas pump, he just randomly makes a turn to the parking lot and all the men are like, what are you doing? And then he was like, what do you mean? Like, we're just trying to get it out of the parking. like so that the church people can move by and we'll figure out and then they go no she's out of gas he goes

you're out of gas that's what this is all about i was like yeah sorry he like thought my car like died now i need to know who was that i will say i don't know who it was i'm gonna find out i feel like next time this happens if it's hunting season the easiest fix will probably just be go look in the back of people's trucks. Because if you'd have walked to my truck, you'd have found five gallons of gasoline. See, that's what I was about to do was to go into Walmart and buy a little bucket to get my gas. Not like a bucket, but you know,

like a gas can. But like hunting season, people, we got gas in the back of our trucks because four wheelers need it and everything else wherever you're going. Yeah. This is actually a good time of year if you do that. Next time, just go peek in the back and then drop on my 20 back here when they get back in the gas cans empty. No, I'm not doing that again. Christian was so embarrassed. He's like, how could you let that happen but you know what it's giving me a great analogy I've already used it and like three three different podcasts today don't worry guys y'all are getting more of the funny perspective

but the biblical perspective I was like listen to this this is such a good analogy for my guy who loves analogies but okay this is you okay because you're trying to figure out where it's going no when you were on my podcast you threw out like 10 analogies I was like dang that's pretty cool but anywho so we're in this car right I got my gas that like kept going off. And on the way to church, I said to mom, what are the odds that I run out of gas? And she said, well, pretty high considering your gas lights going off. And I was like, yeah, but I'm not going to run out. Like, you don't, I, in my perspective, like, I've gone on a few times, but like, I'll make it to church. Okay, so I did make it to church. And then right after church, I couldn't even make it to

the gas pump because I literally actually didn't run out of the gas. And I was thinking about this, because so often we wait until we are on empty to fuel ourselves, right? And so often we wait until it's too late and then we have a breakdown with my personal anxiety struggle. It's like you have all these signs that, hey, you know, you're running low, friend, you know. You better take a break. You need to take a break. You need to relax.

And then you're like, oh, I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. You push through it until like you have six people pushing you up a hill because you went too far, you know? And so I think so often we ignore the signs, but it takes discipline and intentionality to go get gas and whenever you're not, you know, whenever you didn't get a warning sign, when you just notice, hey, you know what, it'd be good to be not on empty, but actually filled up so that I can live the life God has for me.

And that was a message to my spiritual self and me and my physical self as I watched six people push my minivan up the hill. I felt so bad. That's why I get so sad when people tell me. I can't see God that you're always talking about. Okay, because like you said, hey, he's watching you. Okay. 724, 365 for your whole life. He's watching you and wanting you to come to him, okay, and he'll help you.

He'll even give you little signs that says, hey, look up. Open your eyes. Look up. I'm right here. They give you a little gas, my mom. Oh, yeah. You know, that's why I just, I don't get it. Okay, because he wants first class for you all the way.

Mm-hmm. But you've got to look for him. Mm-hmm. It's good. You got to have the eyes to see it. And you got, you know, you got to know, hey, yeah, you can't do it by yourself. Would it be strange to know that in 39 years on this planet, my gas lights never come on? Not once.

See, well, used to they didn't have a gas light. Nerd. Well, the light is there nowadays

and that's impressive. See, that's discipline and intentionality of stopping and getting gas. I think it's because it was

borderline beat into me to not get past a quarter of a tank from my father. Never put more than a quarter tank in. Because he's like,

your fuel pump's going to go out. So, I mean, it's just funny. Like, I mean, I've been with Willie Robertson, your father.

Yeah. Who has, we've, We've entered on fumes in the gas station. I'm pretty sure I've brought your mother gas before. You have, yeah. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. I think I was there for a line.

I've been a part of pushing it up the hill to your mom. There's times when, hey, you hadn't got nothing to pay for it. So, hey, you don't buy gas. Hey, agree. Okay, the reason is I ain't got money to get the gas. Oh, I just don't like waiting. You don't like waiting? Oh, it's such a slow process.

And you're standing at the gas pump. You get your cell phone, you're going to blow everybody up. So I put like $10 in and I'm out. Really? Oh, yeah. Always, I feel mine. I can't sit there. Well, my thing is like I always want Christian to do it.

And he wasn't in the car that morning. It was just to me a mom. And I was like, oh, I'll wait until like Christians with us later. And then he can pump the gas. But see, that's another message. You got to do some things for yourself. You can't have a song. Allison, I hope you're listening.

Oh, wow. She's finally going to listen now that Sadie's on. So I'm at least going to get something out of it. We've done quit preaching and got to meddling now. Watch out. Oh, we had to say. It's life. We ain't meddling.

We're trying to tell you out of a little, buddy. I do think it's interesting. Yeah. I do. And I love the spin on it. I couldn't agree more with some of that because we do run on E a lot. Like, I love that. Well, me and Brittany were talking about this last night.

This is like, I hope she's okay with me sharing this. We were talking about anxiety. I was talking about my own anxiety struggles. And then she said, we were talking about panic attacks. She said and just comes out of nowhere. And I asked her, I said, do you really feel like it comes out of nowhere? Because for me, it's like if I look back, I can see the build. Like, you know what I mean?

Like it was small signs, but it was like, oh, yep, that's where it started. And I had a panic attack last week. It's been forever since I've had a panic attack. But when I looked back at the day, I was recapping it with Brittany, I was like, this happened, this happened, this happened, this happened. And it was all the warning signs of like, you're about to have an anxiety attack. You know what I mean? But instead of stopping and going like, hey,

I need to talk to somebody. Like, let's speak truth or this. Let's pray. Let's get in the word for a minute. Let's declare truth and not stay on a loop of anxious thoughts. I just let it ride. And then I end up in trouble, you know, all of a sudden in this breakdown scenario when it's like it didn't have to get that bad.

I could have just filled up, you know, two hours ago and not got into this place. Well, it's the deal about a first order to my use to tell me. When a problem is small, take care of it. because if you keep putting it off guess what it's doing on you it's growing yeah it's getting bigger and then it gets then it just

it's overwomening then it just got so large I can't have it I can't take care of it well you dummy you've seen it coming dummy you know why didn't you take care of it when it was a little bitty problem

all you got to do is put it in the guys and put it in there pumping up oh man that's funny But no, and I do, you know, I've told you this personally, but why we got you here, thank you for your obedience in doing what you do, because it has changed my family's life with influence you had on Brittany. So keep doing it, keep rocking it. The reason I haven't taken this book home yet is because I knew I wouldn't have it.

I don't have my. See, Johnny Dea, I knew I wouldn't have it once it made it home, but I knew we wanted to talk about it and go through it. I set that sucker on the counter and it's gone. Yeah. I actually got a picture from Allison reading it. So that made me really happy. It's really sweet. And Brittany asked me, she said, oh, do we get one of the new book?

I said, I've got one in my office. It'll come home once we record the podcast. Don't worry. Just bide your time. We will have one. But no, thank you for that because you are changing people's lives. You change people's lives by what you tell them. Amen, buddy.

Okay, because not only, okay, not only do you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. okay, you actually walk to walk too. She's not just, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, and no, no, because hey, I'll trust me, I've been around all you get in his mouth. Oh, okay. And there ain't no walk behind it.

Okay, so, hey, this is, I'm talking about this is truth, okay? Because, hey, if you're going to run your mouth, then, hey, walk to walk behind it. Okay, because if you just run your mouth, that's all you're doing. You're a gong. You're an irritating noise. That's biblical.

You know, and that's biblical. Thank you. I don't know the verse that's in there. I'm fine. You impact a lot of people and they look up to you because that's when the show was going on. The movie people were always trying to get us to say stuff in a derogatory manner. Right. Well, I was tired.

We was filming seven days a week. I was tired, so I finally just gave in and said something. something I knew I shouldn't have said. And as soon as I did it, you know, we're over with the family and I go home. It's Sunday. It's Saturday. I go to church Sunday. And I was preaching.

And I'll, every time he said something, he was, you know, that's the way I felt. He was born at me. You know, you shouldn't have done that. You knew it was evil, yo. So, hey, I had filming after church. So I walked in and a scream, where's the director? You know?

Wow. And everybody said, everybody said, what's wrong? And I said, hey, y'all just kept on yesterday and made me say something that I shouldn't have said because, hey, there's a lot of people watching me on TV and mainly a lot of them are kids and they look up to me. And I said, hey, if this hits the air, hey, Duck Dynasty is over because guess what? I'm gone. Thank you. So the director finally shows up. Hey, settle down.

Settle down, y'all. He's what's the big deal here? And I said, hey, you know what the big deal is. I said, y'all are always trying to get us to say something, you know, against what we really stand for. And I said, you did it yesterday. And he said, well, wait, there ain't no problem. I said, oh, yeah, it is a problem.

I said, because I said it. And then I feel like a bum because I did say it. And then I go to church, and I all jumps over me with both feet telling me, you tell me, why did you say that, you know? And I said, not all that. looking and he's he's dissatisfied with me he'll forgive me but he's just satisfied with what I did and I said hey so I said he said look I gave him my word I said well hey I said I'm not just running my mouth here I said if that hits the TV and I hear about it guess what I'm gone and I won't be back

because he show wasn't going to watch I was about say you know are we positive it didn't happen So that's why I'm saying, hey, it's okay to run your mouth. Okay. But hey, if people look up to you and respect you and are following your lead, well, then you've got to also walk to walk. Well, since we're having kind of a confessional here, what did you say? Huh? No, no, I just knew it was bad.

I'm kidding. No. But I understand it was you. Because no, no, I'll give you example. Her mother. they done a film and they was filming her for the day. Well, hey, they bleep, bleep, bleep like she said a bad word. Oh, that was episode one.

Yeah, that was the first. That was, that was number one. And that's when Phil went off and gave the prayer that told me, hey, before you burn them, Lord, give him a chance to repent. He did. He did do that. He did do that. But I'm just saying, okay.

For eternal flames into their spirit. Yeah. He said, we hope you choose to save them before you burn them all. These evil cats from Los Angeles, California. Oh, no, no, it was just, you know, but I'm just, back to what we just talking about. No, okay, I actually do you have something to say about that, because that was really good about the yaw, yeah, yeah, yeah,

and the walk. Well, no, no. Because I truly have a story on this, and I love, because y'all started by saying, like, that what I'm saying is hoping people change their life. and really whenever I was 17 and I was at a youth conference actually. And, you know, we grew up a little bit more traditional. This was a little more of a charismatic youth conference.

And I had never seen a woman preach before. And this woman walks out and her name's Alex Seeley and she preached this message that was so incredible. I was so blown away by it, but not just the message she said. What she said was so powerful, but it was just even how she was saying it, the confidence she was sharing in. And I looked at her that day and I was thinking, man, if I could do something like that, then it would make what God has done in our life make sense for me. Like it would make fame makes sense. If I could do something like that.

And what I meant by that was if I could say something, that powerful truth, the Word of God, and use my words for something that matters like that, then all of this would make sense. And so anyways, that day I went forward at the altar and gave my life to Jesus. And I had given my life to the Lord before, but this time I was like, I'm not just giving you, like, my life and giving you true. I mean, not just my life, but like, and this is my life, but I mean like everything, like my job, my career, my future. And I think sometimes we think when you give your life to the Lord, it's just like a yes, I say yes, or I get baptized. And that isn't really mean you're really handing over your whole life, but that is what it should mean. It's a commitment.

It's like I give my whole life to you. My intentions are to follow you and to make your name. own. And I remember that day, just thinking about my Instagram and my YouTube and like, how am I going to use this now for the glory of God and say things that actually impact people's life. And the only way I know to change people's life is to give them the gospel, the word of God. That's what changes your life. And so it's cool to hear y'all say that what I've done and the way I've stewarded of my, you know, ministry and fame and stuff has impacted people's life because that was the intention back at 17. It is cool how much legacy is here. And just to, to say,

say to the point of who you are. It's interesting you say that a lot of people get tripped up with that question. Well, no. But everybody does. I think that's a hard question to answer because people are really confused by who they are. But I always think about whenever Jesus was sitting with Peter. Well, that's actually with all of his disciples. And they were in that place.

I can't remember what the place is called. But it was like it's basically where all that they were sitting, everything that was surrounding them were temples of other gods. And that's the place that Jesus brings them and says, who do people say that I am? So Jesus is asking them the question, like, who do y'all think I am? What do people say they are? And they say, some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah. And he says, but who do you say that I am?

And then Peter says, you are the Christ. You're the son of God. And right then in that moment, it's so powerful because it's the first time that, like, they're saying to him, this is who we know you as opposed to what everyone else might say, what the gang might say, what the people might say. what the people might say, this is who we know you to be. And then in return to Peter telling Jesus who he was, Jesus then tells Peter who he is and says, and you are Peter. And on this rock, I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. And it's really cool

because he's saying that in the midst of all these other gods saying, in this place, on this rock, or some people think, was he talking about that place, like as far as against these other gods, you know, you will build my church, the gates of hell won't prevail. Or Peter, you know, meaning rock, Simon Peter on you, I'll be my church. There's like, you know, speculation on what that means. But regardless of what it means, he's speaking into Peter's identity and saying, this is who you are and this is what you're going to do. This is your mission.

This is your purpose. And I think that kind of cracks the code when you're looking at that big question, who am I? If you're looking into your own life to answer that question, it's complicated, it's messy, it's hard. But if you look to Jesus and you identify who he is, then he in return tells you who you are. And then not only who you are,

but what your mission is. And so at 17, whenever I had eyes to see who God was, then I was like, oh, okay. And now this is who I am. And this is what I'm called to do. And it was the same with Moses. Moses is all tripped up because he has a speech impediment.

And God's saying, you're going to go to Pharaoh, and you're going to tell Pharaoh to let your people go. And he's like, who am I that I could go to Pharaoh. And then God's like, I am who I am. So it's really not about who you are. It's about who I am. And then God says, I made the mouth to speak. Like, I know who you are.

And yeah, I'm calling you to do this because that's about me. And so I think that that's a good passage to go to when you're confused as to who you are. It is hard to answer that question when you're looking at your life. It's much easier when you look at who Christ is. And who he is to you will shape who you are in this world. It's the same with my dad. If my dad wasn't a valuable person in my life, him calling me the original wouldn't have changed me. But because he's my dad and he holds so much about it.

you in my life. I trust him. And so when he spoke that word over me, it shaped who I was going to become. And so that's a good, that's a good life thing to look at if you're confused as to who you are. Amen.

How are you getting on what I'm talking about? Amen. Everybody, okay, in this world, at one time or another, is going to ask, who am I? Okay. And what do I stand for for crying out loud? What, you know, am I worth this or do I have worth?

And your best part is, even Jesus says, who do you say I am? I think that's the key, though, is the question is, you shouldn't ask yourself the question, who am I? You should ask yourself the question, who is God to you? Because who God is to you is going to shape who you become. Just like you started this by quoting the book, what you think, what you believe by yourself is who you're going to become. So if God is God is God, to you, then when God says to you, you were knit together in your mother's womb, you were formed before the foundation of the world began, you're on a purpose in this time and history, and you're

going to be the one to go out and be my disciple and make my name known. Well, then that changes everything about you. But if God is not God to you, then those words don't mean anything. If God, if you don't believe in who God is, then you are knit together, you are form wonderfully, you are beautiful, you are a disciple. That is a hold weight. But if you believe it, it changes everything. It changes the way that you think about yourself. It changes the way you think about others. It changes the way that you love. It changes the way that your joy. It changes your

peace in life. It changes your purpose. It changes everything. Well, that's why when you ask that, okay, you know, if you're a child of the Almighty, you're a child of I am, wait a minute. You're talking about the one that

created all this. You're talking about the one that sees all, knows all, powerful. and you belong to him. It's like the Bible says, you know, if you're with me, who do I care who's against me? It's good stuff.

I mean, I love it because the true the true answer there, you have not said one thing about yourself. It's not. You have not said one thing about, I did this. That's the greatest part of it. I know, and that's what I think that's,

that's the greatest part of it. That's where our identity should lie. Our identity should be in Christ and not in what I've done. But so many times when you ask somebody, who are you? What's the first thing they do. What they've done. It's a resume, baby. It's a, I worked here.

I built this. I did this. I did that. She ain't said a word of that. No, you didn't. She ain't said that one time. Oh, no, no. So if there's anything.

That's a great part of it. If there's anything these listeners take home from that, you've asked her at least four different times who you are. She has not once said anything about herself. And I don't know that if anybody, I'm just sitting here listening, taking this all in, because,

I mean, every time I listen to you speak, it's fantastic. And I've told you that. I've told you that. It's so cool to the person I would pick up from gymnastics is now somebody I can look up to. It's kind of weird.

It's kind of especially being about 15 years your senior, roughly. But, I mean, I think it's really awesome. And I think I just love the intentionality that you have and all that. But you have not once said anything about anything you have done. And I think that's where we should all desire to get to where when somebody asked you, who are you? Your answer is what you're holding right there. Your answer is pointing back. What a friend we have in Jesus.

And that's what I want everybody. I hope everybody listening to this has realized that. And he didn't either when you asked him who he was. But that is the true. I'm a child of the king. That's the true humility. He's a daughter of the almighty. That's what humility is.

And that's what if the world had more of. Yeah. Yeah. I think we'd be just a smidge better off maybe. It's good. I love that. That's why I say, okay. I love that.

I stopped in a restaurant when we went to Houston just to get something to eat, just a mom-pop little chop that served food. So stop in and a lady about your eight, said, well, what advice can you leave me before you leave? And I said, well, here's a deal. I said, do you have a relationship with a creator? You kind of looked at me and said, no, I'm struggling with some stuff. And I said, well, hey, if you don't have a relationship,

we'll start one today. I said, and then guess what? Then turn to him and says, Lord, I'm struggling with this, anger management, anxieties. And I said, and he'll help you do it. Yeah. And you ain't telling him nothing he don't already know. He already knows.

He knows me better than I know myself. Yeah. He's just asking for a little confession. All he wants to do is, hey, open your eyes and look up. Here's the thing. Okay, this book you need to get it. Okay, because hey, guess what? You'll find all the treasures just in here.

You put a bunch of them in this. Amen. But I do want to ask you before. It's based. This is based on that. That's true. Amen. Her book is based on the Bible for our listeners.

Her life is based on this. Can I say something about size Bible, but just before we continue on? It has his name engraved on it, but it also, has a slogan on it. It says, give them Jesus, Jack. Oh, that's awesome. You can have it all and, hey, when you got it, Solomon had it all. You know what he said? It's garbage. Yeah. It's not that important if it can go away. And I think that that's the thing with the Bible against a treasure of gold is that money can leave you. But the Word of God remains forever.

It's the same thing with your identity. I love how you pointed that out. I hadn't actually thought about that when I said any of those answers. But it's true. It's not based on the things I've done because your identity cannot be wrapped around something that can leave you. That's fleeting. That's why I brought up the great cloud of witnesses. Especially because if your, if your identity was wrapped in the job you do, then 2020 when COVID hit, wreck that, you know, then it's an identity crisis when what you do goes away. So then you have to dig deeper and that's where the word of God you stand on something that's the same yesterday, today, forever. Well, no, because I remember when it hit and I actually got it, okay, it was well, bad off.

Okay, but I wasn't worried about it. Everybody else was, whoa, it was me. What are we going to do? I said, what can you do? I was worried about it for a little while it turned you into a liar there, you know. Well, no, no, well, hey, look, I was out of my head. Okay, I was sicker than I thought. I just, I just show up overside to take your medicine.

Yeah, I took it. No, he didn't took it. He kicked Johnny D out. So, Menace you've ever been to me, sir. I scared John the deal. Okay,

I've checked on you. Okay, bye. All right, we'll see you. I sent a text and said, I guess he's all right. I ain't going back

until he's nice again. But what's funny, you bring that up, it's weird. I mean, I've never, and Brittany probably, I don't know

if y'all talked about this last night or not. She's always said, she's like, she don't have anxiety about anything. I'm like, uh-uh.

Yeah, I was like, uh, no, I mean, and that all changed. I mean, I guess I probably did before I gave my life to Jesus, but once I gave my life to Jesus,

I just finally was like, you know, who cares? I mean, that's just kind of the way I approach life. Like, it either will or it won't be and whatever. Like, that's just kind of been my mindset to get through some of that on stuff that would make most people. But you brought up the C word. And so for the first time in my life during that, on about day three of it, when I hadn't slept because I couldn't sleep, I had a full-blown panic attack, which I had

never known about what that was like and I always heard people talking about and I was like what y'all talking about like that just seems such a foreign concept for me that during that I had one of those because I was alone and isolate like you know that was during the days of don't go near anybody blah blah blah so I was alone and isolated and then it hit me and I was like oh that's what this is but I think part of that was not wasn't for anything else other than I took it as a lesson for you know, the good Lord's showing me what Brittany does go through and experience so that I could understand her better. And the way to do that was to give me a little bit of taste of that for one time. And I was like, okay, buddy, I have got a newfound, I don't know, respect, admiration,

like for people that deal with these often, holy cow. I was like, okay, whatever got me to they're not doing that again. Like that's out. Like that, that, that, that, that's out. Like that, that Pathway is done, but I mean, I think he brings you these things so that you can relate to other people It's true. On a different level then, because then I was able to connect with her on a level that I never had before because when she would say that, I never understood them, right? And to hear and to hear that y'all share that. And I mean, I know y'all've had a great night last night and Johnny D. Allison as well. Our wife's go to Bible studies every night of the week now.

Yeah, they keep leaving us with their kids and I'm not tired of it. But if you're, you know, I've had them, okay. You can't get enough air in your lungs. Yeah. And you think you're fixed to just run out of air. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You get it.

You have an anxiety attack. Yeah, buddy. Okay. It's the only time I ever had a panic. Oh, yeah, because you're shaking. You're shaking. You're shaking and you don't even realize why you're shaking. It was so wild, man.

I was in that hospital for five days with John Bell Edwards telling me I was going die every other commercial during the Olympics. We won't say what he was talking about, but it was rough, and I was by myself for five days, and the nurses wouldn't even come in. Jeremy Kent would bring me a chick filet every day, and that's the only person I saw for five days I got out. I was like, I guess I'll go to church, and I was like, I'm fine. And then somebody went to shake my hand.

I said, I'm not okay. I'm freaking out inside, and I walked out and got into my car. I'm like, I can't ever go inside anywhere again. And for like 30 minutes, I was like, what is happening? Who am I? What's going on? I want to go back there. Oh, no, because like if you've never had to forgive anybody,

you really don't understand forgiveness. Oh, ain't no doubt, yeah. Yeah. If you've never been hurt and then had to turn around and forgive somebody. It's really not for you. Then you don't know what Jesus went through. Well, it's really not forgive somebody. It's forgive somebody close to you.

Yeah. Those are the ones that. That's where that will teach you what true forgiveness is. Because like somebody walking down the street, say something to you. Well, I mean, I forgive you moving on.

Like whatever. But somebody close that's really personal that hurt you or did something against you to give that forgiven. That's a toughie where you figure out

what they were talking about. And it's always I hear this and say, well, I'll forgive you, but I ain't going to forget it. Well, hold it,

if you ain't going to forget it, you didn't forgive me. If you're going to bring it back up two months later, okay, and that's one thing that mares, Oh, no, no, and they do it all the time.

Stop it. Yeah. Oh, boy. Are we in a marriage podcast? Stop it. Well, I'm just saying, marriage people run into problems and then, and it's the deal about. Sometimes you're married to people run out of gas in the church parking lot. It's embarrassing.

I mean, good night. I know. Pray for Christian. Could you imagine? I like that. Sadie said, I could have blamed on him. No, I said pray. Hey, good on Christian for sticking around and pushing, though,

because I had him at 50-50 of being a flight risk. I know. Because the embarrassment is just being too much. Hey, I'm about here. Yeah, I had it on 50-50 on Christian sliding somebody on a harness. Please fill her car up. It was embarrassing. It's one thing to run in a gas in a place.

No one knows you. It's another thing to run a gas in the church parking lot. That's right. When everyone's leaving church and your minivan is blocking traffic. I would have gotten in trouble for continually making jokes. This was after service. Allison would have hurt me. This was after service.

Christian, it was hilarious, though, because he just decided to ride with me. He had his own car, and I was hit, dropping back off. That just made it so much better that he was in the car when it happened. Well, Sadie Robinson Huff, thank you very much for coming on the podcast. Playing that plane quit. Okay. We're out of here, huh? I thank you for all the answers that you gave us.

And be sure to check out her new book. I do, no, I'm not letting you get out of here. Our books on Amazon, it's more expensive in Canada. I wish Beth would come on and explain to me why books are more expensive in Canada. Because it always knows. But I do want to ask one thing that is the inspiration at this stage of your life for writing a new book, right? You've written a bunch before, just, and it can be the quick version of wherever this idea for the next step may have come from. That's great.

I'll give you the quick version. But it actually came from a conversation I was having. I went to speak at Texas A&M and I was literally mid-Message, mid-analogy, and just totally forgot what I was going to say next. And that has never happened to me on stage. It's happened to me in real life all the time because that's called mom brain. But it's never happened to me in the middle of an arena with thousands of college students. So I was like, I just stopped. I was like, I don't know what I'm about to say.

And I'm a very prepared person. So for me to not know what I'm going to say next really freaked me out for a second. And I just kind of ask the Lord real quickly, God, what do you want me to say? And the next thing I said was, is the way that you're living your life leading you where you want to go. And it's crazy because that wasn't a part of my message. That wasn't anything I had been thinking about. Actually, it was something I was personally thinking about in my own journal, but not thinking about for this message. It just came out.

And from that minute on, the message took a totally different direction, and it was so much better than anything I planned. And the lady who was there, the pastor's wife said, did you put? planned to say that. And I said, no, she said, you felt a shift in the room when it happened. She said, I just think that that was probably so much better than anything you had planned, because that's what the Lord wanted. And she said, you know that verse, your word is a lamp into my feet and the light into my path? She's like, in the Bible days, the oil lamps that that verse would have been referring to, they're really tiny lamps. They're not like these massive lamps. And she said, a lot of people would think that like that lamp, the word is a lamp

to my feet, a light into my path, is going to light up the whole path you're on. She said, but it doesn't. It's so tiny that it would only really light at the next step you're going to take. And she said, you know, I think with God so many times we want to have more control than we do. And we want to see the vision for like the next five years. We want to know the plan before we take the next step. But really, you just have to trust that he's going to light the path as you go. And so she said, I just encourage you don't go back to how you used to do things. Don't over plan. Don't over prepare. Don't try to stay in control of your life, but really surrender to the Lord. And so that little phrase she said about the next step is,

is where the devotional book came from. And what we're doing in here is studying the wisdom books of the Bible. It's called, this is my first, whoa, that's good, series of devotions. And we're studying the wisdom books of the Bible just to help find that next step in life. It's not about where are you going to be in five years. It's like, what are you going to do today that keeps you on the path God has for you? Yes, who stepped up. It wasn't saying he stepped up that day with what you said.

The Holy Spirit used you to say that. Okay. And then, hey, it led to you to write a book on it, the next step. Y'all this podcast is so casual. This is the beauty and the problem is that it's like staying up in a good conversation. The later it goes, the crazier it gets. You guys got to call it. I mean, yeah, we're done.

We've landed the plane 17 times. I don't like landing planes. Here's the deal. We've just done a couple touching goes. The truth always comes up. And the truth is you can get Sadie's new book on Amazon or any way. where books are found. The next step,

Whoa, that's good wisdom by Sadie Robertson Huff. We always in with the Bible verse. She teed it up. Psalm 119. 105.

Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. Sadie, thanks for joining us. Thank you for taking the next step across the hall of the house.

Pleasure as always. Hey, here's the deal about the next podcast. Whoa, was that good? Yes. It was. We'll see y'all next time.

I'm right here in the duck call room. We're out. That was fierce. Chaos and the best way.