Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 100 | Phil's Advice for Single People, 'Wedleases,' and Jase and Missy's Biggest Argument

Episode Date: June 10, 2020

Thank you, Unashamed Nation, for hanging out with us for 100 episodes! In this one, Phil, Jase, and Al discuss "wedleases" vs. marriage, patriarchy, the horror of neckties, anatidaephobia, and America in 1920. Phil explains why he calls his butler "Dan the Eunuch" and offers his advice on being single. Jase reveals the biggest argument he and Missy have ever had. Al offends all women. And we close with an exclusive surprise for our Unashamed audience. See episodes of "Unashamed with Phil Robertson": https://bit.ly/2J4XsiX   See clips from Phil's TV show "In the Woods with Phil": https://bit.ly/2PNM6k1  - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am Unashamed What about you? So today, Jase, you may not be aware of this, is the 100th episode of the Unashamed podcast. So if we had applause, if we were like a radio show, we could put in some applause there. You know, it's always like TV shows or, you know,

radio or I guess podcast now, When you hit 100, it's like there's some sort of achievement. Why is that? I don't know. I felt like we should have had a cake or something, but it's just us in our Black Rifle Coffee. Are you missing that on the party? I guess most people, if you hadn't done it after 100,

you might well, shut her down and go to the house. You're still there after 100. Well, they're still there. Maybe it's because wherever there is. People who live to 100. Well, I remember when we did Duck Dynasty. I remember specifically when we got to the 100th episode. Everybody, like all the crew and everybody, they were all.

Well, they made a big deal. They made a huge deal. I was like, this is 100. But then we did 30 more. Yeah, 130. Right, total. But somehow, in the old days on TV, that had something to do with if you hit 100, like some kind of financial thing kicks in, something about residual rights for the show.

I don't know all the stuff about that. Well, if I find something at least 100 years old, When I'm metal detecting, I'm happy. If I can identify that it's 100 years old, I'm like that. But you're still pretty excited even if it's 96 years old, too. Yeah, but over 100. So here's a couple of things I was thinking of. So today we're airing, as people are listening to this, if you go back 100 days,

this is interesting. You think about it. You think 100 days goes by, you don't think too much about it. I'm kind of about a three-day game. Well, exactly. So this is fascinating. So 100 days ago, since we're celebrating our 100th podcast, it was February 29th, 2020. So interestingly enough, February 29th is a leap day, right?

It only occurs once every four days. So I found that to be... Every four years. I mean every four years, that's right. I was fixed to say. Well, that would be. And you know, I don't know if you remember this, Dad. Your oldest brother, who's gone on to be with the Lord, James Francis Robertson, was born on February 29th.

His birthday was elite year. So he only celebrated every four years. And so I just remember growing up, he would always say that. And he would always say, you know, so I'm only, and he would always deduct it back to how many years he had had a birthday. You know, so he was always that one-fourth of whatever actually was. That is kind of weird. It is. Think about if your birthday was that day.

Of course, I was thinking about you should get married on that day because then you would only have an anniversary once every four years. Well, you just offended all women. I know. I shouldn't have done that. Would you miss you go for that? up with the once every four years? Absolutely not. So anyway, here's some things that happened, Jay.

So you don't remember because you can't remember three days ago. LSU was still playing basketball. They beat A&M on February the 29th, 100 days ago. And it solidified their four seed in the SEC tournament. Do you remember that? Which was a season to nowhere. It was season to nowhere because as soon as they got in the SEC tournament, it got the whole thing. Once they disbanded the basketball, see, I forgot.

everything that happened because it really didn't. It's like, but it really did. No, that's the same. No, it happened. Now, there will be no record of that. It'll be the year they never, they just quit playing. So I'll tell you about this, see if you remember this. So, because we're into LSU sports, obviously.

LSU baseball, Baylor beat LSU six to four. They played Texas, Baylor, and OU at Houston. The next day, now I'll remember that. OU beats LSU. Listen to this day, you probably weren't aware of this. So OU had a no hitter. The guy pitched a no hitter.

This is painful to, I. This is a memory that I've tried to forget, and now you're bringing this up again. So he no hits LSU. I think this is the first time they've ever been no hit, this on record. But look, here's what's more amazing. While he's no hitting LSU, the LSU pitcher pitches a one hitter, but the one hit was a home run, I think it was in the bottom of the 8-10. And we lost.

And we lost one-to-nothing. Why would you bring this up on our one? This was supposed to be a happy day. Okay, let me make a happy. So right after that, LSU won five straight. Of course, then the season ended and it goes to nowhere. So to your point. Here's another one, Deb.

The World Health Organization on this day raised the global risk of coronavirus to very high. At the time, we had 23 cases in the first death. This is only 100 days ago. That's what I found fascinating was look at what's happened in 100 days. It almost seems like another, like that was another year, like another decade. decade. This all happened in a hundred days. Stop market this day ended its biggest drop in a week since 2008. You probably knew about that, Jay. Oh, I was buying. I was buying. Looking like a genius now, huh, Phil? Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary on a hundred days ago. They still had, remember primaries? Remember when people were talking about the presidential election? Remember when it was an election year? Wasn't aware. So, and I thought about from a personal standpoint, Lisa and I are planning all our speaking trip. and dad had a couple of speaking trips. And it's funny, you just make all these plans.

We're going to be going here and we've got our air flights and we're going. And all of a sudden, boom. Yeah. It just ended. I mean, the whole thing just stopped. I've had. I don't know the exact day when the word came down, but I wouldn't have been driving to town but once a week. But then I shut that down.

That was like, I think that was maybe early March. It was. Yeah, it was. You haven't seen civilization. in three or four months? Three or four months? It was actually the week, it was right around the first few days of March

because I had, Lisa and I had spoke in Maryland and I didn't realize at the time it would be the last time I would speak out until this last week. And that was the first live stream at Weiss Ferry Road was that next Sunday. It was like March the 12th. So it shut down that week.

Somebody said, well, boy, you just don't realize being shut down like that, down there on the river by yourself. You and your woman, you don't realize. how much you've missed, you know, a few family visits. If you could just go to town, you could see it. So what do you figure I've missed based on the news reports, what's going on in all the

cities? I don't know whether there's going on in Monroe. I haven't been up there. Are they jumping around at Monroe, too, and running and hollering, looting, burning? None of that. In fact, the whole state of Louisiana, I heard the governor talking about it, has behaved pretty well. There's been some protests, but everything's been peaceful.

We're not burning neighborhoods and hurting people. I mean, I've been proud of our folks in our state. You know, they've responded the right way. Yeah, so, Dad, a lot of people have experienced depression and things like that from being at home, but you don't seem depressed. You seem to be upbeat. Yesterday the menu was rib-eyes,

rib-eye steaks. We have jambalized, rib-eyes, crawfish, fried catfish. I mean, we're, you know, fine salads. Dan goes, The women's guy has Dan going up there because he's expendable. He goes up there. The virus, he's like in his 30s.

Oh, I done by the young people. Go ahead on up there, Dan. So Dan keeps your workout. He keeps your in groceries. So that's where it works. So Dan doesn't have to go to a gym. He is a workout fiend, but he kind of does his own. He's like ninja style self workouts, right?

That's it. He used to send me videos until I told him to stop doing it. That was just creepy. You know, don't send me a. work out because I don't really care. I don't want to see you work out. Somebody asked Dan, somebody sent this. So I'll go ahead and get you to tell because I just got this question from a viewer from Michigan a couple of weeks ago. I hadn't put it in the mix of questions, but they were like, I don't, I'm not sure if I need to ask this. That was the way

they led him with the question. But why does your dad refer to Dan as Dan the eunuch? Oh, boy. It's real simple. Oh, he takes to go down this road. Dan has renounced marriage. therefore, biblically speaking, Matthew 19, you can read it. I'll read it. I think it's a great passage because through my life I've had a lot of people sitting on a couch saying my problem is I don't know what my problem is. And Jesus basically defined marriage in Matthew 19 where he said,

verse 4, haven't you read that at the beginning the creator made the male and female? and said, for this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. And then he makes this really profound statement, therefore what God is joined together, let man not separate. And they usually still say that today in weddings. That's where they got it from. Well, then they asked a question.

They said, well, why then did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce? That's the Pharisees who were trying to trap Jesus. all right and he's like well he let you do that because your hearts were hard but it wasn't that way from the beginning and then he goes on to say that if you divorce except for marital unfaithfulness and you know a marry a woman then you got another problem which is adultery and well then the disciples are sitting there saying well sounds like to me it may be just better not to get married well then he makes the statement which is where you came up with dan the eunuch jesus replied not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given for some are eunuchs because they were born that way. Others were made that way by men, and others have renounced marriage because of the kingdom of heaven. And so there was three categories there. And I've delved into each three. I mean, like that second one, I think that can be physically, you tend to think physically, they were made that way by men, you know, thinking castration.

But I think also it can be mentally, you know, where people are manipulated or, you know, they have a tough situation. And I have some friends, a couple of them that are sort of like the first. There's nothing wrong with anyone saying, I'm just going to stay single. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it whatsoever. I would argue the greatest two spiritual minds that have ever walked to planet Earth, the first being Jesus, second being the Apostle Paul, were both single. and never married.

So, you know, as much as... By Jesus' definition, they were in fact eunuchs. That's right. Paul said it's better not to marry, but he's like, can't control yourself. That's right. I knew why. What's your famous life? I talked to Laura Trump the other day and I said, Laura, just remember this.

People who marry, I'm quoting a Bible verse, people who marry will face many troubles in this life and I want to spare you this. And Laura said, you need to talk. talk to Eric. So, oh, Eric, oh, Eric, if you're out there somewhere, Eric, we need to sit down, son. Be good to your woman. You need to love her. So what a life we live.

Be kind to her. Dad just drives it in. Oh, I was talking to Laura Trubb. Don't cause her more trouble than it's worth. And he quotes that. She smiled. She said something to the fake is that idea. I said, that's a Bible verse.

Most people who hear it, they're like, hmm, people who are married. Well, the time you quote. that at Sadie and Christian. I felt a little uncomfortable, but I said, well, he is quoting scripture, but it was kind of like what we're doing here. It's supposed to be happy times. So Sadie says, I said about it, her and Christian both, Dad, I don't think I've told you this.

We were laughing about it that you quote that scripture. And Sadie said, oh, that's why I love Papal Phil so much. She said, we were kind of tense and like, and this was right at the beginning. They were having these sound issues. Remember the mic kept going in and out? And so everybody was like getting tense. And when you did that, she said, we just busted out laughing. And she said, and from then on, Chris and I both were relaxed for the rest of the waiting.

You know, they were feeling the tension because this is a big swaray. I think that was a nice way to say this was really awkward because the sound was not working. But then when Papal Phil started speaking, it became so much more awkward that everybody forgot the sound not working. If you look, if everybody looks at their own marriages, they say, well, face me. many troubles. I would say, yeah. How many people have you sat down with a out and had counseling sessions? You're like, yeah, many troubles.

Yeah, yeah, here's another one. How many will it take before you say that possible Paul was right? Well, what y'all don't realize. Being single is cheaper and you won't have as much, the possibility, as much trouble as you would if you were married. It's just the reality of marriage. But what y'all don't realize is. The key is work through them all.

I was a virgin when I got married. I'm proud of that fact I tell young people all across the world. You know, it's a good thing. It's a good thing. Don't listen to your friends, you know. But, you know, I remember going through that process of saying, I read this passage that I just read. And I thought, do I just want to go single?

I remember. Because you probably can pull it off. Well, I had made it so far, and it's the, you know, people, I've had some interesting conversations because people are like, I mean, I just couldn't do that. But you don't realize you don't know what you're missing until you know what you're missing. And so, but I'm telling you, you know, it's just when I saw my wife, when she got in that car, because I was, I just, I was attracted, you know, to good looking women. And when my wife got in the car, I thought, nope, I'm going to have to marry this woman. I mean, I'm just not going to be able, and I thought about the 1st, Corinthians 7, but it did put me in the proper perspective of laying the speech out early. I'm like, I'm looking for a person to help me get to heaven.

I want to unite in Jesus. Do you want to pursue that? I mean, that was the initial conversation I had with her. That was the first thing we talked about. Most of the time in America, that's not the agenda. That's that you start with. I'm guessing that. I may be wrong.

No, I think you're right. Let's take a quick break. So in my case, unfortunately, I was like, you're talking about that. I lost my virginity at 14 years old. I had a 16-year-old girlfriend. And, you know, so it sent me down a super bad path from 14 until I was 18. So when I finally came to my senses just like the prodigal son and came back home, you know, now I'm a, I'm, I'm brand new.

I'm like, you know, so I knew. I was like, I don't want to go down that road again. And so I just thought, you know, I'm going to give it a try. I'm going to give the deal about to seeing if I could do it, you know, because I'd already been sexually active with her and other people. And so I remember like, so I was just avoiding any girls. And of course, there was old girlfriends. I was back in town.

They're all, you know, they're hounding me. And I'm just like trying to just keep my head down and go to school and work out here. And so I figured out, I just kind of battled it for a while. And I thought, no, I just don't have the get, because I kept being drawn to it, you know, but I didn't want to get into the illicit anymore. I'm a new creation. So I'd made a vow to God that I wasn't going to have sex again until I got married. I was going to do it the right way.

And so it was interesting because I called Lisa. I had, she and I had been sexually active a couple of years earlier. But I just thought, you know, I'd broken her heart. But I knew how crazy she was about me. I thought, if I'm going to make them, I need to find somebody that would be committed to me in Christ and get married. And I was young. I was only 19 years old. Because I just thought I can't do it.

I was like, you remember Paul said, if you burn with passion, you better get married. So I thought I need to get married because I can't, I'm not strong enough. So I called Lisa up and first thing I told her was like about my conversion, who I was and we ain't doing any of that. And of course, then I gave her the line that dad gave me. He said, look, and if I'm not dad. dating anybody if you if you can't be converted then you're out you know which is you know thinking about looking back and that's not really the the lead in question because it let that to other problems but so we got married and and we did it it was it was difficult because of past you know problems but

we did it we didn't we didn't mess up until we got married and so it does create a foundation it does think the only i did everything right and then in a moment of weakness when her dad was like you are too young to get married, I quoted that verse, you know, and all heck, brother I'm like, wait a minute, now, as many guys that's probably been pawing around on your daughter, you know what I mean, I have been a complete gentleman, and now you're saying, no, wait. I was like, okay, preacher, man, here's a verse, better to marry than to burn with passion. and I could just see fire come out in his eye. Maybe he was burning with fashion.

He didn't want to give his daughter up. What was fixed to happen to his poor daughter? And I was like, hey. Jason, another factor was he found out, you know, where you lived, what you did for a living. And he's like, oh, no, you got them into a bunch of rednecks down on the river. Are you crazy? Girl, have you gone nuts? That's exactly what happened.

Well, and that's kind of our, we have a little bit. What does he say now, Tories? Oh, he's happy. He comes in. He comes in singing. You frying fish and everything's happy now. I noticed, you know what I noticed? I don't know if I can cheer this because I think they listen, but I guess it'll be

all right. I noticed the transition when my life got really better is when I, we'd go out to eat and I would just pay for the meal, the whole meal. I don't care who's all there. You know, I'm like, your in-law. always appreciate that. Well, he come over rubbing my shoulder. You got a little aside with your mail and jokes.

We're back on the loaves and fish again. I agree with you. That's an interesting point because I thought about the same thing before that for anybody, for anything, life got easier. I can remember the first time I went to Europe and nobody had any money. So we're all in Europe, but we're all broke. You know, like only two people with a credit card. So we're every check, we're trying to figure it to the, the penny and spread it.

It was just miserable. And I thought, man, life is good when you can have just somebody in the group thing and say, yeah, here, just give me that to me. And then we can get on about our life and do what we're doing. But I think as a father-in-law, because he was so scared, rightfully so, about here I am. And now he's thinking, I mean, this guy's buying our dinner. You know, every time we go out. I mean, I'm like, give me the check, you know.

But I think he's like in a kind of a small, silly way. It's like, yep, well, we've made it. It's the transition, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's interesting. So this is our 100th podcast. And so I thought it was interesting. Dad, I went back, so 100 days is one thing.

But I went back and did a little research to 100 years ago. Oh. So we're going to about 100 days. A lot's changed, right? And here were just a few things. And so you guys can tell them what you think about this. So in 1920, 100 years ago, here's some of what was going on. So the price, here's the price of things.

A house in 1920 cost $3,500. And that was probably a pretty nice house. That was just average price that was going on America. So I don't know what the average house would be today, but it would obviously be what? Well, 35. At least 10 times. 35. $300.

We'll get you a tent that you will take. And it'll last you probably two trips. And you'll have to buy another one. You're not going far when 35 a car was $2,000, which that was a new car, which I thought, you know, that was cars had just come out, not too far. So, you know, that's a little bit higher than I anticipate. I thought that was kind of, because, you know, my first two, two vehicles that I had was under $2,000. Mm-hmm.

That's what I said. What I said was a thousand bucks. You could buy a C-10 little Chevrolet, a pickup truck for two to two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two-two-two-two-three-three-three-three. 300. Gasoline was 25 cents a gallon. 25 cents a gallon. Well, in 1920, Dad, it was 15 cents. Yeah.

So what were you talking about? So that was in the 50s is when it was been? Early 60s. Early 60s. Late 50s. Well, now gas is down to a dollar and a quarter here, which is kind of amazing. It's amazing. It's an amazing.

4.50, not too long. So here was an interesting, another fact with the idea about the price of cars and gas. So I thought this is interesting. The Ford Motor Company produced so much. factory wood waste, as they're building cars, that they manufactured it into charcoal and they sold it under the name Ford Charco. So Charco came about because of making cars, which was really interesting. You know that? Yeah. And the company was later renamed Kingsford Charco. So Kingsford Charco started out Ford Charco, which was made because they were making cars. So I said to feed in all

their stuff. I guess those Model T's, they must have some wood in them. I guess so. Or else they were using it to fuel, I mean, out there, you know, to make everything. All of, all of my grandparents and, uh, and, and, and my own dad, I mean, they touted the, that, that, that model T as the greatest thing of all muddy roads. I'm sure it was a tank. You couldn't stick them.

I mean, they were, they had a little thin tires on. All the roads were dirt and they were still talking about the model T. When I was a boy, I listened to them. Yeah. I was born 46, you know, just right out. Now what do these cars call? You know, I do something for fun. You know, I'm always, just a flag comes up when these companies who basically are anti-God

and a lot of their, you know, the things they give their money to. But they'll have products where they use godly principles to get you to buy. And I've gone over those at nauseam, you know. But one day I Googled, you know how you have perishable goods. Well, I googled imperishable goods. I just want to see if anything come up. And they had a top ten. The top ten, imperishable, indestructible goods.

And one of them was a Toyota truck. And I just remember it was over $100,000. And it was like, it's indestructible, imperishable. It's the greatest vehicle. I was like for over $100,000. I won one time. And I begged to do it. differ. Not the $100,000 job, but it was just a to-y-old. I just thought, yeah, I said, give me,

let me get this right. Give me over $100,000 for this vehicle, and this thing will outlive me. Well, I'd like to put that to the redneck test. Let's take a, let's take a break. So here's another instrument. So utilities, you know, as you think about you sit down and you pay utilities, it's pretty high, you know, for your lights, your fuel, whatever. So utilities in 2020, which would include fuel, light, and ice for your ice box. We've talked about that before. In fact, in those days, you didn't have a refrigerator. He had an ice box.

So you had to buy your ice. $4 a month. That's what it basically costs to keep your utilities roll in your house. Four bucks a month. I remember when it was $7 or $8. Yeah. And now I'd say it's probably in my house. Of course, we've got a big compound.

But, I mean, I'm probably paying, I don't know, $1,000 a month, whatever. Yeah, at least a few hundred. Most people are. insurance, presumably life insurance, it says here, was a dollar a month for if you wanted life insurance. Dollar a month. You get what you pay for. Twelve bucks a year. I told your mama, I said, she said, are we ever going to get any insurance?

I said, we'll get some. She said, when? I said, when we have more money, we know what to do with it? She said, really? I said, I said, once you've got plenty of money, I said, why not? I said, you can buy every kind of insurance, reckless walking with intent. I said, go ahead. Walking with intent to fall.

Yeah. That needs to be a slogan for an insurance company. Don't tell them that. They'll have it. If you pay $15 a month, if you fall over while walking will cover. I don't want to get on the insurance companies. Yeah. Okay.

Thank you. Thank you. They just better be glad there's not more people like me out there. I'll tell you this, since we're being transparent on our 100th episode, the biggest argument. It's like a counseling session. My wife has never raised her voice to be, but we've had a few disagreements. The biggest one we ever... They'll face many troubles in this life.

Go back to the... We're back to Paul's commentary. So this one's over what? The biggest argument we ever had was over life insurance. Because we were like you, didn't have life insurance because they didn't have any money. And I knew of no person who had insurance until I was out of college. Yeah. I knew no one who actually had life insurance, all these insurance.

Nobody had it. So we get a little money and she's like, you know, I think you need to get some life insurance. And I was like, are you feeling okay? And she's like, no, on you. And I was like, well, what do you want me to die? That's what started the argument because I was like, well, why? I mean, I won't be here. I'm sure.

Go marry somebody else. It'll be fine. She just blew a gasket. Like, what do you mean, marry somebody else? Yeah, she didn't raise her voice. But, I mean, she was just like, I was like, why are you bringing this up? I mean, it just, it was weird. I mean, okay, I get it.

Let's give you some money, you know, when I'm dead. But I'm just, it was such a morbid thought. The fact that I wasn't jumping up and down about it to me should not have. have catered this response. I'm like, I'll do it, but I'm not going to be excited about me dying and leaving you some money. You took it like Johnny Ringo when he saw, noticed it was Doc Haldi. Johnny, you looked like somebody just walked across your grave.

Yeah, I didn't like it. Because then I thought, so let me get this right. If I leave you some money and you go marry somebody else, now y'all are just living it up on my money and I'm dead. Now you're offended by dying. I'm like, I don't like the concept. I was like, I was like, I'd rather him get a job. And I said, now, if we get older, I'll, I'll be more open to this.

But at this time, I was like 35 years old. I was like, well, I've always thought there were a couple of guys in a bar and they were about half lit. And one of them told the other, you know what I think we can do? And I think these fools will go for it. We can tell people, if you will pay us every month. pay us a certain sum every month. We'll take care of you if something happens. He said, I think people are dumb enough to go for them.

And they probably argued about it and took another drink and said, well, let's see if we can put it off. And made millions. And they made trivians. And haven't said all that since we lost all our insurance salesmen on the podcast. Yeah, that's right. We all have it. Thanks for sure. Now I have it. Well, we got a little money.

We all got some. So what do you think was the, I'll ask you about this. So what do you think the life expectancy was in 1920? In the mail and figure where there's only a year apart. I'm going with Psalms where it said three score and tens. I'm going to say 70 years old. 70 years old. So we said that.

In 1920. Oh, 1920? I was saying to 70 now. I say back then it was 60. Now it's like, I'm kind of getting where you're going. Because in the wild west they said it was like. I'll say 60. Very good.

The male, the female is 54.6 and the male 53.6. And I haven't looked at any material. Which means that that dad and I would be dead, you know, on average. And I'm fixed it now. And you would be right there ready for Mississippi to collect your insurance. Now I think it's 77 for female, no, 80 for females and 77 for males. I think now. Yeah.

Well, boy, we've come a long way. So federal spending, 6.3. billion. That's how much the federal government spent in 1920. Shump change now. We just did, what, $6 trillion on the coronavirus. The first radios, radio stations were coming out about this time. For early models of TVs, we're starting to come out. When did you get your first? So you listen on the radio. It was in the, probably, I would say I was five, four or five. So I was about 40, late 40s. You remember the first time. you saw a TV like on? Remember the first time.

What were you, did you watch a show? For the first time, we all just sat there and they were just snow because they didn't have the tower tied on to the guy. So the entire neighborhood, we're in rows and we're all sitting there. And every once while somebody would say, I think I saw somebody, but it would just snow. Oh, y'all. No wonder was so weird. Who wouldn't go watch a screen with snow? Because we'd never heard of it. They said, you can see movies on this thing.

said about what and that's in the days of Roy Rogers, Gene Autry. No one ever, no one, there was never any blood spilled in any Western. Right. Every once in a while they'd shoot the gun out of somebody's hand. Oh yeah. But they would never actually shoot you where there's blood coming out of you. Oh no. They just kind of, oh, and fall over, fall off the roof.

I mean, you know, I've seen those. I'm like, is it too much to throw some catch up on that day? Because he's like, oh, and then he gets a shot again. It's too violent. That's what kind of country we had. Yeah. From then to now, and I've seen this take place, I am shocked on how far down we have come or we have gone. Well, just showing stuff.

Yeah, now they'll show anything. Oh, I'm talking about. You can get on your black box and find anything you want. Unfortunately, way more than you want to. No, I don't have a black box. That's why. I don't want to hit a nerve here. That's why.

So let's take another break, and I've got a couple more. Phil, you should open up a business where when people who reach a certain age and they're tired of the black box, they can ship it down here and you can find destructive ways to, like, storm up. I literally look at a cell phone and what I'm seeing in my mind is a five-foot rattlesnake called up with his head right in the middle. Fangs dripping. Fangs dripping with venom. And I'm looking at a cell phone.

I am that afraid of them. Yeah. That's how I made it to be a virgin before I got married because whenever I'd had a woman who was loose, you know, a flusie, a flusy, I would just visualize a rattlesnake and I just got away. Yep. So the American Professional Football Association was formed

in 1920. Jim Thorpe. I remember Jim Thorpe. Was the president. It had 14 teams in it. It later changed its name in 1922 to the National Football League. So this start, football started 100 years ago, professional football. And then I know you're aware of this one, Dad.

Jesse Langsdorf patented the first wrinkle-free necktie. No, I missed that one somewhere down to line. I'm in here. I thought the necktie came from people. people in the dust. I remember it said wrinkle-free, all-weather wrinkle-free. So I never saw my dad. In the past, they all wrinkled with a necktie. So they made no neckties. We had no neckties. That just shows you that some things were awesome and some things. Because what are we doing now? What are people wearing tie? It's the most

uncomfortable garment in the world. It's not logical from any viewpoint. No, it's let's just get this thing where I can barely breathe, I'm almost choking myself and then go out and have a good time. And then work at it all day. Yeah, these people, I look at every time I see these people, I'm thinking, idiot, idiot. But maybe because during the necktie period, and it's still holding in a lot of areas, during that period, people tended to be more, what's the word, more calm and more pleasant. Yeah. You know, there's something about, you know, they were spiffed up, you know, I'm not saying.

Well, they were just lying, Phil. They were choking. Well, they weren't feeling good. They weren't getting blood flow to their breath. What is the first thing people do? They'll come in my house sometimes. We'll have guests or whatever. Just have suffering.

They have, you know, have suit on. First thing you do you want to walk, they're, I see them. They're pulling it down and unbuttoning that. So they can breathe again. So, yeah, they're, because I'm like, why? It's so stiff looking. I don't know why they do it. I don't either.

I don't see. had called on and why are we still doing it? I don't know. Well, it's wrinkle free for a good question. I do not know the answer. So here's one I thought was amazing. Shipping children through parcel post service was initially legal in the U.S. But in 1920, the U.S. Post Office banned shipping children through the parcel post service. Shipping them in what? I guess a box. I don't know. I didn't know that. I never heard of anything like that. You could ship your kids through the United States supposed until 1920 and they banned it. That seemed like that had been a good idea to ban that earlier. Maybe in a crate like on a train or something? I don't know. That's just what it says. That's a fact.

That shows you right there. We had a long way to go. So there were two constitutional amendments that were passed in 1920. Do you remember what they were? The women had the right to vote. Women's suffrage. Women got the right to vote in 1920, which was amazing that it took. that long for that to happen. I mean, the fact that they couldn't is just mind, it blows my mind. The other one was prohibition. Oh, yeah.

Which, that was a constitutional amendment that no alcohol sales in America. Of course, that one went over like a thud. Yeah. So I had some facts and I can't find them now about what happened as a result of that, but alcoholism went up, sales went up, like everything they were

trying to, because the black market came in and took over. Well, that's where all the gangsters, you know, was moving all the alcohol. And it was a bad idea. I mean, it was, they probably did it with good motives, but it's just, it didn't work. So last one I'll give you is this one. I thought it was pretty interesting. Johnson and Johnson, which is still a corporation of this day, employee. Oh, and their stop. Earl Dixon used tape and cotton gauze to make a bandage for his wife. He told his bosses about it. They made him a VP and they named his invention the what? I have no idea. The Band-Aid.

Oh. So, I mean, he just made one up for his wife. He worked for Johnson & Johnson. And think about how many we still use them again. What trillions of band-aids have been sold since then? I still use them today. He got to be a bite. So it worked out well for everybody right.

Now that was a good invention. Yeah. And it's still just as good as it ever was. Now you've got big ones. You got little ones. My grandson comes in. I need a little one for his little toe. You got the little tiny ones.

You got the big ones. So it's the point of this that no matter what happens in life, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's probably true. Or it could be what old Jack Exxham used to tell us. You remember the old preacher years ago when he came and preached to us? Things change. Things change.

You know, that was one of the greatest pieces of advice. We were talking about marriage earlier. That once I just realized that, because, you know, you think about when you're married, things change, and they're never going back to the way they were. When we had that first kid, that's it. It's now a whole new world. And it's just not going to be the same way. You know, if you're not ready for that, I'm sure we got young people listening that, you have to be ready for that.

In fact, it's one of the tenets of mine and Lisa's marriage work we did. It's the basis of our first book. We called it a new season because the idea was that you go through all these seasons in your life where things change. And so marriage and parenting is about adapting to the seasons. I mean, it's all about how you then adapt to that and pivot because you're right. It's not the same. And so if you're not ready for that, if you're not saying, okay, how do we biblically and how do we together as a family go through these changes, if you're not prepared,

it'll be a disaster. It'll be a disaster. I see that a lot because, you know, when you're 100% the center of attention as a newly married couple. When you have a kid, it's not a bad thing, but now you're no longer 100% of the attention. And what's amazing, you know, y'all are my sons, four sons. Now you have your wives and your children, but you notice I'm not barging in dictating policy. Nope, nope, I'm, and one daughter now. And one daughter. And you say, but you're not. running around monitoring your siblings.

No. No. That's way past that. Now it's like maybe from time of time. Dad, what are you think about? And I'm like, I wouldn't do that. And Jason and I are the same. A little advice and counsel, but that's about it.

Let's take one last break. And Jason and I are the same because we have married children now. And I don't dictate to all. And I live close to mine. You're not around your day. today. You've noticed that. Oh, yeah.

And look, I tell my grandkids, I'm like, they'll come to me sometimes. You're like, well, dad, dad won't let's do this. I said, then don't do it. Like, you listen to your dad. Like, I never want to superimpose whether I agree with what you do or not. It's a strange thing. But we're under the patriarchal matriarch system, like the biblical system. So it is a little different maybe with us.

But there's a lot of them still. And you know, it's funny you said that, Dad, because there's like a, that's, that's a, what you just said, the word you just uttered, which is not a bad word, but that's, what do they call it now? Not a buzz word, but trigger. That's a trigger word. Yeah. When, in some circles in our culture, when you say the word patriarch, you just triggered somebody

like to go into, I don't know what happens when you get triggered, but like that's a terrible concept, a terrible idea, a patriarch and matrient. Isn't that crazy? I mean, just the idea of a mom and a thing. It's a wonderful idea. It's a biblical idea. But I'm telling you, I hear it all the time. It's like, this patriarchal system.

God's the one with the finger on that trigger. Not them. You know what I'm saying? Not really, but it's interesting. I mean, I think what we read Matthew 19 is profound. And I think what we try to do on the podcast. I mean, if somebody, because, you know, people all the time they ask me, they're like, what is y'all's podcast about?

And I'm like, yeah, how do you? Why do you define that? Jesus? Because Jesus is always right. It's about life and immortality. So listen to this. So this is one of our listeners, Lloyd, sent me this just this past weekend. And I didn't know we were going to be telling so much about marriage on our 100th podcast.

But he sent me this. He said, there's a growing trend in American. I'd never heard of this before. And he said, I'm speaking to all these young professional couples. I don't know what Lloyd does. And they're looking into this for tax purposes. Here's what's called. It's called a wed lease.

W-E-D-L-A-A-A-A-A-W-E-A-A-W-E-L-E-A-A-A-W-E-L-E-E-E-E-E-E-D-W-E-E-E-L-E-E-E-E-R-E-E-E-RATION. So he looked at up and he sent me the definition. So listen to this. So this big idea came in 2013. So basically, you agree to marriage of a limited duration for a set period of time with renewal options. So it's like you go down and you go down and you, you lease a car instead of buying one and you said, I may continue my lease at the end of X amount of years. So they're going to apply that to years. They forget trying to get married without the

till death does part. Exactly. We don't think because, and here's the reason why he said it, because divorce is so expensive. When they did not think it worthwhile, when they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, one of the things it says is they invent ways of doing evil And I haven't heard that either. I never heard that. Since you brought it up, I'm like, that's inventing a way of doing evil. That's exactly right. Is that nonsense or what?

Well, I just think it's crazy. I think I'm not shocked by it because I think it's like I told you when I was did that mission trip in the Ukraine, nobody was married. I couldn't figure out why. And they said, well, it's higher taxes. And so I'm like, oh, well, I guess I answered that. I mean, they were just like being practical saying, we act like. we're married but if you sign the dotted line we don't have any money so they they don't they don't it was

like a government program you know that you just and car all marks he is get ready for a hellish existence on planet earth every time he shows up and he's behind all this crap we got going on now but it also says that marriage is hard I don't know what the divorce rate is now I mean it was 50% fairly recent similar close to the 60. Yeah. It's similar. It hadn't really gone up or down.

But it shows you quite a few things that it's just hard to get along, like we said, and to make it work. I mean, I don't see how people do it without Jesus because there's no foundation for forgiveness there, you know, and new starts and new beginnings. So we're almost out of time. So the last one I wanted to do was funny. This is funny. This is one of our listeners named Gordon, which I thought was ironic because we have a goofy. for your uncle Gordon.

He sent me this. He said, are you guys aware of, and I listened to it for the podcast, and I've already forgotten how to pronounce it. It's a phobia. I think it's pronounced anitaphobia. Anata da phobia. Never heard of it,

Daneta daophobia. It is the fear that somewhere, somehow a duck is always watching you. Anata daophobia. Well, that's the craziest thing. There's a duck that's always watching you. That's a phobia. Do either one of you suffer from that?

Well, no, you might ought to get some medical advice to Gordon. What would that matter of advice be? He needs some. I think. Take two of these every four hours. Loose it up, Gordon. He just said it as that's all he said. I thought that's pretty funny.

What's amazing is if somebody, if that is a really, Well, I looked it up. I had to know. Oh, it is a real word? It is a real word. But it was originated from Gary Larson who wrote a comic strip called The Far Side. So it's a funny, it's not an actual focus. I was thinking whatever the phone.

So maybe Gordon was telling us a joke we're supposed to laugh. Right. That's what it was. But instead, you guys had him in the house. But we're duck hunters. So we're like, now we're watching them. They're not watching us. But if they had a phobia, that would be it.

Because it's more, because I have a gun. and I'm trying to eat them, shoot them and eat them. Yeah. So whatever their phobia, because I think that probably has caught on in the duck world, they're like, there's some bearded guys, and then the phobia, it's kind of like hearing the story, you know, my cousin flew down in Louisiana next thing you know, we never saw him again. Oh, there are ducks who know who we are. Yeah, that's what I was getting at.

So whatever their phobia is, we need a name for that. Yeah. I believe that exists. Yeah. Because look, it's like I can read their minds. They cross the river and then they're like, oh, no, there's that place. That's them. Do you think the beavers, when they meet, they're getting information to the ducks to work against us?

Maybe they're all in it together. I think they're in cahoots together because every beaver dam's got four or five cotton boughs on it. They've gone joined forces with them. Got to clean them out. Well, I saw this week, I guess we'll close with this. I saw this week that China, China. was about to send, I think the number is 100,000 ducks. These are farm-raised ducks to some country in Africa that the locusts are destroying their crops.

So they're going to send 100,000 ducks there because ducks will eat. I think they said 300 locust an hour if you just turn a bunch of ducks loose on locust. So yeah, so they're going to try to control the locust problem by sending a bunch of ducks there. So I don't know what that means. but there you go. Well, maybe that answered your question, and what is a duck good for besides human consumption? I don't know about that.

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