Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 164 | Phil Robertson's 3 'Impossibles,' Al's Made-in-China Generator Fail & Life Is Risky!

Episode Date: October 18, 2020

Hurricane Delta knocks out the power, and Al discovers his garbage generators have a lot in common with the pandemic. Jase makes a rare trip to a Mexican restaurant after the storm and attempts to negotiate his check. Phil laments people becoming suburbanized and unprepared. He also shares three "impossibles" from the Bible and describes the things man-made governments can't do. And the guys discuss how disasters bring people together and how to approach people who expect mean neighbors. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? So we're displaced still from Hurricane Delta as it was this one. And y'all were displaced when Zach was here, right? Earlier, like last time he was in town. Duck Commander. You're trying to find somewhere with some power. Of course, we got power late last night. So we're at our building in Whitesbury Road.

We just kind of took over a classroom here. So if you hear things falling or people shouting, just, you know, it's all part of it happens. It's what we had. You know, when a hurricane hits, which we've had two hit in a month, what, Linda and then Delta. Yeah. Of course, I became a wily veteran after the first one, you know, messed up because I, we had lived in our house for 13 years, I guess, and never had the electricity goal. So when it happened the first time, I thought, well, it'd be back on tomorrow. Well, then the next day, then the next day, then the next day.

then the next day. And I was thinking, well, since I haven't opened the refrigerator, it'll probably be okay. So let me tell you what happened. When those lights went off, I grabbed a Yeti ice chest. Because look, I'd already put, I emptied my ice machine into another Yeti ice chest. And I thought, well, I'll have two things of ice. Because last time, the first hurricane, ice became the, it became the greatest commodity. I mean, I'm a, I'd pay $20 a bag if I could get it.

And so I... But that first one, too, a lot of the stores were out of power, like a Vienate store or something. So it was not as much this time. Every man for himself. So I was ready. That's the first thing I did, because I didn't have much in there anyway, because from the last time. So I had all that packed. And which was awesome because the next day, Jay's like, you know, one person has power in our family,

which is Willie. Yep. And Jay, assemble, which I'm pretty sure, I don't know what the Guinness Book of World Records says about longest extension cord use.

But he said, I've got my freezer and refrigerator going, and I created some space for you. It's actually Corey's parents because they're next door to me, but it's about, I know exactly what it is, because this storm I was ready.

I had bought extra cords, hoping Johnny's power and Willie stayed on, and it did. Because they're on a different grid, Right. And so they're feeding our houses. Jeremy did his over there. So there's just wires through our neighborhood. I had 200 feet of attention cord to go to his house. But I went one step further, Jay's. So I thought, well, I'm going to be smart this time. So I buy two generators, two grand, a thousand dollars apiece. You can't already find them because of the first hurricane. So Lisa, so she starts calling out at Home Depot, and they're like, well, we got a truck coming, but we don't know when it's going to get here.

So like the day before the hurricane, we keep calling out there. I want to be there when that truck gets there because I know everybody's trying to get the generator. So finally they said it just got here. So Lisa runs out there. She buys two generators. So we get them out, you know, get the wheels on. We're all set up ready to go. And sure enough, during the night, no power.

So we go out there, me and Jay, I grab that first one, fill it up with gas, put the oil in it, follow the instructions. I pull the cord. Well, that's all of that. What? One pull, the cord won't go back in. so I'm like I'm like side look at this piece of junk I mean literally out of the box did you read the instruction oh yeah so so jay comes out the problem is it was made in china you know cheap crap is what it was so look jay takes the thing off we can't get it so that's all right that's gone that never even made

it to start next when i get out do the same thing pull it it it fires up and starts running i'm saying all right pretty good. So it runs one full day, which is enough to run our stuff between Johnny and that. And then about 24 hours in, just parts start falling off of it. The muffler I'm just literally watching it, and then it just stops.

Won't even run. I'm feeling better about not buying one now. I mean, it was and I guess, I don't know if it's just because like, you know, there's a lot of generators being sold in this area, so they're just like pushing them out. Now we're up to two things. A pandemic that will kill you dead.

and generators. That's right. They have one thing in common. They're both out of China. China. So here, listen to this, listen to this lodge. I was wondering what feels to them. I think he's going there.

I'm getting into the Chinese Communist Party, and their goal is to destroy us. And they are very creative. They're good at it. So listen to this logic. So you think, well, okay, at least it got the warranty on it. So, you know, we've just got to take it, get our money back, whatever. you don't want to buy another one of them.

So she calls out there and says, you know, two generators out of it. And you get these things back there. Oh, no, we won't take them back if you put gas in it. Yeah. I've heard other people say that. So you've got to call the manufacturer. I think they just say that because they don't want. Well, of course, because how do you know it doesn't work until you put gas in it?

I mean, that's just kind of what they're saying is, we're not taking it back here. So then she calls the company and they're like, we'll just take it back to the store. and she said, well, they said, they weren't going to take it if it doesn't have gas. And they said, well, that's stupid. How would you know it didn't work if it didn't have? So that's the game. So they were back in my truck this morning.

I'll tell you what, that woman's going to go out there and they're going to give her $2,000 to get rid of her because she's a dog on a bone when stuff like this happens. I mean, she will be relentless. Missy said, why don't we get a generator? I said, babe, we've lived here 13 years. That's the first time in the history of losing. Louisiana, a hurricane warning was in effect.

This is on Linda for North Louisiana. I mean, I think we're good. No, three weeks later, guess what? Delta. She was right. Listen to your wife. The flaw of your argument, it's not knowing when the storm will come. That's right.

So I'm sitting out here, fully prepared, gashed up that I can run a month, one month with no power so we got the old genera rack sitting out there automatically control from a hundred miles away on a computer board if your electricity goes off

10 seconds goes by that's the difference between y'all to me so you're piecemeeting it you know you're hiding your money you know you're right I'm an idiot bite the book pay the money and you say well what if one doesn't come until 30 30 years. I said, well, you're sitting there ready to go when it goes. And that was, I admit that you guys, but now your situation was a little bit different because we grew up out there. There's so many miles and trees between town and you. It's inevitable. Power goes out a lot. You are correct. We're the last person to get it back home. You're the correct. But I learned that lesson, Dad. You'll be proud of me from dear old dad. So yesterday I had Danny Boy Bannister over at the house. I said, all right, what do we got to do? Because they do the generax. We figured it all out. He said, no, the bad news is, Al, Al, you know,

said we're backed up four months because of, one, because of the coronavirus, because it can't get enough stuff being made, but the other part is everybody's wanting to get one. So I was like, all right, I'm in line. Put me on the list. That's why before you said, well, what drove you to get that?

Nothing but the realization that storms come of all sorts and power comes and go. I live there long enough to notice every time you had a slight wind living in the woods, trees would go down on the power lines and you're out of luck. So at first I was at the old

welding machine, you know, I'd pull it up there, you know, go gas it up every three or four hours, you know, and get by with it. I said, no, we're going all the way. You were right, you were right. I noticed a few interesting things that happens, because you wake up the next morning to the sound

of generators. All over our neighbor. And chainsaw. Yes, right. So I ran a chainsaw from daylight to dark because my neighbor got hammered just with huge trees. They can't get out. They're from California. They're already nervous over the first one.

I'm pretty sure they're not going to be there long now because they're like, this Louisiana thing is, I mean, I'm just not sure I can take it, brother. That's what he said. We had one mile from my yard. we had just under a mile of one tree after the other, big trees like these, just coming across the road, taking the wires with them. You had four right across the road at least. Oh, yeah. One in the yard, if it had fallen any other direction, it would have torn wires loose there. But that one happened to fall.

I said, well, it didn't take down but one line, and I'm looking out the door over there, it drinking coffee, but but them and I are closely inspected it, it was a vine. And I come over, I said, whoo, I looked and I said, no, the line's still there. That's a, that's an old running vine up the tree. So I told my neighbor, I said, let's give it a couple of weeks to the land tightens up after the six inch rang so I don't tear your yard up. It was right on the edge of the property line. It fell on me, not him.

If it had followed the other way, it would have just crushed his whole house. Well, it's good for your faith. here because you realize that we're perishable. You're a reminder. So maybe we need that. And it's great to act out love your neighbor. That has crossed my mind in the last three days. You will be labeled as paranoid, but you remind them just preparedness.

Yeah. Just preparedness. Well, there's a crew from our church that, I mean, as soon as this happens, they all suit up, get the chainsaws, and just take off to neighborhoods and just start, hey, do you need help? They look for elderly people especially. I mean, it really is a great. opportunity to be Jesus. I had a couple funny stories that happened in the last few days.

I thought y'all would enjoy it. One, I followed around an ice truck for a few blocks. Because instead of just going to the store. Was that when I saw you at the store? That's it. You saw that ice truck? I saw that ice truck. I followed that ice truck because I'm like, forget going to a store because the last

time the hurricane hit, it took me like eight tries before somebody had some ice. Oh, yeah. And I found it that old Super 1. They had ice. I was like, oh, I'm fixed. buy all that ice. She said, sir, you can only buy two bags. I think of your nape. Ice order.

Okay. So anyway, I followed that ice truck because I said, I'm going to make a little side deal. But once they pulled up, it was fine. So I bought the two bags. The other thing, when I got all my food in the freezer ready in the freezer, I felt like an expert. Here's a problem. Well, now I have no food.

So you have an empty. So Missy's like, well, just go, you know, there's Mexican restaurants. Stomers that we just get some chips and salsa and we can eat on that for a couple of day because I love you know the chips and the cheese sauce so I was like okay I said great idea babe where's it at she's telling where it at she's like oh the woman that works there she's a fan of the show you'll love her I was like oh great because she knows I feel uncomfortable going to restaurants but you know when you have a hurricane if they if a restaurant has power because you see the lines you don't the drive-thrues of pierfield

because I know you don't know about this. No. You're waiting. Around the block. Yeah, you wait. She said, I'm pretty sure that, you know, whatever time she sent me to that. It's been more years than I can count where I went through a drive-thru. Yeah.

Well, anyway. I don't get in that. I'm with. I never entered that zone. Dad said they have drive-thru? I'm with you. So, look, I pull up to the Mexican restaurant. It was pretty busy because everybody's eating out because.

because we have a hurricane. Which gives a little credence to, we don't have to cook anymore. We don't have to cook anymore. Oh, baby's that. You can only ride that horse so far. You know what I'm saying? So I walk in and go up to the counter

where it wasn't a woman. She said there was a woman going to be there. It was a man. And which I didn't think it would be a problem. But I was like, I want two bags of chips and a big thing of cheese sauce. I didn't know the jargon, you know. And throw in a little cup of salsa.

And he's like, oh, okay. And he didn't say, okay. That comes under the heading of suburban living. He said, he said C, so I thought, okay, he may not speak English, which is great, because I thought, this is authentic Mexican food here. So he leaves, but it was like for a while. And I thought, huh, well, he came back, no chips and, and salsa yet and he starts ringing it up but i could tell he was having problems well it

this went on for about five minutes he's trying to push buttons and he's getting frustrated and i said how about ten dollars and he kind of looked perplexed and now i didn't know what it calls but i just threw a number out there and i thought if it's under ten dollars you can keep it if it's over you know what it's chips and salsa and he's like no i got nothing but he's not but he's he was speaking Spanish or whatever he was saying. Boy, you can tell when times are hard because we're after the couple of bags chips and some salsa.

And Jason's negotiating. This story gets better because I didn't want to wait. Jayce, you wouldn't have done well in about 1650. Hang on, let's take a break. So he's like, whatever in Spanish means I got it. And he said, $82.30. For the chips and the same.

I said, nope. Without hazard. There were other people around. I went, nope. I looked at them and they kind of smiled. And he was like, no, 82. I said, oh, I heard you. Nope.

The buttons didn't match up because I know two chips. And he's looking like, and so then I thought, here it is, the moment I've been waiting for. I said, let me put this in Spanish for you. No. I thought he would laugh because I had. I said that on Doug Diamond. Right, right, right. He just looking at me.

Yeah, because we did an episode in the Mexican reference. He said, $82. I said, no. So I said, go find someone. I'll give you $10. I'll give you $20, but I'm not giving you $82. So he leaves. A woman comes back.

Well, this is the woman. she pushes three buttons and she says $10.80. You were like the price is right. I was close. I was a little lower, you know. So I had her at 20 and she's looking around. I was like, oh, we have another problem. And she said, I have no ones.

I was like, what does that mean? She said, I tell you what? She gave $10. Because I'm like, I'm not tipping you because number one, I've been here 20. minutes. It's not saying much for adding, multiplying, adding, dividing,

multiplying, dividing, and not saying much for the human race as far as the little math goes. Well, that's what happens. Well, the math was fine.

She didn't have any ones. So she gave me $10. And then I looked at the guy, and I was like, see, it was $10. And he was looking bewilder, and I was like, okay, I'm at here.

What we have here is a failure to communicate. If you're wondering why I don't go to restaurants, that's why. I don't know if you can help me with that. I just thought you would appreciate that story. That that's one of the pains of when you go out, you lose control of the situation. And to me, that was frustrating.

I found that for us, it was the things I take for granted with power. I mean, when you don't have electricity. I mean, first of all, I flipped the light on 50 times in three days, just kept walking in flipping the... I do the same thing. And it's just like, oh, what an idiot.

But for me, it was like my electric toothbrush that I have a little water reservoir with it because it flosses your teeth with water at the same time you're brushing your teeth. It's awesome. And so like after two days, I was like, man, I've got to run an extension cord back here. So I ran an extension cord to plug in my electric tube. A little hole in you two young bucks thinking. We're not so young. If you get into a practice, and America has fallen victim to it,

whereby they think that power will always be there, fresh water will always be there, the groceries will always be there, and you become suburbanized, where you think, what in the world, the lights won't come on. Well, I'm just saying, the reality of life is, you better have plenty of stores in place where you can last a few months before you turn to actually bringing meat out of the water and out of the woods.

That's phase two, where you don't have anything to eat. It's all gone. Oh, you're right. I'll be prepared. I just say, no worry. If we have a reboot. I feel like I can turn it back to my raisin, but you're right. It'll be a painful journey for most.

That first morning of the hurricane, Lisa comes in and she's like, we can't get, we. I need coffee. I mean, like, I'm like, babe, it's still raining outside. Like, you know, it's a hurricane. So I'm out there in the rain trying to get some power so she can get coffee because you've got to have a coffee pot. We're operating down there, you know, down 20 miles south of the hustle and bustle. But we're operating with a fixed system that is very redundant.

You sure what I'm saying? Groceries, ice, you like, we're still making ice. I mean, all takes its power. But you say, well, what if your power source leaves? I said, we have a backup. So you got to, these days it's best to roll with a backup system on everything. Well, it's like me, I have a gas stove, so I heat the water. I just have a pitcher.

I put a filter in it. I mean, I made me a confidence. Interesting point. That's why. We had hot water too. That's why, Jace, you set it right. Don't depend on all electric. Yeah.

That's the suburban thinking. You say, you need gas. You need gas. You need a sizable container out there that will keep you going for a month or two or three. Well, you're still on propane because you're so far out. But Jason and I, we have natural gas. I mean, we're not running out, you know, of gas, which is a good thing. Yeah, it is nice to have that stove, which is what I lived on.

And it was nice to have my wife there this time. And when I got home, that woman had 75 candles. When I walked out, felt like it was in some Roman cathedral back in 1500. Did you have? I have propane bottles that are like this. Some of them are like huge, but you run out of those, and I have a fleet of ones that are about four and a half foot tall.

Then you come down to the stubby ones that you can go, you know, two days on, three days. So I'm just saying, propane, plenty of propane. I told her, I said, don't take this the wrong way, but where did all these candles come from? What are you? The closet candle hoarder? She's like, you know, I just didn't realize over the years how many candles I had bought and never used.

The same thing in my house. In the suburban world, Tom, I don't know whether it was Shakespeare or one of them back in the back. A situation becomes a crisis when cattle are women's stampede. So don't forget that because. I've heard you say that before, but I don't think Shakespeare has said that. Well, I don't know who said it, but it was true. All I'm saying is I noticed that females. I saw at that one of them,

but you say they do, when the power goes out, and the water goes off, and the plumbing stops up. Oh, Lisa had a look in her eyes, and then she looked to me. I thought, I'm going to get this woman some coffee

because she's like, I'm going to Alabama because we have a place down there. I mean, you're going to drive seven hours for coffee? I have two little words that I remind your mother of often. You know,

she gets about 70 something, you know, women to get a little excited over there. Oh, the power goes out. I said, I got two words. I always say, calm down.

Calm down. I said the same thing. Missy was fantastic. She lit the place up. Well, our problem was this thing hit. We got no power for three days. And we had all of my youngest grandkids because Alex and Vinny were out of town. Now, that put a lot of more pressure.

You take a three-year-old, a four-year-old, a six-year-old, and thrust them into this mix. Wow, that's where you match. Think about this. That's where you match. You should have had to come to you. meeting on that. Well, it was bad. In the major cities of any country,

but just go with America, you say major cities, high rise buildings, full of apartment, little apartment complexes, tens of thousands are in these buildings. Just think about how dependent

they are on water, on power, and you say and they're operating as if nothing's ever going to happen. We'll just take that mindset from where I, my view, I'm down here in the middle of the wood, you're like, which is better? Well, survival comes tough if you've got a little apartment somewhere and the power leaves you and you're sitting there, you're like, let's see here now.

So I'm just saying life is itself, us being mortal, it's a risk. Oh, yeah. Just from day to day, you never know. That's right. You think about Jesus, though, the way he operated? He basically operated like a hurricane had just hit his entire life. That's correct. You remember when they came up,

they said, is Matthew 8 when they said, hey, we'll follow you wherever you go. And he said, foxes have holes and birds of the air have nest, but the son of man has no place to lay his head. So when you think about it, he basically just roamed around. He was saying the foxes and the birds live better. He didn't say squirrels,

because you know what I did notice from this last hurricane? A lot of dead squirrels. Yeah, I noticed it. Because when the trees fall, the squirrels died. The first thing I saw, we have this new little dogs who's turned into Hazel's best buddy, his name's buddy. He, when I looked outside, he was carrying half of a dead squirrel. And I was like, no.

Don't bring that in here. You find that in about a week. But when I was sawing up those trees for my neighbor, we just kept finding dead squirrel. And I was like, boy, it's bad to be a squirrel. But you do think about that. Jesus didn't put his faith and trust in the amenities of life. Now, you brought up an interesting point here. Hang on to that.

Let's take another break. Here's the interesting point. I'm giving you three impossibles where the Bible speaks of something that's impossible. The first one, Jesus said, I'll tell you, it's easier for a camel to do it. go through the eye of a needle, which is incredible words, than a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. He said, well, if you're rich, it's tough to get there. Well, when the disciples heard that, they said, well, who then can be saved? If it's that difficult, who can be saved? I mean, almost impossible. I mean, this is a honey,

I shrunk the camel. Yeah. So Jesus looked at them and he said, with man, so you look at man-made governments, no matter what they say, if you get so dependent on them that you actually think they are the ones who can save you. Jesus makes an interesting point. With man, this is impossible. Who then can be saved?

He said, well, with mankind, never forget this. They can't save you. They can't give you immortality. They just can't do it. It's not within them to do it. Far, they're just humans. They're mortal, everlasting, whatever. And they can't even help you to add in mortality.

These people now, they're depending on the government, take care of them. And they're like, we need more, we don't have enough. They can't take care of you. They can't take care of you. So with man, it's impossible when it comes to salvation. But with God, all things are possible. That's one. The second one is that,

at Acts, where is it, Acts 2, when Jesus... Oh, I like this verse, yeah. When Luke was writing it down, he said, it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him. Yeah, when Jesus was dead, yeah, they buried him. Peter was preaching, he said, it was impossible for death to keep its hold of. It's one of the most interesting phrases in the entire time.

And you look at that, you say, hmm, this one here, the reason we say our faith, we pray for governments, we try to let Godly men knowing at the end of the day, they can't remove your sin, they can't free you from Satan, they can't free you from guilt, they can't free you from law, they can't free you from the grave, they just can't do it. You say, hmm, well, why should I be so dependent on them? You shouldn't be. Right. They can't, they can't, it's impossible.

Right. Well, and when it comes to death, you say, yep. And the last one is that Hebrews where it says, I love this one, all these writings we have here, we read them and we say, boy, it's like food for thought. When the Hebrew writer was talking, he said, it's impossible for God to lie. If you take a being where it's impossible for him to tell you a lie, And you mix that with the verses I've already read. You say, you better put your faith in him because with him, all things are possible.

You can get out of here alive with him. He'll take care of you while you're there. He'll protect you when the storms come. He's there, 24-7, ready to help you. He's immortal. He'll make you like him immortal. So you get to adding it all up and you say, you know what? These man-made governments, say what you will, Al.

you can't be too dependent on them. That's right. Don't depend on them because they'll let you down over and over and over and over. We've got a group of individuals that think it's all going to end on whoever's running the country, whether they're Democratic or a Republican. But we look at it like, you know, it doesn't make a whole lot of difference. It's bad either way. We'll just go with the most godly ones, knowing that many mistakes would be made

and many miscauls and man being fallible. He's not like God, that's for sure. Well, it's interesting. That's the difference between Jesus' politics that I wrote a book on and just depending on some kind of man-made government structure. Well, it's interesting because if you flip that around to your point, and you start with lies, which was from your other book, you know, The Father of Lies, because Satan can't speak truth.

So the Father of Lies. So first, it was the theft. of America. So the evil one. And now it's the how to win back the soul of America from the evil one. Well, first of all, but don't be dependent on human governments to solve your problem. They can try their best. So I've seen this play out in the pandemic. There's been a lot of line going on. Unbelievable amount of line. And what it's created is this fear of death that we all know is ridiculous. because the numbers are so tiny percentage-wise for people.

They are scared to death because they're mortal. They don't have faith in God. And it's impossible for him to lie when he said, I will save you. And they're like, I don't. That's why their ultimate answer was we put our salvation in a mask. A mask. That's right.

Well, I put my salvation in Jesus. I'll wear a mask. We'll stop it spreading. But my salvation is not in that. I'm not a physician or an epidemiologist, but a piece of cloth. I don't care if it's over your eyeballs and your nose and your mouth. And that's going to take out a microscopic microbe of which you have to have a device, a microscope to find it. But that little piece of cloth is just going to strain her right out.

I'm like, I don't think so. No. And then the point is, to your first point, therefore, what they're saying, saying is what you're saying. We can save you. If you'll just stay home and if you just won't talk to anybody, if you'll just wear a mask for months on the end, we can save you. The mask will solve our problem. All we need is the mask. We get the mask. I said, you need to go up, up higher than that. You need to say, ultimately, it's going to be up to the God of heaven who can save you. Forget about the mask. And what I thought was really just turned out to be amazing. Of course,

it's been twisted all right. I mean, it's like 99.9%. They were back and forth. Every time he see Biden, he wears the mask to bed, I guess, because every time he sees he's got the mask. Trump, you know, has obviously said, well, like kind of what you said, Jay. Just wear the mask, whatever. Then Trump gets COVID.

And three days later, he's back. I mean, he's 74 years out. You hear all the, oh, they're the high risk. And Trump's just rolling like a train. A lot of them said he's faking it. He never had it to start. earth. I said, well, I thought two weeks ago, a week ago, y'all were saying he's the one, he is the pandemic. Right. I mean, I just thought that, but to your point, I see that so

illustrated so well, and it could be anything else. It could be, but it always starts with the line. You know, it's always the line for power or for whatever. These people just want to be in power. And they'll use a virus. They'll use anything for a paragraph. And that's what this is about. I mean, it's just put us in power and we'll take care of you. But it's, but it's, This that's a lot. See, a lot of them don't know that, see, right here, see, I've got this right here. Right here. See, right here. You say, well, you've done this.

Yeah, you say, in case somebody comes up and says, you know, what in the world you do? You don't have a mask. I said, hey, check this out over here. I got it up. And once I bring this piece of cloth down, all microbes are destroyed. I'd love to know the microbes that are living in that thing right now from just being right. Think about it. Let's take another break.

But it helps your immune system, Phil. yeah somebody said did you get around to buy on a mask yet I said not yet you have your own I brought up that story when Jesus said didn't have a place to lay his head because he didn't he didn't use material possessions

while he was here which tells you don't go into full-blown panic when you can't use your amenities in life I mean we got our faith in Jesus He didn't need them. But then that next disciple said, well, Lord, first let me go back and bury my father because he brought up something like, this is serious. We have a person, you know, my dad that died, so I'm going to follow you.

Of course, this is Jesus telling the story because it makes us uncomfortable to do this, because what will we say? I'd say, oh, well, of course. We have to respect. And Jesus says, follow me and let the dead bury. their own dead, which seems like he was not being compassionate, but he was basically saying, there's nothing you can do there. It's over.

Look at the government officials when it came down to the National Anthem, Land of the Free, home of the brave and land of the free. Well, soon as a pandemic comes and the microbes start making people sick, all of a sudden, we're not the land of the free anymore. That's right. There's more government edicts coming from these governors. They're just one after the other, after the other. Shut it all down.

They're just running scared all the time. Man-made governments cannot set people free from the things that matter. Satan, sin, guilt, law, and the grave. They can't do it now. Right. Those are the things that matter. Number two, man-made governments cannot dispense. immortality. They just don't have the power to do it. On that score, they're out. And finally,

governments can't endow people with these qualities. You say, well, can, you know, we rely on the government, what can the United States, what kind of qualities can they give me? They can't give you love, joy, not real love, joy, peace, patience. Well, we're not with war right now. But the spiritual war continues. You say, you have the evil one, spiritual warfare. So they can't give you love, joy, peace, patience, kindness. The reason you don't see more love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, you say, you don't get that from a man-made government. No. No. You only get it from God. Joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Even our constitutional Republic can't give you those qualities. They only come from God. And if you get that mixed up,

Al, you'll find yourself running scared the rest of your life on planet Earth. So the little girls who were carrying the sign were going to hell and were proud. That pretty well sums it up for where the human race is, even in these United States of America. The government can't save you. Because I think it's a different definition of peace. We thought, well, yeah, they can give us peace. They can make us safe. But when you're thinking of true peace, they can't give you forgiveness for your past mistakes.

We're not fighting any foreign enemies now, Jase. But guess what? We're fighting ourselves. We're shooting each other on the very streets, and somebody said, it ain't happening. You're like, it's not happening. But when you read Romans 5, you know, true peace is when you lay your head.

down on a pillow and think, I'm forgiven. I have access to the creator of the universe. Romans 5 says it, you've been given access. And if you die at any moment, you're perfectly going to be fine. Yet shall you live. Well, that would be ultimate peace. That's right.

So whatever peace they're offering, it's not as good as this kind of peace. No. Same thing with joy, you know, because he went on in Romans 5 saying that we rejoice in our sufferings. Well, who does that? when we're suffering, the last thing we're doing is being joyful in that, especially in this, for looking at it from a, you know, a country view.

But we can do that because we know the same things. We're forgiven. We have hope of eternal life. We have access to the creator. We have the opportunity to love. And even though we're suffering, it's me. I didn't want to go running chains all the next day. I mean, I didn't want to do it.

But I thought they're way more shook up than I am over this. You know, we had a, this is crazy, we had the hurricane hit on, what was it, Friday night. Yep. Well, we had a wedding at our place. Which we had talked about on the podcast. I was going to ask you that because people were going to wonder. Remember you were talking about finding those coins. There was a wedding coming up.

There was a wedding. You know, we have bed and breakfast there. And I don't know what's happened during the hurricanes, but everybody's going out there and stay. and well, I told me, and I was like, call that wedding off because they're not going to have power. I know that. And I was like, it's going to be wet.

There's already the drama of a wedding, and she's like, I tried. They want to have it. So they go out and have the wedding. When all the smoke cleared, I mean, they got married, and the wind and the rain, and no power, the wedding went on.

I wasn't there. I just thought, well, these people. By the way. The show is going. Here's the biblical mask. Watch. You're all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ,

have clothed yourselves with Christ. You're like, boy, that is guaranteed, redeemed. You say, under the control of the spirit, you've clothed yourself. And look, you haven't even reached for you. your mask yet, you say you clothe yourself with Jesus, the protection. Watch. Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, authorities, powers of this dark world against the spiritual forces of evil. Put on the full armor of God. Way more

there than the mask. Oh, I like that. Yeah. I mean, you have a helmet. He gives you a helmet. Forget about a mask. That's a mask. A breastplate. Now, that's particularly. protection there out some iron it is let's uh let's take another break well i was going to say after the wedding i went out there the next day just to see that i was impressed that they did the wedding so i pulled up and i was fixed to turn in well there was a young girl just down on the road and i was like no what's all this about because i didn't see her truck well i didn't see her truck because it was at the bottom of the ditch she had because she had got a little too far you know we have a levy in between the river and our house.

I guess she was parking, and her friend pulled up about the same time I did. And so when I got out, I said, what's going on here? Because here's this truck, when I'm talking about buried, buried. And they had basically the equivalent of a rope, and they were fixed to try to pull this out. I said, let me just stop you right here. I said, that truck's not coming out of there with that rope,

because this levee, just the angle and it's wet, and the ruts leading down. I said, you're going to need a wreck her. She said, well, I got one coming. And she said, do you own this place? And I said, yep. Well, when I said that, she just started trembling. And I was like, I said, what's wrong?

She was like, I'm so sorry. And she started getting teared up. And I was like, I thought, now here's this girl. She's embarrassed that this has happened. Because I'm sure this picture of this, somebody was taking a picture of this, because it looked like, how in the world do you get that truck here? Why would you do that?

what were you thinking all the things that crossed my mind but i saw her she was upset i was like i'm not worried about my yard i said you've obviously either had an accident or did something really dumb i said but i've stuck more vehicles in my life things happened it was a hurricane you zig when you should have zagged i said but i'm not worried about that she's like yeah but it's going to cost so much to fix your yard i was like we have equipment if you get that truck out of here, we're good. I don't want it to be there. And then she just burst out into tears, just sobbing. She said, I've just had a horrible, crappy day. She said, at first I drove out here and left my keys. So she took her keys out, which I was thinking, you could have left those keys

in there. It ain't coming out of there. So that was mistake number one, but I didn't say that. She said, then I had a horrible argument on my husband, because he won't come out here and help me pull it out. I said, I'm going to have to sob with your husband on this one. It ain't coming out of there. Now, this is the newlyway? This is the one. No, she was just at the wedding. I didn't say, we're off to a best of her.

She was just at the wedding. This is day two. This is after the wedding. She's trying to get her truck. She left there, left the truck there. And she just burst into tears. And I thought, you know, here we got an opportunity here. I was like, people make mistakes.

It's impossible for you to go through life. not make a mistake. There's another impossible. And I'm not going to beat you up over this, even though I own this. Am I uncomfortable that you tore up my yard? You know, maybe a little, but after I've seen you,

I've done the same thing. I was like, it's going to be okay. I said, look, life is more, and I gave her a little Jesus speech. I was like, life is more about how you respond to things. You'll be better for this. It's okay. We've all done the same thing.

I said, people say, how could you do that? They've done stupid stuff. Of course, I went back to the rock throwing. I was like, everybody loves throwing rocks at dumb stunts. I said, but I want you to know, I don't care that you're stuck here. It's no big deal.

Let's get you out, get you on your way and make decisions in life that are way more meaningful than what are we going to know about this vehicle? Well, to end up, my little sermon, Ed, Al, I've got three things that have to do with stand, stand on, stand on the gospel of Jesus.

He died for you, he was buried and raised from the dead. stand up, just walk like Jesus did, and stand out. The old Peter said, you'll kind of seem like a stranger and an alien while you're on the earth if you do this right, that. And then it comes down to don't ever back down, don't ever back up, and don't ever back off. Rise up, rise up, Jesus number one. He's the way, the truth, the life, the resurrection. The only way to go.

There's a lot of to be people preaching. That's some alliteration going there. It's out of my page book. Hey, C plus, man, C plus. So to illustrate what you just said, and you too, Jay's, I had a really interesting conversation this past Sunday. There's a family that's moved here from New Jersey, and Dad knows them because they've been meeting over there where he's at,

helping them out. And they came during this pandemic, and super successful, got his own IT business, very smart man and family. And it was really interesting because he was like, Did y'all have them over? Well, y'all didn't meet Sunday because of the storms. Yeah.

That's the first time I met him. I got you. It was here Sunday. And so he came up back and we probably visited for 20 or 30 minutes. But it was something he said that was really interesting to what you were just a minute ago. He said, all my life I've lived in a place where everybody's just angry and mean and neighbors just like, don't mess up.

Don't cross that line. Don't, you know, just everything you were mentioning is just ready to pounce on the one mistake you make. Rules and regulations. Then, of course, they've been in this pandemic, and they've got one of those little, you know, dictatorial guys, you know, running their state. And he was like, you know, I found the show on Fox Nation, Dynasties, talking about, and I started watching this, and man, finally some joy in my life. And he said, I really just started admiring your family. And then I found the podcast. And he was like, you know, I grew up Catholic, but I was never really very spiritual minded. And I started listening to you guys. And he was like, why are we in New Jersey?

And he said, I always wanted to move to the South. He said, so we just picked the whole thing up, you know, because their company was mobile, you know, because it's done by a computer. He said, we just moved down here. And he would tell me where he lived over in Monroe. And he said, the first thing, they've been here a week in the hurricane, first hurricane hits, and a tree falls across his house in his office. And he said, you know, that's our whole business and everything.

He was thinking, oh, have I made a mistake, you know. The next day, this crew I was talking about earlier from the church shows up. I don't know how they knew about him, I guess, because he's been meeting with. y'all and they show up over there cut that tree off and of course i saw them all hugging those guys you know sunday and i was like he was like his first week here he saw what what being in our community means not church community and the we're having that little group over i know that's what they tell me i'm there i've done a few events in new jersey there are great jesus oh yeah we're not just down new jersey but but i'm saying i think that's what happens you get you don't see the

for the trees and wherever your neighborhood is, it may be in Louisiana, maybe New Jersey, but the mean neighbor scenario? Oh, that is a reality. I mean, they're everywhere. Because that's why that girl was so terrified. She thought I was pulling up to get on her. I was pulling up just to...

Could say to help her, right? No, I didn't even know she was there. Oh, okay. I was like, what happened here? I thought it had just happened. She's like, no, that happened during the wedding. I was like, oh, wow. Because I was thinking, well, nobody...

Why are we waiting 24 hours to get a wrecker? I mean, it's pretty obvious. And look, once the wrecker came, he's out five minutes. I was like, see, he's all worried about it. It never happened. We moved on. There was a guy that was working on my house, and he backed too far. He had a big, heavy work truck, and he backed too far in my yard, and it was wet,

and he got stuck in my front yard. And, you know, our thing is manicured pretty good. But so he came out. He had to come in the walk of shame to ask if I'd pull him out, you know, with my truck. I said, yeah. So I had a chain. I pulled him out. He's like, man, I'm so sorry.

I'll come back over and feel it. I said, no, you don't have to come back over here. I said, I can throw sand in them ruts. It's not a big deal. It's just a rut. I mean, ruts happen all the time. But I could tell you, looked at me like he was waiting for me to jump on it. You know, I'm going to have to go.

It's just a couple of ruts. You know what I'm saying? But that's the mentality. I think when you live it every day, what you were talking about earlier, if you're thinking with God, all things are possible. I mean, I'm saved. death can't hold me at all. And therefore, I have a guy that only speaks truth, I'm good.

You know, I'm not really having to worry about these day-to-day things. And so that would be my advice to all of you out there. And it happened for me with the pandemic whenever, obviously, people, depending on what your political ideology was, is whether you could get out and do stuff or not. You could see it clearly. So I was like, look, don't worry about all that. We've been faithful through the process.

Yes. People in our family have had COVID. Do their credit the energy people. The first group I met all the energy crews that were putting the wires back up because I'd taken the trees off the power line. That was a month ago. The first hurricane. And so I walked out, somebody come up and knocked on the door. Mr. Rogers said, yeah.

He said, man, I got a big bunch of people out there. All the crew on these work, but they want to meet you and all that and talk it over. I said, all right. So I go down there. So I meet them all. Where are you all from? Kentucky. They said, we came all the way from Kentucky.

clear these trees and work on our lines, which we appreciate. So then they fixed it, got the power back on about a week. They were gone. Well, yesterday I looked outside. I saw all these energy trucks. Well, I walked down there. I said, boys, we need to quit meeting like this. I said, you know, a month ago y'all were here putting wires back up.

I said, I'm getting tired of this. I said, where are y'all from? They said, where are you saying Missouri? They said, we're all in Missouri, Ms. Robbins. And they said, how about some pictures? So with both groups, you know, I'm standing up there, you know. But Phil, that's what these things do is when you have disasters and it brings people together. It does.

And look, the only time I've ever said roll tied in my lot, because I'm LSU fan, is when there were five power trucks in front of me, we were going through the little leaptie loops. You know, they were from Alabama. Well, they recognized my truck. Yeah. So I pulled up there. I was so excited that they were there because I didn't have electricity. I was like, that's what I'm talking about.

They came from Alabama here to help us. We are bridging all gaps. He went roll tide. And I went, roll tide. Get these lights on. No power brings everybody to say. Saban rules. We get these lights on and get back to Alabama.

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