Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 189 | Phil & Jase Won't Shut Up, Al Gets Miss Kay's Car Impounded & the Robertson Dating Game

Episode Date: November 30, 2020

Phil and Jase have a fire in their bellies, and they can't shut up about it. Jase shares an awesome story about how you never know who you might reach when you share Jesus. Al remembers the time he got Miss Kay's car impounded. Jase describes the unique way Missy got into his truck for their stinky first date and how they flunked their premarital compatibility test. Something very fishy happened on Al and Lisa's first date. And Phil remembers dates with Miss Kay involving hitchhiking and Uncle Si as the third wheel.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? So, Jason, I got an email today from one of our listeners. Here we go. Grace, who is from London, Ontario, Canada. Oh, Canada. Yeah, we got a lot of Canadian fans. First of all, she's reminded me I was supposed to send you something. I forgot. I'm so sorry, Grace. I will get that to you in the mail. But so she says, my husband, I love the podcast. Thank God for your servant hearts. Then she says, note in all caps. So she'd want me to see this.

Chase does not speak too much. Well, now I'm liking this woman. And with an exclamation point, she said, he interrupts, dot, dot, dot, dot. That's fair. Because his love of Jesus overflows from his heart to his mouth. I love this woman. I thought, man, she has the overflowing love of Jesus coming out of you. I can't.

It's Jeremiah, what is that verse? Jeremiah 20 verse 9. I can't help it. It's a fire in my bones. I have to speak. I am weary of holding it in. And I no longer. 40 years, Jeremiah, preach.

Nothing but heartache. Yep. No conversions. And he said, you know, whenever I say, I'm not going to. mention him or speak any more in his name there's a fire in my bones i can't help him weary of holding i must admit i have felt you felt that way many a time i said man this this this is but i said you wait what do you do shut up no well always even in high school you can't shut up when people say how you deal with peer pressure because i didn't experience the the peer pressure that most people did because

i made a decision at an early age i don't care what you did you do I'm not doing that. I'm going to follow Jesus. But when I got backed into a corner, that's when I felt the fire. When they started making fun of me. And oh, you're a giddy, giddy. You're just scared to be a man and all this kind of stuff.

And I was like, I'm coming back from the dead. Jesus Christ is Lord. I'm going to be flying, saying, what do you think about me now? Of course, they're looking. like it scared them because and that's why I got confident yeah because I realized no matter how angry the world seems or how rebellious or how much mischief they're doing and that time frame you were but like fresh out of high school or just just in high school the first two years I didn't

say a word I was I was a coward but you know maybe a revelation 21 8 hit me you know they always use that for liars you know but the first word in it it says but the cowardly. Yeah, that's right. And I don't know, that hit me like a ton of bricks. I thought, I'm not going to be a coward about being forgiven and living forever and trying to get my family to heaven. I'm just not going to be a coward about that.

So if you're going to make fun of me or persecute me about my faith, we're not going to do it quietly. And it really helped me get out of my skin. Yeah. And made the last two years productive. And then after that, you went to preaching school with me. And then, you know, you come. Then I got confidence.

You won a lot of them, too. That's what I said. A lot of those old buddies that were giving you grief became your brothers. That's what people don't realize. You don't see the big picture. You share Jesus as somebody, oh, by the way, five years later, I don't have forgot about this guy. I don't even remember his name. And he gets a hold of me.

It's like, I need to talk about that. Remember that time you talked to me? I was like, I really don't. I like the story of the one who, as soon as you broke out and started preaching Jesus, he just gets and leaves the room. Well, Jace keeps talking to some other ones

and after his good little, after his rant was over, he said, well, you know, any of you guys want to, you give your life to Jesus, that has a good time.

So they all said, no, you know. And then I hear a voice. Yeah, he hear a voice. From the next room. Yeah, he said,

I do. That's a Macatosh. One of our, look, he sent me a text yesterday. He listens to the podcast. I know you listen. He sent me a picture.

He was in a store. We used to play video games. He said he was listening back in the back room, but he didn't want to do it face to face. Do you know that boy? He had just lost his mom. I didn't know him. We had gone to another person's house, a new convert.

We were sharing Jesus with a guy who had got thrown off a bull and had a steel plate in his head. I mean, I'm not, you just don't make this stuff up. And he, I told him at the end, I said, I think you're safe. And he said, what are you mean? I said, well, you have safe? lost and saved. I think you're safe.

Safe. Because whatever that bull did, because he just, is that your wires have been crossed. So do the best you can. And try to love Jesus. But I'm not sure you're capable of having a conversation. Jason,

I don't know how much evaluating someone's mind. I don't know how deep you need to get into that. I was young and dumb. I'm not saying. I was right. I just made a snap to. You're saying as you're not sure where he's basing that. I don't start evaluating somebody's mind.

I'm like, that's a little too deep for me. I would ask him a personal question about his life, and he started talking about, you know, twinkle toes and galaxies far away. Yeah. And I said,

what? His head was all swollen up. You know, they told me, said, well, he fell off. Did he finally come back,

you know, never saw him again. Never saw him again. But so after it was over, there was somebody else there. And I said, What about you? And he's like, I'm out.

I've had at least, I would say, oh, scores. Come back after 30 years. So you remember me? And I'm like, I can't quite get, I said, you know, I've talked to a lot of people over there. I said, well, 30 years ago, I was 17. And I came down there to get some duck calls. And he told me about Jesus. And he said, like an idiot.

I just said, you know, that idiot. I mean, you know, he was called me. idiot he said you know some guy hollering about Jesus he said so I got a eye he said I went up the road in a cloud of dust thinking and let me get away from that dude and he said that was 30 years ago mr. Robinson I said so what are you trying to tell me he said oh I get it now he said I just want to tell you I'm back yeah well we had a pretty good little I got a lot of them same story in the words of Debbie Phillips we had some double do popption going back in those days because Jace was winning all these friends of his dad was constantly winning people and then I was kind of

the next step I'd disciple a lot of these guys and mentored a lot of them and was teaching and all that so I mean we had a lot of disciples you guys magnetized to this day we just saw him not too long ago and he was like you know you guys change y'all were raised you'd come in the house many times y'all remember and you'd look up you know go to sleep a night and I'd be in a avian a little old crew but the next morning you wake up and they're scattered around on the living room floor Oh, yeah, wet clothes in the corner. The Lord just moved at that time of my life, and he just moved. We shared Jesus with tons of people, and when they started coming, it just got so crazy.

Which are some of our best friends now. It was real tough on my marriage, because I was a year one. My year one of marriage, I literally saw my wife the least amount that I've seen her, our entire marriage, because I was studying with people every night all night. But she was working to make a living. Because I just, what I mean, I just went off the deep end, forget money. We're going to live on love. I'm sharing Jesus.

You starved her death with that kind of mind. We all was starving making a little bit. When she was getting up to go to work, I was coming in because I'd been sharing Jesus. I mean all night because these guys, and it just put us in a situation. Well, kudos to her for weathering the weather. that she's awesome she got and and and she was bringing people to the Lord too but we just after a year of that I thought okay we we might are reassessing because it just it just kept going on and on and we realized that we had to make a few adjustments and do it together which we did better

yeah and I just I realized too a lot of these new Christians I was trying to just not only bring them to Jesus, but keep them there physically. I'm like, where are you at? I'm checking up on them. The steamroller effect. The only two bars I've ever been to in my life was because I got a report that somebody we had just baptized was in one. I said, let's go.

Missy went with me to one. My terminology changed through the years, and I finally, when I would get, irate people get all fired up or go to hard and carried on or cues or maybe and this and that, nothing other than leaving. But I always just say now, look, calm down, just think about it. Yeah. When I started telling people just think about it, way more of them did think about it and came back later. But if it left in a huff and I'm still hollering.

Well, I've always thought that was the passage, you know, where Jesus talks about if you can be trusted. Jesus never got belligerent about it. He didn't. If you can be trusted with a little, you can be trusted with a lot. And I think that's what happened. I mean, I think we all decided early on. We were all in for Jesus. And we didn't have any money.

Jason and I were poor, starving, preachings to us, but it didn't matter. And then later, you know, God says, here, I got something really cool that I'm going to spring on you in about 30 years. Yeah, and you realize God's working. At the time, I was young and immature made, you know, not like decisions that were evil or anything, but they were just not wise. Right. I mean, there's a growth spark that happens. and you can't literally put somebody on your back and get them to heaven.

They don't want to go because of what Jesus did. There's just not much you can do. But I was going to mention McIntosh. What he taught me, I mean, of all the people that I've been involved in in bringing somebody to the Lord, I learned more about that situation than any other because he's the only person that I know of. He didn't see a flyer or go to church. or he didn't know somebody.

There was no relationship. He just happened to show up at a party house that the guy who owned the house we had just brought to the Lord a week ago. Well, that things had changed, and he didn't get the memo. And he overheard from the next room about Jesus. And he said, I'm in. And the people we were sharing Jesus with didn't. and that that man never missed a beat did he i mean became one of our best friends he lived he just

happened to overhear who jesus he is and he put his faith and trust in jesus and has followed him ever since and it just it made me realize you know what it's not about me it's not about a program it's about declaring jesus and when people hear that you see something like that you realize all the power and all the credit goes into who Jesus is. You just got to get it out there, which goes back to how we started this. So I just can't help it. Because when I saw that,

I thought, I got to get it out there because here's a guy who had no other reason for changing his life. It wasn't because his friends were doing it. It wasn't because of the program. He wasn't raised in church. And his heart had been softened a little bit because he had just lost his mom.

I didn't even know that until weeks later. Yep. And he just was thinking about, life and he heard Jesus he said you know what I'm gonna do that I saw that many times and I came up with a phrase that kind of bringed it together remember how we were talking about directional dialogue yeah you're talking to these people but you would get done with these people and they would say well you know not much response out of them but one day brought it to my attention I'm talking to these people because I thought everybody else good to go and but one one of these over here that was just

listening said wow after after I got done there and I'm turning around there I said wow I said that's pretty good line I said wait thanks she said I didn't get that till right now I said we'll talk later so within a week her and her husband came and I baptized in both one great thing about it we talked about the perfection of Jesus and then being the king mistake free John 8 God was pleased this is Colossians 119 and I gave you you a text out of Hebrews, God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, and that means peace with God instead of war, because that war you lose,

shed on the cross. Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you, that's twice that words come up, reconcile, become part of him. He's reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death.

That brutal death he died on the cross for all of us. To present you, let's see, holy in his sight, when he sees us, he sees 100% flawless perfection like his son because we are in him and he is in us.

Holy in his sight without blemish. Think about that. All the sins and once your faith is put in Jesus and you die to sin and are buried and raised in the waters of baptism, free from accusation. If you can free from accusation, just think about that. you say, well, that's why none of his accusers got anywhere. He's given that to us.

There's an if here. If you continue in your faith, establishing firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel, which is the death of Jesus, his burial and resurrection. Take that. Hang on. Let's take a break, Dad, before you read that next one. And add to that, since that time, he's talking about from the, law of Moses and the way it operated, and here comes Jesus,

and did what blood of animals and all that can never do. He waits for his enemies to be made his footstew because, and this is one of the greatest text in the Bible for me. Hebrews. Hebrews 10, 14, because by one sacrifice, the perfect one dies on a cross. He has made, are you all ready for this? audience perfect perfect that means mistake free like Jesus you're like you're viewed as 100% flawlessly perfect he's made them perfect forever you say man those who are being made holy so

you you try your best to be mistake free when you make mistakes the blood is there clinging you and God justifies you by viewing you as if you never made a mistake and you're viewed by God as perfect through Jesus. That is one of the, that's the great, the great story of the Bible right there. So the next time somebody says, so you think you're perfect, you can say, no, I know I am. That's right. In Jesus. Yep. Which is a great point to add because that's hard to get perfection and we get to be viewed as perfect because of our faith in Jesus and our striving for being a better and a holier person each day as we go forth. And not only that, then he lets you be involved in the process of bringing people into that

position. Right. I mean, where else would you come up with this idea? I'm going to save you and then I'm going to allow you to be a part of the eternal destiny change that occurs in individuals. Yeah. So you told a story last week, it was about when you got pulled over by the state trooper

and kind of how you worked your way out of that. It prompted a story of my mind, and I thought about it when you were just mentioned about some of our friends. And you remember Michael and Darla were a couple of the early ones, you know? And so, you know, they get married. They're Christians now.

They become really good friends of ours. And so she finds out she's pregnant with triplets. You know, and so it's like, like it's a big deal because you know you get more than a couple of babies in your womb things get a little bit dicing and darlo's a little bitty a little bitty late girl anyway and so she wound up having to be in the hospital for like months i mean they basically they were they were like you got to just lay here till you have these kids and uh so i'm working for the church at this time i just you know early in my church work and so she's stuck up there but they said well she's got a like a

i guess back in there it would a bit of vCR and um you know and so somebody brought about bunch of videos. And I was going to see her anyway to pray for her and just to visit a little bit because that's what that's what pastors and preachers do. So I load up this sack of videos and I'm on a mission of mercy. Head into the hospital. Head into St. Francis.

I get off the interstate. I'm driving. Mom has made some one of mom deals with Melissa over this little white Ford car. And for some reason I'm in it because I was just like you. I'm not in somebody else's car. I get off there on the deal. Now you can do it. You couldn't back then.

You couldn't go. I'm literally right in front of the police station. And I didn't notice you can't take a left turn there. You're supposed to go all the way around. Well, I took a left turn. Well, there's a Monroe cop sitting over there because it's the police station where I did it. And he pulls me over. You're not supposed to take a left turn there.

Sorry, I didn't notice that. Then he asked me for the stuff. It sounds like a segment of dumb criminal stunts. Oh, it gets worse. So then it's like, well, your inspection stickers out, same deal. And the license plate deals out. And I was like, oh, my. word mom you know like because I didn't even notice I'm just borrowing the car for a day on a

mission of mercy so then it's the insurance while I look in there there's a couple of insurance car but they're a year old so I was like well let me call and see if I can find this is pre-cell phone I was like I don't know you know what to do and so finally there's no insurance which in Louisiana if you don't have insurance on a vehicle and you're driving it they can impound it right then well guess what they impounded the car and so I'm standing there on the side of the road. I got a bag of videos. And the hospital's just right there.

And I sit down on the curb under a crate mertory tree. And I'm looking over there at the police station. They come and haul mom's car off to the, you know, towed it away. And I'm on foot. I got no phone. And I was like, I just remember sitting there thinking, boy, this day just really turned sour. Like I was doing something good. And now they literally took my.

my wheels away. You're hitchhiking. I'm hitchhiking with videos. And so I, but I have to admit, I was sitting there looking at that police station and I thought, I felt like Jonah did when he was looking at Nineveh. I said, Father, if you could just bring a fire down out of heaven and torch that whole place. I mean, it was righteous anger because I felt like I was doing a mission of mercy. So I walked on down the hospital, sweating the time I got there. I went in there, darling, and she said, are you okay? And I was like, yeah, I just had to walk over from the police station because they took my car. So then I called lease and said, come get me.

I'm on foot. Then I tell my mom, I said, mom, did you know all this stuff? Well, I didn't know, you know, Melissa. You know, mom's just, so it cost mom about a thousand bucks to get the car or whatever it was out because it was her car. It wasn't my car. She had to pay all the fines and all this stuff. And it was just like, well, that was back when we had to scrimp.

Wow, you got a better deal. When I had the wreck and the, you know, family truck that the insurance had expired by eight days and since it was my fault we decided to split the 12,500 dollars that it cost when you have a wreck and it's your fault you don't have insurance or face penalty of jail trust me i was never late on that payment it took five years to pay at all So after I'm hearing these stories, Jayce, you've come a long way, son. Let's buy some insurance.

Well, and I'm a stick with... I gave you some encouraging words. They said, Jay's had a wreck. You tore up the truck. It's total. So I'll drive up there. I said, you idiot? What are you...

Chase is literally bleeding, and he's like, I mean, why would you turn right in front? There's an ambulance there. They're like, we think he's going to live. Why would a man just turn right in front of an ongoing... Why would you do that? This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. And it did.

It's T-boned. Coming over here a while ago, I jumped in my truck. I mean, you know, GMC, it's been a good one. In fact, I've been saying that truck has fewer failures of any vehicle I've ever drunk. So a while ago, I reached down and I pulled the handle out of there, crank, and look, the door handle, the inside door. That is when I get clank. And I look, I said, boy, that's a clean break.

In other words, metal, metal about wide as my thumb, and it just broke off. I've got the, so now I've got to reach out, you know. But I don't even think I'm going to fix it. It's all right. I tell dad, you're going to be like the Dukes of Hazard. Remember they always have to dive into the big? Most of the time, you know, a truck door, they're pretty well good to go, no matter how long you have the truck.

But I just, I just had it in my hand. I've never broken one. An hour ago. Two years of my life, I drove a vehicle that neither door would open. And I was dating my wife at the time. Been there and done that. Well, I was hauling firewood for a living. And so on a muddy day, when you're hauling wood out of the woods,

you just, we'd start sliding because our trucks weighed so much. And I literally was bouncing off trees getting out of it. Well, it seemed kind of fun once I hit the first couple, because I thought, well, there went the truck. So then I just sped up and was bouncing off trees. Well, then I went to open my door. It wasn't open. Well, I go to open up the passenger side.

It won't open either. Yeah, you hit enough trees on both sides. That's what happened. That's what happened. So my first date, which was awesome, because it put my wife to the test. As she was reaching, I said, hey, that door, let me get that for you.

And so I started pushing down the window because it wouldn't roll up or down either. That's why her dad told her you don't want to marry under that. That's why I kept sticking his head out of the window. Let's take another break. And she said, I thought you were going to open the door for him. I said, my doors don't open. She said, well, what are we going to do? Dive in.

I thought, what kind of question is that? I said, well, if you want to ride with me, you're going to have to go through that window. I said, now I'll turn around so this won't get awkward. It's kind of awkward, you know, jumping in a window, I guess, on the first date. And so I turned around and she said, I'm in. I said, in a way we go. I did these. I guess it must be our redneck genetics because we were down here one time.

Rick Portenberry was hunting with us, and we were at the boat house. And I was in my truck. My old, I called it Lazarus, because it came back from the dead so many times. A house fell on it, a tree fell on it. Well, I was, so it was like yours. It was like, I wasn't really worried about the truck. And I was trying to turn around a tight spot, but the water was up, you know, right there. It's just a little narrow strip of land.

So Rick's over there in passenger seat. And I get hung up on a little old small tree. It's only about that big. But it was kind of wedged on my door. And I'm trying to get off of it. So I hit it and drive. I stomp it. And I'm trying to, it's just, I'm twisting that door.

It's just starting to crinkle. And I'm like a madman now. I'm like, oh, we're getting off of this tree. I'd bag it up and blah. Then I'd go for it. And look, that thing is just crinkly. I'm looking. is getting closer and closer to me in the truck because it's literally coming in on him.

I'm just destroying my truck. But he said, how, you look like a madman. I mean, you were laughing and cackling because once you were tore up, I was like you. I was like, well, I'm getting off that tree. I mean, here's what's weird. I pay $1,500 for that truck, drove it five years, destroyed it, and neither door would open. And then I sold it for a thousand. I thought that was a pretty good deal.

It cost me $100 a year. Very good deal. And I dated my wife in it, and then we had a bonding experience over that. And what the sad thing was when we went on that date, then I had to go pick up, back then we had the crawfish farm. I was hauling firewood, and we were running crawfish trap. So I went to the fish market and had to get three trash cans full of fish heads, buffalo heads, because we determined that a buffalo head was the best bait.

And I thought, I have to go get it. I'm going on a date, because I just figured this girl wasn't going to give me the time of day anyway. She's yuppie girl. Look way too good. But she said yes. So I just thought, I'm going to be completely honest at every turn. I gave her the speech about Jesus. She couldn't get in the doors.

And now, because when I went to get the trash can, too heavy, I couldn't lift it. I thought, well, I said, hey, Missy. Darling. love of my life. I said, whatever you do, don't pop the top on this can because I didn't know how long they'd been sitting out there and it was hot. So we got up there, got the first one in, got the second one in, but when we got the third one, because it was just raw weight, the top, top come off.

And she immediately began to gag. And I thought, welcome to our world. This ain't going to work. This date is, this date is not going where. I explained about the crawfish. She gagged. Most dudes would not have their woman, you know, loading up fish heads at the back of a pickup.

I didn't, I didn't know that story, Jay's but, you know, Lisa told the story the other day. I'd forgotten it. Our first date involved, and we were both super young. She was only 15, I was 16,

involved going, taking fish to Bayel's fish market. And so we went up to take the fish up there, Back of those days, whoever had the wheels that were running at the time. That's right. That's who took the fish. So there were a couple of tubs of fish in the back of the truck. And once she was telling the story, I remembered it.

So we go into Bales. Well, sometimes, you know, it's like anything else, fish are like supply and demand. Sometimes you had too much supply. Yep. And so every once in a while, they would try to make sure they bought our fish because dad was a good supplier, but sometimes they were just, the market was glutted. And so, like, they didn't buy our fish that day. So, of course, there's no phones, you know.

And so this shows you how you just figure stuff out. So I told Lisa, I was like, well, we got to do something with these fish, you know, I mean, what are we going to do with it? So I said, you know what? I don't go over to college point. And I knew there was a pink bar that was right in the middle of college point. I don't know if you remember seeing it before. And at night, of course, it's a happening place during the day.

There's a few people hanging around. I said, we'll just go direct sales. We'll see if we can sell these fish. And, of course, she's looking, I mean, we're young. It's 16 and 15. I thought, you know, I got to come home with money. I mean, what, you know, what we were going to do? So I pull up in front of that pink bar, and there's a couple of guys standing over there, you know,

and so this old guy comes over, he's got a wife-beater shirt on. He looks over in the back, he said, he was talking, but I couldn't understand the word he was saying. And I said, I'm here to sell some fish. You want to fish? Then he said, how much you want for that fish right there? He pointed it to a buffalo or something. I was like, that's the $4.5th. Oh, whoa, oh.

And they were negotiated now. So we finally got to a price he could live with. And then he said, I'd be back. So he goes and leaves. And I sees a big black lady come out of the house. And she's reaching in her bra and comes up with, you know, some money. So he comes over and buys a couple of fish. And what happened in the next 15 minutes was capitalism at its bed.

As soon as he started walking. The damn broke. As soon as people started, they just started streaming over to that truck, and I sold every fish in that truck. I remember you telling me that. And come home with a little wad of cash, you know, for mom, which was the deal. See, Missy later told me. That was our first day.

She's like, you all had to admit from start to now, we've come a long way out. Well, Missy said, she told me a few weeks later, the Jesus speech is why I stayed. The rest of it, I figured, was going to be a work in progress. She said, but it was fascinating to see a human being doing what you were doing. It was interesting. Right. She said, I had only heard about such stories. I didn't know that it was really happening in America.

You know, getting fish heads, no doors that are open. You know, because it's a hazard. Right. These people are really living like this. and seemingly on purpose. Yeah. So you and currently, y'all had to go to the hospital a time or two

from blood poisoning and, because just dealing with all those rotten stuff, you know, you get a, you get to a little nick on your hand or something. It's like anything else we did, the first 20 years of my life. It was fun for about a week.

Yeah, and then all of a sudden it wasn't so much fun. You know what? This is, I'm dying here. We get a, when you're 100% dependent on how many fish you catch today,

it'll give you a little different perspective. So my take, let's take a break. My take on that, dad, I compare it to, you remember when the Israelites came out when God brought him out of Egypt and, you know, they needed to eat, you know, because, you know, so he, so he just sends a manna, you know,

basically every night it's just raining down bread, heavenly bread, and they go out and they pick it up. But he told him, he said, you can only pick up one basketful, not two. just one that would get you through the day. Don't hoard it. And if you got two, then they would both turn to maggots was the deal. So it was interesting why he did that.

I think he did that because he obviously wanted to depend on him because they wanted to go back to Egypt. Oh, there we had leaks and onions. And now we're out here eating his bread. And I thought about that with us. I think the Almighty knew about the show, obviously, because he's outside of time and space. So he wanted to make sure that we learned humility

for a long time so that we could be trusted with a big platform. I've always believed that was why it was the way it was. You may be right, because we worked hard, but we just didn't have a lot of results, really. I mean, that was my speech.

First 10 years of marriage was, I'm going to trust God and work hard. It'll work out. Which, you know, we did the same thing. Other married couples, Dave, a little bickering here and there, you know, where's the money, no money. Because it usually happened when I would

go to the grocery store, which she would, that's why even to this day, she's going to the grocery store because I don't, I would never, you know, cut any expense when I bought groceries because I'm like, we're going to eat good, whether we have money or not. If I get up there and have to take stuff out of the buggy, which I did many times, and I just started cutting my losses here. But then you've got to start, it's like being at the drive-thru line. You've got to, You've got to get up to a certain point. What stop right there. That's my...

I told you all the story. What you're trying to say, Jason, in a nice way, is when you probe the deep recesses of the redneck mind, it can be perplexing. Yeah. Well, I think if you make Jesus-centered relationships, I just think good things happen. Because no matter what happens, you go back to that.

I mean, we're reading this about being free from accusation, being part of the process. And I mean, my wife, she loves Jesus. And I've said many times she was looking for somebody else who loved Jesus. And we just made the rest of it work, even though it just didn't seem humanly possible. I mean, we would be a marriage counselor's nightmare. When we took our little premarital counseling, we took a test to see how compatible we were. And now it didn't say this.

that end up. It basically, I'm reading between the lines that said walk the other way. Don't look back. Run. Run, forest. That you have absolutely nothing in common. This is water and oil. It just, that's what it said.

But, you know, Carl, one of our good friends and kind of mentors, he was our marriage or pre-marriage. council counselor and he's like not everything it makes sense but if you stick with Jesus I believe it'll be okay because he was trying to put a good spin we were wanting to know we got caught up in the process oh how compatible where and he didn't want to talk about he's yeah y'all just see that carl's just being nice there's some differences his famous line used to be always remember guys no matter what had happened people in some of marriage is breaking them

he said the best days are yet to come yeah I say it all the time he said you know you all have a lot of challenges and a lot of opportunity for growth I'll try what does that mean so basically we have nothing in common well that's what it's saying but you love Jesus

and he was right yeah I mean 30 years later right and I we're going to try to make this work and it's worked. Well, people ask us all the time. Why did your wives, what did they see about you? Because obviously our wives are beautiful women. The show, they were even more glamorous than, you know, because of the show.

But, and they just didn't, couldn't see it. I mean, they look at the show. They thought it was fake. Right. They're like, what's this chick doing with that guy? Well, they made this up. You know, they're laughing and saying, there's no way. Yeah.

Because they don't even have any money. So when they asked, when they asked me, I put it back. I put the Jesus thing. I asked them back. I said, well, why do you think that they chose up, that they went with us?

And they were like, well, money. I mean, that's what they always say. And I was like, nope, trust me, there was no money

when it started for all of us. And I just leave it hanging. You know, I never say anything else. But what we described today was, was exactly why. I mean, they saw obviously something like,

we're, you know, picking up fishheads and saying, it was embarrassing about, you know, I didn't finish that date, but when we got to what we were going to do. I said, how much money you got? She's like, I got about 10 bucks. I said,

let's do whatever 10 bucks will take them. I said, no, I'm going to turn these fishheads into a lot of money. But at the moment, I'm in between the payoff. Well, I thought Lisa was rich because they had a brick house. I was like, I mean, brick house. But y'all's mother, you know, you're talking about the wheels in my case they'd got an old bell air chivalay and gave it to miss k by the time she'd learned how to drive about 16 so i didn't have any wheels so i was hitchhiked it i was hitchhiking to her house to date well come to find out she's got the bell air chivalet so our dating process she'd come pick me up right and she'd come she'd usually have coax and sometimes she'd have a T-Bone steak because they own groceries.

So she had bring some Coca-Cola and steak, and I thought, I've hit the jackpot. I have hit the jackpot. I mean, when your girl comes and picks you up with the T-bone steak, now I know how I got here. T-bone steak and Coca-Cola. So I was always hanging around and lurking around when he knew she was coming.

And he said, you know, you ought to keep that girl right there. He said, that girl got. Yeah. A lot of times we took him on the date, sigh in the backseat, and we were hiding along there, you know, me, Miss Kay, and Uncle Sy, he just went with us. For entertainment purposes. They kind of chronicled that on the show.

That was the third wheel, you know, during the dating process. Because you always had to take your little brother. Let's take one last break. The name of their store was called Carraway's Grocery. Ms. Kay, to this day, still forks out $300 every two or three years to paint that sign Carraway's grocery because the store has been there

like a hundred years. It's 100 years almost. Oh, it's been, you know, going out of business. Is there still? No, it's not open. It's just like a... Who owns it? Some of the caraways or something.

Well, I need to metal detect that thing. Is there any grass around it? Oh, that old town. No telling what you run up on. That whole town right there. Because that whole area. They're looking for spots and I own a store that's 100 years old.

It's Highway 71, One was used to be the main drag all the way to Arkansas. Then they built the interstate where everybody got on the interstate and nobody goes to out of Louisiana anymore. So the old store, everything, there's not one business left in that town. It's off the interstate. They just drive by it over about seven. If anybody's listening, don't go there because that's ours.

We never tell where it was. And I'm going to go. But you know, it's funny. So on the sign that mom has keeps up this on the side, just for the you know for us because they're trying to get mom to buy it to might make a museum out of it or something or willy and but on the side of it it says established 1926 or 1928 we're not sure that's what's on the side of the bill i thought i thought it was pretty funny that who ever put that out as like you know we don't know why didn't they just put 1927 well that's it when we were dating we'd go by there and get a little rack of wilson weanies

Yeah. The red snappy winis. They've never made a comeback. Somebody, the last time we talked about this, said there was somewhere that had them. And then we talked about the colonial honeybonds and they found them. Somebody else bought them and we're good to go on that. Sarah Lee bought Colonial. But I've been trying to find their, I can't find their Sarah Lee's honeybunuchs.

Somebody sent me a box of them. Oh, really? And I ate them. And they were awesome. They were like a colonial? I can't buy. No, they were colonial. Yeah, but they, so I appreciate it.

It was the greatest honey born of all time. I mean, we used to eat them. The Wilson weenies were the best weenies of all time, but they, now they're too red. They just, I mean, they're still trying to, Wilson weanies, that's what we call them. So it was a company in street. So you would pick them up at the store, some Wilson woodings? They had them by the big box, and I'd go in there, you know, but Wilson weenies, that was something, you know, it was like eating fine steak to us. And a little block of that hoop cheese.

Yeah. With the red rind on it. Red ryan on it. What about the bologna? Yeah. Bologna was good too, but the Wilson Wienius was the best. Yeah. Bologna was, when I remember my childhood, that was the thing.

I mean, like, we were fine dining when we got some. And then when I got to be about 30, somebody actually told me what was in it. And I was like, oh, boy. Yeah, it's pretty much the leftover of everything. Put in a big meat tube is what they did. They changed the packaging on it. And that says what's not in it. Yeah, that was it, yeah.

I know. So, Dad, you remember when we were growing up in Junction City, used to go up to, what was the name of that butcher shop that was in El Dorado? I remember there was always a big treat. Was it Brumitz? I think it was Brummits. Brummits, butcher. And like every once in a while, you know, dad,

we're going to feast at night, you know, so we'd get some steak. But it was just so rare, you know, to have anything like that. It's so funny now because I don't even think about it. You know, if we're going to eat steak. I mean, we're going to go pick up a whole tenderloin or whatever. Back in the day, man, you just didn't, you just couldn't do it. I mean, just we didn't have enough money to pull it off. Miss Cade's famous line, y'all's mother, she said,

feel, always remember, I've been poor with you and I've been rich with you. She said, rich is better. Yeah, that's classic, Bob. Why is that funny? I don't know. We need to get mine back on the podcast. Where were we going with this? I don't know.

this wind up the tails of the past talked about free from accusation that's where we started and the next thing you and i went down memory lane yeah we did i do want to remind us duck season and duck season aisle is is is one of the greatest jumpstarts the first three or four days that we've had in years oh everybody's happy happy happy happy oh yeah but you go to show you you know we always provide the food supply the water regime the day duck blinds are already, but for you live to go through several years where it's not much at all. But with us, we just keep going, keep going and keep going.

Well, this year it all started out. And we're seeing that this morning, I picked up a big old Milor Drake, and I felt his crawl, and I said, hmm, I said, that feels like rice. And I cut a little slit, and I looked and see what he said, what he's been eating. And it was rice. so they're coming down those rice fields to the east of us coming across. Which is my point. We plant all this food,

but a lot of times when we're really getting them, they eat somewhere else. Yep. And they come here to rest, right? Yeah. Because their duck is either eating or resting or roosting, which is a difference. So that's why they fly in the morning because they're looking for something to eat.

And then we didn't really. get much till about mid-morning. So they had gone and eaten, and then they're looking for somewhere to rest. Then they get up and they go ruse, which they just go to a different resting spot to sleep. The Canadians, it might have been a stroke of genius. They stopped all early season duck hunters from America going to Canada because they would go up there in a lot of these young ducks. They'd never been shot at.

They'd never been had a duck call call. and whack them. And so that Americans have been going up there for years. But this year, Canada said no more of that. Really? Because they were kind of taking advantage of their youth. The ducks were young and young and dumb. So they would just boom, baa, bha, bha, boom, boom. So the Canadians broke that up.

And I thought, well, you know, that may turn out to be a good thing. Well, so far, that seems like a very, if they're not shot at in Canada where they raise, and they're not shut out to the come across that border, it's better for us. I think, yeah, we're way down the food chain. I think there's a piece that's,

you know, developed in what you do. We used to duck hunt because you kind of had to. It was how we made it live in selling duck hogs. So now, based on everything has happened, it's more enjoyable.

But, you know, we talked about being free from accusation, which is what the world does is bring up your past. And you're like, no he he forgave that and here's why and then that then goes to phase two which is now god uses us to to share jesus which is how i got married i mean we went down memory row but when you

get to colosians three and i think this is a a good way to sum up what you get in christ in verse 15 he said let the peace of christ rule in your hearts so no matter what happens we're at peace. You bet you. Because the big stuff has been taken care of by Jesus, who we are examining in detail. Since as members of one body, you were called to peace and be thankful.

Before and after. Before you felt like you were blessed and after, especially with the physical stuff, let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom. And as you sing Psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, gratitude and your hearts to God. And this is the verse I wanted to get to.

And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God, the Father, through Him. Well, then he talks about wives and husbands and children and, you know, social classes. And then he gets down and says the same thing in verse 23. Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart as working for the Lord, not for men since you know that you'll receive an inheritance from the Lord because it's the Lord Christ you are serving. So here we are, Al.

There you go. Next time we get back into the text on the podcast, we'll be at the crucifixion. And it's a brutal, tough read, but it had to be done. I mean, it had to be done the way it was done. I remember the verses says when the time that was set, you know, so he knew exactly when he was going to come and exactly why. It was brutal, but then.

when you realize why you go oh i get it which you like you said which is why the passion was such a such a powerful visual the gibson totally we've lost the concept of god loves you we've lost that at america that's exactly right and if you understood what he did and how it happened you would totally know that you would thank throngs would be running toward him but no so just uh as a thank you to unashamed nation appreciate you guys always checking us out the audience is growing which is awesome I watched the Phyllis and Tony episode yesterday that just released. A lot of you are buying those prints. I appreciate that.

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