Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 229 | Phil's Prayer for Texans, Willie’s Secret to Free Labor & About Those Duck Call Room Signs

Episode Date: February 21, 2021

Phil, Jase, and Al tell the stories behind some of the signs hanging in the duck call room. Willie's first business was booming when he was 12 years old, and the guys reveal his secret weapon. Phil gets a big kick out of Jase's ice mishap. Missy is not amused by Jase's cold-weather comedy. Al is not a fan of Bill Gates' stance on meat. Jase has a bone to pick with the religion of global warming. And Phil has two big takeaways from the aftermath of the snowstorm and a prayer for the people of Texas. -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? This set looks really unique. Yeah, it does. I mean, it's the first time I've been back here. I think y'all did a podcast or two with Zach here from some other emergency. I mean, no recollection of that whatsoever. I think it's a color, weren't y'all here? Yes. So you just can't. Doing a hurricane.

I bet that was memorable. I did it. And I don't even remember. So Phil has got my seat. I sat in that chair there for, what, 12 years? Long time. So being back in this room pre-show, does it bring back all your memories of working like when you used to have to actually work for a living? I just feel incredibly uncomfortable right now because this is where Godwin sat.

And we know from the show the hemorrhoids are contagious, right? It was so funny. We had a refrigerator behind us here. and because you notice all the signs here all these have meaning like that sign do not touch anything on this table I put that for the TV show people because they kept

messing with my tools then Jay got mad about people sitting in his chair so he went with the don't sit in this chair hemorrhoids are contagious but the funniest thing he did is he put a hellfire and brimstone verse on the refrigerator

yeah it was ex exodus something it was like thieves will be punished to the death, stoneed, and burned alive. So when I, we were all sitting here, you got Gawin, Martin, you got me, Si, and Jay, and he's just throwing a fit because somebody's stealing things out of the refrigerator. So me and Cy are like, what kind of person, we were like having this banner. Well, the two quiet ones were the two biggest guys.

Martin and Gawain were just sitting here. And I said, I think this investigation is over. That's right. The silence spoke volumes. The silence and the extra 100 LBs. The disappearance of snacks of food stuff has always been a big deal around here. Yeah. I mean, it's the same thing in my house.

I have one, I have two dogs that are supposed to be the same size, and one of them is twice as big as the other. One of them is six pounds, one of them's three. And Missy says, I don't know how they're eating so much dog food. I said, not they. Well, I remember a speech I gave you, boys, when y'all were with, but fledglings, jays, young bucks, early teenage, 15, 13, 13 to 14, 15. I sat y'all down one day down there, and I said, boys, I said, you see all these? Because y'all were saying, oh, I tell you what's going to happen?

Yeah, yeah, we don't know that. I said, listen, there'll come a time, there'll come a day. you see boys with all these jacked-up four-wheel drives and fine vehicles and all that stuff and they all said yeah i said that'll be y'all just shortly it's coming and they said all of them i mean i don't know whether you were with or not but the whole little crew i know willie was there jay i'd probably moved on by then yeah they laughed my truck is very economical it is not jacked up looking like but willie's yeah well that's what i was getting to maybe we need to have a midlife intervention.

I was just speaking of an era where it'll all pay off and you'll get your reward. But what's ironic, Dad, is you're right, but it didn't happen for a long time. Like, it all happened for everybody when they were older. So I think that's Willie's problem. He's almost 50 years old, but he's driving around these trucks like he's an 18-year-old buck, you know, when he's being jacked up. What happened during that time of your life that since? Willie, you know, because he's, where did it go wrong?

Well, Willie, he ended up where he is when I got the memo that he was taking over the concession, the candies and the cookies. When he took over that business at the local junior house. You knew he had some trader jacking. I remember seeing that on the back. He was short-circuiting the vending machines, and they were using that money to furnish the the furnished of the money for the football team to buy jerseys now. Willie cut in there, cut rate prices at Walmart,

undersold all the candy people. Look, I remember seeing. Took over the, what do you call it? The concession stand. The last two rows of the school bus, because, you know, we rode the bus for an hour and a half for years. That turned into Willie's, like, management place. There were thousands of.

of candies and coin. And he had all his people working for him, of course he paid nobody. I was like three rows up just watching the proceedings. But you weren't one of his employees. No, he paid them in candy. It was a financial coup, and Willie's fleet of workers were mainly were little girls.

Oh, yeah. And I mean, he literally took over the concession minutes and had it going good until the principal finally got wind of it. And they said, we got to shut him down. Most people don't know this because Willie he's had the beard all the time they've known him underneath that beard there's two dimples he's got a dimple on each side and he had a way of doing that you know 100 watt smile with the dimples that he just he got all that labor for his business that's what he did that's how that's how he

operate now he tells the story i've heard him do his speech before that he also you may you can verify if you ever saw this that he also put on a little show to get to help his business on the bus so he said he'd take a quarter somebody had paid him he'd put it under his arm like a jukebox and he would drop it down in his hand in his pocket and then he would sing uh maybe a foreigner song jukebox hero maybe oh he's still doing that today really oh he in his speeches yeah he does the the jukebox hero so he has a different point but it's same material because when i we went to Canada had a country music concert. You and the island and Jeff and I guess your buddies,

y'all ended up, if you sat here for 13 years, you worked as the workforce, and Willie was the brains. Yep. He was the big wig. Oh, I get it. He was putting the deals here. Take over the concession business when you're about 12, and you've got good things coming.

I mean, it never bothered me, because every time he came in this door, I'm like, stay in your lane. Because, I mean, you can't fire me. I'm like, you don't know a duck dog. And he doesn't know how to do duck calls. Yeah, I'm like, you, no. And so it basically worked pretty well.

Now, you showed me this while ago. He was like, what is this? Look, when we, this was here when I, this is not set up. This was here when I came in. I'll tell you the story behind this. Y'all thought I was kidding about this. And if you're listening, I'll just hold, held up a CD.

I mean a DVD of Outlaw Josie Well. They're still laying here in the room. So here's why that's here. I'll tell you the story. You're not going to like this, Phil, but I'm just, it's a confessional. So when we are going to hire somebody, you know, Willie's like, hey, you know, stick that guy in the duck call room. Y'all teach him how to do this. We would make him watch that.

And all the other workers would judge his responses on whether it's a thumbs up or thumbs down. If he didn't laugh when he was supposed to, bomp. Did I have like a two-way glass? No, we all just sat here and watched it, but we're looking at him. Oh, yeah, keeping an eye on it. I never thought about that particular litmus test.

I was like, if you don't get this movie, you can't work here. So his skill set began with how he reacted. Yeah. How he reacted to it. Because this is an intimate set. You know, we come in here, even though we're way away and this seems kind of weird. If you spend years... I feel like it feels way over there.

It's like... If you spend years in here, you have to be able to cohabit with these people. That's why Si, we tried to get him as... He was in the far corner. He was up there making reeds. Yeah, but like, you noticed how far he was from everybody else. Well, it's because he only talks in one tone, loud.

Yeah. I mean, that's... No matter what he's talking about. But the good news is, looking back now, we can all look at... back and grin, it worked. Well, it worked. So the reason we're here is because we're still in this ice storm, which today is the day

where it warmed up enough, which, look, I never thought 40 degrees seems like 100. That's right. I'm like, it's 40 degrees. I was out when it was 33, and I was thinking, man, it's so nice and balmy. And it was 16. And I thought, wait a minute, what's wrong with me? 33 and 16 is still cold. But when you've gone through the deep freeze of the week,

I mean, it was bad. So it's still ice on the roads and all, but it was safe enough to what we got here. So we're working our way, Dad, out to you. So we were adjacent. Now we're here. Maybe in two more days we'll be there. There were hundreds of limbs anywhere from the size of your arm to the size of your leg, a few the size of your body.

They just, the weight of the ice, they would just come down and just strip everything beneath them. Yeah, I mean, and it went on, I mean, nonstop. And when that started there,

a day before yesterday in the evening, started in the evening, I said, this might be a pretty good, pretty eye-opening night. Yeah. Well, that's been rough.

I mean, the dog were barking and running outside after a big crack and cold womb on top of the... You didn't want to be walking around. We have a little roof damage around there, you know, but I mentioned it,

this coo snap that came through. You know, when you get these guys pontificating on global warming and this and that and the other. I knew you were going to bring this up. Look, so look. I'm like, man, if it had not been for global warming, we would have froze our butts off. This is what I did. Woo, thank you for global warming. Oh, boy.

So before, no, you're not going to believe this. So before, I was so interested in this, and I've been cooped up so long. And y'all embarrassed me on the last podcast because, you know, my wife filmed this epic fail of me running. Somebody showed me that. It was a pretty good little slipping fall. I fell. Did you laugh as much as I did when you watched it? I laughed because I said that was not a good move because I was just walking on this stuff.

And I mean, I was. Oh, man. I've had at least 100 text in the last couple days of people that saw that. And my response is, no, I would not have won the $10,000 if that was still going on. That would have been the undercard. You know, on America's funniest videos, it would have been one of them that led up to the epic happening of the $10,000 winner. But I'm glad you enjoyed yourself. So I forgot what I was even going to say.

Oh, about the global warming. So I had the same thought. So I googled, if global warming is real, why is it so cold? That's what I put. And I did a search. You don't have the Internet, so you're missing out on these fantastic periods. I'm missing so much. So the top link was a paper from somebody from Yale.

And so I started reading this thing. And I actually jotted down a few notes. I can't believe you brought that up. So here's, here was basically their logic. I laugh so hard. And, you know, people say, what is this global warming? You know, the pollution and the air travel is creating greenhouse emissions. Greenhouse emissions.

Yeah, like a gas. And look, maybe so. So I'm not denying that. I like the way you just lump that whole debate into two and a half seconds. Yeah, maybe so. Matt, yeah, me, whatever. Maybe so, but here's the problem like Phil. So I look, and it said, and these are the facts.

Yale, I mean, here we go. The temperature has risen one degree since 1880. Now, this was something he was supposing. He was like, these are the facts. And I thought, at this rate, in another 100 years will be. Another degree. 83. I mean, from 80.

I just thought, what the heck are we getting to have been out of shape for? I'm using your own facts. And I just noticed, it's funny he said that, because John Kerry just said two days ago or yesterday, that in nine years, it's over unless we do something. Well, not at one degree per hundred and 20 years. I was just quoting him. So let me tell you where this rabbit hole went because I want to answer the question.

What was the Yale thesis answer? Hang on. Let's take a break for that. So this paper said, and I'm just giving you the bullet points, it basically said the reason when it's so cold, what you're forgetting, the reason global warming is still the thing, is that it's hot somewhere. And I thought, are they going Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett here?

They did a song, because, you know, Jimmy Buffett, he leans left. Oh, yeah. Because very few country music singers do, but I'm aware of that with him. And I thought, they're in this thing together. They're like, yeah, it's negative 23 where my daughter has been residing in Minnesota. But it's 47 somewhere. So they come up with a song for you. I know you don't listen to country music.

Alan Jackson, Jimmy Buffett. They were like, and it starts off talking about the weather. It's cold. Or it says the day's moving. by like a slow day and then it's like but it's so hot and I'm working and even though it's not it's early in the day it's like noon I don't care because it's five o'clock somewhere so he's gonna go fix him a drink that was the logic on why he he wants to have a drink and the logic of this global warming study is that it's hot somewhere well I've been on the earth all I can tell you about

what I've seen in 74 years. In 74 years, all I know for sure is, because I reel back time, I've never seen a week of February be this cold. I neither. This broke all of my records that I've seen in the month of February. But they would say, yeah, but somewhere it's hot by one degree. Yeah.

On average. And somewhere it's 5 o'clock. So, Dad, we talked about this. 40 years ago we had a week similar to this but it was earlier. In January. It was in January because we hunted and everything locked up.

But that's, you know, 40 years later, here we are. So it doesn't... It happens. It happens. You're going to have these big... It's a rare thing, though. Polar vortex, you know, but I'm a chase. So then I went off that and...

Because look, I was trying to get information. I really wanted to know what they said. And I just told you what they said. You think I'm making fun of it. But that is the... You can read that. and that is basically what the argument was. So then I went from that to just, it's so cold jokes, like redneck jokes.

I wrote down a couple for you. Oh, you've been working on your humor. Ow, I've been stuck in a house six days. Who's been your, who's, did you try them out on Missy? Yeah, I did. Well, the first one I said. The Missy's a tough critic for humor. The first one I told her, I said, it's as cold as a frosted frog.

And she said, that's not funny. I said, it's not intended to be funny. I was trying to get to the point that frogs, when they hibernate, they don't totally enclose themselves in the mud. So the part that's exposed, he's frosted right now. So I just thought it wasn't intended to be funny. She's like, don't do that. But I did. And it had some alliteration to it.

That would be funny at church. I love frogs. I love hunting frogs. I love thinking about frogs. And a frosted frog has a little bit of them. They get better. Yeah, I get. It was so cold on the way over here, I saw a dog stuck to a fire hydrant.

Look, I told that to Missy. Look, she never broke stride. That's funny. I said, you, ma'am, are an oak. She said, I don't get it. I said, Hey, dogs, they peat. As soon as I said they peat, she said, oh, I get it now.

Yeah, that's okay. I told you, if Misty is the judge of jokes, you're going to walk away from comedy. I'm going to tell you that. The funny part was me trying these out on her. Look, there were a lot more. These were the best ones. Oh, okay. I said, it was so cold, I walked outside and I created beard sickles.

She said, that's not funny. That happens. I've seen you. So you were three for three. No ha ha ha. So then there was number four. And look, this one I didn't think was funny. Uh-oh.

She audibly laughed. Uh-oh. I said, it's so cold, I just saw Richard Simmons in pants. Now, she laughed. She said, that's funny. That's clever. That's pretty good. So once I got the laugh, I stopped.

You pulled a Costanza. I'm out. Tough crowd. Your wife was a tough crowd. Remember that we used to watch Dangerfield? Dangerfield said, you know, when he just done, they wouldn't, he's like, tough crap. Yeah, that's why. Can't get a laugh at them.

I think opposites attract. And now what we did go into then was the real meaning of what happens in these disasters is that on the positive side is that I have seen more people helping other people, especially back where I'm from in Austin at that locale. They formed a group, a neighborhood group. techs in with the school and there had been more people cooking hot meals and buying diapers for other people and it's just constant and even here I noticed uh I saw where Carl Malone who you know the NBA basketball player that he's been in this duck call shop yeah before he uh

he turned his car dealership into they just started cooking and and feeding all the people that were stranded because over to the west of us they got it way more severe right than we But look, there's a thousand stories out there like that. And I just think that that's one of the great things about America. I mean, believers or unbelievers, they tend to come together in places in times of crisis. So, you know, that has been awesome. And we talked about that, some Jason, on the last podcast. Of course, Dad wasn't with us with Zach.

That, unfortunately, there's a mindset now of people. And some of us regionalized, I think, in cities and stuff. You know, the rural idea is something happens, you start looking out for helping folks. I mean, a tree falls across the road anywhere around here. There's some rednecks out there with chainsawls getting off the road immediately. We were doing that very thing yesterday. Another thing you need to think about is when people start interacting with one another, trying to help one another, it's a good sign because,

these days in modern day America, people are kind of conditioned so that they will be dependent on the government, this program, or that program. And what happens is, in other words, you've got to clear text, make it your ambition to live a quiet life, mind your own business, work hard with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life or win. the respect of outsiders and this has to mean something especially in the times of a big ice storm or anything other any other kind of storm so that you won't have to be dependent on anybody right yeah it is the best way to roll especially the government well especially because what happened is you'll get it in your mind well i'm paying for my water where is it i'm paying for my electricity where is it?

I paid them for it. And they said, here's what this is going to cost you to run electricity till you have. This is the bill. Well, if you're paying the bill, you found yourself in a situation where you're dependent on them

because they owe you the electricity because you paid your electric bill this month. It doesn't come forth. Take the state of Texas. I mean, there were millions and millions of Texan dietary. They were just hung out of the drive. I, fortunately, you know, I'm 74, so I was old enough to be raised, you know, in a log house

with a fireplace in one end of it. There were no heaters, no central air, no air conditioners at all. So we got used to just put the back log on. We get you a big, big log for the night. Yeah. Because you want to take the last in the morning, scrape around a little bit when just after daylight comes and start throwing some wood and they get you another firebed. We just thought, but we never dream life is hard.

Or that somebody's going to come save us. And somebody going to come save it. No. I mean, if you wanted milk, you went out there and milk the cow to come in there. If you wanted butter, somebody had to churn it, you know, with a stick with a paddle on the end of it. So what I'm saying is smokehouse, you got meat hanging up out there in it. And as a boy, I remember that. And this was no dependence on anybody.

I mean, it was like, and somebody had walked in and said, boy, you know, times of horror looks like we'd have said, it'd been like those old Western, we'd have said, what? No, times are good. What? So to prove your point, to your time about almost 70 years ago. Yeah. The 40 years ago, the one I mentioned earlier, we were without power for about 10 days down there on the river.

Sure. Grandin power there. We did the same thing then. Sure. In other words, 30 years. Did you hear anybody say, man, what in the world? We have lost our election. Well, unfortunately, it becomes political.

I mean, the news, what little news I've watched, because I've been home so much, they're all blaming each other. And, Jay, here's the thing. Almost immediately they started that. I mean, in other words, we were one day into the thing and figuring it out. And here comes the blame game. This guy's not doing this. I'm sitting there thinking, from a godly viewpoint.

this what God said thousands of years ago in this Bible love your neighbor that's really ringing true right now big time no doubt about it I mean you just think about what is getting people through it it's not politics it's people loving their neighbor right that's the way it should be and then folks came together and said we're going to kill a couple of hogs so the date they'd wait till it was a cold day October used to be pretty cold right here. Global warming got them. But anyway, they'd come up there the kinfolks would and that they all come together and it was like a kind of like a gathering, but it all centered around a couple of these big hogs they had fattened up. Well, that meat I told you about smoking

in the smokehouse. Yeah. That was bacon, ham. I mean, they had it, I mean, they not down all the way down to the intestines. I mean, they ate literally his brains. Brains and Hogghead cheese Eggs and brains You're so weird No I'm saying this is the way people live No I'm saying that's what people would say

Oh that's weird Hang on let's take a break Which a lot of that is the media I think Creates those situations If you're going to live On the South Texas Or South Louisiana

If you're going to live on the coast Florida Start down the coast Hurricane. Al, you're going to get blown away. They're coming. But you didn't think you would have a 10-inch snowstorm. I saw some town right on the Mexico, Texas border.

If you live on the earth from time to time, you're going to see a tornado, a storm, an ice storm, summertime, cloudburst, tornado. I mean, it's just the way life is. Well, every time there's a hurricane that hits, I hear the same people saying, see, global warming, these bad hurricanes. How long have you think hurricanes have been hitting the sun?

Southern Coast. Wow, it's hot somewhere. You're not getting, you're right, I'm missing it. That is the point of it. They're like, it's five o'clock somewhere. The Hebrew writer said the planet Earth, the heavens and the earth, they are, the earth is swearing out. And it'll be rolled up like a scroll and it'll disappear.

It is swearing out. They did say a fire. Yep. It is going to occur. They did. But I'm waiting on the global warming to me. Your sign that it's fixed to be global warming is fixed to be a reality is when you hear... Because you can read Second Peter.

Read Second Peter 3 and you'll see what I'm talking. When you hear that sound, guess what? You say, global warming is real. It's not going to be that. You're going to hear a loud musical instrument. A trumpet call. And you say, I wonder who in the world can be that loud. on the trumpet. When you see that, all you got to remember out it, it's fixed to get hot here.

My daughter asked me that one time. She's like, well, if Jesus comes back here, will the people in Asia and Europe, will they have time to then repent? Because they're the other side of the world. I think if you can fly from the third dimension of heaven, you can pretty much fly around at the same time. I think you'll have sound control for the whole planet. I said it might be a time stopping moment. This is big picture. Big, big picture. Why can you just click pause?

He could do that. You see that on a movie. We're all going to just pause. Yep. But you think about it, that's why we would be called, what we would be called idiots first. We would be called science

deniers because we're not running around with our hands up in there. Oh, no, what's going to happen? But the difference is these global warming or whatever, or now climate change, they keep changing the name. Because now you call it climate change that so it can be anything. It's too cold.

It's too cold. It's too hot. It's all the same. But the reason, the difference in the way we view it and they view it is that we don't believe we can fix it. And they say all it will cost is how many tree and it? Whatever, whatever. Right.

And we're like, that's not up to, we look at the Bible. We say God's in control of the whole situation. And he said when the day comes, he's taking it down. So we don't run around with our hands. I think it's a thief. He comes like a thief. We don't know the day. It's because we've all, even us as believers,

you just get up every day and it's a new day. And this has happened for so long. It will be like, it'll be not surprising. Because, you know, First Thessalon's 5th said this day should not surprise you when Jesus goes back. But it will be like, oh, I mean, what would be a lesser degree of surprise? You're not surprised as in he came back. You're surprised, oh, on this day. Right.

So that's basically his point that it was today. Well, the problem for these people now that are so panicked is that there's so many talking heads on television predicting these dates. So the date comes and goes, you know, this year is the end point for all. It comes and it goes and keeps going. And nobody goes back and says, well, I thought you said this was 10 years ago we were done. Now it's, you know, nine years from now. AOC says, you know, it's going to be about this year. Well, that's what I say every time.

Every time I see one of these weird theories about here's the day. You know, the Mayan said it was like 2012. I was a 12. I think it was 2012. So I'm like, I know what it's not going to be. Oh, yep, came and went. Yeah, because I was doing a, we were doing a tour in Cancun about that. And that guy who was a mind of mine descent.

He was like, oh, yeah, this is where I'm going to be on 2012, on whatever the December 21st, 2012, because it's all happening. And I remember this was about 2010. I thought, I never forgot that. And then when that day came and went, I thought, I wonder if that old boy was standing there at that whatever he was going to stand at. Because 2012 just kind of came and went, you know, along with the rest of them. The almighty's pretty plain.

You don't know when he's coming. He says that over and over. And yet, Jace, you're right. How many people want to just talk about in times and eschatology, which is the bigger world? I mean, they just want to just live there. And it's like, really, like, that shouldn't really be a focus because it's going to happen, but we're not going to know. Well, I got a guy who loves Jesus, and he's one of my good friends. But he spends his spare time looking for the signs of the end.

Yeah, the numbers. And I'm like, you're wasting time. That's what I say. Let's take another break. So he's coming like, yeah, but it's fun for me. I was like, you're wasting time. Spend that time sharing Jesus with people. Yeah.

It's to have them ready when he gets here. Not, oh, here's when he's coming. I mean, there's a big difference in the way you motivate people through that. I mean, he says this a couple of times, you know, when he says in First or Second Peter, when he says the heavens will disappear and the earth will be laid bare and burned up. It's like, since this is going to happen, what kind of people should you be? I mean, there is some motivation there, but ultimately, if you read this, New Testament, the motivation is what Jesus did. That is the plan. That's when you go through the book

of Acts like we've been doing, the plan was here's who Jesus is, here's what he did, here's what he will do, and that's what cut people to the heart. A side benefit of that is when the global warming does happen, and I mean the ultimate warming, as in way too fast, way too quick. then okay yeah you're ready but still it's not about a place it's about the people and ultimately our relationship with god that wins out i mean i've said this many times but i feel passionately about it i mean with my wife i would go anywhere with her because it's i'm with her right so ultimately wherever we go we're we're doing it together and that's that's the same thing that i said about our faith in my immature faith i used to say oh

I'm following Jesus because I want to go to heaven. But as I matured, I'm like, I'm following Jesus because I want to be with Jesus forever. Oh, yeah, in heaven. Yeah. And that's the difference. Well, Al, I don't know why you're the ideology that they're hammering on now, certain individuals, the globe and warming crowd, they ought to love the Apostle Peter, the day of the Lord will be like a thief.

The rest is going to come to an end. That's what they're hollering. The heavens will. disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire and the earth and everything in it laid bad. All the left-wingers ought to be saying, yay, Peter. Peter agrees with us. He was the original climate change. And we're saying, but Peter said, y'all are correct. So, so calm down when we get a little, you know, don't try to move it up some, because when this day happens, you better be ready to all of you. Here's the kicker though, that. He said that 2,000 years ago.

Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. And so you had this week, speaking of this, so you had Bill Gates, one of the richest people in the world, you know, has all this Internet and Microsoft money. And so he says nobody should be eating meat. We should be eating synthetic meat. We should grow microbes into meat. Will that help you in the heat?

Apparently that keeps the cows from releasing methane gas. which is destroying the ozone layers is what he said. Well, here's my deal. When the son was in the pig pan, and he came to his senses after a life of rebellion, drunkenness, orgies, and the like, his father was waiting, you know, on the trail home. And he seized the son, and he put a robe on him. He put a ring on his finger, and he killed the fatten calf.

the creator of the universe in response to why I'm eating with you wicked people the culmination of the story was gathering around a dead cow and eating filet mignon. I'm like, that's in. That's right. I'm going with it till I die. Now look, if you want to eat the synthetic version of it

and still come great. I love it because I'm not sure we have enough cows to feed everybody. So I love people that don't want to eat it. I've been with these people all week. I've got all these teenagers in my house. Missy's cooking the greatest meals ever. And they're like, oh, I don't think I like that. Look, and one night, one of them said, hey, guess what?

I just ordered out back. I said, that was a waste of time. I said, how are they going to get here? They said, well, it was open online. I said, well, it ain't open on the sidewalk out there. I go back to Hebrew 617 because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised. That's us. He confirmed it with an oath.

You say, is there going to be a last day? God says it's going to be a last day. I'm going to come. I'm going to punish those who don't know me and who have not obeyed the gospel. they're going to be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out for my presence when i come down and all of the believers are going to marvel at what they see that's second that'selonian but this says god made the oath i will save y'all he did this so that by two unchangeable things and which it's impossible for god to lie he said it's impossible for me to lie and i'm telling you right now

i'm going to deliver you i'm going to make good on the promise i made Abraham back over there. I'll save you. We who have fled to take hold of the hope offered, that's us. We said, we're running to God. To us may be greatly encouraged. We have this hope. God said, I will save you. Don't worry about the pandemics when they come and go. The storms will come and go. They'll all pass, hunker down, be self-contained. Don't be dependent on on men, just depend on me. Love your neighbor. I love your neighbor and love me.

I'll get you out of here alive now. And I'm telling you, and we have that hope that we're going to get out alive, no matter what the weather does, what pandemics do, viruses. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. So with me, Al, I'm like, we have a hope. And if you're not a child of God, you don't. I'm just saying, first thanks first, better get it right with God because one of these days, what them left ringers are haunted about, there's a global heating coming.

Well, no doubt about it. And mainly you nailed it because really environmentalism in general to some people has become a religion. I mean, it is their religion. It is their religion. And I love the environment. I do too. I mean, who's more conservation than the three of us? I mean, in terms of creating things for the environment, nobody.

does more than we do. So it's not that we don't love the environment, but we don't worship the created. We worship the creator. And I think that's the most consistent. Way back when y'all were boys, it was coming up, and I looked around down there, and the electricity would go off really a lot. I mean, when we had a dirt road going in there where we live, it would go off a lot. Multiple. I said, I told him as Kay, I said, if we ever have the funds, the first thing I'm going to do is buy me a generator, one of these, automatic ones that I don't even have to go out there and crank the thing up and put gas on it. The fuel tank will be there.

These computerized world, somebody will be monitoring that particular generator to make sure it's running goods, pay them a little fee, they come apparently check it out time by time, keep the propane bottle full. And look, 10 seconds, if some storm comes over and knocks down the power lines, which it's done multiple times this year between hurricanes and this freeze-out. I'm sitting there. I said, well, the argument through electricity, black dark.

We're all, we're sitting there watching television. Boom, it all leaves. I said, the old Jenner rack out there is sitting there. Ten seconds. Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Boom. Ever the lights come back on. I'm like, kudos to the generator, people.

And look, we rode that sucker for three days. and somebody says, so you didn't miss a thing. So if you're going to take money and invest in things and men and depend on it, just get you a generator if you're worried about your life's growing up. Today's message is trust in Jesus and buy a generator. By a generator. Trust in God and buy a generator while you're at it. Let's take one last break.

The expects you to be more than an idiot. I mean, if you say, I wonder if we're ever going to have a hurricane. Yeah, I wonder if we ever going to have ice, six, finchy foot deep. Yeah, from time to time. You're going to get them. It's about every 40 years. You said, well, why spend all that money on a generator if it don't come around

about every 15 or 20 years? Well, here we are. And the last time we saw it, Jace, was back in there about me and I, when we went duck hunting on the bank that day. It was two. We killed a few ducks. But you say, how long has that been? That was the 80s.

40 years ago. You're not going to believe this. I told you. I'm just ready just in case. I told you something. happened to me this morning that you would find unbelievable. I told you, but I didn't want to tell you what it was. So I live in town.

I mean, I know I'm in Louisiana, but, ow, I live by you. I mean, we're in Yuppieville. Would you agree? Oh, yeah. City dwellers. We did a Beverly Hillbilly takeover of our neighborhood. So this is like day six. I mean, I'm right next to the power grid thingy, whatever.

Right next to Willie's up. And so this is like day six of Lock. down nobody can go it's frozen the frozen tundra around here well we have a couple of willie has a stock pond that he stalked some fish but it's it's a yuppie pond it has a little bridge going across i saw it there's no mud i made no comment it's embarrassing he's got little water generators in the water so it doesn't freeze i guess i don't know what that's full it had everything but a wilderness look about it. So anyway, I wake up this morning because my dog has had to stay in the garage this entire time, which has been not yet. Yeah. Because it's too cold. So every time he's in this cage,

because at first I just said he can live in the garage. Well, after he destroyed that in an hour, I said, nope, he's going to have to stay. I got to lock the door. So I open it up and let him out. He's running around. And so I go down to look at his pen because I thought, well, it's going to to warm up. I don't know what I was thinking. I mean, this thing, you can't even move the doors open. It's a foot of ice and there's nowhere to get in there. But I look,

I say, what's that in the water? And most of that pond behind my house is froze up. And it's not a, it was not good for ducks. Some yuppies have some pet ducks. They're like, some of them are like these white ducks and weird looking. Well, I'm looking there and I said,

that's a green wing too. I am looking and I took my camera out because I said they're not going to believe this I know that green wing teal is not tame there that is a wild from Canada green wing till I zoomed it up green wing teal Drake and I looked out there and there were more and if if I could describe my neighborhood for a bunch of green wing teal to be flying around in the piney wood hills of town we're ridges we're we're ridgeland to get to this spot This has been the greatest migration of all times for a green wing till to wind up right there.

That's a good sign. So listen to this. So I go running, up, slip, I forgot it was eyes. Because I was trying to, I was going to show Missy. I was like, there was a green wing till I got it. So as I'm running, my dog who had let out 15, 20 minutes ago, he's coming to me and he has a duck in his mouth. and I'm like Now he came from Willie Spont

So I went drop Because I thought the duck I thought he had caught a tamed duck I picked the duck up It was a dead shoveler Now a shoveler Now it's one thing to say Okay it's a miracle

A Green Wing Tills here Now we got a shoveler That has died And I'm thinking at the mouth of my dog Now how did he catch it? how did he kill it how did he kill i know he killed it chomp chomp i guess i guess but normally a duck i mean it was like a limp shoveler like it wasn't like he you know got it out of somebody's freezer maybe the ice and all they lost their food supply and he just he was one of the victims he fell victim to

the current status so i came in and out so i walked in the house i should have thought this through carrying the dead shelter so miss him and all the girls screamed. And I, like, looked around behind me. And I was like, it's a dead shoveler. They were screaming because I brought the dead shoveler in. And she's like, typical yuppie women. It's bleeding.

I was like, babe, you don't realize. Something's happened. There's something. This is the signs of the end of the world. Something has happened here. A green winged till is in the pond. My dog just retrieved. a dead shoveler

that you didn't shoot. That I didn't shoot it's not a duck season. And she's like, well, are we going to eat it? I was like, I can't eat a shovel. I'm not that fired out.

Now the green wing tail, I would have had to break the law. And so I wound up, I thought about that, put in the back of my truck and I thought, be my luck. You know,

I pull into the gas station and there's a game one. He's like, where'd you get that shovel there, boss? I was like, you're not going to believe this. I have a story.

And I would sound like as he's hand cuffing me and taking me and reading my rights or whatever they do. I don't know. They're like, oh yeah, so your dog retrieved it from your yard in yuppie subdivision. So I have the shoulder if you want to sit because I said, you're not going to believe this. So I don't know what's going on. The till we're in the lake today.

Yep. This morning. I have the video of the one. By the way, Jace, I made it. I couldn't make it to the boat house, but I drove to the dog. I just wanted to see what it looked like. We just lost all our viewers. They're like, what is he talking about?

The dog is a creek that we own. It's dog value. It's 50 acres flooded field for duck season. We hunted it all year up to a couple of weeks ago. How many ducks were on it? It was zero and the entire thing all the way to the levee, the deeper part down there. Solid ice. You know where they went?

I have no idea of the neighborhood. My backyard. yard. We are literally. They ended up in the subdivision. They're in the subdivision, which is the worst thing that could possibly have. That's hard times when it gets so cold that it runs ducks to subdivision. Well, I thought.

The bass pond had a few gadballs and a ringnecks sitting on it. Because it's deeper. Deeper. And it didn't freeze there, but the dog was the bayou. It was all solid ice. You know, as funny is that pond had ice in it. I couldn't get past yet because the road, the ice had bent the trees over. and I tried about a quarter mile of it.

After that, I said, you know what? It's not worth it. Well, by the way, so I'll wrap this up by saying to it, because I know we got a lot of fans and listeners of the podcast up north, Canada. So we just experienced, not even what you guys experienced, but a little taste of how you live all winter. And I just want to say, I'm out. Yeah.

I don't want to live like you guys do up there. Oh, I mean, it's got to be tough. I mean, I don't know how you do it. my hats off to you. They don't want to be hot. I guess not, but I don't want the ice around. I couldn't walk. I look like a 90-year-old man trying to get out of the bathtub walking around my yard.

Which should be a motivation for everyone in the north to come to Jesus. That's right. You read 2nd Peter 3. I did pray for my Texans next door because when they lost the heat and all that, it's not that you can't get enough cover to cover up. You can make it. But I'm just saying. It was tough.

It was pretty tough on them. I'll tell you what, Dad, that's a good idea. Why don't you offer up a prayer as we close out today for all of our folks that are unthawed over there in Texas? I would pray, Father, that my fellow Texans would remember that their ancestors dating back the last 250 years were very tough men and women when they went out there and settled Texas and the scraps that followed with whoever,

making it a part of this republic of the United States of America, of America, I would just go back, Father, and ask them to go back and remember those days. Texans were known for their toughness, and I would pray during a thing like this, what it comes down to is just that, just toughness with an attitude that these things come, they pass, and you get back to relatively normal, and life goes on. But to escape it all, pandemics, floods, storms, hail. pestilence, whatever comes our way. Some coming from you, maybe some coming from the evil one.

I just pray, Father, that they stay together. Put their faith in you because you, at the end of the day, will be the one that will judge us all. So I pray that they put their faith in you and not so much in their fellow man. But love them, but don't trust them and put your complete faith in them. These things happen. They will pass.

I love all these folks from 10. in the name of Jesus. I'm praying for them here today. Amen. Amen. Thanks for listening to the Unashamed podcast. Help us out by rating us on iTunes. And don't miss an episode by subscribing on YouTube and be sure to click that little bell to get notified about new episodes. And for even more content that you won't get anywhere else, subscribe to Blaze TV at blazedtv.com slash Unashamed.