Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 30 | The Secret Handshake with President Trump, and Phil Is a Kanye West Fan

Episode Date: November 17, 2019

President Donald Trump makes a visit to Monroe, Louisiana. Jase brought his family, Phil got to speak, and Al missed the whole thing. See episodes of "Unashamed with Phil Robertson": https://bit.ly/2J4XsiX See clips from Phil's TV show "In the Woods with Phil": https://bit.ly/2PNM6k1 To take a FREE 30 Day Trial of Phil's TV show and the rest of BlazeTV: https://www.BlazeTV.com/Phil Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? Well, they actually did a pretty good likeness. That's our unashamed with Phil Robertson. You know, it's... But it kind of looks like Phil. And it's a, what do you call these when it's not a... What does that call?

A likeness? Well, I know, but it's called a... They call that something. I'm not familiar with the cut... It's like when they draw... when you see a person commit to a crime and then they draw a sketch artist?

Yeah, it's like a sketch. I find it interesting that when he talked about, you talked about a police sketch artist, dad. A what? A police sketch artist. Yeah. I don't know. By the way, those you don't want to look at that,

if you go to Blaze TV, that's where you can find out where all the cool merch is for Unashamed. They got shirts, hats. For a nominal thing. Or an I'm on a fee of course. Oh, I didn't know if they give it away or what. No, I think you have to buy it.

I haven't been on there, but I'm sure you do. But it's probably not a lot, but it's worth it. I wore this hat to... Impress your friends. Look, I wore this hat to the... What do we call it that? The presidential rally? Raleigh.

It's the first time a president of the United States has come to Monroe, Louisiana, for a rally. Yeah, other than just like a disaster. Reagan came... Because we had a flood. He looked around here for an hour, and they've been talking about... about it ever since. But the fact that President Trump

came to the Monroe Civic Center I mean, it was a big deal. These people went crazy. Did you notice, look, they replaced all the lights in the Civic Center. They had all new light bulbs and they painted it. And look, that bathroom was clean. No. Yes.

Did it work? And it worked, I thought. Because our Civic Center is lacking. It was built 50 years ago. I was shocked. I was shocked. I'm embarrassed. every time I'm in there, like for people coming in. I'm like, oh, I wish we had a better. But so they did spruce it up a little bit.

Oh, they did. That's exciting. Yeah, and all the lights work. That's pretty good. So it was really amazing to do it. And so what's funny is, is this all happened fairly quickly. So I had already, you know, committed for me and Lisa and Sai to go to Florida. So Cy and I had already committed to going and appearing at the thing.

We were there, diamond and silk. It was really a lot of fun. But the show was great. But as soon as we find that out, then I'm like, oh, because then Trump is coming to Monroe. Oh, yeah. And it was after I'd already committed. So I missed it. So I missed it.

And I missed it. But you all got to be there. So what was it like? I mean, what was the – Oh, I was – that was one of the most – it was just – first of all, I thought it was fun. and I've never seen a crowd at the Monroe Civic Center that energetic, enthusiastic impact. You know, we've done.

And we've done shows there. Hundreds. I've been at hundreds events from hockey games to, you know. I mean, we were the, remember, we did a thing, a fundraiser one time, and there were 3,000 people there for us. Oh, yeah, it was, the crowd is, you know. It reminds me of the verse of the Bible where Jesus says, a prophet has no honor, you know, in his hometown.

Right. I mean, some of the worst audiences I've ever had. have when I spoke was in our hometown. They just don't see the inside. Trust me. There were, what, 9,500 probably inside and probably at least that many outside, watching a monitor. I mean, Phil and I, there was supposed to be five or six of us that went, Phil and Kay went

and Willie, me and Missy and Mia. And Jeff went in. But then we had a few other people with it. So we only have five or six seats. Well, there was 11 of us. So we got there. Well, they had our reserve seating. They're like, not enough seats.

So a few of us took it for the team. They'll do a little redneck bring a few extras of plus ones. Hey, we'll make it work. No. I've never seen so much law enforcement and secret service. Have you? Never. I mean, look, we go through that we had a police escort and the Secret Service escort there.

Because Willie was, they asked him to speak. and here's what I think happened. I don't know if I should even say this, but I am. What are they going to do fire me? And what happened was because Trump came down and I think he had endorsed Abraham. Is that right for governor? He didn't endorse anybody during the primary.

Well, somebody said, you know, me came down. He did a thing for Responi and Ralph. Okay, so he was just because we have a Democratic governor, Edwards. And but Willie did a commercial for Responi. Yeah, he endorsed Respone. Yeah, and so he barely beat Abraham, which everybody loves Abraham,

but you know, it's like on the Republican side, who are you going to vote for? And so they're in a runoff. So now Trump's coming back, and he decides to come to Monroe, which is kind of shocking. I mean, as far as there's not that many people, I mean, I think compared to some of the bigger cities

in Louisiana, you know, Baton Rouge. New Orleans, Shreveport, I guess. It is interesting that he's been to, he came to Lake Charles, Monroe, and he's coming to Shreveport next week. And it obviously shows you his commitment to, you know, helping Republicans win the state back. But it also is interesting that he didn't pick New Orleans in Baton Rouge. I mean, he picked the other three cities in Louisiana,

which is kind of interesting. I'm surprised that it is Trump territory. That is that big a deal. Well, I know Don Jr., of course, he was texting. He's like, hey, you know, my dad's going. and coming to see y'all, you know, what y'all doing? And so I took that to mean, hey, you know, y'all want to come, perhaps speak or whatever. So, but Willie, I think they probably had a meeting and said, hey, that responding won by 2% or whatever.

And Duck Dynasty people endorsed him. So next thing you know, Willie's talking. I thought Willie did a good job. Did a great job. But just getting in there. So Willie spoke to the crowd before Trump got there, right? He was the undercard. Oh, yeah.

And then they had the other Louisiana politicians, which I felt, I don't know about you. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Now, this Kennedy? He's hilarious. That guy, I will campaign for that guy. That was one of the best little speeches. He came out there with passion.

He was funny. Of course, it helped that everything he said that he was for. I'm also for. Because I've, you know, for years stayed out of the political realm, even though I'm pretty right-wing as far as I say that with price. But you don't really endorse or anything. No, I stay out of it because, you know, what happens is we're all, we all make mistakes. We all, you know, and politicians seem to make more than others.

It just seems to that way. Oh, yeah. And so then whenever you tie yourself to them and then they, you know, the repercussions of that. But in this case, you know, I knew the Trumps before they were running for president. And so, and we had a, you know, our relationship was built on things that. that were good, you know, helping kids. And so, hey, you know, I said, sure, I'll go. So we go, but it took us about, I would say, what, Phil, 20, 25 minutes just to get in?

Because the security process, you know, when you go through the airport, well, it was way more extensive than that. I mean, they're looking in your, you know, your snuff can. They're, you know, what is this? You know, your wallet. I was like, this is crazy. And, of course, you know, Kay, she brought enough where she, could have camped out there three days, so that tied up a lot of the time. You know, they're going through what is all this?

Actually, the Secret Service removed my duck calls from my neck. I just brought duck calls because we're 16 days from duck season, and I just decided, you know, when I was, what's the acknowledged by the president there, I'm sitting over there, surrounded by politicians. First thing I did, knowing duck season. and was here in 16 days. Yeah. I just grabbed my duck call and cranked down on it.

Secret Service looked at it and said, we don't allow this in here. Well, you know why he said? I said, well, why not? Because they didn't want people like... Make a racket with it. Make a distraction. Like Trump says something you don't like,

somebody, blah, blow it. I didn't blow the duck call until he acknowledged my presence somehow in the speech. He said, Gladfields it. And so I just acknowledged what he had just said. I just cranked down on. that duck call put a highball on them. And, you know, just for the people who were there,

I thought it would be liven up the party a little bit. You know what was weird? It was a great idea. When you blew the duck call, the people were cheering so much, I couldn't even hear the duck on. I saw you blowing it. They drowned me out. And you were 10 feet from me, and I couldn't hear it.

Wow. I mean, whoever heard of going to a crowd of, you know, 10,000 people sitting there, you know, and not have his duck call on them. Are you crazy? So I thought they let it in. Because the Secret Service came up. And he just nodded.

Because they were like, we have these duck calls. What do we do? You know, the guys bringing in duck calls. What do you do? They're all speaking in their speaker in the cigarette service. He just nodded his head. And they were like, okay, sir, here you go. One nod.

Yeah. One of the things that's worthy of note here, I give you two texts from the kingdom standpoint. I'm a member of the kingdom of God, so you two. We are functioning inside a man-made government. In our case, our founding fathers were very godly men. So we have a tradition, at least, that we're standing on Judeo-Christian teachings. I have a Bible in my lap here. One of the things that we're told, it is necessary, this is Romans 13,

to submit to the authorities. You're talking law enforcement, governors, presidents, whatever. politicians, attorney generals, all of them. It's necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment, but also because of conscience, just doing right.

This is also why you pay taxes. Someone says, that's in the Bible. It's everything you've ever thought of is in the Bible. Well, that's what we were talking about last time, about the judges and God set up this system. You're to, you pay for the authority.

Authorities are God's servants who give their full time to governing. So we respect them. Give everyone what you owe him. If you owe taxes, pay taxes. If revenue, then revenue. And it gets down to this. If respect, whatever party there with, even if it's ungodly, we are to show all men respect.

If honor, then honor. That's one text you might look into it. And if it also says if you're going to vote for a guy, vote for the one. who's going to take less taxes. Correct. Oh, I don't say that. But the point is. But that's pretty good thinking.

Well, I would think. It's biblical. Yeah. So the bottom line is, and then we have the text over in 2nd Timothy, which is interesting, endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. The Apostle Paul kind of talks about a military-type structure. It's a tier of leadership. In this case, it's an eternal.

kingdom, kingdom of God inside earthly governments. We're all over the world. We're within Red China, North Korea, Venezuela, the communist countries, the dictatorships. You say the kingdom of God is within that worldwide. And they're told, be a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No one serving as a soldier of Christ Jesus gets involved. This is 2 Timothy chapter 2, by the way. No one who's serving as a soldier in God's army, the kingdom, gets involved in civilian affairs. He wants to please his commanding officer. So that has to mean something as far as how deep we get into man-made governments.

And there's a role for us. We are to point all men to Jesus, the gospel. Which is what you tried to do. That's what I try to do. Phil's not going to tell the story, but I will. you know, when Trump got up there, of course, everybody, you know, every time he says something that we're for, you know, he's like, I'll tell you what, you know, I'm going to, I'll tell you what I will,

I'll protect your Second Amendment. Well, you know, everybody's crazy. They're high-fiving, you know, rolling around on the ground, you know. It's crazy. And so then he would call the different, you know, state, Louisiana state, I guess all of those were Republicans, I guess. Yeah, they were there. They were there.

And that's where Kennedy spoke. Well, then he got down to the undercard, and he brought up Phil and Willie. And he's like, I don't think y'all were supposed to go up there, but he's like, come on up here. I thought, oh, because I saw Willie turn red, and Phil took off, you know. And so then Phil got up. I think Phil said, let me get this right. if you're pro-god pro-america

pro-guns and pro-duck-hunt and you forgot pro-life but I know that would have been a good one pro-god yeah that is God covers it oh good got to remember well play some chick when I started walking toward the podium some chick come running up there she said I'm with security no well I don't know but she said I'm with the White House she said keep it within a minute Oh, really? Yeah.

She should keep it within a minute, so she didn't want me to get it all drawn out on some kind of Oh, no wonder. So when I heard that. She's heard you speak before. I looked around and I thought, well, I've got my shot, but it ain't long. So I basically said, let's cut to the chase. And if you think about it logically, if you have the electorate and they're pro-god and an electorate who is pro-America.

Now, just think about what you're looking at coming out of the Democratic Party. They booed God out of their platform in 2011, literally took his name out of their platform. He's low on their totem pole. He's low on the total point. There's no mention of, I've never heard of him even say Jesus or God. Well, and even Mr. Trump has done more for the religious community

than any other president. So I said, if you're pro-God, at least he's not anti-lawful. anti-Christian, anti-God. I mean, I've talked to, I've given him Bible verses, so I'm like. But I didn't finish my story. So Phil says that. So Willie gets up and basically just glad you're here. You know, this is an awesome place.

Vote Eddie. Because we were there to vote for the governor, you know, to promote the governor. And to Trump's also looking ahead of 2020. That's what I think. Yeah, it is. It was about responding more than Trump. But when Willie was talking, well, Phil's back there has jotted down some scriptures about Jesus and baptism.

Because the last time y'all met, you shared Jesus with it. So Phil, but I thought only Phil, I saw him talking to him. And so then I, as soon as it was over, as Willie was talking, they were, he was doing this. Because when it was over, his mask out of himself, getting out of there. So then we called Phil as they left. And I was like, what were you saying? And he was like, oh, I went, I picked up where I left off at the last Bible study. I was like, on stage behind Willie's lay.

I was, it's an ongoing, because this is the third time. I was giving spiritual advice to our president who I respect and our honor because he's their president. Right. And someone said, well, he was a sinful man. I said, so was I. And so were all of you. We're all sinful people. We are to honor the king.

You honor. And look, we brought this up last night. We were talking about this. You know, the Obama's invited Willie and Corey, you know, into their office. to meet them. It's like when the president, no matter whether you voted for them, whether you even support their policies, you support the president. And by the way, they were very gracious to Willie and Corey. Oh, yeah. And told Willie and Corey that their daughters at that time, this is years ago, they were teenagers or younger,

watched our show and liked it. He said they watched that as to and Air Force. I think that's the difference that you can't go too far with this. You know, I mean, look, there's a lot of things. I'm for Trump basically because he's for more things that I'm for Yeah, I mean, it represents, look, do I like, you know, his style in every detail? No, it's basically, you know, our country is divided, which it is, and he's like, pick aside, we're on the winning side. There's nothing wrong with that. But, you know, I've always been the type of person. I like more, you know, our leaders trying to bring people together and inspire.

And I kind of like that angle a little better. But we have what we have. I view the, you know, some of the stuff he says is just funny because it's kind of, it's like almost like an embellishment or he's talking down to his opponents, you know. I mean, I don't particularly like that style, but I just view it as humor and I take it in that light, you know? But what I was going to say is, you know what was amazing about that whole night together? The biggest applause is when he said, I heard y'all have a, I have a football game coming up. with Alabama, that place went nuts. And everybody started, LSU, LSU, LSU, LSU.

So he had to pause for the LSU chair. Well, I think he was looking around like, what's all of these people. I mentioned. He's going to the game. That's what I heard. He said, and you all have a pretty good quarterback, you know, and everybody, LSU, LSU, we could come up with nothing else. Every time he said something about the football game, LSU, LSU.

Well, that was the most I got excited, you know, because I'm like, oh, you've hit a nerve here, because our tensions are raw over the upcoming game, which is tomorrow, our time. People listen to this, it'll probably be later. It will have already happen, yeah, yeah, yeah. So having said that, my prediction is, let me just say this off the point,

because I want to give her a prediction. I actually think this is LSU's best chance in 10 years because we've lost nine years in a row to beat Alabama. And I think we have the team to, you know, if we get behind in years past, I'm like, it's over. You're going to turn the game off. Well, we have the type of team that it can come back right now. So I'm actually predicting if LSU can just stay in it, I believe they'll win.

I agree. I pick them to win. You know, I have these inner feelings about games. I felt bad about the Alabama game for years. And because we've been in a situation where I didn't feel like we could win, the last couple of years has just been brutal. But this year, I feel totally confident we're going to go in. I think it'll be close.

I mean, two is great. Alabama's great. Yeah. I mean, look, we may lose. It's out of Alabama's hard to win on the road. So, you know, I mean, we struggled last week. But here's the deal. I think even if we don't, I think we're still in the playoffs if we went out.

Well, right. I mean, that's a lot. It's not as much better. So we're going on record before the game, by the way. So when we come back, if we're wrong, we'll let you know. I like this team. I think this team has what it takes. So dad, back to the Trump deal.

Let me just tell you, you're talking about a Senate sermon. I never knew the White House woman put the minute. That's hilarious. That's an insider. But so we're, Cy and I are down there. Because Fox and Friends was there, you know,

Kilmead and Ducey and Ainsley, they were part of the event. So they did Fox and Friends from that, from St. Pete, Florida the next morning. So Cy and Lisa and I appeared on the show, along with most of the people that were at the event,

9-4. So our segment, they were on there, they lead with you, which I'd already seen it on Fox and Fritz a couple of times. But that was their lead in the, Yeah, your line. Yeah, it was your line.

It was good. And everybody's laughing and they were like, what about that? And Lisa even quoted it doing our interview. But what I meant to tell you was, and across social media the same thing, sometimes it only takes one statement when said well that really makes an impact. Because I saw that all over the Internet, all over social media. Really? Yeah.

So what I'm saying is sometimes you think, you know, politicians think you have to be long-winded. But you don't always have to be that way. I mean, the bottom line is the job is to honor all men. And if you look at the Apostle Paul, he ran up on these governors, Felix and Festus, and on up the chain of Grippa, the king, you know, and I probably, I guess, who was it, Tiberius, was the Caesar at the time in the book of Acts when you're reading about the Apostle Paul. So even he found himself with them explaining what he was doing. Basically, if I ask forward 2,000 years, we do the same thing.

You know what I was thinking? It all matters. We point people to Jesus. We honor them for whoever they are, even whether they put side of the political aisle. But we are Republicans, and we are for God-fearing men to get up there. People who love their country. Now they're hot about Karl Marx over here in the Democratic Party.

Well, I can't vote for him. So I met with John Bell Edwards, the guy running for governor, to tell him, I wasn't voted for him. He's very nice guy. I tell him I wasn't voted for him because I said, you're with the wrong party. You even asked him, you said, why don't you change parties? Sure.

He said, you know, he's pro-life. I said, I can't vote for you with the party you're with because they're anti-God. And to be fair to Governor Edwards, who I know as well is a nice man. I'm at him. And his wife is great. Yeah. He told dad, he said, well, look, a lot of my friends tell me the same thing. John Bell, why are you still in the Democratic Party?

You know, you should be in the Republican Party because your core beliefs are in line more with them. That's true. That's how he got elected in such a conservative. And he said, he said, his answer today. was he said Phil I get that I appreciate that he said you know and I've thought about it before he said but I feel like my party the party I love that my parents grew up in that I grew up in has changed and I want to try to change it back to the way it was before and you know obviously that it's a noble thought it's a noble thought I would tell him good luck when you do change and they do

change well maybe I'll vote for them but right now but dad was honest that's exactly what I wanted to finish this point because what I was a little sad about as fiery as it was, as I thought, you know, I haven't been to an event because I do a lot of events where people were this passionate about Jesus which was a little disturbing to me because I thought, you know, I'm not trying

when I made the comment about, yeah, I wish our politicians would try to bring people together but you know what? I know deep down, it's not going to happen. Our country is divided into two camps and the wall is a giant wall. It's a chasm. It is. But it's our job.

It's actually spiritual warfare. What we have in Jesus is what brings people together. You're not going to do it politically. I'm going to go with the side that supports more godly values and what I think common sense issues, like the right to bear arms and that kind of stuff. So I'm a piggyback on that, Jay, because that's interesting you bring that up. The other, on our interview on Fox and Friends earlier this week, the second thing they asked us about, which was really interesting,

they asked us about this, because you imagine, and sigh, Ascon Sae about this, was about Kanye West. And what we thought about his new album, which is called Jesus is King. I'm not familiar with these people. Oh, yeah. See, Jay says that. So Kanye West. Tell me about him.

All right. He's a rapper. Well, no wonder I hadn't heard of him. He's a rapper. He's very famous. He's married to one of the Kardashians, you know, so he's been on that show. I'm vaguely familiar. So here's where, here's Kanye West came other than his.

rapper married to a Kardashian part of his persona and a huge following. He, the last year, has been in the news a lot because he is a Trump supporter. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. And he went to the White House. He's got a MAGA hat. And all the people are blowing their minds. He's crazy.

Well, how could he be following Trump? Well, that's what we kind of knew about him. What's happened is, apparently over the last few months or less than a year, is he has converted to Christianity. I mean, seriously converted. So out of that. I've seen a couple of interviews amazing. And, of course, they're making hay over the political part of it. He's, you know, now he's pro-life.

He's talking about abortion and all that. So that's getting a lot of play. But he's come out with a new Christian album, a Christian rap album called Jesus is King. And the first time he performed. I like the title. Was impromptu in Baton Rouge last week. He went to Baton Rouge. The guys at Bethany that you and I spoke for.

Remember then? They baptized all those people. They hosted him. Well, thousands of people showed up. So he does some of his new stories. stuff off his new album and at the end they do an altar call a thousand people made commitments to follow christ by the way so i mean since you brought that up al it is interesting that during this cycle along with the conversion of him you know the guy the other day that was said he had been a left

winger all his life we came up here and i baptize you know we talked with him great guy yeah but he he repented turned to god he took we turned him to jesus he said i heard you give a speech down there you can't win them if you hate them. Right. Well, it's ridiculous. That's the difference in the politics. I don't hate the opposing political party. When I was sitting in the crowd, I'm like, yes, I'm going to vote for Mr. Trump.

And yes, you know, I know. But in the back of my mind, I was thinking, what we're doing in Jesus and sharing Jesus is way bigger than this. Because we have the ability through the Holy Spirit of God to change the heart. If you just try to out-argue somebody or convince them, it's not going to happen in the political. It's just not going to happen. You may convince a couple here and there. But, you know, you can actually change the heart of a person.

But think about that's what happened there. Oh, and think about how many people now Kanye West, and again, we don't know him, but just what I'm seeing and reading, I'm excited about it. But how many people will he reach people that you and I couldn't reach? They're not watching the unashamed podcast. They might go to his concert. Hey, whether it's the president or anyone else in politics, I was there.

And if someone said, so what would you say about Donald Trump? I said, I would say he's costically, he's costically brilliant. He's a little caustic in his approach. More than a little bit. But never underestimate. I would say a lot. Never underestimate the brainpower of that man. He's brilliant.

And he's intense. Anybody to pull off what he's pulled off. to now. We know, it's funny that he's a lot more intense in person than I realized. You know, when he's given the speech, you know, you watch it on TV, there's something missing there. When you're in the crowd, the intensity level seemed so much greater. Isn't it to you?

One of the greatest things I saw, we went back in the back and took pictures with him, your mama, Miss Kay, and myself, and we went back in the back, you know, and Willie, I think, was there. So we go up to have a picture take. with the president and he looked at miss k y'all's mother and he said miss k you are a beautiful woman and miss k said and i can cook too and the president i would have to say he laughed out loud she said i can cook too which is classic mom spoken like a little redneck girl but she didn't even she didn't appreciate she was like oh of course i'm good looking but i can cook too

That's classic, mom. And the president of these United States, he burst out in laughter. I mean, he laughed. Well, to show you that you were talking about the Secret Service, to show you how you don't play around with those guys. So I'm in Florida. I don't get crossways with that. Look, I get a text from Bullock, you know, down at JPS.

He said, what's the code on your truck? And I was like, so I said, what do you need that for? And he was like, the Secret Service is, if your truck is not moved from the JPS parking lot, which is in front of the airport, I just lock up and leave it when I go on a trip. But there's no leftover vehicles when the Secret Service rolls in. So they got whoever owns that truck's got one hour or it's towed.

And they shut the interstate down, which I was shocked. You know, I thought they would just have a police escort. Oh, no. Every entrance, right? Yeah, every entrance to the interstate shut down. Because I told me this, I said, I bet they probably close the interstate. She's like, no. I was not going interstate.

But every time we went by the place where you get on, there was a cop car there. I was like, oh yeah. Somebody said, you carry in a weapon with you on this one? I said, no, because I look around out here. I said, I don't need one. That's right. Oh, that was a woman. There was a woman's secret service in our section, and she had like tattoos on both arms,

but she, I mean, not that I really noticed that. She just looked like a scary one. Yeah, you noticed. And I said something to her just, you know, because I just talked to people when we're moving through, and she just had no response. was just looking right through me like you're not I'm not even distracted by you and missy's like please don't talk to her she's doing her job or something and I was like she is not impressed at this

month I mean there was no smile there was no no reaction she just looked like she could just rip my heart out and eat it and no matter that you were the Robertsons and you were part of it you had done anything if you had done anything made a move she would have taken you down in about two seconds. Because most of them were men, but I noticed her, and she just, she just ripped. Oh, yeah. You know, those people don't play. You don't play around the secretaries.

You know, part of me kind of wanted just to see a little altercation just to see what happened. You know, nothing major, but I just wanted to see some moves. That's the first political rally. Well, let's see. I did one with. That's the first one I ever did. That's the first time I'd ever gone to anything political.

It's the first presidential rally I've been to, but it was a lot. I thought it was interesting. but it inspired me more to proclaim Jesus when I'm at these things and to challenge people's intensity. Because look, in the grand scheme of things, who cares, who's president if you don't make it off the plan of life? So everybody will understand we use that as an opportunity to infuse a little good into our culture and to say,

come on now, let's go back to our founding fathers. their roots, our God, our country. Let's respect the king, respect the president, whoever he is, and let's just do what's right. But you have to admit, it's pretty surreal for us sitting here. We're sitting on the hill where we grew up down this hill here. Commercial fishing, building duck calls. Would you have ever imagined, Jason, would you have ever imagined a day when the president of the United States of America would introduce you onto a state? I never thought it happened.

It never crossed my mind. That was surreal. That was surreal. Let's face it. Somebody that used to work here at our church years ago, the youth minister McCord's wife, Mindy, she put that on Facebook. She said, in my entire wildest dreams of all imagination,

could have never imagined the President of the United States introducing Willie and Phil Robertson at an event. He introduced you. You know what it's funny about that out? Look, is when he said, because you know how he is, he's like Phil. He says whatever he's thinking.

Exactly. And so when he said, hey, y'all come up there. Well, he, they didn't move just immediately. So he had to fill that time. Anybody that spoke, spoken, you know what that's like. So now he's trying to think of adjectives of Phil and Willie. And I could see the wheels turning in his mind because I thought, what is he going to say?

Because what can you say about, look at these two guys that look like they just come out of them, you know, some kind of home. this yel wore the best clothes i had unfortunately i don't own a suit so that was out of my your wardrobe was below average i'm not sure that shirt was wearing a burlap bag i thought i looked at and i thought before i left i said miss kye where's him green pants they look a little spiffy like wearing the green hair well he had his duck calls on up under his shirt so he just well people didn't know that was his duck call so it looked like he had like all these gross on his stomach it It just looked weird, and I was like, I'm not even going to tell me.

There was earplugs and duck calls, by the way, if I'm somebody asking. But Phil, so look, President Trump says, I mean, these guys, they're, and I was thinking, what's he going to say? And he went, they're smart. And I was thinking, well, they look it, you know, and so, which was true, y'all are smart. And he said, and they, they, and I thought, well, he's going to try another one. He said, they hit it big. And I thought, well, he's come up with another one. And he said, hey, anybody you are still walking up?

He said, anybody that's watched their show, you know those shows are full of and he waited. And I thought, what in the world is he fixing us? And he said, a lot of wisdom. And I thought, you know, off the top of his head. I didn't catch that. It was pretty good. I thought, off the top of his head.

Because you were saying by what you were going to say. Because there were some, you know, at the end of our show was those little things that Willie would say, you would pray at the end of the show. And then Willie would kind of give some words of wisdom, I guess. And I thought, you know, that was, because he didn't plan on saying that. Well, here's what he, and by the way, just so the audience, you know, this is the third, it's actually the fourth conversation since 2016 that dad has had. The first one, the first two, Trump was not president yet.

And so we met him in D.C. in an event. And that was just to shake his hand. And Trump was more like, yeah, I love this guy. He stays at our hotels. Remember, that was just real topical. And then the second time, you actually shared the gospel with him. That was right before he got elected. And then the third time, he called you to congratulate you on your book.

And in that conversation, as you said this, he said, Phil, you're one of the wisest men in America. You mean when he said that? So he said about that. So he has seen that and realized. So the conversation you had with him at the rally was the fourth conversation. That showed us that he's not anti-God. That's exactly right. Well, right.

He's evolving in the right direction. Like I said, I know his sons, especially Donald Trump Jr., I mean, we've had many conversations. We're going back and forth on the phone while the president was speaking because Trump Jr. said, hey, did you talk to dad? I was like, well, I sent, you know, the other members of my family, but it's fine. We're all good. He's like, what's he talking about?

And I was like, well, right now, actually, he just had breaking news that he explained that this whole whistleblower was a. hoax thing or whatever. He was sending me all the teary, you know, tear faces, the, what do they call those things? Yeah, emojis. Imogies, yeah. I've never heard that terminology. Are you familiar with the new emojis?

You know what? I'm not into emojis. No, it's emojis. Emojis? Yeah, I don't like them. They're little symbols that you send on the phone. You're a right-hand man, the butler. When he sends a text, it's like 20 emojis after each thing.

He, he, every time he says something, I didn't know that. Look, he'll say like, good talk yesterday and he'll have like an arm. Arm like this. Pumping a muscle. And a fist bump and two smiley faces and a, you know, it's. It's embarrassing. That's a world I'm not familiar with. As his boss, you need to get him to stop doing it.

Yeah, he needs to be emoji free. Moji free? Emuji free. I'll get him at my damn post. So anyway, all this talk and all this idea about Trump really kind of leads us into what we're talking about for the next, you know, a little while on our podcast. Because we're entering a segment sort of in the historical part of Israel we've been talking about where basically Israel is about to ask we're their first king.

That's right. And which is really interesting because remember we talked last time about the judges. And so the idea of the judges where these were just kind of guys that, you know, God would raise up or kind of raised up out of the group. We're going to lead us to a king. Right. And so all that's going to lead them to a king eventually. What's really interesting is this is what most people would have no idea about unless you understood and really read the Bible.

So the last judge is a guy named Samuel. He's the 14th judge. But he's also sort of a bridge because he was very spiritual whenever his mother couldn't conceive. And so she's praying. She went to the temple and she's praying because she was barren. And I just want a son. I want a son. I want a son.

And the guy who was the judge before Samuel, he was the judge, but he was also a priest. he sees her over there because why are you drunk down here at the temple? Because he just sees her. She's just anguish. Well, he thought she was drunk. And she said, well, I'm not drunk. I'm praying for a son, you know. And so she leaves.

Well, God, he hears her. And so she gets pregnant and her son is Samuel. And she told God when she said, if you give me a son, I would dedicate him to your service for his whole life. So when he was a little boy, she takes him down in the temple and she sees Eli there and says, he's yours.

Use him however you want to, you know, to advance the kingdom, which was really powerful. So he had a very emotional, spiritual start. So he was a really good man. And so Samuel is the last judge. And so he's doing just what he thinks God wants him to. I'm going to be the judge.

Then my sons will be the next judge. But his sons weren't as good as he was. So here's what happens in 1 Samuel 8, 6. I'll read you this. And this sets us up. And then we'll talk a little bit about King. 1 Samuel 8, verse 6. Because his sons, who he had appointed judges, were not quality character.

So the people were like, we don't want to follow these guys. They're not like their dad. You know, he had sons that didn't turn out too well. They said, give us a king to lead us. So they thought, we want a king because they looked at all the people around me. They said, they got kings. The Bible says, this displeased Samuel because he thought we're breaking up the system.

We had a judge system here all these years. So he praised to God. And the Lord tells Samuel, listen to what the people are saying to you. For it is not you they have rejected. because Samuel felt rejected. You know, he thought this was supposed to. But they have rejected me as their king. See, God always had it in mind that he's the king.

Whoever's ruling in the deal, that's not him. So they refused to listen. He said, they want to be like all the other nations with a king to lead us and lead us into battle. So that started the idea. Samuel winds up anoint. He does it because God told him to. He annoyed the first king.

He was a man named Saul, who was tall and good-looking, and a classic politician-looking guy. Head and shoulders of all these instances through judges and Joshua and all the things we read, all these wars and we talk about it being raided R. I mean, if you put your faith and trust in God, you won. Right. If you didn't, you lost.

And basically he was leading that. All that was done just for that one principle. And then when you get to the king, the reason you do win ultimately as he controls the matter, he can't be destroyed, he has your best interest at heart. I mean, all these qualities that would make a king a king comes out. By the way, I have a book coming out, Jesus politics.

Yep. Really? Is this breaking news? Just breaking news. Because I haven't heard it. I mentioned it one time before. Jesus politics, and it basically... Tell them the tagline underneath that,

A Kingdom Manifesto. A kingdom manifesto, which comes out of, Carl Mark said he's for communism, no God, atheist, and he produced a manifesto. Well, in this book, I introduced Jesus who goes all the way back to here. But he's the real king because he's God in flesh. So we discuss the role that the king, kingdom of God, plays in politics, how we live our lives. no matter what whether you're under a monarchy a dictatorship or whatever it needs to be there to show them who the real king is so it's uh and well we're excited about the new book it'd be an exciting book it's going to release next summer about the time of the conventions you know so imagine we're going to

have our trump and then we're going to have our democratic you know rival and you're going to be looking at those conventions and here's what we're putting forward for the future of america and then our dad is going to interject in his new book you know what if the kingdom of god we're running of the show, here's what it would look like. And what they saw the other night was the beginning. Right. You say, that's the kingdom of God, the real king, working within a man-made empire. Exactly.

Supposedly based on Judeo-Christian values, we're trying to bring that to the forefront again to get people back to that. That's right. So today on our podcast, we're basically introducing this thought about kingdom and about the king. By the way, you're not going to make America a great, again unless you start with Jesus the king that's right that's what I was referenced to earlier we we have the ability to change the heart in Jesus who is the king of

kings right you know far and above every ruler power authority you know and at it when he does come back every knee will bow anyway that's right at some point you're you will bow before the king either voluntarily what in the world this bunch wanting to do and we're like that's why I said in a sentence. If you're pro-God and you're pro-America, well, you have the kingdom of God

there. I think everybody's waiting on the kingdom. I mean, I know this is going to be, I hate to use controversial, but a lot of people may not have heard what we believe about the kingdom. Yeah, I think you guys are going to love the next few podcasts because we're really going to go in,

dive into biblically the concept of kingdom. And a lot of people have a different view of that, including inside the tree. church and the religious establishment. That's fine. We'll just introduce it, you know, from our perspective. Right. And so that's where we're-

I've tried to clear those issues up in this book. So that's where we're going to go. We're going to be talking about that. Well, we want to stress as much on Israel's kings as much as the kingdom of God because that's introduced here. Because that was a shadow. I mean, like we're going to get to these prophecies where there was a prediction. I mean, like Daniel just popped in my mind, you know, chapter 2 and chapter 7.

Sure. There was a prophecy that. there was a kingdom that was going to come to this earth. That would never be destroyed, and it itself would destroy, crush all earthly kingdoms. Which adds to the point the whole time, Jason is famous for saying the Old Testament from Genesis to Malachi is the introduction of Jesus. Jesus is coming. What he said, what Jason said is the king is coming to establish his kingdom, and it'll be

under the auspices, the two most important things about this one is, love him and love each other. That will work, and if you look at it logically, you say, there's no downside to that. Whatever politics you're into, start

there, and everything will fall in place. Well, that's why our king, it makes us more dangerous, more courageous than any political party, because our king is indestructible. That's right. I mean, it can't be destructive. You can't stamp the kingdom out because our king is seated at the right hand of God in heaven.

You're not getting to him there. You got to him once and he died for your sins, but you won't touch him now. So how do you get rid of? Revelation is about. That's correct. The kingdom cannot be destroyed, even if you kill them. That's right. They'll be back.

Can you tell we're excited about that? We properly teased you to be able to tune in to unashamed and listen to more about the king and the kingdom. to quote our new friend Kanye West, Jesus is king. Hey. And we'll talk more about that next time. Even coming from the lips of an ex-whatever rapper. He's still a rapper.

He's just, he's wrapping the right thing now. Phil has rapping as in it's of the sinful nature. It's an ex. There are some new Christian rappers. Yeah, that's right. I don't hear it much, but from time of time somebody got it on when they drive by. And I'm like, what do they say?

Kanye, kudos the Kanye. Welcome, brother, and to the kingdom of God. We are so glad you're watching and listening to the Unashamed podcast. Be sure to like us on Facebook, subscribe on YouTube and iTunes. That's going to keep you up today with all the new episodes, and it's also going to let other people find out about our podcast. So keep spreading the word and watching and listening to Unashamed with Phil Robertson.