Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 69 | The Coronaboom, Coronavirus Stock Tips, Jesus' Pro-Business Parables & Is Gambling a Sin?

Episode Date: March 29, 2020

Jase offers up his latest tips for saucing up your sex life AND your DIY stock portfolio (preferably not at the same time). Al shares the story of a guy who missed the mark when he tried to follow Jase's recent romance advice. The guys also discuss the pro-business, pro-capitalist message in the parables of Jesus, and Phil explains why gambling isn't a sin (but might be genetic). Jase wants everyone to know that it's not gambling if you know you're going to win. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? All right, so we're back in the Unashamed Command Center, which is now the Unashamed quarantined command center. Yeah, we thought about practicing social distancing, but I'm like, you know. Well, I figure our, you know, we've been running around this river down here for 50 years, you know, whatever we got, we get together.

It's like I told my wife. We're down to one crew today. You know, we're dinned up at our houses like a bunch of raccoons. And, you know, it's been pretty positive when it comes to intimacy with the wife. Because it's kind of like these people in these real winter cultures, you know, during, there's, you get to looking around and like, well. Procreation rate rises. Well, you know, there's, you know, about nine months, there's going to be like, the next baby boom generation.

No doubt. The corona boom. Somebody told me when I said that somewhere, they said, yeah, they're going to call them coronials. Yeah. Well, read our, we had a email from the viewer I want to address. Yeah, so this is good. So this is in reference to something we talked about before.

Romantic, when I gave the romantic idea. Yeah. So James sent this to me this last weekend. I sent it to Jay's. I said last Saturday, being house restricted due to the virus, my wife asked for some help. And I said, what do you want me to do? And she said, just dust mop the house, then wet mop the house, plus clean the bathrooms. So she'd give them a little job to do.

While she bakes treats for her. I've never been given that instruction from your mother. This already. Bill, here's what you do. You're going in. What was his agenda? What was it? But look, look, when I, look, when I,

I was reading this. I didn't know what was going to happen. When that began like that, I thought, this is not going to end well. Well, here's, let me read them. So she's baking treats for their grandkids because everybody's housebound. And he said, I heard Pastor Jimmy Evans, who's a guy from Dallas that does a lot of marriage stuff, the marriage preacher is what he called him, time and time again preach on when men help around the house, they'll never be more appealing, sexier than when they do housework.

So that's what Jimmy Evans has been preaching. So housework is bringing forth arousal. I've never put those two things together. I mean, just keep on. All right. So it says, now he gives her a. He said, we're in our mid to late 50s. She's a very hot, red-headed me-me, whatever that means.

And he said, but I remember Jason's story when I heard Pastor Evans say, not only do, so not only do I dry my wet mop and clean all the bathrooms, but I'm going to bleach the floor, countertop the bathrooms with a scrub brush, blue towel, white grout, you know, so he's he went all in because he's thinking about Jason's story. He was thinking if I go the second mile, I might get, this will pay rich dividends. This may cause a sprint to happen later that is enjoyable. So here's what he said. My bathrooms now shine like diving in a goat's butt.

Yeah, which I thought that. I never heard that saying before. That's pretty good. This guy needs to be a stand-up comedian. He does. So then he says, then I went to the other bathroom. I stripped down to my shorty shorts. I bleached the shower with the hot water.

A 2,100 plus square foot house completely clean. We dropped off the baked goods to the grandkids at the back porch. We head back to the house. She looks at the shiny bathrooms, the clean house and says, are you ready for bed? He said, I'm thinking, payoff time. We hop in bed, we hold hands, we say our prayers, she says good night, rolls over, and she's asleep in two minutes.

Then he said, oh, well, at least we have a clean house. So. You know, it almost makes you feel sorry for these poor souls. Son. So, look, I read this, and we wanted to, you know, stop what we normally. do here because look, you've misunderstood what I conveyed. Here was the problems, in my opinion, on why this didn't work. Number one, this was her idea, not yours. You know, he took, well, I'm going to go the second mile. So what I was interjecting was this is something you create

as far as a challenge where your wife is now in limbo, relaxing. and then you go out to catch the fish you conquer the land you're being the conquerer you come back you do all the dirty work that she can't do

and then you create something beautiful which is a great meal which is better than... I'm listening to you talk I think what you need to do what was a guy's name? James. I believe you and James need to get together

and write a book. So that's number one. Number two, here's the number two mistake he made. I noticed he put the reference in, he stripped down to his shorty shorts and did the, okay, when you're that age, that's not appealing. Because she probably walked by and saw you and your shorty shorts doing your manual labor, and look, that is called a turn off. You probably perspired during all this, look, which is mistake number three.

Now you stink. I think he was, James, you were a little confused, on arousal. I think maybe that's where you went wrong. No, I'm just saying, look, women, I've had this conversation with men before. I mean, scrubbing the floor in your underwear, I just don't think maybe that's the best way to go as far as arousal. No, that's what I'm saying. He lost it on the way to what in his mind.

He thought, oh, I'm serving, but you got to remember. She's not looking at it like that. it was her idea she basically just got more out of you than what she was after i mean you just that was a complete disaster other than your house is clean he's got a really clean well yeah and in the coronavirus era that's probably not a bad thing this is not romance is what i'm saying you you got there's a thin line between being the romantic and just getting bludgeon by your wife and taking advantage of i mean that's what you're not that's what you're what happened here. I mean, look, it's all

fun and love, and, you know, it's going to be okay. But I just wanted to say what I recommended is not this. Well, I'm on record as saying my studied opinion regarding females, wives.

I've just, being nice, I just have concluded from observing, living with y'all's mother, you know, about, we about 50 something since he was 14, so that's been about 50, somewhere over 50. Yeah, I've just concluded that when God made women in Genesis, he made a strange creature.

I just keep it like that where people say, hmm, I wonder what he meant by that. That's kind of what I meant by that. You know, a guy's in there scrubbing the floor where he's got one thing on his mind, his woman. She's just working them like a slave and used to do. Yeah, that's basically what happens. James, I could not wait to read your letter and get the commentary because I knew it was going to be great. It made my weekend. You know, I've been trying to catch up on all my emails, which, by the way, I'm finally into March.

So those of you are still waiting. I'm getting there. I'm going to get to you at some point. So just so you know. I thought that was interesting. But I tell you this, yesterday we had Willie had a little fishing tournament down at his pond. And so most everyone in our neighborhood, you know, we're family. and everybody's been house quarantine.

Right. And so it was actually fun. It was, you know, we were going to practice social distancing. You know, we're all fishing. All the fish are right under the bridge because everybody's got Christmas trees under the bridge. So, you know, we kept gathering up. I was like, what happened to this social distancing stuff? Yeah, that goes out the window when there's fishing.

Yeah, we're trying to. A lot of people, they don't understand what you just said. You tie weight on a Christmas tree. The weight pulls a Christmas tree down to the bottom of the lake. and that little debris there, that little brush field, it draws croppy in and around it because little stuff gets up in there, little minnows and stuff.

And so it's a sort of a, it's a little trick that people in the South. Thanks for the redneck clarification on what. Look, every year after Christmas, me and most of my friends, we drive around looking for Christmas trees because they are the perfect croppy magnet. Yep. So the density of them.

We did that, but I was amazed at how many people, because now I guess people are, even in my family, they're listening to our podcast just because they literally have nothing else to do, I guess. By the way, for all you listeners out there, these hard times under quarantine, if you under quarantine yourself and you go on steroids as far as shelter in place, social distancing, we put that into play years and years ago. So like today, the menu consists of. Dan had to get to the Walmart. What's the Sam? Sam's Club where they have very good meat. So he's up there before they open. So he's first in the line to get tenderloin.

That's coming up in the next couple of days. Today, we will suffice on fried, croppy, blackened croppy, fresh caught right out of stone caulk. them. Yeah, he caught them yesterday too in the fishing. What I'm saying is y'all are saying, boy, how hard are times down there feel because y'all are under lockdown and all that? I'm just giving you a sampling of the menu like fried croppy today, blackened croppy.

Tomorrow there's tenderloin. I've eaten croppy. Look, every other day for the last two weeks. We don't go to town. We have individuals that are a little bit weird at best. Well, not we. That's you. Yeah, I've got to.

I go to town. I just came from there. And it actually seemed normal. My point was at the fishing tournament, that was the number one thing people asked about was the romantic interlude of catching the fish because I was down there fishing and Missy came to watch because, you know, we all came together. That's why you and James need to get together. We got a book.

You've got it down and let me go catch a few cropping. No telling them what that will open up. I mean, you know, I just never put them two things together, James. I'm trying to teach you. It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks. And this, it's right here. in front of you and you're dismissing it. You're missing it.

This will work. Women like men. Well, both of you sitting there, you came here from the act of procreation on me and Ms. Kay, your mother's part. And trust me, I tell you, that cleaning the bathroom never come up before all this happened. When you're younger, you know, things just happen. But I'm saying as you get older, you need to create some romance. That's all I was saying.

Every time Jay's tells that story. in my mind. I remember when we were Mexico one time, and I was watching a male peacock trying to impress a female peacock. It's quite the show. He plumbed out all those, you know, that's why they looked the way

there. He plumbed out those feathers, and he was strutting around, you know, and he'd jump up and fly, you know, and get up close to her. Every time I think about that, I think about Jay's, like, in his mind, you know, working all this up where he's doing all this. And he's like that male peacock.

Is there a negative there? No, not at all. It's a ritual. You're a peacock. You're a male peacock. A strutting peacock, but you're out there actually with a hook and a line. Fishing around a Christmas tree, you bear, trying to catch a few cropping. Thinking somehow that's going to, you know, sauce up your sex line.

You're on the wrong road, Jay. No. It is. Look, it's going to sauce up your sex line. And you have a great excuse to go fishing. That's the part you're not getting. she's not saying oh how come you're going fishing again that's what most people are struggling maybe i should have detailed this before you want the audience to know you spend he spends most

of his time um on watching the computer screen the stock market going up and down then he then he goes over and catches a few croppy and works in a little little that's the foreplay whatever let's then I'm beginning to get a fix on how you're escaping the world and you are under quarantine. This is the real world. Let me explain the real world. Most men, because I've talked to them, they say, man, how do you, my wife's griping about me hunting and fishing. My wife never said a word because somehow my wife is convinced that I'm out there when I'm fishing, I'm out there for her. Thinking about her.

Because she's like, he's going to cook me those fish and they're delicious. It's better than any restaurant. And then she sees all the work. It's a pretty slick trick on your part. So I'm just saying. You may be overplaying that. That may be a broad brush. Your wife calls hunting season the ordeal.

I mean, that's her label for it. She puts up with hunting season, but I consider fishing, you know, a hobby because, you know, hunting, I'm working here. Well, one thing is for sure. But fishing, I like to fish. Well, here's the thing. Fishing produces a much better product, unfortunately, than hunting. I like that.

I do too, but they're not near as good as a crappie or not. You know, I mean, the results are better. I'll just clarifying that. Good, gumbal, it's hard to beat. And for all the emails saying, well, I can't believe you are talking about sex. God invented sex, the greatest sex on earth. We've said this before. And you have orders from headquarters to be fruitful and multiply.

Which is good. There you go. You don't have to call. Order some headquarters. Where I came in is I feel like what's lacking in men is the romance, factor. So I just thought I'd share that and it's a way to win. So what's been... What he sent is not, that's, that has nothing to do with what I was talking about.

Longer just worth it, Jay. Longer just working. So, so it's interesting because dad's life in the quarantine is interesting because we're not only doing our podcast, obviously, but then on your show in the woods with Phil, we're doing for two months and in the quarantine with Phil, which has been very interesting. So we've been doing a lot of ad stuff. And, you know, which is interesting. So, you know, if you want to check that out, so on Blaze TV, let's take a quick break. We'll come back. So anyway, in the woods with Phil's now in the quarantine, but it's really funny, Dad, because basically some of the stuff we just talked about with the little trick for

the crappie fishing, how to crawfish, how to put a hoot in at the river, cannon, tomatoes, and, you know, food. Jellies. Jellies, beans. So it's kind of the way you grew up, and we did, too. I mean, I remember a lot of it. We just don't practice as much, but I really want to know that myself. Because look at the whole thing. We see now how fragile things can be. I mean, look what the pandemic has done. So, you know, something like this happens and it's more menacing than this even, it could easily.

You could see the whole thing going, you know. People who live off the land, not much changes, you know. I mean, it's like, I was talking about the fishing tournament. Well, I mean, there was 30 people out there. Most of them were yuppies. I dominated the fishing. tournament. Yeah, and they were, oh, he's got another one.

Well, that's a big one. I mean, what, what is the secret? I'm looking at them. I mean, there were people breaking poles, line tangled up, tree limbs. I was just like, you know, if it was, we were dependent on some of these people eating fit, we would die. Oh, what you're talking about. That's right.

Exactly. Well, and that's what unfortunately happened. He took your buddy, you know, one of the twins. Yeah, wash him. I like it. But the problem was Stone told him, he said, look, it's going to take me a while to find him. But he said, but I will find him.

Well, watch him, you know, he had other plans. So he left. They had caught a fish. Yeah. And so about 2 o'clock, Jay said, he finally found him. He said, then it was ever cast until he got all he wanted. Every single cast. When he found them, of course, you know, those ones in Caney,

I mean, we're talking about two, two and a half pounds, which we'll eat the fruit of that for lunch today, which is. You got a ride to hold. You got to do it. Now, look, you brought up the stock. market. We're getting a lot of messages, people because they know I'm in the stock market. Of course, I've gotten everything from get out of there to, but, you know, I've gotten books about, you know, investing in alternative ways. What's all been interesting. But look, here's today. I don't know what today. I don't know when people will listen to this.

It'll be air next week. So, maybe Sunday. So today, what is today? I have no idea. That's the deal about being quarantine. Look, I have no idea. You don't know. I think it's Thursday. I think my wife said last night, she said, this quarantine is kind of like going in, you know, to a casino. You don't know what time it is.

That's right. You don't know how much money you're losing. You know what I mean? No clocks. Yeah. Yeah. And so it's a bizarre world. But anyway, this is the third day, you know, the stock market plunges.

And so everybody panics. out, you know, in the world, Jay's don't panic because this is, now everything's on sale. So I'm buying. When everybody's just, you know, they call it blood in the streets, you know, that's when you're out there,

you're buying stuff way cheaper. For an example, it's just off the top of my head. I bought Lowe's. You're familiar with the lows, Phil? 60 bucks a share. It was the lowest that had been in like 10 years. Well, now the stock market,

the last three days is gone just like this, skyrocketed. So in three days, I bought loads at 60. I think this morning when I looked at it before I came in, it was like 95. Well, do the math. I mean, in three days, 35 bucks a share. I mean, because that was too cheap. So what I'm saying is if you've missed that, I don't know what today is, but look back and see where it went up three days in a row.

Well, you missed it. It's too late now. Yeah. Now it's gone back. You should have been buying, you know, when everybody was like, oh, panic selling. Because as investors who are not affiliated with some kind of company, I invest myself, you have to be a day or two ahead of everybody else because we don't have the equipment. We don't have the speed. When everybody's buying, well, it's too late.

You know, by the time you get in there, there's no longer on sale. So I was actually kind of happy. So that's my stock market tips. You do your research. You've got to put the time in to know the companies. That way when you're in the battle and everybody's selling, you're so intimate based on research with these companies. You can just, you know what to buy. You know, I bought like Coca-Cola.

Got a member, Jay, just so you'll know. I mean, I know you're speaking for the audience, but I don't do stock markets. I'm trying to explain it to you. And so you're talking to me right now and it's just right on my head. I'm like, what's he talking about? That's why I brought out Lowe's. You seen a Lowe store? Coca-Cola.

Not recently. Coca-Cola. I mean, you've got to remember that. You're talking to a man who does not get to town very often. Unless it's on his route to where he meets. That's the only way he's going to say. Well, let me give you an example. We meet with the homeless and others, brothers, sisters once a week.

That's out now. So. Yeah. But we're staying. with them. The food's still coming out of there. They're being a little more cautious as far as hygiene and all, but we're still getting food out to the homeless brothers that we meet with. So. Well, see, let me tell you my logic. Take a company like Stanley Black and Decker. They were like $180 a share before this crash. Well, all of a sudden, market crashes, coronavirus.

Well, it gets down to about $80. And I'm like, well, it was $180, you know, $170, $180. Well, are people going to quit using tools? So you see on me? So I'm like, you know what? It's $100 cheaper. I'm going to buy that. So you do reason in your thinking as to the nature of the company and what they do, right? There's a lot of factors, but most of the company's own, you know, it's stuff that's not rocket science.

I would think that would be, unless you just lose your shirt, I would think that would be some form of to quack. Boredom, Jase has come up with a little scheme or other stock market. It keeps them from being as bored as he normally would be. Well, I'm serious. Well, it's good investment. You're being a good steward. I mean, you're investing in companies. I think that Fox business isn't a great opportunity.

We talked about this when we met Stuart Varney when we did his show last year, that they should hire Jace because they would draw in a whole other audience. Like, you know that the guy on Fox, the big black guy that has the glasses and he's always got the impeccable suits. Everybody's got a look, the stock look. But if Jace rolled in there and started laying his stuff out there, it would be a whole new audience. I think they need a redneck voice on it, a common sense, just the common man. Because it's a lot like duck hunt.

You got to do, put the time in, put the scouting. Most people say, oh, yeah, I want to get in the stock market. I'm like, do you have a lot of time? Because if you don't, stay away. That's right. Because that's all it is. That's why I don't want to do it. Yeah, you got to be watching it.

You know, I told you about buying low so cheap. I just happened to be looking at it. You know, I bought it 60. About five minutes later, it was like 67. I mean, I was like just took off. Nightmarish to me, but that's just me. It makes my head hurt. It makes my head hurt.

I look at the, I look for two things. I look at the bottom thing. And is the arrow up or arrow down just to kind of know where we're doing that day. And that's my interest levels right there. And then it just. then I'm more recommend y'all need to stay away yeah we don't you know I've taken it that's why we that's why we have you does you're but I brought it up because I think during this coronavirus there are more people interested in that because they're at home they're looking and but don't dip your toe in the

water you know I'm not a big fan of these conglomerate uh stock because they're like give us your money and then you know we'll take care of you but all they're going to do is put the money in the stock market and forget about it because they don't have time to look at everyone's individual account. I mean, during the past two weeks, I've spent hours and hours because it's so volatile. Only Jace could do that. See what I'm saying? Dad, it was like, you and I could never do that.

It's a game. It's a big game, but there's real money involved. So I'm saying you can be successful, but you've got to put the time in. So now, you know, all my buddies are calling me like, well, you think about this. And I'm like, that's what I'm saying. I'm telling you. Fox business, whoever's listening out there,

this is your guy. This is a show that would work. I don't mind doing it. They're like, what about this, doc? And I'm like, I just sent them a text, thumbs down.

They're like, what about this? The difference between you, your mindset and my mindset is the goal from the beginning, go back from society a little bit, pull back,

get out in the middle of nowhere, you know, the closest house a mile away, and you get there, Lock gates, I mean, you know, video surveillance. So we're down. I'm just down here surviving. So the difference between you and me is I've got a stash that we, that have made.

It worked. The duck call industry is in the TV show and all that. So I'm sitting on a stash. It pays a little interest, but not much. But I don't have to hit a lick at a snake. I don't know anybody anything. Not one dime do I owe. What is hitting a lick at a snake?

He's dead and that to work. That means, although he's working all the time. I can, I'm like, if you say, well, could you be, are you supposed to be retired? You're 73 years old. Yeah. That's correct. But I'm still talking to this audience here. You say, but your interest is not in, let me make some more money.

It's just, I've made enough, Jace, I made enough. I get it. I pull it off. I don't know anybody anything. I don't have no debt, none, zero. And I don't want to say, well, let me make some more. You know what's weird? How much do you won't?

Hold your thigh. Let's take a break and then you can give them your answer. You know what's weird about this is I don't really, I'm not doing it for the money even though it is profitable. You know, you're investing your money. You know, what's the story in the Bible where Jesus told? He never has seemed to be the kind of chase the dollar bills. No, I don't. It's not that.

It's more the competition of it all. You know, it's kind of fun. It's like a dollar and asses. selling golf. I mean, it ain't that, it's just a ham, it's not the money, but the competition, the idea that, hey, this is worth. And if you get into it on the level he is, other words in his mind the pandemic is way far away al he his mind is oh yeah he's he's he's he's he's doesn't have time to be fearful of what if the microbes get me no if you're going to be quarantined in your house why not that's it's a distraction it's a good distraction especially in volatile

times i mean you're you know overall you're putting the health and well-being of people above that we're praying for them we hate it's going on but you're just sitting there we're like we're in the house everybody's in the house okay everybody get in their house well what are we going to do like well let me learn about these stocks now haven't said all that had i had i known this was going to be take this much work and getting to know the companies i would have never done it i didn't know i was like oh this probably be easy let me take this over well i didn't realize how big a project that is. That's why most people, when they start

talking about the stock market, you know, I'm thinking, in my mind, clueless, oh, this is easy. Nothing about it's easy. It's the same qualities. What about when they run those ads that talk about how easy if you just send us your money,

they just follow what the insiders are buying. You know, I mean, look, what you got to remember is most of these guys talking on TV saying buy their stop, the only reason or they're saying, sell this. They'll say, you know, they'll put a sell alert. And you're like, well, the guy's on TV. I mean, he must be a respected figure. He's wanting you to sell it so he can buy it.

He's hustling you. So you're like, sell. And he's like, oh, good. Jay, you're in a world that I will not enter. Oh, that's right. You're talking about a bunch of vipers. Oh, what are you talking about? But that bothers some people. Okay. Are there some corruption going on? Well, yeah, that's why they have a group of people locking people up every other day for, you know, all these violations. Oh, yeah. But I, as a Christian, it's like, remember when Jesus, he said what to do with the money, well, and one of them said, well, shouldn't you at least, you know, put it in. He basically said you should have invested it in the stock market. Yeah, invested it and made some interest. But, you know, having said that, that's why I want to tell most people,

it's okay to give your money, you know, to a stock broken company. Just remember that you're not going to make near as much as if you learned the whole thing yourself and did it. But you'd have to have a lot of time to do that. So don't grite because they don't have time to do it. They're not looking at your account saying, oh, all his stocks are falling. We need to do something about that because they have thousands of accounts. They're just saying, wait for it. Wait for what?

it'll go back up and at the end of the day it will and you'll make a little money. You know, it's interesting you brought that up that you think about the parables because, you know, a lot of times you get this, you know, capitalism. It's not biblical because, you know, it's not compassionate. It doesn't bring people's hardships into play, blah, blah, blah, whatever. But you think about it, when you look at the parables that Jesus taught throughout the gospels, they are very pro-business. Just start thinking about the different ones he talks about, the shrewd manager,

the one we just mentioned about the guy with the money, that what are you going to do with it? You should have invested it. They always have a pro-business mindset, even though Jesus was like, hey, I don't even have a place to lay my head. I mean, it wasn't his concern to run a business while he was there on Earth, but his parables are very pro-business,

way more capitalistic than communistic. What I did, what I did, I decided. instead of entering the zone that Jason's entered, First Thessalonians 411, I read that text years ago and I said, that is my goal. Make it your ambition to live a quiet life, mind your own business, work with your hands, doing something that was good so you can share with others so that you won't have to be dependent on anybody. I read that. I said, you know, that would be a good way to roll. I took that to Hardout way back. I've lived by that text ever since, and it was it was good for me. You see what I'm saying? I agree. Yeah, the story I was talking about is Matthew 25,

14 through 30. But there are other ways like Jason's talking about there. There's other paths you can go down. Oh, yeah. But you know, Phil, we've, you know, all three of us have been on a couch talking to a couple, and we've run up on, you know, mail after mail. Oh, yeah. Who just wouldn't work. And, you know, you read. Very prevalent in America. They don't work.

Yeah, they don't work. And so, you know, you read that verse, what you read, but in 1st Timothy 5, 7, I think this is one, or 5, 8, one of the most profound texts in the Bible. Hang on. That's a perfect time for a break. We're going to come back to that huge point. Cliff. 1 Timothy 5.8. If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate

family, he has, now listen to this, denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. That's bad. How strong a statement is that? About as strong as you can make it. And by the way, did you see that little reference to provide? for your immediate family. We talk about the payoff in more ways than one. Plus, there's something about that.

And that particular text, he broadened it, including your kin folks, Jace. That's what I'm saying. There's got to be. Not only your wife and your children, your kin folks. Which has kind of been interesting because what Jace was describing earlier, and it's the same thing at my house. I mean, because we're all kind of compounded. We live close to all your sons.

and most of us and daughter-in-laws live in close proximity. In situations and times like this, we do rely on each other. We really do. And we've talked about it before. If ever got any worse, we'd all come out here to be even further away. Think about it, Al. It's not long, no matter what happens in the world today, but if you all have noticed, without us even realizing it,

we come together as a family group structure, and we confront it, whatever it is. Yes, including a pandemic. Where's that, okay, here we go, let's see. But we look at it from a group perspective. I've noticed that. I think another thing. The Robertson Rally, I call it, we kind of rally together.

I say, okay. For most of our life, we had no money. And I made decisions that would not make me more money. You know, and my wife used to just be so frustrated. I think I've shared that before on here. Because I was like, well, I'm happy. I'm not a materialistic person. That's why when you said, why are you on the stock market?

But if you read Matthew 25, he gives these three degrees of, you know, one, a guy had a lot of talents, one, you know, Psalm, one a little. But in each case, his point was it doesn't matter. You take what the Lord has blessed you and you do something with it. You know, you don't go dig a hole. What he didn't like was digging a hole and doing nothing. That's what he got rared up about because you know why? Now you're being lazy. And so, yeah, you know, people talk about, you know, is the stock market gambling and, yeah, you know, it is.

But it's more about investing in the companies of America. But still, you know, most gambles that I've seen pay off when you put a lot of hard work into it. By the way, Jason, I've never found the texts and all the list of sins. from cover to cover, gambling is never listed as a sin. Do you know of one? Nope. I can't believe we've gotten down this road, but I wouldn't bring this up. You know, here's what's weird.

You know, I'm a poker player, and I'm not ashamed to say that. But I realize that in the poker world, there's a lot of shady people and characters. I've heard that since I've never played a card game. It is. I'm 73 and never played a game of cards, Al. Well, I feel sorry. I feel sorry for you. There's a lot of fun that you messed out on.

Don't feel sorry for me. I can still make it without poker. I know, but it's fun. But here's what I was going to say. Look, I'm not a gambler. I would never, to me, go to a casino. I don't think there's anything wrong. Remember, I'm not a gambler, but I play poker.

Remember those two. You are the exact person I want to share this with because people lump poker with gambling. bad, bad connection. It's the same people win the World Series of poker every year. I'm in a poker club. Guess what? The same people win every year. You know why? They're better players. You say, oh, you're just getting lucky. I've been lucky for 30 years. Jay says it's not gambling if you never lose. No, that's not what I say. I say it's not gambling if you know you're going to win. That's what I just said. Pretty close to what you said out.

Pretty close. I got a buddy of mine. His name is Barrett. We're real close. I duck out with him, you know. And he's, we, poker came up. But you see the money that, how do you, how do you explain the money that is peed in the wind, as I would say? You go into the boat.

There's a, there. There's a phrase. There's a, no. The casinos. I mean, listen. You jumped to gambling again. There's a lot of money was lost to build a Las Vegas. Here's why I don't go to a...

Somebody lost out. Look, here's why I don't go to a casino and put money in a slot machine. The odds are in their favor. You're gambling. And if you stay there long, you're going to lose. That's true. Because they have a percentage. Remember when they had the big sporting event in Las Vegas,

and I walked around, and I was observing. Because I'm now in a city. So I'm looking around, and I'm thinking, it took a lot of money to build this thing. I'm looking at Las Vegas walking along. Well, I see all this. these old women and people, and they'll have them a stack of cornage, and they're pulling the handle down.

Yeah, I'm not doing this. When I got to the machine, and I'm looking at it, where it will take pennies. Oh, yeah, they're the most popular. Penny. They want you to put your lash red scent into this thing. Well, I'm watching that and so much as how much money, surely Las Vegas clips you for a penny. I never gave them a penny.

I was just watching, but under no circumstances, what I've ever said, let me just put a penny in this thing. I think it's wise. And pull a lever, and I may get 50 bucks. No. I think you were wise to do that. I just walked away and said, man. You actually used the, this is several years ago,

you used the Ross Parole line. You looked around at me and said, Al, I hear a giant sucking sound. You are correct. And it's money being pulled out of. Let me give you an example. It took a lot of lusiness. to build Las Vegas.

Let me give an example. In poker, you're playing somebody. You're not playing the odds. You're creating your own odds. You know, my buddy Barrett, he's like, oh, you're a poker player. You know, I'd like to play. I said, you don't want to play me. Now, I wouldn't normally tell a person that, but he's one of my best friends.

And he, well, he took that to mean like I was trash talking. And so then that's it. Now, when I went up there, he had the cards. And I was like, you don't want to. He had to know. I said, you don't want to do this. And he said, I've heard people like you all my life. I was like, you don't want to do this.

So look, he lost his first 100. He lost his next 100. He lost another 100. He lost another 100. And I finally said, at what point are you going to figure this out? You're not going to win. Because this will go on to the thousands. He said, oh, no, it'll turn around.

You're just getting lucky. And when he made that line, I was like, I'm going to stop you right there. you're not going to win ever I mean it was a combination of two things one you know I'm a I'm a poker player I can do this you're not because I could just guys like him he's not gonna win he doesn't understand the game he doesn't understand he thinks it's gambling and so that's what makes a bad poker player when and I see them and what I was going to tell you is there's people who I see playing poker that shouldn't be because they view it as

they're just throwing their money out there and hoping they're going to win. Well, all this came from the roots of all this. I want the audience to know the roots behind this, the genetic makeup. Here's the way it worked. My mother came from a relationship from her mother

and a guy that just slicked her, you know, coming through town. And they had this one-time event, one-time affair. that's from that gentleman is where my mother came from and when she was about in the ninth grade somebody ran up and said that's not your real dad where you are you so she gets the news in the ninth grade it devastates her so you say what was that guy what was he known for that guy that just came through my mother told me there she said i've never met him i don't know where he's from

but everyone one said he was a gambler yeah so that genetian code passed down and his off-strand, his offspring is sitting at this table. I'm not a gambler. Genetics. It's all there. Genetics. Hold on. We've got to take one last break.

And then you get to rebund. Let me give you an example. Look, you're not listening to what I'm saying. I never put that together. Can I give you an example? All right, let's take bath fishing. All right. They have professional bass fishermen, right?

They all go out. Is their luck involved in bass fishing? Remember Jay said. You're not answering the question. When you're in my world, there are some people, remember out that are shady. That's true. That's how he started this conversation. It's the difference in somebody drinking a glass of wine and getting drunk.

You can take anything and. and especially when you don't understand it or you want to abuse it. Look, some people should not be playing poker because they don't know how to play. And so they're like, oh, but I got plenty of money. And then they're a bad steward because they're playing with sharks, you know, like me and my friends. But can you learn how to, I mean, wouldn't you learn by doing it? I mean, you can, but look, I've been doing it my whole life.

You're not, you know what I mean? Most people when they play, they're not going to win. Jeans. It's in the genetic. They don't understand the game. You got no. And look, here's the deal. Poker and the stock market.

And the gambler died this one. Look, they're emotional. They trigger emotions because bad things happen, you know, and you become emotional. When fear and greed become involved, or even in the poker sense, when people are scared to lose, like if they come to my game and they're scared about losing that money, oh, they're going to lose. Because I'm going to use that against them. I noticed that all the old westerns and modern day, too, the gangsters and all this stuff. I mean, they show when it got down to a card game, they filmed it every possible conceivable way you could film it out.

But it was always the old stone face, so they can't tell whether I've really got the cards or not. In the movies, they used it when somebody getting shot. It's one of the most film scenes of all. time and all movie on people playing poker. It is pretty interesting. It goes way back. You may give you some irony here? This is, you'll find this interesting.

You know, we've not been ashamed about, you know, our relationship with the Trumps, and they kind of view us as spiritual advisors and the pulse of the, you know, people who love Jesus. Well, when I took Don Jr. Duck hunting, I thought this may be my only chance to get online poker back going. because when Bush was president, the second Bush, he came up with this law where it was not illegal to play poker. It was illegal to put your money in a poker site or take it out. Well, that pretty much ended it.

They call that whatever they call Black Friday of poker. Well, look, somebody like me, I was making a lot of money doing that. I mean, that was an income that I had had for 10 years. That's where I got all my cash. So it was just like someone literally had died. It hurt me. So I'm like, well, here's my chance. Because when I was talking to Trump Jr., I was like, if I can get, you know, this bug in his ear, I need to get that online poker back going.

Forget the casinos online, but just the poker. That is, I give him my speech thinking he'll see the logic. Yeah. He's like, well, no, there's, because he focused on the abuses of it where people who are degenerate gamblers and have lost everything. they have on video poker. I'm not talking about video poker. I'm actually talking about playing card, but he wasn't familiar with the game.

And I thought, now here I am trying to convince someone who, you know, is not necessarily as religious as, you know, like us, but he's like giving me the religious arguments on why we shouldn't be playing poker online. And I was like, okay, this is not working. That's why I brought up the bass fishing thing. It's, look, the best bass fisherman is going to win long term, right?

Would you agree with that? That's correct. The same bass fisherman pretty much win. They have a thing called the bass masters. There's luck involved in each session, each tournament. But if you put the work in, you put the timing, you understand fit. At the end of the day, you're going to win. You're creating your own luck in a way, which is what I'm saying about.

It's called in the southern world know-how. Yeah, it's the same way. So we need to end our podcast, and I think the one word to end it on that is genetics. Genetics. Well, it's been a curious podcast, but we've discussed what to do with your money and what to do. So the audience, look, I have no text that outlaw, that outlaws card play. I have no text about investing because if it was sinful, because you think about it. Life itself and whatever you do with your own funds and all this, you say life itself,

there's a lot of ways you can invest, you take chances, there are risk. You remember Galatians 5? You know, life itself is a gamble. Galatians 5. Paul said the acts of the sinful nature are obvious. Yeah. So that means they're obvious. When you're having to build a case for something being simple, it's usually not. I'm just saying there are people who possess a certain set of skills when it comes to cards.

We're back to the gene poo. If you like your money, you would not sit down with people who have these skills. Because guess what? I'm going to work, work to take your money. And it's legit. All right. So, that's the other. I've never seen gambling in a list of sin.

It's not gambling. If you know you're going to win. We must stop. We must stop this now. Gee, we. So we're so glad you guys were with us today. You can subscribe on iTunes or Spotify or YouTube or Facebook. And be sure and rate us on iTunes so that other people can know about the podcast.