Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1077 | Willie Robertson’s Worst Duck Dynasty Moment Became Jase’s Best
Fri, 18 Apr 2025
Jase, Al, and Zach take a hilarious trip down memory lane as Jase recalls the day a confident Willie made a move that went spectacularly wrong — and cemented Jase’s favorite "Duck Dynasty" memory. Al shares a wild story about a buddy who went "full redneck," and Jase and Missy’s weekend argument over spiders leads to a debate about trusting friendly animals. The guys dive into the spiritual lessons of John 6, where Jesus repeats a life-changing truth that people still struggle to grasp. In this episode: John 6; John 7, verses 28-38; Ephesians 1, verse 13; Ephesians 4, verse 34 “Unashamed” Episode 1077 is sponsored by: https://puretalk.com/unashamed — Get 50% off your first month when you make the switch! https://myphdweightloss.com — Find out how Al is finally losing weight! Schedule your one-on-one consultation today by visiting the website or calling 864-644-1900. https://tomorrowclubs.org/unashamed — Bring hope to kids in some of the darkest corners of the world. Help us hit our goal of 1,200 new Tomorrow Clubs members this month! https://acornsearly.com/unashamed — Get your first month FREE when you sign up now! Listen to Not Yet Now with Zach Dasher on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, or anywhere you get podcasts. — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is Jase's favorite Duck Dynasty moment?
I am unashamed. What about you? Welcome back to Unashamed. We've been hanging out and... And John's sick here for a while, Jason.
No, here's my description of what's happened the last few podcasts. We've been in a field spinning the wheels because the field was muddy. And we were trying to, remember that? That was a Duck Dynasty episode. We're just trying to make it more muddy? Is that what we're doing? It was my favorite scene of all Duck Dynasty episodes.
Jace's, there's the headline for this show, Jace's favorite scene in the history of Duck Dynasty.
Boy, that's a lot of scenes. My favorite scene, and I don't mean how it came across on TV, because this is... You're talking about you doing it.
You enjoyed filming this more than anything else that you did.
Yeah. Because we were having some volatility with the production crew and what to do. And they were following us. And we were doing some episode. And Willie had this, you know, he has all his toys. And he thought this truck he had was unstickable. which in the redneck world, is that a word? Unstickable. Yeah. Well, it is in the redneck world.
That means this thing will go through any mud, and we have gumbo. But Willie was getting frustrated because the TV people were being difficult. He just decided because he knew the guy that owned his field. We were driving around the interstate. They were doing what they call – What do they call those things, Al?
When they're just, they're giving you like, they're giving you like segue shots where like you're driving on the roads or whatever. Yeah. B-roll, like the B-roll footage. Yeah, I think they call it that. And Willie just, he just, I mean, we were going right at or over the speed limit. He just takes a right because all the cameras are following. They got drones and all this stuff. Yeah.
He just pulls out in this field, and he was just going to do a donut out in the field because he knew the guy. So he thought he ain't going to care. He's like, you want a scene? Do this. And it just became like, you know, like the epic scene in that episode. But, I mean, Willie just basically did it on his own. He was just tired of driving down the road.
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Chapter 2: What happened when Willie took a risk with his truck?
Which made him look like an idiot, which is what I really found funny. But it became a funny episode that really wasn't about what it was about. Willie was frustrated with it. He went and drove down the road over and over. He drives out there.
Somehow they put that together with the whole episode, and it was just like, you know, and then here I am giving commentary on it because I think I said something along the lines in my little bit. I was like. When you're driving down the road and you see a vehicle stuck out there, that's what you call freedom. Because it was a freedom moment for Willie. He's like, you want to say something?
I'll just do this.
You know, even though he thought he could conquer the mud. It is funny how in the redneck mind that that takes place. Because I had a, you may have been there to watch it, Jace, but I had a moment like that. We were in the woods. I had taken my truck. We had driven down to where we launched the boat on our property. And I was trying to turn it around.
I had my old, this is my very first truck I ever had, but it was an old truck. And it was Rick Fortenberry was riding with me and he's on the passenger side. But I was trying to turn it around in the woods, which is not always as easy as you think. And I got hung up on I got pinned down by a tree, a little small sapling right on the passenger door. And I could not get off of it.
And so instead of just like stopping and getting out and us figuring out a way to get it off that tree, I just went full redneck. I would just hook, put it in reverse and floor it and then go forward. What was happening was I was trying to get the power of the truck off the tree. And all I did was just cave in my passenger door.
And there's a man sitting there, Rick, you know, our buddy, who then by the end of this episode, because I got off that tree. But it was like, oh, I'm getting off this tree. And everybody's laughing because I'm like destroying my truck. And then Rick winds up sitting next to me like we're on a prom date. Like when I when finally I get off that tree, I'm like in a like a haze.
Like I have risen into this place in my mind, getting off that tree. And he's sitting right next to me looking at me like, are you insane? And at the moment, I was. I had lost all sanity. And so I had to go get old Toby, our mechanic, to beat it out with a sledgehammer where I tore my truck up. So I get it.
Well, I mean, I think I might have said in that episode or another episode, that's why you see rednecks die in such strange ways. Because if you challenge their manhood, they're always looking for a story. And it's like, you're like, how in the world? What would he even be doing? You know? Exactly. I had this huge argument with Missy about, we had a little man this past weekend.
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Chapter 3: What wild story did Al share about a buddy?
I do not let any kid under the age of 18 get on any kind of social media device.
This would be healthy, though. This would give them a healthy reverence for the natural world of the animal kingdom because all they do is they show pictures and videos of what happens in nature when animals get together. And it is a brutal – it's a brutal world out there.
But that's what I'm saying. So I like the adventure spirit because our greatest stories are when something crazy – you know, we did something really stupid or dangerous and survived. Yeah. But, you know – There is. There may be some arguments about that.
But I'm kidding, by the way. Yeah, don't let your kids get on Instagram. That was a joke.
So we had a teaching moment.
It may not have landed well, but it was a joke. So I agree with what Jay said.
We had a teaching moment. But Missy was more mortified in why I let the spider get into the house. I'm like, what are you talking about? I didn't let the spider get in the house. You don't call one of your – Your sprayers, you know, the people. One of your sprayers. I'm like, well, how is this my fault? I let it in. I mean, he could have been bitten by a spider. You know, why'd you let him in?
Here I am, you know, supposed to be the protector. I was like, look, we had a teaching moment. I did think it was cool. He's probably one of the few three-year-olds, you know, that when he sees a spider, like, oh, look, cool. Let me... And what I found fascinating is that when he touched that spider, that spider stopped. It was just like, what are you doing touching me? It didn't run off.
You'd think it'd run off, you know. But it's like, well, that's never happened to that spider before. And he was kind of trying to process it. And it was the last thing he processed. And I took him out. I have to confess, I actually think that I led Zach to our new sponsor, Pure Talk, because he thought he was dropping all these calls, and I was actually just hanging up with him.
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Chapter 4: How did Jase handle a spider with his three-year-old?
Holy Spirit is where I go.
Holy Spirit, because if you look that word up and just drop a couple of verses off the top of my head, Ephesians 1.
Yep, Ephesians 4.
Yeah, Ephesians 4, which is interesting because it says, do not... grieve the Holy Spirit. I think that's 430.
Which you have been sealed, that's right.
Another controversial argument. Grieve? It's a pretty strong word. It's the same grieve word that's used in 1 Thessalonians 4. I looked it up. It says, we don't grieve like the rest of men who have no hope. So, it's just everywhere we go, it's an argument. How can you grieve the Holy Spirit? I thought we were, we had the Holy Spirit.
So I don't want to open up another argument, but I will address that later. So Ephesians 1 says... 13. 13 says, and you were also included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, having believed you were marked in them with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit.
So now, so do you think in John 6, we're talking about going back to his baptism when he received God's Spirit? And remember when the voice said, this is my son?
Yeah, I think that's it. By the way, it's the same word. that's used with a Roman seal that was put on the tomb. Exactly. So the idea here is it's marked. It's marked as something being official. And so that was the idea.
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Chapter 5: What spiritual lessons can we learn from John 6?
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And verse 4 says he chose us. Well, who is us? Which is a key little word, two letters. Who's he talking to here? He's talking to the Jewish nation. Would you agree, Zach? In John 6? No, in Ephesians 1, 4. Yes. And you say, well, how do you know that, Jase? Because, look, I'm going to do a little word game before I read the rest of 4. He says he chose us in him.
In verse 5, he says he predestined us to be adopted. The question is, who is us? Find another us in here. Let's see. Or we. Verse 11. And he made verse 9. You skipped one out. He made known to us the mystery to put into effect. Let's see. Verse 11, in him we were chosen. We haven't been predestined according to the plan. Verse 12. In order that we, verse 12. Now, 13 is a shift.
He says, and you were also included in Christ when you heard the word of truth. You were marked in him. You say, well, who's you? I think it's interesting that verse 11 of chapter 2 kind of defines that. He says to 11, therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called uncircumcision by those who call themselves the circumcision. Who's that group? The Jews.
Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel. That's a Jew if you're a citizen in Israel. And foreigners to the covenants of the promise without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ, you who were once far away have been brought near to the blood of Christ. And here's the point I was trying to make.
For he himself, verse 14, is our peace, is our peace, who has made the two one. Well, who's the two? Jew and Gentile.
Jew and Gentile.
Okay, I think that's important because he thought it was important. In verse 4, yeah, the last two words says, in love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons. through Jesus Christ. So, and how was that sealed? It was with the promised Holy Spirit indwelling people, which he's fixing to get into in more detail in John 7, the streams of living water that they were later to receive.
And ultimately, it happens in John, what is it, 20, when it says he breathed on them, think creation, new creation, and they received God's spirit. So I thought that was interesting. So then back to John 6. In verse 28.
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of the seal of approval in Ephesians?
But to Zach's point, they do get it after he leaves. They get it after he leaves. Which is when the Holy Spirit is poured out on them.
But I'm saying, let's just stop before we get into the faith versus works and just let's all agree that he's saying, look, I'm the one he sent.
Yeah, but if you think about the flow of the Gospel of John, and we are getting ahead of ourselves here, but I just bring up the part about the Holy Spirit because it will have profound implications. Because you have started either this podcast or a previous one with, how do they not see it? How do they not get it? All the stuff is written in the Old Testament. How do they miss it?
Well, if you go back and read the story on the road to Emmaus, they couldn't see it until he said, here, let me open your eyes.
That's true. You made that point last time. But what I'm saying is in this verse, he literally goes back to the verses.
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