Ep 1366 | Phil Robertson Caught an Intruder at 3 A.M. & Sent Him into Full Retreat

Unashamed with the Robertson Family - The Robertson Family

Phil Robertson recounts a hilarious nighttime encounter with an intruder at a motel, blending humor with faith lessons. The episode also explores themes of listening to God and spiritual discernment through biblical stor

Key takeaways

• Intruder mistaken room due to Phil's shotgun readiness

Transcript preview

I am unashamed. What about you? So welcome back to the unashamed podcast. I don't know for those of you watching today because some are listening some are watching I am in a pastor's office in St. Augustine Florida. It's the turning point at Calvary Church which I'm speaking here tomorrow night Jay is at a beast feast. They're still doing those how I thought there's of men he showed me the set up they got a spill over crowd they got it you got a few beached behind you look yeah there's a ram if you're not watching there's a there's like a spintails got a pentel behind you there's a massive water buffalo coming out of the wall in front of me that you guys can't see on camera but Jay you would love this guy this is the pastor's like a study I guess and there are some like there's a cross and a crown of thorns and you know things to let you know things you know The man likes to kill large animals and he apparently likes pintails because he has two sprigs and a pintail hen on the wall here in this little taxidermy shop. Tell the pasture that Ojays has never mounted an animal. I actually had this conversation yesterday to an 11-year-old boy. I was in a place, a little place called North Carolina. Heard about it? I spoke twice at a church for Father's Day. You weren't too far from me, Jayce. You were in, I want to say, Winston-Salem, High Point, Greensboro, one of those areas. I was in Greensboro. I forgive you for not coming because... And I don't want to get them in trouble, but the place held 1500 and they said there was 1900 and something there was. Where were they? They said, oh, we had a spillover. We had a spillover play. Well, then the second service, there was like 1,300. So we had a little room there. And but then they were like, whatever you call it. What's the word, Maddie? When you film it and other groups, and other groups of people, people, people are watching it. They were streaming it to four or five of their sister campuses and one of them was in Spanish. So don't you know they had a hard time figuring out what in the world is this bearded guy talking about? But the viral... Did you try to launch into your some of your spant? Do you know any Spanish? Oh I did. I did a little bit on the spaniel. I said, well I know two. told me that I said to welcome y'all is welcome happy father today welcome our Spanish listeners I forgot to do this on the second one but I did it on the first one did you say all right that means a one I know two Spanish words for you patos and then I told the story about when Phil and I went to Mexico with a couple of duck men trainees and we we hunted and we filmed it I think it was called duck men south But all we did, this is a true story with a slight embellishment. All we would do is point and say, Patos. And so the first half a dozen times we did that, which Patos in Spanish means ducks. They just looked at us with a bewildered look. But we ran up on a guy, we said, Patos in Spanish, means ducks. They just looked at us with a bewildered look. But we ran up on a guy, we said, Patos. And we could barely see a body of water down there. That was actually the best hunt we had. So anyway, the slogan I dubbed was Traffic Jams for Jesus. Because all the ministry team, they were like, we're gonna be running late on the second one, because there's the traffic. They came to me kind of like in that spirit and I was like, this is good. And they were looking like, what's you're talking about? I said. I said, traffic jams for Jesus. That's a good problem when you have thousands of people trying to pour into a building to hear about Jesus. But... Jason, let me ask you something before you move on. Was that that previous trip? Was that the trip that the guy walked into dad's hotel room? That's one of the greatest stories ever. Have we ever told that on the podcast? I don't know that we have. It was so good. I remember when dad used to tell her. I was. I'll give you the short version because I got to get back on this why I've never mounted an animal. I've never mounted an animal. That was where we were going. So, bookmark. I'll remember that. We haven't seen each other in days. So we have all these stories. I know. It's been a story. Boy, Zach, they had some creative marketing ideas back at those days. Keep it semi. We cost it on the nose in the business. This story is worth retelling. It's one of my favorite. I'm laughing. We're in somewhere. It has a visual that's the real payoff for the story. We had actually hunted in Hagerman, Idaho, but we were, I think, on the way there and failed just one night. I you know we were back back then well no flying you just get in a vehicle and you go Washington state I mean we just and though there's no stopping all that you just drive and but one night Phil was just like I'm pulling over we're tired so it's like well let one of us drive but you know feel always had that kind of control tendencies you know and he's like no you don't sleep in a car for riding, not sleeping. Of course, later on he would take naps in the car, but anyway. Of course. So we stopped, we, and look, this place, it wasn't a hotel, it was a motel. Yeah. And it was, I thought, there is no way I would ever stop. But I thought, we're bearded men, we have guns, we'll be fine. But, so we got anything valuable out of our vehicle, including our guns, and we didn't up. And we didn't up. And because, parents like we want one room biggest one you got. Well there was about five of us. So the budgets were a little smaller back in the day too right for production. Yeah feel like come with me I'll pay for it. We're staying in one room. And so what's funny is nobody in our crew took off their clothes but Phil and Phil took it. They had one bed look in this room had been reconstructed and so what's funny is nobody in our crew took off their clothes but Phil and Phil to, they had one bed and this room had been reconstructed. And this is like probably sometime in the late 50s or 60s this reconstruction happened this place was old rickety door and Phil there was but right when you open the door there was the biggest bed it was just when you walk in there's a bed and then that had a little hallway and then there was two beds so it had three beds well there was five of us so and the other beds were small so fell had the main bed let with Phil, but everybody declined that. Which was just standard operating procedure. Well, Phil also had a rule that during hunting season, never bathe or wash your clothes. Because the warmth escapes. I mean, now that I'm thinking of all these stories, my dad was, boy, yeah, a screw lease on something like that. But maybe he just wanted to have his own bad. Maybe he was smarter than we gave him credit for. I'm in one bed and I forgot who the other duck man was he's in the other bed the cameraman they got the floor yeah so I think we had two cameraman and then there was three of us and didn't think anything about it I mean went to bed we're tired and I heard a noise it woke me up and it sounded like somebody turning a doorknob. I mean went to bed we're tired and I heard a noise and I heard a noise it woke me up and it sounded like somebody turning the door knob I didn't realize that my dad, old Phil, well he heard the same thing. Well he's in his bed and his tidy whiteies, he has his shotgun loaded right beside him. Well I just see my dad rise up. He just kind of folded his legs and just propped his gun up and just raised it up. And I thought, if somebody thinks to break. in his room. They have no idea what's waiting. And about that time I had that thought, that door opened. And I heard my dad say, in a deep gutteral, almost demonic voice that said, wrong room. I saw a flash of hands go up. And Phil, he said, hey, Jay, I said, yeah, he said, come look at this dude. He said, the guy was just walking backwards. When I walked out, I looked through the parking lot, he didn't close the door. He was had his hands, his butt was in a weird position, stick it out. He was still bent down like he was bowing. And he was walking backwards. And he was walking backwards and he was seven. 75 yards in the parking lot walking back. Wrong room. No, it was more guttrel, that it was wrong room. That's one of my favorite story. And just seeing that, Zach, watching that guy backing out, I've seen it in my mind so many times imagine. Because you know what he was thinking? Boy, does he ever right? We laughed about that. We laughed about that. We laughed mainly because one of the cameras, one of the cameras. cameraman said the most disturbing part of all that was how comfortable you were Phil and the fact the fact that he went cross leg on the bed just yeah that was the strangest part of the story I thought is that some kind of position that like supposed to help he just looked so relaxed and he's just wrong rain that guy that guy would have blinked he would no longer have been on the planet I'm telling you that right now. So I've just taken on probably this year the most ambitious landscape project of my life. We have planted an entire border wall with Laurel Crisp and we've also planted some other shrub borders on our property and I've replaced every single flower bed on my property. That's a little bit more ambitious to what you guys have been up to, am I right? Well for sure me Zach, I just got a couple of fruit trees as all. I just got a couple of fruit trees is all right. 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