Ep 1179 | Robertson Teenagers Turn Chaos Into a Family Sport & Obedience That Leads to Life

Unashamed with the Robertson Family

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Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Christianity

4.9 • 23.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Al, Zach, Christian, and John Luke are joined by Dr. Justin Jackson of Hillsdale College, teacher of the Genesis course they’ve been studying for weeks. The guys debate over who’s the current “fat brother” now that Al has lost weight, and wild parenting stories of Robertson teens flipping trucks, stabbing couches, and launching fireworks inside the bath house have them questioning their parenting choices. Dr. Jackson helps the guys trace themes of poetry, politics, and thought-provoking theories throughout Genesis. In this episode: Genesis 4, verses 6–7; Genesis 18, verses 10–15; Genesis 21, verses 1–7; Matthew 5, verses 23–24; 1 Peter 2, verse 9; Ephesians 6, verse 4 Today's conversation is an overview of The Genesis Story: Reading Biblical Narratives taught by Hillsdale Professor Justin Jackson. Take the course with us at no cost to you! Sign up at http://unashamedforhillsdale.com/ More about The Genesis Story: Genesis is a book of fundamental importance for the Jewish and Christian faiths and has exerted a profound influence on Western Civilization. In addition to being a great religious text, it is also a literary masterpiece. This free online course explores some of the work’s major narrative themes, including the complex relationship between God and man, the consequences of a rupture in that relationship, and the path towards reconciliation. Check out At Home with Phil Robertson, nearly 800 episodes of Phil's unfiltered wisdom, humor, and biblical truth, available for free for the first time! Get it on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, and anywhere you listen to podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/at-home-with-phil-robertson/id1835224621 Listen to Not Yet Now with Zach Dasher on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, or anywhere you get podcasts. Chapters: 00:00–06:10 Meet Dr. Justin Jackson 06:11–11:34 The Politics & Poetry of Genesis 11:35–17:01 The 4 Types of Relationships in the Bible 17:02–25:47 Evidence That Zach’s Kids are Feral 25:48–32:13 Isolation From God Ruins Our Lives 32:14–41:11 How to Become Friends with God — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I am unashamed. What about you?
0:06.3	Welcome back to the Unashamed podcast. This is our Friday episode, Unashamed with Hillsell. We have a special guest here today, Dr. Jackson. So, yeah, we were at the Latin food coffee place. We got to have breakfast with you this morning.
0:22.9	We saw you. First time we've met you in person,
0:28.0	although we feel like we know you because we watched. Well, I watched you. I was a little, so I am obsessive about being on time, even though I try to be fashionably late. So, so my fashionably late was
0:35.2	I came in at 802. No, the truth is I was there by myself at 750, and then I'm like, counting out, I'm like, it's 801 and nobody's here. What, I normally wouldn't worry, but everybody's two or three minutes late, then I'm thinking, what happened? So then I called Maddie. I was like, are we, is this breakfast on? He said, yeah, nobody's there? I said, no, it's 802.
0:55.0	She wasn't like 802?
0:55.9	I'm like, yeah, but nobody's here.
0:57.2	I was at 804. I was like rushing. I was like, oh, no. I'm going to be like, when I walked in, I was like, oh, they've been here forever. Like, I'm super late. Exactly on the third cup of coffee.
1:07.6	Yeah.
1:08.0	I did have quite a few cups of coffee.
1:09.8	You did.
1:10.3	And I always feel weird because I think they have great coffee, but you have a a few cups of coffee you did and you I always feel weird
1:11.6	because I think they have great coffee but you have a coffee business so it's kind of like weird
1:15.8	I think they have good coffee yeah yeah it's good it's good for what it is you judge other
1:20.4	coffees by your by your standard oh totally oh I mean 100% I now I judge coffee by John
1:26.4	Lexs oh a critical judge if I didn't like I sure. Now I judge coffee by John Lick-Sams. Oh, a critical judge. If I didn't, like, I wouldn't have even gotten their coffee. If I got that, I drank that whole cup. So that tells you it's good enough. That makes me feel better. So, so you're from California? Originally. So I've been, I've been here in the Midwest longer than I was in California. So I left California, age of 26. Okay. I'm older than 26.
1:47.9	You went, I've been here in the Midwest longer than I wasn't coming from. So I left California age of 26.
1:46.0	Okay.
1:47.0	I'm older 26 now.
1:48.0	You went to college at...
1:49.0	So I went to Fresno State for my bachelor's and masters.
1:54.0	And then I got my PhD at Purdue.
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