Ep 1258 | Phyllis Revisits Phil’s Past, His First Words to Her & the Healing They Found Together

Unashamed with the Robertson Family

Tread Lively

Religion, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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As the Robertsons begin wrapping up their first full duck season without Phil, they reflect on legacy, hard work, and the faith that shaped their family. Phyllis joins the conversation to look back on Phil’s later years, the weight of the words “I never knew,” and the healing that followed Phil’s honesty instead of silence. The guys and Phyllis discuss trauma, forgiveness, and how truth spoken even late in life can still bring restoration. To hear Phyllis’s story from the beginning, watch her first Unashamed appearances in episodes 95 and 96 here: https://youtu.be/9n4Ab6mL9W0?si=YD9337YYIr5_AC6n https://youtu.be/kA4BCl5mhbY?si=MJgoQOfNB0EXjkwk And pre-order her book I Never Knew at https://ineverknewbook.com In this episode: Hebrews 12, verse 11; Romans 12, verse 2; 2 Corinthians 5, verse 17; Philippians 3, verse 13 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://open.spotify.com/show/3LY8eJ4ZBZHmsImGoDNK2l Listen to Not Yet Now with Zach Dasher on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, or anywhere you get podcasts. Chapters: 00:00 Opening the first duck season without Phil 03:42 Remembering Phil’s work ethic & love of the hunt 08:27 Living off the land & the values Phil passed down 13:41 Why hard work formed the Robertson family worldview 18:02 Phyllis is sharing her story with the world 23:55 How the letter, the photo, & faith connected the dots 29:48 “I never knew” — the moment Phil met his daughter 34:55 Trauma, forgiveness, & healing later in life 41:10 Telling the truth unlocks restoration 46:20 Phil gets the last word — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I am unashamed. What about you?
0:06.2	Welcome back to Unashamed.
0:09.9	Jason, I got a question for you.
0:11.6	So by the time this episode drops, we'll be probably right at the very end of duck season this year.
0:19.9	And we've been talking, you know, a lot about hunts and, you know,
0:24.6	ducks coming or not coming, as it were.
0:27.6	And this season started with kind of a call to arms, I guess we had after dad crossed over
0:36.4	back in right before Memorial Day last year in 25 that we
0:42.2	were going to the brothers were going to hunt together which we did and it was great because it was
0:46.2	kind of a um i guess an homage to dad you know just to kind of say you know we're here on open
0:52.6	today because you're not here so whatever whatever his experiences are crossed over, we don't know.
0:58.6	And, but we, you killed a band of duck.
1:01.7	Yeah, my first duck, which was, has never happened.
1:04.5	So that made me kind of chuckle.
1:06.8	Yeah, and it just kind of gives us that thing.
1:08.4	So I got my question for you because we got a guest coming on a little bit later.
1:13.4	So we're going to be talking quite a bit today about, about dad, about legacy, about a lot of things that he brought to us.
1:20.7	And obviously our kind of family tagline was Faith Family Ducks, you know, especially when the show came along in that order,
1:29.8	you know, dad used to say.
1:31.6	And what, I just want to know from you, like, so now we're ending a, okay, in a first
1:36.7	complete season without dad being there.
1:39.6	What's that been like to you?
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