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Unashamed with the Robertson Family

Ep 750 | Phil Robertson’s Bodyguard Relives His Experience as a Fire Chief on 9/11

Unashamed with the Robertson Family

Tread Lively

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Christianity

4.923.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Jersey Joe Congemi, a former New Jersey fire chief and Phil’s close friend, recalls his experience on September 11, 2001, during the deadly attack on New York’s World Trade Center towers. The guys are amazed by his experiences and the story of how Joe came to be a Christian and a resident of West Monroe. The guys and Joe give thanks and praise to all veterans, military, and first responders. Also, Jase gives an update on Mia’s recovery from her recent surgery. In this episode: Isaiah 41, verse 10 https://tommyjohn.com/phil — Get 20% OFF your first order now https://barrelbuddy.com — Get a better way to take care of your firearms with Barrel Buddy https://philmerch.com — Get your “Unashamed” mugs, shirts, hats & hoodies! "The Blind" hits theaters Sept. 28. Get your tickets TODAY before theaters start to sell out! https://www.fathomevents.com/theblind — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You know what I'm drawing kitty here this Friday. I believe the system is broken. Witness the insane true stories of the little guy who took on the Giants Wall Street

0:11.0

Must be seeing this right?

0:14.0

Storing Paul Dano and Seth Rogan. How much do we lose today? A billion. How much should we make today? 11 million dollars!

0:21.0

Critics are calling it hilarious and wildly entertaining. If he's in, I'm in.

0:27.0

Don Money. In cinemas Friday.

0:57.0

I am on a change. What about you?

1:06.0

Well, Jay, so I want to, I want to thank my cousin for taking the time to come visit me in the great state of North Carolina. It was black, very meaningful.

1:17.0

Black mountains. So you were up in Black Mountain, Jay?

1:20.0

Well, it's one of my favorite places. I love to go visit. He was here, but unlike you, he literally drove within, I would say probably less than a half a mile from my house.

1:35.0

Did you ride off the interstate there? I know. I know your place. Well, did not stop.

1:40.0

I came and visited. He just sailed right home by. Here's how arguments happen. I came and visited that.

1:48.0

But evidently, his expectations of what was going to happen on the visit were a little more lofty than mine. I said, I'm going, I'm going to come by.

1:58.0

I came by Jop and I. Jop was driving. We drove almost 14 hours. Yeah. And I blew the horn. He did call me. He said, I called him.

2:12.0

I'm driving by. I said, we'll stop by. I said, I love what you did with the mountains. I thought the smoky mountains would be a little more smoky, but they were interesting.

2:25.0

That was a hurricane that hit Florida. I'm not sure when this will be aired. We hadn't been here for a while for a while.

2:36.0

We actually had a couple of weeks where we hadn't recorded some. We loaded up on the front end. My daughter had a very challenging surgery. I wanted to be there.

2:48.0

I wanted to thank you all for maneuvering the schedule. She turned the corner here. So now we're two weeks after that happened.

2:58.0

But this has been pretty rough. I think this was our 15th major surgery. It was kind of unexpected, right? It was not on the schedule.

3:09.0

And the gist of it was one of the procedures they had done before with the hardware. And I'm only sharing this because look, we the prayers of everyone and the skill of the doctor team.

3:23.0

I just want to, you know, thank him. So that's why I'm talking about it. But so one of the things that they did before they put in basically brackets for brackets and

3:38.0

pieces of metal to secure her jaw and make it functional because her top jaw doesn't grow like it should. So she has apparatus in there to help.

3:53.0

But what happened was the apparatus started breaking down. He said it was due to the softness of the bone that these contraptions were screwed into.

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