Robertson brothers deliver update on Phil’s health: 'More better days than bad days'



Beloved “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson has been absent from the “Unashamed” podcast for several weeks now due to medical issues.

Back in December, the Robertson brothers announced that their dad had been diagnosed with both a blood disease and Alzheimer’s disease and was suffering greatly as a result.

In a recent episode of “Unashamed,” Phil’s sons Jase and Al Robertson gave an update on the Duck Commander’s health.

It “[does] not seem like he's getting better,” Jase admits, noting that Phil’s waning condition has brought family members to tears at times.

Further, the recent discovery that Phil has several “fractured vertebrae” has only added to his discomfort.

Thankfully, it’s not all bad news.

Phil has “stints where he feels better,” says Jase. “Willie went down there last night, and Phil was perfectly fine — the best he had seen him mentally.”

Al, while heartbroken for his father, sees the silver lining. “It's definitely been a rally point for our family,” he says, noting the cooking and visiting centered around Phil.

“For any family that's going through a difficult time, you can sit around and just feel terrible about the situation, or you could say, ‘Let's pull together as a family and make it the best we can,’ so that's kind of been our approach,” he says.

Despite the difficult days, the family is encouraged that Phil has “more better days than bad days.”

For now, they ask that Phil’s supporters “keep praying."

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Robertsons ask 2 combat veterans about mysterious drones — 'Can we relax?'



This week, the Robertsons invited combat veterans and podcasters Chad Robichaux and Chadd Wright on the show to talk Jesus and drones.

As for the mysterious drones we still don't know much about, they say that if the military really wanted them down, they’d be down.

“How long would it take to correct this problem?” Jase asks.

“If our military wanted those things out of the sky, they would be down in hours,” says Robichaux. “[John Kirby] says they don't know what they are, but they're not a threat to public safety, and they’re not a national security threat. Well, that means they know what they are.”

“So we can relax?” Jase asks.

“I think so,” Robichaux says.

Even if the drones do belong to us, the American people are still frustrated at the government’s lack of transparency.

However, Wright says that in certain cases, secrecy is necessary.

“I don't like that the government has secrets either, but here's the thing — some things have to remain secret that the government is doing. You have enemies and you have a population who’s going to respond in a way that is detrimental to society if you was to actually tell them what’s going on,” he explains.

“These people in these cities, man, if you was to tell them that there’s some imminent threat and maybe that’s the reason these drones are flying around ... they’re gonna lose their minds,” he adds.

To hear the guys’ incredible stories about coming to know Jesus, watch the episode above.

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Phil Robertson thanks fans for outpouring of support in the wake of his diagnosis: ‘Fight the fight, keep the faith’



The “Unashamed” audience has been wondering where Phil Robertson has been. Their steadfast leader seemed to suddenly disappear from the podcast overnight.

While the Robertson brothers have informed fans that their dad has been under the weather, it wasn’t until recently that they shared what’s really been going on.

Phil “has some sort of blood disease that's causing all kinds of problems” and is in “early stages of Alzheimer’s,” Jase revealed in an “Unashamed” episode over the weekend.

Since this sad revelation, fans across the country have sent prayers and well wishes by the thousands. Many expressed that they learned more about Jesus and the Bible from Phil Robertson than they learned from years of attending church. Others pointed to Phil as the reason they returned to their faith.

“The outpouring of love, of support, of prayer just is ... it's almost been overwhelming for me,” says Al.

“Once my phone started going off, it pretty much hasn't stopped for the last 72 hours,” adds Jase.

Phil is certainly grateful for the love and support he’s received as well.

“Dad's famously not connected to tech, but he does love to hear that out there in ‘computer land,’ as he puts it, there are people that are expressing their love and their appreciation for everything that he's meant to them in their lives,” says Al.

These prayers, it seems, are having a real impact — not just on Phil’s spirit but also on his physical well-being.

“He has had some reprieve in his pain, and I got to think that that's the prayers of millions of people that went up over the last four days,” says Jack Dasher.

Even though the brothers know that decline is inevitable, they want everyone to remember what’s outlined in 2 Timothy 4:7-8.

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day — and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing,” Al reads.

One thing is absolutely certain — Phil Robertson has fought the good fight and kept his faith.

The Robertsons hope we will do the same as Phil continues his battle.

To learn more, watch the episode above.

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Robertson brothers open up about their dad’s diagnosis: ‘Phil is not doing well’



Phil Robertson, father of five, outspoken Christ follower, and patriarch of Duck Commander, hasn’t been on the “Unashamed” podcast for a few weeks now due to illness.

“Phil is not doing well,” says Jase.

“According to the doctors, they're sure that he has some sort of blood disease that's causing all kinds of problems."

"It’s accelerated, and it's causing problems with his entire body, and he has early stages of Alzheimer’s, so if you put those things together, he's just not doing well. He's really struggling,” he adds.

“He keeps saying, 'I'm going to get back to the podcast,' but I'm like, well, Phil, you can barely walk around without crying out in pain, and I was like, you know, your memory is not what it once was,” says Jase.

“He misses it,” says Al.

“There will be some days he's a little better, you know, a little more with you; on other days, not so much.”

“We're trying to do a lot of things to figure out how to make him more comfortable and maybe help with his memory,” including “doctor sessions,” but “what we're hearing is outside of some supernatural intervention, which I don't doubt … there’s no curing what he has,” says Jase candidly.

Although Phil went duck hunting with his sons on opening day recently, he “did not fire his weapon, nor did he say much.”

While he told Jase that he would call when he was ready to try hunting again, that day has not come.

“If he's unable to go duck hunting, that pretty much tells you all you need to know,” says Jase.

“If he were here, you know what he would say: Boys, the resurrection looms large as you get nearer and nearer the end,” says Al, noting that while Phil may not be on the set of the podcast, the “Phil chair is always there.”

To hear more about Phil’s condition and how the brothers are working with doctors to "slow it down," watch the episode above.

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Missy Robertson receives Moms for America award, and TRUMP shows up for her POWERFUL Jesus speech



Moms for America is a nonprofit, grassroots organization with over 500,000 members spread across all 50 states that aims to “activate, empower, and mobilize moms to promote and advance freedom in our homes, communities and through our vote.”

The organization recently awarded Missy Robertson with a Mothers of Influence Award for using her platforms to promote morality and virtue.

During her powerful acceptance speech at the 4th annual Mothers of Influence and Champion of Freedom Awards, which was hosted at Mar-a-Lago on November 22, Missy and Jase were surprised to see none other than Donald Trump in the crowd.

Jase recounts the incredible experience.

“I was the most underdressed person there,” Jase admits, adding that he was surprised to see that what was just a start-up organization seven years ago has since evolved into a “who’s who.”

“This place was packed. It was all these people you see on TV,” he tells Al.

As for Trump’s unexpected appearance, Jase says that he just happened to come in from playing golf at the exact moment Missy was scheduled to give her speech.

Jase explains that the people coordinating the event initially weren’t sure what to do when they got the call that Trump was on his way in. But before they could make a decision about potentially moving Missy’s speech, the announcer introduced her and she was ushered on stage, knowing the president would be in the crowd.

“Missy told me, she said, ‘When that happened, I just felt a peace come over me,”’ says Jase, who knows that the mysterious timing “wasn’t an accident.”

“So she starts giving this speech that was focused on Jesus, and she got to Acts chapter 17” — which Jase explains is a powerful passage in which Paul preaches the gospel message of salvation through Jesus Christ — and “right as she got to that point ... I looked up and saw the president looking at my wife,” Jase recounts.

When Missy’s speech concluded, “Every person in that room (and there were hundreds) who loves Jesus descended on me and my wife, and there were songs, prayers, tears,” he says. “This is not an accident. This needed to happen.”

“I’ve never been as proud of my wife as I was in that moment.”

To hear the rest of the incredible story, watch the episode above.

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Jase Robertson discusses the Bible topic that ‘makes men squirm’



Life is strange and uncomfortable in many ways, so it’s not all that surprising that the Bible, being our guide to life, is also full of strange and uncomfortable topics.

However, there’s one topic Jase Robertson says tops the list — as least for men.

And that subject is circumcision.

However, the practice is far more than a physical act. The history of what a large portion of American male babies receive following their birth has a long and storied history.

“Some of what I’m fixin’ to say could be graphic and offensive to people who don’t understand what circumcision is,” says Jase.

“When a baby is born, they're circumcised. You go to the nether region, and there's some skin that is removed. ... They do it now for cleanliness. It’s not an identity thing,” he explains.

Many forget, however, where the concept of circumcision came from. It was a physical representation of the covenant God had made with Abraham and his descendants (the Jewish nation) — that God would give them a homeland, protection, and prosperity if they obeyed his commands.

But that’s just the beginning. There’s another layer to the concept of circumcision that many Christians don’t understand — circumcision is not merely a physical act. There’s a spiritual kind of circumcision of the heart that the Bible lays out.

Jase points to Romans 2:28-29.

“A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.

No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person's praise is not from other people, but from God.”

Jase also points to Colossians 2:9-12.

“For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority. In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.”

“In this case, Christ is the one doing the cutting, so this is not Jewish people back under this promise that God made with Abraham. This is a new sort of promise,” he says.

To hear more of Jase’s analysis on physical versus spiritual circumcision, watch the episode above.

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Kirk Cameron tells the Robertson brothers his plan for America’s revival



Hollywood actor turned Christian author and evangelist Kirk Cameron joined Jase and Al Robertson on the “Unashamed” podcast to share his plans for a full-fledged American revival.

While Cameron is typically authoring children’s books for Brave Books, a Christian publishing company, he’s also turned his sights on adults who want to join the nationwide movement to take back America for God.

Titled “Born to Be Brave: How to Be a Part of America's Spiritual Comeback,” Cameron’s latest book, which just dropped earlier this month, outlines how Christians, who have been given “a birthright of courage,” can fight back against the evil ideologies that have poisoned our country and reinstall our Christian values.

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Al and Phil, both of whom have already read the book, give it a stamp of approval.

The book is aimed at Christians, who “talk about wanting to try to somehow change our culture, change our country ... but then sit someplace in a church building and have no impact on what's going on,” says Al, adding that his favorite chapter is “Heavenizing Earth.”

“Tell folks what [heavenizing earth]” means, Al says to Cameron.

“You go to Genesis chapter 1 you see that God is creating the world, and then he puts man on a mission and he says, ‘Be fruitful, multiply, fill the Earth, take dominions, subdue all that [God] has created,’” says Cameron, pointing out that God’s mission for man is rooted in the idea of “family.”

That family, Cameron explains, was given a “cultural mandate” to “develop God's world in ways that are consistent with his character.”

Then, following the resurrection of Jesus, the command to Christians expanded in the form of the Great Commission. God’s people were not just called to fill the Earth and be obedient to him, they were also called to spread the good news of salvation offered through Jesus.

But despite the fact that we have been filled with and empowered by the Holy Spirit, today’s Christians are “so scared and depressed by the giants in our land,” says Cameron.

What do giants look like today?

“Big Tech, Big Government, Big Pharma, Big Business,” says Cameron. Now, we have Christians “sitting on their couch watching Fox News, crying in their Chick-fil-A soup, praying for a rapture.”

But that mindset is not how God designed his people to function, and it’s certainly not going to help our nation reverse course.

“We've created this self-fulfilling prophecy of a deteriorating future simply because we're not being salt and light in the culture,” says Cameron. “Meanwhile, the extremists on the left have a vision of victory for their worldview and believe that their ideas are powerful enough to create heaven on Earth.”

The result of this combination is devastating — especially for kids.

“These kids are going, ‘They’re the ones who care about the environment; they're the ones who seem to care about loving people, especially the outcast; they're the ones that want to bring people in from other countries and and give them asylum and a dream and a hope; they're the people that want to end all the problems in the world that are caused by greed and capitalism,”’ Cameron says.

“All of a sudden, we have handed our biblical playbook of creating a beautiful culture over to the enemy who's starting to run our plays better than the family of faith is.”

But it doesn’t have to be this way. To hear Kirk Cameron’s vision for our nation where Christians step into the power bestowed upon them by God and up to the plate of our calling, watch the episode above.

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‘A war zone’: The Robertsons get trapped by Hurricane Helene, and it’s way worse than you know



Americans throughout the Southeast have been stranded by Hurricane Helene without power, water, or cell service — and many have lost their homes and even lives. The devastation is unimaginable, and the Robertson family has witnessed it all firsthand.

Al and Lisa Robertson were staying in Black Mountain, which he explains was hit with 20-plus inches of rain in two days — before Hurricane Helene reached them.

“There was just the perfect storm, and I say that in a negative way,” Al says. “This one had some bite to it.”

“First you’re just praying, you know, spare us, and then you start praying about the people down lower ‘cause you think of down the mountain, this isn’t going to be good. Lisa and I were staying at a little house, kind of pretty much close to the top. I’m praying because I was worried about a mudslide,” he continues.

When the morning came around, Al recalls that “it was like a war zone.” And after trying to get out of the mountains, they realized they were landlocked.

“We make it about half a mile on I-40 and mudslide,” he explains. “Trees on the road, all this stuff, can’t go this way. So then we’re trying to find is there another way around? Nope. Everything over there’s shut down.”

“So then you start thinking, what if we go south? Nope. Closed. There’s a river across the interstate,” he continues. “So we take off north, planning to get high enough up, maybe above the worst damage to cut across and then go east. We get to Tennessee, we’ve been driving a couple hours, and the interstate is collapsed.”

“We’re trapped, we cannot leave,” he adds. “We have no phones, we have no electricity at this point, we don’t even have a place to stay, but we do have family. And I’m thinking, I mean, there’s a helplessness that comes over you at that moment, because I got half a tank of gas and there’s no gas stations.”

As other people from out of town were waiting for places to open up, Al recalls realizing that those in electric cars were “doomed.”

“There’s no electricity for you to power your vehicle with,” he explains.

However, Al and Lisa did see signs of hope in the “rednecks” who were prepared and used that to help others.

“They helped other people. They would go to their neighbors' [houses], and we saw a whole truckload of people just going from place to place, helping,” Lisa says.

Tragically, there are still around a thousand people missing and over a hundred people have been confirmed dead.

“It’s going to wind up being devastating numbers for sure,” Al says, sadly.


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EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT: Locals help Hurricane Helene victims while government is nowhere to be seen



In one of the most devastating natural disasters to reach land in the history of America, Hurricane Helene has left more than 100 people dead. Thousands are still missing. Homes are destroyed. And millions are without power.

Just days into the devastation, President Joe Biden said the feds have given all they can to the emergency response, and Kamala Harris is off campaigning — Donald Trump went to the scene in Georgia with relief material.

And Trump isn’t the only one helping the victims, as Mercury One is doing whatever it can to provide relief.

“I heard about the devastation that was happening, and I reached out to Corey [Mills], gave him a text, and said, ‘Hey, do you have any helicopters?’ He actually said, ‘Yeah, I’ve got helicopters.’ I said, ‘Great, we’ve got supplies. Let’s get it out there,’” JP Decker, executive director of Mercury One tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.”

“So earlier today, he flew two helicopters out to Asheville, landed in Asheville, and is delivering water, all kinds of different supplies, food supplies because right now they don’t have any water. They’re saying they might not have clean water for about at least three to four weeks,” he explains.

Mercury One is “also helping create communications for Tennessee.”

“With Mercury One, we like to be the first in and the last out. So, that’s what we’re doing,” Decker says.

Since federal aid has been slow to reach victims, locals have also been stepping up.

“The big picture is we saw this last year in Lahaina. We saw a lot of people weren’t able to get in to help, and it was the locals that stepped up. That’s what we’re seeing now. No one can get in, no one can get out,” Decker says.

Al Robertson of BlazeTV’s “Unashamed” is among the survivors of the hurricane, and he’s witnessed firsthand what’s happening.

“I saw people, literally neighbors with chainsaws, people sharing gasoline. I saw the community rising up for one another, but we needed something bigger in a moment like this because there were a lot of people trapped there that didn’t have family, that didn’t know people,” Robertson explains.

“That’s when we rely on our government to step in and get people in ASAP, whatever it takes. And I was there for two and a half days, and we never saw anybody except the locals, and that was really sad.”


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Jase Robertson shares the film he says 'needs to be watched by society'



“Very seldom do I recommend things to watch,” says Jase Robertson, who isn’t much of a media guy.

However, last weekend, Jase’s wife happened to bring up Matt Walsh’s 2022 documentary “What Is a Woman?”

Jase was shocked to discover that a film with such a title existed, and so, intrigued, he watched it.

His conclusion is that “What Is a Woman?” “needs to be watched by society.”

“All this guy did, to his credit, was simply ask a question,” he says, pointing to the “global controversy” that gender has become.

“When [Walsh] asked that question,” says Jase, he discovered that “the belief has become popular among those who attack the gender God-defined roles that it's impossible for them to answer.”

Jase shares his bewilderment that the socially acceptable answer when it comes to someone’s gender is basically “let the kid decide what they want to be.”

“They'll say your gender is whatever you want to be, including any kind of animal. I mean you can be a cat, you know, you can be a wolf,” he says.

“That’s nonsense,” is all Phil Robertson has to say about it.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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