Sadie Robertson's Great-Grandmother Is an Absolute LEGEND

well mama i will say you're the first person on the podcast to ever bring in a live audience we have fans lining up at the door fans we got corey robertson and christian hub watch again because they didn't want to miss the gold nuggets that you would drop um but for those who who don't know you and they probably do because you're the reason this podcast even really started sure i am no you really are okay which i told you at christmas because years ago my mom and i were at an event and the interviewer asked me what's the best piece of advice i've ever been given and i said something you said to me whenever i came in i remember i was telling you about all my problems and i was like mama what am i gonna do about this situation and i was trying to think of my revenge i was gonna make and you said well honey you are not kind because other people are kind to you you are kind because you are a kind person and that advice has stuck with me it's on the wall out here and mom in the interview literally said in the microphone whoa that's good and behold the podcast began and so you had a fingerprint all of this we have so many memories you you taught me how to play uno be a savage i never let you win you didn't that's why i said you taught me how to be established because i'm not going to let anybody else win either and whenever i have this daughter she won't she won't be able to beat me because she taught me that um no so many good things but i would ask you the question i ask everybody um what is the best piece of advice that you've ever been given you know that's a hard question it is see and i thought about it because you warned me ahead of time and the my grandmother was really instrumental in raising me because they we had a multi-generational family my grandmother and grandfather lived with us all my growing up years so and she had a lot of advice but once she told me when i was dating to always look for a man who is kind to his mother and he will be good to you that's good and and it really stuck with me so much and i don't know whether that just became part of me or whatever because of what she said but those things that i know she was talking about were kindness and goodness and respect yeah and all of those things that you look for in someone that makes you happy yeah that makes you feel good about yourself and that's what i looked for and that's what i found in a big big way that's so sweet that's so cool that you said that because i remember a conversation we had uh standing at counter culture me even too mama i don't even know if you'll remember this and i had just broken up with somebody else and you said well honey you're just you kissed a lot of frogs and you said you were going to find your friends one day and then i remember you encouraged me with because we were talking about pablo shack and you were just saying he was just such a sweet man i remember thinking i don't think i've dated a sweet guy like just a really kind sweet person because that's that is a huge trait in people that you know i don't think i think men sometimes might not think that that is of as much value they want to be masculine they will be all these things but to be sweet and to be kind is such a huge treasure and an attractive thing and something that is rare but it's um you know that's how they're gonna treat you and so i remember that kind of shifted in my mind and then when i brought christian home and you said he's not a frog and i was like and he's a sweet man and it all just kind of clicked you know you've got to be very very strong within yourself a man i would think that a man would have to be really strong within himself yeah to be able to exhibit that and be comfortable with that yeah that's good so with peppa you know y'all had an amazing marriage how long were y'all married 57 years yeah that's so cool that's awesome and he was the greatest man he also told me that he was colorblind which is why he always put the blue card over the green and uno and i thought that was true until like two years ago you told me he wasn't but he was a goober but he was just awesome um he what so i know one thing was kindness and peppa that you looked for but what's something you would say that you all had in your marriage that you would encourage other people to maybe look for if they're already married work towards mutual respect i think more than anything else and always wanting to put that other person first we we always said even both of us together that marriage is not a 50-50 thing it's a 90 10 both ways yeah because you you want to do the things it should be within your heart to want to do the things that make that other person happy yeah i remember um you know when basketball was papa's life when we were married he was a basketball player and every night we went to a ball game but that was okay with me because i loved basketball but later on i was thinking at times when he went to hear oh we had a famous singer robert merrill a tenor opera tenor who came to alexandria when we lived there for a concert i was so excited about him coming and peppa had never gone to a concert like that before but he went along and he said it was the best thing he ever heard and whether it was or not he he made me think he did yeah which was important that's so sweet i love that yeah not only that our our two oldest daughters were in an opera once and he went to the opera and just it was awesome he said we've got to do this more but he was enthusiastic about everything that made me happy and i was enthusiastic about the things that made him happy that is such good advice i love that i have to tell you sadie this little quick story when we were first married and of course we were so poor he was in the marine corps and we didn't make any money but we were walking down downtown in san diego window shopping and in the window of this one store was this model with this gorgeous black velvet coat on with the rhinestone buttons across along the front and i just thought that was the prettiest thing i'd ever seen well peppa bought that for me for christmas wow yes i don't know of course we could not afford that so i had to be very cautious about what i said what you said you liked really made me happy because i knew he'd work really hard to see that was done that's so sweet i love that what a good man i was like this year for uh christmas i had just like mentioned a lot of things that i wanted for christmas from christian but i was just kind of tossing it out and i was so surprised when he like remembered everything down to like this little face exfoliant razor i was like how would you remember that that's such a good thing for somebody to see what you love to see what your face lights up for and get it i remember peppa you know pebbles love for basketball and that was actually like where my love for basketball came you really had a legacy for that and i remember being in like sixth grade and like wanting y'all so badly to see me play on the varsity team so i was like i'm gonna have to work really hard because i got we got a long way to go and that year i remember shooting like a hundred shots every day no making 100 every day i couldn't go in until i made 100 every day and because i wanted so badly to be on the varsity team i did i know and then i made it in seventh grade and i remember whenever i went overseas to play you gave me pet balls pin his flag uh that he had whenever he got it for playing in the marines playing basketball everything we did which was so special to me this is so cool well you guys uh set a great example for relationships i actually just remembered this um when i was little and it was such a weird memory like i have very distinctive memories of pepla just like little ones like playing guess who and how every time i spent the night with you he would sleep on the couch and i would sleep with you but one other thing is i remember sitting in that place the room the computer room that y'all had and he walked in one day and he told me he said whenever you're married one day and i mean i had to be like seven and he was like don't let the sun go down angry at your spouse and he told me that and it's so sweet and so now christian will always say for an argument he's like i know i know sun doesn't go down until he until he stopped talking about this because it means a lot that's one thing i remember pit ball saying the advice is something that we did in our marriage it's amazing i love it well you know you're an amazing your amazing wife and now you're a grandma a great grandma a great way great question great great grandma you have a long legacy so how many grandkids do you actually have i have 29 grandchildren that's crazy that is amazing 29 today well now wait a minute wait a minute no let's go back i have 12 grandchildren 12 grandchildren and i have 29 grandchildren i mean great grandchildren great questions and then great great you have two two yes and you're about to have two more i know yeah with me and mary kate and you had six kids you have a lot of kids yeah happening so for me about to be a mom with just one what is your best piece of motherly advice for me i think the the biggest thing that you can give your children is to be a strong parent a strong confident parent it's good i heard someone say once uh when they were talking about rearing children about children who were having tantrums and just going completely berserk and that that's when your your job as a parent is to go in and stop that yeah because they can't do it and they depend on you to take care of them that's good so it's that now and that's a small child but i remember when i was in high school that when when my friends would want to do something and involve me that i didn't think it was smart to do i would say oh my mom would never let me do that well whether she would or not i i hung it on her anyway that's good so i i knew then how important it was that you had a parent who said no that's not wise to do yeah that's that's just no we're not going to do that in our family yeah that sort of thing that's so funny you say that because the mom used to always say to us she was like if you ever need to blame it on me you can blame it on me my girl said to you he eat it out just say your mom said you can't because it's true she probably would it's true [Music] so a little bit mellow was talking about about how you never know whenever the best time your life's gonna be because it could be next there's always opportunities to keep growing and keep doing things and she just had so much wisdom of all the things she's done in her life and i was thinking how cool that is for her and how that could be the same for us now there's a website called skillshare skillshare.com and basically you can go on you can take all these different classes like watercolor if you want you can take business you can take photography and all these different things and earn these skills and different things in life that maybe you've always kind of thought i would love to try that so you go to skillshare.com and do that you take a class you have a teacher and everything and it's actually less than most classes would be you can get an annual subscription for less than ten dollars a month so that's pretty legit and also if you go to skillshare.com whoa you can also get a free trial with the premium subscription so everybody go to skillshare.com and go try something fun this year that you've never done [Music] but that's so good i love that two mama i asked two mama the other day so two mama is your daughter my grandma and she said uh i said was mama a strict parent she said oh she was strong she said she said she was all fun and she was really cool but when she snapped her fingers there were six kids in line and i was like that's awesome much respect and you know that i i made my children sit on the front row in church did you do that terrible thing i did because i wanted them to know what it was like to be right there in front where everyone was watching them that is to behave themselves see that's hilarious because i like the front row and every time i start walking towards christian's like no not the front row not the front row it's so funny maybe two mama made us do that or something that's hilarious um so i want to ask you about the legacy that you built because truly built a legacy like you have 29 grandkids who all love you and all think that they're your favorite which is really impressive because you love everybody the same and you pay attention to everybody's life and your and you invest in our lives you showed up to everything i've done to tennis matches and basketball games and when i walked in fashion week and did dance with stars like you were there and that's so impressive because you have a lot going on but when you think about leaving a legacy for people what is something that you keep at the forefront of your mind just as um the great grandmother that you are is there some advice you can give to somebody who say maybe i haven't had a great legacy i want to build a good legacy what are some of those characteristics that you think have done that oh sadie you know i really thought about this and i even looked up the word legacy and what that means and it just just live a life that someone wants to emulate i think it's good that they see something in you that they want to be yeah when they they grow up and it's it's not it's not anything special other than just loving your family and being available for them when they are when they need help or you need someone to always be there to back them up that's good it um that's a great answer that's actually like for just somebody who is your great-granddaughter like i've seen that in your life and i can say that is your legacy we all want to be like you like everybody like two mama said the other day she said two papa said man you are just like your mom and she said thank you that's a good thing i hope i'm just like my mom i know he did mean it well because she was she's strong like she was being strong in something and then another one of our cousins was over today and she said um i said oh i'm about to go interview my mom she said oh okay good she said i was actually gonna go over and talk to my mom today because i needed some advice because she has just done this so well in her life that i need advice for and she said but i'll wait till you're done with me asking you all the advice to share with the world so you have this whole family who wants to learn from you seek wisdom from you because we see something in your life that is valuable and that has blessed so many people and your strength your love your ability to show up and care your ability to continue to make christmas brunch for however many family members we have at your age is incredible yeah and this year after even coming through covid you even made brunch for the family like you're just very strong and that's something that we all look up to well that's something that is fun to do and i know everyone looks forward to it and enjoys it and i wouldn't disappoint you for the world so i may be dragging in there at 95 and doing bananas foster we'll be calling christian will be like are you going to make your chocolate coffee drink because i'll still drink it i'll leave the recipe anyway i love it ella we have tried to make it it's not as good as yours you have just the magic touch but it was really good um so i was thinking about this you know you lived a long life i am 23. you are how old are you will you tell us uh yes i'm 89 i will be 90 in april so awesome so looking back what was something you didn't know at my age that you're glad you learned in life oh honey i was so dumb i was but but i was hopeful that's good and always looking forward to what was coming and probably more than anything else i learned patience because i was an impatient person i wanted everything to happen you know like that yeah can't click my fingers anymore but it's um and i learned that from from your peppa shack yeah because he was always he would always say let's just let it lie a while you know when there was a a crisis or something that i wanted to fix right away especially with with our teenage children he would say let's just let it arrive for a while wow and see what happens and usually it would work itself out it's good but it takes patience to do that yeah this generation needs to hear that because i think more than ever we want things to happen like this because things do happen like that for us you know we have especially apps to make things you know happen fast we want food we can get it delivered if we want uh entertainment we can click on an app and watch a movie we get things really fast and some things in life you don't just get like that you know you need patience and that's such an exactly that's really cool another thing that i learned from him was not to worry because that we're not even supposed to worry you know it's scriptural that we are not not supposed to worry but he would say if i can do something about something i will do it and if i can't i'll worry and the world will not fix it that's good that's good that's a word for everybody yeah it's another thing with us right now i think we're so anxious like more anxious than ever and it is scriptural so do not worry about anything what you wear what you eat and then the lord even says like what what does he compare it to do you not see how he takes care of like the birds how much more will he take care of you exactly that's so good um of all the decades that you've lived because you've lived through a lot because i even asked you the other day i was like have you ever seen a time like this and you were like yes world war ii and i was like oh yeah you did live through a lot of things so of all the things that you lived through what was one of the hardest decades and what was one of the greatest um the hardest is was a time during the 80s when we were going in louisiana we were just cursed with a bad depression the oil industry all left shreveport where we were living and moved to out of state and there were at that time there were 1500 house fha repos on the market insurance industry for louisiana which means people had just walked away from their houses without paying any kind of mortgage or anything wow and um we were in the real estate business so it was devastating to us and we we we lost a lot of our holdings at that time financially it was just totally disruption and and it was so hard for me because i had to see what effect it had on my husband not just our family but my husband and if it had not been for our faith and our family we could not have gone through that and come out well so that's an easy one but that's sad stuff and i don't even think about that anymore i'm just like scarlet i'll worry about that tomorrow but anyway it's um the happy the best one may yet be there you know i have always felt in my life that whatever age i was was the best age to be and i would not go back for anything wow i would not want to make the same mistakes or even correct the ones i made because hopefully i learned from them yeah but it um so i don't know we'll just see what the night is old i love it i love it see that's so cool because not many people say that and even when i said like will you tell us who you are because people don't want to say that for some reason and for you to probably be like well yes i'm 89 about to be 90 and there's so much more to come and i do think that that is one of your having two more grandma great grandmother you are a great queen baby you are you have a lot to look forward to and i think that's that's so powerful and that's something i want to take from and not look back because even at you know 23 and this seems crazy because i know i'm really young but we've done like a lot of really cool things and i feel like sometimes i'm like oh man when i was 17 a lot of really good things happen like but always believing god for more that like there's greater things to come and they might not seem as significant as a big moment but they're significant in the specialty of the moment and so i love that that's such good advice your importance that you put on the big things change yeah that's true yeah that's so good i love that i think i you know looking at your life i do think that's one of your keys to success because you know you do always look forward to the future and you know you're not done yet um but what would you say is a key to success for for aging well because when people look at you they're like how did you age so well people always think you're my grandma not my great grandma and when they hear the things that you do like i said that like i'll pass your house and you'll be outside with a leaf blower like hey honey like you were also the first person i knew that had an iphone like you're constantly just in the cool not to mention you shop at free people what like that's just where i shop so we could end up with the same thing one day like you're just very cool what would you say is a tip to aging well well one is to accept change and even embrace it when it's it's a good thing yeah keep learning always keep learning i think the biggest thing for me that has been in my favor is being surrounded by people i love and that love me back it's good and that that is so good it was so funny you said that because my granddaughter ashley and i went to australia four years ago and we were part of a tour with uh all these chinese women and we were we were climbing up a kind of a minor mountain and of course i was so much taller than everybody else and i was up with the guide in the front and someone back in the back one of the chinese women was hanging back and the guy back there said to her that that woman up there is 84 years old and she's walking with the guide and they all looked at me in a totally different look because in china when you're that old the family takes care of you you don't do anything anymore you just sit and grow old yeah and so from then on they followed everything i did i'm serious it was really awesome we were we had this one woman who was always over my shoulder no matter where we were she was there and then one day she showed up with someone who spoke english and translated she had been following me until she could get a translator to talk to me and she wanted me to come to china and talk to chinese women yeah about how to grow a home yes that is amazing that's so good the first thing i told her was tell them to get a computer that's good advice as i'm telling you first one with the iphone you knew a lot more than everybody else that is so funny mama you're famous in china well maybe they'll listen to this podcast and be like that's the woman that's the woman that we watched there she is she she's doing it man you truly are an inspiration to so many people i mean our whole family anybody knows you all my friends are like we just want to be like mama joe and even which we haven't announced our daughter's name we're not going to yet but her name is in remembrance of view in a really significant way so everybody just loves you you mentioned earlier about going through a really hard time and you know we're clearly going through a hard time right now in our world 2020 was hard and 2021 is a new year but still a lot of the same hard things are rolling in and so from someone who's been through multiple hard times in our nation and your own personal life what's your advice to people getting through a time like this where it just seems you know wild oh i think along with everything else that happens to us honey this is all temporary yeah it's this is of course it's that old adage of this world is not your home this is we are just sojourners here which means we're just stopping for a while yeah onto a better place in another place yeah and it and to know that the lord's in charge this is what is so comforting to me and hopefully to everyone else that is a believer in him that he's in control of this all and he does not want bad things for us this i'm always surprised when someone says in my hearing that how could god let this happen this is the world that lets things happen to us it's his and he is the comforter the sustainer for us through all of these things that happen yeah here on earth preach it's just well i'm not a preacher hey where did i get it from i got it from somewhere oh you've got it you you have a better legacy there than from me but it um my fa my faith in god is such a simple thing it it really is i've never thought it had to be complicated and it's just that god's in charge and he's going to help me through this and there have been some really hard times you know we i lost a nephew that was so dear to me when he was 11 years old and that was the worst time and i remember my brother who was a very strong man in the faith it was his son staying on our way home from the hospital when this happened that he's in the best place and we're the ones who have to stay here and remember him wow and it was just such a powerful testimony for him to say at that horrible time in his life and if nothing else that just strengthened my faith wow and all this time wow and there's so many people needed to hear that because a lot of people have passed away this year that are close to other a lot of even i mentioned this in the prayer just you being here that a lot of people lost grandparents and so it's a beautiful thing for them to have somebody wise and older speak into our life but that is such a beautiful thing for somebody who lost someone so dear to have that perspective that they're the ones who are in the better place and we're getting to them we're a little behind the pace to get to the eternity and how beautiful it will be you know when peppa when papa shack died which was a terrible horrible time but i remember your grandpa saying well i can just see dad up there saying well garden seed their shack that's so funny and it just came out it just lightened my burden so much to realize that that was really happening that's so sweet such a sweet thing for him to say i was just telling christian the other day that one of my great-grandpas used to say garden seed and how funny that was oh man i remember when when peppa shot passed and i remember we all went and had like a a party at two mama's house and i was like why are we having a party because i could not stop crying and i don't know if it was mom or two mama or one of y'all explaining to me that because it is a celebration because he would want us to be happy that he's in heaven and in eternity and it's just a beautiful thing to shift your mind towards heaven and to shift your mind towards the goodness of god well i know that's going to help so many so many people pablo shag and pebble howard are hopefully watching listening in there are a cloud of witnesses i actually remember whenever i was little when i would pray i would say dear god um would you mind if i talk to people i shock and pitbull howard for a minute and i would just talk to them as if i had the line he would just transfer me and so uh they know that i'm talking to them too mama you're incredible we have so much good advice so many fun stories and just the legacy that you live you make me cry so i have to wrap this up or let that start i'm not stopping but we love you everyone in the world is going to feel loved by you just from this podcast uh i know it's funny because you're the most confident strong person i know and you said you were nervous to be on this podcast and by the way you told me you were going to hit me with one liners and not have anything to say yeah right yeah right you had gold so for those of you listening i hope that this encourages you and that you uh take so much good advice from the well of wisdom that she is and i hope it strengthens your faith in god and it helps you get through hard times and even embrace the times to come and look forward to the future in your life no matter how old you are if you're 23 or 89 there are things to look forward to but my mom thank you we love you so much that was so good i loved it that is so good well mom from your wise words years ago whoa that's good i think we need to add that was really good really good i'm so glad i was here to hear that i was like over there like balling crying i was like don't look at me because i had you like right in the peripheral and i kept seeing you do this and i was making me about to start crying it was so sweet i loved it so much good advice i also was like why am i not writing all the sound but then i was like oh i don't have to write it down because it's only we're going to listen to it it'll be here forever i know i was thinking about i was like this is my favorite piece of advice she just said i was like no this is no this is oh i know there's like a million so much good stuff yeah yeah well business per usual on to the good and bad advice that you guys sent in thank you for sending in good and bad advice to the whoa that's good podcast instagram and also on our ello sister app which we get most of our advice from so thanks girls thanks everyone um all right mom what do you think about this in relationships so relationship advice be an open book i think that's great of course yeah you want that you know that idea of like being known by the person that you love and that loves you so i think being an open book is good you should yeah be able to kind of like lay it all there before the person that you love and that loves you i agree i think you should wait until you know you know it's a serious relationship because sometimes people getting relationships are like and i've done this they're just like let me tell you everything about my life and then you like break up a week later and they've only met you for like two weeks and you're like now you know everything about yeah i guess i'm speaking for like a really really nice relationship that you want to like yeah you think is there for the long haul definitely be an open book that's great i think whenever you're fully known that's when you know you're fully loved there's a lot of security coming for that comes with that all right marriage is only as good as your singleness i don't know about that i mean because everybody's stories different yeah yeah i mean you might be in a rough season in your singleness but you might you're going to have an awesome marriage so i think you should like put that on yourself that like oh because some of my single days were hard and weren't fulfilling or weren't this my marriage is going to be the same so no i agree not necessarily and like you all get married at 18. so like our singleness was like high school you're like 10 years old you were single right so that didn't really count yeah all right this is good don't play the victim to circumstances you created hmm that's really good that's really good yeah yeah i think people could yeah you're like all of a sudden you're like oh my life's so terrible and you're like um but how did you get there and there's choices that you made that put you there and i don't think really playing a victim is ever good in any situation you know you should see yourself more as a survivor of things or more of a person who overcame things not or a victim that's like memoirs like yeah no one talks about hard times that she was like i'm not getting as well on that and i'm not having a good thing about that because i was so long ago like it wasn't like oh and then this happened as a seminar she's like yeah it was a hard time for everybody yeah and our faith drives through it right it's inspiring that way i think it's good i love it well guys you all need to keep sending some good advice and some bad advice if you want us to talk about it or discuss it and we will uh but i think we'll just leave it there because memo knocks it out of the ball she killed it i loved it it was so good i think it was what's so funny about it too was you called me and were like um emma's a little nervous do you think maybe you should be on it too so that she'll talk a lot and i was like mama does not need me no she's just being humble like she's gonna kill it i knew she kept telling me she's like i'm so nervous and she was like and i never really like plan as far as like give people the questions i'm gonna ask them you know and she's like i need to see the questions like we need to talk this over and i'm like why are you so nervous and then she's like and just so you know she's like i'm not gonna talk much she need to be prepared and then she just brought it i love it i was thinking about that verse like don't think of yourself more highly than you ought that's because that is so memo like she doesn't think of herself as like anything but but she has just left this amazing legacy and she is like you said like who we all want to be when we grow up and so i'm so glad that she was able to share with all the podcast listeners i know i love it they should be in the house today mom it's fun you

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