Uncle Si Fixed His Own Work Injury With a Pocketknife

Summary

Duck Call Room Podcast – Episode Summary

Episode: Justin Martin's Movie List that Required Repentance

Hosts: Si Robertson, Justin Martin, Willie Robertson, Curly Robertson, John-David Owen, John Godwin, Jay Stone, Phillip McMillan, Jacob Mayo
Date: March 13, 2026

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Overview

In this lively episode of Duck Call Room, the crew delivers their signature antics, Southern storytelling, and hilarious banter. From on-air neck surgery to heated debates about fishing gear, naming conventions, potty-training woes, odd movie picks, and the ever-lasting debate over black panthers, the guys cover a spectrum of rural life, pop culture, and philosophical musings. As always, their camaraderie and off-the-cuff wisdom keep the conversation both irreverent and heartening.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

Real-Life Surgery in the Duck Call Room

[01:10 – 06:09]

• Curly, a former nurse and all-around "top dog," removes stitches from Godwin's neck, prompting colorful play-by-play and plenty of jokes about pain, blood, and shaving mishaps.
• Notable quote:

  “I'm giving him a little room just in case it's a squirter.” — Si Robertson [01:27]

• Lessons include not shaving over stitches and the merits of old-fashioned, redneck medical solutions.

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Fishing Stories and Sentimental Gear

[06:15 – 11:00]

• Martin shares his joy of fishing waist-deep in water with a 25-year-old rod given by his grandparents, while the group reminisces about sentimental gear and recall mishaps.
• Notable quote:

  “The reel he is using... was purchased for a dollar whenever probably... So you got it and still rocking baby.” — Willie Robertson [10:02]

• Discussion around sentimental value, gear durability, and passing traditions down.

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The Psychology of Pricing and Podcast Length

[11:38 – 15:14]

• In a detour from fishing, Willie explains why prices often end in .99 (to prevent theft and record all transactions), and why podcast episodes are kept just under an hour to entice more listeners.
• Notable quote:

  “If it says like 45 minutes, no, I'm not watching that one. 'Cause I got to have closure. I need the episode to start it and end it.” — Martin Robertson [14:30]

• The group laughs about attention spans, both in kids and adults, and speculates on optimal podcast timings.

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Parenting, Storytelling, and Grandparenting

[15:14 – 16:57]

• Reflection on kids’ brief attention spans, minimizing screen time, and parenting hacks (like using fishing and minnows as entertainment).
• Si jokes about not listening to long stories:

  "You got to give me the short version, the shorthand version." — Si Robertson [16:21]

• Extended riff on contradictory storytelling: "You're the epitome of long story longer." [16:29]

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Politics, Childhood, and Army Meetings

[17:12 – 21:12]

• Willie talks about Carter's quirky political opinions developed from kids' books with "propaganda," while Martin and Si share stories of political tangles and frustrations from military days.
• Notable quote:

  “We’ve identified the problem and we've come up with, hey, number three is the best possible solution right now. ... Why don't you just say, hey, let's implement number three ... next I get out of here. ... This is politics…” — Martin Robertson [19:03]

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Duck Call Innovations and Workplace Injuries

[21:43 – 25:56]

• Si and Martin recall manufacturing improvements at Duck Commander, standardizing reeds, and their various workplace injuries, including “putting a rivet through a fingernail.”
• Notable quote:

  “I should have got a Purple Heart for it because I was wounded doing it.” — Martin Robertson [24:08]

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Fishing Nostalgia and Modern Prices

[27:50 – 29:13]

• A comparison of past and present fishing practices: yo-yo traps, bait prices, the fun and challenges of modern fishing.
• Notable moment:

  “Yo-yos ... 50 for a dozen.” — Martin Robertson [28:31]

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Local Life: Crawfish Boils, Reunions, and Mac & Cheese Water Parks

[29:08 – 32:00]

• The crew looks forward to a town crawfish boil at Phillip’s; Willie shares he’ll miss it for a child’s birthday party at a water-park-with-mac-and-cheese-restaurant in Texas.
• Notable quote:

  “Apparently that's what you do... You eat it as you're going over the slide.” — Martin Robertson [30:56]

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Panters, Possums, and the Enduring Black Panther Debate

[40:04 – 46:06]

• Fans write in about “black panther” sightings, but Si insists (with some backup) that black mountain lions do not and cannot genetically exist.
• Notable exchange:

  “There's not a black mountain lion. That is where my argument begins and ends.” — Si Robertson [44:13]

• The debate goes lighthearted, referencing cryptid sightings and sharing skeptical cat photos.

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Movie Madness: "Repentance Required" List

[46:37 – 48:47]

• The title segment emerges: the group ranks the worst movies they’ve seen ("Snakes on a Plane," "Anaconda"), prompting mock horror and jokes about regretting movie choices.
• Notable moment:

  “This movie was awful. We shouldn’t have watched it as Christian young men. ... The Lord tried to strike Luke down by getting him hit right there in front of Blockbuster. I’m not—that part’s not true.” — Willie Robertson [48:25]

• Touches on questionable movies, late fees, and the enduring guilt of poor choices.

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Random Southern Observations: Food, Diapers, and Opera

[32:38 – 53:15]

• The guys riff on:
  • Diaper technology (cloth vs. disposable, grandpas’ limits)
  • Changing baby’s clothes, using old baby pins for everything from squirrel hunting to splinter removal.
  • Odd local food naming conventions ("crappie" vs. "crappy," "mud bugs" vs. "mud buggies")
  • Opera: Who’s been, who would go, and mimed attempts at high notes.
  • European travel: the Coliseum and Scottish castles "still standing because they were built right."

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Faith, Encouragement, and Closing

[53:37 – End (~54:54)]

• Willie offers a final word of encouragement with Joshua 1:9, reminding listeners of God’s presence and courage in uncertain times.
• Notable quote:

  “For the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go. There's no doubt. It's a weird time to be alive right now... But we have been commanded to be strong and courageous because we have God on our side.” — Willie Robertson [53:46]

• The guys sign off, reaffirming faith and camaraderie.

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Memorable Quotes & Moments With Timestamps

• “I'm giving him a little room just in case it's a squirter.” — Si Robertson [01:27]
• “Standardized the reeds... We sold a million of them.” — Martin Robertson [23:46, 23:56]
• “If it says like 45 minutes, no, I'm not watching that one. 'Cause I got to have closure. I need the episode to start and end.” — Justin Martin [14:30]
• “You give the long version and then you lie all on top of that. Make it even longer.” — Willie Robertson [16:24]
• “I should have got a Purple Heart for it because I was wounded doing it.” — Martin Robertson [24:08]
• “There's not a black mountain lion. That is where my argument begins and ends.” — Si Robertson [44:13]
• “For the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” — Willie Robertson [53:46]

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Noteworthy Laughter & Life Lessons

• Duck call lore and the innovation behind it.
• Sometimes the best stories come from disasters—especially with tools, boats, or questionable movies.
• Family, faith, and food are always central—the episode is a tapestry of country wisdom, comic disaster, and simple encouragement.

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Conclusion

This episode sums up everything Duck Call Room is known for: good-natured chaos, storytelling with a punchline (and a lesson), plenty of small-town relatability, and an underlying message of faith. Whether recounting questionable movie choices that "require repentance," dissecting the nature of black panther myths, or celebrating a stitched-up friend, the crew invites everybody to laugh, reflect, and enjoy the ride through Southern life.

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For a wild ride through rural absurdity, pop culture, and heartfelt faith, this episode is classic Duck Call Room—don't miss the on-air surgery, legendary fish tales, and movie roasts!

Transcript

[Si Robertson]

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[Willie Robertson]

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[Si Robertson]

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[Martin Robertson]

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[Willie Robertson]

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[Si Robertson]

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[Willie Robertson]

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[Si Robertson]

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[Willie Robertson]

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[Si Robertson]

Let's do this.

[Willie Robertson]

We ready? Yeah. Let's roll.

[Si Robertson]

All right.

[Willie Robertson]

Welcome back to the welcome back to

[Si Robertson]

the duck call room. On today's episode, we're going to start with a little light surgery. Gabba. Let's get them stitches out.

[Willie Robertson]

I cannot believe we're doing. I walked in and didn't know what was happening.

[Si Robertson]

Getting away. I'm getting a little bit of ready just in case.

[Willie Robertson]

We're recording this. Yeah, you need your. We need you to do play by play.

[Si Robertson]

I'm giving him a little room just in case. It's a squirter.

[Curly Robertson]

I might have to jump up.

[Martin Robertson]

I was saying, what is going on? I thought.

[Curly Robertson]

Well, I thought I had an appointment and I thought I wasn't gonna be here. Oh, here we go.

[Si Robertson]

He thought so.

[Willie Robertson]

Curly, who's been on the show of Curly's top dog best.

[Si Robertson]

He's a nurse.

[Willie Robertson]

Started off as a nurse because he's tougher than me and actually went through with that whole nursing school thing.

[Si Robertson]

I hope we don't get a squirter. That's why I'm not quite anchored in. In case it starts moving. I'm getting no.

[Willie Robertson]

So, yeah, me and Sai are currently watching Curly remove the stitches of out of Godwin's neck.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, he feels that one, buddy.

[Willie Robertson]

A little wince from God. Sigh. Would you let Curly do this to you?

[Martin Robertson]

Because you let him. It's like a ketchup bottle.

[Curly Robertson]

Anticipation.

[Martin Robertson]

I don't even like the doctors. Doctors and nurses doing.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, well, he's a dog trainer.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, y', all. If y' all are listening to this, you need to go check it out on YouTube. Oh, that's his skin.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah. YouTube.com duck call room, I believe is correct. If you want to watch God make

[Si Robertson]

a mountain and cut the top of

[Willie Robertson]

the mountain off, do not at the top.

[Martin Robertson]

You got it. That's a half a one.

[Willie Robertson]

We got half of us.

[Martin Robertson]

You got half of it.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, yeah. You got half the other half down there.

[Martin Robertson]

Down under, Quigley. Down under.

[Curly Robertson]

Somebody's calling me.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, don't answer the phone while you're getting stitches out.

[Si Robertson]

It's probably the blood bank.

[Willie Robertson]

He's okay. He's gonna answer it.

[Si Robertson]

You a positive owner?

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, I'm not gonna answer it. Curly, when was the last time you did this?

[Si Robertson]

A few years ago. Yeah, it's been.

[Martin Robertson]

It's been a couple years. A couple years.

[Si Robertson]

You make a mountain. Oh, that one just pulled out. He got the tag in.

[Curly Robertson]

We knocked out that one.

[Willie Robertson]

Is that two?

[Martin Robertson]

I don't even see anything.

[Si Robertson]

The issue.

[Martin Robertson]

You don't shave over stitches.

[Curly Robertson]

I didn't mean to.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, you cut them all flush.

[Martin Robertson]

There's no l. Oh. Oh, he's already cut them off once.

[Willie Robertson]

You. No, he shaved over them and cut

[Martin Robertson]

the tag end off, you big dummy.

[Curly Robertson]

Well, I didn't want to look silly.

[Si Robertson]

This is way better, ain't it?

[Willie Robertson]

Godwin's face is. Are priceless. For those listening as a jugular on the road or on the treadmill, however you listen to us, it is highly encouraged you watch this episode?

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, I'm giving this one a little room, baby.

[Willie Robertson]

Did you do you. You just shaved over them and cut the ends?

[Si Robertson]

Got them flush. They got a good razor?

[Willie Robertson]

I wouldn't know. That's amazing. Sit still.

[Curly Robertson]

It ain't hurting, but I'm thinking it is. I'm about to go in there.

[Willie Robertson]

S. When was the last time you had stick?

[Martin Robertson]

There's the second one.

[Si Robertson]

You cut it for me?

[Curly Robertson]

M. Thank you. I get this.

[Martin Robertson]

Hey, he just shaved them off is what happened.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah. Oh, he's got two of them. How many you got to do, Curly?

[Curly Robertson]

Three.

[Willie Robertson]

I'm on the last one.

[Si Robertson]

I thought you had five. Well, two of them are gone already.

[Martin Robertson]

Yeah, we're just going to write them off. Boys, we gonna donate him the guns.

[Curly Robertson]

Would you quit talking? And why you got a hoe to it? You pulling me too? He pulling me too.

[Willie Robertson]

I did not know the plan today, but I appreciate this.

[Si Robertson]

Is the toothpick essential?

[Willie Robertson]

Yes. That's part of Curly's.

[Martin Robertson]

This keeps my nerves down.

[Willie Robertson]

That's part of Curly's outfit. I walked into a coffee shop the other day, not for myself, for somebody else. And Curly was just in there with the Toothpick. Having a business meeting. I said I appreciate.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, that one got skin on it.

[Willie Robertson]

A man with the brand.

[Curly Robertson]

Good night. You can't get them other.

[Martin Robertson]

I would have to cut you open. I ain't. He'd have to cut you open.

[Curly Robertson]

Then I'm stuff over.

[Willie Robertson]

Hey, numbing stuff for dogs.

[Si Robertson]

It ain't that different.

[Willie Robertson]

It's gotta be a little different.

[Si Robertson]

Well, lidocaine's Lidocaine, man.

[Martin Robertson]

Wow.

[Si Robertson]

There's your souvenir.

[Curly Robertson]

They even cut the.

[Martin Robertson]

I think. Say, I can't even see them well.

[Si Robertson]

And he had more to work with

[Martin Robertson]

than what you left.

[Si Robertson]

I got hairs that do that too. And they look kind of the same. Sometimes ingrown hair, you get it out.

[Willie Robertson]

What's that about four pound test?

[Curly Robertson]

That's two.

[Willie Robertson]

That's two.

[Si Robertson]

That's smaller than two, man.

[Willie Robertson]

Ladies and gentlemen, let's give it up. Let's give it up for Curly's.

[Si Robertson]

There's very little blood, Gavin.

[Curly Robertson]

It ain't no blue.

[Si Robertson]

Very little.

[Curly Robertson]

Gone fishing in a minute. I'll pick you up on the way out.

[Willie Robertson]

There's his payment, boys.

[Martin Robertson]

There's his payment.

[Curly Robertson]

Boy.

[Si Robertson]

Good to have on your boat. Will you. He get a hook out of somebody?

[Willie Robertson]

Well, apparently he could tie knots really well.

[Curly Robertson]

Well, I thought I wasn't gonna. I mean, I went and got some stuff done to my boat. So I went to Tennessee to performance fishing and got me some breaks on the back, you know, trailer motors. And I thought I wasn't going to be back. And I went to Cornfield fishing gear and got me some mount. And I thought I wasn't going to be back, but.

[Willie Robertson]

But here you are.

[Curly Robertson]

I drove through the night. I was ready to come home, but I shaved. And every time I shave, I feel. I say, okay. They still. I feel. Still feel them.

[Si Robertson]

We're.

[Curly Robertson]

I shaved yesterday and I said, whoops.

[Martin Robertson]

Whoops.

[Si Robertson]

Got a little close.

[Willie Robertson]

We're a very informative podcast now, you know. Don't shave your stitches.

[Martin Robertson]

What have you done, lady? Oh, I shaved my stitches off.

[Curly Robertson]

Well, I didn't mean to.

[Willie Robertson]

I would have never known either. Oh, how about it? That's a fun way to start.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, that's a good one, Goblin. Yeah. Oh, there you go. A good one.

[Martin Robertson]

God, that's painful.

[Curly Robertson]

If it last one hurt a little bit.

[Martin Robertson]

It was when I, you know, I stuck a butcher knife in my hand. What? And it had to have five stitches when they cut it. He didn't do like Curly Carly was just sit poor, really. Hey, he yanked that sucker.

[Si Robertson]

Curly didn't yank it because he was documented on camera. That's why Curly didn't yank it. You in the privacy of a room, as you know, sometimes they got to have some fun, too. I bet. Or if you go in there being ornery, I bet they're like, oh, watch this. Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Now they yank a bunch of stuff out. They yanked Carter's feeding tube out.

[Si Robertson]

Really? Just yank.

[Willie Robertson]

Just that. We were like, how do you get this out? And the doctor looked at us and said, you pretty much just pull hard. I said that it cannot be correct. He's like, no, it'll heal. And then they yank that sucker out. And then everything you ate for about two days would just.

[Si Robertson]

Well, I end up on a shirt. You know, now that I think back on it, when they took Waylon and Jackson out, dude, they pretty much just yanked. I mean, they grabbed feet, arms, whatever they could get a hold of those.

[Martin Robertson]

Yanking out.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, just.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, we're all rednecks when it comes down to it. Y' all just yank it out and it'll heal.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Human body's amazing.

[Si Robertson]

It really is. It's almost like it was designed.

[Martin Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Almost.

[Martin Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, that feels good. Well, there you go, Gavin. Welcome back to the land of the living.

[Curly Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

You've been wearing your sunscreen. Yep. Well, there you go. You bet you. You know when you don't have to wear sunscreen?

[Curly Robertson]

When you don't go fishing.

[Si Robertson]

No. When you put your chest waders on. Oh. And go fishing.

[Willie Robertson]

Martin's been in full duck hunting gear fishing for the last three days.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, I'm having a blast. I'm having the most fun I've ever had. Maybe fishing. It is fun.

[Willie Robertson]

Just walking through the water.

[Si Robertson]

Walking waist deep in water. Well, you hope to stay waist deep. My first day I found a creek, I did not stay waist deep.

[Curly Robertson]

You notice he got out of the mud and got in the harder parts. He caught more fish.

[Martin Robertson]

Where are you doing this on a lake?

[Si Robertson]

I ain't saying.

[Martin Robertson]

Huh?

[Si Robertson]

I ain't saying over. Not yet.

[Willie Robertson]

You think size gonna go waist deep?

[Si Robertson]

He could do it. If we could figure out a way to keep his oxygen machine up out of the water, he could do it.

[Curly Robertson]

Well, just stuff it down in there,

[Willie Robertson]

hang it from a drone.

[Si Robertson]

I mean, it's only. You gotta walk like 20 yards to get into the water. And then after that, you go at your own pace. I mean, you can fish as fast or as slow as you feel. Comfort fishing. Well, the fun part for me is I'm using a 25 year old rod that my grandparents gave Me.

[Curly Robertson]

That's pretty awesome.

[Si Robertson]

So still I took it to. I had to get an eye replaced this morning. So I got. I got clip for the sentimental rod repair. He brought me a new tip. I said can we, can we, can we fix this one? I kind of just want to keep this one as is. But I still got one of them old plastic reels on it. I mean it's it 25 years ago all I did was put some new fluorocarbon.

[Willie Robertson]

The reel he is using, you know the West Point crappie reel for B m. It is 7.99 to this day. So back that that reel was purchased for a dollar whenever probably.

[Si Robertson]

So you got it and still rocking baby.

[Willie Robertson]

It's quite impressive.

[Si Robertson]

Still catching them. Yeah, it's fun man. Sigh. You going stepping out this weekend?

[Martin Robertson]

Why should I step out?

[Si Robertson]

Because you got good boots, man.

[Martin Robertson]

Oh, you saw my master covers.

[Si Robertson]

There you go. I fig go do a little boot scooting this weekend, man.

[Martin Robertson]

I could do it.

[Si Robertson]

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[Martin Robertson]

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[Si Robertson]

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[Si Robertson]

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[Martin Robertson]

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[Si Robertson]

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[Curly Robertson]

What's the deal with 99? Won't they just say $80?

[Willie Robertson]

Watch this. Would you like to learn something today?

[Curly Robertson]

You know they say 79.99 and why not say $80?

[Willie Robertson]

Well, cause a it sounds cheaper than 80.

[Curly Robertson]

No, 79 is 79.99. I'm like what's a penny?

[Martin Robertson]

1999, you know, 1995, 20 bucks make it 20 bucks. Be done with it.

[Willie Robertson]

Are you ready for why that started?

[Si Robertson]

Something tells me there's consumer science behind this.

[Willie Robertson]

No.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, really?

[Willie Robertson]

No.

[Martin Robertson]

Theft is what?

[Curly Robertson]

Theft, theft, theft.

[Willie Robertson]

So back in the day, there was no credit cards, there was no checks. You were just dealing in cash only in retail stores. And so. And you had them old school cash registers, and so you had to press the buttons, and then it would. If something was $20, somebody could just walk up to you. Well, back then, it'd probably be a dollar. Just walk up, hand the employee a dollar. Employee puts the dollar in his pocket, no record. If it's 99 cents, the employee has to hit 99 and hand over because a penny was actually worth something back in. So it was to make.

[Curly Robertson]

They don't even build them no more.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, that. Nowadays they don't. But it was to make the employees open the cash register instead of pocketing money.

[Si Robertson]

Really?

[Willie Robertson]

I have no idea.

[Curly Robertson]

Well, I think it sounded. Go ahead and say there's a lot.

[Martin Robertson]

Was a lot of thievery going on.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, there's always been a lot of thievery.

[Curly Robertson]

How long they gonna hang on to the past?

[Willie Robertson]

Well, now it's because longer than Iran

[Si Robertson]

can keep a leader who. Oh, wow.

[Willie Robertson]

So 17 hours is what we're going with.

[Curly Robertson]

We're here all week. Or maybe, maybe not.

[Willie Robertson]

Allegedly, we're here.

[Si Robertson]

Wow.

[Willie Robertson]

Okay.

[Martin Robertson]

Sorry.

[Si Robertson]

I just wanted to see Hunter's face, and it was exactly what I got.

[Willie Robertson]

But you'd be surprised how many people. If you tell them it's 1999, they say, oh, it's only $19. But if you tell them it's 20, they. They. It's in people's heads. They don't hear that.

[Curly Robertson]

I ain't got that penny.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, it wasn't for that. Whoa, Hunter, you look loud. There you go. Turn yourself up, son. Let us be known we use the same science for the podcast episodes. What? Yeah. Y' all try to keep it at 4,999.

[Willie Robertson]

No, we try and keep it at 59.

[Si Robertson]

Oh. Because if it is an hour, no one wants to watch it. But if it's 59, it tricks people

[Willie Robertson]

into thinking, oh, well, it's less than an hour. I refuse to end this episode until 60 minutes and 2 seconds.

[Curly Robertson]

Yeah, we're going to stay this. We're going.

[Willie Robertson]

I know you'll edit it down, but.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. Have we tried.

[Willie Robertson]

I would like to see that.

[Si Robertson]

Have we tried it at 42?

[Curly Robertson]

Oh, that's not.

[Si Robertson]

I think we get out of here a little quicker.

[Willie Robertson]

How long do the People put that in the comments. How long do you want this podcast to be?

[Si Robertson]

You know what's crazy? On my personal YouTube, like, people want them to be like 20 minutes long. Like, the 10 minuters, they just kind of scrub through because I think they think it's a highlight reel or something. But if it's around 20 minutes, they watch 90% of it. It's a. Humans are weird, man. And, And I, I think I'm guilty of the same thing. Like, I. When I get on there to watch stuff, I'm like, okay, especially with the boys, because I'm like, no more than 30 minutes of screen time. So if it says like 45 minutes, no, I'm not watching that one. Because I got to have closure. I need the episode to start it in a minute. No, you can't. No, you can't have that. Like, so that's why veggie tails is good for them because they're all like a little less than 30 minutes.

[Willie Robertson]

So I'm, I'm, I'm about to. We need to bring veggie tails back, especially with all okra sigh over here.

[Martin Robertson]

That's the attention span thing.

[Curly Robertson]

Okra of a kid. I've been eating lots.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, no. The attention span of my kids is about like a gnat. Like, that's what it feels like. They got about two minutes of something in them and then they're off to the next, so. Which is why we're not ready for boat fishing just yet. We're still bank fishermen because on the bank, they can go run and find sticks and do everything. Once you're in a boat, you a captive audience.

[Martin Robertson]

That's like, you know, with me, I'm

[Curly Robertson]

a bucket of manners.

[Martin Robertson]

If you're going to tell, tell me something.

[Curly Robertson]

I entertain short for hours.

[Si Robertson]

Hold on, buddy. Johnny, can you tell God when how many buckets of minnows I've bought over the past week?

[Willie Robertson]

Man's one of my best customers right now.

[Si Robertson]

I'm on like a one week streak of being in the honey hole.

[Curly Robertson]

You buy manners and they'll stay entertained. For Joanna did anyway.

[Si Robertson]

Now not at three.

[Curly Robertson]

Letting them go.

[Willie Robertson]

Y' all missed what size.

[Si Robertson]

What'd he say?

[Willie Robertson]

The longest winded greatest storyteller of all time just said, hey, if y' all try and tell me a story, I'm tuning it out.

[Martin Robertson]

That's right. Hey, you got to give me the

[Si Robertson]

short version, the shorthand version.

[Willie Robertson]

You give the long version and then you lie all on top of that. Make it even longer.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, you're the epitome of long story longer.

[Martin Robertson]

Well, I'm just telling you with me. If you're going to tell me something, hey, make it the short version.

[Willie Robertson]

That is true. Yeah, I don't better be entertaining or

[Martin Robertson]

you won't hold my attention.

[Si Robertson]

I generally give pictures to reference what I'm talking about.

[Martin Robertson]

Boom.

[Willie Robertson]

I said you're going to tell me a story, you better make it good and quick, boys, or I'm out.

[Si Robertson]

Make it quick.

[Willie Robertson]

Otherwise size going to turn it around and tell it way better.

[Martin Robertson]

No, no, I just, I just, you

[Si Robertson]

know, hey, you saw, you saw what he did with Carter. I'm sure trying to tell him a story that day. As I just said, I'm out, dude.

[Willie Robertson]

Speaking of long winded,

[Si Robertson]

he gets a little caught up in the details. Oh, he's yeah, very detail oriented.

[Willie Robertson]

I'm really worried about that kid. He's gotten even more political as he's gotten older.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, what's he thinking about today's climate?

[Willie Robertson]

Well, he doesn't know about it, but I, I actually read a book last night that it was in his room all about the presidents and there was a little propaganda in there. Just saying. And I was reading, I was like, I disagree with that notion. And then I flipped the page to our former president, you know, the one in the middle of the current president. And let's just say Carter doesn't like that guy.

[Martin Robertson]

That's like, what's going on?

[Willie Robertson]

He colored all of them with red. I said, what is that? He goes, I thought it'd be funny if he couldn't eat his french fries and got ketchup all over his face. So that's weird. I said, but with him it'd probably been more ice cream because he puts his nightgown and his socks on and goes and gets in bed and eats a pint because he's 95 years old. And Carter thought that was hilarious.

[Curly Robertson]

Yeah, I eat ice cream before he goes to bed.

[Martin Robertson]

That's a good, I mean that's like right now, Carter. What does Carter say about the war. War going on?

[Willie Robertson]

You know, we don't really let him tune into Fox News right now or cnn.

[Si Robertson]

Look now that size living that close. Just go drop Carter off and let him watch Fox News with sigh and let's record that.

[Willie Robertson]

That would actually be unbelievable content. Although what's our wacky senator kind of. We got to get that guy on.

[Si Robertson]

Who, Kennedy?

[Willie Robertson]

I mean, if he's about the best sound clip in the whole wide world, you know what he said today? I mean, we're at war. And they're all in here asking what Socrates the philosopher would say. It's war, people.

[Martin Robertson]

Look, going back to my military career, they will send me to go have some meetings about a problem.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, boy. You didn't like those meetings.

[Si Robertson]

Were you the problem? Well, no.

[Martin Robertson]

No, because, hey, I always got in trouble.

[Si Robertson]

Were you the problem?

[Willie Robertson]

No.

[Martin Robertson]

Well, I may have been.

[Willie Robertson]

No, he was the one that had.

[Martin Robertson]

No, no, because, well, I. Yeah, I was the problem because I. After we would discuss. Have a discussion, I would be one that raised my hand and said, excuse me, I'm a little bit confused. All the experts worldwide are here. We've identified the problem and we've come up with, hey, number three is the best possible solution right now. Hey, why don't you just say, hey, let's implement number three and we won't have to have that two week meeting a month from now. Well, next I get out of here. Hey, gum in the meeting. And when I get back to where I work, everybody's upset because I asked a question. They said, this is politics, because guess what? I didn't know half of the world was vacationing in Europe. See, that was the problem.

[Willie Robertson]

They never heard of Florida.

[Martin Robertson]

Everybody from all over the world gets to go to Germany for a vacation for two weeks. So it really wasn't important. No. What we had problem. The problem we had wasn't important. They just wanted to let everybody have a vacation.

[Willie Robertson]

That does sound about right.

[Martin Robertson]

Oh, no, that was the truth of it.

[Willie Robertson]

That's your tax dollars at work back in 19.

[Si Robertson]

That's true.

[Martin Robertson]

Like I told Willie, whenever me and Phil went to New York, we got in trouble. I'd say, well, why do you send us New York? Well, I do the same thing with the Army. Well, that didn't go over too good.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, boy. So walk me through this. Why were you in a room with experts?

[Martin Robertson]

Because I was expert.

[Si Robertson]

Okay?

[Martin Robertson]

I was one of them.

[Si Robertson]

They considered you an expert in your field?

[Martin Robertson]

I was. I was in the top 5% army wide.

[Si Robertson]

Really?

[Martin Robertson]

Yeah, in my job.

[Si Robertson]

Well, you ain't ever said that.

[Martin Robertson]

Well, that's cool. I've said it before.

[Si Robertson]

Not like that, you ain't.

[Willie Robertson]

Now he said it in this way. I ain't dumb. I'm funny.

[Martin Robertson]

That funny?

[Si Robertson]

No, I mean, you've never. Just blatantly.

[Martin Robertson]

No, no, because. Because I was in the supply field. I was in the top 5%.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, that's cool.

[Willie Robertson]

Why you think you work so good at the Duck Commander Warehouse?

[Martin Robertson]

That's why. When Phil found out that I had a top secret Clarence, he said, oh, my. That's scary.

[Si Robertson]

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[Willie Robertson]

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[Si Robertson]

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[Martin Robertson]

Look, I had the most boring job at Duck Commander.

[Si Robertson]

He is not lying there.

[Willie Robertson]

Okay, friend, you might have had the most boring job on the planet.

[Martin Robertson]

Bill had tried them all. Nope. That's why he called on me and said, hey, look, I need you to come over here and come to.

[Si Robertson]

I would say you're in the top 1% of reed builders. Yeah, like if there was a Reed Building hall of Fame, how many are there? It would be the Cy Robertson hall of Fame.

[Martin Robertson]

That's right. Because I actually, I can't even think of the word. But I. I made it better than it was before.

[Si Robertson]

There you go. Yeah, he innovated.

[Curly Robertson]

He was a perfect attender. He didn't even take a day off.

[Martin Robertson]

Because I know when I need a day off.

[Willie Robertson]

When you take.

[Martin Robertson]

I put them together. When I put the. I don't even came rivet through your finger Rivets two together.

[Curly Robertson]

And his thumb too.

[Martin Robertson]

They were as close to perfect as I could make them.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, that's Cy Roberts.

[Martin Robertson]

Then I had to bend them. And that was Close to perfect as I could do it.

[Curly Robertson]

Yep.

[Martin Robertson]

Standardized the reeds.

[Si Robertson]

Standardized.

[Curly Robertson]

He did.

[Martin Robertson]

That's. Hey, that's a new word.

[Willie Robertson]

I like it.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, you don't need it.

[Willie Robertson]

I'm gonna add it to Wikipedia. Standardized.

[Martin Robertson]

We sold a million of them. So I did a pretty good job.

[Willie Robertson]

I, I, you and you, probably. There's only one other person in the running with you on who's been the reason for more duck calls. Sold on this.

[Martin Robertson]

I should have got a Purple Heart for it because I was wounded doing it.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

He showed he can make that joke. He's been to war.

[Martin Robertson]

Yeah, that's right. Well. Well, I was wounded.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, he was.

[Martin Robertson]

Stuck one of them rivets under that fingernail right there.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, I don't want to talk about it.

[Martin Robertson]

And look. Done. It's this way. Turn that baby up. Straight up. And hey, it was sticking. And the rivet was sticking through the bottom.

[Willie Robertson]

Ouch.

[Si Robertson]

Golly, look at there.

[Martin Robertson]

And I didn't say a word. Hunter's listening. And all of them said, wait a minute. He's going to just do. I said, I just stuck that rivet machine through my fingernail.

[Curly Robertson]

It's got a needle on it.

[Martin Robertson]

But you didn't say that. You didn't yell out. I said, well, hey, it's too late to yell.

[Curly Robertson]

It happened too quick.

[Martin Robertson]

Right. I was stupid and one paying attention, okay. And stuck that stupid thing through my

[Willie Robertson]

finger just right and right.

[Curly Robertson]

Radar Love must have come on the radio.

[Martin Robertson]

And I said, well, I better go X ray it to make sure that the rivet is not in my finger. That's the only reason I went to the mushroom. They said, what did you do? I said, hey, I stuck a machine through that. Under that fingernail. And the great part of it was I did surgery on myself.

[Si Robertson]

Stop it.

[Willie Robertson]

I don't need to talk about this.

[Martin Robertson]

Because that fingernail, look, it was all the way off except for two little skin flaps.

[Curly Robertson]

Skin flaps holding it on.

[Martin Robertson]

On both. Both sides. So, look, I had a pocket knife, an old one that had. I sharpened it so many times, it was real sharp and pointed on the end. I sharpened it again. And my wife will look at me. She said, you need to let go. A doctor do that? I said, no. I said, because the doctor is going to hurt me. I said, I'm not going to hurt myself. I'm going to do it so quick, and it'll be over. Yeah, I did. So I just looked. Yeah.

[Curly Robertson]

Got it out.

[Martin Robertson]

Yeah. What? It's gone.

[Curly Robertson]

That's what happened to me a while Ago, I was hurting. That last one hurt. He felt like he pulled it eight miles out from.

[Si Robertson]

He made a little mountain.

[Martin Robertson]

That's why. Look. That's why I was. He was following me. Yeah. That's why I was surprised. He did it real slow, because when I had him out of my hand, the doctor snipped it, grabbed the thing with the.

[Si Robertson]

Let's go back to that. And said, how did you end up with a butcher knife in your hand?

[Martin Robertson]

I was cutting a steak that was frozen, taking two apart, and I was holding. Went through. And went through my hand.

[Si Robertson]

So then you ruined two stakes with your blood, huh?

[Willie Robertson]

Just cook it out.

[Martin Robertson]

That's right. Hey, I cook it.

[Curly Robertson]

He cooks it.

[Martin Robertson]

I cooked it. Medium plus. And ate that baby.

[Si Robertson]

Before or after you got stitched up?

[Martin Robertson]

After I got stuck. After I got stuck.

[Si Robertson]

I'll go fix this in a minute. I'm hungry.

[Martin Robertson]

You know, I go to the doctor after I eat this sucker.

[Si Robertson]

Ah, that's fantastic. Hunter. Long. How long we been doing this?

[Willie Robertson]

We're at 29 minutes and 3 seconds.

[Martin Robertson]

Really?

[Willie Robertson]

Hunter said, but you got to go a little longer.

[Si Robertson]

How'd you know that?

[Curly Robertson]

Yeah, I gotta go a little.

[Willie Robertson]

I have my own stopwatch.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, okay. I didn't know how long we've been going. Yeah.

[Curly Robertson]

We trying to say just kind of.

[Willie Robertson]

We're in this room where people keep tearing up stuff. Can't park where you want to park.

[Curly Robertson]

I know I got a boat on there.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, and we were kind of the turn around the back door crew at this point. We all just got to come in the back door.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Back door. And I gotta go through the front.

[Martin Robertson]

Now y' all got me thinking about Yo Yoshi.

[Curly Robertson]

Yo Yo.

[Martin Robertson]

Yeah. Putting bait on him. Hey. And sitting out there listening to the crappie.

[Willie Robertson]

You want me to blow up your mind? Oh, we were.

[Si Robertson]

We were like, you got hooked by Yo Yo.

[Willie Robertson]

We were discussing fishing.

[Martin Robertson]

I've got hooked many a time. Bass fishing.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Martin Robertson]

And Dr. Robertson had to do surgery.

[Si Robertson]

No, I'm out. Yep. No. What about you?

[Willie Robertson]

How many Yo Yos you got?

[Martin Robertson]

Sir, I don't have any now, but I used to do a lot. That's a lot of fun.

[Willie Robertson]

Do you know how much a Yo yo costs now?

[Martin Robertson]

Are they like, about.

[Curly Robertson]

What are they a dozen? So about.

[Si Robertson]

I bet they three. I bet they three bucks a piece.

[Martin Robertson]

Fifty bucks a dozen.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, really? Four dollars.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Four dollars a pop.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah.

[Martin Robertson]

Yo Yo's down 50 for a dozen.

[Si Robertson]

That's crazy, man.

[Martin Robertson]

But that's cool.

[Curly Robertson]

You sell a lot.

[Martin Robertson]

Oh, yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

He Was still yo yoing.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, I saw him out there hanging on them cypress. I was walking around. I was having a dodge. Yo yo

[Martin Robertson]

figured it made a trigger on it. Fish triggered it when he hit that china.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. Phillip said Joe dentist is coming in town this weekend.

[Martin Robertson]

What?

[Si Robertson]

Your dentist is coming in town this weekend?

[Martin Robertson]

Whole crew. Yeah, and there's about 60 of them.

[Curly Robertson]

60?

[Martin Robertson]

Yeah. We're gonna have a crawfish boil.

[Si Robertson]

I got you.

[Willie Robertson]

I love when side does something somewhere else. And then the entire town comes back to West Monroe to have a crawfish bowl with Philip.

[Martin Robertson]

And I'll tell you, these people, you're invited.

[Si Robertson]

They're my five to eight at Phillips house. Oh, you're out of town.

[Martin Robertson]

They're all crazy.

[Si Robertson]

God, when you come, they are a lot of there.

[Martin Robertson]

A lot.

[Curly Robertson]

Yeah, but I'm old tribe.

[Willie Robertson]

What day is it? Saturday.

[Si Robertson]

Saturday.

[Martin Robertson]

I think.

[Si Robertson]

Hunter, you coming?

[Martin Robertson]

I think that's what it is.

[Si Robertson]

I want to see Hunter show up. Yeah, I wasn't invited.

[Willie Robertson]

You just got it.

[Si Robertson]

You just got invited. I just invited you. Hunter, when is it? Saturday. Five o'. Clock, Phillip's house.

[Willie Robertson]

I have a family reunion.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, wait, wait, wait. At 5:00'?

[Martin Robertson]

Clock?

[Si Robertson]

What's your family doing?

[Willie Robertson]

Are family reunions still a thing?

[Curly Robertson]

It's gonna rain.

[Si Robertson]

I thought they were Facebook group.

[Martin Robertson]

You eat the mud.

[Willie Robertson]

Mud buggies.

[Martin Robertson]

Yeah, mud buggies.

[Curly Robertson]

I'm ready for some crawfish.

[Willie Robertson]

I hadn't had any yet.

[Martin Robertson]

Backward drivers. You didn't know that, did you? Yeah, mud buggies drive back.

[Willie Robertson]

I, you know, I'm from here too.

[Martin Robertson]

They're backing up. They're backing up. Wide open.

[Si Robertson]

Back up, back up. They just like Terry, right? Back up, Terry, back up.

[Willie Robertson]

You have Terry on the podcast.

[Si Robertson]

Back up.

[Willie Robertson]

So they're all coming. Okay, that's cool. I won't make it. I'm going.

[Martin Robertson]

I mean, the whole crew's coming.

[Willie Robertson]

I'm driving six hours to eat Mac and cheese and go down a water

[Martin Robertson]

slide where you eat Mac and cheese.

[Willie Robertson]

There's an entire restaurant dedicated to Mac and cheese that is inside of a water park. Water park in Round Rock, Texas.

[Martin Robertson]

So, yeah, when your child turns 12,

[Willie Robertson]

apparently that's what you do.

[Martin Robertson]

You eat it as you're going over the slide.

[Willie Robertson]

Lord, I hope not. Yeah, I hope that's a separate and apart.

[Si Robertson]

I hope that's how you end the day. I think I'd go for midday and Mac and cheese and water slide.

[Willie Robertson]

I got bad news for you and what Carter's plans are. We're going to wake up, go to the water park. Head over for lunch to eat Mac and cheese.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. Then slide out in a little hot.

[Martin Robertson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

And then go back down a water

[Martin Robertson]

slide full of what I wouldn't give a big bowl of it right now.

[Si Robertson]

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[Martin Robertson]

You can look at it and know that whenever you cook it, it's going to have the flavor you want and it's going to be tender like you want it.

[Willie Robertson]

That's the best New York strip I ever had. And it was from Texas, praise God.

[Si Robertson]

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[Martin Robertson]

Order today, guys.

[Si Robertson]

Go check it out. That's TR Beef.com duck.

[Willie Robertson]

All right, I, I made the joke. I'm from here. I've never heard them called mud buggies.

[Curly Robertson]

Me?

[Martin Robertson]

You ain't never heard that before?

[Willie Robertson]

Heard mud puppies.

[Si Robertson]

Mud bugs.

[Martin Robertson]

Mud bugs?

[Si Robertson]

Never a buggy.

[Willie Robertson]

Okay?

[Curly Robertson]

I just make it buggies, baby.

[Martin Robertson]

They drive.

[Curly Robertson]

He wants to eat them by the buggies.

[Si Robertson]

Well, at least he didn't call them crayfish. Yeah, because that's just weird.

[Willie Robertson]

That's so weird.

[Curly Robertson]

I know. That's like crappy. They call crappie crappy. Ain't nothing crappy about them. I don't know how they do.

[Martin Robertson]

I don't know where they come up with that.

[Curly Robertson]

I don't crappy about it. I know.

[Willie Robertson]

That fish has got 472 different names anyway.

[Curly Robertson]

It does.

[Si Robertson]

He does. Yeah.

[Curly Robertson]

And they're all a white perch. Crappie. I ain't gonna say crappy.

[Si Robertson]

Crappy. That's what I think. That comes with the older you get.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Like the older you get, you just inadvertently.

[Willie Robertson]

We used to sell T shirts that have a crappy day.

[Si Robertson]

Have a crappy day.

[Curly Robertson]

I expect spat people don't catch them. Yeah, I have them crappy days.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. Oh, man.

[Willie Robertson]

Or it's a really good day because you caught a bunch of it.

[Martin Robertson]

I could eat about five pounds of crappie right now.

[Willie Robertson]

I can't believe you.

[Martin Robertson]

Mustard fry.

[Curly Robertson]

I took some the other day, baked them in the oven. They were good.

[Si Robertson]

I got some out there in the back of my truck if you want to knock the sides off of them.

[Willie Robertson]

I got two fish cleaners at home now. They don't do a good job, but they do it well.

[Si Robertson]

My plan was to take Brittany tomorrow, but she just asked me. Says she forgot she had a hair appointment. So I guess I'll go by myself.

[Curly Robertson]

Gotta do a hair.

[Si Robertson]

I guess I'll just go keeping that grandbaby.

[Curly Robertson]

One of them gotta go to the doctor.

[Si Robertson]

Bring her with you. Get one of them little pouches.

[Curly Robertson]

Get him a little entertain. Put her in it.

[Si Robertson]

I got one of them little. Them little straps. You can put her on the front of you.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, then backwards backpacks. You should.

[Si Robertson]

Good workout. The problem is. That'll be what? It's waist deep on me. So it's gonna be about golden, not shoulder on goblin.

[Martin Robertson]

That's shoulder deep.

[Willie Robertson]

If you do that though, they get clingy.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, they'll hold on to you. That water cold?

[Willie Robertson]

No, they'll hold on to you for the rest of their life.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

My youngest daughter got wet. Well, no, because we have three of them. And so two little ones with a baby at home. She basically was just in a backpack for the first year of her life. Yeah, on Allison. And now if anybody gets close to Allison, she'll just go sit. Right.

[Curly Robertson]

The backpack on her back.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, yeah, Yeah. I carried them boys around and one in the front, one in the back,

[Curly Robertson]

one in the front.

[Willie Robertson]

It's a very convenient apparatus.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, that was always a good way to get Them to go to sleep. You just put them in that thing and take off walking with them.

[Willie Robertson]

Well then how do you get them then? You're stuck standing up on.

[Si Robertson]

I know, I'm talking about for naps and stuff. No, no, nighttime. They were. They was on that plan. We went with the full blown sleep training on that deal and they still are like that now they're at 7:30. They're like, is it time to go to bed? Yes sir. I go to bed.

[Martin Robertson]

That off.

[Willie Robertson]

That's not gonna last.

[Si Robertson]

What? Well, I mean I'm sure it won't,

[Willie Robertson]

but one day they'll look at you and go, it's only two minutes.

[Si Robertson]

I still don't know. Daylight. I still don't know why. They've completely revolted on potty training. So they just said, you know what? We're gonna crap our pants again. So you know, any. Any tips on that on why they went from okay to saying nope, I'll gladly listen. They did you see that? What?

[Martin Robertson]

What was it?

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, I got a good email.

[Si Robertson]

Oh boy.

[Willie Robertson]

Every once in a while a great one just comes through.

[Si Robertson]

You know, I'll go with [e-mail]. we got to be close, huh? Yeah, we're good.

[Willie Robertson]

Caitlin emailed in and it said catching possums, which kind of caught my eye and I decided to read it.

[Si Robertson]

They do do that.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh no. And she was just talking. She said, I caught a possum off my dad's back porch eating his cat food and she always hears side talking about the 50 pound coons. So she just wanted to share a photo with us of her possum and that's what gave me pause.

[Martin Robertson]

Oh, hey, it's the joker.

[Si Robertson]

Oh wow.

[Martin Robertson]

Mr. Joker.

[Si Robertson]

He got that thing way closer to her than I would have. Yeah, holding it like a baby.

[Curly Robertson]

She don't give it a bath.

[Martin Robertson]

Yeah, he looked like the joker with him eyes and him teeth.

[Si Robertson]

Funny.

[Willie Robertson]

Is that photograph.

[Si Robertson]

My goodness gracious, girl.

[Willie Robertson]

I can say. Say my. I wouldn't. I wouldn't even hold that.

[Si Robertson]

Like, I wouldn't hold him like that.

[Willie Robertson]

And I know no woman my wife

[Martin Robertson]

would for sure that close now.

[Si Robertson]

Now I'm out on him anyway.

[Willie Robertson]

That's what gave me pause while sitting here.

[Si Robertson]

I can see why. I can see why that would.

[Willie Robertson]

I saw that.

[Si Robertson]

That, that makes perfect sense. That picture right there makes perfect sense of why you would stop a second. Yeah, I get it. I get it now.

[Martin Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

How is your grandbaby got. When I know you just said you got a babysitter. How's the one that's going through the. Whatever that long word is?

[Curly Robertson]

Yeah. I don't know, but I don't know how to say the word.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Curly Robertson]

Now she goes in, has to go in every Thursday. And they wear and adjust her medicine.

[Si Robertson]

There you go.

[Curly Robertson]

It seems to have not grown anymore.

[Si Robertson]

Okay, so they got a pause and then maybe now the next step. Is it going down?

[Curly Robertson]

Going down? Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

That's cool.

[Curly Robertson]

Just have to wait and see.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Curly Robertson]

There you go.

[Si Robertson]

How do you feel all alone with one grandchild?

[Curly Robertson]

No. Fine. I done watched them once.

[Si Robertson]

I know, but I'm just wondering, like, any poopy diapers while you've had them?

[Curly Robertson]

Not yet. Not yet, but I changed diapers.

[Willie Robertson]

Things hold eight to ten pounds.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah? Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Says so right there on the package.

[Curly Robertson]

Yeah, they're nine pounds.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Nine pounders. Couple of nine pounders.

[Curly Robertson]

Well, she's doing the cloth diapers, but I said, hey, grandpa ain't doing them. Respect those ones out there.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, grandpa go, papa gonna have Pampers.

[Willie Robertson]

I said, homie don't play.

[Curly Robertson]

Yeah, but they don't look like your mother clothed out there. They all fancy, got covers on them, everything.

[Si Robertson]

You got to use a baby pin or are they like Velcro?

[Curly Robertson]

No, they got snaps.

[Si Robertson]

Snaps?

[Curly Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, okay. I always wondered in baby pins, man, you ever use them?

[Curly Robertson]

I used to use them to hold squirrels.

[Si Robertson]

I used to use them to get splinters.

[Curly Robertson]

No, that wasn't them.

[Si Robertson]

They were good for getting splinters out of your fingers.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, okay. That's what I've used them for.

[Si Robertson]

That's what everybody called them, like baby pins. I was. I never knew because, you know, every kid I saw was in diapers. I never. It took me longest time to figure out why they called them baby pins and used to be how they held the diapers on, though.

[Curly Robertson]

Yeah, that's right.

[Si Robertson]

I never had no idea. But man, they weren't good for getting splinters out of your finger.

[Willie Robertson]

Safety pin.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. Low safety pin. Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Start digging in your skin.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, get him. Get him on out of there. Get. Get it out.

[Willie Robertson]

I do have one other just fascinating email.

[Curly Robertson]

Go ahead. It's fascinating and I just want to warn.

[Willie Robertson]

I talked to this guy. Oh, we won't say how because I can't talk on the phone all day every day. But my man called me and he said, Martin's basically full of crap.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, boy. I got a feeling I know what this has to do with.

[Willie Robertson]

My man is named Pepper Lily. That's his name. He's from South Carolina.

[Martin Robertson]

Pepper Lily.

[Curly Robertson]

And he's one of them crappy callers

[Willie Robertson]

probably, but he saw a Black Panther in 1993. That's what he told me. He said Martin hadn't responded to his emails or his Instagram messages. He said, I got some voicemails from him and I would love to find them, but our computer's down right now, so. Sorry, but he has a very recent photo of one on trail camera and he said, you need to show this to. Sigh no, no, because size. Right. And also, just so we're clear, I'm on size side on this, Mr. Lily. No, no, no. He's a super nice guy and I'm on your side here, but I don't think we're going to win this argument today.

[Si Robertson]

Hmm. Air. Sweet pea.

[Martin Robertson]

What do you see that stands out in that photograph?

[Si Robertson]

Oh, man, that's a good black cat. Yeah, I mean, that's a house cat.

[Martin Robertson]

I just know about five things here.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, boy. Who, what, where, when? Why you an adverb.

[Martin Robertson]

Oh, no. How far is that photographer from the cat? Number one?

[Curly Robertson]

Looks like about 20 yards.

[Willie Robertson]

What is this doing?

[Martin Robertson]

This is like Martin, you know, house cat.

[Si Robertson]

That's a house cat.

[Martin Robertson]

Yeah, I think.

[Willie Robertson]

But I do believe this. This man was convicted that he saw one in 1993. Yeah, well, I'm on his side.

[Si Robertson]

How are you?

[Martin Robertson]

It was a small house.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, I was only four in 1993, but yeah, I did see one in about 2016 on Arkansas Road across from the Dollar General. I'll never forget it.

[Martin Robertson]

Yep.

[Si Robertson]

Nobody else saw him.

[Martin Robertson]

There's everybody's cutting. Cutting trim leads and all this trimming all this stuff for the ice storm. You know, I was just driving the other day. Something, a movement was in a pile of that stuff. It was a black and white cat. You know, he was. He was looking for mice.

[Si Robertson]

He was hunting.

[Curly Robertson]

Hunting.

[Si Robertson]

He was hunting or catching lizards. Them suckers love catching a lizard.

[Martin Robertson]

Yeah, he was hunted because he was.

[Si Robertson]

Y' all know we believe the story of Easter is the most beautiful story ever told. But sometimes when you know something so well, you can actually. You can kind of forget what it actually cost, you know? But what if this year you slowed down and considered the full cost? And that's actually the idea behind Tim Tebow's new book, if the Tree Could Speak. It is completely different point of view. Right. It tells the crucifixion story from a perspective you've never heard before. And that's of the cross itself. Look, it's one of those books that makes you stop and think and really? Picture what that day was light and si. I know you love the illustrations.

[Martin Robertson]

Yeah, the picture tells the story.

[Si Robertson]

Even if you know this story, this book gives you a fresh way to see it. You'll reflect, think, and deepen your faith. Reading it, you step inside the story, hear the witness, and ultimately experience Easter like never before.

[Willie Robertson]

Martin, you know what the best part is, right?

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

He is risen. He is alive. The king is alive. Right there on page 108. Coming out of that tomb, walking out that tomb out of being.

[Martin Robertson]

The tomb is empty, boys.

[Si Robertson]

Look, this one's worth checking out. You'll see the crucifixion differently than ever before. If the Tree Could Speak by Tim Tebow is available now on Amazon. Order your copy today.

[Martin Robertson]

Yeah, no, I'm just saying you, you can't say there ain't any.

[Curly Robertson]

Well, there's black jaguars down in Mexico.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, 100% everywhere.

[Willie Robertson]

And you're saying none of them could have walked here?

[Si Robertson]

Well, no, my argument has always been the same. There is not a black mountain lion. That has all that is where my argument begins and ends.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, why can there be an albino?

[Si Robertson]

Mountain mountain lions, it's genetically impossible for them to be black.

[Willie Robertson]

Are they genetically possible be albino?

[Si Robertson]

I don't look it up. I never looked up that fact of them. I don't look up the color phases. I just read the study on black.

[Martin Robertson]

Agree with him. Common sense got a rule in here.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, I don't. My argument is not color that a black jaguar didn't exist here. I mean he could have like Joe Exotic had him up there in Oklahoma. That stuff gets loose all the time. I'm just saying there's no black mountain lion. That's my only like a mountain line. It's been proven impossible for them to be jetone. That's all I'm saying.

[Martin Robertson]

They've got the deer. Deer color plus it's. It's a kind of a tan.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, he's an interesting looking thing.

[Martin Robertson]

He's got a weird.

[Willie Robertson]

If you're weird if you type in on Google. Can a mountain lion kill a bear? Kill a human, Be a pet, Kill you, be black is number five.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, yeah. I mean it's just. They did it. They just did a genetic study like. But there are other cats that are absolutely black.

[Martin Robertson]

That ain't a house cat. He's about the size of a dog allowed.

[Si Robertson]

So there you go. That's always been my thing is like just mountain lions can't be black. There's other cats that are absolutely. If he's it would be dumb to refute that point.

[Martin Robertson]

So he's part jaguar.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, I'm cool with that.

[Martin Robertson]

They've. They've got on South America and they're like, Jay said, jason believe in a panther because he says ain't that big since he's seen the jaguar.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Martin Robertson]

But hey, now, you can't say that.

[Si Robertson]

Jase also ain't ever going to agree with anything you say.

[Martin Robertson]

You can't say that, though, because that depends on the food source that's available to them.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, getting that big.

[Martin Robertson]

Getting that big.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, yeah.

[Martin Robertson]

I'm telling you, you run up on snakes, and if the food source is there, hey, it ain't no telling how big them suckers are getting.

[Si Robertson]

There you go.

[Willie Robertson]

I've seen anaconda, okay?

[Martin Robertson]

And I mean anaconda and pyth at all them. But my anaconda, they got a good supply of food. They'll get huge.

[Curly Robertson]

Unless you got humongous.

[Willie Robertson]

They made a new anaconda.

[Si Robertson]

What? Why?

[Willie Robertson]

With Paul Rudd and Jack Black.

[Si Robertson]

Well, I bet that was good.

[Willie Robertson]

I know what I'm doing this weekend.

[Si Robertson]

I bet Hunter's seen it. Not yet. Not yet. It's on the list. It's on the server. He's already downloaded it.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, my goodness. This looks like it might be the greatest movie ever made. And the critics said it was terrible, so that's how you know it was good.

[Martin Robertson]

Oh, no. Hey, he pretty good.

[Si Robertson]

Hey, what's that Bible say, man? Let's go home before.

[Willie Robertson]

Just so we're clear that movie exists, I need you to see that. I need you to contemplate that and sleep on it.

[Martin Robertson]

I want him go see it.

[Willie Robertson]

Okay.

[Martin Robertson]

About a big snake now.

[Si Robertson]

Well, you know Jack Black gonna get caught.

[Martin Robertson]

I have nightmares.

[Si Robertson]

He's not very athletic.

[Willie Robertson]

Anaconda came out in 1990. Yeah, and ice Cube was in it. You don't remember that?

[Si Robertson]

You're not helping the case here. No, I remember the Anaconda.

[Willie Robertson]

I wasn't old enough to go see it.

[Si Robertson]

Has that and Ice Cube been in, like, all the snake movies? Why?

[Martin Robertson]

That anaconda was in the. Oh, Martin family. Robertson.

[Si Robertson]

Huh?

[Curly Robertson]

Where his family are you thinking of

[Willie Robertson]

Snakes on a Plane?

[Si Robertson]

Who was that?

[Willie Robertson]

That was Samuel L. Jackson.

[Si Robertson]

I thought Ice Cube made a cameo. You got to go look at the credits of Watch Snakes on a Plane.

[Willie Robertson]

You did not.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, I did.

[Curly Robertson]

Snakes on a Plane.

[Si Robertson]

Terrible. Awful.

[Willie Robertson]

I ever tell you about my friend Luke who had to take Snakes on a Plane back to Blockbuster and got in a car wreck and almost died? And we had to live with the fact that our friend had a collapsed lung because we decided to watch Snakes on a Plane. I lived that with that on my conscience for a week, man.

[Curly Robertson]

Why didn't you take it back?

[Willie Robertson]

Well, because Luke was headed that way.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, it was on the way.

[Willie Robertson]

My buddy Luke was. I'll take it back. I was like, thanks, man. This movie was awful. We shouldn't have watched it as Christian young men. And yeah, the Lord tried to strike Luke down by getting him hit right there in front of Blockbuster. I'm not. That part's not true.

[Curly Robertson]

Hey. Kept.

[Willie Robertson]

But he. He straight got drilled and I felt terrible.

[Si Robertson]

Oh. I mean, did he return a movie or. John, keep it.

[Willie Robertson]

To this day, I have no idea.

[Si Robertson]

Or was it just part of the insurance claim?

[Willie Robertson]

I need to call Luke and see did we get a late fee. That's why Blockbuster went out. They never got that one copy of Snakes on a Plane on DVD back.

[Curly Robertson]

That was her demise.

[Willie Robertson]

I did feel terrible about that, though. Luke, if you're. You're not listening, but if you are. Sorry. I actually saw his dad this morning.

[Curly Robertson]

Anyways, he just.

[Willie Robertson]

It's a small town, people. It is that Snakes on a Plane. That was a terrible movie. Oh, could you imagine a worse thing

[Si Robertson]

to happen, sir, than Snakes on a Plane? Yeah, that's like

[Curly Robertson]

they was going to a zoo or something.

[Willie Robertson]

No, it was an act of terrorism.

[Martin Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Weaponized animals, huh? I don't know if you've seen.

[Curly Robertson]

No.

[Willie Robertson]

Basically the whole plot of Jurassic park but with just snakes now and without.

[Curly Robertson]

Think I'll watch it.

[Si Robertson]

Not near as cool.

[Willie Robertson]

Please don't.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, don't watch it. It is a waste of time and

[Willie Robertson]

is not family friendly by any means.

[Curly Robertson]

I just own Basket We.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. They got some pretty coarse language in there.

[Willie Robertson]

Do you? Basket weave.

[Curly Robertson]

I do it for. I watch that movie

[Martin Robertson]

that's out.

[Curly Robertson]

Or go to the opera that.

[Si Robertson]

Oh,

[Willie Robertson]

hold on. Are you trying to say that the opera is so bad, but it'd be better than that.

[Curly Robertson]

The singing's too high now. The music playing is a little different.

[Willie Robertson]

And opera's legit.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, yeah. Goblin won't be able to hear most of it, though. He got high frequency hearing loss.

[Martin Robertson]

Yeah, that's me too.

[Si Robertson]

They get up. They'd get up there and some of them ranges got me like.

[Curly Robertson]

But them,

[Martin Robertson]

I'd say, hey, he's a mime.

[Willie Robertson]

He's a mime.

[Martin Robertson]

Yeah, yeah. He ain't making any noise. He's.

[Willie Robertson]

I've been to the opera before. It was tight. I don't know how they do that?

[Curly Robertson]

Where at?

[Willie Robertson]

Over yonder.

[Curly Robertson]

That's what I thought.

[Si Robertson]

Italia.

[Willie Robertson]

Italia, Yay.

[Si Robertson]

Italia, yay.

[Willie Robertson]

That's where they make the world's best meatballs and pizza and shotguns. Opera singers. And I'm sure they want a golden something.

[Curly Robertson]

I wouldn't mind going over, but they say they shoot you with squirt guns. Get the terrorist out of there. The people, they don't like tourists over there. So.

[Willie Robertson]

Huh.

[Si Robertson]

They using a lot. They using a lot bigger things and squirt guns right now.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh yeah, But I don't think it's in Italia. Italy's like super tourist friendly, isn't it?

[Si Robertson]

Oh, no, I never been there.

[Willie Robertson]

It's been a minute since I was there.

[Curly Robertson]

So I want to go see the Coliseum.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, it's tight. Smaller than you think when you're there.

[Curly Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Hold on. Watch this. I can prove it. While we get to the end of this episode.

[Curly Robertson]

I want to go to the Holy Land.

[Si Robertson]

But boy, I would.

[Curly Robertson]

I would put a while.

[Willie Robertson]

I'd put a pin in that.

[Si Robertson]

Now she just got grandbabies and all.

[Martin Robertson]

Give it a 10, boys.

[Si Robertson]

No, a pin pan. But come back.

[Willie Robertson]

That's me in front of the Coliseum with my very first beard.

[Si Robertson]

Is that the pose you got to do when you go there?

[Willie Robertson]

You know, at about 19, that was the pose I did in front of everything. I don't understand it. I wasn't a normal person still.

[Curly Robertson]

How many people?

[Si Robertson]

There's people to this day that every picture.

[Curly Robertson]

How many people sit in there?

[Willie Robertson]

You know, I do not know.

[Curly Robertson]

You know, that stuff like that. I mean, how old is The Coliseum?

[Willie Robertson]

About 2,000 years.

[Martin Robertson]

The Romans.

[Curly Robertson]

And it's still standing up there?

[Martin Robertson]

Yeah.

[Curly Robertson]

You know that stuff I built back in like when we went to Scotland, they build and built in 15, 15 and all that. They still standing the other side of Edinburgh. They working on them buildings all the time, the new Edinburgh. But the old Edinburgh ain't never working on it.

[Willie Robertson]

Maybe I just remembered it being smaller and I thought 65,000 people.

[Curly Robertson]

They built them woods stoned, I'm talking.

[Martin Robertson]

Well, that's like paint. They paint a bridge, they continuously paint a bridge. And the Indians drew pictures of stuff on cave walls. And it's pretty as it was the day that Indians drew it out of berries, crushed berries instead of.

[Curly Robertson]

They're doing everything wrong.

[Martin Robertson]

I said that when I was a youngster. Everything's backwards.

[Willie Robertson]

Everything's backwards.

[Curly Robertson]

We're too quick to build stuff. Human race screws up too much processed stuff.

[Willie Robertson]

And we're in the process of screwing

[Curly Robertson]

up too many chemicals in our food.

[Willie Robertson]

But I have a great verse for us to remember in these screwed up times. It's a very common verse.

[Martin Robertson]

It's common.

[Willie Robertson]

People have heard this verse over and over, over and over and over, but

[Martin Robertson]

they haven't taken it to heart.

[Si Robertson]

Let's hear it one more time.

[Willie Robertson]

But we're going to hear it one more time because it's a very important, important verse. Joshua 1:9. Amen. Have I not commanded you be strong and courageous? Do not be terrified, do not be discouraged. For the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go. There's no doubt. It's a weird time to be alive right now. A lot of crazy stuff on the news. You open your phone, you're seeing crazy stuff no matter where you go. But we have been commanded to be strong and courageous because we have God on our side. So no matter what happens here on this earth, you got it.

[Martin Robertson]

You're never alone.

[Willie Robertson]

And the worst thing that can happen

[Curly Robertson]

to you, Lord God is with you each and every day.

[Si Robertson]

Bom, bom, bom.

[Willie Robertson]

But the worst thing that can happen to you is you get sent to heaven, where there's no more of anything at this.

[Curly Robertson]

I know.

[Si Robertson]

Amen, buddy.

[Willie Robertson]

Bada bing, bada boom.

[Si Robertson]

Let's go.

[Martin Robertson]

What I got to say about that?

[Si Robertson]

Let's go there.

[Martin Robertson]

Come on, bring it.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, let's go there.

[Willie Robertson]

Stay around for a little bit, though.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

He. Okay, we're gone.