Uncle Si Breaks Down Why Filming "Duck Dynasty" Wasn’t Always Fun

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Episode Overview

Title: Uncle Si Breaks Down Why Filming "Duck Dynasty" Wasn’t Always Fun
Date: April 16, 2026
Hosts: Si Robertson & Justin Martin, with Willie Robertson, Johnny D, Phil Robertson & others

This episode centers on Uncle Si and crew sharing behind-the-scenes stories from filming Duck Dynasty, focusing on the less glamorous, occasionally miserable aspects of production. Balancing classic Duck Commander humor with candid reflection, the team revisits memorable moments from life during and after the show—complete with tales of dental escapades, restaurant run-ins, encounters with fame, and heartfelt family anecdotes.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Uncle Si's Dental Saga

• Si’s Tooth Transformation:

  • Si describes having his dental implants tightened (“she was cranking that thing… there was pain involved”—Si, [03:49]). Despite the temporary discomfort, Si’s pleased with the new teeth, humorously noting no more food gets stuck underneath.
  • Martin jokes about Si’s new teeth being the "2027 model" ([02:15]).
  • The whole crew jokes about Si’s teeth, including photos and the step-by-step transformation shared with Martin and Johnny D ([02:47]).

• Steak as the Ultimate Dental Test:

  • Back from Springfield, MO, Si gets a steak from Dr. Olson:
    “He said, try your new teeth out on this… Hey, that one was cooked to perfection.” —Si, [07:13]

• Lambert’s Eatery Adventure:

  • The team visits Lambert’s Cafe, famous for tossed rolls and large, comfort-food portions ([08:13]).
  • Si and Martin relive the chaos of being recognized and mobbed for photos, even unable to finish their meal as fans gather ([09:14]).
  • “When people got phones, they come out of the woodwork.” —Si, [11:16]

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Life as Local Celebrities

• Recognition on the Road:

  • Driving with the Duck Commander logo means instant recognition, even with tinted windows ([13:54]).
  • Si recounts accidentally dousing some fans with Coke out a car window, only for them to laugh it off because of who he is ([14:17]).
  • “I drown them people with that coke… It was hot too, in the summertime, so I had to cool them off.” —Si, [14:42]

• Duck Dynasty Fame in Public:

  • Any restaurant visit can become an impromptu meet-and-greet, such as at Lambert’s or the prospect of a BUC-EE’s road trip ([15:41]).

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Reliving Duck Dynasty Filming: “It Wasn’t Always Fun”

• Listener Question (34:07): Were there episodes or scenes you absolutely hated filming?
  • Si immediately talks about summer filming in chest waders, mic’d up, and launching into the water for relief — despite crew protest ([34:24]):
    • “We're filming in July and it's 115 in the shade and we're wearing chest waiters… I’m fix to cool off. Well, hey, they should have listened to me.”
  • Martin & Johnny D mention the drudgery of late-night shoots, long waits for set-ups, and having to eat (and re-eat) cold food during staged family dinners ([35:40] and [38:09]):
    • “Working till 2 and 3 in the morning was like, ah.” —Johnny D, [36:21]
    • “You want to talk about torturing old Martin? When [catering] first season, that was all Phil and Kay cooking that, and I’m like, yeah! Swiss steak! Praise God. And then… ‘wait’” —Martin, [38:37]
  • Dangerous or uncomfortable stunts recounted, like robbing beehives at night or being submerged in bayou water on camera ([36:53], [37:12]).
  • Willie recounts a jalapeño stunt gone wrong for a cooking shoot—tears and all—for a bit never used ([37:15]).
  • Repeated re-shoots, delays, and “doing dumb stuff they didn’t even use” are described as the hardest parts ([38:49]).

Notable Quote:

“There were some things that were inconvenient, but nothing that I hated, I don’t think… There were some definite inconveniences, but nothing that I hated.” —Johnny D, [42:35]

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Stories About Filming and Crew Interactions

• Production Logistics:

  • The crew remembers the massive size of TV crews—“30 people at any given moment”—and the strict division of (union) responsibilities ([41:05]).
  • Hunter, in production himself, remarks on “menial tasks” and how only the electrician can plug in a cord on union sets ([41:33], [42:07]).

• Getting Used to the Cameras:

  • Everyone eventually got used to always being filmed, finding the crew to be like family ([40:33]).

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Viewer Calls & Family Reflections

Giving Away Daughters: Emotional Impact

• Question: "How was it giving your daughters away at their weddings?" ([46:48])
  • Martin recalls weeping while walking his daughter down the aisle (“I was a mess” — [47:01]).
  • Si reflects that “it was hard on [me],” sharing the bittersweet nature of the transition and the worries fathers have for their daughters’ wellbeing ([47:54] – [49:39]).
  • Phil jokes about scaring off would-be suitors with hunting trophies and warnings: “You're going to feel the crosshairs on you.” —Phil, [52:24]

Duck Commander Parenting Wisdom

• Handling Daughters:
  • The crew jokes about how daughters “manipulate dads” (Si, [49:39]) and the differences raising boys vs. girls.
  • Willie shares how bribery (“try hard and we’ll get an icy”) motivates his daughter during soccer ([49:55]).

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Notable Quotes & Fun Moments

Humor & Behind-the-Scenes

• “I feel like the bionic man. She had a ratchet.” —Si, on getting his teeth cinched, [03:34]
• “Anytime Phil and Si go on an adventure… there’s Si with women in a photo. And then it always gets followed up with Phil…” —Willie, [05:20]
• On being recognized: “If people got phones, they come out the woodwork.” —Si, [11:16]
• “If you don’t know how to tie a knot, tie a lot.” —Bill Dance (relayed by Johnny D), [29:49]
• “Swiss steak! Praise God. And then… ‘wait.’” —Martin, on filming meals, [38:37]
• “I just ate jalapenos until I cried. And they didn’t use it.” —Willie, [38:45]
• “You better treat that queen right… you better treat her like she’s a queen.” —Si, advice to his daughter’s husband, [50:47]
• “You’re going to feel the crosshairs on you.” —Phil, on warning suitors ([52:24])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Segment | Timestamps | |---------------------------------------------------|----------------------| | Si’s Dental Story + Dentist Visit | 01:56 – 07:23 | | Lambert’s Café Adventure | 07:27 – 11:16 | | Life as a Local Celebrity | 13:54 – 15:10 | | Road Trip Stories (Buc-ee's, Bucky's, and more) | 15:18 – 17:32 | | Space Splashdown, Pop Culture Commentary | 17:35 – 21:04 | | Store News: Hunter hired as Bait Room Lord | 22:50 – 26:21 | | Fishing Stories, Bill Dance Call-out | 26:26 – 31:20 | | Duck Dynasty Production Q&A & Gripes | 34:07 – 43:12 | | Heartfelt Parenting Reflections | 46:48 – 51:57 | | Fatherly Warnings to Daughters’ Suitors | 52:00 – 53:23 | | Scripture & Humorous Parenting Closer | 53:44 – End |

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Conclusion

This episode is a blend of old-school Duck Commander humor and real talk about the realities of reality TV. It provides a rare, candid look at the challenges and absurdities of filming Duck Dynasty, punctuated by Si’s inimitable storytelling and the crew’s warmth for family and fans. Fans get both laughs and insight—proving that behind every on-camera antic, there’s sweat, patience, and, above all, family.

Final Notable Quote:

“Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring, a reward from him.” —Willie (Psalm 127:3), [54:18]

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For Listeners Who Missed Out

Expect a hearty helping of southern storytelling, playful digs, family wisdom, and a new appreciation for what goes into making Duck Dynasty so entertaining—on- and off-camera.

Transcript

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[Martin]

What's that mean, Martin?

[Johnny D]

Everything look good but her face. Ha.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh, I always. I've got one of them unforgettable faces.

[Johnny D]

You do now with all them teeth. You're like that alligator. You got all them teeth but ain't got no toothbrush. I hope you don't get ornery.

[Phil Robertson]

Hey, I got some choppers now, I'm telling you.

[Johnny D]

Hey, look, he trying to hide him. Pull that mic down closer to him so we can hear you.

[Martin]

Hey, we got to get it. Get him a haircut and a little trim.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, I need a. I need a. A mustache trim, too. You need. Then you. Then you can.

[Willie Robertson]

Actually, I arranged this and you. You no show.

[Johnny D]

Yeah, you bailed on.

[Martin]

Well, hey, now he's ready.

[Phil Robertson]

Arrange it again.

[Johnny D]

Run it back. He says hit them again with all right. S. How look at the camera and smile. We got our final set of teeth in the permanent.

[Martin]

Look at the permanent.

[Johnny D]

God.

[Phil Robertson]

Hey, look, food ain't no get everywhere under it now. Everything. These my healing teeth were larger. You know, the. Had a more. Had more junk in there.

[Johnny D]

Yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

Then this bottle that I've got is more compact.

[Willie Robertson]

The 2020.

[Martin]

That's the new PSI 2027 model.

[Phil Robertson]

The young lady that was putting them in and, you know, tighten them in, she said, hey, I'm gonna have to tighten them down all the way this time. So you're gonna have to, you know, grant, it made it be a little pain.

[Willie Robertson]

You don't have any black eyes this time. So, hey, that's a plus.

[Phil Robertson]

Hey, when she said she was gonna talk now she wasn't playing.

[Johnny D]

She tightened them down. My favorite part. Aside your teeth into Your face. I had no idea what his teeth are like, But I did because Philip was texting me, though.

[Martin]

Oh, yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh, no, no, no. It was out there.

[Martin]

Like, they wouldn't let s see his teeth until after the whole procedure was over. They hand him a mirror. But the whole time, I was letting Martin know.

[Johnny D]

Oh, yeah. He's like, step one, step two, step. I saw. I saw the whole transformation take place right there inside the office. How you feel?

[Phil Robertson]

Good. Yeah.

[Johnny D]

There you go.

[Phil Robertson]

That's a lot better.

[Johnny D]

So he's back.

[Willie Robertson]

Back.

[Johnny D]

Where's the old one?

[Phil Robertson]

There at the house.

[Johnny D]

The healing.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Johnny D]

They let you have the healing teeth, huh?

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. I told him, yes, he's got them. I said, hey, take them. But they didn't leave. They didn't leave all of them on there. Like, the part that you have to put the screws down on that part was. They left that out.

[Johnny D]

Wait, like, this ain't like you. Auto. Pull up auto parts.

[Phil Robertson]

I feel like the bionic man. No, no, I'm serious. When she was tightening them down, when the girl said, hey, I got to tie them all the way down, she wasn't driving. She was cranking that thing. You know, she had a ratchet.

[Johnny D]

There you go.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh, and, hey, she rested it tight. And when it was. When she was doing the last little. It was pain involved in that.

[Martin]

What side?

[Phil Robertson]

She said, I told you to tell me to stop if it was pertinent. I said, well, darling, you done said, hey, you got to tighten them down. So there's no use me, you know, saying anything about pain.

[Johnny D]

Ain't no reason to drag it out, is it?

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. No.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, it tied down, sucker.

[Phil Robertson]

The only thing I was worried about is I said, I sure hope the pain don't stay there after she does it. But it didn't. Well, she cinched it down. It hurt there when she's doing it, but, you know, five minutes after it done, everything was cool.

[Martin]

Sile, you don't have to go back to innovative dental and st. I mean, in Springfield, Missouri. That was your last trip.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. That's a good thing.

[Willie Robertson]

There's not, like, a checkup.

[Phil Robertson]

I love the guys up there and the women.

[Martin]

Well, he'll have to go. You will have to go in February of 2027, he said, and the women.

[Willie Robertson]

Which brings me to my next point.

[Johnny D]

Okay.

[Willie Robertson]

Anytime, Phil and sigh go on an adventure. These are the photos I get. Martin, we got.

[Phil Robertson]

Hey.

[Johnny D]

Oh, yeah, I got those two.

[Phil Robertson]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Johnny D]

Oh, yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

That was the one that was. She had to wrench it on him.

[Martin]

The one on the right? Yeah, that's Shay Shayla.

[Johnny D]

My right or yours?

[Phil Robertson]

All right.

[Martin]

Size right

[Johnny D]

Never gets old.

[Phil Robertson]

He doesn't. All yours.

[Willie Robertson]

Every time they go on an adventure, there's side with women right? In a photo. And then it always gets followed up with Phil in the.

[Martin]

Hey, doctor Me.

[Phil Robertson]

Hey, look, everybody said that. Hey, yo, my. My teeth. My smile is back.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, yeah, it's. Yeah, it's not back. It's existent.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh, no, no.

[Willie Robertson]

Earlier it was.

[Phil Robertson]

It's more than that back, Jack.

[Martin]

Hey, what did Willie say when he saw size teeth? Were you in here?

[Johnny D]

No. Well, he. I was walking through the office and run face first into him and he said, what are you doing here? I said, well, we got podcast. He said, right now? I said, yep. And so I got all his teeth fixed. He said, oh, I'm coming.

[Willie Robertson]

I got to see this.

[Johnny D]

So here he come right in behind me.

[Phil Robertson]

I got to see it.

[Johnny D]

He just said he. Willie said he was going to have to go get some bondo work done too, is what he called.

[Phil Robertson]

But hey, I didn't realize how rough yo. The lifestyle is on teeth.

[Willie Robertson]

Your lifestyle, sir.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, yeah. Not everybody hot.

[Johnny D]

You hockey players, you know, boxers.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Johnny D]

Pretty rough time. Pretty great time to be a dentist. Pretty bad time to also be a dentist.

[Willie Robertson]

But also, Phil sent me one other thing. What is going on here?

[Johnny D]

Yeah. Who's that guy? Is that the doctor?

[Phil Robertson]

Sigh.

[Willie Robertson]

And there's a cutting board.

[Martin]

Yes. So he brought me a. Oh, yeah, Dr. Olson Cook size steak and said, try your new teeth out on this.

[Phil Robertson]

He said, try, you know, and hey, first, I don't want to cut it. Look, I dropped a piece of it off. It's fat. It fell off. You know, I swallowed. Let me cut me another. But I said, hey, I said, you're pretty good chef. I said, because, hey, that idiot New York. Oh, okay. That said he didn't know what medium plus is or there was no such thing. Well, doc knew it goes. Hey, look, it was light pink in the center.

[Johnny D]

Ain't nothing like a steak on a couch by the bathroom.

[Willie Robertson]

So, hey, in the dentist.

[Phil Robertson]

Hey, that one was cooked to perfection.

[Johnny D]

I ain't ever seen that.

[Willie Robertson]

Hey.

[Phil Robertson]

Because I just kept cutting the pieces of it.

[Johnny D]

Y' all hit up Lambert's?

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh, we did.

[Martin]

I gotta tell you what happened.

[Johnny D]

Did y' all hit up the bass pro shop?

[Willie Robertson]

I gotta call it. Timeout on this.

[Martin]

Okay.

[Willie Robertson]

Says I will not go to BUC EE's because I can't get in and out of there because in fairness, Bucky's people are size people.

[Martin]

Well, okay. Yeah, I'm.

[Willie Robertson]

But there's another place that falls right in line.

[Martin]

Well, I'm going to take the blame for this because the last we were

[Johnny D]

there, especially on the way to Branson,

[Martin]

I heard about the place in Springfield. It's called Lamberts and they throw rolls at you and I love rolls. And so. And we drove all the way through with no stops. I said sigh. I'm Marvin. Let's go where they throw the rolls. He said pull on in there and we'll go in.

[Johnny D]

Yeah. Look, did you get some?

[Phil Robertson]

They throw. Yes. Yeah, they're fried over. They are fresh out of the oven. So. Hey.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

You need some hot. You need some gloves to catch them.

[Johnny D]

Did you catch one?

[Martin]

No, I caught him for him.

[Phil Robertson]

He called him.

[Martin]

Anyway, he almost got hit in the head by one.

[Phil Robertson]

Tell me you want from me, what

[Johnny D]

else do you eat there?

[Phil Robertson]

Well, we had. I had roast beef.

[Johnny D]

Roast beef.

[Phil Robertson]

I will say cheese.

[Johnny D]

Fried okra.

[Phil Robertson]

No. And fried. Ok. Yeah. They got young ladies walk around with a pot.

[Johnny D]

Yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

Of hot flying. Okay. Just all of Greece. I know it was pretty good.

[Willie Robertson]

And everyone in that restaurant DVR Duck Dynasty for eight years.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, hey, they are your people.

[Johnny D]

And they just bought a new Samsung and found the fast channel. So.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, look, we.

[Martin]

We got away with it at first. Oh this sat down.

[Phil Robertson]

We were eating. That was a good picture.

[Martin]

And then all of a sudden takes one picture. A hundred people are gathered around him and he just stops eating. He's like, I can't eat.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, look, I did. I. I went to Facebook to go to Lambert see if they posted uncle size swung by. No, I just typed in Lamberts and the first thing that came up is psy and this little girl taking a picture. I didn't even type inside.

[Johnny D]

Yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Oh, that's cute.

[Johnny D]

Oh, there's his roast beef. I see it right there.

[Willie Robertson]

Are you hungry, son?

[Phil Robertson]

No.

[Johnny D]

Hey, they just.

[Phil Robertson]

You go hungry. That's your own fault. Yeah, go right. Good grief.

[Willie Robertson]

That place is good.

[Johnny D]

There's gonna be somebody in heaven walking around with rolls. I'm here.

[Phil Robertson]

Look.

[Martin]

You get rolls, cornbread, butter and honey with them. Roll biscuits.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh my. And it's all fresh out of the oven.

[Willie Robertson]

You go on Facebook and just type Lambert side Robert. It just keeps going.

[Phil Robertson]

Yes.

[Willie Robertson]

Sigh. You. Those people had no idea that the mayor of Lambert's was about to walk in and eat there.

[Johnny D]

Oh, did you meet Mr. Lambert?

[Martin]

Well, we met somebody who came out and gave us our meal

[Phil Robertson]

I wasn't worried about him. Okay.

[Martin]

But we brought our own cups because we got a bunch of them and so saw a sign I'm and hand them out to until we ran out.

[Willie Robertson]

That's amazing. Yeah, that's awesome that y' all just busted in a lamberts and just did a meet and greet.

[Johnny D]

Hilarious.

[Willie Robertson]

And you had no idea it was coming?

[Phil Robertson]

Well, no, no, it. That's the way it happens all the time.

[Johnny D]

Last time I was at Lambert was if he's driving.

[Phil Robertson]

Look, if he's driving, Becky, it happens. And then if stones drive, it happens the stones the same way he is. If somebody walks up, you know, he'll say, you know, would you like for him to sign your duck call or whatever? Yeah. And then the people, you know, if. When people got phones, they come out of the woodwork.

[Willie Robertson]

They come out the woodwork.

[Johnny D]

Here they come.

[Phil Robertson]

That's it. Cause they get on the phones quickly. We got to just walked in here.

[Johnny D]

All right, look. Springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means? That means more outside cooking. And y' all know we love to eat beef around here. And that's why, because of our friends over at trails. Beef makes such a good product, baby. Ain't it good?

[Willie Robertson]

It's so good. It's our friend Cy Robertson would say fire on the grill.

[Johnny D]

Look, before we got try tells getting ready for a cookout, man, somebody had to run the grocery store, do all the things, grab whatever was left in case you were late in the day. And you never really know where that beef comes from. But with tritails beef, we skip the grocery store and do it a different way. Tritails comes from a family ranch out in Texas. They're a fifth generation American ranch. So they've been at it for a while now. Look, the beef comes straight from their ranch and other ranchers they work with who raise cattle the same way. Their steaks are properly aged and shipped straight from the ranch to your door. We threw a couple of rib eyes on the grill. Look, salt, pepper, garlic, hot fire. That's all you need. Look. Because I tell you what, when the beef comes from people who raise cattle for a living, you can taste the difference. The tenderness and the flavor are fantastic. So if you're stocking the freezer for grilling season, go check out tritails beef. I know in size case. Christine loves it. Which is just a. She doesn't eat meat.

[Phil Robertson]

She ain't a big meat eater, folks.

[Johnny D]

Yeah, just go to try beef.com duck. That's tribe.com duck support ranch families and eat some dang good Ste. You ain't bit Miss Christine yet.

[Phil Robertson]

Well, I've nibbled a little bit. Hey, okay, fast forward.

[Willie Robertson]

That's.

[Johnny D]

I wanted to see just how uncomfortable we can make John.

[Phil Robertson]

I'm not uncomfortable. He kind of.

[Willie Robertson]

I mean, they are. I'm sitting beside them and my neighbors.

[Phil Robertson]

Well, no, that's.

[Willie Robertson]

I'm moving.

[Johnny D]

No, do not go over there past 8 o'. Clock.

[Phil Robertson]

Soon as I want to got home. She was outside, you know, Philip come in, was putting everything up that I had, you know. So I walked out there and just, you know, smiled at it. She laughed, you know. I said, what do you think? She said, well, they done pretty good.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

She come back and she said, I was just joking. She said, they're fantastic. They did a good job.

[Johnny D]

Oh, man.

[Phil Robertson]

They really did, though. I just.

[Willie Robertson]

The fact that y' all rolled into Lamberts just has me thinking of what other places in America could. Sigh. Legit. Not go enjoy. Well, Lambert's might actually be number. I mean, it sounds like you enjoyed it.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh, yeah.

[Martin]

Like it was good place.

[Willie Robertson]

You would get recognized the most.

[Martin]

Well, they recognized I. We were driving down the road and they were going around us and stopping and waving. I said, sigh. How do they know? They can't even see hardly in this truck. But they. They saw the duck commander logo on the front and they were beside him trying to get him to roll his window down. I was like, wow.

[Johnny D]

Well, you get stuck on that two lane road up there too.

[Phil Robertson]

I did that mountain Nashville. And I wasn't even thinking. They had pulled up and recognized me. You know, I had some ice and I bought something that wasn't any good or Coke. So I just rolled the one down and it didn't even look. I just rolled down, threw it out the window with them. People had pulled up again. They had the window down. I. I drowned them people with that coke.

[Johnny D]

And you're the only person that they laughed about.

[Phil Robertson]

No, no. And they did because they smoked while

[Johnny D]

they cleaned the coke out of their truck.

[Phil Robertson]

It was hot too, in the summertime, so I had to cool them off. But that was so funny. I said, oh, I'm drive by cooled them off.

[Johnny D]

That's a terrible defense.

[Phil Robertson]

All right, look, I can't wait for

[Willie Robertson]

it to be 98 degrees outside. I'm just gonna pull pour Coke on me to going down the road so

[Johnny D]

it dries almost instantly.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Johnny D]

That way you're just like stuck to your seat and your door. Thank you, Uncle S. All right, well,

[Willie Robertson]

next time we Go somewhere. We're going to BUC EE's.

[Phil Robertson]

I ain't going in yet.

[Willie Robertson]

You went to Lambert. Now you can go.

[Martin]

No, Bucky's is a lot further walk because we pulled right up to the front and he got out and I mean, he just walked from me to Hunter.

[Johnny D]

Sir, I think you could park by the beaver and nobody would say anything to you. You could park by the brass beaver and you'd be all right.

[Willie Robertson]

We'll make it happen.

[Martin]

All right.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, we're going to Bucky's.

[Johnny D]

I'm going to Bucky's this week.

[Martin]

Hey, bring me back.

[Phil Robertson]

Well, I'll take it back.

[Martin]

Pecans.

[Phil Robertson]

Philip will get out the wheelchair and wheel me in. I'll go if Philip will get out the wheelchair. I ain't walking.

[Johnny D]

I'm strapping a gopro to him. I just want to know what it's like.

[Martin]

Me or him?

[Johnny D]

Him is right on his chest. I just want to know what it is.

[Willie Robertson]

And I just. I think he would get swarmed and it would be amazing.

[Johnny D]

Yeah, it'd be great. It'd be. I don't know if they'd cover your bill, but.

[Willie Robertson]

No, no, they wouldn't do that before.

[Johnny D]

You've got to find out. Make sure. Make sure you find out first.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah. Don't get gas because then I can

[Johnny D]

send you a list of what all we want.

[Phil Robertson]

I was just.

[Willie Robertson]

Buckets. Fire pit.

[Johnny D]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Sunglasses.

[Johnny D]

Let's get that on.

[Martin]

I love going to Bucky's.

[Willie Robertson]

Fever nuggets.

[Johnny D]

Oh, I know Bucky's is. Oh, it's fun. I. I enjoy it. Is a good quality. Stop. Oh, man. They gonna finish that one over by you.

[Martin]

They were working on it right now.

[Phil Robertson]

You know, you go in there, you ain't gonna get out without buying something because there's too much stuff that you like.

[Johnny D]

Yeah. And you're gonna go tt and feel good about it. Very clean bathroom.

[Martin]

Very clean.

[Johnny D]

Very clean bathroom. That's fun.

[Willie Robertson]

That's the update on psy.

[Johnny D]

That is a good time right there.

[Willie Robertson]

Lambert.

[Johnny D]

I can't imagine him walking into Lambert's. Was it like lunchtime, too, or something?

[Martin]

No, it was 7 o' clock at night.

[Johnny D]

Oh, dinner time.

[Martin]

Yeah. And so.

[Phil Robertson]

But the place was packed and we were. Yeah.

[Martin]

Carving Lambert.

[Johnny D]

It's a lamb.

[Willie Robertson]

Both of us restaurants in America slide

[Johnny D]

down there to Gulf Shores and go in that one at any time of the day. You can't. You can't like, it's because. You know why? They're walking around with fresh, hot fried okra.

[Willie Robertson]

I hadn't been there.

[Phil Robertson]

That is really good.

[Johnny D]

I love Friedo.

[Willie Robertson]

I'm going there this summer. I just decided.

[Martin]

So. Good.

[Johnny D]

Anyway, any hoosers? I don't even really know what else we need to talk about.

[Willie Robertson]

I do have some news.

[Johnny D]

Oh, there you go.

[Phil Robertson]

You have some news.

[Willie Robertson]

I have some news.

[Johnny D]

Roy McElroy on the Master.

[Phil Robertson]

Did you watch the Splashdown?

[Willie Robertson]

Like a hawk. And then they made me wait for two hours for them to get out of there. So I ate a whole pizza. I was glued to the TV and had nothing.

[Johnny D]

I was like, emotional eating.

[Willie Robertson]

Is everything okay in there? I was like, I will say nervous whenever they. They drop them first parachutes and they're falling at what feels like an incredible rate. I'm like. And then they cut them suckers and some new ones come, but nobody told me they were going to cut the first ones. And I got a feeling in my stomach that was not good. I was like, turn away, kids. I thought we were about to see that sucker go to the bottom of the ocean.

[Phil Robertson]

You know what? You know what surprised me when I was watching that capitol come floating down is the fire that kept flashing off off of the.

[Johnny D]

Oh, off the deal.

[Martin]

The bottom of it.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

You don't want to go.

[Phil Robertson]

It was. It was fire just coming off of it every second or two.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah. Because. Well, they were going as fast as you melted your shoes.

[Phil Robertson]

Well, it surprised me. How was going with the chute to three? Chute.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, yeah.

[Johnny D]

Oh, you gotta think by that time, the bottom of that sucker, or the face of it, whatever you want to call it, was like that thing was like a lit cigarette.

[Phil Robertson]

That's why they land in water.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

Where the stupid thing will cool off.

[Willie Robertson]

Wait, that's why.

[Phil Robertson]

I'm serious.

[Willie Robertson]

That's why I just thought it was a softer landing. And I was getting annoyed. That's why I was like, if y' all could have got on land, they're. Oh, okay.

[Phil Robertson]

Although they could land it on land.

[Johnny D]

Oh. If they wanted to. Then he going to start a brush.

[Phil Robertson]

Okay.

[Willie Robertson]

Because they were like.

[Phil Robertson]

They splashed down is to cool that stupid thing off.

[Johnny D]

That's why the shuttle was so cool. Because then it was just like a regulation airplane. You just land and do your thing.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh, yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Okay.

[Johnny D]

Apparently terribly inefficient at what they do.

[Willie Robertson]

Okay. That makes.

[Phil Robertson]

Well, they're going. They're going to get it one of these days where they go up, come down, land on, like, an airport.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah.

[Johnny D]

Like an airstrip.

[Phil Robertson]

Airstrip.

[Willie Robertson]

That was wild. Because I was like. Just because they were like me, they were going 25,000 miles per hour, and then they slowed them down to 19 miles per hour in, like, the span of, like, 10 minutes. And that's what they were going when they hit the water. I was like, 19. Just go land somewhere in the desert and hop out and get in a car and walk.

[Johnny D]

Yeah, Because I imagine that difference, though.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Johnny D]

You go from 25,000 to 19, you're like, am I ever going to get there?

[Willie Robertson]

And then you're stuck in a boat.

[Johnny D]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Because now it's no longer a spaceship, it's a boat. Then they get you out and put you on a helicopter and take you to another boat.

[Johnny D]

And great white shark terror territory.

[Willie Robertson]

I don't want to get eaten.

[Johnny D]

See, I think I would have said, hey, man, y' all might dump me in the Gulf of America. I mean, they got some out there, too, but not as many as they got over there, where they went in Santiago.

[Willie Robertson]

There's some large.

[Johnny D]

Yeah, yeah, I've watched Shark Week. I know what them boys do off them coast over there.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

That's where the big ones got some choppers.

[Johnny D]

But welcome home. Yeah, welcome home.

[Willie Robertson]

We gotta get that Victor dude on.

[Phil Robertson]

How close did they get to the moon?

[Willie Robertson]

4,000 miles away from it, which seems

[Phil Robertson]

really far away, but it didn't. With the photograph.

[Martin]

Yeah, it looked closer.

[Johnny D]

Yeah, you're right next to it.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, they were close.

[Johnny D]

Considering how far we are. Wave right here. 4,000 miles. Really close.

[Willie Robertson]

They were on the other side of it. That's. We can confirm that.

[Johnny D]

Yeah, no, that was. Yeah. We need Victor. Victor, talk to Butch.

[Willie Robertson]

Butch, talk to Victor.

[Johnny D]

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[Willie Robertson]

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[Willie Robertson]

I have news, sir.

[Phil Robertson]

You have news.

[Johnny D]

What's your news? I have share away. What is.

[Willie Robertson]

I've recently made a hire.

[Martin]

You've hired someone at the store?

[Johnny D]

Oh, am I gonna start getting store.

[Willie Robertson]

No, you're not getting paid.

[Martin]

Yeah, still working.

[Phil Robertson]

What. What is. What did you hire him to do?

[Martin]

Yeah, let's find out what that is.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, I just need you to sit at the register, talk to people, say hello, check people out, and then his main domain. Oh, I gave it. I gave part of it away. We narrowed half the population. His main job is to be lured over the bait room on Saturdays. That's all I need.

[Martin]

Has he ever been convicted of a crime?

[Willie Robertson]

I don't know.

[Johnny D]

Ask him. He's right there.

[Willie Robertson]

He is in the room with us.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh, Honda's rocking for you.

[Willie Robertson]

Look, Hunter's getting shatters, y'.

[Martin]

All.

[Phil Robertson]

He's a shadow. Man.

[Johnny D]

Look at that.

[Willie Robertson]

Hunter came to me. He's like, dude, if you ever need any help, I'm, like, super bored on Saturdays right now. And I said, well, it just so happens I'm not bored on Saturdays right now because it's our busy time of year. So I said, if you want to. He's like that UPS driver that shows up at Christmas. I got Hunter.

[Phil Robertson]

That's just my little wingman, Hunter Daisy. He needs to do one thing.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, don't listen.

[Phil Robertson]

Ready. Sell shiners. You need. You need when the people are there. You said, hey, let me show you how good these shots are. Eat one. And he said, fish won't be able to stand it. They have to eat them. I'm not going to do that.

[Willie Robertson]

Hunter, it's not required of you.

[Phil Robertson]

You would sell a zillion of them.

[Willie Robertson]

If you would like to come over and do that.

[Phil Robertson]

No, I can.

[Willie Robertson]

Be my guest. But I'm not Hunter. I will give you a bonus.

[Johnny D]

Hunter said, at the end of our

[Willie Robertson]

busy season, if you eat one shiner, but you have to record it.

[Johnny D]

Yeah. Hunter said, I'll video you clowns doing it. Let me do my part here. I got record. It's going most of the time.

[Martin]

Yeah, I could do that.

[Phil Robertson]

Should be a sales pitch. Hey, look, I'm gonna tell you how

[Johnny D]

good Diner's so good. I'll eat them. Look here.

[Phil Robertson]

Hey, these are so good. That fish can't stand. They gotta eat them.

[Johnny D]

Oh, yeah, man, your breath.

[Phil Robertson]

Hey. Because they hook me so.

[Willie Robertson]

Hey, it's my Saturday busy season.

[Johnny D]

Help. I'm just glad that y' all got shiners. Boy, that's a tough week. Last week. There were never any shiners in there. I brought.

[Willie Robertson]

There was never any shiners anywhere in north Louisiana.

[Phil Robertson]

You buy like the 2 inches I

[Johnny D]

got all both of you?

[Willie Robertson]

Depends.

[Phil Robertson]

But call them trot line showers.

[Johnny D]

Because the boys walked in and wanted to go see the shiner tank. I said, boys, that, that. It's over. It ain't there, boys.

[Willie Robertson]

It's been. It's been. We're busy. Which is why we need a lord over the bait room.

[Johnny D]

There you go.

[Willie Robertson]

It was a lot of fun. I. I had so much fun doing that. And he loves it.

[Johnny D]

Those are your people, ain't they?

[Willie Robertson]

Well, he's from the 292, baby.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Johnny D]

Yeah. You see a lot of people, you know in there? So I see them every day.

[Martin]

I did have to go to the Honey Hole a little while back when

[Willie Robertson]

it was a Saturday and they were understaffed.

[Martin]

That's right.

[Willie Robertson]

And we needed Hunter. And so here we are.

[Martin]

And so Bryson's mother and father in law and their grandparents, his in laws, they all came from England to hang out and be available for the vow renewal. And one thing we did, we took them fishing. They every time they put the cricket out in the water, they caught one. And so a lot of brim. Just caught a bunch of brim.

[Willie Robertson]

Anyway, that's my news. Hunter now works six days a week and has a part time gig in a tackle shop.

[Johnny D]

Have we talked about Bill Dance?

[Martin]

What?

[Johnny D]

Calling you out?

[Willie Robertson]

Let's not.

[Johnny D]

Dude.

[Martin]

What happened?

[Johnny D]

Oh, no. You remember our friend Juicy? Yeah, Big Juicy with a big hair. So he got to do the social media thing of Bill dances. Like three questions with Bill Dance. And Bill asked him about the worst fishing experience of his life.

[Willie Robertson]

Funny story. He said it was the best experience of his life.

[Johnny D]

No, but Big Juicy went ahead and ratted out John David for not knowing how to tie a knot. And Bill Dance got on him. He said, if you don't know how to tie a Knot a lot.

[Phil Robertson]

You lost the biggest bass known to mankind.

[Johnny D]

Here we go.

[Phil Robertson]

Because Johnny D didn't have a knot right. You know, good buddy of mine told me one time, if you can't.

[Johnny D]

There it is. There it is. Hey, yo, there it is. Johnny D now lives in infamy on Bill Dance's social media.

[Phil Robertson]

Don't feel bad.

[Willie Robertson]

I got jumped on with both feet by Bill freaking Dance.

[Phil Robertson]

Hey, don't feel bad because, hey, I want Martin to that reservoir catching them bass. And I set the hook and the bait would come off. Just take off of the bait.

[Johnny D]

Oh, yeah. This wasn't me either, by the way.

[Phil Robertson]

And I said. I said, what's going on here? I said, is this old line. He said, no. I said, well, it keeps breaking because, hey, that's about the third bait. Bass run off it.

[Martin]

Who was fishing? You and Martin?

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, but we had a cameraman. And the camera, when I break it all, he would tie the next one on.

[Willie Robertson]

Who's the cameraman?

[Phil Robertson]

Jared.

[Willie Robertson]

Good job, Jared. At least nobody. At least Bill Dance isn't making fun of him.

[Johnny D]

I just thought by the time we all hit our 30s, that knot time.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, not time.

[Willie Robertson]

It was one.

[Johnny D]

I just thought it was a thing.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, yeah. One. Especially one. Especially one. Look, if you run a tackle shop. One, that's the bad part.

[Willie Robertson]

One.

[Phil Robertson]

That's the bad part of this one. Knot man worked at a tackle shop. He can't tie a knot.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, don't worry. After Bill Dance jumps on me, that'd

[Johnny D]

be like me picking up a duck call and blowing it from the wrong end.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Johnny D]

You know, yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

Shut up.

[Willie Robertson]

I did that on tv, too. Duck Dynasty. Look it up. And then if that wasn't bad enough, Big Dave sees it. He said, it doesn't take a genius to tie a knot. I've taught you this, son, because it's Wednesday, he's off work, and he's getting texts that Bill Dance is making fun of the heir to the honey hole.

[Johnny D]

Oh, man. Yeah. There you go.

[Willie Robertson]

Thank you, Mr. Bill Dance. It was the best day of my life.

[Johnny D]

Yeah. I've never seen somebody more fired up to be put on blast by Bill Dance. I sent Johnny D. Bill's number, too. I said, here, if you want to take it up with me.

[Phil Robertson]

No, no, no.

[Willie Robertson]

Mr. Bill Dance. We appreciate everything you've done for the fishing community. And thank you for making fun of me. Anytime you need someone, I'll be your

[Johnny D]

huckleberry and come sit in my chair one day, Bill.

[Willie Robertson]

Yes.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh, I'm sitting my chair.

[Johnny D]

I'D love to have you.

[Phil Robertson]

Shoot.

[Willie Robertson]

Bill Dance knows the rules.

[Phil Robertson]

Whoa.

[Willie Robertson]

Go fishing, fall in the water and post it on social media.

[Johnny D]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Or just don't tie a knot quite

[Johnny D]

perfectly and tie a lot. And that was my favorite. If you don't know how to tie a knot, tie a lot.

[Willie Robertson]

And it just. Juicy, dog. Like, I thought we were tight.

[Johnny D]

Oh, Juicy got you, bro.

[Willie Robertson]

Juicy been all over the world. First Jennifer Hudson, now Bill Dance. Who knows where that kid's gonna end up next.

[Johnny D]

Well, now he's, what, on some watch list for like, elementary football players or something? I saw they posted. I'm like, y' all start. Y' all don't really start watching them at that age, do you? It's just a hair.

[Willie Robertson]

Juicy never change.

[Johnny D]

Oh, you got put on blast by Bill Dance. Good for you, man.

[Willie Robertson]

Thank you.

[Johnny D]

You're welcome. I didn't know if we talked about that.

[Willie Robertson]

No, we didn't.

[Johnny D]

In person.

[Willie Robertson]

I was going to kind of let it die, but you have it.

[Johnny D]

Or in public.

[Willie Robertson]

I posted my response and some guy said, what a way to be remembered by Bill Dance. And he thought that was a shot at me. And I said, but he don't know who you are. I said, but he does remember me.

[Johnny D]

But he don't know who made that comment.

[Willie Robertson]

I do. I'd have to look it up.

[Martin]

He was on a couple of episodes of Duck Dynasty, wasn't he?

[Johnny D]

Just on one.

[Martin]

Is that the one where we were all fish down at Clay's Place?

[Johnny D]

Pond, yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Pond fishing.

[Johnny D]

Were you on his team? Whose team?

[Martin]

No. Sigh was on his team.

[Johnny D]

Oh, yeah, we won.

[Martin]

I had my own team and we did not win.

[Johnny D]

Yeah, we won. Caught them all off a shocker Bill, wacky worm. But I had a little local knowledge.

[Martin]

Sigh. Y' all didn't catch much when you went with Bill, huh?

[Johnny D]

No. Y' all just went around the bank throwing a frog. I went out there where there was open water and threw a wacky worm.

[Willie Robertson]

They're throwing a frog.

[Johnny D]

It used to be frog paradise out there, but when it gets real hot, they pull out in them deep holes and you just throw a wacky worm out. Gentlemen.

[Willie Robertson]

Hey, you know what?

[Johnny D]

Reel them suckers in.

[Willie Robertson]

I do. Got to brag about one other fishing story. Yesterday, going home from church, Carter said, today's the day we're going to go catch a fish. We going to cut that sucker sides off. Then we're going to fry them and eat him. And I got him set up. He did the worm on the hook, got the fish off. He filleted it. We had some help with the peanut oil. And then he ate it.

[Johnny D]

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[Willie Robertson]

Hunter, you do have us some voicemails, though, don't you? You told me you did, so It'd be awkward if you didn't.

[Johnny D]

I don't remember the phone number. 318.

[Willie Robertson]

It's 318-215-6559. I don't.

[Phil Robertson]

I've already.

[Johnny D]

I forgot the 215. I knew the 6, 5, 5, 9,

[Willie Robertson]

but 215-6559 area code. 318.

[Johnny D]

Make it funny.

[Willie Robertson]

Or at least interesting.

[Johnny D]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

And enjoyable.

[Phil Robertson]

Hey, what's up, Doc? Call room. This is Larry from Little Elm, Texas. Hello to Uncle S. Love you, my man. Hey, you guys have talked about your favorite episodes before. I would love to know if there were any episodes or scenes from any episodes that you absolutely hated doing for one reason or another. All right, God bless y'. All. Take care. Keep doing what you're doing. Bye for now.

[Willie Robertson]

I thought he was gonna say scenes that you thought were hilarious that never made it because I got one for you, buddy.

[Phil Robertson]

I got one that the people that run the show hate it. What? That was one way that Jason's.

[Martin]

When you were miked up and they said, don't get in the water.

[Phil Robertson]

And I had told him, I said, y' all better do something with this mic.

[Martin]

I saying that the crew hated what he did.

[Phil Robertson]

They didn't. You know, I know that cameraman and all them, you know, the, you know, sound man. All them. That fool with microphone stuff. Yeah, they hated it. I told him, I said, hey, y' all need to do something with this microphone. I don't think I didn't pay attention to me. And the next thing they heard was and I'm running off the pier and doing a. On my back out in the water. Because we're. We're. We're filming in July and it's 115 in the shade and we're wearing chest waiters.

[Willie Robertson]

That's warm.

[Martin]

That's hot.

[Phil Robertson]

Hot. Yeah, that's hot. It's hard. I'm fix to cool off. Well, hey, they should have listened to me.

[Johnny D]

I'm looking through the episode list.

[Willie Robertson]

To be fair. I think I filmed the least in here. But it would be hard to say you hated it because, like, there was a time you were cold, like, and you were stuck outside waiting. But you know, we just watched boys in a boom truck in the ice storm up and doing their job. So hates a strong. I mean, like.

[Martin]

Yeah, you don't want to worry about.

[Johnny D]

There were definitely.

[Willie Robertson]

And it stinks.

[Martin]

That's the. I was going to say there's one episode where we did the. The lawnmower races and it just took so long. I mean, it was two days of filming.

[Johnny D]

If I disliked any of them, it was every one where you saw us at night.

[Martin]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Johnny D]

Because those were the longest dad gum nights. Like, you're sitting there at two in the morning doing nothing, just waiting on them to get lights set up. You're like, my God, guys. For a bunch of people that go to bed not long after the sun goes down, they're generally up about sunrise. Working till 2 and 3 in the morning was like, ah.

[Martin]

Like, what about.

[Johnny D]

This is out.

[Martin]

What about when you and Martin. No, you and Godwin and Jase were in the boat and it sank.

[Johnny D]

That's fine. I mean, I was just. That was by you water and I mean, I was cut off by. And.

[Martin]

And you were standing on the motor.

[Johnny D]

Yeah, I just feel the motor boat. I like, just. Just stand up, guys. Like, it's not that big of a deal. But that one. I was. Look, the other one, the B one at night sucked bees. Yeah. Whenever we went and robbed the stupid beehive at night and then got stung by be. That sucked like that Was no fun.

[Willie Robertson]

The worst one for me now, Phil was laughing.

[Johnny D]

While Phil's just sitting there laughing. And they're not, because he's at the back of the boat, and they won't fly. But they crawled all over us and ate us up. I'm like, this. This ain't funny. This is like, I.

[Willie Robertson]

Sure it is.

[Johnny D]

From where you see it.

[Willie Robertson]

At least they put it out there.

[Phil Robertson]

It's from your perspective. You got to look at it.

[Willie Robertson]

The thing I did when we were at Willy's Duck Diner making the fried bologna sandwich, I was like. It was me and Willie, and he's talking about, what should we do? And I was like, add jalapenos. They're delicious. And I just started eating jalapenos to show them. And I was like, yeah, it's more tingly than hot. Just trying to prove how, you know, they weren't that bad. And I ate, like, 40 of them in a row.

[Martin]

Do it again.

[Willie Robertson]

And then tears start. And then I was like, now that

[Johnny D]

you've said that about eating. Yeah. Every family dinner. Misery.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh, no. Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

This is a strong term, though. You just sat there and got free food, man.

[Johnny D]

No, here's the.

[Willie Robertson]

You got paid to eat.

[Johnny D]

Here's the problem. Season one, Phil and Kay cooked every one of those family dinners, and they're

[Phil Robertson]

really good, and they're.

[Johnny D]

Everything that you want is good. And then you go to get it, and they're like, nope.

[Phil Robertson]

Yep, it's cold.

[Willie Robertson]

And they're just like, yeah, wait.

[Johnny D]

Nope.

[Phil Robertson]

Wait.

[Johnny D]

And then I do that again. Do it again then, like, all right, now y' all get up and walk out and leave your food on this plate. Don't eat. Just get up and walk out. We're gonna shoot that side.

[Willie Robertson]

You want to talk about torturing old Martin?

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Johnny D]

Oh, when they were doing now, as it progressed, they started catering those meals, and it wasn't that big of a deal, but the first season, man, that was all feeling cake. Cooking that. And I'm like, yeah, Swiss steak. Praise God. And then.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Johnny D]

And we'll just step outside for 40 minutes.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Johnny D]

And we can't eat cold. And then come back, and then we're gonna force you to eat.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Johnny D]

It's like, come on.

[Willie Robertson]

I just ate jalapenos until I cried, and they didn't use it. I was pissed.

[Johnny D]

Yeah. There was a lot of stuff that they made you do that's kind of dumb that they didn't use. But, I mean, I'd really have to go back and look. I mean, I hate they didn't run, but my pants busted on the date with Sigh. Like, that was funny, but nothing inconvenient about it, but I sat on that pallet boy, and then sucker split from my crotch to my ankle.

[Martin]

I was like, oh, I wish they. They. I wish they would have put in there. What happened when I jumped off? We were racing the outhouses. I jumped off, and y' all are all standing there and sigh started before I could say anything. Side started running me over, hollering stuff at me. I was like. I just stopped and turned around and walked off. I was like, I don't know what to do here.

[Johnny D]

Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of go. There was just. There were some things that were inconvenient, but nothing.

[Willie Robertson]

You had to eat cold food.

[Johnny D]

That sucks. When it's good food, it's like, oh, man. Well, yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

One of the funniest one to me was when we was in Shreveport at some restaurant, and we was trying to get the people that worked there to say some lines, and we fooled with them for, like, two hours, and they. Every time they saw the camera, they couldn't even talk.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Johnny D]

Yeah.

[Martin]

I bet there's nothing like having five cameras and boom mics all around you.

[Phil Robertson]

Because one one wouldn't be bad, Right? But when they do it, it'd be about seven cameras. Come on. I mean, when they. Did you see it? I mean, you talk about. You talking about a deer in the headlights.

[Martin]

So I want to know, how long did it take for y' all to get comfortable with the. All the cameras and the mics and all that stuff? I know you didn't like it at first, but me, hey, I got where

[Phil Robertson]

I didn't even notice as they was there.

[Johnny D]

Well, they all. Most of the crew. I mean, there was some turnover, but, like. Like, the main parts of it stayed the same, so they became really good friends, man.

[Martin]

So it was nothing. I mean, you got used to it really fast.

[Johnny D]

Yeah. I mean, I think the biggest deal, because we had done the Benelli show, and so you were used to having two or three, four cameras around. Wasn't that big of a deal. The biggest one on this one was all the extra people. Like, just. There were 30 people with us at any given moment.

[Phil Robertson]

I.

[Johnny D]

Because they have producers, directors, assistants. Like, I don't know. I was. Why these people can't, like, put their own battery in their camera. They got to have somebody back there to put a battery.

[Phil Robertson]

I don't know.

[Johnny D]

It was. I mean, it's just Hunter shaking his head. He's worked in production outside of this place. He knows, like, Hunter's probably at his level. Probably. Is the guy putting the batteries in the big cameras for those guys. Were you, like. Were you, like, key grip or something?

[Willie Robertson]

I haven't worked worked on bigger productions like that. I think the biggest I've done was

[Johnny D]

production assistant on the Blind, and that's about it. Yeah, I've worked on short films, but there's a lot of people there to do some very menial tasks. Yes.

[Phil Robertson]

Well, that's why it takes so long.

[Willie Robertson]

You can't help with any of them.

[Johnny D]

Yeah. The other people can't help and fill in. It was wild what area you're in.

[Willie Robertson]

That's where you have to stay.

[Johnny D]

Yeah. And it was so union.

[Phil Robertson]

That's like if somebody accidentally kicked a plug out. Electric plug shut her down. Nobody can touch it. Except for electrician on the. On the set.

[Johnny D]

That's crazy.

[Martin]

That's crazy. What about the. The color Run when y' all got hit in the face with all that?

[Johnny D]

Oh, that was fun.

[Martin]

The side didn't like it, though.

[Johnny D]

Oh, the one with Latrell and.

[Martin]

Yeah, well, you got hit in the face with all that color on the color Run.

[Johnny D]

Oh, yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

I had.

[Johnny D]

I had some weird color boogers for like a week after that deal. That was crazy. Well, all that dust goes straight up your nose because you're. You're jogging and they hit you with powdered color and you. Yeah, it's.

[Phil Robertson]

I mean, can't help but get it in your lungs.

[Johnny D]

Yeah, it was. It was a weird one, but I. Yeah, there's. There were some definite inconveniences, but nothing that I hated, I don't think. Like, the first time I went off at rope swing, a redneck water park, landed sideways water in my eardrum. Like, so the rest of the day I was just like. I'd move my head and all your. But there we were. We it out for the rest of the day. Then I was like, all right, I gotta get out of here, boys. Like, I got my ears killing me, but I wasn't gonna quit because of that. Like, let's do it

[Willie Robertson]

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[Martin]

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[Willie Robertson]

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[Martin]

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[Willie Robertson]

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[Martin]

Like, me reading ads.

[Willie Robertson]

It wasn't anybody's we'd ever heard.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh.

[Willie Robertson]

And, like, my voice just went wild for a sentence. And Willie looked at me and goes, is that.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. Are you. Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Are you doing that now? Like, is that your new voice or you just gonna act like yourself or

[Johnny D]

where we're at here?

[Willie Robertson]

And I was like, I don't know where that came from. And then after that, it was like, rock and roll.

[Martin]

Yeah. Because you were gonna have to do that from then on.

[Johnny D]

You don't with that.

[Willie Robertson]

The only times I ever really got nervous was, you know, whenever Phil or Jace would enter the room. And then I was nervous, and they live.

[Johnny D]

I'd be fine. Yeah, but that's with or without cameras.

[Willie Robertson]

Correct.

[Phil Robertson]

What about.

[Martin]

What about everybody telling mountain man to speed it up? And he's like, no. Well, how fast as I go?

[Willie Robertson]

That is a really good impression. Bravo to you, sir.

[Johnny D]

That's a good one.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, Hunter, what's the other one? Duck Dynasty related, Willie? Well, no.

[Martin]

No, it's not.

[Phil Robertson]

She punched me in the Liver.

[Johnny D]

Oh, I'm not feeling so good. I had a date last night. Girlfriend punched me in the liver.

[Martin]

I told you all about the blind date.

[Johnny D]

He went on that confession happened at church.

[Phil Robertson]

By the way, she sucker punched me.

[Willie Robertson]

Me. Right in the liver.

[Johnny D]

Right in the liver. I wonder what Pope Leo would say about that. And confessional.

[Willie Robertson]

I'm nervous about this guy's ready. We're ready.

[Johnny D]

Okay.

[Phil Robertson]

Hey, Duck call room. This is Josh.

[Johnny D]

Hi, Josh.

[Phil Robertson]

I have a question for Philip, for J, and for. Okay. Sigh.

[Johnny D]

Oh, good.

[Martin]

How was it when you gave your

[Phil Robertson]

daughters away in marriage where you guys are wrecked. Love what you guys do. Talk to y' all later. Bye.

[Willie Robertson]

Martin. Sit out.

[Martin]

Listen, Hunter was there when I did it, so. So I'll go first. When. When I gave my daughter away, what was my emotions? He wants to know. And so I was. I was a mess. I mean, I tried to hold it together, but, I mean, this is my little girl, you know, been with her her whole life. And I mean, so it was very difficult for me to walk her down. And I held it all together until I walked her down the aisle, and then I just cried like a baby all the way down. So, yeah, I mean, it's just. It's gonna be emotional, but it's a. It's a happy, happy time, happy emotion. So it was tough. And I'm still. It's still tough on me because I want to talk to her every day, but she's married, and so, you know, we do stay in touch, but I got to give her her space. Sigh. What about you? When you. When you gave your daughter away to marriage to Kyle, Was it hard on you?

[Johnny D]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Yeah. He's tearing up this right now.

[Phil Robertson]

I'm looking at him, you know, Phil. Phil always run his mouth, you know. And I said, hey, a daughter would not been very good in your family, evidently. No, no, I'm serious. Because he wouldn't have been able to handle. It really wasn't.

[Martin]

It was hard on you.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Do you remember?

[Phil Robertson]

Because I just. Well, people. You know, when people said, you know, asked me questions about the kids and I said, well, I. I said, you know, I said, my son and my daughter got married, and they both gave me four grandsons. And they said, only grandson? I said, yeah. And I said, God, gotta have had a hand in it. I said, because if I had a granddaughter, I suggest kids wouldn't get nothing.

[Willie Robertson]

Can I interest you in Lottie?

[Phil Robertson]

No, no, no, I'm serious. Cause, hey, hey. You know, like, people said, well, what. You know, when. When you know, I was in the military. I felt like I was away from home a lot. And then Christine would always say, yeah, I know, you never was around. Well, she'd break out photo albums. Well, what about this? Here you are as a six foot Easter bunny in a pink rabbit suit. But I felt like I wasn't there. Yeah, but if you have a. When a man marries and then has a daughter or a child, she's gonna manipulate dad.

[Johnny D]

Okay, Johnny D. It's just. Johnny D. It's just life.

[Phil Robertson]

Okay?

[Willie Robertson]

She's seven and she's already caught on to that.

[Phil Robertson]

Well, no, no. Oh, no. The thing. And you know, and I don't know what it. I don't know what it is. They catch on real quick.

[Willie Robertson]

My daughter sandbagged for three quarters of a soccer game the other day until I said, hey, if you actually try hard, we'll go get an icy after this. And she got a hat trick in two minutes. Just start like that. Yeah, but the girls. I don't understand women. And girls are even worse.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, that's because they're all insane.

[Martin]

I would get on to my boys and say, clean your rooms. Clean your rooms. And they would. And then. And I'd say, amber, clean your room. And she was like, daddy, can you do it for me? I'd close the door and say, yeah, I'll do it. Don't tell your brothers.

[Phil Robertson]

Don't tell your mom.

[Martin]

Don't tell your brothers.

[Phil Robertson]

Are your brothers.

[Martin]

It was during when she was getting married. Was it a time because y' all were close? I mean, when I. Oh, no, no.

[Phil Robertson]

Cause that's why I told cj. Okay. When I got him alone, when we was taking pictures.

[Willie Robertson]

Ooh.

[Phil Robertson]

And I. No, no, I'm serious. And I was standing there and I said, hey. He said, what? I said, you better treat that queen right. I said, she's a queen. And I said, you better treat her like that. You know that girls grew up with me. Okay? So, hey, she's kind of like my daughter, too. I said, you better treat her like she's, you know, is a queen.

[Johnny D]

Oh, you talking about here?

[Martin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was talking to dj. He said, dj?

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Martin]

He said, hey, son. He said, I love you. He said, but you better treat her right about yours.

[Johnny D]

And I said, man, Kyle with a season. Interesting.

[Willie Robertson]

I was a little confused, too, to be fair. I didn't know you were giving just

[Phil Robertson]

this threat to everybody. That's the thing that entered the father's mind more than anything else.

[Johnny D]

Take care of your little girl.

[Phil Robertson]

Is hey, yeah.

[Johnny D]

Yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

You better take care of her. And when I. When I say take care of her, you better not make her cry. Yeah, there you go. And to treat her like the woman she is. No.

[Martin]

So you're. You got a great son in law, and I do, too. I love dj. He's fantastic. He's doing wonderful.

[Willie Robertson]

So I ain't got no son in law, but if you're out there, I'll kill you.

[Johnny D]

But he's taking apple.

[Phil Robertson]

No, no. Because everybody that dated my daughter. Look, everybody that dated my daughter, that they come to pick her up, all that drop her off, and when they come pick her up, I said. I said, I'm going to tell you what you're going to feel. Feel. And the boy would look, say, what am I. What am I going to feel? I said, yeah. I said, you're going to feel the crosshairs on you.

[Willie Robertson]

That's aggressive.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh, and hey, and this kid sitting there, and he's looking at a bunch of skull mouths I've got of deer. I said, you. You treat her wrong.

[Johnny D]

I said, you go, Johnny D. Your

[Phil Robertson]

head will be up there.

[Martin]

Steal some from Willie.

[Phil Robertson]

You get so mad when I do it.

[Willie Robertson]

I've got a plan, but I'm waiting for it right now. There's just some kid that. Lottie came home the other day and said, john David said something funny. And I was like, I know, I'm hilarious. And she's like, no, the one in my class that said, you tell that kid to watch it. Yeah, it's my name, not his.

[Johnny D]

You're gonna waterboard him in the shower?

[Willie Robertson]

He ain't that funny.

[Martin]

Hunter's gonna be there helping.

[Willie Robertson]

I think he's a good kid. I'm just messing.

[Johnny D]

Hold him in the water tank. Get the sound.

[Martin]

Ah.

[Johnny D]

Get out.

[Willie Robertson]

I don't. I've never even met this kid's parents. I don't know if this joke's.

[Phil Robertson]

You better get you a deep breath.

[Johnny D]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

She said he did something funny.

[Johnny D]

I was like, better mean this one.

[Phil Robertson]

That's right. You better hold us with long

[Willie Robertson]

necks.

[Johnny D]

That old. That old reverse baptism. Yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Johnny D]

We going face first, son.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, yeah. Girls are scary. Good luck to all the girl dads

[Martin]

out there, but you can do it. You can do it.

[Johnny D]

Good luck.

[Martin]

It'll be tough.

[Willie Robertson]

Good luck to y'.

[Johnny D]

All.

[Phil Robertson]

He says, luck to y'. All.

[Willie Robertson]

It requires luck. But you know what doesn't require luck?

[Johnny D]

Scripture.

[Willie Robertson]

The Lord.

[Phil Robertson]

That's right.

[Martin]

That's right.

[Johnny D]

It's in the beginning.

[Willie Robertson]

No, I'm not actually going with Genesis 1 today I'm gonna go with Psalm 127:3 because we talked about kids a lot and you're pointing that gun at me.

[Johnny D]

It's all safety.

[Martin]

No, it ain't.

[Willie Robertson]

Ladies and gentlemen, if you do listen, we appreciate it if you would like to understand some of the things that are happening and head on over to YouTube.com duck call room like and subscribe and you will see that for the past 10 minutes assault gun has been pointed at very different directions.

[Phil Robertson]

It's own safety anyway.

[Willie Robertson]

Psalm 127:3 children are a heritage from the Lord offspring, a reward for from him.

[Johnny D]

Oh, I ain't even shot you.

[Willie Robertson]

I just acted like a kid.

[Johnny D]

You tally whacker.

[Willie Robertson]

That's what your kids. Them Martin boys were in the honey hole the other day and Martin said, hey, quit grabbing your tallywag. Or something like that. And it was Jackson. Jackson said. He said tally whacker the boy. And he kept saying it.

[Johnny D]

The boy is whatever he is not quite for and is completely apparently obsessed with that thing.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, it happens. Yeah, they get off of it eventually.

[Johnny D]

But we'll see y' all next time right here in the duck call room. Until next time. Keep it Tallywacker put up. Yeah,