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Foreign. Would you like some good news?
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Good news? Yeah, it's Masters week.
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No, the good news is the duck call room is back. But we're back with our good friend John Godwin, who has went viral.
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Johnny.
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Huh?
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God.
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Have you been on Facebook, sir?
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No, somebody runs my Facebook. But hey. Well, I haven't.
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Since you're not on it, I got to get this full.
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What is John gone viral doing?
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Hold on.
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Oh, you need to kid.
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I like the way y' all done yalls hair this morning. Y' all want some coffee?
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That's so good.
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I like the way y' all done yalls hair this morning.
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So good.
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Y' all want some coffee?
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I love it.
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Look at them.
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So good.
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I love it.
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Oh, God. When that was the highlight of my weekend right there, I.
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We kept them all night.
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Oh, man, that's so good.
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They're looking healthy.
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Before. Before I even turned the volume on, I just started dying out laughing whatever I got on. When I got on Facebook, and it was right there, I was pretty early in the game, too, to seeing it because I didn't listen. So I put y' all obviously have the same hairdresser or something like that.
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Yeah, you put y' all got the same haircut. Lots of laughs in the comments section.
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But then I turned it on and I was like, well, that's what he said, you idiot. But I just watched the visual of it because I don't ever have sound on on my phone. I. The visual was. Man, that was good. Govern that. I guarantee you post that Saturday morning. And then when I was.
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Saturday morning.
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Yeah, Yeah, I think Saturday morning. Yeah.
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So how is Grandpa and Grandma? Especially Grandpa.
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We kept them. Well, Johanna was off. Well, she. She came over at 10:30 Friday, Good Friday. And Paula was wanting to do a bunch of chores. She wouldn't expect her because we gonna keep them that night. She left at 10:30 that night. Paula's like, are you gonna go? Y' all might as well just spend the night. It was the first time she ever been away from them. She just couldn't leave them. And then. And then she finally left and they come back, but they come back late in the day Saturday. So they done good, but we had a good time. I'm here sleeping all night.
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That process right there gets easier. You look up and say, you sure you don't want to get mail at Grandma's?
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Mom and dad needs a break.
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Two of them. Two of them, yeah.
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Mom and dad needs break every once in a while.
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One day, Cecilio kept one, and she Kept one and she come over to the house and they was, you know, and she was like, man, one is so easy. Who is? Yeah, yeah, load them in the car.
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That's why I said, mom and dad needs a break with two of them
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change, two diapers et baby.
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Yeah, well, yeah, you load up half the house. Yeah, that's what I always said. Now it's a breeze because you don't have to Me, you take like, now I get to take like a change of clothes.
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Well, when you look, wait till they can buckle them.
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They do you.
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You ask yourself, how do we get through that?
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If they could reach the door handle, they could get in and buckle themselves in now. So it's like. I mean, I sit there and watch them and make sure they do it right. Oh, yeah, Britney's. She's headstrong about getting them into big kid beds. And I'm like, you sure you don't want to leave them in them little prison cells a little bit longer, right? I ain't got out them cribs.
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Don't rush that. Don't rush that. Get them out of the.
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Oh, it's coming.
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Oh, it's coming.
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They'll just wake up and they'll be looking at you.
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No, no, I'm turning that lock the other way.
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What?
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To their bedroom door.
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You gonna lock them in their room, huh?
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Absolutely. Why not? Why wouldn't you?
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Never thought of it.
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Yeah, I'm gonna turn that knob around and that lot gonna be facing the hall.
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Yeah, there you go.
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And then they gonna.
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They go, you're getting ripped in the comment section.
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That's fine. We got. We got cameras in there and they got the hatch. So when there's green light, I will have been there to unlock the door. Then you can come out. But other than that, you stay in
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there, staying in the room.
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Boys gonna get some toothpicks and learn how to poke it in that hole.
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The good news is they've got each other. So, like, one of their favorite times of day is when they both wake up and you turn a night light on. On the camera and they sit there and talk about the nights that they had. Even though it's right beside each other, they.
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They discuss their.
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Yeah, I think they talk about their dreams. Like, I think they're getting to the point now where they. Not their dreams for life. Their dreams from the night before.
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Well, here's you another good email from. I like this name.
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Okay?
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Ailey. It's like Kaylee without the K. I like that. That's a good Name, Ailey. From upstate New York. Parentheses, not the city, exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point.
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No, no, I know why he does that. I'm assuming Aliens City sucks. Upper state New York don't.
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Yeah, Thousand island region.
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Hey, you talking about wildlife? You go upstate New York, you'll see a black panther. Not there's a bunch of wildlife up.
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Me and this feller drove from Watkins Glen to New York City. Yep.
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New York City.
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Yeah. I was as hotter when I got into that. You know that bridge you see in the move? Double decker bridge you always see in the movies.
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He was on the wrong level.
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I ain't getting on that. I will get in a blue angel before I get on a double decker bridge going into New York City.
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Oh, she has a question.
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Good.
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I think it's funny.
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All right.
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Well, especially because I think the four of us can answer it phenomenally. She just wanted to know what convinced us all to join Duck Dynasty, which I would say would be Duck Commander in Yalls. Three cases. I came after the show. Was it the money?
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No.
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No.
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I would probably raise your hand if you held your paycheck here. Raise your hand if you had to hold your paycheck.
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I never held mine, but I.
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It wasn't the money I started. It was never the money.
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I started at $9 an hour and had to go back because they accidentally did $8 an hour. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. I negotiated nine, please.
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Here's how I got aboard with Duck Commander and end the show. My brother called me. I was in a miserable job in Alabama.
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Greenskeeper.
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I was doing repair work on houses, carpenter work. Okay. And then I had a guy, he owned the company, my next door neighbor did, and I worked for him. He was the most negative person I've ever run into in my life, and he was driving me insane. So Phil called you one Saturday and said, hey, look, you need to come work for me. He said, it ain't no money involved in it, the pay. So I said, well, I knew. I know that. I've been over there.
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So the peso.
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I've seen where you live, brother.
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He said, hey, there ain't no money involved in it. He said, but here's the thing. He said, the benefits outweigh all that. He said, because, hey, you have to spend 60 days of your life, okay, each year in a duck plant. It is a must. That's part of it. He said, then the food will be excellent. Okay. Whatever we have available that we're cooking and eating it will be good.
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He said, so look and confirm the
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fringe benefits outweigh the no money part.
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Godwin, why'd you come aboard?
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I just once I became a Christian and was going to church with them. I got me and I got pretty close and I'll invited me duck hunting and I got to go duck hunting a bunch. And I would go down there on my days. I just kind of, I don't know. We was gone one time to me and sigh was hunting down here and they were hunting and Texas on the pond.
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Stop.
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I told us, get up there. They could finish.
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They called K. They called K. K called God and said, hey, whatever you're doing, drop it. Get out of the blind. Y' all going to Texas. So we went, okay, we're going to detect it.
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I was on my five days off at Riverwood and he says, you bout ready to quit that plan, ain't you? I said, well, heck, on the inside I do in somersaults. But on the outside I was, you know, new house, new daughter, had a bunch I knew they couldn't pay, said, get moved Ms. K and see what you figure out. So we did. And it took about, I don't know, two week. We prayed about it, prayed about it, prayed about it. I never got the inclination not to do it, even though it was a cut and pay.
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There you go.
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And so I called Riverwood and told him that I was wanting to retire. I said, you ain't been here long enough. I said, okay, I quit.
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Whatever this terminology needs to be.
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So you quit at the plant and then ended up down on the river?
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They said I couldn't. I took my two weeks vacation and I had four weeks vacation. So I told them give me two weeks pay vacation pay and take two weeks as my two week notice.
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Oh, here was the best part of all this. We'd get a big order of duck calls, okay. And half the people at the church would come help us fill them.
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Free labor was a thing around here.
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Yeah, they'd come show up and hey, they'd all get a good steak. Good steak dinner.
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Oh man, we fed them Johnny's pizza. Hot, man.
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Don't sleep on those denim ones, man.
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The denim ones are nice.
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I wear them working every day.
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Oh, they're fantastic.
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Yes, kind of. Well, I've. I volunteered to help for free.
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He. He's multitasking.
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Because I was in school. I was in graduate school writing my thesis and I needed like some time away from my research like, because that crap will just scramble your brain. So I asked for some mind numbing labor for free.
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And here we are. And you walked into this room.
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No, I didn't even walk into this room. No, I was in the sales department. No, and when I say in the sales department. I was the sales department.
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He was.
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It was me. It was me. I was.
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You were just cold calling people Walmart.
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Not people. Walmart. Individual Walmarts.
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And he. Willie's personal babysitter for a little while.
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Yeah, I was. I was. I got tabbed. I think I may have been the second in line as assistant, like, because I think it was Bo Dantley first, which is a wild story, like way back when. I think that's. And then he. He tabbed me with it. And then I was like, well, what? I mean, like I. You need to book a fly. He's like, no, I already booked it. I was like, well, it don't sound like you need an assistant, bro. Like, I already booked it and I don't. Yeah. He's like, no, I've already done Everything. I got your. I'm like, well, what am I supposed to do to get back to calling Walmart? And then I ended up with an email. And he said, well, if you got email, you got a choice to make. Are you going back to school? Are you going to work here? And I was like, well, I kind of, like, got one, went thought, prayed all the stuff, and signed on for $20,500 a year salary.
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There you go.
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Me and Willie were making that. You know how he sold me on it? He said, you're gonna make the same thing I make. I'm Duck Commander.
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Pretty good. Hey.
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From Duck Commander, mind you. He didn't talk about what he made from Buck Commander or DC Products for
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owning the building, but he had me.
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He said, you're gonna make the same thing.
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That's a pretty good sales fish.
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Well, if we making the same money, let's roll, baby. $20,500 is what I signed on here for.
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Willie called me at my old job. I was selling North Face jackets to rich women in Monroe and while I was in college and said, hey, I need you to come over at Duck Commander and talk to him. And I was like, what the heck? Walked in there. And he was like, here's the deal. We got this store. Nobody here knows how to do retail or anything. We're just shoving people in, checking them out, shoving them out.
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Pretty much it.
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And I was like, well, okay. I said, but I like my current job, so I'm gonna need a raise at $9. He said, how much do you make right now? I said, $8 an hour.
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Did you. Did you actually make eight?
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Oh, yeah.
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Okay.
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I wouldn't lie.
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I would.
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And then I said, I. I mean, I guess I'll take this job for nine. And so, you know, at that time, that's like, I was working, like 20 hours a week. So it was over 20 bucks. And I was, like, firm on it. Then I got here and saw these people showing up. I was like, why did I not ask for 10?
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Yeah, yeah, that's.
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I just started just at that point.
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We were still. When you got here, we were still like caged animals in this room. Because Linda would just walk people back here while we were building duck calls.
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Oh, yeah.
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It was just like. I mean, we're sitting here building duck calls. We look over our shoulder, there's a family of 10. We're like, guys, I showed up. We're just right back to building that gum. Duck calls.
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The end of season one. And then it went berserk.
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Well, I ended up in a duck call room because I was so good at sales, because I sold 6,000 duck calls we didn't have. And then I ended up down there. I was like, look, I can help put them together. And that's when Jace was like, would you even blow a duck call? It's like, I mean, I think I'm pretty good at it. I'm not sure, but I've killed a bunch of them.
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I've done my shell.
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He threw me one. He said, well, blow that. And I blew it. And he was like, yep, sit down. You're not going back up there. You're in here from now on. I was like, well, you're going to take that up with your brother, so. Yeah.
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You gonna talk. So.
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Oh. Then I was about to graduate, and I was gonna go work in a bank or something.
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Yeah.
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And I looked a fool, and Willie called me back there and was like, here's the deal. Here's what you're gonna do. And I was like, might as well.
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Yeah.
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See what happens.
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Yeah. I'm young. It's fun. Let's go.
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But the best quote of all time was from a professor. When I was, like, two months until graduating, I was already working full time for Willie. He said, john David, I need to talk to you. And I said, what's that? He said, if you don't shave your face and start dressing better, you are never going to get a job
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better. Did he know that was part of the.
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Part of the gig?
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Yeah.
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I literally. I started laughing. He looked at me funny. I said, have you heard of Duck Dynasty? And he goes, I said, I'm working there already. We're good.
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Yeah, we're good. This is. This is. This is the wardrobe. What were. But she said, was it for the money? What were the other things? What else?
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To share the gospel.
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So.
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So that kind of. That Godwin alluded to that.
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Yeah.
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And then. Oh, shoot. I lost it. Ailey, I'm sorry.
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Yeah.
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Where did it go? Well, you're the only person in here named Ailey. I bet you if I just typed. Yep, there you go. Or something else. So those are kind of how we all got here.
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Yeah.
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Then we just held on for the ride.
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Yeah. What are you talking about? I was getting paid $20,000 a year to go hunt ducks. I was living the redneck dreams. That's what we all aspired to be.
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We all showed up for the fringe benefits.
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Yeah.
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Perfect. At the Ender.
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Yeah. I was making more from Ulm as a graduate assistant than I signed on to make here. And they don't pay graduate assistants anything, mind you, like, I mean, next to nothing, but they do. They paid you more than $20,500 a year. Here we are. And here we are. And here we are. So there it is. That's a wrap.
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That's how we all got to this room eventually.
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Almighty.
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Yeah. Yeah. The good Lord, man. He's the one that drove all this. It didn't have nothing to do with us. The only thing we had to do was be obedient.
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So I had a terrifying dream the other night. Oh, it was so scary.
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Really.
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I woke up in a hot sweat and couldn't go back to sleep.
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Really.
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I was dropping the kids off from school. Motorcycle crash behind us. That was freaky. I was like, why would that happen? Pull into the school and kids get out of the car. Giant black panther, I'm not joking. Comes running into the school building. Wow. And that's when I woke up. Right then, right on, right on cue. And I said, oh, no.
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Y' all watch a Jungle Book.
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I don't, I don't know what I watched, but I did not like it. I mean, I was terrified when I woke up. I, I, I really thought there was a black panther on the loose in the children's school. I should stop hanging out with you, sir.
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There you go.
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I ain't shot at one over top of her house.
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Over black band.
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Yeah. When she was pregnant, you heard noise and went outside with 30, 30 in her hand. Hey, John Wayne.
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John Wayne.
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When she walked out there, all she heard was she pow.
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And there was a black panther on
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a roof of the house.
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There's so many layers to that story that I feel like we just glanced over. My aunt walked outside, shot over up in the air while she was, he
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was running along with limb. She missed him.
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The only thing she was missing was the Sagaret.
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He probably had one.
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That black panther in my dream was.
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Or a dip of snuff on.
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Well, I, you know, as a child, I heard one that sounded like a woman being tortured. And then also then I said, and she's got a baby. With her was a baby cry. They cried just like a baby.
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Had it been a man.
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They sound like a woman being tortured. Huh.
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I'll be so much to unpack there.
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I'm serious.
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How do they always sound like a woman screaming?
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Yeah.
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No, they all had the best line about that.
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Well, no, no elf's got the best line about that. He said, well, every time I've come up, I went and Investigated it. It was a woman screaming.
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Yeah,
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Screaming. I remember when he done that. Everybody in the Duck Lodge just died. Later, he says every time I was investigated, it was a woman talked. Being tortured.
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Yeah, in fact, it was one. Oh, my goodness gracious.
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That is.
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Anyways, yeah, my dreams are always. I'm either I just jumped off a mountain. I wake up, I'm just out of breath because I've been running and doing all this difficulty.
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But you can't run. You pretty much gotta practice without running, my friend. It's like running in molasses when you're trying to run. In the dream, I was running fast,
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but I was scared I was gonna catch it.
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Hey, I probably run 10 miles while I'm dreaming.
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That's more than the last time I
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get out of bed.
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Yeah, that's right.
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No, Martin's got things to say.
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No, I. I just am a little bit jealous because I don't really dream.
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I don't like.
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Or at least I don't remember. I mean, I'm not saying I don't. I don't remember them.
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I don't remember last time. A lot of them.
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A lot of nights I wake up. I mean, mornings I wake up, I know I've drained, but I just don't remember what they are.
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But you got to be in REM sleep, right, for dreaming?
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He's checking his.
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Yeah, I am.
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Martin.
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Well, it says I had an hour and seven minutes of that, so somewhere in there, shouldn't I have had a dream?
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Maybe you're just not a dream.
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Dreaming right at the very end. Well, you might not dream.
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Oh, is that why I always wake up scared? Yeah.
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That's the only reason you. The only ones you remember is at the very end of your sleep, not in the beginning.
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Josh is full of such.
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Oh, that's. That's like the best one. K and peel.
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Interesting.
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He's got K. He's got K and.
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I don't like dreams. I don't even. I've never had a good one, though. I've never woke up and said, that was fun. I almost texted you at 2:30, Martin, because I didn't want to forget it
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about a Black Panther journey.
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That was a good one there, though.
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No, it wasn't. My children.
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I would have responded to you sometime between 6 and 6:30am I wouldn't have. I wouldn't have been there to hold your hand at 2:30. I'm sorry.
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I was messed up.
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You got the wrong feller on that one.
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I just didn't want to Forget it. Because that's the worst. Whenever you wake up and you're like, man, that was a wild dream. And then you're like, but what was it?
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There were dagum termites everywhere.
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Oh, I saw them.
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You don't see them again.
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I was dreaming one night about something and then my dog started barking at a deer. I could see the deer. My dog was barking. And I woke up and my dog was really barking.
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See, it's weird, but in my dream.
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But how's that? But he wasn't barking at a deer. He was in the house. But he woke me up barking. But he was in my dream, he was barking at a deer out in the front yard eating him acorns under that tree.
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I was like me. I was like me in school. I was daydreaming and I was slipping up on a big buck deer with a bow and arrow and Mr. Kimmins was calling my name and I went, shh. I'm slipping up on a deer.
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Oh, boy. That probably didn't go over very well for you. Tell the teacher to sigh in school.
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Well, no, no, no. What woke me Up. Alex brought me out. There was all the kids busting out,
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laughing, talking in your sleep.
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He was 100.
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I was out. I was out. I was a la la land.
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Oh, man.
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So in my recent happenings, I've now become a NASA fanboy. And I just read about NASA all
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the time, a lot. So I took the time to read the comments of our good personal friend, Butch Close. The Navy. The Navy pilot turned astronaut. We got a lot of people in there that don't like space or believe in it.
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They just think it's not there.
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They just. Yeah, it's just.
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You know what weird I was once one of Ghost.
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It's a weird.
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I've been converted.
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He's converted.
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Boys, we landed on the moon.
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Mark.
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He said it. Look, hey, I told you I believe that because it was a fabric of my childhood. And tonight I was going to be really mad about all them hours I spent memorizing that stuff for history class.
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So, anyway, so here's my new favorite part. I found out why I'm such a big fan of astronauts. Have you seen the. The pilots or anybody? The astronauts now? Have you seen them? No, they keep showing them. Well, there's a pilot named Victor Glover.
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Victor.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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And apparently, because now that we know an astronaut, they're all that smart.
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Oh, well, I mean, I think you'd want the smartest people in the world.
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Yeah, you would hope so, but. So they're talking back and forth some, and they're interviewing them while they're on the way to the moon. And they were like, hey, you're about to spend Easter up there. What's that like? And I can't play the clip because NASA probably owns it. And I don't want to get in trouble, but I want to read this to you.
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Read the transcript.
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I'm gonna read his quote, okay, from space. And I think you're going to be fired up about it. He said, I don't have anything prepared. I don't. This feels prepared, sir.
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This is off the cuff.
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This is off the cuff.
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Yeah.
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But I'm glad you brought it up, though. I think these observances are important. He's talking about going and taking all the pictures as we are so far from Earth and looking at the beauty of creation.
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Boom.
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Thank you. I think for me, one of the really important personal perspectives that I have up here is that I can really see the Earth. As one thing, when I read the Bible, I love this guy. And I look at all the amazing things that were done for us. You guys Are talking to us because we're in a spaceship really far from Earth. But you're on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe and the cosmos.
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I said, victor.
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Just dropping bars.
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Go ahead on Victor. That would be kind of a humbling place to spend Easter.
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Yeah.
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Oh, no.
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And he kept going. He's like, hey, y' all think we're doing something special, but I'm just trying to tell you, you are special. And all the emptiness, it's a whole bunch of nothing. And he's there, this thing we call the universe. You have the oasis and the beautiful place that we get to exist together. Yeah, he just ripped that off.
D
See, people don't look at that. Like, they said they didn't believe in space. Wait a minute, you dummy. How can you look up at the sun, the moon, the stars, and not believe in space?
B
They've been watching too much of that show, paradise on Hulu.
D
That's you talking about stupid paradise.
A
Oh, goodness.
D
See, that's what got me. When Butch was here talking about all this. That man has had a unique experience of, actually, we look up at the stars. That man was up amongst the stars, looking down through them, saw the whole Earth. And looking at, like he said, for 260 days. He's looking at God, Creation. A little bitty ball that we call Earth that was made for us to inhabit, that has everything we need on it. Water, food, all, you know. And that just happened?
C
Yep.
B
At the perfect distance.
D
Yeah. Yeah. At the perfect distance from everything. Because if we're one degree nearer to the sun, we burn up. Burn up. One degree back, freeze over. But, you know, because most people. There's been a lot of people saying, hey, I'm fixing to prove once and for all there ain't no God. Well, guess what happened when they went on that little journey.
B
My favorite part about that whole argument, it takes way more faith to believe that.
D
Oh, no.
B
Than in a man named Jesus.
A
Yeah, but that's what was so cool to me.
C
I don't believe I'm eating my ancestors.
D
No, you talking about believing. You know, that's like believing in the Twilight Zone.
A
Twilight.
B
My cousin Crappy.
C
My cousin Crappie.
B
If I'd have given him enough time, he'd have.
D
Oh, I forgot to tell you. That's my cousin down that monkey. Yeah, I'm Buddy.
B
He's talking about. Oh, evolution.
A
Evolution.
D
There we go.
A
No, but I just thought it was super cool that. That the guy with the microphone and the whole world's Watching him as he's headed towards the moon, looks back and says, yeah, that was created, gang. Yeah, we ain't here by chance.
B
Yeah.
A
And he used the word cosmos, so I knew it would fire you up.
B
Creator of the cosmos.
A
Oh, it was so cool, though.
D
Oh, that's because I say it all the time. I said, look, we only see a snippet Creation. Because Bush said it. He said, hey, when we're up there, we're looking through telescopes, and I guess what we've looked and there's another thousand galaxies we just saw. Well, hey, guess what? God's creation is still going.
A
It's wild to think about. And they were just. They all. All they went to was the moon. It keeps going on.
D
You're going to tell me that you. You are here on this ball we call Earth at night when you look up and watch the stars and the moon and then you don't believe in space. Well, what do you. What do you think you're looking at?
B
Hey, do you think they played Pink Floyd when they went around it?
C
Oh, yeah.
A
We don't know. For 40 minutes I was on the edge of my seat.
D
Hey, no, no. Hey, they played music.
B
Yeah.
D
Trust me, every time we do anything, we got the jam going, buddy.
B
No, I was just, you know, we
D
go to war, we're going to play some music.
B
Well, I'm. Say it. When you go around to the dark side of the moon, they were there, it seems.
C
Wish you were there. Wish you were here.
B
They could have played the whole Wall album.
C
Yeah, that's right.
D
Well, that would be a fitting song to play as you go on the backside of the moon.
B
Yeah.
D
Wish he was here.
B
Yeah.
A
Oh, it was cool, though. I mean, I was glued to the TV all day yesterday.
B
They're headed back.
A
They're on their way back home. They're probably taking a nap now.
D
But I love the guy looking at Creation.
A
Yeah.
D
And talking about now when I read
A
the Bible, he's looking at the whole thing.
D
I see. And I'm seeing the big picture.
C
Do you see that? And that over the North Pole, I'm. Green light, the northern light. Yeah, you can see it. It's pretty cool.
A
It's really cool.
B
Yeah.
A
But the thing that finally got me, because, you know, the moon landing is just a hot topic, but there was an old astronaut that went to the moon for sure now, I'm positive. And he actually, because it's all such simple points everybody tries to make, and then you can't really argue them. That's how you argue something he said, you really think Russia, China, and everybody that doesn't like us wouldn't have proven we didn't go by now? And I was like, that is.
B
That's one I never. But you had.
A
And I never thought about it.
B
You had the simple one that always. That actually brought it into question for me, me is why we've been back.
A
Well, now we are.
B
Yeah.
A
And so.
B
But I mean, they could have landed if they wanted to.
A
And then that astronaut said, if you don't think we landed on the moon, you're being willfully ignorant. And I was like, oh, man,
C
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B
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A
It's wild.
D
Go to that. And now I'm gonna go to the pilot that was shot down. He was wounded. Okay, okay. And still climbed.
B
Oh, 7,000ft.
D
7,000ft.
C
Ain't much air on the, on the.
A
On the ground. I hadn't.
B
He got. I don't know.
A
I've been real locked in on.
B
I don't know if he was. I don't know if he was at zero, but he got to 7,000ft altitude. He got to a 7,000 wherever he was.
A
And they got him back.
B
Activated his beacon.
D
Yeah.
A
And they went and got him, Right?
B
Yeah. So I don't. Look, I don't know if he had to traverse all 7,000ft, but point May, he got over a mile.
D
Look, they just had a little. Little help of. Of going over and getting him. Getting him back. There was 155 aircraft involved in it.
B
Yeah. Looking for him.
A
And we got him.
B
We got him.
D
And one of them, guess what? One of them was more than 1. The A10 warthog and that bad boy. I'm telling you, I seen one coming in landing Nam. That was literally. It looked like Swiss cheese.
B
Oh, can see through it. The bullet holes.
D
Hey. Everywhere. It wasn't a spot on it. It wasn't a big hole, but they had. That's one of the things they said is what's so amazing about it is that, hey, you shoot that baby to pieces and it'll still do its job and still come home.
A
That's wild.
B
Well, then I want to get in him.
A
I've seen behind enemies.
D
Here's another thing.
A
Remember that movie with Owen Wilson? That's a good.
D
Hey. I'm standing on Salt Lake City.
B
What?
D
In California, out in the desert. I'm in the desert in California. Look, no sound. It's a bunch of guys about a company, you know, 300 people. We stand out waiting to whatever we're going to do. And that we see is a shadow over about 30 of us. And we look up and there's a 10 warthog, oh, maybe 50ft above us. Hey. We never heard anything. And until the shadow caught us, we didn't see anything. Hey, by the time if we was enemy, we'd all been dead. Cause that bad boy don't make no noise.
C
Fishing's dangerous.
B
It's dangerous.
D
It's fun, but it is dangerous. It is.
C
Look at that.
B
Your hands kindly looking like leather now, governor. Good, great. I gotta look about them.
D
That's the one in bass shake. And then the hook gets in your hand.
A
Oh, no, no, no.
C
Why would anyone want that to hand goblin?
B
Ain't called a bass in a hot minute.
C
I caught one yesterday.
D
He got one yesterday.
C
My people did. That was fishing with me.
D
His people.
B
Largemouth. Yeah, there you go.
C
I said, you want a key pass? They said, yeah. I said, good night. I said, if I throw this on the bank, the coons wouldn't even eat it. They walk around, leave it alone. I said, there you go.
A
God, when ain't eating no bass, y'.
B
All.
C
Not when I got crappie.
D
Oh, no. How I'm like him. I'd ate them bass in the Lake. Back in the lake.
C
Spotted bass ain't bad. Amen.
D
They ain't got no flavor. I like dang flavor like. Like the crappie.
C
I'd eat them for a big old brim.
A
Big old.
D
Big old bluegill or big old chinky pen.
C
Chicken pen, as Paula says.
D
Yeah, chicken.
C
Calls them chicken pen.
A
We always go back to food.
B
I love it.
A
No matter what we do, it goes back to, how are we going to eat.
C
Hey, we're in the side.
D
Hey. Most of the Robertson memories are made around a table.
B
I forgot.
D
Or around a campfire where something can be cooked.
A
Yeah, you cook a lot of stuff just on open fire.
D
Oh, no. Yeah. Oh, I've been doing it since I was a child.
A
When was the last time?
D
Because everything I killed with my BB gun, it got it.
B
I tricked that.
D
I stuck a. Stuck a limb in it and roasted it on the fire.
B
That's the only way I knew a brown thrasher had white meat.
D
Oh, yeah. Hey. Oh, that was a celebration when I killed a brown thresher.
B
I told me then I had to.
D
Hey. Brown thrasher.
B
His wife had to trust but verify.
D
That's the quail. Species of.
C
That's that first bird you hear in the morning.
B
Yeah, yeah. He sounds.
D
And the last one, I was chasing one. Here's dip. It's a evergreen in my neighbor's yard. Big old thing. And I'm under it, chasing a brown thresher. They don't try to kill him.
B
They don't sit still long.
D
No, they're always on the move. Well, guess what? There was a covey of 30 quail in that little tree, too, that I didn't know about. That scared the living. You don't want out of me because when I stepped on the wrong place.
B
Why does it have to be living?
D
Hey, all 30 of them left. So I watched where they went. And then I went home and told Daddy, hey, I know whore covey and quail are. Well, he grabbed the 16 gauge and a box of shells and said, let's go get them. Yeah. So, hey, we went up there and hey. Took the Miami. Our gray dog. The Wimble Rammer. The what woman are we tomorrow. There's two ways to pronounce it and I'm pronouncing it wrong.
C
Depending on what size of bed you
A
get up at morning, there's two ways to pronounce it. We haven't found it yet, but hey,
D
she would warn them. They'd get up. Daddy would kill them. Well, hey, one of them. You know, we kept going to the church, the Presbyterian church that had a fence around it. Link fence around it. Well, every time we'd get on this side with the dog, they'd go through the fence and we'd have to go all the way back around, you know, to get back on them again, whether they'd do the same thing back and forth. So they finally done that, and I said, hey, I said, what are you going to do? What are we going to do? He said, I'm going to tell you what we're going to do. We going to stay here. He said, I'm going to stay right here. He said, you take off, run around right quick and, you know, get them up, go past them and then come. Just be shaking the fence. Come, you know. So I did it. Well, they jumped up and look across the highway, and there was some boxcarts on the siding at the house. Yeah, well, hey, a couple of them got up and they was going in between the cars, and daddy had to check both directions, make sure one of them cars coming and then boom, boom. And kill them as they wouldn't be in between the boxcars. He put on a shooting demonstration like I ain't seen lately.
C
There you go.
D
Because everything he raised up that 16 gauge on.
B
That's where you got it from, huh?
C
Yeah.
D
Them suckers falling.
B
That's where he got it from.
A
Just destroyed.
B
Professional shotgunner, boys.
C
Professional shotgunner.
B
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A
I have a troubling email.
D
Oh, shoveling email. What you got?
C
Hard to read.
D
What you got?
A
Michael from Max Meadows, Virginia. Virginia sent an email in. He said, you guys rock and Jace is my favorite. We'll. We'll pass that. But he sent Black panther.
B
Oh boy.
A
In. He said he saw it in a zoo. But I'm not going to say the name of the zoo because what, what, what? How is this a zoo now?
D
Hey, here's the questions. I got a question now. You don't change it.
A
No, that's the same thing. That's the same.
D
What do you notice first of all, when you look at that photo?
B
A big red ball.
D
No, I know what's behind that big red ball. That big black tail going from his.
A
A propane tank.
D
That butt all the way down the ground and curling it up.
B
Okay.
D
Is this a backyard zoo?
A
I don't feel like Joe got out and moved to this place.
B
Yeah, that's.
A
I feel so bad for this cat.
B
Are we sure that's not like the Virginia Humane Society or something?
D
Speaking of that, that looks like.
B
That looks like that place Sarah McLaughlin sang.
D
I just got. I got, just got.
A
That's why I was sad when I was like, oh, zoo, you know me.
D
Hey, I just got a. A big envelope from BJ from Virginia. Okay. And he had a bunch of photos that he wanted me to sign and send him.
B
Uh huh.
D
Yeah. I thought that was pretty cool. He wrote me a book. I got what, three pages? His letter was three pages long.
A
Did you read it?
D
Yeah. It was really an interesting letter. I got it on my couch.
B
God, I love that man.
A
How does he know where you live, huh?
B
Oh, that's a moving target.
D
Now everybody knows where I live.
B
He playing a shell game now. Like, look over here. No, I'm over here. I'm over here. I'm over here, man. Yeah, that ain't a zoo.
A
That's a. Well, but.
D
Oh, that looked like somebody's backyard. They clearly was a dog cage. But that is a pretty black panther he's got in there.
B
I mean, that's a ball, right?
A
What is that a baseball sized ball?
D
Looks like a house cat. Hey, that's his toy. Ooh, he pounces on that thing all the time.
A
I'm very confused.
B
I've never felt pretty animal. Please let that thing go. So that we can now have true sightings of a large black cat.
D
Yeah, that one.
B
Let that. Let that one go. He deserves better.
D
Hey, I.
B
Whatever. Whatever sex it is.
A
I'm so sad about this.
B
I know. We need to let that one go.
D
There's my giraffe.
A
Well, now I'm on the. The website of the place where he said it was and it seems better than that. Like maybe that was just a.
B
Maybe they renovate.
A
Maybe that was a holding tank set.
D
The back rooms.
C
That was. That was the tailgate.
D
That's a big roaring lion.
B
I bring the web.
A
I can't. I don't want to bash the place because I feel like they're doing an OK job.
B
I want to see more about it. I want to see what they have.
A
A summer camp, okay. Where you can apparently capturing cage animal. We got to move on, Junior zookeeper. I can't do this to these people because I do think that was just a bad angled photo.
B
But no, the angle wasn't the problem on the photo.
A
Well, maybe there was.
B
He was in a dog kennel.
D
What is. Hey, what is it?
A
I don't know what that is.
B
I mean, a kennel like that during hunting season has got 19 beagles in it waiting to go chase deer.
D
So I said, hey, he. He's closer to Jimmy Durant down there
C
by that tree that got.
D
Hold on. Jimmy Durand's cousin.
B
Oh, yeah, that's him.
C
Who.
B
Which one is that? Is that a taper?
A
I think so, yeah. Zoos are weird.
B
The world's largest rodent or something. Is that right?
A
I don't know. But I just got that email and I was just. I was like, oh, black panther. I'm gonna prove it. And then I clicked on the picture and I felt sad.
D
Hey, it is. He's got him. They got him in his room. They are tiny blues.
B
I mean, if that what qualifies as a zoo. Jude also lives at a zoo. Just. It's my house.
A
Yeah, we all live in a zoo, but she can. My favorite is. And I promise you we. Most of our emails are just black panther sightings now. Maybe that's why I dream the way I do. Eddie emailed in one.
B
Uncle Eddie, that they.
A
They see them often around North Florida and South Georgia.
D
North Florida and South Georgia.
A
Martin, how many times have we seen this exact photo over the last six years? I didn't. And it's always in a new location. I wish it was. I wish we got a new one, but we just hadn't got any good black panther sightings.
D
I wonder why I'm surprised AI hadn't
B
brought in a bunch of new ones.
C
Yeah, same reason we ain't found the missing link.
B
Yeah, it's okay. He's there, he's there. Partying with that ivory build woodpecker, wherever they are.
D
Yeah, it's been a while ride, too, hasn't it?
C
Oh, yeah.
A
Not as wild as them boys on that rocket.
B
It ain't over yet, either. We still going to the moon? Actually, we're on our way home.
A
Speaking of going to the moon and on the way home, today's verse of the day comes from a little place called Twitter, which is a cesspool of activity. But I was reading about NASA stuff, and it gets.
B
Isn't it called X?
A
Whatever. Whatever it's called.
B
Hey, Elon paid a lot of money for that X, man.
A
Sure. But I. So they were talking, there's a bunch of moon, land, not moon, NASA stuff. And I'm just reading it, and I'm like, I'm enthralled. And someone tweeted, boy, they really slapped with Psalm 14 right now. And I was like, I don't know what Psalm 14 says.
B
There's a bunch of them. I went to it straight.
A
And it brings me back to our friend Victor looking back at the creation. Psalm 14. 1 and 2. 1 and 2. The fool says in his heart, there is no God. They are corrupt, their deeds are vile, and there is no one who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand and any who seek God.
B
Yeah.
C
Wow.
B
Don't be a fool, y'.
D
All.
A
Hey, somebody had to make this old ball.
B
I guarantee you they did.
D
And it's too perfect.
B
And it's a ball.
D
It's too perfect.
B
It's not a sheet, it's a ball.
A
See y' all next time. Right here in the duck call room. We've landed on the moon.
Episode: "Three Decisions That Made Duck Dynasty Possible"
Date: April 14, 2026
Hosts: Si Robertson, Justin Martin, John-David Owen, John Godwin, Jay Stone, Phillip McMillan, Jacob Mayo
This episode reunites the original crew behind Duck Dynasty, reflecting on the critical choices, wild stories, and life events that set the stage for their reality TV success. With classic banter and Southern humor, the team delves into how each member joined Duck Commander, why it wasn’t ever about the money, and the faith and friendships that fueled the journey. From viral moments and parenting advice to cosmic perspectives and Black Panther sightings, the episode balances deep heart with trademark Duck Commander laughter.
[18:11, 42:33–47:47]
Memories and listener emails lead to classic Southern tall tales about black panther sightings, both in the wild and in questionable zoos. The team pokes fun at blurry evidence and the lack of credible sightings, connecting it to Bigfoot-level folklore.
[37:29 – 41:10]
No Duck Commander episode is complete without tales of hunting, classic Southern food, and family gathered around the table.
The hosts reminisce about childhood hunts, shotguns, bird meat, and cooking anything that could be caught or shot over an open fire.
The episode celebrates fishing victories, spring weather, and the timelessness of food and family bonding.
[47:48–49:06]
JD shares Psalm 14:1–2, prompted by more space-related social media, tying faith firmly to the day’s musings on creation, purpose, and perspective.
This episode is classic Duck Call Room: warm, unvarnished, and hilarious, full of stories where “fringe benefits” mean hunting, food, and faith more than fame or fortune. It’s about belief—in God, in family, in the quirky Southern way of life. The show underscores how three big decisions—choosing faith, choosing community, and choosing “the ride”—made Duck Dynasty possible, with no regrets about the path taken.
Closing Quote:
“See y’all next time. Right here in the Duck Call Room. We’ve landed on the moon.” – JD [49:06]