Uncle Si Tells the Best Phil Robertson Stories You've Never Heard

Summary

Duck Call Room – Episode Summary

Episode Title: Uncle Si Admits the Failures He's Now Thankful For
Date: March 10, 2026
Hosts/Guests Present: Si Robertson, Justin Martin, John-David Owen, John Godwin (Godwin), Phillip McMillan, Jacob Mayo, Hunter (producer), and others.

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Overview

In this lively and heartfelt episode, the Duck Call Room crew—minus a late Godwin—gathers to answer thoughtful listener questions about life, success, failure, marriage, and faith, all in the signature laid-back, humorous, and genuine style fans love. The episode also features memorable stories from their personal lives and reflections on the journey from humble beginnings to national stardom. Godwin joins in midway, fresh off the lake and bearing gifts for his twin granddaughters from a fan in Scotland.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. Opening Antics & Godwin’s Absence

[01:11–05:01]

• The show opens with banter about Godwin missing the start because he was fishing (“Hold that thought while I reel this big crappy in, man.” – Martin, 01:29).
• The crew finds humor in the unpredictability of Godwin’s retirement lifestyle, joking about how he might just leave his boat at the ramp.

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2. Gifts from Across the Pond

[02:13, 05:01 & 50:10–52:30]

• A package from “Miss Donna” in the UK arrives for Godwin’s newborn twin granddaughters—speculated to be handmade baby blankets.
• Later, when Godwin arrives, he opens the gifts, expressing sincere gratitude:
  • “My daughter crochets. So this is, she’s gonna love it. And look, they’re a little bit different… just like the girls.” – Godwin, 51:29

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3. Listener Questions: Honest Reflections

a. Beliefs to Unlearn Growing Up

[12:59–16:46]

• Discussion of childhood beliefs and reality checks with age.

  • “The belief that you could be anything you want to be. That is not true.” – Martin, 13:13
  • “No matter how hard Justin Martin worked, he could not have been a Olympic gymnast, a top notch mechanic, or a tightrope walker. Some things just aren’t in the cards.” – John-David, 13:40

• Si adds, “I’m still learning that life sucks in general.” – Si, 13:06

• Hunter reflects on learning the world doesn’t revolve around him—Martin relates as a parent watching kids learn that lesson.

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b. Long Marriages & When Things Get Tough

[22:04–28:33]

• The guys share their keys to a strong marriage, with humor and honesty.

  • “Do not be too serious. Yeah, you got that laugh a lot. Because you’re going to do some of the stupidest things.” – Si, 22:26
  • “It’s that commitment that just—you learn to just let crap go right off that back back there.” – Martin, 26:21

• Advice about not rushing into heated conversations and never saying things you’ll regret:

  • “Once you say it, you can’t take it back. Before you, in stressful time, back off. Even if you gotta walk away.” – Si, 27:13

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c. Success & What It Doesn’t Fix

[29:08–32:34]

• The crew tackles the myth of success solving all problems.

  • “The hole that people try to fill with success had already been filled by Jesus... I think that’s the one thing people think success will fill, and it won’t. It never will.” – Martin, 30:35
  • “If you don’t know the Creator, you don’t have a relationship with Him… you will never amount to nothing.” – Si, 31:47

• They reflect on being “rich rednecks” and how faith kept them grounded through fame and fortune.

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d. Notable Phil Robertson Quotes & Philosphy

[35:33–38:14]

• Phil’s simple wisdom echoed throughout:
  • “Oh, I’m not happier because I’m rich, but I do have more fun… but I was happy when I was broke.” – Phil, quoted by Martin, 35:33
  • “Jones, who would have thought, become a millionaire by listening to ducks.” – Phil (to Hunter), 36:37

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e. Stories of Success, Simplicity, & Getting Muddy

[38:16–44:08]

• Outlandish stories of filming, fishing, and near-disasters with Phil—driving boats over logs just for a laugh, getting stuck in the mud while filming TV, and living the “redneck dream.”

  • “Phil originated the term send it.” – C, 43:24

• The point: success is loving what you do, not what’s in your bank account.

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f. Failures Now Thanked For

[46:13–49:43; 48:48–49:43]

• Martin: College “failures” that led him to his current path:

  • “Had I figured it out, none of my life would have happened the way it did. But everything I tried to do… I didn’t really like fail, I just ended up not liking it. So I quit on it.” – Martin, 46:49

• Godwin (when he arrives):

  • “A failure I’m now grateful for? I guess it would be the way I live my life just so haphazardly as a teenager and a young adult after like high school. Man, that was so stupid… the money I spent on beer and drugs, I could have had a souped up truck, jacked up big bass boat…” – Godwin, 48:48

  Si quickly chimes in to reiterate that money and “stuff” don’t make you happy in the end.

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4. Parenthood, Generational Lessons, & Everyday Wisdom

[16:41–21:48]

• Martin shares about raising twins—how kids mimic language and attitudes.
• Si and Martin remember getting in trouble from their own parents, learning the importance of respect, and the power of observation.

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5. Closing Faith Reflection

[54:08–55:07]

• Martin and the crew bring it home with a verse Phil Robertson often quotes:
  • “Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life... minding your own business, working with your hands so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders...” – 1 Thessalonians 4:11 (paraphrased by the group, 54:42)
  • “I only tell you this because I love you.” – Martin, 55:03

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Who would have thought, become a millionaire by listening to ducks?” – Phil Robertson, as remembered by Hunter (36:37)
• “Money won’t fill that hole you’ve got inside you.” – Si, 32:21
• “Once you say it, you can’t take it back.” – Si, 27:13
• “I’m not happier because I’m rich, but I do have more fun… but I was happy when I was broke.” – Phil Robertson (quoted), 35:33
• “The hole that people try to fill with success had already been filled by Jesus.” – Martin, 30:35
• “A failure I’m now grateful for? ...the way I lived my life haphazardly as a teenager and a young adult… Man, that was so stupid.” – Godwin, 48:48
• “Once you open your mouth and say the words, whatever it be, you can’t take it back.” – Si, 27:15

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Important Timestamps

• 01:11 — Opening banter, Godwin’s “crappie incident”
• 12:59 — First deep question: beliefs to unlearn
• 22:04 — Marriage & relationship advice
• 29:08 — What success doesn’t fix
• 35:33 — Phil Robertson’s advice on money & happiness
• 38:16 — Boat and mud stories, “redneck dream”
• 46:13 — Open discussion: failures the cast is now grateful for
• 48:55 — Godwin reflects on his past as a “failure” he’s now thankful for
• 50:10 — Godwin receives baby blankets from UK fan
• 54:08 — Closing: 1 Thessalonians and final words on simple living

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Closing Tone

The episode delivers the warmth, wit, and humility the Duck Call Room is known for, offering nuggets of homespun wisdom and honest self-reflection. The crew serve up plenty of laughs, but aren’t afraid to get real about their failures, priorities, and what truly anchors them. Family, faith, and a little bit of good-natured chaos—quintessential Duck Commander.

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Transcript

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[C]

All right, welcome back to the duck call room, ladies and gentlemen.

[D]

Without a man, us four.

[C]

Glad. Never mind us three.

[D]

I need to apologize to everyone listening because Martin just called Godwin and I did not get my phone out to record the reaction when Godwin realized he was in the middle of a lake and he was supposed to be here.

[C]

Boy, that retired life must be.

[E]

He said. He said, hold that thought while I reel this big crappy in, man.

[C]

What a life, man.

[D]

Martin said, God, when were you at. He goes, oh, crap.

[C]

Yeah, like only Goblin can say oh, crap.

[E]

Oh, boy.

[D]

Well, I'm. I'd be there in 30, 35. No chance.

[C]

It'd be close. Goblin knows where the flat piece of metal behind that accelerator is he scared to use.

[D]

He said, I'm close to boat ramp my way.

[C]

Now, I'm not saying Goblin is going to put his boat on the trail. He may just go. He may go. Pull that sucker down, leave it right there and just come. You never know what God. Oh, man. But God want to be here. But we're going to go ahead and get started. Yeah, man. What a. What a time. Goblin is not here, but he's got gifts.

[D]

Yeah, we got to. We had to have him here because that gift had international postage.

[C]

Yeah. And it's. It's. I don't know. We'll see what it is. Got a customs declaration, but I'm assuming it's baby twin baby girl gifts is what I'm guessing is what it is, so.

[E]

Oh, okay.

[D]

That's what it was.

[C]

Yeah, I think. Think it. I think it's a baby blanket. Yeah, I think it's for the spoiler alert.

[D]

Did you Feel it.

[E]

Huh?

[C]

I think it's for the babies.

[D]

So, yeah, England.

[E]

It's for the girls.

[D]

Where does it say it's from?

[C]

The uk, so nobody knows what that means. Yeah, I don't know, but it's from

[D]

one of the four countries in the country.

[C]

It is from Royal Mail, not to be confused with.

[D]

Oh, the United States Postal Service.

[E]

Oh, this ought to be pretty good then.

[C]

So. And they're. They're apparently woolen, so there you go.

[D]

Very interested. Can't wait for God when to get here.

[C]

And they're from Miss Donna. I don't think we can say last names, but Ms. Donna, your package is here. And God want to open it soon,

[D]

but we had it ready for him.

[C]

There's no chance he'll be able to read that.

[D]

But Donna from the uk yeah.

[C]

We're going to do a little bit different episode today where we're just going to be answering some of Yalls questions, so.

[D]

Oh, Hunter's got us dialed up.

[C]

Hunter's got questions for us.

[D]

I got a couple.

[C]

At least we've got answers. Maybe. Allegedly. So we've got options. Yeah. And. And while we're doing this, like, y', all, don't be scared to drop down in those comments and let us know if there's something we need to discuss. Now, y'. All. Y' all do realize we're not going political? Like, we're not doing that.

[D]

I will.

[E]

I say.

[C]

Huh?

[E]

I go political.

[C]

Well, you already know the answer to the political stuff, so no reason. There's no reason to go down that road.

[D]

I don't follow Kid Rock or Kamala Harris.

[C]

Oh, boy. I don't.

[D]

I gotta laugh out a Hunter at least. All right, I'm apart here. That's how unpolitical I am.

[C]

But no, it's. Wow, it's warm. I don't. It's kind of weird outside. It is so hot.

[D]

It is springtime, baby.

[C]

It is spring. Stuff's turning green really quickly, but I'm sure we'll get another shot.

[E]

Oh, no, no. We got a cold, cold air, snow, cold snap coming.

[C]

Yeah. So that's the fall. Spring. It's the part that gets everybody fired up. That's the reason that I was at Honey Hole yesterday restocking the shelves because they had too much stuff coming.

[D]

Martin showed up just to say hello and then just was like, felt bad for me and started working again, killing

[C]

a little time while the boys were taking a nap. And I felt bad they had a bunch of stuff to put out. So I said, I'll take the fishing baits. I know them, so.

[D]

And that's mostly what we got.

[C]

Yeah, y' all can. Y' all can have the clothes. I'll take the fishing.

[E]

I'll put the fish.

[D]

So much stuff when the seasons change.

[C]

Oh, man. But anyway, Hunter, you ready to get started on some questions or. Yeah, all right, Go ahead. Fire away. Hunter, you need a camera. Like, actually, hey, come over here till God gets in.

[E]

Change. Change your location. Huh?

[D]

And while you're moving, I have a question for Hunter that I developed today.

[E]

Oh, he's developed it today.

[D]

As everybody knows, I love Hunter, you

[C]

didn't wear that shirt. Not want to be on camera. Come on.

[D]

That's a good point. Everybody knows I love Hunter, AKA Scott, but I pick on his car sometimes. But I noticed something today.

[E]

What is that? An alien?

[D]

That's a CD player. Sigh. It's.

[E]

Oh.

[D]

With paint on it.

[E]

Oh, I thought it was.

[D]

Are you old enough to have CD players?

[F]

Yeah.

[D]

Okay, that's good news.

[F]

We had one when I was a kid, but I had to get shirts with no logos or brands on it. Whenever.

[E]

No logos, boys.

[D]

So, Hunter, I was walking behind your car today, and you have three bumper stickers.

[F]

Yes.

[D]

One is Bucky's. I think the whole world can get behind that. And if you can, I don't want you listening anyway.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

And then the other two are, like, race car things. Yeah. Do you race cars?

[F]

Not at all.

[E]

Okay. But you in. You're into.

[C]

Nope. Are. Are those intended to be, like, oxymorons because of what you drive?

[D]

No, there's like, an oil sticker and, like, a racing league sticker.

[F]

So my. I. My dad and his best friend thought my car needed to look more manly.

[C]

You can't. You can't make that car more.

[E]

That's the thing.

[C]

So.

[E]

Yeah, you can. Yeah. Can put something on the hood. They'll just. When they be shocked when they say, hey, my.

[F]

My dad had. Had something like that. He used to drive this Trans Am with a Firebird on it.

[D]

That's awesome.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

So they just slapped on your car

[E]

while you were scold you?

[F]

Pretty much.

[C]

You know, somebody did that to me too.

[D]

Yeah, it was a different sticker.

[C]

You remember that?

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

White.

[D]

So you didn't see it for a long.

[C]

A long time. Then it said, cowboy butts drive me nuts. And I had no idea it was there.

[D]

I'd rather have the oil sticker.

[C]

Yeah.

[F]

One on my dad.

[E]

Rather have pissed piss on it.

[C]

Oh, Calvin. He's back.

[D]

He's back.

[C]

Boys, we got Calvin. But no. Yeah. I finally found out who did that, by the way.

[E]

My good.

[C]

My good friend Ben, he got tickled when I brought it up and he said, oh, my God, I think that was me. Then he went to his Amazon order history.

[E]

Yeah. And that was.

[C]

There was the sticker.

[E]

Yeah, that was. I was a yarns ago too. Yeah.

[C]

He said. He said, I forgot I even did that to you. I said, man, if it makes you feel any better, I just got a good chuckle as I peeled it off,

[D]

wondering how long it was there.

[C]

Yeah. How long I knew it had been there. A lot longer than the dirt around it had been there. Because that was a very clean spot up under that sticker. Yeah.

[D]

Well, I was just excited because we learned new stuff about Hunter.

[F]

Yeah.

[D]

On a weekly basis. And I was like, what if he's like, night moonlighting is a race car driver.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Did the Daytona 500 get you fired up?

[F]

I tend to overshare sometimes. I apologize.

[E]

No, no, no. That put a good memory in my head.

[F]

Oh, yeah? Like what?

[E]

Because I left, okay. The school that I went. Three and a half years. I had to leave in the middle of the year and go to a new school, graduate.

[F]

Okay.

[E]

So all my friends. Why. You know. And one of them had bought him brand new Chevelle 96 yo. And so I souped up one yo. He come down and visit me, him and three other guys.

[D]

A 1996 Chevell.

[E]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

Huh?

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

You graduated high school in 1996. When I graduated, I was like, bro, did you took three and a half years, then you waited 30, actually drove it.

[E]

We was taking turns driving it, you know.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

And the other three guys had just abused this thing. Totally. Okay, well, I was going to just be the good guy and just do it. And some idiot pulled up beside me and something that was hot too, and he took off, burned rubber. And I was just barely doing. And the guy on the car said, hey, kick that guy's rear end. Well, hey then, hey, then we just sideways every time. I'm. I'm putting the pedal down, it's turning sideways.

[D]

Oh, Tokyo Drift.

[E]

Only thing straight out. Hit another gear and keep going. Don't even lift. Don't even lift your foot up off of it. I said, now is that okay?

[C]

Old Lucas Black, huh?

[E]

No. I said, hey, there you go.

[C]

Who's that? The boy that was in Tokyo Drift.

[D]

Never seen it.

[C]

Oh, I just go.

[D]

I just.

[E]

That was that him?

[F]

I forgot his name. There's.

[E]

That was a beautiful.

[C]

He's a bass fisherman. Now, Right.

[E]

Correct.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

I don't know if he's a bass fisherman.

[C]

Yeah, he's a bass fisherman. And he's a. He's a brother, too. Because he wears that. He was in dirt. It's like 77 times. Or that hat. Because how many times you forgive him? 70 times.

[F]

Yeah, 70 for King and Country movie, too.

[C]

Yeah.

[F]

When those people came in.

[C]

Looky there, looky there. Lucas, I'm sitting here, man.

[D]

I'm sitting.

[C]

I got talk about your Varsity Blues days, man.

[D]

Tokyo Drift and that. And I got bass fishing. We really cover a range of topics.

[C]

We can. And we ain't even got to what we were going to do today with questions.

[D]

Yeah, nobody bring up zebras, horses, or grizzly bears or we're in trouble.

[C]

Yeah. Unless it's zebra cakes.

[D]

You can bring those up.

[C]

Well, we're talking about Hunter's horses under his hood, and then.

[E]

No, no, I would.

[C]

Both of them.

[E]

I would love for him to do that.

[C]

Well, just soup that.

[E]

Yeah, soup that thing up for you. It wasn't. Nothing could touch it, apparently.

[F]

Trying to keep it from falling apart. Something wrong.

[E]

Every other month, you need to put something in that thing where it would actually leave the ground.

[C]

Well, hey, let me tell you something. All four of us get on a corner, we could get it off the ground. Goblin, do you ever think you'd be the guy that was raving about a weight loss program?

[G]

Not me. But I'm telling you, the team at PhD weight loss just makes it so easy. What surprised me most is having someone to help me through everything. Talking to a coach and telling me what to do and what not to do, what to eat. I've been doing it four weeks now.

[C]

Four weeks.

[G]

Four weeks and I'm about £13 down.

[C]

Look at that.

[G]

And going.

[C]

There you go. Look, if you've tried all the diets, keto, Paleo, fasting, they're all the same. It's time to try something different, y'.

[E]

All.

[C]

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[G]

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[C]

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[G]

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[C]

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[D]

I love Hunter.

[E]

Okay. Okay.

[F]

So these are. These are kind of serious, but.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. Serious with. But we'll do what we can.

[F]

Funny last time.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

We'll give it a best shot.

[C]

All right.

[D]

Serious podcast called the Duck Room.

[E]

Oh, that's a. That'd be a do one for us. Serious. Serious.

[F]

So the first one I have is what's a belief you had to unlearn as you got older?

[E]

Whoa.

[C]

Yeah. A belief.

[E]

Oh, I'm still learning that life sucks in general.

[D]

Oh, my goodness.

[C]

Oh, I guess you could do that. The belief that you could be anything you want to be. That is not true.

[D]

Drew Brees lied to his kids that

[E]

you got controversy here. Why? No, because that is true.

[C]

No, I could not be a boat mechanic. I do not.

[D]

You could.

[C]

I do not fit up in them places.

[D]

You couldn't do the parallel.

[E]

You could be one, but you would have limitations.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. You would never have been able.

[D]

No matter how hard Justin Martin worked, he could not have been a Olympic

[E]

gymnast, a top notch mechanic, or a tightrope walker.

[C]

Some things just aren't in the cards.

[E]

That's true.

[F]

I agree with Si, though.

[E]

What?

[F]

Yeah. That you could.

[C]

Well, who wants to be something that you're not very good at?

[F]

Well, I didn't know what I wanted to be until I was in high school, and I'm already, like, scratching stuff off of.

[E]

What did you. What did you finally decide you wanted to be?

[F]

Well, I wanted to work in production.

[E]

Production.

[F]

Yeah. And, you know, I.

[E]

So you're one of the lucky ones.

[C]

And now here you are being talent.

[E]

Yeah, I know.

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

Because you're one of the lucky ones. Because most people like me. I still hadn't figured out what. What I want to be.

[C]

Now you figured out exactly what you wanted. Somebody show up with more money than

[E]

saying, well, that's true.

[C]

Ding, ding, ding.

[D]

And then A and E backed that truck Up.

[C]

Yeah.

[F]

It took a while, but you got there.

[E]

And. Hey. And like Phil said, the ship has come in.

[C]

Yeah.

[G]

What?

[E]

And is at the dock unloading.

[C]

I'm trying to think if there's another belief, like. What are you calling a belief here? This.

[D]

Are we trying to go.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Well, no, no, because that's like my brother Tommy.

[C]

Oh.

[E]

Tommy knew as a teenager what he

[C]

wanted to do there.

[E]

He wanted to be a school teacher and a coach, and he. He actually retired as a superintendent of. Of, you know, school education.

[C]

God bless that man.

[F]

Well, well, well. If this will help, something for me is I'm not the center of. Or the world doesn't revolve around me, basically.

[C]

Yeah, I get that.

[D]

That's everybody.

[C]

That's a. That's a twin thing, right? Because I see my kids doing maybe. Yeah.

[E]

I don't know.

[C]

Yeah, I think that's a. I think that's more of a twin thing. Good tea and a. And a getting older thing as you're a kid. Like, the world does revolve around you. In fact, wait, your parents readjust their schedule and you know what I'm saying? Like, I mean, it actually does.

[D]

The world doesn't revolve around.

[E]

No, it actually does.

[C]

Yeah. Eight. Eight days without power.

[E]

We're all. We're all selfish. Okay. And we only want, you know, we're only concerned with. With ish.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

With.

[E]

So. Hey, you know, so it does revolve, like, ish.

[F]

What is ish?

[C]

Monroe?

[G]

Bass.

[C]

We're back on bass fishermen going down

[D]

the bass fishing line.

[F]

Do I need to move on?

[C]

And 2003, ish meant something totally different.

[D]

I don't know, man. That's a toughie. I mean, there's a plethora of things.

[E]

In a way, you was unique because you was twins, right? You and your sister.

[D]

There's more ways.

[E]

Hunters, you can. That's a whole different lifestyle.

[F]

Yeah. Over everything.

[E]

Oh, no. Yeah. On all. All scopes, you know. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. Boy, I get a firsthand lesson in that every day.

[E]

Well, no, no,

[C]

but it's fun. Oh, yeah. I just. I mean, what's.

[E]

Well, no, no. Hearing you talk as a dad when you're talking about your sons is so cool because you. You're looking so well. They. They're getting to the age now where. Where I can do stuff with them.

[C]

Oh, yeah. I just throw them in the truck now.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

No, no, let's roll.

[E]

Oh, you know what? They had two now.

[C]

No, three. Three headed to four.

[E]

I can't believe you talking about.

[D]

Face it Is crazy because they weren't around when this podcast.

[E]

I don't think say, but they are in the age group right now. Well, yeah, they. They'll come up with stuff that'll blow your mind.

[C]

Oh, yeah, buddy. They have a dissertation lined up for you when you get home every day what their day looked like. The only problem is only they can understand what they're saying.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

I mean, I'm like, yeah. I just get bits and pieces of it. I'm like, oh, okay. Yeah. All right. Can't wait to hear. Another day at school went today. But hopefully their little friend shepherd wasn't mean to them.

[E]

Well, what Always.

[C]

That's all they ever say. It was like, shepherd mean.

[E]

What always Shepherds was. Is how close they was listening to mom and dad.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[E]

Okay. Because you think. You think they're not.

[C]

Oh, that's their newest one. I even told y' all this. If this tells you which one. Which one has a get. Is prone to getting in trouble a little bit more than the other one. Waylon calls Jackson buddy. Jackson calls Waylon, son.

[D]

Does he drop a. Hey, son.

[C]

Yeah, Don't. He just said, son. Don't do that, son. Stop. Whalen looks over and goes, it's okay, buddy. That's the newest one. Like, so you tell which one, like. But it's crazy because Jax has got, like, the most tender heart you ever see. Wear it on his sleeve, you know? So he gets called buddy a lot. And Waylon hears, don't do that, son.

[D]

A lot.

[C]

Like, sun stop.

[E]

All right, so I'll quit that.

[C]

Oh, man. And you don't even realize you're doing it until you hear them, like, repeat it back across. And I'm like. When he. When he told him the other night, don't do that, son. I was like, oh, boy. Oh, boy.

[D]

Chill out.

[C]

Yeah, it's. It's.

[E]

You need somebody in chicken chong hair going on.

[C]

Yeah. Waylon's got that deal now. You'll tell him something, he'll do it, and you tell him again, and he'll look at you and go, okay.

[E]

Oh, yeah. Like, I get it.

[C]

I'm like, buddy, you have to. Buddy.

[F]

Get used to that, Buddy. They're going to argue.

[C]

No, not okay. No. Yes, sir is fine. Okay is not okay. That one is.

[D]

Art doesn't like the okay.

[C]

No, no.

[E]

You.

[C]

You will show respect. That's what we're working on right now. I contacted you.

[F]

Not to each other.

[C]

Oh, yeah, to me.

[E]

Oh, never mind.

[C]

I like, hey, come put your PJs on. Nothing. Hey, come put your PJs on. Okay. And turns and walks over there. And I'm like.

[E]

It's. It's the tone in the voice is the. Okay.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

That's why. That's why they. Okay.

[G]

Yeah.

[F]

If I. If I would have done that to my dad. Like, these crazy eyes.

[E]

My mama. Okay. I knew I was in trouble when she used my full name.

[C]

Oh, yeah. Silas Merritt.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

She's just saying kids, you know, or something like that. But when she used my full name.

[D]

Yeah, he was in trouble.

[E]

Hey, you better. Yes, ma'. Am. Yes, sir. The rest of the day, you have to. Otherwise, you better get your butt.

[C]

Work for your kids. On eye contact, like when they're talking to somebody.

[D]

Well, yeah.

[C]

Well, I mean, obviously, I'm talking. Yeah.

[D]

I mean, we haven't gone down the

[E]

road, but here's my.

[D]

One of them especially.

[C]

Yeah, one of them especially. I was thinking the other two.

[D]

Body solid.

[E]

Okay, here's my question that. Where's the thing? Where did they get this?

[C]

What? Not looking at it.

[E]

Well, Joe. And like, you say something and then they give the. Okay.

[C]

Yeah. I don't know where they are. The.

[E]

Roll the eyes. Okay.

[C]

They roll them eyes. I'm going to roll them the other way.

[E]

I had to learn.

[C]

We go roll them back. Put it that way. We're going to be Walmart up in there. So we rolling back

[D]

prices.

[C]

Oh, no, Eyeballs. Roll them that way. I roll them this way.

[E]

I got my butt tore up so many times for looking wrong or saying it with the wrong expression.

[C]

Oh, man.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Didn't know we were going to go there, did you, Hunter?

[D]

We're on

[E]

that. That's what makes it really, you know, watching them do this, because that's about what. All I do right now is watch other people.

[F]

I think. I think some people frown upon that.

[C]

What? Observation?

[E]

Oh, no, no. You don't need to frown upon it. You need to learn.

[C]

There's some people.

[E]

It's a great thing to be able.

[D]

People go to jail for it.

[C]

Yeah, that, too.

[E]

You know, to observe and then just y'. All. Yeah.

[C]

All right. Next question.

[F]

Next question.

[C]

I like that one. We're gonna have this whole thing done by the time God will get here. It's good.

[F]

What actually keeps. What actually keeps a long marriage together. When the feelings dip.

[C]

Oh, wow.

[F]

I thought that be interesting.

[E]

Well, no, no. Oh, why.

[C]

Yeah, he's.

[D]

Why are you worried about marriage?

[C]

He's preparing.

[E]

No, be prepared. Here's. Here's two of mine. You need to learn quickly at the start of this relationship to say, yes, ma' am a lot. Okay. And then the other one is, okay. Do not be too serious. Yeah, you got that laugh a lot. Because you're going to do some of the stupidest things.

[C]

Yeah. Get really comfortable with the phrases. Yeah, I'm sorry. You were right.

[E]

Yeah. No, no, because. And then you laugh.

[D]

You're right, Hunter. Don't ever tell them they were right. That's number rule number one.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Never admit wrongdoing.

[F]

Oh, I told Olivia she's right all the time.

[E]

No, you're being sarcastic. Big time sarcastics.

[D]

Big time.

[E]

Because that's all I hear about my wife. And I said, well, when you're perfect, it's hard to.

[C]

I guarantee you, when you a 10 out of 10.

[E]

Yeah. You know, it's hard to deal with.

[D]

Imagine being married to somebody as good looking as me. It's tough.

[E]

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[E]

I don't know.

[C]

To be fair, though, I think God one, God one hit it on the head with me when he said it gets better. So I haven't seen the feelings dip. Like it. It truly has gotten better. I mean, not that there aren't stressful times and you're two totally opposite sexes and.

[E]

No. No.

[C]

Different stuff bothers both of you.

[E]

Well, yeah.

[C]

Reasons.

[F]

What if I rewrite the question for stressful times?

[C]

Stressful times. Oh, you just got to remember the commitment you made, man. Like there's. And me and Brittany are both like this. Like she comes from a divorced home. I don't. At all. My parents were married for. I don't even know how long before dad passed. But quitting is just. It's not an option. So, like that. That is not that. That. That card. You have to completely remove that card from the table. Now, with that being said, I understand that is there for a myriad of reasons to protect people when people go crazy and start. But at that point, they've gotten off of their commitment to their spouse anyway. So, like. But for us, that's just the commitment was and is the center point of our marriage. Because it's not a commitment from me to her or from her to me. It's our commitment to God for each other. So reach. Whenever we made that commitment. I'm not. I mean, I let that fella. I let the good Lord down every single day, everybody. But I ain't going to let him down on that one. Like, that one's one. I ain't letting you down on this one. I'm going to do a bunch of other dumb stuff, but I letting you down on that one. And it's that commitment that just you. I mean, you learn at this point, you learn to just let crap go right off that back back there.

[D]

And you know, and when it doesn't, typically me and Allison, you know, a couple days later, it's a pretty funny story.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

We laugh at each other and I'm.

[C]

It's a funny story. And it's a good time.

[E]

Well, that's why I said you gotta laugh a lot because you're gonna do stupid things. And I. Wall warning, I guess, is what I want to tell you. Okay. In stressful times, do not rush into conversation.

[C]

No.

[E]

Because once you say it, you can't take it back.

[C]

Yeah. Once you fire that shot.

[E]

Yeah. Once you open your mouth and say the words, whatever it be, you can't take it back. Oh, hey, before you in stressful time. Back off. Even if you gotta walk away.

[C]

Yeah. I'm king of that.

[E]

Yeah. I got away and said, hey, we'll discuss it. I'm too mad right now to discuss with you.

[C]

Yeah. I run the veer. I'll be outside in the yard just. Just pacing.

[E]

Well, no, no.

[C]

Like, I. This ain't it. This ain't it. This ain't the time.

[E]

That's the smart thing to do. Okay. Because you don't want to. You don't want to get in. Involved in a conversation when you're mad, because then if you do, you're going to say something that you can't take back. You didn't mean it, but you said it.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

And that's all. That's all your spouse is going to remember.

[C]

Yeah. And now with the boys, too, it's even easier because you don't want. You want to show them healthy ways to resolve any conflict. It doesn't involve slamming doors, screaming, like

[E]

me growing up, fighting.

[C]

Like, there's healthy ways to do this.

[E]

And I never saw my parents argue.

[C]

No, they did yell at each other. They did it after you went to sleep.

[E]

Okay. And I know they did it because they ain't.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

But that was one of the things. And my father never left that house lest he kissed my mother.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Okay. Now he. Once while he'd get in the car and then he had opened all. Go back and come back and say, I like to. Forgot.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

She said, well, I was just sitting here waiting.

[C]

Put her there.

[E]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So. Yeah. Because that. That's so important. Yeah. That you see your mom and dad in a loving setting.

[C]

Oh, yeah. All right.

[G]

Where were we at?

[F]

So you guys are, I'm going to say it, like, pretty successful, right?

[E]

Yeah, Yeah, I would say that, allegedly.

[D]

What's the definition of success?

[C]

Yeah, allegedly.

[F]

I think only you can know that.

[D]

Yeah, that's a good point.

[E]

That's. That's where I was going.

[D]

But go ahead.

[E]

Hey, that's the only. Hey. No, that. That's the only important part I feel like you're about. You're okay with where you're at.

[C]

Success. You got to ask me what's in my bank account. No, no, no. How deep we were going here.

[F]

But what's one thing that success didn't fix?

[E]

Oh, well, no, no, I wouldn't say didn't fix because Duck Dynasty. Okay. Because you got to look at it, Okay. A bunch of redneck country bumpkins. Who? Robertson.

[D]

Oh, you.

[E]

Okay, okay. We. We overnight become. Become stars. Okay. And overnight, money comes with that, okay? And Al, being a preacher, said, hey, look, if this thing turns into something big, the devil's going to move in, and we got to be ready for it.

[C]

And he did.

[E]

Hey, we were.

[C]

And he did.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

I think the biggest thing for this crew was that the. The hole that people try to fill with success had already been filled by Jesus. I think that's the one thing that people think success will feel.

[E]

And it won't.

[C]

It never. It never will. Because as a young redneck, pre Duck Dynasty, I was having the time of my life, man. Like, I got to duck up for a living. Like, are you kidding me? I'm talking about pre Duck Dynasty. I just. I show up every day and I. They expect me to go duck hunting.

[D]

I'm like, oh, and they're gonna pay you.

[E]

And it had its bad times.

[C]

Like, yeah, but it's like, okay, I am living here. But there was still the hole. Like, and in my world, at that point, that was success. Like, I had just. I figured out the cheat codes on, like, I just got paid to go duck hunting every day. Now, granted, it wasn't much, but it was being paid to go duck hunt, and. But the hole was still there. And that was one thing that no matter what I did in the duck world at that time, nothing ever fixed it for Jesus.

[E]

That's why I tell everybody, if you don't know the Creator, I have a similar story. You don't have a relationship with him. You don't know nothing. You will never amount to nothing. Yeah, okay? And you're never going to have the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Joy, peace, loving kindness, all these good things, okay? They're not going to be there because, hey, I've known millionaires like.

[F]

Like who?

[E]

Huh? Oh, in the army,

[C]

yeah.

[E]

People that was filthy rich. And they was the most miserable, misguided, lost people I've ever met in my life.

[C]

Because all that crap is temporary, Jose.

[E]

Money won't fill that hole you've got inside you.

[C]

It's all temporary. Every last.

[E]

Everything that you can get your hands on and get into with money, if you had it, don't mean nothing, because it's not going to satisfy your desires, okay? And look, and here's the bottom line. We all have got them, okay? Because one one, some people ask me, hey, you win the war? What did it teach you? Well, I'll tell you what it taught me, okay? That each and every one of us. And I use Star wars, okay?

[D]

Hunter just got excited.

[E]

Come on over to the Dark side, son.

[D]

That's the bad one.

[E]

Every one of us has got a dark side. And you would not believe how dark you can go and how quickly you can do it.

[C]

I'm glad you said that because it happened. It can happen.

[E]

Oh, no. Just snap a finger. You go from, hey, a nice guy to the sorriest person on the earth.

[F]

One of my best friends kind of went a path like that and he's currently like, first.

[C]

Yeah, he's on his redemption path now.

[E]

Well, I'm telling you, okay, we all did all the things. The questions you've asked, we've talked about. The important thing is, hey, is the little things. If you say one word of kindness, you have no idea how far that goes.

[C]

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[G]

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[C]

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[E]

Yeah.

[C]

But I do have more fun

[E]

he

[C]

said, but I was happy when I was broke.

[F]

Have I told y' all my favorite Phil quote that he told me?

[E]

Whoa.

[C]

Yeah, this. No, no, no.

[D]

I'm very excited.

[C]

Did it sound. Did it sound like, keep that thing in your pocket and you'll be all right?

[F]

That's my second favorite.

[C]

He told me he told you that, too.

[D]

I really wanted to use that on career day the other day.

[E]

He didn't run a lot of pain. He didn't run across other things.

[C]

He didn't run across a male under 25. He didn't tell that. Oh, yeah, hey, keep that thing.

[F]

He told me a few times.

[D]

Hey, it's good advice, all right, ladies and gentlemen, not to build this up

[C]

too much, but from the annals of

[D]

Phil Rober Robertson, From Phil Robertson to Hunter. What did he tell you?

[C]

Jones?

[F]

It was like, my first month, and we were doing in the woods with. With Phil.

[E]

Oh, yeah. He hit him early.

[C]

Deep in the woods.

[F]

It was just me and him in a boat together. And I was supposed to film him.

[C]

Nervous purvis. I know you were freaking. Yeah.

[E]

He got you captive, son.

[F]

Yeah. So he's. He's doing his, you know, holding onto the handle, and it's just like, looking out. His hair's flowing in the wind and everything. And he goes, jones, who would have thought, become a millionaire by listening to ducks? And that was it. That was it. It was one of the coolest things anyone's ever told me before.

[E]

And look, that's the truth of it. Okay? Jones.

[D]

And he just dropped it right there, just like that. What's funny is what was probably going on in his mind. He was looking around going, this kid's on this boat with me, filming me, and nobody should be doing that. And that blows his mind.

[C]

I used to do this every day for $7 at the fish market. And now 7 million people are about to watch this.

[E]

Nobody knows this but me, okay? My brother actually hid from the devil in God's creation. He spent his entire life hiding from the devil in creation.

[C]

Yeah. He went to the end of the road, said, you ain't coming down here.

[D]

He said, I'm getting out.

[C]

And if you do, I'm prepared.

[E]

I'm serious. Because that was the most important thing in his life. If you would ask him, hey, what is the one thing you want to do forever? And he would say, hey, have that 16 gauge shotgun in my hand chasing a Miller Drake.

[C]

16 Browning.

[E]

That's all that man ever wanted to do, was shoot mallard ducks, okay? And look, he pulled it off yeah,

[C]

he made it that success.

[F]

On the, on the topic of success, when you said you first started and you were just hunting ducks. When I first started and we were doing in the woods with Phil, there was this other time where we. I rode in a side by side with Phil and I was. I can't remember if I was in the back or right next to him with the camera, but he saw this really deep mud hole, really deep, covered in water. And you just see him just start grinning and just gun it for that hole. So now all of our cameras are wet. I'm covered head to toe in mud.

[C]

Yep. And when you stopped, you went, yeah, Jones, Holbecker. And I'm wearing like.

[F]

And I didn't wear boots that day. I wore tennis shoes. So I had to go and help pushed the stupid side by side out of the mud.

[C]

Oh, yeah, he did that on purpose.

[F]

Yeah, I know. I know he did it on purpose. But I remember thinking it's like the

[C]

first time I went with him, I need some boots. No, those shoes will be.

[E]

No, you don't need nothing.

[C]

I ain't seen them since.

[E]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

But last. Last time I ever wore them shoes was that day. I said, there ain't no fixing this

[E]

or it'd be one of them deals about, hey, ain't going to take 15 minutes. Come on.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

That's eight hours later. Here you come back in, just cover head to toe with mud. You lost your tennis shoes. They're gone.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Oh, yeah.

[F]

Well, I remember thinking to myself, because I was 20 at the time and making. I think I just started making 10 an hour.

[C]

And I was like, couldn't tell you nothing. Yeah, yeah.

[F]

I was like, man, that's what success feels like. This is awesome.

[D]

And you know what? That is what success feels like. If you're doing something you love and enjoy and have stories, especially like that, that is successful success right there.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Because there's a bunch of miserable rich people sitting in a bank somewhere staring at a cubicle that are just bored.

[E]

They're miserable because all they're doing is, is they're losing money and they driving them nuts.

[C]

Back in the day, on your same regard, we were filming a commercial. There's just me and Phil in a boat for some reason, for gator tail boats. We're just supposed to be just cruising through the woods, you know, no problem.

[D]

No, he ain't got that.

[C]

And I saw Phil make eye contact with this log that was stuck in between two trees. And he said, what do you think? I said, I Wouldn't. I said, I don't know, it's gonna be tight.

[E]

Yeah, I wouldn't.

[C]

And then I heard that thing. I said, oh crap. And there we went airborne over the log in between the two trees, bouncing off of them. I. I said, God. And then he stopped. We got through it. They stopped me turn around and looked at the camera boat behind us. He said, that looked cool, didn't it? And I mean he. But he was always, that was, he was always some sort of peril.

[E]

Well, no, no, he was always thinking about what we wanted to get on. On video.

[F]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

Oh, he was a producer.

[E]

Don't ever let him fool you.

[C]

Oh yeah.

[E]

Always thinking about Yokoza. Oh, I've been with him because we're looking. We're on Darwin Lake and it's flood stage. Okay. River's in it and there's a big log jam, you know, around this beautiful setting of cypress tree. And right in the middle of it, okay. Is bass feeding on top water. Well, hey, he looked at me, he said we got to get in there. And I said, what do you mean kind of get in it? Way in the way. We're going to get there. There's 14 logs, log jam in front of it. He said, get back here with me. Well, I get back on the back seat with him with that 20 horse. I don't even remember what type.

[C]

Probably Johnson back here, Mercury or crazy

[E]

on that 14 foot boat. Okay. Wide open. He'd already knocked the fins off of it. Okay. And all it was give it about five miles an hour faster. So hey, he made a big loop. The only thing that's in the water is the boat motor. The boat is out of the water or skimming right on top. Well hey, we slid over them 14 logs and like to center the big giant cypress tree because we come off of it. Well, he's got to get the motor down and turn and we clipped this darn cypress tree going just one side of the boat's caved in in front of it. But hey, then we just proceed to throw rebels and just fill that cooler up, pop ours baby, and fill it up with bass. He made a big circle and here we go to try to get out.

[D]

God, I love side fishing stories.

[C]

Oh man.

[D]

Every baits from 19.

[E]

Oh no, he had one that was. Hey had a big U with for the front seat. Used to be the boat. Yeah, because he centered. He centered a cypress tree and all of us went out of the boat in the water, including him.

[C]

I think Phil originated the term send it

[E]

return to cinder.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Full sin.

[E]

Because, hey, we hit that thing wide opened it, baby. And everybody's in the water. It's three of us. We all in the water. Yo. It literally killed the motor when it hit the tree.

[C]

Oh, I believe it.

[E]

It stopped it.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

And I'm funny, I. I'm surprised it didn't break it off.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Because you talking about, hey, we're wide open. Wow.

[C]

Yeah. I approach life with a little more caution.

[E]

Yeah, well, hey, no, that was one thing didn't do when he was in his heyday.

[C]

Well, you know what's crazy about that is he didn't even have the money to fix it then.

[E]

Oh, oh, no, no.

[C]

Like, seeing him, once he got the money to fix everything, it kind of made sense because, like, now he really gets to live a redneck's dream. Not only can he tear it up, he can fix it like he just

[D]

get a new one.

[C]

Yeah. Or just go get a new one. But, you know, when he was broke, he did the same thing. It didn't matter.

[E]

Oh, no.

[C]

Hey, that's why.

[E]

Hey, that's why Bondo and everything else was used to keep everything running.

[C]

His favorite line was that thing about 2 inches narrow than it was when we started, ain't it?

[E]

Oh, I had to buff right out.

[C]

Yeah.

[G]

Have you.

[F]

Have you heard from Godwin? I feel kind of guilty, though.

[C]

No, it's fine. Well, we can. We. We'll figure it out.

[D]

But he's on his way. He's only 35 minutes.

[C]

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[D]

So Bourbon leather kind of fell.

[G]

I kind of like. That's what this is.

[D]

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[E]

That's right. Continue.

[F]

Maybe.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, go ahead.

[F]

This one I'm very interested in. Oh, Because I have a lot of these. What's a. What's a failure you're now grateful for? Oh, God, you've said that after every question I've asked. Are these too heavy?

[D]

Failure you're now.

[C]

No, they're not heavy. They just. They provide a layer of transparency that sometimes as a human you don't like to provide.

[F]

Oh, I can. I can change the question.

[C]

No, too late now.

[D]

We already told you once. You say you can't take it back.

[C]

No, you can in the editing room.

[D]

No, we're not doing that.

[C]

No. A failure. What now?

[F]

A failure that you're now grateful for.

[D]

College. I pretty much was just a mess all through college trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. And had I figured it out, I'd. None of my life would have happened the way it did. I'd still be married to Allison because we got married super young. But everything I tried to do and I just. I didn't really like fail, I just ended up not liking it. So I quit on it. Or, you know, what I thought I was going to do after I graduated. Would have never happened had it. I been one of those people that were really good at college because I just wasn't. And because I did stink at it, Willie Robertson came and called me one day and said, hey, come meet with me. And I've been doing weird stuff ever since.

[E]

That's pretty cool.

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

No, no, it really is. Because it's got me thinking what would have happened if I'd actually got me an education?

[F]

Oh, boy, are you gonna steal. His answer is yours also no.

[E]

No. So that's one of the failures that come in.

[C]

Hey, Johnny Godwin.

[E]

He's in it.

[D]

53 minutes and 27 seconds. Johnny Galvin Godwin in the house.

[G]

You get behind somebody that's so slow.

[D]

Gon got behind a slow person and he. I don't know if you know this, go.

[E]

Some rookie that wouldn't drive.

[C]

Oh, Go. Welcome.

[E]

We. We've been talking. Look, I got the answer for you.

[C]

Oh, this is a good one right here. A good one for God. One to come in on.

[D]

Well, how are you?

[G]

Perfect.

[D]

We're answering the question.

[C]

Good.

[G]

You know, we're.

[D]

We're answering all of Hunter's super serious questions today.

[E]

Well, here's a question for you. What failure has this.

[D]

I'm going to be so impressed rated for him.

[F]

What's a failure you're now grateful for?

[G]

A failure I'm now grateful for. I guess it would be the way I live my life just so haphazardly as a teenager and a young adult after like high school. Man, that was so stupid.

[E]

Okay. When you was young and stupid and done things that you do what you

[G]

shouldn't have done at the money I spent on beer and drugs, I could have had a souped up truck, jacked up big bass boat. I mean, I just owed that money away.

[E]

I know. Before this, we answered other questions and that's what I was telling people. I said, hey, look, you think money will make you happy? It won't. There's a lot of things you think that are going to make you happy that it won't. Because it really doesn't mean nothing.

[G]

Only thing money does, you do eat better.

[E]

Well, no, no. Oh, it's like Phil said, I've had, I've been poor and I've been, you know, rich. And hey, I. I have a lot more fun with rich because I've got the money to do things.

[G]

Yeah. Oh, but then it gets boring after a while.

[C]

I ain't there yet. I ain't bored yet.

[D]

Before we go, you do have a gift from England.

[C]

Yeah, there's a gift from England.

[E]

You need to open that. We want to see it.

[D]

It's from England.

[C]

It's the Royal.

[D]

Well, we don't know it's from England. It's from the United Kingdom.

[C]

Yeah, that's from Royal Mail.

[D]

I think that's maybe what's inside the President.

[E]

A knife.

[G]

It's a shirt or something.

[E]

Here, you need a knife.

[G]

I got a can I have in my pocket.

[E]

You got a canal.

[C]

Yeah. He been fish.

[G]

I smell it.

[E]

Smells it. We don't. Does it smell good?

[C]

It's got tissue paper. Oh, it's white. Oh, white.

[G]

This is for the babies.

[D]

Oh, looky there.

[C]

Oh, wow.

[E]

That's handmade too.

[D]

By Miss Donna in the United Kingdom.

[G]

Johanna is gonna love this.

[E]

I think so. That's handmade, boys.

[G]

Easy had her appointment today, by the way.

[C]

Yeah. How's that going? We talked about that on the last. Or maybe the podcast before last with her issue. We shared your post up there asking people to. To pray for your grandbabies.

[G]

Wow. This is awesome.

[C]

How you gonna tell them apart?

[E]

Who is this?

[C]

That's Donna.

[G]

Thank you very much. Oh, my. My daughter crochets. So this is. She's gonna love it. And look, they're a little bit different.

[C]

Are they? Yeah, just like the. Just like the girls.

[E]

Just a little.

[G]

It is one of them.

[E]

Donna, thank you very much for that because. Hey, I know that was made with love and care for Isabella, the babies.

[G]

This is awesome.

[C]

There you go.

[G]

I'll read that later. Thank you, Donna, very much.

[C]

Oh, Donna got good handwriting.

[E]

She does. It's good.

[D]

She's from the United Kingdom.

[G]

She's from central Scotland.

[C]

She's got.

[D]

Is that where she's from?

[E]

Scotland?

[D]

Ma', am, I apologize for saying England so many times.

[G]

Oh, I rode down a hill in Scotland.

[C]

They did. I videoed him.

[G]

I did. I said, I want to do something here. I've never done here. So I rode down here.

[E]

I tried to catch up.

[C]

What was the Loch Ness monster? Anyway, how's it.

[G]

How's it getting up in her nasal cavity?

[C]

Yeah.

[G]

And they've ordered it. Is that thing Herman something?

[C]

Yeah.

[G]

I can't say it, but it's a long word, so it's not. Nothing real bad.

[C]

Serious.

[G]

It's going to take about a year, and they've got medicine ordered, and once that happens, we're going to have to go back two days in a row for her to. To get it right and to observe her.

[C]

Okay.

[G]

But other than that, poor thing, she kind of dribbles when she eats now. But it shouldn't be any kind of permanent. What am I trying to say?

[C]

Damage? No, Nothing. No. Long term effect.

[G]

Yeah. Or any kind of, you know, looking funny or something.

[E]

There you go.

[G]

Anyway, man, that's awesome.

[E]

And Donna spent a lot of time doing that.

[G]

Yeah, I did.

[E]

Because that's what I can't wait to show Johanna. My wife does that.

[C]

Well, now the question everybody wants to know. Goblin.

[G]

What's that?

[C]

I don't think this one's on. Hunter, sheep. Were they biting?

[D]

What'd you catch?

[E]

Hey, I told you that. Yeah, I knew what he said. Oh, God.

[C]

He said. Oh, crap.

[D]

That was.

[E]

I knew they was biting.

[D]

Well, welcome back.

[G]

You had to.

[D]

Time to go get small.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

And now the question I got. You got any availability next week?

[G]

When? Well, I have to look at my calendar, I think, so I'm going to

[C]

book me a day. Me and God. I'm about to have ourselves a day. I got to go to Minnesota this weekend.

[D]

Make it a Saturday.

[G]

I will get back when you get back.

[E]

What is the Lord got for us?

[D]

The Lord's got something for us today. Because this verse has been said many times in anything Duck Commander related because of one Phil Robertson. And we talked about success today. We talked about Phil a lot today. And when I think of Phil, I think of how he would say it. And I can't do it justice how he would say it. But he would say, oh, Paul in 1st Thessalonians 4:11 said, make it your ambition to lead a quiet life.

[C]

Quiet, folks. Quiet.

[D]

Quiet. Minding your own business, working with your

[C]

hands

[D]

so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders. And you will not be dependent on anyone. Anybody.

[E]

And hey, that's right.

[C]

I only tell you this because I love you. I love you.

[G]

That's right.

[C]

All right, we'll see y' all next time in the room. We're out.

[E]

I do miss the boy, Sam.