Uncle Si Cries with a Friend During This Tragic Week

Summary

Podcast Summary: Duck Call Room – "Uncle Si Cries with a Friend During This Tragic Week"

Episode Information

• Title: Uncle Si Cries with a Friend During This Tragic Week
• Hosts: Si Robertson & Justin Martin
• Co-Hosts: John-David Owen, John Godwin, Jay Stone, and Phillip McMillan
• Release Date: May 15, 2025

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1. Introduction and Setting the Tone

The episode begins with the hosts greeting listeners back to the Duck Call Room. An attendee named Madison joins them, bringing a fresh dynamic to the discussion. The atmosphere is set for a heartfelt and introspective episode, diverging slightly from the usual comedic tone to address a somber topic.

Phil Robertson: "Welcome back to the Duck Call Room, ladies and gentlemen."
Timestamp: [01:18]

2. Announcing the Loss of Uncle Joe

The core of the episode revolves around the sudden passing of Uncle Joe at the age of 61. Phil Robertson shares his reflections on the fragility of life, noting how perceptions of age can shift unexpectedly.

Phil Robertson: "One caveat. The people that laughed the hardest spent the most time at the bar."
Timestamp: [04:19]

3. Sharing Memories and Personal Stories

The hosts delve into personal anecdotes about Uncle Joe, highlighting his vibrant personality, dedication to his community, and impactful presence both at work and in church. Jase Robertson reminisces about Uncle Joe's enthusiastic participation in church services and his role in the family business.

Jase Robertson: "Uncle Joe was part of that. This town small, y'all."
Timestamp: [34:01]

Phil Robertson: "Uncle Joe, the whole Owen family, we love you guys."
Timestamp: [44:52]

4. The Impact on Family and Community

The conversation emphasizes the profound effect Uncle Joe had on those around him. From his role at Brookshire's Grocery Company to his influence within the church, Uncle Joe was a pillar of support and positivity. The hosts discuss the overwhelming support they received from colleagues and community members during this difficult time.

Phil Robertson: "They knew Joe Owen and the owners of Brookshire's Grocery Company... they knew Joe Owen and the owners of Brookshire's Grocery Company, Brad Brookshire."
Timestamp: [16:54]

5. Coping with Grief Through Faith

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to exploring how faith plays a crucial role in coping with loss. The hosts share their beliefs about eternal life and the comfort that comes from trusting in a higher power. They discuss the notion that Uncle Joe is now living on in a glorified form, finding solace in the idea of reuniting with loved ones in the afterlife.

Jase Robertson: "I think our culture, especially us guys... you got to have a talk with Aunt Sherry about the plot we picked out."
Timestamp: [26:12]

Phil Robertson: "Whether he knew he was on his way home or not, he knew when that day came where he was going. So that's awesome, Uncle Joe."
Timestamp: [43:25]

6. Community Support and Shared Grief

The hosts highlight the importance of community support in times of grief. They share how friends, family, and even customers at the Honey Hole rallied to provide comfort and assistance. The shared experiences underscore the value of having a strong support system during tragic times.

Jase Robertson: "I've cried with them already, and I can't thank them enough for everything they've done in the past week."
Timestamp: [15:57]

Phil Robertson: "In the worst of times, you find out what people are made of."
Timestamp: [54:14]

7. Reflections on Life and Legacy

Towards the end of the episode, the hosts reflect on the legacy Uncle Joe leaves behind. They discuss the enduring impact he had on their lives and the lives of others, emphasizing the importance of living a life that leaves a positive mark on the community.

Jase Robertson: "You really start showing some honor. And so also, don't wait on that."
Timestamp: [38:37]

Phil Robertson: "That's the kind of legacy you want to leave."
Timestamp: [17:26]

8. Closing Thoughts and Encouragement

The episode concludes with a message of encouragement, urging listeners to seek support, cherish their relationships, and find comfort in their faith. The hosts express their hope that others can find peace and strength in similar difficult times.

Martin: "If you haven't had the chance to seek out Jesus and look him up, there ain't no better time than right now."
Timestamp: [56:17]

Phil Robertson: "Better to give than to receive."
Timestamp: [51:37]

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Phil Robertson: "Unbelievable. Mac did. I couldn't have done it."
  [10:24]

• Jase Robertson: "This has been the toughest. It might be the toughest week of my life."
  [20:33]

• Phil Robertson: "He probably went in there, put his bag down and said, all right. Where to worship?"
  [20:10]

• Jase Robertson: "Grief is the price you pay for love."
  [42:15]

• Phil Robertson: "In the worst of times, you find out what people are made of."
  [54:14]

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Conclusion

In this deeply personal episode of the Duck Call Room, the hosts navigate through the emotional journey of grief following the untimely passing of Uncle Joe. Through heartfelt stories, reflections on faith, and the unwavering support of family and community, they offer listeners a poignant reminder of the enduring bonds we share and the strength we find in each other during the most challenging times.

Transcript

[Phil Robertson]

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[Jase Robertson]

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[Phil Robertson]

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[Jase Robertson]

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[Phil Robertson]

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[Jase Robertson]

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[Phil Robertson]

Are you sticking with us? Oh, okay. Yeah. Oh, you're absolutely invited. I was waiting on you to walk out. Hi. All right, we good?

[Jase Robertson]

We're back.

[Phil Robertson]

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

[Jase Robertson]

There's a noise maker in the building.

[Phil Robertson]

There's a noise maker here. Godwin's here on a Monday. He's not fishing all the things. Right. Look. Yeah, yeah. And it's going to be a little different of a show one because our friend Hunter's not here. But we do have Madison straight from the Unashamed Unashamed podcast. So we've promised her to laugh. What? She doesn't get to do much over there. And she said, yeah, I'll stick around with you. So there you go. So, Madison, enjoy yourself. We hope you laugh. Hopefully you're not as tough of a crowd as John David's wife, but laugh this week. She did laugh, we can confirm.

[Jase Robertson]

Took a roller coaster to get her to laugh.

[Martin]

You don't laugh.

[Phil Robertson]

We can confirm that Allison Owen now thinks comedy is funny.

[Jase Robertson]

She thinks comedy's funny, people.

[Phil Robertson]

So I sat right beside her at John Crist, our friend. Our close personal friend, as we know. That's what we tell our wives anyway.

[Jase Robertson]

But been on his bus.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, we really are official now. We've been on the bus.

[Jase Robertson]

We text, helped him make a bet that he lost.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, yeah, there you go. Bona fide friends now. So we did go see him. And if I do recommend not because he's our friend, if you get the opportunity, go see. I haven't been. I've never been to a stand up show.

[Jase Robertson]

I guess I've seen stand up, but it's never been like, hey, we're going to go watch three different dudes talk for two hours and try and make us laugh. I've never done that.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

And they all three succeeded.

[Phil Robertson]

Well, I've never been to a stand up show outside the comfort of my home. Right. I mean, I've watched the stand up specials on Netflix.

[Jase Robertson]

They never been on a cruise.

[Phil Robertson]

Huh?

[Jase Robertson]

They got them on cruises.

[Phil Robertson]

We were the entertainment on the cruise. Yeah. As soon as our bit was over, we ran back to our stand up. We walked. Yeah. From one end to the other.

[Martin]

That's right. They like to kill me from one end of the ship to the other and just frequent time.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. 10 out of 10 don't recommend being the main attraction on a cruise ship.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Not going to. That's what I'm not gonna do.

[Martin]

Why they've got them things set on one end, the other end I'll never know.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. Yeah, it is. Well, I gotta balance it out or it'll roll over. Is that what it is? Well, wait and balance.

[Martin]

That sounds good to me.

[Phil Robertson]

Too much weight on one end.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, God.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. I never thought of it like that.

[Jase Robertson]

That would be terrible.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh, thank him. Things get sloshed around in the water.

[Martin]

Either they do.

[Phil Robertson]

They move. They move a little bit. You find out when you get back to land just how much they were moving. You go take that first shower after a cruise and you about fall down. Or at least I did. Like that was. That was wild. But no, we had a good time at the John Chris show. He was. And he was a great host, as always for us.

[Jase Robertson]

So highlight of my week.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. If y' all get a chance, go check him out. So that's all I can recommend.

[Martin]

Well, any job that deals with the public.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Is hard. Okay. And look, if you trying to make a bunch of people laugh, I don't.

[Phil Robertson]

Have a hard job.

[Martin]

That's hard.

[Phil Robertson]

Hey. Well, yeah, but I will say I noticed one. One caveat. The people that laughed the hardest spent the most time at the bar. So I did notice that.

[Jase Robertson]

Well, I didn't laugh that hard. I'm just.

[Phil Robertson]

No, you weren't there. You weren't there but once. Tell you what, you don't laugh is when they tell you the price for a bottle of water at one of them things. You think eggs are high. I never would have thought I'd pay for water ever. But here we are.

[Martin]

Yeah, here we are. That's where we at.

[Phil Robertson]

We all pay for water, boys. We all pay. I remember Drinking it out of water hose outside, thinking you was living. Now, they say that'll kill you, but you still here. Well, what happened? What, changed bottles? Yeah. You still here?

[Jase Robertson]

Coca Cola.

[Phil Robertson]

Well, now you can't drink them out of plastic bottles anymore.

[Martin]

Yeah, that's killing you.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. Now half our brain's plastic if you watch Instagram.

[Martin]

Microscopic plastic.

[Jase Robertson]

I drink West Monroe water. Bottled water, whatever water.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, I don't know what's worse for you. Microplastics are roundup. I mean, but I assume we drink them. I assume we drink in both of them at some point, so.

[Jase Robertson]

You know what I've learned this week? You ain't got no control over nothing anyways. Just drink whatever water you can find.

[Phil Robertson]

There you go.

[Martin]

My question to that is a microplastic, huh?

[Phil Robertson]

You can't see it, but it gets to your brain.

[Martin]

And what does it do there?

[Phil Robertson]

I don't know.

[Martin]

I don't think they know either.

[Phil Robertson]

I think it protects it. It's a good way for a bunch of women to sell books on Instagram, huh? It's a hard shell around your brain. Protects it. We better not say nothing. They may buy ad on us one day. So we'll figure it out.

[Martin]

Look like it kind of, you know, help out.

[Phil Robertson]

I know. Water. Get to it, man.

[Martin]

Right.

[Jase Robertson]

Well, I don't know.

[Phil Robertson]

Let's rip the band aid.

[Jase Robertson]

Let's rip it off.

[Phil Robertson]

It has been an interesting week. Yeah, you say it. Me say it. Okay, I'll say it.

[Jase Robertson]

Because I'm gonna cry here in a second.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, so that's fine. Unexpectedly. And by the way, thanks for being here with us, Johnny D. Johnny D. Lost one of his uncles this week at the ripe young age of 61. And I've noticed, I've come to find out when your number of your age starts with a four, all of a sudden, those that start with a six don't seem that far away. You know, used to you'd hear 60 in my mind, like. And you're like, man, well, they had a pretty good life. But now. Now I'm. I'm not that far away. So I'm like, no, that's pretty young, man. Like, that's what. Where are you at? 62. 62. So you old, Uncle Joe. Yeah. You're older than Uncle Joe. But I will say, and we can. We can talk about whatever we want to talk about.

[Jase Robertson]

Break it down. Well, we're going to break it down, I feel. Yeah. Go.

[Phil Robertson]

His service. His service Friday. His memorial service was hands down a goal of mine now, was to Have a service. Like, Uncle Joe had a bunch of people there. Not not only a bunch of people, but a bunch of positive people, and they celebrated this, man. Like, were there tears? Absolutely. But it was a celebration of life, man. Which is really cool to know that you could get that many people together in one place on a Friday afternoon. And while there's sadness and grief and all the things all around, we all got together and we celebrated. A man.

[Martin]

Was there a lot of stories about him?

[Jase Robertson]

Well, we mainly. Oh, man, this is going to be tough, but. So my Uncle Joe is like, the weirdest connections to Uncle Sai in the whole wide world. To. I was trying to figure out how to describe him, and then I was like, I'm gonna have to sit here by Uncle Sa. And they actually share a lot of weird similarities. He's just normal, but he worshiped like, you'd never seen somebody worship that. Can't sing unless you've seen Uncle Sigh. Yeah, he was loud. He would move, he'd stand up. He was a front row guy, one arm up in the air all the time. So any. I don't care what church it was. He was going somewhere and he was on the front, maybe the second row. And he was about 6, 5, hand up in the air. Like, I didn't. I don't like sitting on the front row because I feel like I'm too tall. And he was taller than me, and he just. Boom. And he'd sing at the top of his lungs. And so that's what we did. We called some pastors up and said this is what he would want to do. We had a choir.

[Martin]

We. We've got a lot of. Me and him had a lot of similarities.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, I got some good ideas for years off of Uncle Joe.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, you'd love it.

[Phil Robertson]

I think you want the same thing.

[Martin]

Well, I've went to one, like, you know, we. One of the. My aunts, you know, and she was a hoot. Now, I'm telling you, ain't Mary sue when she died, you know, everybody around there told stories, but that was the best going away of a loved one that I've ever been to. Okay. Is because, like you said, they celebrated who she was.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. And that's what they. I think they did a great job of, man.

[Jase Robertson]

It was Friday.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, Friday.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, My week. I mean, I literally. So Uncle Joe was coming to work for us.

[Martin]

Well, I apologize, because I didn't know I said something to you.

[Phil Robertson]

Hey, you were the only thing missing there from having a full Duckman 1 reunion.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. Uncle Mac showed up. Sound.

[Phil Robertson]

Mac was there. Mac. Which, by the way, we all know. Max. Incredible. Mac. Owen is just the gem of a human period. But to do the service of your younger brother and do it that well. Unbelievable. Mac. Mac did. I don't. I couldn't have done it. I don't have a younger brother, but I couldn't even do what he did for my old.

[Martin]

I'll say. They asked me in the military what I would I want to be in, you know, in the burials of veterans.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Martin]

And I said, no, I can't do it because I. I'm afraid I'd embarrassed the family. Yeah, I'm too emotional.

[Phil Robertson]

Well, Mac probably embarrassed a couple of his. But that's okay because he is. Well, hey, like, he told some. He told some funny stories about. About how they all used to get along and. And all the things. Or not get along or not get along. And you know how Joe was the quiet.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, Joe was a quiet one. And he ran a grocery store. It was the greatest hire I've ever made. That is now not going to happen. He was retiring and I wasn't gonna be able to pay him anything because of whatever the government rules are on retirement and all that. And I was like, yeah, just come work part time. He goes, well, I'm used to six to six. And I was like, I'm gonna get to retire off this guy. It's gonna be unbelievable. But nah, man, it's just like this whole week, you know? Have you heard about the fallout?

[Phil Robertson]

What fallout?

[Jase Robertson]

The fallout from one of the largest wireless carriers. They pushed a massive rate hike. Everybody paying too much.

[Phil Robertson]

There you go.

[Jase Robertson]

You can't be paying too much for your cell phone. You pay too much for everything else. You're paying too much for eggs. Don't pay too much for your cell phone. Stop overpaying for rise in AT&T or T mobile because there's a better way, people.

[Phil Robertson]

What's that better way, man?

[Jase Robertson]

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[Phil Robertson]

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[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, maybe I'll chime in on the free. Stuff's exciting.

[Phil Robertson]

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[Jase Robertson]

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[Phil Robertson]

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[Jase Robertson]

Made the switch, kept my phone number. Super simple. Even psycho do it.

[Martin]

That's right. I like the people that come up with this.

[Jase Robertson]

He likes.

[Phil Robertson]

Why do you like them?

[Martin]

They support how they support the veteran.

[Phil Robertson]

There you go.

[Jase Robertson]

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[Martin]

That's right. Then just talk your head off.

[Jase Robertson]

The other part that I'm so. I'm so proud of. Oh, we gonna get through it. Me and Uncle Sa gonna get through it. Everybody called him Uncle Joe at church.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

And it's because they see people like you and him and they might not have that uncle, but he was my Uncle Joe. And other people looked at him as an uncle. And so it's just so cool. And it's so cool. I just hugged my UPS man, like 20 minutes ago. Like, he walked in, delivered some yeti cups.

[Martin]

Well, he may have needed it.

[Jase Robertson]

No. And he walked around the counter and said, man, I've been praying for you. And just hugged me. And like, there have been people coming to the honey hole, say, can we pray for you? And pray over my dad? Because, you know, Tuesday, I wasn't expecting to. Like, I left the honey hole, took off, Dad's there. I'm running through a yard, and I look up and there's five preachers. I said, this ain't good.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

How'd they get to memo this fast? And it's just, you know, you go through a lot of emotions and, you know, one thing I definitely wanted to do today because we've sat on here and said, change of address, boys. And that's true, but sometimes I've said that and I don't remember how bad. This sucks. Like, this just sucks. There's no other way around it. He was a dear uncle of mine. Definitely top five. I only have four plus, but he's just one of my favorite human beings on the planet. And all the guys at our church called him Uncle Joe. And he was coming to work for me. And then just. You feel the rug Just taken out from underneath you.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

And you're just like, what the heck just happened? Because a lot of death. And I've been trying to. I mean, your boy been wrestling. I've been trying to make sense of all of it. Because then you think back to, like, when my granddaddy died, and I was ready for that. Like, we all. We had time leading up to it. This was what the heck just happened. The man was going to weed eating his boxers and fell over.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

You know what I'm saying? So it's just like, I've been going through it, and I guess the best part of going through it is you see the people that are there for you. Martin cannot work a cash register very well at the Honey Hole, but he sure as heck did.

[Phil Robertson]

Well, that's because y' all don't. For some reason, y' all got a decimal point on a cash register, and everything y' all got there is 499. But if you push that decimal point, it shuts the whole Dag Gum register down.

[Jase Robertson]

It does. It's not a good.

[Phil Robertson]

And then it starts yelling at you. And then Big Dave's over looking at me while he's putting on line on a reel, and I'm like, dad, I need some help. He said, hit clear. I was like, I don't. Where is clear clear?

[Jase Robertson]

Like, but I. I got a picture of that.

[Phil Robertson]

But they've used a clear button so much that that clear ain't on there no more.

[Martin]

Yeah. Don't rub it off.

[Phil Robertson]

He like, right there in the middle. It's just a button.

[Jase Robertson]

But, yeah, that. And that's. And that's the kind of stuff that's like, oh, yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

I worked part time at the Honey Hole last week. Yeah, man.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

It was fun for me, but I had.

[Jase Robertson]

I mean, when. When the crap just sucks. There's no other way to say it. And you got to have, like. I had to go home and tell my kids.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Martin]

That's why most people going religious. While most people ask, well, you know, what do I need to do? You know? And Phil gave them the best advice I've ever heard. You don't have to do something big.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Your uncle touched thousands.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. By baking cookies. And just by being.

[Martin]

Just by being who he was.

[Jase Robertson]

And he did it at a grocery. He ran the grocery store. Store in town.

[Phil Robertson]

Which, by the way, on that note, kudos to the fine folks at Brooks Grocery Company. Because let me tell you something. This is how much this man meant. This is a corporate world, Right.

[Martin]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

Bottom line, he worked at a place in West Monroe, Louisiana. This store is based out of Texas, which ain't that far away. But they knew Joe Owen and the owners of Brookshire's Grocery Company, Brad Brookshire. I talked to him in the memorial line. We sat there and I talked because Godwin introduced. Introduced me to him way back when. And I was kind of thinking myself, man, be cool if Brad and them showed up. But you never know, man. They got. How many stores they got? Too many.

[Jase Robertson]

602 is the one me and Uncle Joe worked at. So I don't know how that works.

[Phil Robertson]

But they got a lot of them. And, you know, you just think, well, in life and in business and in things, things get in the way. Schedules don't work. But them folks jumped on a plane from Ty Tyler, Texas, and flew over here to pay their respects to an employee. Let's just call it what it is. He was. He was an employee for Brooks. He didn't have. He was store director, which is a big deal in all of that. But at the end of the day, he's still just an employee of the company. But to make that kind of impact where the folks at Brookshire's Grocery Company jump on a plane. I don't know how them two stores are running, because every other person in there either had a Brookshire's or Super One shirt on, too. So, like, the whole stores from there and all through, they all showed up, and it was. I mean, that's the kind of legacy you want to leave, right? Like, that's the kind of stuff you want people talking about you for. That's the kind of. Again, I wasn't expecting to see Brad Brooks or of all people there. It's weird that I know him anyway, so, like, you know, it just is one of those kind of deal. And, man, it was just cool, man. Your uncle.

[Martin]

Hey.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, there's. I got a picture from our security. So I was about to break down inside. Save me. But I had to go home and tell my kids something terrible had happened.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, this is why that was going on.

[Jase Robertson]

And Martin is literally just trying to ring. He don't know what buttons he's pressing, but it's a family.

[Phil Robertson]

Get it right.

[Martin]

I could. I could work.

[Phil Robertson]

I just tried.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, it's. Well, the problem is family business goes. Like, the families got to deal with family stuff. Like, we're looking around, like, oh, and we have two people that, you know, James and Boo. I. I've cried with them already, and I can't thank them enough for Everything they've done in the past week was.

[Phil Robertson]

Boo. Going through her own schedule of things, too. So, like, I. Swallows, like, you know what? I work at a place that's got a pretty lax schedule.

[Jase Robertson]

And Martin just showed up, and I.

[Phil Robertson]

Just showed up, sat down. I did my job here, there from my phone, and I did what I could for them, did not screw anything up too bad. And at one point, the math works out. The math was correct. I just had some weird way to get there on a button. But, you know, it was at one.

[Jase Robertson]

Point, I was just sitting there, and me and dad were the only people in there. And all of a sudden, some old boy walks in, comes up behind my dad and hugs him, says, where'd your eye haul jigs?

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

And just hugs him.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh, Johnny God.

[Jase Robertson]

That would be Johnny Godwin.

[Phil Robertson]

Johnny God, I miss Goblin, man.

[Jase Robertson]

Weren't working that day.

[Phil Robertson]

Well, I took Friday off because I figured y' all had enough other stuff to do and I needed to be. This was for a hot minute.

[Martin]

You just talked about change of address. I just had the weirdest thought, hit.

[Jase Robertson]

Us with it, because I'm.

[Martin]

How would you like to been in heaven when Jesus walked up to Uncle Joe and says, hey, let me show you to your room.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, right this way.

[Martin]

Yeah, it's been reserved for you.

[Jase Robertson]

Uncle Joe skipped that room and said, where's. Where's the chorus?

[Phil Robertson]

Well, he probably front row.

[Jase Robertson]

I need to be there.

[Phil Robertson]

He probably went in there, put his bag down and said, all right. Where to worship? Yeah, we're. You know. But yeah, that's going to be cool, man. And that's the cool thing about faith, is we get to go see him again.

[Jase Robertson]

How do people. This has been the toughest. It might be the toughest week of my life. Boy, I'm realizing that right now at.

[Phil Robertson]

This point, and I say it a lot, because with young Carter, you had a.

[Jase Robertson]

But we came out kind of ahead in that one. Yeah, can't talk about Carter. That one's off limits for now.

[Phil Robertson]

I'm just saying. But I'm just saying, comparatively speaking, when you make a statement like that, the people know at home, your firstborn got shipped off to a completely different city and you had to go. So to say this, that this could be the toughest week of your life.

[Jase Robertson]

The shock that. And I think it's.

[Phil Robertson]

And I think there's people listening.

[Jase Robertson]

So much plans. Yeah, we had so many. Like, Beth doesn't have her microphone, but every time she's tried to schedule me.

[Phil Robertson]

I've told her, get Me to June.

[Jase Robertson]

Uncle Joe's going to be here June 9th.

[Phil Robertson]

June.

[Jase Robertson]

She knows. She's smiling over there.

[Phil Robertson]

Like, that was the mantra for John David for the past six months.

[Jase Robertson]

And it wasn't even for work. It was like, man, I'm a. Me and Uncle Joe were together 15 years ago, and I was going to get to do it again. But this time it was going to be like, no pressure. Like, yeah, I was the boss, was angle fire. Like, we were just going to hang out and have fun and do a good job.

[Phil Robertson]

And he wasn't going to yell at you for juggling oranges.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, he didn't know about that, but. Sorry, but it is.

[Phil Robertson]

He knew. He knew. As one thing I figured out about that man, he knew.

[Jase Robertson]

I will say this, though. Of all the people that we used to work with at Super One, I saw my old boss from the produce department, Mr. Rick, and he was there. He. He showed up at the house the day it happened and checked on me. We hadn't hugged when we worked together. We hugged that day and then.

[Phil Robertson]

Well, I ain't ever hugged Joe Daddy, but I hugged him about five times last week. So, yeah, that was wild.

[Jase Robertson]

I was kind of. I was kind of sick of that visitation thing because those sucked. He just, hey, yeah, good to me. Yeah, okay. And so I was like. I kind of would spot my people and I'd just go to them and like, I'm gonna get this one over with. And I spotted one of my guys from men's retreat, who, Man, Uncle Joe just did so much for that on the cook team. And everybody called him Uncle Joe, but I was going to hug him. And then from behind, I hear John Paul and Ms. Sherry, the deli manager at Super One, who loves me and loves Uncle Joe, and she refuses to call me by my right name. I corrected her a thousand times.

[Phil Robertson]

You sound like Phil Robertson.

[Jase Robertson]

She goes, john Paul, she said. And I just looked at her, I said, sure. And I just fell into that woman's arms and hugged her and wept with her. But that, you know, it's crazy to think about the people you work with and customers you have and the UPS guy giving you hugs. But if you live a quiet life and you just serve people, do what's right. And if you sit on the front row at church, it probably helps, too. But, you know, people recognize that faith. And it has been the toughest week of my life. I'm gonna go out on limb and say that. I've had to call friends over and say I ain't good Me and Mark. Thank God for John. Chris. Whatever. I don't even know how to spell your last name now. John. Sorry. It's right, right there on your shirt.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. I was like, lose the H. I.

[Jase Robertson]

Had to get away and go laugh. And now like somebody sent me a message like, you don't understand, like when y' all get in there, what that does for people, just making them laugh. And I'm like, okay, now I do. That was. I needed that Saturday night. But if you, if you don't have any hope.

[Phil Robertson]

How do you wake up in the morning? I. We're rolling towards steady, rolling towards summertime, which means families get busy, plans get hectic. Right.

[Jase Robertson]

And you're probably going to have your shirt off more than normal.

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[Jase Robertson]

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[Martin]

First time that we had a make a wish kid come up here. If you have never went through that. Yo. If you're either you got a good relationship with your family. I should say a close relationship with your family and a close receiver with God Almighty and his Son and the Holy Spirit. If you don't have them, too. What do you do when something hits you like this?

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Who do you turn to?

[Jase Robertson]

I don't get it.

[Phil Robertson]

And what is life if the grave is the end?

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

Well, like, why are we in a rush to get to a hole in the ground?

[Martin]

Yeah. Well, that's why I always tell. Because when me and my mother. Okay. I'm a baby boy.

[Phil Robertson]

Okay, Mama's boy.

[Martin]

Mama's boy. Okay. I'm proud of it.

[Phil Robertson]

I think he's.

[Martin]

I used to ask me, what are you going to do when she dies?

[Phil Robertson]

Oh, that's going to be a tough one for you, boy. Here.

[Martin]

Well, no, no. Well, see, I thought it was going to be to me.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Martin]

But no, because of what faith I have and who I have it in.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Martin]

I said, well, guys, here's. Here's something that I live with, and I believe it wholeheartedly. I know where she went.

[Phil Robertson]

Yep.

[Martin]

I know who she's with, and I know that she's surrounded by people that love her.

[Phil Robertson]

And we get there. We get to go there and, hey.

[Martin]

You know, here's the best line. And I will see her again.

[Phil Robertson]

Amen, buddy.

[Jase Robertson]

And that's. And I guess that's what I want.

[Martin]

To tell you about Uncle Joe.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, yeah. There ain't no joke.

[Martin]

Is home where we want to be?

[Jase Robertson]

100%.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh, yeah. He wouldn't come back.

[Martin]

Yeah. Because there's a lot of people who was looking. Okay. This was recorded in the Bible. Let me go back to them. And God said, no, I've already sent them the prophets. I've already sent messengers. It wouldn't help them. It wouldn't help them if you went back. It wouldn't help. Nope. They go out there, they're going to have to have put their faith in something.

[Phil Robertson]

He said if a man come back from the dead, they wouldn't believe it.

[Martin]

Nope.

[Phil Robertson]

And he did it.

[Martin]

But it was the best part of that, is he did it. And he's told me, I will do it for you, too.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, yeah.

[Martin]

Uncle Joe right now, is there. Okay. He knows stuff that we can only think we know.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh, yeah. Right now he's L, I, V, I N. Ain't that something?

[Martin]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

Like, you think he live in while you're here, but no, he. He's living now.

[Martin]

Hold on.

[Phil Robertson]

Like, got that fresh. Got them fresh. Chuck Taylor's Own. He probably got a single cab again. Well, he wants it, you know.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, but all three don't look as good as it was gone.

[Martin]

Most important thing is he's got a glorified body just like our Lord and Savior, but.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, but.

[Jase Robertson]

And I just. I want to. If you're listening, you're probably a Christian, but if you're not, or you call.

[Phil Robertson]

Yourself one anyway, if you're not, I.

[Jase Robertson]

Just want to use this opportunity to invite you in. Like, I'm. I'm gonna laugh today. I'm also gonna cry, but I also am gonna drive past. I gotta have to have a talk with Aunt Sherry about the plot we picked out because, man, it is on my way to work every day, and I gotta look over there and see it. And I've. I've turned in and went every day so far.

[Phil Robertson]

But, hey, there's a reason I. Yeah, but there's a reason I ain't been.

[Jase Robertson]

I gotta go full PR Real fast. I might be wrong, but I doubt it. And even if I am, I'll never know it.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, but here I'm going to live.

[Jase Robertson]

Just like Uncle Joe lived. And one day, I'm either not going to know nothing and be gone like dust in the wind, or I'm going to live forever with my uncle and my dad and Uncle Sigh and Phil Robertson and Willie Robertson and Martin and Godwin, and we're all going to be up there together. And whenever you hear the verse, oh, death, there is no sting or whatever, I was like, why is this verse a thing? Because they're still. I'm stinging. It's because it hasn't happened yet. Yeah, but one day that's gonna happen, and I want you there with me.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. There was no sting.

[Jase Robertson]

You're listening.

[Phil Robertson]

There was no sting for him. The sting is for us.

[Jase Robertson]

The sting's there now, but it's not gonna be there one day. So if you're listening, come on in, boys.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Jason preached yesterday, and right at the end of when he said he gave the invitation, I stood up before I was walking out. I said, hey, he's telling you, come to Jesus, boys. It's that time.

[Phil Robertson]

I bet you said it a little louder.

[Martin]

Oh, I did? Yeah. Jason, hey, thanks a lot. He just walked me a while ago because people don't understand the invitation. Okay? That's Jesus Christ talking to you. They sing a song, and I love it. I know your name. Jesus knows your name. And, hey, when you hear somebody speaking about him, when they offer the invitation, it's Jesus trying To call you home.

[Phil Robertson]

Amen. Okay, so, hey, that's what it is, man. That's what.

[Jase Robertson]

You don't know when it's going to be.

[Martin]

Look, hey, life is short. You're not promised the next second, okay?

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. Hey, and, like, just so we're all clear, Uncle Joe walked probably 50,000 steps a day in that grocery store. He ran a marathon a few years ago.

[Phil Robertson]

I look great.

[Jase Robertson]

Heart problems were not on the docket.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, not. Not what you'd expect.

[Jase Robertson]

I think in the last couple weeks, he'd said he'd been feeling some weird stuff, and he was in line to get that checked out. Didn't happen. I ain't gonna. In the words of my amazing little cousin Lauren, who is a pharmacist, like, I ain't going down that road. No, ain't no point. We know where he's at. Also, if you're in northwest Arkansas and you run into a single girl named Lauren, you gotta go through me now, because she's a baller. And the way her and her mom and Mac Aaron have handled this.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh, you're your cousins. She got up and spoke straight up.

[Jase Robertson]

And I knew we were gonna have to do an episode about this. I felt like I wanted to, but I was kind of like, maybe, maybe not. And then she got up and said, well, I knew when he died, I had to stand up here and tell y' all what he'd say. And I was like, oh, shit.

[Phil Robertson]

Shoot.

[Jase Robertson]

Now I gotta.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, that was a toughie.

[Jase Robertson]

You're right.

[Phil Robertson]

It was a good one, though. It. She. She did a fantastic job.

[Jase Robertson]

She is the smartest. She's the only doctor we got. So, yeah, she's the smartest one of all.

[Phil Robertson]

That makes sense. Yeah, she. That checks, too, you know, but the. No, the whole family, man, it was just. It was great. Like, it was. It was fantastic. Again, sign me up for that. That's how I hope. That should be a goal for how to live your life. Is that at the end of it, that's what they do, Right? Like that again. I got. I got some good notes for Christine. If Cy goes first, well, you won't talk about it. And if not, then that means we in charge anyway. Oh, man. We gonna have fun. You hear me? We about to have some fun.

[Jase Robertson]

Just give me the SAT lift.

[Martin]

I don't know if I'll put it on my headstone, but I always think about this. Don't stand here and weep for me over my grave.

[Phil Robertson]

No, we gonna sing.

[Martin]

I Ain't there.

[Phil Robertson]

No, we gonna Say, yeah, I ain't there. Yeah.

[Martin]

Okay.

[Phil Robertson]

Now we're gonna have a good time.

[Martin]

Let's have a party. Because guess what? I'm home.

[Phil Robertson]

You may want to give us a song list in case you don't want us to edit it or pick it their own. If you want. If you got some, if you will. Probably hit it as well. With my soul for you. Because I've heard you sang that one for. I've heard you get loud on that one. When they get that bone, well, they.

[Jase Robertson]

Hit How Great Thou Art on Sunday morning at church. I said, boys, I'm about to.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh, yeah, that was good.

[Jase Robertson]

I almost went.

[Phil Robertson]

I got there again yesterday morning. Yeah, it was rough. Yeah, it was crazy.

[Jase Robertson]

I sang through the tears.

[Phil Robertson]

There you go. But no, it was. It's a goal, man. It's a goal for how to live your life to be known as whatever that is. Right? Like whether it's uncle or crazy or sigh, you know, like, whatever. That you're known by that and not by your full legal name. Like, that's the. That's the cool part.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, he's Uncle Joe. And a lot of dudes. Phones.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. Yeah, man. So again, gives you something to aspire for. Like, you're looking at that. Like, that's what I want. I want to be like him, man. That. That's going to live a life like that.

[Martin]

Yeah. If you leave this earth. Okay. And then people, you know, have. You know, if they won't say anything, it's got to be good.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Martin]

And Uncle Joe was one that had the reputation. It was all good.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Not to mention he was Willie Robertson's landlord when Willie lived in a shed behind his house for a couple years, which is the funniest.

[Phil Robertson]

Well, and that's what I told Willie.

[Jase Robertson]

I said, he died, we'd eat in your old shed.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. And he. He wrote. I mean, that's what they said. One of them weird facts. Like he wrote the note for Willie to call Corey for their first date. He wrote the note and put it on the phone. Corey Howard called. Call her back.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. Uncle Joe was part of that.

[Phil Robertson]

Uncle Joe.

[Jase Robertson]

This town small, y' all.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, well, you know, which is. I mean, it's wild to think about. Like, you just look back at all the lives touched and I mean, as much as I've been in Super One and seen him around there and then, you can't miss him on the front row.

[Jase Robertson]

It miss him at church. You're gonna see.

[Phil Robertson]

You couldn't miss him down there on the front row. So. But you know what? We missed him yesterday, so.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, I was on the front row with my aunt and cousins yesterday. Yeah. As well.

[Phil Robertson]

There you go. How was that? I ain't going down there, but we ain't gonna.

[Jase Robertson]

We all looked at each other and cried. We got a cry room at the Honey Hole now. It's just called the office. I said, this is like a church. I said, if you close the door, just.

[Phil Robertson]

It'd be fine.

[Jase Robertson]

Pry eyes out, watch that monitor. If we get too busy, come back out. It's just like a church now.

[Martin]

It can be.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Martin]

For two or three are gathered together and his name.

[Jase Robertson]

That's a good point.

[Martin]

He's there.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh. Then we got through Friday, and I was like, all right. I think I'm good. Got through the funeral, and I texted Mark on Saturday morning, I walk in the Honey Hole, and some dudes just got my dad praying for him and some other guy I don't know whose dad just died. I'm like, golly, Westman Road. Just church all over the place, y' all. You want to know what one of the toughest part of parenting is?

[Phil Robertson]

I already know, man. Change and die. Dinner time.

[Jase Robertson]

Yes, you're exactly right.

[Phil Robertson]

Dinner time, man.

[Jase Robertson]

That kid, that middle child of mine, he eats three things. Apple juice, chicken, and bread. And sometimes you don't want chicken and bread.

[Phil Robertson]

I know. Like, the boys are the same way right now. They went from eating everything you put in front of them to now it's all like it.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

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[Jase Robertson]

My cousin Mac Aaron, he's been handed some difficulties. A lot like Carter. Yeah, I'm not going to go fully down that road, but Joe helped out a lot of dads like me and Mac Aaron. He looked at my dad. Mac Aaron's 24, works for my brother in law now selling honeyhole shirts and stuff. But if you, if you buy, okay, it's selfless plug. If you buy a honeyhole shirt online, Mac Aaron sending it to you. But Mac Aaron looks at my dad and goes, did I miss something? My dad goes, what? He goes, did my dad have this big of an impact on the community? And we were like, yeah, he did, buddy. And it was just something, you know, when you're around it every day and there's just a leader around you and you, you're used to it, you don't realize it kind of like your dad. And then, you know, when everybody finally stops and says, oh, wow, I need to thank this guy. And unfortunately it's because he's not here anymore.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. Yes.

[Jase Robertson]

You, you really start showing some honor. And so also, don't wait on that. You know, I passed Uncle Joe three days before he passed on the road. He was walking his dog. I just waved. Yeah, I wish I'd have stopped, but I ain't looking back on all that.

[Phil Robertson]

You can't live there, man. But we, we could all live there and we'd all be miserable. So you can't.

[Jase Robertson]

I did almost run over that dog, though. It was, it was close.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, you can't, you can't live up in there. But it's just like we took the boys out to. They had this weird herpetology show here in town a couple of weeks ago where they had. I should have taken side.

[Martin]

What's herpetology?

[Phil Robertson]

Snakes, turtles, frogs, all the thing. Well, they were. I took the boys there because I'm trying to get in the education part of it.

[Jase Robertson]

Like, run.

[Phil Robertson]

Well, no. Like, we can scream and get.

[Jase Robertson]

Now you don't.

[Phil Robertson]

We can touch these. I'm talking about the turtles. Yeah, we can touch these. But for now, until y' all get older, we don't touch these. These. These are off limits. Until we can identify the snake, these are off limits. So that's what I was trying to walk around and do. But anyway, I was there. Old boy walked up to me, say, hey, man, how's your dad being? And of course, I'm thinking, you know, in our world, right, people think Phil Robertson's my dad. And with everything that's happening, I was just like, oh, man, you know, he's. He's. He's fine. He's doing. You know, he's. He getting along just fine. He's like. And then he said, well, you're Martin, right? And I was like, well, yeah, so I ain't seen you daddy since we worked at the paper mill together. I said, oh, well, he's never been better, man. My dad been gone almost five years now, you know. But, I mean, truthfully, he never been better. Like, hey, he living it up, man. I don't know what he doing. He welding something up there. He got put on the construction team for adding more rooms every time somebody get in. If I know him, I mean, he was a plumber and pipe fitter, so he's putting in golden toilets. And, you know. You know, I mean, he just. I tell you what he ain't. Do I know my dad? He ain't sitting around.

[Martin]

Nope.

[Phil Robertson]

He doing something either. He's working on something. He's playing in the grass. He's catching the armadillos. He's whatever.

[Martin]

I tell you, he scared me to death.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, huh. He's gonna be doing something, so, you know, it's. No, man. But you. You get in those kinds of deals and you realize it is wild what.

[Jase Robertson]

People say to you.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh, yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

It is a different animal that I hadn't been a part of. Like, you know, my papa, my mama, my granddaddy, they've all gone to be with the Lord.

[Phil Robertson]

But it was, you know, you saw it coming.

[Jase Robertson]

We're good.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, you saw it coming.

[Jase Robertson]

This one was a new feeling.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, the shocks are weird, man.

[Jase Robertson]

And we. We went through it. But then, you know, if. You know what time for advice from somebody going through some stuff. If you don't know what to say, say, I don't know what to say, but I love you. That's all you got to say.

[Martin]

Well, that's what I told the buddy of mine.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. There are no. And some of that stuff. There are no words. Right. Best friend says showing up, just being.

[Jase Robertson]

That's what's important, because my best friend was there. And that poor boy is so awkward anyway.

[Phil Robertson]

Who, Drew?

[Martin]

Oh, yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

He's right, though. He had gained some weight.

[Jase Robertson]

Zing. Might as well bury Drew while we're at. Now just make fun of him. But Drew walked up to me, and I was like, this is gonna be funny because best friend since junior high. But, you know, it's hard. Dudes have trouble communicating. He goes, hey, man, good seeing you. And I just started laughing. Yeah, yeah, whatever.

[Phil Robertson]

Hey, man, I got nothing. That's why I didn't say nothing. I walked in the honeyhole, said, what y' all need done, man?

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. Oh, so many people, man, and so many fun stories and.

[Phil Robertson]

Oh, yeah. Well, somebody said. I don't remember. Was it Mac or was it Tom? Somebody said it there, said, grief is the price you pay for love, man. That's tight. That makes grief okay, Right? Yeah.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

You know, if it didn't, well, just.

[Martin]

Think of somebody that's never loved anybody.

[Phil Robertson]

That's what I'm saying. Like, if you didn't.

[Martin]

Better to have loved and have never loved.

[Phil Robertson]

Ain't that the truth? Praise God for that. Yeah. Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

It's be like, if this was just a normal day, it would be a bummer, because I'd be like, well, I had this uncle that I wish I was close to.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Instead, I had this uncle that, like, I'm devastated about. I was going to work with. We were good friends. We did ministry together.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, he was so good, too. When you had to run a whole retreat and you had like, oh, how are we going to feed these guys? I had one answer, Uncle Joe, and they're like, what's he going to do? I was like, I don't care.

[Phil Robertson]

He's in charge.

[Jase Robertson]

I don't have to ask anyone.

[Martin]

He'll work it out.

[Jase Robertson]

He got this. Is he going to spend too much money? No, he runs a grocery. Grocery store?

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Can he cook good? Yes. He used to run the bakery. Will dessert be okay? It'll be better than anything you've ever had.

[Phil Robertson]

So, yeah. The eggs may be a little overdone, but the dessert gonna be popping. No, I'm just saying, hey, don't worry about the third course. It will be fine.

[Jase Robertson]

Hey, you know what his best course was? Bacon.

[Phil Robertson]

Bacon.

[Jase Robertson]

He had to cook eggs and bacon for 200 dudes about three times a year. Two days, like, three weekends a year, he would cook breakfast us. He figured out you can just deep fry bacon.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

And just deep fried bacon. All right. What? Bacon grease. Gonna deep fry some more bacon.

[Martin]

You never go wrong with bacon.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. Amen, buddy. That's.

[Jase Robertson]

I will say to all my men's retreat guys, if you happen to listen to this. All the food I used to sneak, whoever's in charge now, I'm gonna still need that.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

I need nephew rights to the food before everybody else.

[Phil Robertson]

I still need that key to the kitchen.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. I don't know how I lost that little tidbit.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. Well, anyways, it's, It's. It's all good, man. It's going to be a. I tell you, it's just a long and winding road now. Like, the important part, you get through the service, you get past it. And now will be. I'm sure y' all can all speak to this. I know Galvin lost his dad. Uncle Joe, while he may have been called an uncle, was a father figure to a lot of people. You're going to hit these weird deals where it just comes out of nowhere and you're like, what in the heck just happened? Like, and it's going to be in the weirdest time in the weirdest place. And I just look at it as like the good Lord saying, I got you, big dog. Like, you know, like, I got you. But most importantly, I got him. So that's the most important, because I.

[Martin]

Was going to say, okay, he called him home.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Easier when you may not know why. Okay. Because, hey, like JD said, and I agree with you, the woman you're talking about, I think John Paul is a better name than John.

[Jase Robertson]

John Paul.

[Martin]

Hey, I'm serious.

[Jase Robertson]

I can't go back in that grocery store for maybe ever. But when I do, I'm going to hug.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, you're going have to do online up there, man. You ain't gonna be able to walk back in that joint.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, I can do it.

[Phil Robertson]

But I say, I'll give you a perfect example. Like, after dad passed, it was right there in the middle of hunting season, all the things. And for some reason, one morning, Clay said, I'm just going to pick you up. And I'm like, well, why are you talking. Pick me up like a. I always drive. I don't ever want to be a captive audience for anybody.

[Jase Robertson]

He did drive me to John Chris.

[Phil Robertson]

That's what I'm saying. Like, if you need. If you need a driver, I'm your guy. Like, I am totally cool being the Captain of the ship. But for some reason that. More that night before, I was like, yeah, okay, whatever, that's fine. I don't. I would have never said. Most times, like, I'll meet you there because you're going to be running late. And I don't want to be riding with somebody, go 95 miles an hour. Like, I don't want to be riding with a guy that can afford a speeding ticket. That's just not where I am in life. Like, you know, I like to drive like the guy that can't afford to speed and ticket. So I just. I kind of cruise, you know. But anyway, I'm standing there in my driveway. Shocker. He is late, right?

[Martin]

Oh, yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

And like, I'm just standing there, you know, four o' clock in the morning, whatever. And I didn't look up for some reason. And there's like seven or eight shooting stars all at one time. It's like. And I'm like, well, dad gun. I guess old man's up there welding, like, you know. But I didn't ever have. No. Like, I wasn't supposed to be outside. Any other day, I'd have been driving. I would have been, you know, I'd have just been going duck Hut. And I'd have never seen those if I wasn't sitting there waiting on Clay to get to my house. And that's one of the moments where I'm like, I'm telling you, man, it just comes out of nowhere, man. But it's so cool because you, you. You see them in everything, man. And it's like, it's cool because we get to see them again. That's the coolest part.

[Jase Robertson]

And there's.

[Phil Robertson]

We get to party for eternity. And again, like you said, if we're wrong, okay. Yeah, okay. It's the same fate either way.

[Martin]

I'm with Phil. Matt.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Martin]

I might be wrong, but I seriously doubt it.

[Phil Robertson]

I could be wrong, but I'm a Robertson.

[Jase Robertson]

No.

[Phil Robertson]

And I think.

[Jase Robertson]

I think our culture, especially us guys, which I don't fall into this because I'm a huge baby. You try to hold it together and you don't want to cry and you don't want to do this and that, but then, you know, oh, man, you.

[Phil Robertson]

Gotta let that stuff out.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, but no, no, exactly. Because Jesus cried that.

[Martin]

A man can't cry. That's bull.

[Jase Robertson]

Martin. You know what today is? The last day of school.

[Phil Robertson]

Is it?

[Jase Robertson]

And I'm gonna get them kids out there in the yard working hard, planting trees, planting shrubs, and you know what? Else they gonna grow fast.

[Phil Robertson]

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[Jase Robertson]

Hey, and that's the kind of things I'm looking for.

[Phil Robertson]

See, that's what I'm talking about. Because all you do is get in there, you type in your zip code, you're in zone eight. Peaches, plums. Oh, yeah, what else they got? Apricots, apples, you name it. I mean, there's 6,000 to choose from. Look, and if you're like, man, I don't know how to do this, but they got you. Their resource center is full of tips and advice from plant experts to help you learn more about your yard's needs so that you know what will thrive in your area. And with your yard conditions. Again, just get on there, check out the zone finder. You can't go wrong, y' all. It makes it that simple. This spring, they have the best deals for your yard, up to half off on select plants and other deals. And listeners to our show get 15 off their first purchase when using the code Duck at checkout. That's an additional 15 off at fast growingtrees.com using the code Duck at checkout. Fast growingtrees.com code now's the perfect time to plant. Use duck to save today. Offers valid for a limited time. Terms and conditions may apply. Godwin says it. Godwin said it the first time, and I know that I. That he was the first one to say it. That made me think about it that way. We were doing the deal somewhere. Speaking I'm not going. I'll let Godwin tell you. But he said, think of how cool heaven is. And why'd you say that, Galvin? You know why? Because we've traveled everywhere. We've seen beautiful oceans and mountain ranges and waterfalls, and he just spoke that into existence. But he's going back to prepare a place. Can you imagine what that's going to look like? Yeah, he spoke. He spoke one into existence, but he's preparing the other. And I had never thought about it in that context till me and Goblin were doing a speech somewhere and we've done a bunch of them tag team together. And Goblin was going. His first time. We had done it tag team. And it was the first time I'm standing there on that stage. I'm supposed to be speaking. And now my man five seven over here, my little buddy, my little chunky buddy has just.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

Has just blown my mind where I'm like, you gonna have to take the rest of this one one, because I got nothing. Because you just sent my mind into a place of now trying to imagine something that I know I can't because the book of Revelation says you can't. Like, they start describing all the colors and all the things, and it's like, no, no.

[Martin]

That's why I wanted one. That's why when I preach and the guy leaves me with this, he's fixed to leave or she's going to leave. They said, well, I'm sorry, I just can't see it. It's God you're always talking about. And I said, wait a minute. I said, remember the questions I asked you? Where did all this beauty come from?

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. How'd it get here?

[Martin]

The birds, all the different colored birds. The fish, all the different color fish. All this stuff that you can see, you gotta ask yourself a couple simple questions. Where did it come from?

[Phil Robertson]

All you gotta do is say thank you.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

It's the one time in life that it's okay to receive.

[Martin]

That's right.

[Phil Robertson]

Without getting like you May you think about it, because we're all. Better to give than to receive.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Phil Robertson]

This one you just got to. Just got to receive.

[Martin]

Hey, I accept it. And then all you got to do is. Okay, keep your eyes on him and keep trying.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, keep trying. Get back up. Dust.

[Martin]

Get back up. Dust it up. Let's go.

[Phil Robertson]

That's something that Phil told me when he was sharing the gospel with me, that I just. It just stuck with me. He said, you ever tried to be good?

[Martin]

Well, no. No. Because, hey, look, when he Met. Hey, when he come to Jesus. Let me tell you, when he came to Jesus, he actually said that. Just told it and said, hey, look, what do you mean, be good? I've never been good.

[Phil Robertson]

Tell me if you've heard this one before. During Uncle Joe's service the other day, there was this weird exclamation right there in the middle of it of a man showed up. Jesus. Jesus.

[Jase Robertson]

So Tom got Kurt fired up.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. Oh, Kurt back there. I said, oh, he could tear stopped for a second.

[Martin]

Hey, you gotta love that man.

[Phil Robertson]

He couldn't stand. We may have to. We may have to slide Kurt in here.

[Martin]

You gotta love that man.

[Phil Robertson]

Because in the words of Kurt Lively, he's gonna show up smelling like Old Spice and cat piss. That's why we ain't had him in.

[Jase Robertson]

Here yet, he said. I said, kurt, your truck kind of dented them trees, ate out at Camp Chioka. Ain't got a lot of give, brother.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, but. Yeah, right there in the middle of it, Kurt dropped a Jesus.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, I started laughing.

[Phil Robertson]

I said, there it is. And everybody in. I needed that Lively man. We line with him, too.

[Jase Robertson]

Good break, Kurt. Appreciate that.

[Phil Robertson]

Hey, I like times when I get to get in there. Brittany asked me, she said, do you know all these people, too? I said, apparently we knew a lot of the same folks.

[Jase Robertson]

West Monroe. West Monroe's finest were there for sure.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah, Yeah, I knew. I shook a lot of hands in that. In that line, while I could do it was also wrapped around the building, by the way.

[Jase Robertson]

Well, that.

[Phil Robertson]

If that tells you about the man too. The. The line was legit wrapped around the building. I kept walking. I was like, well, I'm get to the end of it here at some point. Now you.

[Martin]

That's.

[Phil Robertson]

Eventually you just kind of slid in somewhere and that's where you ended up.

[Martin]

That's an honor trip, you. Tribute to the man. Oh, ain't no doubt that all these people come okay. To say goodbye.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah. Well, to say goodbye to him. But also, the family know they love him. Yeah. Which is really. It's a really cool thing, man. It. It's in the worst of times, you find out what people are made of. Right? Like. And that's where you build the community. Nobody. When everything's going great, you rarely talk to anybody for the most part.

[Martin]

That's why I always liked. Whenever we was having family reunions, all the cousins and everybody got together and, you know, and sit, sit. Sit on. Get on your knees and sit down and listen to them all tell the stories about, you know, about what went on, who, you know, what happened, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's out of this world.

[Phil Robertson]

Well, you want to.

[Jase Robertson]

I got.

[Phil Robertson]

I know what it's going to be. It's going to be first Peter. Oh, you're not going to share the one he shared first Thessalonian.

[Jase Robertson]

I thought actually you just one upped it. I was going to try and get to.

[Phil Robertson]

So while he's looking it up, let me shoot Martin. Well, I didn't mean to do this to you, but I just. I figured I knew what it was going to be. So here's the kind of guy I'll let John D. Look at this because I know that just reading is going to be hard enough. Let me explain.

[Jase Robertson]

The Lord blocked that one out of my head so I wouldn't cry right here. I'm just going to go straight to my Uncle Joe's Facebook and I'm going to go to the last.

[Phil Robertson]

He shared a verse every morning on Facebook. So for people that say Facebook's a devil, it ain't the devil. Whatever you use stuff for, what it. What it's there for. But he shared a verse every morning and a couple of hours before he was called home.

[Jase Robertson]

Hold on. He got tagged in a lot of stuff since then to go make the news. We go get there and I'mma lose it. Golly. So many people have tagged him. May 6th at 5:48 in the morning, Miles Joe God on Facebook about four hours before he went to be with Jesus and he said, second Peter 3:18. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory, both now and forever. Amen.

[Phil Robertson]

That's tight. That's tight, man. If that's the last thing you put out in public, that's tight, man.

[Jase Robertson]

So also, you're surrounded by great. So get some perseverance.

[Phil Robertson]

Yeah.

[Martin]

You might even say my knew he was on his way home.

[Phil Robertson]

You never know. I mean we. We don't know that's for sure. But he. But I say this, whether he knew he was on his way home or not, he knew when that day came where he was going. So. Which is awesome, Uncle Joe, the whole Owen family, we love you guys. For any of you, look that I know. This happens every day, right? You may be dealing with this, this same thing in your family or, you know, somebody or whatever reach out to you crew man, like let people be there for you. They want to be there for you. Just. Just know that you're not an inconvenience to them. And man. If you haven't had the chance to seek out Jesus and look him up, there ain't no better time than right now.

[Martin]

And the best thing about it is, hey, if you find him, you'll never be alone again.

[Phil Robertson]

Amen, buddy. All right, we'll see y' all next time. Right here in the duck call room. We're out, Sam.