Uncle Si Learns the Truth about Will Robertson's Adoption

Summary

Duck Call Room – Episode: "Uncle Si Learns the Truth about Will Robertson's Adoption"

Release Date: April 15, 2025
Hosts: Si Robertson & Justin Martin
Guests: Jase Robertson, Willie Robertson, Bobby Robertson, Si Robertson

Overview

In this heartfelt and humorous episode of Duck Call Room, hosts Si Robertson and Justin Martin welcome guest Bobby Robertson (also referred to as Will Robertson II) to delve into a deeply personal and revealing conversation about adoption within the Robertson family. The episode blends laughter with profound insights as the brothers navigate their familial bonds, personal histories, and the impact of adoption on their lives.

Adieu to Advertisements and Introduction

The episode swiftly moves past initial advertisements, landing the listeners directly into a casual and candid discussion among the Robertson brothers and Si Robertson. The atmosphere is relaxed, setting the stage for an engaging and sincere conversation.

Revelation of Adoption Stories

[00:46] Bobby Robertson:
Bobby is introduced as Will Robertson II, sparking immediate curiosity among the listeners about his background and connection to the Robertson family.

[08:00] Jase Robertson:
Jase openly addresses rumors about his adoption, clarifying, "Yeah, well, yeah, in fact was adopted. There's no rumor about anything. That was a rumor for a long time."

Jase’s Adoption Journey

[36:01] Jase Robertson:
Jase shares his personal adoption story, revealing that he was born on November 8, 2001, and adopted just over a month after birth. He explains the circumstances leading to his adoption and how curiosity about his biological family emerged during his teenage years.

[36:16] Jase Robertson:
He recounts meeting his biological mother, Emily, in 2015, and the serendipitous discovery that his best friend Will was actually his biological brother. "We grew up going to Chioka together... we were best friends without actually knowing we were brothers."

[37:18] Jase Robertson:
Jase emphasizes the strong bond with his adoptive family and the profound connection with his biological brother, stating, "We have the best relationship. I call her Ma, like, Ma. So I have my mom, and I have my ma."

Family Dynamics and Relationships

The conversation transitions into the broader family dynamics, discussing how relationships have evolved with the revelation of adoption. Jase highlights how meeting his biological mother and brother has strengthened familial ties, leading to a deeper understanding and appreciation within the Robertson family.

[28:46] Willie Robertson:
Willie reflects on the unique relationships within the family, particularly how personal histories shape their bonds: "Look at Jacob. Bella's Jacob."

Personal Reflections and Humorous Anecdotes

Amidst the serious discussions, the brothers infuse humor, reminiscing about past experiences, college struggles, and quirky family moments. This blend of humor and sincerity keeps the conversation lighthearted while addressing significant emotional topics.

[17:02] Si Robertson:
Jase and Bobby discuss their college experiences, sharing funny yet relatable stories about academic challenges and personal growth.

[24:35] Bobby Robertson:
Bobby humorously talks about trending fashion, specifically “one-legged jeans,” adding levity to the conversation: "It has been in... What?"

Intertwining Personal and Family Narratives

The episode intricately weaves personal narratives with family stories, demonstrating how adoption has influenced each member's life. Jase’s journey serves as a centerpiece, highlighting themes of identity, belonging, and the unforeseen connections that define the Robertson family.

[55:12] Jase Robertson:
Jase shares a remarkable story about how fate intertwined his life with his biological family, emphasizing the role of divine providence: "God provided in every way, just, you know."

Insights on Adoption and Identity

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to exploring the emotional and psychological aspects of adoption. Jase discusses how discovering his biological roots has enriched his sense of self and strengthened his relationships within the family.

[41:32] Bobby Robertson:
Bobby draws parallels between his story and Jase’s, illustrating how adoption can unexpectedly forge strong bonds: "Adoption is just wild."

Conclusion and Family Unity

As the episode wraps up, the Robertson brothers express gratitude for their close-knit family and the shared experiences that have shaped their lives. The conversation underscores the importance of understanding and embracing one’s heritage, while maintaining the love and support that define the Robertson legacy.

[56:03] Willie Robertson:
Willie concludes with a warm welcome for Bobby back to the Duck Call Room, symbolizing the unity and enduring bond of the family: "Welcome back."

Notable Quotes

• Jase Robertson [08:00]: "Yeah, well, yeah, in fact was adopted. There's no rumor about anything. That was a rumor for a long time."
• Jase Robertson [36:01]: "In November of 2001, I was born. Yeah. So I was adopted at five weeks. Just."
• Jase Robertson [37:18]: "We have the best relationship. I call her Ma, like, Ma."
• Bobby Robertson [24:35]: "One-legged jeans... What?"
• Jase Robertson [55:12]: "God provided in every way, just, you know."

Final Thoughts

This episode of Duck Call Room offers an intimate glimpse into the Robertson family's adoption stories, blending humor with heartfelt revelations. Listeners gain a deeper understanding of the complexities and joys that come with discovering one's true identity and familial connections. Through candid conversations and relatable anecdotes, the Robertson brothers showcase the strength of family bonds and the resilience of the human spirit.

Transcript

[Willie Robertson]

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[Bobby Robertson]

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[Willie Robertson]

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[Jase Robertson]

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[Willie Robertson]

Bobby, you good? You want to beatbox this in here?

[Bobby Robertson]

If you're waiting on me. Waiting on the wrong guy.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, gosh. I'm kidding.

[Jase Robertson]

Bobby, y'all. Hey, do y'all remember that one? I mean, it was years ago. I was probably like 13 years old.

[Willie Robertson]

On what?

[Jase Robertson]

I don't know. I think it. What may have been a podcast or something.

[Bobby Robertson]

You were 13 years old years ago?

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, years ago.

[Bobby Robertson]

I feel like you were 13 yesterday.

[Jase Robertson]

Dude, that was 10 years ago.

[Bobby Robertson]

You're 23.

[Jase Robertson]

I'm 23.

[Bobby Robertson]

Holy cow.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, well, I really am going to.

[Willie Robertson]

Be 40 in August.

[Bobby Robertson]

Hold on, before we. Before we go too far because you started in on a story. Welcome back to the Duck Call room. Yeah, Martin, we have a guest.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, this is Bobby.

[Jase Robertson]

What's up?

[Bobby Robertson]

Or Will.

[Willie Robertson]

Or Will.

[Bobby Robertson]

Or William Jess Robertson ii.

[Jase Robertson]

No, I'm Willie Alexander.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, he's. He was the original. Was. He was the original Xander.

[Jase Robertson]

I am the original.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, geez. Ander. Then Rebecca had to swipe in and steal it.

[Jase Robertson]

Yep. Like, I could have been named Xander this whole time, but.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, just.

[Bobby Robertson]

Is that what that's from?

[Willie Robertson]

Huh?

[Jase Robertson]

Kinda.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah.

[Bobby Robertson]

I'm connecting a lot of dots right now that I wasn't ready for.

[Jase Robertson]

There may. There may be an Alexander on John Reed's side. I'm not sure.

[Willie Robertson]

Nah, it had to be.

[Jase Robertson]

It had to be us.

[Willie Robertson]

It had to be Phil.

[Bobby Robertson]

Had to be me.

[Willie Robertson]

But. Welcome, Bobby. Or. Well, what do you want to be? What do you want to be called?

[Bobby Robertson]

A story.

[Jase Robertson]

Everybody in this room pretty much calls me Bobby anyway, so. Well, except for Abby, but.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, that's what's weird, because now Bella works here, and I'm the only person in this place that calls her Susan. Which, really.

[Jase Robertson]

But, yeah. No, nobody calls her Susan anymore.

[Willie Robertson]

I know.

[Jase Robertson]

It's only me and, like, not even dad. It's just you.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah. It sucks, man. Like, because that means we're getting older and things change. I like to remember y'all at, like, four fighting each other. Bobby was taking the snacks, and all Bella wanted was a Dr. Pepper.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

I mean, I missed those days.

[Jase Robertson]

No, I do, too.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh. But anyway. Story. Beatboxing.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, no. Yeah, it's about beatboxing. Yeah. No, dad was doing a podcast. It was in our game room, and I was.

[Bobby Robertson]

Podcast.

[Jase Robertson]

It was.

[Bobby Robertson]

I was like, we didn't do a podcast. 10 years.

[Jase Robertson]

Yes, we did. And it was about my story, and he wanted me to beatbox in the intro. And I thought that was really funny because you. You mentioned that.

[Bobby Robertson]

Well, go ahead.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, you are a world famous beatboxer.

[Jase Robertson]

This sounds fun.

[Bobby Robertson]

He goes, no, I felt dumb at 13 and at 23.

[Jase Robertson]

Yes.

[Bobby Robertson]

That was 10 years ago.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

There you go, Johnny D. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, we're old, man. That's fine.

[Bobby Robertson]

That actually checks out.

[Willie Robertson]

Bobby's in his prime and we're old. It's fine. Yeah, it's all good.

[Jase Robertson]

Whenever I was in that, y'all were all in your prime, and now it's old. Yeah, it's gone now.

[Willie Robertson]

I really feel like I wasted that. I really felt like I didn't thrive, actually.

[Bobby Robertson]

I think the problem is I. I mean, I was supposed to be in my prime then, and now I might actually. In my prime.

[Jase Robertson]

You are. Yeah.

[Bobby Robertson]

So I just wasted the 20s is what we're getting to.

[Jase Robertson]

Yep.

[Bobby Robertson]

Well, this sucks.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah.

[Bobby Robertson]

Thanks for coming by, Bob.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, no problem. I pretty much just ate my 20s away. Like, I mean, I was just eating.

[Bobby Robertson]

Like, I was just chasing Willie.

[Si Robertson]

Oh.

[Bobby Robertson]

The whole decade.

[Si Robertson]

Where did you graduate high school?

[Jase Robertson]

I graduated high school from Claiborne Christian.

[Si Robertson]

So when did you get married to Abby?

[Jase Robertson]

I. I got married to Abby in April of 2023. April 28th.

[Willie Robertson]

I was about to say, don't fail that one, folks. She is right over there.

[Jase Robertson]

Y.

[Si Robertson]

Yes.

[Jase Robertson]

It's coming. Our two year anniversary.

[Bobby Robertson]

I was trying to do the math because I don't know when anything happened.

[Jase Robertson]

About two, three weeks. I don't know. It's. It's the end.

[Willie Robertson]

28Th. Yeah. 18 days. So. Yeah, you're. You're less than three weeks.

[Bobby Robertson]

What'd you get her? Oh, she just. Her eyes went huge when I said that.

[Jase Robertson]

That's classified.

[Bobby Robertson]

That's a good, good answer.

[Willie Robertson]

And also TBD thinking about it, if you didn't know. We do a lot of marriage counseling in here, too, Bob, so we can help y'all out.

[Si Robertson]

You and I being school together here.

[Jase Robertson]

No, we weren't. So I went to Claiborne Christian, which is a private school. She went to West Monroe High School.

[Willie Robertson]

She was slumming with us. Public school.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, yeah. Well, she. She's a year behind me, so whenever I went up to Liberty, she still was finishing out her senior year. So we did some long distance for a very long time, pretty much up until we got married.

[Bobby Robertson]

You went to Liberty?

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Liberty. Liberty.

[Bobby Robertson]

Like I should know more about you than I do.

[Jase Robertson]

Yes. Well, it's because. It's because I left.

[Bobby Robertson]

That makes sense.

[Si Robertson]

When y'all got married, y'all went to Texas, right?

[Jase Robertson]

Yes. Well, we. I had already moved to Texas before we got married, so at least it was. I moved to Texas in the fall of 2022, and then I was working at the church, and then I proposed in December of that year.

[Bobby Robertson]

Yeah, let's. Let's update the people, because they probably remember you from Duck Dynasty.

[Jase Robertson]

I was just a.

[Bobby Robertson]

And everybody around here gets sucked into West Monroe, and you can't escape it. You end up just being here and working for your parents. You.

[Jase Robertson]

You have. I am.

[Bobby Robertson]

Blown the coup.

[Jase Robertson]

I'm the literal black sheep of the family.

[Bobby Robertson]

Abby was.

[Willie Robertson]

He can make those jokes. We can't.

[Jase Robertson]

But literal.

[Willie Robertson]

We can't make those jokes in 2025, but he can.

[Bobby Robertson]

So him and John F. Are the only people I know that can make that. He would have made it before you even got to that point. So you have.

[Willie Robertson]

You are.

[Bobby Robertson]

You're a peacock out there flying in. Are you in Dallas or Fort Worth or Arlington?

[Jase Robertson]

Dallas. Well, right.

[Bobby Robertson]

Or what? However many cities.

[Jase Robertson]

We're in the DFW metroplex. That's just. That's general. We're in McKinney, which is like 40. 40 minutes above Dallas. So.

[Bobby Robertson]

What are you doing?

[Jase Robertson]

So Abby and I are both working at. We're on staff at a church in North McKin called Anchor Church. Our head pastor, Jeff Jenkins.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, yeah. You work with a Jenkins?

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Golly. At least it ain't that one. No.

[Bobby Robertson]

Which one? They all got big heads.

[Jase Robertson]

Hard to tell, but. No, I. I started working there in 2022. Abby started working there 2023. She's. I'm doing all student stuff. So I'm working with high school kids, middle school kids, and then also doing worship there as well. And then Abby's doing all the adult ministries and stuff like that.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, that fits. You work with the kids. She works with adults. Yeah, yeah, that, that tracks.

[Jase Robertson]

It tracks.

[Si Robertson]

Are you on a praise team or worship team?

[Jase Robertson]

Yes. Yeah, so I'm, I'm doing worship. Not as much now because we're going back and forth a lot, but on a Sunday I'm usually on stage leading worship. Or on Wednesdays as well.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, there you go. Look at Bob, man, all grown up.

[Bobby Robertson]

Grown up Bob.

[Si Robertson]

Because I've heard him talk about your voice and I, I, I can't wait to hear it.

[Bobby Robertson]

Yeah, he's talking right now.

[Jase Robertson]

Well, I don't talk about my singing voice.

[Si Robertson]

I'm talking about his singing voice. Okay.

[Bobby Robertson]

It's not bad. He was clearly adopted. I can make that joke.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, well, yeah, in fact was adopted. There's no rumor about anything. That was a rumor for a long time.

[Bobby Robertson]

What was the rumor?

[Jase Robertson]

I, well, it was, it was very short lived that I was.

[Si Robertson]

I can understand that with this.

[Willie Robertson]

Do you want to start a new one, though? Yeah, we could right here.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, boy.

[Jase Robertson]

It was short lived, everybody. It was very, it was dismissed pretty quick.

[Bobby Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Was the rumor though, that I don't need it. We don't know. We don't have that road. I was just wondering who stepped out on who.

[Jase Robertson]

But it was, it was, it was the theory because we, because dad and I like, favor each other a lot even though we're not biologically related at all, which.

[Willie Robertson]

Has there been a study done on that? Because you ever noticed, like, kids that are adopted end up favoring their, their adoptive parents anyway. You take on their facial expressions and like.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, yeah, no, I mean, I picked up all of dad's mannerisms. Yeah, it's just like.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, now you're working with kids. Just you, you following his path. No way. You graduated college a lot quicker, but.

[Jase Robertson]

No, I did not graduate college, actually.

[Bobby Robertson]

Never mind.

[Willie Robertson]

Okay.

[Bobby Robertson]

Billy Robertson.

[Jase Robertson]

I was there. I was, I was at Liberty for probably a couple days. I was there for only three semesters, so.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, you beat Tyler.

[Si Robertson]

I'll fix.

[Jase Robertson]

There we go.

[Si Robertson]

You stood it longer than I could.

[Jase Robertson]

There we go. Yeah. Okay.

[Willie Robertson]

What happened in Baptist Run you out of Virginia, Wherever that is.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, no, I just. College one. I just, I sucked at it.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, it was bad.

[Bobby Robertson]

Hey, that's, that's learning half the battle.

[Jase Robertson]

It's okay. I went for, I went for music. I Went for music recording and engineering and stuff.

[Willie Robertson]

Okay.

[Jase Robertson]

But I just. I quickly realized that the engineering and recording and stuff comes way after doing all of the music theory and all that other stuff. And so I quit.

[Willie Robertson]

I always put them hurdles in front of us.

[Jase Robertson]

Yes.

[Si Robertson]

I was just fixing it. It was too slow.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, it was too slow for me.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Bobby Robertson]

That's what happened to me in Nursing School. Nursing 200. They said, everyone sit down. This is specifically a class to see if you still have the guts to go through with this. And I was like, you know what? You got me. Yeah, I might go hang out with the finance nerd.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, there we go.

[Bobby Robertson]

That class was scary. Sigh. Has your identity ever been stolen?

[Si Robertson]

Yes, it has.

[Bobby Robertson]

How did that make you feel?

[Si Robertson]

Terrible. Have they come up with something to stop it?

[Bobby Robertson]

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[Willie Robertson]

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[Bobby Robertson]

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[Willie Robertson]

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[Bobby Robertson]

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[Willie Robertson]

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[Si Robertson]

They had all told me the semester I went to college. Okay, hey, you better go to class and you better start studying. And I said, why?

[Bobby Robertson]

This is a one time.

[Si Robertson]

I'm not going. I'm not going to be back next year.

[Willie Robertson]

I ain't coming back.

[Si Robertson]

I ain't coming back because like my brother's wife, she work in the registry's office, right? You know, so look, I'm okay, I'm okay.

[Willie Robertson]

No, no, no, no.

[Si Robertson]

I ain't been to class, you know, I made a. Made, you know, class three or four times, but otherwise I didn't go. And this is the week of the test finals, yo, so a buddy of mine come up to, hey, look, he said, I know you ain't coming back, but I need help. He said, you know, all the girls borrow their notes and we'll study, you know, you gotta help me pass. So we did this, okay? And look, we literally got just sugar drunk. Cause we drank like three cases of Pepsi and Diet Cokes and all this junk, you know, for. Hey, look, we stayed up studying 54 hours straight. No, no straight. And I'm serious.

[Jase Robertson]

If we drank how many.

[Si Robertson]

No, no, I'm serious. Hey, I'm serious. I drank at least three cases of like Sprite, 7Up or Coca Cola.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh my Lord.

[Si Robertson]

It's the week of finals. I took all my tests and on the last one I was asleep, you know, I finally just exhausted, I fell asleep. Well, the professor woke me up and he said, hey, look, you ain't got but 15 minutes. You got 100 question, entire test, you know, to answer. And he said, you ain't even started. And I grabbed the pencil, wet it a little bit and I said, well, it's a good thing. It's a multiple choice, A, C, D. So I just went. That took me about three minutes to fill it out, signed it, and the professor was watching me, so I handed it to him, you know, don't worry about it. My brothers. Matter of fact, I had three brothers in college with me. Harold was there too, and they was always getting home to me. Oh, you're never gonna make it in college. You just, you're not smart enough. You're too stupid, you know. So Nancy tells me this. I said, hold it, hold it, hold. Time out, time out. And she said, what? I said, would you do me a favor tonight? And she said, well, that depends on what it is. I said, will you tell them three hard headed ignorant ramuses that I call brothers that it's not because I can't do it? I just decided, hey, it's not worth my time.

[Willie Robertson]

There you go.

[Jase Robertson]

Wow, y'all.

[Si Robertson]

So she did and then they started on again. And I said, hey, you know what y'all can do? I said, don't make me so mad that I'm gonna get up, stand up, pull my pants down, pull my underwear down and tell y'all to kiss where the sun don't shine.

[Willie Robertson]

I didn't know where that was going.

[Si Robertson]

Whoa.

[Bobby Robertson]

So you don't hold any grudges towards college? That's good to hear.

[Jase Robertson]

Look, I was a little bit different than that.

[Si Robertson]

Well, no, no, I made the choice, right? It was too slow. And plus it was. It was the third thing. I was too immature to go to college.

[Jase Robertson]

There we go. That's it. There we go.

[Si Robertson]

That's. That's the three. Okay. I was too immature, they was way too slow. Everything's backwards. Okay.

[Willie Robertson]

I wish we could find 100 question test and just have psy fill out the answers just like that and just see what we come up with.

[Si Robertson]

No, no, because here's.

[Bobby Robertson]

Here's probably making A.

[Si Robertson]

Here's the luckiest human being. Here's the thing that I know that's true. C is always a good answer on a multiple choice.

[Jase Robertson]

Hey, that's what I did on a lot of my ac.

[Si Robertson]

I'm serious.

[Jase Robertson]

Especially in science. In science, it was the worst. I just went ccc.

[Si Robertson]

I would go by and I'd keep it where I wasn't go too far away from C was I wouldn't go.

[Willie Robertson]

Far away from C. How far are.

[Bobby Robertson]

You going every once in a while?

[Si Robertson]

I'm telling you, I tried to stay with B and C and D and I just back and forth with them. And hey, C is always a good answer.

[Willie Robertson]

You know what I was always a sucker for on them tests? All of the above or none of the above. Well, I was a sucker.

[Jase Robertson]

I love those. Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

I'd be like, yeah, I don't sound right. No, no, because none of them.

[Si Robertson]

That was why I looked at that. Ain't that?

[Jase Robertson]

No, because usually if there is the option for all of the above or none of the above, it's probably going to be all of the above.

[Bobby Robertson]

I feel like we're giving the worst advice to children everywhere this episode.

[Willie Robertson]

I'm not saying it worked. I did my GPA pretty solid though.

[Si Robertson]

No, no, because here's the thing.

[Willie Robertson]

We're giving good advice, but mine, no blind guess.

[Si Robertson]

Hey, here's the thing. College is not for everybody.

[Bobby Robertson]

That's true.

[Si Robertson]

And look, here's the thing. You can learn a trade, like welding, carpentry, stuff like that, and make a wonderful living at it.

[Willie Robertson]

And most time, work for yourself, too.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. And hey, yeah, absolutely. If you feel like, you know, you've had enough of it, well, I quit.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Because, hey, you can get it. If you're a welder and a good one. Hey, you can get on any pipeline, baby, I'm telling you.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, now you can.

[Si Robertson]

And they pay good money. Yeah. So college is not forever.

[Bobby Robertson]

I love a good sign.

[Willie Robertson]

Amen.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. So, yeah, I was. I didn't.

[Si Robertson]

My hats off to those that can endure it, because that's really all college is. It's an endurance test. How much of this bull can you take?

[Willie Robertson]

Sometimes you don't take it and you end up being there for six years.

[Si Robertson]

Well, I know I've got a buddy that's a professional.

[Willie Robertson]

Look at that guy.

[Si Robertson]

No, no, a buddy of mine was a professional student. Matter of fact, I think he still at school.

[Bobby Robertson]

I ain't going back.

[Si Robertson]

He's like 50 years old.

[Willie Robertson]

Ain't no way. You got a buddy still in school?

[Si Robertson]

No, no. Oh, yeah, he's 50 years old.

[Willie Robertson]

50.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. He just stayed in school. Hey, I think he's got, like, seven degrees. He just gets them and then. I'm serious. He just gets them. And then he said he goes out and tries to work in one of the. One of the things he studied for. Well, it'll take him but a couple months. He's sick of that. And he go back to school.

[Willie Robertson]

Bobby, you ever gonna go back?

[Jase Robertson]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Bobby Robertson]

As the person who spent the most time in school, probably here, Ain't no way I'm going back.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, hey, I tried it.

[Si Robertson]

I tried it my whole military career.

[Willie Robertson]

To go back?

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, to go back to school. I would take courses and, hey, I don't know if I still didn't hold my interest, you know, And I knew I needed it to get promoted.

[Bobby Robertson]

Military school.

[Willie Robertson]

Okay.

[Bobby Robertson]

I wouldn't fit in there either.

[Si Robertson]

No, no. It just. It don't do it.

[Bobby Robertson]

That first college I went to, when I got in trouble for wearing shorts to class, I said, I ain't gonna. Dude.

[Jase Robertson]

Dude. Oh, it was. Yeah. They didn't allow shorts of liberty either.

[Willie Robertson]

What?

[Jase Robertson]

No.

[Bobby Robertson]

What's up with Christians and shorts?

[Si Robertson]

Oh, I'd have raised all kind of you know what? Apparent that's freedom. My freedom.

[Jase Robertson]

I have nothing against liberty.

[Bobby Robertson]

I do. If they don't let you wear shorts to clap. I ain't wearing Daisy Dukes, for crying out loud. I'm not your brother in law.

[Willie Robertson]

You just asked you to pour your.

[Si Robertson]

Don't get all Daisy dude.

[Bobby Robertson]

Anyways, like, I just wear regular shorts. Like. And hey, by the way, go look at guys in 2007 and eight we wore shorts that touched our socks. We had the biggest shorts on earth.

[Jase Robertson]

You just wore basketball shorts every day.

[Bobby Robertson]

Giant short. Like, I was like, oh man, do those go six inches past your knee? And we were like, yeah. And this is cool as crap. Can't wear that to class.

[Jase Robertson]

You know that jean shorts are coming back.

[Bobby Robertson]

I'm against.

[Jase Robertson]

But. But not like the ones that are like squeezing your thighs. It's the ones that are like super baggy that.

[Si Robertson]

Oh no, no. You've gone to a deal. Oh, hey, the. I don't even know what you call the trend of the day. Okay, There's. Hey, one legged pants are in.

[Bobby Robertson]

That is not a thing.

[Jase Robertson]

That's false.

[Willie Robertson]

Hey, it is one legged.

[Si Robertson]

Hey, one legged blue jeans.

[Bobby Robertson]

What?

[Si Robertson]

You know what they cost?

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, a skirt.

[Si Robertson]

$400.

[Bobby Robertson]

Where do you see. Where are you?

[Si Robertson]

Hey, this has been on television.

[Jase Robertson]

Hold on.

[Si Robertson]

This has been on television. Where did you see it? With one leg.

[Willie Robertson]

That's called a skirt.

[Si Robertson]

Blue Jays with one leg.

[Bobby Robertson]

These are the shorts I wore. Oh, that's what I was rocking to class. And everybody was like that's cool. That's what we were all wearing.

[Jase Robertson]

I don't know if we want to look up one legged blue jeans.

[Bobby Robertson]

Guys, he's not lying.

[Si Robertson]

It's been in.

[Bobby Robertson]

No. He knows no 100%. The first thing that comes up.

[Willie Robertson]

Pull them up.

[Bobby Robertson]

Are $440 Caperni. One legged trouser.

[Jase Robertson]

You're joking.

[Si Robertson]

No, that is the thing of the day for young ladies.

[Bobby Robertson]

No, it's not.

[Si Robertson]

Yes it is.

[Jase Robertson]

Babe, would you ever wear these one legged capernaum?

[Bobby Robertson]

Abby. Well, these jeans. Why are they $200?

[Jase Robertson]

It's the material.

[Bobby Robertson]

Those are four. Four. Now they're blue jeans, son.

[Willie Robertson]

This ain't for Americans. Nobody in America calls them a trouser.

[Bobby Robertson]

It does say English, but it is in US dollars.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, yeah, because everybody wants our money.

[Bobby Robertson]

This does look like a real British thing to do.

[Jase Robertson]

I was thinking more, you know what European.

[Willie Robertson]

If they put. If they would put ice in their drinks, they wouldn't have his problem.

[Bobby Robertson]

He would not hear that.

[Jase Robertson]

I can't. So that Is so true.

[Willie Robertson]

What do you say?

[Bobby Robertson]

I said, that's a real British thing to do. And he's going, I was kind of thinking more European.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, wait, is that a pee joke or just a no, he.

[Bobby Robertson]

I don't think he knows that the Great Britain's in European, right?

[Willie Robertson]

Well, yeah.

[Bobby Robertson]

Okay. Yeah, now you're talking about like Spain and France.

[Willie Robertson]

He went. He went to an American Baptist college. They didn't worry about Europe.

[Bobby Robertson]

Those pants are not acceptable at Liberty or Harding.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, they're half accepted.

[Bobby Robertson]

Yeah, yeah. What's the rule there? Harding could have wore those to school. I'll never forget. I was like this. That was the moment I was done.

[Willie Robertson]

Spring is here. You can't have the Masters any other time of year. So spring is sprung. And if you want to make your yard look like Augusta national, which who.

[Bobby Robertson]

Does, we have some people that may can help you.

[Willie Robertson]

That's exactly right. Our friends over at Fast growing Trees can definitely help you if you want to level your yard up after watching the most beautiful place in the world all week weekend. So that's just personal opinion. That's not fact. But you want azaleas like they got fast growing trees.com fast growing trees.com you want pine trees like they got fast.

[Bobby Robertson]

Growing trees.com fast growing Trees offers a.

[Willie Robertson]

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[Bobby Robertson]

And if you don't know what you're doing, they got experts that can help you, Martin.

[Willie Robertson]

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[Bobby Robertson]

So is Augusta.

[Willie Robertson]

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[Bobby Robertson]

I don't know where we're at now.

[Willie Robertson]

I do.

[Jase Robertson]

I hope what I said I found some.

[Willie Robertson]

What are you watching? To see a thing about one legged britches.

[Si Robertson]

Look, it's just show. It comes on TV when I'm watching it.

[Bobby Robertson]

That is a different tv. And why is this girl only wearing a bra with one legged pants? Put a shirt on, lady.

[Si Robertson]

Hey, it's all about freedom.

[Willie Robertson]

JD do you wear it? Do you wear a shirt with one sleeve on the other arm to match that way?

[Si Robertson]

Like that would be so cool.

[Bobby Robertson]

It's French.

[Willie Robertson]

Hey, it's French.

[Si Robertson]

Hey.

[Jase Robertson]

Boom.

[Si Robertson]

No, it's a combo, baby.

[Jase Robertson]

Okay.

[Si Robertson]

It's a combo shirt. Shirt.

[Jase Robertson]

England is Europe. It's like it's out there by west.

[Willie Robertson]

It'S out there by itself.

[Jase Robertson]

Great Britain, Western Europe.

[Willie Robertson]

In the words of Ted Lasso, how many countries are in this country?

[Bobby Robertson]

Same as many cities as in. What's it called?

[Willie Robertson]

Dallas, Fort Worth.

[Bobby Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah. They only say DFW, but you go over and there's 19 cities over.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh yeah.

[Bobby Robertson]

I'm a fan of Arlington.

[Willie Robertson]

And the crazy thing is he said he 40 minutes north of Dallas that aim at three miles, so.

[Jase Robertson]

That's true.

[Willie Robertson]

Like that place is.

[Bobby Robertson]

What else have you seen in the news?

[Willie Robertson]

Late nightmare.

[Bobby Robertson]

You've informed us of one legged pants and we're not sure. We'll have to get a liberty or hardy.

[Si Robertson]

It always amazed me to see a young lady, you know, and she's got blue jeans. Okay.

[Bobby Robertson]

With holes in them.

[Si Robertson]

With holes in them.

[Willie Robertson]

Okay.

[Si Robertson]

I had that too. When I was growing up, I wore the holes in my blue jeans by hauling hay in the summertime. Well, mama would take the ones that were so bad, cut the pants leg off and put like a knee pad over that hole that I had. Oh, she would double up that way, you know. Look, they paid $250 for the blue jeans with holes in it.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, I better. You can pay 440 for half a pair of them.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. And now I understand why Jacob. Bella's Jacob.

[Jase Robertson]

Yep.

[Si Robertson]

He buys junk like that and then makes a killing and sells it. Resells it.

[Jase Robertson]

It's. It's because it's trending.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Okay.

[Jase Robertson]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Willie Robertson]

To get in on.

[Bobby Robertson]

We're not.

[Willie Robertson]

We need to get in on that one legged. You're wearing jeans. Can I cut the leg off that other one?

[Jase Robertson]

No.

[Willie Robertson]

Hey, look, your wife said absolutely.

[Si Robertson]

These jeans are actually material on right leg. You need to have a shirt matching it with the left sleeve.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, there we go.

[Bobby Robertson]

In the name of crisscross and hey.

[Si Robertson]

And it's a combo.

[Willie Robertson]

Make you jump. Jump.

[Si Robertson]

Well, that is $600.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, we're about uncle. The uncle size special.

[Jase Robertson]

Get the combo with half of a hat. Make it a thousand.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, it.

[Willie Robertson]

Hey, and only one shoe.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. Hey, then if you go with the shoes. Oh, it's fifteen hundred dollars, baby.

[Bobby Robertson]

I feel like we're on to something. We just got to get real big in France for this to work.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, Duck Dynasty is coming, baby. We can start the reverie if you will, by the time you get to France. Right. Like.

[Jase Robertson]

I must say it, man.

[Bobby Robertson]

French people weird. But that is fries are good though.

[Willie Robertson]

As one of the reasons we're able to have Bobby on is because we are back filming Doug Dynasty. So now he's got a reason to come back and see us. Good. Bobby, he get over in Dallas. He ain't coming home.

[Bobby Robertson]

I noticed that.

[Willie Robertson]

That.

[Bobby Robertson]

He said they got Six Flags. They got.

[Jase Robertson]

Actually I've been there for almost three years and I have not been to Six Flags yet.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, good for you.

[Si Robertson]

In this man's.

[Bobby Robertson]

I was there like two weekends ago.

[Jase Robertson]

In this man's defense, why didn't you come?

[Si Robertson]

See, that means that Willie and Corey did their job, okay? Cuz they raised this man to be independent.

[Willie Robertson]

Okay, that's good. What do you want to say about the rest of their kids that live in their yard?

[Si Robertson]

Well, look now hold.

[Jase Robertson]

Hey, well, hold on now.

[Bobby Robertson]

I got uncomfortable.

[Willie Robertson]

Look Abby over here laughing at that one. We done got Abby over here.

[Bobby Robertson]

She laugh. She's laughing uncomfortably hard at that. If you're. If you're one of and Cory's sons or daughters or daughters in law, Abby's laughing at you right now.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, no, no.

[Si Robertson]

That just means Abby is smart. Okay, old man.

[Bobby Robertson]

Abby's the smartest one.

[Jase Robertson]

All of them. Well, they've all done it. Well, not Bella and Jacob. Bella and Jacob haven't left yet, but.

[Willie Robertson]

They still across the street, cuz from Bal.

[Jase Robertson]

Sadie did it. She moved to Nashville. John Luke did it. He moved to Liberty. And right after he and Mary Kate got married. And then, you know, Christian just hopped in. But that was after. Well, actually no. Sadie hadn't even moved back yet. She Moved to Auburn with him and then they moved back.

[Bobby Robertson]

So what you're saying is the tractor beam is strong and you're just counting down the days.

[Jase Robertson]

No, I don't know.

[Willie Robertson]

They still got a little piece over there between, you know, John Davis Dad's house.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, they got room.

[Bobby Robertson]

Expensive.

[Si Robertson]

Well, we have a little room to build their house.

[Jase Robertson]

We. We have a spot for if we decide to build over there. And that's going to be right beside Sadie and Christian.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, yeah. Well, I think you should move a double by then. Just see what.

[Jase Robertson]

Heck, yeah. No, yeah, you and I, you could.

[Willie Robertson]

Tie it in the house.

[Bobby Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Robertson]

Big old corridor.

[Jase Robertson]

Well, actually connected.

[Bobby Robertson]

All get you a side pad. Yeah, I'm sorry. Modular home.

[Willie Robertson]

Modular free manufactured trailer.

[Jase Robertson]

No, I don't know if. I mean right now we're. We're cool.

[Bobby Robertson]

We're cool. That's good, though.

[Jase Robertson]

I mean, home. Home will always be home to us. We love coming back and with filming and everything, the traveling is a little hard, but I think. I don't. I don't think that's going to drive.

[Willie Robertson]

Just long enough to be annoying.

[Jase Robertson]

I mean, it's.

[Bobby Robertson]

There's a Bucky's, though, so. In the Dairy Palace.

[Jase Robertson]

Well, listen, we have. We're five minutes away from a bucky.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, yeah, they're in McKinney.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, there's McKinney. There's one like right as you go into Melissa.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, there you go.

[Bobby Robertson]

Yeah, I only know the one that's.

[Willie Robertson]

But then you got one in Louisville. You got one. Right.

[Jase Robertson]

Well, we're about to get one in.

[Willie Robertson]

Ruston next year, allegedly.

[Si Robertson]

I don't think there's a. I think.

[Bobby Robertson]

They broke ground, though.

[Jase Robertson]

They did, Yeah.

[Bobby Robertson]

I think it's official now.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, good ground then.

[Jase Robertson]

They're gonna let it. They're gonna let that ground sit for a little bit. Maybe another year and then.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, the.

[Bobby Robertson]

How do you know so much about the BUC EE's of Rustin?

[Jase Robertson]

Because I live in Texas.

[Willie Robertson]

Hey, this is valid point.

[Si Robertson]

Texas is in the deal. Yeah, well, my daughter. My daughter lives there, so. Hey, Texas.

[Jase Robertson]

That's right. Yeah.

[Bobby Robertson]

This is a good state. It's a big state.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, yeah, it's great. If it all goes to pot, I'm going west.

[Bobby Robertson]

I'm going to Florida first. Texas second.

[Willie Robertson]

No, no, I'm going to.

[Si Robertson]

I'm a. I'm a Martin.

[Willie Robertson]

I'm. I'm riding. I'm riding to Texas, baby. Yeah. Heck, yeah. No good thing.

[Jase Robertson]

Everybody will come over.

[Willie Robertson]

So, like, when you come in for holidays, where you stay who you stay with. Well, stay with a sibling now or.

[Jase Robertson]

You know, a lot of the time we stay with Abby's parents, my in laws. It's mostly because we have a dog. She's very little. And so Abby's parents have two dogs who are the same. They're both shih Tzus. And so.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, and you know that anywhere on that property. But talking about the Robertson compound is death row for an animal.

[Bobby Robertson]

So don't go there.

[Jase Robertson]

Well, also just because, I mean, that house is way too big for the small dog. And.

[Bobby Robertson]

And. And there's too many tundras driving back and forth.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah.

[Bobby Robertson]

Watch out, dogs.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. Oh, you talk about Louie.

[Bobby Robertson]

Hey, whoa, take it easy. Some people don't know that that's what happened.

[Jase Robertson]

Hey, that's a little. Hey, that's still a little raw.

[Willie Robertson]

Okay. That's Louie. That guy got Louie took a nap.

[Bobby Robertson]

In a terrible spot, I don't think.

[Jase Robertson]

It wasn't a nap, was it? Yeah, no shot. Oh, why did he go all the way over to your dad's house?

[Bobby Robertson]

Hey, take it easy.

[Willie Robertson]

All the way over. It's right there. But that dog you ever had was Dingo, and you know it.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, yeah, she was awesome.

[Bobby Robertson]

Yeah, Dingo was the greatest dog. That mutt.

[Willie Robertson]

That is the greatest stray ever.

[Jase Robertson]

We had Dingo and. And then Biscuit tagged along right with her.

[Bobby Robertson]

Them dogs came from the streets.

[Si Robertson]

Although I gotta have a sidekick, they.

[Bobby Robertson]

Were able to survive.

[Jase Robertson]

Well, I mean, I always think of Louie as the king. Louie was a king.

[Willie Robertson]

And what was the one before Louie?

[Jase Robertson]

Max.

[Willie Robertson]

Maxi Max. Yeah. Maxi got got by Corey that I got that call in the Waffle House.

[Jase Robertson]

It was in kind of the same way. They both went out. They both went out, exactly.

[Willie Robertson]

You start sleeping by tires, that's a problem, dude.

[Bobby Robertson]

Especially if you're small.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah. Well, I think we're out of the mini Chihuahua business over there. The mini long hair Chihuahuas. Just that one didn't have a good shelf life there.

[Bobby Robertson]

Well, I had Dublin.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, Dublin was great.

[Bobby Robertson]

He was gonna stop the car, that fat sucker.

[Jase Robertson]

Dude, he would have.

[Bobby Robertson]

You don't want to run over Dublin. That's going to total your rig.

[Jase Robertson]

Maybe you never. You never met Dublin. What he was. What was? What was.

[Bobby Robertson]

He was a basset hound. He was slightly overweight.

[Jase Robertson]

He was the ones that go 14 years old.

[Bobby Robertson]

I thought about him the other day he was buried and I said, I bet he's not really there anymore by now.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, he part Bassett hound and part Edward Scissorhand.

[Bobby Robertson]

Some Big old nails.

[Willie Robertson]

That dog had the longest nails. He was a digger.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, man.

[Bobby Robertson]

Martin.

[Willie Robertson]

What?

[Bobby Robertson]

You know what you don't want to be?

[Willie Robertson]

What?

[Bobby Robertson]

Up to your eyeballs in anything, but especially debt.

[Willie Robertson]

Amen, buddy. Look. And after four years of inflation, personal debt is a real crisis. So you're working harder than ever. And you're still drowning in credit card debt, overdue bills. Look, that sounds like you. We got an answer for you. You need done with debt, and here's why. The credit system is rigged to keep you trapped. And Dumb With Debt has unique and brilliant escape strategies to help end your debt fast so you keep more of your hard earned money and you're not paying it off in interest rates. Look, Dumb With Debt doesn't try to sell you a loan or bankruptcy. Their tough negotiators go one on one with your credit card and loan companies with one goal. To drastically reduce your bills, eliminate interest, and most importantly, erase the penalties. I love a good eraser, you know.

[Bobby Robertson]

And I hate a penalty.

[Willie Robertson]

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[Bobby Robertson]

Like always, somebody's looking at you.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah.

[Bobby Robertson]

You know that feeling when you're like, am I being watched? But that feels like, yeah, all the time.

[Willie Robertson]

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[Bobby Robertson]

What do we got for Bobby?

[Willie Robertson]

I'm just trying to think if we want to do a. The quick version, but people that listen to us may not know the full adopted Bobby.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, man.

[Willie Robertson]

You know, I'm just saying, like the quick version because there's some people that are. They're new, They're. Well, there's some people that literally they're brand new because of the Duck Dynasty fast channels and like, they're finding all the stuff that we do now. So some people may not know your full deal and like, just how close in age you and Bella actually are.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

The timing of. The timing of. God, that worked there and all the things. So if you want to maybe Want to, like. Oh, yeah, obviously adopted. You made the joke earlier. We can't.

[Jase Robertson]

Yes.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Robertson]

The literal black sheep of the family.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah. He said literally. Yeah. We could have went with figurative, but he can drop literal.

[Jase Robertson]

Indeed.

[Willie Robertson]

But no. Yeah. If you want to. If you want to tell our listeners that.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Knock yourself out, man. We'd love to let you share that.

[Jase Robertson]

Absolutely. Yeah. In November of 2001, I was born. Yeah. So I was adopted at five weeks. Just.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Literally over a month after I was born in Baton Rouge, my birth mom had me at 19, and she wasn't able to take care of me. So adoption was the best route. And then my parents, Willie and Corey, they adopted me a little over a month after that. And pretty much that was, like, history, like, up until, like, middle teen years when I started getting curious about my biological family.

[Willie Robertson]

So now you have a relationship with your body?

[Jase Robertson]

Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I. I got to meet my bio mother, Emily. She's awesome. I got to meet her in 2015. Actually, it was because of my brother. My brother, whose name is also Will. He is a Marine right now. But the craziest story about all that, how I got to be connected with my bio family. Will and I grew up together being best friends without actually knowing we were brothers.

[Si Robertson]

Wow.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. And so that's cool. Yeah, super cool. So we grew up going to Chioka together.

[Si Robertson]

Okay.

[Jase Robertson]

And, like, literally, we, like, we were six, seven years old. He's. He's a year and a half younger than me, so I was adopted. And then a year and a half after that, my mother had my brother, and she didn't get to name me Will, so she named him Will. So I would have been Will regardless, which is pretty cool.

[Bobby Robertson]

You were destined to be Will.

[Jase Robertson]

I was. Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, we grew up best friends. And I. He literally, same skin tone, same hair, same everything. He's just a little bit shorter than me, so I called him my mini Me. And, yeah, we were best friends. And then whenever we got to, like, middle school, we stopped hanging out for a bit, and I was like, hey, you know, I miss my friend. And then it was. I would say it's actually. It's a few years before that. It was. I had. My birthday was coming up, and my mom was Corey. She was handing out, you know, invitations and stuff, inviting people to my birthday party. And my grandfather, Papa, my bio grandpa, he was like, oh, when's your Will's birthday? And all that. And she was like, oh, it's. It's November 8th and all that. And then he. It, like, immediately clicked in his head because he didn't even realize that I was his grandson at that point. And then. Yeah, no, dude. It's like the craziest thing. And so around that point, they were all getting curious as well. And so they put things together, and then years following after that.

[Willie Robertson]

That's way cooler than a 23andMe connection.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, so nowadays, y'all have got a good relationship?

[Jase Robertson]

Absolutely. Yes. Yeah. So we. We got to meet, and instantly, it was. It was amazing. And so now, yeah, we. We have the best relationship. I call her Ma, like, Ma. So I have my mom, and I have my ma. So Ma and I, we, you know, greatest relationship. It's great. And your grandfather. Yeah, and papa, too. The connection between myself and my brother just got instantly stronger just knowing that we were brothers, and it was pretty cool. So now fast forward, and he's now a Marine. He is in North Carolina, and he is married, and he has a little one on the way as well, so it's pretty cool.

[Willie Robertson]

Look at there.

[Si Robertson]

Well, next time you see him, tell him we appreciate it.

[Jase Robertson]

Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

But he come back home, we put both y'all in here.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. That would be really cool.

[Willie Robertson]

And guess the one.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Just come in.

[Jase Robertson]

And don't say that we favor each other a lot. Maybe.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah. Will and Will.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Which one? Y'all pick? Which one? Yeah, I'll pick the one, babe.

[Jase Robertson]

Did I miss anything?

[Bobby Robertson]

She said you nailed it.

[Jase Robertson]

Okay, great.

[Willie Robertson]

She said nailed it.

[Jase Robertson]

Well, yeah, it's just. It's. It's so cool. I mean, just that story and how, you know, God provided in every way, just, you know.

[Willie Robertson]

So your ma. Ma. Yeah, Ma. Was she living in Baton Rouge at the time?

[Jase Robertson]

No. So she. It's weird. So she had me in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

[Willie Robertson]

Okay.

[Jase Robertson]

And then I immediately knew you weren't from here. I know.

[Willie Robertson]

Freaking Mississippi.

[Jase Robertson]

I was. I was immediately moved to Baton Rouge to a foster home where I was for a month.

[Willie Robertson]

Okay.

[Jase Robertson]

And. And then that.

[Willie Robertson]

I mean, so she was just straight down 20. Yeah. I was just wondering, like, if the. The Baton Rouge deal, and then she ends up back in West Monroe.

[Jase Robertson]

I know.

[Willie Robertson]

That's just a wild. Now Vicksburg is a lot more believable.

[Jase Robertson]

Because it's just right.

[Willie Robertson]

I 20, like.

[Jase Robertson]

But, I mean, it's just. It's the crate. It's the coolest thing that all my family is. Is still here.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah. Yeah. That's neat, man. I mean, that's. When you Just. They use those three words. Man. Look at God.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

That. That just goes to show you how. How small the world really is.

[Jase Robertson]

Absolutely.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, yeah. You could have been anywhere.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

With anybody.

[Jase Robertson]

I know.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. It's like you say, it's crazy.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Bobby Robertson]

And his mom went to South Louisiana, Corey, when she was in high school and found me and her cousin who was put up for adoption.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah.

[Bobby Robertson]

And so adoption is just wild.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. It's crazy how similar mine and he story is. Who's.

[Bobby Robertson]

Me and Corey's cousin was put up for adoption.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Bobby Robertson]

And then he comes back and me and him have been best friends ever since. At 18. And then like, his. His adopted mom ended up taking care of his biological mom's mom. Whoa. I hope you kept up with that. Yes. But like, she was her caretaker in the end of her life, and so it's just. And then Will's got this.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Well, there's.

[Willie Robertson]

Man, three words.

[Jase Robertson]

And. And so mom and Ma, they got together. How was it? Two years ago, I think they. They did it on Sadie's podcast.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

And they. They talked through all of that.

[Willie Robertson]

That was the first time. That was the first time I met her because she kept walking through and Corey stopped and introduced her as your. Your biological mother. And I was like, whoa. Wow. Okay, cool.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. So they. They go. You know, they go pretty in depth through the whole story. So if I miss anything, you can go check.

[Bobby Robertson]

Go check that one out. What if he was a kid, y'all, he didn't remember all.

[Willie Robertson]

And females known to be a little.

[Jase Robertson]

More detail oriented and it's actually cool now. So Ma and my aunt Becky, her sister, they own Cake, that bakery in downtown West Monroe in Antique Alley.

[Willie Robertson]

They make him cookies.

[Jase Robertson]

Real good to make the cookies for.

[Bobby Robertson]

All the people wondering what should I do when I come to West Monroe?

[Jase Robertson]

Go to cake.

[Bobby Robertson]

Go to Cake and get you a cookie.

[Jase Robertson]

So like all the, you know, I mean, if I not a cookie cake, but if it's a regular cake and it's all fancy and whatnot, it's probably from cake.

[Willie Robertson]

Okay.

[Jase Robertson]

That's usually who does all of our cakes.

[Willie Robertson]

Man, look at that.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, it's pretty. It's pretty amazing. Si.

[Si Robertson]

Yep.

[Bobby Robertson]

You know what hits born every minute?

[Si Robertson]

What's that?

[Bobby Robertson]

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[Si Robertson]

I love buying them.

[Bobby Robertson]

So go to PureTalk.com to make the switch again. That's PureTalk.com to claim your free Samsung Galaxy with a qualifying pin when you switch to Pure Talk Wireless by Americans for Americans.

[Willie Robertson]

What do you think of your brother in laws? Why are you laughing? Because you know I've asked them all this. This is my favorite question.

[Bobby Robertson]

Jacob has been on so we just ask him. Christian's been on, we've asked him.

[Jase Robertson]

Right. I love all my brother in laws. I think each, each of them individually are great. I don't like playing pickleball with them but me neither unless I'm on their team.

[Bobby Robertson]

Yeah, they're very aggressive.

[Jase Robertson]

No dude, I think, yeah, all of them are great. I think it can get chaotic sometimes whenever everybody's together. So some of those times it's, I mean it's difficult to like spend time with everybody because they're either with their spouse or if they have kids, they're with their kids. So like whenever we get to spend some like you know, one on one, it's great.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah. Do you have a favorite one?

[Jase Robertson]

I do not.

[Bobby Robertson]

Yeah, let's we got a few minutes. Let's dive into that.

[Jase Robertson]

What?

[Bobby Robertson]

Young married life.

[Jase Robertson]

It's great. It's amazing.

[Willie Robertson]

No problems whatsoever.

[Jase Robertson]

I love my wife, and married life has been the best.

[Willie Robertson]

Almost two years in.

[Jase Robertson]

Almost two years. I mean, not that long. It feels like it's been a while. Not in a bad sense, but it's. It's just been. It's been fun. It has been really fun.

[Willie Robertson]

See, I'm. I've been married. I'll be 10 this year. And I felt her eyes whenever you said that, and then I looked over there to confirm that she had them eyes. I match you, so I just.

[Jase Robertson]

No, no, I.

[Willie Robertson]

You know, proceed with caution. Presentations, everything.

[Jase Robertson]

The delivery might have been. I'm sorry.

[Bobby Robertson]

Marriage is awesome.

[Jase Robertson]

Marriage is great.

[Willie Robertson]

I mean, it's been two years, but it feels like forever. I mean.

[Jase Robertson]

No, it's. It's great. I. I really enjoy it, and it's.

[Willie Robertson]

Marriage is fun. That's a lot of work. Like, you don't have to sugarcoat that. We all know it or, you know, it's the. Always say it's proof God's got a sense of humor. She takes two critters that couldn't be any more opposite one another. Male and a female.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, my goodness.

[Bobby Robertson]

Okay, here.

[Willie Robertson]

Y'all need each other.

[Bobby Robertson]

So we know that Bella and Jacob have an issue with fans.

[Jase Robertson]

We are very in sync with the fan situation.

[Willie Robertson]

Profan.

[Jase Robertson]

We profan. Ice out that room.

[Willie Robertson]

There we go. Okay. Man, I like that.

[Bobby Robertson]

So what's the thing, though?

[Willie Robertson]

Oh.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, man.

[Bobby Robertson]

What's the thing? My thing sucks. Allison hates all my socks. They're just everywhere, apparently.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

And I've been told I'm extremely messy, which that checks out 10 out of 10.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, man. There's so many things.

[Bobby Robertson]

So many.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, there's so. No, I mean, it's funny. There's. There's a lot of things I don't do right sometimes.

[Bobby Robertson]

What's the one?

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, I don't.

[Bobby Robertson]

You know the one.

[Jase Robertson]

I just.

[Bobby Robertson]

I need to ask her.

[Jase Robertson]

Well, she. Okay, here's the thing. I. She. She's got a million things going in her head, like, all the time. Which is. Which is a very good thing, because she's thinking about everything for me, apparently, it's a little bit challenging.

[Bobby Robertson]

So Bobby said I'm a little simpler.

[Jase Robertson]

I'm a. I'm very. I'm a simple. I'm a simple kind of man. Okay.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Bobby Robertson]

They should write a song about that.

[Si Robertson]

They've already have.

[Willie Robertson]

We can go ahead. We can go. We can Go revisit the England Europe.

[Jase Robertson]

Debacle, But I'd say that's about it.

[Willie Robertson]

No, but that's male and female man.

[Jase Robertson]

Absolutely.

[Bobby Robertson]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Si Robertson]

That's where the fun comes in, though.

[Willie Robertson]

I'm saying men get to learn is.

[Si Robertson]

The differences, and then you've got to.

[Jase Robertson]

Deal with it, got to adapt, and you got to learn.

[Willie Robertson]

What I was getting at, jd, is men have the ability to compartmentalize things a lot easier than women do.

[Bobby Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Like, and that's not. That's not a flaw on either of our size. Just. That's biological. Like, men have a way to put stuff in little boxes and not even consider them.

[Jase Robertson]

Right.

[Willie Robertson]

While the women kind of put it all together in one huge puzzle. We take and put the pieces back over here in the corner. Yeah, don't worry about them corner pieces. We'll get to them later.

[Si Robertson]

Like, the woman is smarter than the man.

[Willie Robertson]

Okay, I'm not going to disagree.

[Jase Robertson]

I'm not disagreeing.

[Willie Robertson]

Huh?

[Si Robertson]

I am.

[Willie Robertson]

What? You're disagreeing. You just said it. That's what I said. I'm not going to disagree with you.

[Si Robertson]

The woman is smarter than man and she can departmentalize all this stuff where, hey, it takes us a little. Little. A longer time.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, that's because we forget where we put it.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, that's it. No, no, no. I completely agree.

[Bobby Robertson]

I don't need to know where I put it. I got home last night and I was like, let's talk about all that. And I was like, or it's Survivor night and we could go to bed.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah.

[Bobby Robertson]

Watch tv. Go to bed.

[Willie Robertson]

We could have a couple pieces of pizza. We could watch what we've been on Love on the Spectrum because the new season's out.

[Bobby Robertson]

What?

[Jase Robertson]

Wow. We haven't watched show. We've been watching every. We've been watching every other show under the sun.

[Bobby Robertson]

Love on the Spectrum. Us is one of my favorite TV shows.

[Willie Robertson]

It's fantastic.

[Bobby Robertson]

History of Man.

[Willie Robertson]

It's good.

[Bobby Robertson]

It's good stuff.

[Willie Robertson]

It's. It's quality.

[Jase Robertson]

Started. We just started New Girl again. New Girl's a good show.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

We're watching Survivor, American Idol.

[Bobby Robertson]

No spoilers. I had to talk about my feelings last night. I couldn't talk about Survivor.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, my gosh. Well, hey, no, here's the thing. Whenever. Whenever we have, like a. Not like a deep conversation, but a very. I don't. I don't even know how I would say it.

[Bobby Robertson]

Yeah, that's fine.

[Jase Robertson]

It's serious. A serious conversation.

[Bobby Robertson]

That's how a man would say, I.

[Jase Robertson]

Tend to check out. Yeah.

[Bobby Robertson]

Quickly.

[Jase Robertson]

Normal. Quickly.

[Bobby Robertson]

Yeah, I'm with you.

[Jase Robertson]

Is because I can't. But you know what the problem is? I know I'm about to.

[Bobby Robertson]

Women have never played Call of Duty, and they don't realize how much that would fix most of their problems.

[Jase Robertson]

You can't. You don't realize the amount of stress is taken out of your life whenever.

[Bobby Robertson]

You put an RPG on a four wheeler of some kid in South Carolina and you just immediately feel better about whatever problems you had that day. And women don't understand that.

[Jase Robertson]

Man. Listen here. I. So the reason why I said about the conversation thing. So we. In November, we went and got our brains scanned in California. You know who. Doctor. You know, Dr. Amon, the doc.

[Willie Robertson]

Amen.

[Jase Robertson]

Doc. Amen. He's the brain specialist. And we went and did our whole brain scan, did the whole shebang for Abby. She's.

[Bobby Robertson]

The lights were all on.

[Jase Robertson]

Lights are all on for me. Lights are on.

[Willie Robertson]

They just flicker.

[Jase Robertson]

Lights are on. Listen. Okay. It's crazy tornadoes happening up there. Yes. Listen, this is crazy. So if I'm just chilling out, my brain activity is normal. If I am in, like, a really focused state, just lights are off, which is weird. Like, it's the. It's very uncommon for something like that to happen. So that's why I sucked so bad in school. It's because. It's because you need to take that.

[Willie Robertson]

And show it to your old teachers.

[Jase Robertson]

I. That's exactly what I said. And be like, y'all were being too hard on me.

[Willie Robertson]

Look at what y'all did to me. Y'all shut me off.

[Jase Robertson]

Y'all shut me up. No, it's. It literally is. The harder I try, the worse I do. And so I've got. Yeah. Isn't that crazy?

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah.

[Bobby Robertson]

I feel like if they scan my brain, it would look like one of them houses with the techno Christmas music playing and the lights just going everywhere in berserk all the time. And it was. It was so me.

[Jase Robertson]

So within that conversation space, I'm. Sometimes I try and get her to see the way I'm thinking, and she'll start feeling bad, but it's okay.

[Bobby Robertson]

Y'all are cute.

[Willie Robertson]

Well, don't tell all your tricks here.

[Jase Robertson]

I know. No, I know.

[Si Robertson]

I was. I'd be scared to go see that guy.

[Jase Robertson]

We have to get you.

[Si Robertson]

I don't know. And have my brain scans.

[Jase Robertson]

We.

[Bobby Robertson]

I need a scan. That's kidneys, not your.

[Jase Robertson]

Awesome.

[Willie Robertson]

And they bring that scanner here.

[Si Robertson]

Well, hey, that's Actually, this is.

[Jase Robertson]

It's useful ammunition for the rest of the family because they've all done it, too.

[Willie Robertson]

So who is your brain most like? Did they say that?

[Jase Robertson]

Jacob. Yes.

[Willie Robertson]

That checks out.

[Jase Robertson]

That.

[Bobby Robertson]

Yes, that tracks.

[Willie Robertson]

I would say that, but it was.

[Jase Robertson]

Like a night and day difference because they gave you these supplements to, like, help your brain activity.

[Willie Robertson]

Oh, yeah. Brittany. Brittany on them.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

It was. Yes. Brain md. So it was night and day. Like, even, like in church, too, because, like, we're. Sometimes I space out and I forget what he's talking about.

[Si Robertson]

What you had when they said there was nothing there, huh? No, you would just had him out of a body experience.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

You were somewhere else.

[Jase Robertson]

I was.

[Si Robertson]

I do that all the time.

[Bobby Robertson]

See, I'm a sigh.

[Si Robertson]

I'm serious. I do that all the time. I go places.

[Willie Robertson]

Where you. Where's. Where do you go, Dad?

[Si Robertson]

I couldn't tell you, but I'm not there. Here's the thing about. I know you can do that because I was in the military. And. Hey, look, there's a guy sitting on the top bed, like bunk beds, okay? He's on the top. He's in a yoga position, okay? He's got his legs folded, his arms folded.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

And we're all talking about it.

[Willie Robertson]

We ain't ever sat like it.

[Si Robertson]

No, no, we're all talking about him. Everybody in the barracks is talking about him. And the guy, one of the guys said, hey, he's not there. And I said, oh, I don't believe that, bunk. You know, he ain't there, you know? And the guy said, well, he just looked. He said, hey, has anybody got a sewing kit? And I said, you gonna stick him? I said, hey, he's probably going to jump up, you know, kick your butt, you know? He said, no, he's not there. I'm telling you, he's not mentally there. He's gone. His body is the only thing there. So this kid, he's got the needle and you think, well, okay, he just let it slide in his hand, didn't stick him. Now, he popped him, okay? And, I mean, he popped him. As soon as he pulled it out, blood started coming out. Okay, look, you can't fake this, okay? That kid never moved. He still just like this with his eyes closed. And we sit there and watch that blood just start dripping. And I said, well, I just learned something.

[Willie Robertson]

He ain't there.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, that's real.

[Willie Robertson]

Yeah, he ain't there.

[Si Robertson]

He ain't there.

[Jase Robertson]

He's somewhere else.

[Si Robertson]

He's somewhere else. Y'all he literally left his body mentally.

[Willie Robertson]

J.D. you want to send us out of here? You got a verse?

[Bobby Robertson]

Yes, I do. Romans 8:15. The spirit you received does not make you slaves so that you live in fear again. Rather, the spirit you received brought you about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, Abba.

[Si Robertson]

Father.

[Bobby Robertson]

Father. You've all been adopted by the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who paid for everything you've done here on this earth on the cross. And then he came back up three days later. So that we have a father in heaven who loves us and would do anything for us. All you got to do is accept it. Come on.

[Willie Robertson]

And there's going to be a reunion story even cooler than Bobby's one day.

[Jase Robertson]

Come on.

[Willie Robertson]

So, Bobby, thank you.

[Bobby Robertson]

That was fun.

[Willie Robertson]

Thank you for coming. Bob, you're.

[Bobby Robertson]

Great to have you back.

[Willie Robertson]

Hey, you heard it from the man. You're welcome back. Perfect.

[Si Robertson]

Especially if your brother comes.

[Jase Robertson]

I'll be great.

[Si Robertson]

You're both welcome. Welcome.

[Jase Robertson]

Okay.

[Willie Robertson]

Your other brother. We know, the rest of us, we don't want them. All right. We'll see y'all next time right here in the duck call room. We're out.