Uncle Si Reacts to 1-Star Reviews of His Book

Summary

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Duck Call Room

Uncle Si Reacts to 1-Star Reviews of His Book

Date: November 20, 2025
Hosts: Si Robertson & Justin Martin, with appearances by John-David Owen, John Godwin, Jay Stone, Phillip McMillan, Jacob Mayo, Big Dave, Missy, Hunter

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Episode Overview

This episode of Duck Call Room is classic Duck Commander camaraderie, blending hilarious stories and Southern banter with a focus on Uncle Si’s reaction to critical reviews of his book. The show weaves through tales of family, military, hunting adventures, and food, all colored by Si’s trademark storytelling and the group’s easy chemistry. The crew not only takes on internet critics but also shares memorable escapades, debates the complexities of aging and technology, reminisces about legendary hunts and meals, and keeps the laughter rolling throughout.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Setting the Tone: Cold Weather & Old School Living

• The crew complains about the cold and jokes about the lengths they'd go for warmth.
  • Big Dave: “I’d burn everything you got before I freeze to death.” (03:06)
• Jesting about generational gaps, flip phones, and technology mishaps.
  • Missy: “Now that my average age of my friends is mid-60s, I do know a lot of people with flip phones.” (04:24)
  • Hunter: “All my friends are at least 70.” (04:33)

2. Aging, Family, and Being Set in Their Ways

• Discussion on regressing to childhood with age, technology struggles, and bodily wisdom:
  • Si Robertson: “You get past 50, don’t trust a fart.” (05:27)
• Candid tales of mishaps:
  • Big Dave: “If they tell you they’ve never [crapped themselves], they lie.” (05:53)
  • “I have a stupidity problem. If you’re in a position of authority...well, it’s just so bad you can’t do it.” (06:14–06:22)

3. Legendary Military Antics

• Big Dave spins tales from his military days, including tank races and dodging punishment.
  • Big Dave: “Everybody wanted to do what I did, they just didn’t have the balls to do it...I was ready to take whatever punishment.” (27:41)
• The line between authority issues and having fun in the service:
  • Si: “You do make the military sound fun—or at least being in it with you!” (27:23)

4. Hunting Lore & Camp Life

• Extended banter about the intricacies of hunting, using digital duck stamps, and the challenges of North Louisiana’s phone-challenged hunters.
• Epic dominoes and card nights with the family:
  • Big Dave: “If you smack talking dominoes, otherwise you get your tail strapped.” (13:28)
  • Family legends get their due, especially Jace’s math prowess.

5. Food Stories & Southern Hospitality

• Much discussion centers around food—corn chowder, big lunches, and fried pies.
  • Missy: “He gets home, goes in the house and Missy has on the stove...and dad looks at it like, I mean, I might have to try that.” (16:31)
  • Si: “The name corn chowder is very misleading...when he started naming sausages, shrimp—yeah, this has got some meat in it.” (17:06)
• Reminiscences about Miss Kay’s classic meals for the family and her unrepeatable pie crust.
  • Hunter: “That might be the best thing that I've ever ate. Fresh homemade fried apple pie that mama Kay made.” (53:19)
  • Si: “What was incredible is they never ate the leftovers from lunch for dinner!” (51:58)

6. Uncle Si’s Book: The Good, The Bad, and The 1-Stars

• Missy reads out loud some of the rare negative reviews from Si’s book:
  • Missy: “You got 4.7 stars on your first book out of 2,601 reviews...who gave that book one star?” (31:55)
  • Missy: “This person...says one star because it’s not for teens or preteens.” (32:28)
• The group cracks up, mocks the reviewers, and Si responds in true fashion:
  • Si: “How did you end up with this book about Si Robertson and not expect it to be fluff?” (33:32)
• On storytelling accuracy:
  • Si: “Hey, 95 percent of that is true. Same thing with my military career.” (29:56)
  • Hunter (teasing): “I would change that 95 number to about 45.” (30:40)

7. Hilarious One-Liners & Family Roast Sessions

• Si, Big Dave, and crew roast each other over age, beards, losing hair, and who’s to blame in the duck blind.
  • Hunter: “Your sweet britches, right?” (30:52)
  • Si: “According to two people in the family, I ain’t never killed anything in my life. That’s Phil [Robertson] or Jace [Robertson].” (41:41)
  • Big Dave: “I got tire tracks up and down my back from you two idiots. I'm sick of it.” (41:58)

8. Epic Hunting Mishaps and Rivalries

• Recounting memorable duck hunts: missed shots, wader disasters, and the never-ending debates about where to set up.
  • Si: “That was the first time as a grown adult I was scared of getting a whooping—not like from Phil.” (44:12)
  • Si: “You don’t need a watch until you duck hunt. You need a watch.” (50:00)
• Family dynamics and hierarchy in the blind:
  • Si: “I realized at one point, too, I was mainly there because I had a watch.” (49:18)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Si, on simplicity: “Simple books rock, man. Don’t be complicated.” (33:13)
• Big Dave, on living right: “If you hear when it comes in [the ship], just—yeah, hey, there’s a lot of benefits.” (51:04)
• Hunter, on food: “That might be the best thing that I've ever ate. Fresh homemade fried apple pie that mama Kay made.” (53:19)

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Highlighted Segments & Timestamps

[03:06] — Cold Stories and Big Dave’s Survival Tactics

[13:18] — Dominoes, Rhymin’, and Family Game Night

[16:31] — The Great Corn Chowder Conversion

[27:23–28:01] — Tank Racing, Military Fun, and Accepting the Consequences

[31:55] — Uncle Si’s Book Reviews Get the Spotlight

[41:41] — Duck Blind Blame Game and “Tire Tracks Up My Back”

[44:12] — The Fear of a Phil Robertson Whooping

[49:18] — Only There for the Watch: Navigating Duck Camp Hierarchies

[53:19] — The Story of Mama Kay’s Fried Pies and Family Table Memories

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Tone & Style

• Down-home, jovial, and self-deprecating, the guys rib each other constantly, blending loving family roast with true Louisiana style.
• Si’s reflective but irreverent, unwilling to let a critical review (or roast from his own kin) go unanswered.
• The episode feels like a family gathering—stories overlap, food is central, and even the 1-star reviews just fuel another round of jokes.

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Summary Takeaway

If you missed this one, you missed the full Duck Commander experience: stories of grit, heart, and Southern scrappiness; food so good it starts an argument; and a reminder that life’s aims—whether writing a book, hunting a 9-point buck, or enduring family ribbing—are best met with humor, humility, and a little bit of mischief.

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Transcript

[Si Robertson]

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[Si Robertson]

Ears on or importantly in the ears you need the microphone. There you go. Comfortable sigh on that Casual. It's casual.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, yeah, whatever.

[Si Robertson]

It's casual Friday up in here.

[Hunter]

How you feeling today?

[Big Dave]

It sucks. That's how I'm feeling today.

[Si Robertson]

Sucks. Why is it? Oh, cuz it's cold. You don't like cold?

[Big Dave]

I don't like cold.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Missy]

I was, I was genuinely worried about you for a minute.

[Hunter]

No.

[Si Robertson]

So I get Sad when it's 29 degrees. Yeah.

[Big Dave]

When it's get down in two digits, boys.

[Missy]

I'm not a fan of it by any means.

[Big Dave]

That's when you walk around with about 5 gallon can of gas.

[Si Robertson]

Well, you can burn anything you need.

[Big Dave]

And just hey, walk up to a pickup truck, poured gas on, set it, set it as fire.

[Missy]

I don't think I could do that and get away with it at this juncture.

[Big Dave]

Well, no, that's what I told the captain one time when we were out in, in the woods camping out and then just a freezing fog comes through.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Big Dave]

And just everything behind it was just frozen.

[Si Robertson]

Including you.

[Big Dave]

And well, no, no, here I am a E5 and they got E7s and E6s running around with a finger up the rear end, you know. And they come at me and said, hey, you need to put up a GP medium tent and get the heater. Peter's going for these troops. I said, why am I the one.

[Hunter]

That do all this was that old captain Herman Nelson.

[Big Dave]

Oh yeah. And someone went, hey. When I did, I did get them up. Hey, I run that sucker from the bottom to the top red.

[Hunter]

I bet that pipe was.

[Big Dave]

But you was warm and his cap coming in. He Said, you gonna burn up. I said, hey, I'll pour a can of diesel on that deuce right there. Said said, for our freeze death. I said, I'll burn everything you got before I freeze death.

[Hunter]

Heard it all.

[Big Dave]

I've heard it all.

[Si Robertson]

I've hunted with him enough to confirm that this is a true statement.

[Big Dave]

That's a true statement. I never think there is, buddy.

[Si Robertson]

He will pick everything in there that will burn.

[Missy]

Freezing to death. Seems like it might be the worst way to go.

[Hunter]

Be pretty rough.

[Big Dave]

It'd be tough.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, you know, the good thing about the cold weather, though, is it brings ducks down. And this, this winter, be sure to get ducks down. Dot com. Your digital duck. Get a digital duck stamp.

[Big Dave]

You don't have to sign it.

[Si Robertson]

And stay legal while you're ducking.

[Big Dave]

You don't even have to worry about having a paper one.

[Si Robertson]

There you go. Don't have.

[Big Dave]

That is if you carry a phone with me. I'll have to worry about it. I like to have somebody with me that's got a phone.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, well, I think you are. Hey, you're not in a big.

[Big Dave]

On your phone.

[Si Robertson]

You're not in big danger going by yourself.

[Big Dave]

So you'll be all right.

[Hunter]

I was thinking, the good news for you is everybody in North Louisiana has. Has a phone except for you.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, except for me.

[Missy]

Yeah.

[Big Dave]

Well, when they won't work, boy, you don't need to carry one.

[Missy]

I'm trying to think if I know anybody else that doesn't have a phone at all.

[Hunter]

I think it was just him and Phil.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, but I noticed they kept somebody around them who had.

[Big Dave]

Well, no, no. Hey, you know that black box? Now.

[Missy]

Now that my average age of my friends is mid-60s, I do know a lot of people with flip phones.

[Hunter]

You sound like me.

[Big Dave]

Yeah.

[Missy]

You come hang out at the honey.

[Hunter]

All my friends are at least 70.

[Missy]

Yeah, I'm the IT guy. I had to change a guy's Tundra's clock the other day. Cooney Cooney said, hey, my clock says it's on Hawaiian time and the daylight savings about to happen. And he goes. And I keep pressing buttons and nothing happens. And I went out there, I was like, all right, we're done, man.

[Si Robertson]

Aren't old people fun?

[Missy]

They are.

[Si Robertson]

I can't wait.

[Big Dave]

Good time.

[Si Robertson]

I can't wait to be one of them.

[Big Dave]

Well, nice.

[Si Robertson]

I can't wait to drive my regression crazy with it.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, as older you get, you go, you're going back. Going to be a child again.

[Si Robertson]

My. No, my children can work your stuff. Better than.

[Big Dave]

Well, no, no. Oh, no, no, no. It's how much technology. I'm just talking about how you just. In general, going back to childhood, it is because, hey, man, Technology.

[Missy]

Now because you lay around, take naps and watch cartoons all day. Don't.

[Big Dave]

That's it.

[Si Robertson]

And every now and then, crappy pants, everyone.

[Hunter]

You know what they say. You get past 50, don't trust a part.

[Big Dave]

Now, that's a.

[Si Robertson]

That is a false statement. You get past about 24, you better not do that.

[Big Dave]

There's time, so. Nope, you better.

[Missy]

Yeah, we're going to go down a road there because I got stories.

[Hunter]

I don't.

[Big Dave]

I don't. Hey, if they're truthful, everybody is crapped on themselves.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. I just wish I couldn't remember the last time I did, but still a very vivid memory.

[Big Dave]

Well, no, no. Yeah. I'm just saying, hey, if they tell you they've never done it, they lie.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Big Dave]

I like a politician if his lips are moving that sucker line. Oh, well, my brother once told me he was in the military, too. He was in the Air Force. He said, you got an authority problem. I said, no, I don't really have an authority problem. I said, I have a stupidity problem.

[Missy]

There it is.

[Big Dave]

If you're in a position. Position of authority.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

I was always taught to respect my elders, but I.

[Big Dave]

Well, it's just so bad you can't do it.

[Hunter]

I am in it. I respect my elders. Unless they're an idiot, I don't respect them.

[Si Robertson]

There it is. But you can still respectfully say, yes, sir, move on.

[Big Dave]

Well, when I. When I respect stops. When, hey, I'm working my butt off of you, and then, hey, you turn down five E. Five stripes, which one of them belonged to yours truly?

[Hunter]

They're like, somebody might have had a grudge.

[Big Dave]

Oh, yeah, I had a grudge and an attitude problem after that.

[Si Robertson]

I just can't imagine you being unlikable.

[Big Dave]

Oh, well, no, here's the thing. I will give the men that was above me and that was an officer, I will say this for him. They were honest. Because if it had been dishonest, I would have done time in Vietnam in Long Ben jail.

[Missy]

I can see how it might be tough to be sized, boss.

[Big Dave]

Well, look, if I'm out there working.

[Si Robertson]

My hell off, not enjoying every day.

[Big Dave]

Okay, and like you never have to worry about, okay, did he do this or this? Because, no, hey, I did it and more.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Big Dave]

And then to come out and find out that, hey, he turned down five E. Five stripes. Now you can't tell me that a person that's got 300 men under him can't find. Can't think you'll find five that he'll actually give a stripe to.

[Hunter]

I got a question for you. Did you take naps when you were an E4? Did you take.

[Big Dave]

Oh, I always took naps. Whatever my rank was. Okay, that's a rule ranking. Don't come in play here.

[Hunter]

That might answer.

[Big Dave]

Okay. I'm like that old boy in the movies. Okay. Hey, when you're fighting the passage, if you get time to take a snap, you better take a nap. Yeah. No telling when that sucker gonna jump up and try to knife you. You got to be ready for it at all times.

[Missy]

Say, when that sucker gonna knife you?

[Big Dave]

Oh, yeah. Hey, that'll build a fire unless you roast over it. Hey, the patches were mean. They were evil too, because they thought up.

[Si Robertson]

Do you think they were mean or just misunderstood?

[Big Dave]

Oh, no, they were mean too, because they just. They thought up ways of torturing people.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, well, you'd probably been pretty pissed off. Somebody show up and start taking all your stuff too.

[Big Dave]

Well, yeah, no, yeah, I probably would. Probably.

[Si Robertson]

Perhaps they did get a raw deal in the grand scheme of things.

[Hunter]

Johnny, did you know. Did you notice my beard?

[Missy]

It's fuller than it normally is, but it's a diff.

[Hunter]

It's getting real gray.

[Big Dave]

It's getting a lot of gray in it. So.

[Hunter]

A lot of gray. So much. My youngest, Sage, she said. She said, daddy, your beard is getting great.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, you get long.

[Hunter]

I know.

[Big Dave]

You getting long in the tooth.

[Hunter]

I'll tell you another thing, your hair is falling out too.

[Big Dave]

Well, Sage don't pull any punches. She tells it like it is.

[Hunter]

Good to know.

[Missy]

I haven't noticed your hair, but that I've got a lot of gray on the left beard on the underneath.

[Hunter]

I got a pretty good bald spot coming on in the back right there.

[Big Dave]

It happens at all of us boys.

[Hunter]

I think I'm just going to get that. Pull a goblin and get the clippers out and just.

[Missy]

And go full ball.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, Once it goes pretty thin. Hey, just shave it.

[Hunter]

But I got to make up for it with the beard.

[Big Dave]

That's what's so weird. Some people really look good with a ball head.

[Missy]

Michael Jordan.

[Big Dave]

No, no, I had an E6.

[Si Robertson]

Charles Bark.

[Big Dave]

Hey, you never saw that man without too good looking women on his arms everywhere he went.

[Si Robertson]

Eve Harvey.

[Hunter]

Yeah.

[Big Dave]

And look.

[Missy]

I can't think any white.

[Big Dave]

Hey, you had look when you was around this dude. You had to have a good Pair of shades. Because, hey, I don't. I don't know if he buffed it or had a shoe shine man on his head. Oh, yeah. I mean, there was no hair.

[Si Robertson]

That's the only reason I ain't done it. Because the commitment level to that.

[Big Dave]

Oh, no, no, no.

[Si Robertson]

It's way more.

[Big Dave]

Oh, no, it's work.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, it's work.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, it's work.

[Hunter]

Well, they got those. Those electric ones now.

[Big Dave]

Well, no, no, because, hey, you never saw this guy have any little prickly hairs in it.

[Hunter]

No, it was shining.

[Big Dave]

No, this thing shine Plus, I wouldn't.

[Si Robertson]

Get to go talk to the man.

[Big Dave]

No, I'm telling you, I think he had a shoe shine man. Probably the best in the land on his head.

[Si Robertson]

Popping that rag, Popping that rag and.

[Big Dave]

Singing a blue song. I've never had to sing the blues when you pop in the. You want to shine them. Shoot.

[Si Robertson]

Duck season's here, and I'm about to hit the road. And you know what's cool? The federal duck stamp goes with you wherever you go, Especially when you got it on your phone. The all new digital duck stamp from Duck Stamp.com. it doesn't matter if you're. If you're hunting them here in Louisiana across the border into Arkansas, or I'm going all the way to the Missouri, Iowa line here.

[Missy]

That covers all 50 states, every one.

[Si Robertson]

Of them, even the one where you.

[Missy]

Wouldn'T want to hunt, you could still do it.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, Florida, there's folks. Which one were you talking about?

[Missy]

Delaware.

[Si Robertson]

You don't want to get halfway there and realize you're not legal. You're going to get close to camp. You're going to be out of service, and you can't go to ducksnam.com so get it before you hit the road. It literally takes two minutes. Look, the stamp funds everything from wetlands, wildlife, everything you look at and see. So. Man, there's ducks there. Odds are the Pittman Robertson dollars from the federal duck stamp has funded that. It won't keep you from getting pulled over, but at least you'll have peace of mind that you got your duck stamp. So pack your decoys, load the dog, double check your digital wallet and make sure that the federal D stamps there. The road's calling and the ducks are waiting. Get legal, Help the ducks and make your mama proud. Duck Stamp.com. that's Duck Stamp.com.

[Missy]

Do you get your shoes shined?

[Big Dave]

Oh, yeah. I've sh. Before.

[Missy]

I've never done.

[Big Dave]

Always has done. An airport always has to go to the man and he Sang a song with it.

[Si Robertson]

Boy, in case you ever wanted to know who gets their shoe shine in airport, I've sat there and watched sa get his boots shine.

[Big Dave]

Now you gotta get his shoes on.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. Traveling with him, I have sat there and watched.

[Big Dave]

Look.

[Missy]

But when you're on the escalator, you can just put your shoes on that little brush.

[Big Dave]

Hey, if the boy don't sing, he'll get a tip. If he sings while he's shining, hey, he'll get a good.

[Missy]

How can you tell if he's singing?

[Big Dave]

Because you're probably gonna be singing if he does. Buying or I ain't going to it. That's like shooting dice. What? I used to love to watch. Watch. You know the field hand shoot dice on Saturday night?

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Big Dave]

Did you? They all got. You got to have. You got to have a good jive going while you rolling dice.

[Si Robertson]

I do like.

[Big Dave]

Hey, give me a sip because mama needs a new dress.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. I do like.

[Big Dave]

Oh, wait. And by the way, she gonna need a new pair of shoes too.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, I do like shooting dots.

[Missy]

I've played craps like twice.

[Si Robertson]

And it's fun.

[Big Dave]

The gambling night fun part. The gambling is a smack that is taught. Why shoot dice?

[Si Robertson]

No, it's fun. I enjoy it. That's the one casino game that I truly enjoy.

[Hunter]

Well, that smack talk, that's the best thing about dominoes too.

[Big Dave]

Oh, no. Yeah. Oh, no.

[Hunter]

You gotta have a rhyme.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, you gotta hype. But you better be really good if you smack talking dominoes, Otherwise you get your tail strapped.

[Si Robertson]

I prefer to just stick to the pizza when it comes to domino's.

[Big Dave]

Hey, just go for the meal, don't go for the smack.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Missy]

I don't want to get beat.

[Big Dave]

The best game of dominoes ever played was Jason Robertson. Alan Robinson against Jimmy Frank and Harold Robertson. Harold and Jimmy Frank needed five points. Jason and Al needed 150. Two hand later. Guess who lost?

[Si Robertson]

The old man.

[Big Dave]

The old man. And they got strapped. I mean, it was. It was brutal.

[Si Robertson]

Jace didn't talk no trash.

[Big Dave]

Oh, oh, hey, no, no. Every time the family got together after that. Well, we got to go there again, boys. Well, Jace, Harold, how many points did y' all need? You only needed five. Oh, and how much did Alan and Jason need? 150 and two hands later.

[Missy]

You're sucking high tithe, though, is kind of. He's got like a rain man quality about him. Oh, where he memorized.

[Big Dave]

Hey, you don't want to play dominoes.

[Hunter]

But no, you don't want to play cards.

[Big Dave]

I'M saying you really don't.

[Missy]

I don't want to play anything that involves.

[Big Dave]

He's sitting there telling you, hey, you ain't got but two plays. Play one the other one before I strap the plan.

[Si Robertson]

Jace can count to 52, I'm certain.

[Big Dave]

Oh, no.

[Si Robertson]

Like, any numbers between 0 and 52, that's the one.

[Big Dave]

It ain't, but it ain't but 28 dominoes.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Big Dave]

And, like, when you deal, you get seven apiece. And when you start playing, you know, Jason's already know.

[Hunter]

He knows what you want one round.

[Big Dave]

Around the one round, and he knows.

[Hunter]

What you got, and he knows what everybody's got.

[Missy]

That's crazy.

[Hunter]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. The one time I played with him, he said, play that three, four.

[Big Dave]

And I'm like, yeah, you ain't got one play.

[Si Robertson]

I mean, he's just like, play that. You play that.

[Big Dave]

All right.

[Hunter]

I know what you got.

[Si Robertson]

We get 60, you get 30.

[Big Dave]

And that's right. Yeah. And we win.

[Si Robertson]

Okay.

[Hunter]

Yeah.

[Missy]

That's wild. Well, while we're on a current nice thing, we're talking nicely about Jace. So my grandmother recently passed. We've kind of talked about that. But you know how when people bring you food.

[Si Robertson]

Yep.

[Missy]

And, you know, for some of us, you're like, hey, we're good. Just.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Missy]

Thank you.

[Si Robertson]

Drop off Cane's chicken strips or something.

[Missy]

Well, Missy texted my mom, so, hey, I got a big pot of soup. Would love to bring it by the house.

[Si Robertson]

What kind of soup? It is soup weather.

[Missy]

It is soup weather.

[Big Dave]

Oh, yeah.

[Missy]

And it was her corn chowder.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, praise be. Yeah. That's.

[Missy]

That was not big Dave's reaction. Big day. Straight up said, well, I mean, I got a ham.

[Big Dave]

I'd had. Babe. I'd had big days. I ain't much on corn soup.

[Si Robertson]

And that's fine. Well, but that's fine. But let me tell you, her corn chowder is fantastic. I didn't know that was a style of soup we were going to. It's really not a.

[Big Dave]

See, I don't think I ever ate it because, you know, I. I ain't a big corn soup man.

[Missy]

So big Dave gets home last. He went and watched my nieces play basketball. He gets home, goes in the house, and Missy has on the stove. It's warm, ready to go. And dad looks at his like, I mean, I might have to try that.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Missy]

And then he got to the store this morning. He said, you better hurry, because I'm gonna eat it all.

[Big Dave]

He said.

[Missy]

He said, there's potatoes there's.

[Big Dave]

Shrimp.

[Missy]

There's sausage.

[Big Dave]

There he goes.

[Si Robertson]

It.

[Big Dave]

It.

[Missy]

It's the best thing.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, the name. The name corn chowder is very misleading.

[Big Dave]

Well, I was just say. Yeah, that. Miss, that's misleading. When he started naming sausages shrimp. Yeah, this has got some meat in it.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, yeah, it's very hearty. It's not a soup.

[Missy]

Yeah. But I was like, I got to go to my mom and dad's house quickly before he eats it all.

[Si Robertson]

I don't really know. I mean, I guess you call it.

[Big Dave]

A soup, there ain't nothing better.

[Si Robertson]

It eats more like a gumbo almost.

[Big Dave]

It's nothing better than a hot soup on a cold day.

[Si Robertson]

And, buddy, we got a cold day.

[Big Dave]

And I mean, yeah, we got a cold one.

[Missy]

I went to work for about an hour, and we talked about that soup the whole time. Yeah, he's fired up about it, which is weird because he. He's literally like, please, nobody bring us food. But then when, you know, they live across the street, okay, we'll try it. And he was like, okay, this is legit.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, y'. All. Y' all are on the list. You can bring whatever you want.

[Missy]

If you've ever been related to K, you can bring food.

[Si Robertson]

You can drop it off.

[Missy]

Yeah. Everybody else, just send a doordash gift card, and we'll figure it out. Yeah, yeah, that thorn chowder. Thank you, Missy. I haven't had it yet, but I'm. I'm going to sneak.

[Big Dave]

Me.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, you're going to be glad you did.

[Missy]

Oh, I've had it. I've seen the photo. I was in the moment I saw it.

[Big Dave]

That sounded like a cow.

[Missy]

Oh, I've got a. I've got a little picture of old Stone and family.

[Hunter]

Let's see.

[Si Robertson]

I was like, what are we.

[Hunter]

Oh, yeah. Look inside that picture. He looks like you're having a bad day.

[Si Robertson]

You got them new teeth. Why'd you got them out? Hey, why didn't you have them teeth out, man?

[Big Dave]

Didn't think about it.

[Si Robertson]

Just so used to hiding them all this time.

[Hunter]

No, we went to the Texas hill country, to the Ox.

[Big Dave]

Well, that's pretty. That is a pretty place.

[Si Robertson]

What hill country?

[Big Dave]

Well, I mean, yeah, it's. The scenery is epic.

[Si Robertson]

It is.

[Big Dave]

And then you go up and down, and then you look and there's, you know, 10 of them things standing in the woods over, you know, just watching 10 of them.

[Hunter]

Oh, yeah.

[Big Dave]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Hunter]

We took old Bullfrog. Oh, Robicheau was there. Our buddy Kylie was there.

[Missy]

Is that who that is.

[Hunter]

I even talked the old lady into coming.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, Anna's there and I think she had a good time.

[Hunter]

She had a wonderful time.

[Big Dave]

I think she enjoyed it. I gotta figure what I saw, she.

[Hunter]

Needed it that way.

[Si Robertson]

She shoot that tank?

[Hunter]

No, we didn't get to shoot the tank. But we little bullfrog kill. I asked that guy, I said, what is the best tasting animal? Yeah, yeah.

[Big Dave]

What you got out of the.

[Hunter]

We're grocery table fair. Yeah, that looked like.

[Missy]

It looked pretty good on the wall too.

[Hunter]

Scimitar, oryx.

[Big Dave]

Them. Them horns are 40 inches.

[Hunter]

Well, good grief.

[Big Dave]

I mean, I look and they, they. Them guys was talking about them. Said, hey, you can get a pick like a pecan up and throw it at one of them and he'll slap that pecan away with that horn.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, like a baseball bat.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, yeah, I'd like to see that. They are that good with what they got up there. You know, if you toss a pecan at them, they'll knock that sucker away from.

[Hunter]

Oh, yeah. But I've already ate some of them. Ate those inner tenderloins the other day and that was about the best thing I ever ate.

[Big Dave]

Comparable to what you got.

[Hunter]

I don't know what to compare when.

[Missy]

You say the best thing I ever ate. I think that's compared to everything.

[Hunter]

It was like a filet mignon type texture. Like a. It just melted in your mouth.

[Big Dave]

So the texture of the meat is really.

[Hunter]

Oh, yeah. Tender. No gamey flavor whatsoever. It was a. It was.

[Big Dave]

Well, I know one thing I can't invite me to. Invite me next time. Oh, well, that was.

[Missy]

You're right there in the photo.

[Big Dave]

Well, hey, yeah, but I'm talking about the frying part.

[Hunter]

You know, bullfrog, she got. She got. She got a little shook up on that deal because that, you know, dip things. It was a herd of. And now all the cows and bulls look alike.

[Big Dave]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

So the. The guy one right there. But they were running from us, so we had to. That's pretty much. It was a stalk type deal. We had to run.

[Big Dave]

And that was a bull, right?

[Hunter]

And. Oh yeah, yeah. And she finally had to shoot him on the move. I mean, I didn't tell her to shoot, but she just got fed up with chasing it. And that thing was jogging.

[Big Dave]

They just running up around the mountain. And when a jeep chasing this thing.

[Hunter]

And she double lunged him on a.

[Missy]

Slow jog, Bullfrog got a little fill in her. She just flipped that sucker.

[Big Dave]

Oh, no, she loves killing stuff.

[Hunter]

Oh, she does.

[Si Robertson]

I can't quit Looking at Kyle.

[Missy]

Kylie's back.

[Hunter]

Oh, Kylie.

[Si Robertson]

Kylie got that Under Armour sweatshirt on from 2012. I love.

[Missy]

We got to get Kyle in here one day.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, yeah, Kylie. Whatever happened to Minnesota? Nice.

[Big Dave]

Whatever.

[Hunter]

We had a big, but the size right, though the best part about over there is just the scenery, the beauty of it all.

[Big Dave]

You tell me. Hey, you're talking about 18,000 acres, okay? Look, when you're coming into it, you come flat, then you're looking over and there's. There's mountains. Then you run up near height. Then when you get on rice, you land with your.

[Si Robertson]

Texas hill country is one of the top three most beautiful places in North America.

[Big Dave]

And then fill that 18,000 acres with 20,000 animals.

[Si Robertson]

And a tank.

[Hunter]

And a tank. And a flamethrower.

[Si Robertson]

And a flamethrower.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, yeah.

[Si Robertson]

And grenade launchers.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, all those.

[Missy]

I would. I'm interested in the grenade launcher.

[Big Dave]

Oh, they are. Because, hey, look.

[Si Robertson]

Hey, if it's a weapon that goes boom, they got it.

[Missy]

They have a subscription for underwear, razors, socks, hunting stuff, fishing stuff, TV stuff.

[Si Robertson]

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[Big Dave]

A tank is fun to drive because, hey, you can hit. Hit the brake on one side. It's just spin it. I mean, in a. I mean, in a tank.

[Hunter]

There goes 75 miles an hour.

[Big Dave]

M1 Abrams run 75 miles an hour. And hey can kill anything that if you can see it, you kill it.

[Hunter]

The cool part of it, you could be running 75 and kill it. And that barrel is just as steady.

[Missy]

That's crazy.

[Big Dave]

Yeah. And hey, you know how much it tanks? 5 meal a pop.

[Si Robertson]

Didn't you get in trouble for drag racing one?

[Big Dave]

Oh, no. Yeah. No.

[Si Robertson]

Ain't that a story I remember.

[Missy]

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

[Big Dave]

Yeah. I. General gets in his helicopter, private helicopter, goes around and checks the base.

[Missy]

Is this in Mississippi?

[Big Dave]

No, this was at Fort Knox, Kentucky, when I was in charge of a service section.

[Missy]

You were racing?

[Big Dave]

Oh, hey, look, we were racing Fort Knox. No, no, we were racing M60 tanks. M113 personnel carry.

[Si Robertson]

I thought I remembered this.

[Big Dave]

And it's the personnel carry. That is what's fun. Okay. Because they got it's metal track with pads on the bottom of it. Well, I don't know what the thing's got in it, but it's got a powerful engine in it. So you would have it just redlined and it's done just everything. All you can hear is a bunch of squealing metal because it's trying to go. Okay. And you've got the brake on and you've got it redlined.

[Si Robertson]

He's power breaking a tank.

[Big Dave]

Yeah. No, no.

[Missy]

I feel like you're gonna tear something. You paid for that.

[Big Dave]

You take the brake off and you jump about foot. When it does that, it's just. Just destroyed about six pads because we on concrete. And when it jumped, it just ate that pad.

[Missy]

Rough on equipment, boys.

[Big Dave]

Oh, hey, we didn't want to think about it, you know. So when he lands a couple of who's in charge? I walks up saluted. I am, sir. He said, what the hell you think you're doing? And I said, sir, we've been working, you know, seven days a week, 18 hours a day. We need a little, you know, break from this.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, a little yo time, man.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, a little fun, little joy in our lives. Little fun time. He said, well, not at the expense of these tanks and M113s. And I said, oh, we put pads on before we send out, sir. New ones.

[Si Robertson]

I just. Yeah, I'm in charge of this thing. I need to know just what kind of wear and tear these pads can take.

[Missy]

That's a good point. You don't want to get in the.

[Big Dave]

Middle of a fight somewhere, just not.

[Missy]

Know what you got underneath you.

[Si Robertson]

I don't want somebody blowing smoke saying they need new pads when I know they can take more, you know?

[Big Dave]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

I just got to know.

[Missy]

Research.

[Big Dave]

I didn't even realize. I didn't even realize. I walked out there after he left and it's just solid black streaks where we've been just gunning, you know. And I said, well, no wonder we got caught.

[Si Robertson]

Wasn't hard to see.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, yeah. This ain't hard to see. When you open a helicopter and the.

[Si Robertson]

Trail led right to you.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can't deny it.

[Si Robertson]

You do make the military sound fun.

[Big Dave]

No, no. Hey.

[Si Robertson]

Or at least being in it with you. I don't know that. That may go for most things, Stone.

[Missy]

Is it fun?

[Si Robertson]

That's why I say he wasn't with. He wasn't in it with. Sigh. That's what I said.

[Hunter]

You got his attitude. It's. You make the most of a situation.

[Missy]

You're not afraid of jail.

[Big Dave]

Look, here's why it was fun with me. Because everybody wanted to do what I did, but they just didn't have the balls to do it because I was ready to take whatever punishment they dissed out because I'd had it up to here.

[Si Robertson]

Hunter, can we say balls anymore?

[Missy]

Yeah, you can say balls. I have a quick question. Have you been to jail?

[Big Dave]

No, no, but I. Being honest. Okay, Being honest. If the guys that were above me were not honest, I would have done time in Vietnam especially.

[Si Robertson]

What'd you do over there so bad? Get drunk?

[Big Dave]

Well, hey, I just. I told a commander that, hey, I wasn't even wiggling my finger for him.

[Si Robertson]

Oh.

[Big Dave]

And I didn't. And hey, for six months, if you wanted to find Specialist Robertson, he was in the van. Air conditioned van with about 360ft of the best music of the 60s. So I'm in air conditioning, just blaring.

[Hunter]

It out, not getting those E5 strikes. Starting to add up.

[Big Dave]

No, no. Some of the stories, like the one where the deuce knife engine was floated across the deal, but that was my Ms. Dale. Because they're airtight. The containers are airtight. So they'll float anyway, regardless of the weight.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. What? 19 of them standing on top of each other.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, one that. But hey, but could have been.

[Si Robertson]

Maybe.

[Big Dave]

But Phil. Phil said. He said. Wait a minute, hold it. You just said something. Back up. What was. Before you continue with the story. What did you have in your pocket? And I said a fifth of whiskey. And I said at the end of the day it would be empty.

[Si Robertson]

Every day.

[Big Dave]

Every day.

[Si Robertson]

I'm glad.

[Big Dave]

He said, now these stories are making sense about, you know, people stacked on each other carrying a 300 pound engine.

[Missy]

You know, they made the movie the Blind about Phil, but if you made one about Psy, it would probably have to be a cartoon.

[Big Dave]

Well, no, it would be a comedy.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Missy]

There's no way the things that you say could.

[Hunter]

It would be comedy fiction.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, I'd love to know it would know. Oh, no, hey, take the fiction. I wrote two books and him that books. There's a lot of stories about stuff that happened me growing up. Hey, 95% of that is true. Same thing with my military career.

[Missy]

Okay, agreed.

[Si Robertson]

You know what? 95% is an A. Oh, yeah, that's an A.

[Big Dave]

Well, I'm just saying. Hey, good point.

[Missy]

If you make 95s all through school, you're the smartest person in the room.

[Big Dave]

Hey, 5% is to make it funny and laughable.

[Hunter]

As you know, I read the first audiobook. I listen book.

[Big Dave]

Don't say he ain't never got.

[Hunter]

I would change that 95 number to about 45.

[Big Dave]

No, it's 95, son.

[Si Robertson]

95 stitches.

[Big Dave]

You are a storyteller.

[Hunter]

Your sweet britches, right?

[Si Robertson]

Oh, man, yeah.

[Big Dave]

Oh, size.

[Hunter]

We had a big time on it.

[Big Dave]

But I did enjoy the military because the military was good for me, okay? Because, hey, look, you ain't got a clue what you want to do in life.

[Missy]

I still don't know.

[Big Dave]

Well, no.

[Si Robertson]

What I'm being when I grow up.

[Big Dave]

Hey, look, I told him when the they was kept. Hey, the guy was bugging me. Every time we'd go to New York, the guy from the publisher, he'd come zoom and sit down. But I. And next thing he asked when you gonna write your book?

[Si Robertson]

I ain't.

[Big Dave]

I said, I ain't. I said, it ain't that interesting. He said, look, hey, buddy, I don't remember who was first. He said, but hey, they went number one. Phil went number one. Willie wrote one. He said, hey, look, you'll outsell both of them clowns. He said, you need to write the book.

[Missy]

Did he say clowns or did you ask? No, no, I think that's part of the problem.

[Big Dave]

Well, he's trying to convince me to write. Well, he finally did. And he was right. I did. I'll tell all of them.

[Missy]

It's on Amazon still. You got 4.7 stars on your first book out of 2,601 reviews.

[Si Robertson]

That's about 95%.

[Missy]

Yeah. Who gave that book one star?

[Si Robertson]

Oh, Phillip.

[Big Dave]

Judith. That was a unique book because, hey, it was a lot of fun to read because of the stories and look, and the thing about the stories.

[Missy]

Hold on. Does it have explicit content?

[Big Dave]

All right. No. Everything in there was true.

[Si Robertson]

Does it have explicit happened?

[Missy]

Well, T. Mr. Bain says one star because it's not for teens or preteens.

[Big Dave]

Preteens. That's for anybody.

[Si Robertson]

What'd you talk about? You talk about chasing that one around a car?

[Big Dave]

What? Hey, that's my life.

[Missy]

This person.

[Big Dave]

Around the car.

[Missy]

If you're going to one star review somebody.

[Big Dave]

That was my teenage years. And that was the greatest part of my life, is chasing the girls around the car.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, my goodness gracious. Oh, man.

[Missy]

Somebody called the book simple.

[Si Robertson]

Well, yeah.

[Big Dave]

Well, it is. It is.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Missy]

It's part of why it deserves five stars, people.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. It says stories by Cy Robertson. Simple books rock, man. Don't be complicated.

[Missy]

Oh, here we go. This person put her name on it. Ruth from Arizona gave you one star. Not what I expected. Just fluff. I feel like that was probably written on the advertisement.

[Big Dave]

Ruth, it was just fluff.

[Si Robertson]

How did you end up with this book about Cy Robertson and not expect it to be fluff?

[Hunter]

Ruth.

[Si Robertson]

Ruth, Bluff the one stars on you. I'm looking at you, Ruth.

[Missy]

Somebody said, who would buy this one store? You did. That's how you wrote the review.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Big Dave]

Martin.

[Si Robertson]

What, buddy?

[Missy]

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[Si Robertson]

And you know what? You wake up looking forward to the nighttime because you know you got agz.

[Missy]

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[Big Dave]

One scoop, boy.

[Missy]

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[Hunter]

Decided to tell y'. All. He's. He's already on the board with the.

[Big Dave]

Oh, yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Missy]

Which one was it?

[Hunter]

Big nine point.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Big Dave]

90 yards.

[Hunter]

First hunt of the year.

[Missy]

Get him with that icy stare.

[Big Dave]

I got him with that 30. 30.

[Si Robertson]

The dirty 31.

[Big Dave]

30, 30. 60 grain bullet.

[Missy]

The. The fact that there is a nine point buck in that part of the world is. Jay, I'm impressed.

[Big Dave]

I don't know.

[Missy]

I don't know how you did it.

[Hunter]

It took a lot of doing.

[Big Dave]

Oh, no.

[Si Robertson]

You had to get rid of some.

[Hunter]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Not deer.

[Missy]

I'm talking.

[Si Robertson]

You had to change a lock one step.

[Hunter]

One.

[Missy]

But still, even in that, I mean, it's not like there's a fence and.

[Big Dave]

He had his work. I'll say this. He had his works cut out for it. Oh, yeah.

[Missy]

But it's done like, it's like get.

[Big Dave]

To get from where we were with what we had and then to get.

[Si Robertson]

Pro tip where we're at right now. Pro tip. You know how you don't get big bucks?

[Big Dave]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

You shoot them when they're buttonheads.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, you don't.

[Si Robertson]

Which is what you and fish don't shoot.

[Big Dave]

The butt pants. Yeah. No, no. That's why I said he had his work.

[Si Robertson]

World famous. Y' all were. Y' all were known to me.

[Big Dave]

I was easy because. Hey, you know, he just said, hey, look, if you want to go on, you start buying me.

[Hunter]

Yeah. Get with the program.

[Big Dave]

And actually, it actually made me a better hunter and I really enjoy it more. Enjoy that. Two years that we chased toothpicks. That was the most fun deer.

[Hunter]

Well, guess what. We let. I'm glad you didn't kill him because he got the.

[Missy]

Is he bigger now?

[Hunter]

Got to breed an extra year.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, he got a son and now.

[Big Dave]

Oh, yeah. Oh, this is wild. Not toothpick, but ice pick. Ice pick that sucker.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, I thought we were gonna say dental floss.

[Big Dave]

No, no, look. Hey, that sucker's got a horn coming out like this.

[Si Robertson]

Or is it toothbrush?

[Big Dave]

About that big ram. Yeah, that's funny. And that's toothpick, son.

[Hunter]

Okay, here's.

[Big Dave]

We'll be after him after. Oh, good grief. Yeah, he's a bull now. I made a bull. It took me two years to kill his dad.

[Hunter]

Yeah.

[Missy]

24 degrees.

[Hunter]

No, that ain't right. No, that ain't right.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, well, that was.

[Big Dave]

That's so wild.

[Si Robertson]

But that was last night.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, it was last.

[Si Robertson]

So it would have been close. Yeah, it would have been close. There on the river.

[Big Dave]

We had a frost this morning.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, heavy frost.

[Big Dave]

Heavy frost, yeah.

[Missy]

That's a big old deer.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, that's why I was cold.

[Hunter]

We actually filmed that hunt with Cy Kill that nine point for buck commander. But I made a great shot on the deer. But when I got it, got the gun out of the tripod. I looked at the scope and it was still on three. That deer was 150.

[Big Dave]

Oh, I didn't zoom in. He said, why didn't you zoom in? I said, hey, when you said, there's a big deer down there, you was looking through binoculars. I threw that 30.

[Si Robertson]

30 up at dirty 30.

[Big Dave]

Yeah. And I said, I'm on him. Y' all ready? And they said, shoot him. Boom. Bye, boy.

[Si Robertson]

You actually let him reply most time you do.

[Missy]

Y' all ready?

[Si Robertson]

I'm all ready. It's all one motion. He's squeezing at y' all already.

[Hunter]

But it was a beautiful book.

[Big Dave]

Oh, that's pretty dear.

[Hunter]

Six year old.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, Six years old.

[Si Robertson]

There you go. I got sleep.

[Big Dave]

And hey, pretty good port. 150 at least.

[Hunter]

What?

[Big Dave]

Maybe now?

[Hunter]

Probably about 135.

[Si Robertson]

I got slicked by our pigs yesterday evening.

[Missy]

You got slipped by pigs?

[Si Robertson]

Well, I was just driving around. I got my rifle with me because boys weren't with me. So I guess I run across Crunchy.

[Missy]

You don't shoot animals. Don, are you aware that Martin doesn't.

[Big Dave]

Shoot animals out there?

[Missy]

In case Martin's got a pet beaver named Crunchy Stone.

[Si Robertson]

He ain't a pet, but I tried yesterday. I didn't see him yesterday. He's hiding. I thought he may be up there. Sun and stay.

[Big Dave]

I'm Telling you that's an amazing animal.

[Si Robertson]

I know. I, I, I don't mind. I really don't mind the chess game with them. Like it's actually kind of fun.

[Big Dave]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

You'll like his picture. Martin. Their size nine point. There's a 30 30.

[Si Robertson]

I'm gonna tell people you got scoped.

[Hunter]

But the best part about that picture, zoom in on them new teeth.

[Si Robertson]

Johnny D. See had them out there. But he didn't want smile with bk.

[Hunter]

I guarantee.

[Si Robertson]

Look at them.

[Missy]

That's because he was upset. He wasn't the one killing it.

[Si Robertson]

I am going to tell people though, you got scoped on that one. Whenever you're gone, I'm so he got a little too close to the scope.

[Big Dave]

Oh no, Doc, Doc seen, seen a picture. Yeah. He said hey, I didn't know I blacked your eyes.

[Si Robertson]

I said, oh yeah, yeah, you black both eyes.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, you black them both.

[Missy]

When you pull out 12 of your teeth, you're gonna end up with a bruise.

[Big Dave]

It was over here. It was just black.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Big Dave]

You look good. You figured pulling 13 teeth. Oh, in about a 30 minute period.

[Hunter]

Oh, that's rough.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Big Dave]

Yeah. You skipped our haircut.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. When do you want to redo your haircut? Well, I schedule so we can have the full makeover. What's your schedule when you leave again? Yeah, yeah, let's work on this part first.

[Big Dave]

I, I fix to go to Florida Thursday.

[Missy]

What are you doing in Florida?

[Big Dave]

Making some money.

[Si Robertson]

I'm making some cash.

[Missy]

There you go.

[Hunter]

You need to get old, old Jacob's brother, old Trace and let him trim that beard.

[Si Robertson]

No, it ain't gonna happen.

[Big Dave]

No, no, no. I'm gonna let women only. I'm gonna let.

[Si Robertson]

He won't let another man touch.

[Hunter]

He won't let brush by.

[Big Dave]

I'm. I'm gonna let a good looking thing trim my hair and trim my beard.

[Missy]

Are we had them in appointment and then whenever I was going to it he was taking pictures in Texas.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, I was in Texas.

[Si Robertson]

We were getting, we were getting pictures from Texas when he was supposed to be at the bar.

[Big Dave]

Oh.

[Missy]

What I would say pictures from Texas. You won. I just got a haircut.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, it was fun.

[Big Dave]

Oh, I made a good shot. That do I kill in Texas?

[Hunter]

Sure did.

[Big Dave]

180.

[Hunter]

He still got it.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, he got it.

[Big Dave]

It's back 180.

[Si Robertson]

And I duck on with him to know he got it.

[Big Dave]

Just it's ground.

[Hunter]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Everybody talked trash about him, but I duck hunt with him enough to know.

[Big Dave]

He'S still no, no. Because that's why I always tell people. I said, according to two people in the family, I ain't never killed anything in my life. That's Phil Roberts or Jason Roberts.

[Missy]

I was wondering.

[Big Dave]

But the truth be known, these boys wouldn't even have any duck dressing if I had to go with them.

[Hunter]

The best line I've heard him say is when him and Jace almost got in the fisticuffs over them 100 mallards. I said, I got tire tracks up and down my back from you two idiots. I'm sick of it.

[Big Dave]

Well, hey, they've been on me the whole. My whole life. You know, Beth, the worst part about that, that little scenario. Jason killed Mallard Drake at 125 when he should have shot three at 60. Because when he get behind a tree, hey, I can't move because I got wings on the water. I'm looking at them. They're right above me.

[Hunter]

You saw the shot, though.

[Big Dave]

So, hey, I can't move because if I move, he ain't gonna get a shot. And I'm sitting this deep in water as it is.

[Hunter]

Well, there's so many versions of that story, but I'll never forget that as long as I live on planet Earth.

[Big Dave]

I thought we figured out you were.

[Missy]

There, too, weren't you?

[Si Robertson]

I was. I was there with water steady coming over my waders. I was so low in the water. Well, no, no, this is cold.

[Hunter]

I got wet on the water.

[Big Dave]

I was next to a brook bush, and I'm all this out is my head.

[Si Robertson]

I was in a treetop as low as a man at that point. I was about 310 pounds. Could get.

[Missy]

Godwin was there.

[Hunter]

Oh, yeah. Godwin was under the blind taking a leap.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, Godwin. Godwin had the wrong weapon in his hand. Yeah.

[Missy]

And then Willie wasn't there.

[Si Robertson]

No.

[Big Dave]

So, yeah, that was.

[Missy]

That was the normal group. Yeah, we need to have all y'.

[Si Robertson]

All.

[Big Dave]

What was actually funny about that, though.

[Si Robertson]

Is I don't like reliving. We get back, I thought I was about to do bear crawls or squat jumps or.

[Big Dave]

Hey, we get back. And Phil said, everybody gets your butt over here.

[Si Robertson]

Or just take a. Have a belt taken to. I didn't know what.

[Big Dave]

He gave us all meat. He said, hey, from now when I go get the boat, nobody gets out of the blind till I get back in the decoys with the boat.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. That was the first time as a grown adult I was scared of getting a whooping. Not like from Phil. Yeah, not. Not like a fist.

[Big Dave]

Oh, he was.

[Si Robertson]

I'm Talking about an absolute whooping, like, bend over my knee. That's what I thought was coming. I was like, oh, boy.

[Hunter]

Boy, it was serious.

[Si Robertson]

This is going to be. It's going to get weird.

[Big Dave]

It started out wrong. In the morning, it. When they said, where are we going?

[Si Robertson]

Oh, now we're dissecting at all.

[Big Dave]

Oh, no, no. Yeah. No, no. Yeah, it started out wrong. They said, well, we're going to go the mo. And I said, hey, there's probably going to be a flight on today. I said, you better go the lake.

[Hunter]

Well, you don't.

[Big Dave]

And guess what? From daylight. Hey, no, no. From daylight to 2 o'.

[Si Robertson]

Clock.

[Big Dave]

Guess we do for the whole morning.

[Hunter]

Watch them go down till 2 o'.

[Big Dave]

Clock. We watch him go down in the lake.

[Missy]

And I bet you didn't. Well, you weren't very humble about that, were you?

[Hunter]

Once I got out there to pick up decoys, he made a bunch of splashing sounds and that's what brought the duck.

[Big Dave]

If I hadn't done it, they would have never came.

[Hunter]

All the ducks, three quarters of them heard the splashing.

[Big Dave]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

Got up.

[Big Dave]

They come over there to get over.

[Hunter]

Top of a bunch of 100.

[Big Dave]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

Tried to come in the hole because they heard all that splashing.

[Big Dave]

So I got the blame for everything. Okay. Stone said the best one was when I said, hey, I've been having y' all make tire marks on my back all my life. And that's true. Everything that happened, guess who got blamed for it?

[Si Robertson]

Silas Merritt Roberts.

[Missy]

Because you're the youngest.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, yeah.

[Si Robertson]

You're the baby boy.

[Hunter]

Yeah, they. They had a problem with taking the blame, that's for sure.

[Big Dave]

Oh, hey, and it's always fellow meat. Because I was younger. Well, just let it. Yo, you know what they say, Blank roll downhill, let it roll on him.

[Si Robertson]

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[Hunter]

Oh yeah, it works.

[Si Robertson]

See, there you go.

[Missy]

Hunter was not nauseous at all.

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[Hunter]

This happened every single morning with no exceptions.

[Missy]

Argument about where everybody would gather up.

[Hunter]

Before we ever left. Where we want to go. Well, Phil would say we got this. And Jason, I think the wind's blowing this direction. And then, and then they wait for sigh and whatever size said, well, they go against. They did just the opposite. They go against it and it usually worked out.

[Big Dave]

Usually. Yeah, but that morning when I said.

[Hunter]

Hey, look, that time it didn't.

[Big Dave]

Hey, the weather is right for a flight. You better go to the open water.

[Si Robertson]

Nine times out of ten though, the elmholes the best hole on the place. I mean it is that generally you can get. Except when there's a flight you can get them there.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, but.

[Si Robertson]

But nobody, I remember nobody wanted to go to lake too because it was sunny. You just sit there and just. Your retinas burn out all morning.

[Hunter]

Like that was the problem.

[Si Robertson]

You're facing southeast.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, but we sit there all morning till 2 o' clock watching all them mellows, like right in the duck blinds.

[Si Robertson]

And you know what's amazing? None of us starved. Ain't that something?

[Hunter]

Oh yeah. We still had pretty good hunt.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

Going to his house late. They wasn't going to lay.

[Big Dave]

And I think they just did it for spot the ducks. No, Jase, Jason, if I said it, I ain't going to do it.

[Hunter]

But that happened every day.

[Big Dave]

Even if they knew it was going to be a slaughter, they still would.

[Hunter]

And it would get loud every morning arguing over where we're going to go.

[Si Robertson]

I just kept my mouth shut. I was getting a rig. I realized at that point that discussion was for three men, and really only two of them mattered.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, there's only two. The other one's going to give his opinion, but they're going to throw that out.

[Si Robertson]

I sitting over there saying, what y' all need me to tote? Where we going? Like, let me go get my big rear end somewhere and we'll call it good. I realized at one point, too, I was mainly there because I had a watch.

[Missy]

You were the only one with the watch.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. Phil always bragged about not having a watch until legal shooting hours.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, that and a phone.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Big Dave]

And the first thing I ever met was, all right, somebody who got what time you got. Yeah, that little black box called K and see when we eat.

[Hunter]

Yeah, tell her to get that rice going.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, get that rascal.

[Hunter]

Yeah, turn that gumbo on low.

[Big Dave]

That's right. Turn it on low.

[Si Robertson]

Phil always Brad. Well, it's all he said. I know time. It's almost daylight. It's mid morning. Right about lunch.

[Big Dave]

Yep.

[Si Robertson]

Now getting dark.

[Big Dave]

It's getting dark. Time to go to bed.

[Si Robertson]

You don't need a watch. You don't need a watch until you duck hunt. You need a watch.

[Big Dave]

You need one.

[Si Robertson]

You got to have a watch for duck hunt. Oh, it was always funny. What time you got. What time you got.

[Missy]

Those were the days, wasn't it? Hunting with Phil and then going to eat K lunch every day, then lay.

[Si Robertson]

Up for about 30, 40 minutes.

[Hunter]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

And then go ship out the orders. Make it just in time for ups. We had a.

[Big Dave]

We had.

[Si Robertson]

We had a knack.

[Big Dave]

What an amazing story.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, we had a knack for just being right there when he'd pull up.

[Big Dave]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Here you go, buddy.

[Big Dave]

What an amazing story and an amazing life.

[Hunter]

Oh, what are you talking about?

[Missy]

The K lunch every day. Seems like that's all it would take.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, praise God.

[Hunter]

That was incredible.

[Si Robertson]

It was so good.

[Big Dave]

That was what he sold me on. Come to work for me. I said, well, you ain't paying much. He said, no, you ain't gonna get paid much.

[Missy]

He said, but he likes the honest man.

[Big Dave]

But hey, here's the deal.

[Si Robertson]

But the benefits.

[Big Dave]

A lot of benefits.

[Si Robertson]

Lots of benefits.

[Big Dave]

A lot of benefits. Son aside, he said, hey, and I'm telling you, the ship side at sea. He says, just, yeah, hey, if you hear when it comes in.

[Si Robertson]

So I was so enthralled with it that even after he retired, he'd still wake up and go, down there and take a nap on their couch.

[Big Dave]

That's it.

[Hunter]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

And then hang around, eat lunch, take another nap, and then go home. Yeah. He just go hang out with him five, six hours.

[Missy]

Did K and Phil eat like. Like two meals a day that were that big?

[Hunter]

Oh, yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. I mean, dinner was always kind of even smaller. Lunch was the meal.

[Missy]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Like, lunch was.

[Missy]

I've had.

[Si Robertson]

But what was incredible is, like, I would eat if I were down there. Like when he went crazy and made me move decoys every night. That one year, it's like, that's. This is dumb.

[Hunter]

Whatever.

[Si Robertson]

Middle of the night, wait for him to go to bed. But what was crazy is they never ate the leftovers from lunch for dinner.

[Big Dave]

Dinner.

[Si Robertson]

He would always do something else for dinner. I was just happy with the leftover.

[Hunter]

Phil didn't need leftovers.

[Si Robertson]

I was like, you give me what we. Let's run that back.

[Hunter]

My wife's saying, yeah, especially.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, let's run that back.

[Big Dave]

We'll eat the leftover Swiss steak.

[Hunter]

A lot of things are better the second day.

[Big Dave]

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Hunter]

Gumbo.

[Si Robertson]

Gumbo was the only thing he would eat again.

[Big Dave]

Yep.

[Si Robertson]

Like, that was all he's like, it'd be better tomorrow. He'd make one bowl. Oh, it's gonna be good.

[Missy]

Hey, cook breakfast, too.

[Big Dave]

No, breakfast.

[Hunter]

She would make.

[Si Robertson]

It would make her. She would make herself breakfast.

[Big Dave]

Yeah. Big dinner.

[Si Robertson]

You were on your own for breakfast. Yeah.

[Big Dave]

Big dinner, though.

[Missy]

Dinner's lunch to you, though.

[Big Dave]

Yeah. Okay.

[Missy]

Cause lunch, dinner.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. That's a goblin thing. I think it's a. I think it's an age deal. Yeah. Calling it dinner. But lunch was the. Lunch was the mainstay. That was the big one.

[Hunter]

Every now and then we came in early, she'd whip up some homemade biscuits.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Big Dave]

Oh, man, I'm hungry. Or she would give us a treat and. And have fried pies.

[Hunter]

Oh, those were the best.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Big Dave]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

But there towards the end, she's. Every time she made fried pies, she would hide them.

[Big Dave]

No, no, she had to.

[Hunter]

She'd make them and hide.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, she had to, though, Especially if.

[Hunter]

Barely was in town.

[Big Dave]

Oh, no. Yeah. That. She had to. Because if you didn't, hey, they were gone.

[Si Robertson]

There you go.

[Hunter]

That. That might be the best thing that I've ever ate. Fresh homemade fried apple pie that mama came.

[Big Dave]

I don't know how she did it.

[Missy]

Because how many could Barely.

[Big Dave]

When she would fry, the dough would split and have pockets, and it, you know, a pop where it pops up.

[Hunter]

It'd be crispy, you know, What I miss, I. I miss that. That homemade banana pudding. Oh, no, that didn't have bananas in it.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, just. Just to put. Yeah, don't put down.

[Hunter]

It was like a.

[Si Robertson]

And it. That was another one that she did different. You ate it warm.

[Hunter]

Warm.

[Si Robertson]

Just like her potato salad. I don't like potato salad right now. But you eat it while it's hot.

[Big Dave]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

So good.

[Hunter]

Hot banana. It's more. It was more like a custard pudding.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. Oh, my favorite one was her custard.

[Big Dave]

Yeah, but her. But.

[Hunter]

Oh, man.

[Big Dave]

Well, that, that, that potato salad. Yeah. Nobody makes potato salad that good.

[Hunter]

Nobody can make her pie crust. Willie tried it, but he couldn't do it.

[Big Dave]

What was.

[Hunter]

The hands were too big.

[Missy]

Hands were too big.

[Hunter]

That's what she said.

[Big Dave]

Egg custard.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

Oh, yeah.

[Big Dave]

I get that whole thing.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, absolutely.

[Hunter]

Me too.

[Big Dave]

If my mouth was big enough, I could just swallow. I'm serious.

[Missy]

You can chew things now, man.

[Big Dave]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Si Robertson]

You don't have to do that anymore. You can enjoy it. You can savor it.

[Big Dave]

You can just the thing that. I ate pizza in Germany, rolled them and it was an Italian place and they made it. And I would go in there and I would order three 12 inch pizzas. Pepperoni. And then I'd roll it up like a burrito and ate that. All three of them. There you go. But if I could have put that 12 inch pizza in my mouth at once, I would have because I. You. You didn't have to chew it. You just put in your mouth and eat it. You just swallow it. That's the way her egg. Egg custard pie is.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, lordy.

[Big Dave]

I could just put a whole 12 inch pie in my mouth.

[Hunter]

Just her pie crust were the best. Oh, nobody. Nobody can duplicate it.

[Missy]

I've never had better.

[Big Dave]

It's got to be thin. And then I don't know how she gets to flaky part.

[Hunter]

You get it thin, Flaky. Battery flaky.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Big Dave]

But the pied pies was as key to that was when you threw it in the hot grease, it would cause bubble air pockets all over that fried pie.

[Si Robertson]

Well, let's go eat lunch.

[Big Dave]

Martin looked like he's a dozen of them.

[Hunter]

And then she'd take that powdered sugar and drink.

[Big Dave]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. I could eat a dozen of them right now.

[Hunter]

Oh, yeah.

[Si Robertson]

All right, I'll see y' all next.

[Missy]

I'm in too.

[Si Robertson]

You ready?

[Big Dave]

There, that's.

[Si Robertson]

Let's. Let's pray our way out of here.

[Big Dave]

Hey, look it.

[Missy]

This is we never celebrated episode 500 because we had Blake Cook on and then Morgan on. Please go check that out if you didn't see him.

[Big Dave]

But.

[Missy]

Whoa, we're not done yet. I didn't have his headphones on.

[Si Robertson]

Size done.

[Missy]

But we're going to keep this thing rolling as long as y' all keep listening. But First Corinthians 10:31, so whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

[Si Robertson]

Amen.

[Big Dave]

And eat you a bunch of fried.

[Missy]

And Si says, eat you a bunch of fried pies, but he's already thrown the headset off, so we'll see y' all next time.