Uncle Si Swears off Thrill Seeking the Way the JStu Guys Do It

Summary

Duck Call Room Podcast Summary: “Uncle Si Swears off Thrill Seeking the Way the JStu Guys Do It”

Release Date: December 3, 2024
Hosts: Si Robertson & Justin Martin
Guests: Justin and Andrew Stuart (J Stew YouTube Channel), Colton McKivitz & Matt McKivitz (San Francisco 49ers)

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1. Introduction to Special Guests: Justin and Andrew Stuart

The episode kicks off with Jase Robertson introducing a special edition of the Duck Call Room featuring guests from the popular J Stew YouTube channel, Justin and Andrew Stuart. The Stus are celebrated for their infectious humor and unwavering faith, aligning seamlessly with the Duck Call Room's themes of laughter and devotion.

Jase Robertson (00:07):
"We have a very special edition of the Duck Call Room for you, Johnny D. I know you weren't here. You were busy. Such a great addition."

2. Spotlight on J Stu’s Devotional Book

A significant portion of the conversation centers around J Stu’s new devotional book, aimed at young audiences. The hosts praise the book's accessibility and depth, highlighting its ability to convey biblical truths through simple, relatable stories.

Si Robertson (02:45):
"Life is too short not to laugh and have a good time. If you believe in the Creator and you've got a relationship with Him, if you ain't happy, you need to have brain surgery."
(02:53)

Jase Robertson (03:30):
"So you guys have a new devotional coming out, which is awesome, and I've read part of it. The ones that I have read are so good and so simple. Congratulations on simplifying it to a level that is palatable for any age."
(03:30)

3. The Art of Storytelling and Faith

The discussion delves into the importance of storytelling in conveying faith, drawing parallels between J Stu’s approach and Jesus’ use of parables. The guests emphasize making complex spiritual concepts understandable for children without diluting their essence.

Justin Stuart (07:31):
"We have a deep understanding of certain things that maybe new believers don't understand, but we wanted to express biblical truths through stories, kind of like how Jesus did."
(07:31)

Si Robertson (08:03):
"Jesus is a storyteller and a very good one. All the parables were crafted to make people understand."
(08:19)

4. Behind the Scenes: J Stu’s Creative Process

Justin and Andrew share insights into their creative process, highlighting the collaborative efforts of their 15-member team. They discuss ambitious projects like building a spaceship set for their first movie and the logistics of constructing a livable donut-shaped house.

Justin Stuart (18:29):
"We made our first movie and had our build team create an entire spaceship from scratch, complete with eight different rooms. It looked just like a Star Wars scene."
(18:56)

Andrew Stuart (19:01):
"We also created the world's biggest donut that was livable inside. It took four months to build."
(19:08)

5. Humor and Light-Hearted Interactions

The hosts and guests engage in humorous banter, particularly around the topic of AI and ChatGPT. Si Robertson’s playful teasing of the technology underscores the show's light-hearted nature.

Justin Stuart (28:22):
"Uncle Si, have you heard of Chat GPT?"
(28:25)

Si Robertson (28:32):
"Oh, that thing you got in your hand. It's AI, you know, artificial intelligence. No, that don't work for me."
(28:32)

Justin Stuart (29:04):
"ChatGPT says Uncle Si's favorite food is unsweetened filet mignon, cooked medium plus."
(29:04)

6. Introducing Colton and Matt McKivitz

The latter half of the episode features Colton McKivitz, the starting right tackle for the San Francisco 49ers, and his father Matt. Their presence brings a new dimension to the conversation, focusing on their faith journey and the impact of baptism on their lives.

Colton McKivitz (36:25):
"God brought us here today. We felt a connection through the Duckman videos and the Unashamed podcast, which led us to Duck Commander and ultimately to baptism."
(36:25)

7. Faith in the NFL and Community Building

Colton and Matt discuss the role of faith within the NFL, emphasizing the supportive community among believers. They highlight practices like starting games with the Lord's Prayer and weekly faith studies, fostering a strong spiritual foundation within the team.

Colton McKivitz (47:29):
"We start off every game with the Lord's Prayer and have study sessions every night. It's a huge part of our team structure."
(47:29)

Jase Robertson (46:50):
"In the NFL, faith is exactly like that. You've got a few outspoken believers and many who prefer to keep their faith private."
(46:50)

8. Balancing Sports, Family, and Faith

The conversation explores the challenges and rewards of balancing a demanding sports career with family life and personal faith. Colton shares insights into his training regimen, the support from his family, and the importance of maintaining faith amidst the pressures of professional sports.

Colton McKivitz (43:17):
"It's scary being in the NFL, but knowing that my team and I have each other's backs through faith makes it manageable."
(43:17)

Si Robertson (45:36):
"Nowadays, kids are starting sports at a very young age. It's wild how early their training begins."
(45:36)

9. Closing Remarks and Future Connections

Jase wraps up the episode by expressing gratitude to the guests, reinforcing the themes of faith, community, and laughter. The hosts highlight the meaningful connections formed through shared beliefs and experiences, setting the stage for future collaborations.

Jase Robertson (51:27):
"Keep doing the Lord's work and keep being positive. The world needs it more than ever."
(51:27)

Andrew Stuart (41:26):
"It's all God's timing and His will that brought us here today. We're grateful for this connection."
(41:26)

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Si Robertson (02:45):
  "Life is too short not to laugh and have a good time."

• Justin Stuart (07:31):
  "We wanted to express biblical truths through stories, kind of like how Jesus did."

• Andrew Stuart (18:29):
  "We made our first movie and had our build team create an entire spaceship from scratch."

• Jase Robertson (29:05):
  "ChatGPT says Uncle Si's favorite food is unsweetened filet mignon, cooked medium plus."

• Colton McKivitz (36:25):
  "God brought us here today. We felt a connection through the Duckman videos and the Unashamed podcast."

• Colton McKivitz (47:29):
  "We start off every game with the Lord's Prayer and have study sessions every night."

• Jase Robertson (51:27):
  "Keep doing the Lord's work and keep being positive. The world needs it more than ever."

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Conclusion

This episode of Duck Call Room beautifully intertwines humor, faith, and personal stories. The engaging dialogue between Si Robertson, Justin Martin, and their guests offers listeners a blend of entertainment and spiritual insight. From discussing the creation of a devotional book to exploring the integration of faith within professional sports, the episode underscores the importance of laughter and belief in navigating life's adventures.

Whether you're a longtime fan or new to the Duck Call Room, this episode provides a heartwarming and insightful experience that resonates with the show's core values of joy, community, and unwavering faith.

Transcript

[Jase Robertson]

All right, look, today we have a very special edition of the Duck Call Room for you, Johnny D. I know you weren't here. You were busy. Such a great addition.

[Si Robertson]

I'm going to take a nap.

[Jase Robertson]

You weren't here. You were busy working at the Honey Hole. And we had some special guests stop by. So first up for you guys today, we have the guys from over at J Stew, Jay Stu. But what they are not ashamed of is their faith in our Lord Savior. And so it was really cool to sit down with them as they have a brand new devotional book out this holiday season for your kids. So if your kids are J. Stu fans, they have a devotional book for them. It is really cool book. I've read it. It was super fun to sit down, talk to those guys, how they started, very humble beginnings, and where they are now and what they would like to do in the future. So stick around for that. And once those guys check out, we also have our friend Colton McKibbets, the starting right guard.

[Justin Stuart]

You just had all sorts of friends.

[Jase Robertson]

I do. It was just a weird week, man. And. But he plays for the 49ers. He's starting right tackle for the San Francisco 49ers. Who? Yeah, Little. I mean, he was little big human from West Virginia, slash Ohio. But he, you know, through his personal journey, found unashamed, and then found the Duck Call Room and came down for Jace to actually baptize him. So cool. While he was here, we were like, buddy, we need to sit and talk about that, if you don't mind. And so Colton and his father sat in with us to talk about their journey from. From nowhere, OHI slash West Virginia, all the way to the NFL. So hope you guys enjoy this very special edition of the Duck Call Room, and we'll check in with you at the end. Welcome back to the Duck Call Room, ladies and gentlemen. We have two special guests in this room. You know, if you see me on this side of the room, that something different has happened. But we have Justin and Andrew from the J Stew YouTube channel in the Duck Call room with us. And I just think there couldn't be a better fit for this podcast than you guys, because we've got a man who believes in joy and laughter more than anybody I know. And y'all. Y'all slogan is Laugh Daily, right? I mean, that's part of what y'all believe in. You've got. You're wearing shirts that say joyful heart. So if this ain't a match made in heaven right here, right Here, then I'm obviously missing something. But no. Welcome, guys.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, double that for me. Okay. Because I've always said, okay, look, we're going to have some fun and say, no, that's out. I said, well, guess what?

[Justin Stuart]

I won't be there like that.

[Si Robertson]

I ain't coming. But now if I can't smile. Have a good time, Bill. Scream if I feel like screaming.

[Justin Stuart]

We need you as our spokesman. That's a lot.

[Si Robertson]

Well, no, I'm serious. Life is too short. Okay. Not to. And. And not only that, if you believe in the Creator and you've got a relationship with him, if you ain't happy, you need to have brain surgery. Something's wrong. Okay. Yeah. Yo, hey, cut some of it out or do something. And I'm looking forward to this because it says 100 days to conquer your fears, shatter your limits, and build your faith.

[Jase Robertson]

That's right. That's. That's you guys new book.

[Justin Stuart]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

So you got a new devotional coming out, which is awesome, and I've read part of it. We just. I just got it this morning while I was watching y'all on Sadie's podcast. So, yes, I went and watched the professionals, as you all tell us in the comments this morning, that. To watch how they did it. But I. I think I'm gonna let y'all talk about your book. But the ones that I have read are so good and so simple. So congratulations on simplifying it to a level that is palatable for any age, any person, any. Anything that you can read this and get something out of it.

[Si Robertson]

So here's the question. First question, how long did it take this creation to come to pass?

[Justin Stuart]

Well, first of all, thank you for having us here on the podcast. You guys are legends. I mean, to be here. I've been so thrilled ever since we first figured that we were going to be on the podcast. So I'm just so happy to be here and talk with you guys.

[Andrew Stuart]

Yeah, absolutely. My family growing up, our Christmas tradition was to get Duck Dynasty DVDs. Whatever the current season was, we'd watch it all Christmas morning.

[Jase Robertson]

So this is.

[Andrew Stuart]

This is awesome being here.

[Jase Robertson]

Y'all need some new ones? Sure. We can help you out.

[Si Robertson]

There you go.

[Jase Robertson]

If you can't tell from behind you, we've been known to have some inventory problems in the past. So, yeah, we're not. We're just shamelessly selling teacups, and I got some ideas for those once we get done with the podcast for you guys.

[Si Robertson]

So we needed y'all yesterday when me And Al and Will was on Sadie's podcast. This would have fit in exactly perfect with what we was talking about.

[Justin Stuart]

Yeah, well, I mean, we've been working on that book. Feels like a year now, because, like, on our YouTube channel, we're all about entertainment and providing, as you have mentioned, our models Laugh Daily. Providing humor through the means of entertainment. And so we don't often get to talk about our faith because we are strong believers in Jesus Christ and he's changed our lives in every way. And so that comes through entertainment for us. God has given us the ability to kind of entertain through YouTube.

[Andrew Stuart]

So, yeah, I mean, it took us probably, what, three or four months to write the book.

[Jase Robertson]

Who's there?

[Andrew Stuart]

But, yeah, we just kind of went back through some of the videos that we've done and kind of explored the lessons that God was teaching us through the creation of the video or, like, what it. The process or whatever. So there's a bunch of stories in there from just, like, us personally or from the videos we've done.

[Jase Robertson]

And.

[Si Robertson]

Well, this sounds like a very easy read.

[Jase Robertson]

It is.

[Si Robertson]

Matter of fact, it sounds like a lot like my book, one of my books.

[Justin Stuart]

Which one is that?

[Si Robertson]

Oh, 101 or serenity. Is it 101 or slash 1?

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, psychology. Yes. It's called psychology 101. Where it's just like.

[Andrew Stuart]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Interesting stories with the.

[Si Robertson]

Because what I did is I literally wrote this book by ghostwriter did. Okay. Cause that was the funny part. They found a ghost rider, and then he came down and he spent, like, five days with me and Al Robertson, Bill's oldest son. And Al was the. He was the person that poked the bear to remind me of stories that I told them growing up. You know, I'd say, well, yo. And he'd say, hey, tell them I want about this, yo. I'd tell it. So that book was my life and stories, and it was a fun and funny read. Okay. And it was fun.

[Andrew Stuart]

Yeah. No, I think I had that book at my house.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

It was fun to read and it was easy to read.

[Justin Stuart]

Yeah. I mean, at the end of the day, like, you said, like, don't be deceived by just the colorful, playful cover. Although a lot of, like, what you said.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, no, there's a lot of life stories in here.

[Justin Stuart]

Yes.

[Si Robertson]

Okay. That are helpful to live. Okay. Because we're not of this world.

[Justin Stuart]

That's right.

[Si Robertson]

Okay. But we gotta live in this sucker.

[Justin Stuart]

Yeah. And so, like, that's a job. The stories that we tell are simple for kids to understand, but like, think of the message of the gospel. Like, we have a deep, as Christians, a deep obviously understanding of like, certain things that maybe new believers don't understand. But we wanted to be able to express biblical truths through stories, kind of like how Jesus did. And it's for kids, but it's also for adults. That's why I'm saying don't be deceived by the colorful cover that's got some great truths.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Si Robertson]

I never thought about. Okay. Jesus is a storyteller and a very good one.

[Justin Stuart]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

That's how he taught.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. No, no, all stories. Yeah. All the parables.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Because I understand why he done it. Because, hey, we're so stupid. Okay. We can't understand simple stuff. So that's why he went. Super simple. Yeah.

[Andrew Stuart]

Let me explain this for you.

[Justin Stuart]

Even the unbeliever still didn't understand. Like, please explain this to me. I don't get it.

[Si Robertson]

Well, no, no, because I. The 12 that was with him, they didn't understand lie. And then poor Peter, you know, Peter's. He. Me and him had a lot in common because I always stick my foot in my mouth a lot too.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, yeah, there you go. Yeah, I can see that you guys are gonna be.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, because I would have been asking Jesus dumb questions. Okay. You know, I don't get it. So you had to, you know, lay. You got to literally click.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Turn the light. Oh, yeah, yeah. Turn the light on floors.

[Jase Robertson]

But no, I think it's really cool from our perspective, right? You guys have what, eight, a little over 8 million or something like that, subscribers on YouTube, which is no small feat, period. I don't care when you started it, that's incredible. But that you use that platform to do something like this, especially with me, you know, we were talking before. I've got twin two year old boys. And so, like, as a father in today's world, you're always looking for positive things to turn them onto, like. And so, you know, with you guys having the laugh daily, the overall just jovial experience of it all, and then having boys that are obsessed with YouTube, even at 2 years old, like, you know, they watch Disney Junior or whatever, you can turn whatever on TV. But if I grab that remote and say YouTube, they both go, you know, but I've had them watching duck hunting. And like, I'm like, you know, just kind of fun. I'm like, I just want them to get used to what we do. But to have that kind of influence and positivity out there, man, I applaud you. Guys, so Yalls videos and Yalls Yalls deal is to put yourselves in kind of uncomfortable situations. Right? I mean that's kind of what I gathered from it. Like stay overnight challenges and some in some weird. Some weird locales and weird places and. Yeah, it's right here.

[Justin Stuart]

My last name's Stuart And Sites.

[Si Robertson]

You must be kinfolk somewhere.

[Jase Robertson]

Why is that?

[Si Robertson]

Right? Because they like to laugh and have.

[Jase Robertson]

Well, we're all blood kids.

[Andrew Stuart]

There we go.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

No, no, because that's the thing I hope happens now. Now that the election's over, you know, because I go out and do a lot of events. Okay. And sadly to say there's nobody smiling, there's nobody laughing, there's nobody having a good time.

[Justin Stuart]

That's a problem.

[Si Robertson]

And that's a problem. You know?

[Andrew Stuart]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

You know, the world is miserable.

[Jase Robertson]

Little uptight.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, yeah. Loosen up and have some fun for Christ.

[Colton McKivitz]

Absolutely.

[Andrew Stuart]

Yeah. Like on our videos. Like we're grown men, but we're still kids at heart. We're so that's what we're. We're building. Like if you were a kid.

[Si Robertson]

I know. I can't say that I understand. Hey, I never grew up and I never will. He's got a. I'm still a kid.

[Jase Robertson]

He's well known for saying he's 14 years old.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, I'm 14 year old. Tapped in a 76 year old bro. You talking about suck. Okay, that stinks. But I handled it pretty well though.

[Andrew Stuart]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, that's right. I'm still going for it, boys.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, Martin, man. Man, you know what I love? What time. Really?

[Justin Stuart]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

I like having my time. I don't want to be sitting out there trying to figure out how do all the to do lists power through busy days. And let's not kid ourselves. You going in the holiday season, you're cooking for every other thing. Sometimes you just want a night off from cooking, but you still want to eat good. And buddy, do we have something for you.

[Justin Stuart]

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[Andrew Stuart]

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[Jase Robertson]

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[Andrew Stuart]

Can come up with.

[Justin Stuart]

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[Jase Robertson]

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[Andrew Stuart]

Yeah, I think that part of it is like, just researching, trying to find weird locations that either people haven't been to or don't do very often. But then sometimes it's like, yeah, we built a roller coaster in our backyard. It's just like, what would be like, a dream that you could do even, like, as a kid? It's like, what would be the coolest thing ever? It's like, now we're adults and we can just do it.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Justin Stuart]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Roller coaster. That's way better than, like, two pieces of wood and a bicycle ramp that you almost kill yourself on.

[Justin Stuart]

The only limit is our imagination. With our motto being laugh daily. That comes from Proverbs 17:22. A joyful heart is like medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bone.

[Si Robertson]

That's the thing about. Hey. Our roller coaster was a bag swing. Okay. You get it. You get a hundred pound potato sack. Yeah. Potato sack. Okay. And you fill it full of old clothes. Okay. Where it makes a, like, a bowl that you sit on. Then you put a big rope tied to the sack. Okay. And then Put it on a big tree limb and we had it where we would climb a ladder with. With a rope to pull the rope to us. And now you think about this, teenagers, okay? Just the whole neighborhood. We used to see how many we could get on that bag.

[Jase Robertson]

So you guys, you know YouTube, is that. I mean, when y'all were growing, I say growing, I don't know. When you're thinking about your 10 year plan, let's go with it that way. Was YouTube ever there? Like, I mean, is that something like, you know, you're like, man, did y'all aspire to be on YouTube or was that just kind of what. What the good Lord put in front of?

[Andrew Stuart]

Just, like, making each other laugh? So it's like we were going to film school because we wanted to be in the entertainment industry doing YouTube, like, on the side. And once that started growing, it's like, yeah, we didn't have any thought of, like, oh, this could be a business.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, that's cool, man.

[Justin Stuart]

Yeah. God in his providence, Just a line in the past.

[Si Robertson]

He can take a black cloud and turn and turn a silver. Make a silver lining come out of it.

[Justin Stuart]

We get to just be creative. Like the ultimate creator giving us, like.

[Jase Robertson]

Hey, so y'all have fun. Y'all produce it all yourselves. Like, I'm saying, like, with the ideas and everything. Do y'all have a team? Does that? Or I mean, both and probably, yeah.

[Justin Stuart]

I mean, Andrew and I both, and we mainly come up with the ideas, but we do have a team. We have 15 people on our team who are editors, builders, creatives, production. But so we wouldn't be where we are today if we didn't have the help that we do have.

[Andrew Stuart]

Like, the roller coaster. We could be like, oh, we want to build a roller coaster, but we can't build. Yeah, we need someone else who can build to make it cool.

[Jase Robertson]

I got you. No, that is cool. And that's even cooler to think about. Like, y'all following this path has directly affected 15 people's lives. Right? Like, I mean, that's a cool thing. And y'all get to be a positive experience and a witness to those guys, which is one of the coolest parts that you never got to see for us. I know, and I think Cy would say it, too. With Duck Dynasty, was the crew, like, the impact that we had on the crew's life. That was here because the. And yeah, okay, y'all were in film school, so y'all can imagine the crew that showed up down here to film that. When I talk about every different walk of life. We had them here. You name it.

[Si Robertson]

There's some fantastic stories. Like one. One sound man, okay? Didn't get converted, you know, he. For what he didn't hear. That's what converted him.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, really? Yeah. Listen to us miked up all day. He's like, y'all don't know.

[Si Robertson]

Because he told Phil. He said, hey, I'm a sound man. I hear everything, Right? Yeah. And he said, I need to talk to you. Can we all come visit tonight after over fist this year? Come on. So he come down and he said, hey, look, the people I work with are filthy mouth, foul language all the time. He said, yet I never hear any kind of. Any kind of. Even when you stump your toe, you just say, oh, God. You don't scream out bad words, even if you do something that's painful. And Phil said, well, hey, no, we're not into that. That's not part of our life, okay? We're trying to do what's right, y'all. And it converted it.

[Jase Robertson]

What is the craziest thing your team has built for you guys? And, like, how'd y'all do. That's.

[Justin Stuart]

Ooh, I'll say one, and you say a different one. Because our build team is insane. They've built the craziest things. But this year, we made our first movie, and we had our build team, in our warehouse, build an entire spaceship, really, from scratch. So it had, like, eight different rooms, a command center, hallways. It literally looks like a Star wars scene. So in my opinion, that was our craziest build. I'll show you after. Or you could put it up on screen.

[Jase Robertson]

Hunter, can you find that? While Andrew tells his craziest. Yeah.

[Andrew Stuart]

Another build they did. We created the world's biggest donut that was livable inside. It was basically like a house.

[Jase Robertson]

Was it edible, too?

[Andrew Stuart]

Unfortunately not, but. But it was cool.

[Jase Robertson]

It was a Color me interested. I know.

[Andrew Stuart]

It's huge. This is a big circular house. It was shaped like a donut, and it took him, like, four months to build.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, is this y'all?

[Justin Stuart]

This is the. Yeah, this is the scenes from our movie, but this entire set, this is just one of the rooms. One of the many rooms that our build team did. We wanted to make it look like a spaceship, so.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Andrew Stuart]

This is the bridge of the ship.

[Justin Stuart]

Everything. The chairs, handmade. Like, all of them. Every little detail. Yep.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, that's awesome. So kudos to your team. I know they may not always get a lot of love, but kudos to your team.

[Si Robertson]

The alien boy.

[Justin Stuart]

Yeah, the bad guy.

[Jase Robertson]

That's the.

[Si Robertson]

The alien at the door.

[Jase Robertson]

All right, so let's tear down the fourth wall. Who is the bad guy? 10 to 12 minutes. Oh, okay. Okay. You're the hero and the villain. All right. I love it. I love it. Heck, yeah. It takes talent to do both those. Can I say? Yeah. Willie. That's how Willie was kind of cast on Doug Dynasty. So the hero and the villain. You know, at the end of the day, he still signs our checks. So like, hero, but he also makes his work villain. So, you know, kind of a daily deal on you guys. So y'all have done. How many videos are y'all up to now, roughly? Is there a.

[Justin Stuart]

Thousands?

[Jase Robertson]

Thousands?

[Justin Stuart]

We've done thousands.

[Jase Robertson]

What's your. What's your craziest. Because I know y'all like to do, like, crazy, crazy things that kind of get people drawn in, but again, to make them laugh and have fun. So what would. What would you dissect as your craziest deal? Filling the warehouse full of toilet papers. That. Sleeping on the cliff. Is that.

[Justin Stuart]

I'd say we spent the night in a dangerous hotel in the middle of the ocean, which was just an abandoned oil rig, like, six miles off the coast.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, okay.

[Si Robertson]

A hotel.

[Justin Stuart]

Yeah, Hotel.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, a hotel. It's an abandoned all whale.

[Jase Robertson]

Okay.

[Justin Stuart]

Yeah, it was. You had to take a helicopter get there. Only one guy owned it because he bought it, and he's the one maintaining it. So the rust of all the legs is, like, from seawater. He's having to fix them and replace them, and it was insane.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, there's lots of stuff out there in the ocean.

[Jase Robertson]

Where was that at?

[Andrew Stuart]

It was off the coast of North Carolina, I think.

[Jase Robertson]

All right, so out off Hatteras or something like that?

[Andrew Stuart]

Yeah, somewhere out that way. And we also did a video in Iceland. We flew to the world's most dangerous lighthouse out there. You had to take another helicopter out in the middle of the ocean in Iceland, and it's just this little tiny landing pad that only one pilot can fly there.

[Jase Robertson]

Okay. Now, being from Colorado, y'all know what lives around, like, stuff that you put in the ocean like that? Like, in things.

[Andrew Stuart]

We're not around the ocean that much.

[Jase Robertson]

That's what I'm saying. Like, when we go. When we go fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, we go to oil rigs to catch tuna and everything. But the problem is. What problem is you catch them. Then here comes a tax man, right?

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Like, that's what we call the shark yeah, like all the. All the big sharks. So y'all were basically like, yeah, right. Angling food. Like, we literally.

[Justin Stuart]

They dangle us down on this little swing.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, no, it was, it was sketch. Yeah, no, ignorance is bliss. There you go. I can. I can appreciate that.

[Si Robertson]

We went on a 90 foot, you know, boat that you spend the night out in ocean on. Okay. My first experience to deep sea fishing was, is everybody else was taking pictures of. Oh, boy, that's a 25 pound red snapper. Or that's. This here's, you know, a Maui. Maui, whatever. Like, I always. All I reeled in was a head.

[Justin Stuart]

Oh, God.

[Si Robertson]

Everybody else got pictures of big pretty fish. I'm sitting there with mine with a head.

[Justin Stuart]

Just.

[Jase Robertson]

That wasn't fast enough.

[Si Robertson]

They kept, hey, real faster. I said, look, I don't know how, you know, fast the shark swim, but hey, I can't out. Really? I got a fish fighting you idiot.

[Justin Stuart]

That's even funnier.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. What's the head? No, I love it.

[Si Robertson]

Well, y'all are not only fun to be around. Y'all got a little thrill seeker in you.

[Justin Stuart]

Yeah, yeah, we try.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Andrew Stuart]

I feel like it's going down in life, though. But how do you keep that thrill seeking?

[Justin Stuart]

We have kids. We want to be alive.

[Andrew Stuart]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

When they get old enough to go with you, maybe that's how you think your wives are going to feel about that.

[Justin Stuart]

No.

[Andrew Stuart]

Oh, I don't know.

[Jase Robertson]

They don't want that because Britney's already like, dreading the day I take the boys duck hunting. Not that. You know, she loves duck hunting and has nothing to do with that. She's just like, they're gonna fall, they're gonna be wet, they're gonna be miserable. I'm like, yeah, and they're gonna love it.

[Si Robertson]

And all that's part of it.

[Justin Stuart]

They'll become men.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, that's part of it.

[Jase Robertson]

Because she knows I don't baby her when I take her. Like, I mean. Oh, you're wet. Yeah. Deal, baby.

[Si Robertson]

Hey, we got, you know, the ducks ain't even starting to fly yet. You know, we got two hours before the ducks start flying.

[Jase Robertson]

I always tell the same thing, you.

[Si Robertson]

Know, freezing my tail. Well, hey, you just got to suck it up.

[Jase Robertson]

You know the way back and you know where the four wheeler is. Yeah, yeah, go on. I'm staying.

[Si Robertson]

You know where to live, right? We're duck hunting.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, so. But that is interesting. I was wondering if kids change that perspective for y'all. Like some of the crazy stuff, you'd be like, yeah, yeah. You know, because it has for me a little bit. Like I don't, I don't do some of the goofy stuff I used to do. Like I will never. You'll never catch me climbing a tree without a safety harness anymore. You'll never. Like there's just some things like. Yeah, when I was younger I was like, oh, I'm, I'm tough, I ain't gonna fall. If I do fall, I'll catch myself. Ain't that big of a deal. You. But now I'm like, nah, I hook in from the ground and I'm like, do all the safety stuff. So I was wondering with you guys and that has it, has it calmed down a little bit or we do have more stuff that involve your kids and stuff like that, so.

[Andrew Stuart]

Well, my, my son is almost 7. He's like getting into that age now where he's like, oh, I really want to help you with videos. Like, can you take me on this adventure? And I'm like, I don't know. No, maybe not quite yet.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. Hey, but free labor, man.

[Andrew Stuart]

Yeah, no, he's willing to help.

[Jase Robertson]

Say so. You know what we need a builder.

[Justin Stuart]

Yeah.

[Andrew Stuart]

We need someone to pick up some trash.

[Jase Robertson]

I need you to be good at math and good with a drill. How about that? Like, hey, you really want to help this? That's how you can help this. Yeah, that's cool, man. Seven year old man. What a life. Potty trained and everything. I can't wait. Oh, man. Lord have mercy.

[Si Robertson]

It's gonna get there.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, I know. Yeah.

[Justin Stuart]

Children keep you in line. They change your perspective on things. And we've had to change over the years. Like we used to do pranks, now we just do like fun adventures. But you know, they kind of just change your heart and being like, man, I, I wanna, I gotta be different. I need to mature more. And so they've helped in many, many, many ways.

[Jase Robertson]

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[Si Robertson]

Simple, tough, effective.

[Jase Robertson]

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[Andrew Stuart]

You never know where I'm packing.

[Jase Robertson]

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[Si Robertson]

We're all.

[Justin Stuart]

And we need it. We need to settle something with Uncle Cy, too.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, you gotta settle with him.

[Justin Stuart]

No, nothing bad.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Si Robertson]

I was thinking. What have I done?

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, okay.

[Justin Stuart]

Uncle Si, have you heard of Chat GPT?

[Si Robertson]

What? Hi.

[Justin Stuart]

Chat GPT.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, praise God. All right, well, I don't know where this is going.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, that thing you got in Your hand. It's AI, you know, artificial intelligence. No, that don't work for me.

[Justin Stuart]

Well, I was hoping to get some answers when we were coming in for the podcast, because I'm like, andrew, it'd be super cool if we brought Uncle Si, like, his favorite food. But I'm like, I don't know what it is. So I'm like, okay, Chat GPT. I'm going to ask it. What is Uncle Si's favorite food?

[Si Robertson]

And again, that would probably be a filet mignon steak, cooked. Okay. Medium plus.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, boy.

[Si Robertson]

And look, I drive the chefs insane with that. They said, that's not a, you know, steak, you know. And I said, hey, I wouldn't eat nothing. You cook. You don't know what medium plus is? You're an idiot.

[Justin Stuart]

Medium plus?

[Si Robertson]

No, no. Hey. This was from New York in one of the finest restaurants. The chef there said, hey, there's no such thing as being plucked. I said, you just don't know.

[Justin Stuart]

I said, you're an idiot.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. I said, you're a dude. Get out of here. I eat nothing. You cook.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, fired.

[Si Robertson]

Go back.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, okay.

[Justin Stuart]

What do you want to hear? What? ChatGPT said?

[Si Robertson]

What?

[Justin Stuart]

Uncle Cy Robertson from Duck Dynasty is known for his quirky and humorous personality, often making jokes about his love for sweet tea and various Southern foods. While he hasn't officially declared a favorite fast food chain, he's mentioned enjoying classic Southern comfort foods. So it's likely that he might appreciate places like Chick Fil a or KFC for their chicken dishes. However, for a definitive answer, there isn't an official statement from him about a.

[Jase Robertson]

Specific favorite fast food restaurant.

[Si Robertson]

I need to update one thing. It's not sweet tea.

[Jase Robertson]

It's unsweet.

[Si Robertson]

Unsweet. Okay, kick the sugar out. No. Idiot.

[Jase Robertson]

RFK Sugar. Let's go.

[Si Robertson]

I need to be on a sugar high, too.

[Justin Stuart]

Since you have just figured out what Chat GPT is, if you could ask it anything, any question, what would it be? We could ask it right now and it'll answer it with a voice.

[Si Robertson]

Find me the best looking woman there is.

[Justin Stuart]

I am with Uncle Sai from Duck Dynasty, and he is wondering if you could find him the best looking woman that has ever existed.

[Jase Robertson]

This ought to be good.

[Si Robertson]

That's right.

[Andrew Stuart]

Tell Uncle Sai he's got quite the challenge there. Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder, and history has given us plenty of legendary beauties. From Cleopatra and Helen of Troy in ancient times to icons like Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn in more recent years, people have celebrated all kinds of beauty.

[Si Robertson]

Hey, he's like, it really depends on his media.

[Andrew Stuart]

Does he lean toward classic Hollywood?

[Si Robertson]

You don't know the answer.

[Jase Robertson]

They're asking you questions to get more. You don't know the answer.

[Si Robertson]

You don't know the answer, dummy. Just say it. I don't know.

[Jase Robertson]

I'm mildly concerned that chat GPT thinks Marilyn Monroe is recent times.

[Andrew Stuart]

That's a good point.

[Jase Robertson]

I mean, I guess if you go back to Cleopatra. Yeah, like, if that's your time scale. But, like, I mean, it seems like there's been a lot of options since then.

[Justin Stuart]

I got a question for it for.

[Si Robertson]

He should have said, hey, look, just go out there and take your pick. There's a bunch of them.

[Justin Stuart]

I'm with Uncle Sai from Duck Dynasty. What is the welcome?

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, no, no, no, no. Oh, wow. You're welcome. You're welcome.

[Justin Stuart]

I am sitting with Uncle Sai from Duck Dynasty. What is the best advice you can give him? Are you there?

[Si Robertson]

No, he's an idiot. He ain't there.

[Jase Robertson]

Okay. Yeah.

[Andrew Stuart]

It's the next episode.

[Jase Robertson]

SI versus AI.

[Si Robertson]

That's right. Si. Hey, I like it. Yeah, yeah. SI versus AI. Yes. AI is an idiot compared to Si.

[Justin Stuart]

I am with Uncle Si from Duck Dynasty. What is the best life advice you can give him?

[Andrew Stuart]

Well, for Uncle C, I'd say keep doing what he does best, Staying true to himself, finding humor in everyday moments and sharing those unique stories that make people laugh. A good piece of life advice for him could be don't take life too seriously, but always be serious about the things that matter.

[Jase Robertson]

I feel like he's like in the next room.

[Si Robertson]

I apologize. You ain't a complete nip, gum, poop. You got it. I think you may have three brain cells.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, you may be on to something.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah, you might be on something there.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, lordy, that's great. Well, look, we wrote it up against time let you guys, so I don't misspeak. Tell us where our our folks, if they're. If they're new to you guys, can find out more about you guys. Oh, it's just at JSTU on YouTube. Is that right?

[Andrew Stuart]

Yeah, just go to YouTube, type in JSTU j s t u. That's our main YouTube channel.

[Justin Stuart]

Yep.

[Jase Robertson]

And if you got kids and Christmas is coming, check it out, man. The J Stu Survival guide. A hundred day devotional. And even if you don't have kids, like I said, I was reading it earlier. This is actually. Y'all did a great job of keeping the message simple and using real life stuff for that So I can appreciate that, man. A lot of times we make it way too complicated. So great. Great job on what you did here. And now I've got to go watch the videos that I read about on some of these things. I got to watch one. That cliff one because the. The book when I did it open the first time to. I think it's what is. Yeah. Day 25. There it is. First time I open is faith. It works. And it talks about y'all sleeping on a cliff. So now I gotta go.

[Si Robertson]

Well, I've seen that.

[Jase Robertson]

Now I gotta go watch that video.

[Si Robertson]

You've seen that I will not do. Oh, yeah. It shows them they're climbing. Okay. And it's getting dark. So they said, well, up. Go ahead. Spend the night. So they take out their little hammers and iron spikes and tie it off. Okay. You know, then they get in it and zip it up, y'all. And I said, now I know why I never would be a mountain climber. I said, you guys are tied to a cliff wall.

[Justin Stuart]

Yeah, we don't recommend like this.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Stuart]

It was scary.

[Si Robertson]

And I said, and you're laying on some kind of light. Light canvas is the only thing that's holding you to this stupid mountain. No, I don't think so. That's too adventurous for me, but good, man.

[Jase Robertson]

Thank you all so much for coming in, man. We appreciate it. And come back anytime. Anything we need to help you guys love what you're doing. Keep being positive. Lights out in a dark world and keep them laughing. Absolutely. Yeah.

[Andrew Stuart]

We'll do our best.

[Si Robertson]

World needs it more.

[Jase Robertson]

What's the take home? Laugh.

[Andrew Stuart]

Laugh daily.

[Justin Stuart]

Daily.

[Jase Robertson]

Yep, it is. Love it, guys. Thank you all so much for coming.

[Justin Stuart]

Thank you for having us.

[Jase Robertson]

Welcome back. We. We now have two guests in the studio with us. We have the McKivitz family. Colton and his dad Matt are with us. Colton, I think by the time this airs, your unashamed episode stuff will have aired. So we have a lot of crossover viewership. So he probably looks familiar if he doesn't he. You are the starting right tackle for the San Francisco 49ers, right? That's awesome, man. Congratulations. And you got your father in the house. So what brings y'all to west Monroe, Louisiana, man? It's kind of a long way from San Fran and. Yeah. And all the things.

[Colton McKivitz]

God, man. God. God brought us here today.

[Jase Robertson]

Hey, what a. What a concert.

[Si Robertson]

I work in San Francisco, and God was behind that.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, yeah. I just got both, man.

[Si Robertson]

Willie and Corey went to San Quentin.

[Jase Robertson]

But no yeah, God brought y'all down here because you. You saw something, you. You heard something, you. I'm not. I got bits and pieces of this story, but I don't want to tell your story because it's yours. It's not mine. Yeah, what. What. What about this bearded bunch of rednecks struck. Struck a chord with you?

[Colton McKivitz]

Yeah. So, you know, we're. We're hunters, you know, love waterfowl hunting. And we had watched, you know, the Duckman videos and Duck Commander and obviously Duck Dynasty and everything. And so we felt a connection. But the real connection was through the Unashamed podcast. That was kind of, you know, where we really connected. You know, God and church and kind of our fellowship with the Lord was through the Unashamed. You know, you guys think like us, you look like us. Like, that's where our connection was and what drew us to Duck Commander. And then my dad had a dream of that was kind of his thing, was to be baptized by you guys.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, really?

[Colton McKivitz]

Yeah. A couple years ago, he. He asked me. He's like, I think it was rookie year or sometime. You brought up that you want to be baptized by the. By the Duck Man. And I was like, all right. You know, I mean, it's kind of a pipe dream. You think about it, you know, that's. That's a long way for us to go. And, you know, how do you. Those, you know, paths meet? And sure enough, through, you know, one of the owners at the Niners, you know, I wore a Duck Commander sweatshirt, his place in Idaho, up on a mountain. And he said, you want to meet him? And I kind of looked at him funny. I was like, you never know when you take someone's word for if they know somebody. And I was like, all right, whatever, you know, and through growing. Growing in the word and, you know, getting closer to God, you know, I learned to ask for help. And sure enough, I asked him. I was like, all right, let's see what this. This is about, if he really knows it. Sure enough, you know, a week later, he's like, hey, you ready to go to Louisiana and meet the Duck man and get baptized? And I was like, all right, let's go. You know, I listen. Sigh. One of the. The coolest thing was it was, you know, I knew it was God talking to me. You know, he said we were going. I was like, okay, you know, let's plan it out. And a couple days later, I listened to one of the Unashamed podcasts, and you happened to be on it. And, you know, you said that if someone put a revolver in my head, you said, pull the trigger. He said, I'm ready to go. I'm ready to meet God.

[Si Robertson]

If you want to waste a good bullet, go ahead.

[Colton McKivitz]

Go ahead and pull it, man. Yeah. And I just. You know, our quarterback, Brock Purdy, like you said earlier, you know, he kind of said the same thing. We were talking about the end of the world and revelations, and he's like, all right, let's go. I'm ready to go. Like, why not? And, you know, I wasn't there in my life, and that kind of struck me. I was like, man, I gotta fix this. Like, I ain't ready to go. You know? And then that happened. And then, you know, sure enough, last night, you know, Jace was kind enough to let us in and, you know, take us in as kind of family. And, you know, we. We went through the word and about an hour, you know, talking about what baptism really means. And, you know, you. Your old self dies. You know, he referred to his pool as a graveyard.

[Si Robertson]

There's a funeral.

[Colton McKivitz]

Yeah, there's a funeral.

[Si Robertson]

Most people don't realize that.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

You know, a lot of times I've studied with people, and then they. They balk on baptism. I said, dude, that's one thing you don't want to fool with. Okay. Yeah. You don't add to it or take it away. Don't take it, add to it, or take away. Yeah, you don't understand, you know? I said, you're reenacting Jesus Christ. Real death, burial, and resurrection. I said, well, what do you do when. Hey, when you come up on something dead, what do you do? You bury it because it starts to stink. You know? I mean, that's life.

[Jase Robertson]

Well, that's cool, man. That's cool how all that. That stuff works and, you know, just to dig into y'all a little bit more, and if you don't know this. This guy's a closet sports nerd. So I'm sure he's got some. He's got some wild tales about his own sports career.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

I don't know if you. I don't know if you call it a career or not. He never got paid, but, like, it was his. His history of sports. But no, y'all from Ohio originally ended up at the University of West Virginia, which is. There's a funny story there with me and Jace, too, so. But yeah, there's just all sorts of connections here that are just. It's weird that it took this for our paths to cross, like, so I was just in San Francisco. Me and Jay spent a couple of days up in Mooring Town when you were there during the same kind of. So it's a weird. It's like. It's almost like this was destined to happen. It's just. When. When was it going to happen? And it happened, and it happened from a mountain in Idaho.

[Colton McKivitz]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Colton McKivitz]

It was all God's plan, man. God's will.

[Si Robertson]

No, no.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. Because if it had happened before, it may not have worked out, you know, like, you may not have been ready for. For the gift that you received by the reenaction of the death, burial and resurrection. Your dad, y'all. And what a cool moment for a father and son to be baptized the same night in the same place by the same person. That is cool.

[Si Robertson]

I don't know if you've seen it, the movie the Blind.

[Colton McKivitz]

I haven't seen it, but I know.

[Si Robertson]

You need to see it. Okay. Because my favorite part in the whole movie is Phil's hiding out from the law up in the woods on Eagle Nest. Okay. Up where Moss and Fish Lake, used as you was. Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

And.

[Si Robertson]

And Bill Smith, the one of the elders that, you know, Church Christ at White's Fair Road. Okay. My sister wouldn't get off of Bill's back about go preach to my brother, you know. But anyway, he's up there, and Bill goes up there, and they're sitting on the. On the back because the trailer where they live or the little hut where they live in is so filthy, it'd be better to be outside. You know, their beer bottle, whiskey bottle, all this. Well, Phil finally hit rock bottom, and he looked at Bill and says, I don't know what to do, y'all. And Bill says. And Bill told him. He said, phil Robertson has got to die. The old one.

[Jase Robertson]

Look, you're obviously the strong, silent type. You've sat here. But I do want to get to know, like, you know, we've talked about sports, and we love sports, but having a son that's in the NFL, what's that like, man? Is that a cool thing? Is that something you worry about for him? Like, I'm just curious. It's amazing. And it's also very hectic.

[Colton McKivitz]

I mean, it's scary.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. You know, because you're always on edge. You know, how. How's he going to do?

[Colton McKivitz]

Because we're always just watching more or less him.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. And that. So. But just sit there and pray, and God keeps him healthy and he does the job, man. That's awesome. That so do Y'all travel to every game? Like, that kind of deal, or y'all that. I mean, not. I don't want to say command admitted, but, like, does life allow y'all to be at most of his games? Most of them, yeah. Most of them, yeah. That's cool. Yeah, that's a. That's a cool deal. What's. So. For you, just being a guy from Ohio, where's the coolest place football has taken you with your son?

[Colton McKivitz]

I like. Well, the super bowl was awesome.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. And.

[Colton McKivitz]

But Texas, it was fun when we beat Texas twice.

[Jase Robertson]

Okay. In college. That was. That was fun. Oh, going to Austin. Yeah. Oh, you gotta turn them horns down.

[Colton McKivitz]

Oh, yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, okay.

[Colton McKivitz]

That was. That was the big game. We had receiver first, touchdown.

[Jase Robertson]

Boom.

[Colton McKivitz]

Hit him with the horns out. They were throwing flags left and right.

[Jase Robertson]

Okay. Yeah. So, yeah, to be fair, if I'm being honest, my true love of sports is college football. So that's like, Texas. I was thinking, what team? I was like, well, you ain't really proud to beat the Cowboys. They get beat every week, so. No, sorry, Cowboys fans. I know y'all are going through it. It's been like 30 years now, so.

[Colton McKivitz]

It'S an early exit for them anyway.

[Si Robertson]

At least they had a. You know, they had a dynasty.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, they did. Yeah. They run. They run the free world there for a while.

[Si Robertson]

It's hard to hold on to boys.

[Colton McKivitz]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. And it's even harder to get back.

[Si Robertson]

Cause nowadays the talent level.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Is so high.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. New England gonna be drafting first in a draft for a while.

[Si Robertson]

Well, no, no. Cause I'm just saying, you know. You know, because when I played football now, the talent. Cause nowadays you've got them in peewee football, yo. And I mean, they're being coached. It ain't. It ain't none of this, dog. They're being coached. By the time they get in high school, they're really good. And then if you go and you go, like to Alabama when Saban was.

[Jase Robertson]

There, I'll go there now. They trash.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah. Yeah. But.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, but I'm going to lsu either.

[Colton McKivitz]

Just the athletes nowadays.

[Si Robertson]

No, no.

[Colton McKivitz]

I mean, these kids are in weight rooms at 9, 10. I mean, I didn't touch a weight till sophomore, junior year of high school. I didn't know what a weight was.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

And now they're doing it now in Pee Wee.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. There's kids now doing drills at 7 and 8 years old. It's wild. But, no, that's cool, man. I always wonder about the family dynamic of that, like, how, you know, as a parent, like, for us play, even when you're playing, you. You. You feel like you can't get hurt. Right. But I would imagine as a parent, it is the unnerving situation. Very unnerving. Hey, good news is you don't have to line up across from Bosa. Yeah. At least y'all are on the same team.

[Colton McKivitz]

Practice a lot, practice pretty hard. But games. He makes it easy, man.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Oh, do y'all practice, like, ones on one? One on one?

[Colton McKivitz]

Yeah. Camp, we do.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Colton McKivitz]

We get after it. One on ones, everything.

[Jase Robertson]

That's rough. Couple of weeks there, and he'll get.

[Colton McKivitz]

A few days off, so those are the nice ones. But when he's on, man, it's. It's game on. It takes everything in.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

I do want to know, like, in the NFL, faith, is it. Is it more prevalent than maybe the media lets on, like, or is it, you know, is it just kind of what you think it is? There's the few that are outspoken, and then there's a lot of really cool people that are in on it, but they just don't even want to be that spotlight. I mean, how is faith in the league?

[Colton McKivitz]

Yeah, I mean, it's exactly like that. You've got your few who are very outspoken, and a lot of it is guys are just there to play football and collect checks and don't want to kind of deal with, you know, they're.

[Jase Robertson]

There to do their job. Yeah, yeah. They show up, punch a clock, give me my check, and move on.

[Colton McKivitz]

Yeah, exactly. But, I mean, the. It's a pretty strong community. There's a lot of guys, and in faith, and I mean, we have a pretty strong, you know, cohort with the Niners, and, you know, they do our. Our study every night after on Saturdays before games and everything, so.

[Jase Robertson]

Okay.

[Colton McKivitz]

I mean, there's a good community of guys that, you know, who are believers.

[Jase Robertson]

So y'all got, like, a chaplain?

[Colton McKivitz]

Oh, yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

That's cool, man. That's awesome. It's cool to see the team actually be okay with that, but to be supportive of it. And I'm sure no matter what somebody's creed or belief in there, they're supportive of that, too, because y'all are. For half the. Well, over half the year, y'all are a family man. Yeah, so that's a. That's a cool deal.

[Colton McKivitz]

Yeah, we. We start off every game with the Lord's Prayer, and. And then we break and we're out. But it is when you say family. It is, man. I mean, it's. Last year it was, you know, July to February 11th. It's a long time together. You go through a lot of things, and having that kind of structure is huge for a team. And.

[Jase Robertson]

Well, and it's the appearance of, like, man, it's this big, giant team. And what. There's what, 50 of y'all?

[Colton McKivitz]

There's 53 on the active and then 16 Peace Squad guys.

[Jase Robertson]

So.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

So, I mean, it ain't. That's not in the grand scheme of things. There's. Most companies are way bigger than that, so. And y'all are. Y'all are there together from can to can't with each other. So it's cool. That's.

[Si Robertson]

Every team has only got 55 or 50.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Colton McKivitz]

On the active. Yep.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. 53 on the sidelines that can suit up and go every week. Yeah. And coaches or leadership or some of those guys, I mean, they're probably pretty involved in faith and stuff, huh?

[Colton McKivitz]

Oh, yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. That's cool, man. That's awesome. I just love to hear it because it's so easy to see, like, in our industry and our line of work, like, nobody's going to be upset with you sharing Jesus, and they're supportive of you and all that. So it's really cool to see something that's on such a bigger. A bigger platform than even we've got. And. Because, I mean, y'all are watching worldwide. Like, if you had people today show up at this office, I never even knew were 49er fans. I'm like, you live in West Monroe, Louisiana. How in the world are you wearing a San Francisco 49ers jersey?

[Colton McKivitz]

It's everywhere.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Colton McKivitz]

I mean, I think Sunday night they had 26.8 million people watching that game.

[Jase Robertson]

See, that's what I'm talking about. That's wild. Like, even at our highest, we wouldn't have.

[Colton McKivitz]

Yeah. I mean, it touches everyone.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. So that's a. That's a cool deal and a cool impact that you're able to have on the world and on communities and all that thing. So, man, thanks for stopping by. I appreciate it. Appreciate you doing it. Keep doing the Lord's work. And if you ever find yourself back in North Louisiana, we. We got a spot for you, man.

[Colton McKivitz]

Oh, I'm pretty sure we'll be back. And I mean, it's all. All God's timing and God's will that there's a reason we're here today. You know, earlier I got to share with a high school. You Know, kind of my story and that was my first time telling it. It's just. There's a reason we were put here today and there's a reason we connected and met and, you know, that's all God's will and.

[Si Robertson]

Well, your story. Your story, just like everybody else, it's important.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah. Every one of them is. Okay, everyone imagine a party.

[Si Robertson]

Stories important.

[Jase Robertson]

Imagine a party heaven had last night when they come up out that water. Man. That's cool. Oh, no one sinner repents. Like, I mean, just think of the party that went on last night. That's cool. Because two of them did, right? Two of them.

[Si Robertson]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Two of them did. We added two more to the kingdom. And that's. That's. That's so cool. And something that I'm. I mean, even Jace. I've said it on here and I'll wrap this up. Like, Jace was very instrumental in my life in. In. In that and getting me to.

[Si Robertson]

There has been instrumental in a lot of.

[Jase Robertson]

So it's so cool for Jace to be humble and obedient and listen and do those kinds of things. Like, I know we give him. Ain't no two people on this planet give Jace Robertson a harder time than me and that man right there. There ain't no two people on this planet that bust him worse than us.

[Si Robertson]

Okay. More time is. Me and him were too much of lack because I. I actually kept him as a child.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Okay. Growing up. And he's got a lot of my mannerism and we. We don't like each other.

[Jase Robertson]

And I work shoulder to shoulder with him in the most boring job in the world, which is assembling duck calls for too long. So. I mean, we give each other so much crap back and forth. But it is really cool to see.

[Si Robertson]

There'S a lot of love involved.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, absolutely.

[Si Robertson]

I mean, well, it's just like we give. We give each other heart.

[Jase Robertson]

Just like you guys in Yalls team. The ones you really like, you give the hardest time to. Yeah. Tell and tell. Any of the guys, if they ever want to come by, they're. They're welcome. We. We accept all hats. They can wear whatever hat they want. No, that's just the little.

[Si Robertson]

You have no idea what God's going to do with.

[Colton McKivitz]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

So if me and Sigh end up in California, we going duck hunting.

[Colton McKivitz]

Oh, yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

Okay. I just making sure.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, no. Oh, look, there's. Hey, Phil and Jace went up there, y'all, and talking about. Yo, I'm well aware I said duck hunting in California.

[Jase Robertson]

We can go There and kill ten speckled belly.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, hey, I get in on that.

[Colton McKivitz]

Seven mallards.

[Jase Robertson]

Seven mal.

[Si Robertson]

Well, I don't really care, Mallard. I know the speck of bellies I'm into. I like a big slow goose doing this in front of me when I got that 20 gauge in my hand.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, them old special bellies sure are. But no, man, thank you all so much for joining us. And yeah, we'll y'all check them out. Go Niners. I'm now a Niners fan. Now I have a reason to watch and root for the 49ers other than it's just football season. And I pretty much watch every game. I'm capable of any level of football. Like we're in the greatest time of year. Because even in football scene, there's. There's even little weird college games on Tuesdays, Wednesdays. Like there's a game every night right.

[Colton McKivitz]

Now, Thursday night, max. And it's everywhere.

[Jase Robertson]

Yes.

[Si Robertson]

Yes.

[Colton McKivitz]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

Do the referees ever make out? You mad?

[Jase Robertson]

Uh, oh, with.

[Si Robertson]

With the calls?

[Jase Robertson]

I don't know if they can talk about that.

[Colton McKivitz]

I mean, they. You.

[Si Robertson]

Oh, no. You had a football player.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Si Robertson]

He gets mad at a referee if he makes the wrong call.

[Jase Robertson]

Well, I know that, but I don't want him to get in trouble.

[Colton McKivitz]

Then you get the paperwork because you submit the play, and then two days later they're like, ah, sorry we messed up.

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah.

[Colton McKivitz]

And you're like, well, that don't help me now.

[Jase Robertson]

Oh, really? They do that? Oh, okay. Cause see, I wrote. Now, see, now we're done going on different tangents. So I did a deal.

[Si Robertson]

Now we'll get in the middle.

[Jase Robertson]

No, no, no, no. But I rode on. So I did a deal in Kansas City and my flight back, I rode beside. Who's the official back there with a referee? The one stand right across from me. There's two of them back here now.

[Colton McKivitz]

But the other, I think he's line judge.

[Jase Robertson]

Line judge. Whatever he is, he's right back here with the referee. Now they put him back there to get him out the way. Yeah, because they got tired of him getting hit with balls and stuff and getting run over.

[Colton McKivitz]

Getting run over?

[Jase Robertson]

Yeah, getting run over. So he. But he was on.

[Si Robertson]

Get out of the way, boy.

[Jase Robertson]

He was on the plane beside me. We were sitting in the same deal up there, and he was grading his own performance. Like he. He already had the game film that they had just called in Kansas City at Arrowhead. And he's sitting there with a pad out, you know, me being nosy. I'm like, yo, bro, what? Like, is this your job to watch the games? And he stopped it. And he said, no, that's me.

[Colton McKivitz]

Yeah.

[Jase Robertson]

And, like, showed him behind, you know, like, behind my home. I was like, oh, man, that's tight. Like, you know, that's cool. Like, I said, so the whole free world's pissed off at you every week. I said, how does that do for a living? He said, well, it pays all right. And I said, oh, that's cool. But I had no idea. You know, you think from the outside looking in, a referee shows up, does his job and goes home. Like, you don't. But he was sitting there grading himself on perform and grading the whole crew. He was looking at every penalty that they threw or didn't throw. Like, he watched every play on that flight back. And I was. I was super impressed with that. I thought that was a really cool aspect that doesn't get talked about because I. You know what, job? I don't want a referee because the whole free world hates you. It doesn't matter if you let them play. The other side gets to griping or if you call the flag. It's like, you ain't making nobody happy. So, like, it's just. It's crazy. So. But no, man, thank you all so much for coming in. And, yeah, we'll stick around, guys. We'll be back right after this on Duck call room sa.