Willie Robertson Refuses to Do the One Thing Fans Want Most

Summary

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Duck Call Room – Episode Summary

Podcast: Duck Call Room
Episode: Willie Robertson Refuses to Do the One Thing Fans Want Most
Release Date: May 19, 2026
Hosts & Regulars: Si Robertson, Justin Martin, John-David Owen, John Godwin, Jay Stone, Phillip McMillan, Jacob Mayo
Context: The original Duck Commander crew returns to their iconic workshop, swapping hilarious hunting stories, reflecting on family business, and digging into pop culture and everyday life.

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Episode Overview

This episode brings the classic Duck Commander banter and humor, focusing on the crew’s signature blend of storytelling, hunting tales, playful ribbing, and philosophical musings. Listeners are treated to highlights from the everyday lives of the hosts, reflections on fame and fortune (literally), charity work, and a deep dive into the quirks that made Duck Dynasty a household name—plus, some pointed commentary about Willie Robertson’s reluctance to bring back the full-on “Robertson brothers” reunion, much to fans’ dismay.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Charity Collaboration & Leather Gifts

[01:24]–[04:25]

• Jeff talks about a collaboration with “Southern Trapper,” a South Carolina-based leather goods company, benefiting All God’s Children International.
  • “He makes the coolest leather goods I've ever seen ever.” – Jeff [01:35]
  • Jeff gifts the crew with custom knives and sharpeners, highlighting their flat design and sharp utility.
  • The knives (priced at $30) are intended as Father's Day gifts, with all profits going to charity.
  • “Every dollar of profit goes to all God's children... It's pretty awesome.” – Jeff [03:47]

2. Socks, Billionaires & Hobby Lobby

[05:54]–[14:15]

• Lighthearted sharing about socks leads into dreams of owning endless pairs if anyone hits billionaire status.
• The crew debates whether you can “earn” a billion dollars, referencing a quote from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:
  • “She said you can't earn a billion dollars... you have to break rules or abuse labor laws, but you can’t earn one.” – Martin [07:22]
• Story about meeting David Green, Hobby Lobby CEO:
  • “He funded a $500 million, 430,000 square foot museum of the Bible.” – Martin [14:47]
  • The group reflects on charitable giving and the importance of humility among the wealthy.

3. Handmade Duck Calls & Supporting Small Businesses

[09:31]–[10:51]

• Willie highlights a handcrafted cane duck call gifted by “The Bayou Beast” (Dale).
  • “No machinery, period. Handmade.” – Willie [09:55]
  • They promote friendly competition and the value of supporting local craftsmen.
  • “Competition is healthy. You need competition in a market.” – Willie [10:29]

4. Movie Talk, Celebrity Encounters & Pop Culture

[17:27]–[18:47]

• They discuss Claire Danes’ career, with nostalgia over her “Romeo + Juliet” film and her return to acting.
  • “She can play a great crazy person.” – Martin [17:43]
• Rapid-fire pop culture references keep the mood light.

5. Travel, Family, and the Elusive Robertson Brothers Reunion

[20:16]–[21:29]

• The group jokes about Willie’s travel schedule and his avoidance of reunions:
  • “Anytime you ask him to do something... he’s like, no, no, no.” – Martin [21:29]
  • On rare reunions, the most-viewed Unashamed podcast was with all four brothers, six years ago:
    • “Best thing we ever done. Let’s wait six, eight years to do it again. Real good, guys.” – Jeff [21:11]
  • Willie’s frequent speaking engagements and charity work are discussed.

6. Duck & Turkey Hunting Stories

[28:25]–[38:28]

• Detailed stories about duck and turkey hunts, with a humorous comparison of the thrills:
  • “That’s the equivalent of a turkey drumming right in front of you. Yeah, that’s the ultimate.” – Jeff [36:00]
  • Stories of childhood pet squirrels, buffet restaurant nostalgia, and the challenge of turkey hunting in Louisiana and Texas.
• Notable Episode Highlight:
  • Turkey gobbles in response to whistling ducks—“That’s just nature being nature, man. I’m not going to stop it.” – Hunter [51:13]

7. Dangerous Animals & Wild Encounters

[48:03]–[55:36]

• Rattlesnake run-ins: tales of nearly 8-foot-long rattlers.
  • “This sucker’s 8 foot long and about as big as my leg... 26 rattlers or something.” – Willie [54:06]
• Near brushes with danger lead to jokes about wild exaggeration and not intervening in the “circle of life.”

8. Philosophy, Faith, & Modern Life

[39:43]–[43:01]

• Reflections on evil, media saturation, and the world’s unchanging problems.
  • “We talk about it in our homes all the time. And yet, we never fix nothing. It’s the same stupid crap every day. We get up, we’re still killing each other.” – Willie [40:24]
• Strong call to faith in turbulent times:
  • “Why don’t we try His way? And I’m talking about our God Almighty.” – Willie [43:09]

9. Body, Aging & Nature's Miracles

[45:42]–[49:16]

• Si marvels at the construction of the human body and how it endures:
  • "This thing has been pumping on me and me for 78 years." – Willie [47:47]
  • Jokes about medical facts: “100,000 miles of veins, arteries, and all that pumping blood in this body.” – Willie [46:23]
• Insights on resurrection and springtime as proof of life’s renewal.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Charity:
  • "Any donation to help children is a good donation." – Willie [04:34]
• On Wealth:
  • “If you’re a billionaire, call us. We’d love to talk to a billionaire.” – Hunter [07:47]
• On Fame and Avoidance:
  • "Willie just totally interrupted him right then... ‘Best thing we ever done. Let’s wait, like, six, eight years.’" – Jeff [21:11]
• On Nature:
  • “If you're out in the woods and you hear [a frog], something’s dying.” – Willie [51:29]
• On Fixing the World:
  • “Why don’t we try His way? And I’m talking about our God Almighty.” – Willie [43:09]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Charity Collaboration & Southern Trapper: [01:24]–[04:25]
• Socks, Riches & Hobby Lobby Talk: [05:54]–[14:15]
• Handmade Duck Calls & Competition: [09:31]–[10:51]
• Pop Culture, Movies & Claire Danes: [17:27]–[18:47]
• Robertson Brothers Reunion Drama: [20:16]–[21:29]
• Hunting & Childhood Memories: [28:25]–[38:28]
• Dangerous Wildlife Encounters: [48:03]–[55:36]
• World Problems, Faith & Philosophy: [39:43]–[43:09]
• On the Marvel of the Human Body: [45:42]–[49:16]

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Tone and Language

The crew’s tone remains informal, rowdy, and affectionate—the same Southern charm and humor that made Duck Dynasty a phenomenon. There’s a steady rotation of tall tales, playful jabbing, deep laughs, and some genuinely reflective moments about giving, faith, and appreciating the simple things. Whether discussing the “one thing fans want most” (another all-brothers episode) or musing on faith in a turbulent world, the Duck Call Room remains as lively and down-to-earth as ever.

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Transcript

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[Hunter]

Hunter. Are we ready? I don't know what we're gonna talk about, but I think we should talk about.

[Jeff]

I got something good to start.

[Hunter]

Okay. All right.

[Martin]

There we go.

[Willie]

Welcome. He's here. He's got it, boys.

[Hunter]

Welcome back to the duck call room. Ladies and gentlemen, we have Jephthah back in here. He's becoming a regular now and I'm here for it.

[Jeff]

So y' all gonna start paying me at some point.

[Hunter]

Okay.

[Jeff]

I come bearing gifts.

[Willie]

Jeff Tom's very gifts.

[Jeff]

So this you talking about the cool. Some of the coolest stuff I've ever seen. There is a company called Southern Trapper.

[Willie]

Southern Trapper.

[Jeff]

Southern Trapper. They're out of South Carolina. This. He makes the coolest leather goods I've ever seen ever. Like he has. You should look up their website. And they smell like he has like 45. Like 45 caliber pistols.

[Martin]

He made a pistol out of leather.

[Jeff]

That have leather on them? Like. No, they're on the barrel and stuff. Not on the barrel, on the slide. It looks awesome. Like, y' all look them up, look them up. Johnny D leather bullets.

[Willie]

The Louis Vuitton.

[Jeff]

Southern Trevor be like Louis Vuitton. So I brought y' all some gifts. So what we're doing. All God's children, we're doing a little collab here for mainly it's like a Father's day is what we're thinking kind of present. But we're already. We got them for sale. It's a little knife.

[Hunter]

It's like a knife. And there's a sharpener.

[Willie]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

And I got. I brought a little sharpener here if we want to Sharpen her up real.

[Hunter]

We got a knife, man.

[Willie]

Go.

[Jeff]

You ready?

[Martin]

Don't throw knives in a case.

[Jeff]

It's in a sheet and a nice leather case. This is there.

[Hunter]

Yeah. These aren't. These aren't an inchy throwing star, but

[Martin]

they could be anything. Could be anything is a throwing star. If you put your mind.

[Jeff]

It's like a. Like a.

[Hunter]

Okay, that's tight. It's like a little butcher knife.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

You keep it in your pocket so it's like. You know, it's like. But it's so flat that. That's why I like it.

[Hunter]

I would like to apologize now. This is going to end up at TSA and Monroe because I will forget that it's there and you get to the awkward point of what do you want to do with it? I got. I got to leave it here. So I didn't get here early enough to walk back to my truck.

[Jeff]

So I consider it like a really awesome box cutter.

[Martin]

Did you just shave your face with that?

[Willie]

No.

[Hunter]

Oh, man. I can do a lot.

[Jeff]

So for the people out there listening, if you want one of these knives, go to the southern trapper.com and you will find a little thing where it's. It's. It's under All God's Children International.

[Willie]

Like that. All God's Children.

[Hunter]

You got it. You got to smell it. There's something about smell of fresh.

[Willie]

Oh, yeah. Leather.

[Hunter]

Like when they make it.

[Jeff]

Hey, and these are only 30 bucks.

[Hunter]

Really?

[Jeff]

I think is in. Every dollar of profit goes to all God's children.

[Hunter]

No, that's very fair.

[Jeff]

So it's pretty awesome.

[Hunter]

Yeah, a very fair price. That is cool.

[Martin]

You can buy a hundred of them for $800.

[Willie]

You could.

[Jeff]

And then give them to your employees. Say you owned a business. That would be a terrific idea that

[Hunter]

to be a big business. We don't know anybody with 100 folks.

[Martin]

Well, I only have three or four friends top, so.

[Willie]

Hey.

[Jeff]

And also, I want to shout out. I'm just getting all my All God's Children stuff over early. Thank y'. All. We have had several sponsorships from people listening to the duck call room. Thank you, y', all so much.

[Hunter]

Thank you.

[Jeff]

Still kids available, so how about it, guys? And that's all godschildren.org thank you so much.

[Hunter]

There we go. Look at there. Hey, I got a knife.

[Willie]

And hey, any. Any donation to help children is a good donation.

[Hunter]

Amen.

[Martin]

I always lose my knife at work.

[Hunter]

Die.

[Willie]

Oh, yeah, you could use.

[Martin]

Yeah, yeah, you can bring them up, Martin.

[Hunter]

They're.

[Martin]

They're they're new and they're different. Well, I've never seen those before.

[Hunter]

And he's not in blue. We've been on like a four month deal of like blue shirts and today he's on a slightly stained I am second shirt with a poncho pearl snap on it. What'd you eat today?

[Martin]

I was talking about the socks.

[Hunter]

What'd you eat today?

[Willie]

What did I eat?

[Hunter]

Yeah, it's right there in the middle of your shirt.

[Willie]

Well, I probably got. Yeah, whatever I eat, I got it on there for sure.

[Jeff]

I do the same thing.

[Hunter]

Me too. I only make fun of it because every one of mine has got a grease spot somewhere in this general area. Yeah, somewhere between my two mountains here.

[Willie]

Oh, I know what it was.

[Hunter]

What's that?

[Willie]

Yeah, that was. That was ice cream bar.

[Martin]

Oh, there's legitimately chocolate.

[Willie]

There's legitimate.

[Martin]

I couldn't see it from my angle.

[Willie]

That was a moo ball, boys.

[Martin]

He legitimately has chocolate on himself.

[Hunter]

God, I love you. But the good news is your socks match your shirt, right?

[Willie]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Martin]

What socks are those? They're like a tiger stripe from a.

[Willie]

I don't know, like a he man movie head sucker. You're a pretty boy.

[Hunter]

You sign up for like the free Joe exotic campaign or something.

[Willie]

Oh, hey, between Christine and my daughter,

[Hunter]

we back on that side.

[Willie]

And then the fans, I, I got, I got, you know, I got enough socks for the last 50 years.

[Hunter]

I love it. That's good. Hey, you never have to wash them. That's good. You just keep her.

[Martin]

I've always wear them.

[Willie]

And hey, when he wanted turn up, just throw them away.

[Hunter]

Go.

[Willie]

Don't even worry about it.

[Hunter]

Go on. Socks and underwear. Greatest gifts you can get, man.

[Martin]

I have always said if I ever won like a billion dollars, I'm probably not going to earn that.

[Willie]

That's.

[Martin]

I'm more likely to just accidentally win it in the lottery that you don't play that I don't. Well, maybe I am more. I'm never going to be a billionaire. I've accepted that at this age of 37. But if I were, I would never wear a pair of socks twice. Well, just new socks every time. Straight out of the package says this,

[Willie]

you can't earn a million dollars. Who alc.

[Hunter]

Okay, why not?

[Willie]

She said it's a you. It's kind of like a myth.

[Martin]

What?

[Willie]

Yeah, yeah.

[Martin]

Are you making up political arguments right

[Hunter]

now that you earn a million dollars?

[Willie]

Can't earn a million or a billion.

[Martin]

Okay, I think I found the actual quote.

[Hunter]

Okay.

[Martin]

So she was on some person I've never heard of's podcast. Probably not in my algorithm. Yeah, she said you can't earn a billion dollars.

[Willie]

Yeah, I like.

[Martin]

You just can't earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can do all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they're worth, but you can't earn that.

[Willie]

Yeah, stupid.

[Hunter]

Anybody with a B want to chime in?

[Willie]

Yeah.

[Martin]

If you're. If you're listening and you're a billionaire, Boy, am I.

[Hunter]

First of all, thank you. Second of all, we got ad space.

[Martin]

And third of all, like and subscribe.

[Hunter]

Third of all, we got a fourth chair. I would love to talk to a billionaire, by the way.

[Willie]

Oh, hey, what are you talking about?

[Hunter]

It wasn't at the golf course that said people with EMS don't build golf courses. People with bees do.

[Martin]

Yeah, we need a billionaire. If you know a billionaire, that would be fun.

[Hunter]

I just.

[Guest]

I just met one the other day,

[Hunter]

a legit billionaire, the CEO of Hobby Lobby came here.

[Martin]

Oh, that's true.

[Hunter]

He's a billionaire.

[Guest]

I think so.

[Martin]

Look it up.

[Willie]

I mean, look it up.

[Jeff]

I know the lobby. Is that family?

[Willie]

Is he a billionaire?

[Guest]

Well, so he did Unashamed and my. And right before that, my cousin Gary Glenn did an episode of Unashamed.

[Martin]

You're Gary Glenn's cousin?

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

Yeah. How have you made it this long without knowing that?

[Guest]

Oh, no, he shook his hand and when we were walking out of the room, he was kind of shaking a little bit.

[Hunter]

It's like.

[Guest]

That was the first billionaire I've ever shook hands with.

[Willie]

Really?

[Martin]

David Green, Was it? David Green?

[Hunter]

That is nice.

[Guest]

Yeah, I don't know his name, but he looked.

[Martin]

Oh, my.

[Willie]

You.

[Jeff]

You don't know his name?

[Hunter]

You just met him. No wonder he's not on.

[Willie]

Well, he didn't.

[Guest]

He didn't shake my hand.

[Jeff]

This guy, I think.

[Willie]

13 point billion.

[Martin]

He's worth 13 point billion dollars.

[Hunter]

He's selling Christmas stuff in July.

[Martin]

Yeah, to be fair, I've bought a lot of it at half off too. And they're closed on Sunday.

[Jeff]

Spent many of dollars at the Hobby Lobby.

[Willie]

At the Hobby Lobby.

[Jeff]

Many of dollars.

[Martin]

To be fair, Tackle shop's just a Hobby Lobby for dudes.

[Jeff]

Should we be like Hobby Lobby? To be honest with you, I'm a.

[Martin]

I bought a telescope one time.

[Jeff]

I like looking around there. You can make things.

[Hunter]

You can buy a telescope at Hobby Lobby.

[Martin]

Where else would you buy it?

[Hunter]

The Internet?

[Willie]

I don't know.

[Martin]

No, you Go to Hobby Lobby and you're like, hey, my hobby is looking at stars. And you go to that section and buy a telescope.

[Willie]

Oh, simple. Let's talk about all this. For those. The bayou beast.

[Hunter]

What?

[Willie]

You know who that is?

[Hunter]

Oh, Dale.

[Willie]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

Borderline. Yeah, I know Dale.

[Martin]

Oh, yeah. You met him, huh?

[Willie]

I fish with. You fish with him? Yeah. How was it? And he gave me. Hey, he's cool. He gave me a cane duck H. And it's a good one. Handmade.

[Hunter]

Yeah.

[Willie]

No, no machinery, period in this.

[Martin]

Yeah, Handmade handmade duck.

[Willie]

Hondo sells for a hundo.

[Hunter]

Willie. Probably be real proud we're promoting another duck call on here.

[Willie]

Well, hey, I'm just saying.

[Hunter]

Hey, it's marketing 101, y'. All. Hey, the boy ways not to become a million billionaire.

[Willie]

Promote your good duck. And he's a good man. What?

[Martin]

The guys at Toleda Tackle are nice. You're in West Monroe. Go there.

[Hunter]

Hey, I'm just kidding.

[Martin]

We're just all just give everybody a shout out.

[Hunter]

I'm just kidding.

[Willie]

That just shows you we love everybody.

[Martin]

We do.

[Hunter]

I do. Look, hey, competition is healthy.

[Willie]

Hey, it's healthy.

[Hunter]

You need competition in a market.

[Martin]

So my best friend, Academy, yo.

[Willie]

He makes it by hand. All of it.

[Hunter]

Yeah.

[Willie]

Pretty cool. And it is a really good duck off.

[Hunter]

You can blow it.

[Willie]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. And I sound really good on it.

[Hunter]

Did you have to get the running starter? Where is it?

[Martin]

Don't make fun of.

[Willie]

This Is real easy.

[Hunter]

You didn't even have to. No, I'll look at it.

[Willie]

And it's real. And you milk it down real soft.

[Martin]

You think that's where I got that from?

[Hunter]

What? Oh, from side. Probably.

[Willie]

I was.

[Martin]

You watch.

[Willie]

You watch my lung. Probably what it used to be. That's what the.

[Hunter]

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[Martin]

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[Hunter]

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[Martin]

Martin used to make fun of me all the time. Like you call you and s are the only people I know that start with.

[Hunter]

I consider it an equivalent of like taking a crow hop. Yeah. When you throw a baseball that's kind of what it seems.

[Martin]

I crow hop in everything I do.

[Jeff]

You're a professional cropper.

[Martin]

Yeah. If I'm going to do something I just heard.

[Willie]

I've heard a lot of models in go that

[Hunter]

all the can is not the problem. It's the. It's the to get there is the issue that I It's not the second notice that weird first one that it took you to prime the bulb to get there. That's the funny one to me.

[Martin]

Can we go back to billionaires?

[Hunter]

Yeah. Billionaire. Why did should we be.

[Martin]

Yeah. Why did we not ask the what is Hunter. Hate to call you out here but isn't it your job to look at the interesting guy in the studio next door and say hey, do you want to go have fun?

[Guest]

I wasn't.

[Willie]

Are you.

[Martin]

Are you having a good time over here in boring dark land?

[Guest]

I wasn't told all the details. And he was here on a Friday.

[Martin]

Well, you know, if they're a billionaire I might make an exception and show up on a Friday. Hunter.

[Hunter]

So he. We confirm billion.

[Willie]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

Is he a multi billion?

[Martin]

13 of them.

[Willie]

Yeah. Mr. Green is a billionaire.

[Martin]

That's like that's 13 times what a billionaire team.

[Willie]

But I wouldn't wear times.

[Martin]

I'd get you to Be more than once. If I was him. That would be a lot of cool

[Jeff]

stuff with their money. Like, I've met him and his wife at the. I'm pretty sure. Maybe you can fact check me on this. I will. That they have the Bible Museum in D.C. i think they were the.

[Martin]

Oh, yeah, they did a big part of that.

[Jeff]

They're a big part of that. That's where I met him. And they had like a women's thing. It was really cool that Jess did. And I was like the.

[Hunter]

I was just there to arm candy.

[Jeff]

I was arm candy. He put all the important things.

[Martin]

He funded a $500 million, 430,000 square foot museum of the Bible.

[Jeff]

It's really cool. Very cool.

[Martin]

Good job, man.

[Hunter]

Bravo, man.

[Jeff]

And it was like, really neat. There's like all these old Bibles that were. And some of them are weird and like.

[Martin]

Did you just call the Bible weird?

[Jeff]

There were some weird ones because, like,

[Martin]

one of them was like standing on that.

[Jeff]

I could be wrong, but I mean. And this is. People don't like to talk about this, but it's true. I'm always positive it was Thomas Jefferson. I can't remember which one. Had their own. They made their own by. It was. It was the Bible. But he took out a lot of stuff because he just didn't like it.

[Hunter]

He just left. He just left it to the important part.

[Jeff]

Yeah. So he.

[Hunter]

Like.

[Martin]

I think we all.

[Willie]

There's a lot of.

[Jeff]

No, but he literally removed the page.

[Willie]

Yeah, that's. I just ignored the. Yeah, I just like how he worded this. So I ain't going. No.

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

That can't be what he meant.

[Willie]

But yeah. Yeah.

[Jeff]

It don't mean that.

[Hunter]

Yeah, let me take that out there. No, see, that was tongue in cheek. What he meant was over here. Oh, gotcha. Okay.

[Willie]

But.

[Jeff]

And there were reasons. It explains why he did what he did, which I don't think they were good reasons at all. And anyway, there was just some really interesting stuff like that that I didn't even know existed until I got there. And I was like, oh, yeah, that's pretty cool. I mean, there was. It's really neat.

[Hunter]

Well, it is nice to know that a guy worth 13 billion will still give $500 million to a cause like that. That's. That's cool.

[Jeff]

That's a lot.

[Hunter]

Yeah. I mean, that's a half of one of his bees.

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Martin]

You know, I would do so much damage to the world If I had 13 bees.

[Hunter]

Would you?

[Martin]

I do crazy stuff.

[Hunter]

I don't believe it. But I don't. I don't think we'd ever see John David Owen again.

[Martin]

Well, that's true too.

[Hunter]

Yeah.

[Willie]

I'm out.

[Hunter]

I think you'd become more reclusive than Hunter.

[Willie]

Well, most people. All I do is sorry Hunter. They go crazy worrying about the money.

[Jeff]

I would.

[Hunter]

Or somebody's already always after you, this, that and other you turn into like a paranoia paranoid something, you know, some

[Willie]

that I've met that's got plenty of money, they're not very fun to be around.

[Martin]

I'm serious.

[Hunter]

But I've been around some that got

[Willie]

money that are a lot.

[Jeff]

I've seen the opposite of that too.

[Willie]

Well, no, no, but the ones I

[Jeff]

know what you're saying can be.

[Willie]

The ones that can handle it are really good to be around.

[Hunter]

Oh, yeah?

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Willie]

Okay. Because they do just what you discuss.

[Hunter]

They do good things. They do.

[Willie]

They do good things with the money.

[Hunter]

They do charitable.

[Willie]

Okay. Yeah.

[Hunter]

Yeah. Those are always the fun ones. Well, I mean, ain't no different. You, whenever you were making all that money, you gave 90 of it back. Well, well, hey, you ain't ever going to say that, but I can say that. Coming in.

[Willie]

Hey, I was told.

[Hunter]

Yeah, y' all give it away. Y' all ever seen the show Homeland?

[Jeff]

You know, I have. I've heard it's amazing. I just.

[Hunter]

It's pretty good.

[Martin]

I think I watched that a long time ago.

[Jeff]

Yeah, that guy that's got Claire Danes in it, right? I love Claire Danes.

[Willie]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

Always been a fan. She's like.

[Martin]

She can play a great crazy person.

[Hunter]

She did.

[Jeff]

Have you ever seen the. The Romeo Juliet with her and Leonardo DiCaprio? Have you seen that?

[Hunter]

Huh? Yeah.

[Jeff]

Would you think it was just like absolutely terrible or.

[Hunter]

I mean, you know, it was. What were we. What was that? Probably 14, when that comes.

[Jeff]

Yeah, I was like high school.

[Hunter]

Yeah. Like 12, 14, something like that.

[Martin]

So it's around me and Juliet didn't

[Jeff]

accomplish just to make. I mean, honestly, I've seen the play like a. Like, like whatever. I didn't actually go to it, but I could. Saw a place and I was like, man. And. But the movie was kind of like. You made it kind of modern. It was kind of like, okay, I got.

[Hunter]

They told the story in a more modern story.

[Jeff]

I mean, that's.

[Martin]

That's Claire Danes.

[Hunter]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

What else? She. And she was in Little Women a lot of stuff. I think she was in Little Women. She was in a lot of Women.

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

A lot of movies. 90s, mid-90s, early 2000, a bunch of stuff. Yeah. Then she popped back up and.

[Jeff]

Yeah, had her a fam and got away from it, which I think is. I think, good for all those. Actually, there's a new show she's on that's really terrific. Or newer. Ish.

[Martin]

Who knew? Jeff Robertson, Big Claire Danes guy.

[Willie]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

Oh, Jeff and Hunter could talk.

[Willie]

No, no.

[Jeff]

Movies in general.

[Willie]

We got on this movie buff.

[Hunter]

Yeah, but you still play World of Warcraft. Are you off at.

[Jeff]

Actually, I do. I actually just started playing again when the new. There was a new Leroy Jenkins over here. Yeah, I know.

[Willie]

You've been on any more trips? Yep. Over to Epitho. Whatever it is. Ethiopia. There you go.

[Martin]

Clip it. Ethiopia, said the Eth. Copia. Oh, you been.

[Jeff]

I actually just went up to the mothership, kind of where we're.

[Martin]

The mothership?

[Willie]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

Where the what? Where all God's children is located. Where? It's the head office.

[Martin]

Some would call it the.

[Jeff]

Yeah, Head office quarters, which is so beautiful. It's in the Pacific Northwest, the PNW. Oh, the weather is, like. It's like 70s, the high 50s low. It's like, perfect. And actually, I saw the. Hey, you want to see one of the biggest waterfalls? Oh, there's Gus. A lot of Gus batting. One of the biggest waterfalls west of the Rockies. I was standing right there. Oh, that's my buddy. There I am.

[Martin]

That's just Jeff. Just going to see waterfalls, beautiful waterfall,

[Hunter]

big selfie guy, huh?

[Jeff]

I mean, I did it. I actually have another picture for me,

[Willie]

because you actually got you. I mean, Willie's going. Always going somewhere. And you travel pretty good.

[Jeff]

Yeah, no, I don't travel like he does. He travels a lot.

[Hunter]

No, he ain't here.

[Martin]

I don't. Yeah, I. I talked to him on the phone the other day for the first time in a long time, and he was telling me everything he. Where he was going. I was like, yeah.

[Hunter]

I get random texts at weird times from him asking about people we met in places a long time ago. He's like, are they still here? I'm like, maybe. Do you. Do you want their number?

[Jeff]

Actually, I was just on Unashamed with him just a few days. I mean, I guess, like. And he was hilarious, as always. It's like I missed the way he talks because he is funny. And he goes. Or Al goes, yeah, we're all back together. The brothers, actually. So this is the most viewed podcast we've ever done on. Unashamed was all four brothers together, like, six years ago. And Willie just totally interrupted him right then. Was like, oh, so it was the best one you've ever done. So you're like, you know what? Let's wait six years till we do that again. That's real good, guys. That's the way to use your brain. Best thing we ever done. Let's wait, like, six, eight years.

[Hunter]

Yeah, that's because William.

[Willie]

No.

[Martin]

Anytime you ask him to do something.

[Hunter]

Yeah. In fairness, he's the biggest. A big part of the problem. Because, like, hey, are you in town? You want to come do this? He's like, no, no, no, no.

[Martin]

He's sitting there watching Fox News, trying to solve all the size problems.

[Willie]

He's preaching most of the time when he's out. Yeah.

[Hunter]

He speaks. Yeah. Speaks a lot. Yeah.

[Willie]

Well, I thought. That's what I thought. I wasn't sure.

[Martin]

Y' all ever need Willie to give a speech, but. Can't afford Willie. I am here, and I do know his speech, so.

[Willie]

You've hung with him enough to know

[Martin]

I've heard that one. I think he might have changed it up.

[Hunter]

He's probably updated.

[Martin]

I hope so. It's been.

[Jeff]

Well, I had a dude just tell me, like, a week ago, I was in the airport, and he said, man, I. I just heard your brother Willie. I forgot. Where? Somewhere up north or somewhere. And he said, man, that story he told about Psy and the squirrel, he said, that's the funniest thing I ever heard.

[Martin]

What's the squirrel? Oh, when he shot the squirrel.

[Jeff]

Yeah. I don't know what it was. I mean, he kind of told it to me.

[Martin]

I think it's the first step when they were, like, first filming Duck Dynasty and you were. You or Willie just went and shot the squirrel right in the middle of the whole film crew with a bow and arrow. And the squirrels going, that's what squirrels do. When you shoot with a bow, that

[Jeff]

or squirrel shows up. That was my dad, right?

[Hunter]

What? Squirrel bit? Yeah, Phil. I remember one time he said he reached in his pack. You know, he always used to do that or something.

[Martin]

Squirrels are mean.

[Jeff]

Maybe that's a story.

[Hunter]

Nothing. Always being shot.

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[Willie]

Well hey, we grew up. We. Hey, we had a mess pants.

[Hunter]

Anything injured is. You had a pet squirrel.

[Martin]

Oh yeah.

[Hunter]

Squirrel. Cat squirrel.

[Willie]

Oh, cat squirrel.

[Hunter]

Cat squirrel.

[Willie]

Look here's here was the funniest thing.

[Hunter]

They always seem to be the feistiest one.

[Willie]

Was he mean Mama. Mama bought a brand new couch, puts it in the living room.

[Hunter]

This is.

[Willie]

We got a pet squirrel, right? Cat squirrel. Well guess what he did first thing he did? No, no, the hole in the from the bottom. Okay. And then on the. If you set on the left left corner. You know a spring would stick you in the butt because that squirrel had pulled all the cotton out. Made him a nice nest. Okay. Where he go sleep in you know, soft cotton bed.

[Hunter]

Just doing squirrel things.

[Willie]

What happened?

[Hunter]

That squirrel he's got served with gravy

[Willie]

died and you know, we ate him.

[Hunter]

Yeah, yeah.

[Willie]

I teach you. Mama said I'll teach you to dig. You know, dig all the cotton out of my darn brand new cow.

[Hunter]

Why people always got rats as pets? Hey world, I don't have pets. Hamsters.

[Martin]

My son now wants an axolotl. Oh, what Just an ugly fish. Hey, a buddy of mine that's something weird.

[Hunter]

I thought he was a lizard.

[Martin]

Hey whatever.

[Hunter]

It lives in water.

[Willie]

A buddy of mine had an aquatic lizard. Hey, look at a fox wool. He had to build him a new cage cause he ate so much. He looked like a fox. This sucker probably weighed seven pounds. I'm serious.

[Hunter]

A squirrel.

[Willie]

A squirrel, yo. Hey. He had to make him another cage because he left his window open and his cage was in the window and he had one of them flipped doors. Just go through at a doggy door and he'd go out, get up in the hickinut tree, you know, eight hickory nuts, you know. But that thing upstairs, he weighed probably seven pounds.

[Hunter]

He's something. Seven pounds climbing a hickory.

[Willie]

Hold on. Hey, look, I'm saying he looked like a fox when you saw.

[Hunter]

I'm not doubting you. You've told way too much that I've had to check that was true. I just quit doubting you now. Some of it I do think is a little jazzed up, but he's been

[Martin]

known to jazz stuff. You know what jazzed our fans up, by the way?

[Hunter]

What?

[Martin]

Our discussion on 90s era buffet style restaurant.

[Hunter]

Oh, really?

[Martin]

We hadn't got that many emails in a long, long time.

[Hunter]

Jeff, you remember showing these?

[Martin]

Breakfast Western sizzling.

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Bonanza. Yeah, yeah, the pair.

[Jeff]

But my father, good buffet, you know what I'm saying? He'd choose that over anything.

[Hunter]

Did you know some of those are still in existence?

[Willie]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Hunter]

There's several town western citizens.

[Willie]

Some of the small towns hold them.

[Martin]

But this person. Oh, I just lost it. Oh, I wanted to give your name. It was so funny how he worded it. Okay. Yep. Liam from southwest Michigan. He would go with his grandma to the Ponderosa Steakhouse and Buffet, which I've never been to, but sounds a lot

[Jeff]

like a bonanza where I didn't say.

[Martin]

And he said it was always full of Virginia Slim secondhand smoke. Oh, yeah. And that's what we never talked about how restaurants used to have a smoking section. It wasn't even another room. It was just a sign.

[Hunter]

Yeah, Randy's. Oh, yeah.

[Martin]

Smoke on the left, eat on the right.

[Hunter]

Yeah. Oh yeah, man, I remember them. Remember walking in there, seeing that cloud of smoke. I'm like, why? But I remember one of the first flights I took, you could still smoke on the airplane.

[Willie]

Really?

[Hunter]

Like, yeah, when I was a kid

[Martin]

that like we were believably dangerous.

[Hunter]

Yeah, we were.

[Martin]

Not even because of the.

[Hunter]

The cancer like Boston or something where some school something or another.

[Martin]

Because of the fire.

[Hunter]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, back in you didn't have to worry about no Tom foolery, I don't guess. But you know, then people figured they could use them as a weapon, so.

[Martin]

A lighter?

[Hunter]

No, an airplane. Oh yeah, the actual airplane. Yeah.

[Willie]

Bad deal.

[Martin]

That's crazy.

[Hunter]

Yeah, man. And like, I remember going in.

[Martin]

I did used to just smoke in restaurants.

[Hunter]

Yeah, yeah. He was one of them. Yeah, yeah.

[Martin]

Just eggs, bacon.

[Hunter]

I mean, I just remember, like, go like going to Waffle House. Remember, I have an ashtray just on the table.

[Martin]

Waffle House, it was, you know, turn right if you're smoking, turn left if you're not.

[Hunter]

But if you got there late or something and you just go. You'd go take one for the team because he's hungry and sit on smoking section. You just sit there with a. You just sit there with an ashtray. You know, it's like, man, I can't get through my plate of eggs before I got to have one.

[Willie]

That's.

[Hunter]

That's. That's crazy. That's. That's wild. That is a different time. It is indoors. Yeah. Now you got people walking around with them big old vapes just hammering on them things. Like, why can't we all just dip stuff?

[Martin]

I'm nicotine free for the second time in my life.

[Hunter]

Congratulations.

[Martin]

Fell off the wagon, Jeff hard, did you? Oh, yeah.

[Hunter]

Congratulations.

[Martin]

Lately.

[Jeff]

Yeah, I tethered to that wagon. I don't know if I. I just

[Martin]

cold turkey did the other day.

[Hunter]

Sure. I'm not driving it. Yeah, that's right.

[Jeff]

I gotta have one vice, golly.

[Martin]

Oh, I got those.

[Hunter]

Give me one.

[Martin]

I got plenty of those. Yeah, I still like that.

[Jeff]

I like golf. Are you ever gonna play golf again or.

[Hunter]

No, you're done. I'm top golf. Only you won't go play top golf. I mean, you do that at, like, whenever I have to go to these cities or meetings and appearance.

[Martin]

I don't think Monroe could handle the top golf.

[Jeff]

I mean, you know, it's funny as I'd.

[Martin]

Too many rednecks.

[Jeff]

I'd say the last. Since I've moved back here, I kind of quit. I was just like. Yeah. I lived in Austin. I loved it because they have, like, some of the best courses ever and

[Martin]

shots fired at our courses. Well, they're like foresight.

[Jeff]

There's a lot more of them, too.

[Hunter]

Yeah. A lot more options.

[Jeff]

A lot more options. But. But now that river. Dude, river has gotten pretty good.

[Hunter]

He.

[Jeff]

He might. He. He could probably beat you now that you hadn't played in a while.

[Hunter]

Oh, I'll say that.

[Jeff]

You might go out and play the best round of your life.

[Hunter]

I generally. My first two or three a year. Whenever you don't play, you play better. And then you start think it and. Yeah, you just. You focus on. Just hit the ball, hit the Ball. Yeah, just hit the ball. Then you're like, man, I can hook it around. I'm like, no, I can't. I mean, really. No, No, I can't. I can't hook a golf ball. I cannot tell a. Marketers call me the. No. But I doubt I ever. I don't know unless my kids want to play.

[Jeff]

We hit a milestone this past weekend.

[Hunter]

He.

[Jeff]

He finally out drove me. Like, I hit a good one, and he hit it about two yards past me.

[Hunter]

There you go.

[Jeff]

And he was smiling. I mean, ear to ear.

[Hunter]

Oh, yeah, big dog. And I was like, yeah, gotta make the putt.

[Jeff]

But I was. But I was looking at his body. He's me, like, made over. But I was like, oh, my gosh. I remember when I, like, actually had a butt. Now it's completely gone. It's like it goes in.

[Hunter]

What happened to your butt?

[Jeff]

It just.

[Willie]

I.

[Jeff]

You got my body type. Your butt goes away and your belly pokes. It just revert. It just goes.

[Martin]

I've never had a butt. Like, half the belly.

[Jeff]

I got hit with a sledgehammer on the butt.

[Martin]

Just went, whoop.

[Willie]

And then just everything. Everything goes south.

[Jeff]

Because I was like, oh, he's using his butt and his legs, which is what you need to have some power. And he's. And he just. And I was like, yep, I can't.

[Martin]

But Willie hits a golf ball a long ways, and he has no legs.

[Jeff]

That's true.

[Martin]

So he has all guns.

[Jeff]

You can do it, but it's all in the core. Yeah, it's on the keg. But it has been fun to just watch him. You know what I'm saying? I'm like.

[Hunter]

I mean, that would get me back out there if the boys ever want to play.

[Jeff]

Makes it fun.

[Hunter]

Not. No, My. My love for that game.

[Jeff]

Just like, hunting and fishing and stuff. It's like, I still love to do those things now I have way more fun when he has fun doing it. Or Jessica actually went pheasant hunt for the first time. She was shooting them, and she's like, she kill one? She'd start. I mean, she had a craziest look in her eye. Like, just like. She wouldn't say, did you see that? But her face was like, yeah.

[Hunter]

Oh, yeah. Me and Brittany. Me and Brittany stomped around Texas there for about four days killing turkeys. Or we killed. We finally killed two turkeys and that. But that's fun because, you know, I get to see her learn to do it. And it's like, yeah, like you're finally putting it together. Is better than any Jeff. There were tears.

[Jeff]

That's what I'm saying is better.

[Hunter]

It's like, oh, there were tears because there was so much failure before the success. It was like. And then the success was, like, wild, because the turkey stepped out at, like five yards. And I'm like, oh, God, he is. He is. He is going to step on me. Like, this is a problem. Oh, yeah, for them. Yeah. They came through a little thicket, and she was like, where are they? And I'm like, right here. Like, have you.

[Jeff]

Have you done that side? Has I been turkey hunt with y'?

[Willie]

All?

[Jeff]

Have you ever seen them? Have you ever been close to them? When they start that drum, feel it in the ground? Like, there's something. I'm like, I've never been a big turkey hunter, but I had that happen once on a turkey. It was actually the best turkey and I've ever been on. That was me and Nikki. Tight pants. It's a funny one, but that. I was like, oh, that's why they do this, you know, Because I thought, oh, no, no, I don't like snakes. That's why I never, like. I don't like ticks. Those are those things.

[Hunter]

That's. That's why you go to Texas, right? I mean, well, the snakes are a little. I mean, they're there, but they're kind of cool. But. Yeah, no, very few tick.

[Jeff]

Yeah, it's not as bad.

[Hunter]

Very, very few.

[Jeff]

Like Arkansas.

[Willie]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

And Tennessee and all that stuff. Very few ticks, but it's just. Yeah, it's fun, man. I enjoy it. It's just. It sucks here, which makes it really hard for me to get tired up about.

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[Willie]

Well, I'm like when people duck hunt, you know, most of them, you know, is they're into the calling and lighting them. And when you call a big old gobbler up and he's out there like 10ft from you, strut.

[Jeff]

Yeah, but bluffing out, that's where you're wrong. I think a lot of, you know, shooting ducks, they don't really care and, but if you do light, if you get them in and you hear those wings.

[Willie]

Oh no.

[Jeff]

That's the equivalent of a turkey drumming right in front of you. Yeah, that's the ultimate like.

[Hunter]

Oh yeah. It's crazy. Yeah. We have four of them right there doing that. I was like, oh God.

[Willie]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

I was like, they're going to walk right on top of me. This is not good.

[Willie]

Yeah, especially like when they come up, you know, like you see them like 150, 200 yards and then you start, start. Oh, you start your thing and then here they come and they're like, they're, you know, 15ft from you.

[Hunter]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Jeff]

Listen, I want y' all to hear this.

[Willie]

That's exciting.

[Hunter]

And I love, I mean I enjoy it because I like walking, right? Like I like walking and looking and exploring new ground and new territories, just all kinds of stuff.

[Jeff]

Oh yeah, that was in. Then we had a gobbler come out. It was like a, it was a Jake.

[Hunter]

I guess y' all killing.

[Jeff]

No, we didn't, we got really close but like I said, we didn't know. I, I still don't know exactly what I'm doing when it comes to turkey hunting. Yeah, we're not really prepared.

[Hunter]

I got a lot of duck hunter in me.

[Jeff]

That's right. I, I'm, I wanna, well, I want

[Hunter]

to call him to the plug.

[Jeff]

Right.

[Hunter]

Like, and that's the worst thing you can do to a, to a turkey. But I want to call that sucker all the way to the plugs. Like you get in here gobbling, strut and do your thing. But a lot of times in that turkey.

[Jeff]

But it's fun to just hear them answer.

[Hunter]

Yeah. Oh, it's. Oh, you're just like, hey, for me, it's fun getting your butt whooped at something not knowing what you're doing.

[Willie]

Right.

[Hunter]

Because, like, the. The learning process is the fun part, so. But you might as well go where there's a bunch of them. Yeah. That way you got a lot of opportunities.

[Martin]

Not many turkeys.

[Hunter]

Thank you, Brownwood, Texas, for that, because

[Martin]

y' all got Washington Parish.

[Hunter]

No, no, no. Not many at all.

[Willie]

Now, we. We was fishing with Drew down at Honey Hole, and he had just got back to turkey hunting, and he said, hey, you wouldn't believe it. He said, we set up. He said. He said it looked like ducks. He said, there was 80 of them come out of the trees.

[Hunter]

They must have been out west.

[Willie]

He said, yes. You know, it was ridiculous.

[Hunter]

This was a funny one from the turkey. And I will. Where'd they go? Hold on. This guy. Cool. Because I ain't never seen this happen before. Where's that video? Oh, there it is. Listen. This one. You hear them Black Belly whistling Ducks?

[Willie]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

They flew over the turkeys, and they gobbled at them.

[Jeff]

That's hilarious.

[Hunter]

Like, they flew right. I saw them coming. I was like, well, that's kind of cool, because there's gonna be Black belly. There's ducks flying over turkeys. It's kind of a cool little moment for a duck hunter. And then them ducks sounded off, and them turkeys gobbled. I said, oh, buddy, this time, shoot one of them. Of course, we didn't kill none of them.

[Martin]

Didn't kill nothing.

[Hunter]

I had to let them walk off. Brittany couldn't see him. I could see him, but she couldn't see him. Way we were set up, and I was like, oh.

[Willie]

One of the funnest turkey thing we had was we were duck hunting in the blind. Phil looks over at a big old cypress tree, and it's about to get a little quick. Yeah, Big old gobbler on top. That type of silverware. I hope the answer was somebody has binocular look. Said, oh, yeah. Don't feel said. I think go kill that sucker.

[Hunter]

Yep. Look, there it is.

[Willie]

He got out of the blind and got chest deep in water. He didn't have waiters on either. He got chest deep. And we said, hey, get back in. He's. What are you telling me? I'm going to kill him? That's as soon as you ripple that water, that sucker took off. Oh, yeah, he's about 100 yards from. I said, I. Soon as you ripple that water, he left. He's your kid. I said, no, I Said as soon as he was. He wants that ripple come from this big brush pile now.

[Hunter]

But as long as evil exists, man, it's going to be. It's, it's you. Yeah, it's going to be tough, man.

[Martin]

Am I a bad person that I've

[Hunter]

given up on what this human like,

[Willie]

oh, no, hey, I know where I'm at.

[Martin]

I just sell worms. Yeah, I'm very happy doing that.

[Willie]

I'm sick of turning the TV on. But you keep doing it and seeing. Yeah, we're doing the same stupid thing.

[Hunter]

Well, you control what you can control, which in our lives ain't a lot.

[Willie]

What's. What's known is manageable.

[Hunter]

Yeah, you control, but like none of that stuff is. I mean, who's controlling money is controlling all of it. So it's.

[Willie]

Yeah, but see, that's, that's the problem. Okay. You know, we, we. We talk about this all the time on the, on the media or the media talks about it all the time. We talk about it in our homes all the time. And yet we never fix nothing. It's the same stupid crap every day. We get up, we're still killing each other. Yeah.

[Hunter]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Willie]

Well, when are you going to finally come? The Bible says it's the best on the prodigal son. He finally was looking at a bunch of pigs eating slop and was jealous. And then it said, hey, he came to his senses and went back home and said, dad, hey, I ain't your son anymore. I'm a hired hand because I done pissed away everything you gave me.

[Martin]

It's not the new international version, but it'll do.

[Hunter]

We're going to have to put that

[Willie]

version in the museum, but I'm just saying.

[Hunter]

Yeah, Uncle Sarah Rice, you know how good that would be. Go. Like, did you hear him telling the story about Jonah?

[Jeff]

Definitely be PG13, very least.

[Hunter]

I know that's a good part about David and Bathsheba. He go ahead and slide.

[Jeff]

Keep him away from Solomon.

[Martin]

That good looking heifer on that rooftop over there. David said, cha Ching.

[Willie]

Yeah, yeah, okay. Like you said, you know, really? Okay. We're in a sick sin, sick world.

[Hunter]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the problem with today's world is it's known, right? Like for. Yeah, for how long? I mean, until 1900s, 50?

[Martin]

You didn't know nothing.

[Hunter]

You knew nothing about what?

[Martin]

That's why you like your childhood so much, because you had no freaking clue. Well, it. If something happened in Washington D.C. they had to get on a pony and ride it to you.

[Willie]

That, that's what gets me. Okay.

[Hunter]

The problem is the age of information is dangerous. We've got a lot of information, and

[Martin]

you have immediately immediate. If some old boys walking down the streets of Israel, he can be live tweeting everything, and it shows videos of him getting bombed.

[Hunter]

Well, if them suckers can put a bomb in your phone and blow it up from anywhere, that's crazy. Hey, that's terrifying.

[Martin]

I don't talk about nothing, man. I just sell work.

[Hunter]

And I think I'll keep this. This 15 I got. I don't know that I want a new one now because. How do you check it for that? Like that one.

[Martin]

That's a different phone. They don't have iPhone. They might.

[Hunter]

Who knows?

[Martin]

Martin's hard to see.

[Hunter]

You think they text blue or green? Green.

[Willie]

My deal is when you're throwing locks

[Martin]

up in the air.

[Willie]

Yo, Missile, We've tried our way, yo, and it don't work. And we. We all know that. We try their way and it don't work. It is broke. Well, why don't we try his way? And I'm talking about our God Almighty.

[Jeff]

His way is better.

[Willie]

His way is always better.

[Martin]

Some would say your way is better.

[Willie]

Yet we're so. We're so full of ourselves that we won't even give it a chance.

[Martin]

When is.

[Willie]

You know. And to me, that's just. Good grief. Such a waste.

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Willie]

No, but it's been going on, and I guess it's going to continue to keep going on.

[Hunter]

Look, y' all know we're not ones to get dressed up often, but when we do get dressed up, man, we like to look good. And you know what ties it all together?

[Willie]

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[Hunter]

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[Willie]

It's just like. He ain't got them on, boys.

[Hunter]

There you go.

[Willie]

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[Hunter]

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[Martin]

Go to Preach.

[Hunter]

I love his mind. Well, no, no, it was way more impressive before he got a full set of teeth.

[Martin]

Now he's just like a wise old man.

[Hunter]

It's funner when he was a wacky old man.

[Willie]

Now you just brought up something. This body that we've got, okay?

[Hunter]

Hey, get a new one of them, too.

[Willie]

This ain't just happening.

[Martin]

He don't need a new one.

[Willie]

How wonderfully David has sung songs about how wonderfully I'm made.

[Hunter]

There you go. Oh, man.

[Willie]

Okay.

[Hunter]

I do like having.

[Willie]

This is bones and flesh and blood and sinew and veins and all that. And hey, here's a news flash for you. You've got 100,000 miles of veins, arteries, and all that pumping blood in this body. You're in.

[Martin]

100,000.

[Willie]

Yeah. I was impressed.

[Hunter]

I think we've looked at it.

[Willie]

I used to say 10,000. I think stone Google it. And hey, he said, right from the

[Martin]

Stone Google stuff, yo.

[Willie]

He. Stone said, hey, old man, you got to apologize.

[Hunter]

I think we looked it up on here. Oh, no, didn't we, Hunter?

[Willie]

It's a hundred thousand, buddy. Stone looked it up and Google it.

[Hunter]

I thought we did.

[Willie]

And I had to. I had to apologize.

[Martin]

60,000 people.

[Hunter]

60,000? Yeah, that's. Yeah.

[Willie]

Oh, it was hundreds. Bo looks up, he read a hundred. Here's the thing. We've got veterans, okay, that have lost half of their body and still alive. And now, I wouldn't say they got a great life, but they're still alive, okay? And they've had half their body blew off, okay? So, hey, yeah, that's. That's something to say something about, okay? I had open heart surgery, okay? My brother used to pump his duck hole up with a stainless steel pump. 36 gallons a minute. And hey, that thing breaks down all the time. Hey, this thing has been pumping on me and me for 78 years.

[Martin]

It did break down that one time, though.

[Hunter]

Well, it broke down. It needed a couple of new bearings I want to talk about something incredible. And you. Let's go to them kidneys because the fact that they still work is incredible. I don't know what.

[Martin]

Never even had a kidney stone.

[Hunter]

I don't know what you got going on down there. Them babies need to be studied and look.

[Willie]

Well, I drank a lot of tea and there's a lot of antioxidants in it. Yeah, it says, hey, that's good for you.

[Hunter]

Yeah, well, I'm here for it. I'm drinking tart cherry juice every night

[Martin]

because remember last time when Jeff told

[Hunter]

people I think, yeah, for antioxidants and help filter your blood, lower your uric acid.

[Martin]

Martin's reached the age where he calls me and says stuff that he's doing, weird stuff that I'm like, I don't

[Willie]

know, we don't win to take a

[Hunter]

little better care of myself.

[Martin]

Now.

[Willie]

We don't want this far and I

[Hunter]

got 3 year olds.

[Willie]

A human being has a problem with resurrection of the dead.

[Hunter]

Oh, I don't. I'm betting on.

[Willie]

Well, no, no. But a lot of people do. Okay, well, hey, I got. I got a news flash for y'.

[Hunter]

All.

[Willie]

Hey, you need to pay attention when spring rolls around because there's some resurrection of dead things that just there is an explosion of life happens. Okay. And that ought to be enough for you to tell you, oh, it ain't no problem to raise a dead man.

[Hunter]

There you go.

[Willie]

Hey, he raises everything ever, ever. Spring raises everything that's been dead.

[Hunter]

I watched a frog yesterday who. Who was going through the process of realizing the resurrection better loom near as he was getting swallowed by a ribbon snake. Did you not see here, I sent it to you. Sigh like s this. This snake won't bother side. I don't think.

[Willie]

Oh, no, no, no. I don't like none of it. Okay. Even if they do have a good purpose because, like, king snake ran over

[Jeff]

since I saw y' all last. I ran over a rather large rattlesnake in Texas. It freaked me out big.

[Willie]

It was a good.

[Jeff]

Oh, well, no, no, Weirdly enough, he wasn't that long. And like, I was looking at a turkey. Like, the turkeys and stuff were gobbling. Oh, my gosh. It was so fun to watch everywhere. They're coming out strutting 20 yards from us.

[Hunter]

Look at that guy.

[Willie]

I can't see anything. I can't see anything either.

[Hunter]

You see the snake that's got a frog hanging out of his mouth?

[Willie]

Oh, right up there.

[Hunter]

Yeah. Look at it.

[Willie]

I can't tell what it is, it's a.

[Hunter]

It's a ribbon snake eating a leopard frog or a bronze frog or something.

[Willie]

Well, I can't tell.

[Jeff]

Oh, well, look, I don't like snakes.

[Hunter]

I was sitting there just listening. I mean, I was working on some stuff yesterday over to Duckhole, and I kept hearing, ah, yeah. I'm like, is that. I'm like, this is something I ain't ever heard before. So he kept doing it. Finally, I was like, all right, I'm going to look. I know better to do that because on scary movies, that's when you get killed. When you leave, you're in your underwear. Yeah. When you. Well, no, I wasn't in my drawer, but then I saw. I finally found the source of the noise. I looked down there. I didn't see the snake at first either. I just saw the frog and I'm like, where's the other half of him? And then I'm like, yeah, oh, it's inside that snake's mouth. So I was like, poor frog just get getting eaten alive. And I was like, boy, this is a time you could intervene. But that's just nature being nature, man. I'm not going to stop it. It was. It was tough to watch. That's why the video ain't very long. I wasn't going to sit there and watch the whole process.

[Martin]

But my just getting eaten.

[Hunter]

But if you.

[Martin]

Yeah, that's one way I don't want to go out.

[Hunter]

If you're out in the woods and you hear,

[Willie]

yeah, something. Something is dying.

[Hunter]

Something's going through. Some things. I just had to know what. What was going through. The things.

[Willie]

Say on. On your point, people don't realize if the food source is plentiful. Hey, it ain't no telling how big

[Hunter]

they'll grow them big old rattlesnakes.

[Jeff]

What I saw was. So I look at this turkey hen and I was like, oh, looking for a gobbler. Because they're, They're. They were.

[Willie]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

In full. The rut was going.

[Hunter]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

And then I. And I didn't see. And then I looked back and I was like. It looked to me. I thought it was a log or limb in the road.

[Willie]

Yeah.

[Jeff]

Because it looked kind of dark to me, honestly, the way. And I don't know why, because the sun was shot. Maybe it was a little cloudy right then, but. And then I slow way down and pull up and I. And then I see that. I mean. And I will say it was a beautiful design on his. And I was like. Then I saw the rattles and was like, oh, dear Lord. That is not a log. It was a. I would say 5 foot. He was not short. I mean, he was pretty long. But I'm talking about, like, this, like,

[Hunter]

hammer Western diamondback, I'm guessing.

[Willie]

Oh, my gosh.

[Jeff]

And I just. I just put on the gas and just slung almost at a 360. And he flew up and I. And then I reverse back. Then I go in the ditch. I mean, I'm doing just like Dad. I was like, I'm doing dad proud. He would be doing the exact same thing. Go in the ditch. And then I'm like, surely he's dead. Now. I back up. Don't seem. I step out of my truck. Look. Don't seem like right on the edge. I was like, I don't. All I did was make that sucker so mad that.

[Hunter]

Oh, so you never confirmed.

[Jeff]

I have no confidence.

[Willie]

Step out of the truck. I know. Yeah. Done. What you doing?

[Jeff]

Yeah.

[Willie]

Stepped out of truck. And, hey, it went and popped him.

[Jeff]

He was in, like, the wheel, hung

[Willie]

up in the junk holes.

[Jeff]

Thought about that, too, later. And I was like, yeah.

[Willie]

Oh, but, hey, I can't even think of the guys.

[Hunter]

What part of Texas he.

[Willie]

He plays poker with us all the time. He works for Pipeline. And he sent me a picture because he knows how I am with snake. Three of them are. Three men are holding this snake. He's about as big as that bongo drum right there and about eight foot long. Three of them got him. One of them's got him in the middle. One's got it by his head, another's got his tail.

[Jeff]

A king cobra?

[Willie]

No, rattlesnake. Because when he sent it to me, I said, that ain't real.

[Jeff]

You would know.

[Willie]

I said, that ain't real. He said, hey, the welder got in the bitch to weld, and that's what he saw. And we killed it. He said, it's real. This sucker is 8 foot long and about big as that bongo drum, big as my leg. And I don't remember what, like 26 rattlers or something on there. And, hey, they as big as a golf ball. Does he just. Don't.

[Jeff]

Maybe it was a wizard that.

[Willie]

No, no, I'm sorry.

[Jeff]

It was like. This is Harry Potter. It was a. What are those? Slytherin? Well, no, look, it was a Slytherin person that I actually killed. It was.

[Willie]

Well, no, no. Cause, hey, I'll tell you how big snakes get down there in Phil's property. I'm on the backhoe filling holes. So I've been digging and I've got roots out. Y' all busting. Roots it out of the way. Well, I thought it was a root that fell out of the front of the backhoe because, hey, this thing's all the way across the levee. Heads across the one side, tails hanging off the end the other side. I thought it was a stupid.

[Jeff]

Oh, this is Bruce speak. Parcel. Then it.

[Willie]

Then it moves.

[Jeff]

Parcel.

[Martin]

That's it, isn't it?

[Willie]

Nerd.

[Martin]

Looking over at hunter for affirmation because me and Martin don't get it.

[Willie]

Hey, about that bang around. And he was, you know, hey, Bo. He's. Hey, his tail. And hell was on the other side of the tire track.

[Hunter]

So I was still trying to figure out if we were talking about a sniper lake or a place where Phil dumped a load.

[Willie]

No. Oh, that was a funny one there,

[Hunter]

too, because he said something that looked like

[Willie]

two years. Bill took a dump on. Off a log after two years. Every time we'd come back see it, we'd say, shoot that cotton mouth.

[Martin]

That's a lot to take in.

[Hunter]

Yeah, a lot to get out too.

[Willie]

What are you talking about? He had called up. Look, just like.

[Martin]

What is happening?

[Hunter]

I don't even know. Are y' all ready? I'm ready. I gotta go put. I gotta go take a new Kawasaki home. I think we've been here long enough. You got us a Bible verse?

[Martin]

I gotta go close the.

[Willie]

Honey. Oh.

[Martin]

Mark 16:19. After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taking up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God.

[Hunter]

Amen, buddy.

[Martin]

Better be ready when he calls your name.

[Hunter]

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