Duck Call Room - How I Lost 70lbs and Kept It Off! | Uncle Si, Jay Stone & Christian Huff

Episode Date: December 30, 2021

Uncle Si and Jay Stone share all the details of their current workout routines, how they trained in the military, and how they maintain their spiritual health in this Duck Call Room takeover by Christian Huff's 4:8 Men Podcast. Stone reveals how he lost 70 pounds and what gave him the motivation to keep it off. He also talks about functional fitness, how he got into boxing, and how Brazilian jiu-jitsu changed his life. Si tells the story of the day he did 350 push-ups and reveals how "Duck Dynasty" solidified his faith.  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-4-8-men-podcast/id1592787728 — Check out a new 4:8 Men Podcast with Christian Huff every Friday! https://athleticgreens.com/huff — Get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D & 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So, apparently you're taking over the duck call room with Stone and Christian. Does that mean we get a day off? Wow. It does. It does? It does mean we get a day off. Is that real? Yeah. For real?

You know. If it looks like the duck call room and talks like the duck call room, it's got to be the duck call room, right? Except it's all hosted by young Christian Huff in his new show about faith and fitness. And while me, Godwin, and Martin, can talk to you about faith. We're not into fitness. The only thing we fitness is fitness in this. pants right here. That's all we worry about. Fitness gut in this belt. I was just about to fitness eat

that all that ice cream. I'm fitness. Yeah. I love it when big boys make fitness jokes. It makes me happy. I'm going to go on a jog after this. And now I'm a liar. I'm going to walk out of my truck. So look, y'all all asked for the story how Stone dropped 70 pounds and whipped his butt into shape. And you're about to find out. You can catch this episode in every episode of Christian Huff's 4-8 men podcast on Apple, Spotify, and everywhere else you get podcast. That's the 4-8 men podcast is in First Timothy 4-8, and it's also on Christians YouTube every Friday afternoon at YouTube.com slash Christian Huff video, all one word.

Christian Huff Video. Hi, what's up, everybody, and welcome back to the 4-8 Men podcast. If you can't tell, I'm in a different room than I have been in the last two episodes, and that's because my guest today do not need much of an introduction, and they also would rather have filmed in their little environment here. So welcome to the podcast, Jay Stone and Cy Robertson. Oh, cool, Sae. Thank you. Yep.

Pleasure being here. Yep. Take it forward to it. Something funny, a few weeks ago I asked some of the listeners who you wanted to see on the podcast, and a bunch of people said that they wanted to have you on the podcast. Well, I appreciate it. Well, why wouldn't he? Well, it's just funny because it's more, you know, fitness and faith,

and just that you were a hot topic to be on. So I'm honored to have you on the podcast today. Because of his fitness or? I think. No. No. It would be more on the faith side. Okay.

When you get my age, okay, fitness is one of the things is low on priorities. But I will say this, okay, fitness is important because I've had open heart surgery. Okay. I've smoked way too much when I was young. Okay. Well, that's a dumb decision on my part. and now I'm paying for it. I got C-O-P-D.

Yep. So, you know. But my face has got me through all this. That and a little bit of exercise also helps. Yeah. No, no. Well, now I'll pedal a cuby. You know, I actually watch Darrell Hall sing, okay, for an hour, okay?

And I work out, so my regimen is an hour. I pedal. I do four sets of 10 minutes pedaling. And then I also work out with weights. for five minutes and I do six different exercises in five minutes. You know, about 20 reps apiece. So he is exercise. I love that.

No, no. It helps because now is a lot easier to get to the deer stand. Yeah. Okay. Oh, it's helped him a lot. You know, he caught COVID last year and it almost killed him. Oh, he'd like the got me. He was this close from going on to be with the Almighty.

Okay. And the last thing he told me that that last day I went over. over there he said you ain't got to keep me alive i said but you too fun to be around i don't want to go hunting without you so we decided to keep him alive and give him a little motivation and next thing you know he doesn't beat it and now he's exercising on a daily basis and he feels way better than he did last year at this time i promise you that so faith faith is i would say higher priority okay but fitness when you're young okay i would We'll say this, though, make good choices.

If you don't smoke, don't start. Same thing with alcohol. If you don't drink, don't start. Yeah. Well, I love how you said that's the top priority because the whole reason for this podcast is off of that verse where Paul says that physical training is of some value,

but Godliness is a value in every way. It's more important. Yeah, it's more important. Yeah, it's more important. Yeah, so our faith is more important than any physical training that we could ever do, what we do for ourselves spiritually is the most important. Do you think, Paul,

did pull-ups? I don't know. What do you think he did? He obviously trained himself physically. He walked hundreds of miles. He was a walker. Yeah. Speaking of walking, you said that you've gotten into walking a lot more lately.

Well, yeah. Well, part of my job, I took over Jayce's job when he got famous and decided he wasn't going to work anymore. So, which was great for me, you know, because I enjoy physical labor. Yeah. So I took over his job as the duck call man. I assemble all the duck calls, me and Godwin, but I deal with all the production and everything.

And if something goes wrong, it's my fault. So I'm responsible for it. That's my job. But during hunting season, my job turns into taking fill inside duck hunting every morning. And let me tell you something. People might say, oh, you're griping. I'm not griping. I'm not griping for one second.

I cherish every second of it. But it is a workhouse. Hey, a lot of people don't realize, okay, hunting, fishing, okay, especially the way the Robertsons do it, especially duck hunting. There's a lot of work involved in it, okay? Because I had forgot about how much work is involved in it. And look, someone has got to do it, okay? You're sitting in a duck blind, it's brushed, okay,

then someone's got to carry the decoys out. And how'd that duck blind get all that brush on it? Yeah, yeah. So somebody has worked their tail off, okay, for you to go out and duck hunt and have a good time. So we show up in the morning, I'll pull the boat up to the blind. I'll say, okay. And I love this.

Everybody over the age of 70, disembarked getting a blind, pour you some coffee, enjoy yourself. I'll see you in about an hour and a half. And what he's saying nightly is, hey, all you old people get out of the boat, get in the blind and get out of my way because I got a lot of work to do. So that being said, I'll put out the decoys.

We have apparatuses, motion decoys and everything. Then I go hide the foil wheeler, hide the boat. You know, if we don't have a dog that day, I'll go retrieve all the ducks. But I look at it as an opportunity to work out. To get out there and get my heart pumping, get some good cardiovascular exercise while I'm enjoying their company. Duck hunting, fellowship. shipping. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, so yeah, I would say any opportunity you see to do a little exercise, whether it be, I mean, you could be out duck hunting or whatever, take advantage of

it and do it. This is a win-win situation for him and especially for me and Phil, because after we do all this, they pick the decoys up, okay, then we come to Phil's house. He goes in the kitchen, okay? He's done prepared these wood ducks. We kill two days. days ago or three days ago. All right. And then he fries them up for us. I would say, okay, we have a big meal.

When he says, fry them up, I will. I will admit I'll put on about 10 pounds during hunting season. Yeah. Well, real quick, just to give people the background and kind of how we know each other and how we met. So summer of 2019, I spent

the summer here, me and Sadie got engaged and me and Jay became workout buddies. We became boxing friends. We'd box once a week, twice a week together. Oh, yeah. And we had a little evolution of mitts to heavy bag to the old body armor we put on. The body armor with the headgear. We just wail on each other.

I'd put the headgear on him, slap him around a little bit. We never got into sparring. No, no, no. That was one thing we didn't get into. We never sparred because I don't want you to harbor any hard feelings towards me. I just don't want to be that guy. Or if you end up with, you know, getting little loopy because you got knocked up side of the head, I want Sadie get mad at me

because the last thing you do is want your woman mad at you. That is true. I want your woman mad at me because your woman could potentially be my boss one day. That is true. That is true. So I don't want to knock you upside the head

and her be mad at me. Yeah. But we got really in a boxing. Can you kind of tell us a little bit how boxing for you, you know, how that became the physical thing that you wanted to do? Well, you know, I walked around, you know,

in my 20s at about 180. and felt good but then i got married started when you know we had kids i started getting losing my discipline with my eating and uh next thing you know i don't swole up to about 235 okay and was pathetic pathetic i i got winded real easy but what started the whole thing was i didn't really think much about it i just because i looked around there were people around me that were you know just they didn't care either but I'm going to tell you, that's not the attitude to have. So the way it all started, I was chasing down a Mowler Drake that Sye had crippled down.

He didn't kill it all the way, so he was trying to get away from me. So I had to walk pretty briskly towards the duck, and when I finally caught up to it, I grabbed it, and I heard a wheeze. Hey, hey. And I thought to myself, oh, you are so pathetic. and I lay down on the levee and 30 minutes later I was still going hey

hey I mean it looks like a wheeze in my chest and I could not get rid of it because you were that out of shape because I was so bad out of shape my lung capacity was nothing I mean it wasn't there so I thought man this is pathetic I got to make a change so

I start working out a little bit I worked out at Willie's Bar up there. You know where Willie's barn is, the famous workout barn. Yeah. Right next to your brother-in-law, oh, John Reed. John Reed with the tight pants, the skinny jeans, John Reed. Anyways, I went up there and was working out, and I lost about 10 pounds, 15 pounds. I felt good about it. You know, I'm like making progress.

So I said, I'll fix to take us to the next level. I have a friend that owns a boxing club here, real boxing club, where professional boxers have been training for a long time. So I walk in there and he said, what are you doing here? I said, I'm out of shape. I want to get in shape. I'm making a commitment right here. I said, this is the hardest thing that I could ever imagine to do.

Then this is what I'm going to do. He said, well, what's your goal? I said, my goal is to be in as good as shape as those professional boxers you got in here. He said, you got a long ways to go. I said, yes, sir, I do. Hey guys, I have the perfect thing to help you start off for your new year. It's called Athletic Greens, and they have a product that's called AG1. With one delicious scoop of this stuff, you're absorbing 75 high quality vitamins, minerals,

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And he pointed to an old man standing in the corner. He said, you see that old man? I said, yeah. He said, go tell that old man. I said, to train you today. I said, okay. So I went over and tapped that old man on the shoulder. He turned around and looked at me.

He said, what are you? you won't. This is Mr. Lee. Yeah, this is Mr. Lee. I've told you. You've met him. I've met Mr. Lee. You've met him. I've met Mr. Lee. He's 82, I think, 82 now. If you ever seen the Rocky movies. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means. That means more outside cooking. And y'all know.

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Just go to Try Beef. dot com slash that's try beef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak he's the trainer on rocky mickey that's him but anyways he looked at like like like like theoretically not yeah well no no right he's not he's not the actual act he's not you know gurgis meredith you know no but he's not it's not it's not the guy but he's just like him the way he is manorisms he's the way he acts he's hard-nosed He says, I said, Sparky's there for you to train me today. He said, God, me. He said, like I ain't got nothing to do.

He said, how old are you? I said, I'm 41. He said, golly. Well, two hours later, I crawled back to the truck. Could not walk. Five days later, still could not walk. They almost kill me. I go back up there six days later.

He looked at me. He said, I just lost $20. Oh, that's funny. He was trying to run him off. Oh, yeah, he tried to run me off. He tried to kill it. But that just shows you how powerful the human mind is, because I had done made my mind up that I'm going to get myself into shape.

Yeah. And I'm going to keep myself into shape until they kick dirt in my face. So I got into that boxing club. Four years later, I'm 165 pounds just shredded with, and I can go, All day long I've talked about. He dropped 70 pounds. Yeah. Okay.

70 pounds. You know, he's a different looking person. Oh, I know. I've seen the pictures. It's crazy. It's one of the biggest transformations I've seen. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

And back then I had long beard, long, holly hair. I don't see how feeling them do that. Be honest with you. Why did I do that? I don't know. I guess I'm trying to fit in, I guess. I don't know. Trying to fit in.

You were married and all those things. Well, right. You know, I'm married to the family. Yeah, oh yeah, it's easy to do I mean, there's a lot of people that are in the same situation that I was in But what I can tell you is once you make your mind up There's nothing that can stop you

Yeah, you know, you can do it I mean, you can I mean, you could do it I mean, it hurts. Yeah, you know, it's not easy But it's very doable Well, this was so you said that this was when you were 41 Yeah But I know that both y'all served in the military So what was kind of the training like for that?

What was kind of the regimen like? Well, you know, we had two drill sergeants. The first one had problems with home. His wife was pregnant. She was having problems with her pregnancy. So he had to leave. So we're sitting there waiting to see the new one. And here comes a taxi cab, okay.

And literally the thing is like this, and there's sparks coming off of the bottom of the taxi cab. When we're looking coming. I mean, it's like a fireball coming. Okay, well, hey, he pulls up and gets out, and he puts his smokey the bear hat on. This guy is about 6-8 weighs about 450. I could literally fill his hat up with water and took a bath in it.

This guy is a monster, okay? When he says 6-8-450, he means 6-4-325. No, no, hey, this guy weighed 450, I'm telling you. But anyway, we was on Fort Benning, Georgia, which is a airborne post. Well, you don't walk on an airborne post. You run. You know, I'm 130 if you wet me down.

Okay. He's 450 and we're running everywhere and he's running everywhere I go. He actually made me do like 350 push-ups on graduation day. I'm in dress greens. And I said something, he got in my face and I got tickling and laughed, okay. And he said, drop, maggot. Okay, that's what he called. I've done 25 jumped up like I was the best shape I ever been in.

Okay. Well, I ended up, you know, every time I would get back up, he'd get just nose to nose. Well, I got tickled. I started laughing again, and he had dropped me. It took 350 to stop me. I finally got rid of the grin. He got rid of the grand. Did you do 350 consecutive?

Type. 25 at a time. Okay, yeah. So anyway, but, you know, that's why I was just fixing to make the statement about, okay, the military. And I'll use the Navy Seals, mind over matter. Yeah. Okay. It's amazing what they do.

Okay, because now you think about wetting you down in an ocean cold, come out, do a bunch of junk, lift logs, telephone poles and all that stuff. Then go back in the water. Stay there for 30 minutes, get cold again. Come back out and do, you know. But they go through this, okay? Their failure rate, okay, is like. 85% only 15%

actually make it do seal training and actually become a Navy Seal. It's incredible. They're the best of all. They're the elite. They're the elite. But going back to your experience, what were the PT standards when you were in the Army? I don't agree with them. Okay,

because look, when I was at Fort Bragg, another airborne post, okay, we run four miles every day. That's five days a week. Okay, we get Saturday and Sunday off. It killed me every time I run the four miles. So their PT program is not that great.

Because if you do something five times a week, you should be able to do that and just, you know, because I watch him now. Okay. He can get it. Okay, before, like he's talking about, because I know where he's coming from, because that's the way I am with COPD is,

you know, I'm about to. die when I do any kind of little physical activity. That's why I was saying physical training has its value, okay, but the faith is the higher value. Because no matter how much you train or how good and shape you get in, you're going in that ground. Yeah, you're going to die. That's the thing that everybody don't understand. That's why I said, hey, the religious way is you got an H-O-P-E. which is hope.

Okay. Without Jesus, there is no hope. Yes, right. Okay, so I'm going to go with the creator, okay, because he gives me hope. Yeah. Yeah. But PT, PT's improper, okay, but I,

back in that day, okay, the standards were higher, like when I was in. Now they've done dropped them, you know, way, way low. I think it's just the opposite. I think the standards. were much lower when I was there

because we would I don't know what y'all had to do we had to do a two mile run push-ups and sit-ups and you had two minutes on the push-ups sit-ups to do as many as you could do past parallel yeah oh yeah and then you had two minutes to do as many sit-ups

as you could do and then you had to run the two mile under a certain time I don't know what the standard were when you did it. What did you run your two miles inside? Two minutes. I think the standard was 18, 18 minutes for two miles. I think I can walk two miles and 18 minutes.

Well, no, no, I'm just saying. I don't know what it was. You, I'm not sure that it was 18. Maybe in lower that. I'm pretty sure it's around 15 minutes. 15? Yeah. But last one I did, I mean, I've never been a big runner or anything, but I could,

I think I did my last one in 10.50. Well, see, I always made people mad when we've done people. because hey I didn't I never did try to say okay I'm going to run an eight eight minute mile if I got 14 minutes I'm gonna I'm gonna go right up to the 14 I'm just gonna make sure I'm under 14 to pass do just enough to no right well no no because that's the way I was in school and I actually had a teacher tell me I walked in one day my industrial arts class and the guy looked at me he said I hate your guts robinson you hold on what he said look at James out there And I said, yeah, I know, James, you know, this guy started out building a 14-foot boat,

and it ended up an ashtray. Okay, he said, hey, he ain't got a brain in his head. This is a teacher talking, okay. He ain't got a brain in his head. But, you know, but he's got the heart of a line. He said, you otherwise, he said, you're very smart, and you don't use none of it. You know, he said, that's why I hate your guts. As I most people say, I give it a year, all, go above and beyond.

besides his dude just enough to get back. No, hey, I'm going to do, you know, I'm going to meet the standards, okay? I'm not going to try to set new ones. You probably weren't laughing when he told you that. No. Oh, yeah. No, no, I just looked at him, you all, and I was saying, you know, hey, what did I do you do this morning? I just got it, and then you hit me with, I hate your guts, Robertson.

That's cruel. Somebody sent an email there on the Duck Collarroom podcast, asking for advice on work ethic. all this and he's got lazy tendencies and so i said hey do just enough to get the grade because you don't want to work too hard hey my mom work hard work hard but nap hard hey you don't want to work hard you don't want to work your life away oh yeah but jay we've talked about your transformation um but how how did that for you go beyond just looking in better shape oh man and my quality of life went up so much with with everything my marriage got better of course you know your wife don't want to be married to a to a big old fat slob I mean think about her for for a second I did think about

that I said boy if I don't if I don't do something she might up in R-U-N-N-O-F-T you know what I'm saying so there's motivation enough right there you know just do it for your family and then I got to think about my kids and I thought you know I want to when I get to be old You know, my 70s, or if I make it to 80, I want to be able to do things with my grandkids. If I want to take them fishing, I want to be able to jump in a boat and take them fishing, take them hunting, do physical things with them, you know. And if I had kept going down that road, I mean, I was going to render myself useless physically,

and I wasn't going to be able to do those sort of things with my kids and grandkids. So that was my motivation for my wife, for my kids. Yeah. And to make myself a better human and then my work ethic went up back to where it was before. I mean, everything I do, I do it wide open, 100 miles an hour and I can do it until about 9 o'clock that I crash. So during Ducksies, I get up at 3.30, I go wide open all day. I get home about 8.30. Lights out, 9 o'clock.

Wake up, do it all over again. And I feel great because I have trained myself physically. And spiritually. Yeah. So do you think, but do you think that that transformation, like, affected you spiritually? Oh. Like, yes, with your family and your kids. Oh, no doubt about it.

Yeah. No doubt about it. Because it helped me, I guess, what I'm trying to say is I had a moment of clarity. When I realized that I had turned myself into a new man physically. And I thought, you know what? I can do anything. I can do anything that I set my mind to do with the help of God Almighty through prayer, through scripture.

And look, I have three daughters, okay? So the boxing not only got me in shape, it was good therapy for me. And now a good friend of mine trains Jiu-Jitsu. He got me into Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. I've been doing that for almost a year now. And I love that. And you talk about therapeutic. It has changed my life.

I mean, it, it, it, it's the most difficult thing. Getting in shape through boxing was hard, but BJAJ is stupid hard. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Yes, but, man, it's, it's so rewarding when you see yourself progressing. It's just like anything else. So, yeah, yeah, it's been great, you know. Just discipline yourself. It's worth.

every every second of pain that you'll go through physically man I can't I can't explain to you and look this old man we were talking about Mr. Lee and I credit him for transforming me

into the man I am today and I hope to carry on his legacy and helping people helping people that are in bad shape get in good shape and I've done that with a few friends of mine. And it's made me feel really good that I've helped them. And Johnny D is one of them. I've been with him a lot, okay. It's been a transformation. It really has. Not only in your

physical look, okay, the mental aspect of it, okay, it's gave him a new perspective on, on life as a whole. Because like he was just saying about he was in jujitsu, his daughter's in insane. She's seven years old. Okay. She's a beast. She is a beast. No, no. It's teaching her discipline. Okay.

Because it's all about your perspective of life. That's why my advice to all the young people. Physical training, okay, and mental training. Okay. Teach yourself to make good sound judgments on things that you're going to do. Like cigarettes. I said, no, no. Bad.

It's bad for your health. Don't do it. Alcohol. Same thing. Don't do it. okay and all this is like jay said what i go mind over matter discipline okay discipline okay it's it's important okay it really is plus then your faith because i loved it when he added with the help of god yeah i can i can about do anything i want to

i can do all things through christ who straightly yeah yeah well you said earlier about how we prioritize our faith over over the physical training and like i said that's really the hope of what This whole podcast is that it encourages people to go out and train physically, but that it challenges them to go train themselves spiritually. And it will actually, both of them will complement each other. Yeah, for sure. There's no doubt about that. Oh, no doubt.

Look, there's a million people out there who's got a story like mine. You know what I'm saying? It'll change your life. And they'll all tell you the same thing. I ain't never going back. I'm never going back to me. It actually changed your life. Yeah.

Yeah. But going off of that, where, so where did, for both of y'all, like where did your relationship with Jesus start? I would say mine actually got more important in Vietnam.

Okay, because I've done some stupid stuff over there. Okay, and he brought me through it. Okay, because I could have literally got killed easily over there. Okay, for the stupidity that I pulled.

Okay, Almighty was watching out over me. Okay. So when I come back, no, it was a different, my perspective of life had changed. Okay,

because you're not guaranteed the next minute. No. Mm-hmm. Okay, because I'll give you example. I could go to the doctor and the doctor and tell me,

okay, you're, you're, ate up with cancer, stage four cancer. I could handle that. I've lived a good life. I'm an old person.

Now, if I went and my daughter when she was small and heard the same news about her, you know, I asked people, I said, what do you do when you're hitting the gut with that, something like that? Okay, if you don't have a really strong relationship with your family, that's your mom, dad, and your siblings, if you're lucky enough to have brothers and sisters, if you don't have a strong relationship with them, and then you don't have a strong relationship with God, the father's son, Holy Spirit. What do you do when something hits you like that? And there's people every day

that go through that. Okay. And I frankly, you know, I don't know if I could have handled it. Yeah. That's a tough one. But no, with me, I married a godly woman. And, of course, I was trying at the time to do what was right. And, but she pretty much told me, you're going to follow of Jesus are we're not going to get married and we're going to have a family I want to have a bunch of kids we're going to have a family we're going to go to church on Sundays and we're going to do the best we can to get our kids to heaven and I looked at her I said you are the woman of my dreams you're the one I need yep so and my spouse your spouse will go a long way into helping you with your spiritual fitness if you know what I mean

and you my man have got a spouse that will help you with your spiritual fitness no doubt about it and vice versa and by the way i was bragging on you on our podcast on our duck covering podcast earlier and i and uh and i even bart was bragging on you you know if you if i had a daughter and i do i have three of martin said if i had a daughter christian is the kind of guy that i want my daughter to marry and look i told out the same thing the day i met you i said boy, if my girls bring home somebody like him, I'll be all right with that. So you are a good man now. I'm saying that.

Yeah, now. Now that I've been bragging on you. 10 years ago. Oh, yeah. Well, that's right. We've all been through it. Okay. But saying that, now when we have family gatherings,

Christian has been known to be sort of a big eater at the, he'll go to. So in other words, when you come to Christmas, you better get in front of him because all the good stuff will be gone. I'm still considerate. See, I go get more food after y'all are all sitting down, done eating. It just happens to be gone. I'll see him looking over what he's doing. He's saying, how many are those steaks are left?

Did he cook enough? That's what he asked me when I cook steaks at the family gathering last time. He said, how many steaks did you cook? I said, why? He said, because I'm counting about 42 people here. I would love to have two steaks today. Well, I think it was, was it two gatherings ago at this point, or two or three ago, and there was not enough food there.

But it was, the food was great. Did I cook at that one? I think it was you and David. Yeah. The food, it was great. It was great food. The, the quantity. The quantity was enough.

No, the quantity was enough for normal humans. Okay. Normal humans. Right? Humans that intake, how many calories a day do you take in? I try not to attract that stuff. A lot. A lot?

Yeah. A lot. More than you. Way more than me. Yeah, but hey, you got to understand here, okay. Like, when we get together, okay, the food is excellent. Okay, and a lot of people. Now, I was the last Thanksgiving feed.

Wasn't that good. Yeah. A lot of people haven't had that kind of food. so they overindulge okay and i understand it okay yeah oh serious okay yeah no it's true but christia works out like three times a day so he's he's got he's got right look he's a big fellow he's a big fellow no one oh he's too big yeah it takes a lot to run that factory that's it a lot of blood pumping a lot of blood pumping through those veins i can tell you that but uh no we used to work out uh you know when christian first moved here and

We'd get in there and we'd work those myths, get that heart rate up. And he didn't realize, realize just how good in shape you've got to be to do that boxing workout. Well, no. It's tough. Oh, it's tough. I never, I tried to do what he? No, that's why I had to go to the QB. Okay.

It's low impact. So I went from the heavy bag to the TV. At the end of this episode, we'll show a picture of what the QB is. Oh, yeah, QB is awesome. We'll get a video of you doing it. It's the show. That thing helps him. It's helped me.

No, no, it's awesome. It's low impact. Oh, yeah. I put him on the heavy bag. I got the gloves on. I said, now, look, you got to pace yourself. Don't hit that bag too hard. It just pace yourself.

Take your time. I said, we're going to go one minute. Well, he gets those gloves on, and he starts pounding the bag. How last it about 20 seconds? He's like, ah, he hit it about 10 times. Those arms just fell down. I said, do you understand what the meaning of pace yourself is? But, you know, it happens every time I put the mitts on.

When I was training Johnny D, I told him the same thing. I said, Johnny D, you've got to relax and just pace yourself. He went all out. It's something about when you put those mitts on, I guess he thinks he's in a fight, I guess. I don't know. He got all tens up. You've gotten 100%. 30 seconds later, he's laying on the ground.

But giving him credit for the people listening that know who Johnny D is. He used to be Willie's assistant. He's on our Duck Car Room podcast. He weighed about 270 and now he's down to about 220. So he's about 50 pounds. Yeah, he looks really good. He looks a lot better and he feels a lot better. Everything's better.

Yeah, yeah. Well, so both of y'all, just to kind of, to y'all are both on a super popular show. And before I met Sadie, I watched the show and, you know, getting to know y'all now in size, you specifically, and even on the show, you're always super open about your show. faith and super bold about that. So what would you say to someone who's listening to this podcast that's maybe coming to listen

to it more from a faith perspective, but someone who needs this, you know, the faith and the spiritual stuff? So what would you say to the person who's listening that doesn't believe in Jesus or doesn't know who Jesus is? Well, my challenge would be, okay, you know, if you look around you, okay, and ask yourself, you know, okay, number one, how did they get here? What's my purpose for being here? And then what's going to happen?

Where am I going? If you look at all the creation, okay, do you buy the Big Bang theory that something blew up? I was in the military. We use a lot of explosives, okay? Explosives can be used, okay, but they don't create nothing. They destroy things. Okay, that's just like guns.

We have all this trouble with guns. It ain't the guns. You got to have someone operating the gun. That's where the problem comes in. Okay, but the faith part, if people ask you, you know, because like when they ask me, you know, you're always talking about God, you're always calling me, God, the Father, the Son, Holy Spirit.

Why? I can't see him. You know, and I said, I actually feel sorry for you that you can't because I can't go anywhere and turn and look where I don't see he's been there, he's here. The Dutton Island's the show,

they asked me what's the most important thing that that show did for you, Robertson, and I always tell them. That show solidified my faith that they're real and they're alive

and they're doing the most amazing things with the most unlikely people you'd ever meet. and that's the Robertson family, all of us. All of the people that was on Duck Dynasty have had people like Make a Wish Foundation, kids that are dying stage four cancer have come to us, and the first time it happened, we didn't know what to do.

Couldn't handle it. It was too, it was heart-wrenching. This kid is dying, and they want to see me. The last thing, that's their wish to see, you know, Sal Robertson and Duck Tennessee. But we said a prayer for him, and guess what? God looked down and said, yep, the answer is today is yes. The cancer's gone.

The doctors are scratching their head because, hey, they've already called a family, and this kid is on his way out. And that, look, that happened to every Robertson in the family. The women, the kids, Sadie, it's happened to her, John Luke, all of them. Well, hey, that's the most amazing thing I've heard in my life. Okay, because there's about, what, 30 of us now? We've got a big family.

And for God to just, you know, we ask a prayer, and he says, yep, yeah. So I just say, hey, you need to read the Bible. And don't try to overdo it. Okay, first of all, start in the New Testament. Number one, read Mark, Luke, John, you know, the first of the first of all, first four gospels and find out who Jesus is who he is what he's done in the past what he'll do in the present and what he'll do in the future find out you know because look we're telling time by him well he must be pretty great if we're telling time by this one Jesus of nazareth yeah but my deal is the

Bible will tell you, okay, always be prepared to tell people about the great hope you have in the Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Yeah. Okay. And look, if you're without hope, you got a rough, tough road ahead of you, dude, or a woman. If you don't have no hope about your life, you know, you got a tough place. You're in a tough place. Yeah.

Well, it was even cool, like you said, like, I always come back to that thought a lot, like the fact that we tell time by Jesus. Like it's 2022 almost because of... You're of our Lord. But even the idea that like, we're telling time off of one man who was actually only known for three years.

So it's like, it's not like he was, you know, he lived to be 100 and all these different things, but the, you brought up the four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and all those gospels are the account of his life, and it's only a three-year time span. He died when he was 33, and he was only known for three years.

So the whole course of history is changed by one man who people only knew him for three years. It's pretty mind-blowing when you think about it. He must have been something special. He must have been something pretty special. You might need to read, okay, because the first word in the Bible is, Genesis 1-1 says,

in the beginning, God created the heavens in the earth, earth. Yeah. Well, if that's true, you might want to read the other 65 books in the Bible and find out a little more about, like you said, if we're telling time about him, it had to be something special about him. Yeah, so that's why I was going to go with the first four Gospels, and that will tell you who he is, what he's done, what he's done in the past, present, and future. Okay. Yeah. And what he, who he is, what he's doing,

and what he will do is pretty amazing when you read about it. If you believe that first verse. Yeah, if you believe the first one, you need to read the rest of it. There you go. Hey, it's like Paul Harvey. Now, here's the rest of the story. And the end of this thing is, okay, hey, they nailed him. Hey, he become flesh for one reason.

so the human race could put their hands on him and kill him because that was the plan that the father, son, and Holy Spirit had before the creation of the world. Okay. The cross couldn't hold him. They nailed him to a piece of wood that he created a tree. Okay. The cross couldn't hold him.

They took him down and put him in a tomb. They buried him. Okay. The tomb couldn't hold him. He rose from the dead. Okay. Now, you're talking about some power. Mm-hmm.

Okay. He was dead. All of his followers, they scattered like a covey of quail. Okay. But he rose from the dead and he was appeared to over 500 people that witnessed his resurrection. Okay. And a few of them watched him bodily, flesh and blood, extend to heaven back to the father. He sat down and guess what he's sitting down beside the father for? every time I mess up and I do a lot I've got to look up and say yeah Lord it's me again and yeah I'm stupid as

you know I ain't got a lick sense because I've did it again yeah all he does is he just looked at the father and said hey put that on my tab put that on at the bottom of the cross that's why I died to take care of his problem my sin problem my grave problem

okay that's why I said hey the word starts with an H-O-P-E. I have great hope. That's what gives me the courage to go on. Okay? Because I've got something better waiting for me. One of these days, Sal Robertson is going to fly, and I ain't going to need a plane or helicopter, a jetpack, or none of that.

I'm going to fly on Jesus' power. Yeah. Well, and that's what's so beautiful about Christianity is that idea of, like, every other religion besides the one we believe in it's us trying to get to God and you know with Jesus Christianity is the only religion where God came down

to meet us and just that relationship aspect and like you said the death burial and resurrection that's the gospel that's what Paul preaches in 1 Corinthians 15 and he says that you know that we're saved if we believe that if we hold firmly to it otherwise we believed in vain

and just to encourage you listening you know if you are skeptical about, you know, the Bible or Jesus or, you know, God or all these things that we believe, like, so I said, just go read it and, you know, pray that the Lord would speak to you because that's what he did for all of us. And it wasn't until I actually fully believed it that my life changed. You know, I went to church, I did all those things, but the fruits of my life did not reflect the life that he was calling me to live. And, I mean, it's scandalous. yeah he came and died on a cross. Romans 3 says that we've all sinned and fallen short.

He's the only person who was ever perfect to live. And if we believe it, if we obey it, and if we put our trust in it, then we believe that we'll have eternal life. I like Phil what Phil always tells them. He said, hey, here's the deal. I just preach the gospel to you, okay? Jesus is death, barrel, and resurrection.

Okay. If you've got a better story, I'm all ears. Let's hear it. Let's hear it. If you can be a death, story I just shared with you, okay, because I'm promised that he'll raise me from the dead. Okay, and number one, hey, God can't lie.

He don't lie. Yeah. Well, I believe, okay. And that's what I'm going to stand on. I'm going to go out of here. When you throw dirt in my face, last thing you hear before I die is, hey, Jesus is who he said he was, and he's done what he said he's done.

Well, it's like people saying it's kind of a, I don't want to say it's a harsh thing to say, but it's that idea of like, if we're wrong, then, you know, we loved our neighbor. We were good husbands and good fathers, and we,

you know, lived a life where on paper you could say we were good people. Yeah. And we get to go to heaven. But if we're wrong, then, you know, that's what I'd say. If we're wrong,

then we did all those things. But if, if on the other side of the coin, if you don't believe it, and if you're wrong, then, you know, there's a lot of... Yeah,

you're like rover you're dead over all over and that's the end of it yeah yeah i like the idea about hey i got you know it's like a jim carrie talking about well hi hey you're gonna go out with me and she said you know and he said you know well what's the percentage she said oh you know he said one in a hundred you're talking about ace ventura yeah yeah yeah yeah talking no more like one in a million now you're talking about dumb and dumber dumb and dumber okay yeah you know and he says hey same One in a million. He said, then you're saying there is a change. You're saying that a change.

Well, I'm going to go with, okay, hey, with Jesus, there is a change. Yeah. So I'm going to take the change, okay, because, hey, I don't want to die and stay in the ground. Yeah. I like the idea about, okay, hey, he's going to raise me from the dead. Then I'm going to become an inter-tellate, tell us the stellar, you know, the interplanet traveler. Because I'm going to go look at all the wonderful stuff he's created. because we ought to see a small portion of it.

I hope we get to do that. I hope we get to go see all the plans. I don't know what we're going to do, but I want to be there to do it, okay? You just want to be flying through space. Yeah, I like it. Yeah. Well, each guest on the podcast gives, you know,

presents two challenges for us to kind of go out and do during the week, a physical challenge and a spiritual challenge. So, Jay, I want to ask you to give us the physical challenge. And, Cy, I want to ask you to give us the spiritual challenge. I'm going to keep it real simple. for you. Make yourself sweat every day. That's it. You do that. You'll be in shake. There you go. And I just watched Toby Keith, okay, he's a singer, country singer. And he said, hey, Dan rather asked him a question. He said, well, here's the deal. Yeah, I'm from Oklahoma. He said, I

worked in the oil field. He said, you know, you might, you might do a lot of things better than me, but you're not going outwork me. And that's what he's saying. because we've got the United States of America, we've got lazy, we won't work. Okay, but now for the spiritual, yeah, now for the spiritual challenge, okay, yeah. The Bible says this, God only really gives us two commandments. First of all, he says, hey, you need to love me with everything in you,

with your heart, your mind, your soul. Give me everything you've got loving me. then turn it around okay you're looking up to me and love me with everything you've got now turn that around and go for hours on love your neighbor as yourself now you've got to think about that okay if i loved everyone i had to come in contact with as much as i love myself because trust me when it comes down to it I love me. Okay, I'm not going to do, you know, if I'm smart, I won't harm myself. You know, I hadn't been too smart because I did, okay, smoked.

That's harming myself. Okay, but that's what I would give you a spiritual challenge. Love the one that created everything. I love his son, okay, the savior of mankind and the Holy Spirit. Okay, that's the three. if you ask me who I'll run with, that's who I'm going to run with. I hope, you know,

I hope that when people said, hey, what about old Sire Roberts? How he run with God, the father, the son, the Holy Spirit. That's who he run with. Now, if you see him on the earth actually running, then you shoot whatever's behind him.

That's right. Chasing it. You load your gun and kill what's chasing me. I love that. Well, those are two great challenges for us to go out and do this week. And going back to Jay's Challenge, that does not mean you can go sit in a sauna.

That's the one thing that we're excluding from going to sweat. Do something physical. You can't go sit and make yourself. Hey, he said the magic word. You've got to do something that makes you sweat. There you go. Okay. There you go.

And then go shower. Toby Keith said the same thing. Work. If you work, you sweat. There you go. Well, I'm so. You got to get Toby Keith on here. I loved having Jay and Cy on the podcast today.

So excited for this episode to come out and thank you all so much for being on the 4-8-No podcast. Been a pleasure, sir.