Duck Call Room - Jase Robertson Always Breaks Uncle Si's #1 Rule

Episode Date: December 7, 2021

Si admits he and Jase Robertson are basically the same person ... with one glaring difference. But first, Stone tells us how he REALLY feels about dead weight in the duck blind. Martin breaks down the rules about when to call someone sir or ma'am. Stone figures out how to make duck taste like beef. Dogs and old men are highly entertaining in the duck blind this year, and one dog looks a lot like Si! Stone's scariest drill sergeants were women. And John-David reads a fan question about Jase's coolness.  - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Deep fried little Debbie Christmas. Are we, sorry, I was doing it. Oh, my bad. Welcome back. You're here in the duck call room. Look, it is, well, we almost at the end of the second split here. First split. First split, whatever.

See, look, that's what I'm talking about. You get tired. You get worn down. So, you know, if our energy ain't what it normally is, just we'll be back. We get a couple of weeks off. We'll be back. But, man. Everybody's getting tired around.

And it's really tired. Are you tired? Yeah. How many days a row you've been? been hunting? All of them? What day is it? I don't know. I don't know. I don't even know how many days we've been hunting. Ten? Yeah, about ten.

So ten days in a row, you've been waking up at what time? About two o'clock? Four o'clock? That's early. I get up three-thirty. It's easier to handle when you're killing something. Are you not killing anything? Today was the pits. No, she has died on the vine, boys. We had one. Two ducks killed and PR killed both of them. We had one little pocket of ducks.

And we blew them. And Jay said, let's don't run them off because then we won't be killing nothing. Phil said, why are we here? We need to go kill them. So guess what? We go into a little pocket of ducks. We run them off. And you look up this morning and there ain't a duck in the sky.

It's a ghost town, boys. And they're wondering, where did they go? We ain't got no ducks. There ain't no ducks. There ain't no ducks here, boys. But I will say this, I have been thoroughly entertained in the duck blind, even though there's not many ducks. This morning was Old Wins Day.

Because he was talking about anybody over 70, get out of the blind. Get out of the boat, get in the blind. I pulled the boat up. I said, if you're over the age of 70, it's time to disembark. That's right. In other words, hey, all you old farts, get out of the boat, get in the blind, get out of my weight. Well, that's everybody you take, James.

That's it. Well, yeah. Okay. Now we got, we got Phil inside. Of course, you know, I was raised to respect my elders, so that's what I'm doing. That's good. Taking care of them. But now we have, we've got. Burley?

Well, Burley is actually helpful. You know. Far change. He is helpful. And then we have, you know, Phil's got a daughter now. And she, she hunts sometimes. I don't know if I got it hunting, but she's there to spend time with. with their dad i get it right but he gets it uh so it's pretty much a kind of a babysitting gig

you know hey and i will say this for him for ston he's good with old old people and children yeah i enjoy it look i and don't don't give me wrong i don't take any of it for granted i wouldn't trade it for the world i love hunting with fill and sigh every morning and when my kid gets to go i love that. Now the rest of them, I don't know. The rest of them are suspect. No, it's pretty, it's awesome. Don't say, make yourself useful or get out of here. That's it.

That's not happen to me one time. Either A, be entertaining. Yep. Or B, be a good shot. Well, hey, other than that, get out. Here's the good thing. We got a name for if you're neither one of those, you are what we call dead weight. Dead weight.

There's a lot of names for them. Topwaters, green horns. Yeah. Pin-raiser. I mean, there's a bunch of them. A pen raised, that's another good. Yeah, pen raised. Overall, it can be described collectively, though, as a gar.

I only get to go. I only get to go for one reason. Okay, I'm the morale building. I guarantee you, you are. I keep them laughing. When you go on to be with the Almighty, I'm quitting the game, okay, unless my little girl wants to go. Heck, I think I'm going to go with him. Yeah.

Golly. Well, I just know. for the last couple of years I've hunted, I'm very more appreciative of what the people that brush the blinds and put out the decoys and pick up the ducks and clean them and all that.

I'm more appreciative because I just just do it and not even think about it. Because I sitting there's more than looking and time I'm like, good grief. Especially hits me when I look at what what they carry into the blind and then carry out of the blind.

Oh, we got 2,000 pounds of grit. Oh, I'm aware. Why you think I quit coming down there? And look, I've been there. No, no, used to. I would help, you know, they would say, get in the blind, and they would hand me all this garbage.

Oh, yeah, you'd sit at the door. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, at 73, I just told them finally. I said, boy, guess what? I'm going to get in the blind, but, hey, y'all ain't handing me doodily squat. I can't do it anyway.

Everything weighs 75 pounds. Oh, no. And look, we've moved like three to five times in one day and moved every bit of that crap five different times. Oh, I'm aware. That's insanity. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, no, no. That's the thing got to the stupidity level. You're chasing ghost is what you're doing because they ain't even there. Well, no, because even when we got a few there that's around, it's the same ducks we're hunting every day. Yeah. Well, it's like you're talking about, hey, they know your social security number, a phone number, your address where you live?

Yeah. Y'all and even know your children's name. I saw one old Mallard Drake this morning. He looked down and it was like he was saying, oh, you're back. Okay. Yeah. And up there, it looks like these binoculars. Yeah.

But the entertainment level in the duck blind has gone up. Oh, it was fine this morning. I had to give it. The shotgunning has gone way down. Oh, yeah. But the entertainment has gone way down. And we're still killing them, though. Yeah.

We're still scratching them out because we're over what, today we hit, what, 201, I think. Two o'clock. For the first split. And down there. 201 ducks? 201 ducks. That's why I tell the Phil. He's always saying, it ain't a great hole.

It's a good hole. Yeah. And I said, well, no, it's the past a good hole. It's a real good hole. I said, because you've killed 201 ducks in the first split and what were we hunted? Yeah. Twelve days or something? How many of them's a woodies?

Huh? A bunch. But hey, look, since Stone has done going into your own Fingerlands, the Woody Fingerlands. Yeah. Oh, no, yeah. He's got about a three-day process here. And the end process is take it out of the grease and eat it. Yeah.

Oh, them things are fine as yearling deer steak. They're fine. He told me he mixed in some shovelers on you the other day. You never know. Oh, no, no. I wasn't there, but, hey, look, hey, the bunch of y'all, when they sit down the table, no, they're right. What are you talking about?

They fixed to eat everything. I did eat three of those three pintails that we killed a little day. Pintails solid. And it tasted like venison. Yeah. The way I do it. So we're going to have a recipe on our YouTube channel. Oh, no.

Yeah. It's really good. But I figured out how to cook, how to fry those duck strips where they do not taste like duck. Let's be honest here. Now, some people like to taste duck. It's gaming. It's like chicken liver. If you like chicken liver.

I think so, yeah. You like duck. It's got a little. But we figured out how to get that duck flavor out of a duck and make it taste like beef almost. Well done duck is very livery. Yeah. A lot of blood to me. You got to have an acquired taste for such as it.

Well, he puts it to a process. Oh, it's a process. Yeah. I mean. I'm serious. Yeah. When you eat it, you would sit down. If you didn't know what you were eating, you'd think you had it.

Well, that's way quicker, way quicker than duck rink. That's for sure. Oh, yeah. That's the problem with the wraps. They're the best. They just take forever. They're labor intensive. No, no, no.

Yeah, it's a lot of preparation. Yeah. For them all to disappear in about seven minutes. Oh, no, no, no. If it's green winged till, they go quicker than that. Yeah. We had Stone grilled a bunch of them, you know, and I'm talking about it, it was less than three minutes. Go.

Okay. And, tell me, hey, where's the rest of the wraps? They go. And Stone said, you pigs? $60. How many you want? Yeah, what else you need? It'd take a half a day to do 30 wraps.

It does do that. Hey, whatever. It's duck season. Life is good. Time is good. It don't matter how bad it stinks right now. But, hey, let's take our first break. We'll be back right after this.

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Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's tribeef.com slash. Support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. As I was saying, the shotgun and level. Now, Duck Commander videos, if you watch them over the years, you would think, boy, those guys. don't ever miss. Well,

they kill everything they shoot at. One of our cameramen's dad, Lyle, I'll think he's dad. That was Gawin's dad. Uh-uh, no, La Sanky's Dad. We got 15 Tiel left or right.

Come in, they come in the decoys, and it was just, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And they all died. Sinkke's dad says, boy, that's pretty good camera work. Yeah.

He said, that looked like y'all killed them all. And Stinkie said, Dad, they did kill them all. when's the last time that happened I'm confused because you were just talking about how you missed we had 24 on dog balcony and hey

the first volley I think it was seven of us in the blind no no it was five of us in the blind and godwin was standing outside the blind with the dog okay no there was five of us he didn't even shoot and godwin didn't even shoot no on the initial volley well I did some damage that day then on the initial volley is 17

died. First Friday, 17, just. And then it was bum, bump, bump, pop, then it was seven, what, seven more? Yeah. They all died.

I've seen us do some things over the years, but those moments are becoming much further. There are a few and far between. That gets to my point, being at, I told Jason a day,

I said, look, you got to get off this. We should have killed this. Those got away. They're going to get away now. Yeah. They're going to get away. Age, age is done that's in.

And everybody is not, the high sign any good as it used to be. And the age, quick. So let's just send the duck blind. Thank God Almighty for his creation and us being able to sit there and enjoy it. And let's have fun. Let's don't worry about what got away and who missed what and who killed what. It don't matter. Oh, that's part of it.

I like them riding me, time of it. Yeah. I like them riding me, time of it. You didn't kill nothing on that one? If anything dies over 50 yards, I'm out. You're out. I'm out. And little do they know, I'm good up to about 125 with that little pop gun.

They always talk about that little 20 gauge, okay? I'm stressing it at 125, but I still do roll them out of there occasionally. I'm going to tell you right now, I tried one up there this morning about 80, and I didn't do no good with it. No, he just brushed it off. Hey, you didn't. I don't even know that I scared him. Hey, you didn't lead him right there.

He was going down wind. I said, you know what? That rescue ain't getting no closer. Let me try him. Nope. I shot one time, sat back down. I said, well, that's all of it. It was old snow goose.

But anyway. We saw a single specklebelly this morning. He was lost. He was lost. He was lost. He didn't know where he was. He was lost as a goose. And once in a while they'd mess up getting decourse.

So, so this year there's been a theme. You know, we're heavy on the woodies so far. They're lightening the decoys, which is what we need to kill them these days. So they're lighting the decoys. And so everybody pick out a woody and Jace counts down. We've been doing it for 40 years. One, two, three, boom. Everybody shoots the same time.

Three. Well, opening morning, a bunch of woodies coming out of light. And Jace goes, one, and it was boom, boom, boom, boom. and he looked down there and said well i guess we're shooting on one well guess what the next day would he's coming in a light jace goes all right everybody get on one on the count of three one boom bye boom so now what that is okay if you've never hunted with the robinson's you know if you don't shoot you're going to be late for the party well okay because they'll kill everything they're bad about everything in the deep no the problem is you old farts have done quit

being team players. And I don't even think you can hear the count. So in your mind, you're counting yourself. That's what it is. They can't hear. You got to have somebody in the middle and do the count. Right side's line. So I'm telling it barely pass it down.

Every time Jay says something, I repeated the burly, barely repeats it to sigh, and then I don't think it goes past side. That telephone game, it didn't even work in kindergarten, so I don't think it's done. So Phil never hears it. Yeah. Oh, wow. Well, hey, look, you got a 20-foot shooting porch, okay?

Y'all, you're not going to yell. Hey, there's the decoys. We're going to have to reach out. I got on earplugs. Yeah, I got on earplugs, sir. We're going to have to reach out to AARP to see if they want to sponsor us now. That's where we're getting down to. But your earplugs are also hearing aids, so I don't know.

I just think, you know, Phil, he lost his hearing a while back with all the shotgunning. and he got these high dollar hearing aids years ago. I love that first time. That first time we went hunting and he had them things. I've never been sickled in all my life. He was sitting there. I sit right beside him. I mean, shoulder to shoulder will feel.

And he's looking at me. He's that, boy, I'm hearing things. You can only imagine now. And this whole time them hearing age are going, and he's just sitting there telling me how much he can hear. He's like, you hear that train? It sounds like it's about to come through this duckblacks. There's train.

track right across the river down there and i'm like i finally i let that go for about an hour and i said phil can you not hear the high-pitched home coming out of them ear and hearing he said no and he said what you're talking about what's you talking about i mean they're sitting in his ears just like a gnat on steroids and he's like no i said phil turn the volume down on him a little bit i think you got them peeking and he said ha he got it he because you had it on a little remote control around his neck he started turn it down I said see now that

humming's gone then he said do what so he had to have them at a level where they had to hum for him to hear do what but he couldn't hear to hum it's called high frequency but it was just so good I've got it oh I know but it was just so funny

to hear a man bragging on his hearing aids and they're making more racket than it and he's telling me how he can hear better than me now Yeah. But I'm like, but, but, but, but, but you can't hear that. Like, I just, but I get it. I mean, between the shotguns and all them years turning wood loud in that shop and everything that he's done across his life.

And we're not going to, we're not going to count the day as BC. So, you know, we ain't going to talk about that. Some loud country Western music. That's what he calls it. That's what he calls. Every time I've been around and he goes, you know, he sit there, put on a little country Western music. You're sitting in the truck and wait

He's waiting for a deer Yeah Oh it is I will say this He still shows flashes With that shotgun Oh ain't no doubt Ain't no doubt

And not only him That man sitting right there Still shows flashes From time to time He'll get on a roll My kin folks will not knowledge yet I will

I saw it I saw it One Jason Robertson No okay oh i told him i said side you know he killed he's six for six on till that morning he said i don't believe he will he never will okay uh why don't y'all take jason phil with you to venice because we like to have fun are you kidding no we like to go have fun and laugh we have a good time yeah you know and we do we sure do the last thing we're gonna do to bring him with us you don't like to be told every three

minute, sit down, shut up. Quit on that talking. That's the fun, don't know, listen, that's the funniest thing out of this whole thing. We've been hunting ducks now, what, probably 70 years. Okay, because we went

when we were kids. When we was kids, I'm serious, you know. And look, my dad, okay, he had fell off an oil rig and broke his back. So he can't sit no length of time. So he always stood up in the duck brown.

but he always wore a baseball cap, okay, and he never, he would never, his eyes would never get above this, okay? And he'd be telling him whoever was the duck calling man, hit him. Yeah, hit him, hit him. He was a watcher. He was a watcher.

He was a lookout. For the life of me, Phil or Jason, either one didn't learn that. Someone has got to watch the ducks. Or you're not going to kill Dooley Squat because, hey, then if you're someone who says, good grief, five just letting decoys, then just left. Yeah. Well, nobody's watching. Ain't nobody watch it.

You got to watch for the ducks. And you volunteer for that. And, hey, you're the watcher. And look, I do the same thing, Daddy always done. I stand there. I do not move. The only thing move is my head a little bit when they're flying to the left or the right. But I don't rubbernecking is what we call it.

Yeah, pie facing. Yeah, pie facing. Because, hey, we was in the blind one day and wasn't nobody face paint. No. Well, we had a camera outside the blind. He's, you know, they were something to get some cutaways, so they'd done it. And when they did it, oh, you tell it like it looked like somebody, everybody had a white paper plate that was doing this.

Not in the middle of the duck box. No, I'm talking from one end to the other. Okay. Maybe I'm one of them in the ends down there, but not in the middle. Other funny part, okay, they're always saying, hey, you flared them ducks, and it was me. All of this is all the point in the meat. You flaring them duck, you moved.

Yeah. Well, if you go look at our duck blinds, you got Phil Robertson on the left side and Jason Robertson on the right side. Yeah. Okay. Everywhere else, you just got to stick your gun out through brush and shoot. Oh, I'm aware. Down there where they're standing, it's a four-foot hole, okay.

No brush, no nothing. Okay. Yet I'm the one that flared the ducks. They saw you. Phil, what time last year, Phil wore like a light gray shirt. I mean, like almost white. Yeah, it was an old shirt because it was faded. It was an old, old real tree.

I'm talking about 20-year-old. Yes, it's that old Max 4. All the gray had won out of it. No, I know which one. Jay's looked down there and he said, well, I guess camouflage is optional these days. And Phil said, do what? I don't flare ducks ever. Ever.

It's like that day he showed up on opening day wearing a red and white flannel. I'm like, what? Red and white, baby. We're going to Paul Bunyan Day, boys. Where's the accent? When you get in your 70s, you do whatever the heck you want to do. Hey, and when you own a duckhole, that's all the whatever you want to do. When your name's on the deed, when you're Mr. Dutton, you do what you want.

That's right. And when you're the Duck Commander, you really do whatever you want to do. Amen to that. All right. Let's take another break. Take another one. Well, you know, another form of entertainment that we've had in the Duck Blind. Y'all cook in the Duck Blind?

Not yet. We don't stay there long enough during the first split. Now, when the weather gets cold or we get fronts and stuff like that. Yeah, when it gets miserable? That was, because I, whenever I would hunt with Gimber, I was the head chef over in the corner. Keep you busy. I like it. I'm glad y'all got something accomplished.

We weren't killing anything. Yeah, we're the chefs at the dog. So whenever cooking time comes, I'll gladly come down there and heat up sausage for you all. We might take you up on that. I'll go with Martin. Anyway, continue your stories, sir. Anyways, so we, like I said, we've been. been thoroughly entertained this year and by the old men and the dogs.

So old blue feels trusty Labrador for the past. How many years, Martin? Probably six, yeah. Six, seven years, a long time. He's got whiskers in it. He's got white whiskers now. And he slowed down a little bit and he brought a rotten beaver back the last day of duck season. last year and Phil said, you know what?

I think it's time for old blue to retire. He brought a rotten beaver back? He sent him out to go pick up a duck and he'd come back an hour later with a rotten beaver. I'm going to ask a question that's on everybody's mind. What does a rotten beaver smell like? It smells worse than you would imagine. No,

I figured because they got all that fat on it. Oh, and when that stuff starts breaking down. Oh, it was rough. He's right. But anyway, we've been hearing all about Phil's new dog named Drew. Oh, Drew. Oh, Drew.

He's a go-getter. Oh, Drew, he's a speed merchant. Yeah, you ought to see him fetch that dummy. I like, okay, yeah. But I actually enjoy retrieving ducks myself because I look at it as a form of exercise. You know, and what good thing about blue, he was the best retriever I've ever seen, but he had bad manners and he whined. He didn't have no manners.

No matter. He'll pee on you. new stuff. Hey, Hey, he'll Yeah. Hey, every time you blow a duck call,

he's woofing it. Yeah. He's out of the moon. Yeah, it was very... He was the best retriever. Very annoying. So, he's cripple.

He's gone. Phil would get defensive about that dog because me and Jay scrapped about him all the time because he flared ducks when he started hollering. But anyway,

so we got a new dog. His name was Drew. Phil got him from one of his kinfolks, made some deal with him. So we show up, opening the morning, old Drew, he's running around, you know. So we shoot the first duck, and Phil goes, Drew. The old Drew just sat there.

He said, back. He just sat there. Drew, he just sat there. Well, Phil finally just kind of shoved him on out in the water. The doll took a hard right to come back with a shotgun hole in his mouth. Phil said, nope. Try it again. Drew sent him back.

He went back out. come back with the shotgun hole no the shotgun hole he'd sit him again he'd come back with a decoy he brought back a decoy a decoy duck and he was swimming past the ducks that's because them higgins decoys look real they look

real they do them flocked decoy he brought back a flocked head decoy all the way to the blind and and I said no no no no guy I'm saying no no hard mouth hard mouth hard mouth I said hard mouth hard mouth hard head.

You know, he's swimming past the ducks to go get the decoy. Empty head. The guy's point was, if a dog will retrieve a decoy, he's got a hard mouth. Wow. Why? The deco is hard. If you look at the decoy and you see holes in it. Oh, well, that's, he's hard mouth.

Yeah, anyway. But then yesterday you had a dog tryout, didn't you? Well, yeah, well, I'll get to that here in a minute. Ooh. A new dog. So it turns out, Phil said, well, I don't think. like old Drew's got it got what it takes and Jay said you think he said I'm Jay said I'm going to write a new book and the title of it's going to be what's wrong with Drew nobody got a laugh

out of that yeah well they don't understand I've never seen Drew I'm just thinking it's going to be blank pages yeah well they don't get it because they didn't watch the show okay so so it was a show it was I'd say we killed 20 ducks before Drew finally he got got a duck and brought it back. I think he'd done picked up all the holes by that time. He's a good mate. And Phil said, well, we got a dog. Got a clean.

I'm telling you. He's a fabulous mate. Oh, yeah. If you need your blind cleaned out, he's the dog you need. So anyway, old Drew, he got back to his owner or he's on his way back to his original owner. He said, call up old Jimmy Don, tell him to bring it. Bring us a dog. Bring a dog.

Try him out. He said, but I want to see him work before I buy him. I'm like, okay. So Jimmy shows up with the lab yesterday, and it looked like, what did that dog look like? Well, hey, here's how the morning started off. We come and we got meat in the lair. Yeah.

Jace walks in, and the first thing Jay says, that he looks at the dog and he said, that dog looks like I feel. Bad. He said, because I feel horrible. My nose is stopped up. I got a headache. Yeah.

And look, this dog, okay. Did it have the manes? Hey, he's skinny as a rail. So he looked like you. Yeah. That's what Bernie said. He looks worse than I do. He said if Si was.

Imagine that. He looks worse than I do. Berley said if Si was a lab, that's what he would look like. His old skinny. He was creeping around. That's how the day started off. Well, we shoot a couple of ducks down. Yeah.

And this dog looks like he's testing the water temperature. I'm just, he's creeping. He just. Yeah. So we're watching him do this. And the handler has to actually go out right to the dog and say, Hill, Hill, go back. And he's got it right under his nose.

Yeah, he did anything. That water's cold. Yeah. Put Dublin in. So now we're over two. We're old for two on new dogs, but Phil keeps going back to old blue. He said, I'll tell you what, old blue,

you never had to tell him what to do. Hey, blue's looking better all the time, okay, as far as, hey, going and retrieving. You would think the duck commander would have, could get a decent lab to hunt with. Well, Jay's keep saying, he said, hey, I've got that yellow. Yeah, no, he ain't no good either.

I don't seen him. Well, Jayce's dogs? I kept wondering why. I said, I can bring mine, at least he will go out there. Yeah, he'll see him out there and look for one. Martin, you got like three dogs that work, right? Two? I got two.

I ain't giving them to them. No man. No man that loves his dog would ever send him down there where we are. Oh, here. I think so, yeah. Some dogs are, they tough, man. You got to find one that's, you got to find one that's, But you got to know it when they're a puppy.

It's hard. Dogs are weird. I'm not anti-dog. I love dogs. I'm anti-dog handler. Well, look, number one. There's a lot of truth. Okay, there's a, uh, none of the Robertsons, in my humble opinion, are dog handlers.

That's another statement right there, period. Okay. And they never will be. You know, they never will be. Here's what I'll say, and then we'll take a break. If you're going to be a dog. anybody listening to this at Breed's dog said, boy, I got you one, Phil,

and you start sending emails to us about this. Here's where I'm telling you that dog needs to be. Self-sufficient. That's right. He needs to think for himself. He needs to do his own thing because Phil is going to peep on the whistle about three times saying over, but he ain't going to go in a straight line with the over.

He ain't going to go in a straight line with a back or nothing like. So the dog needs to be able to think for himself. Oh, yeah. Because he's going to be hunting in a duck blind where I... He can't see. He can't see nothing. That's right. He's chasing splashes.

He better have a real good nose. He better be able to hear good. Okay, because you're going to have to hear him splash. Yeah. Yeah. But that's the... And have a nose on him where I can go out there and he can win them. I give you this, so I'll tell you this.

Our new cameraman, Clint, his dog's solid. I hunted with it this morning. Well, I think so. I said we tell him to bring the next. His dog is solid. Let's take a break. We'll be back right after. Stone said, hey, forget the dogs.

I was about to talk about watching Walter sprint over the water. Who? Oh, that was funny that day. That was the most incredible thing. That sounds like a Justin Wilson story to me. No. We had the best dog you've ever seen, and his name was Walter. Walter.

He was a human. You remember Walter that worked here? Oh, yeah. I thought he was talking about a dog. No. No, Walter. Oh, Walter. He was faster than a dog.

I took Walter hunting. Me and John D. And Walter and another guy. guy went hunting one morning. It was cold, so I left my dog to have. I'm talking about, like, cold cold. And like 20 degrees, water was freezing as it was splashing cold. So I don't take my dog in that.

And that, I'll do the work. But first thing of the morning, about eight millers got right over the plugs. I said, kill them. We killed them. I think we about killed all of them, except for one. He kind of had that shimmy to him, you know? And Walter's looking at me, and I'm looking at him. I said, I get him on the four-wheeler.

I ain't, uh-uh. You ain't running. I can't get out. I can't. Not in this. Walter said, I got him. That boy ran. Walter, a pretty good high school football player at the time.

Well, no, he was like a year removed. Yeah, but that boy ran. Sprinting. In neoprene chest waders. If you don't know what neoprene chest waders are, go to your local sports in their store, put them on, and then imagine running a sprint. I can't even walk in them. They're hot.

And he was running 20 degrees in about a 20-mile-hour headwind after that milder Drake. And he got him. And a foot and a half of water. Yeah. And about not quite knee-deep water. Was it hard bottom or muddy? No, it was a field. It was soft.

It was soupy. It wasn't good. I just sat there and watched. I mean, I was sitting there like, man, I'm impressed. He probably ate a bunch of Victor dog food that morning to really show. That boy. That boy. There's only one explanation.

But I take care of them. I mean, like in that situation, I take care of my dogs. I don't, if it's that cold, I ain't taking dogs. They ain't done nothing to deserve it. Like, stay at home, stay warm. I'll do it today. You get to come when it warms up a little bit. I know they make vests and everything else for the dogs,

but my dog ain't going to break eyes. I'm not going through that. We're not, uh-uh. No, my dog's my buddy now because I need her to trust me. Because she saves me a lot of steps during duck season. A bunch of them. a whole bunch of them. I enjoy watching a good dog.

You know, a dog can make a hunt or ruin a hunt. That's right. And it's all, it all goes back to the handler. And my favorite part is every time one of them ruins that the handler says, he ain't usually like this.

Yeah. Oh, they got every excuse in the book. I don't know what's wrong. I don't know what's wrong with him today. It's never, it's never my fault. No. Well, but I've like, let me tell you, I've learned,

I've been around a lot of dogs. I've had on my whole hunting career. They're creatures a habit. I've had some that are better than others, no doubt. And there's some of them I'm like, hey, guys, if all the decoys, you'll go get it. If it goes past decores, we're on our own. We're going to have to go get that one ourselves.

Like, it is what it is. But as long as you meet those expectations, set them up front, you're fine. Don't be the guy that's like, oh, we'll take my dog. And you know good and well, he ain't going to go on no 150-yard blind or tree. And then you have to walk out there with the dog. now we got two things out of the blind that we could have gotten quicker. So, you know, it's one of them kind of deal. Dogs.

I love them, though. Yeah. You got to have, you got to have patience and you got to. Well, I was just being said there's a few things required to be able to handle a dog. And number one, the Robbersons have got, have not got the first one that you have to have with this working dogs. Patience, that's right. And that's patience. And that's patience.

And that ain't there. And consistency. And consistency. That ain't there. Them two things are missing. They're out. Oh, man. I had one.

I used to have one. He'd retrieve on the halves with you. Josie Wells always said a man's got to know his limitations. Robertsons don't know their limitations. Yeah, I had one back in the day. He was retrieving on the halves with you. It was, I don't know.

He'd bring you one back and he'd eat the other one before he got back with the next one. That's why I said he was retrieving on the halves with you. Right. Hey. You know, that's what's my last. Reasonable to me. I'm going to get them. You get one.

I get you one and I get one. Totally reasonable. That's fair. That's fair. A worker deserves his wages. That's biblical. It is. Biblical even, boy.

I'll say this. That was my last male dog ever on. I said never again. I ain't going through that again. I've had females ever since. I like it. Hey, one of them is mine? One of yours.

Yeah, he would. Why is it? You always only have female dogs. dogs. I like females. I like their temperament. They're not wired for 220. Come on. They chill. Be reasonable. What? He just told me to be realizable. Going back to respect to the elders, I believe in respect to my elders, unless that elder is an idiot. Yeah. But what's the definition of an elder? Like five years, ten years. How old do you have to be before you get to be respect to elders?

That's like neighbor. What about neighbor? No, I'm with you. I was just curious. Well, I mean, I would say, sir. That's a good question. I wouldn't say yes, sir, to you. Well, I would hope not. But I would say it to Stone sometimes.

Well, I'm dang near 50. It's not age. It's because I'm afraid of you. There's no need to be afraid. But I don't know what an else. Yeah, what is it? Hey, he can't kill you, but watch it. Yeah.

In seven different ways. In three seconds. I mean, it's four different holes. In three seconds. One of my best friends on this planet is about 10 years older than me. So do I say yes, sir, to him, or are we peer? You know, it's just kind of, I've always wondered that. It depends on your relationship.

Yeah, that's true. Generally, I say, yes, sir, if I'm trying to be a smart elech to him. Yes, sir. Or like when I make the joke about he's having his own grandchildren. Here is the way I was raised by my parents. If they're senior to you, it's always yes, sir or yes, ma'am. Yeah. that,

oh, I told that line. I'm going to say yes, sir, unless somebody says, don't, and once I say it, if they say, don't call me,

sir, then I'll try to respect that wish, too. I'm going to start with the yes, sir, no, sir, yes, ma'am, no, ma'am,

kind of deal. That's your guideline, you know, that's what I would say. It's a guideline. If you're, you're a senior, okay?

Yeah. Because if you start getting in, well, how, how much senior, because then you're getting a what are the rules there are no rules just respect you respect who

who deserves being respected and that's pretty obvious when you meet somebody yeah you can tell pretty quick he says hey I'm not just listen they'll tell you who they are or are a person in a position of authority like in the military

if you're at Basic Training or boot camp, you respect your drill sergeant, R-Ls. You pay the price. Or you're going to meet the standards. That's it. I don't care how old they are, what color they are, what gender they are. Or how big they are, how small they are.

The meanest drill sergeants I had were, I would say the two meanest ones I had were women. And I was scared to death of them. I've always said, okay, I will fight 10 men than one woman, okay, and I'll come out way better. Oh, yeah. Okay, because, hey, the woman will kill you. That's it. Okay.

She may not be to, but she will kill you, okay. A woman will kill you. No, no, the mainest one I had. Okay, he was about, oh. He may have topped five, four, maybe. That's not big oath. No, no, this was the Filipino drill sergeant, okay. What was his name?

I don't even remember. But he was just, yes, sir, drill sergeant. I bet you didn't call him tiny. I was hoping there was another big old. Big, no, no, big old, though. Hey, 450 pounds, okay, and look, we're on Fort Benning, Georgia. You do not walk anywhere on Fort Benning, Georgia. You run.

Oh. Okay. And look, he ran everywhere we did. Okay, we ran everywhere we went. Yep. So, hey, you had to, yeah, I take my hat off to you, sir. I speak to say, he passed the standard. Oh, no.

I had won the same way. He said he wasn't, I wouldn't say 450. He was probably close to 300, but same deal. He was in better shape than any of us. Oh, no. Big O was 6-6. Okay, 450. if he had weighed an ounce.

I could have took a bath in his Smokey the Bear hat. Martin would be considered a little person. There you know. I'm just saying I'm trying to tell you, hey, big old would a big, big man. He was a very large.

He's a very large. I'm going to go try to boost my ego. Let's take our last commercial break. We'll be back right after then. Johnny D. What is in? My man. My man Dylan, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Booboo! Look at there. 11 points. Oh, right. Louisiana 11 points, son. That's a bowling green. Dylan, congratulations. Looking good.

I just like doing that every week. That's where my woman's from. Where? Kentucky. Really? Yeah. So I learned something new about you every day. And then I have a couple, but I think this one might take the whole time.

All right, boy. Let's start there. Marve the miserable. Uh-oh. That's who signed this email. Help me out on this, John David. I hear you guys talk about Jace, and it sometimes comes off like he's not a really nice guy. Then I hear Jase talk about Sai, and it comes off like Saa isn't a nice guy.

No one is perfect. That's right. Those two are my favorite. I would hate to know that these guys are really uncool. the screen. Oh, well. Say, let me start and you finish. I'll let him do it.

I'll start and you finish. Yeah, because I just soon stay out of this. Yeah, you stay out of it. He's going to keep the friendship together, boys. I've been friends with Jay's now for, like, um, 20 years. Oh, yeah. We've been, we used to fish tournaments together and all that stuff. Now, the reason Jason and Cy don't really get along is because they're the same person.

with with with with with with with a few differences uh jace used to live with with i and christine when he was a child he was named his name is sigh jason silas robinson and when you're together every day for how many years how what year did you start working for duck commander sigh what 93 so 1993 so 29 years is that right 29 years of working of working together and hunting together every single day, there will be a little friction. Now, I will say this, Jace loves his Uncle Si,

I've heard him say it, and I know Si loves his nephew, Jace. That being said, there is some friction at times, in the duck blind especially, where they like to blame each other for things that happen. and it's quite entertaining.

But no, there's, Jace is, he is a great, godly man that does a lot of good things. I could, I call him a friend. He's been my friend for a long time. And it's hard.

We pick at each other. That's what we're doing. We're just picking and playing and prodding it. Jase is as good a, good a fellow as you can run up on. And Uncle Si is, the same except a lot more fun to be around. No, no.

He's like cool, Jay. He's like cooler. Yeah, you gotta understand something. I didn't even really realize it that much, but we kept Jace a lot when he was the table. Yeah, jace is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, too. Oh, no, yeah. No, he's, he's in his own class there.

Yeah. Especially when he's alone. No, no, no, no. Hey, well, that's like me. There ain't ever a witness to his stories. Then there's never a witness. He's always by himself. Oh, there's some wild.

Oh, he comes up with some of them, okay, especially when he goes and gets a crippled up. We all know where he got that from. Yeah. But anyway, like Stone said, we're so much alike with one difference, okay. Everything I do, my motto is, okay, if I can't have fun, I ain't coming. Yeah. Thank you. James is just the opposite, okay?

He's too serious, okay, in my humble opinion. but Jake got him down to a path. He's a great godly man. He does a lot of good work for the Lord. Okay. He's a great person. Okay. And look, the rub we've got between us,

we're very passionate about what we do. That's exactly what I was going to do. Okay, I'm serious. That's what the rub is, okay? I'm very passionate that I like, you have fun when I'm duck hunting. And if you happen to be there and you can't enjoy it, don't get in my face.

Because I'm going to have fun. Thank you. That's exactly what I was going to say was the problems generally arrive because both of you are so passionate about what is going on at the time. Oh, yeah. That both of you, no offense, point fingers at everybody but you sell. Oh, boy. Both of you.

No, no. Now Martin's ever. I know that if I do this, there's a bunch of important back in me. But you just look past them. I can go back to the elm hole. Oh, boy. Now we're mad at.

Well, that goes about, hey, you can't tell a male nothing. Yeah, that's it. If you're going to talk, talk, you're going to shoot, shoot. True cold was right. But I've noticed the first time I ever went to a family gathering, there was hollering. I'm talking about hollering back and forth. but this was 18, 19 years ago over something that happened in the duck blind,

trying to figure out whose fault it was. Oh, we have a hard time. It was you, Phil, Jace, Tommy, all y'all read there, just hollering at the top of your lungs back and forth at each other. Well, here's one of the things about religious, tell me, okay, tell me, I'm going to forgive you, but I'm not going to forget it. Okay. That's the deal about, okay, I got, I may be pointing at you,

but I got three point back at me. That's right. Step one. Step one in a Robertson scuffle. Step one. Don't get in between this. No, not even that. Step one.

Assess the blame. Assess the blame. And it is everybody but you. That's it. That's the one rule you got to remember. Assess blame and it can't be yourself. That is. And if there's a Martin Godwin or stalled around, it was always their fault.

Yeah. We keep the family tight. Especially if something breaks, it's always a heavy person's called. What is Phil? Phil says blood is thicker than mud. Look, I've been buried to Robertson for 17 years. You know how many times I've heard her say I was wrong? You're still waiting, ain't you?

I'm still waiting. I can answer to that for people. Step one. Assess the blade. Man, God. Oh, see, I don't. I told you we were only going to get through one with that one. That's a good one, though.

But it is. We're all friends, and we open up our relationship as friends to the public, which is not what a lot of friends do. And behind closed doors, you rub it the wrong way with your buddy sometime. Sign and Jason just do it in public. Well, that. But I'll say this, too, about our friendship. Our friendship is not based off of we all tell each other yes.

We challenge each other to be better in every step of everything that we do. and if that means that it ends in an argument, then it ends in an argument, but you know what else it generally ends at? The dinner table. Everybody with their head bowed, that part of the show was for real. And we all love each other, forgive each other,

and the next day we go hunting or do whatever we do, we sit there and laugh about the argument. Start up. Like, you know, it is what it is. No, no, because we still bring this up? Yeah. And every time we do it bring, I get to crying because it's just, it's so funny.

Yet it was so serious at the time. Yeah. Okay. So, I mean, that's just what it is. But look, great questions. Yeah, and they're both, you said uncool off screen. They're both super cool. Oh, yeah.

On off. Absolutely. Here's the thing about it. Hey, it's who we are. Yeah. Okay. And you're wild. We don't put no airs where we got a camera on us or off of us.

No. No, that was. Okay. What you see is what you get, okay. And we hope you like it. But if you don't. If you're having a dinner party, invite side. That's right.

Hey, look, Jay's, when I was in junior high. I'm sorry. Let me say this. So Martin's right. If you're having a party, you invite side. If you want to kill a bunch of ducks, you invite Jake. There you go. That's what I was going to get to.

It depends on what you're looking for in your gathering. We got you. I'm invited side. No, Jace, whenever I was in junior high, I think for like two years, every Wednesday night, he had the junior high boys only. Oh, yeah. me and Stone helped cook for all. Oh, yeah.

And it was just, and that might have been, that was probably after I was out of junior high and he just kept doing it. Yeah. So, yeah, he's a super cool dude. He's solid. I talked to him for 30 minutes yesterday about nothing, just because we was catching up because I ain't talked to him much lately. So, no, it's.

And, but, yeah, we love giving everything. That boy loves to argue. Oh, we do. He loves to argue. All Robertson's like that. I was fixed. But no, he, all Robertson is like it. He loves it.

Yeah. He's passionate, you would say. Well, here's our verse of the day. First Timothy five. We'll go one and two. Do not rebuke an old man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters with absolute purity. Respect your elders, folks.

And people younger than you. That's a good one. Bulls all down to that. All right. We'll see y'all next time.