Duck Call Room - Jep & Jessica Robertson Open Up About Their Adoption Journeys

Episode Date: July 30, 2024

Uncle Si is moved by Godwin, Jep, and Jessica Robertson’s reflections on their experiences as adoptive parents as well as the struggles and victories they’ve encountered throughout their journeys. Godwin insists that he and his wife wouldn’t have been a real family without their daughter, and Jep and Jessica have learned and grown more with their adopted son than they ever thought possible. Martin is looking forward to every phase of his children's lives and Murry Crowe joins the boys to explore some of the treasures found on the newest season of “Duck Family Treasure.” Order Jep and Jessica Robertson's new book "Dear Valor" today at https://bravebooks.us/products/dear-valor And catch new episodes of "Duck Family Treasure on Fox Nation at https://nation.foxnews.com/duck-family-treasure-nation/ - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm a loud talker. He's a loud talker. I'm hard of hearing. That's why. Probably is too. I think you. I think you the first woman that's ever admitted there. Yeah, no.

Too many kids. They won't do it. They won't do it. You don't get women to admit they're hard to hear them. But anyway, welcome back to the duck call room. We have our, y'all are guests, but you're becoming more regular. We are. We are.

We are family. Yep and Jessica are back in here. with us and they've got some exciting news to share with us. But before we get to that, what else is going on? And you got two kids married off like now, like... Well, we have big, well, big changes. Lily and Austin and Merritt and Tyler are moving back home to finish college. So we're going to have all our babies home. Wait, for real? For real. Really? Yes. I've been like moving the kids out of the Abilene house and they will all be here.

by August 15th. And they're going to transfer to ULM. That's pretty quick. Yes. Is that by design? We're pulling out of Adelaide. It was out of the town. I was shot.

It was empty nest and then, oh, they're back. Well, what about the kids left at the house right now before the others come back? Well, Silla's home. She'll be a senior. And then River, actually, just yesterday, decided he's going to homeschool. Priscilla homeschools, too. But River's going to homeschool this year, which I'm really excited about. but Gus will be still at OCS.

So he'll still be going to school. He needs it. Structure's good for him. Well, it's funny because... It's hard to get an athletic scholarship homeschooling, too. Well, here's the deal. Here's the deal. Here's the deal on that.

Trey's son, which one is it, camp? My buddy's son, like, got so good at golf. I went to play with it. I was like, Trey, what is he giving him any private lessons? He said, no, dude, he homeschools. He said, he plays golf every single. day and you can as especially for golf you can homeschool that's not a big deal and get really good you just got to play a ton and so i was like okay river uh you want to get better golf do you just homeschool

you play every day he was like yep yep i'm in you know what else he could fish every day too that's right i'm just saying it's kind of whatever you want to do but uh yeah no that's so they're moving back are they moving in with y'all or okay i was Lillian Austin, he's getting a job here. I mean, he's going to school too. Yeah. But as soon as he gets a job, I mean, he had a job in Abilene, but then they're going to go get a little house

or maybe build like a little two-bedroom something. Merritt and Tyler are actually moving to my mom's house. They're going to rent it. And my mom is going to live with us temporarily. Yeah, that's what you think. Hey, Jeff, we're begging my mom to come live with us. Just until Jesus comes in. That's right.

Actually, that's what I'm saying. I get it most families. My mother-in-law is an amazing lady. She's just like her in a great way. Oh, dude. She makes homemade sourdough bread every day. And she calls us and like, come pick up your life. It's hot out of the oven.

Is she the one that made the Chow-Chow stuff and all that too? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, she gets tired of y'all send her my way. I got, I got a baby. Oh, look, I got a couple of. a two-year-olds that would love to have another set of hands around there. Lord.

Well, that is big changes. I was not expecting that. So, wow. The whole clan back here. All our babies back home. Man. So they need a job? Yeah.

Yeah, actually. They do. They can build duck calls. We don't pay very well. I don't know. It's honest work. Yeah. She was a waitress.

And the benefits are good. No, really. They couldn't know. We may need a new read man. You never know. I got somebody that can train them. Oh, man. Well, that's awesome.

But no, anyway, we are here to talk about you guys. Y'all have a new project that is out everywhere now. You've written a book. Now, if I had a chosen way back when in the pot, Jeff Robertson writes a book. No. What kind of odds would I have got? I've already, we've already written a book.

No, I know that. I'm saying like, I'm saying in like 2009, if we'd have had like Jeff Robertson authors a book, I mean, that had to have been like 500 to 1 or something like that, you know. How was that woman he got hooked up with? That woman. Actually, in high school, my English teacher said I would be a good writer. I actually told me that. Really?

But I think she was just being nice. Is this the book y'all talking about? Yes, it is. Okay, I actually read it, you know, while I was waiting. It's on your level. And it's actually good, and I like, after all the add-ons had the back of the book. Yeah, it's games. Okay.

Yeah. Okay. You know, you brought in religion because, hey, we're all adopted. That's right. Okay. Christ adopted us. Thank, good. Oh, it's actually pretty cool.

It's a good book. It is. Anything to do with kids? Yeah, I'm in. I'm in. Yeah, we were introduced to brave books the year before. Missy did a book. I think y'all probably had her on here, too.

But Missy did a book, and it's a part of the Freedom Island series. So when we started talking to them about what kind of book we want to do, obviously, adoption is heavy on our hearts. Our Gussie's adopted, and he is a black child adopted into a white family. So we talked about the things that we've kind of experienced with him, even as a little boy. Like even at two and a half three years old, he was, you know, asking questions why he's different than us. And so we got to include that in the book where Valor is a tiger and he's adopted into a lion family. And so he started other kids start asking, why are you different from your mommy and daddy?

So he's asking those questions. So then they have to tell him, you know, well, your birth parents are different. And so he won't know who they were. but a little sweet story. And it really is just a beautiful story of just unconditional love from my family, no matter how you enter it, you know. So when Gus, probably the hardest thing, you know, a derivative of we kind of talked about this,

but was when he was, what she alluded to, when he was three years old, he was in the bathtub, and he was kind of crying, and he had a lufa, and he was scrubbing his arm. And I was like, buddy, what's wrong? He said, I don't want to be brown. I want to be gray like you. That was his exact words.

And I mean, I just started crying. I was like, dude, you're so beautiful. God made you just the way you are. You're perfect. But it all, you know, it really hurt me because I was like, you know, he wakes up, looks in the mirror. It's like, why do I look different than my parents, my siblings? And so we kind of talk about that in the book. And he's such an awesome kid, though.

Oh, my gosh. He's unbelievable. That's wild. He called you gray. The best. Yeah. The best part of that is the unconditional love

that he's had growing up. Yes. Okay, not from just you and Jessica, okay, but from the Robertson family. Okay, and we all in Corey. There's the same kind of deal. Yeah.

Okay, and just, you know, when is the human race going to wake up and try what God's theory is? How about loving me? And then loving your neighbor. Yeah. Yeah.

And then all this racial crap would go out of the way, would die. And it needs to die. You know, stupid idiots. Tell us what you really think, sir. Hey, careful. We're going to, we go, we go. This is a child for crying out. Yeah.

We're going to peer into, we're going to peer into angry side. While we love brave books, because they're American Christian-based values. Yep. And we wholeheartedly stand behind that. Obviously, there's a lot of books nowadays you can get that are very woke and they got all their stuff. But this is kind of the story we want to tell. Well, the truth, okay. The truth is told.

Okay. It's not your slant. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's why August the 23rd we're going to be in Wustow Parish reading books. And some of them from the Brave series. I'm going to read one.

And it's going to be a good deal for the kids. The guy when your daughter's adopted, too, did you all have those same conversations? Well, not quite like that. Well, yeah, I know. But like birth? But like birth. We always told her. Paula always told her a story when she was very little about she was sick in her stomach

and couldn't have children. And his family had a base. just for us and her name was Johanna. So we always told her she was adopted. So it wouldn't be something weird, you know, because it's not weird. It's beautiful. And people say, oh, that's so great for the kids. Well, what about us?

Right. We wouldn't have been a family without it. Neither me or her could have children. So without adoption, we would not be a family. Well, that's a God thing. Yeah. Amen. Yeah, it's run. I mean, in Westman Road, in particular, I mean, it's a big part of this community.

I mean, I know several families, even outside, obviously this family, this work family, adoption's been big in, but even outside of that. So it's a cool place. And, I mean, it's a cool thing, right? I mean, it just as. And that reminds me of Reverend Martin and Donna. Yeah. Okay, it was the sound of hope. Yeah. okay where a one little congregation in Texas made a big difference and a lot of kids lives okay because they all adopted and look that's one of them things that hey that's not easy to do it's not yeah it's not easy to do you know because you're you're giving yourself to something that you know you know that you know it's a big deal yeah it really is

is. It's a big deal. And it's a God deal. Right. You want to hear kind of a cool story is so Gus is real good at sports and he was just in the Monroe City All-Star. He made the All-Stars. Our team won the league. And so we're playing, I guess, I forgot which Siri regional is or I forgot which one, but we didn't know this, but the catcher on the team, he's a great player. He's kind of my other favorite player besides Gus, just a hustler. His grandmother was in the stands and I didn't see her at first.

Well, after the game, I was like, oh my gosh, she was our adoption attorney. So she got to see Gus all these years later playing with her grandson and she was just like kind of choked up.

Yeah. It's amazing. It was really cool because she was like, oh my gosh, she's doing so well. He's so good at baseball. Oh, yeah.

So it was a really neat thing to see her. Yeah. Well, I agree with what Godwin says. It's like when we went into this, too, we were even, I mean, we had four biological kids. And it became like we just, I knew we were young parents when we had kids and we couldn't have anymore. And I was like, I just felt the desire and the yearning to adopt. And then when Jeff finally was like, 100% I'm in, I don't know, I went in.

We went into it thinking, we're going to, this is going to be such a blessing. You know, this is, this will change this child's legacy forever, right? but you don't realize what a blessing. He's been more of a blessing in our lives than what I've even thought we could do for him. Like he has changed our hearts and our eyes and we've, it's opened our eyes to a lot of things and a lot of hurt that you see, a lot of, you know, racism

and different things that you want to break and you want to help, you know, and it's just such a beautiful line to see him growing and surrounded by family and friends with so much love and support. and it's really a blessing. Yeah, not to mention he keep getting bigger. We really want him on ourselves.

That's right. That boy. He might rival you, Martin. That boy, y'all got to stack some bricks on his head or something. It was funny for a while. You know, and these kids, they always say what they want to be or whatever because he wanted to be a police officer for the longest time. But now he's like.

Well, buddy, he could do it. But now he said, look, Dad, I'm going to be a professional athlete. and when I get there, I'm going to buy some apartments and I'm going to house all the homeless people in the apartments. And I was like, well, that's a good goal, buddy. That's a goal. Yeah. He cannot stand to see someone like on the side of the road and not give money to.

He cannot take it. His heart, it breaks his heart. He has a really sweet. Well, that's kudos to y'all because that only comes from y'all. It only comes from what he's going. on what he sees and what he lives with. But it's a valor. I'm interested in how you chose the name Valor,

dear Valor, because that's an interesting name, right? Yes, it is. So I figured it's got some meaning behind it. Well, it's a series. So a lot of the characters' names in the book and stuff, they've been in a series for a couple of years. The Freedom Island series, yes.

And so we didn't come up with the names. I had friends ask me, like, who is this character? How did you come up with that? I'm like, no, I'd actually. didn't come up with their backstory. That's part of the series. Yeah. No, no.

Yeah. I mean, it's part of the series. You get to, the cool thing is like the Freedom Island series along with whatever Brave is doing. They're doing a new television series now. But these characters so they can grow with them and they have interactive activities in the back of the book for families to do with these kids. So it's just such a cool thing because every single book gives a different life lesson.

And it's all like Jeff said. There's always a biblical, traditional values are instilled in all their books. You never have to worry about what they're reading. Gus loves his, who has a huge stack of them, and he collects them and loves them. But yes, Valor has just been a part of the story. So this was taking him, and you kind of are seeing where he came from now. Yeah. I got you.

Yeah, that's cool. I mean, it's a cool name, too. Yes, it is. It's just got a lot of different meaning. So, yeah, that's. And it's actually cool that we're all different. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. See, that's the thing because everybody's looking to fit in and to be loved. But we're all different. We're all different. Okay. And that's a cool thing because think how boring a beef it was all the same. I know. Like a hippo and a zippo.

You know what the difference in a hippo and a zippo is? No, what? One of them's really heavy and one of them's a little lager. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means? That means more outside cooking. And y'all know we love to eat beef around here.

And that's what because of our friends over at Triedells beef makes such a good product, baby. Ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Sao Robertson would say, buy on the grill! Look, before we got Triedells, getting ready for a cookout, man, somebody had to run the grocery store. do all the things, grab whatever was left in case you were late in the day. And you never really know where that beef comes from. But with Triedales beef, we skip the grocery store and do it a different way.

Triedales comes from a family ranch out in Texas. They're a fifth generation American ranch. So they've been at it for a while. Now, look, the beef comes straight from their ranch and other ranchers they work with who raise cattle the same way. Their steaks are properly aged and shipped straight from the ranch to your door. We threw a couple of ribbys on the grill. Look, salt, pepper, garlic, hot fire, that's all you need.

Look, because I'll tell you what, when the beef comes from people who raise cattle for a living, you can taste the difference. The tenderness and the flavor are fantastic. So if you're stocking the freezer for grilling season, go check out Tritails Beef. I know in size case Christine loves it, which is just a, she doesn't eat meat. She ain't a big meat easier, folks. Yeah. Just go to trybeef.com slash.

That's trybeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang. good steak. I'm ready for my boys to transition to some books like that too, because I've had about all the five little ducks I can stand. I love ducks. Oh, dude. But I'm tired of going over that hill and coming back and like all, you know. You just wait until you get in all the series like the, like bluey and all that. It's like, oh my gosh. That bluey's kind of tight, though. I've seen so many episodes of so many. It used to be veggie tales. Remember that? I love vegetal. Oh my gosh. It's like with every kid, it's like. It's a different one.

At least you have two the same age. That's actually kind of nice. You can just zoom through that. It would be really cool if they did anything the same. But they don't. Yeah. You saw them the other day. Yeah.

I don't think I told you this. I saw the boys the other day. And I was like, wait, this is the one late? And Martin's like, no, no, that's not the one that looks like me. And then he came around. I was like, oh, totally. That's him. I saw that head come around the corner.

That's the first thing you see around the corner. on Jackson. I'm like, I don't get too far out over them toes. It's going to be a bad deal. You keep leaning that far out in front of yourself. But, yeah, no, Jeff, you brought some folks up here. Oh, that help your foundation.

Yeah. Yeah, and the boy, Brittany and the boys were up here. He was chasing them, huh? No, I just watched them. I mean, Christy and there's got a box of toys and one of them's got this blue bouncy ball that will bounce into eternity apparently, and Jackson just chases it all over the office.

he knows right where it is he comes in go straight to that box gets that blue ball and takes off so whalen followed Jeff and his crew

on their tour until they got in here and blew on a duck call then I saw him scurrying back to Becky in the warehouse he was like nah it was so funny so I did the tour

y'all should do that someday I mean maybe you do this Martin I don't know I didn't realize it was like oh it was everybody because he was like hey my buddy was like hey we signed up for the tour

me and my family had his in-laws with him. I was like, yeah, I'll come through there with y'all. I thought it was just us and them. No, it was like the rest of people who signed up that morning. Oh, yeah, it runs. It runs every 30 minutes. There was like 40 people. And so I was like, well, I have to say something, you know. And so I was like, all right, guys, I started pointing at pictures. And I was like, I started pointing at pictures. And I was like, I started pointing at pictures. You know, they got flooded. I remember this. I'm talking about Doug Dynasty. Or talking about mom and dad when they were young. And I was pointing out different pictures. I was like, this was my grandparents's house. You know, they got flooded. I turned into a tour guide. Yeah. But it was kind of fun. Hey, any time you want to. Yeah. Come to do it.

We'd love to have you. It was fun. You can clock in. I mean, Nate, no. You have to discuss with your brother on the wages. I don't control none of that.

I just collect bills and pay them. I don't get to adjust any of that other side of things. But, no, it is fun. I mean, the tour is actually kind of cool. It's very cool.

And we keep updating it and adding to it. Like right now. Yeah, all the blind stuff was really cool. I was like, that's neat. Yeah, I told them if they ever get ready to get rid of that Miller High Life clock in there as mine. If we change this room, I'm taking that home with me. And I don't even drink. But that clock like screams my childhood in like just 1980s and 90s America.

Yeah, man. I love that. But no, we're adding a huge decoy collection. We actually had a lady, her husband. was a decoy carver. I say was because he's going to be with Jesus since. And she didn't know what to do with them. And she wanted to honor him.

And she's a big fan of us and everything, you know, Duck Dynasty and the message. So she asked if I send them, would you y'all do something with them? And I was like, you know, it is kind of missing like the duck part of the museum.

So we've got a Drake and a hen of every species in North America that he hand carved himself. and hunt it over and we're building a little display and paying homage to him. So, yeah, so if you've taken the tour, you're listening to this, you've been here taking it. Like, it does get updated. We try to do something different every year with it, like to change it up. So it's not the same thing. And so, yeah, Jeff got to see the blind part, which is fairly new, obviously, because the movie just come out.

And then we always change up those last rooms because everybody's doing something different. Yeah, yeah. Now it's got the treasure show included, the family treasure, which we'll get into more of that here in a minute, too. And so just kind of trying to keep up with everything and everybody. Because we are a big crew. Yeah. Everybody's doing something different. Except for him.

He don't do nothing different. No. He just kind of the old statue. The poet. Yeah. The war warrior poet with his goatee. We got the goate brothers over there. You know, you look a lot more like Paul now.

Has anybody told you that? Is like dad told you that or anything? I get that's what tickled me when they're in my house. I've got a picture of daddy in his in his Navy uniform. Yeah. And they all said, I didn't know he was in the Navy. I thought you did Army. I said, well, I wasn't in the Navy.

I said, that's my father. They said, you look just like it. You do. Yeah, they do. That's, I think, a good thing. I love Paul. I was really close with Paul. He was a misunderstood man.

People thought, oh, he was so quiet. They thought, oh, he's not nice. but I was like, oh, no, he was super nice. Well, that was unless you, if you had something that were in his, you know, arena, if you wanted to talk Clinton, well, he'd talk your head off. Yeah. But otherwise, he ain't got to say. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, but most of them thought he was mean. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, most quiet people get that rap. Yeah. I never got to me. Yeah.

Plus, Granny, I think, was so loud. She was kind of the voice for both of them in a way. Mama was mouthy. Yeah, yes. I married one like that. Hey, now. I miserable that remark. She was a strong will woman.

I'll just put it that way. Hey, somebody got to tell them they got the order wrong. To be married to dad, she had to be. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So.

I would. That's what's so funny about kids. Y'all are talking about that. We, me and Christine, come in from Germany and went visit to her parents. and they went to an old country store. Well, Scott's never been there.

As soon as he walked in, he said, hey, where's this tricycle? And everybody looked at said, what do you mean? He said, I want to ride the little red tricycle that was right over here. How he knew that, nobody knows, but they had put it in the back, so they had to go get it, you know. It was so weird, okay? you know, Christine said, where did he get that? I said, hey, you must have said something about it when you was, you know,

you know, when you was raising, you bound to have for him to know. But it was strange. Oh, yeah. Them old rascals are sponges. I'm finding out every day. Better watch what you say. Oh, yeah. Better make sure they're really asleep.

You don't think they're paying attention. I said, but trust me, what I tell you, they're glued to everything you sell. Oh. Well, I said, because mine have come up with me and just blew my mind. It's 15 years ago. And he said, oh, I remember that. Because I'd come in, you know, being a colonel having a big argument, he's doing me out of his office.

Well, you know. Yeah, you know. Yeah, I'd love to know him. Kids are something else. But we do have more excited. news from your side of the table too, right? Duck Family Treasure is, I think by the time this airs, it will actually be out. Like, we're a couple of days ahead on recording.

So new season. Season three is out. It's coming out tomorrow. You fired up by it, which will already be out when you hear it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it just keeps getting better as far as like stuff we're finding and stuff. And we've learned, like, the more you spend.

the time in the northeast, that's where you can find the cool stuff. Probably my favorite thing we did recently was go to Maryland because we duck hunted, which was awesome, and I shot better than Jace. He would never admit it, but I did. And then we caught those strippers.

What in his gun? What in his gun? No, he brought his own gun. Oh, yeah. It didn't matter. You don't have to worry about it. He ain't going to come on here to defend himself anyway. Well, the one time I got in a better,

I was on the left end. I got on the end. I made it to the end of it. a duck blind. Oh, Lord. It was like, oh, I can actually

see and shoot these ducks. It was a lot easier when you can see. The position has a lot to do with, a lot. A lot. Yeah, duck hunting's way harder when you're a jack in the box in the middle. That's it.

Where all you can do is come straight up. It's no fun. About two feet by two feet and then you got to go right back down. Like you said, though, okay, you don't get to see them coming. No. Okay, so you're in the middle and waiting, okay. And normally somebody else

has already shot three times. So now they are really moving and leaving. Right. So yeah. And when they're getting up, they're going to like the edges typically. It's rare. I mean,

I guess Mallards would just get straight up in the middle. But we wouldn't shoot Mallors. So just teal and stuff like that. Well, I'd rather shoot teal. But we called those stripers. That was fun. Was it?

Yeah. And we did it like the like how you do it with like the scope or whatever. It's literally we'd be trolling. And he'd say, all right, everybody, jump out. Put your lines in the water. You put your lines down, everybody. Shump, shump, shup, hook up.

We catch your fish. We go down a little ways. Everybody out. I tell him, turn around. Go back right there where we just were. We did. I think we did that. But it was like a group of boats.

I was like, I've never fished like this. It was like seven or eight boats all just going together. Y'all's like a bunch of otters. Y'all just herding them in place. That's what I like. It was fun. Yeah, that goes from fishing. to catching real quick. Yeah. Do you have any fun doing that, Jess?

I didn't do it. I didn't go. You weren't on Maryland? In Maryland? I left you behind. Oh, yeah. When we ate the crabs? Yeah, we did. I was. Remember fishing? Yeah, but I didn't remember being that good. Oh, wow. You weren't fast enough. I guess not. I mean, I caught some, but I just remember some of them were

smaller. I didn't get any like. Yeah. Remember I caught the big ones. remember that's true boy how did that robinson coming out at him now I caught the biggest he caught the big fit but I really say remember I can't help it being great makes me be competitive I'm really not that competitive

but I'm around him all the time it's like oh crap actually Jeff's real quiet he only when he felt oh I beat that sucker I got to be around brothers I gotta beat you y'all play a pickleball yet everybody else

yeah oh yeah we love it okay I thought I was good and then not too long ago I played against a pro pickleball player. Like sponsored pro pickleball player. No, he's like, wopopo. I was like, you can't, you think you had a good shot? No, he slams.

Well, the one crazy thing is he was in, when Jeff and Willie went to the U.S. I tour, he was serving. Oh, really? Yeah, he said, man, were y'all in Boggroom? And I said, yeah, he said, I was in that crowd. And I was like, really? He said, yeah, I was stationed. I was in the Army.

I'm stationed over there. And I was like, oh, dude. Man, that whole trip was like a whirlwind. I don't remember where all the people. Obviously, it was thousands. But it was pretty cool to see him all the years later. And now he's a professional. A pro pickleball player.

Yeah. Gobind you like pickleball? Oh, absolutely. What is it? It's tennis slash ping pong for older people. It's like you plan ping pong except you're standing on the table. Yeah, yeah. I would say a good analogy.

Good analogy. I was like, no. Yeah. Yeah. It's right. Yeah. It's like a. If the table was on the ground.

It's like giant ping pong. Yeah. You're standing on the table. You're standing on the table. Not a table like ping pong table. I mean, it's like, oh, it's just a ground. You don't have to run as much. Like tennis.

Oh, it's too much running. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's for people that may seriously injure something going forward. Yeah. Yeah. Lightening a phone booth.

kind of, you know, you stay. That's good. Mature athletes do it. Yeah. That's, uh, no, I just knew the whole neighborhood was doing pepico. Yeah. I figured, I didn't know if you got in on, are you. Every Sunday, you can hear the balls being hit, like from John David and him.

Yeah. And then from, uh, over Willie and them's court. They're all over there. They had tournaments every weekend. We just have a make shift when in our driveway. Oh. Yeah. Yeah.

They don't invite you all come up there and play with him. Actually, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Sadie said, if you want some, come up here, you get some. I was going to do it. We got rained out. Oh, yeah. Don't do that.

They're too young. They're good. Yeah. I'm going to bring Merritt and Tyler. So Merritt and Tyler last semester in school took pickleball as a course. And they got good. Well, that's the most Robertson thing I've ever heard of them to. Willie taking bowling and he got badminton.

Yeah. Willie really had an illustrious college career. Oh, they did that when it was at tech. Because we all, they all played tennis. When the four of us was there. Yeah. And all that, it was some games now. What did you play?

You know why it's called pickleball? Uh-oh. Why? Do y'all know? I thought you were going to tell us. I will tell you. I don't know. The person that invented it,

every time they'd play, their dog would get the ball and run off, and the dog's name was pickle. So they named it Pickle. That's true. Look at it. I got, we was...

I don't know about that. Pickleball. God wouldn't have much online. If it came from side, well, you may want to fact check it, but... Oh, he's Googling it. The dog's name.

So what do I get if I'm right? Before you look it up. We will bring you a pickleball. A hefty adder boy. Okay. The first account is according to Joan. Pritchard. Uh-oh.

Joel Pritchard, she started calling the game. I don't know who is. That's a different person. Pickleball because the combination of different sports reminded her of the pickle boat and crew where Orsman were chosen from the leftovers of other boats. That's incorrect. I don't like that one.

I think it's way correct. He doesn't want me to be right. Oh, no. Okay, here is another one. Orsman were chosen to it. But according to Barrow's, Bernie McCullum, they named the game after Pritchard's dog. Pickle.

There you go. Pickle. You were so smart, I went. Hey, fine figure of a man. Hey, you got to read something when you're laying on the beach. That was my week of doing what Miss Paula wants to do. Laying on the beach. You read up on your pickleball.

All the things. Because they were playing at this hotel next to where we were staying. So I was saying, I wonder where this comes. Because it was just everywhere, you know. So I said, I'm going to find out where this came from. Did you go get you a paddle and jump in there? No. Well, you actually hit it over the net like tennis?

Yeah. Yeah, like ping pong except you're standing on the table. It's like a tennis court, but it's your... The small tennis court. It's full-sized ping pong. Yeah. Like... What it is.

Yeah. Is it like with a wolf? ball kind of deal? It looks like a level ball, but it's hard. It's hard. You have to hit it really hard for it to go over the net. Yeah. It's not like tennis.

Oh, no. It's not a tennis racket. It's some kind of other paddle. Yeah. It's like a giant ping pong paddle. Really? Yep. Although I got to use the pros paddle and it was way, and I was like, oh, this is so much better. I was like, they're as same as any other sport. Yeah. Yeah.

You have a cheap paddle. You get the good one. you're like, oh, okay. A wooden paddle. It's a wooden paddle. It's like a composite kind of. The cheap ones are wooden ones. You actually get a court up here. I believe I could play it.

I think you could. A court up here. I can play ping pong. No. It's already hard enough to keep everybody on task. Ain't nothing changed about that. I know you ain't been around his office in a while, but still keeping people on task is not easy around here.

It's a little bit easier now that we're like approaching hunting seasons. Everybody knows, oh, we're about to actually get paid a little bit. But then February, March and April. Rough, ain't it? There's a lot of fish that have stories to tell. Oh, you know. Because they're just, yeah, man, we get on them duck calls later. It'd be fine.

It'd be fine. It'd be fine. What do you order? Are we sure? Did we get them in? I don't know. Hey, check on that. But now we're going to, we're actually going to go to a little segment that we did with Jeff

and Murray a couple of weeks ago. for Duck Family Treasure where Murray come in and told some stories about he had his collection of things. He brought his highlights. So we're going to go to that real quick. Watch that, and then we'll be right back here to close everything out.

So check this out with Jeff and Murray on Duck Family Treasure, Season 3. So this is season 3, and that's going to be, what, five episodes released in July 26? Yeah. And it's just better. I think the season three, in my opinion, is just a lot better than the first two.

It's like we kind of found our groove. Do you think that? Yeah. That's the exact opposite of Doug Dynasty. I don't know. It got better. I don't know. It got better in the middle.

Just the end was like, all right, yeah, we're. But it's really true. I think every show I watch, like, all my favorite, like the first season, you're kind of trying to figure out what it works. And then he's about the second season, It's getting pretty good. And then, like, the third and fourth is, like, the gold.

Yeah, they figured out just turn the camera on the side and let him go. That's it. Well, I right to say, me and Philip got on a road. He's the one that assigned me. On the last few episodes we filmed. I'm serious. Yeah. I bet this one.

He, Phillips started, you know, the boy just started blooming, I'm telling you. I bet. I bet this one's got when you clowns come in here and took over the office or took over my store. Well, hey. I tried to get me fired. I almost guarantee you that one this season. You didn't know it, but hey, when I was facing you whenever you was checking on me, my knees were knocking.

Well, I mean. I said, you're a, you know, bad CEO is all I can say. Because, hey. I ain't a CEO anyway. I'm just general manager. Well, hey, the problem is. CEO, whatever. But when you come in there, I just, I fell apart.

The problem is I was worried that the CEO going to let me go for you being. You. Like, I got the wrong last name. He can fire me. He can't fire you. No, no, no. When I've done so much stuff, I said, I felt terrible because I actually let Martin's people go. I just told Colley and whoever else was out of that day.

I said, hey, look, y'all take the day off. Oh, yeah, he doesn't send them home. Yeah, I said, what in the world? I felt about that tall when he came walking in and he said, hey, what are you guys to do it? Yeah. you know and then he said i see you over at philip macbillan i did yeah philip over trying to hide behind a counter and everything else i was like unbelievable murray what is some of the stuff you you brought with you well this in this display is some of the stuff we actually dug on

duck family treasure and this this i got from a gentleman that runs a a a hunt in virginia called digging in virginia and and he this tree i know if you y'all can see that oh yeah this tree is a witness tree it was it was actually on a battlefield close to winchester virginia so this tree witnessed multiple different battles if only that tree could talk well the storm blew the tree down a year ago and john went out there and cut the branches and he got a woodlaid and this is the he built a reproduction of a gardener bullet and so this is actually from that tree, and he gave it to me when we were on a hunt up there. So I thought it was awesome.

What caliber was that the gardener, but? It was only used by the Confederates, and it was 58 caliber. That's a bigger. It's not actually. Well, that's a redition. But he's got the grooves and all in the correct place, and when I saw it, I knew what bullet it was, just because I've dug a few of them. Tommy Hop.

Is that? Oh, Tommy Hope. Oh, Tommy Hope. Oh, Tommy, that's a skateboarder. Yeah. That's his brother's Tony. Yeah. Tommy never made it big time.

Tommy crashed too much. But, no. What does that actually use for? Well, the gentleman in Arkansas made this for me. He used it. When you dig it in the woods, there's a lot of roots. Yep. And he made those, he's a blacksmith.

He made those for chopping the roots and gave me one. It's useful, too. We didn't actually use this on the sheep. show, but I just thought it was so cool. My wife makes me sharpen the tomato sticks with it. I got it out this morning, so that's why I brought it. Hey,

you got to have a show of sharpener to put the sticks into the ground for the tomato plant. Yeah. We found some amazing stuff on the show, and you'll have to watch to see most of it, but, Cy, you even got in on some of it. Well, no, no. The bug bit me.

Oh, you were? That day that we was up there, and I actually was checking with y'all and looking watching everything and then I was actually Jason was digging and he he dug something and turned it over a little bit and he he took his carrot and and it beeped and and then I see just a just a sliver of silver and I beat jace till that is I picked it up and it was a dime silver dime yeah So that was actually, it was actually fun. Okay.

Yeah, y'all actually found, you and Phillip both, y'all found the essence of what we knew all along, but you really can't tell unless you go out there in the field and actually do it. Well, I was shocked at, you know, just beeping don't mean you're going to find it. We turned dirt over there and it disappeared. Here's what it's like. This is what I tell people.

It's like fishing in the worst gar hole you ever fished in. Yeah. But there is a couple of like three, four pound crappies in there. But you got to catch a lot of gar first and just trash fish and goo. Well, no, no. But you can get to good stuff, but you've got to work at it. Well, we found what, that day, what Randy had found one, silver dime. You know, Jay's found one that I got because I beat him to it because he didn't see it.

but y'all that's a lot of fun especially if you run upon something you know the best thing that y'all found was when y'all came back that 20 pound meteorite and that actually scared me yeah the meteorite

meteor rock that's what he said when they handed it to me I got I got it in my hand and all of a sudden my fingers start tinkling start tingling and I yeah and this mess is running up my arm. What, the tingling or the...

Yeah, the tingling. And I said, guys, something's wrong here. And they said, what are you talking about? I said, my fingertips started tingling. And I said, and now it's running up my arm. And Jay said, what do you come up with this garbage? I said, Jay, this is not garbage.

I said, this is actually happening. You ain't felt that since that first night at the drive. Yeah, I'm telling you, I'm going, good grief. I said, I may have a space disease. but that was that was actually really cool okay because they found this thing it was buried like 12 14 feet deep it's like seven but well y'all told me 14 feet deep he's telling he's telling you how to tell a story now you're telling you can tell size that was the coolest thing y'all found was hey this is a space rock space rock space rock joe dirt found it in the earth but so

Yep, you know, too. The best thing we found running around the country is the people that we met along the way. That's the biggest treasure because I talk to some of them people two or three times a week. And this stuff will go in the north somewhere. See, that's the thing about it. You know, it's like the thing I got to ask is it's not what's on the tree that counts. It's who's gathered around the tree. Absolutely.

It's not about to join. journey. It's about who you're with on the journey. Yeah, that, I mean, I never experienced, y'all did Duck Dynasty. Y'all knew about all the production and all that stuff.

I mean, it's a lot of moving parts. And it's people you meet in all those positions that that's the real treasure. The landowners, the guy at the service station, it just puts you in contact with so many people. And I can tell by being part of y'all's family that how much the robbersons have changed people's lives and that struck me more than

anything is just the people that i've met along the way that i mean grown old men are crying because y'all shared jesus with them that's what it was all about yeah but like when we was up there where was that was at uh when i found the silver dime that jace had found that was in uh that was hit that was in Louisiana, right? Yeah. Yeah. That was right up up road a little bit. Yeah.

But anyway, y'all found, what, hundreds of bullets? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. On that field? The old of bullets. Oh, yeah. And what, four or five?

It ended up. Silver Cohen. Yeah. I mean, there was. But what got me was all the bullets. Oh. Because that was, that, there was a lot of firing going on in that area that we was at. Shooting that one.

another. Oh, yeah. What is, I mean, I guess I'm curious because I don't know anything about it. What, what's the most common thing that you find? Or does that change based on what you're looking for or like where you're at or, you know, but if you had to pick one, I mean, is it like, you know, bush light caps or like, I mean. Oh, just like trash? I mean, just what do you, like, what do you find? I think it's out there. You get to beef and like. I'm the king of trash. I think they would all agree on that. I dig out. You're the one

that found all in bottles. Yeah. Now that was actually really fun. Yeah. That was a, that was really cool

went in this little embankment that had bottles and stuff washed up through like a hundred years. That was actually a lot of fun. Yeah. And that may be coming up. I don't know if that was aired yet or not,

but that was a good one. But just with a metal detector in my hand, I've out a lot of cans and just the tops. Well, anything that's metal that make it beat. I mean, I mean, I think aluminum is just the bane of a metal detector.

Well, when you're on a battlefield mostly, bullets would probably be the most common thing you'd find. Yeah, that's the most common for as a relic concern. Yeah. Bullets by far. Because they didn't run out of bullets. All the calibers, what gets me. Yep. All the difference size.

And actually, all the different size calibers. Yeah. Murray found some rare bullets, which was very. really cool that we had never found before. We found some of those not too long ago. There's two of them in this. Yeah. I had to buy them because we gave them to the landowner,

so I went out immediately and searched and found some, you know? Yeah. So is that part of the gig, like you give the landowner a certain amount of your hall, or you give it all to them? Most everything to give back. I got you. Yeah. Okay.

Which is why it was hard because, like, you know, we wanted to go dig some places that were super historic like Vicksburg and stuff. We're like, hey, we'll give you everything. You can have a guy standing right there watching us, making sure we're not putting stuff in their pockets. You know, you can watch us. We'll dig it all up and we'll just hand it to you. You put it in a museum and they're like, no. Yeah, because the guy, they just want to leave it buried.

They just want to leave it buried, which I'm like, why do that? The guy at Alamo in Texas, he was trying to get to go there. Yeah. Because he was talking about when they would do something in there in the area with the land. You know, cannonballs, all this stuff rolls up just whenever they moved dirt around a little bit. Yeah. But we was actually trying to get there so we could do it and never pulled it off. I mean, honestly, the hardest part about doing the show is that.

It's like getting permission and then working out, like, making sure, letting them know, like, we're honest. We're not here to steal all your stuff. Yeah. We'll give it back to you. It's like, you can have it. Yeah, people are distrusting, but it's funny because I feel like, you know, if I just reverse it and then like somebody come and ask my dad, hey, I want to come treasure hunting down on your property.

I don't think he would say yes. I think he would say, no. I want you thinking around down there. And if he did say yes, he'd be right there with a shotgun in his hand. Maybe. You know, I mean, that's just, yeah, private land is a weird. I mean. It's a weird.

Once you own it, it's, the mindset changes a little bit of it. But, you know, if you're unearthed history, that's seem, that's generally a lot of easy. I would think it's easier to get permission to do that and to go kill somebody's turkey or deer or something, you know. And the cool thing is the people that let you do it in the end, they love, I mean, they're just like, oh my gosh, I'm going to make a frame and put all that. They absolutely love it. So I encourage people here listening, let people come do it on your property. I promise you it's worth it to have the stuff that, you know, that's on your property. So is there like any real life buried treasure?

Like, I mean, is that a thing? We looked for some. We looked for Bonnie and Clydes, maybe some of their treasure. We went on some property that we think nobody had ever been on. And we searched, but we didn't find it. Oregon Trail. Yep. Wyoming.

The Oregon Trail was actually my favorite. That was the prettiest back. I mean, I've never seen land that looked like that. It was just because we were in Wyoming, right? Wyoming, yeah. Oh, my gosh. It was awesome. Did anybody get?

get dysentery and died? Nope. Luckily. Luckily, that was a running joke though in that episode. Yeah, that was the one that was the one that always snuff me out on a computer game. That's it. Somebody always ended up with a dysentery and died. Or snake bite.

Susie got bit by rattling snake. There we go. Jep, so you've been like a time traveler in this episode. I'm glad. And so of wait. It's, but it is fun. Look, Duck Family Treasure, y'all check it out on what Fox Nation. Fox Nation, Fox Business as well. Oh, starting tomorrow. July the 26th. Season

three is out now, but we always close with a Bible verse. Do you all have one that you would like to share? Oh, look at here. Look at here. It's in the book. Well, so I kind of mentioned it, but here's the scripture. So for our new book, Dear Valor, the Visions 1,4 and 5, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love, he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ according to the purpose of his will. That's an amazing scripture.

Amen. We've all been adopted. That's a great thing. And if you want to learn more about your adoption, check out Jesus, y'all. He's pretty cool, pretty awesome. But anyway, look, thank you all so much for coming by the Duck. call room and we'll see y'all next time we're out