Duck Call Room - Jessica Robertson SPILLS Which Robertson Man Dyes His Beard

Episode Date: March 28, 2023

Uncle Si calls Jep and Jessica Robertson into the duck call room so he can personally ask them what happened in that limo. Martin hypes up Jep about his son playing flag football and even says he could go pro! Jep talks about how hard his old food truck business was and how the TV crew of "Duck Family Treasure" refused to drive him home from Houston because he was sick. Jep bemoans the sad state of toilet paper quality in hotels across the country. Jep and Jessica talk about their adoption journey with their son, Gus, and share encouragement for anyone considering this step for their family. Martin asks Jep and Jessica fan questions like if they would dye their hair matching colors — and which Robertson man dyes his beard! Plus, who are their celebrity crushes? Jep's answer shocked the room.  Learn more about All God's Children International and become a Cycle Breaker today! https://allgodschildren.org/cyclebreaker/ -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to the duck car room. Ladies gentlemen, we have special guest with us this week. Jeff and Jessica are in the hot seat. I don't know if it's a hot seat. So look, since I haven't seen y'all, you know, what have y'all been up to? Oh. You haven't seen me. Si, just for clarity, you are on a TV show with them.

No, no. I must. Didn't we film together Saturday? I just sat beside you in the podcast. Well, no. But you know what I'm saying. Yeah, real life. We've actually lived together for about five years.

Okay, film it. Okay. There you go. There is true. Well, I mean, I'm sure, I mean, we moved to Texas for five years, and we just moved back this past June. So we haven't been back long. And really, I was so looking forward to being back in Louisiana and having like a slower-paced life than Austin. And it's not slower-paced here for me.

I thought I'd have all this time in my hands, and I don't. What about you, babe? Well, have you got your own business? I do. I have a quarterly subscription box called Genuine by Jess, and I carry products that, you know, basically that have companies from give-back companies, women-owned companies, and small family businesses. So I like to just kind of do like little collections and kind of feature other brands,

other people's products that have a good mission behind it. Hey, and let me tell you something about those boxes. I you know whatever I'm not really involved I've helped like package them and stuff but she had these blankets in there they are the best blanket in the world it's true big blanket yes big blanket oh gotta have it I'm not a blanket let me say this it's a leopard furry furry furry it sounds hot you got me you got me already hey you'd be curled up watching law and order you know this blanket on now Rumpel Stil's skin over here

Yeah, he need a blanket. All he does is shit. Oh, yeah. I'm going to get you one. No, no, because, hey, figure it's your other day. He's thinking of that, okay? I was just, I was in a good grief. I'm freezing the death in my own house.

I said, woman, you got the heat turned off? And she said, no. And I said, well, what's the temperature in it? She said, 52. What? I said, no, one of them freezing my butt off. I said, turn the heat on, woman. Good grief, what are you doing?

No. Man, March 1st, you turn the heat off. It don't come back on. No, you don't. If it gets below 60, hey, I need it. Hey, it's cold right now. It was 27. Hey, I ain't got all of this insulation.

Hey, pipe down, sir. Hey, hey, I'm going to sit back across from me if you're going to pick on me. Hey, this is skin and bone, dear boy. Hey, speaking of, I've lost about 12 pounds, and I'm going to tell you why I did it. It wasn't health reasons, although I do feel better. Wasn't anything like that. It wasn't anything. Like, I think Jess liked me kind of husky.

Here's what happened. It was just more to love. No, here's what happened. Here's why I lost the weight is because I kept going through airports and I'd say, I'd hear, hey, Willie. Oh. And I was like, no. I am not.

I am losing weight immediately. Okay, I was just fixing. I was talking about that the other day. Well, good news is that meant you still had skinny legs. True. I got those. I got that. My wife is going through the TV and slashing stuff

and finding a new channel. Well, she found a new Star Trek on. Okay? And she said, you got to see this. You know, I'm sitting in my corner. She said, let me find it. So she's going, brings up Star Trek new, you know, exploring unknown and all that, you know.

She said, wait till you see this guy. You know? So she brings him on and said, it's Willie and he's about 50 pounds overweight. Okay, and he's got real, real long hair. But it's Willie all the way. And I said, I got to tell Willie this. I said, I just seen you on Star Trek.

And he went, what? I said, yeah, I watched you on Star Trek. Just before I come up here to play poker with you, I watched you on Star Trek. I said, you're about 50 pounds heavy and your hair is about three times longer of what it normally is. I said, but it's you. It's the old Willie? Oh, yeah, because it looks just... It's his doppel.

anger. Yeah, looks just like it. It's Willie when I started working here, then. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Huh. But I was wondering you, how did you lose the weight?

Uh, I mean, just not eating so much. And honestly, beer, I love beer. I was craft beer. I had beer, we did. But if you're not really, you know, if you're not drinking an excess of it, and you're just having some every night, like, really, all this doing is just a bunch of calories that are just so wasted. an occasional beer like a six-pack

Yeah This is not just a normal night I'm just saying What do you have? No, he ain't drinking Bush Light, so No, these are like crap You drink a six-pack of Bush Light and lose weight

I don't say in Texas they have some of the best Crass beer And even here in Louisiana I mean since I moved back I was like Dang, we got some good beer here And I just had to give it up for a while Yeah, I'm a microlo. Ultra-light michelope.

Yeah, see, I would rather have four extra strips of bacon. Yeah, that's what I'm at. They ain't nothing better than... Yeah, I just would. No, they ain't nothing better than an ice cold, michololololite. All right, y'all need to get paid for my blood. This section...

I'll be choosing a way better taste than beer than that. A, that is not craft beer. Yeah. B, it's really close to water. Thank you. And, I mean, I've had them. they're not bad but those are for people that like to pee that's what that's what mickleup well for a guy that drinks two gallons of tea yeah i think he does that that's what i guess i'll fit that

yeah you would get the same satisfaction from an ice cold Coca-Cola i mean it just i mean you have been drunk on mountain dew before so like well i say it's true so hey look you stay up 54 hours You're 54 hours studying and drink about three cases of Pepsi, Coke, Mountain Dew, Seven Up. And that's how many Michelob Ultras it would taste, too. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I was on a sugar blitz, so I'm talking about it.

You didn't have something mixed in there? Nope, no, it was just Coke and Mountain Dew and Seven Up. Why were you up for 54 hours straight? That's the real question. Well, my brother's got, look, I want to. college. You know, I tried it. And I had three older brothers.

I'm not John David, so I can't chase you with the mic. At the time, it was four of us in there. Well, you know, like I told everybody, hey, I majored in partying and minored in women. Okay. So look, I didn't go to class much. But anyway, they got on me, and I mean like, hey, they threw a saddle, got their spurs on and they rode me like a yard dog. Tell me, no, you're just too dumb.

You can't pass. Well, it made me mad. Well, this is a week of finals. I ain't been in the class about six times, total, for the whole semester. You know, so, you know, a buddy of mine, okay, he was flunking out too. He said, hey, you know all the women, can you borrow their notes and can we study? and he said because if I don't class

my dad's going to kill me he said I know you don't care you ain't coming back I said you're right there so look that's what we deal we studied for 54 hours the last test I was taking all I remember was I was asleep

just sound asleep and the professor's going hey you got a hundred questions to answer and you ain't got me 10 minutes and I said well I picked up a pen and I said well I said I'm glad that's multiple choice

and I just started going down did you like draw a Christmas tree or something oh yeah no no just hey just A C C C C's always a good answer on multiple questions yeah it is the most common answer Nancy worked in the registrar's office so she saw all the grades well she saw my great and look I had gave her like $150 say you know since y'all been feet me all semester, here, go buy a bunch of steaks and Tommy can grill them and we'll have a good

party. Yeah. Yeah. So I get there early, knock on the door, and she looks to the people and she's just giving me what's far. Have you looked, checked your grade? And I said, no, Nancy, I didn't check my grades. I don't care about my grades because I ain't coming back. I'm done. You know, she said, yeah, you're going to get grafting, you're going to go to Vietnam. I said, well, that's probably true, but hey, I don't really care because I ain't coming back to Louisiana Tech. Well, she just chewing me up down I said, are you going to open the door and let me in? So she finally left me in

and then sets me down and just chewing my butt up one side down the other. Go check your grades. I said, Nancy, I don't care about my grave. She said, well, hey, just so you know, you passed. And I said, really? I said, well, what did I? She said, you miss having an A average like two points.

You know, and I said, hey, well, I said, that sounds like 95%. Yeah, I am. No, no. So I told her, I said, well, you do me a favor when your husband and my other two brothers arrive to eat the steak? She said, what's that? I said, tell them it ain't got nothing to do with my brain power. I just, I'm not going to college. She said, yeah, I can do that for you. I said, okay. So when she did, she jumped on them both feet. Tell me, hey, they ain't because you ain't stupid. Well, you should have fed them, crew.

Huh? Well, hey. They had to eat it. No, they needed to kick them off in the butt and throw them out of their own house. That'd have been a little aggressive, but especially you being the smallest of them. I don't think that's where I'd have started. If I'd have done that, hey, they had it coming. They picked on me all my whole horse. Well, let's take our first break, and we'll be back right after this. Right after this.

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Yeah. Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's tribeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. All right, we're back. All right, Martin, I got to ask, what's with the W sauce? Well, the W sauce. That's an interesting one. It makes everything better for one.

We had a man on the show on the podcast. For W? Yeah. No, he ain't been here. I thought we had him on here. No, man, Big Bear ain't been here yet. I want him to. Look, no, actually what happened, W. Sauce, family recipe.

They're fishing guides originally in Key West. So when that happened, everybody quit traveling. They had to make some income. They decided to bottle the family recipe. And what you got was a W sauce. You tried it. That's good. Oh, my God. Have I tried it?

That one's hot there. Oh, okay. That one's called Fire Shower. This one is just the OG right here. And now they're making all kinds of stuff. They're making like Bloody Mary Mix and all kinds of. There's a parting gift that we get some. You can take it home with it.

Yeah. You can take it home with you. You can go to Academy and buy something. They got it in Academy now, yeah. Well, I need that one. I don't want the hot one because I use a lot of wishes shower in my beef stew. But the heat, heat doesn't hurt your belly or something? No, it doesn't hurt mine.

but I just don't want to like risk a big pot of beef stew and then especially with K. Oh, there you go. So do you remember mom used to make that stew, that beef stew? You all remember that right? Oh, yeah. So Jessica took that and improved 1,000 fold. She'd get rid of all the carrots?

No, still has carrots. Dang. No. Just cut them out smaller. That'd be a good way to get rid. That'd be a good way to improve. You'll cut them up smaller? So, no, look, this is, I basically,

combined two recipes. I combine Julia Stiles, beef bourignon, and then another beef stew recipe, and I kind of just made it my own, but I only use filet minon in it. That always helps. And I do,

per person, I'll get one filet per person, so it is hearty. It's like lucky charms. We found a new herb. It's like oregano, but you know how oregano can get kind of strong? It's called majoram.

It is the best like herb ever. It's like a not as strong oregano. It's so good. It has several, it has oregano in it. It has several different herbs in it, but I will use almost an entire bottle

in my bistew. That's what I make from my meat sauce. Yeah. Because it's all just herbs. Yeah. Do you use filet? Do you use filet? No, it's hamburger.

Yeah, wrong tax bracket, that's. That's fine. We get it. I'll use a ribbi. It's not the like, it's expensive filets. Hey, if you brought that up, that might be a good thing.

I just tell a guy, hey, grind me up a bunch of filet, hamburger meat. No, you don't grind it up. No, no. No, no. No, if you want meat sauce,

it's got to be ground out. The meat sauce, like a spaghetti sauce. Yeah. Look, don't have a vice eye for that beef, too, because you're going to come over

there ain't going to be no beef left in it. I did. I need that. That's the same thing he does to a pot of beans. He goes there to dig every piece of sausage out and you ain't got nothing left but red bean. He's a cherry picker from way back.

I do that to you. I must be a youngest trait. Yeah, there we go. You got to get some meat when you can. That's right. That's it, boy, today. Youngest, youngest. Okay, yeah, we're getting it now.

Now Gus's going to be that way. You're going to train Gus to be that way. That's terrible. He loves some fillet, doesn't he? He does. That boy can eat. He eats more than I do. Who's that?

Gus. Gus. Oh, for breakfast. He was like three or four eggs. Yeah. Yeah, but he's only seven. I thought, but he's a growing big boy. He's playing baseball now.

We got a game tomorrow night, right? Tonight. Oh, it's a night. He's playing baseball? He is. His first year. Well, it's his first year. He's his first year.

He just kind of. He doesn't know what he's doing. Well, it's seven. Yeah, it don't matter. Yeah. Just get out there. He doesn't, he has so much power, but he's scared. Well, I get out in the yard with him, I'm scared to, you know, as coach pitch.

But I'm like, And then I'm like, God. You need you a screen. But when he's out there, you know, he doesn't. This year was the first year he played flag football, which I was not for playing football. We dominated that league. I would say I'm not for playing football because of the injuries. But Jeff vetoed, I was out on that.

And he played and I know how fast he can be. And so all the time he would get it and run for a touchdown. And I would be like, Gus, you're not running at full speed. He goes, I don't have to run at full speed. Mom. And I was like, wow, that's straight. So our record game was six TDs, two pick sixes. Uh-oh.

Which was, that was impressive. They throw in the ball and flag football? Yeah, they throw the ball. Really? Not a ton and they're not good at it. Obviously. So he just plays right in the middle. He's got a middle linebacker.

He's a foot taller than them all day. Marked him. So they just tossed it. Yeah, they just tossed it up. He said, that is really easy to get interceptions. I just watched the quarterback and there's just, I catch the ball and don't let them catch it. I'm like, that's how you do it. He said, I felt back as this little boy cried and said,

I just want to make a touchdown and I would not get pulling his flag. He said, I just kept pulling his flags. You keep pulling them flags. Yeah. Killing kids' dreams one of the time. At one point, he was playing offense and his coach goes, Gus, Gus, sit on the bitch. You're making too many touchdowns on offense.

I mean, on defense. That's what it was. He was playing defense. He was like, gust it down. You're getting too many touchdowns on defense. Yeah. So I'd like him to play, I mean, depending on his, you know, size or whatever, but like, just play like middle line back.

As soon as they can play tackle and just become a one-man, raking crew where it's like, when other opponents play us, they're like, oh my gosh, have you seen that guy in the middle? And they're scared. They're scared to get the ball. I was like two tall Jones and on one Dallas. You keep that up. You won't ever have to work a food truck again.

He played your middle and somebody run by him. He'd grab him. No, he ain't got a ball. I get where people have always, oh, these parents live through their kids. I'm kind of doing that with Gus and I'm sorry. I can't help it. He's so good. I'm like,

I wish I could have been. I will say none of our other kids ever got into sports. It's easier when the kid's good. Not like fully. When there's like potential there. He's big, you know. Yeah, the bomber was one like me and Jace would coach and the kid wouldn't be that good but they were still trying to live through him.

I'm like, no, man. Just let this kid play. Yeah. I wasn't that kind of parent. I was like, this isn't your thing, baby. Just let that kid play, man. Well, I told River. I mean, I love River and, you know, he plays some soccer and he's pretty good.

soccer actually. But I was like, dude, just play golf. And he's playing golf and he loves it. And he's getting a lot better. And I'm like, dude, now you're playing some. You can play your whole life. Yeah, that's your game. Yes. Yeah. Because he ain't going to be very tall. No. No. No. No. The only chance y'all got your height is Gus. And that's because he adopted. So I got him watching Roy McElroy. And we know nothing about his birth parents. I don't know. Lori McElroy is 5-8 and weighs like 165 pounds. Yeah. And hits it further than anybody. You don't have to be a certain size. Yeah. Justin Thomas smaller than that. Same side.

Yeah, no. Yeah. Technique. Yeah. That's it. Leverage. I'm still hoping that Gus will find a sport that is not as dangerous. It's football?

Yes. Well, it's not dangerous when you're bigger and everybody. Yeah. As long as you're the biggest on the field, it's not dangerous at all, trust me. He's not going to be that big. He keeps saying, he real big now. Just get started now. Hey, that football is the best he can play.

You know why? Very limited time window. August to December, you're done. You're in, you're out. Unlike baseball now that's played 12 months out of the year. Forget that. You don't want to play a baseball. He likes basketball, and I enjoy watching the plays.

We haven't tried that one yet. Basketball? We haven't tried that. You're going to have to hire a coach. I got one. Bristol Lewis. Oh, yeah. Sarge.

Because ain't none of this extended family that don't know about basketball. Willie thinks he does, but he ain't no good. He may be a higher storm from when he's a PE coach. He could shoot a little. Yeah. He can shoot a little. No, he'll get him in Jiu-Jitsu or whatever he does.

No. Yeah, that probably is. He's been begging to get him. Which I also think would be good. She doesn't think that's about it. Why not? I think that'd be cool. Sage does Jiu-Jitsu.

He could be the next, what's that name? Bones Jones. That would be something good to know. Yeah. Yeah. I guarantee you it'd make him better at football. Yeah, probably. Oh, yeah.

100% of it would. No, no. It takes him some discipline because it don't matter how big you are on that Jiu-Jitsu map. Then big ones get choked out just like to live. That's all about technique. Teaching a little discipline. I think mentally you've got to be pretty tough in that game.

Yeah, that'd be a good one. I would recommend it. Yeah. I don't. That's why it's good for kids, especially. Okay. Hey, this day and age, he can play like fishing in high school.

That's kind of tight. Yeah. Like, oh, yeah. Westmore has a bass thing. Yeah. Yeah. I know there's gaming. Like, you can get scholarships for, like, Rocket League.

And, like, you can go to college for, like games now. I don't know. That's like a thing. What about disc golf? Yeah, I'm against that. No, I don't think disc golf is a thing yet, which is something I do play. I do enjoy now.

Oh, Gus is good at disco. Oh, he's super good. Of course he is. He's long and lanky. Yeah. He got them long arms. I bet he can whoop it for a seven-year-old. The ones that are good are real, have long, because they're like, they would be good

at pitching in baseball. And they can throw a disc 600 feet, which is, I don't know how they do that. It's crazy. Yeah. That's a lot. Two football fields? he threw a frisbee, just think about the physics of that. It doesn't make sense.

No, that's like flying fish. No, no. That's the craziest thing to watch. It's flying fish. Okay, I don't see that analogy. No, no, look, because they sail for like 600, 800, 80 yards. And look, and they do this out of a two-foot wave. They come out of a two-foot wave, and you go, and you go.

And you're still going, and you go. Well, he's going to go back into water. Since y'all are here, I want to give one of you a chance to confess or defend or I don't really know how you'd say this. But Cy told a story on one of y'all. He couldn't remember who it was. But y'all were riding in a black limousine in New York City. It was him. Huh?

I don't know. I don't know what the story is. It was him. The incident. I do remember it. Yeah. I don't remember. Yeah, we were there to.

see Sadie, we were, when she was doing Dancing with the Stars. Dancing with the Stars. Do you remember that? Remember when we had that I don't know there's a limo, but it was a... We were driving in one of them big, long, black... It was a car service. It was a car service. I remember that, and somebody broke wind.

That was not me. Yeah, really. She did it. She did. Martin, I think y'all... That was you. It was not me. Remember that the driver got on my ad and it's like, no. No, and it was somebody else, maybe a kid was with this. And we were like, Oh, Jessica, Jessica, I hate to tell you, these two are telling the exact same story at totally different times. Hey, let me tell you, there are a lot of like, I wouldn't believe in half of what they say.

No, no, no, I remember this now. I had blamed him because he had bowel problems. Yeah, because he has bowel problems. I have no problem admitting when I fart, okay? Because then everybody got to look at it around. I remember now because everybody got some rooks down and they was all looking at each other and do this and said, Hey. All right, which one of y'all bursted that?

It wasn't made. Here's the kicker now. She had that silly little grin on her face. He said that when you got out of the car, you may or may not have raised your leg and did another one. Oh, no. That was her. She did it. Oh, no.

She said bye, because look, you got to understand them. Yeah, she said by, all right. Yeah. This guy got bent out of shape. He went. No, he said. You do it again. Of course he did.

He said, I will stop. He stammered on the brake. I was like, what? Y'all goes, hey, and look, when we got up to where we was going, Jessica was sitting in the front seat. Don't play me for it. Oh, no. Hey, when she was slid to get out, she doesn't want to leave them.

Oh, yeah. At first I lift in my leg now I just leaned over. She said her exact words were, are you mad, bro? And then was like, that's right. That's right. Oh, let him have it. I blamed it on the. parting gift.

I blamed it on the sonic chili cheese tater tox you had before on the way to the airport. That's what I blamed it on. I do love. Because I know your addiction. I do love them. Yes. I just had them with, yeah, on a road trip.

That really happens. I usually, that's my go to that and a corned dog. Jeff got blamed for it, but then we got to look around. And it was Jessica. And the little blonde had a sneaky little smile. I think it's because I'm the only girl in here. You're just blaming me. No.

I'm not blaming anybody, but I will say they told the exact same story. Martin, if you know Jeff at all, he parts all the time. Oh, I'm aware. He has stomach issues. I'm aware. IBM, everything else, just like his mama.

When Sae started telling the story, I said, let me guess. Jep, and he said, no, Jessica. He, Jeff, Jeff got blamed for it. I remember the look on your face. You had that sit a little grin. You started when you said, I didn't do. I was laughing my head off. Like, I thought it was hilarious.

And then the matter he got, it was, it made it. more funny. Oh no. The whole family, that one made him mad. Everybody laughing. Everyone was laughing. You were laughing. You're talking about this was worse than any rot-degg you've ever smelled. Okay. I mean, I don't blame the guy.

Oh, no, no. You've got to pick up other people. Oh, no. Yeah, this was raunchy. Yeah. So, kind of like the smell in the Seinfeld. There is nothing that has ever come out of made it smell raunchy. Okay. Now, come on.

Uh-uh. I mean, I don't know how many. Look at that time. This is only a 50-minute show, so we can't go through all of them. I love you, though. But it's there? We have a pirate toilet back there in the back, and there's times when it's hard to walk past it. I'll put it down.

Really? Yeah, really. Here we go. That's the person who poops three times before 10 o'clock every morning. That's fine. Very normal. That is not normal. No, it's regular.

I don't know that I'd qualify it as normal, but if you can set you watch by the day, that's not a bad thing. Ask Jace how many times they had to like stop on the road while they're on their treasure hunting. Emergency stops. They don't give me enough time in the morning to get everything out.

That's not my fault. Hey, I'm saying way, I wake up an hour early so I can get that done at home. I like home field advantage. I will go other places, but I prefer home field advantage. Man, I'm going to tell you, there's hotels across America for, because I've been staying a lot of them.

I mean, this toilet paper deal, it's like you either wipe till there's nothing there or you start bleeding one and then you know you've finished. I'm just telling you, it's a problem, and it's sandpaper and it needs to stop. And I don't know who's stock in these hotels, but they need to be horsewits.

That is a crime. I need to introduce you to my friends over at dude wipes. Is that a thing? You just carry them in your pocket with you. Is that a thing? Yeah, they single-use baby wipes. Well, please give me that single. Baby wipes in your bag.

Why don't she use it? There you go. I don't know. I can't find them. I don't have enough time to find them. I'm just in a bind. He's in a bind all the way. Steve's dagon on hotels are killing me.

Got that John Wayne toilet, baby. Oh, I'm telling you. Rough, tough, it won't take crap off. True bit, boys. There you go. Can we talk about something other than poop and farting? Well, I mean. It's my life.

We can, but it wouldn't be near as entertaining. But we can take a break And let's do that And we'll be back right after this So look, Jep Y'all've been on the road You leave the old man at home filming Duck Family Treasure

What's life been like on the road again? It's been interesting We just got back from Virginia Which was awesome We found a lot of cool stuff I wish I could tell y'all But you have to watch and see It was really good

The one before that We were in Actually like the first town ever in Texas. It was called San Felipe, which is now where Katie, Texas is. Oh, Ricefield. So we get down there, and a lot of times we'll get down, you know, day early, and we go out and scout, you know, we go out and kind of just look the area over, get our detectors out, kind of see what. So treat it like a real hunt. You go scout and then you go hunt. That's right. Yeah. That's exactly right. We get out there, I get 10 minutes into it, and I'm like, I do not feel good. And I don't know,

I don't know when the last time y'all been really sick is, but it was one of those deals where I knew for a fact I'm listening to go down like something bad is happening to my body and I don't know what I just I'm really tired I just feel like crap everything hurts so I'm like hey and this guy was really cool and I was like man we get back I tell the crew they give me some C word tests so I get back take those tests negative so I'm like I don't know what's going on I start running fever. Jace comes in later and's like, what's wrong with you? I'm like, I don't

know. He never, he goes in another room, never comes anywhere. He didn't leave town. He's a germaphobe. Oh, yeah. So they try to film that next day, but I'm still down and then it's kind of like, oh, we're just I mean, I'm not there, so obviously the show's going to be crap because I wasn't

there. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I told him, I was like, y'all go ahead. It's fine. I mean, I'm sorry. I can't really help. I'm feeling good. So then there's like, oh, no, we're just going to pack it up the next day. Well, then it's like, how am I going to get Jay's like, he ain't riding with me. He rode me here.

I can't, I can't afford to be. So I got too much to do. Yeah, I got too much golf to play. So I was abandoned by Jace. Then I talked to the producer and she's like, look, we just, you know, everybody on the crew, we just can't get anybody sick. You know, it's just not a good time right now. And I'm like, what?

So what do I do? Yeah, so you're being abandoned. I'm totally abandoned. They're like, well, we left you the keys of this minivan. Good luck. It's sitting out front. And check out does this time be out? Yeah, check out as this time you got me out of.

Fluid like symptoms. Fever, throwing out. So I wait for them. Yeah, I'm scared for my, I'm like running fever. I'm scared to for my like my stomach. I'm telling you all when I say upset. I get it. I've had a bad stomach.

Where are my friends when I need them? Oh, they're gone. They're gone. So I get to go in about 30 minutes into this journey, which is, you know, From the other side of Houston, this is like west of Houston. So it's like a trek. It's like seven hours at least.

Yeah, you're talking about an eight hour drive. Yeah, at least. Seven, seven and a half hours. And you feel like, 30 minutes into it. I'm on the outskirts of Houston here. I'm like, oh my gosh, oh no. I'm sweating. I have the heat on, but I'm sweating.

And I'm just like, oh, my gosh, what I'm going to do? And I pull up to this gas station. Weirdly enough, there was a guy out there like panhandling. He said, you got any money? And I like, I looked at this guy. And I think he knew. Like, he was like, he looked down. Like, this is the wrong.

It ain't worth it. No, I look terrible. I'm like, oh, terrible. Oh, I go in that bathroom. It was terrible. I'm in there just like praying. I'm praying. I'm crazy.

I mean, I'm serious. It was like a, I was scared. This is a nightmare. This is hell on earth. Will I make it home? And I mean, I had to stop another time. I just pulled off from the side of the road. I'm saying, please, Lord, help me get home. I eventually made it home.

It took longer than expected. In a minivan. And I still, to this day, I had my, throat was just like crazy hurting bad. I think I had strep throat is what I think. It's the only thing I can kind of think of. But I was sick. I thought he had a play with and he came in.

Which I told him to stay. I was like, just we'll book a hotel. Just stay there. So he comes in and I'm like, get in the back of the house. You're quarantining for the next four days. Don't get, I cannot get sick. You know how you're when you're really sick. I just want to get home.

I was like, I just want to get home. And then I know I got j. and like I'd had some comforts to like where I can lay and just watch TV or whatever. You could get your leopard blanket. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. I got you.

But it was miserable. I mean, it was so miserable. So we're going back to film that episode, I think, next week. So you're probably like the rest of us males. You're probably like the rest of us males anyway. You're just a terrible patient when you do get sick. Oh, it was bad. The worst.

I haven't been that sick in a long time. The worst. Like really running people. one thing that I needed to know, don't ever go out with them clowns. Yeah. What, they'll abandon you? Oh, yeah. You needed somebody to tell you Jason would abandon you when you're sick.

No, hey. You ain't put those pieces of the puzzle together yet? Like, no, Jace'll leave you in a heartbeat. Jay's about self-preservation when it comes to sickness. He's like, no, I'm out, bro. Like, you know, I'll get you home, but you ain't going with me. Like, I'll leave you a key. You can ride in the back of the truck.

But you ain't getting up in here. Get comfortable. Yeah, that's just the way he is. But aside from that, you're still doing your nonprofit work, right? I mean, that's still what's going on. We've actually got our gala coming up this weekend. Is it a gala or a gala? I say gala.

Gala. Whatever. It's always fun. But we're, yeah, kind of new in the works where we got this thing. I'm working hard on. It's called cycle breakers. Because basically what happens over there in all these countries is, man, it's just a terrible cycle is how these orphans end up where they're at.

So we're trying to break it. And kind of the main reason how we're doing that is like getting these kids, they've never had help here. You know, you can give them, and we definitely do give them money to eat and for school and stuff like that. But like to get them therapy. Basic necessities. Well, just therapy, they need to get over this trauma.

They've all experienced terrible trauma. And it's like, we're trying to get these kids. fixed up here and here spiritually. So we're trying to break the cycle. So, you know, I'm imploring your audience. $24 a month is kind of how you get in on that. You can give more if you want to. But it's awesome.

We're definitely seeing these kids like transformed lives where they just had no hope. And now they're doing great. They're doing good at school. College degrees, able to get jobs. Like breaking the cycle for, and their legacy. I mean, how amazing is that? Like, they're not carrying that baggage over. They're able to let it go and move on and be human beings in the world and work and

raise a family. And it's pretty inspirational. Yep. We're sitting from little kids all the way through college. These kids are, it's awesome. That's cool. But I finally found something that I really love to do. And I couldn't see myself doing anything.

Like, it's my full-time job. The show stuff is fun and cool and I enjoy doing it. But my work with all guys' children is awesome. I really enjoy that. So you don't want to come back here and edit videos and film duck season for 60 straight days. You ain't trying to sit up there on a scaffold and freeze all season anymore.

Them days are behind you. I put my time, you. That's all I'd say about that. That and running a food track. I don't know if he'd ever go back to it. Oh, my gosh. That's the hardest thing I've ever been in life. So you went from the cold.

You've had two jobs where you were arguably probably the coldest you've ever been in your life and the hottest you've ever been. Yes. And the silver bullet in a, yeah, in an airstream. In an airstream. In Austin, Texas. In July.

Like Gimber, has Gimber ever been on the podcast? No. No. You should have him. He's interesting, though. It's my cousin. He came and helped me do that. And I just remember us sweating.

We're making a sandwich. We wouldn't get in the sweat on the food. So that was good. A little extra salt never hurt nobody. But I just remember us to look at each other. He was like, dude, this. the hardest thing I've ever done. I was like, me too.

Well, Gembert come back from Austin, Texas, and she had 150 pounds or something. I mean, he's the incredible shrinking man now. Yeah, yeah. I think that made him take a little ownership in his life and say, you know what? It's too short, man. Like, it ain't about this. But, yeah, so you have worked a gamut of jobs. That's kind of you're a jack of all trades.

And now it sounds like you're going to be a football coach for it all of a sudden to double this. So I can appreciate that. I'll say. Got that going. We'll see. Mom, just, hey, let it happen. It's fine.

How cool it would be to watch Gus on Sundays? I mean, that's pretty timely. That'd be awesome. Right. I mean, hopefully it goes somebody that's good, but, you know, the good ones rarely do. They have to work for a while before they get to a good team. He's in kindergarten. Let's not jump the gun here.

Hey, a man can dream. A man can dream. Like, let the man dream. Jeff wants to be in Baton Rouge, cheering on as they beat Alabama. I mean, that's cool. What are you saying no for? You ain't a tiger? I'm just saying we're not, I mean, well, let's just move on from this.

Okay. Let the man have a son. You took River from him. Let him have Gus. What about tennis? What about basketball? What about something other than full-on tackle? At some point, he'll know what he's good at.

I was like, can they not make black football a professional sport? they have all this other sports. Really? No. He'll learn to get his head out of the way. They're making it a lot safer. Yeah. Yeah.

It's getting better. It's getting way better than it was. Way better than when I played it. They actually have pads now. Like some of our stuff was even, them little thin pads they put in a helmet back in the day just kept you from wearing the logo of the helmet on top of your head. Now it's actually cushioned in there.

So that's a good thing. But let's take our last break. We're going to get to some questions from some fans. for you guys in our last segment. We'll be back right after this. The fans have submitted questions via Instagram for you guys. I like this one. I don't know how to say their name,

but they'll know that they do. This is actually kind of funny. If you both could dye your hair slash beard to match each other, what color would it be? Jeff, would you go blonde or? No, I would be brunette or redhead. I did dye. I did bleach my hair.

I was in college age. age. I was the worst human, I was strung out on drugs. It was a bad, super bad time of my life. So, I would never want to do that again because it would bring up bad memories of just not living a Christian life. So you had the M&M look going? I did. Back in the day. Literally. I have pictures to pray, but I'll send it to. So I wouldn't want to do that. Jessica, one time, I liked her hair. She did it like red. I had like the redish. I thought it was I remember that. I remember that. That's when she was into like the old timey pictures, too. I liked it.

Like she was into dressing, y'all looked like y'all were from the 30s and stuff. I wouldn't mind going red. I was saying, I was trying to picture that in my mind. Both of you read. Okay, so red. I think it'd be cool. I like red. Hey, look, the world.

Red's not a normal color. Most people avoid it like the play except for Sae. He married it. And she has beautiful hair. She does. She has amazing. A lot of meanness to go with it. She lives up to the height.

All right. Matt says, do you guys have any tips for young parents wanting to adopt? Agencies, foreign, domestic, any? AllGodschildren.org. We do international adoption. But we've, Gus was domestic, so we know people in that area as well. But yeah, it's awesome. You know, it's one of those deals where it's like, you know,

and everybody says it that I feel like we've talked to has been through it. It's kind of like even I had doubts when we were going through it. like, you know, I just don't know if I love this child as much as I love my kids. You know, we're, I think people have doubts or even men have doubts. It's a normal thing. No, I'm saying, I'm just, I'm saying like, that's not a bad thing. Hey, I was like, you're not sure. He's been honest.

Honesty is great. I love it. Yeah. We took Gus home. I was like, oh my gosh. Like, it was immediate. Like, it's one of those things where it's almost even more like I will do anything. Oh, you're talking about before we adopt that.

Yeah. Yeah. I was like, we've never questioned it. No, no, no, he's saying through the process. I got you in the process. And then once you have him, it's even more so like I would do anything for this kid because it's like I will. It's different. Yeah, it's a different thing.

But awesome. And it feels more spiritual in a way because it's like we know that God adopted us. And it's like it's a cool, weird, awesome thing to do. And I'm highly recommended if I'll give you a stat here because I'm in that area. if every evangelical church in America, one family in that church adopted, there'd be no more foster care, done over. So everybody should adopt because we don't need any more orphans.

Just one family in each church, yeah, that's it. But I remember, like, because I went and held him for the first time, and they snuck me in because it was a closed adoption. And, but I was like, okay, like, literally we got the call the day four. This baby just fell out of the air, literally. And she said, you know, she had no prenatal care. She just delivered a baby. And here he is.

And you're up next, basically. If you don't want him, I have a list of families waiting. So I went and I was like, I just need to hold him. I thought there would be this, like, divine intervention from God. Like, I'm going to hold this baby and I'm just going to feel, I'm, you're a mom. But I went up there, and I remember having a friend there. And I was, I mean, we're crying over this baby. I'm holding him.

I'm feeding him. I'm changing him. And I was like, I just, I can't make this decision by myself, you know, and, and Jeff came in. I said, you've got to come up here. Because realistically, you could have handed me any baby in that nursery, and I would have loved him like my own. I would love any baby like my own. And he came in, he looked at him and he goes, yep, that's him. And I was like, just like that.

Well, my exact words were like, well, he ain't much of a looker because he kind of had a traumatic, you know, his face was a little. a traumatic birth. You know what I'm saying? His face was a little bit bit, but I thought. We had all C-section. So, you know, there you go. But I saw him laying there. He was laying there like, yes, like, you know.

He was this big old boy. And I thought, yeah, I like. But that's what it took. I was like, well, he had no. I was like, what if something goes wrong? What if something comes up later on that he has all this trauma and all this? And he goes, we'll deal with it. And I was like, that's all I need to know.

I'm not making this decision on my own and you're the man of the house and you're leading our family and he is our son and we took him home the next day it was just so that's actually pretty cool and i like i like him when he said okay because this is a big step it is it is yeah and he he was being honest well i i you know and that's just honesty yeah yeah i can appreciate that yes yeah 100% yeah i'm saying it's okay it's a it's a scary it could be kind of scary you don't know what you're getting into but it's amazing yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah All right. Let's move on to another question. I mean, there's some serious ones in here.

I don't know. Do you want to go serious or y'all want to lie? The baby dropped out of nowhere. No, he did. God. That's exactly right. God. God's hand was in this all the way.

Yeah, it was. Okay. Why the name Gus? That's not on here. But I like the story and I know that. So I always wanted to name. His name is Jules Augustus. I always wanted to name a son, Augustus.

I wanted to, Augustus McCray, Longsome Dove. Oh, I thought you were talking about Caesar. No. No. No. Lonesome to have, buddy. My favorite mini-series of all time. I mean, just one of my favorite things to watch ever. And his first name is that for you.

And so Jess wouldn't do it with River. I forgot why. But she let me do it with Gus. There you go. I love it. That's awesome. It grew on. Jess, this will be a good one for you.

Favorite Bluebell ice cream flavor. You're the snacker of the family. You like a good late-night snack. I'm a vanilla girl. Just plain vanilla. Okay. Yeah. All right.

I do. So does River. He's a vanilla boy. I don't eat ice cream. I eat chips instead of ice cream. I like salty. Salty is my preferred snack. Black walnut is, obviously.

I can tell you right now, Brittany's the mint chocolate chip gang. Butter pecan's good. I like pecan's good. That's good. Yeah. I'm closer to Jessica. Anytime you get away from Vanilla, you're really playing with danger there.

Yeah. Well, it's a good stable. Yeah. Hey, the good news is Lainey says y'all haven't aged it all and still look the same from the show. So that's nice. That's nice. I feel like I look a lot older.

We need to do some Jessica men. No, you don't. Let it go, man. Don't color. Don't color that stuff. I haven't. Jace doesn't properly die his, so he's got a little streak

right in the middle. Jay's may not want you to share that with the audience. Sorry, the bags out, buddy. He's 10 years older than me. He got gray hair. Yeah. Oh, that's funny. Do you think he has Missy died for him

or you think he does it himself? I think he does it. He does himself because it's not well done. Do you think he goes like to his little guest house bathroom to do it so nobody sees him to it? In secret. He never admits to it. Even when I pick out the flaws.

He's never going to. He's never going to. He's never going to. He raised like a black garbage bag and like throws it in there, ties it up real tight. Oh, Lord have mercy, he's going to kill us. Do y'all have any celebrity crushes? I mean, honestly, I do. There's one man if I could live up to him.

I love everything he does. Not where I thought this was going, but okay. It's a man. It's a man. I have a crush on a man. All right. And he is a man in a world of boys. Okay. And his name is Tom.

I'm a huge Tom Selleck fan. My mom was always a fan and I never knew why and then I just started watching his movies and stuff and I'm like Jesse Stone. I was like, do this dude is a man. No, no. There's another one that runs wet rim, Sam Elliott. Oh yeah. Same type. I would say if you're going to that old, I would say Robert Redford for the end that era,

but Tom Selleck, there's a lot of older men that are just like classic, but I would say, classic but there's probably one celebrity crush that Jep knows about for me. It was a little Superman, Henry Cavill. Oh, that one, okay, I get it. I get that one. She's also a big Matt Damon fan, which I'm like, I do like Matt Damon. I like his acting. I think he seems like a really sweet, like a genuinely sweet person.

I mean, Henry Cavill was like, yeah. Well, I mean, he was Jason Bourne for crying out of him. I mean, he's fresh. Even Phil likes Matt Damon. Thank you. Well, I like it. He just, I like, I always look. got actors in their home life and everything.

I'm like, oh, like, he seems like a good family man, which makes me like him even more. It's not like, oh, I mean, obviously it doesn't look like Henry Cavill, but. I don't even know who Henry Cavill is. Superman? Yeah. Oh, my Lord. I'll send you a picture. He's a British dude.

It's about 6-4-250 solid muscle. Oh, okay. I don't really care about the muscle. His face is really pretty. Thoughts on Ted Lassow? Thoughts on Ted Lassow? Do you all watch Ted Lasson? Oh, absolutely.

I haven't seen it. The news? He's a... Oh, I haven't seen it. Yeah. They're doing it weird. They're doing it one episode at a time. Yeah.

I kind of almost want to wait. We usually wait and then it's like... Yeah. I watch the first one, but I won't say anything. I'm not going to spoil it. But anyway, thank y'all so much for coming on. Jeff, I'll let you plug your guys one more time. The website, if they want to get involved with y'all's foundation and all that.

And I'll let you send us out of here. It is all godschildren.org. and just look up cycle breakers. And we'd appreciate you guys and love you guys. And thank you, you guys. I've always been supportive. So thank you so much. And we are truly making a difference.

So thanks. All right. We'll see y'all next time here in the duck call room. We're out.