Duck Call Room - JStu Opens Up to Uncle Si About Their Scariest Ideas to Date

Episode Date: December 3, 2024

Uncle Si hosts a revolving door of interesting guests, from YouTube stars JStu to the San Francisco 49ers offensive lineman Colton McKivitz. Si seems a little jealous of JStu’s team of builders who create their amazing builds, from backyard roller coasters to full-on spaceship movie sets. Colton and his dad, Mike, came to Louisiana just to meet the Robertsons for a special reason, and Si must admit that his own gridiron tall tales don’t measure up to Colton’s phenomenal career. Check out JStu here https://www.youtube.com/@MoreJStu/videos and get their new book at https://www.thomasnelson.com/p/jstu/ - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right. Look, today we have a very special edition of the Duck Call Room for it. Johnny Dee, I know you weren't here. You were busy. Such a great addition. I'm going to take a nap. You weren't here. You were busy working at the Honeyhole. And we had some special guest stopped by. So first up for you guys today, we have the guys from over at Jay Stu. Jay Stu? But what they are not ashamed of is their faith in our Lord and Savior. And so it was really cool to sit down with them as they have a brand new devotional book out this holiday season for your kids. So if your kids are Jay Stu fans, they have a devotional book for them. It is a really cool book. I've read it. It was super fun to sit down, talk to those guys, how they started, very humble beginnings, and where they are now and what they would like to do in the future. So stick around for that. And once those guys

check out, we also have our friend Colton McKivitz, the starting right guard. He just had all sorts of friends. I do. It was just a weird week, man. And, but. He plays for the 49ers? He was starting right tackle for the San Francisco 49ers. Oh, guy. Yeah, little, I mean, he was a big human from West Virginia slash Ohio. But he, you know, through his personal journey found unashamed and then found the duck call room and came down for Jace to actually baptize him. So while he was here, we were like, buddy, we need to sit and talk about that if you don't mind.

And so Colton and his father sat in with us to talk about their journey from from nowhere. Ohio slash West Virginia all the way to the NFL. So hope you guys enjoy this very special edition of the Duck Call Room and we'll check in with you at the end. Welcome back to the Duck Call Room, ladies and gentlemen. We have two special guests in this room. You know if you see me on this side of the room that something different has happened, but we have Justin and Andrew from the Jay Stu YouTube channel in the Duck Call Room with us. And I just think there couldn't be a better fit for this podcast than you guys.

because we've got a man who believes in joy and laughter more than anybody I know. And y'all's slogan is laugh daily, right? I mean, that's part of what y'all believe in. You've got, you're wearing shirts that say, Joyful Heart. So if this ain't a match made in heaven right here, right here, then I'm obviously missing something. No, welcome, guys. Double that for me. okay because i've always said okay look uh we're gonna have some fun and i say no that's out i said well guess

what i won't be there i like that i ain't coming i ain't coming but now if i can't smile have a good time you know scream if i feel like screaming we need you as our spokesman that's all i'm serious life is too short okay not to and not only that if you believe it the creator and you've got a relationship with him, if you ain't happy, you need to have brain surgery. But that one on a t-shirt. Something's wrong. Okay.

Yeah. Yo, hey, cut some of it out or do something. And I'm looking forward to this because it's just 100 days to conquer your fears, shatter your limits and build your faith. That's right. That's you guys' new book, right? Yeah. So you got a new devotional coming out, which is awesome.

And I've read part of it. I just got it this morning while I was watching y'all on Sadie's podcast. So, yes, I went and watched the professionals, as you all tell us in the comments this morning, to watch how they did it. But I think, I'm going to let y'all talk about your book. But the ones that I have read are so good and so simple. So congratulations on simplifying it to a level. that is palatable for any age, any person, any anything. You can read this and get something out of it.

So here's the question. First question. How long did it take this creation to come to past? Well, first of all, thank you for having us here on the podcast. You guys are legends. I mean, to be here, I've been so thrilled ever since we first figured that we're going to be on the podcast. I'm just, I'm so happy to be here and talk with you guys. Yeah, absolutely.

Our, uh, my family growing up, our Christmas tradition was to get Duck Dynasty DVDs, whatever the current season was. We'd watch it all Christmas morning. So this is, this is awesome being here. Y'all need some new ones. Sure. We can help you out. There you go.

If you can't tell them behind you, we've been known to have some inventory problems in the past. So, yeah, we're not, we're just shamelessly selling teacups. And I got some ideas for those once we get done with the podcast for you guys. So, we need a. y'all yesterday when me and al and will was on satis podcast this would fit in exactly perfect of what we was talking about yeah well i mean we've been working on that book uh feels like a year now um because like on our youtube channel we're all about entertainment and providing as you have mentioned our models laugh daily providing humor to through the means of entertainment

and so uh we don't often get to talk about our faith because we are strong but believers in Jesus Christ. And he's changed our lives in every way. And so that comes through entertainment for us. God has given us the ability to kind of entertain through YouTube. Yeah. I mean, it took us probably, what, three or four months to write the book? Who's there? But yeah, we just kind of went back through some of the videos that we've done and kind of explored the lessons that God was teaching us through the creation of the video or like what it, the process or whatever. So there's a bunch of stories in there from just like us personally or from the videos we've done.

Well, this sounds like a very easy read. It is. Matter of fact, it sounds like a lot like my book, one of my books. Which one is that? Uh, oh, uh, 101 or serenity. Or is it 101 or slash one? Oh, psychology.

Yes. Psychology. It's called Psychology 101. Uh, where it's just like, yeah, yeah. Interesting stories with the, because what I did is I literally wrote this book, by ghost rider did okay because that was the funny part they found a ghost rider and then he came down

and he spent like five days with me and al robertson field over the sun and al al was the he was the person that poked the bear to remind me of stories that i'd tell them growing up you know i'd say well y'all and he'd say hey tell them a one about this, you know, I tell it. So that book was my life and stories. And it was a fun and funny read. Okay, and it was fun.

Yeah, no, I think I had that book. Yeah, it was fun to read. And it was easy to read. Yeah. I mean, at the end of the day, like you said, like don't be deceived by just the, the colorful, playful cover. Although a lot of like what you said.

Oh, no, there's a lot of life stories in here. Yes. okay, that are helpful to live, okay, because we're not of this world. That's right. Okay, but we got to live in this sucker. Yeah, and so like, so, hey, that's a job. The stories that we tell are simple for kids to understand, but like, think of the message of the gospel.

Like, we have a deep, as Christians, a deep, obviously understanding of like certain things that maybe new believers don't understand. but we wanted to be able to express biblical truths through stories, kind of like how Jesus did. And it's for kids, but it's also for adults. That's what I'm saying, don't be deceived by the colorful cover. That's got some great truths.

Yeah. I've never thought about, okay, Jesus is a storyteller and a very good one. Yeah. That's how he taught. Yeah, no, no. All stories. Yeah, all the parables.

Yeah, because I understand why I've done it because, hey, we're so stupid. Okay. We can't understand simple stuff. So that's why he went super simple. Let me explain this for you. Even the unbelievers still didn't understand. Like, please explain this to me.

I don't get it. Well, no, no, because I had the 12th that was with him. They didn't understand a lot. And then poor Peter, you know, Peter's, he, I, me and him had a lot in common. Because I always stick my foot in my mouth a lot too. Oh, yeah, there you go. Yeah, I can see that. You're going to be five in a time.

Yeah, because I would have been asking Jesus dumb questions. Okay, you know, I don't get it. So you go out to, you know, you got to literally click. Yeah. Turn a light on. Oh. Yeah. Yeah.

Turn a light on the floor. But no, I think it's really cool from our perspective, right? Um, you guys have what, a little over eight million or something like that, subscribers on YouTube, which is no small feet, period. I don't care when you started it. That's incredible. but that you use that platform to do something like this, especially with me,

you know, we were talking before. I've got twin two-year-old boys. And so like as a father in today's world, you're always looking for positive things to turn them on to. And so, you know, with you guys having the laugh daily,

the overall just jovial experience of it all. And then having boys that are obsessed with YouTube, even at two years old, like, you know, they watch Disney, junior or whatever you'd turn whatever on TV but if I grab that remote and say YouTube they both go you know but I'm had them watching duck hunting and like I'm like you know just kind of

fun I'm like I just want them to get used to what we do but to have that kind of influence and positivity out there man I applaud you guys so y'all's videos and y'all's deal is to like put yourselves in kind of uncomfortable situations right I mean that's kind of what I gathered from it like overnight challenges and some weird, some weird locales and weird, weird places. Yeah, that's part of it. Last name? It's right here.

My last name is Stuart. Stuart. And sites. Well, hey, you must be kinfolk somewhere. Why is that? Because they like to laugh and have.

Well, we're all blocking. Oh, there we go. Yeah. That's the thing I hope happens now. Now that the election's over. You know,

because I go out and do a lot of events. Okay. And sadly to say, there's nobody smiling. There's nobody laughing. There's nobody having a good time. That's a problem. And that's a problem, you know? Yeah.

You know, the world is miserable. A little uptight. Yeah. Yeah. Loosin up and have some fun for crying. Absolutely. Yeah. Like on our videos, like we're grown men, but we're still kids at heart.

We're so, that's what we're building. Like, if we were at. kid? I know I can't say that. I understand. I never grow up and I never will. I'm still a kid. He's willing on for saying he's 14 years old. Yeah, I'm 14 year old tapped in a 76 year old boy. You call it suck. That stinks. But I handled it pretty well though. Yeah, that's right. But hey, I'm still going for it, boys. All right. Look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means that means more outside cook and and y'all know we love to eat beef around here and that's what because of our friends over at tritels beef makes such a good product baby ain't it good it's so good

it's our friend sall robertson would say buy on the grill look before we got tritels 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 come to him but with Triedails 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 isn'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 just curious, like on a lot of that stuff, how do y'all come up with those ideas?

Do people float them by you or do y'all just spend a lot of time researching like weird places and like. Yeah, I think that part of it is like just researching trying to find weird locations that either people haven't been to or don't do very often. But then sometimes it's like, yeah, we built a roller coaster in our backyard. It's just like what would be like a dream that you could do? Even like as a kid, it's like what would be the coolest thing ever. It's like now we're adults and we can just do it. Yeah. Roller coaster.

That's way better than like two pieces of wood and a bicycle ramp that you almost kill yourself on. The only limit is our imagination. With our motto being laugh daily, that comes from Proverbs 1722. A joyful heart is like medicine, but a crush spirit dries up the bones. That's the thing about, hey,

our roller coaster was a bag swing. Okay, you get a hundred pound of potato sack. Yeah, potato sack, okay. And you fill it full of old clothes, okay, where it makes like a ball that you sit on. And you put a big rope tied to the sack, okay, and then put it on a big tree limb. And we had it where we would climb a ladder with a rope to pull the rope to us.

And now you think about this, teenagers, okay, just the whole neighborhood. We used to see how many we could get on that bag. So you guys, you know, YouTube, is that, I mean, when y'all were growing, I say growing, I don't know. when you're thinking about your 10-year plan, let's go with that way. Was YouTube ever there? Like, I mean, is that something like, you know, they're like, man, did you all aspire to be on YouTube? Or was that just kind of what the good Lord put in front of us?

We just like making each other laugh. So it's like we were going to film school because we wanted to be in the entertainment industry doing YouTube like on the side. And once that started growing, it's like, yeah, we didn't have any thought of like, oh, this could be a business. Yeah. That's cool, man. Yeah.

God and his providence. just a line in the past. He can take a black cloud and turn a silver, make a silver line to come out of it. We get to just be creative. Like the ultimate creator giving us like go out and have fun. Y'all produce it all yourselves? Like I'm saying like with the ideas and everything,

do you all have a team? Does that or I mean both and probably? Yeah, I mean, Andrew and I, we mainly come up with the ideas. But we do have a team. We have 15 people on our team who are editors, builders, creatives, production. So we wouldn't be where we are today if we didn't have the help that we do have.

Like the roller coaster, we could be like, oh, we want to build a roller coaster, but we can't build. Yeah. We need someone else who can build to make it cool.

I got you. No, that is cool. Well, and that's even cooler to think about, like, y'all following this path

is directly affected 15 people's lives, right? Yeah, I mean, that's a cool thing. And you all get to be a positive experience and a witness to those guys, which is one of the coolest

parts that you never got to see for us. I know, and I think I would say it too, with Duck Dynasty was the crew, like the impact that we had on the crew's life that was here. And yeah, okay, y'all were in film school. So y'all can imagine the crew that showed up down here to fill that. When I talk about every different walk of life,

we had them here. You name it. There are some fantastic stories. Like one sound man, okay, didn't get converted, y'all, he, for what he didn't hear. That's what converted it. Oh, really?

Yeah, listen to us, miced up all day. He's like, y'all don't. He told Phil, he said, hey, I'm a sound man. I hear everything. Right. Yeah. And he said, I need to talk to you. Y'all, can I come visit tonight after over this year?

Come on. So he come down and he said, hey, look, the people I work with are filthy, mouth, foul language all the time. He said, yet I never hear any color, any camera. Even when you stump your toe, you just say, oh, golly. You don't scream out bad words, even if you do something that, it's painful. And Phil said, well, hey, no, we're not into that. That's about part of our life.

Okay. We're trying to do what's right. Yeah. And it converted it. What is the craziest thing your team has built for you guys and like how did y'all do? I'll say one and you say a different one. Because our team, our build team is insane. They built the craziest things.

But this year we made our first movie. And we had our build team in our warehouse build an entire spaceship. Really? From scratch. So we had like eight different rooms, a command center, hallways. It literally looks like a Star Wars like scene. So in my opinion, that was our craziest build. I'll show you after.

Or you could put it up on screen. Hunter, can you find that while I injure tells it's craziest? Yeah, another build they did. We created the like world's biggest donut that was like livable inside. It was basically like a house. Was it edible too? Unfortunately not. Oh.

But it was cool. It was a huge. Color me interesting. I know. It was huge. This is a big circular house. It was shaped like a donut. And it took them like four months to build.

Oh, is this y'all? This is the, yeah, this is the scenes from our movie, but this entire set, this is just one of the rooms. One of the many rooms that our build team did. We wanted to make it look like a spaceship. Oh, that's awesome. This is the bridge of the ship. Everything, the chairs, handmade, like, all of them. Every little detail, yep.

Oh, that's awesome. So, kudos to your team. I know they may not always get a lot of love, but kudos to your team. We got the A-LIN, boy. Yeah, the bad guy. That's the... That's the... All right, so let's tear down a fourth wall.

Who was the back guy? 10 to 12 minutes. Oh, okay. Okay, you're the hero and the villain. All right, I love it. I love it. I love it. Yeah, man.

Heck yeah, that takes talent to do both those. Willie did... What can I say? Yeah. Willie, that's how Willie was kind of cast on Duck Dynasty, so... The hero and the villain. You know, at the end of the day, he still signs our checks. So, like, hero.

but he also makes us work villain. So, you know, kind of a daily deal on you guys. So y'all have done, how many videos are y'all to do roughly? Is there a thousands? Thousands.

We've done thousands. What's your, what's your craziest? Because I know y'all like to do like crazy, crazy things that kind of get people drawn in. But again, to make them laugh and have fun. So what would you dissect as your craziest deal?

Is it filling the warehouse full of toilet papers that sleeping on, the cliff is it i'd say we spent the night in a dangerous hotel in the middle of the ocean which was just an abandoned oil rig six miles off the coast oh okay a hotel yeah a hotel it's an abandoned oil oil okay yeah it was he had to take a helicopter to get there only one guy owned it because he bought it and he's the one maintaining it so the rust of all the legs is like from seawater he's having to fix them and replace them. It was insane.

Oh, there's a lot of stuff out there in ocean. Where was that at? It was off the coast of North Carolina, I think. All right. So out off Hatteras or something like that. Yeah, somewhere out that way. And we also did a video in Iceland. We flew to the world's most dangerous lighthouse out there.

You had to take another helicopter out in the middle of the ocean in Iceland. It's just a little tiny landing pad that only one pilot can fly there. Okay. Now, being from Colorado, do y'all, y'all know what lives around like stuff that you put in the ocean like that? Like, then things are- We're not around the ocean that much. That's what I'm saying. Like, when we go fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, we go to oil rig to catch tuna and everything. But the problem is, what the problem is you catch him, then here comes a tax man, right?

Yeah. Like, that's what we call the sharks. Yeah. Like all the big sharks. So y'all were basically like angling, flax. food like we literally did they dangles down on this little swing yeah no it was it was sketch yeah no ignorance is bliss hey there you go i can i can appreciate that we went on a 90-foot you know boat that you spend the night out in ocean on okay my first experience the deep sea fishing

was is everybody else was taking pictures of oh boy that's a 25 pound red snapper or that's this here's you know a my way my wee whatever I always all I reeled in was a head. Oh, everybody else got pictures, big pretty fish. I'm sitting there with mine with a head. Just that.

Wasn't fast enough old way. What fast enough? They kept, hey, real faster. I said, look, I don't know how fast the sharks will,

but hey, I can't out really, I got a fish fight. You idiot. That's even funnier. Yeah, that's the head. No,

I love it. But y'all are not only fun to be around. You all got a little three. Thrill-saker in you. Yeah. Yeah. We try. Yeah.

I feel like it's going down in life, though, but how do you keep that thrill-seeking? We have kids. We want to be alive. Oh, yeah. When they get old enough to go with you. Maybe. That's how you think your wives are going to feel about that? Nope.

Oh, I don't know. They don't want that. Because Brittany's already like dreading the day. I take the boy's duck hunting. Not that, you know. She loves duck hunting and has nothing to do with that. She's just like, they're going to fall. They're going to be wet.

they're going to be miserable. I'm like, yeah, and they're going to love it. And all that's part of it. They'll become men. Yeah. That's how.

All that's part of it. Because she knows I don't baby her when I take her. Like, I mean. Oh, you went? Yeah. Yeah.

Baby, hey, we got, you know, the ducks ain't even starting to fly yet. You know, we got two hours before the ducks start flying.

I always tell the same thing. I'm freezing my tail. Well, hey, you just got to suck it up. You know the way back and you know where the full wheeler is. Yeah. Yeah.

Go on. I'm saying. You know where to live? Right. We're duck hunting. Yeah. But that is interesting. I was wondering to have kids change that perspective for y'all.

Like some of the crazy stuff, you'd be like, eh, yeah, you know, because it has for me a little bit. Like I don't, I don't do some of the goofy stuff I used to do. Like, I will never, you'll never catch me climbing a tree without a safety harness anymore. You'll never. Like, there's just some things like, when I was younger, I was like, oh, I'm, I'm tough. I ain't going to fall. If I do fall, I'll catch myself.

I think that big of a deal, you know, but now I'm like, no, I hook you in from the ground and I'm like, do all the safety stuff. So I was wondering with you guys and that has it, has it calmed down a little bit or we do more stuff that involve your kids and stuff like that. Yeah. Well, my son is almost seven. He's like getting into that age now where he's like, oh, I really want to help you with videos. It's like, can you take me on this adventure? I'm like, I don't know. Maybe not quite yet.

Yeah. Hey, but free labor, man. Yeah. No, he's willing to help. And say, you know, we need a builder. Yeah. We need someone to pick up some trash. I need you to be good at math and good with a drill.

How about that? You really want to help this? That's how you can help this. That's cool, man, seven-year-old. Man, what a life. Potty trained and everything. I came back. Oh, man.

Lord, have mercy. It's going to get there. Oh, I know. Yeah. Children keep you in line. They change your perspective on things. I mean, we've had to change over the years. Like, we used to do pranks.

Now we just do, like, fun adventures. But, you know, they kind of just change your heart and being like, man, I want to, I got to be different. I need to mature more. And so they've helped in many, many, many ways. Oh, that's awesome. So for our people, we're going to wrap it up, man, let you guys get back to explore in Louisiana and get ready to head home tomorrow, all the good things.

And also next time, come back during Duck. season or something like we'd love take you duck out and like we'll take you out there and see you may be cold wet and miserable but that's just part of it we're all and we need it we need to settle something with uncle sigh too oh oh you got settled with him no nothing bad oh okay okay what have I done okay uncle sigh have you heard of chat GPT I had a what hi chat GPT oh praise God all right well I don't know where this is going no that's how you got your hand. It's AI, you know. Hey, artificial and

tell you, no, that don't work for me. I was hoping to get some answers when we are coming in for the podcast, because I'm like, Andrew, it'd be super cool if we brought Uncle Sai like his favorite food. But I'm like, I don't know what it is. So I'm like, okay, chat, GBT, I'm going to ask it. What is Uncle Cy's favorite food?

That would probably be a filet mignon steak cooked, okay, medium plus. Oh, boy. And look, I drive the chefs in saying with that. They said that's not a, a, you know, steak. Y'all and I said, hey, I wouldn't eat nothing you cook.

You don't know what medium plus is. You're an idiot. Medium. No, no. Hey, and this was from New York in one of the finest restaurants, the chef there said, hey, there's no such thing as a billion plus. I said, you just don't know. You said, you're an idiot.

Yeah, I said, you're an idiot. Get out of here. I don't eat nothing you cook. Go. Fired. Go, bye. Yeah. Okay.

Would you want to hear what chat in GPT said? What? Uncle Sy Robertson from Duck Dynasty is known for his quirky and humorous personality, often making jokes about his love for sweet tea and various Southern foods. While he hasn't officially declared a favorite fast food chain, he's mentioned enjoying classic Southern comfort foods, so it's likely that he might appreciate places like Chick-Flare, KFC for their chicken dishes. However, for a definitive answer,

there isn't an official statement from him about a specific favorite fast food restaurant. Well, hey, they need to update one thing. It's not sweet tea. It's unsweet. Unsweet. Oh. Okay. Kick the sugar out.

No. Okay. Idiot. R.FK. Uh-huh. Kick the sugar. Let's go. I need to be on a sugar high, too.

Since you have just figured out what chat GPT is, you could ask it anything, any question. What would it be? We could ask it right now, and it'll answer it with a voice. Find me the best-looking woman there is. I am with Uncle. Uncle Sy from Duck Dynasty. He is wondering if you could find him the best-looking woman that has ever existed. This ought to be good.

Tell Uncle Sy, he's got quite the challenge there. Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder. And history has given us plenty of legendary beauties. From Cleopatra and Helen of Troy in ancient times to icons like Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn in more recent years, people have celebrated all kinds of beauty. Hey, he's like social media. Does he lean toward classic Hollywood? You don't know the answer.

They're asking you questions to get more down in. You don't know the answer. You don't know the answer, dummy. Just say it. I don't know. I'm mildly concerned that Chat GPT thinks Marilyn Monroe is recent times. That's a good point.

I mean, I guess if you go back to Cleopatra, yeah. Like if that's your time scale, but like, I mean, it seems like there's been a lot of options sense then. I got a question for it. He should have said, hey, look, just go out there and take you pick. There's a bunch of them.

I'm with Uncle Sy from Duck Dynasty. What is the... Oh, no, no, no. Oh, wow. You're welcome. You're welcome. I am sitting with Uncle Sy from Duck Dynasty. What is the best advice you can give him?

Are you there? No, he's an idiot. He ain't there. Si versus AI Yeah That's the next episode SI versus AI Yeah

SI versus AI That's right That's right Yeah SI versus AI Yeah AI is an idiot compared to SI

I am with Uncle Sye from Duck Dynasty What is the best Life advice you can give him Well for Uncle C I'd say keep doing What he does best

staying true to himself, finding humor in everyday moments, and sharing those unique stories that make people laugh. A good piece of life advice for him could be, don't take life too seriously, but always be serious about the things that matter. I feel like he's like in the next room.

I apologize. You ain't a complete nip-compoop. I think you may have three brain cells. Yeah, You may be on to something. Yeah, you might be on to something there. Oh, Lordy. That's great.

Well, look, we're running up against time. I'll let you guys, so I don't misspeak. Tell us where our folks, if they're new to you guys, can find out more about you guys. It's just at J-Stu on YouTube. Is that right? Yeah, just go to YouTube, type in J-Stu, J-S-T-U. That's our main YouTube channel. Yep.

And if you got kids and Christmas is coming, take it. Yeah, man. The Jay Stu Survival Guide, 100 Day devotional, and even if you don't have kids, like I said, I was reading it earlier. This is actually, you know, did a great job of keeping the message simple and using real life stuff for that. So I can appreciate that, man. A lot of times we make it way too complicated. So great, great job on what you did here. And now I've got to go watch the videos that I read about on some of these things. I got to watch the cliff one. That cliff one, because the, uh, the, the, uh, the, the, the, The book when I did it, opened the first time to, I think it's, what is, yeah, day 25,

there it is, first time I open it. It's faith, it works, and it talks about y'all sleeping on a cliff. So now I've got to go watch. Oh,

I've seen that. Now I've got to go watch that video. You've seen that. I would not do. Oh, yeah. It shows them they're climbing, okay,

and it's getting dark. So they say, well, up, go out spending that night. So they take out their little hammers and iron spikes and and tie it off,

okay? Then they get in it and zip it up, y'all. And I said, now I know why I never would be a mountain climber. I said, you guys are tied to a cliff wall. Yeah, we don't recommend it. Like this. Like this. Yeah, it was scary.

And I said, and you're laying on some kind of light, light canvas. is the only thing that's holding you to this stupid mountain? No, I don't think so. That's too big adventures for me. Well, good, man. Thank you all so much for coming in, man. We appreciate it. And come back anytime, man, anything we do to help you guys.

I love what you're doing. Keep being positive lights out there in a dark world, man. Keep them smiling and keep them laughing. Absolutely. We'll do our best. The world needs it more. What's the take-on? laugh laugh daily yeah it is love it guys thank y'all so much for coming in us welcome back

we uh we now have two guests in the studio with us we have the mcquivitz family colton and his dad matt are with us uh colton i think by the time this airs your unashamed episode stuff will have aired so we have a lot of crossover viewership so he probably looks familiar uh if he doesn't he you are the starting right tackle for the San Francisco 49ers, right? That's awesome, man. Congratulations. And you got your father in the house.

So what brings y'all to West Monroe, Louisiana, man? It's kind of a long way from San Fran and all the things. God, man. God brought us here today. Hey, what a concept, right? I went to San Francisco and God was behind that. Oh, yeah. I just got back from me.

I was William and Corey once you stand in Quentin. But no, yeah, God brought you all down here. Because you saw something, you heard something. I'm not, I got bits and pieces of the story, but I don't want to tell your story because it's yours. It's not. Mm-hmm. Yeah, what, what about this bearded bunch of rednecks struck a cord with you?

Yeah, so, you know, we're hunters, you know, love waterfow hunting, and we had watched, you know, the Duckman videos and Duck Commander and obviously Duck Dynasty and everything. So we felt a connection, but the real connection was through the Unashamed podcast. That was kind of, you know, where we really connected,

you know, God and church and kind of our fellowship with the Lord was through the unashamed, you know, you guys think like us, you look like us. Like that's where our connection was and what drew us to Duck Commander. And then my dad had a dream of,

that was kind of his thing, was to be baptized by you guys. Oh, really? Yeah, a couple years ago, he asked me he's like i think it was rookie year or sometime you brought up that you want to be baptized by the by the duck man i was like all right you know i mean it's kind of a pipe dream you think about it you know that's that's a long way for us to go and you know how do you those you know

paz meet um and sure enough through an uh you know one of the owners at the niners um you know i wore a duck commander sweatshirt is placing idaho up on a mountain and he said you want to meet him. And I kind of looked at it. I was like, you never know when you take someone's word for if they know somebody. And I was like, all right, whatever. Um, you know, and through growing, growing in the word and, you know, getting closer to God, you know, I learned to ask for help. And sure enough, I asked him, I was like, all right, let's see what this is this is about if he really knows it. Sure enough, you know, week later, he's like, hey, you're ready to go to Louisiana and meet the duck man and get baptized. And I was like, all right, let's go. Um, you know, I listen, sigh, one of the,

The coolest thing was, it was, you know, I knew it was God talking to me. You know, he said we were going. I was like, okay, you know, let's plan it out. And a couple days later, I listened to one of the Unashamed podcast, and you happen to be on it. And, you know, you said that if someone put a revolver to my head, you said, pull the trigger. He said, I'm ready to go. I'm ready to meet guys. If you only waste a good bullet, go ahead.

Yeah, go ahead and pull it, man. Yeah. Yeah. And I just, you know, our quarterback, Brock Purdy, Like you said earlier, you know, he kind of said the same thing. We were talking about the end of the world and revelations. And he's like, all right, let's go. I'm ready to go.

Like, why not? And, you know, I wasn't there in my life. And that kind of struck me. I was like, man, I got to fix this. Like, I ain't ready to go, you know. And then that happened. And then, you know, sure enough, last night, you know, Jace was kind enough to let us in and, you know, take us in his kind of family.

And, you know, we went through the word. and about an hour, you know, talking about what baptism really means. And, you know, your old self dies, you know, you refer to his pool as a graveyard. There's a funeral. Yeah, there's a funeral. Most people don't realize that. Yeah. Y'all, a lot of times I've studied with people and then they balk on baptism.

I said, dude, that's one thing you don't want to fool with. Okay. Yeah. You don't add to it or take it away. Don't take it to it or take it away. Yeah. You don't understand. You know, I said, you're reenacting Jesus Christ, real death, barrel, and resurrection.

I said, well, what do you do when, hey, when you come up on something dead, what did you do? You bury it because it starts to stink. You know, I mean, that's life. Well, that's cool, man. It's cool how all that stuff works and, you know, just to dig into y'all a little bit more. And if you don't know this, this guy is a closet sports nerd. So I'm sure he's got some, he's got some wild tales about his own sports career. Oh, yeah.

I don't know if you, I don't know if you call it a career or not. He never got paid, but like it was his history of sports. But no, y'all from Ohio originally ended up at the University of West Virginia, which is, there's a funny story there with me and Jace too. So, but yeah, there's just all sorts of connections here that are just, it's weird that it took this for our paths to cross. Like, I was just in San Francisco. He and Jay spent a couple of days up in Mourningtown when you were there during the same kind of, so it's a weird. It's like it's almost like this was destined to happen.

It's just when was it going to happen? And it happened. And it happened from a mountain in Idaho. Yeah. It was all God's playing, man. God's will. No, no. Yeah, because if it had happened before, it may not have worked out.

You know, like, you may not have been ready for the gift that you received by the reenaction of the death burial and resurrection, your dad. And what a cool moment for a father and son to be baptized the same night in the same place by the same person. That is cool. I don't know if you've seen it, the movie The Blind. I haven't seen it, but I know of it. You need to see it, okay, because my favorite part in the whole movie is

Bill's hiding out from the law up in the woods on eagerness, okay, up where Marlson Fish Lake, as used was, yeah, and Bill Smith, one of the elders that, you know,

church Christ's at White's Fair Road, okay, my sister wouldn't get off of Bill's back about go preach to my brother. Yeah, but anyway, he's up there and Bill goes up there and, and,

they're sitting on the on the back because the trailer where they live or the little hut where they live in it is so filthy it'd be better to be outside you know there's beer bottle whiskey bottle all his yeah well Phil finally hit rock bottom and he looked at Bill and says I don't know what I don't know what to do y'all and Bill said and Bill told him it he said Phil Robertson has got to die the old one that look at look We, we, we, you're, you're obviously the strong silent type. You've said here, but I do want to get to know, like, you know, we've talked about sports and we love sports, but having a son that's in the NFL, what, what's that like, man? Is that, is that a cool thing? Is that something you worry about for him? Like, I'm just, I'm just curious. It's amazing and it's also, uh, very hectic.

I mean, it's scary. Yeah. You know, because you're always on edge, you know, how, how's he going to do? Because we're always just watching more or less him. Yeah. And so just sit there and pray and God keeps him healthy and he does his job. Yeah, that's awesome. So do y'all travel to every game like that kind of deal?

Or y'all that, I mean, I don't want to say committed, but like does life allow y'all you all to be at most of his games? Most of them, yeah. That's cool. That's a cool deal. So for you, just being a guy from Ohio, where's the coolest place football is taking you with yourself? I like, well, the Super Bowl was always.

Yeah. And, but Texas, it was fun when we beat Texas twice. Okay. In college. That was, that was fun. Oh, going to Austin? Yeah. Oh, you got to turn them horns down.

Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. That was the big game. We had receiver first touchdown. Okay. Hit them with the horns out. They were throwing flags left and right. Oh, okay.

Yeah. Yeah, to be fair, if I'm being honest, my true love of sports is college football. So that's like, Texas, I was thinking what team I was like, well, They ain't really proud to beat the Cowboys. They get beat every week. No, sorry Cowboys fans. I know y'all are going through it. It's been like 30 years now.

So it's an early exit for them anyway. At least they had a, you know, they had a dynasty there for a while. Oh, they did. Yeah, they run the free world there for a while. It's hard to hold on to, boys. Yeah, yeah. And it's even harder to get back.

Because nowadays the talent level. Yeah. It's so high. Yeah, New England going to be drafting first in a draft. for a while. Well, no, no, I'm just saying, you know, you, you know, because when I played football, now, the talent, because nowadays you've got them in,

and peewee football, you know, and I mean, they're being coached. It ain't, it ain't none of this, no, they're being coached. By the time they get in high school, they're really good. And then if you go and you go like to Alabama, when Sabin was there, I'll go there now, they try. Yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but I'm going to LSU either. Just the athletes nowadays. No, no.

I mean, these kids are in weight rooms at 9, 10. I mean, I didn't touch a weight until sophomore junior year high school. I didn't know what the weight was. Yeah. And now you got. They're doing it now in Peewee. Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, there's kids now doing drills at seven and eight years old. Oh, no. Yeah. It's wild. But, no, that's cool. I always wonder about the family dynamic of that, like how, you know, as a parent, like for us, like, even when you're playing, then you feel like you can't get hurt, right?

But I would imagine it's apparent. It is an unnerving situation. Very unnerving. Hey, good news is you don't have to line up across from Bosa. At least y'all are on the same team. Practice is pretty hard, but games, he makes it easy, man. Yeah, I guess so, yeah. Oh, do y'all practice like ones-on-one, one-on-one?

Yeah, camp we do. Yeah. We get after it, one-on-one, one's everything. That's a rough couple of weeks there, and he'll get a few days off, so those are the nice ones, but when he's on. man it's game on it takes everything in you oh yeah i do want to know like in the nfl faith is it is it more prevalent than maybe the media lets on like or is it you know is it just kind of what you're think it is there's the few that are outspoken and then there's a lot of really cool people that are

that are in on it but they just don't even want to be that spotlight i mean how how is faith in the in the league yeah i mean it's it's exactly like that you've got your few um who are very outspoken And a lot of it is guys are just there to play football and collect checks and don't want to kind of deal with that side of it. Yeah, they're there to do their job. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, they show up, punch a clock, give me my check and move on. Yeah, exactly. But, I mean, it's a pretty strong community. There's a lot of guys in faith. And I mean, we have a pretty strong, you know, cohort with the Niners. And, you know, they do our study every night after on Saturdays before games and everything. So, I mean, there's a good community of guys that. you know, who are believers.

They all got like a chaplain. No, yeah. That's cool, man. That's awesome. It's cool to see the team actually be okay with that. But to be supportive of it. And I'm sure no matter what somebody's creed or belief in there, they're supportive of that too. Because y'all are for half the year, y'all are a family, man.

Yeah. So that's a cool deal. Yeah, we start off every game with the Lord's Prayer and then we break and we're out. But it is, when you say family, it is, man. I mean, last year it was, you know, July to February 11th. It's a long time together. You go through a lot of things and having that kind of structure is huge for a team. Well, and it's the appearance of like, man, it's this big giant team.

And what, there's, what, 50 of you? There's 53 on the active. And then 16 P-squad guys. Yeah. So, I mean, that's not in the grand scheme of things. Most companies are way bigger than that. So, and y'all are, y'all are there together from can to kaint with each other. So it's cool, man.

That's every team that only got 50, or 50? Yeah, 53 on the active, yep. Yeah, 53 on the sidelines that can suit up and go every week. Yeah. And coaches or leadership are some of those guys, I mean, they're probably pretty involved in faith and stuff, huh? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That's cool, man. That's awesome. I just love to hear it, right? Because it's so easy to see, like, in our industry and our line of work, like, nobody's going to be upset with you sharing Jesus and ever you know they're supportive of you and all that so it's really cool to see something that's on such a bigger a bigger platform than even we've got and because i mean y'all are watching worldwide like if you had people today show up at this office i never even knew we're 49ers fans like i'm like you live in westman roe louisiana how in the

world are you wearing a san francisco 49ers jersey it's everywhere yeah i mean i think sunday night they had 26.8 million people watching that game see that's what i'm talking about that. That's wild. Like even at our highest, we wouldn't end. Yeah, I mean, it touches everyone. Yeah. So that's a, that's a cool deal and a cool impact that you're able to have on, on the world and on communities and all that thing. So, man, thanks for stopping by. I appreciate you doing it. Keep doing the Lord's work. And if you ever find yourself back in North Louisiana, we've got a spot for you, man. Oh, I'm pretty sure we'll be back. And I mean, it's all God's timing and God's will that there's a reason we're here today, you know, earlier I got to share

with a high school, you know, kind of my story, and that was my first time telling it. It's just, there's a reason we were put here today, and there's a reason we connected and met, and, you know, that's all God's will. Well, your story, your story is just like everybody else. It's important.

Yeah. Every one of them is. Okay. Every one of them, ever said the story is important. Imagine a party haven't had last night when they come up out of that water. Man, that's cool. Oh, no.

When one sinner repents, like, I mean, just think of the party that went on last night. That's cool because two of them did, right? Two of them. Two of them did. We added two more to the kingdom and that's so cool. And something that I'm, I mean,

even Jace, I've said it on here and I'll wrap this up. Like, Jace was very instrumental in my life in, in that and getting me to theirs. Gates has been instrumental in a lot of people. So it's so cool for Jace to be humble and obedient and listen and do those kinds of things. Like I know we give it,

like ain't no two people on this planet give Ace Robertson a harder time than me and that man right there. There ain't no two people on this planet that bust him mores than us. Okay, the reason I gave him more time is me and him were too much of lack because I actually kept him as a child. Yeah. Okay, growing up and he's got a lot of my mannerism and we don't like he's just. And I work shoulder to shoulder with him in the most boring job in the world,

which is assembling duck calls for too long. So, I mean, we give each other so much crap back in. forth but it is really cool to see there's a lot of love involved oh absolutely i mean it's just like we give we give each other hard just like you guys and y'all's team the ones you really like you give the hardest time to so yeah yeah tell and tell any of the guys if they ever want to come by they're they're welcome we we accept all hats they can wear whatever hat they want uh no that's just the little joke you have no idea what god's going to do with you yeah so if me and i end up in california we go and duck hunting. Oh yeah. Okay. I was just making sure. Oh no. Oh, look. Hey, Phil and

Jace went up there. You know, I'm well aware. I said duck hunting in California. We can go there and kill 10 speckle battle. Oh, hey, I can get in and on that. Seven mallards. Seven mallards. Well, I don't really care. Mowler's. I don't know the specbellers I'm into it. I like a big slow goose doing this in front of. I don't really care. I don't know. I like a big slow goose doing this in front of. to me when I got that 20 gauge in my hand. Yeah, them old special belly sure are. But no, man, thank you so much for joining us. And yeah,

we'll, y'all check them out. Go Niners. I'm now a Niners fan. Now I have a reason to watch and root for the 49ers. Other than it's just football season and I pretty much watch every game I'm capable of any level of football. Like, we're in the greatest

time of year because even in football scene, there's even little weird college games on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, There's a game every night right now. Thursday night matching. It's everywhere. Yes, man. Yes.

Like, do the referees ever make you mad? Uh-oh. What's the cause? I don't know if I can talk about that. I mean, they, you, oh, no, you had a football player. Yeah, it gets mad at a referee if he makes a wrong call. Well, I know that, but I don't want him to get in trouble. Then you get the paperwork because you submit the play and then two days later, they're like,

ah, sorry we messed up. Yeah. And you're like, well, that don't help me now. Oh, really? They do that. Oh, okay. Because see, I wrote, now we're not going on a different tangent.

So I did a deal. Now we'll get in the medal. No, no, no, no. But I rode on, so I did a deal in Kansas City and my flight back. I rode beside, who's the official back there with a referee? One is staying right across from me.

There's two of them back here now. What the white hat? The umpire? Not the white hat, but the other guy. I think he's a line judge. Line judge, whatever he is. He's right back here with the referee now.

they put him back there to get him out of the way. Yeah. Because they got tired of them getting hit with balls and stuff. Or getting run over. Getting run over. Yeah, getting run over. But he was on the- way, boy.

He was on the plane beside me. We were sitting in the same deal up there. And he was grading his own performance. Like, he already had the game film that they had just called in Kansas City at Arrowhead. And he's sitting there with a pad out. You know, me being nosy. I'm like, oh, bro, what? like is this your job to watch the games and he stopped it and he said no that's me yeah and like

showed him behind you know like behind my homes i was like oh man that's tight like you know that's cool like i said so the whole free world's pissed off at you every week i said how does that do for a living he said well it pays all right and i said oh that's cool but i had no idea oh you know you think from the outside looking in a referee shows up does his job and goes home like you don't but he was sitting there grading himself on performing and grading the whole crew he was looking at every penalty that they threw or didn't throw like he watched every play on that flight back and i was i was super impressed with that i thought that was a really cool aspect that that doesn't get talked about because i you know what job i don't want a referee because the whole free world hates you

it makes you it doesn't matter if you let them play the other side gets to griping or if you call the flag it's like you ain't making nobody happy so lie it's just it's crazy so but no man thank you all so much for coming in and uh yeah we'll stick around guys we'll be back right after this on duck caller room