Duck Call Room - Phil Robertson Has Buried a Lot of Bones in His Creek

Episode Date: September 19, 2023

Uncle Si is joined by Phil and Miss Kay Robertson and Burly as they tell each other stories about their rough days and how they turned their lives around together. John-David recalls one of his first encounters with Phil that scared him to death, and Godwin remembers how Phil ministered to him and his wife Paula during house church. Miss Kay reminisces about what life was like after Phil was saved, and Phil gives advice for a fan who's unsure if he's saved or not. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So I welcome the people back to the duck call room. Welcome folks. Where's he being? We have got guests, if you have not noticed, we got Ms. Kay. And then her pioneer man, Mr. Phil Robertson with us also. We got the whole gang in here. Then we've got Phil's friend that comes in from Colorado that is visiting. That's Mr. Burley.

For teal season. And hey, one of our regulars over there, Johnny Goward. And Martin's supposed to be here, but he's. moving a duck blind somewhere and may show up at some point. That's how we operate in duck season. Ducks first, business second. I don't know who started that. Phil.

Miss Kay, how you been? I'm good. I'm real good. Burley? How you been? Are we ready? I'm ready. I'm in the weirdest seat of all time in this podcast.

But we are excited to announce. You've heard of Unashamed. You've heard of the duck call room. you've heard of Live Original. We have a new podcast coming out. Did you know that, Sa? No, I'm so excited. I didn't know that.

They never tell me anything. You were on it. I'm on it. Oh, we got a new podcast and I'm on it. Well, it's a special. Tell us more. It's six episodes. It's called The Blind Movie Podcast.

It's available now. Oh, you already recorded it. Oh, well, hey, thanks. Hey. Thanks. I don't know what you do. Miss Kay, are you on it? I don't know.

I think we're on it right now. No, this is the duck call room. Oh, this is the duck call room. Are you sure? No, when you filmed with your boys, I think there was an episode with Phil and Willie. There's episode with you and all your nephews. We got clips. Do we need to play a clip for reminders' sake?

I was fixed sake. Play a beautiful clip from it. That would help. We do a lot of podcasts, so we get them all twisted up. And so Hunter's going to play us a clip. Maybe. He was an atheist up to the last two or three months of his life. Changed his mind.

God said, cut it, cut it thin. I'm looking and saying, where did my brother go? This is some kind of wild, just out of control animal. I like it. I like it. So there's six episodes, all of them somewhat like that. And we're talking about the blind, the movie. It's a big movie's coming out September 28th.

It stars the four people, three people, to my right. It's got a lot to do with their story, especially yours, Mr. Phil. I think so it actually stars two people. Phil, okay. I thought you were going to say Jesus. No. Well, that is true. Yeah.

He's the main character. He's the main character. He's the main character. We chased ducks, did things like sound like them. I had a knack for hearing birds, and I would say pentails, or I would say Woody's, or I would say teal, mallard. So the trick was to duplicate that. And if you stay sober long enough,

where you can focus on what's at hand, sound like birds. But you're an ambassador of God simultaneously. So just so y'all will know, because you all don't have the years I have. But the best days are still ahead of you. Yeah. So the movie, it kind of peels back some tough times

in y'all's life for sure. Pre-Christ ambassador. Yeah. Pre-no-I ambassador. He was a bad boy. Yeah, an ambassador of Satan at the time. Yeah. I just called him bad boy.

He was a liar and he was a murderer from the beginning, Jesus said, Satan. So if you can get by him, you better put your faith in Jesus and go for it because it's a tough world out there. They tell me. and so burly why we because we don't have burly for very long you were you were brought to Christ by Phil correct? I was yeah

when was that? It was 33 years ago 33 years ago and of course we can't forget one of the characters in the movie and that's Jan Jan. It wasn't for Jan

none of us would be here for sure you know she's one to talk Bill and to go into the bar no I'm sitting here laughing And when he said 33 years, that's kind of weird when you think about it. Because, hey, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ walked this earth for 33 short years. We did.

Something about that number. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that's pretty wild that, you know, you came to Jesus 33 years ago. It really is. And I'm 63. So I've been following Jesus longer than I was following Satan.

So finally reached that mark. And so that's kind of what, Phil, that's what you did. Once, once that switch flipped in you, I've heard it said because I've grown up around you and you're like the legend of Phil Robertson. But you did so bad for so long that you, then you just had to be that good on the other side. And there's conversion stories like Burley's all around. And there's a bunch of us that look like Burley that ended up down at Phil Robertson's house getting baptized. Is that? it's it's yeah you're pretty close it become a and it still is

when it becomes your lifestyle the way you vote of operation yeah i mean we actually have a part of the river that's special set there and that's where all the baptisms have taken place a lot of dead bones in cypress creek in cypress oh no i'm sure yeah yeah oh for sure Okay, because you bury the old sinful person, okay, in the water. And then when you come out, okay, and the Lord set the precedence on this. John the Baptist baptized Jesus. He didn't need to, but the Lord said, hey, you do it, okay,

because it makes everything right. That's why when people are messing with baptism, you need to stop that. If it's the thing that makes everything right, you leave that alone. One evening late, just for dark, there was a little girl. She's about 20. So I'd shared Jesus with him. She wanted to obey the gospel. I said, well, let's go to the river.

So we walked down there, and there was about 20 of us, 25 of us there. and when we went down to the water, everybody got quiet, you know, because I'm fixing and baptizers, girl. I know what he's going to say. I heard a racket and I looked up and I saw two fishermen, bass fishing, coming down the bank where we were all standing. And when they heard some of the sisters start singing and they saw me baptize a girl, I said, y'all won't in on some s action?

I never seen people leave at trash. He fired that motor up. It scared them. It scared them. It scared them. It really did. Let me tell you about another one he did. It was when he took this somebody down there to be baptized.

And Phil was talking to him in the water. And then all of a sudden, right before he baptized them, our dogs and the neighbor's dogs and some other dogs came out, and they just got in a big fight. And it was, oh, right. Think about it. You go down in the water, everybody is silent. And as soon as you go under the water, you hear dogs.

So when they came up, you know, they said, did Jesus throw them to the pigs? I said, I think so. He threw them, Phil said all the scenes. Did he go into dogs? They went in the dogs. That's what Phil told them. They went in the dogs. And they really sounded like they did.

That's fantastic. That's great. I mean, I know you're not going to be able to answer this, but how many people do you think you've baptized in your life? We would never build up. I let the Almighty make decisions like that. You just. Not me.

Yeah. I'm just doing. Remember, ambassador, I'm representing it on the earth. We all are. And some people more energetic than others. But love God, love your neighbor. We all have to. My day of meeting was when I finally read on who Jesus was.

What's his name? The one that pointed me to him. Bill Smith. Bill Smith. He's the one that pointed me to him, and I read about him. He came to see you when you were drunk in the bar. I was there. Yeah.

I said, this sounds too good to be true. And he said, well, it probably is too good for us, but it is true. I said, I've never seen that before. I never seen. And brought out. That was the person. I said, all my sins removed. I said, I got a lot of them.

All of them removed. I said, I will be raised from the dead. So he's raised from the dead. I'm like, I said, I've got to double check this. It just doesn't sound, it's too good. So two or three days later, after looking at how good it was, I called him up. I said, come down here.

I want you to do one thing for me after I read the Bible. I said, let's find some water, bury me deep, and I'm ready to go. The rest is history. And he didn't even wait for us to get home from the store. So we got the note, and me and the kids ran up there. We were at the back of the church, and they were at the front, had the light on down there. The rest of it was black. Cole was Willie at the time, about what?

He was doing this. 24. I would guess about he did that until he started kindergarten, so it could have been about three or four, I don't know. And because of that, I mean, you look at Burley, you look at, I mean, you were mentor to my uncle. The impact on Bill Smith going to that bar,

we cannot even come up within our head. Oh, no, no. From where it all spread out. He was really brave to go in there. I've always said, okay. Especially with that hair. God in his infinite wisdom. said the only man that that man would have listened to.

That was Bill Smith. It's an amazing story. The blind does a great job, but I can't imagine actually living it, and I can't imagine watching that. So let's take a quick break, and we'll dive more into that when we get back. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means.

That means more outside cooking. And y'all know we love to eat beef around here. And that's because of our friends over at Triedales beef makes such a good product, baby. Ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Sal Robertson would say, bye 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 comes from. But with Tritels beef, we skip the grocery store and do it a different way. Tritels 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 Tritale's beef. I know in size case Christine loves it, which is just a, she doesn't eat meat. She ain't a big meat easier, folks. Yeah. Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's trybeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. Yeah, give old Burrell a few words.

Burrell, tell us, do you mind talking about Phil converting you? Yeah. Before you do anything, old Burrell, he ducked up with us. We were working on duck blinds this morning. He knows all about ducks. So what are the... He's a master craftsman. Okay, Burley.

Yeah. He's a master of carpenter. It's what he is. Okay, plus he's a nurse. That's what he does to make a living in his life. Just think you just cut out under surgery. And it's a bad surgery. And the nurse is with you.

When you went to sleep, he wasn't there. But when you open your little eyes up. And you're screaming. You see, I'm in the wrong place. It's Burley standing over you. Well, you know, that's enough to, you think you're in hell. That or the angel Gabriel's coming to take you. Oh, yeah.

Kind of like the Gabriel part. Guardian, that's right. So Burrell, what's it like being a nurse? Well, you know, everything you do is worship. You know, I don't go to work. I go to worship when I go to the hospital. And I'm just trying to figure out, you know, who God wants me to minister to. A lot of times I have an alcoholic in the bed that's, you know, going through withdrawals,

and I can tell them, you know, I used to do that. You know, I used to drink a lot. And the only way you're going to get out of this is through faith in Jesus. You know, AA's good, but you need a faith-based program. And, you know, of course, celebrate recovery. I'm a big fan of that. But one reason, Phil, that you had never seen that before when Bill Smith told you about the resurrection of the dead. That's right.

You never were looking for it before. That's right. You weren't ready. That's exactly right. They'd been talking to you the whole time. Jay and never quit talking about it. Yeah. Never.

Yeah, you were hearing it, but it just wasn't registered. And when I was 29 and, you know, I was about as far south as I could go, nowhere but up. That's whenever I was ready to listen. Got to be something, something else to this and just getting drunk, getting high and chasing women and fighting, you know, got to be something more to it. Because the infancy is still there. It was costing a lot of money doing that. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

House church. Yeah. That's what got me. I never went to church building. Right, right. All I ever heard was, you got to act like this? You got to act like that. Are you going to hell?

Who converted you? Well, Tony was talking to him, and he brought me down, and you built me a duck call. Because I was, well. I was laying the groundwork. Yeah. Well, see, all I was wanting us to straighten up. And why were there quotes? Well, she kept wanting me.

She said, we got a baby now. We need to act good. We need to go to church. And she kept wanting me to go here, go there, go. I didn't want that mess, you know. And Tony got me down there at House Church, and you was doing the lesson. But I was mad at him because he didn't tell me it was House Church. He wanted me to come over there and see his new property.

And his daddy was up there cooking hamburgers, so I just went hanging up there. I remember that. We was putting beer in a cup so them church folks wouldn't see us, you know. I thought you were doing something like that. But you was doing a lesson, and I remember you being there. I didn't really know who you would. I'd heard of you, but I didn't really know, you know, a lot about you. And so Paula kept nagging on me, nagging on me.

So I got me an idea. I said, I'm going to go to Tony's church, and he'll introduce me to fit. Duck season was coming up. You'll get you a duck call. I'll get me a duck call. Boy, did I get way more than that. A duck call. You've been here ever since.

He ain't left. And became best friends with our oldest son, Alan Liseum. That's right. Yep. What year was that just for? 19, well, I'll tell you exactly. It was January 21st, the last day of duck season, 1996, when I obeyed the gospel. At 1 o'clock in the morning.

That was a good year. The last day of duck season. That was a good year, 96. I sat there all day hunting, just, it was gnawing on me. I was just, I'd never heard, like you said, I'd never heard that. I'd never heard what Jesus done for it. You weren't listening? I never knew that he really.

loved us that much. Well, were you, did you get baptized in the river or was it? No, we went, and I come home and was talking about it, called Tony, we went to Calhoun up there right quick. Who baptized you? Tony. Tony, Neil. It's the same story, though, because I remember when I hit bottom and looked around and

said, you know, there's got to be more of life than what I've got right here. There's got to be. This is not it. There's nothing here. Yeah. Because each person has got an impotiness is what I call it. And the only thing that can fulfill it is Jesus. I remember it.

You're searching for something and everything here on this earth, no. Nothing is going to satisfy you. it's just not going to do it no gold yeah it's just not going to do it because I just remember being miserable I felt miserable I felt awful

you look miserable well no no I was sick you had a hole in your soul no no I'm serious I was sick and I didn't I just you know it's got to be better than this something's missing

what you still do though was try to fix everybody we tried to do it we can't do it No, but did we not try? We tried. Oh, yeah. I was going to fix him. Boy, I had 10, after 10 years, you know where I decided?

I can't fix him. No. And that's what I tell you, I found Jesus. Why are you there, Ms. Kay? Because by one sacrifice, Jesus is death on the cross, God dying on a cross. Because by one sacrifice, check us out next time you get to worry because by one sacrifice, he has made perfect. He, God, has made.

Everything is made right. Perfect. Yep. Forever. Forever. Perfect. Eternity. Those who have been made holy.

So holy is the process, holiness, and you're gaining that. But you say the whole time, when you make mistakes, it's not counted against you. The blood of Jesus. That's why, hey, understand. Great thing. Understand it's a gift. Christ gave you that gift personally.

Okay. It's a gift. He gave it, and it makes everything right. I wonder if it's possible. You think there's any ducks in heaven? I hope it is. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Is it created there? He's there. Then the ducks are there. They're there. I feel bad for the ducks in heaven. His creation knows him, okay? They're there.

They're in trouble. They'll be resurrected. They'll just come back and pop them again. Just keep them shooting again. We just keep shooting. That is amazing to think about, though, because, you know, God would kind of hint on to those church folk. And I think if you're listening and you're not one of those church folk

and you think that we're just talking about, you know, you live enough right, you get to heaven one day. that's not that's part of it it's a huge part of it and i cannot wait for eternity but everyone in here will testify to what s i was saying once they turn their life around life got better here on earth and heaven awaits us jesus didn't say i came to give eternal life and that's it he said i came to give life abundantly here on this earth as well you bet and and phil and kay are a living testament to that like you look at their life and the movie shows it so well that's not something any of us would sign up for what Phil was going through.

Not even you would have signed up for, but what Phil's got going now with four beautiful sons and all this life that he's living and being able to preach the gospel, a lot of us would want that, but that's only possible through Jesus Christ, and that happened here on this earth. I don't like to turn.

And all these children and grandchildren, and I'm saying, what's that one? What's which one? Who's that blonde? And we've got nearly 50, and it is hard. keep up with it. I know their names. I'll never forget them. I got to, but it's embarrassing

when he's like, no, is this Jep's, is this, is this, is this Jason's grandchildren? Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of them. Yeah. I don't know them. I know them, but I will say there are a lot to keep up with it. If you wanted me to rattle out 40-something names. To be fair, every time I show up at a Robertson thing, there's new ones. I mean, they just keep multiple. Plus, it's just like the time. Now there's great. It is. And plus there's always, the whole time I was raising my boys, we always had people that showed up.

Remember, Phil would say, who is he? Who is he? That boy that slept on the floor last night, who is that? And my boys would say, Dad, we brought him home, we brought him home. And then sometimes they would say, we want him to talk to you, which would usually mean they need to talk to, you know? And I love that about them because they would bring them for Phil to talk to them. And I said, well, is that one of your best friends? And I remember Willie said one time, no, but he needs Jesus.

So I brought him on down here for dad to talk to him. Boring to him anyway. Yeah. There you go. I just, I remember, because so I, like, I was a kid not too long ago. I remember running in to Phil at church and just being like, yes, sir, no, sir. And you'll never remember this. But I was probably about nine.

And I'm running through the church. And you go, Owens? And I stopped. I was like, I'm in trouble. And it's Mr. Phil. And I don't know what to say. And I just stared at you. You go, good kid, keep it up.

And you just walked off. And I was like, okay, I'm not in trouble. And feel things I'm a good kid. And I just kept moving. And so. And he knew your name. Well, he knew Owens. Owens.

Owens. Well, better than that. He knew I was Max somehow related to Matt, which is cool with me. But no, it's awesome to see all the people you've influenced and all that from that from that decision way back when to follow Jesus Christ. You know, they'll come up. All part of it. They'll come up to us now.

that we don't remember their faces, we can't remember. And they'll say, remember me, don't they feel? And you're like thinking, oh, my God. A lot of them. You came to our house, right? Because that usually won't. You remember me? And I'm like, when did I run up on you?

He said, 44 years ago, 32 years, I'm got. The face isn't changed. I said, Doc, your name is for me. Yeah. There's a mighty throng of them. That is a top place. Well, let's take another break, and we'll be right back. But we've just been talking about the power of everybody's conversion and Godwin filling up Starfoam cups full of beer at a house church and then finding out Phil was preaching.

Probably my favorite part of this podcast so far. That's because he didn't want to be around him holy rollers. That's right. That's what he said. That's what he did say. I know. I've spoke with Calvin enough to know. I always get tickled every time at it.

He calls him the only roller. He was sipping beer and they had it in cups. Yeah. Just so the religious folks wouldn't know. Yeah, Goblin went for a hamburger and a duck call too much. You know what I always thought, though, well, I'm not as bad as him. Oh, wow. Or I'm not as bad as him, you know, because, and that's what people do.

They think because they don't do a big sin, then it's okay if you do that little one. That's right. That's the church kid in me's whole life story. I compared myself to every bad person around me because that was real easy to do. And then at about 26, I was like, I'm not really living this thing. I'm just doing better than the people that aren't doing good, which is a pretty pathetic way to live. And that's whenever I turned it around. Guilty.

Yeah, Martin's. But I mean, isn't that what we do with everything in life? We compare ourselves to those around us. Like us feel better. But, I mean, that comparison is also what led me to Christ from working around you guys. So, like, it took that comparison to figure out what the difference in my life and y'all's life was. and I checked all the boxes, and then I got the one that I couldn't check.

And, you know, next thing I know, hey, we're all together still. You know, I think it's what it is when you see the real thing. When I grew up in the church, and I'm saying there were Christians there, there were other people there that were pretending to be Christians because we had the biggest store in the town, our grocery store,

and I would sell them on Saturday, you know, drunk as a, you know, whatever. And there they were. You know where you're going with that one, Miss Kay. On Sunday morning, hey, brother, hey, isn't it good to be in the Lord's house? I said, where were you yesterday? That's what I wanted to say. I know. I mean, I just think, what are you fooling here?

Because, I mean, we all saw you. Oh, absolutely. I've sat on a church pew hungover. Don't hear me being better than anybody else. I mean, I'm not denying it. Well, it would just let me down. I knew there were people in there that lived it. Yeah.

My grandmother was one of them, the best I've ever seen. My favorite part was I thought I had the rest of them, fool. Yeah. I didn't. Nah. Not everybody, everybody knew, you know, one of them kind of deals. Well, this is fun. This is a fun one to bounce into.

I have officially been basically with a whole family today. So it's been a busy day. And out, killing a few gaiters. Looking at teal, killing gaiters. How many blue wings you see, teal? A few, not many. A few, not many. A hundred or so, total.

There's a few around. That's enough. Martin, did you know there's another podcast? We got another one? A whole new genre. Yeah, really? We're doing a special series called the Blind Movie Podcasts.

There's six episodes. We watched some clips earlier. Do we have any more clips to show Martin? Show Martin some of the clips. Is my mallard Drake in there? You just come in blind. Martin, there's none of your ducks that you killed and there's none of me and Phil for the actor drinking beer and shooting.

Oh, this is of the podcast. This is the podcast. That's not the movie. This is a blind. The blind podcast. And it's right behind me, and I'm in a very awkward seat. Well, look at Ms. Kay. It was not pleasant memories.

You know, it was a time of my life where, you know, I kind of grew to be bitter and kind of became a loner. But the fantastic part about that was is I got to see God's transforming power in living color. And I've always said that I didn't learn about God from the church. church, I just, I learned it based on what I saw. Everybody is worth being saved. Sometimes they get to thinking, I'm so sorry and lowdown.

I'm not even worthy to be saved. God wants everybody to understand through the Apostle Falls writing, my life that don't ever give up on yourself, give your life to God. You'll be surprised that you are worth saving. He can do it. He can do it. Who's that hosting? That was Corey, wasn't it?

Sounded. Is that Sadie? Oh, man, y'all brought in the 18th. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sadie. Oh, that's awesome. It's like what he just said, people, I'll talk to people, they'll say, well, I just need to act better for, you know, before I got.

Yeah, I'm going to claim. I'll say, what do you wait for? I'm going to clean myself up. Yeah. Okay. Good luck with that little project. Yeah, I need to get right before I go to church. Yeah.

You know what? That was on the lies of Sadie. That's the lies of Satan telling you that. Yeah, well, yeah, absolutely. It's a hard thing for a man to admit he needs help too, right? I mean, like, that's a, that's a, that's a peel that's, you got to swallow, so I can't do it on my own. Well, you can't, you can't get help until you realize you need help. Absolutely.

Okay. That's one of the first steps in getting recovered. Well, and that's the impact that you guys have had on the world. Like, I mean, let's, you know, let's call it what it is. I mean, good grief, but even back in the Duck Dynasty days. And hey, what's so funny about it? It was because of one little young lady, my younger sister, saw something that the rest of the family did not see.

And she wouldn't give up. She jumped on the whole family with both feet stomping and screaming and talking about, y'all just don't understand. When he finally gets it and turns to Jesus, then you're going to see something. Yeah. And she was correct. I think she was anointed by God to come out and be the best missionary, just like Paul was and all.

Yeah. So loudmouthed. But yet, she was just a girl. She married a loudmouth. She married a loudmouth. Y'all are world change. Like when I started working here, I thought I started working here because I found a way I could duck hunt. And I'd be expected to show up to work from November to January.

Just to go duck hunt. You are late. You live in mysterious ways. But that's what I'm saying. I mean, I thought I was like, man, that's really cool. I had no idea that working here would save my life. Like that's, you know, I mean. And take years from me from eating all the case cooking too, all at the same time.

So it saved my life and shortened it all at one time because I could not go back for seconds. So that's sometimes third. And God was pouring coffee. Like you. The college has the freshman 15. Duck Commander has the first year, 45. for sure. And I would be willing to bet me and God when overachieved in that category.

I bet we were magna cum laude. That spaghetti and Swift State. Oh, man. Y'all were the only ones that were really upset about moving the whole company up here, right? Very sad. I'm still mad that I was late to that party. I showed up at different times. There are different people for different moments in the history of Duckman.

I know. The rest of us here have been here for the poor years. So the rest of us here had to hold our checks at one point or not. That's true. I remember that. A first one I ever got. I had to pass it out and say, can't cash this to Wednesday. Yeah.

Don't cash he's still Monday. You what? I'm thinking, holy. I got that so confused in my head who was holding what. Yeah. I know I owe you, but if you can hold on this to Wednesday, it'll all be good. Okay. Not a problem, Kay.

Okay. Not an issue whatsoever. So I was a benefactor. on both sides of that with Kay though because when I worked at TP, I would wait to buy duck calls for Kay went on family vacation because I could get a smoking deal for cash money because Kay just needed some spending money for that vacation and them grandkids. So, you know, she learned from Phil. She just went around the local stores peddling there in about the first of May.

Hey, we got this left over. Yeah, and if you pay cash, you'll get a better deal. Cash talks. Yeah. Oh, man, I love it. And other people shoot the rules. That's right. Martin, I will ask you this.

I think we got a few more minutes. Go ahead. You haven't seen the movie yet, have you? No, I have not. You had some children issues the night that we all got to watch. Well, the preventative of more children issues is what I have. You know. I wasn't trying to go down the road.

But we will. Yeah, I had a mild procedure that day. You know, or the day before that day. If you would have had twin girls, you could have named them Kate and Duplicate. Kate, duplicate. Hey, I like it. Hey, welcome back to the duck. You've been holding that one, ain't you?

And I'm the only one that left. I'm the only one now, ain't you? I've been waiting on you. You weren't here. But you have, so what are you most like looking forward to? You know, on September 28th when it comes out in the theater near you? I think, I don't really know, because I'm so close to the story that I've, heard it and I've seen it. I've watched it live out in my time here. I really would like to watch

it with people that don't know the story so I can watch their reaction to that story. You ain't going to be able to watch it. You ain't going to be able to watch them. But I would be more interested in the reactions of others personally because I mean these Phil K. Side, the whole family, have been God's sins in my life. So I know what they mean to me. and I know what the potential is there to mean to the rest of the world when they see this deal play out in front of them. Because you can hear the story all you want to, right? But until you see some of the things happen,

which I got to see it very rough via a link probably four or five months ago. And I was like, man, this is actually better than I thought it was going to be. You know. See, the people, the reaction I get now is, I can't believe that you all just showed. all that. And that was so real. And because people hide things like that.

They don't tell them. And they sure don't put it on a movie screen for everybody to go see. Yeah. That's what people tell me all the time. Phil ain't ever hit nothing, though. From the first time I met him, when Curley, Don Foster brought me down to y'all's house for house church. And I was like, I walked in.

I was like, how'd I end up here? Like, I had no idea. Phil was sitting in his chair with his Bible and his hand. You know, he was on the bad end of a shower schedule. And then we went and looked at the duck hole. And I rode on that Honda 400 with him. And I was like, ooh, man, okay, this is fun here. This is a good time.

But he never hid anything about his life from that. And he didn't know me from Adam. But he started in on me that day. And that's living it. That is. And you know, that's funny. You said that Carly Don Foster. So all of a sudden he just started showing up, you know.

And what's his story on him? You know, I told Phil. And his daddy kicked him out of his house. He was only, what, 15, 16? And I said, he don't have a place to live. Phil said, well, I sort of told him he could live with us. And he did. And he did.

And I thought about how many more we got like that. Like people, when the first time Ray Milton, one of our preachers at our church, had never met us. They came down there, and I didn't know the boys had brought home about four boys that were sleeping all over my living room floor. And so he came in, and my boys were on the couch, and I said, I think we may have to sit on the porch. But he said, are these all your kids?

And I said, no, just the ones on the couch of my kids and in that bed in there. I said, these are their friends. That's the only place we had to sleep them. And they said, and they just sleep on the floor? They don't even have a pillow. and I said, well, I think they got some cover or something over there. But they just might do it. They don't care.

They're just glad they got a place to lay down after they ate every bit of food in my kitchen. That was the courtesy of James H. and Merritt Robertson. You're in Phil got that from Mom and Daddy. You always had, you know, what I call all the little strays. They weren't little. I'm just saying all the strays come to the robinson. She said they weren't little, but they were most definitely strays. Oh, no.

The feral children. Yeah. And they were always hungry. Homeless dogs and cats, homeless people. Well, I did love the cats and dogs. They always come to the Robesons, okay? And I fed them all, didn't we feel? Yep.

This is actually a really good question. Well, Phil here that a fan had sent in, give me two seconds to find it. and um what's it Christopher Christopher Christopher has this question Phil I would like to I mean I think I know what you're going to say but I would like for the folks to hear it he says a question I have I go to church and I am saved but like I don't know if I am it's weird I think I am but I need some help could y'all give me some advice please love y'all and this is Christopher from South Carolina. So he says he's saved, but he doesn't know that he's saved. What would you say to a young

man? There it is. I think I'd give him. I'd give him this and see what he would say about it, because I just ought to cover it. Son, whatever your name is, I want to remind you of the gospel that was preached to you, which you received and on which you've taken your stand. by this gospel you're saved if you hold firmly to the word i preach to you otherwise you have believed in vain what i received i passed on as a first importance christ died for our sins according to the scriptures do you believe that my man if you do you say he was buried jesus that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures. The death, the burial, the resurrection,

death to remove your sin, put your faith in Jesus, and the resurrection, you'll live forever. You're like, that doesn't change. We do, but you should just hold on to that. And you'll always live better. And love God, look what he's done for you. After you realize what he did for you, you live better, don't you? Yep.

Everybody. You do it. Gradual change, sometime real fast. In Phil's case, because he was so on that bad line, it was amazing because he really made a quick, I mean, you just couldn't believe it like the next Sunday. He was up in church saying, I don't even know what to do in here. And I said, well, just watch the other people, do what they do. And then he picked up his songbook and he said, I've got to sing too.

And I said, yeah, you sing in the truck all the time. time. He said, those are rock and roll songs. He said, I know all them. I said, when you sing these, you'll know them. It was all that gradual stuff. I remember saying when some of the brothers, about that first, you know, first few days, the brothers would get up and get me, kind of like in a bear hug. And I told him it's catchy. You got to watch this bunch. He said, I never have. I don't know about this man. I said, they're just a little too lovey, duffy for me. But I grew out of that. What did you used to say if I had their hair slick back?

You got to watch them. Oh, boy. Si, you look like you had something to contribute to that. I was just thinking, like, you know, Bill Smith, Phil told him when he was talking to him one time, says, Bill, you know, I'm struggling. And Bill said, well, tell me about it. Well, I'm still having these feelings, and I still want to do. some of the things that I used to do.

And he said, well, how long do you run with the devil? 10 years. That was about 28 years. He said, well, hey, brother, give it a little time. Give it a little time. And each day, what you need to do is the stuff you're struggling with, you've got to replace it with something that God wants you to have. That's right.

And that's where the fruit of the Holy Spirit comes involved, okay? If you have a control issue, then, hey, you need to replace that with self-control. If you're having a joy issue, you know, hey, you've got to get rid of all your anger, replace it with happiness. You know, and it's a work in progress, okay? Oh, ain't no doubt. Yeah, one step at a time, you know. And guess what?

You're still going to slip down. It don't matter. Yeah, and you're still going to trip and fall. You're going to trip and fall. That's why you surround you said. good thing. Jesus has told you, this is the son of God, our Lord and Savior, has told you. Don't ever doubt it, I'll be with you throughout the ages. You're never alone. Christ is always that, hey, when you was looking at them footprints in the sand, you thought it was you.

No, it wasn't. You had done failed. God had done picked you up in his arms and the footprints are the Almighty's. Okay, don't forget that. He's with you everywhere you go. He's got your back. He's done everything for you and made everything right. Old Saz preaching again. He gets fired up. He gets the banging.

I can't help. He gets to bang it on that pool pit. Hey, I can't help. Just shut that racket off, Sire. Hey, if you don't get fired up about this, hey, your wood's wet. I guarantee you. Well, since we got you, Phil, and a big part of our podcast is food, I don't think it's quite as big on.

What's your favorite dish that Kay cooks? I'm just, I'm interested in, because there's so many. If you had to pick one, though. Favorite dish. I like any, she cooks a good roast. She does do that. Amen. Kay, what about your favorite one that Phil cooks?

Because that Phil, Phil don't get enough credit sometimes for being a chef, but he is. Phil is really good on a wild game, too. Uh-huh. He's really good on that. Of course, you know, he cooks all the, just most of the stuff that he kills and catches, he cooks it. The fish line, Apollosca's cat, six, eight pounds. Belly meat. Deep on him and fry him up.

Apollosca's catfish is hard to beat. Brag fish is too thin. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Or his, his. How about my crawfish pie? Okay. Yeah.

Perfect. Phil's a crawfish and shrimp all grotting. That's a good one. Little rich. Don't eat too much of it. Little rich ain't the world. But how good are them fine blue wings going to be? I don't know.

Whether they're a little musty or not, I'm going to eat them. Yeah. Phil says the same thing every year when we kill them. He said, well, we got to pick them, boys. They'll go in there and make a dress of them. He'll say, they ain't much. But we just all keep eating it because it's like a right of passage. Somebody said all the reason they taste like sewer ponds

is they light on a lot of sewer ponds coming y'all's way. I said, well, maybe so. But I will say last year, some of those, they were fine. They didn't have that. Well, how about just smelling it before you cook it? Yeah, when he makes that broth with it, man, that house. You open the lid and nope, throw that trash. Cumbod.

A little green mings are just way better. Throw that trash that way. Oh, sneaky. and freaky even run out of the house then. Yeah. Hey. How many dogs you're up to now? I got three.

I got the lead dog Bobo, which would be an exact duplicate of the last five Bobos. And then I have, yeah, Bobo 6. And I have Penny and Griffey, and they are two rescue dogs who look pitiful. That's they're precious. That's sneaky and freaky. That's what everybody else calls. I don't like this, Kay. I was just out in Lubbock, Texas, hunting,

loves, a guy comes down, sits down and gives me a card. His name is Victor Elmer Bobo. Really? That's his name. Okay. Well, that's funny. I thought of you and the dogs when he did it. Yeah, you know, I just never can give up a Bobo.

I've always gotten, Phil. Do you like the new Bobo? No, I'm ready to wrap this party up. Let me wrap it up. I'm going to wrap it up right now for you. Phil is ready to go look. Well, he didn't say like Bobo. You do love Bobo.

Oh, Bo Bo, boy, you can't beat him. You can't beat Bobo. But the Blind Movie podcast, it's out now. It's on Phil's YouTube, six episodes. It's incredible that this is the first time the whole Robertson family has been on a podcast together. So it's going to be six really cool episodes. Tune into that. Be sure to get your tickets on September 28th to go see The Blind.

Head over to the Blindmovie.com. We normally send you out here with the Bibleverse, but Phil's giving you plenty of those. so we're going to wrap this up so he can go back to where he wants to go. Yeah, amen. Let's go duck up. Good to talk to you. Yeah.