Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Addresses New Concerns About His Health

Episode Date: June 20, 2024

Uncle Si’s nephew, Jon Gimber, stops by to reveal all the dirt on how mean Willie was as a kid and the sadistic punishments they put each other through. Martin gets red-faced at the racy scandal Si is involuntarily drawn into, and John-David admits to being part of the pair responsible for bullet holes in the Duck Commander offices. Online speculation prompts Si to address his medical issues. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Daily Mail. Hey, I made the Daily Mail. This is the first time we've been in the Daily Mail in forever. We don't want to be in this one. Why not? I mean, when I proposed to Brittany and the Daily Mail picked up the story. This is uncomfortable. We have a guest in the house.

It's Gimber, my old office mate. Former neighbor. Former neighbor. A true nephew of America's favorite uncle. Yeah. You actually called him Uncle Syve before the rest of him. He was Uncle Sy before he was, for me, he was Uncle Syed before he was ever Uncle Sy.

we got to talk about this. But who better to shed light on the real Uncle Si than his real nephew. This is not going to get, Gimber is not going to sit here and bag, sigh, like Willie Wood. He's not going to argue with him like Jason would. Gimber actually loves his uncle. I truly love my uncle, but I truly also don't have a lot of, uh, knowledge about the, the new news that's, that's breaking right here for, for Uncle's side. As is typical sigh, he takes everybody at their best. Right? He questions nobody with Cy Robertson. You get the benefit of the doubt off the rip. So what happened is these two women who were guests on our podcast last year, then a video

surfaced to the two of them doing some not-so-family friendly-friendly things together. Now, come to find out, one of them says she was intoxicated and she's suing. And that is how a totally unrelated picture of Si and the women ended up on the daily mail homepage because, you know, they need clicks. Well, things went south. Yes, they did. Deep South. Okay. This is a family podcast.

Mississippi is the deep south. But that's what we wanted to talk about. Well, they use pictures of Sai. You have to really read the article to get to a picture of Willie. They put Sa on the headline photograph of some nefarious?

Yeah, I think that's a good word. Ridiculous? Amen, buddy. Hey, welcome the duck call room, Gimber. I'm glad to be here. You didn't know. You didn't know this is what we're going to be talking about. $20 million dollars and damages.

Oh, my goodness. Hey, the other one was 11 million. I see, I've read too much of this. Like, I had... You're invested now. Well, I had to know, like, if they named Si for any reason. And the only time they named him was, like, these pictures are to show that they hung out together for months after,

even with celebrities, uh, uncle Silas, Syri Robertson, and Willie Robertson of Duck Dynasty fame. That's the only time you were named in it. But, hey, as general manager, when something like this comes across your desk, you've got to at least look into it. Like, I mean, I never know now where the next phone call is coming from. Like, you know, we got a lot of people that pay us money to promote their stuff. So you get caught up in some questionable activities, which you're not.

Your only thing is there was a picture. And that's all you were named as. So if I'm going to do that, hey, I took so many pictures that you've got me. Okay. I'm guilty of that. He's guilty of taking pictures. I'm guilty of taking pictures. No, but here's the problem.

That's on the Daily Mail, which a lot of people read. It's a big news company out of London, based out of London. So a lot of people, the world will pick that up. So in our comments and on our Instagram and at hello. Dot Call Room.com, the questions will be flooding in or the comments will be saying, size hanging out with, I'm stopping there. You can read the article if you need to know more. So we're just nipping it in the bud right here.

That's all we're doing. That's why I wanted to bring it up first, get it, get it over. And it is hilarious. Well, you keep, you, you, it's funny to me because you see the absolute best in people on everybody. And there's a lot of people you've hung out with that make the news for not so great things. And that's a testament to you seeing the best in everyone. Well, hey, it's all my fault. No, it's not your fault.

Okay. Oh, no. Look, you were just trying to help people. I take you as I. see you. There you go, which is a great quality, which more people did. Maybe we'd have less articles like this. Yeah. You know, I don't know. So, I mean, that's a pretty rare article. I'll let your kids read it. Anyway, Gimber, what's up? No, we got to address. Back to me. We got to address the other one. Yeah. Oh, is there another one? There's one more.

Articles? All the fans are worried about Uncle Cy's health after an Instagram post. Cy, are you doing okay? How you feel? Hey, somebody posted something else about my help? Yeah, you posted it. Well, it's because of a video you did with your oxygen on instead of not having it on. People were concerned about you. So, Cy, I'm asking you right now, are you okay?

Yeah. Okay. Hey, look. What else you need to know? And the man said he's okay. The reason is, okay, when I was young, I was stupid and I smoked cigarette. There it is. Look, no, look, one of the comments is in the article that said,

he's been on oxygen for some time. He uses it more days, some more days than. others and he said it's from smoking too many Winston's in Nam. And not on that. Here's this article. It's my own fault. Okay. He didn't just smoke them abroad. He smoked them

domestically too. Oh yeah. I smoked him while I was in quantity. I feel like Gimber. See? That's why Gimbers here. Well, no, no. That's why when I see people smoking, I said, hey, you need to throw them things away, okay, and this is experience talking.

Okay. They are bad for you. Man, we're getting picked up by all of our people. Yeah, I was about to say, I was the country, daily mail. Like, I feel like this is 2014 all over again. It was a slow transition. It went from Winston's to, to cigars for a while.

You did cigars? Yeah, well, see, I wasn't smoking in. Cigars, so I thought it was better. This podcast is about side, not about me. So any opinions, about any black and milds, you'd keep them to yourself. I can assure you, size did not have kids. They were have a Tampa gold jewels.

And they have, I love to smoke cigars anyway. Yeah. I black of my wine with plastic. Back to my health. Greatest thing on us. Okay. Look. This is our first ever PG-13.

We're definitely not getting a clove for this year. I'm fine. I'm just 76 years old. Thank you. There you go. Lived a good life. His lungs are. And I'm shooting for a hundred.

I think you're going to make it. And a lot, a lot. He's high miles 76. I mean, he's not, he's not the city 76. Well, no, no. He's high mileage. Well, right. And I got, I got something to say about that.

Hey, God didn't create man. to sit on his rear end. What do you do every day? Well, no, no. Because, hey, look, if you stop, hey, if you stop doing something, hey, I'm going to your funeral. Amen.

That is a lot of guys, people, I deal with guys a lot at the store, but the ones that retire and then fish every day and, like, you can tell, they're just, they stay in good shape. The ones that are sitting around. They ain't with us along. My grandfather was a testament to that.

He was fine until he wasn't. Then when he couldn't do nothing within six months, it was over for him. But up until that last six months when he could physically do so, he was fine. You'd never know it. Then bonged over. That's why I'm saying. Hey, I'm thankful for six months in the grand scheme of things was a pretty short time to deal

with all that stuff. You can't stop. No. Okay. Can't stop on stop. You can't stop because if you stop, it's going to stop. Then everything stop. That's right. Everything goes south.

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welcome i i'm i'm actually for one very happy that you're here i'm pumped i feel again i know the thing that feels like 2014 i love it we're all in this office building together i had a good year that year and i got i got a good question i oh what was it from a man that went from running a restaurant business hold on okay to a regular job gimburs had 486 jobs I got a long resume. Yeah. Yeah. It is.

It is. Remember when you were running that, when me and Gimper shared office, he goes, back when I was running the eye cleaners, or no, back when I was running the barbecue, and I was like,

how old are you? It's a lot of careers in there. I've done a lot of things that would have been, been, could have been like long lasting, but it just seems like change happens every now and then.

What are you doing now, Gember? I'm selling green beans. that's what I do every day he sells groceries I sell groceries okay I was like just cream beans no we sell logger

I work for Cisco foods I sell food to restaurants which is great now you're on the other side of the table now I'm on the other side of the table there you go which is a lot of fun it's using the skill sets that I have

but I Gimber knows some numbers but it's always been fun I mean like there's like you said there's been a lot of different things over the years which is funny because when I sat down and saw a side of day he's like what are you doing now

and so because it's just liable to change subject to change. If we have, if and when we have Gimber back on here, there's a chance it'll be a different occupational. Well, he's doing that. And even here I was at Duck Commander, I was here for a while, but I had a lot of really different roles during that time.

Yeah. Which was good. And a lot of different vehicles. And a lot of different vehicles. Grass don't grow under you. He's moving. He's half Robertson. Yeah.

So that's the real question. So you grew up half Robertson. But that used to make you mad. That's the joke because Al introduced me to somebody one time. He said, hey, this is my cousin, John. He's half Robertson. And I said, Al, you're half Robertson. And he said, huh, I guess I never thought about that.

I never thought it that way. He just got to keep the name. But you ended up living with Phil and Kaye for a while, didn't you? Two times. Two times. And you had a crazy uncle, sigh. Had a crazy uncle, sigh. In the early years, he would come into the states about every two years

and over a two or three week period, he'd give us material that we could use for sure until he came back the next time. But say, y'all have always known him as domestic Uncle Si. And so, like, whenever we were kids, he was in Germany. He was, you know, still stationed over there. And so they would come in for holidays

and it wasn't every year, but it was every other year. Yeah, I spent the last 12 and a half years in Europe. So, yeah, while I was over there, yeah, I didn't get to come home. And then when he came home, was it like Santa Claus had come to town? It was everybody would want to come see, Sae. Everything the army

has, I got some for my brother. I didn't mean like giving out I meant like everybody was excited. Everybody was super excited because, you know, everything back in those days, it all centered Granny and Paul were still living by Phil and Kay until early 90s. And so when he'd come back into town, all of the brothers

and sisters would get together to come see Sae because, I mean, we didn't get to see him all the time. And it's, and family's always been super important. So, and it was, he'd come in and he was doing the family stuff and hunting non-stop. That was the fun time. You've always been the bell of the ball. Oh, no. Look at you. The Domino game was the highlight of my coming back in. Domino's and Winstons. It's really peak America right there. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. But you, so, so you had sigh as an uncle and then you had just heathen cousins. A lot of heathen cousins and I was probably part of that.

Did you call Phil? Uncle Phil? Well, he was Uncle Phil forever and then he just became Phil, I guess, whenever Willie and Jay started being men, they just dropped the Phil. I mean, the Uncle Phil and they just became Phil, but he's always been Uncle Phil and Aunt Kay to me. Yeah, I know, I've always heard you referred to Kay as Aunt Kay. Aunt Kay.

I just, I haven't heard the Uncle Phil. That's why I was, because Phil's one of those guy. We had this question about a week ago or so on here, and they asked if Hey, maybe you kids did. If we had a nickname for Phil that we didn't call him. Did you all call him anything? Yeah, wouldn't call it to us. No, Uncle Phil.

He was, so he was the toughest. He said, no. He was the toughest man around. We were all very fearful of him. Still am. Still are to some degree. Nope, just am. No degrees.

I am afraid. He softened a lot. I got a lot of weapons, you know, growing up. From Phil? Has Cy ever spanked you? No. So I was not a disciplinary. Now, Phil was, like it was quick, you know, like swift justice over and done with, way more pain than...

Did you get a whipping for like a tomato can or something? So, yeah, I was coming from the back of a thing of raviolis. I'd never forget this. Martin, have you heard this one? Coming back with the raviolis. I'm laughing already. We met at the sheet that was the door between the bedrooms. Jep's mouth was right at the tomato, the ravioli can.

height, hit it, woke fill up from a nap, which was a big time no-no growing up. Yeah. Don't wait. That's Jeff's boy up. Well, Jep's bleeding and crying. And Gimber's just holding a can of ravioli. I'm holding a can of ravioli. I have done a lot of things bad in my life and probably deserve the whipping.

Jay sees the whole thing happen. But before he could even explain what was going on, I got three licks and it was over. And I said, Jace, what's a deal? Why didn't you say? He said it was too late. It wasn't going to do. Wasn't going to do it. I was fast enough.

Oh, no, that's why I called him. I called him dad, you know, my father and Phil, hard meant. Hard. Okay, because I didn't, it wasn't old weight. Justice was swift. Justice. That was.

That was. I noticed neither one of them said fair. Swift. No, no. No. Fair didn't come into the picture. We, and so you got to remember, I'm a youth at this point.

You don't get a chance. I never got to sit at the grown table growing up at Field and Case House. So I didn't get a chance to explain myself or plead my case. Yeah. It was like, it was over before. Jeff's crying, Jeff's bleeding. I'm awake. You're holding a bloody can.

Well, pow! No, pow, pow, pow, pow. It was always three licks. Yeah. Feltrated weapons like he does a shotgun. It's going to go off three times every time. No, no. Oh, that's scary.

The one of my favorite times was when Al and his running buddies got in trouble. I remember it. Okay, and it was about eight of them. Okay, and hey, Phil went, they was that somebody else's camp down on the river. Phil went up there and said, hey, Al, to the house.

And he said, and the rest of you want to ever come to my house again, y'all show up too, and I fixed a whip your head. butt and all the y'all's butt. These are 16, 17-year-old. These are 17-year-old. He's not babies. I wouldn't even take- I ain't missing nothing.

A lick from Phil now. Like, I'm still- Oh, you would. No. I mean, if he come at you, you would take it. You ain't going nowhere. I'm afraid of him. You ain't going to out-running.

I think at this juncture I could outrun him. No. Not then you couldn't. Not then. I'm saying today I'm still afraid of taking a lick, but I might get away. But the problem is, Phil, see, he got a lot of time on his hands now, so he just waits you out.

That's it. You're going to come back to your truck. That's right. He'd be sitting right there. So did y'all fight a lot? You, Willie, Jace, Al? Not Al, because he was old enough not to be involved with it. He would start it. But he would start it and instigate it. Yeah. And then like, but we fought all the time. And then you've got to remember, this is back in the, in the intent of TV days. So, like, recreating wrestling moves. Like somebody coming off the top ropes with no.

training and no defense was very, very, very likely to happen. Oh. I remember, no, you just hit a bell. I remember coming in on leave, and they was into wrestling, the whole family. Well, when they started telling me about it, I got, I busted out laughing. They said, where are you laughing for? I said, y'all do know that this is all put on. What?

Yeah. What's put on? I said, yeah, wrestling. Really? Yeah. I said, look, this is all like people that dance for a living. They choreographed this whole thing out. They know what they're going to do.

How are they going to hit each other? You know, and they got, hey, this was like, put up your dukes. I'll show you this, you know, this, you know, like that in the fact. And I told Jay's, I said, Jason, I said, I'll give you, I said, oh, okay. If y'all really believe it, I said, hey, go out there and, and I'll get up on the, the porch and you lay down on the ground and I'm going to jump off

the porch and I'm going to land with my knee in your chest and I said one of two things is going to happen and I said I'm going to kill you or you going to go to the hospital and you're going to be there for quite a while to get over what just happened to you. Yeah you ain't going to get back up and hit him on the chair but you ain't going to get back up

and win. Yeah well hey it was behind there hey put your deuce up let's go yeah and this is an army and I was a 12 year old Yeah, I had to just, I left laughing. I had to leave. Yeah, there was no weight classes or age classes in the fights. If you did something wrong, it was, it was, you had to defend yourself.

Where do you fit in? Are you between Willie and Jason? No, I'm, I'm a couple years younger than Willie. Okay. Or a year and a half, so young than Willie. Oh, you just got whooped all the time. Oh, yeah. Yeah, because Willie was like very mean.

And so he, he went, hold on. Hold on. Was? Well, he's a kinder, gentler soul now, too. But like he's, I've eaten dirt, sticks, you know, because of cutting up his baseball cards. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, that's the story. Willie's retribution now, though, only lies in financial restitution. Like, he's not going to bite you anymore.

He's just going to go take a baseball bat to your truck when you. He gave me a black guy in Vegas one time. Oh, I know. I busted his nose over a deer in Kansas. When I, when I cut the baseball cards up, I took, why did you cut his baseball? Because I was not a, I was a mean kid, too. Well, yeah, if you're around that, how can you know? How many cards did you cut up?

Enough to inflame him. And so I was small and a little quick. So I took off running out of the house. But the problem was when I went out the back door, I took a right. Well, the right was the hill. Oh, yeah, the hill. And he was way slicker and more familiar with the hill than me. So caught me halfway up the hill and then rode me down the hill until we got on flat ground

where he could invoke my punishment. And again, he's learning all this from Phil. What was the punishment? I love it. I love it. I loved it. He just shoved it all in your mouth. Probably shoving my head in there.

There are no rules. So who was the meanest? Would you say Willie was the meanest? Willie was the meanest for sure. But that's just because he didn't have anybody to take out everything he'd gotten on him. Right. And Jace could take Willie back then. Yeah.

You know, and probably still. But he could, but Jace. Uh-oh. Jace could take Willie because it was because it was mostly size stuff. You know, he was older and bigger. But, uh. And wiry.

Well, he's bigger now. Ooh. What? I just said he's bigger. You're the one that burned that into a joke. Oh. Ah.

That's kind of a joke towards both of them. But you can say that now, though. So you don't work for him. What does it matter? Say what you want to say. I can just say, you got to understand that they pull some stuff. Well, they was kids.

Well, to hear them tell it, though, Gimber's sister was a meanest at all. She was, she was, by far, the menest people in the world. There's a look in your eyes. She hated me to the core from when I was born until just recently we started getting along a lot better. Robertson's man.

An interesting bun. No, it ain't the Robertson. It's half Robertson. Well, that's the problem is we're all half. Half a reason ain't never any good. The problem in the Robertson tree, though, is half me 75%. Yeah. That's only funny because it's true.

Some people are really struggling. Yeah, your sister used to beat up Willie and Jace, huh? Yeah, because she had size on them back in them days, too. So it was, that was, that was, that was, that was part of the, the defense mechanism. What was that? Oh. And, and, like, they wouldn't, they would not have just closed fist, I mean, they, not closed fisted punch above the shoulders to a female, but, I mean, like, it was.

They'd get her with some body shots. Yeah. I mean, like, and it was, you know, enough to leave a mark. Yeah. Like, oh, my. Mountain Dog getting liver punched that time. Oh, Puntled to liver, Will you.

Man, I love hearing about the childhood from this one. Well, that's a wild I mean. Because them other boys, you don't know how much they make up or not. Gimber just shooting straight. Oh, yeah.

That's what I can appreciate about. Gimber's, yeah. Oh, man. But so your mom was, your mom is your sister. Yeah, she was third in line. Third, okay. And then so below

her was Tommy Phil side and Jan Tommy Phil side yeah and so above her was Harold and Jimmy Frank Okay so now we know where Gimber fits in Well no because I you know We're all lucky to be alive

With all the crap we went through As kids And all the crazy stuff we did I mean baby gun wars Here's the time My oldest brother Jimmy Frank He played football Okay, loved it, okay.

And all the kids in the neighborhood, okay? They all had boys, a bunch of them, okay. And he used to make them play. They'd be crying. And so, hey, shut up, quit their crying, get down four points dancing. With him hack the ball. Well, they all got scholarship playing football. Yeah.

Okay, that's how they all got educated. It's Jimmy Frank made them play, okay? Their whole while they were growing up. That's funny. I wouldn't have made it in that neighborhood. Oh, no. Yeah. No, that hung you right away.

Would have never made it. Oh, that's funny. That's why I look, you know. Because me and Phil, Tommy, when frogging one night, and Phil had just got a brand new, uh, breakdown pellet gun.

you could shoot pellets or BB. Oh, boy. Yeah, well, we couldn't afford pellets. That cost money. BBs was like five cents of a hundred. Yeah, so we had BBs. Oh, wow. Well, we went far again, and Phil was up ahead with Tommy.

Tommy had brought a brand new five-cell flashlight. Well, Tommy had field pellet gun. Phil had Tommy's flashlight. Y'all, and he was up our head about 50 yards. We're walking in a dark, stumbling, and down all that junk. Tommy said, hey, I'm going to shoot you if you don't stop. Because we can't see what we're walking, you know.

Phil said, hey, you're just going to have to catch up. Well, hey, Thomas told him, he said, hey, I'm wondering you the last time. You know, Phil just still walking. He's got the light on like that. And then you hear, tachoo. Then got a shot in a butt with a BB. I know, in the back. He just, ah!

And one of it. Yeah, a pellet gun. That hurt. Hey, look. The light goes. up in the air and then the next thing is the complete darkness because we're walking on a highway oh he broke his flashlight for that hey he threw that five cells down and shattered it then you hear click pow oh Tommy done got him again in the dark and hey look we're running in the dark all you see is

click pow ow oh yeah we go up there and mama has got mama has got field with his shirt shirt off and taking a razor blade and tweezers and cutting the skin, the baby out. Cutting the skin, the only baby out. Hold on. It went. It went under the skin. It wouldn't have made it in that neighborhood.

You wouldn't have made it in that era. Luckily, neither would I am, but we didn't have to. I mean, I've shot somebody with a red rider. It's like, ow, and it bounces off. Yeah, it makes a little welt for a little bit. I said this was a pedig gun. It's a real one. Yeah, this is a real, it's a real rifle.

I had no idea this is where we'd get to today, Gimber. I figured we'd tell more stories about you and stuff. I'm telling you. Growing up as a kid around the Robertsons, you had to be tough, boys. Is that a family trait, Gimber? Stuff? Yeah, I mean, partially, I guess. Everybody had stuff, and if you had another use for equipment,

you got to remember, this was different growing up. up there because, I mean, like the financial ability. I like stuff. The financial abilities was a lot different. So something could have a use later on. You saved it, you know, for what went on. What do you think, Sao? Oh, yeah. You like, you don't like stuff as much as Gimber like stuff. No, he just puts it in a bag and sits it in my

office. That's where Sa's stuff is. Well, that's what I got a wife that she's, uh, she's against stuff. Well, she's a, no, she's against my stuff. she's got stuff too but you know remember if you need to go shopping there's four black trash bags in my office full of size stuff size it's all camouflage I was about sell that on eBay hunt you can I don't most of it got tags on it because you say I like the rest of us we get all we used to we don't really have clothing building more much but we used to get all this stuff and you'd find one piece out of all of it that you really like and you just wore that every day

yeah and then the last time Tommy come in he'd take it with him Yeah, I look around, Tom it, where's my jacket? Tommy took it? When I lost my weight, I was down at Phil's, and he said, look, I'll outfit you. Walked into his closet and it was 40 feet of tagged stuff. Yeah. And he grabbed about three pieces. He said, these are off limits.

Take anything else you want. Yeah. That's pretty much the M.O. for this box. Yeah, every time I find something. Well, they got something new out. No, I don't want that. Give me that one. Yeah, he didn't.

And Phil wouldn't wear most of it that he got. No. They would always get on to them. told me, hey, I got a hat, the sponsor. It didn't. It didn't work well. You finally just gave up on it. Yeah. You know.

Gimber faced that problem. Gimber used to do all that stuff too, the sponsorships. Yeah, when we were busy, yeah. Yeah, it was wild. He took over that whole ride. Trying to get filled to do things on camera. Oh, I needed him to say three words one time.

Good luck. And he said everything but then three words for two hours. Mm-hmm. I said, if you would just say this for me, I wrote it down on a piece of paper. So just say this one time, and then you can say whatever you want for a little, we'll stay here as long as you want to.

Yay, Italia. Meatballs. Anybody that can compare a shotgun to a meatball or a pizza, you know. It's the greatest commercial of all time. That never aired. Gimber, what's the latest piece of equipment you've purchased? That's one of the things I miss about sharing an office with Gimber. He would come in and be like, guess what I bought?

Forget it. I got no clue. Forget it. Purchases are boring. What's the latest thing you swapped? It's a swap deal. The swap deals are always way more fun. Good trade.

We're going to go. Good trade, boys. And look, I learned that from Willie and J's too. That was always the big thing going to Christmas and summertime. It's like, what were you going to trade? What were you going to? They're traders. I got taken advantage of a lot, you know, there for, for.

But now you're just a Facebook person's worst nightmare. You're looking for a trade. You're going to win. Yeah, now I try to, I've learned, you know, learned to value things a little bit more. The art of the deal. The art of the deal. What is the latest piece of equipment you purchased? Man, that's a, that's a tough one.

I've got to think about it for a little bit. Because there's so many. Yeah, because there's, I mean, it's probably, I guarantee you it's some, probably some sort of bow hunting paraphernalia, I'm sure. Well, because he is. The bow commander. The bow commander. Gimber had a plaque in his office. I showed up to work one day, and it said, John,

Gimber and he spelled John wrong which was funny and then it said Bo Commander underneath that and I said is that is that something we're doing it's still on my desk yes and I and my email was Gimber Bc which I guess I can say that out Gmail.com and and the the BC is for Bo Commander and so I still that's be aware you still use that email address you've just opened up a window yeah you definitely that's all right maybe somebody I can I can talk to about a swap deal well swap deal or he'll share the gospel weed. Now that is a Robertson family trait. I was hoping for a cooking thing, but we'll go. That Gimber is now, oh yeah. He's always been a champion for it since he turned his life around,

but now even more involved over at North Monroe, right? I mean, you're, you're very involved in the men's ministry there and all the things there. Super involved in men's ministry and then even more so into the marriage ministry. Just because it's got, I mean, the, the roughest thing about the men's ministry is when you're committing to it, you're committing to it by yourself. And so the marriage ministry lets us do stuff together, which has always been our passion. I just remind myself when he was saying this about meatballs. Do you have, no, no, do you have Judy's recipe for meatballs?

I do. I have Mama's recipe for meatballs. I make it a couple times a year. Okay. And look, so you'll appreciate this. I think mine are a little better than hers for two reasons. Robertson. Half Robertson, even if you just have, you go,

I might sound just like one. So mom was violently like. lactose intolerant. So the meat she used in there was like 93-7, ultra-low-fat. So I'm using more fatty meat, which I think makes them a little bit better. And then the second reason why mine are a little bit better, they're hand-sized meatballs and my hands are bigger. And so the meatball she's making her probably quarter-pound minor like thirds.

I need to get that from you. I'll be glad. I'll be glad to give it. The other day. No, no, no. Time-out, timeout. What? Gember, we have a little show on Duck Commander called Commander's Kitchen.

and I'd love to invite you. We've had meatballs on this, on this show before that were brought to us by Jersey Joe. Jersey Joe, I'll be glad to bring to meatball. And Jersey Joe's red gravy was really good. Yep. But a Robertson family recipe.

Yeah, Robertson family recipe. And I've eaten a lot of stuff that you have cooked and I've never been disappointed. I think like the meatballs. No, they're phenomenal. It would be my mama's recipe. Humble too. They're good.

I'm a foodie, it's phenomenal. I had to just go with what I thought I was like in it. Well, that's, if you produce bad food for our family, you're going to hear about it for a long time. You're going to be out there eating sticks and dirt again. Exactly. One thing I did learn, though, by making them meatballs. There's a lot of work involved.

It's going to work. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it ain't ball up meat and throw them in there and get with you. There's a lot of work and, yeah. Well, I mean, it takes you 17 minutes to cook us. steak so I can only imagine what you did to a meatball. No, it was 12, 12. That thing dry, dry, dry.

But the meatball, they was actually, ah, that was missing some ingredients. But, Gimber, you're probably the only half Robertson that ever, there's a love for food from all of them, but you're the only one that ever dove into the food world and restaurant

world and well, I mean, he had Willie's Duck Diner. Sorry, guys. Yeah. As an inside joke. Yeah, I'm trying to. I mean, I was really there cooking sandwiches.

So what's always been, always are, all of our get-togethers were centered around some sort of food deal. And then that was, and that was always a big spend, you know, in the families, even before, you know, big stuff was like they would want to have, like big events, big food. You know, we'd come up from South Louisiana as a kid. That was before you get great fresh seafood up here. And so we'd bring that up and we'd come and everybody would take their influence in what they liked. Are y'all the reason that seafood Christmas is a thing? Would you all bring? Yeah, Judy.

Yeah, Judy done that. I always thought that was the most bizarre thing when I started working here. Like, they were like, yeah, come over for Christmas dinner. I was like, oh, okay, you're thinking typical Christmas. Like either prime ribs or hams or something. I go in there and there's nothing but seafood. I'm like, I'm not mad at this. And we would come up for Christmas to spend that Christmas through New Year's break.

And so bring up fresh seafood. And by the time Christmas had rolled around, you've eaten so much. turkey and ham and everything else they wanted something different yeah and so like for a while like will and cori's when they got married like mom and them would come do the seafood dinners and stuff and so you had these really really cool dinners way before that was a normal thing that's cool and i don't know who who judy run into she the cajans down there when she lived there well we lived in laplace i mean and that's how she that's how they did it was like if they wanted to learn how to make something good they'd say who makes it good let's go learn from them

And do it that way. And just so everybody's aware, Laplace is like the ankle of the white rubber boot. Yeah. We ain't nowhere near the edges. We ain't at the toe or the top. That's right smack in the middle of white rubber boot country, buddy. Yeah. Laplace?

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we. That's that truck. Laplace that one truck stop right there when 55 meets 10. Right. Yeah. 55 North of Hammond.

And then right before you get on the small causeway going into Metter. That's why I said. We're in the middle of the whiteboard. So like I got we grew up we grew up about probably a mile from the Mississippi River Levy. And so I mean you were in heavy Cajun country down there and so learning and if with with food being an influence we took you know we we learned a lot down there. That's why I always said. Gimber can make the best 100 person jumbulli that I've ever had. Hey, there's a secret recipe of Gimbers. Gimber knows Gimber's most impressive feature is he. He's the best cheater of anyone in the world.

How to do things quick. When it comes to cooking. I think he's talking about you et tufei. Oh, it's so good. It makes me feel bad when you cook it. Because if you look up how to make it, it's this long, drawn-out process. Gimber said, no, no, watch this. And he gave me the recipe.

And I've cooked that for so many people. And they're always like, man, did you used to live in New Orleans or something? And you say, yeah, of course I did. Yeah, I studied this under. Classically trained. from Emerald himself. And it's Gimbers. Gimber can cook for mass people

and all the little cheats that most people do cheats and it ruins the food. Gimbers' cheats, Gimbers' cheats work. Well, you, I mean, and it's just because we eat what we like. You know, and I'm not going to eat something bad. I'm for sure I'm not going to eat twice. And you're going to tell them it's bad too

because you're half Robert. That's it. Oh, I ain't no doubt about that, buddy. But, no, man, this has been a fun walk-down memory lane. Do we have What's emails looking like? I mean, because we can still talk to Gimber. I mean, we got a myriad of things.

I do have to do one thing, though. We have it. Uh-oh. I got some mail. Oh, okay. To the honeyhole? Well, it was an actual mail. He handed it to me himself.

My man Cole, let me make sure I got his name right. Corbyn. He wrote you this letter, Sae. He has a hat for you that he wants you to wear. and he's from Missouri. There you go. Look at this hat.

It's got a moose on it and the moose also has a butt. Si, please. Yes, thank you. Head set off. We're getting, yeah, okay. This kind of fits with the new story. You look good.

Corbyn, I've done my duty in delivering Sai the hat. He's going to wear it every day from this. I appreciate it, Jared, Corbyn. Yeah, look there. So we got mail out of the way. We got mail out of the way. There's a bunch of letters over there, too. I don't know if size.

That goes to feel. That, oh, never mind. Gimber, Johnny Dee's had the opportunity of having the mic in here a lot. You haven't. Y'all used to share an office. How was Johnny D. as an office, mate. Go. I think it was that we were the only two people that could have officed with each other.

But it ended up being our gathering spot. And when things were busy, we had the dartboard. We had the dartboard. We had the dartboard. had the couch. We had a refrigerator. We had a refrigerator? For a while. I was up under his stuff. Yeah, my stuff. We had a lot of stuff.

We had a couple desk pops in there to test our facility. I was going to say, you were the only one with bullet holes in the ceiling. We shot a 12 gauge in the office at two different times just to test our security at the time. He did not come running. Scared me to death. I was under my desk. I didn't know what. Did he just shot? Gimber did I emptied out a shell

and left the wad in it and I was just sitting there playing with that I said and most importantly the powder The powder was definitely in there Oh yeah So here was the You can't take the powder out

So here's what you did know I don't We remember when we talked about Me shooting you in the warehouse Yeah So we were we were We were gonna test the security And the warehouse

The warehouse people were coming and going We were going to go through the warehouse With a crowd of people and act like we were really mad at each other. And then I was going to shoot him with one of these blanks. With a blank. With a homemade blank. And so we agreed to it.

We were going to do the whole thing. But then I said, hold up. The last message, John D. If I kill you during this deal. You're going to jail. Nobody's going to believe that you were okay with this. Yeah. And that it was a joke.

But then I was like, well, I want to see what happened if you just got shot with the wadding of a shotgun. So I threw in to Gimbron. to Gimber, he said, Dust Pop, pow, we waited on security. We're still waiting. And then I looked up and there was a hole in the ceiling. With the wadden sticking out of it.

Yeah. The first one, the wadding went through it. And I was like, you know, maybe not. This is not a good idea to play jokes with guns and homemade bullets.

Yeah. See, Hunter? And now this office is the stuff that you couldn't do that if you wanted to. Oh. But that's, if you noticed, You've been back for a few hours now, and it's like there's flower beds.

There's nobody doing desks. It's different. We've got to bring back the edge, Jimmer. They've lost their edginess. Nobody fixing toilet seats. Yeah. They all come to work showered. It's weird.

Yeah, ain't a pair of gym shorts to be found. Wow. They took their shirts in. I really hate it. Well, you started working here, though. You were a fireman. Yeah. Another career.

Yeah. when at one point Gimber showed up to work fresh from watching the Olive Garden burned to the floor why is that funny Hunter Hunter's dying laughing at the Olive Garden Olive Garden goes

Then they rebuilt it It was the way you phrased it No but Gimber stayed up all night Fighting the fire that was the Olive Garden Yeah and then showed up to work the next day And did not do he didn't accomplish anything That's different than saying he watched it burn to the ground No yeah I didn't watch it

He was working the fire. Yeah. I mean, you watch the turn to the ground. It wasn't much you could do. I was with Gimber when we were asked, where's the fire by a friendly state trooper in the middle of nowhere, Arkansas. Oh, that's right.

What happened? We went up to Walmart for a sales meeting. Went up that morning, turn around, come back that night, all in a day trip. And we were just talking and cruising, and apparently we were going over the speed limit. Gimber drives fire.

And then when the guy said, where's the fire? I was like, what is he talking? talking about. And he said, Amber were both confused. And he's that not your, your license plate. He said, he said, you know how fast you were going? I said, 71. And Martin just looked at me. And he said, 73. I said, pretty close. He said, it's a 45. I was like, whoa. Yeah. Yeah. Big fan. And no, he said, I've never had somebody be so honest with me. Yeah. And he let, he say, y'all slow down. Well, you aren't trying to be reckless. No. We were like,

in between like Sheridan and Hampton there in the middle of nowhere, Arkansas coming back on. We're just talking, listening to the radio, not paying attention. You know, I mean, you just get to cruising down the road. You don't see the next speed limit sign. But I mean, I just remember sitting there and saw them blue lights. I said, hmm, that ain't good. But now, me and Gimber, we were some road warriors back in them days doing all the sales meetings. And yeah, Gimber has this one habit.

And I don't know if he still doesn't, where he refuses to get a full tank of gas. not necessary. Where do you think I got it from? I know, but I always... If I learned anything from my time with John Gimber, I'm going to go to a nut. I'm going to pass another gas station before I need this.

No, his line was, I'm going to have to pee before I run out of gas. That's right. And I mean, the man's already peed twice since he's been here. Yeah. So I don't, he's got a bladder a size of a toddler,

apparently. But Gimber. And a 32 ounce of Diet Coke most of us. Oh, drinking that Diet Coke like it's going out of style. I can't be good for you. But it, I just. I always remember thinking, man, we stop like every 150 miles.

This is how are we ever going to make it anywhere? Because I'm more like, you know, try to push it to about 400 miles. Now, when you get out, your bladder is swollen and about to pop. But I'm like the fewest stops possible. No, Gimber and Willie. Now, Gimber's all about a fountain diet drink from somewhere. Let's get a fresh gotten drink, see what their bathroom looks like and then roll up in about another 100. We'd be going.

We could go along and he slammed all right. Oh, that's a good store. And I'm like, oh, you've been here before. Gimber, I'm pretty sure who introduced me to a magical, magical land called. Bucky's late night coming back from the race. 12.30 at night, Gimber. Oh, yeah, he stopped for a bucket. Yeah.

He stopped for a daggum bucket. Gimber said, I got to stop me. And bought a five-gallon Buckees bucket. Hey, look. What he likes stuff? I like the field when you're fishing. Everything flows down to watchtow river. free game boys yeah but that's different that was coming to him gember had to go to buckies well hey look

they're coming right by there anyway but hey look it might be a real good bucket i mean that night changed my life no it was a regulation plastic you still have that bucket the you know what the bucket just broke last week that's a good bucket yeah was a good buck i used it to uh keep the um pellets from my pit boss in there for uh years but they swole up and literally ruptured the bucket oh they got wet well yeah But the seal, I thought it had a seal top, but I guess it obviously didn't. Hey, good bucket. Good bucket.

Best bucket around. Well, look, Gimber, this has been fun. You're always welcome here, by the way. I don't know why it took us 300 and something to have you here. What episode is this, Hunter? 360, something like that. Good gracious. 56.

We'll come back and do the meatball thing soon. Oh, we got to do Commander's Kitchen. Hey, we got one request. Yeah, you need to, my question. make some, yeah, and bring them in here. Hold on while this is fresh. We did have a request for a pizza of mine to make it to Commander's Kitchen. And Martin has now had my pizza.

Oh, I do need to talk about this just a brief. Martin's had my pizza and I bragged about my pizza. The team of Allison and John David Owen have got pizza making. Down. Buddy, when I tell you one of the top three pizza experiences of my life, I'm not kidding he's talking doing what he does well

talking salesman Allison is sitting there with the pizza building it asking you what all you want they've got every topping you could want some that you didn't even know you wanted I'm sure with that and they didn't have like two of them they had enough where like if you really like that

they'd load it up for you and then she makes it she says okay it's ready Johnny D takes it puts it in the oven turns it does all the thing puts it on a platter cuts it for that part could use a little work. I'm not great at cutting.

He's not great at cutting. I just ordered a Ninja Turtle pizza cutter. Let me see if that helps. Quarter's not really his thing. However, it's fantastic. I have nothing to say

other than, you know, 9.5 out of 10. 9.5. Because there's a great... Huh? Will he makes a pretty good. No, he doesn't.

He don't? Not compared to that. Oh. He doesn't take the 10. time. These two take the time. It's a long process. And I'm telling you right now,

Allison is as instrumental in this as this guy is. She makes the pizza. I just cook it. Because she, the meticulousness at which she puts your toppings on there, it's wild. She got a lot of seasonings too. And you don't,

that's the thing. Pizza, like you can't overdo it. You don't want too many toppings because then it doesn't allow everything to cook. Hard to slide. Hard to slide. There's a whole strong.

structural integrity so perfectly. You get a bite and all your toppings don't come off in your mouth at one time. I'm ready for some pizza. Buddy. Hey, what was worrisome is we had to do a different cheese. Well, you need to do that. I think we got to see. I need to put that on the podcast menu.

If the Owens invite you over for pizza night, just say yes. Yeah, don't miss it. And bravo on your middle child bends for being a delight for my two kids. Oh, yeah, he just trained them. Oh, he was teaching them all about Pokemon. on and but of course he did teach them how to climb their stairs and I'm like Benz they're too little man we can't now now I got to go home because now they don't want to get off your stairs I think we found the barrier in the attic though oh okay we can bring it back

if we can lock off the stairs we can stay a little longer but uh I will say now them Martin boy is wild now and it's a pair of them yeah it's a pair and they never go the same direction Johnny D got to experience that your kids got energy bro bro bro I mean I've seen them in here seen them like we you know you had twins you've been kind of you've been a homebody for a while yeah and you're breaking back out now you see one they's i mean them kids i was like godly martin i'm tired too yeah it was uh but bans was uh yeah they were good lottie took out jackson that was yeah we got they got like a living room swing which is really cool but jackson doesn't understand he was going to get in front of the swing to watch lottie swing and doesn't realize the physics of

If she goes back that far, she's also coming this way that far and he got decleted. It's hard to have a full understanding of that when you're one and a half. Yeah, but he's so tough, he just got back up and dusted it off. Lottie was like over there, like wanting to apologize. I'm like, he's fine. There's only one way he's going to learn the distance to stay away and that's get clipped by you a couple more times. So, you know, but no, it was, it was a great time. And, yeah, folks, if you've made it this far, a 9.5 out of 10, I guess there's always something you can do better.

I hate going 10 out of 10. I can't think of something you could do better, but. It's hard to go out of the cheese. There's very, there's very, there's a few tens. Yeah. And I don't know that one exists in the pizza world, but for a home-cooked pizza, my goodness gracious. We've been working hard at it.

Fantastic. And I'm not just saying this so I get invited back. I'm just giving you. I was so all day, I bet she could ask Brittany. because Brittany didn't eat all her pizza. Brittany kept texting Allison the next day. Well, she ate like half of the kids' pizza because only Jackson ate pizza. So Brittany was hungry when we got there.

She was eating that. So then she only ate half of her pizza. And Johnny Deeb put it in a to-go bag for us. And I bet I ask her five times the next day. Are you, you going to eat that? Like, yes, I'm eating it for dinner. And I'd ask about two hours later. You ain't going to eat that?

Yeah, I'm eating it for dinner. And finally, she ate it. And I was like, you just need to get it out of here. I can't look at that and not want it. I have a system. just don't eat for the whole day, then you can eat a whole pizza. Yeah. Well, if you eat one pizza, then it's a slice.

Yeah. It's just a big slice. Yeah, or if you don't cut it. Yeah, I guess you could not cut it and I had a piece of pizza. Yeah. Well, I'm going to work on that. Roman 617, but thanks to be to God that though you used to be slaves of sins, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your

allegiance. Amen. God's got you. You're not a slave to sin anymore. No longer. Once you find him, go find them if you haven't. Amen. We'll see y'all next time right here in the duck call room. We're out.