Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Built the Dynasty, but Bella & Jacob Are Taking Over

Episode Date: June 10, 2025

Uncle Si reveals the unexpected secret to a long marriage—and all the giggling going on at his house is proof that he’s right. Bella and Jacob celebrate four years of marriage, defend their quirks, and spill what it’s really like taking on Duck Dynasty: The Revival. John-David stirs the pot with school-day receipts and tire-blowout stories that still haunt Bella. And Martin shares what it was like helping raise Bella—and how that job definitely came with hair bows, makeovers, and plenty of humility. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Y'all go ahead. I'm checking and see what my fishing buddies are good. Has there been anything newsworthy? Yes, there's newsworthy things. We have guests today, and I think we're rolling, and if not, we're going to roll. Martin's looking at fishing scores. Jacob Wheeler. What's in the news, but I have breaking news.

Today marks a special day on the calendar. Uh-oh. Four years ago today, we were trying to break the dance floor at Willie's house for the marriage of both Bella and Jacob. Mayo. Oh, that's today? That's today. And they're both here. That was the day of the union, boy.

Wow. Day of the union. Wow, I had no idea. The union of the day. Oh, y'all have made it through four years. Four years. Y'all got through the hard part. Y'all should probably write a book on it or something.

How to make it four years. How to make it four whole years. Oh, man. That's awesome, though. That is. I ain't going to lie. Mine, there were some trying times those first four years, man. He said, there was some trying.

As a guy who just knocked off 10. Was that crying times or trying? So one of us was crying for sure. It's me. Which run home to Obama first? Oh, man. Lord. Well, congratulations, y'all.

Four years. That's incredible. Thank you. Any advice for us? Keep going. Hold on tight. I'm going to tell you, I'll tell you this, the one thing Godwin told me that has rang true through all of marriage,

it gets better. He was not, in fact, wrong than that. He said, it just gets better. Ten years down, I can honestly say it is better now than it was 10 years ago. So that was the one truth that I've taken, that I remember, I won't forget, it gets better. Sy, you've been married for 85 years. No, 54.

54. You remember. That's actually a wild number. 54 years are married? 54. Especially to a main one like I'm married to. Of course I'm kidding. But you've been married for, I mean, I feel like I've been married forever,

and it would take me 40 more years. They're not 54 combined. It's a bit that way. Yeah, I was just about to say that. Combined age. They're still short. That's four years longer than my age, doubled. You've been around for a minute, dog.

25 twice. Well, but here's the deal. You got to work at it. It's just like when you do a garden. You got to work at it. Life's garden dig it. There's a lot of weed pulling. Yeah.

Got to water it. Because you got two individuals that actually come together and they both bring excess baggage that is not needed. There you go. And you've got to pull here, throw that away. Oh, don't throw that away. Keep that. That's good advice.

You're a garden guy. I've always said marriage is like a boat. What? You better hold on. Storm's probably going to show up out of nowhere. I was going to go up. And if you both ain't working towards it, you're going to end up drowning in the other.

ocean. Yeah. Well, no. Bust out another thousand. If you're not both working

forward. Yep. The waves will take you where they may. You're going to, you won't last. You end up like

Tom Hanks. You'll separate. Mm-hmm. She's with a dentist. You're just on an island by yourself. It's like any time you put two

different identities together and harness. If they don't pull together, they never accomplished nothing. There you.

I'm always pulling in different directions. Speaking of... No good. But speaking of different directions, y'all did kind of take our fan base by storm. With the fan on? With the fan on or fan off situation. Has that been resolved?

The fan's still on. No, it's always on. I have to turn it off every morning before she gets out of bed, though. Yeah. That's a compromise. She says she can't get up with the fan on. So you legitimately, you just can't get out of bed. When a fan's on?

She's bedridden. I can't open the covers and be exposed to the cold air. That's right. She don't like cold air. Put some clothes on, man. What do you be? My jama still. No, she's just leaving a sweater and still not want the fan on.

I don't get it. I don't either. Well, that's year four, man. When you get my age, you will. Yeah. And in our relationship, the fan goes on at night and it goes off in the morning. That's the compromise. I think y'all should invent like some timer to help save marriages because that seems like way too.

You know, it's crazy to me. They make fans with remotes now. You don't even have to get out of bed to turn it off. That's a good point. Push a button. Do I have to get a whole new fan? Well, yeah. Oh, you ought to do that.

We just keep it old school. Go turn a switch on. Then you miss all the fun. Let me tell you one thing about installing a ceiling fan is like two screws if you've already got one up. Unless you like to. Let me tell you one thing, though, about this marriage. So if someone is screwing in the fixture or whatever, it's me. And I do not like to do that stuff.

I don't know if I would agree with that fully. It's true. I don't know if I'd agree with it fully. I'd say 50-50. Wait, 50-50. No, it's more like 85-15. That's why you hire someone. That's what I do.

That's, I hire people to do it. I don't personally do it. It's not my cup of tea. But I don't like to hire people. So most of the time. Well, wait a minute. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Time out.

Time out. out. We got four years down, but this fifth one going to be hard. That's like me. If I tried to fix something at the house, I'm going to have to play about three times more. Yeah. When I've got called the guy that does it for a living. I broke a washing machine recently.

Yeah, I would say that's me, too. Yeah. You broke. A lot of fixing guy. Yeah, I'm not either. Okay. And don't try to make me, give me a honey-do list. Yeah.

Because I'm going to laugh at you and turn it up and you're going to get mad. Yeah. Hey, back to a while ago, y'all or y'all are missing the fun. Because, look. Doesn't seem like it. No, no, because there's a lot of giggling going on at my house. A lot of giggling. Yeah, when it gets a little cool.

Because I get cool and then I get cuddly. Oh, okay. So the first day you hear, if I get cold, you're going to hear my wife giggling. What does that do for you? What does that do for you, Bella? You ever just, you ever just pictured your uncle, Sa? I didn't want to know that.

You ever just pictured side of? Oh, no. I'm a color from way back, okay. That's from, look, that's from my mother having dogs who help her wake the children up. Y'all ain't got like an alarm clock? No, a rooster? No, no.

But it's more fun with the dogs. We'll hear in there and smell the bacon. Cooking and all that, and then we're here, maybe it's time to get the kids up. Who's Mamie? Miami's the dog that weighs 125 pounds that have been out all night in the cold. So her nose is like an icicle. And guess what?

She's coming in the bed and it ain't no way you can keep her out from under the covers. You can't turn that off with her. Oh, no, no, because here she comes and then it's, ah, ha, ha. I thought you were going to say the dog started giggling, you know. The dog giggles too. I didn't know. So what about that dog made you cuddle? Well, hey, well, hey, when I got back, if I get cold.

He used to be the dog. I know what to get warm. Okay. All right. Hey, I go to mama and get warm real quick. Okay. Them the fun begin. Our 16-year-old intern is finding a good giggle about this.

He just went. That was the exact face he made. Hold on, but I have to reverse this a little bit. You're installing appliances at your home? No, she's not. She is now, Fibbitt. She put these Amazon $10 sconces up beside our bed and thinks she's a new engineer. That's not what I'm talking about.

That's what she's talking about. That's the gift that I got you that you love. She bought me a bidet one time. And a part of the Christmas gift, she put the bidet on the toilet. A new engineer. Hey, it's a Christmas gift. I knew how to do it. That's what I'm saying.

It's a beef thing. Sir, that's impressive. My wife doesn't know how to work a light bulb. That's what I'm saying. What else are you installing? That's it. Well, I just mean like I hang everything that we order. Like, frames, pictures, all that kind of stuff.

I hang everything. She puts the nail in and I put it on the wall for her. No, I do that. I do that. I do that. I'll let her win, though. It's not a big deal. I don't have anything to prove.

So I'm not a handyman and I'm okay with it. That's okay. You know what I'm saying. I just thought she was about to be like, you know, I ordered a refrigerator, had that hooked up, put the dishwasher in. Yeah, she got the dolly out, put it in the house, you know. But you are, as long as you provide. But I installed the bidet. Can someone give me credit for that?

Yeah. Hey, I'm cleaner for it, let's just say. Cleaner for it. Well, you both are. Yeah. But the thing is, it's shared. I mean, I mean, I've never been a part of a home where the wife knew how to do anything like that. Hey, it's a given take.

Yeah. And it's a, hey, you use your strong points. And if I have any, I'll try to use mine. Yeah. Brittany does a lot of stuff at the house. Like hanging stuff and all that. Oh, tell her to go to my house. Well, hey, it should be that way because, hey, that's your domain.

Well, she was raised. That is a good call. Her dad and granddad are both like shade tree carpenters. So, like, squares and all that stuff make me, you know, I'm Phil Robertson. Nothing in nature square. I mean that's not quite, which also just means you're a poor carpenter. So I stay out of that realm, but not. I mean, I could install a bidet.

I fixed toilets, fixed our air conditioner. Like, there's... Plumbing doesn't scare me. Electricity is terrifying. But yeah, putting stuff on a wall, zero out of ten chance. I get at the right height or straight. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up.

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Then vice versa. Well, I think this is what we've talked about. it's the fan. The fan. That's it. That is the key thing. If they didn't figure out how to work this fan out, we wouldn't be here right. For her, it's the fan, and for him, it's a sink full of dishes, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Ain't that the two things that drive you all said? Yeah, probably said. Yeah, he washes the dishes. Yep. He washes the dishes and she knows all the carpentry. Someone was, oh, no, you don't.

I cook. I have a question for you, Bella. No, no. It's a good. Amen. Whatever, look, whatever, you know, don't let nobody tell you what they're doing your home. Hey, Bella was cooking last night. I faced-timed her because the boys wanted to say hello.

Whatever works for you two, that's all that matters. Has he ever back to the year ago? Go jump in the lake. Not mine, just everybody else's. Just my friend twice, okay. I got the truth of that, by the way. Friends are good customer, Zach, shout out Zach. He said, he didn't tell the truth.

What did he say? He said that he walked in and said, hey, I'm parked behind you. Don't back into me on the second time. And then you went, I don't know if he's stretching that. I have no recollection. Well, hey, I will use a Phil Robertson deal here.

He was terrible at that. Yeah. Hey. Hey. Y'all, so he would tell you, don't park behind me. If you did, you're risking getting your vehicle run over. That is why I have never gotten my car hit because I always park in for him.

Oh, yeah. Let her. Let's, I'm going to want to. up myself here for a second since we've been roasting myself a little bit. We haven't been roasting you. Who puts the gas in your car? You? Since we've been married. Wait, you don't know

how to, you don't. No, I just pump her gas for like. I just text him, I need gas today, meet me. I'm saying. Oh, wait, this is a meetup situation? Yeah. Oh, Alison, if you were listening, no chance home girl. You slide that car, you get out. I can

but he just does it. That's sweet. That's sweet. Yeah. Yeah. My wife told me about a guy that did that for his wife, and I said, you should have married him. Yeah. I should have gave that one a whirl. Yeah. Sorry, I'm all about equal treatment of men and women. Pump you on gas. Pump you on gas. And I only go out of town. I'll fill it up every time. It's just that he offers and he likes to. I like that. That's a sweet little. It's a nice. If he can't, he's like, no, I'm kind of far. I'll be like, okay, I'll do it. But he just doesn't.

So when you pump gas, do you go until it shuts off or do you stop on zeros? And I go to a shut off. I go to $20 and then I get so bored. Well, what I'll do is... You need to call Jacob to come to come to talk to you too. I'll just talk to the window. That would make it where I could fill it up. Jacob comes and does it and he comes through my window and just talk.

I've got to run it up until it's even. I have to do an even dollar amount. I have to. I have to. I have to. It shuts off and then I go to the next dollar. If it's 11.50, I got to run to... I used to do that and the gas comes back on me, so I just stopped doing that.

Well, you've got to let it breathe for a minute. You got to let the bubble settle down. You got to pull it out, let it breathe, and then you go back. I were going to gas. I do fill up now, though, because I'm an adult. But I'm also just trying to see how long I can go without getting gas. Current record, 31 days. Yeah, you fell up once a month.

I knew a guy that just... I do run it till the last. He always run his pickup. Every time. It was just... It was six to go out of the game. Yeah. He went through a lot of fuel pumps.

That was just him. Yeah. I did that. I said, hey, he said, I'd run out of gas today. And I said, it's no wonder. I said, you drive it forever. It's going to run out, son. And you don't ever fill it up.

Give me $5 worth. Or give me $6, $7, $10. $10. I'll get you where you need to go. Give me two gallons, boy. Yeah, yeah. I could understand it when we didn't have no money. Right.

I'd pull up, I'd give me $0.5. sense for us that's all I had yeah but you know these days hey come on five 16th of a gallon you spill 50 cents a gas whenever you take the nozzle off yeah makes me sad anyways y'all are on a big tv show now yeah what's it like jacob you weren't around for dd version one the duck dynasty version you weren't weren't no i really got to thinking about that the other day well bella was like eight And I was like, man, that was long ago. See, I've asked, hey, what do you think is going to be good, the fans are going to enjoy it?

I hope so. Because I wouldn't know he didn't watch the first episode. No, no, I talk about it a lot, though. You haven't watched it, but you talk about it. Is it imagination? No, no, it's good. Okay. I told him.

I said, well, I said, look, y'all need to check out the Duck Dynasty New Revival. I said, because I said, in my home of opinion, I think it's going to be fantastic. Yeah. There's so many characters to choose from who you can like. Yeah. And I said, and I have to say I was surprised. There's a lot of talent there.

It's the most Jace compliment. To charge your change, you know, to check for it. I mean, I couldn't believe how good. I'm going to say that's a compliment. Thank you. No, no, I'm serious. Yeah. Okay.

I'm going to ask, who are you most surprised by? Yeah, he's shocked that some of y'all have. talent. I'm going to ask you. Go ahead. Well, I'm not going to answer. They can't hate you. You're their uncle.

No, I think they have a lot of, a lot of, it's a lot of potential. Okay. Well, then who's got the least amount? If you won't tell me who's got the most, who's got the least? I ain't going to tell you that either. Who's your favorite character on the new show? Who's your favorite character on the new? Himself.

Yeah. I love Sye. I love Sine. I love Sight too. I'm just saying, I'm looking forward to what the fans say because there's no doubt in my mind they're gonna love it yeah you're gonna be scrolling all over facebook yeah i think it'll do well it's actually good you know and like my it's actually well i will say this my hat's off to two okay that's him and christian oh they look

because they put up with so much bull for me and they do it very good christian got god again today. Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm serious. And they do it very good. Well, because I'm surprised. They shocked me that they do take it so well.

Yeah. Well, today, you said he has zero brains, so we'll see. Well, no, no, no, because, hey, it goes on, on and on. It does, yeah. I said it's a good thing. He got muscles.

Oh, no, no, no, no. Now, this one here, he's like a junkyard dog. You've out of his cage. That's that ball convention. Yeah. And he's going to rattle back. That's what happens when you.

I shake the cage with you. No, no, no. And that's why I said, it's going to be great. When you get called. I can't wait in a few weeks when they see the chicken coop episode. No, no, no, because I felt so bad doing that. I really did. Because they just kept saying, oh, hey, no, you got to get on them worse, y'all.

It was funny. Yeah, I think it'll be good. And I think based off, like, the first episode, it'll really open up. like as the season goes. It started and it's a good thing. Right. Yeah. It started out on the first apples cold kind of slope.

Right. Exactly. But trust me when I tell you. This man acting like he watched it. He hasn't watched it. He hasn't. It's just very introductory. I just, when it was filmed, I watched it.

Okay. Because I'm involved in. He is the greatest television person. He didn't even watch it and he knows. He's the producer. I forgot. He's producing this. It started out slow, but trust me when I tell you.

you, okay, the trains picked up speed, and every once in a while it jumps check. I have no idea. Well, you know, a lot of people after the first night were commenting, not a lot of people, maybe like 10 people, but people were saying that I was Scrooge and rude and whatever. And it made me think about the day when we were doing a certain scene, I would leave that until they find out. But remember Uncle Si, I was

telling me and you, we were the Scrooge's. Mm-hmm. You are the Scroo. That's why we love you. No, no. Hey, everybody's got their part. Yeah. Okay, and hey, if it fits, wear it. And wear it with a badger mother. That would be the best

cruise you can be if it's just I will be. Thank you. Best advice from Si. If it fits, wear it. Yeah. That's true. That's another political standpoint for Sa. It fits where. Well, it's one of the things, okay, because they're going to put, like when you was in the class with your peers, they're going to put labels on it.

Oh, yeah. Okay. Now, you can either get mad about it or fight it or even, you know, even fight over it. Or you can embrace. It's not going to go away or you can just wear it on it. You can embrace it. It's impressive. Yeah.

I mean, look at, hey, well, I. The finest example of that, look at John Gobwin. He's still writing ham sandwiches. Ham sandwich. Ham sandwich. You know, he's still, everybody, your hand still smelled like taco meat. I'm so glad I didn't get his. Ooh, man.

Gobbon was a real one on that deal. Oh, but so, Jacob, your first experience, I remember when we first did it, have you had any, like, phone calls from people that you haven't talked to in 10 years or so? Definitely. That all of a sudden saw that. Like, hey, man, what's up? Yeah, I'm definitely, yeah, hey, what's up or like, congrats or can't believe you made it.

I'm just like, I guess so. Here we are. You've made it. Well, that ain't the only thing. Well, no, no, because look. Yeah, I got something else to talk to them about. Here's the deal. A lot of people can't do it.

Yeah, sure. I mean, really, it's just, it's something about, you know, a camera is just, you know, it's like pointing a gun at them. Right, no, it's really. It frees up. Yeah. Yeah. Or some, okay, just. You pointed out of gut and they go crazy.

They don't even know it's there. Yeah. I see you. He blossomed. No, no, no, because I don't, I don't even see them anymore. I will say, I've got, hey, and here's why. That is not true. I'm always, tell sooner.

No, that's not true. You see them. You see them. Because when you see them, you turn it up for the left. And I said, don't even say you don't see it. Look, we brought to... You didn't quit that. I'm going to call you out on that one, old man.

I met this girl named Kelsey. You're correct, okay? I do see them. Yeah. And I guess, one... Deep down in... It's that meme, though. It's like, let's go...

He's going to give it to. He's the meme you see on the internet. That's my moment. Tell me, okay, you can brighten the light. When that camera goes on size, I says, let's get this... Turn it up. Let's get this bread.

You were here the other day when our friend Kelsey came in. Oh, yeah. And I said, look, he's going to be tired. he's been filming so probably just get a quick picture and be on our way and she sat there and i was like yeah he's tired sorry and then she asked the right question yeah 23 minute sermon sitting right there and then her dad pulled out a phone and started recording it and sigh i looked at his phone when you were done you talked to that girl for 23 straight minute yeah 23 minutes and just gave it everything you had and when they left i said yeah he's really like that by the way that's just him yeah oh by the way

Even for boot camp. It was a really cool experience for her. She's going to serve our country. So that's awesome, man. You got a once-in-a-lifetime deal there. No, but- Why do people freeze up on camera? Because they don't know what to do.

Because just like I said, they get self-conscious. Yeah, it's a self-conscious thing. And all of a sudden. It's definitely a self-conscious thing. What am I going to sound like? What am I going to look like? The embracing part is who cares? But at the end of the day, who cares?

Well, hey. And then there's also the people that try to get in front of it, but they're terrible on it. And you're like, maybe you should be a little more self-conscious, like slide over there. But I think you can get over it. Like if you...

Oh, yeah, you just got a picture. I'm naked. No, I'm just talking... Oh, thank you. I'm talking with a camera. Like, if you're scared of it at first, I think over time you can get used to it. Oh, yeah.

But not everybody. I'm just saying, for some people, you can. But that says something, though, for you. Yeah. Okay. You just, you know, you just... You don't even really... You don't even really...

you don't care one way or the other. Right. Is it on being a right? No, that's why I like Jacob because he don't care. Jacob's got just enough, don't give a crap in it. He works well. To really work out on camera. He works well with me, especially hunting-wise.

I'm like, yeah, come on, you can go with me. That ain't no problem because we don't care. I don't. Who cares? You flare them? Who cares? That'll be some more here in a minute. It's not a big deal.

Like, I do care if they get over to decoys and you don't kill them. I do care about that. Oh, yeah. Then we got a problem. Then we have an issue. But other than that. This is, all right, that's the reason we've got them in close. Right.

So we can get them on camera or die. Yeah, get them in there tight. But y'all got a lot of news. So we got General Vintage storefront. A retail is open. How's that going? It's good, man. Learn how to manage employees and learning what works in store and e-commerce and the difference.

Have you had a-mish-in-it-have-you-had a customer bigger than Brittany yet? Yeah. We went to the grand opening, Brittany starts taking the decorations off the wall. He puts the expensive shirts. There's like, ain't nobody going to buy this. There goes Brittany going shopping on the wall instead on the rack. I'm like, oh, God. Do you want to hear something funny?

I don't know if I told you this, but when she said she wanted that shirt, I knew it was $125 in my head. And she's like asked about it to get it down. I made my employee get it down because I didn't want her to be sad when she saw the price on it. But she ended up getting it anyway. Hey, look, if I can spend money to support my people doing their thing, sure.

Absolutely. I mean, I got a John Chris T-T-shirt over there for, for the same reason. That was $35. That was $35. But it was new. Yeah, this wasn't collectible. But I bought,

I bought me one, I bought Brittany one. At the time I bought Allison one, then she slid a Venmo back to me, but I wouldn't expecting that either. But like, when you get the chance to support your friends and quasi family,

do it. Like, who cares? Like, I'm not going to go in there and ask for a discount. Did you just call yourself quasi Bella's family, by the way? Well, I did in fact help raisers.

I was about to say, I was about say, because I have a few photos. here of you at take your daughter to school day. That's what I'm talking about. See, that's my girl. That's my girl. That's my birthday. That looks like it's at school. It was. Martin and my dad

and Godwin and Jordan Summit came and picked all of me and my friends up in the RV wrapped with dad's face on. That shirt's awesome. Claims with Duck Commander. It was 15 back in the day and now you can sell it for 40. They picked us all up from school and drove us out to a horse camp. Yeah. We sure did. That one.

I always remember you saying, hey, I got to go. I got to go get Bella. Look at that. That's Martin the Godfather. My favorite is. That's Martin's birthday. Yeah, that's my birthday. See?

I don't even know what birthday that would have been. Bella, like she grew up in Balcomville. My favorite. She was the ragamuffin of a certain street I grew up on. Let me just say something. This is pre-Duged Dynasty, so she made me. Couldn't get them teeth fixed yet. Them teeth were terrible.

She'd be over there just asking for Dr. Pepper for Christmas. That is a crazy story. And guess who's got it for me? My mom. My mom finds something funny. I asked for Dr. Pepper for Christmas. And Dana said, I'll come through. Low- Maintenance Kid.

My mom got me a 12-pack and Jadis got me two-two-leaders. What a Christmas ask. My favorite part. My mom was like, easy. Done. Why did you refuse to walk? Because every picture of us from back then is always me holding you. That's my, she never won.

that you all had. I was the baby. She was attached to your hip. She was. Hey, and I'm a better man for it. It was kind of like getting a start at parenthood without having the child. I got to leave every night.

Or most nights. I did sleep on their couch for the nights. You know. Yeah, that was. With Bose in your hair? Yeah, Bose makeup. I didn't care. Y'all do whatever.

You and Mia and Aslund do whatever y'all got to do to me. I don't care. I was just, I was. Long for the ride. I was the potter's clay, man. You honestly were just trying to earn that ode to pork later that night. I really was just waiting on dinner, yeah.

My mom has like hundreds of pictures that I took of you of just like the back of your hair with like bows all in it, braids down the back that I took making pictures of my creations in your hair. I could care less, man. I was having the time of my life. And you know what else? I was poor. Like I was making $21,000 a year working at Duck Commander. If I got a free lunch or a free bill, you bet you bet you,

buddy. I'd stick around. I would hang You were paid well compared to most of us At 21 grand I was about to say time out now You didn't even have to drive to Las Vegas So I don't want to hear that I wasn't ever going to do that

Yeah that's what I had to do I was hanging with Willie Yeah Not getting any more money But the ride was a little easier Or drive to OCS Just to make me up for Chick-fil-A Or check her out

I've made that ride Thank you Once Martin graduated to TV Here I slipped in Except I had the great esteem of having to pick up a will all the time. Bobby, Bobby. It was just, Bella was the only one. For some reason, I was on the school checkout list.

And there I'd go, thinking it was sanctioned. Nobody really cared. You actually win, because I had to deal with them when they were like 16. Yeah, when they could talk back. No, when they would just pop tires all over the place. She did that. She's popped 11 in one year. That was that first year they were there.

Yeah, we were there for that. I was the pickup and the, I just had a child, Ben's was born and I was at the hospital and was like, hey, Bella's over on Louisville. She ran her tire off the road and I was like, I just had a kid, man. All right, well, here we go. I actually have a picture of that. Oh, man. There's good times. Which one is the, that's a problem that you can ask that. I will say she has a copped tire in a while. Well, she got, she now drives a vehicle with a little more tire too. Right. Yeah. The first one, what was that first one? The Volvo.

I hated that car. I love it, but it always, I think it was prone to tire popping. Well, it had two inches of tire. Rown to tire popping. There was no tire. You were prone to running into stuff. Yeah, curbs were optional in your book. Well, to be fair, since I got a new car, I haven't popped any tires.

Only Jacob's having the wrecks now. Yeah, and my driveway. Look out for these people. Don't even worry about the road. Just don't come my driveway. Oh, man. That's so fun. Don't park as it out.

We're about halfway through maybe a little longer, but I do want to, and kind of keeping up of what we've been doing on the podcast since we lost this version of Phil, our earthly version of Phil. Bella is your pap off feel? How was that? Because you were almost the baby grandchild before the greats got started. What is Mia just a little bit younger than you? Yeah, a year. Yeah, you're younger. So I guess you are the, yeah, you in, whoa, yeah.

Well, they moved off to Texas for so long. I forgot. I forget that their age is a little bit lower than that too. But out of the ones that stayed here, how was it as Phil is your pepaw, your grandfather? He was the best. I think I have, I mean, he was the best for everyone loved Pebble Phil. But I think my group of grandkids, he was so great. because the older kids are like always talk about, you know, all the crazy things that they did.

And that all the things with like the wooden spoon and all that stuff, which my generation was all girls. It was just me, me and Lily Merritt, all girls. The only thing, obviously, he still had the nap rule. Like, the only rule was don't wake him up from it happen. We woke him up a few times, but there was no wooden spoon involved, at least for me. He couldn't do it to the little grand girl. He was always the best. I mean, he was funny because I told Momokai this the other day,

because there's some pictures of me and Lily sitting in his lap in his chair. And Mom Okay was like, well, that's rare because he wasn't too fond of grandkids sitting in his chair. But he always did when we would come and see him right when we got there and sit in his lap for like five minutes. And he'd be like, all right, get out of here. Oh, yeah. I remember that because we were working down there. And I always remember when y'all would come in. He'd say, come on over here.

little girls. Come on over here, my little grandgirls. We would say good for like five minutes. And then we would get annoying. He was not your typical grandpa. No, he'd say, come over here, your little grandgirls. And about three minutes later, he's like, all right, now y'all go into play room. Get back here in the back. But me and mom talked about this too.

And I feel the same way about Uncle Sai. But we do, I feel like, have very special memories with our grandpa and with Uncle side because we were filming we got to do a lot of fun things together like when we went to the land with you guys and did the what it was like brush oh yeah he took a chainsaw to a playhouse yeah that was all y'all in it we did a lot of fun things so that's interesting filming with powball phil we had so many fun memories going to hawaii and all those different things we got to do yeah traveling with phil was never was never was never boring.

And his cooking always was my favorite. Two weeks in Scotland with that man, quite a time to be alive. All right, Jacob, now's your turn. You're relatively new in the whole thing. So your memories of Pat Paul food,

did you call him Papal? Or did you just call him Phil? It just depends. Depending on the situation. Yeah. And to suss it out. Depending on what you had done. I usually just call him Phil, though.

Yeah. If I was talking to. I'd say pop off Phil. I'll call K, man, I'm okay. But, no, I have some funny memories. I guess two of them are, like the first time I worked at the land with Jay Stone. I'd been around Phil a few times, but y'all know it. Phil doesn't always remember you right when he meets you.

You see so many people all the time. So he hadn't fully known who I was at this moment, but we were coming back off the land. And me and Jay were working on the tractor. And he was at this Mayhall tree. He says, come here, boy. I'm like, yes, sir. He's like, get up in the. that tractor in the bed and lift you up, shake that tree for me,

we'll get all these berries down. So they put me up in the Mayhall, like in the tractor bed and lifted me up there and I shook the Mayhall tree. And that's like a memory I'll always remember getting those Mayhall berries. And then the other time was I was working on the land with Jay. And he called me, this is like to go back there the next day. Well, supposedly Phil would go out there and work with Dan. And whenever he got done working with Dan, he wouldn't say nothing.

He'd just leave. And Dan would be left back there. who knows a mile, mile and half, or half a mile back there and have to walk back, like to the layer. And so Jay was like,

well, you please go out there. They're going to blow a beaver dam and just go ride with Phil, help them. And then when Phil leaves, take the Argo back and go pick up Dan.

I was like, okay, I'll do it. And so we go out there, and this was probably three years ago. So Phil was probably 76, 75 at this time.

Yeah. In Sanukes and just regular, like, dry fit pants. Oh yeah. He gets out there in the middle of the bayou with the chainsaw and he's cranks that joker and starts going to town on this, like,

cutting this limb and this tree that we're trying to move for a beaver dam. And Dan is in the middle, like on the side with a track hoe, like pulling the beaver dam off. And I'm sitting there helping. There's a snake at Phil's feet. And he, I'm talking about I'm directly in line with Phil. And I have it at 22 and he's like, just shoot it. Just shoot it.

Like he's sitting there with a chainsaw going. Like, I'm in line with him. Obviously, I'm shooting down, but he's like, I just shoot it. I was like, just shoot this snake at his feet. He's like, all right, good. And he just keeps going. I'm talking about he's in hip, deep water with Sunooks on. Oh, yeah.

With a chainsaw at 76 years old, sawing down in the middle of this bayou and just asked me to shoot this snake directly in line with him with a 22 rifle. And he's never seen me shoot a gun, which is totally fine. I was capable. But, hey, that's just something normal for him, which is hilarious. He built different. Yeah, and then just gotten the argument. and left Dan every time we were leaving, you know.

And we just dip out after he gets done. And then I just take the Argo back out there and pick up Dan. That was it. Yeah. All that, all that, yeah. So that's just like some funny stories. Snakes. Snakes didn't bother him.

No, they didn't at all. Okay. I've seen him step by so many that, I mean, literally his foot's here, the snake's head right here. And all the snake does is just opening. All you can see is white. Yeah. He lifted, goes on.

He closed his mouth. You were telling us that story the other day, when he asked Jan to go get him some water, and he told her, remember that snake bit her when he went to go get her some water? Or she went to get him water, and he's like, oh, you're going to die. Remember you said that story that Jan went to get him on?

He just told her she was like six years old. I think that was Zach who told you. Oh, that was Zach. He was telling us that story, and he was like, he looked at Jan. She's like six years old and he's like, well, you're going to die. Yeah. Well, no, no, because we was playing high and go sick.

Yeah. And we had a drain where mama drained, watched dishes, was wet out there. Right. Well, we had run through there playing. She ran through there and she'd come back and out and said, I just got a snake bit. Yeah, well, mama looked on her calf and you just seemed like, it looked like a stick. Right. Yeah.

You know, I said, no, I said, it'd be two holes if it's snake. well hey about an hour later we look yeah you could see it clearly yeah yeah and that's what Phil said when he walked over he said well you're gonna die jam well me you're gonna six years old and your brothers later you're gonna die hey what's funny about this is though as many times as I've watched him step just own them around them Jan was the only one in the Robertson family that ever got bit that's crazy I got bit. I'm going to say.

Yeah. That's crazy. You got to tell what he would say to you every single time he saw you. And Momokoe would be like, Phil, that's Bella's husband, Jacob. And he would be like, oh. Oh, he, well, what do you mean? What did he used to say? She would say, she's still cooking for you?

Oh, yeah. He'd be like. We'd be going duck hunting. And he'd be like, well, you still cooking for you? I was like, yes, sir. And he's like, that's the best trade a woman could ever. ever had anything, then he'll go, now who are you married to again? Which one of him?

And like, oh, Bella. He's like, oh, I love Bella. Oh, man. But it was like every time, like, she's still cooking? And he said to me, he would say it to me every single time, too. You still cooking for him? Yes, sir. Good.

That's good. Good call. There you go. Wisdom. Hey, I can appreciate all those. Hey, I appreciate it, too. I'm surprised he didn't nickname me. I think he might have at one point.

I can't remember. My dad took that. Yeah, Willie definitely did that. Willie hung butt cut on you. It hadn't been the same. Yeah, Thunder thighs, his butt cut. I can't remember. He's some other one.

Bulkham, right? Oh, yeah, Borg. And he called me a Balkamite. Oh, well. It's you fit. Yeah, what's I say? If it fits, wear it. If it fits, wear it.

Yeah, I'm wearing it, boys. I'm going to order some new clothes in nine and just wear it. No, you're not. You order old clothes. That's terrible for your business model. You can't wear new clothes. What are you doing, Jacob? Hey.

Oh, man. It's new to me, you know what I'm saying? So we're just coming up off a week two of Duck Dynasty. What did you think of the second episode, Jacob? Do you know what I'm talking about here? Yeah. Yeah. What's the second episode?

Jacob versus Christian. We just, they play pickleball. Yeah. Daddy Daycare, Pick the Ball. And then what else? Y'all was playing Mahjong or something? Yeah, that's barely in it. But yeah.

So how was, who, who, who, what, what are, what's your opinions on, on Christian, like playing sports against him? Where are you, where are you laying in that? I know y'all are both Uber competitive. Do you keep a tally of like wins versus losses or? I definitely keep receipts, you know, if he ever, you know, wants to talk crazy or something. I definitely have my receipts. But it really just depends on the day If I want to win fair and square

Which I do lose sometimes I'm not saying I win every time But even if I do lose I always have a good time Because I can always do a little provoking You know Jacob's not afraid to lose The other one is

Yeah Already aired so you can say that you won Yeah so like beating him in pickleball I mean I'm pretty positive that was going to happen But ragging him the whole time was fun too Because at first It was just filming but then about halfway through

the camera was gone in his head and I got under his skin a little bit Yeah It was pretty funny But it was all love I mean It was good He got to jump in the pond with his shirt off

I called him a loser in front of his family I mean Called him a loser In front of his family I like to I remember that how they cut it Like if I can remember correctly Honey's like there

And they're like Cheer for your daddy and I was like yeah I cheer for a loser. Cheap for a loser. I love it, man. I love the competitiveness of y'all. Oh, dude. My favorite thing we did.

Because you'll eventually get to a point in your life where you don't care about that kind of stuff. Yeah. So while you do care, embrace it, man. For sure. Especially when you're the good trash talker. Like Johnny D, John D is a world-class trash talk.

Oh, yeah. He's always around until the meat gets to popping. Oh, yeah. And I disappear. Yeah, then he's gone. I'm there to start a fighter. They've played pickleball together. Yeah, and Jacob's going to beat me every time.

Yeah. You were around out too much then. Who me? Yeah. Yeah, well, you instigated. Out. Yeah, back off and watch the fun. Yeah, watch everybody fight.

Yeah. Sometimes that's fun place to be, too. Yeah. Disturring. I won't act like. Yeah, I like to stir the pot. Yeah, I like to stir the pot sometimes. It's just fun, you know, you sit back drinking like a topo cheek or something,

just instigating the pot, you know? He just dropped a to toe on him This is what Jacob likes to do Sometimes he'll just like bother me and bother me And bother me and bother me About something like make fun of me for something He's not gonna change And then the second I'm like

Jacob stop him What did I do? Well it ain't no fun if it don't bother him That was like John David the other day Yeah I heard about that at home John David Oh you gotta be able to poke the bear And get him to growl of

Bella I'm obviously team Bella here. It was the shot hurt around the world. How did that many people hear about it? Why? Because. Okay, people. So you don't know what we're talking about. She pretty much walked office to office around here. She put it on Duck Commander Yikkiak.

I don't even know what that is. It's like an anonymous post thing. They have at colleges. Anyway, I was messing with Bella because she is one of my favorite high school memories of all time, her time in high school because it was so bizarre. And you'd sometimes show up to school. You'd sometimes just sleep the whole time. Call me a liar. I went to high school for one year.

Okay, there it is. And so then she was like, I'm just going to do it online. And I did, and I graduated a year early, also with half my freshman year done. And I told you how that was way cooler than what any of your brothers and sisters did. That is exactly how I meant it to come out. What did I say? It didn't come out to a blast them. John David said that I bought my degree.

Oh. After I worked so hard for it. After you and Martin worked so hard for it. He says that that was the sixth grade. No. Martin? Okay. Okay.

Made me a few days. And Shelby. Don't make me call Shelby. The sixth grade. Here's what I'll say. You got a little behind on your senior year and had to catch up in math. Because I was taking three years at one time. I'm not, I don't disagree with that.

I'm not disagreeing with that. I helped you in my office do. some math. Great. But helping me for a week before. I was a tutor. Now there was one point where you looked at me. There was one point where you looked at me kind of crazy and I was just like,

give me the computer. Let me do this. Get this over with. But it was simple. It was not. She's looking out. But no, let me tell you why. Because being where I was and being where I am now, the stuff that they were asking

her to do, there is zero chance. She will ever have to do that again in her life. So, like, I already know how to do this. Let's get this over with because I don't want to teach you. You did it. I'm saying, because Martin helped me one time doesn't mean my whole degree is a joke. I think it was probably a little bit of embellishment that maybe got taken a little too far.

But, you know, that's all good. Wait, I did that. The embellishment. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm getting at. But no, I mean, I wouldn't, if I would have thought any of the math I was helping with

Some of that stuff was like, you'll use this again? No, you're going to learn how to do it. I'm the king of the online. But A squared plus B squared equals C squared, Pythagorean Theorem, you're not using this. Let me knock this out and get this. I think I'm to the point where I could tell the truth about my college and it wouldn't matter in life. What about college? I think technically everyone bought their degree.

I mean, a certain standpoint. 100%. I'm against college in general. You have to pay to go to college whether you got a scholarship or not. Yeah. Somebody's paying for it. Somebody paying for it. Yeah.

That's exactly right. I'm against college. well I got a finance degree so I could deal with that that's your tire Bella Is that the rim is that? Two days after my daughter was born But you blame the tire I believe myself I know what I did

She knows what she did That don't look too bad about the tires The rim looks james What's not pictured is the other tire that's also the same way And the undercarriage that had fallen on Oh who did you hit that's what we're worried the median on foresight

don't go down foresight boys without thinking about the median yeah those great murdals come out of nowhere yeah because there's a lot of them that's what it'll do to a Volvo those great myrtles

well Bella Jacob thank y'all for joining us this has been a lot of fun I was looking forward today for a while it is fun we've laughed which is kind of why I poked the bear the other day I was like she's coming on I gotta get her fire

up ready to fight. It's been really fun because the first time in a while we've just laughed the whole time, right? Yeah. It feels like getting... Do you want me to do a Bible verse to take us away from that? I do. I'm just saying it, but finally finding a sense of normalcy and all the things, you know, of life. And that is what the Bible verse is kind of about today. Yeah. You know, a lot of people are going under transition. No more than Ms. K.

Yeah. And I don't know if I should tell the story or not, but I'm going to tell it. I went down and talked to Ms. Kay last week, gave her a hug, and she said, Minnie Me. She said, goes, when I'm ready to laugh again, I'm going to come be on that podcast with you and sigh. And I said, you just say when. Hey, spoiler alert, Kay stopped by here. What was that yesterday?

Really? Yeah, she stopped by here yesterday. Me and Bella went out. She didn't get out of the car, but she just held her hand out to one. She said, I just love being back out. I got my chauffeur nan here driving me around. That's, well. You know, Kay is just, she living her best life, man.

Yeah, and I want to, a lot of the questions I've seen in the emails and stuff have been How's Miss Kay? And so if you're wondering, that's how Ms. Kay is doing. You know, as good as anybody can be doing. And once again, shout out to Jay and Anna for everything they've done for K and Phil, especially Kay since Phil's been gone. And I just did this verse like two weeks ago when Jeff was here. Good.

But it rains truer today than it has any time. Yeah. James 127, religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this, to look after orphans and widows in their distress to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. If you're wondering how Ms. Kay's doing, she's got an army up here surrounding her, led by Jay and Anna Stone. And we love her. And I really hope sometime soon we can try and figure out how to get her on here. Because she's ready to laugh.

When she's ready to laugh, we're going to laugh. From what I saw yesterday, it won't be as long as maybe any of us that imagine. So she was back being Kay. She was just sitting there, but she was being Kay. She had that look on her face. and all the things. I think she had just went and got her hair done. So keep her in your prayers,

but that is your K update, which is probably because all the prayers that all y'all have been sending out. It's been unbelievable. Well, they certainly don't hurt, that's for sure. Yeah, we're into them. Yeah, but we'll see y'all next time. Right here in the duck call room, we're out.