Duck Call Room - Uncle Si was Banned from Babysitting Phil Robertson's Oldest Grandson

Episode Date: June 12, 2025

Uncle Si’s namesake nephew, Reed Robertson, tells the truth about growing up as Phil’s oldest grandson. He shares how Si blew his one and only babysitting gig, why Martin can’t stop giggling over the Robertson version of “the birds and the bees,” and the tradition he and John-David celebrate every year without fail. Reed also dishes on the sentimental moment Jase tried bourbon for the first time—and immediately regretted it. Plus, he opens up about raising three young kids, planning for more, and building his own legacy through family and a thriving business in Nashville. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right. Welcome back to the duck hall room, ladies and gentlemen. We have a special guest in here with us. If you're watching on YouTube, you've already seen him. But we have Mr. Reed Robertson in the house. Jason, Missy's oldest son. The eldest Robertson grand boy. Huh? Are you older than time there? Yeah. By how long? Not much. Just a couple. Oh, yeah, but a few months. Yeah. Okay. There you go. I knew y'all were right. I knew y'all graduated. Fun trivia. or all the things. Yeah, there you go. The eldest Robertson grandson. They didn't graduate together, did they? No.

I was a year older than him. Oh, a four year. And he graduated. And John Luke graduated three or four years later. Yeah, well, he took a minute. I mean, I knew they were supposed to be there together. Because, like, John David knows my birthday.

Yeah. Hey, we'll never forget it. Yep. You can reach your one text of year. May 15th, baby. May 15th. May 15th. I know if no one else wishes me happy birthday,

me and Johnny D. We got each other's back. This year it was like at 11. Yeah, it was. He texted me, said, we almost missed it. And I said, thank God you didn't. Look at there, man. But now, Reed, thanks for joining us, man.

Yep, thanks for having me. Well, hey, the only reason we don't have you more is because you live all the way up there in Nashville or wherever you call home. Is it. Are you Nashville proper? Franklin. Franklin. Oh, oh, I know what that means. Yeah, that tax bracket a little different down there, Franklin. I like it.

He was just selling fish on the side of the road. Yeah, it was. ago. It's where it all started. That's where it. Now he's in Franklin. Now he's down the street from Luke Bryan and all them. It's a good time, man.

No, but thanks for having, thanks for joining us, Reed. Yeah, thanks for having me. You'd say, you know, we wish that you had come to town under different circumstances, but, you know, it is, it's part of the inevitable coming in, you know, because we lost Phil. Papaw Phil to you, which I know is a different dynamic than even a lot of us have with it. with him being your grandfather. So you said before we got to roll,

and you wanted to know what our plan was, A, we don't have one. I don't know what we're going to talk about, but even before we get into Phil, where does life find you now, Reed? I know you got a few kids. I've been married for a little bit now. Yeah, go ahead.

Married for who. Uh-oh. Come on, man. I got married in 2016. Don't worry, Brian ain't going to listen to us. Yeah. You'll listen to other ones, not this one. Hey, you'd be surprised.

You'd like to keep me in check, that's for sure. Now, married in 2016, so what is that? Nine years. Nine years? Eight and a half years, technically. Not being kids? Three kids. I got a three-year-old, a two-year-old, and a ten-month-old.

Are you done? No. Oh, wow. Oh, no. You'll have a big family. No. I'm trying to ensure that I am an established patriarch one day. Oh, I thought you were going to say.

they broke. You know, you have enough of them. If you have enough of them, what? If you have enough of them, you know, people say one's bound to be a dud, but you never know, you know, I'm trying to be a good dad. Hopefully that won't happen. We can't go down that road. What are you doing in Israel? I own a real estate development company, so I build houses, you know, houses, townhomes, all kinds of stuff. All over. In Nashville or just kind of all over middle Tennessee? You know, they say 120 people move to Nashville every day. Yeah. So it's a good spot to do it.

Good spot to build houses. It is, yeah, it is. Because, see, Brittany is from there. Well, not from Nashville. She says Nashville, but I think that's because she don't think anybody know where Hendersonville is. Oh, yes. But, yeah, she was born and raised in Hendersonville. There's a lot of little towns around Nashville where people just say Nashville.

Yeah, it's just easier to lump it all in. Turning into Dallas. Yeah. That's a large of cities. Bridget lifts in Franklin. Okay. Out there. Yeah.

Yeah. Got a nice little farm. out there that she bought. Okay. See, we know everybody around. Well, it's just, you know, that's pretty country up there. It is. Beautiful rolling hills.

Outside Nashville, it really is. It's beautiful country. Kind of rolling hills. Turkey's deer everywhere, a few ducks around. I had some buddies come down and hunt in January with me. And they were like, I've never seen a place so flat in my life. It's just because you could just see forever and you kind of take it for granted. When you go up to Nashville, you know, it's just rolling hills everywhere.

And then you're driving, I mean, you can drive for four. hours through Louisiana and you don't even go up a hill at all well there's not but one i don't thank you but there's one hill in louisiana mount driscoll baby mount driscoll at a whopping 500 feet or whatever it is just it ain't hold on a lot but it ain't no briskill mountain it's 535 feet above sea level yeah yeah yeah just barely i mean there's even a picture of the summit on wikipedia yeah just some woods y'all yeah It just looks like you're average. You can be climbing it and not even know you're climbing it.

Yeah. You get there. You're like, why do these people put this here? But no, man, that's cool, man. So after pretty much y'all left when Duck Dynasty ended, right? Like Duck Dynasty rolls out. I'd say about two years before the show ended, I think. Y'all rolled out then.

Yeah. When did the show in? 2017? Okay. So a year before. We got married and moved. Okay. There you go.

And then y'all, y'all have been up there. you ever see any future leading you back to Louisiana or you like the Tennessee area. I'm just curious. Oh, we think about it all the time, you know, back and forth. Every time we get up there, we're like, man, we love it up here. It's great. And every time we come down here, all our family's down here, I don't know. Yeah.

And that drive just far enough away to be a pain in the butt. That eight hour mark is. Yeah, it was seven. It's about seven hours. And then when we had kids, now it's eight and a half hours. Yeah. Well, you had three of them in the span of like a couple days. Yeah.

Hey, and I'll say this, that's way easier than, well, I don't know any other way. But to me, I'm like, hey, you're already in the mode, you know? Like, it's already mass chaos. What's another one? You just keep having them. And you never get out of the mode. Let me tell you something. You have them two at a time.

He had three at a time? That's different. No, he didn't. Basically. No, he didn't. I'm on Reed's side of. No. I got three.

Oh, no. Girl boy? Oldest is a girl, middle is a boy, youngest is a girl. Yeah. Have you identified? Do you think you've had your dud yet? No. No, I'm kidding.

I don't think so. They're good kids. I'm biased, obviously. Hold on. So how many are we stopping at? I want, if we have another boy next, two girls, two boys, I think I'm done. But she wants. But if you have another girl, you might.

Well, she has seven siblings. Oh, wow. You know, so. I didn't realize Brighton's family was that big. Yeah. Well, her family stuff's a little crazy, but all her older brothers are all in they're late 40s, early 50s, you know. And so it was a little weird, but, but I mean, I'm thinking five kids.

So I'm thinking practically and logistically, I'm like, okay, I got a suburban now. And if I have five kids, well, then I'm going to have to get another vehicle. And I'm like, where do you go? You got a people mover now. It doesn't make any sense. Yeah, church van. I'm like, now I've got to buy a church van, you know, it's like, my house isn't big enough. You know, it's like, what am I doing here?

We stopped having kids so they wouldn't have to sit beside each other in the car. You got to have a buffer seat so nobody can hit anybody. Say, I want to consider that. I start hitting. Yeah, different strokes for different folks, man. But, no, two was good enough for us. Well, you kind of like my dad. What's that?

You don't like people enough to create more of them. No, not that. I'm telling you right now, the biggest factor for me was zero to two mega shock. I could not imagine going from two to four. And if it were to happen again, because then I've read, you know, people that are in stages of life that we are,

which are later parents, obviously. Man, I'm about to be 40. Like, uh, uh, uh,

like, no, sir. But those, those odds happen again. And they just increase. And it's like, mm,

no, man, I think we're good. Uh, you know, but it also leaves the door open for adoption for us, which is great. Like,

I mean, there's lots of kids out there that need a home, man, that ain't got one. So if we do feel that we need one more to complete our family, we hopefully will remove one from a terrible situation somewhere. And give them a shot at a better life, man. So, yeah. So that's where we were. Now, Brittany's all, in fact, because the boys are a little bit self-sufficient now at two and a half or going on three.

Like, they can do certain things for themselves. So now she's like, she's missing a little bit. of that they need me for everything she got that baby oh yeah hey practice makes perfect man yeah so just practice keep practicing but zero to one was hard and then from one to two no problem my life changed none yeah because you know she's taking care of the baby and i just got one kid well that was nothing you know just one well then two to two to three that was you know okay now she's just taking care of the kids. She's back in her own world.

She's like, man, this is great. This is awesome. You know, she only has to take care of one now. She went from two to one. Well, I went from essentially one to two, and now I'm wrangling these two psychopaths. Well, you named one of them Silas. I did.

He is the fourth Silas, which is concerning. You know, we named, I mean, I'm the one that named him that, you know, but, I mean, it is a little concerning when you think about it. It's like what that means. The Silas carried on. So there's Silas, your dad, Jay Silas, you read Silas and then. David Silas. David, Silas.

Yeah, that's, I saw him last night and I've seen him around. He does have that Silas look in his eyes. So there's, he just, what it's not a bad, but it's just, it's filled with wonder. Hey, I'll tell you. The world looks wonderful to him. That kid can stick to a story. Oh, no. And especially stick to one that ain't true.

Well, he gets that quite naturally. Yeah. They ain't seen some slouts in the selfless storytelling. Okay, he gold his own. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means. That means more outside cooking.

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christine loves it which is just a uh she doesn't eat me yeah just go to try beef dot com slash that's try beef dot com slash duck support ranch families and eat some dang good state. Yeah, oh, they were telling stories about me the other night. We were worried about when he was a kid, you know, he used to make up these stories and embellished. And my dad said, I'd go and I'd talk to people like, man, I mean, he's just an embellisher, you know? And I'm thinking, oh, you were so concerned. You're the most embellishing person I've ever met in my life, aside from your namesake, who's worse than you. Like, what did you expect? That's what I was fixed. You asked you. How was it being like the son of Jason

robbers. Oh, buddy. Well, look, I I'm going to give you a minute to think of how you want to answer that, because inheritance is real. And Jace may go clip the part of this if he finds out we're talking about him, but I remember sitting in this room before

it was this. It was legitimately a duck call room, and Jace going, I don't know what I'm doing with Reed. I don't know what I'm doing with him. He said, you ask him something. He just bald-faced. He said, he's, he, he He's a real problem. Yeah, he's like, I just don't know.

He's like, I just don't know what I'm going to do. And then he's like, he said, then you got Cole who ain't ever told a lie right there beside him. And I'm like, uh-oh, this, this is not good. And he said, everything I'm trying, nothing's working. And I'm over here like, well, buddy, I ain't even sniffed a kid yet. So I don't know why you're venting to me about this because I, I am no help. Like, I got nothing.

The difference was I was loud and proud of it. I was just like, no. But my brother, he saw me and he got sneaked. He was a sneaky kid. No, yeah, he was saying a little bit all the way over here. He said, I watched Reed. He's always in trouble. I think I'll go a different route here.

Yeah. Yeah, but that was always funny. He was like, I just don't know what I'm going to do with him. He said, that boy will bald face lie to you. And I'm thinking, well, Jay, he's 15. Yes, of course. Like, what 15-year-old male doesn't? I don't think it's funny that Jace is upset that somebody else is embellishing a story.

No, no, because look, I don't even remember what happened, but I was doing something, you know. And Christine just started catching like a hand out of control. And she said, you're so stupid. And I said, every time you talk to me, I'm always so stupid. I said, why? She said, you kept him a lot when he was a baby. Oh, talking about Jay. Yeah.

Yeah, and she said, and then you wonder why you and him have all this trouble? he said you gave him he just I'm most a lot of your what are you are you know that's why I made your dad can't get along uh I'm serious hey you know you kept me one time when I was a kid and I don't know what happened but that only happened one time that was the first and the last time I didn't let you do it again no I don't even remember it oh man but me and him have always hit heads Yeah, well, he's, he's pretty bold-headed. I thought me and him was fixed, because he said it about you one day.

He said, I guess it's just going to get out that I'm just going to have to just show him who's the man. And said, hey, I'm just going to, we're going to have a fist fight and I'm going to beat the living daylights out of it. One time in the duck blind, you know, it got so bad that Phil called a meeting and chewed all of our butts. Yeah. and said, hey, when I leave the blind, don't nobody moves until I get it. I'm sitting in the decoys with a boat. Yeah. I knew I was a 30-year-old man about to take a whooping.

Yeah. I mean, I just thought he was going to be like bend over. Is that the story where the find a tree story? Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Oh, yeah, that's a famous one. The only thing that's out of the water is my neck. I'm sitting under a butt brush.

Okay. And what got me was, okay. Okay, he killed one at a hundred and twenty-five yards. And I said, you should have killed three. There was three of five hundred ducks at 60. Oh, we would just, hey, look, we were just nose to nose. I don't think so. I thought, I said, well, here we go.

We're fixing to get into a dock down, drag out, fight. Oh, it lasted for days. Oh, wait. I remember him coming home, just, I mean, steaming. We've got about 18 podcasts on it. Yeah. Yeah, it's still going. Yeah.

As a man who was present for that story, that one was a weird one. I said, I'm about to see a bunch of grown men to start fighting. Oh, no. And then I'm going to have to pick a side. Yeah. Like, what we're going with? Phil Robertson. I said, me and Jay's are fixed their boats go home with black eyes, missing teeth.

I mean, I wasn't going to let Jay's, like, put the boots to sigh or nothing. But, like, I was always going to stay on Phil's side, because I was always going to stay on Phil's side, because I still scared the death of him, right? Like, I'm not, I'm not worried about Si or Jace, but whatever Phil could do to me back then, I was like, mm, I'm with this fella. I'm with this fella right here. Like, I am with PR. Because in that day, back in that day, I mean, he looked like Popeye of Sailor Man.

Yeah. His forearms were twice as big as bicep. Yeah. He was like this. Yeah, he still chis. Go from pulling them stupid nets full of fish, like 90 feet up from bottom of what Oh, those summers I worked with him. I mean, I was my first summer, I think I was 12.

And I was every summer for 12, 13, 14, I think. You worked for Phil Robertson for a summer? Well, school would get out. And, I mean, getting back to the, I was, I was a handful when I was a kid, because I never shut up. You know, that's why I was a bad liar because every- name Silas, everybody, middle-name Silas. Every 15-year-old boy is a liar.

But if you don't shut up long enough for it to work, You never get away with anything. That was my problem. And so school would get out. Well, they would say, okay, down to filling K's. There you go. And I would live there. And it was summertime, you know, and he would wake up at 4.30 in the morning.

Yeah, he's running a net. Oh, yeah. He'd wake up 4.30 in the morning and we'd go till dark. You know, when you're a 13-year-old boy, you got all the energy in the world. And he whooped my tail. I mean, it was just all I could do to keep up with him. There was one time we were walking back to the rig. and we were in knee-deep of water

and my excuse is that I was wearing waiters that were eight sizes too big but he took off he just never said a word just took off running high stepping through knee-deep water and I heard the rig crank up you know and I'm like this dude is fixing to leave me out here and he but he waited on me

and he got back and I said what was that and he didn't say anything for about 30 seconds he looked over he said I bet you wish you can do that when you're 65 years off he took off but he could roll man yeah yeah you couldn't keep up with him

walking through that mess especially during the summertime you just couldn't do it you couldn't I don't care how good a shape you were in he was just he grab him hooks and because he's in tennis shoes like he's in just slip on tennis shoes walking through that crap like it ain't

full of leeches and cotton mouth and everything else when you was talking about them a pecan, bitter pecans. Mm-hmm. He cut thousands of them things down with a stupid, you know, weed eater blade. Yeah, beaver blade on a weed.

Yeah. I'd go behind him, spread it. And, well, of course, we start four daylight. Yeah. Okay, and it'd be four o'clock in the afternoon. I'd say, hey. What gives? Yeah.

I'm done. Let's go. Yeah. He said, no, no, we're going. Oh, he looked at you said that heat's about to break. Yeah. Yeah, it's going to cool down. That heat's about to break.

It's going to cool off. We fixed to do it for two more hours. Oh, we hopped in the boat one time. And remember Jesse, the little rat area of your head. Jesse was with us and hopped in the boat with us, and we both hopped in there. There was a cotton mouth cooled up. And Jesse killed that cotton mouth. I mean, just was barking, would fake one way, went the other way,

went the other way, grabbed it, would shake it. You know, we're staying in the boat. I'm freaking out. I hopped out, you know, and all this chaos, he never said a word. Oh, he was going, ho, ho, hey, ho, ho. Jesse kills that cotton mouth, and he just goes, that's why you got him. I went with him.

He pulls a net in, empties a buffalo in the middle of the boat, where we have to do it, and the next thing, Jesse's on one, and there's scales going everywhere. he's biting this buffalo as he's flopping and there are scales flying Joe it was ridiculous Jesse finally stops and he's got scales all over him I'm talking about

yeah and I said he don't like Buffalo does he said no the original Jesse didn't like much period other than Phil and Kay that's all that dog was a stone cold killer and Martin told me because he had do it to everybody just be over on the couch laying down and Phil put that hat in front of him and walked toward him and just he loved hey if you fooled around he would bite the crap out of you yeah but as soon as you

never let it be I'm not way you he'd be loving on you yeah yeah yeah yeah but when you put it something put over your face oh no here he comes Phil used to love he used to love watching people other people get bit by his dog It was pure entertainment for him. Like the dogs didn't care if he knew you or not, he would do it. He'd say, put this over your face, walk up here. He said, hey, you just have it put in front of his face and walk up on the top. And that dog, yeah, and eventually, if you didn't pull it down, you was getting bit.

Oh, yeah. I mean, it was a rat carrier, so it didn't really hurt, but it sure was funny. And he got. When you're eight, yeah, I mean, it hurts. Yeah, he got tickled every time. Those rat terriers were a character of that. I mean, remember JJ? JJ was my dog first, and she hopped out of the truck one time while we were driving.

Her front broke her leg. Oh, her elbow was going this way. I mean, it was completely 90 degrees. And it'd be okay sometimes and something would happen. Here it goes again, you know, and I'm like, pep off hill, that dog. Oh, she'll be all right. Yeah. Jay J.J. lived her life out with that foot going just like that.

And then she also had that, she had that dead spot in. her eye where she wouldn't fast enough from a cotton mouth. Oh, yeah. Like she had a little white spot in the eye. I remember that day, I was down there that day. She got bit by a cotton mouth. I mean, they didn't do anything about it. It's her whole face swell up.

And he just said, them dogs can handle it, you know. Hold up. Yeah. And she lost the eye. I watched Phil. He walks out on his porch. And he swore, you know, there's a copperhead. Yeah.

And Cali had been out there doing something in her flowers with a hole. Well, he just grabs that thing. He just. He chopped that snake up, okay, which ain't about that long. In about an inch piece. So the heads laying there, okay? So the heads laying there are each piece. Jesse come running up and stuck his nose down there to spill it.

Yeah, latched on. Last on. Well, hey, he shook it off, and then he took about four steps and just, y'all right yeah who died funny he was okay the only thing i've always said there's the only thing tougher down there than phil robertson were his animals yeah

it was survival of the fittest you gotta be tough to live there and on that other street my dad inherited that from him because they've got these little dogs at their house which actually your dad has killed the most animals on yellowwood drive i pointed at johnny d No, no, no. That dude.

My brother-in-law helped him. Like, let's not get it. That's what is that. Of all the animals killed on the street they live on, Johnny D's father has killed the most. He's taken out a couple. And there are other people's pets in his truck. They should be sleeping there.

That's another story. That was, that one was, uh, my, we can't really tell that story because my niece is going cry when they find out it was Big Dave and took him out. That dog was sleeping. sleeping under my dad's truck and he just got in and started driving we tried to save him no but my brother-in-law's dog died he had him for like 12 years and so he goes and buries him on the back of big day's property and you know if you ever buried your dog's kind of emotional yeah that's tough and so he's leaving he's kind of you know head down starts passing jason missy's house and how terrible is that

story is that the sound it made or is that the brakes squeam oh that was the sound and he goes what just happened. And he had to, and then he had to go tell Jay, he's like, sorry, man, just got one of your little dogs. So one of the little white ones? I don't remember. Yeah, it was one of the small ones. They all looked the same, but that's what I was going to say is, and then he had to go bury it next to his dog. It's survival of the fittest there because they've got these little dogs. And I asked my dad, this was a couple years ago now, I said, how long have y'all had that dog? Oh, I think she's about two. And my mom said, oh, no, she's two years old. This dog looked like she was 13 years old.

I mean, hobbling around, legs sticking out, just matted hair, you know, it just, I'm like, this dog is two years, if you survive two years

at their house, you're a wily veteran, you know, I mean, it's survival of the fittest. I always called their street death row. The only dog that ever did well there was dingo. That's because we found dingo somewhere else.

Yeah, dingo walked up one day. Yeah, Dingo knew how to make it down that street because he, he made it all. off of the street. I did almost take out one of them dogs on my golf cart. But your dad is always like little dogs because y'all had that little Yorkie too.

I know. Well, that's what they have now, these little bitty dogs. That's the one Drew took out. The yorky? Which they did love that dog. Yeah, it was bad. Daisy. Daisy.

That was that. Daisy. Yeah, I felt bad. Yeah. My dad, he has the weird. He always has the weirdest pets, but he does get emotionally attached to him, like, big time. I mean, one time we had this pet chicken. And Sonny the chicken.

I had my name. I remember Sonny. Yeah. And Sonny was a little yellow chicken, and I had a white chicken named Clorox. I don't know how it came up with that. But Clorox didn't make it. Well, Sonny. Sonny.

Welcome to the weird world of the Robbersons. I just had a flash of Jay's telling that story was the weirdest part. So Sonny was this little yellow chicken we had. You know, she and it grew up to be a big yellow chicken. which you don't see a lot of. And this chicken just lived outside. We had no coop. We had no enclosure.

It would live outside. And every morning we'd go to school, we'd open the door. And Sonny would sit there on the porch that she'd follow us to the truck and we'd give her scraps or whatever, you know. Well, then she'd come in the house and Mia would have her in her bed, you know. I mean, it was like, it was a weird situation. Y'all had a chicken like a dog? Yep.

Well, a cat came. and now I'm Now go for it This is the duck call room A cat came and killed this chicken My dad said I know it was this cat that hangs around So my dad's my dad

Every day on his way home from work He would stop and get a can of sardines And he put the can of sardines in the yard And he would sit at the dining room table With the window open I mean like a I mean you would have thought The guy was in a gilly suit You know

And he would sit there and wait for that cat to come try them sardines. And look, the cat came one day, but he was real skittish, and he was moving around real quick, you know, grab the sardines. And my dad said, no, we're going to let him get comfortable first. I mean, this was like a month long. I mean, he stalked this chicken, I mean, this cat, because he killed our chicken. Hey.

Look, I saw Jace one time. Look, Jace gets like that. I saw him. We were down there, just got done building duck calls sitting on the porch, just like, whatever, it fell in case. and a blue jay crapped on his hat. Like, lit up there above him, blue, big old pile of bird crap right on his hat. He said, I'm going to kill everyone, every blue jay I see for a year just to make,

just to make sure that they don't do that again. And that boy meant it. He was just mad dog mean at blue jays for a hot because one of them crept on his head. He just could not, he said, I just don't like rudeness in a man. You know? He said, that's just, he said, that's just. just rude. So him and all of his buddies are about to learn about it.

I mean, just he's a, yeah, your dad's a particular individual. He is peculiar. Well, I mean, but the silas,

I think that just kind of goes with the territory, right? It's just in his blood. He just loves to. What's funny is y'all like to tie into it so much and he's your middle name, obviously. Well, then at some level, for some reason,

Jace thought it'd be a good idea to pop your middle name. And then he couldn't believe that you'll fault that money. So you've never. what's coming. I mean, you and David are going to tie into it in about fast forward 13 years. Oh, I'm sure. Well, that's just the nature of man. Yeah. And then he's going to tie into it with Jace, who's his granddad, and you're all just going to be looking at each other. Like, why are y'all so hard-headed? I think I'm the only grandson that got whooped by Papal Phil. Oh. And I think actually Alex, you were the only other grand, well, she's here.

She's here. Alex is here. Alex is the only one. who, on the other one that got whoop by Phil. Is that right? You got whoop by Pepo Phil? Well, she's been on here. She doesn't told you she's a black sheep of the family. She's headed to a microphone. She's not, she's not hit this fact.

It was less of a whooping and more of like a ball your fist up and bonging on the top of my head. Okay. While he's standing on the step above me, just conk like a stone. Why can I see that? Like a whack-a-mole. Just bop. He had one rule, don't wait me up for my nap. And I came in there hollering one day.

day. Oh, yeah. And it was, he bent me right over right on the couch right there in front of all my, all my cousins and everything. Oh, you were the example. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And nobody ever woke him up from a nap. Oh, not another one. Not another grandkid ever woke him up from his nap. Can I tell you how quiet I used to be walking in there to get something and we all knew Phil was sleeping, just working there. And I'm just trying to work like, go get supplies. And if I open that door and Phil wasn't in that chair, I was like, how do I get out of here without making a sense? So I used to sleep on the couch right there on his lunch break, and he would wake up and we would all come and hide behind the couch

because we used to count how many times when he would wake up. We'd try to count how many times he burped and farted when he woke up. We used to think it was the funniest thing. Hey, hi, ho. We used to do the same thing every time I took a leak. Okay, boy. We're all on a plane and we landed somewhere. I'm talking about Denver.

We landed in Denver and went in there. Hey, I've never been in this joint. So look, I walk going there and I'm staring at the urinal and click. The lights go out. When they come in, it was, oh, oh, oh, boy, whoa. Oh, good, great. Then they turned the lights out and I literally had to do the mime against the wall to try to find the exit door. Every let it.

before you. Willie turned it off. You know what I said. I said, Willie, you like made me kill myself. Y'all, good grief.

Was it, it was Dallas when there was about 10 of us in the bathroom at Texas Motor Speedway and there was big, like 15 urinals and size at one of them. And then like,

all 10 of us are going, huh. Oh, hey. Ah. Some poor random. No, no. There's two or three other people

in the internet talking about, what in the hell of? They all just looking at us, like, what are these boys in there doing? Good grief, y'all. They ran. God. That's what I was video when we talk about that. Like, Phil is your pap-all, man.

That's the kind of stories like, yeah, that's neat, man. Because, I mean, it's the same pap-ball stories everybody has, right? Like, I remember doing the same thing. And something about that generation, too, they all had to lay down and take a nap after lunch. Like, there was never, that wasn't. if I need a nap. No, I'm going to take that.

That generation, my dad still does that every day. Yeah, I may come with, they come with retirement. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe when you basically retire, you just go later. Well, he started that in 1948. I know I'm the only man,

probably on this earth, 24 and a half years in the military. Spent 24 and a half years in the military and I got a nap every day. Yeah. You're the only one. No, I'm serious. You know, it was hilarious.

Did they ever get to looking for you? You think? Like, nobody ever reported. Did you have a secret spot? Well, no, I was just like a... Or you just go home. That's why I'd look and I'd go back where we live. Yeah.

You don't take me like, you know, 30 minutes now. Mm-hmm. Had an hour for lunch. 30 minutes I'd wake up and then walk back and come back and then. Well, you do have a certain skill of being able to sleep anywhere. Well, and then, I don't like that. I don't like that. I don't like that.

A nap is the whip. Well, another. Oh, I love a good nap. I inherited that from him. I can sleep anywhere, too. I made the Colonel mad. Okay, we had a big meet one day, and he said, hey, I thought you was going to fix this.

Y'all, and I said, well, you haven't gave me the green light. I said, every time I do something, y'all all get been out of shape. Y'all, he said, well, hey, are you in charge of this or not? And I said, well, you tell me. I said, are you giving me the green light? He said, yeah, you've got the green light. So, hey, then I went to work and, hey, as always, okay, I did what I needed to do.

I dropped 3,000 cards into the computer system, and it created about two weeks work for all the item managers. And they are all hitting the roof. So then that's when they came in and told me and said, you don't have a job. And I said, what are you talking about? He said, you don't have the job, but you got to come in every day. So look, this one on for one year. I come to work and sit at my desk and everybody's walking by. Nobody talks to me.

I've been shone. I've been blacklist. Okay. Well, hey, I done got bad now. You set at a desk for a year and just folded your arms? Oh, it was worse than that. I had my gallon tea sitting on my desk. U.S. government.

Yo, I'm like this. Yo, they come walking by the door. I say, hey, come on in. We got to put in the tea. They would run. I rubbed it in them sucker's nose every day. Oh, thank you, Lord. Yo, and then they didn't make who, what your rank was.

You know, if the general come by. Sir, hey, come on there, have a glass tea with me. No, look. A new major is coming in to take over my divisions. Hell that I mean. So we're watching each other for 90 days. Because it took him that long. We had military and civilian.

It took him that long to interview everybody. So the day of days come, he's interviewing me. To say I've got a bad attitude is an understatement. So we sit down and he says He kind of leaned forward on and he just said What do you do? Well I just didn't give a crap And I said well

I'm not being a smart butthole I said but I'm going to answer your question With the question I said what have you seen me doing And he straightened up And he said You know not a blanketly blank thing.

I just lean forward and I said, I'm really good at it. He jumped up out of his chair. And then we're strictly military now. He called his attention and he said, okay. He said, I got one or two things here. He said, I got the worst in the CEO

in my army. Or I may have someone that's been miss, that's been abused a little bit. So he asked another question and I said, well, here it go again. I done I don't poke the barrier. I said, I might as well

go all the way. Yeah, let's get him really. Yeah, let's really get him. So he asked me, said, he asked me a question, and I said, well, I said, again, I'm going to answer your question with a question. I get real personal now, okay.

I said, are you your own man? Or are you going to listen to all these people that have been whispering in your ear? I said, they all think I'm an idiot. Okay, and they said, that's far from the truth. I said, I'm not an idiot. I know who they're whispering in your ear about. It's yours, Trudy. you know when I said are you your own man

he jumped up and now he's pissed you know he said he started all this stuff and then he asked me another question I said sir I said do you know how long I've why I'm mad and he said no why are you mad I said because he gave me the green light to do my job and I said hey look I'm in the top five

percent army wide, I'm that good at my job. At least 90%, 95% that are below me. And I said, he turned me loose and I said, hey, they can't handle me. They couldn't handle the truth. I said, and they can't handle the truth. And I said, wait a minute, you're saying this just screwed up? I said, yeah. He said, can you prove it?

I said, oh, I can't go further than that. I said, I don't have to prove nothing. I'll go get you a computer printout from the system and let you see how. So look, this was like, this started at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. It's 4 a.m. in the morning, we're still talking. Hold on. That's 14 hours. Yeah.

Y'all talked for. Oh, no, we just out, yeah. Because this guy's new. The only person he talked too long than that was Christine trying to convince her to marry him. Oh, no. Yeah. But anyway, look, after me and him, me and him was like this. He's the major.

I'm six. When they saw us coming, they knew somebody was fixed to get their head chopped off. So, Reed, what's next for you, man? What's just back to life in Nashville as normal? Back to life. I hadn't been home in about a month. I was on vacation before this happened. And so I drove from Gulf Shores.

We were on vacation. We were there for two weeks. I drove my wife and kids up to Nashville. And I unloaded the car, hopped in my truck, and drove from Nashville to here. Okay. That was a long day. But I hadn't, I've been home for 30 seconds, just long enough to take a leak. I headed on.

And now all of y'all are in Nashville, right? Does that, is that right? Yeah, my brother lives there. My sister goes to Lipscomb. and my parents have a house there so there, well, my mom comes up there all the time, but my dad, you know, he says he's so busy with the podcast that he can't come up.

He came and did ours on his day off one time. Yeah, he made sure to let us know it's his day off too. Several. Man, I'm up here on my day. You can do a podcast anywhere. Oh, wow. Wow, Hunter's really calling Jace out here for not coming. That was the bravest thing I've ever seen you do in your entire life, Hunter.

That's because Jace doesn't even know who Hunter is still. Like, he can hear that and he still wouldn't recognize him. when he walked in here. Which one of y'all said that? They didn't have nobody raised there anybody. Huh. Okay.

He must not be here. Well, he gives it to everybody on his podcast, too. I know now you got to be careful about what you say because I'll tell him, you know, funny stuff, embarrassing stuff. You know, listen to this stupid thing I did the other day. Well, the next thing you know, hey, man, I heard that was hilarious. Whatever happened when he did this? I'm like, how did you know that? Oh, I heard it on your dad's podcast all the time.

everything I tell him this podcast material. Yeah, well, yeah. We're all in a way looking for material through other people's things, right? Like, I mean, you hear some unfortunate. We had a situation last night. I said, do you going to tell that on the podcast? He was like, no.

I said, well, I'm on size podcast tomorrow. I'm going to tell it. Yes. What happened? Yes, what happened? Look, I got a, my wife bought a bottle of bourbon at the liquor store. And I pour a bottle of a glass of bourbon

last night and I said, I said, Dad, you're going to have to have a glass of bourbon with me before this is all said and done. He's like, no. I said, look, this week has made me think, you know, it's made me think about a lot of things. I said, I don't want to look back at the end of my life and say, I never had a glass of bourbon with my daddy. Yeah. I just looked him right in the eye and said it. He played on them emotion. And I was standing there. Okay, that's a salesman. Watch him now. So he held his glass up. He had an empty glass and he said, just give me a swig of it. I poured it in his, poured a little bit in his glad. I mean, as soon as I pour,

ho, ho, ho, ho. Just one, one block of ice went in there, you know, and I had it over ice, you know. And he takes a, he takes a sip of it. Ayah! He said, that's like doctor, what do you say, Dr. Tisters or something? Dr. Tishners, yeah, mouthwash.

That's Dr. Tisner's. Yeah. He was like, that's the word. He said, I don't know how that caught on. But, I mean, he was jiving and like, he's like, My teeth are hurting. I mean, it was the most dramatic thing I've ever seen. No.

No. Yeah. Until my mom took a sip. Then that was the most dramatic thing I've ever seen. I mean, they went, they were just on and on about how terrible. That's a good plan. That's a good thing. That's good.

That's a conspiracy. What are you doing? You're a dad. was the most It was actually wonderful to see naive young man at his age. He really was okay and it was it was a wonder

to watch. Because he was so purity is what I saw. You know what I remember Jace telling us when he was the junior high boys Bible Sunday school teacher. And he looked at all of us, and I'm not kidding you, he goes, I done figure it out.

Like, y'all got this problem looking at women. But doctors look at women naked every day. Just be like a doctor. And he was out. That was his whole skill. And I was like, he told me the same thing Papawfield told him, except for, I mean, he went through the whole thing. I mean, Papaw Phil, I guess, when he was.

he told him it was just quick straight to the point. But he, you know, he went through the whole thing, you know, men and women, you know, they do something that creates babies. You know, he's going through the whole thing. I remember, I actually remember not paying attention, which is funny. And I just, I remember coming to out of whatever days I was in and I was like, I probably should have been listening to that. But all, all I remember was he said, let me tell you something, on if you have sex with somebody that's not your wife, it will literally rot off your body. And I was like, do what?

And he said, hey, that was Phil Rob. And I asked him, I said, what do you mean? And he said, oh, look, you just keep that thing in your pocket. Now that is the Robertson line for way back. And I learn now that that's exactly what Papaw Phil told him. He said, keep that thing in your pocket, which he went, to, hey, which he told everybody, gonorrhea, chlamydia, herpes, syphilis, AIDS. All of them.

You went down the list, which he also would do that in front of 15,000 people. Yeah, he wasn't afraid of that one. Yeah, I had been hanging around along, Phil. He said, Martin, you married? Nope. He said, well, you better keep that thing in your pocket until you get that way, son. Which he told me the same thing. He asked me, when I started dating Brighton in high school, you know, which now

she's my wife but he said he said he was bright and met pap off ill he said y'all having sex i said no sir and he said all right well you keep that thing in your pocket now yeah i'm like okay that's it that's the line that is that is the line i've heard that line many times you ever thought about how to try you put that thing in a pocket they don't get there no i've never it ain't it ain't gonna make it i don't know i don't even know what that means keep that thing in your pocket like oh yeah i do you just mean's good advice you're just good advice It is good advice. Overall, yeah, pretty solid.

If you're listening, best advice we can give today, get that thing in your pocket, won't be no trouble. Oh, it's just like Phil sitting there. Man, well, we always close with a Bible verse. Johnny D., you won't take it? Yeah, you got one for today? It's June, baby. It's June.

We've been looking forward to June in this room. We've been through it in a lot of different ways. Martin's attended four funerals. Four in three weeks. In three weeks. I've been at three. We went to one the day after Phil's for a dear friend and co-work. worker that worked at the honey hole and duck commander.

Yeah. And, you know, we've just been kind of, me and Martin's big jokes been, hey, it's June. June, baby. And that made me think of Lamentations 322. The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. His mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

The Lord is my portion, says my soul. Therefore, I will hope in him. Amen. I'm hoping June's better than May. Yeah. And I got a feeling it's going to be. And the cool part is like even in May, you saw the hope coming through. Like even during all those things, man, the hope was the hope was what kept you going, man.

And I think, you know, we're sitting here telling stories about a man who knew that hope, knew it better than probably any of us. And now is resting in that hope. And man, that's cool, man. It's still. I don't know how much longer we're going to talk about Phil. but it'll still be a while. And even if we do it every day from here on out,

it'll never be enough because that's what he meant. Well, I love about this is faith has been turned into fact. Yep. Fiel. Amen. We only knew what he knew now. Well, the amazing thing is that none of this would have, none of us would be here doing what we're doing right now

or anything we've done the last 40 years, I'm only 30, my whole life without him. Yeah, amen. We're never going to not be able to talk about it. Amen. I love it, man. Well, we'll see y'all right here in the duck call room next time. We're out.