Duck Call Room - Uncle Si's COVID-19 Story

Episode Date: February 4, 2021

Si went to the hospital (under protest, of course). We knew something had to be wrong when he was quiet and wouldn't laugh or smile. He was diagnosed with COVID-19, drove everyone at the hospital nuts, came home, and took a turn for the worse. But as Martin said, "It ain't gettin' Si. Not on my watch." Many of you reached out to find out where Si's been, so we decided to share the whole story of his ups and downs with the coronavirus, along with some of our favorite memories of the often headstrong, always hilarious, one-of-a-kind Si Robertson.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back. We're here the Duck Call Room. Look, if you're listening on all your podcast devices, Apple, Google Play, all that kind of good stuff. Just remember there is a video link that goes along with it on our YouTube channel, the Duck Commander YouTube channel. Be sure to like and subscribe while you're there. That way you don't miss any of the stuff. I know we look through the comments and all that kind of stuff, the reviews, and everybody's like, well, I wish it had a video link. Well, it does. And that's on our YouTube channel. So check that out. It goes live when the podcast goes live. So just in case you desire to look at godwin or john david or stone or philip or sigh or i doubt it's me but uh you know if you want to see us cut up then you then feel free to check it out huh you look pale i look pale i heard that all last week everybody's worried i was sick and i can assure you i'm not sick but let's go ahead and rip the band-aid off of this it's been a couple of weeks since our esteemed co-host uncle sigh was with us so um we're here to tell you why sigh hadn't been here and who wants it's don't even want to say it well i don't even want to say it this is what this is how it started off i'll get us going um so sigh's wife miss christine she gets covid and gives it to sigh

he did not know that he had COVID when he went on a hunting trip with jay say Stone. Yep. Go ahead, Stone. Well, I noticed when I picked him up, he looked a little peeked. Peak it, huh? Yeah. Pal.

I said, sigh, you all right? He'd say, yeah, let's go kill them ducks. Ha. Yeah. So, you know, nothing sigh likes better than a good teal swat. So we're going to South Louisiana to swat some teal. Well, on the way down there, he didn't say five words. Wouldn't singing along.

Wasn't singing, wasn't joking. Yeah, something's wrong. I knew, I knew, I thought he may, maybe he's just, you know, because he's got the C-O-P-D, I thought maybe he's just out, you know, low-energy day. And, uh, but he wasn't his normal self. And, uh, all the way down there, and I thought, hmm. So we got up the next morning and the blue wing just swarm us.

And we hit him inside just bomb-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-ppon-pon. And usually when he's doing that, he's laughing and cutting up. no it was he was just shooting ducks and that was it and reload and reloading so he was acting like jace but he was yeah that's right what about claiming was he claiming oh yeah he claimed well he said oh i did i did i ate on that group boys you know but it wasn't his usual boy i was three for three you know what wasn't that if i wasn't a shot y'all wouldn't have killed any but we had a good time you know and and and woke up the next morning i could tell he It didn't feel good because, you know, we were talking about going fishing.

He said, ah, I'm going to sleep in. Well, he slept. He went to bed that night about 6.30, and he woke up the next morning to go hunting. We went hunting again, and he was looking about the same, maybe a little worse for where. But his breathing was okay. And we got out there the next morning. Same thing, ripped the tail again. And this time, it was like, it was no resell.

spots. I knew something was wrong then. So we got back. I told my buddy Josh got, I said, I think that's something wrong. We need to load up head on. And so we loaded up the truck, got him home. And he immediately went to sleep. Immediately. Jay called me. He said, hey, Philip, so I ain't feeling good. Now, Jay don't know exactly what, what's the cause, but Jay just knows something ain't right. That's right. He said, go by there Monday and check on him, because it happened to be a snow day you know so I was off work so I go over about one o'clock he's still sleeping now I go in 1.30 nothing I go in at 2 o'clock I said hey you got to get up he gets up I get him into the living room but he don't look good so I called Jay I said look he seems like he's

talking but he doesn't look like it feels good he's like yet take him to the doctor I said I said sigh I'm taking the doctor ha no boys he won't let him think of the No, no, hey. Hey, hey. Well, I remember, so Hunter was going to go with me, the cameraman that went with Jay and Cy. Hunter was going to go with me Monday and film. It was snowing. That was a snow day.

Like, we were going to go film the ducks in the snow. And then he was like, and I just don't feel good. And I was like, well, then, you know, a long weekend. You worked all weekend. Stay at home. No big deal. Well, then he calls me Monday and says, I'm running fever. And I was like, go get checked.

Like, right now, go get checked. check before we finish out this duck season. So Hunter pops positive for COVID. That's right. And that's when Hunter called me. Yeah. I told Hunter to call Jay. The day before, Si would not let Philip take him to the doctor.

Yeah. So I go to Syes immediately. He's laid up in the bed. I said, sigh, we go on the hospital. He's like, nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

He hates the hospital. I said, you got the COVID. He's like, no, don't. I said, yeah, you do. I said, get out of bed. get in my truck let's go he said i ain't going i said you going if i have to load you up in that truck myself and and he couldn't stand up he was so weak yeah and uh i called my buddy chad he's a nurse practitioner at local hospital here they had them in there waiting on him i finally got him got him

in the rig and uh that was a funny fall conversation because you called me all the way of the hospital and sire was like you could tell he was he wasn't feeling good but he was trying to be sire because He said, hey, I'm going under protest, boys. I just want you all to know. I'm going under protest. So I get him out of the truck. Chaz waiting there in the wheelchair. I get him out of the truck, get him in the wheelchair.

He looks up at me. He said, we burned in blue wings, didn't we? I said, we sure didn't. So, hey, look, I was scared of dead. Oh, man. Because we all love that old man, like he's our grandpa. Yep. Hey, ain't know about.

And we've spent a lot, had a lot of good memories with him. and I said, side, fight this thing now. I said, don't give up on us. He said, hey,

I ain't giving up, Jack. And that's the last thing he said to me when he, when he was rolled in that hospital. Of course, you can't visit. Can't do nothing.

So they put him through five days of the treatment. And they called me up. They said, I come get Uncle Si, he's about to drive us crazy. Oh, yeah. Well,

well, Jay was keeping me in the loop. And so I said, all right, I got to talk to him. I've talked to him every day for 10 years. I got to find out, you know, how he's doing. So I call up there.

There's like, no, we don't have a Silas Merritt Robertson at the hospital. We don't, mm-mm. I was like, day to birth, what do you need? Nope, he's not here. I said, yeah, he's there. I got to go through 50 people. Finally, I call Stone. I said, are you sure he's there?

He said, oh, he's there. You got to have this pass code. Secret code. Secret code. So I'm like, okay, I call back up there. I said, hey, I got the secret. code. They're like, okay, what is it? So they ring me through.

Look, the phone just rings. Nobody answers. I say, he ain't there. It goes to the nurse station. She answers phone. I said, look, here's what's happening. I'm calling in there, and he don't know what's making that noise. I know because he don't know one noise from the next. That's why I go

there and check all these things that's going on thinking it's alarm. His alarm clock slash security system. Thank you. What's going on. I said, go tell him the phone's ringing and tell him that then it's Philip trying to get in touch with him so ring ring ring hello i said oh you found the phone yep yep i ain't talked to him about three days that's all he's got yep yep so he does good in the hospital does great and uh they call me up they come get uncle sigh he's driving everybody

nuts up here he's doing great he's ready to go home so in the meantime philip has been talking to christine making sure she's okay you know she's sad that sigh's not there of course I mean, it's scary. She's thinking she might lose her husband. And I'll never forget it. When I pulled up to the door with Sai coming back from the hospital. And I opened the door, Sy walks in, Christine standing there, smiling. She's got her arms open.

She says, welcome home, Cy. He looked at her and said, yep. I can see that happen. It was probably the most Robertson line ever. He sat out of that chair and he turned on that western and propped his feet up. He said, okay, boys. Okay. Oh, gun smoke.

Gun smoke, that's right. Just like that. He was back in his spot. Oh, but, you know, but that wasn't the end of it. It was, of course, you know, the Robertsons are known to be set in their ways. Self-diagnosis. Self-diagnosis. So we get him home and everything, and everything's looking good.

Well, the next day I'll be. call him i said sigh how you feeling he said i'm right i might and he didn't sound all right and i thought he don't sound all right i said you'd be taking your medicine he's like yep what else you've been doing you've been walking around yep just just the yep yep yep has started and then i called philip i said philip i said i call him up see we'll see what you think so philip calls him up and told philip same thing well the next day i called down there and you know same deal i said sigh how you feel son except it was mumbling and I thought this ain't good so I immediately get in the truck drive over there and he just curled up in bed looks terrible and I said sigh you're going backwards

you've been taking your medicine here like an old dog oh I know he was growling at so I went over there and his all the medicine was still in his deal you know he didn't have his oxygen on him Of course, being a COPD or while you're trying to recover from this, you've got to stay on it. Yeah. I mean, he was only on two liters, so it was not a lot. He just needs to do it. Yeah. So we had the oxygen rolled in, plugged it in, strapped him on.

I mean, he's sitting in his easy chair with this oxygen blowing. And that's when Paula and John came over and kind of helped us understand how to use it. And Jay was like, Philip, we got to get him eating. We got to get him taking his meds. I said, oh, we going to do that. That's when I called Martin. I was like, Martin, I need you to psych me up. I can go in.

Suit up. That's when Philip decided I'm moving in. Moving in. Yeah. Home health with Philip. Home health with old fear. I do not advise it. Well, I remember, I told Cy, you know, because Jay called me and I said, well, we need to go get his chest x-ray.

because his oxygen had dropped down. Yeah, I just went through all this. We haven't talked about it, but everything that Si went through, my dad went through. Difference is he ain't here anymore. So he got him. So I was like,

it ain't getting Si. No, I'm not on my watch. It's already happened one time and out of our control, nothing we could do. But now that we know what to do, like, it ain't getting him. So I was like, I got,

I don't phone with Sai. I said, Sa, here's deal. we love you if you don't want us to be the biggest pain in your butt you've ever seen then you just do what you told and i said now if you want us to call and bark and gripe at you every day we'll do that that's fine if that's what it'll take you no no no i ain't i ain't gonna do do that no we're gonna we're gonna do it and i'm like all right but then we still sent philip in

for recon we had to drop old feel in there and just just make him do it but that you know that's what the what's so cool and frustrating about that generation of men is they're headstrong they grew up tough as nails they're stuff that most of us for the most part ain't had to deal with i mean they you know sigh was dropped in vietnam for crying out loud you know so i mean they know how to survive they're survivalists they're tough and when they get down it is a hard fact for them to face that dad gum i need help you know and my dad's same way one of the toughest people i ever met ain't ever said nothing hurt in his life you know so try to do it their cell yeah they think well i can beat this ain't no problem i beat everything else up until this point but with with this

one there's a problem yeah like he he's he's nondiscriminatory and if you ain't careful he'll kill you i mean that's just where it is you know so um no i'm glad we you know i'm glad we you know I'm glad everybody was there. I'm glad that everybody has stepped up. John and Paula helping him getting the machine up. Jay, getting him to the doctor, Phil, moving in with him. We're saying all this to tell you that Uncle Si is currently doing well. He's back to being a noise maker.

The first day I went over there, he was just laid back in his chair. You know how he's a noise maker. He ain't making no noise. But I was in there yesterday. I wasn't even in the same room. already been there. Ah! Oh, he's back. Oh, that's good. So, so today I go over there. I've been bringing him lunch every day and watching him take his medicine. And today I said, all right, we're going to start rehab.

We got to get them legs moving. And he said, no, no, I ain't doing that. I said, yeah, you are, too. You're going to do it. So I got his little biosec, that little bicee that he puts in front of his recliner. So I pulled that blanket up. He's in his tidy white. And I pushed that for Claredale down, pull that Blake it up. I was looking at his legs. I was looking for black spots. I was looking for blood clots. He said, what are you looking for?

I said, I'm looking for them for black dots. He said, hey, son, ain't no black dots on these legs. He said, this boy ain't clotting up. This boy ain't clotting up. I said, you will if you don't move. So I said, all right, we're going to do five minutes on this little bicycle. He went, so I set my timer. I said, I just go real slow.

I put the oxygen meter on him. I was washing him close because we kept his oxygen on and he peddled for five minutes. He said, hey, ain't nothing to do this. I said, all right, side, here's the plan. I said, next week, we're going to play dominoes at my house on about Monday or Tuesday. This is after hunting season. He said, yep, what are you cooking? I said, I don't know yet.

He loves stones cooking. Oh, yeah. If that don't get him going, nothing will. The man, if you look at it, he just loves to eat period. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's unbelievable. So I brought yesterday. I brought him

You were there yesterday with me What you? It was Duck fingers Duck fingers Yeah Fried duck fingers And

And the day before that John brought him Some chicken and dumplings Yeah And Well they was told I was told Paula took some

Over there the other day And I was told That he just raved on it But come to find out Well Stone fixed him some And he took one by and he goes that ain't much

but Christine Christine over there with a sparkling in her I said oh I'll take care of that oh that's what it was Christine she's siphoning off the extra well we already know he don't like that pot pie he don't like that

I think it's chicken is what he don't like well the good news is the great news is hopefully next week Si will be back with us and we will be right back after this All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up.

You know what that means? That means more outside cooking. And y'all know. We love to eat beef around here. And that's what because of our friends over at Triedells beef makes such a good product, baby. Ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Cyrabs, would say, buy on the grill.

Look, before we got Triedells, getting ready for a cookout, man, somebody had to run the grocery store, do all the things, grab whatever was left in case you were late in the day. And you never really know where that beef comes. fun, but with Tritails beef, we skip the grocery store and do it a different way. Tritails comes from a family ranch out in Texas. They're a fifth generation American ranch, so they've been at it for a while. Now, look, the beef comes straight from their ranch and other ranchers they work with who raise cattle the same way. Their steaks are properly aged and shipped straight from the ranch to your door. We threw a couple of ribbys on the grill.

Look, salt, pepper, garlic, hot fire, that's all you need. Look, because I'll tell you what, when the beef comes from people who raise cattle for a live, you can taste the difference. The tenderness and the flavor are fantastic. So if you're stocking the freezer for grilling season, go check out Triedails Beef. I know in size case, Christine loves it, which is just a, she doesn't eat meat.

She isn't a big meat easier, folks. Yeah. Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's tribeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. So, Cy's doing well. He's on the road to recovery. we got stone's got a little plan for him on his recovery and he'll uh hopefully be back with us so that's

the good thing so stone where we where we had in the recovery he's pedaling the bicycle he's pedaling the bicycle he's eating good he's taking in a lot of fluids uh taking his meds his oxygen levels look really good which is good because his his mind is right that's right i don't know that his mind's ever been right but it's it's pretty it's pretty right now it's a quarter off plum anyway We went from not being able to get him to smile or laugh. Can you imagine that? Yeah. I mean, that's when I called Martin.

I was like, hey, give him some of your best stuff when you call him, see if you can get him to go out of him. I'm not going to divulge what I did to get a good giggle out of him. Sometimes you just got to. Some things are unknowable. Sometimes you just got to go back to the Army days with Sy and have a little fun. That's why him and Stone get along. Yeah, that's exactly right.

You know, a lot of people, they like. tomato juice, but he likes that. What's it called? Mr. Tees. Spicy. Bold and spicy. Bold and spicy. Bold and spicy tomato juice.

Now, you can't, don't try anything else in there. That's a bloody merry mix. Yeah. Yeah, you got to go to the alcohol aisle to get it. Yeah. But don't go in there with anything else. He won't drink it. That was the only thing I could get him to consume.

Sands vodka. That's it. Yeah. It's the bloody merry mix without the vodka. Yeah. He likes him, jalapinas. He likes that stuff. I mean, the man, every night, eats about half a jar of jalapeno stuffed olives.

That was his first meal. It's unbelievable. I knew things were starting to get better when he hadn't eaten in a while. We were watching gun smoke, and he just turns to me, and he says, hot chocolate with marshmallows. He turned to me, he had it on mute. And then he turned the mute back off, and he said, all right boys here we go

I got up and went and got what he wanted he's like okay here we go barking them orders now he's milking it but you gotta watch him oh he'll milk it oh will he milked so the rehab the rehab started today with the with the pedlin and I'm all I tell him I said I need

to do that three times a day he said yep I said don't just do it when I'm here do it three times day he said I that's what's going to happen if you don't go over he didn't do it so we're going we're going to get them legs moving a little bit and I told him the plan is we're going to play dominoes then I got some veterans coming in for the veterans hunt we have a day set aside here in Louisiana where only veterans can shoot ducks which is nice it should be a week but it's a day I'll take it yeah and I got some guys coming in and I'm going to have a big feed

I said, all right, we're going to have a big feed. He's inside, loves to entertain veterans. He loves to be around veterans. That's his favorite thing. So I said, you're going to make that meal? I'm going to have it in my house. I'm going to come get you or get Phil to bring you over. We're going to have a big time.

Then we're going to wake up next morning, and we're going on to veterans duck hunt. And we're going to burn our gun barrels off. He looked at me and he said, which blind are we going to? And I said, I don't know yet. I got to do some scouting. He said, all right. He said, make it a comfortable blind. I'm like, okay.

I'd make you wish you could go buy a 30 green wing teal and turn them out for him. Just to welcome him back to the fold, you know, because there ain't nothing, Cy Robertson loves more than shooting green wing teeth. That's right. Nothing than that's more. And look, I hated it so much yesterday because the green wing quit showing up on our side of the river 10 years ago. And they used to show up all the time. But we were sitting there, me, Phil, and Jace, and I looked up, and there's 25 greenwing till.

We're in the woods in a timber hole. and they just did that you know they do that bank oh yeah like a like a ward hog and they just come right in there yeah got this high off the water and we raised up blah blah blah nine for nine that's pretty sporty all that's sport and i told phil i said side i've been waiting on this for 10 years and phil said good night he missed it he missed it i said i know i said i don't even think i'm going to tell him about it uh you know that robertsons are famous is for being sympathists anyway. So Phil probably,

Phil's saying he missed it and laughing under his breath at the same time, saying, that weak sucker, you know, I mean, but that's just how they were raised, man. They're tough.

They're all tough. They're strong survived. Yeah, and just make it, they made fun of each other when they get down. That's what's funny. I mean, you know,

I'm sure Phil's called him and here's probably how the conversation went. Hey, Cy, yep. How you doing? I'm all right. All right. All right.

Well, I was just checking on you. All right. All right. All right. All right. And then case says, Phil, how's I doing? Oh, he's doing good.

Yep, he's good. Well, so I made it plainly clear to me on multiple occasions that he's good with no matter what happens. Oh, yeah. Well, we all know that. We all know that. And he said, hey, son, no regrets. Yeah. I live my life.

the way I wanted to live it and I had a ball on this earth. He said, I'm ready to go right now. But I ain't ready for him to go. No, heck no. We have too much fun with it. I guarantee. I mean, could you imagine at this point life without Si? Are you kidding?

I mean, it'd be a lot quieter, but, you know, we wouldn't laugh. We wouldn't carry on. We wouldn't. Who going to slam the table at Dominoes like him for 17? Don't even count. Say, that's not a count. Hey, don't matter. Well, hey.

And it ain't going to be one for you, 18. I mean, that's just the kind of stuff he does, you know. It's hilarious. I mean, imagine sitting around a poker table without Si there. I mean, everybody, that may end the game. Like, if Si ain't there, then that's just, it's unbelievable when you stop and think about the impact, not only on all the people's lives that he's had via the television show, but through all of our, I mean, the community of people that he keeps.

I mean, when it is his time, and granted, it's closer every day for him at 72, then there's going to be a lot of us looking around like, what in the world? Because the man is just, he's unbelievable. I mean, he really is. At the end of that, that's just the way to put it. At one time, he was the most famous human on the face of the earth. Yeah. Think about that.

And if you don't think the good Lord's got a sense of humor, Sy Robertson, the most famous person. And arguably, I guess for some people, probably a sex symbol. You don't think the good Lord got a sense of human? I'm here to tell you. And almost wasn't going to be on the show. Yeah, they almost weeded him out from the beginning. Well, he said, no, you might want to hang around him for about 10 minutes.

Yeah, just give him a chance. What surprises me? All these years that I've been with him and traveled with him to all these places, I mean, it's amazing, and I know it's probably in one of his books, but, you know, he didn't care. He would get up in front of everybody, anybody. He's always going to testify about his relationship with Christ. It don't stop him for a minute. We had probably a couple hundred people in a room, and they were building something.

This was in Mississippi. Jay's been there before over to this place in Mississippi, but they were building something, and Sa got one of the two-by-fours and started drawing. the gospel symbols on them and like heck saw dogan he's pounding that board against and everybody's looking he says boys he died for you why don't you just repent you know turn from your way they all started clapping and crying and saying you know thank you sigh i was like where did you get that from he was like hey the spirit just hit me i said that was pretty good sermon side but everywhere we went he would never back down he would never shrink back i mean he just a hero unapologetic

I guarantee you there. He is. Yep. To steal another line, unashamed. Oh, that's true. And, who's spinning on. There's nothing more enjoyable to him than hunting with Jay. He's got so many Jay Stone stories.

You know, let's get into some of them when we get back from this little break right here. Let's get back to the adventures of Sye and Stone. We'll be right back. Well, I think we've all got plenty of Sye stories, but, you know, I love hearing the adventures of Jay and sigh on a hunt, whether it be deer ducks, turkeys, whatever they're chasing. Stahl, what is your best? Give me your best

one. You and Cy. Well, my fondest memory of our hunts went and my daughter BK, she was 10 and she wanted to go deer hunting and shoot her first deer. And so I called up

Sy, I said, Boilfrogs ready to shoot a deer, you won't come He's a yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, let's go get it. Oh, yeah. So size, deer stand, I got him a, it used to be a duck blind. It's about 30 foot long, and I enclosed the shooting porch and made little slits. So it'd be real dark in there. In other words, I sci-proofed it because he's always moving, shaking his tea glass, coughing. Standing up to take a leak.

Oh, yeah, okay, boys. So we're up in that stand, and I've been chumming them pretty good. Old Doe comes out, bullfrog gets ready. We've been practicing for a year. We started with a BB gun, went to a pellet gun, went to a 22, got up to a 6'5 Creedmoor, and she's solid. She's better than I do. Everything's ready. Well, size's got his binocchers.

Well, the chum ain't but 50 yards. So this deer comes walking up. side takes out of binoculars 50 yards away he says all right bullfrog there she is and that deer just starts he said sigh be quiet he's a hunt oh okay so she walks up to the chum she starts eating and uh bullfrog is up is up there with a rifle he said wait until she turned broadside bullfrog and that deer is looking around looks right at us i said side you got to be quiet he's oh okay okay So bullfrog lines up on her. Deer jumps straight up in there, you know, lung shot.

Staying there wobbling. Si's looking at her. He says, All right, bullfrog, I think you might ought to shoot her again. And he says, whoa, wait a minute. She's a wobbling. She's a wobbling. Play-by-play.

Yeah, and then that deer falls over and sigh hotter down. She's down. And I, me and Sire, high-fiving, you know, I look over it at Bullfrogh. She's like one of them scar story ended. She just sat her weapon down and did just like this. She's looking at y'all saying, act like you've been there before. Yeah, that's right. I said, I said, side, do you see that?

He said, oh, yeah, I saw it. All right. I said, is that a good sign or a bad sign? He said, oh, I saw a good sign right there. Oh, well, that's what you got to love about the man. There was nobody in that moment on this earth happier for your daughter than Sight. That's right. I mean, happier than her, even you.

Si was, I mean, but that's the kind of man he is. I mean, he'd much rather see that than go kill a deer himself. That's right. And that's what, you don't find that with many people. There's a lot of people that will say that, but to actually mean it and see it, it's always something else. I mean, I'm trying to think back, I got so many with that old rascal that. I still, I think my favorite one was the first time I ever took him duck hunting.

I wouldn't work in here with nothing and we met at the truck stop and I said sigh we he wanted to go kill geese and I was rice field hunter back in I was like oh we'd go kill some specklebelly we got to that field that morning and we pulled in and I saw all these feathers

and I was like I looked at him and I said sire this ain't been here like this is new and it was the end of the season and it was one of them returned migration the ducks had come up from the south since the last time I'd been there and they loaded that thing up and me and sigh sat in that pit blind and picked out miler drakes and bull sprigues at 20 yards and he just cackling the whole time he said he said he said them boys down on the riverbank ain't killing

squat and he's just you know because with them boys it is somewhat of a competition between phil and side jace so he's just laughing he said he said get get jace on the phone let's tell about this as i took the phone from me and then just oh i'm telling you bull spigs backpedaling it You know, we're doing it again. We'd invite you, but you can't come. He was just laying the wood to him. Me and Saia went back to that field every day for like five days. We killed full limits of Miley Drake's and Pentails.

I had more fun that week than I ever had duck out. Because Cy went back to being like a 15-year-old again. It was just like being a kid. There were no cameras involved. It was nothing. And we just had a big old house. Well, that's what makes him so fun to be around because he is a kid. Oh, yeah.

100%. Every trip we go on is like I'm taking one of my kids. Oh, yeah. And, you know, that's, I would much rather go on a trip beside than anybody else on the face of the earth. Including. It's up for the bathroom. It's that for maybe your wife. You may want to.

Well, I'm talking about hunting a fish of trips. There you go. Let me specify. Yeah, amen to that. But, boy, is he a blessing to a lot of people? And I feel really blessed to have known Uncle Si as long as I have and to spend so much time with him. And don't ever think that I take it for granted. It's such a blessing.

I know we all feel the same way. Amen. God will give us one. Well, I'll give you a non-hunting one. It was when we had the Texas Motor Speedway for three years. And man, Sye, was he there? Oh, yeah. me and sire was there on friday for y'all wasn't there yet i don't know what was going on but um

we was at the trailer and seeing fans and stuff and taking pictures and this guy comes up and he said his name was uh jeff whaling he said i'm richard petties uh guy and he wants to meet you and and say and you need to come with me i'm going to take you to his coach so man sigh and i guess philip and paul We loaded up on golf cart and he took off. We went in there back in the Holy Lamb where all the coaches are and went in there, Richard Petty's coach. And him and Cy talked and talked and talked. They talked so much they run out of stuff to talk about.

And went to talking about the show Cops. Both of them watch it. They got to talk about episodes of that, that, and then finally Jeff was saying, well, King, we got to. You got an appearance you got to go to, so we got to cut this off. We've been there by the hour, I guess. So he said, okay, wait, wait, he runs over and he gets in the printer, rips a piece of paper out of. Sa, will you sign this for?

Richard Petty asking for all that, yeah. So everybody leaves. We get on the golf cart, you know, and we're fixing to leave. And, Cy said, that old guy was nice. He said, I always did want to meet that Earnhardt fellow. I had no idea. I said, that was Mr. Paine. That's fantastic.

Completely oblivious. Oh, man. Classic side. Philip, you got one for? Oh, my goodness. I've got a bunch. I know you do. But I'm going to just tell you all one.

And it ain't a hunting story. I've been banned from the hunting blind for 30 years. And I say, Cy can you hear a ringer? Yeah. Well, he's short. Hey, it was because I jumped up shooting before Phil said cut them. and then it was the ban for life. I said,

Sai, can you get me back in? No, no, son, you're done. He said, Sire, we're best friends. You ought to be, huh, no, hey, you're out. That's as far as that goes. Well, it was 50 till. That's better, I don't do that.

I was better than Dajon on 200 till. So we get invited to Brooks and Dunn and Riba, okay? And Siam's fired up, and Miss Christine wants to go. She's fired up about it. And so me and my wife and Sine and Sadie and her assistant are all, they're supposed to go with us. They send us these tickets $2,500 a piece.

And it's backstage before the show, front row, after the show, you know, all this kind of cool stuff. And so I got me and my wives and I got Sion and Christine's and Sadie and her assistant who's supposed to be going. So we go over to Vegas to see the show. When we go to the concert the next day, which I did end up getting third, it was pretty nice. And I gave him all his money back because he needed me to, surely. Yeah, he re-bought, re-bought, rebought. I said, here, just call it even.

Yeah, we'll call it good. Yeah, so we're standing in line, and we're going to the Brooks and Dunn and Rieba. And this couple comes up, they're celebrating a year anniversary, and they're like, oh, my goodness, Uncle Sy, Uncle'sai, can we get our picture with you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then they say, y'all going to see the concert, yeah. We want to go, but it's really expensive. And Sae says, hey, Sadie and her person didn't show up.

He said, Philip, give them those tickets. I said, here's $5,000 worth of tickets for y'all. Happy anniversary. I said, you're with us from now on. You're going everywhere we go. They're crying, and, you know, Sae's laughing and cutting up and loving it. So we all go in, take pictures,

and everybody's really gravitating to Sae, not Brooks and Dun and Reba, but just sigh is overwhelmed with people. we go to the concert it's great we have a good time afterward it's the same type thing and when we walk out uh not ronnie done the other one kicks brooks he says sall like i do is put this baseball hat on nobody even noticed me i can walk out the doors and nobody even know but the mistake was he walked out with sye and about 300 people gathered around them and just started going wild and he was like good grief man he said you can't go anywhere can you sound like ha ha no no no no but that's one of my

memories spending a weekend at Caesar's Palace with Uncle Si and one last story about that was funny. We were going after our poker tournament. We were going back upstairs, you know, where our wives were. And these two ladies were standing beside the elevator and they said, you know, hey, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And so I was like, yeah, come on. And he puts his arms around and he says, Philip, hurry up and take the picture. We got to go. I said, sigh, they don't want a picture.

He said, do what? I said, they don't want a picture. Get your arms off of them. They want something else. He said, oh, good grief, son. We got out of there. Yeah. Time to go, boy.

I can't get over. $2,500 a ticket per ticket. And that couple sent us a lot of a letter that was so sweet with pictures. Like, we never had a night like this in our life. It's unbelievable. There's one person I'll go see. I'll pay $2,500. dollars to go see you that's Jesus oh let's take one more break this is true when when j and sye

were gone down south hunting i said he said all right philip he said all these stickers on my truck i want them gone every one of them because they don't support him anymore they don't sponsor him anymore i said okay we took off all the stickers cleaned his truck fixed everything that was broke but i got it totally clean yeah and i found a knife up under the sea seat it was open and like you would nobody would ever find this knife again it's like gone forever and i was kind of wedged it back out of there and i was like okay i put it in my shirt pocket so when i took him his truck i was like here's your truck sign it and he looked at or whatever he looked at it maybe he had gotten back in his truck i can't remember but uh i said sall

what do you think about truck where's my binoculars i said they're in the back of the seat did you see your truck yep yep yep i said i found something in your truck that you would not believe leave a knife where is it in my red shirt pocket he's like give it to me he knew it he'd be gone he's like yep I lost it and never could find it that I figured you'd get it for me

ah it sure has been fun sitting here thinking about sign I'm just glad that he's doing good and be back with us hopefully next week so but we're going into the last week of duck season this is you know it's a weird time of year it's always like

dang it's over and then there's also that like thank god it's over i mean you're just kind of i mean as ragged as the ducks are worn so are we and i mean you know and what are we going to do now oh i tell you what we're going to do we've raised no sore lip of my own we're going to get on them crappies is what we're going to do i didn't start it yeah if anything like this year we're going to be making a much of duck calls or that yeah speaking of duck calls that's yaw's department i've been an r and d on the new duck call for next year. Actually, there's two of them. I'm working on. One of them is the Phil Robertson Pro Series. So I told Phil about it. I said, I gave him the prototype. I said, I want you to try this,

this duck season. And if you like it, we'll run it. And he said, I got one condition. I said, what's that? He said, it needs to be better than the Jace Robertson Pro series. It's always a competition. Okay. I said, we'll make it a little bit louder and a little bit raspy. And we'll have what them boys in Arkansas call reverb on the milkdown. In other words, and that's in duck call lingo. As you milk down your notes, you still get that ducky, raspy, nasally sound as you decrease your airflow.

Yeah, which is what I like, too. That's right. I like that nastiness on the low end. That's right. That's hard to get. And so I brought it to him. He blew it. He said, you know what?

That's the best one you've come up with yet. It's last year. He said, I don't care if it does have my name on it. You'll never see that one again. So that's the new one. It's been Phil approved. So that'll be coming pretty soon. June, July.

We'll release them to everybody. Yeah, it's that time of year. I mean, it's that time of year where people, if you don't understand, all you knew was a show, this is the, like, February to September generally is when we build all of the duck calls. That way during the fall, we can back off of it. Now, y'all have been so good to us the last few years

that we just work year-round. You're in line. I mean, it's just, they just stay, they leave here faster than we can build them for the most part, which, look, don't hear us griping. That's a blessing. You know, we're thankful for the work and thankful for our jobs. So, yeah, we love it.

And, you know, that's what we're staring down a barrel of. We're at the end of duck season. But it, you know, when it does in, we all basically, there's like an unspoken week off there of like after duck season because you got to charge him batteries, man. You don't realize just how run down you are until you wake up Monday morning and you're not going. With no alarm clock.

Yeah, and you wake up at four o'clock. That's right. Same time. Yeah, and you're like, and that goes on for a week, a week and a half until you finally get into a new schedule. You like you, and then, you know, you have to, then you're dating your woman again. You got to start going to dinners and picture shows and all that kind of good stuff. But, you know, back when I had a real job, you know, I never had that problem. Yeah, but.

So there's people looking right now. I say, you suckers, you know, I don't know. Yeah, I don't about you. But you do 60 straight days with that Robertson Bunch and tell me how much you love, duck down that's what all i got to tell you they test they tested me three years they broke me i said i got to find a better mouse trap there's an easier way to do this yeah i'm married here so you in you can't get out yeah there wasn't nobody happier to see j stone pull up around here than me because i was the single one not married down there moving decoys under the cover of midnight like i mean i said why can't

we just get we get here 30 minutes early anyway we can't just do it no no we run them off why we get in there quiet i'm like good night About three years of that, I said, all right, boys, I'm out. You call off me. You ain't getting in there quite. What side of the mind? I'll tell you what, though. It's, like I said, it is a grind.

And I would say an infatuation with misery. Because Phil's favorite thing to do. Of course, he loves it. He loves that hard hunting, grinding, you know. But he's on, he was sitting that duck blind, daylight to dark every day. And people don't realize that. and look at the sky all day long from daylight to dark every day. And believe they're just about to show up.

And he'll tell you, they're coming. They're coming. And I'm telling you, there will never be another one like him when it comes to having the passion that he has for a duck hunting. Well, and it helps, too, when you live a mile and a half from your duck hole. Yeah. And you're retired. I like to think if I can get set up in that scenario, I may want to sit there all day. too. He's been doing that same thing.

Oh, I know for since I've known him, he was still somewhat employed whenever we first started. And I remember I hated, if I saw him bring a bag of snacks, I said, oh my goodness. Right in the hole, boys. I knew right then, I was like, I need to break a leg,

a toe. I need to be able to get out of here. But if I saw him carrying a grocery bag, oh, we're there all day. You're about to hear the world famous line. Oh, about 2.2.30. I've seen it happen around here, son. I'm telling we're going to tear their tails. They're telling your grandkids about what happened here today.

Get some more bullet out. Generally, a guy like Mary Galvin, see a bag of honey buns, we get fired up. You see Phil toting them, you're like, oh, no. Oh, he ain't got nothing to do today. But it is, he's 74 now, and I promise you, he could ride it out every day all season long. 74, and this year I saw him make two of the best. best shots I've ever seen him. He still got it.

I mean, it's unbelievable. It was, I was just like, I looked at him and said, boy, I'm glad they ate on my end. Boom, dead. And I was like, he was talking to somebody. Yeah. We were, he was telling me a story. Yeah. And grabbed his gun and shot the, grabbed his gun and shot to Woody before I even got my hand on my gun.

While he was in the seated position. Yeah. He was telling me a story. And I'm the one that saw the Woody. He saw my reaction, raised up, ball, dead. And I was like, I just said, that's my first. That's my friend. Yeah.

Yeah. Hey, let me that woody. Yeah. He loves it. All right, let's take our last break. We'll be right back after this. So the greatest ride the whole story. Uh-oh.

Uh-oh. They're all sitting in the blind from daylight to dark. I wasn't there. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Left. Don't ever do. So they ride it out from daylight to five minutes before legal shooting hours ends. They have three ducks all.

day. Everybody gets out of the blind with five minutes to go. They're 100 yards from the duck blind and somebody said, look at that. And 100 mallards were descending on the decoys as they were riding off. Backing out of the boat house. No, they wouldn't have come. Backing out of the boat run. They wouldn't have come in. That's them devil's ducks. That's them Sunday morning ducks when you got to leave and go to church. You want to see some ducks. 8.40 on Sunday morning when you got to leave and go to church. You just look up and they backpedaling everywhere. You're like, that's the devil duck. That's all it is. They're trying to keep you going to meet with a brother.

I'll tell you this, though, as miserable as all as he can make it, I have some of my fondest memories that I will cherish for the rest of my life from riding out that duck blind. From daylight to dark. We feel? So there's always, always a silver light, especially with him. Well, and Phil, there's nobody that you've never not been offended at calling you a fat boy except for Phil Robb. He just looked at and said, them fat boys, I'm going to miss him calling me. Well, you know, he's the ultimate nickname giver, or him or Willie.

Willie's a good one. But once Phil gives you a nickname, that's who you are. That's it. And you start calling yourself that. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's fantastic. size told me oh man i i can't call them that i it's hard for me to call them these names that they give them you know oh i've heard it all thick legs no legs i mean it's generally if you have any kind of

physical abnormality that's male or female yeah and if you got red hair you're something red jimmy red billy red toby red there's everybody if you got a red hair in you you you got hung w billy red shoes they called them because he wore those red Yeah. Sneakers. Yeah. I'm really red shoes. What about Joe Dirt?

Then you got burly and then you got snuffy, huffy, duffy. Jimson. There was a, Jimson. Yeah. What do you call you? Horse head. Horse head. Buster crab.

He could never settle on one for me. He called, what do he call Gawin? The walrus. He could love with that. Oh, yeah. Then he called him Wildcat or something. No, Godwin called himself Wildcat. Oh, no.

That's what he named. Oh, well, then he called you a pussy. cat that was my favorite that was about um tomb oh that's right uh Phil called Galvin a wildcat or I suspect wagon Galway to about buck 60 yeah he got up there he got on up there and he said you don't like a wild cat no more you're more like a pussy cat now I was like he looking like old sweet pee yeah sweet peep oh I took I took a picture I took a picture of sweet pee did or the audience sweet pee is about 50 pounds oh sweet pee come over to it you Yesterday, he eased over there, and he didn't just lay down on my feet.

He flop. He just fell. Look at old sweet pee. There's sweet pee. Now, the story on sweet pee is. The 40 pound. That is a big cat. When they picked sweet pee up, they thought it was a girl, got it home, said it was a boy,

so I said, ha, not going to change the name. No, sweet pee. You stuck with it. Sweet pee. Just like Phil and his nickname. Yeah. But let's get into a couple of these emails for all of y'all that reached out to is thank you all from the hello at duck call room.com email if you have anything please submit it

you know if you have any words of encouragement to uncle sigh throw them out there to us hello at duck call room.com we will print them off and give them to sigh you know we appreciate y'all emailing in we got this one from keith that i thought was kind of funny and especially says stone is here so i'm just going to read it okay he said hey guys love the show and everything y'all stand for i know jace is not on the duck call room and y'all say he is no fun but i've always thought jace is just as he seems an absolute lover of jesus christ if you duck call room boys had to describe old jace what would you have to say thanks and god bless look let's just be clear nobody's ever questioned jace's love for jesus there's a lot of things well question and make fun of him for any doubt or anything

involving his love for jesus that's out so keith rest of assured that part is true and look and i'm thankful very thankful for jace because and y'all i've told you all before he shared the gospel with me and my girlfriend 30 years ago which has changed our lives my children's lives and they're going to be spouses lives oh there's no telling how many how many lives he's changed because jace just like sife just like phil they're going to let you know well him and stone are best friends well no yeah jays to be friends for 20-something years Phil says the twins. He calls, what do he call us last year?

Are you thinking, Matt and Jim? Mutton Jeff. Mutton Jeff is what he calls us. But, you know, we've been friends 20-something years. I love him death like a brother. Oh, yeah. But he's way too serious when we duck cutting.

And playing golf. Well, yeah. Just about it. He just wants to beat you down. He's just so competitive. He is. And look, there ain't many things that I can beat him in. I can beat Willie in a lot of things.

Yeah. But, but Jace, no, he's smart. He's like crazy smart. Oh, yeah. Oh, Jay's is the king of use the rules to your advantage. Oh, yeah. He gets that from his love for golf. He learns how to use every rule to his advantage.

Oh, yeah. He just sits back and waits and then pounces. Yeah. What did you call him? Uh-oh. Idiot savant? No, that wasn't me. That was somebody else.

All I don't know is he doesn't forget anything. No, nothing. I forget something I said five seconds ago. Not him. That's why he straps everybody at dominoes, cards, no matter what it is. Poker, foot races. The only thing more impressive than his counting card skill is counting dominoes. The boy, one round around the table, he'll tell you what you got.

You play one domino. He knows what everybody's got. Me and Jay beat him and sigh, and I mean, it was like the world burned down. He was like, what happened, Cy? He said, Stone played like an idiot. But we did strap them. One game. One game.

And he blamed Sire. He says, what are you thinking over? What are you thinking? Oh, why did you put it up? We didn't let him live it down either, did we stop? No, and then he looked at him. He said, I got you figured out.

That's funny. Look, another one from the hello at duckcallroom.com email I thought was kind of cool. Jennifer is asking us to wish her husband a happy birthday on February the 1st. So her husband's name happens to be Will. Shakespeare. Well, Well, Bill. How about that? But the cool thing about Will and the reason I'm reading this is because Will is a captain in the Army. So Will,

two things. Happy birthday. Thank you so much for your service because without guys and gals like you, we couldn't sit here and opine about a bunch of meaningless things like we do every week. So we do appreciate that. Happy birthday. Look, if y'all have more, feel free to send them to the email address. Hello at Duck Call room.com and then we're going to close with a with a scripture does anybody have one on their mind or are we just going to wing this part of it does anybody well i'll tell you what uh changed my mind

when phil shared the gospel with me he told me to uh read the bible and it's in luke the last chapter 24 and it's when all them running buddies with jesus run up my upper room that just killed Jesus and so they were scared they were going to get persecuted or killed because they were persecuting Christians they run up in that upper room locked the door I'm sure they're praying they was mourning you know they just watched their best friend get killed you know yeah and all of a sudden he just appears he appears in the room and it spooked them it scared him because I mean good grief if I to watch see one of y'all die I imagine I'd be pretty shook up too if somebody would just appeared but he said

look at me I'm not a I'm not a ghost you want me read that well I mean I got it pulled up for you that's awesome here I'll read yeah I was just paraphrasing and just as they were telling about it they're talking about it Jesus himself was

suddenly standing there among them peace be with you he said but the whole group was startled and frightened thinking they were seeing a ghost he said why are you frightened why your hearts filled with doubt. Look at my hands and look at my feet, you see that it's

really me. Touch me and make sure that I'm not a ghost. Because ghosts don't have bodies, as you see that I do. As he spoke, he showed him his hands and his feet still they stood there in disbelief filled with joy and wonder.

Then he asked them, do you have anything here to eat? So he asked them for some fish, which is probably crappie. They gave him a piece of broad fish and he ate it as they watched. And when I read that, I got to thinking, wow, when it's our time and we're gone and then Jesus comes back, we're getting our bodies back.

That's what he said. That's what he had. That's why they were scared because they recognized. I'm going to be me. You're going to be you. It's going to be awesome. And from all accounts, there's going to be a fish. Hey, you ain't joking.

I guarantee. I mean, good night. You know, he said, you know, this Duck Dynasty deal opened a lot of doors for us. And we get to travel and see, you know, beautiful mountain ranges, beautiful waterfalls, pretty oceans. I mean, America is the beautiful. And he just spoke all that into his distance. But he said he's going back to prepare a place. Can you imagine what heaven's going to look like he's thinking about?

Wow. Amen to that. How about it's awesome.