Duck Call Room - Uncle Si’s Wife, Miss Christine, Realizing He Needed to be Rushed to the ER

Episode Date: October 9, 2025

Uncle Si’s wife, Miss Christine, relives the night she knew Si needed serious help and rushed him to the ER. True to form, Si was cracking jokes before the nurses even hooked him up to an IV. Si calls her a cougar since she’s older than him and “has claws,” but Christine sets the record straight on that story. Together they dish out the marriage and parenting wisdom they’ve learned in nearly fifty-five years together, while Phillip compares their old-school romance to Gen Z’s puzzling dating habits. John-David vents about the phrases and hand gestures his kids won’t stop using, and Christine shares the heartfelt story of Sweet Pea’s final days. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hunter, are you ready? Philip, are you ready? I'm ready. Zah, are you ready? Yep. Christine, are you ready? Ready. We have a special episode today, and we're all ready for it.

We have no Justin Martin, but that is okay. Which I'd normally get sad about. But today, with our special guests. We have a special guest who outshine, shine so bright she had to put on her sunglasses. That's right. And every time she's on the show, our ratings go way up. Way up. They're actually skyrocketed.

Skyrocketed. It is none other. Hey, she's a truth teller, I'll tell you that. She's going to tell the truth about a lot of things. I've already learned a lot since she's got the inside scoop to a lot of things we want to know. Miss Christine Robertson, fresh off of taking care of Si, is in the house. Ms. Christine, how are you? Welcome.

I'm doing quite well. There we go. Are you glad to be back? Sure. I felt a little, we're not sure. I'm so glad that you're on our podcast because, you know, during Duck Dynasty Day, you know, you were like, no, I don't want to do no that.

But the podcast came along, you're like, yeah, I'll do it. We're easier. All we have is hunter to. We're probably more fun. We're definitely more fun. We've got Sy, so. They have Sy.

But Cy's still doing well off the hospital visit. I want to know. Are you? Miss Christine, tell us in your words. People know. Si, what happened? He came to you and said, take me in to the hospital or what?

He came home Sunday a week ago. And as soon as he hit the door, it was like a train. And you had been hunting. I mean, I'm in my room and I hear him coming in. And it sounds like a freight train. So I know something's not right. So he immediately gets in his chair and he's just saying,

I have a sinus infection. And I said, well, then you need to go to the doctor. Of course not. Robertson Way. Robertson way. He said, of course. So on Tuesday, when he gets up, he says, you've got to take me to the hospital. And that's a lot coming from him because he don't like hospitals.

No. Or doctors. I mean, you know. You'll go to a doctor before he will to the hospital. But this one, he had to go to the hospital. So first. I said, I might be overreacting. Maybe we ought to just go.

The Samson's walk in. We went to Sancans. And as soon as they did his oxygen, they said, you got to go to the yard. We don't take anybody with numbers under 93. his was 88 yeah so and not only that his heart was working hard was working real real hard because of low oxygen yeah and because he'd had the low oxygen since Saturday that had some tone behind it if you didn't catch it yeah so did you have your did you have your oxygen on or what oh yeah it just wasn't got out in the wild

There was a lot of that golden rod got him. No, sometimes he'll wear that, but he won't turn it on. You ever seen him do that? Yeah. Like, Sa, turn that on. Ha, no, no. Saving my battery. I was legitimately worried when I found out Sye was in the hospital

because I was like, well, that's not a normal move. No. But you're doing better, right? Yep. Sye's doing better. The heart rate is good. Heart rate's good. The oxygen is good.

It looks good. Smells good. The only thing bad about it is I'm always spitting up. Well, only for a while. until you get rid of that. I mean, it'll be, it'll be for a while. He's coming. But it's better.

Yeah. Well, that's better. Oh. My pap ball had that probably. He always had like the flim. Yeah. He got some machine that would like beat on him, like a massager and just brr-r-and-then-he get it all out. I'm not a doctor, so I don't know.

That's something like a CF has. Cistic fibrosis. Oh, yeah. I don't know what he had. Oh, you've got, you've got a massager you could put on your chair. That wouldn't help. Okay. He's out.

Now he's out. He's out. But interesting fact that I have discovered since we started today, you were, you were, we were waiting on you and Ms. Christine said, looked at me and said, I have a question. She said, has I given the impression that Scott owns a lot of horses? And I was like, that's the direct impression I got. Wait, does he not? The impression I said. I just said he's handling horses.

Oh, he's handling them. Yeah, he probably has a lot that he's handling. Like they pick up... And that he is. They pick up animals and take them back to where they're at. And then they've got like two months, whatever, to gill them down and make it where they're, you know... Are they rehabbing them kind of? No, not yet.

It's... Not yet. What this is is the wild Mustang. Not yet. Hold on. He's got wild Mustangs? No. But he has them.

No. He's going to get him. He's going to. Okay. Right now. He's still riding horses. But not on his property. Well, how do you know that?

Because I talked to... It looks like he's on his property than me. No. He hasn't built the barn yet. Si, you got to get with the program. They don't need no barn yet. Yes, they do. They're wild horses.

Why you got to put them in a box? I'm actually with Sal. I'm actually with Sal. I can't go with Sa. All I said was, you know, he's hands. Handling horses. They come down to visit, and then we just got to talking, and he said, well, I would like to do something. And I said, well, you're going to get the money anyway.

So what are we talking about? And I said, you know, if that's what you really want to do, not he's that about. You know, I said, I'll help you out on it. I think it's awesome. I just, so what point are we out? Well, they're all having a blast doing it. Yeah. What is the program about?

Let me understand. First off, they're doing, they're cleaning the horses' hooves and cleaning the horses at this other stable where they're learning to ride and rope and. And punch cows. Punch cows. So their kids are learning.

Yes. What is punching a cow? Yeah, it shows Scott out of the day. He said, you know, Scott's out there on a horse. Pretty horse, too, bucks here. and he's separating cows from the herd making them go over here and then the guy said now go put them all back together yeah you know this is the old thing about hey see that pile of rocks move them over you on but anyway he has to go

through these classes to learn how to they're in training he's in training he's in training okay so scott is there training too she's doing it too not this Well, I eat, yes, she is. He's training how to be psychologically and physically able to relax the horses. Ah, that is cool. Did you know that? Yes, I knew that dog. He did explain that well.

Okay. They're using horses with the veterans, okay, just like they do the dogs. Yes. Okay. So after he goes through all these classes, and they build his barn, then he'll be able to go and get the Wild Mustangs.

Gotcha. All right. That's pretty cool. Yeah, that's basically what Sai said. I think Sai just told it six months quicker. Yeah, yeah, that's better detail. It gave us a short version. Yeah, it was already done, and they were doing a great job,

and I liked your version. Well, no, no, because when I was growing up, that was one of the things that I love I love horses okay and every year all the farmer would get together okay at the cotton gym and like it'd be 40 horses tied up well hey guess what I spent my whole day doing riding horses jumping from one to the other you were jumping from horse oh yeah yeah jumping and out like a living doing that I'd sit on that I'd sit on that for a while you know and I'd say well let's see what that nowhere does Were you scared to ride the horses?

No. Ms. Christine, you were born in Kentucky, right? Yeah. Any horses around you? Yeah. Yeah? Okay. Did you ride them growing up or have anything to do with?

You did too. Did you know that side? Yeah, I do it. Bearback. That's why I want to Kentucky. To find her? It is not. They got fast horses and pretty women.

That's what they got in Kentucky. That's what they got in Kentucky. Fass horses and pretty women. But there's no ducks up there, isn't it? Not much. Not much. Are you a duck hunter, Miss Christine? No, so you don't need to know that you can go to duckstamp.com

slash duck and get your duck stamp right there on your phone? It's very easy. Even Zai's done it. And it's digital, baby. It's digital. We're teaching Zai how to use a duck stamp on his phone. Yeah, they've ordered me a piece of the other day. It's on our phone.

Yeah, my phone or Martin's phone or Jayne's phone. But we put his duck stamp on there because it's digital now. Don't give one to him. Don't give him a phone. Don't give him a phone. It won't work. Well, we heard about it. It'll for a little while, then they'll break it.

I don't break nothing. It's just, you know. I've got a question for you, Ms. Christine. Does I really not break anything? He just said, I don't break. No, he breaks everything. I know. You know, now the kids are texting back and forth,

and there's not a lot of interaction. So when you and Cy were dating, do you think that y'all could have gotten as close as you did by texting each other? No. No. No. No. They were out. What was the good thing about, about face-to-face, you know, dealing with each other? Well, being able to look at each other's eyes because, you know, when you're texting,

you can just say anything you want. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you're right. It's called reading the room. Yeah. But. Reading the room. Yeah, because you don't have to if you're texting. No, no. I was the powers to be.

that somebody needs to do a show, okay, on dating. Corey, if you're listening. Johnny Dean. No, no, I'm serious. They need to do a show. Go back in the ancient days. You did a time machine. And then, hey, and then come forward.

Like, you know. Oh, dating then versus now. No, no, because I'll give you a story. Wait till you hear about The Bachelor. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means? That means more outside.

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That's it. What does that mean? I do not know. How about Hunter? First time ever I feel so old. And I'll be like, Benz, what was that? And he'll look at me and go, six, seven. And I'm like, I don't get it at all.

Six, seven. Six, seven. You heard me the first. No, there's only one of Trace's children that met his girlfriend face to face. Okay. And they both worked at the same place. All right. And that's how they got involved.

Oh, is that Katie? No. Jackson? Yep. I was supposed to say getting warmer. I got eight of them. I did think they're been, because McCray, McCray is 22 years old, I think. Your great kids are 22 now, Sa?

Oh, yeah. And he has never had a date because he has plans for his life. There you go. Hey, some people, Martin didn't settle down until he's about 30. I was married about junior year of high school. That's not true, but I mean, I was 21 and married. I was 22. Yeah.

People just do it different. But they are waiting later and later these days. You were 21. You were 21 when you got married? Yeah, but I've been chasing the girls a whole life. Oh, my goodness. Hey, I'll see. With that black jacket that's struck, baby.

No, no, no, that's what gets me today. Okay, because when the band was out together, we'd go somewhere and be offstage in a bar and whatever, you know. And here they come. There comes a bunch of good-looking girls. with short shorts, tanked off the own. Okay, and they go back and sit down at a table. Okay, and then here they come.

The guys. It's seven to them and what they do. They go to the opposite end of it and sit down at another table. Some guys are afraid of girls. That's true. No, I've heard that story too. Brady is. No, no, no.

He said I've heard the rumor of this tale. No, no, because look, I finally just couldn't stand it. This good-looking. thing sitting at the bar. So I walked up and talked to her and she said, she said, I'm shocked that you're talking to me. And I said, what are you mean? I said, you're the best looking thing in here.

No, she said, well, hey, she said, all the rest of them are scared of me. And I said, why are they scared of you? I said, hey, look, you got a piece of rock here on the ground. It's just an ordinary rock. And then you got a big diamond over here. I said, you know what I'm going? gonna go for her.

I'm gonna go for the big diamond. There you go. And that's how it happened. Hey, that ain't the way they thanked today. No. That's how it went down. What were y'all,

Boston when y'all met? Yeah. She, you said, Fort Devin. You immediately said yes, and you looked at me like I was wrong. I had the thing.

It was Liminster, 40 miles east. Okay. A Boston. And you just walked up into that place with that black jacket on and that front. I said, I own this joint.

Is that what he said? Did he act like that? I met him on the side of the road. She stopped and picked me up. I did not. Yeah, you did. You keep saying that. You didn't pick him up?

Oh, well, hey, was you driving or somebody else driving? Somebody else was driving. You still did pick me up because it was your car. I did not. Oh, it was your car. I wasn't the one driving. I did not. I would have gone right.

You robbed the cradle. I would have. She would have left you, she said. She was a cougar, and I was just a youngster. This is what you live with. Okay, I'm 17 months older than him. So you what I'm talking about? That's not cougar.

That's not cougar. Hey, you don't know her. She's got claws. Oh, that's so funny. Well, what's funny is I just met a guy this morning. He was from Oklahoma and he said, hey, is I really like that? And I was like, is he really like that? I said, his wife's going to be on the podcast today and he will act exactly the same.

Yep. And I promise you, that's him. That's him. Oh, you just called your wife a cougar. Why, she is? The shoe fits. Oh, man. Now, I want to know, a lot of stories.

side tells. I mean, they've got some truth to them, but a lot of them I don't believe and they end up being true. You know, that's happened to me a lot of times. When he was trying to convince you to marry him in the Italian restaurant, was it 12 hours? Nope. 14. 14? Nope. Okay. I was late. I don't know how much it was, but hey, they wanted to close up. Everybody else has done left. They closed it 10. Uh-huh. We got there. at five. Okay.

That's still a long time. I know. And what made you say yes? I played all these sad songs on the jukebox. You know about leaving me. And now you're talking about she ain't her cougar. She plays songs, sad songs on the jukebox. 17 months older.

Yeah, but I wasn't going to marry you. Yeah. What made you say yes? How did that work out? he just kept going over and over the fact that all this was based on one thing okay she had seen me fool with kids and have a lot of fun with them

and she saw the black jacket well anyway and she had been told by the quote quote quote experts she would never have a child around and he loved them so much but I kept telling her and I said hey look don't worry about that I know somebody he knew it

and I said hey if we're meant to have kids we'll have her so when y'all were walking out it was a done deal it was done yes and here we are eight grandchildren a couple of mustangs on the way the most fun part of that about this is though is her best friend

oh boy where she worked sylvia sylvia I can't bring my members I know me either. But anyway, y'all I'm shocked that she'll prove that. I thought she was going to be like, no, not even close.

No. So Sylvia was always asking, she said, hey, when you go marry the girl? And I said, Sylvie, look, we're just friends. So, hey, guess what? I held on Westy's stage down the thing I didn't catch you. Nope, no, no, no. Hey, let's what.

Hey, April, April. You missed it, watch it. Like and subscribe. If you don't know what she said, tune into YouTube and you'll probably say, Hey, you can read her lip. Here comes April the first. April Fool's Day?

Yeah. You never do anything serious on April Fool's Day. No, no, but hey, no, I had been planning this for a long time. Oh, no. Just to make Sylvia shut up. Okay, so I come in to drop her off to work. Y'all and I said, Sylvia, guess what? She said, right?

I said, what? I said, me, Christine took a little drift other night. She said, really? Where did you go? Yeah. And I said, we went to see a justice of the peace. Well, she's on cloud nine jumping around, screaming and all there. And it wasn't true? No, I gave her about-April foos. No, no, I gave about 15 minutes and I said to Sylvia.

Got you, April's fool. You're talking about a demeanor changing? Yeah, that's big borderline cruel. Oh, no, no. So she put the Kabam on you. You know what's the song It's what she named sings about Marie LaBeau?

Mm-hmm. I started flashing and lighting and started y'all and then, hey, that's why Sylvia, look. And all she said, says, God is going to get you for this. Well, six days later, you got me. Yeah, six days later, we're calling her and ask her.

There's a justice of the peace. Yeah. Oh, so six days later, y'all got married. Yeah. Oh, Sylvia played a big role in America's favorite uncle. Yeah. That was more fun, though. Yeah, because, see, I had told him, I said,

go on back to Louisiana, and if you still miss me in six months, you still feel the weight, then I'll come down. And he said, nope, nope, not going to stand for that. Not standing for that. Well, if I had left, I'd have never been back. It's a long ride. No, I knew it. Yeah.

He said, I'm waiting. I said, hey, you going with me now? We ain't going. You didn't say that, though. Yeah, but that's what I was like you. But you didn't say it. What did he say? Yeah.

Or am I allowed to hear it? Oh, no, he kept saying, you know, you need to marry me. Why? That was what you said? I said, why. That's not the answer you're looking for. If you're out there listening, if she says why, that's a tough, that's a tough one. But it could work out.

Yeah, look at them. Yeah. Fifty five years later. 55 years later. We've had some ups, we've had some downs. But. And we went round and rail. Yeah, boy.

There was this one time when we were at Fort Bragg, and he was scheduled to go out on T.D.Y. to California. Not because of his job, but because the guy wanted for his morale. Wait. Yeah. You got recruited to a different part of the Army because of your morale? Oh, no. Yep.

Chief morale officer? I was the morale. Yeah, he was. I totally believe it, but that's, I didn't know the Army would do such a thing. No, he was in the same unit. Okay. But he wasn't supposed to go because somebody else was going, that did his job. And they were like, that guy's a buzzkill.

We need to bring Si? No. But anyway, we'd been arguing ever since he walked in the door. Don't even know what it's about, but, you know, but really arguing. Well, we said. sent Trace and Scott to bed, and then we resolved the argument. But all Tracea knew is when she went to bed, we were arguing when she got up, her daddy was gone. Oh.

Yeah. That's a bummer. That was a bummer. That's when we learned, you don't send the kids away in the middle of an argument, you know, you settle it and then let the kids go. That's actually a great advice. Yeah, it was. It was one of the best ever. But anyway, when she got up and her daddy was gone, she didn't say anything.

And I think it was two days later She said mom is dad ever coming home? And then I realized You know what was on her mind And so I said Yeah honey daddy's got he didn't leave us Well he's not here He's on maneuvers

And I said Yeah he's on maneuvers I said so the next time he called I had him I told him what she had gone through And so he talked to her And everything was okay after that I said Mm

But yeah, you got to watch these kids. Kids are wild. Their minds are something else. Most parents don't realize that, you know, whatever you're saying, whatever you're saying, the kids are listening. Oh, yeah. Yep. Yep.

Okay, because then one of the days you walk in and somebody says something, and they say something, you go. Yeah, we got a rule in our family. Clear is kind. So we're going to speak the truth that we're going to be clear about it. And that's the kindest thing you could do. But be kind about it. Yeah.

Sometimes speaking the truth, ain't kind. Yeah. But it's kind of you to tell them people the truth. I mean, you know, most of the time I would say. Yeah. My daughter flipped off the devil the other night, so we're going through it. That's a good one. She literally told my wife, she's six, and we were like, where did she learn the middle finger from?

Yeah. And she said, but you know what we think about Satan? And she just threw one up. And we were like, no, no, no. Also, we don't really like him. He can sit on a tack as the way we say it in church, though. But she said she heard it from Allison talking about some other kid that got in trouble for it. And so she and Allison was like, I never knew she was listening.

And I was like, well, now we're just going around flipping off Satan. They're listening. Yeah. So their kids are listening. Oh, yeah. Everything. Everything. Everything.

And then if you get one like Trisa who never forgets. I got one of those, for sure. Tracea doesn't forget anything? Nope. I could see that. Boy, she is so smart. I just read an article that she was in not too long ago. I took it home and shared it with my wife.

So she's got all kind of things going on, huh? I know. Yeah. So both our kids are doing well. That's good to hear. Yeah. And that was when Traceau, I had wanted her to get her law degree after she graduated from college. But she had to have a baby.

And she had gotten a scholarship from law school. Okay. And she went to talk to them. And then she said it just hit her. She wanted to be the kind of mother I was. So after you have a daughter tell you that, what can be your pro-y? you got nothing you got nothing that's right

you're just like hey you want to buy some horses even though Tracea does Tracea have any horses too? No Tracea now's the time to ask if you're listening No just wait and get one after Scott already fixes it for you

Oh that's actually probably a better plan Did they get along growing up? No No That was a quick moment Anyway Scott and Tracer didn't get They got along until he was seven eight and eight months old

when he crawled into her bedroom and got into her toy box. Uh-oh. And that was it. Who hit harder growing up? Scott or James? Well, Scott's and Trisers the emergency room three times.

Ooh, good night. That's terrible. Oh, Scott. Now he's channeling all that energy on Mustangs. Well, he had a bunch of anger issues. Yeah, he did. Yeah. The good thing about it is, though,

since he started working with these horses, no attacks. No PTSD. Oh, that's good. anxiety attacks. That's really good. Man, that's great. Yeah, because he had them.

Pretty bad. Yeah. Well, that's good to hear. Yeah. Does he still have his service dogs? Yes. Good. That's great.

And that's in Montana? Oh, Idaho. Idaho. I don't know. Have y'all been there? Yeah. Potato State. Do they eat, or do they just eat potatoes all the time?

They eat potatoes, big ones, too. I like a good potato. We would love to go back to Idaho, but the traveling is just, whoa. Three plane rides. Three plane rides. I don't even like one plane ride. I got off the plane. It's a pits.

It's a pits. Yeah. Well, I hate to bring up the pits, but I think we have to. What pits? The pits has happened, and Syed and Sy didn't tell his friends about it for three months. Oh. Oh, my goodness.

That's right. Ms. Christine, we have heard the terrible news about Sweet Pea. We just found out recently. But we heard it very, very, very, very late. Just shalot. Yeah, he just dropped a half. bad in there. Just off the cuff.

So what? Okay. He got sick, the week, feel died. Okay. And so we had to keep running him to the all night hospital and then back to the day hospital. And we spent about $15,000 on trying to get him. $15,000. I told you.

He was something crystallized. I mean, $1,500. I'm sorry, $1,500. Oh, okay. And he had arthritis, so he was having trouble. jumping up on our bed at night. And then he couldn't jump up at all. So when they took him in his crystal in his kidneys.

And he was... I thought it was a liver. No. Yes, okay, kidneys. You know, he was diabetic. And that's something that happens to cats when they have to be put down. They tried to treat it, but it just didn't work. Well, we were bummed out.

But, Sye, he never told us. I guess too much was going on, Siret. That was a crazy, die. This summer was kind of wild. Yeah, because we put him down the day after Field was buried. Oh, man. Yeah, that's probably why we didn't talk about it. Yeah.

You know, that's one I probably would have buried died. See, like, what she's telling me this now? I don't remember what it was. Yeah. Okay, but if it was weak, Phil died, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you wouldn't really think about. That actually makes it all make way more sense that we didn't know.

all that stuff. But we're trying to talk them into getting you a new cat. She's got a bunch of them. Outside. Well, what do we need to inside cats, huh? No, we don't need the inside cat. There's, how many outside cats are there right now? Five.

Five. How many birds are flying around out there? None. Oh, no, one of them always, what? You got one bird? No, what kind of birds are outside your house that attack me? That's the Martins. The Martins.

They build mess. on our posts. Yeah. Five of them. And so one cat did get one of the little birds. He got up there. Yeah, he got up there in the nest. The cat got into the nest?

Martin Nest. Look, he climbed one of the pillars on the porch, with them claws. Do the new cats have names? I don't know. She said they do. You don't know your cat's name, Sa? He's never outside.

I had one of them come up there and get up there in my head. you know. Inside or when you were outside on the porch? I got you. I was shocked you after you come up there. It's just the cat life. I'm not allowed to have cats. My wife's alerted to them.

Oh, that's so sad. Yeah. That cat, though, would get up on the poker table and stay the whole time. Yeah. And he'd just go from a different person to different person. Sweetie is one of the more famous animals in the whole world. So we had... He literally got up and laid down on a guy's

cards. Randy. Yeah. Were they good cards? I think he had King Queen. Wait. Did you try, did you try and train

Sweet Pete to help you cheat the poker? No, that was something he did. Meow, meow. He would just get up there. He got the nuts, boys. He'd get up there and he laid down and I said, y'all, I just kind of poked him.

I said, Sweet pey, you got to get off the cards. So we're playing, we're playing poker. Y'all, he looked up at me and talking about, leave me alone. And he loved laptops. Ooh. On the keys. Sai likes to try and punch mine and make it bounce a lot.

You notice today he's been, Sa's been mild. He's not slamming his hands down. Well, I ain't got the energy. I don't know why you do that with this glass. You know what? You make it pop. I know.

Oh, yeah. Hey, I've seen him do some things. I'm full of nervous energy. Is that what it is? Yeah. Nervous energy? Nervous energy. I never knew.

That's why I stay so sleep. either. So it's been 55 years that y'all been together married for 55? Close to it. Close to it. Y'all celebrated one. I had a big celebration. Yeah.

How long ago? 50. 50. About five years ago. About five years ago. It all runs together for me. I'm on this side of it. You know.

Oh, that's awesome. April past was our 54th. Here's the thing. Cody was his name, right? Cody was the driver. Okay. You know, Cody was always trying to. I said, hey, let me fix you out with a date.

You know, and she got tired of food with Cody. I got tired of the dates he brought by. Yeah. Oh, they were no good? Yeah. So, she, you know, Cody, Cody said, all right, here's the deal. You know, you need to describe your perfect person you want to find. Perfect.

Yeah. Oh, boy. So I'll let her take over now. It should never have been able to be done. I mean, come on. Six foot three. Black hair. Check.

Check. Both of those are gone now, by the way. I know. I know. Fluor green eyes. Check. Dimples. I've never seen them, but probably.

They're under there. A beautiful smile and a keen sense of humor. Hey. You still got one of those things. What? The eyes. And the sense of humor. That's six for six, boys.

You were six for six. But I did not realize that until the 16th of December, 1969. I mean, the 12th December, 1969. He was out there all along. That's it. And then she stopped and picked me up with my jacket. Was it the struck? You didn't have your jacket on when you came out.

What did you think when you saw him? He went ahead and I said, I didn't think anything until Cody says, oh, I think I know him. I think I'm going to pick him up. Is that what life was like back then? You just knew that people walking down the street? He did. they were in the same unit I know that guy

so I looked and I thought all I saw was that red dragon on that black coat and the way he was walking it was just I don't want to meet this guy he is ego to the max sigh that sounds true

no that is true that's what happens well he did and he had a big ego big ego you me me a big he you'll come now. Oh yeah. He was very confident in himself. Hey, how's mom?

That's mom. That's so funny. Well, speaking of that six-point checklist you just gave us, are you excited about the new smile? Yes, I'm so tired of those. The gap. The gap. Is that what you call it?

The gap? That's what I call it. So he's getting all new. Yes. So you're fired up about it. Yes. All we got to get some hair grease. Those Tacopas probably make you 6-3 again.

Hey. Hey. She sounds drunk. Huh? He's shrunk. I'm not that tall anymore. He's no longer 6-3. I don't want.

Yeah, you're not. You're not. You're not. Whatever. But hey, now she might have a different list for you now. You know. 6-3 ain't on it no more. No.

That's what got me about the doctors, though. They said, well, when is your wife going to come up? And I said, what do y'all want her for? He said, hey, this is a two-way deal. I want her to be satisfied with what you're getting. The smile. Yeah, the smile. So he's going in December to get the real stuff.

And Phillips going to drive him down. And I told him, I said, okay, Liz and I will fly. Big time. So you're flying up there Okay, okay, I like this She's flying up there She's okay What was done

Yes Because we've had some fans Sending in some suggestions That you probably wouldn't like Like the Duck Commander logo On one of the teeth Or gold teeth Or gold or

Is that out? No silver Oh no Diamond-plated Yeah I'm just saying I would I mean at this point

I mean you might as well All right But she's getting to That's you know what That's a smart dentist Oh, these guys are awesome I mean, you know that But getting the wife's approvals, very

That's wisdom Yeah, I've got his graduation picture That's wisdom Oh, the... Oh, it's beautiful. The Sye Robertson graduation picture And he's so cute You cutie

Oh cute I'm trying to see if it's on the internet There's a lot of pictures of you on the internet, buddy Oh, there's a good one right there Look at Young Sai Very handsome So which version did you meet, not the one on the right.

How old are you in the middle there? Oh, that was after we were living in bomb holder. So it's after Tracer was born. Okay. So is this graduation photo? No, that's his army. That would probably be graduation from AIT. I'll say the dimples.

Yeah, look them dimples. How old do you think you are in this left picture? Oh, 19. The left one? 68. Yeah, 68. Right before he goes there. How about it?

So that's who Miss Christine met, right? No, you were in. Oh, it had to be 68. Yeah, it had to be 68 because you were in. I went to, I went to Fort Bend, Georgia for Basic, and I went to Fort Lee, Virginia, for AIT. And then you went to Vietnam. And then the one on the right with the helmet is Vietnam. You look like a guy who could have done a lot of push-ups.

Look how skinny. I did 350 the day I graduated. Ooh. In dress greens, no less. 350. 350. Wow. Because Big D, Oliver, Big O.

Big O. Big O. He got in my face and put his nose on my nose. Okay, and said, get around, Bagget. Y'all and I said, Sartz, we're in dress cream. He said, you're going to get out. I had to put you down. And I said, you're serious.

I said, you're joking, right? He said, no, I'm serious. Robertson. So, hey, you know, he's, drop, drop, give me 25. I knocked him, I went to jump back up. I was still smiling. Well, he walks up and put his nose on my nose again. He said, get down.

Well, it took me 350 until I finally said. 350. I'll stop. Okay, I'll stop. I couldn't even do 35 push-ups and still smile. Oh, no, no. You smiled for 350 push-off. Oh, no, no, look.

That was the best shape this kid has ever been in it. You look like you could hurt somebody. You look very in shape. Here's what you got to do. Look how skinny he is. He couldn't hurt a fly. I don't know how many rhymes it was, but before you ate breakfast, you had to climb the ladder from one end of the other.

You didn't go eat breakfast, and then when we come back out, you climb back out on the letters. They made you go to use the monkey bar. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They had about, oh, I'd say they had probably 50 wrongs probably. What? Dang.

Yeah. Yeah, this thing went from across the compound all the way to the mess hall. Look how pretty he is in that middle one. Look that pretty man. Pretty man. She called you pretty, Zah. Let's see. That's how old are you?

That's your older there, huh? Yeah, that was after. Bryce was born. So. 35ish? 72. You were 7? That wouldn't have been 73.

1972. What year were you born? 46? 48. 48? Yep. So you're, oh,

you're only 25 in that? Yeah. Man. What a trip down. Yeah, that was when I was a specialist. Yep. Right before he became a sergeant.

Is that whenever you got to sit there for the whole year? Oh, that was later. That was later. Yeah. Yeah, that one's in bomb holder Germany. Is that story true that he got to sit there for a whole year with his feet on the desk? Yep.

And did he say, I'm not going to lift a pinky for a year? Oh, that was in Vietnam. No, no, I'm serious. If I didn't have, if the officers owned me wasn't honest, I would have done time. I'm serious. I'm dead serious. Oh, man. Because he turned down, I told you I was a specialist.

Well, I went to Vietnam, but E4. And I'd come back at E4. you know and he he turned down three e five stripes so I went in his office and I said hey got a question he said hey get back out there knock on the door and I said I ain't got time for that I said I got a question to ask you buddy lieutenant at that and did he tell you these stories while it was happening Christine I didn't know him then oh no no when my whole military career

I'd come back y'all from work I said well the colonel through me and have his office again She said, you know you're only hurting yourself, right? And I said, yeah, but the man knows where I stand. Yeah, after Vietnam, he was stationed in Fort Devons. I met him then, August, September, October, 24 months after he got back. I was the post-police to pick up all the trash for Fort Devons. Where's Fort Devons? That's in Boston.

Okay, yeah. Outside of Boston. I thought you were in the medical group. Uh-oh. Well, I may have been. Some truths about to come out. Yeah. No, I may have been in the medical.

He just told her way. Yeah, I was. I was on Fort Davis. I was in the medical unit. But I was supply in the medical unit. You were always supplied. You supplied the morale. Well, that and everything else.

That and everything else. Yeah, guns, beans, clothes, bullets. That's an important job. It's hard to win a war with no bullets. No. I got a question for y'all, but I know what's getting late in the podcast. but some of our fans really want to know what y'all would tell a young couple on how to stay together and how to make it like y'all have.

Be friends first because when you've been married as long as we are, the romantic side kind of, yeah. In other words, it plays out. What happens to it? It plays out. So if you're not friends, then what have you got? Yeah. And so we were friends before we were anything else.

and we're still friends. And you love listening to his stories all the time. And you've heard them a lot. You could probably finish most of them. Oh, half of them. And you can correct them, too. Yes, I can correct them. Sy, what would you say about?

I'll say that in communication. Yeah, definitely. And then whenever you have an argument, don't go to bed unless you sell it. Oh, goodness. I can't remember the last time we had an argument. We didn't have that many. Oh, I know. we had an argument over Trump.

Oh, boy. Oh, no, there was no argument there. We're about to get political. Only from your side. No, he was getting louder and louder and louder. Oh, here we go. So I finally said, okay, we just agree to disagree and we will never talk about this again. Don't talk politics.

So we don't talk politics. Is that why you come in here all fired up someday? No, no, well, hey, yo. Yeah, because I won't talk to them about it. Because it's not allowed it to happen. Here's what's so bad about this. Watch it. You can't even turn on the TV anymore to watch the news.

And I tell you, why bother? Everything about it is with her. So why bother? Christine, when we were up the hospital, we did fine when we watched sports, but whenever he would turn it on to one of those things, he'd start yelling at the TV. I know.

Do you watch a lot of PBS, Ms. Christine? Nope. They haven't had nothing wrong one lately. Worth watching? Only the one that we saw that you saw. That one was legit. That was good. What do you watch, Ms. Christine?

I watch True Crime. Oh. She watches bad crime. I like to figure out. Yeah. She's trying to figure out all these psychos. All these psychos. No, I just like to figure out why they think they can get away with murder.

Because they're so stupid. Yeah. So you're into true crime. You're into cat on cat crime on the PBS and on a front force. My brother had told me he was in the military or in our Air Force. Which one? Harold. He told me I had a problem with authority.

And I said, no, that's not really true. Miss Christine. I said, what I have is I have a problem with stupid authority. Yeah. That's true. You know, because, you know. Just putting somebody in charge to be in charge for no reason. Nope.

Like I said before, on all my mentors growing up, okay, one thing rang true when I run up on somebody that I really respected and liked. Truth. Okay. A true leader is a servant. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. That's a high quality. He's always the last one out of the building.

Okay, he's always thinking about other people, okay, not himself. And then I look around and I just, you know, because this world right now grief, you know. Good grief is. So your servants, that's the strongest ones. You know, the world looks at that as being weak, but really that's your strongest people. I don't know, because, you know, Jesus. Yeah.

The ultimate servant. God says the week will go first. Yeah, that's right. It's very depressing to see all this going down. Then don't watch it. Well, I know it. Well, I'll get to the point I don't. Yeah.

All it does is make my heart rate go up. I'm excited every day whenever they have Fox News on at the store for whenever it turns three o'clock, so I can switch it to old Steve Harvey. It's just way more fun. Steve Harvey. I'm your man, Steve Harvey. Family, family. It's just a good time.

All right. Give me her and give me her. Let's go. Let's go for the gold, boy. Go for the gold. Oh, that's funny. Yeah, there are lots of games on the TV. Don't you watch poker on TV?

Sometimes. No, because they always... Yeah, he's not watching it very much right now. I watched it, y'all, and then it's the next ex-thad, but I always turn it back and they'll rerun it. Oh. And also, I'm fixing it. I'll fix it. Hit the TV. But delete, delete, delete, delete, delete. Then I know the...

The one that comes up has got to be today. Oh, wait, you've got a bunch of recordings. He's watching the same poker hand. No wonder, your game's not getting better. Yeah. You've got to watch new ones. He's just watching the same poker hands. Well, yeah, because when you hit on poker,

you're supposed to go down to the episodes. I've done that, Donner. It's always the same. These idiots are showing reruns on me. Oh, man. I'm going to hit the show. delete button about 25 times. Sign a TV remote is a scary thing.

It's kind of like you and a cell phone. Your cell phone's don't get along. We know. Being in laptops you got there, don't get along. Don't touch it, please. What about your home phone? He doesn't have any problem with that one. Oh, hey.

Yeah, but I've turned into the Robo Killer. He just hangs up right on. Oh, you know. All right. Hello. Spam cop. No, because she told me, she said, hey, if there's a pause, it's a machine. You ain't talking to a person.

So as soon as that pause hit Well, you have to say something That way the person knows you know Oh, no, no. No, no. I always say hello. Oh, you say hello? Yeah, then there's a pause.

And she's telling me, she said, Hey, if there's a pause, it's recording. It's a computer. Yeah, it's a computer. And when she said that, I just said, I got one finger on ready to death. Nailed them. Say, got them out, boys.

I need to go to the National Registry of Do Not Call and put your number in there. Oh, no, no, no. Please do. Hey, hey. I don't think that does. They just don't know. Hey, I guess they're doing a regeneration.

Because, hey, everybody that I've talked to so far, I said, hey, what is all these spam calls coming in? There's a lot of them. Oh, I know. Everybody's sick of them. Yeah. We can put a man on the moon. Why can't we stop all these spam calls? Allegedly.

Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly spam calls. That might be area of 51. Alleged spam calls. Alleged moon. No, sir. That's right.

Mine says potential spam calls. I go close. I go better with A-51. Actually, the fact that we can't stop all these spam calls is further proof that we probably didn't land on the moon. Oh, yeah. Uh-oh. I'm just saying.

I can't believe they've been a little man of you. You've ever seen a sigh riding a... Oh, a giraffe. That little sigh. Oh, the little sigh. Oh, that's the only way you ride a giraffe. I'm not looking at the giraffe. I was looking at how little you are.

I don't. He's an action figure. Do you see that coming back in? That's my action figure. See, I'm looking over everything now. Look, the only action figure you have is the mouth. Which pays well. Yes, it does.

Yes, it does. I think that is the perfect. Well done, guys. If you're wondering how to have a long, happy marriage, that is it. Joke with each other, laugh, with each other, be friends together. heard it from sigh and christine i'm going to send us out of here with the bible verse um matthew 19 6 so they are no longer two but one flesh therefore what god has joined together let no one separate

and they've been together for 55 years and i'm glad to have just got to spend the afternoon with them because this has been hysterical miss christine thank you you're welcome you are always welcome back martin really missed out today he missed this he's going to miss this one all right you'll see y'all next time here in a duck call room.