Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 271 | Phil Shows an Unwelcome Visitor What Happens to Mayhaw Thieves

Episode Date: May 5, 2021

Phil learns that a Facebook commenter "strongly dislikes" him, and he's thoroughly amused. It's mayhaw season, and Phil is feeling his age after picking fruit. Jase is feeling it too after taking on his archnemesis — a fly. Phil is not about to let a furry little trespasser stand between him and some mayhaw jelly. The guys discuss trees and fruit in the Bible, free will, why God allowed evil into the world, poisonous plants, and the intelligent design of trees. Jase chuckles at weather people who mispronounce the names of parishes. And Phil asks the audience for advice on transplanting his mayhaw trees. -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? So I was laughing, coming in here already today, hearing you two moan about your, all your various ailments. Well, I mean, you two are like the dry, I mean, I'm all spry. I guess I'm good, because all I did was preach yesterday. Well, we're out there in the wilderness on our hands and knees. Of course, I'm digging for, treasure and Phil's gathering treasure in the form of may hall berries we hadn't had much sleep for because Phil's been sore I hadn't have much sleep because my dog is we bonded over this issue hates flies as much as I do so all night I heard missy get up and close the door to the bedroom

And I'm like, yep, she can't handle it. Because that dog kept barking, just wailing at the main. So this morning, she called me when I was on the way down here. She's like, that dog barked all night. I said, I know it. Is that the one that's about six inches long? Yep, the dog, yeah. He's tiny.

Buddy. Yeah, buddy. How could so much noise come out of something so small? Because we have a fly in the house. I walked in your house, and I just looked at him, and he looked at me, and he did, br-oh. That's why I like him. I like him for that reason.

I thought he'd been used to seeing you, but when I walked in there, he said, I don't like, I don't like the guy on Facebook, Dan said he read all, everybody was singing my praises, you know, the Corolla. I talked with Corolla on the podcast. On his bike. One guy said, Phil Robertson, I strongly dislike you. That was all. That's all he said. I strongly dislike you. possible terms he does not like

I was that funny to us I think other people would be oh no some people get offended by it it makes us laugh so the dog the fly and it's not it's not a typical fly you know there's different breeds of flies some of them are a buzzer

a buzzer and he flies so fast he never stopped and they don't like I've been seeing the same species in my house he just comes back But he's going so fast. He can't.

So I finally tracked one down the other day and finally bushwhacked him, you know. I finally got him. But you're an assault shooter. I don't have the patience for that. It was three-day hunt. It was three days. Well, I'm two days into this one. Missy's like it's me or the dog on the way down here.

She's like, you got to kill that fly because I can't handle this. But my right arm, I threw my hat because I had a fly swatter, had all my weapons. usually I kill a fly within five minutes you used to be known for it but sounds like you're slipping It's a little This is a different ball game

I mean I pride myself I thought he was some kind of wasp At first but then I looked I said I think that's a fly But boy you can really really fly I pride myself on being an air traffic controller And now that my dog is so upset about it Because every time it buzzes by

He just starts running around in circles nipping at the air barking, which I found it funny. I mean, I heard him barking, and I thought, it's not so funny at 3 in the morning, though.

Well, it was kind of funny to me, but Missy's hot. But I threw my hat at him, at the fly, and they say, you know, because my arms is throbbing.

I mean, right now, it's just, because when you throw something that doesn't have a lot of weight, it does something to you. Not so much until you. you hit about the gray beard stays.

Well, I guess so. I'm not sure why my arm is throbbing right now because I threw something that didn't weigh but a few ounces. That's funny. But you still arrive after the flap. Yeah, I'm in pain. You wouldn't think a man, it never affected me before much. You squat down and you pick up the mayhaws

in front of you, knock them off the tree up there, bump up, they fall on the ground. It's muddy ground. So you're just, you know, duck walking. You know, you're down on the ground. And you're either crawling, then you kind of get up on your knees,

and you're picking up Mayhaas in front of you. You're just making a circle under a tree. Sometimes it's like watered, the in the pothole. But the Mayhaer are hitting, falling on the ground. You just watering around in the mud. You wouldn't think I'd bother you too much.

but who yeah man I didn't have any help but just me picking them all up you know so you got you a career yeah the cavalry's coming today yeah so Alex is coming bringing a friend uh bk came out with me this morning so I always wondered way back when we were children you know like you know eight nine years old seven eight nine on up from there that when they got time to pick the may halls every spring they come in Mayhaw's they come in May May Hall, H-A-W. This is one. You brought some on set to show.

For those of you that are watching, you get to look. They look like a little small, just a baby apple. A baby apple. A tiny baby. When the Almighty, in his wisdom, made the Mayhaal tree, he said, human beings will covet this. They will love to run upon this. Deer love them, squirrels love them, birds love them.

So everything is flying to the trees to eat them, but we get them. Here's what, see here, see down in the bucket there? You crawl on your hands and knees. You say, have you ever run up on a cotton mouth moccasin during the Mayhall picking almost every time? So you have to be, watch where you're going. They grow best where it floods and then it's dry. It floods and it's dry. The terrain is scorn.

kind of like swampy but not all the time water right up above where it floods and then and then I got a question about that so if you had we've had a lot of backwater yeah if the trees are in a lower area where there's water all the time you probably they probably don't they'll die yeah they can't grow in the water but but where it floods and then reseeds yeah that tends to be where they grow in all these river systems I think they go far over as south Texas probably you know in East Texas, probably southern Alabama, I would think, Georgia, Florida. They are there. You know they only grow in the U.S.

Is that right? Yeah. I didn't know that. There's a guy that I know that used to work at, he was a counselor at camp, you know, a long time ago, but he lives somewhere between Houston and Lake Charles on the Texas side. Yep. But he has a Mayhaw tree farm.

Oh, yeah. So he's, he produces them to make jelly. Because, you know, in Louisiana and East Texas, you can buy them in the store. store because there's enough people harvested them making jelly. Oh, yeah. The jelly, by the way, there's the finished product. Here's the finished product. That's last year's.

And so you whittled down your supply, but you have other things. We, you know, we have dewberries, blackberries, musky dines, slows. We're talking about slows. That fall plum comes in August. But these here, these are some of the first. These mayhaws and dewberries. get ripe at the same time. First week in May.

So we just hit May, therefore we're picking up May halls and get the kids all out there. The reason they, I mentioned when we were kids, they had said May haul picking, so that meant everybody dropped what they're doing, no matter what they were doing. Everybody load up a lot of kids. I always wanted about it, but now Labor Force.

You get 10 kids on their hands and knees. They can really pick up a lot of mail. I got my youngest daughter and one of my younger granddaughters. Yeah, so we're bringing the kids today when I walk away from this podcast. It's Mayhall. We got Mayhall picking, Mayhall cleaning, clean all these up. You have to get all the dirt and everything off of them, see. So I remember one.

Big tubs are what y'all remember. I remember multiple years. I don't know if you just remembered or not because you were. You remember that? Well, I just remember every year. What do you remember when when dad got it? We had first moved down here. So you were about seven or eight.

And dad knew at the time you had not really explored this area. That's right. So the only place you knew where they were was back in the river bottoms where you used to hunt. So it's about a, what, hour and a half, two hour drive from here. Yep. And so we loaded it all up, granny, Paul, all the kids. And we went up there and we took number three washtubs with us. Yep.

Two or three. And we got out there in that swampy area. And we were sending Jays and me and the kids up the tree and they shake the trees. So y'all had the idea that you took bed sheets. Grand Paul were with us too and took bed sheets and held it under the tree. And then we would have to pick the sticks out. Then you would pour it into the tub. We wound up with at least two number three washtubs.

They just think about how many berries that is and how much jelly that produced. We talk about an operation. But I'll never forget it. I mean, it's just one of those things that sticks into your brain. I mean, that's the best thing if you can have something like a net. I think the, you know, I'm saying a lot of people, they use like big nets. Yeah.

Kind of like you would. Some years the backwater is under them. Like two feet, three feet. We literally last year pulled our boat underneath the trees. And the water was like six feet deep. So you couldn't even get out of the boat and stand there. So we just were in the boat and we pulled up under them. We got us a tarpaulian type thing.

we'd put them up in they'd shake them and then we'd take them and put them we got them like that but instead of picking them up when they hit the water you know the ones that bounced off and hit in the water we had little nets about like this yeah with handles on them and we just would but it was a lot quicker if you got water on the trees oh yeah you scoop them up get them get them quick plus they're not they're not as messy as they are in the water oh they're good and fresh just hit the water so i want to say from now for going forward dad so you especially for your own body say call us because I want my kids and grandkids to be involved. I mean, we're talking about five generations now.

No doubt about it. Because you did it as a kid. I have not missed a Mayhall picking and jelly making since I've, oh, well, I haven't missed one at all. Even when we went to tech when I was going to college, I'd go get to Mayhawn. And a lot of them guys I was going to school where they said, do what? But some of them were familiar with them, but most of them.

Well, I've got a pretty good little line of cooking. that are here now between Stone and Alex and BK. So I want to like, because when you're gone, I still want to be getting Mayhael jelly. That's what I'm saying. Families who pick Mayhaas together stay together. That's right. There's another t-shirt. I'm just saying.

There's another t-shirt idea. I mean, I'm looking at y'all. You all remember the days and you look at it with a fondness. It's a, it's a fondness. No, I agree. Since we're getting poetic, I'm going to read a poem. Don't get me confused. with being a poet now.

Chase is a poet. He just doesn't know it. Well, I heard this one time. I think most people in the world have heard this point. Y'all probably heard this. This was written by Joyce Kilmer, and I think he wrote this in 1913. So it's a man, choice is a man? Yeah, it's actually a man.

He was killed in World War I. He was only like 30. I've heard that name before. So yeah you've heard there's been a lot of because the reason it got my attention is people didn't this has kind of been a controversial poem because people doesn't they don't like it because he was a man of faith and he wrote this epic poem about trees but he like cleared half his trees and you know would burn a fire in a heartbeat. So they're like that's why it was. I mean, even today, people still talk about this. So it's real short, but I'll read it. It says, and he has kind of some romance.

This is PG-13, but it's more about us participating, like the fruit of the tree that we believe God is produced. All right. Let's take a break for you, really. I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed against the earth's sweet flowing breast. A tree that looks at God all day and lifts her leafy arms to pray. A tree that may in summer wear a nest of robins in her hair. Upon whose bosom snow has lain, who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me. But only God can make a tree. That's pretty good. Y'all haven't heard that before? I don't think so. Oh, I love it. I love anybody who appreciates trees. Every, by their fruit, they will know you will recognize them.

That's the three of us. You say, how are people going to recognize who we are? Now, you have some people that I mentioned a while ago, Phil Robertson, I strongly dislike you, period. He didn't say why. By their fruit, you will recognize them, Al. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles? The answer is no.

Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit. bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit, you will recognize them, which is pretty cool. Who said that? Where is that? Jesus Christ said that back a little over 2,000 years ago in Matthew Chapter 7.

And the context of that is watch out for false profits. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly there, they're ferocious wolves. It says, by their fruit, you would recognize them. And that, therefore, the explanation. When you see somebody who's always trying to slick you out of a few dollars, or you see somebody that's got the little wink and the shelf another feet, and then, you know, they're loudly talking, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah. Got a lot of air, but they're not much substance, too.

it you say you know what bad tree because you know from the fruit right that's amazing the fruit tells the story on you know like behind the scenes or you're hoaring around getting drunk you're running around you're playing a game well that that catches up with you and the and the fruit you bear is going to tell the story that's right days you got a call you need to take this this is good fruit here so so let me ask you a question this interesting since you brought that up about the false teachers. So on part of Willie's property, right next to his big lake that Jay frequently sneaks around and catches fish out of, yeah. So there's a stand, a beautiful stand of Mayhall trees. And Willie planted them. Oh, yeah. Look, and they had somebody plant them.

Had them planted. I was fixed to clarify that. Yeah, yeah. So he had the guy, they sprayed for this, that and the other. And they've got like things that, you know, around it, like a hold it up, you know, four deals to where it grows straight. They're beautiful trees. I mean, it's a nice little stand. Zero mayhawes in four years. None of them won't bear mayhawes. They told me that.

So what's the deal, you think? I don't know. But first of all. Talking about not producing. I went to the woods, and I located little bitty mayhaw trees in the middle of the woods. So I went out there by a boat, walked up to where I found them. and I knew there were Mahal trees, big ones, but I was looking for a little bitty seedlings.

So the little seedlings, if it's for what it's worth, I just took a shovel, had me a tub, and I just dug around them and pried them up out of the ground. I had a little root wobble and some dirt on it with a little Mayhall tree. The Mayhaal tree was like eight inches long, a little bit of one. So I just took me a tub full of them, got out there, walked out, pull back up in my yard,

which it floods in our yard, and then it's off, it's dry, and it's wet. I said, they'll grow good here. So there's a little drain going down through the front of my house there. And I planted about eight trees right there, a little bitty trees. I watched them, and they kept growing and kept growing. It took about several years for them to get up there and start bearing fruit. But as soon as I walk out of here today, I'll go under those trees,

those seem to be the best producers that in the wild or wherever, those right there. transplanted them. Yeah. So in Willie, somebody said if there's a cedar tree within eyesight from where you. And there's a bunch of them because there used to be. He's got cedar trees. They said where you see a cedar, a may haul, no, no fruits coming off that tree. So it's kind of like running with the wrong bunch.

Cedars and mayhawes, they don't mix. There's a cedar tree there, a mayhaw tree is never going to produce fruit. So the Howard's years ago grew Christmas trees there. And some of them, a bunch of them were cedars. And there's two huge ones in my backyard. Yep. And within eyesight of the mayhem. Someone said, no, you tree experts.

Somebody out there knows and unashamed land. I wish I knew. By the way, how about if I can take a trachow, some of my mayhaws are planted them in lower elevations where there's too much water, but I'd like to move them to higher ground. can you take a trach hole and just dig you a hole up there where it gets a little higher just take one big scoop of dirt out yeah go down there and lift one them mayhaw trees they're like bushes about here to the ceiling yeah they're like six seven foot right now they haven't been

planted that long i planted them yeah so got them out of the woods so i got about 40 trees there well a lot of them had mayhawls on them this year but the freeze you had a unusual freeze in March, and that hurt them. So now they're producing this year about a third of what they normally produce. But I just wanted if a tree expert, whoever one of y'all knows, can I just wait to the fall of a year, dig one in their mails? It'd be one scoop of a backhoe, a track hole, big bucket, just lift it up, dirt and all.

Can I move it up the hillways and stick it in another hole I've dug? Why are you wanting to move it? We're at a little higher elevation. that's not as much water Not as much flood I planted those a little low Because the last four years But most trees I've seen

Over the top of them But most trees I've seen Are in the lower elevation The may haul Me too But in this case I said if the backwater's going to get them Four out of the last five years

The water Backwater came over Yeah Too high And they looked pretty rough After all that was over Too much water I need to move up some

At a better So you're unashamed. I know somebody out there. You tree expert. When does your transplant? So here's where you send an owl at restoration productions. That's where you send that information. When do you transplant mayhaw trees, if at all?

Can you do it? It's a fair question. It's a good question. I'm glad you, but you also said those trees didn't produce for how long? How long did it take them for they produced? Several years before you'll plant them and they'll turn into a bush about waist high, no mayhaws. They go chest high, no mayhaws. they go just about the eye level and they get about that high.

You're standing at six, seven foot. I'll notice they start blooming a little bit. That does tree growing like he does time. You know, it's where it relates on your body. You have to be patient. So this is Genesis 2.8. It says, now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east in Eden. And there he put the man.

and the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground, trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. There you go. I mean, when I think about, because there's a lesson in there somewhere, you talk about it takes years to produce the fruit. Yeah. But I'm like, when you think about what happened around the tree, of course, you have the two trees in the middle of the garden,

the tree of life, which think about how spectacular that was, somehow another. And it was producing some fruit that they were eating, that because of that happening, they were not either not going to die or live a very, very long life. Which is my theory has been, whatever was in that is why they lived so long. That impopulating the earth. Because, I mean, you had people live in 8,900. This might have been the key here because. I'm 75 and still going.

Well, but they say, they say, Phil, that the may haul to get off track here, it actually has a ton of health benefits if you just eat it off. It's a little bit tart. Well, yeah, but once. Well, I've eaten them any of one of them. Yeah, I have to. But once you make the jelly, it, it destroys all the. Oh, you broke down all the good stuff.

Well, it could be that cup of sugar that goes in each child. are. Anything, anything that, that, any kind of fruit that you see deer descend on, birds descend on, and a fox squirrel, unfortunately this morning was in one of my may hall trees. Ooh, bad call. Now, he's a dead squirrel now because I said, son, you're messing around at the wrong time of year, but I looked at whether he'd been eating him up there, so I just saw him come out of the little Mayhall tree. It's about all 12, 15 years. 15 foot tall now when them transplanted, but the mayhawes are beautiful.

That squirrel was up for eating them. Because you know now he can't quit. Well, that's right. He's got a wonderful. He's hooked. He came down out of the tree, but he made the mistake of growing up a bull pinnoke. But over there about 30 yards, I just reached in my truck, grabbed my rifle, phowl. He hit the ground.

I said, okay. So now today I will have Mayhaal jelly and ride squirrel. Yeah. That's what I love about. Life is good down on the river. So, hey, on, let's take it for you. So, Jay, so that's the difference in the garden to now because they weren't eating the squirrels till later in Genesis 9.

So now we can enjoy both. I mean, what you think is pretty. You got a male tree, fruit on the tree, squirrels in the tree. I mean, it's just a, well, it's almost heaven. Life is a wonderful thing. Yeah. Well, what I was going to make the point is, you know, then you have this scene around these trees.

because as much as God showed that he was the ultimate gardener and the planter, which I like because when I, that's why I read that, that I was familiar with that poem because when I ran across that, he had come across the same conclusion I had. When you stare at the different kinds of trees, you're like, somebody, somebody, somebody made this. Plus, you're careful on how you cut them, by the way,

Jace, that 400 acres that me, you, and Willie bought. Last year, I was in my boat, and I was kind of flagging a place out there, you know, getting ready to make a duck hole out there. But I looked down on that 400 acres. Now, I've never, we never owned it, so I never have had anything to do with this land. But I saw one may haul floating along on the water. The water was about three feet deep at the time. I'd eased up in and a boat.

You should have called and told me. I looked at that Mayha. So I know now out there somewhere, it's 400 acres, which you got to, you know, and it floods big time and then it floods and it dry and it floods and it's dry. But out there somewhere that Mayhaw came off a Mayhaal tree. And I didn't plant these. This was a wild one, but I've got to locate that. Now, if there have been a lot of Mayhauls, I could have said,

okay we really got something but I didn't see but one mayhaw but it did tell me there is a mayhaw tree out here I've got to find it make sure we don't damage that that's the new project well I had a theory on this on why this this happened under the trees and why God chose the knowledge of good and evil which you think about it he gave us the ability to choose and so you have one tree because I'm sure they were taken care of of. Can you imagine which fruit to me is the perfect food? Because you don't have to do anything, but just walk by and grab it. And you don't even damage the tree. There's no plowing. There's no, you just walk by and pluck, eat. And the reason where I'm going with this is, is I believe

God did that because he's providing. It's not based on your ability. Here it is. Here it is. let's live in harmony. I've given you everything that you need. Just don't do this and do this. At the time, they're all vegans at the time. That's right. And so here comes the evil one who basically doesn't disclose the consequences and the pain and suffering for making a choice that is against God's will. But he makes them say, oh, you'll be God. I mean, the equivalent of it, don't you want to know? And so...

And don't you think it's interesting that God put the choice, because the choice had to be out there for humans, but he put it in what they saw every day. I mean, like Jay said, they're picking fruit everywhere, but there was that one tree. He said, no, don't pick anything off of that. Human nature.

I mean, I wonder how many times that they won't buy that tree, you know, and just thought, I got a hat. Look at all the, look at all the, even before, say, look at all the fruit that's running around on two legs, the fine babes, the chicks. You say, boy, there's a, there's a gigantic horde of them out there.

You say, you're a married man. You say, forbidden fruit. Well, men or women are just drawn to it. Well, I know I'm not supposed to do this. And finally, they just make a mockery of the whole thing. a bad decision just dig in with both hands and never get enough i mean you know it never pays off it never pays always a bad decision well because you got to remember that all these trees these physical trees they were all good because god is there's no sin in him there's no everything was you know when he made it all

he said everything is good yeah but by giving that choice because i think people have trouble trying to figure out well did how did how did evil why did god allow evil in the world well when you look at it from just the tree standpoint it kind of makes sense it's like he he provided a garden he made the people we're going to live in harmony but there's got to be a choice of to have a relationship right so it makes me think of that verse where I think it's in Corinthians it said knowledge puffs up but love builds up because here you have the tree of knowledge and they wanted to know but if they would have had love for God it would have triumph the curiosity because you know in our culture you see the same thing they're like knowledge is power but love is more powerful because it's more relational right

Because when you know and know and know, you get puffed up. So there you have the evil one come in, which what was his problem? We know, where's that? Ezekiel 28 and I think in Isaiah, his pride had caused his problems. His fall in the other realm was because of that. And like Phil referred to, then it's like misery loves company. So here we see an opportunity, throw a few lies in there. And next thing you know, we're off the rails.

I just think it's interesting that then, later on, you get a passage like what's found in Galatians when Paul was describing what happened on the cross. Because here you have the inside of a tree, how you make a cross, which is actually the same principle here that God is providing. You just walk by and there's the fruit. Same thing with the cross, but now it's a dead tree that's being used. instead of a live tree that's being misused. I mean, it's a pretty good point how you think about it, especially when you ride the wave of knowledge versus love,

and you ultimately, the greatest knowledge is knowing Jesus. I mean, how many times you see that phrase in the New Testament? I want to know Jesus, you know, Philippians, three comes to mind. The author, you've disowned him. Peter said, they disowned Jesus when he went before Pilate and Pilate. Pilate was going to let him go. They said, nope, crucify him, kill him. And it says, you have killed and murdered the author of life, Al.

Yeah. Author of life. You said, whether it be a tree or a man, it's the Almighty, you know, author of life. You're like, hmm, that's a far cry from saltwater made it. Yeah, that's exactly right. Us are trees. That's all right. Let's take another break.

And I hadn't thought about it, Joseph, but you're right. There's a verse that that's quoted, a prophetic verse that says, Cursed it is he who hangs on a tree. Yeah, that's a galate. That's the one I was talking about it. Yeah. And so, but, you know, you think about it, you go back. So there was always that idea that a tree was going to still be involved.

But some of the other prophetic ones in Zachari, I think it's Zachary 6 and some of the other ones, called this Messiah the branch. And it gave this idea, this picture of a stump. A lot in there about trees. It is. There was a stump that it. been cut down, but you know what happens? You see a stump.

You start seeing those shoots come up, and that's what it compared Jesus to in Israel. They would be a cutoff tree, but out of that would come this idea of... Trees are one of the most resilient things that you can run up on. I mean, those may all trees. But you don't have to do any work, Phil. I think that's the whole point. Yeah. I planted them trees over, I'm telling you, three or four years in a row, the water got 20 feet deep in there.

I mean, way over them. You would think, you know, they're blooming. Here comes all there's water and floods them. I thought, well, you know, these things, it's going to kill them. Look, one tree out of about 40 succumbed to all that water. But some of them looked a little rough, but you say, but they just bust right back out in the spring of the year with the water off of them. This year we got us a dry year.

Basically, the river's not up real high. So I'm rowing around in territory. I haven't been able to go but by boat the last five years. But this year, the trees are there, and I'm just a maze. And they got may hauls on them. I'm like, boy, when he made a mayhole tree, that is one tough trees. All I got to know say about it. We did, at our house this year, we did an upgrade on all our landscaping.

And so we planted all these new bushes and dwarf azaleas and all these different things. And then that big snow ice freeze came for a week here. And they were just, I saw the weight of it on there. And I said, well, I told Lisa, I said, that's money down the drain. I said, there ain't a way that's, that has to kill everything that we just put it in there. Of course, all that melts away when the spring hits. You wouldn't believe it. Everything in my yard looks twice as colorful and big as it's ever been.

I was stunned. Miss Kay has a yard full of roses out there. And she said, oh, look at my rose trees. This year, they survived the storm, the water, the ice. Ice, no. I mean, you know, you're right, it's resilient. I mean, it's. I also noticed when I was in Israel, there was a lot of little fruit trees and, you know, olives and fig trees, date trees.

It just, I don't know, I think he made a point to show you, you know, you can try to justify just it happens. happening by luck. But I'm telling you, the more you look at trees, the more you're seeing a designer to do that. I thought about Revelation 22, because it starts off with God being the gardener and he has this relationship. And then, you know, the last book of the Bible, people focus so much on the timing of this, but they miss the point.

You know, in description of our relationship with God, he says in chapter 22, the angel showed me the river of the water of life as clear as crystal flowing from the throne of god and the lamb down the middle of the great street of the city on each side of the river stood the tree of life burying 12 crops of fruit yielding its fruit every month and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations no longer were there being any cursed the throne of god and of the lamb will be in the city and his servants will serve him. I mean, no matter what the timing of this is. And they have fruit on them year around.

Yeah. Which to me represents that God provided a way. And when you see a tree, it's a reminder of that to me. Yeah. Right. And it's not based on my effort. You're like, what? Jayce, you realize there are some who's going to say, oh, my goodness, he's a tree hugger.

Jace is a tree hugger. So what's your answer to that? Is there a frog in here? A frog is singing in the distance. A tree frog has just spoken. It's a tree frog. Josh, did you frame that frog in here? Did you do that?

That tree frog is saying, hey, don't forget me over here. I make a living, live, living in them. So, Jay's what's your answer to? We're the only podcast in the world that has a tree frog in their studio. that started chiming in when we're talking about trees. I've gone on record saying that trees. There is. It is a tree farm.

That's a tree frog. That's unbelievable. If you were looking for a sign, I think we got it. We are on target today. This podcast, the almighty is saying, you boys are onto something. Or maybe it's the evil one saying, by the way, to you go outside. The chance of a tree frog being inside this little room right here,

what are the odds on that? There is a tree frog in the pre-frog. getting the pre-on-the-premises. The skepticism I have for anybody in media, in media, yeah, is I'm looking at this guy thinking, did you actually do that? But he didn't. He didn't. But I've gone on record of saying that trees don't need hugs.

It's part of my speech. You know, people do. Yeah. But, so I'm not a tree hugger. And I do like, from a poet that I'm quoted, you realize that the one who made the tree, is the target. And I love trees. You know, especially like when I'm metal detecting,

the biggest, oldest tree, that's where I'm headed first. Because it tends to gather, make a foundation for anything that came along that way. It holds up there in the roots. I know this. The Robertson clan,

one of the things that came out of the blessings from the Almighty is we have purchased a lot of trees. Yeah. We have a lot of trees. We did. I love trees. It's big enough where you can literally disappear there for a while,

and you're a long way from anybody. It's pretty nice. But that's the point when you detached the tree from its maker, then you just got a tree. Right. That's it. By the way. That dies.

These tree people, I don't know. What do you call if you major in trees, you're in college, what do you call that? Horticulture? Is it? Horticulture? Well, one of you, horticulture. into my hands. Whatever, whoever you are, your tree people out there, this comes, this is called a

May haul because they get ripe in May. It's sometimes late April, sometimes you have an April haul, but a hall tree produces, all of them produce berries, and they have certain things in common. All of them are full of thorns. Where this fruit grows, that May haw tree, it is thorn. I mean, you don't want to just reach up there. And if you want to shake a limb, you watch where your hand's going. You break those thorns off, but it's full of thorns.

But some of these trees, they produce berries. But they're not red berries. They're just green berries. Well, horticulture. Wait a minute, Jay's. They got berries hanging all over them. But they literally, they say, are very poisonous. So there's a lot of hog trees producing berries just hanging on.

them but they're green and you say so how do you ascertain which one are poised and which one or not what you look for as you say does a squirrel eat them they say squirrels won't bother them well a bird eat them a bird won't touch them you deer when they fall but these don't fall they just hang on the tree all the time green berries there's a lot of that like like a cashew nut the whole you notice you don't get them with the hole because the hole kill well there you go you know and like tomato plants. The fruit's good. The plant makes you sick. The first person knew probably an indigenous

tribe, one of them walked up to a Mayha tree and he said, hmm, he could smell them because they smell in the woods. You can smell them. This fruit, boy, it smells great. Well, you know good and well, they picked a few of them and looked. They said, hmm, I just wonder. And they probably watched the guy that picked the other

one and fall over. That's a you tried, give it to the youngest one, I tell you know. And let him eat it. Watch him for a few hours. And if he's jumping around, unhappy you're like okay I think we can eat that somebody had to try that in reverse you get to the oldest that's right let the hang on let's take one last break I was just going to read the definition of horticulture because I might have got that wrong it says the art or practice of garden cultivation and management so we need to know what's the study of trees if I know what that one is

so so so there's somebody out there in computer land that's uh that that that that no about trees. I want to know about Mayhaw trees. When do you transplant them? If you can transplant them like that, what time of year? I'm thinking fall, in the fall, because they leaves. Dendrology? What is it? Dendrology?

The study of trees. Dendrology. Dendrology. I've never met a dendrologist. The question today, is there a dendrologist listening to? If you're there, enlighten us on the mahal tree. I want to hear from you, dendrologists. Can you transplant them once they get to be 10 foot

eight foot tall, can you dig one I'm up with a track hole and put it in another hole on up the way a little ways? I want to know that. So I was thinking about another concept that Jesus talked about in John 15 about fruit. And you mentioned it, the idea of pruning and working these things, because you're obviously taking something that God made. I'd like to know about should they be pruned from time of time. Yeah, because he mentions in John 15 that God prunes us and the idea is so we can grow up. more food. And I thought about you, even on our property, sometimes you'll thin out certain areas

so that the other trees that are there can be bigger, fuller. You can plant stuff underneath them now because they get sunlight. I mean, there's a lot of them. For the deer, most of our property over there, we fix it. So there's at least always a steady supply of brows. Of where it's deer or browsers, they go around, they eat leaves off of little bushes and stuff. Well, if you just have open big trunks of trees, dense forest, you say it's not very conducive to wildlife because there's no brows there.

So with the deer herd, you have to have a lot of brows. They need to be able to walk along and eat off this bush and that bush and this bush eating leaves off of little shrubberies and little short trees. You see what I'm saying? Exactly. What we would call a thicket, well, that's what deer thrive on. So you can't have just open timber. eight, when the pioneers first got off the boat and started heading west, they went through blocks of timber.

You could ride a galloping horse down through the woods and never even, the limb would never touch you. It was just huge trunks, so much so the canopy just made it dark underneath it. But there's not a big food supply for wildlife with that. But they cleaned out, the deer herd and the turkeys and everything else. These pioneers, when they started to cross here, I mean, they weren't. the hunting seasons. They just went ahead.

That's how they said. That's why I always thought you had storms and all, because I thought if you hadn't had that, then the trees wouldn't fall. That's right. And then you wouldn't have the little bushes and the vegetables. God would knock them down from time and knock them down. He would just create a planet where that happened.

Yep. And then the lightning strikes every once a while, sets it on fire so it would grow out even more. So then people are like, why are God doing this? well the people the one that screwed it all up they were living perfect everything was perfectly fine until until obliteration and corporation took off across the continent and they just went to mowing down plowing up i mean a lot of stuff now they were placing a lot fellas like us replace a lot we're looking after deer ducks squirrel we're wanting to provide the habitat so everyone's happy out there

all the animals so y'all are into this thing like pretty deep while we're into it real deep. Well, since we're partitioning the audience, I was going through, I thought I was in South Louisiana, but I ran upon a, it was like a cheese, kind of Danish, but it had, it was bacon, it had pecans in it, and it was called Mayhall pecan tart. It had mayhaw in it. Yeah. But I, you know, I can't remember exactly where I was.

My life is a blur. So it was like a little pie that had mayhall and pecan. It was like a filling of some sort. But it was one of the greatest things I've ever eaten. Our audience, this has never been opened. This was made in 2020. I got 20 on there. It is 2020, isn't it?

21. Is it 21? So this is last year's jelly, Jace. But the reason I label them, I put on here 20, MH, Mayhall, 20. But if our audience, I would say 98 to 99% have never wrapped their lips around Mayhaal jelly. If all of them together, we had enough to feed them all, if I sat that down in front of them, Everybody get them a teaspoon and they buy a malt jelly all the time. But if they took a spoon and dipped down in that and tasted that, they would say,

oh, my goodness. That was a guy, I think. Listen, you could plant Mayhall trees in California instead of whatever they plant. And you could make a mint just by putting these out to harvest them. But that's why they produce them so much. That was a guy, I believe, in Webster Parish, who he ate. some jelly and got so excited he planted a tree well now there's a thousand it turned into a thousand tree orchard yeah and the commercialization of mayhaw our neighbors the franklin's

uh george franklin he said if you ever get any trouble finding mayhaws he said just look me up and i said you got some mayaw trees over in your parish franklin parish they own probably pretty about the whole parish you know in the name of the parish is Is your name that you probably don't a little bit? But anyway, he said, I've got 40 acres of them over there. You're free to come get them any time. 40 acres. He planted 40 acres of may hall trees and straight line.

So I'm over here. For you new listeners in Louisiana, we don't, we call our counties parishes. The only state in the union. The only state. And you say, why do we do that? And what do you tell them? Because we're just different. Because Catholicists.

Roll through here way back. There we go. I didn't know you actually had an answer. No, there is an answer. The Catholic churches have parishes is what they call their spiritual gatherings or places or people. And so we got it from that. Our French Catholic. Well, since we're in that vein, here's what I recommend for all weather people,

because I know I'll probably offend them. They don't listen to our podcast. Remember the saying, Mr. Robertson, I strongly dislike you. Look. Some people don't like you, Jays. live with it, son. When you don't know the names of the states or the parishes, don't fake a southern draw to try to make that feel better for the listener. You know, when you're going, Lafie Heffi He, Lafay. Or O you a cheetah. They can't say Lafayette. Yeah. Can't do it. But then they try to make

up for it by an impersonation of a Cajun. So they're like, Lafayah. So it's like, because you can't understand half what they're saying anyway, because they mum. See, the word O-U-A-C-H-I-T-A, it looks like O-U-A-C-T-A or something. Well, I get it. Actually, it's an Indian word Wachetal. I get it. It was actually a tribe of Indians, and it's Wachetal Parish.

So we look at it like it's nothing. The Wachita River flows out of the Wachdall Mountains. I heard one, but they put it on everything. They're like, Denham, Spring. I was like, no, it's just denim. It's denim. It's not da hum. I mean, there's nothing more embarrassing.

In our family, mom was a haulier up north, H-O-L-L-I-E-R, but down south, they call it Olié. She's half-Cajun, which are all you South Louisiana people. My woman is half-Cajun. Yeah, she's the Olié. It's a great blend. Now, full blend, that's O-D-E-A, but they call them Holliers now up in North. Oh, I'll hear up here. Or like down in the Chaffelah Basin, you know, Pierre Ponce.

It looks like Pierre Park. And people, they just butcher it. Well, like Chaffelaya, where's the A? Yeah. Yeah. They didn't need it. No, they don't need it. It begins with an A.

You didn't need that. I would tell you to Google Chafalaya, but you're never going to be able to know how to spell it. You'll never find it on Google. But say that five times. and feel good about it and then you're on your way to learning the lingo. We got to go.

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