Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 586 | Phil & Si's Aunt Would Pinch Them With Her Toes & Si Explains Robertson Competitiveness

Episode Date: November 21, 2022

Uncle Si and Jay Stone join the men to talk about young Phil and Si fleecing their schoolmates playing marbles, their aunt who used to pinch them with her toes, and how Miss Kay's been working for 40 years to fatten up Si. Al remembers Phil always telling him and his brothers never to steal from anyone. Phil remembers the first time he and Si saw a real football. And Stone shares an update on his new position. The Blind hits theaters in 2023. Get updates, trailers, behind-the-scenes moments, and special opportunities here: https://theblindmovie.com --- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? So it's a merging of podcast today. We've merged. We've brought together our sister podcast or a brother podcast, the Duck Hall Room, Stone and Sire in the house. Zach is coming in from North Carolina. Zach, are you okay today?

How are you doing? I'm a little under the weather. Yeah, you sound. I heard that tenor voice went to base. I was wondering what was going on. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it got us. Got us good.

The epizootie. Zach sent me a text other day and said, I'll be on in just a minute on the podcast. My son has crapped his pants at school, so I got to go kidding. What happened over in North Carolina, as far as the big red wave, it was kind of like an orange ripple, like a little trickle. No, you know what it was?

It was like a prostate infection, which we can relate to that at this table. It was a pink trickle, is what I call it. But more than a red wave. Yeah, so obviously we're broadcasting a little bit ahead. So we're the week of the election. We were expecting the red wave that never materialized. So I don't know what that was about. Are you surprised, Dan?

I'm not surprised. I think there's finally more of them that it is of us. I'm still wondering what that 320 million people, and we get about 90 million out of the, Republicans and then 90 million out of the left-wingers, that's 180 million. What about this other 150 million that's out there in America? When do they do? Do they ever vote?

I mean, there's a 90, 90, 180 out of 320 million. There's a lot of people for some reason. Supposedly during the last presidential election, you had almost 160 million people voted, which was the most ever. They say Biden got 81 million. There's another group that large. We have no trail on why they don't vote. Right. Right.

Well, you've got a lot of underage, too, I guess. I don't know. Zach, you're the politico of the group. What's your take on the... No. I'm still caught up in the fact that my 14-year-old son, crapped his pants. I can't get off that part.

That was more of a brown way. Yeah, I was a brown way. When you said that, I was like, I wanted to clarify he's 14. You know, like one of my, we saw one of our friends last night at the Mexican restaurant. She was like, oh, our kid was at the soccer game. And, you know, little Tate, you know, he pooped himself. And of course, Tate's two years old. And she was like, that's okay.

Little, I probably shouldn't say it. the old little bear pooped himself you know but he's 14 years old but it was part it was part of the illness so well i was wondering and of course he's a big Alabama fan too so you know he had a tough week he's moved on move on we got herschel walker who was in my opinion probably one of the greatest running backs that's ever played college football he he was incredible so i don't know is it senator her Herschel, is it got enough, so we'll see what happens with all that. Well, me and Si had a good morning this morning. Yeah, I want to hear about it.

Y'all went in the woods. We were in the woods. We sat in a deer stand. We could see about 1,200 yards in front of us. And Cy said, open that back window so I can see behind us. I said, say, there ain't but 30 yards behind us. I know, but that's where they used to cross. There's 1,200 yards in front of us. 30 yards behind us

What does that mean? How many crossed that stretch of woods? About 20, probably. About 20 or so. Any bucks in the bunch? About four or five bucks. And no ducks. We did not lay our eyes on a duck this morning.

I thought I did, but he said it was Tweety birds. Yeah, it was Tweety birds. We enjoyed ourselves. out in nature, out in creation, and just being there does my heart good. Yeah. They're coming. The question is when, but the Mississippi Delta is dry as it's been in 100 years. Yeah, Mississippi River is.

So we don't know whether they may move over to the Atlantic, I mean, the central, what's the one in the middle of the Central Flyway, they may come down that through there, the bulk of them. or maybe on a dry year if whoever has water, you know, since there's not very much, you know, they have marriages as you're sitting there. They can't. Oh, yeah. Well, you know, Hank Williams Jr. predicted all this.

Everything that's happening. He predicted it. He wrote a song, but. Yeah. Really? Yeah. He said the preacher man talking about the end of times, the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River.

Is a going drive. Going dry. Interest is up. The start market's down. He did write about that. And you only get murdered when you go downtown. Damn. I didn't realize that ain't Queen's Jr. was the prophet.

Oh, that's the verse in a country boy can't survive. Really? Yeah. I remember. There's an influx of flying bumblebees. They're small. There's like ground yellow jackets they raise in the ground. We've just found out after Al got entangled with the.

He got stung once with a purple tail wash. They were coming in this back vent, and the bug man got a whole lot of them out there when they started stinging us. First, it was just swatting all morning. Finally, one got out, but I had to admit, I enjoyed. That's so bad. Gyracian.

It's the only funny when it happens to someone else. Yeah. Because you were talking about the bongo beats. I don't know if you remember. Me and you went squirrel hunting, and you was in front of him. And you crawled under a fence in between the bobwire, and it was a rotten post that they was up in. Well, Phil shook them up real good.

It went on them to. Well, I've been over, you know, when I did, I ripped my pants. I remember that like a majesty. Oh, no. And all we heard was, whoa, it was just a roar, just a, you know. Well, he takes off. He's fascinating. He played quarterback.

How old were he's that? You was, what, 16, I was 14, I guess. But anyway, I tripped behind him. And I had seen it on TV or read it or something about, well, if you fall down, they'll just go over you if you don't move. Well, I didn't know my underwear was hanging out. So how much TV were you watching at 14? Well, I'm just saying.

It was like a white flag. It wasn't even around. No, look, but it was like, it reminds me of the World War II live footage of the guys and fighter, you know, fly in the plane and the leader would look and say, and then they had, well, hey, when I got home, my mother, as she was pulling stingers out of my rear end. Only a mother could do that. Hey, look here.

She's laughing. I said, it ain't that funny. She said, yeah. She said, young man, this is the biggest you're behind will ever be. 27 times. So, hey, you tell me getting dopeops. Well, I don't. I don't feel near as bad about my little one state.

I'm going to fix that. I mean, you're talking about rough. Is that the only time do you ever get like a swirlo like that? No, we used to take a little one-by-one board and go out in the barn and hit big bumble bees. You know, it would be up there. You know, I hit one and knocked him down where he jumped up and just right here. Look, and we just Mm-hmm,

glit. Look, I literally had... We call that the Rudolph hits out. No, no, no. I literally had to walk to school because I looked like Jimmy Durandy. My nose, I'm sorry.

I tell you, it was as big as a softball. Jimmy who? Jimmy Durandy. It's something like that. I never heard of that cat. No, no, he's got a big snout. Okay, he was a comedian. He was born that way

and you were made that one. I was made that way by a big bad bumble beak. Jimmy Durante actually is his name. Well, I was close. Oh, you're right. Here he is.

Oh, no, he's got a snoot on him now. That's what he looks like right there. Yeah, he does. Oh, yeah,

he's natural, but you got yours the other way around. I had to walk about a week and a half sideways. Couldn't see. Couldn't see the other way. Big as a softball, you figure out having a softball for a nose.

So did you learn your lesson about... Oh, I quit knocking bumblebees with boards. I mean, when I was a kid, me and my cousin Mark Carraway, I was over visiting in Ida. And we thought it was a good idea. They had a big old redwash nest about this big as a dinner plate. We thought we had a great idea to throw rocks at them and kill them on the nest. Yeah. Not really realizing what would happen when that first rock hit the nest.

And they chased us down the street. I mean, just, you know, about every third one just swoop in and pop you around the back of the neck. Uncle I feel him. Okay. He had an oil that he said he had to go check all the time. Well, it had bass ponds on it. He'd go fishing and we'd go with him. And he had a Willis Jeep with a hardtop on it.

You know, we'd all pile on the back. He gets in, you know, on the heart top, witness and everything. You know, we come around with a fork in the road, and there's a big old bush over there, and there's a perpetral wash nest about that big area, and you couldn't have put another one on it. Yeah, well, he just pulls up there, stomp on the brake,

puts you reverse, and backs us in that bush. On purpose. On purpose. No, no. He was our uncle, and there was about five or six of us in the back. Hold on. And he just rammed it in, and the wall just poured it in. on us.

We can't even get out. We're just brushing there and just p p pah p pah pah pah pah pah pah you're talking about it tough. Hey, that's a real good uncle. Yeah, he just shut the ended off in there die laughing.

You're talking to mean. He's starting to understand that. It's all making sense now. The lack of compassion that I felt my whole life for my uncles. I know. I know where it came from now. Oh, no, they were mean.

As bad as it was, Zach, it wasn't. that bad. I mean, they were a little lighter than that. Nobody backed me into a giant was, Ness. No, look, that was Uncle FM Hale. Yeah. Okay, and that's why he was so mean. His last name. What about your ain't that used to pinch you out? Oh, no, that was the Hobbes's, okay? Okay. Okay. And Irene, you'd, you know, you'd go, we'd go there for us and eat them big, big, fine meal. He could pinch you with her toes. Oh, no, look. Hey, you'd be, you'd be taking a bite to eat something. and the next thing you hear, oh!

Look, and hey, come out and just blood spunking everywhere. You don't reach you down there with that big toe in that the other one, they just cut you. Probably had a big old nail on it.

I don't know what it was, but she had cut you with her toenail. Were you cutting up, or she just did it to do it? She just did it for a life. She'd be over there just dying life. We're just dying laughing, and I'm over here bleeding.

That's a tough upbra. I don't know. That's when you bathed in a number three wash tub. Get some well water and pour it over in a tub, number three wash tub, and let it warm up in the sun a little bit. That's where people took their baths. All the kids. By birth order, right?

All the kids. Yeah, I got the last one. Oldest ones first. I take a bath in muddy water. I never was clean Well you probably had the warmest water Yeah probably warmed up pretty good after two three a peat in there Yeah

Yeah Would you say we were poor? I'm bad as poor as the snakes belly You were poor and your And your aunts and uncles So you're a rich man now What's the difference between now? You're rich and famous now

So You got any advice for the the rest of the world. Actually, I've really enjoyed growing up, okay, because we had family and we had all our kinfolks there, you know. Now I understand why Jim Frank and Harold was so mean. Yeah, my two oldest brothers. Yep.

You know, they had to put up with all the hells and hobbsies all the time. Yeah. For longer than you did. Yeah, for longer than I did. That's why they're so mean. Let's take a break. And what's ironic is... I feel like this is therapeutic for us.

I think it is. I think we're having a massive therapy session. So what's amazing is you two are the last of the bunch. That's it. I mean, y'all are the now what's left. With the last two standing. Last two standing. All the rest of them passed on.

Yep, there's going. Well, you know, when you're growing up all that, everybody's saying, well, he had this, y'all. He had this. I think I've had everything that a child can have, you know, all the illnesses. The Hobbes and Hales are all still around now. Mack told me the other day, my first cousin, that's Irene, was his mama. Yeah. Toe pinch you.

But they all now, you know, Max said, I'm just turned 80. You know, where are you? I said, I'm 76, so I'm not far behind you. So we're running out of time down in here. Resurrection is looming big time. Hey, Jesus number one is the only shot we got. That's it. So I was going to ask you about this since we're down the old days.

Where did, because obviously hunting, I was talking about y'all hunting today and this morning, was a part of the whole thing. So where did that start with y'all? Where did the passion come from? Because obviously we're known as a family because of hunting. Poaching. Poaching. Poaching. Yeah.

We were poachers. Then the people knew we were. poaching, we thought that they were serious when they would run with the pickup trucks. They'd see us at a big, you know, a pecan orchard. We'd see their truck coming. We'd all run like deer because, you know, we didn't own the place. We'd be shooting squirrels and all this, and the people that owned it. They ran us around out there until, you know, we were going to college.

I mean, all the way up to that. We found out later, okay. Mama sold Avon and Tupperware. So she knew all the farmers. We had permission, but she just, you know. And the farmers didn't tell him. And Joe had run and Washingtoners run. Yeah.

He said, hey, but don't tell them. Because we like that. When they hear that pickup coming, they're like wild deer. They're flops chum, shum. Hey, we'd run down just, you know, jump over a log. We land just under log, looking to the brim and stuff. And their children, their children, when they got older, and that group had passed on, you know,

they're the ones that called me up one day and said, we just want to let you know all that. When you and Cy and Tommy, y'all are all hunting over there on our land, my dad's land. He said, my dad would come back just a leg and said, and I saw them. But boy, them boys can jump. They jump fences like they ain't even there.

You were like a deer. He said we've all thought about it and we've come up with a conclusion. We miss y'all. So there was a fine memory. They missed us. Because they looked and then Duck Dynasty came along. Right. Then they saw, so wait a minute.

They said, yeah, we were chasing those. That's that bunch of we were running around with our kids. So it was poaching? Was it because you had, that's how you ate? I mean, the family? A lot of it. You know, if you want something, if you wanted a meal, sometimes they just, just got down to if you wanted something more than beans.

Pinto beans, you had them 100 pounds sack of potatoes. You usually had potatoes and pentot beans, but you didn't say what was for dinner. That's what you had every day. So if you were going to get some meat, it was going to be. Oh, yeah, you got to get it yourself. Yeah, get the meat out of the woods. So it's funny because I've been to Dominican several times doing mission work,

and that's what they survive on. It's beans and potatoes. Yep. And every once we had chicken, you know, is what they got. Mama would raise chicken. On Sundays, Sundays you'd eat chicken. Yeah. Mama would raise chickens.

That's big days. Yeah, we raised our own chickens, you know. I remember just mom was going out there. We were like little bitty boys. We had a couple of hogs, and they killed those in the fall when it got cold. Back then it got colder in October. You're pretty good, you know. And they'd kill the hogs.

And we had a smoke house. And they'd hang them up, get some hills. Hickr going, Hickr smoke. And we just would smoke them, kind of like the Indians did, you know. But Paul, I'll say, you'd like to admit, when he was like in his prime, 40s, 30s and 40, we were just little children. But he was still plowing with a mule. Oh, no.

I mean, that's, you know. And I'm talking about, you know, I'm talking about a big garden. I mean, it was like, it was like 1800s. I mean, exactly like them, except for the old, Ford car over there old it's sitting out there but if you hadn't

seen that log house no no fireplace in one end of it but no heaters no it's just a fireplace

in the end of a log cabin they'd put a big log on at night and the next morning somebody the oldest ones the boy they'd get a fire built

so one of your cousins has restored that house I hear still there has restored that place and now it's like some kind of, did you see it is that? Yeah, I went out there, it's out in Vivian.

It's kind of weird because he's walking me through it. And he's like, your mom was born right there. That's where Phil was born. And I'm having memories or not memories of visions of what that must have been like. I mean, it was a two-room shack. I mean, it was, I don't know how you all lived in there. Well, I mean, it's small. I remember we would, anchornuts.

We had two big hickonaut trees out in the yard. you had just perfect thing where you put them in there on the fire place. So you'd heat them up. And, you know, crack them with the hamper. It was a treat. Pickles, canned pickles, mawled cucumbers and make pickles.

So you had pickles, if you wanted really to throw a wing ding, throw your potatoes over in the fire, log fire, and they'd turn black. Well, you'd roll them out. So you were eating baked potatoes coming off a fireplace and pickles out of a jar. We'd sit there and you thought, well, we were, we were getting it. Christmas time was, we would get like California oranges, the big ones.

You know, treat and then some of the, like a canned walnuts, you know. Coca-Cola was the big treat. They'd just come out with a full tray of coke's at home. In the bottles, the 24 little bottles. Yep. So they'd just set it down in front of the kids, and we'd descend on it, and sit there, and you drank all of them. Everybody would drink them down, if it was two cases, it were two cases gone.

Something that changed. Nothing but empty bottles. So the idea of saving some for later, just never occurred to anybody. I started dating a little Miss Kay, you know. They owned a store. Yeah, grocery store. She would come pick me up. She had a little rig.

I didn't. She had a vehicle. So she'd pull up. Inside would go out there, you know, and we'd looking around, we need steaks. She was slipping out of the grocery store. She went back and said, Mama, they're so poor.

Oh, Si said, you need to keep that one, boy. She brings bread when she comes to pick you up. And she's still cooking for you, Saz. She's trying to, Kay's been trying to fat me up for 40 years. So you were the third wheel, right? In the dating, you were the conscience of the tree. Yeah, that was so funny when they first started on their first date. You know, Mama said, you're going with them.

I said, Mom, he's going on a date with his girlfriend. She said, I know. You're going with him? So they said, what are you going to do with size? They get in the back. That's right. We ride up to the, you know, where all the teenagers hung out. Yeah.

And they'd look in there, you know. What's the tasty freeze? Yeah. Tell me, hey, tell me, who's that? Phil, said, oh, that's your side. Don't worry, everybody. The third wheel is what we called. We had a food supply.

We had a rig that to carry around. So I said, you need to keep that woman there. That's good one. So, Zach, how much of what they were just describing? Is there any of that in the movie? Because I know it goes back to their young lives. Did y'all capture some of that in the film? Yeah, we got all that.

It's kind of weird listening to them talk because I've got a scene in my head for every one of those things we talked about. So, yeah, I think a lot of that. That's good. But, you know, think about it because Phil had a line that we actually are putting in the movie. He said, you pulled up to our house and, you know, it was 1950. But if you didn't know any better, you'd think it was 1850. And we tried to really find that. The house that we looked at, we couldn't film in the original house because it was.

just you couldn't get it. It was so small you couldn't get the cameras in there. But I looked at it. But there was a story and I'm trying to remember it. Somebody lost a marble behind, behind like the kitchen sink. In the walls. No, Frank.

In the walls. Frank. Frank, Frank, Frank has got them. Yeah. It was a sack of marble. He got to him because I, I, I,

shooting marbles used to be, you know. Oh, that was. That was big time. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Was it like, did you gamble with it? It was a game. It was a game.

I've already forgot how we did it, but I mean, it was a big deal. Oh, no. We'd get them boys in town, we'd slick. So you would win their marbles if you. Oh, yeah. And I mean, this was, hey, this is like domino games. Yeah. Except it was marbles.

And, you know, they had, you know, you had a pet name for your, you know, your shooter. Yeah. Do you remember yours? Oh, yeah. I don't remember. But, you protected them. But there was, he found some hidden in a wall.

So is this where the phrase, lose your marbles? Yeah. That's where it started. It started right there. One more trends there. Hey, hang on, hang on. Hey, you're talking about some marble shooting cats now. Oh, yeah.

I wish you knew your bad name, though. That was one of the saying was nothings, nothings. You know, nothing. You know, nothing. Hey, the thing, the trick to it was, I'm talking to your mind. You just p psham! You always, hey, it would hit it and knock it out.

Okay, and then... That was your marble. It actually spent a hole. You'd have to dig it out of the hole. That's when you knew you could shoot, boys. It would dig a hole in the wood floor? Oh, yeah. When it hit that marble to knock it out, it would keep spinning and just bury itself.

I'm going to, get it up. I don't know about that, sir. Oh, no. Oh, sure. He's getting deep in here now. Let's take a break. But that was the thing. Everybody had a name for it.

Oh, yeah. You know, and like when we finally realized. I won an old Betsy. Oh, Betsy. Oh, Betsy. Oh, Betsy. We actually got different size. They got bigger.

And that's when you won the money, you know, is when you could knock that big one out with your little shooter. We would take our skill set to the school. and at recess and all, we all, everybody's on their hands and knees, marble, marble playing. And we'd get, we, we would fleece them. We could dump them marble. No, we'd go with just a shooter and come back with a pocket full of marble.

That's it. But you couldn't, like, sell them or anything, right? I mean, just. Oh, and it was just something you kept. I mean, you know, who had the most marbles? That's what the whole deal was in childhood. It sounds like the beginning of organized crime. You guys could have gone a totally different route, right?

Well, it definitely explains a lot of the competitiveness in our family, you know, listening that everything is a competition, right? Who killed the most of this, who did the most of that, Domino game? Jim and Frank. I tell you one thing, through it all, I will have to admit, even they're going to show that my past in the movies, sinful past, but I will have to admit as far as things like theft, and that was non-existent.

I mean, we didn't, I mean, there was no funky language. There was no, there was no, uh, thievery going on at all. You didn't mess with anybody's property. I mean, you wouldn't mess with it. You squirrels and pick pecans up. But the thought process there was the Almighty provided that. It just happened to be on that guy's property. Yeah, it just happened to be on his property.

That's right. Yeah. The code was, you ain't. ain't got much, but whatever you have, that's all you're getting because somebody else's stuff, we were accused of it from time to time, you know, somebody stole some outboard, remember one time. Oh, no, it was their own sons. Yeah.

It was their own son. It tried to pin it on the poor boy. It was dependent on us. And the law came down down. I remember my daddy talking to him. He said, the boys of mine wouldn't do that. I remember that like it was yesterday. The deputy had a deputy sheriff, big guy, about six.

y'all he said mr roberon i'm here to pick up one of your boys a couple of your boys they they had old a hat yes you know a piece of junk and he said he said they left this at the scene accident they stole three motors and then they got scared and threw them out 12 mile bow outboard motors yeah y'all and daddy said uh number one unless you've seen them do it and got a handcuffed you better get out of here yeah that's the first time i ever seen daddy just he would hey he was mad come to find out later on they got the boys who did it and it was their own son but he never even called us over and said did you boys he didn't he knew he knew oh he knew yeah which is funny dad because you instill that in us you you were like you know we we we've always said we didn't have a lot

of rules living in in your house but but one of the rules was never steal from other people that's you ingrained that in us don't take other people's my mama you know they was the same thing as a murderer If you stole, you was just like a murderer. Yeah. And she instilled out, instilled into us from childhood. If it wasn't yours, stay away from it. Make a wide circle around it. Somebody said that, you know, that if we had seen like a firearm

leaned up against a tree in the woods, we wouldn't have picked it up. We wouldn't have fooled with it. Yeah, because it was somebody else's, right? Somebody else's. We would have told them, said, hey, look, there's a shotgun, leaning against the tree down there. We just saw it. Well, I never have thought about, Dad, when you think about it,

Jesus only calls Satan two different things. He called him a murder from the beginning of John 8, and he called him a thief in John 10. He said he only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. So the two descriptions of Satan by Jesus were murder and thief. The code was simple. That's where a little guy. I'll tell you to go ahead.

I like to admit somebody said it really hurt them and hurts their, their inner self to have a leather put on their butt but if that's the case we should be really crazy so we stepped out of line that leather was coming

that's about the stupidest thing I've ever heard of okay because look hey human beings needs boundaries all of us do okay and like daddy

you know I told him one time He whooped me with a 12-foot extension cord. Okay, me and my sister. Oh, no, no, no. Look, this is a child abuse, pure and simple. But every time we would bring it up, he would have tears in his eyes.

He said, yeah, but did you deserve it? I said, oh, no doubt. No doubt. I was wrong. Need a butt whoopper. I got it. I said, but you weren't too far. You know, but, you know, hey,

Hey, that's what God gave you this butt park. Phil, John O.J's, he's probably still a little bitter about getting wooked over that boat panel. Yeah, he still hadn't. He still hung up. He killed a cotton mouth with it, but hey, he broke it. This was before that. He lost Phil's boat paddle. Okay, well, he broke another one.

Once again, once again, the rules were clear. I mean, it's not like it was the surprise. I think he's what I tell the river. If you mess with my equipment. He came up finally with. boat paddle it had got hung up in a thicket when he's over there you know and but uh he found the boat paddle but but it was a it was a tear your butt up if you tore up perfectly good equipment for no good reason it was one of the rules i mean we i understood i never got a wait before did you ever lose

boat paddle no it don't say but here's what was funny jimmy frank our older brother in the neighborhood okay he got a bunch of them to college okay because he had make a us play football. I'm talking it'd be, we'd be crying. We'd be, we'd be playing,

get out there, boy, get out. And Kenny's headble was one that got a scholarship to tag. Our football was a big sock. Stuff for a rag. Smaller socks.

Yeah. And that's the only ball we had. That's just wild. By the way, if you want to, if you want to, if you want to, for our audience,

I've been, I've been meaning to do this. We got a website up. It's called the blind movie.com. So go, go check it out, enter your information, and we'll get you updates on as we release stuff. And if you sign up for the email list, we'll give you some, you'll get stuff before

anybody else does. So for our audience, I know you guys are always asking about the movie. That's a place to probably go, enter your stuff at, send your email. It's the blindmovie.com. And a lot of these stories, it's crazy, man, how much of this I feel like we captured in the movie. Hearing y'all talk like this, it makes me feel like I think we got something really good. because we got a lot of these stories, a lot of them in there.

So let's take another break. So, Dad, tell the story. You've told it before. Y'all were playing with the sock of socks for your football. And then some coach comes up, I guess he must have seen some. We saw a vehicle coming. In those days, if you saw a vehicle coming across a big, long field, we were up on a hill, that log cabin, and we saw the vehicle coming.

We didn't know who it was. So, well, all the kids are just standing there. looking at its vehicle coming because we didn't have people like visiting very little. Yeah. And we looked up and he kind of made a little loop in front of us. And it was about seven or eight of us, neighborhood kids and then the Robertson boys, me, Si, we were all trying to say, sigh was naked as usual because he didn't, he didn't wear clothes. Freedom, baby.

Six. He was a naked boy up until he was sick. He just get up out of the bed naked, walk outside. Pee in the yard, look around, what's going on? Anyway, the vehicle pull up and out came a football out the window. Scotty Robertson, he had the same last name as me, Robertson, but they said he wasn't kin to us. But the local coach pulled up in the yard, threw the ball out,

and just kept on going and drove off. Well, the ball bounced about four or five times, but none of the kids moved. We all just sitting there. Like it was a bomb. here we are we are without a ball for years

and all of a sudden there's a football in front of us and everybody's looking at it you know and finally somebody sigh somebody took off his good night

that's a football and they ran over there to it and from that day on that's where we started learning how to play football we actually had a ball yeah but I mean it was a long time

probably little easier to throw than that sack of socks yeah sock one you know The sock's where you do to catch. Football, you had the sock full of sock. Like baseball, whatever, you had the sock ball. So, Cy, how quick did you all know that dad was like a cut above in terms of how?

Did everybody figure that out pretty quick? Yeah, real quick. Yeah. Because like when we're born with a good arm, you don't learn how to do that. It's just you either have it or you don't. Right. So tell about this. Y'all just went on a hunting trip.

What was your cousin, Mark Carraway? Well, we went hunting with a guy named Mark Callaway, also known as The Undertaker. And he is such a cool dude. Oh, man. He's about seven feet tall. Oh, no, yeah, he's a brute. He's a brute. What was, you know, De Brassler?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But he's, he's, you know, I had to just lean over because he's, he's, talks real soft. You would think just the different, you know, the undertaker. Yep, he was one of the most kind-hearted, humble, soft-spoken men I've ever met. We're going to try to get him down here to hunt with us. Very impressive individual.

Yeah. Because he's got quite the story, the spiritual story as well. I was going to say, he's a born-again Christian, his wife converted him, he told me. And his wife and daughter listen to Sadie's podcast. Oh, really? I thought that was pretty cool. But we went on a pheasant hunt with a group of veterans and a nonprofit called Camp Valor Outdoors. And y'all were in where, South Dakota?

We were in South Dakota, fesot hunting. Emory, here's the town. Not the one with the woman governor, is it? Yeah, that's it. Christine Nome. Yeah. That's South Dakota. Or she's a real woman.

She's good for womanhood. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. She hunts? That girl come riding up on a horse. She rides horses. Yeah. Easy on the eyes.

That's right. Very easy on the eyes. That's the first time I noticed. She requested to come on the podcast. She wants to be on her podcast. Uh-oh. Hey, you'll bring her down. I know.

We got to make that out. Oh, that'd be awesome. Make that half on. That's representative of womanhood I've seen. But anyway, that hunt we went on, first time I've ever, fessing hunting. They have strips. strips of milo or corn,

and you get about five feet from the man next to you. What the terrain looked like? It was just... I never didn't know this. Oh, yeah. I never didn't know this. South Dakota's farming. I mean, just all of it, you know.

And they... It's not rolling hills. It's more flat. There's a few hills, but it's more flat. The area we were. It's a lot of little pot holes. That's right. That's right.

Yep. That's where all the ducks raised, a lot of them right there. And the dirt. is black. But look, what's so cool is, had they harvested the corn and all while y'all were there? Oh, yeah. So they had harvested all, y'all.

Hey, look, 40 acres. Take 40 acres for you. They cut it in 30-yard strips. They'll, you know, they'll cut this strip. It'll be bare. And then the next strip, 30 yards, they'll leave it. Yep. Whether it's corn or whatever.

Well, then all you do is, you get 10 guys, you know, say six gunners, four guides and then got the dogs okay and you do that 30 strip and it may be a half a mile long so the dogs would point them oh yeah oh yeah and flush them they got flushers and point them oh yeah oh yeah what the rule was you don't shoot till they got in the skyline yeah yep yep if you don't see blue don't shoot because then because it's a dangerous game because you got flankers yeah and you're out in front you got two on on the empties for their mode yeah you know you know and out front and then you got the other I don't hold that job that's a little worse

look I'm a blocker I'm sitting in a chair at the end of it's more dangerous than our duck behind there way more dangerous so we drove sigh around and put him him and Mark at the end of the row oh and he that's another thing he's a shotgun oh he could shoot that Joe Cook can hit I saw him go three three for three yeah he's a shot he's a shotgunner oh oh the undertaker undertaker but uh we right cook in it Fetzer? Well, the people did up there, but you know, the further north you get, the worst the food is. You know.

So up north may disagree with you, but I don't know. Usually they're pretty honest. They say when you come south, the food gets better. That's what most people tell me. It just seems to be bland. Yeah, they just don't have a lot of season. Well, their strongest thing they put on their food is ketchup. And that's yet to cover up.

well the worst thing they did they brought out a pheasant pot pie and put it in front of what'd you say son i said no thank you i ain't no pot pie ma'am what thing i love it against you okay just i don't do pot-bye fits in the full robinson mode of we were i guess y'all were drill because we were drill you don't compliment bad food it's honest by the way right now so the audience we'll know we are in a position. It is Thursday, right? So it's Thursday. All day long. We're about nine or ten days out from duck season. It's not this Saturday, but the next one. So that's when duck season officially started, starts. And we're all getting ready. I'm pumping water as I speak. If you listen real close, you hear a pump way off in the distance. It's been kind of off and on here.

So, but we got water going in the hole right now. It's the warmest November we ever remember, even in Louisiana. But they say this morning, it'll crisp, but they say the cold weather's on the way. When they say it's on next week. Saturday morning. Yeah. 32, I think. So we're being, we're poised for duck season.

All the decards are ready. We're getting the boats. Everything was dry. And I've been pumping water this morning. I walked down there. and one of the boats that are sitting there on a little roof to keep them having to bathe a lot every morning

but one of the boats was already floating so we could get to the haul of our boat we can get to our boat. We can get to our boat. We started today's Stone. So Jay since we've had you on the podcast last your duck commander role has changed. You're no longer build duck calls.

You're not the duck call man anymore. You are the manager of property. That's it. Boy in duck hunting is how he got into the Robertson clan. That's right. He married in. He married in. Yeah.

It was a good, it was a good combination, though, because he vetted him. He fits in the program pretty well, I have to say. He watched him for two years duck hunting before he was officially saying, okay. Boy, he can marry our kinfo. He can marry women. Two years of vetting. Well, we only vetted Jersey Joe for one year. Yep.

Yeah, but he made the cut. He did. And now his son is dating. And now Jersey Joe's son is dating my daughter. There you go. Yeah. And they were all, that whole family, that whole family church was converted from the podcast. Right.

That's right. He said he just looked around in the middle of New Jersey, somewhere up there in an Italian heritage. That's what I had enough. He's eating Italian now. He comes down to cooks for me once a week. Man, last night it was chicken, what is it called? Alfred. For now, Alfredo, I said, I said, is that part of your revel-toy?

He said, that's it. He said, but he's cooked about six different kinds of authentic Italian cooking. But there's godly to the core of there being. So they've been here with us for the year. Now they're going to marry into our family. So pretty good deal. Maybe. You got to watch that young love.

You never know. We're all happy, though. If you came to me tomorrow and said, I want to get married, I'd say, go for it. You were saying, where do I sign? But now she's open up, or she's about to. So, yeah, it's kind of like the old days of the, you know,

or like they still do it in the Eastern culture, where it's the arranged marriage. We just arrange it by, you know, how are you in the duck blind? Are you pretty good in the kitchen? Do you work hard? Do you have a job? Yeah. Are you a Christian?

What can you do with a duck call? You know, you know, that's part of the, if you can't blow a duck call, You're pretty well on the way on the back end. Well, Zach, that's why you and I are on the outside, look at it. Who can skin the deer or the fastest? Stone now, he's got a cold room where he ages the deer meat. Jay is a master of game.

He's a meat all he just shit. Yeah, because not only the cleaning of the game, but now he's got all these brines and ways of tenderizing. I mean, he's turned wild game into. Basically, like you're eating filet mignon. That's exactly right. He's a chef. I mean, he really, I have to say, of all the family cooking, I think, Jay, I enjoy yours the most.

Oh, yeah. We use it when somebody wants somebody cooks something for a big, you know, wing ding is dancing. I don't, I would consider myself a chef, more of a meatologist. That's right. Meatologist. That's what Dr. Dane's peg. Yeah. Meatologist.

But you also have the ability. But you also notice every time I'm around you and you're cooking, now you're, you're, you're, you're a great teacher and coach by the time so you're you're kind of selling it the whole time and you're telling like when i had the deer steak you made you're like hey this is the best thing you ever put in your mouth right and you told me somebody by the time i ate it i was like i don't know if it was i didn't tell you meant i was convinced but i did think i said it's the best the best one is the tenderloin beef tenderloin yeah yeah i think and you know and even that's that's pretty easy there to as long as you just you can only mess that up right i i smoked some ribs for

Phil and Miss Kay and A&A yesterday. I took that down. Just melt your mouth. That was about a slow cook. How long did you cook them? One but three and a half hours on them. Hey, so we're coming down Sunday, Jay. Did Phil tell you that you might be cooking for us on Monday?

Well, Ms. Kay says something about it, but me and I are leaving Monday evening. That's a lunch time. We might pull it off. We got to do two. podcast that morning. Oh, yeah, you may not be able to do it then. We'll figure something out. I was going to ask you what's on the menu.

Once again, we're having a meeting on the podcast. I was trying to get his favorite food picks in. I could do beef tenderloys. If you can get me out of those two podcasts Monday morning, I'll do it. It's all right. It's quid pro quo, Zach. He said he'll work on it, boys. So do you like this, make it happen, Zach?

Do you like this, your new role? Oh, I love it. I love it because. I'm outside every day in the woods five days a week. Right. I mean, I'm doing something every day, but it's always outside, never inside. By the way, the food plots, they look good. They look good, don't they?

Do they? The food plots for deer, he's got them out there in areas, you know. Hey, green. It looks great. It looks great. Oh, yeah. But, you know, you think about it, that's, it was really needed. Once again, Willie had the foresight to see it, that you really need somebody.

we have as much property as we do, especially hunting property, you've got to have some regular ongoing maintenance of everything that's going on. He's done great, a great job on getting deer down there. Right. Because there weren't a lot of deer down here before. I mean, and what was here was runts and swamp deer and gnarly looking. But, I mean, you're raising quite the herd, as they say. Yeah, it's very rewarding to work the land and raise the deer herd.

all that. The hardest part around here is protecting the deer. Right. Because we've made strides. And I've got in on that. Because I let the biggest one we got walk. She sure did. The biggest rack buck on the property.

So I didn't shoot him. He gave me the green light. He said, okay, old man. Look at him with your binoculars and then tell me what you're going to do. I looked at him for about five minutes and I said, you're not going to believe what I fixed to tell you. And he said, what's that? I said, he ain't over enough. Let him go.

Let him go to another year. Tom was going. And then when he told Willie, went. And you know what Willie said? He said, if he comes by me, I ain't let him walk. Say, you're taking a big risk because there's a lot of rednecks around, including our own crew. That may not have your patience. Oh, no.

He set the tone right there. We're going to let him walk. I actually just sat back and watched them get old stone, got them the bigger and bigger bucks, you know, showing pictures and all that. He names them off. That finally wound up. That shut down the stick of your gun barrel out of four wheeler, you know.

Let's go back, as I said, we've made stride. We went from, I talked them in to quit shooting button heads. Improvement. It was on his way. They quit shooting deer, unidentified deer out of the full wheeler. That was number two. So we're making progress. I still remember the day old Burley shot George Jones.

Yeah, they got names. They got names from, Good night, you shot George Jones. Burley said, who was that? I didn't know. I heard about it. I texted Burley. I said, he stopped loving her today.

That's what Burley sent me that tip. That was pretty funny. By the way, he's bringing to a blues, my old lab. Cyrus. He's a sired some. Some of her pups. Uh-oh. Some of his, you know, more blue.

So we got his lineage, and Burroughs bringing two of them. She had ten pups, bring us two. So I'm going to befriend them and train them up. I hope they have better manners than their daddy. Yeah, he was a whiner. Even the Bible says, you know, a quarrelsome woman is like a constant dripping. Don't forget that out there in computer land. A constant dripping.

A little known verse. Nothing like signing off a little massage today this morning. All right, we're out of time. So we're going to come back in overtime. I got a biblical question about a hunter in the Bible. So we're going to do that in the overtime. If you want to follow us over, it's blazedtv.com slash unashamed. Right now they're running a promo.

Get $10 off if you use the promo code, Phil. So that's blazedtv.com slash unashamed. Follow us over. Thanks for listening to the Unashamed podcast. Help us out by rating us on iTunes. And don't miss an episode by subscribing on YouTube and be sure to click that little bell to get notified about new episodes.

And for even more content that you won't get anywhere else, subscribe to BlazeTV at blaztv.com slash Unashamed.