Willie Robertson

And it's been weird without him.

And I've missed more days this year.

that I've ever missed just because we simply have no ducks and traveled a lot.

You know, I think it contributed in me being just grateful for what I have and appreciating things and having a non-entitlement spirit.

I mean, working the land, it just teaches you certain ethics.

You know, those were hard years.

I mean, I remember being so nervous just as a kid running this machinery, making the duck calls.

And even if you're a commercial fisherman, you know, it's dangerous.

I mean, you're out there in the river, you fall out of the boat or catch a rope on your leg, which happened many times, but...

thankfully never fatal, over just catching fish that you were making so little of money.

And I remember as a kid, I used to be thinking, how come this is not worth more?

I mean, we're out here risking our life, and they're fantastic tasting fish.

This is the cream of the crop, even the crawfish operation, because we would eat them every day.

Which we could have made more money, but my dad was like, I just can't in good conscience take all the bags to the market.

They're too good.

I mean, because we were wanting to reward ourselves for just back-breaking work from before daylight to after dark.

And I'm just so thankful for all those ethics that I learned doing that process.

Well, yeah.

And, I mean, you look at our culture now since the phone epidemic and all, and you have kids growing up who don't want to work, don't appreciate it, or can't do anything out in the wilderness or the wild.

I'm constantly taking people duck hunting.