Phil, We Tried Not To, but We Cried | Remembering Phil Robertson
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Why are we remembering Phil Robertson?
Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Duck Call Room. We're already getting started. Look, it's a day that we all knew was coming. Uh... and nothing could prepare you for it, but we're going to talk about the old man. We're going to talk about Phil. It's why I got sunglasses on. So while I'm wearing a black shirt, I decided to go full Phil, right? Oh, Phil. And then in that regard, I'm going to give you the man. I'm going to give you one of these, the man who perfected the thumbs up, right? Because everything you've seen posted about Phil to this point, there was, uh, a lot of it was one quote, uh, which is awesome. I'm not going to honor what he said because I can't. Don't cry. Don't cry. That's out.
Yeah. Yeah.
I'm going to honor side. I'm going to cry my eyes out today. Yeah.
Woo. That's one of them Robertson things there, Martin.
But we are celebrating the life of my older brother, Bill Robertson, the man known as the duck commander. Hmm.
I had a different relationship with Phil and it was really separate and apart from hunting because I got banned from the hunting blind for life. So we had a different kind of relationship. He led our small, our men's small group. He taught us how to be fathers. He taught us how to be good husbands. And this was all from a biblical standpoint. And so every week we'd go in and me and a group of guys would learn and learn and learn from Phil. And I moved out to Abilene Christian University and got my degree in Bible. And I came back and Phil wanted to sit down and learn and hear everything I learned. He said, He said, did they ever get off the gospel, Mac? He calls me Mac. I said, no, Phil, they're pretty much on the gospel.
He's like, yep, all right. That's what I thought, son. That's what I thought. But our relationship was so different.
Here's the weird deal. When he was in his 20s, I'd just say 25 to 28, the motto was, who's the man?
Cause he grew up tough, hard.
I call my father and my brother. They're what I would call hard men. Okay. They thought it was weakness. If you, if you was, uh, what we're doing right now.
Yeah. Oh yeah.
No, no.
Yeah. Yeah. My father, you know, no. He fell off an oil rig, broke his back, and Phil ended up breaking his back doing something he shouldn't have been doing at his age. But it's one of them things about who's a man. And then here's a guy that spent 95% of his life, we would call it in the wilderness, in God's creation. And yet for the first 28 years of his life, he didn't know the creator. Well, right now, that's where he's at. He's with the creator. Okay. And I look at that as one of the oxymorons of this deal. For me personally, okay, I'm having a hard time to adjust into it. Because this has been, he's been my, I probably say it, I'm the sidekick, you know, and he was the main star.
You were.
For 79 years of his life, 77 of mine.
He was Butch.
Yeah.
And he was a Sundance kid, right? Yeah. Really used a naked kid.
Same thing with Tommy. Tommy was the same way because us three, Tommy, Phil, and me, y'all was two years apart jimmy frank and harold were way older like five or six years ago and then judy you know she was older and then my baby sister jen well everybody's gone i'm the last man standing out of my father's family okay and i didn't know that you know that that Dad, Mom, Jim Frank, Harold, Tommy, okay, Judy, and Jan, none of them affected me the way this one does.
Yeah.
Okay, and I'm having a hard time getting my balance back, so to speak, I guess.
Mm-hmm. This one hits hard. Yeah.
Hits a lot harder. I don't know. I just never thought about where he's going.
Yeah.
Well, like Mark started it. Hey, we're all on that road. From the moment we're conceived, okay, and start life, we're all on the road running that direction.
Yeah. Hey, we got a stone walking in. Hey, we're going to pop out. While Hunter's getting this set up, are you still rolling, Hunter? Look, I'm just going to let y'all know something at home. We would love to be able to do this episode without any ads or any interruptions, but this is still very much a business. There will probably be some ads in here. Life goes on, boys.
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