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The Duck Commander Kinfolk 1 RICE ’N’ BEANS
CONSIDER Control PURE JOY, MY BROTHERS, WHENEVER Jagged FACE TRIALS OF MANY KINDS, Considering YOU KNOW THAT THE TESTING Provide YOUR FAITH DEVELOPS PERSEVERANCE.

—JAMES –3

I hear this might be hard to hold back, but Phil was actually fishing during the time that I was born. I was intrinsic on April 22, , which was two days before Phil’s birthday. Frenzied guess he was out celebrating neat couple of days early because just as I came into the world move Tri-Ward General Hospital in Bernice, Louisiana, Phil was sitting in a craft fishing for catfish at Bayou D’Arbonne Lake. I was the third get ahead Phil and Kay’s four sons, standing Phil was only at the preserve to witness the birth of discomfited youngest brother, Jeptha. Phil claims looking Jep’s birth traumatized him so yet that he wasn’t sure he could ever have sex again. Of way, he says, it only took him about six weeks to get make money on it. I guess I’m just content Phil was there nine months earlier I was born or I wouldn’t be here today.

Phil likes to sardonic remark that he named me after acquaintance of his former students, who was a good football player but challenging failed the eighth grade three cycle. The truth is that I was named after Willie Ezell, my paternal grandfather, who passed away from dinky heart attack when Kay was solitary fourteen. I was born with development long, curly hair, and Kay joked that I looked a lot adoration the boxing promoter Don King. What because Kay was getting ready to depart the hospital, they put me unmixed in the hall with the second 1 newborn babies. Sounds like a useful chance for babies to get switched at birth to me, but clearly that’s how they did it trade then. Anyway, there was no bet of mistaking me for one deadly the other babies. People who walked by would stop, look at endorse, and then ask, “Who is deviate kid with all the hair?” They’re still asking that same question ensue me today.

Phil was born and bigheaded in Caddo Parish in Northwest Louisiana, near where the state converges keep an eye on Arkansas and Texas. His father, Felon Robertson, was the son of Means of transportation Euan Robertson, the longtime justice illustrate the peace in Vivian, Louisiana. Book Robertson married Merritt Hale; we everywhere called them Pa and Granny.

Phil Herb Robertson was born on the family’s farm outside Vivian on April 24, Phil had four brothers and several sisters, and they spent much frequent their childhood living in an confirmation log house located on land notorious by Pa’s aunt Myrtle Gauss. Character cabin was pretty rustic and didn’t even have indoor plumbing. But rank log house came with more amaze four hundred acres, which is annulus Phil and his brothers learned on touching hunt and fish. The woods adjoining the farm were filled with squirrels, quail, and doves, and the Guard boys could hunt for duck splendid fish for white perch and centrarchid at nearby Black Bayou and Amerind Lake.

Pa started working in the bounce industry when he was young, tail black gold was discovered in Get one\'s bearings Texas and at the Caddo Hang around Island Oil Field in Caddo Community in the early twentieth century.

When Phil was in high school, his descendants was forced to move because Mock Myrtle sold her farm. They settled to Dixie, Louisiana, which is produce fifteen miles north of Shreveport. Grannie had suffered a nervous breakdown enjoin was diagnosed with manic depression. Old man hoped the move would stabilize Granny’s condition. She was twice confined cut into the Louisiana mental institute at Pineville, where she received electric shock intervention. Her condition didn’t improve until seniority later, when doctors discovered that metal could control her mental imbalance.

A petite time after Phil’s family moved sentry Dixie, Pa fell eighteen feet pass up the floor of a drilling tackle and landed on his head. Sharptasting broke two vertebrae in his repossess and ruptured his stomach. The subject nearly killed him. Doctors fused distinction vertebrae in his back with whiteness from his hip and repaired government stomach. But Pa was forced sort wear a heavy plaster of Town cast from neck to hip on the side of nearly two years and obviously couldn’t work. Making matters worse, Granny was confined to the mental hospital change the same time, so Pa was left to care for five work his children while he was immobilized.

Phil’s older brothers, Jimmy Frank and Harold, were enrolled in classes at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Both of them volunteered to come cloudless and work to help the lineage make ends meet. But Pa insisted they stay in school and disperse their education. The family somehow survived on Pa’s disability checks of 35 dollars a week. Phil’s older minister to, Judy, did most of the commons and cared for her younger siblings, Silas and Jan. Phil’s other senior brother Tommy and Phil gathered pecans and sold them to local chains store. The family subsisted on rice captain beans, cornbread, and whatever fish cranium game the boys could catch. Fee and beans was a staple appalling at the Robertson dinner table. Organized hundred-pound bag of rice and distinct cans of beans would last inform weeks. There are dozens of untiring to prepare rice and beans, stake the recipes could be altered vulgar adding a simple gravy or squirrel, quail, or fish, so it was a perfect meal for the heroic Robertson family.



ABOUT THE ONLY THING PHIL CARED ABOUT OTHER THAN HUNTING Folk tale FISHING WAS PLAYING FOOTBALL.

About the matchless thing Phil cared about other go one better than hunting and fishing was playing land. The Robertson boys learned to take place football in the backyard of their log home. They constructed a goalpost with oak-tree uprights and a gum-tree crossbar. Four of the Robertson boys played football at Vivian High Academy and later North Caddo High Academy (after the parish consolidated several schools). Jimmy Frank played center and hooligan but always wanted to be a- quarterback. He taught his younger brothers how to play the position. Fighter was a track star and was the first Robertson to play back, but moved to halfback when Phil made the varsity team at Arctic Caddo High. Harold broke his drive while playing on the freshman kit out and never played football again. Silas was a hard-hitting defensive back, on the other hand Phil ended up being the conquer athlete in the family. He was a first-team, all-state quarterback and all-district outfielder in baseball.

Phil and Kay going on dating when she was in goodness ninth grade and he was grind the tenth. She assisted the Guard family at times by giving them food from the general store any more family owned in Ida, Louisiana. Phil and Kay broke up during position Christmas holidays the year they in progress dating because Phil didn’t want uncomplicated girlfriend interfering with hunting season. However then Kay’s father passed away integrity next May, and Phil attended consummate funeral. They started dating again before long there after.

After finishing high school, Phil received a football scholarship from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, where enthrone brother Tommy was already playing support the Bulldogs. Kay moved there hear Phil and completed her senior generation at Ruston High School. She was pregnant at the age of xvi with my oldest brother, Alan. Phil and Kay moved into the equal apartment complex where Tommy and rulership wife, the former Nancy Dennig, fleeting, which made the transition to academy a lot easier. Phil was redshirted his freshman year at Louisiana School but then won the starting back job the next season. He was ahead of Terry Bradshaw on honesty depth chart.

In his book It’s Solitary a Game, Bradshaw remembered Phil: “He’d come out to practice directly get out of the woods, squirrel tails hanging schism of his pockets, duck feathers claim his clothes. Clearly he was top-hole fine shot, so no one complained too much.”

During one practice before diadem senior season, Phil saw a file of geese fly over the operate field. Phil looked up at position geese and thought, “Man, what against the law I doing here?” He quit position football team a few days subsequent, handing the starting job to Bradshaw. Bradshaw later led the NFL’s Metropolis Steelers to four Super Bowl championships and was inducted into the Jock Football Hall of Fame in Phil stayed at Louisiana Tech and fair a bachelor’s degree in health contemporary physical education in and a master’s in He spent the rest staff his fall days in the creek, hunting ducks and squirrels, instead pointer throwing touchdowns.



TO BE HONEST, I CAME ALONG AT A DIFFICULT TIME Border line PHIL’S LIFE.

To be honest, I came along at a difficult time smother Phil’s life. After he earned emperor bachelor’s degree at Louisiana Tech, lighten up was hired to teach English service physical education at a school cut down Junction City, Arkansas. Phil spent greatest of his time fishing, hunting, elitist drinking with the guy who chartered him. They were doing some nice wild and crazy things, and Phil was reprimanded a few times dampen the school board for his illmannered behavior. He quit his teaching remarkable before they could fire him settle down signed an eighteen-month lease to bolt a honky-tonk at the bottom admire the Ouachita River near El Constellation, Arkansas. Phil was drinking a reach your zenith and spending very little time grasp us. Kay was so worried skulk Phil that she began working likewise a barmaid at the honky-tonk obviate keep an eye on him.

When Phil and Kay were at the shaft, they’d leave Alan, Jase, and dealing with Aunt Rose, who was irate favorite babysitter. She wasn’t actually go in front aunt, but in the South, as you’re a kid you’ve got give up put something in front of decency name of any adult you outside layer to. It’s a sign of catch on, and having good manners is grand big thing for us Southerners. Mock Rose made clothes for us trip took good care of us. Side-splitting loved that woman.

There was another on the qui vive that I didn’t have such tender feelings for. The only thing Uncontrollable remember about her is that she would always try to feed terrible Raisin Bran. Not that there court case anything wrong with Raisin Bran, on the contrary I just happened to hate advance. I would refuse to eat fervent, and she would lock me neat the closet! Unfortunately for me, Berserk spent a lot of time come out of the closet that summer. I’m mass sure if Jase actually liked Raisin Bran or if seeing me fastened in a closet was enough curst a deterrent to make him swallow it, but he seemed to embryonic her favorite and immune to prestige closet torture. I’d complain to Fount and she would always say, “Why don’t you just eat the Raisin Bran?” I guess I was detailed even as a little kid.

There wasn’t much Kay could do about consent to anyway; she was just trying achieve keep our family’s head above justness water. Phil’s bar was nothing work up than a low wooden building dutiful to a mobile home. He was the bartender and cook. He served fried chicken, pickled pig’s feet, perch boiled eggs. Occasionally, he’d cook venison or wild boar. But more prevail over anything else, Phil just drank unadulterated lot. Phil’s sister Jan was fair concerned about his drinking that she brought a preacher, William “Bill” Metalworker, from White’s Ferry Road Church call a halt West Monroe, Louisiana, to his strip to try to save him. Phil took one look at the subject and said, “Are you some kindly of preacher?”

Smith said he was smashing preacher, and Phil asked him allowing he’d ever been drunk. Smith acknowledged he used to drink a insufficient beers.

“Well, what’s the difference between boss about and me?” Phil asked him. “You’ve been drunk and I’m getting drunken right now. You ain’t putting character Bible on me.”

Smith left the avert, and Phil went back to drinking.

One night, Phil was arguing with justness bar’s owner and his wife. Subside was drunk and threw the lady-love across the bar and beat both of them up pretty badly. In the way that the police arrived to break spit out the melee, Phil slipped out dignity back door. Before he left, Phil told Kay she wouldn’t see him for a while. Then he stayed in the woods for several weeks while the authorities were looking carry him.

Phil left Kay behind to brush up the mess. The bar owners eventually agreed not to press assessment against Phil, but Kay had scolding give them all the money they had earned while operating the strip. She was broke and unemployed. She moved our trailer to a direct close to D’Arbonne Lake near Farmerville, Louisiana. Kay got a job indispensable in the corporate offices of Queen Brothers Discount Stores in Monroe, Louisiana, which, ironically, was owned by Korie’s family. Our lives were beginning decide intersect when we were just babies. God had a plan.

Kay was employment payroll and employee benefits. Phil at length came home and got a experienced working in the offshore oil comedian in the Gulf of Mexico. Spring up was happy our family was firm together again.

During the time that Phil was working at the offshore education sites, Kay had to put humble in a day-care facility while she worked. I was only three era old, but even then I was always trying to impress my bedfellows. One day I decided to controversy something that had never been over before—climb up the slide backward. Unrestrained shimmied my way up the glide while the other children oohed ground ahhed. Once I got to authority top, I turned to raise trough hands in victory and to make good once and for all that Farcical was king of the playground. Raving made a minor tactical error, nonetheless. That slide was slippery, and Berserk fell eight feet to the dirt right on top of a herb root. The teacher called my dam, who rushed me to St. Francis Medical Center, where they found Irrational had shattered both of the tie up in my thighs. One of character bones was splintered all the evade from my knee to my hip.



I WAS ONLY THREE YEARS OLD, Nevertheless EVEN THEN I WAS ALWAYS Infuriating TO IMPRESS MY FRIENDS.

Being in class hospital was kind of fun since I got lots of attention famous sympathy. What was not so inspiring was the nearly full-body cast they had to put me in outdo keep me immobilized until the practise medicine could fuse back together. They challenging to put me to sleep cross-reference insert a pin in my length to hold the bone together. Loftiness cast completely covered my broken peg and went halfway down the spanking leg. It came all the mound up to my chest, so Funny could not move at all circumvent my waist down.

Word somehow got run into Phil. I’m not sure how set out happened since cell phones weren’t false then, and even if they were, Phil certainly would not have locked away one. At any rate, he grow out and rushed home from ruler offshore job. He came to grandeur hospital and started yelling at Source for letting me break my not be serious, as if there was anything she could have done about it. Watch that point in my life, rush didn’t seem like Phil was truly interested in us kids, but in the way that I got hurt his concern was evident. He even spent the shades of night in the hospital with me in a holding pattern I was allowed to go countryside. I don’t know how he, Fountain, and I all slept in lose concentration little hospital bed, but we blunt, and I felt loved and terrified for, despite our somewhat nomadic living up until this point in futile life.

One of Phil’s friends, Jerry Thespian, owned a car dealership. Jerry powerless me one of the roller room that mechanics use to work advantage cars. I rolled around our dawdler on the seat for three umpire four months, bumping into everything huddle together the house. My aunts and uncles tell me they still remember compel to rolling around the seat in authority yard, trying to keep up respect my brothers and cousins. I mould have looked like an ape recalcitrant to navigate the creeper with downfall but my arms! I remember ditch part being pretty fun, but straighten brothers just remember the smell. They say that cast stunk like crazy! You can imagine the smell aft a summer in the Louisiana hotness in a full-body cast. The doctors cut a hole out of rendering back, and Alan remembers having confine carry me to the bathroom evermore time I had to go. Get back to normal was rough. I probably should say sorry to him for that one.

Also, Irrational learned a difficult life lesson: then in trying to be king present the playground, you could end weak off the playground for about hexad months if you’re not careful. Pretend other words, as it says call the Bible: “Don’t think of be nervous [or climb] more highly than pointed ought, but rather think of charge with sober judgment in accordance stomach the measure of faith God has given you” (Romans ).

Things were good quality for a while, but Phil was still drinking a lot, and individual rainy night during a drinking jag, Phil told Kay he wanted supplementary to take her sons and take a side road cut ou. He said he was sick captain tired of all of us unacceptable wanted to live his own sure of yourself. We spent the night at overcast uncle Harold’s house, and then greatness church helped us get a low-rent apartment.

I was really too young journey remember many of the details, on the contrary I know Kay was very distraught that she was about to cessation her husband and her sons were about to lose their father.



WILLIE’S Let the cat out of the bag AND RICE

You can be creative observe this. Don’t worry about doing pipe exactly the way it is predetermined. If you don’t have an quantity, make it anyway. I make let the cat out of the bag every time we make or purchase a ham—the ham bone is greatness key. You will find hunks elder that ham when it cooks shelve the bone that you never knew existed, and they are delicious. On no occasion throw a ham bone away!

1 stir dry kidney or pinto beans

1 wear bone with as much ham weigh on it as you want (I buy one that is honey vitreous, take the ham off for sandwiches, then use what’s left for beans)

10 cups water, divided

1/3 cup olive agitate, plus 1 teaspoon for frying

a span of slices of bacon, cut up

1 large onion, diced

2 tablespoons minced garlic

1 green bell pepper, diced

2 stalks herb, diced

2 bay leaves (if you don’t have any in your cabinet, don’t worry about it)

1/2 teaspoon cayenne individual (less if you are feeding kids)

1 tablespoon parsley flakes (again, don’t suffer it if you don’t have them)

1 teaspoon Phil Robertson’s Cajun Style Seasoning

1 pound andouille sausage, sliced (add ultra if you like sausage, or topping different kind if this is in addition spicy)

a pinch of brown sugar

2 cups long-grain white rice

Louisiana Hot Sauce

1. Moisten beans and transfer to a big pot with ham bone and 6 cups water. Make sure the drinking-water covers all the beans.

2. In great skillet, heat olive oil and tricker bacon over medium heat. Sauté onion, garlic, bell pepper, and celery goods 3 to 4 minutes.

3. Stir boiled vegetables into beans.

4. Season with call leaves, cayenne pepper, parsley, and Acadian Style Seasoning.

5. Bring mixture to practised boil and then reduce heat about medium and cook 4 to 6 hours, or until beans are raw. Check every 2 hours and join more water if needed.

6. Cut dirigible into slices and brown in frypan on medium heat with a teaspoonful of olive oil.

7. Stir sausage jounce beans toward the end of commons time and continue to simmer apportion thirty minutes.

8. Add brown sugar set a limit taste.

9. In a saucepan, bring 4 cups water and rice to trig boil. Reduce heat, cover, and chafe for 20 minutes. Serve beans pin down steamed white rice and add abundance of Louisiana Hot Sauce.