We're about out of the mayhaw jelly from last year.
We need to plan a day.
Yeah, check the berries, they're coming on.
It's such a fun little tradition
to see all the grandkids out there picking mayhaws.
Actually, I'm the one who always has to do most of the work.
You could teach all of us.
We could just do all of it together.
Whether it's teaching traditions or teaching algebra,
educating a Robertson ain't easy.
It's raining berries. It's raining berries.
Willie: Some of us need to learn from the past.
Si: Pick! One, two, three, four.
Willie: Some of us need to learn
to finish what we start.
And some of us need to learn whatever this is.
[growling]
My wrestling career started with alligators.
Y'all remind me of two gorillas
that tried to make love to a football.
♪ I just wanna to go fast
♪ Life goes by in a flash
♪ Living free, no looking back ♪
♪ I just wanna go fast
♪ Keep growing from the past
♪ Can't slow me down
♪ I wanna go fast or lean back ♪
♪ Clean right out
♪ Go fast, make the good times last ♪
♪ Yeah, I just wanna go
Martin: Who's ever had any whale?
Like, is whale good?
I've never had whale.
-Have you ever eaten polar bear? -No.
What's up, fellas?
What up, boss?
-How we doing? -Good.
I am worn out.
Busy week.
You go for, like, a jog?
Uh, no. God, no.
I'm just checking.
I don't have time for that.
I was on a trip, man.
I had to run up to one of my former universities,
Harding University up in Searcy, Arkansas.
Korie: We finally have a kid at my alma mater.
Willie: You didn't think we would.
Took six tries.
It did.
Rowdy's excited for you to be here.
I know it. My first time to come visit.
-What's up, guys? -Hey, there.
Don't do drugs, stay in school.
Many, many years ago,
Willie and I both attended Harding University.
Yeah, but only Korie was smart enough to graduate from there.
And now our youngest son Rowdy is a student there.
-What's up? -Hey.
-Korie: Heya. -What's up, buddy?
-Hey, Dad. -Good to see you.
So we officially adopted Rowdy when he was 13 years old,
and he has been a beautiful addition to our family.
It's been so sweet just watching him grow
from this rambunctious young kid
to a thoughtful young man.
Yeah, with a killer little mustache.
It's a third of a beard.
He's almost there.
So what'd you do while you were at Harding?
Um, well, it was pretty interesting.
[cheering and shouting]
The fraternity of Rowdy
gave--I don't know what that was.
Hey, hey, hey, hey!
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
They just jumped out of the woods and sang at her?
Yeah, they, like, surrounded her.
It's, like, a punk serenade kind of thing,
but in a good way.
♪ We love you with the love of the Lord ♪
♪ We see in you the glory of our King ♪
♪ So we love you with the love of the Lord ♪
[cheering]
I don't know if you've ever had the experience
of watching 40 young pimple-faced kids
chant-singing at your wife, but it was kind of...
It was sweet. It was so sweet.
I was gonna say awkward, but sweet works as well.
Oh, it's always cool
when somebody jumps out of the bushes
to sing songs to you.
Yeah, it was really-- Yeah, I got to--
We actually went down memory lane.
I never made you cry here.
Our first year of marriage,
we fought and cried a lot
our first year of marriage here.
After the first year, I was, like, what was I thinking?
-[laughs] -What?
-Where are we going? -Student Center.
The stupid center.
Do you remember where the student center was?
Oh, yeah, that's where the bowling alley was.
Yep.
Rowdy, have you ever been to the office of the dean?
I have not.
I had to make that walk of shame a couple times.
-Oh, looky here. -Wow. Pottery class?
Ooh, let's sit down and have a Ghost moment.
Actually, I went back to the place
where I played basketball,
which was the intramural center.
Let's see if you still got it. Let's see.
I'm gonna make the first shot.
Yeah, right.
Shot some baskets.
I was on fire, too.
-Oh. -Oh.
-You made one? -No, I made--
Man, I was making a lot.
A little more lift.
Uh-oh.
You're getting tired.
Did you say I'm getting tired?
Oh, we're getting--oh!
There it is. Oh!
He's a little rusty.
Aah!
Kind of embarrassing.
-One more. -Got it. Let's see.
-Boom! -Oh!
I still got it!
Medic! Medic!
I played basketball one time.
I run down with them all to the one side,
and they took off to the other side.
[laughs]
Look, college ain't for everybody,
but when you get that degree,
it can open up tons of doors for you.
I just wish more of our kids
would have taken advantage of that.
By "more of," he means John Luke.
We've only got Rebecca and Bella.
We've only got two of six that graduated college.
-Really? -Rowdy, come on now.
John Luke.
-He never graduated? -Never graduated.
He's, like, two classes from graduating.
Well, it's really kind of like us
because Mary Kate finished before him,
and then they came back and when he got home--
He worked at camp.
You actually went and finished
when we came back home.
He's got to finish.
Yeah. So out of that tiny, just, like, nothing conversation,
Willie comes up with this crazy plan
to get John Luke back in college.
It's not crazy if it works.
Willie: Then when we got back from Harding,
we went and shook the mayhaw trees.
The mayhaw trees in your yard?
Yes. It's harvest time, man.
It's a family tradition. It's awesome.
What are y'all's traditions?
Do y'all harvest or...
-We just eat. -Okay.
[laughs]
What's your tradition now?
What are you out hunting or gathering
or any harvesting?
No, we just build Jesus a birthday cake at Christmas.
Okay. Well, we had fun on the mayhaws.
Welcome to the Robertson family mayhaw picking.
[cheering]
This is a long standing tradition.
One of the things that will define us as a family
is keeping our traditions.
Let's just get the berries, son.
With mayhaw jelly, Phil really passed down two traditions.
One, teaching the next generation
how to live off the land.
See that?
This is a mayhaw.
It's like a little apple.
You ready? On the count of three.
One, two, three. Start shaking.
Hard.
Not bad.
You're going back to your roots.
All right, y'all ready?
The second is making sure that the kids do all the work.
Go!
Come on, you gotta win.
Si: Pick one, two, three, four.
How do you win shaking a tree?
Whoever had the most mayhaws in the basket.
It puts the mayhaws in the basket.
[all laugh]
Okay, team strategy.
You and Haven get all the ones on the ground.
Me and Daddy will get all the ones on the tree, okay?
-Okay. -Ready, break.
Fast hands. Watch Daddy.
Sadie: Come on, Haven.
You gotta have a strong tree shaker.
Shake the tree, shake the tree. Whoa!
The strength on the tree shaking is key.
So Christian, did Christian break your tree?
Oh, he was, like, uh-uh-uh-uh.
Maybe this tree?
This looks like it has a lot,
It looks like it has nothing on it.
The Loflins.
Yeah, they're not winning.
They're not winning nothing.
They don't even care though.
They're not even trying to win.
What are you doing?
I'm looking for bugs.
That really does not help us at all.
I mean, John Luke got a little distracted,
you know, like he does.
You've got to focus.
I am focused.
Y'all should have thought about getting a pet monkey.
That way he can climb up the tree for you and shake it,
get every one of 'em.
Uh-oh, we got a monkey over here.
Hey, you got to make monkey noises while you're up there.
[imitates a monkey]
There you go. That's what I'm talking about.
I am...
All right, boys, pick!
One, two, three, four, pick!
One, two, three, four.
When it comes to berry picking,
I'm more of a supervisor than a picker.
You're more of a motorized menace.
Oh, I'm an excellent driver, son.
I'll give you all some incentive.
Can't see, can't hear,
but I can drive the hell out of a vehicle.
[laughs]
Hey, look, less talking, more walking.
It's raining berries, it's raining berries.
Ooh, that was good.
Honey, you are doing an incredible job.
You're our MVP.
I found a caterpillar.
Competition doesn't matter to me.
It seems to only matter to one person here.
No, no, no, no. What in the world?
Hey, hey, go, go, go, go, go.
Get away.
Wells, wrong team.
He can see greatness.
Honey, hey, hey. Holland, go, go.
Holland, get out.
Don't be taking our berries, Holland.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Holland's just taking our berries.
-Are you tired? -Yeah.
Hey, look at me. It's the fourth quarter, okay?
We can't quit now, okay?
Come on. I can see the finish line.
Can you see it?
Can you see the finish line?
Okay, let's see how many berries you guys got.
Everybody in.
Sadie: Honey was pretty awesome.
This is the John Luke Robertson bucket.
-All right. -Loflins.
Let's get the Loflin bucket.
Whoa, Honey, you're so strong.
And for the Huff bucket.
Whoa!
We definitely have a winner.
Congratulations, the Huff family.
You're number one.
Hey, y'all need to practice because you can do better.
Well, the whole idea is you're taking it from the berry,
to the picking process, to the kitchen,
to actually the jelly that they can put on a biscuit.
To the biscuit.
So now the sweet nectar on their lips
makes it make sense.
That's why we pick the berries.
So they helped you make the jelly?
No. Well, pretty much
when it gets down to that process,
you start losing people along the way.
Willie: Well, somehow we always end up
doing the more labor intensive work.
It starts out with a lot of people.
Then it all boils down to about three people doing the work.
Well, I've never worked for the government, Si.
Well, you ain't missed nothing.
[both laugh]
Well, I hate Kay and Phil aren't here to...
Yep, they would enjoy it.
The mayhaw making tradition
has just been in my family so long.
But there's not a lot of this.
It will die out
if more families don't pick it up.
People don't want to do it,
and they don't even care about homemade jelly.
They just care about buying it at the store.
But we never let our family forget about tradition,
and we just tell stories about it.
Well, now I realize how much actual work it is.
Yeah, I remember Phil,
he'd do all this himself unless I was around.
Those were the good old days, Si?
Yeah.
Si: Nothing good is easy.
You know what Stone and Jase come up with, right?
For the Buck Boys?
I don't know all of it.
Jay Stone has got 'em doing jiu-jitsu.
Because he's a young man
and he got a lot of pent up frustrations going on in there.
-A lot of testosterone. -Yeah.
Yeah, got a lot
of uncontrollable "testroso" going on.
High T.
Hey, high T. High T.
So you're probably wondering what in the world
does this have to do with hunting.
That's exactly what we're thinking.
Everything.
Jase: Since Willie's yuppie son-in-laws
want to join the company,
I've taken it upon myself
to evaluate and train these young men.
I'm trying not to ask questions.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold up. Freeze.
Take those shoes off.
Do not ever step on the mat with shoes.
Back up. Back up.
-Jase has shoes on. -Yeah.
Jase is on an island.
-An island? -Don't worry about him.
Everything you learn on this mat
will help you in life and in the woods.
Jiu-jitsu is gonna make us better hunters?
Oh, yeah.
You know when my first wrestling match happened?
My wrestling career started in my teenage years.
I wasn't wrestling with men.
I started off wrestling
with real, live, teeth-filled alligators.
[laughs]
-Was he three foot? -[laughs]
I did it the hard way.
This is the easy way.
It's not easy, but it's easier than wrestling with a gator.
Which I'd like to see it,
but unfortunately, we'd probably have to call 911.
And not for the alligator.
There's a small chance we'll have to call that number anyway.
Yeah, I'd keep it at the ready.
So you're gonna teach them jiu-jitsu?
I don't know jiu-jitsu.
Okay, I'm gonna turn this over
to one Jay Stone,
and he's gonna chisel you
into men ready for the wilderness.
You're not staying with us?
No, I just told you that. I'm leaving.
I thought you were just kind of joking.
No, I'm here to do a job. Connect the dots.
I connected the dots for you.
He's gonna carry you through.
He's like the middle man.
I'm gonna see you on the other side.
Willie just handed us over and now you're handing us.
I feel like no one wants to be with us.
He's leaving.
Lesson one.
Humility.
So let me get this right.
I give this over to you,
and then you're farming out to Stone.
Why didn't I just talk to Stone to begin with?
Because that won't work.
I talked to Stone.
I know, but it would be easier for me just to get him.
You're farming out to him.
But he's not gonna listen to you.
He only listens to you?
Pretty much.
Christian: See you, Jase.
Jacob: Bye.
Jay, he didn't say bye to me when I said bye to him.
He normally don't.
What's going on, John Luke?
Working on something.
Well, I need you to come with me.
We can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way.
Why?
Your dad needs you to come somewhere,
but he wants to keep it a secret,
and he tasked me with getting you there.
Okay.
Saddle up, partner.
Okay.
Come on.
I was kind of working on something, but...
Oh, you'll be fine.
Why don't you just go straight over the top.
We'll pull that down.
John Luke is only a few classes away
from graduating college.
He should finish.
He should, yes,
but you shouldn't have to kidnap him.
I'm not gonna carry you, but I guess I can hold your hand.
Technically, I didn't kidnap him.
Martin did.
Or hand on the shoulder.
I don't know about holding hands, but it seems weird.
-Are you ready? -Can you tell where you're at?
No.
Can you smell where you're at?
It just smells like this pillow.
Ta-da!
Welcome to the campus of ULM.
You're a Warhawk now, man.
We signed you up for orientation.
We signed you up, bro.
Back to school, man.
What?
John Luke is a serial unfinisher.
He's never finished college
because he's always finding some new shiny squirrel to chase.
And to complete your look...
I have enough college.
We got you some swag, man.
You've got almost enough college.
So my plan is to take him around the local campus,
show him all the cool stuff,
and hopefully he can find a new squirrel
to sink his teeth into.
Look, sports, man. Look at that football stadium.
Basketball coliseum.
A coliseum, man. They got one of those in Rome.
I mean, you can't get food like this at home.
I can tell you that.
I mean, you could, but you got to cook it.
You got to cook it and you got to clean it up.
Yeah, yeah. It's pretty good.
Looky here, John Luke. We're here.
-New students? -Yeah, right here.
Martin: Potential new students.
John Luke: Not a new student.
And if that doesn't work, I set up a meeting
with the campus recruiters to seal the deal.
Thank y'all for joining us.
So what we're gonna do
is we're gonna say our name,
hometown, and your major,
and then you're gonna say an adjective
that describes yourself.
My name is Willie Robertson.
I'm from West Monroe.
My adjective, I am a finisher.
That's not an adjective.
You wouldn't know that
because you haven't finished school.
I'm just saying. [all laugh]
Dad is trying to get me to finish college
by showing me the college experience,
which he forgets I already did the college experience,
and I don't need to do it a second time
now that I have a wife and kids.
We're gonna do a trust fall. Who wants to go first?
I'll do it. Look, I know they can catch me.
Is that the size we want? Like...
-I trust y'all, man. -That's a lot of trust.
I'm getting on the turtle. Y'all gonna catch me.
Come on, man.
I'm not exactly sure why I'm here,
but I guess maybe because I graduated from ULM.
Three, two, one.
Whoa! Oh!
[cheering]
-We did it. -Get him up.
We did it!
That's how you finish, John Luke!
That's how you finish right there!
But when Willie, my boss, who signs my paycheck,
says we're going on a field trip,
that's a good day.
John Luke, have we convinced you at all about ULM yet?
I'm not convinced yet.
Okay, okay.
What are you interested in,
like club-wise, athletics-wise?
What are you interested in?
Well, I've got three kids and two businesses,
so it's more like just running those.
We've got our own fishing team.
We've got a water ski team.
-Water skiing? -Yeah.
There you go. You love skiing.
-We go in the summer. -Yeah.
John Luke, if you do this,
if we go water skiing and you hate it,
we'll get off your back, right?
Well, I mean--
-I mean, come on. -Okay.
How can you hate water skiing?
That's what I'm talking about.
He's not gonna hate it.
All right, I'll try it.
Hey, sweet.
Now, that is the college spirit, buddy.
I love it.
Here we go.
Martin: Oh. Oh, wow.
Oh, there we go.
Look at him.
Like I said, when it comes to John Luke,
you just have to find the perfect squirrel.
Yeah! Nice college, baby!
And maybe his squirrel is water skiing.
Oh!
Oh, no!
I saw a squirrel water skiing once,
and it didn't fall down as much as John Luke.
Martin: I thought he was done. He's still going.
He's done, boys.
He gone!
Before we get started, just know one thing.
You suck.
You suck at hunting, you suck at this even more.
Just realize that going in.
Now, there's always a chance you might not suck one day,
but that's a long ways away from today.
Today, you suck.
So why are you having them do jiu-jitsu?
Because what they need is discipline and humility,
something that martial arts will provide,
as you should know.
Let's go to fighting stance.
-Fight! -Oh, hang on.
-Hyah! -Oh!
Shoot!
Lucky--uh-oh! Hey!
You can kick to the head also.
-Great job, babe. -Oh!
Time!
-You okay, babe? -Oh!
Any man that's lost a fight to a seven-year-old
ought not to question the process.
She was a black belt.
Well, boys, you look real cute in your outfits there.
Si, do you even know anything about jiu-jitsu?
Si has been trained in hand-to-hand combat.
Well, of course I have.
I spent 24 and a half years in the military.
There you go.
I got about 15 ways I can kill you
within about three seconds
with my hands or feet.
Humility means knowing that you know nothing.
Well, if there's anybody
who knows nothing about knowing nothing, it's you.
But knowing nothing is something.
Okay, I'm gonna keep this real simple for you two knuckleheads.
He's the table.
I'm gonna take this leg of the table, trap it.
I'm gonna take this leg on that table and trap it.
Now all I'm gonna do, turn my head,
big bridge.
-Up and over. -Goodness gracious.
This does not look hard at all.
I think it should be a piece of cake.
Knees above the hips, knees to the mat.
And I like cake.
Do not let them get out of mount.
We'll see how long you can hold 'em off.
Slap up, knuckle up.
Go for it.
Do it again.
Again.
You look like two squirrels
that just come out of an oak tree
that's fighting over a pop tart.
Stone: Do it again.
Do it again.
Hey, look, y'all are so bad
that it reminds me of two gorillas
that tried to make love to a football.
Now that you felt the move,
it's time to execute.
I'm gonna allow you to choose...
Who you want to do the move on.
Can we choose her?
-No offense. -None taken.
Sure.
-Okay. -Y'all ready?
You go first.
They chose poorly.
You're actually gonna get beat by a girl?
For these boys to truly become Duck Men,
they need to understand what it means to be hunted.
I mean, ducks are formidable opponents.
Well, I mean, they're not that formidable.
I mean, they don't even have weapons or really even hands.
Which is why you should be in the training class.
You need to start all over.
Okay.
I won't go too hard.
All right, cupcake.
Jacob: Come on, Christian.
I'm trying, Jacob.
You need to encourage me more.
This reminds me of my honeymoon.
Oh, my nose.
I have a deviated septum.
Oh! Oh, God.
Aah! Oh, God.
Oh.
T-word.
Hey, I stand corrected on that.
That's a real woman.
-Good job. -Thank you.
Jacob, use the technique you've been taught.
Okay.
Again.
Go.
Christian: Come on, Jacob.
I don't know if I can take much more of this.
Oh, get 'em, Jacob, get 'em, Jacob!
Oh, crap.
Sorry.
My overall assessment of their performance today.
I hope you boys have learned a valuable lesson
to never, under any circumstances,
underestimate your opponent.
Two thumbs way down.
Good job, princess.
-Thank you, man. -Way to go, cupcake.
All right, look, guys, I've seen enough.
I'll see you fools tomorrow.
I got a date with a pint of mayhaw jelly
and fresh made biscuits.
Willie: Now, kids, today we're gonna make--
Hey, where's our kids?
I thought they were gonna learn how to do this.
Oh, I thought you did this part by yourself.
Well, you can teach them how to do it.
By "teach them how to do it,"
what Korie's trying to say is you should do it,
and maybe someone will watch.
No, I'm saying this is all about
teaching the tradition to the grandkids.
Historically, this part of the tradition
is not exactly child-friendly.
We're going to wait approximately 10 minutes
with a low fire under that.
10 minutes?
Good things come to those who are...
Waiting?
-Patient. -I'm starving.
The hungrier they are, the better they listen to you.
-Mmm. -Mmm.
Lord knows the boy needs a lot of that.
All right, kids, look,
the mayhaw berry only grows in the southeast, okay?
This is mayhaws, this is what you picked,
and this is what I sorted.
Si helped sort, but not the best sorter.
Hey, just show 'em how to make the jelly.
Okay.
So the first thing we got to do is boil the berries.
Who likes boiling berries?
-Me! -Yeah!
Si: Yeah, all right.
All right, let's boil some berries.
Y'all see all them berries
bouncing off of Willie's stomach?
Okay, that's enough from you.
[laughs]
He's not an entertainer, so I can't help him, okay?
Because like me, I'm an entertainer.
I can keep your attention.
Korie: We already lost a kid.
Uh-oh, uh-oh,
-we lost one. -Si: Uh-oh, we lost a kid.
So we got the berries in the pot.
Now we're gonna add the water.
Wellsie?
Oh, where did he go?
Oh, you got some more snacks?
Now we're in a waiting game.
The mayhaw process has changed a ton since I was a kid.
I mean, when we were little,
you did not screw around with Phil's mayhaw jelly.
You did as you were told, son.
Yeah, parenting has changed a lot since we were kids.
Do you ladies want to play a game?
All right, look, I've got a saying for you.
I start it, and then I ask you to finish it.
I brought you into this world, and I can take you...
Yes?
-Take you home? -Oh, take you home.
I can take you home. Good answer.
I brought you into this world and I can give you a toy.
I brought you into this world and I can give you a mermaid.
What about children are to be seen and not...
Children are to be seen and not be king.
You're cruising for a...
A trip. That's a good one.
-That's a good answer. -Good idea.
All right guys, hey, now we're gonna strain.
Has anybody ever strained?
Yep. Hey, yesterday I strained.
-No, Si, don't. -Back muscle.
Si, okay.
Y'all ready to smash the berries?
Gotta have a smasher.
We're gonna smash the berries.
Eew, it smells bad.
It smells good. What are you talking about?
-Smash. -Smash.
-Good job.
Smash.
This is really about the birds and the bees
and the time when the bees swarm.
Are you paying attention to the story?
No, Si, I'm actually busy right now.
All right, look--
You've told this story 50 times. I've heard it.
Yeah, but it's important.
Yeah, you got a little bit.
That's because I'm the main squeeze, son.
Where'd everybody go?
Hey, they deserted you, son.
Hey, look, Willie, if he wasn't so boring,
then the kids probably wouldn't have wandered off.
Look, the only thing that's important about this is
is when we get to eating the biscuits
with the jelly on it.
That's the only important part of this whole thing, okay?
It's like Chicken Little, son.
Chicken Little?
Chicken Little is the sky's falling.
Same principle.
It takes the biscuits out of the stove.
All right, here we go.
The mayhaw jelly.
There's yours.
Mmm, so good.
That jelly you're eating,
those are the mayhaws
that y'all picked up off the ground.
Korie: Good job.
Willie: Best jelly ever.
What'd you think, Si?
Jelly! Jelly! Jelly!
Jelly! Jelly!
Finish. Finish what?
-Finish it. -Finish it.
I tried reasoning with him. It didn't work.
The water skiing didn't work.
So there's only one thing left to do.
Ambush.
Life is about finishing it.
I thought life is about, like, the adventure.
It is, but if I started making dinner,
but I never finished it, would you be able to eat?
That is the question.
We come from a line of people who not only start things,
but we finish things.
So, John Luke, I am passing...
[all laugh]
The torch to you,
till one day,
you will too wear the cap and gown.
And it will be your symbol not only to yourself,
but also to the world, to your family,
to your children, that you finished.
When he sees how much this means to everyone,
just to see him walk across that stage, he'll cave.
College does not equal success.
-That's true. -It's kinda true.
Everyone in here is successful.
Uncle Si, very successful.
Didn't finish college.
Well, how do you define success?
Sadie did not finish college.
Si: And she's successful.
-And she's successful. -Yep.
And I don't see you dragging her around
trying to get her to finish.
Well, she's pregnant.
This is true.
Well, that's my point.
Sometimes life happens and you can't finish college.
John Luke and I are both running businesses,
and neither one of us went to college,
so I don't really know why you're so focused on just him.
Because he's two credits away.
And your business pays me rent, so...
That's true.
I do not need to go to college.
Yeah! [applause]
That's good.
I don't know if we should clap for that exactly.
Sadie: He knows who he is.
Willie: No, what I'm saying is I finished college
and I'm trying to motivate my son.
Okay, wait, wait.
The only way you finished college
is that I helped you through all your classes.
I think the bottom line here is we believe in you, John Luke.
We know you can do it.
Whether or not you finish college in your lifetime is...
Or the next.
Or the next does not matter.
We're happy for you, we're proud of you,
and you're doing great in life
with a college degree or without.
If you do get your degree,
it will open doors
that you normally would not be able to be invited in.
You've given me a lot to think about.
Hey, here's the whole deal, bottom line.
You ain't in a court and he ain't Judge Judy, okay?
So tell this guy, like, get on your horses and head west, Dad!
We have now arrived at the last match.
Mano y mano. Duck Boy versus Duck Boy.
So after they learn humility and discipline, what's next?
-Trust the process. -Gosh.
Stone has an unusual set of skills.
He's a jiu-jitsu master.
-Are you ready? -Yes, sir.
-Are you ready? -Yeah. Yes, sir.
Let's get it on!
[applause]
Them fighting each other doesn't have anything to do
with who gets to be a Buck Man or a Duck Man.
I just wanted to see 'em fight.
I thought it'd be funny.
[Jacob laughs]
[beep, beep] Are we starting?
-Let's go, guys. -Come on.
Don't back up.
One point, black.
It's a tale as old as time.
One point, white.
[beep, beep]
Mano y mano.
There you go.
It's all come to a head.
[beep, beep]
[beep] Ooh, we got a tap at the end.
Jacob, you win round one.
I'm gonna have to talk to Jase because I'm not sure
what he's trying to teach 'em with jiu-jitsu.
If I had to hug you for two hours, I'd be mad.
Well, no, you'd be knocked out if you hugged me
-for a second, son. -[all laugh]
Hey, all right. [laughs]
Mallory: Strong toes, Jacob. Jacob.
Strong toes, Jacob. Get on those toes.
One point, white.
Mallory: There you go!
Use those strong toes.
Get down.
Drop back down, drop back down.
Mallory: Good.
One point, white.
-Ow. Hold on. -Break.
Oh.
-You alright?
What happened?
I guess old Jase was right about 911.
-Yeah? -Yeah.
You think it may have popped out and went back in?
You should have tapped when I had you in the choke hold.
[all laugh]
He'll be fine.
Very unfortunate. We've had a legitimate injury.
You won the first round,
Christian was up on points the second round,
so this match is declared a draw.
Come on, big dawg.
We're going home.
I'll give you some water in the back.
Honestly, I never want to see Christian hurt.
He's like my big old stupid Goliath.
That's what I like to see right there.
There's some potential for Buck and Duck Commander here.
Hit the shower, boys.
Christian: Together or separate?
[all laugh]
Honey, look at all this jelly that we made.
Whoa!
-Whoa! -Whoa!
You know, it's been so much fun
just getting to teach the grandkids
about the whole mayhaw harvesting process this year.
Hey, they learned from the best.
There's a reason my face is on that jar.
Because you printed it?
The round sticker goes on top.
I didn't want to.
Korie: Good job.
Willie: Okay, here's the way it goes on the side.
Korie: Look at Dubs.
He's gonna teach us how to do it.
Willie And there we go.
Korie: There, good job.
Zane's decorating his basket.
Okay, that works.
And the very best part of this tradition
is just getting to show the kids
how to share the fruits of their labor.
Here we go, here we go.
Eh, kind of the fruit of my labor.
I feel like I did the lion's share of the work.
Special delivery!
For everybody in the neighborhood?
-You all did this? -Yes, everybody.
You guys all worked on it, too?
Everybody.
Everyone helped, but everyone didn't win but you.
-Yeah. -That's true.
Well, that's awesome.
Oh, strawberry, too. What?
-Thank you. -Happy delivery.
-Did you make me jelly? -She did.
She was a good helper.
Oh, my goodness. I love it.
Do you want some jelly?
Oh, no. You don't like jelly?
Oh, he's all right.
It's consumable sugary food.
You'll love it.
-[laughs] -You'll love it.
[cheering]
Congratulations!
On what?
I thought we had agreed
that you were gonna stop pressuring John Luke
to go to college.
Hey, I'm just setting up scenarios
for the answer I want, not the answer I have.
I felt like I exposed you to the university,
even though you've already been to a university.
But, hey, whatever decision you make, you make, it's fine.
So college is not everything.
You're right,
but I do have an announcement to make.
I did enroll.
[cheering]
See, that's reverse psychology.
They teach that in college, too.
-It worked! -It worked!
I have decided to re-enroll,
and not because of Dad.
Yes!
Not because of the water skiing,
even though that was really cool.
Not because of this cake, which was also really good.
But so that I can say I finished something.
It's really good cake.
I did hear about a little jiu-jitsu match,
so I think I'm gonna let Christian lead the prayer.
-Thank you. -Because he may need it.
He needs some healing.
Lord, thank you so much for today and this food.
Thank you for our family
and for John Luke going back to school.
We're just so proud of him.
We love you through Jesus. Amen.
-Amen. -Amen.
All right, dig in.
Education doesn't end when you finish school.
It's a lifelong journey.
John Luke's back, baby, he's back.
Whether it's learning about family traditions,
learning how to fight,
or learning to finish what you started...
I was nervous that Dad
was gonna push you in the other direction.
He really almost did.
Sometimes you need a little push from the ones you love
to figure out what you're made of.
So you have to have surgery?
Or to send you to the emergency room.
This is precautionary.
You need to be a little more "pre-craw-tionary"
when you wrestle.
What did you just say? Pre-craw-tionary?
Pre-craw-tionary.
Should we do The Departed thing
where I slam his arm on the table?
[all laugh]
What is the fear of being overeducated?
What's the technical term for that?
It sounds like you have achieve-mophobia.
I'm afraid of being successful.
There you go.
But you ended up overcoming your fear.
At this late stage of life,
you overcame that fear and actually became successful.
All that was, okay,
some idiot showed up with a whole bunch of money
and he decided to give it to me because I make everybody laugh.
Hey, I'll be your huckleberry, baby.
-[all laugh] -Huckleberry sweet tea.