Jeff Foxworthy’s Arrowhead Collection & Interview!
Above: Jeff Foxworthy at GT's Dig in Elgin, TX in 2024. Photo c/o Eric Perez.
Legendary Comedian & Artifact Hunter Talks About his Collection...
The Spring 2026 issue of Texas Cache featured a chat with Mr. Foxworthy and a discussion of his love for collecting artifacts... Hard copies of the magazine are still available by clicking here and selecting BACK ISSUES.
Read on for the interview and Jeff's stories of artifact hunting. Big thanks to him for taking the time to talk and share photos of some of his best finds! The PDF version of the article at the bottom may be viewed, printed, or downloaded for free. Copyright 2026, Texas Cache Magazine Volume 29 #3. No part of this content may be reproduced without written permission or full attribution to Texas Cache Magazine. And see everything Jeff Foxworthy is up to by clicking here!
Jeff Foxworthy is one of the most respected and successful comedians in the country. He is the best-selling comedy-recording artist in history, a multiple Grammy Award nominee, and the author of over 26 books. In 2014, he was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. While widely known for his redneck jokes, his comedy extends beyond that, exploring everyday family interactions and human nature—often compared to the style of Mark Twain.
Jeff filmed an all-new comedy special this April, which is set for release later this year. His latest comedy special, The Good Old Days, is currently streaming on Netflix. Jeff also has his own comedy channel Jeff and Larry’s Comedy Roundup on SIRIUSXM, which showcases the best in American comedy. Foxworthy has created multiple games, including Relative Insanity and See What I Mean, which use his humor for interactive fun. His television hosting credits include A&E’s live auction show What’s It Worth?, NBC’s comedy competition Bring The Funny, and several seasons of FOX’s Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?. He also hosted The American Bible Challenge for GSN, narrated Lifetime’s The Week the Women Left, and led CBS’s The American Baking Competition.
A pioneer of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, Foxworthy co-created and starred in Blue Collar TV on the WB network. The Blue Collar Comedy Tour films were among Comedy Central’s highest-rated programming, selling millions of units and earning a Grammy nomination. His other comedy specials include Them Idiots Whirled Tour (2012) with Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy.
As an author, Foxworthy has released several New York Times bestsellers, including The Redneck Dictionary series, How to Really Stink at Golf, How to Really Stink at Work, and children’s books such as Dirt On My Shirt, Silly Street, and Hide!!!, the latter winning a Mom’s Choice Award.
Foxworthy has voiced characters in various animated films, including Handy Smurf in The Smurfs and Smurfs 2, Reggie the Rooster in Racing Stripes, Lyle in The Fox and the Hound II, and more. His final solo comedy album, Have Your Loved Ones Spayed or Neutered, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Comedy Charts. From 1999 to 2009, he hosted The Foxworthy Countdown, a syndicated country music radio show, earning a CMA nomination for Broadcast Personality of the Year. His achievements also include an HBO special, two Showtime specials, a Cable ACE Award nomination, and a People’s Choice Award for The Jeff Foxworthy Show.
Beyond comedy, he founded Foxworthy Outdoors, a brand dedicated to outdoor products. His You Might Be A Redneck If… calendars have sold millions of copies through Andrews McMeel Publishing.
But did you know Jeff loves to hunt and collect prehistoric artifacts, too? He graciously took time out of his busy schedule to call and talk about his affection for Native American relics and show some of his personal finds.
Editor’s note: This was a recorded phone call that generated a transcript, and every time Mr. Foxworthy said the word "arrowhead" it translated to "airhead." When I pointed it out later, he replied, “Hahaha… I’m a little bit country.” Some excerpts from the conversation with Texas Cache Editor Ryan Murray follow below.
TEXAS CACHE: I can’t tell you how much I appreciate you calling. I’ve been watching you forever, seen your shows and everything... and I just found out that you have written kids’ books!
JEFF FOXWORTHY: I do. Yeah, I’ve got three of them.
TC: I’m gonna order those because this morning--I have a 5-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy-- and I was taking them to school. And I was telling them I was going to talk to you today, and my daughter, she was in a sassy mood, and she goes, “so?” (both laughing) I’m gonna get the books and then tell her this is who I was talking to.
JF: So I’ll tell you a funny story. When I wrote the first one, one of my friends, his daughter really liked the books, but she could not say my name. And so she would always tell her dad, “Dad, let’s read the Jex Foxwhirly books.” And so when my daughters heard that, they never called me dad again; they just called me Jex after that. And I figured, well, if it started because a little kid could say it, it’d probably be a good grandpa name, so that’s actually my grandpa name, it’s “Jex”, J-E-X.
TC: That’s funny. Well, I’ve heard you talk about your grandkids a lot. I was wondering, are you getting any of them into the hobby of artifact collecting or rock hounding?
JF: So Ryan, when my grandson was two, I figured, ya got to start learning the love of finding stuff early. So I would go to plow fields, and I’d fill my pocket up with marbles, shark teeth, and arrowheads. And we’d go walk through the fields, and I got him a little flipping stick that was about a foot and a half long. And a cup. And so he’s been looking for stuff since he was about 2 years old. He’s 5 now.
TC: That’s great. That’s how I got into it. Both of my grandpas. They were both rock collectors and arrowhead hounds. And I inherited my grandfather’s collection. I still have it, and it’s a cherished thing that I have on the wall.
JF: Dude, that is so, so neat. I have my granddaddy’s tackle box, and I will still, from time to time, open it and just remember being a kid and looking at those lures and stuff, and--that’s a treasure.
[Rooster crows loudly]
TC: That’s my rooster there, he just wandered up. I’m going to get away from him. That’s distracting! His name is Dutch and he’s the king of the coop.
JF: (laughing) And he lets everybody know too.
TC: And he starts crowing at 4 o’clock in the morning, too.
JF: As my daddy would say, that’s the first sign of a dying rooster.
TC: (laughing) Well, I could talk to you all day long about artifacts, but I know your time is short, so I was gonna get into a few questions if that’s all right.
JF: Yeah, man, go ahead, sure.
TC: I had several people ask how you got into the hobby and how long you’ve been at it.
JF: Well, I grew up in Georgia. And I remember, I was probably about 16, and my dad had the little farm that he grew up on. And I was plowing, and as I came around, I looked, and there was an arrowhead sitting up on top of the row I’d just plowed. I got off, got it, stuck it in a drawer. I still have it... but you know, then I spent my first 25, 30 years in comedy--I was never home. I was always on the road. And when I started slowing down a little bit, my farm manager, Glenn Garner, he had looked for arrowheads his whole life. And so we started looking for them on the farm--and we’ve got them, but the problem is, our Native Americans didn’t have good source material. Mostly everything we’ve got is quartz. And so, you know, they’re kind of chunky, kind of thick, but we have them.
And I just got so addicted to looking for them. Then we had a friend in North Carolina that planted strawberries, and we’d drive up there, and then we’d drive to Tennessee, and then I had a buddy in Kentucky, and it just kind of spread out like that. And then I got to where every night I was watching arrowhead videos before I’d go to sleep. And then we went on a couple of pay digs in Texas, and then I’m like, well, dang, Texas beats everybody because their flint is so awesome.
TC: Yeah, the Hill Country flint is just amazing.
JF: Unbelievable
TC: It’s found far and wide. And there’s another place called the Alabates Flint Quarry, it’s actually a National Monument. It’s in the Panhandle, and that stuff is found as far away as North Dakota.
JF: I have an Alibates Dalton. I guess y’all don’t have Daltons in Texas, but you call them something else?
TC: There are Daltons in Texas, and there are different forms and variations of them.
JF: Yeah, so that Alibates material is just amazing. We have friends that we go look at their place in Arkansas. And they have a white kind of flint called Novaculite, and it’s the same way. They only mine it up in like northwest Arkansas, but, you know, you’ll find points from it a hundred miles away.
TC: My friend Walt Williams has a novaculite Clovis.
JF: Oh wow.
TC: It’s been worked down to the knub, but it’s really awesome. It got a lot of use!
Above: Jeff's novaculite knife from Arkansas.
JF: Yeah, that’s so cool. You know, I love them all, but... when you just get that hill country flint there’s just nothing else like it. I say when you’re looking for arrowheads in Texas, you get to be surprised twice. You get to be surprised when you find it. And then you get to be surprised when you get home and wash it. Because all of them are just gray, until you get home and get the toothbrush and the soap and water, and then you’re like, oh, wow, this one’s yellow or this one’s black!
Above: Jeff's Alibates Dalton point given to him by a friend.
TC: And a lot of times they change color with the patina. They’ve been in the ground for so long, and then they get exposed to the oxygen. They can change color within a few days.
JF: Down near Austin I found probably the prettiest perd (Pedernales) I’ve ever found. And it did exactly that. When I pulled it out, it was almost kind of a blue-looking thing. But over the few years I’ve had it, it’s kind of turned like a milky blue, like it’s got a cloud in it. But it’s really cool. I mean, I like it. I’m like, well, that’s neat, man. But yeah, if you love Native American stuff, it’s hard to beat Texas.
Above: A Pedernales point dug by Jeff in Elgin, TX.
TC: Yeah, that’s what I’ve heard. I’ve never been hunting anywhere else other than just briefly in Colorado and Montana, and everything is completely different up there, lots of obsidian, quartz, and basalt, but most everything here is flint.
JF: That obsidian is a cool material. I mean, the way it holds an edge. It’s fascinating, you know, I mean, they were such smart people... some of that flint that I found in the hill country--I’m like, heck, I could use that as a knife today.
TC: Have you ever tried flint knapping?
JF: I have not because I don’t need something else to be addicted to! I’m fascinated by it, and you know, I enjoy mine. I pull them out, and I’ll sit there--I’ve got one of those little elbow lights with a magnifying glass on it, and I kind of study the different styles of knapping on them and things. But anytime I’ve ever been around a flint knapper, it makes a mess! And I’m like, trying to stay married. Between having a job that takes me on the road, I’m begging my wife for days I can go arrowhead hunt. I don’t need to get a hobby that just makes a giant mess in the house or yard!
TC: Then ya gotta figure out what to do with all that stuff.
JF: Yes, exactly. That’s why it’s great to have a grandson... You know, I’ve already started thinking probably like your granddaddy. I’m like, all right, I know who I’m leaving mine to, ‘cause he loves them. I mean, he’ll, you know, come in and study them and... It’s funny, Ryan. It’s one of those things-- there’s no gray area. Either you’re not interested at all--like my brother wouldn’t stop to pick one up if it was laying in front of him--or you’re so obsessed with them, you can’t go anywhere without looking for chips or middens. There’s no middle ground. Either you’re obsessed, or you could care less.
TC: I find myself looking through landscape gravel when I go to the bank or Walmart.
JF: Yes! Yes! You can’t help it! (laughing) I know exactly what you mean.
TC: I’ve pulled over at a stoplight before, saw something, and jumped out of my truck real quick and grabbed it and jumped back in before the light turned green.
JF: Here’s the problem with it, though, because I have a farm, it’s a lot of work. And now when I’m out plowing, I don’t know how many times I’ve stopped the tractor, because I see what I think might be a chip or a flake or something, and you get off and it’s not. But thank God I have a farm manager that’s into it as well, or he’d be going, ‘DUDE, come on!’ And I’m like, it looked like a point. I had to stop.
TC: I saw a video of your homemade sifter. Can you tell us about it?
JF: Yeah, it works, dude. It works... Out there where you live, people have them, but, like, nobody has one here. And so we wanted one that we could pull behind the truck. And it works! We’re lucky because Fort Benning is 20 miles from us, so we went and kind of perused their scrap metal and stuff and started with a frame, and it was a lot of trial and error. We’d go use it and then go, ‘ah, well, we gotta take it back and get a stronger screen’ or whatever. But, there’s not many people around where we live that have one. And so when you’ve got one, then people will invite you to their place, you know, because they want to check their place and find out. So we didn’t go to school just to eat our lunch. We were looking for more arrowhead spots to look at!
TC: I was hoping to put some pictures in the magazine of that, along with some of your artifacts.
JF: Yeah, man. Let me get your email address.
TC: It’s texascachemag@gmail.com.
JF: Okay. And just to your attention?
TC: Yeah, it’s just me. I’m a one-man operation. My office is my laundry room. And my rooster you heard earlier is out there yelling at me all day, so... that’s my life.
JF: (laughing) There’s a redneck joke in there somewhere, Ryan. Well, you do a good job, man, because I like your magazine
TC: Well, thank you! I asked my buddy Eric Perez to give you some copies when I heard you were going to GT’s Dig. [pay dig at the Hogeye Site in Elgin]. He used to be an operator there.
JF: I know Eric, man. Eric’s dumped me a few good arrowheads. I think he dumped me that perd I was talking about. [pictured above]
TC: Yeah, he’s a good guy. He just lives down the road from me. Ya know, GT’s place is unique and unlike any other ones, really.
JF: Gene (Tolbert)’s a hoot. He gets into it as much as you do when you find something.
TC: I know people who, that’s all they do, is dig at his place, even during the night.
JF: That’s crazy. What’s the guy who has Curious Archaeology, the guy that hand-digs? I met him out there. He finds some cool stuff.
TC: His name’s Brad Agnew. He’s a friend of mine. He found a Clovis blade cache there.
NOTE: See the Curious Archaeology Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@curious_archaeology
JF: Insane! I watched that whole video.
TC: I think it had 72 pieces total.
JF: Insane. And after a while I started going, how do you even display that, you know, it’s so many of them?
TC: He is having that cache studied by archaeologists, and they’re writing it up.
JF: And they should. And he hand dug them out. That’s crazy.
TC: So what possesses you to go out and get covered in dirt looking for pointy rocks? What is it?
JF: Gosh, that’s a good question. You know, it’s one of those things. And I swear, finding them is more fun than having them, if that makes sense. But I think it brings out something in us like the 10-year- old boy on a treasure hunt. But, you know, it’s when you pick something up, and you think, ‘Somebody made this. But nobody has touched this in 7000 years. I’m the first person to touch this.’ And I always think about that when I find one, you know, whoever made this, they weren’t doing it because it was cool. They were doing it to survive.
TC: They had to eat.
JF: They had to eat, and that was their job when they woke up in the morning to find enough to eat so they’d be alive at the end of the day. So you know, for me, I mean, I study them. I go read about them. I go, ‘What is it?’ I’m like, every time I find something, I want to know everything about it: how old it is, what they used it for, where do you find them? And so it’s not a casual hobby; I mean, it’s kind of borderline obsession.
TC: I’ve written 10 pages on one spear point before!
JF: Yes. And my wife, I guess for her, she’s like, ‘well, there’s no women around, you know, he can’t get in trouble.’ So, she’s always cool about me going and looking.
TC: So is mine. (laughing) Well, I know you gotta get going here in a minute, but I was gonna see if we could do a lightning round of kids’ questions.
JF: You go ahead, shoot.
A big blade dug by Jeff at GT's Dig, Hogeye site, Elgin, TX.
JEFF TAKES SOME QUESTIONS FROM KIDS WHO READ TEXAS CACHE..
TC: Barrett Tweddale, he’s 14 years old and he lives in Wortham, Texas. He wants to know what you like most about artifact hunting.
JF: Well, I’ve always been an outdoorsman, a hunter and a fisherman, and so I think it’s holding it and realizing, oh, somebody used this as a knife or somebody used this as a projectile, and, you know, we frame them and treat them like works of art, but they were very functional, necessary tools for them. And I just get amazed at how well these things were made. And they didn’t have tools like we have, you know, they had antler tips.
TC: Stones and bones.
JF: Stones and bones, man, and they made things that would be hard to make on a machine today.
TC: Next is Luke Christmas. He lives in Austin and he’s 11 years old. He wants to hear about the most arrowheads you ever found in one day.
JF: Wow... Glenn and I, one day, I think, found-- now this is in Florida--we found 104 in one day.
TC: Whoa!
JF: That was a good day. With arrowheads, you kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince, but my goal every time is 4 whole points. Now I’ve had days where I’ve been lucky, and I’ve found 30 whole points, but I’ve also had days where I’ve found none. So I just kind of tell myself that, you know, on the way to wherever we’re going, ‘hey, if you can find 4 whole points, it was a good day.
TC: Here’s the next one. Briggs Grimball, he’s 11 years old and lives in Humble, Texas. He wants to know: What is the best thing you ever found?
JF: The first time Glenn ever took me outside of Georgia, we went to North Carolina, and I got out of the truck. They had plowed a field to plant strawberries, and it rained on it, and I walked about 15 feet--and there was broken pottery everywhere, so I was kind of obsessed with that, and I reached down. I thought it was a tractor part, and I picked it up. And I wasn’t even excited. You know how you do, you have it in your hand, flicking the dirt off of it and stuff, and I thought it was a spark plug cover or something, and the more I got to flicking the dirt off of it, I said, ‘Well, that ain’t plastic.’ And then I got to looking at it, then I started digging it out. Well, it was a stone pipe in perfect condition, nothing wrong with it. And I walked over to Glenn, who had been looking for arrowheads his entire life. And I’m like, ‘dude, look what I found.’ He turned around and walked away from me and didn’t stop for about a mile. He was like, ‘You have no idea what you found, you idiot!’ It was like the kid killing the biggest deer on the ranch the first time he went deer hunting. But yeah, I’ve got that framed in my office.
Above: The prehistoric stone pipe that made Glenn jealous!
Below: Two Arkansas points Jeff found five minutes apart while digging an overhang in Arkansas.
TC: Here’s one final one. Marley Keating, she’s in Silver City, Texas, and is 11 years old. And I’m going to end it with her joke because she came up with a way better joke than I ever could. She wants to know, where is your favorite place to hunt for artifacts?
JF: The Hill Country. Arkansas is great, but just for the quality of the flint, it’s hard to beat the Hill Country in Texas.
TC: I’d concur with that. You want to hear her joke?
JF: Sure!
TC: Marley says “You might be a redneck if you spit on your arrowhead to clean it.”
JF: (Laughing) Okay, you have to tell her, last week I’m down on the farm. I pick one up. I think I was shed hunting, and I picked one up, and I couldn’t tell much about it. So I stuck it in my mouth, swished it around, and then looked at it, and then I thought later, that’s probably not real sanitary!
TC: We’ve all done it.
JF: Yeah, I wanted to see what color it was. So tell her I probably am going to steal that from her and tell her thank you! (laughing)
TC: That’s something she’ll remember for the rest of her life that she told you a joke and that you laughed at it.
JF: Tell her I laughed at it. I’ve always said about the redneck jokes, the funniest ones are the true ones, and I have done that one. So yeah, that’s funny.
TC: I tried to think of a joke. And I thought of one that’s so terrible that I’d be embarrassed to bomb in front of you, but do you want to hear it anyway?
JF: Sure, why not.
TC: We could talk about broken arrowheads, but there’s no point... ... I told you it was bad!
JF: (snickers politely) That’d be a good t-shirt, though.
TC: I’m not smarter than a 5th-grader and I’m also not funnier than a 5th-grader.
JF: That’s okay, you love artifacts, so you and I could talk for a long time. If I didn’t have to do another interview right now, I’d stay on the phone with you because it’s kind of like, I’ll talk about comedy, but I’d much rather talk about arrowheads.
TC: Well, any time, I’d love to chat with you more. I can’t tell you how appreciative I am that you would sit down and talk with me, and the readers of the magazine are gonna love it. This is so wonderful to hear from you and I can’t thank you enough. What an honor! Call me anytime, and if you ever want me to put you on some points when you come to Texas, you let me know, and I’ll tell you what’s popping.
JF: Okay, you got a deal. Well, thank you, man. Keep turning that magazine out.
Above: Jeff outstanding in a field.
Thank you, Jeff Foxworthy for talking with Texas Cache and showing the readers some of your collection! It was an honor and a privilege to chat and feature your artifact collection! Readers can keep up to date with Jeff's tour and other projects by visiting JEFFFOXWORTHY.COM
*After this interview was printed, the editor (below left) and friend/flintknapper Christian Markham (below right) had the good fortune to attend Jeff's comedy show in Grand Prairie and visit with him for a bit. Christian made this replica Yegua point and gifted it to Jeff! The show was hilarious, so if you get a chance, catch Jeff Foxworthy on tour or watch his specials!
Click below to see the print version for FREE as it appeared in the magazine. By Ryan Murray. Copyright 2026, Texas Cache Magazine Volume 29 #3. No part of this content may be reproduced without written permission or full attribution to Texas Cache Magazine.
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