Duck Call Room - Bella Robertson Feels Justin Martin’s Wife’s Pain over His Sloppy Habits

Episode Date: March 20, 2025

Si stands aside to let the ladies have their fun, and the Duckmen wives—Bella, Brittany, Alyson, and Lisa—don’t hold back from sharing their men’s bad habits and embarrassing quirks. Brittany and Bella agree that Martin’s messy tendencies at home and in the office are a huge headache, and Alyson has a bone to pick with John-David’s weird, dirty sock habit. Lisa and the girls share their favorite Uncle Si stories and the things about him they love most. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, well, we got kicked out. We're going. We're leaving. Are we really going to let them just do a whole podcast? Why not, man, 400 and however we are. Let the women have their time to shine, man. Ladies night in the duck call room. Y'all check it out.

Ladies night. They're going to tell all, I'm sure, about us. Which is fine. I think the women tell us. They got green light. Y'all enjoy it. Yeah. It's a red light.

It's not on yet. It will be a red light. Y'all check it out. We're out of here. What am I supposed to do? You're taking over. Yeah. I'm super excited.

I'm ready to unleash the beast. I'm ready. As are going. So the girls are in control. John David said to throw him under the bus, so. Let's go. That's permission. I know, right?

Uncle Sai told me to throw him under the bus and run him over a hundred times. That's aggressive. That's what he told me. I was like, how am I going to do that, Uncle Sai? There's nothing bad to say about you. He was like, oh, you'll come out with something. That's so funny. Well, hey, here we go.

Secrets revealed. Okay, so I guess we should introduce ourselves, since this is a complete takeover. Allison, you're all right. I'm John David's wife, Allison. Happy to be here. I am Al's wife, Lisa, you know, and he is the best-looking Robertson. I'm Jacob's wife. I'm joking.

I'm Bella. I am part of the fam, so. And I am Brittany and I am Martin's wife. It feels weird to say Martin, though. because I'm like the only person that calls him Justin. I feel so weird calling him Justin. I know everyone says that. I feel weird calling him Martin.

You know what? When he first came around, everybody called him Martin, Martin. And I said, well, what's his last name? They were like, Martin. And I said, his name is Martin, Martin. And they were like, no, his first name is Justin. I said, well, then why are we calling him Martin? Well, that's just what we do.

I actually remember Bella, you used to like point. pointed out hard. When I first met you, you'd be like, why do you call him Justin? I was like nine years old. She was. She was super young. So she was super bold about it. She was like, why are you doing that? I was like, well, I feel like I notice it way more now that he's married to you and your name is Brittany Martin. Yeah. It's like, then it makes me think, like, oh, that's not the same because that's your last name. Right. It'd be weird for me since we're married. Right.

Right. We have some questions to answer that you guys sent in. So one of the questions that I thought was really funny that someone asked was, what's the worst gift you've ever gotten from your husband? And I think it's so funny because I feel like I've talked about this with a lot of, like, girlfriends and my mom and my sisters and everything. And I feel like everyone has a story that's like no way that happened. And so, I don't know. Does anyone else have that story? Oh, yeah, for sure.

Oh, I do for sure. Okay, well, I'll start. So last Christmas, Christmas morning comes around, and I got Jake a gift. Well, of course, we're going to open presents. And Jake was like, I don't have anything for you. And I thought he was joking. And he'd been, like, saying this for, like, the past few weeks. But I thought it was all a joke.

So Christmas morning comes, there's no gift under the tree. I'm like, are you kidding me? It's Christmas morning. No present at all. And I was like, not even a stocking? No, not a stalking. Nothing in the stocking, nothing under the tree. There's one gift on the tree.

It says, two Jacob from Bella. That's it. And I'm like, are you kidding me? So I'm like, what would possess you to do this? Well, Jacob is like, what are you talking about? So let's back it up. December 1st, me and Jacob go on a trip to Dallas. And we're in Dallas.

And I wanted a cowboy hat at a store. It was like a $90 cowboy hat. And Jacob's like, Bella, you do not need the cowboy hat. And I'm like, I want the cowboy hat. Like, I always need a cowboy hat. And Jacob was like, no, you don't. And I'm like, what about when we go to the rodeo? He's like, you never go to the rodeo.

I'm like, but I always need a cowboy hat. He was like, no, you don't. So I said, famous last words, this could be part of my Christmas. He's been there. He took it to heart. Jacob said, there's your Christmas present. And on Christmas morning, he goes, I did get you a Christmas present. That cowboy hat.

I was like, the cowboy hat I got a month ago that I don't even remember is my Christmas present. So that was my story. And I was so mad because then the whole Christmas day, we had to go to my parents, his moms, his dads, my grandparents. And everywhere we go. You know, it's the first question everybody asked. What did you get to you? What did you wear your cowboy back? Nothing.

And then Jacob says, yes, she did. Tell him what you got. And I would say, I got nothing. And Jacob would say, no, no, no, tell him what you got. a cowboy hat. A month ago. I picked out a month ago. Exactly.

That was my worst Christmas gift. And this year, he completely made a 180. He learned from his mistakes from last year. He got me two gifts that I wanted and one gift that I didn't know about, which was great. He had a full turnaround. He learned it the hard way, but he had a turnaround. I resonate with Jacob because that is just not my strength, is gift. giving and that is John David's strength he's a great gift giver he is constantly given gifts and i feel

so bad because like that's one of his love languages one of them he's like all the all the love languages but um i just like a struggle and so this christmas he did fell a little bit um or maybe it was last year i don't know maybe it was both years so life is crazy with three kids like after school all the things and like I love to cook but like now it's kind of more like a chore you know like it's just another thing I have to do and so I'm trying to get into the crock pot oh wait I heard about it's your failed crock pot recipe yeah like all of them because like there's just not good ones out there I have like maybe three and it's like a like last night I made pulled pork and it's the exact same recipe I make in the oven and he was like did you do something different and I was like no it's just the

crock pot. And so, like, they're just, it's just not great, but like, it really is helpful. So anyway, he decided to get me last year and this year, a crock pot cookbook. Well, every time I make something out of the crock pot cookbook, he, like, doesn't say anything at dinner. And I'm like, you hate it, don't you? And he was like, oh, yeah, it's just not good. Like, I wouldn't make it again. And I'm like, well, you got me the cookbook, you know? Like, I'm just trying to cook something that you gave me. But so I don't know, but anybody have any good crock pot recipes? Did you try that Mississippi pot roast?

I never did. You should. You should. You got to try that. Oh, it's so good. And I'm like, my family's sick of pot roast. You know. But this is with chicken.

So it's like, yeah, it's chicken. I need to go back. You can put anything in it. Yeah. Yes. Like, you can put it in a taco. You can put it on a Hawaiian roll. And it's not dry.

It's like every time I made chicken in the crock pot, it's dry. There's a giant stick of butter in it. Yeah. And you have aujou. There's multiple things that go into it. Okay. Now, if you're trying to eat... If you're trying to eat healthy,

the stick of butter on top might not be exactly the key. But for flavor, it's really good. We're just surviving a lot of days. So, like, I'll take the stick of butter, you know. Yeah. Now, I think the kids will really like it, too. We love it. We cook it, like, once or twice every year.

week. Great. If you'll have any other crock pot recipes, I will take once you have tried and are good. I will have Anna send you some. You haven't? Never used one. My horrible gift is a reoccurring gift. I was getting, Justin and I have been together for 12 years, married for 10 in May.

And ever since the beginning, he has got. me every year these super thick fluffy fuzzy socks John David got me those this year too maybe they're on the same page I bet you it was Justin's idea and I the same socks every year they're different patterns stocking yeah like they're like stocking suffers but when I tell you they're not like that stocks he stuffs the stocking he does he's actually pretty good David does Jacob's never stuffed the stocking before I will say once you're an Uncle Al has me. Yeah, I was just about to say, they're curious.

We were doing that, and it was all, like, happy and stuff until we had kids. And now, our, like, we haven't gotten each other Christmas gifts since the kids were born. So that kind of came to a whole, it'll pick back up, I'm sure, but right now we're surviving twins. So it's all about them at the moment. But it was actually, since we, we're just now coming out of the, like, we're still surviving, but we were really surviving, like, the first two years. And so he did get me a stocking this year And he put those fuzzy socks in there And when I tell you they're not like

The soft like these are bulky The ones with like grips on the bottom Are they the barefoot The Blank you know the blanket? I love those ones I have those socks No These are from Academy So sweaty

Like you couldn't wear shoes with them No way Martin was getting the barefoot dream socks No way he has no idea No no no I wish he was good. If you want to get me the barefoot dream socks, I'm okay with that. Also wear shoes. Who needs 12 pairs of fuzzy socks? That's another thing. That's what I'm saying. One pair. So I have been stashing these socks in a bag all these years. And I've never worn them. They all have the tags on them. And well, I always plan to re-gift them. And then I just

forget about them because they're up on the top of my closet away. If anybody ever gets fuzzy socks. Listen, I was like, okay, we're about to spend the rest of our lives. We are spending the rest of our lives together. I have got to end this madness. So this year, I got the guts to finally tell him. And I was like, please stop buying me these socks. And I went and showed him the bag. And I was like, these are the socks of the years.

And he was like, you haven't worn? No, he don't notice. Oh, my goodness. No. I was like, my feet sweat just looking at these. I cannot. You can't wear them with shoes. You can't, not to mention, some of the patterns he picked out, bless his heart, are just, it's just, you know, reindeer.

You can only wear them once a year. And I'm like, please stop wasting your money on these socks. That is great. How did he react to that? Of course, he was fine, but then he took it as an opportunity to be like, oh, well, I'm never going to get you anything ever again. I'm never going to, you know, went all out. And it's a funny little joke now. And I'm like, no, no, no, you can buy me socks.

But like some workout socks. Or if that's what you want to stuff my stocking with. Some new Nike socks. Yeah. I need, everyone needs new socks every year. You know, tough out the old ones. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up.

You know what that means. That means more outside cooking. And y'all know we love to eat beef around here. And that's because of our friends over. at Tritels beef makes such a good product, baby. Ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Sao Robertson, would say,

buy on the grill! Look, before we got Tritels, getting ready for a cookout, man, somebody had to run the grocery store, do all the things, grab whatever was left in case you were late in the day. And you never really know where that beef comes from. But with Tritels beef, we skip the grocery store and do it a different way. Tritels comes from a family ranch out in Texas. They're a fifth generation American ranch,

So they've been at it for a while. Now look, the beef comes straight from their ranch and other ranchers they work with who raise cattle the same way. Their steaks are properly aged and shipped straight from the ranch to your door. We threw a couple of ribbys on the grill. Look, salt, pepper, garlic, hot fire,

that's all you need. Look, because I'll tell you what, when the beef comes from people who raise cattle for a living, you can taste the difference. The tenderness and the flavor are fantastic. So if you're stocking the freezer for grilling season, go check out Tritale's beef. I know in size case, Christine loves it, which is just a, she doesn't eat meat. She ain't a big meat eater, folks.

Yeah. Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's tribeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. So I'll tell you how I met Al. So I was in the sixth grade and I was a social butterfly. So I knew everybody in school, knew everybody that lived around me. I mean, I just loved people. And I still do.

But, and I see this boy, and I'm thinking, oh, my goodness, that is the cutest boy I've ever seen in my life. And so I said, so I went to the office. I'm like, Miss Anna, Miss Anna, who is this new guy? So she tells me who he is. And, and then, oh, yeah, he had two snot-nosed little brothers with him, Jason. At the time, it was Jason and Jess. Yeah. You know, that was their names back then.

He never even noticed me, but I followed him a round. during recess, fire drills, whatever, you know. You were there. I was there. I was just looking for him. I just thought he was so cute. But he never knew I existed. That year he left.

He went to another school and then went to high school. So I didn't see him again until I was in the 10th grade and he was in the 12th grade. We used to drive around and around McDonald's parking lot. And so on Friday and Saturday. So I drove around and saw one of my friends, one of my cousins. And so I stopped and talked to him. And so about that time, Al's head pops in my window. And I'm like, I remember him.

And anyway, so he looks in at me and he goes, whoa. So whenever we're speaking, I usually tell everybody. So whoa, you don't know what that is. that means you filled out. You grew up. Oh my goodness. You know. And so he, you know, so then he asked me out.

So I was 15 and he was 16 because we're only a year apart in the age. And so we went out. But he was not the sweet guy that I remembered. I mean, he was still sweet, but he also was dabbling a little in alcohol and, you know, doing some recreational drugs. And so our first date was not a very memorable one. You know, I ended up in the backseat with him passed out. Fast forward and he comes back.

So he leaves and goes out of, goes to find his way in New Orleans, you know, not long after. But anyway, so then at 18, whenever he came back into town after. after sowing his wild oats he called me but I had a I had a like a really serious boyfriend

but you know I always knew he probably wasn't it because he wasn't Al you know and so he called me one day and he said hey I'm back in town I said yeah I know

and he said well I heard that you have been dating somebody quite seriously and so I thought this is my chance yes I have and we are getting married and yon i mean i just wanted to tell him what a good guy that he was you know and um he goes hmm well you want to go out on friday and i said yep and so i just dropped that guy you know and yeah like a hot rock and within within um seven months we were married so um yeah

so that's you know that's kind of that's the very fast way and boys must have been so cute because my mom says the same thing. When she was in third grade, she saw him and thought, that was the cutest boy I've ever seen. I've seen earlier pictures of all of them. The dimples, there's lots of things that they have working for. My man is still a good-looking man, I'm telling you. I love old owl.

So sweet. So I'm from Shreveport, Hunter. He is not a fan. But anyway, I'm from Shreveport, and John David's lived here, whole life. And so I have family that's lived here too. And so in the summertime, I would come stay with my cousin. I'm the only child. So she was like my sister and growing up because she had a younger brother, too, who was like way younger than her. So we were like sisters. And so I would come visit and stay like the week with her. And then we went to Whitesbury Road where I met Lisa. And I would go

visit with her in the youth group and John David was in the youth group. So one summer night after youth group, we went to Keynes and we just so happened to sit near each other. And my cousin was dating her now husband, but they like were so a PDA, like got on my nerves. I was like, they were, you know, I couldn't even drive. I was in the back seat and they were like driving. I'm like the third wheel and they're like, oh, I love you. And I'm like, oh. And so we get to Canes. And and like she's getting up to just like go refill her drink and was like I love you I'll be right back and like kissed him and I said get a room and that is what stole John David's heart and so he messaged me on Facebook and like the rest is history I love that I don't think I've ever heard that

I love that yeah you want to go you go first okay um like I said I am not from here I'm originally from Nashville, Tennessee. So it is weird that we ended up to, it was a God thing for sure. He intervened in that way. But we actually had a mutual friend. And Justin at the time was doing like lots of things like NWTF, like shows like that go on a lot in Nashville.

And I'm pretty sure that's what he was up there for. And we all just ended up hanging out. And it's funny because at the time, Duck Dynasty, they may, you may have been filming. I'm not sure if it had aired yet. Or if it had aired, I was not a watcher. I did not watch it.

So it's actually funny because I asked him what he did for a living. And he said he built duck calls and I laughed at him. I did not know that that was a real job. I was like, what's a duck call? I was like, what do you really do? And he goes, that's what I really do. I build duck calls.

And I was like, I have so many questions for this. And we were friends for about a year before all the, all the, he just really showed me Jesus in a way that I had never seen before. And that's what, because I wasn't moving to West Monroe, Louisiana. I knew exactly where he was from.

He's from here his whole life. And I was like, I'm not leaving now. Asheville to go down there, talk about a culture shock. And after about a year, he said he was just about to give up on me. It's so funny. Like, when I finally was like, you know what, let's, let's date. Let's like really do this. Because I had never dated anyone like him. I had always been cheated on. I had always, he was just so kind to a point that I had never experienced before. And I was like, you know what?

What's the worst that could happen give a guy like this a chance, you know? Yeah. And he has literally been that way since then. So, no regrets. Love Louisiana now. I don't know what it is about this small town, but like everybody brings their spouse home. And it's like they don't want to at first. And then they end up like loving it like same here.

It took me a few years. But now I'm like, I love the people here. Yeah. Oh my gosh, every time I go home to visit Nashville, I'm like, you couldn't pay me to move back here. The traffic, it's totally different than how I grew up now. Nashville even itself is different, and I'm just like, nope, take me back home to West Monroe. I love it down there. Same way.

Well, me and Jacob have a modern romance. We started dating during quarantine. In 2019, I started going to a new youth group. and his sister was the youth leader, I guess, at the time. She's now the youth pastor, but she's the youth leader at the time. And she's like four or five years older than me. She's age. And me and her just instantly clicked.

We were like best friends right off the bat. And we got so close together. And during that time, my parents were going on some tour for like six weeks. And so my mom was like, asked Kaylee, she was like, hey, do you mind staying with Will, Bella, and Rowdy at our house? just house, like, make sure the house is running good, you know, make sure they go to school pretty much. So Kaylee stayed with us for six weeks, and me and Kelly became like, literally sisters during that time. But she had a brother who was a college baseball player. So Jacob played baseball in college and was kind of living his like wild college years. And I always knew

about Jacob, but never met him, never seen him. He was college baseball player, so he didn't really come home that often. And I had just heard about him. And one time I saw him, I think, actually, I was leading a Bible study and she brought him there. And we like said hi to each other and that was just it. We never talked about it again. And then that fall, it was like Christmas break. And Jacob came home for like the month of December for Christmas, like soon breakish. And we started hanging out a little just with Kaylee still all together. And we kind of got to be friends. And then And Kaylee was like, shut it down. She was like, your last name will never be Mayo.

Famous last words. She was like, you will never date my brother, which in her defense, he was living his crazy college days. She knew what he was doing. You did not need to be with him and all this stuff. Well, I didn't know this at the time. And I don't know if she did either. But during that Christmas break, he was really like trying to like go to church and trying to get better, trying to like figure out what he's going to do with his life.

And so that's why he was spending so much time with. his sister because he was like, I just like don't want to hang out with my old friends. I just want to like do better. So he was hanging out with me and Kaylee a lot. And quarantine happened. And Jacob moved back home. And so we pretty much quarantined together. We like, we're at each other's house every day. And my parents have tennis court and fun things. So he would come over every single day and play on the tennis court. We played tennis every day. We played basketball. We were making TikToks. We were just like having corn, like we had nothing to do all day, but hang out with

quarantine fun. Yeah. Quarantine fun. We were making all these TikToks and people were commenting like, are y'all dating? Are you all dating? And we were like, no. Maybe. You know.

So throw it back to Jacob's podcast last week. Do you know what I'm about to talk about? The ceiling fan. Okay. I've been waiting to clear the air on this. So Jacob, I guess that's kind of a pun. But Jacob was on the podcast, and they asked him what his, what was it, his pet peeve about me? Yeah.

Okay. They asked him what his pet peeve about me was. And he said that his words, not mine, I don't believe in a ceiling fan. But I believe in them. I know they are. The thing is, is that I think ceiling fans are not meant to be used every single night. They're just meant to be used on demand. When you're warm, you turn on the fan.

Mine's on right now. When you're hot. Ours has not been off in years. Jacob, every night. We went out of town. It's on. No. That is not my...

Why, though? Do you just... It makes a ice water. Yeah, I get that. It makes me cold. It makes me not want to get out of the bed. Every morning. Which you already struggle with.

I cannot get out of the bed. Getting out of the bed. Yes. I cannot get out. I can't take the covers off me. If that air. is blowing. If I take the covers off, I'm going, I feel like I'm just going to shrivel up and die. I'm like, I can't get out of the bed in the morning when it's on. So every morning,

even if Jacob's not waking up when I'm waking up, I'm like, turn off the fan, turn off the fan, and then he has to get up, turn off the fan so I can just get out of the covers because it's too cold. But I'm like, if it's hot in the room, no problem, we can turn it on. It's just does not need to be used every night. You would not survive a second in our bedroom. Well, Jacob leaves it on every night. That's the thing. There's no compromise in this family. Jacob is like, nope, sorry.

And he always says to me, I can't sleep cold. I mean, I can't sleep hot. And I'm always like, well, I can't sleep cold. But there's no arguing with this man. It is on every night. I would rather be in a sweatsuit with a ceiling fan on. Same. Like when there's no airflow, I get like a suffocate.

Like I cannot drive in the car without the air on. Oh, I have my air. off because when it there's no air flow I can't breathe. After you have kids, that would be different. All day, every day this week. Yeah, wait. Wait till you get the, wait till you get to menopause. Yeah.

They're ready. I'm telling you, sometimes I get a hot flash and I'm like, nope, got to have some air. Yeah. We have three fans going. So we have the ceiling fan that I can't tell you, embarrassingly, the last time it was turned off, it probably needs to be clean. No, same. It's probably really bad.

That it stays on. And then we each have a, like, mini-fan on both sides. Really? Yes. Oh, my goodness. But he's a psycho because he only sleeps with a sheet with all that going on, whereas I like to be cold, but I have these, like, warm blankets. I have, like, two blankets in the comforter and then the sheet.

And, like, I like to bundle up like that. And then by the time the morning rolls around, I'm kind of hot from all the sheets. So when I get out of the covers, I'm like, okay, this is a breath of fresh air, you know. Jacob needs one of those little fans just so we can turn off the big fan. Yeah, that's a good compromise. But does it, I mean, does it ruin the aesthetics, the vibes with the fan? 100%. Our room is not here.

I want to say that Justin said that I was going to throw him under the bus, which I, you know, the story is. I have about Martin is what I call him, but the stories that I have about him are not, we can't share them on here. You know, I wrote on my, on my piece of paper, I brought a cheat sheet. One of the things I said was Martin thinks he knows everything. But here's the problem. He kind of does. He usually does. Yeah, I know. It's so annoying. And, and Si thinks he knows everything. and never does. I mean, you know, whatever he's talking about,

he has no idea what he's talking about. You know, he just says, oh, no, no, no, no, yeah, yeah, no, yeah. This is, this is it right here. And he has no idea. Yeah. So those are the two things that I thought about with Martin and Sai is that they each think they know everything. And one really does and one has no clue.

Yeah. That's so true. Not knowing everything. I know the thing outside, I like, he makes me laugh more than anybody in the world. I love side of death. But when he says no, no, yeah. When you're talking, it always makes you think I'm saying something wrong. No, no, no, no.

And I'm like, oh, what am I saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. His nose means. Yeah. Yeah. You just said no. I'll be talking. You'd be like, no, no, no.

And I'll be like, oh, what did I say? But I totally agree with that. No, no, yeah. I said no. I love that, man. That is a quirk about Sy. He tried to. He is a man of many quirks, but that is a quirk.

Many quirks. Yeah. Yeah. When we first, it was like one of the first few times that I had been around Sy, a long time ago. Remember we used to go to NASCAR races all the time? This was one of those NASCAR races, and I was working the merch, like bus or whatever. I was helping them out.

I'd say. I wasn't getting paid or anything. But we took a break and Sy and I were sitting on the side and he was like trying to get to know me, I guess, just one of those things. And I told him I was in college. I was like in my senior year. I had just started my senior year of college. And he was like, you should just quit. And I was like, don't say that to me because I'm in my senior year and I want to quit. I don't want to be here. I'm done with this. Like he's like, and, and I'm, you don't need it, you'll be fine. We'll do great. Just quit.

And I was like, and Justin was just looking at me. He's like, don't quit. Because I had already been talking to Justin about like, oh, I just don't want to push this last like little bit. I'm over it. And I was doing college like long distance at that point. So I was doing it online, which was even worse. Like I hated doing it online. It just wasn't for me.

But yeah, that was one of my earliest of sigh. Yeah. Well, I love that at church you know, Cy sits on the end of the pew and he sings louder than everybody else.

And then also when Alan's preaching, he preaches. You know, like, you know, Al's making a point and sighs in his seat back in the middle of the auditorium and he's making a point. He's backseat preaching. Yeah. But everybody

loves to hear Sy sing, you know. It's not that great, but everybody loves it because it comes from the heart. It really does. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of that, I have one more funny size story. This is it, White's Ferry Road.

Justin and I had like maybe just got married. And Cy came in wearing a sports illustrated windbreaker jacket. It like had the Saints logo on it and it said SI on the, on the, for Sports Illustrated. He had the copyright and everything. And Justin and I were lucky enough to sit beside him that day in church. And Justin was just making fun.

He goes, oh, look, they put your name on it. And he goes, I know, right? Like, he legitimately thought that they custom made that for him and that it was his name. And Justin and I started giggled. We never told him. We were like, I'm pretty sure that stands for Sports Illustrated. But one thing people don't know is that is that I plan jaws wedding.

Yes. And Al was our efficient. Uh-huh. Yeah. It was so beautiful. Yeah. It was so hot. Yeah, it was.

So hot. My only regret. I thought being on the Bayside, we'd have like some airflow. No. Not in the least bit. Well, since we're throwing our husbands under the bus, I feel like we haven't thrown them hard enough because John David told me to, you know, and the crock pot is not. Big of my deal. Why don't we talk about the toxic traits, like one of the toxic traits your husband has or the pet peeve that was one of the questions. I'm like, which one should I choose?

I know exactly which one comes from mine for me. Okay. Well, I'll go. So it is a toxic trait because it's passed down to our kids now. It drives me insane, but like we've been married for 14 years now. I literally, like, I just don't say anything, and I never really have because it's very little, but it does still drive me crazy every single day. Every single day, John David gets home from work or whatever. He'll sit on the couch and he takes his socks off and he'll, like, stuff them in the couch or just leave him on the floor. And, like, sometimes I'm like, where's the other sock? Well, now our kids, like, it's really just Carter and they are literally spinning images of each other. they're alike in so many ways.

And I'm like, I don't think this is a learned behavior. And it's so weird. I really think, like, he just can't help it. And I don't know if his dad does it, but maybe. But Carter does. And it is like, it's crazy to me. So now I'm picking up all these socks, finding all these socks stuff here and there. You'll find one in the kitchen, one in the couch.

And I'm like. Never together? No. And so my sock drawer, mine always has matches. And like, if, if you. you go in his sock drawer, I think maybe three pair of socks. All of them have a match. And I'm like, where do they go? But now I'm like, well, because there's stuff in the couch and all things. Sometimes whenever I do, because I'll do Alex's laundry, sometimes because she kind of gets overwhelmed with line.

Like, I've never understood that people hate to do laundry. I love to do laundry. It does not bother me at all. Anyway, so sometimes she gets a little overwhelmed. So I'll do her laundry. I mean, we've got seven socks. I'm like seven. You know, a pair would have been eight socks. And none of them match. Not one of them that comes over. I hate to do her laundry because I can't match socks. She's like, yeah, she's like, mom, just put them in there. We'll wear them.

It doesn't matter. And I'm like, no, they're supposed to match. It does matter. Yeah. And well, maybe they have that same toxic trait. Yeah, Justin's kind of like that. He, which leads me into my pet peeve about Justin. He is so messy.

His truck. We know. His office. I can only imagine his closet. His nightstand. Oh, yeah. And I am the exact opposite. I would say I'm borderline OCD.

I like a clean. I like to have everything in a spot and all the things. And he is the exact opposite. Every time I walk past, I don't know how you look at his office. because y'all are like well most of the time i go in there i said weren't you need to clean your office and he says i just cleaned it i'm like i need to go look after that's me literal trash on his desk if you go getting his truck he has to sweep trash off of it's the same way yeah it's a guy thing okay i'm glad that he's not because i was like and when you said passing it down to children

ours are two and i was like you need to lock it up you need to lock it up before they start realizing and they start taking on these little tendencies because I know they're not going to get it for me. I'm a clean freak over here. I know. You got to get it together. He just doesn't care. Me and Jacob, I feel like, are similar, like, in the way, the truck thing. But my nightstand is always, I mean, I'll have 10 coffee cups every morning on my nightstand.

But Jacob brings me, this is the best trait about Jacob. It brings me coffee every morning while I'm still asleep. That's awesome. is the best ever. That is the best. But then I drink it in bed and then I just set the coffee cup on my nightstand and Jacob every few days comes by and he's like, oh! And then he like grabs all the coffee cups and he's like, I just want you to see,

this is a problem. You need to fix this. But that's my, that's mine. Well, I do have a confession. It's the coffee cup thing. As much of a neat freak as I am, my night sand is not messy, but it's not coffee, but it's water. Water bottles, mine too.

I have water bottles that just accumulate on. I'll get on, you know, every couple days. I have water cups, water bottles. I have all the things. And then at the end of the week, I just grab up. This is another boy thing, I feel like, and y'all can tell me if y'all husbands is the same, but it's like at night, before bed, I like to clean the room, get it all tidy before the next day.

Because most of the time in the morning, I'm not a morning person, so I'm rushing. And I have, like, three outfits I tried on that morning laying there. So I'll, like, put up all the clothes I tried on that morning and put the laundry up and everything like that. But Jacob always, without fail, has, like, clothes besides bed that I'm like, hey, like, are these dirtier clean? I'm going to wear them tomorrow. But then he never wears them tomorrow. But he's like, oh, they're clean, but I'm going to wear them tomorrow. It's always like a pair of shorts that he wore for a little bit that he's like, I'm going to wear that tomorrow tomorrow. But then it turns into a pile of, I'm going to wear that tomorrow

clothes, you know? Yeah, John David, like recently, he told me, hey, if it's on the bathroom counter, it's clean. Well, two weeks go by and it's still there. And so I just start throwing it all in the dirty clothes. Like, I'm just, I'm sorry. I'm like, can I put it up? Well, don't put it up because I'm going to wear it. But then it's still there.

Yeah. Yeah. That's one. No, as far as laundry goes, Justin, there's two things. The hole's in his socks. If I'm doing a little. What do they do? And I know this is so.

The hole will be this big. But I have got to get this off my chest. And like, do you all have holes in your sheets? No, but John David's heels or something digs into him and it's like where he sleeps. We'll get a hole. Justin ripped ours with his toenail once. I cut that one time long. I cut that out real quick.

I said, let me check your toes. It is weird. His dad is the same way with where the holes that are in his sheets. I've never heard of anything like it in my life. Boys are gross. It is weird. And it's like we have to get new sheets because he just gets a hole in it. It's like the way his feet are.

And sheets aren't cheap. He's flat-footed. I don't know if that has anything to do it. It may be. Ogre toes. When we were first married, we had a waterbed. Ooh, I remember waterbeds. And our waterbed had satin sheets on it.

Oh, that sounds awesome. Jake or grandparents have that exact setup. Yeah, yeah. Never let it die. And we loved it. But after about, I don't know, six months, then our sheets got holes in them because of owls. feet, you know, because their heels are so rough. Yeah.

And so the best thing is, I got to tell y'all, you got to get your man to get a pedicure. L.O.L. I mean, it's the best. So for years. Forcefully. I've said, you got to get a pedicure, these feet. Because, I mean, you know, if he comes over to my side and starts rubbing my leg. Oh, no.

Get those grasshopper legs all right. So I said, you got to get a pedicure. He would not do it. No, I'm not getting a pedic. So we're on a cruise ship one day. And I said, look, babe, nobody is here that you know. Nobody is ever going to know that you got a pedicure. He goes and gets a pedicure.

Loved it. He's hooked. We can do a little short summary of each of our testimonies. Yeah. Who wants to start off? Allison, you start since you said this is your late answer. Yeah. I'm good with that.

that. Well, so I grew up in a very religious-based church. We had like 100 people, seven in the youth group, and we never talked about, like, I never heard the word, like grace or Holy Spirit or anything. And so I just viewed God as this like big man upstairs going to strike me down with lightning, you know, if I had mess up. And so I realized as I grew up, the more I walk with God, or I wasn't walking with him. Nothing bad was happening to me. And so I was like, huh, is God really real? He's not like putting any roadblocks in my life. And so I just started living a double life of, I'm going to act this way at church and with my family and a different way with friends. And then I moved here for college and went to a new church. And they started talking about grace a lot. And I was like, huh, I've never really

heard that word. And so a seed was planted. And then as naturally as you mature, in life, get married, have kids and all of that, you mature and grow. And I just, you know, started studying God's Word and getting involved in women's retreats and stuff and just really realized a relationship with God is a thing because I didn't even know that was a thing, you know, growing up, I didn't know that was an option. Well, I did not grow up in a Christian home. we went to church when when everybody was you know acting right

you know if nobody had gotten drunk the night before then we'd go to church on Sunday morning and so you know a lot of things happened to me as a kid I was molested as you know as a young kid it started about seven years old so that kind of started me in a dishonest path because I never really could tell anybody

about my life. So then I became a teenager and, you know, the drinking, the drugs, all of that. At 16, I found out I was pregnant. My mom sent me to have an abortion. I didn't know what it was, but I went anyway and had that done. And you know, you kind of think that whenever you get married, that's, you know, that's the cure all of everything. You know, you're not going to have any more problems anymore, but that darkness continued to live inside of me that had started whenever I was young. And whenever I was, you know, 32, 33, it completely took over. I had a 14-month affair while my husband was a preacher, you know, in the church. You know, he was my everything. And so I was about to lose that one thing. And that's what a lot of people don't understand.

I mean, I did this to him, but it was not about him. So we split up. And whenever we split up, that's whenever I called out to God because I'd never really had a relationship with him. I had lived all of that time with Alan as the Lord of my life. And so at 33, I called out to God to be rescued. And, you know, he came at that instant and rescued me. So that was 33. I'm 59 and I have not looked back.

That's amazing. I know. I'm like, can I get a redo of what I said? Because that was so good. I'm so deep in part of you. I may actually, if you don't mind, let me jump in front of you because Lisa and I have very similar. I'm going to try and do this without crying. We have very similar stories.

I actually did grow up in the church. I wouldn't say I grew up. Let's say for between. the ages of like five to seven, which is when I first got baptized when I was seven or eight. And my dad became a firefighter, and that's when we stopped going to church. It's 24 on, 48 off. You kind of don't get to pick and choose when you, and I spent a lot of time with my dad and my mom back and forth because they were divorced, but my mom didn't go to church. She was raised as a Jehovah's Witness and was very, like, out of the religion.

You know, I think she believes in God now, but, you know, it just wasn't a part of my life. I also was sexually assaulted multiple times throughout childhood into high school and college. The college one was really my getting myself into those situations because up until then, no one had. showed me that I was worthy of anything like that. So I treated myself unworthy. I did the alcohol. I did all the drugs. If you would have met me back in those days, you're like, that girl's just trying to, to die. She doesn't care about herself in any way, shape, or form. And it actually wasn't until I met Justin that I even saw myself have any type of worth because, and we'll get into it, I guess, because of how we met and stuff, but I'm originally from Nashville, and when we

met, I knew pretty quickly that he liked me, and I was like, I'm not moving to Louisiana. Like, that's just not going to happen. I'm not leaving Nashville. And I was like, so I'm going to to cut this off right now. I'm going to tell you everything about me. I'm going to tell you about all the people that I have been with. I'm going to tell you about all the drugs and alcohol and everything of my family and all the things that have happened to me and that I've done. And when I told him all of those things, he looked me dead in my face. And he was like, and I was like, do what? Like, it was just, I had never in my life experienced anything like that. It's actually funny that you found Jesus at 33 because I am currently 33.

I will be 34 in April, but I just got baptized last August. 33 is Jesus here. It is. It is. Yeah, that's amazing. Love you. Well, I'll say my story is pretty similar to Allison's. I always grew up in the church and always grew up knowing God and knowing Jesus.

and I feel like I kind of had that, like, double-life thing in high school. And then I really was just knew God, but never really, I feel, like, needed God. I just always kind of, like, knew him and had a relationship, but wasn't ever, like, didn't never realize, like, my need for him or my need for grace, I guess. And then it was kind of a weird thing. I just all of a sudden, I feel like right around the time I was getting married. I just got like really stressed very, like a lot of anxiety. And I was in school and a lot of, I had a lot of like stress about like being perfect, having good grades, like getting married, having a perfect, like perfect life, you know, and like always looking good good and looking.

right and all this stuff. And then I just got like a ton of anxiety. Lost a ton of way. It was only caring about what I looked like, what my grades were. Really myself was very selfish and just like cared only about me. And then caused a lot of like anxiety. And I didn't really think it was anxiety at the time, I guess, because my sister, a lot of people know this, but say he had struggled with anxiety and had like panic attacks, which I never really had that. It was just like constant state of like caring what everyone thought about me, like a lot of stress. And I just didn't really talk about it, but I feel like everybody around me knew something was wrong and constantly being like, are you okay?

And I was like, yep, I'm good. But I feel like everybody in my life was staring at me like, are you okay? And then my mom was like, why don't we go out a road trip to the beach? And I was like, okay. So we got in the car, right away on the car. She's like, are you okay? And I was like, no. And I was just like, I don't know what's wrong with me.

I'm just like, I don't know. know I'm getting emotional. This is not really like a super like emotional story. But she got like, I don't know what's wrong with me. Like something in my head is just making me really stressed. And anyway, me and her talked and she was like, why don't we take a, oh, why? And it's emotional. I'm about to start crying with you. She was just like there for me, you know, and just like knew that something was wrong. I don't know why this is because moms know. That's right. That's right. Yeah, basically I just like went on that trip with my mom and started going to therapy after that.

It's great. And really started to like focus on just like, I guess, my need for Christ. And that was when I really realized like, dang like I can't really like pull myself out of this, you know? Like I need God and I need like someone else because really like it wasn't me. It was really like a mental like it was anxiety and it wasn't anything that. I was going to be able to just pull myself out of. So I really recognized my need for God in the moment. And I feel like that season of life was very hard to get through because it was like, I can't do anything to fix it. And all I wanted to do was just like check off the list of like,

go on a walk and take a, you know, whatever, take a supplement and eat healthy and I'll be better. But like that wasn't how it worked. It was like I had to fall on my knees in front of God and be like, I need you through time and stuff. I feel like everything got better. And now it's like I don't know why I was so stressed. And even at the time I was like, I'm getting married. This is the best, this should be the best time in my life, you know. But I just was stressed and had a lot of anxiety.

So I got through that season, I feel like now through the years just like maturity. I feel like my relationship with God is so much different now. And yours is the perfect testimony for what can happen when you try to fix things on your own. Like, we really cannot do this without him. Well, I think this is a great stopping place. John David always likes to end with a verse. So he was like, you better end with the verse. And the verse of the day is perfect.

It's Revelation 320. See, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into him and eat with him and he with me. And it just, you know, is talking about whenever we knock at the door when we seek him, like he is going to be there and draw near to us too and he's always there waiting for us and pursuing us but until we learn to pursue him and chase after him is whenever that's when things are going to change so if you're struggling you know in your life or whatever just seek God and

that is when things will start to change so for sure he'll meet you where you're at too it doesn't matter where you're at he'll meet you there you don't have to be cleaned up nope and all pretty yep he takes you right where you are more.