Duck Call Room - Miss Kay & Uncle Si Don't Hold Back & Their Antics Are Amazing

Episode Date: July 4, 2023

Uncle Si has been like Miss Kay’s little brother for over 60 years, and they certainly act like it! They make a great team, whether they’re bickering with each other like an old married couple or teaming up to poke fun at another family member. Their decades-long friendship is hilarious, lovable, and unlike any other! Some of our favorite episodes are when Miss Kay stops by, and these stories are the best of the best. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, Si, Miss Kay had something very interesting go on at her house. Oh. Did you hear about it? No, since I haven't seen you in a long, long time, excuse me. Since the last time I was here. Yeah. What have you been up to? Well, last Saturday, we had our first homeless couple wedding.

And I didn't get no invitation? I'm sorry. I was just, God. They were so, I didn't know who all she was. was going to bring from the streets. Well, hey, how bad as it that was a hoot? Yeah, it really was, but it started out really well because they got there and everything.

And, of course, Phil was, like, trying to figure out. And I tell him, Phil, I said, you walk down the sidewalk from our neighbors and you make a little curve, and then we have an arbor. But I don't even know what all, there's a bunch of wild animals. Arbor? Arbor, is that the right word? Is that the right word?

Is this the horseshoe thing? Yeah, yeah, and it's got all that green re-arming. It's where the grill is. It has. It has. It has. It has. It has. It's got birds living in this and other little animals. Okay. But it was all over there. You all had it decorated? Yeah, we stuck flowers in the, all the greenery. That's what we did. Okay. I bet that was pretty.

It was. So what we had to do is Phil had to walk her down the aisle, which that was a, worst thing. Phil gave her away. Oh yeah, and he did the sermon. But here's the deal. So I said, Phil go slow, go slow. And he just ran and dragged her behind him. He was in a hurry.

He ran her down there. All right, we've got to get this done in a hurry, boys. Okay. Oh, so he gets all ready and starts his Bible and starting to talk. And then all of a sudden, somebody had brought the groomed sister from a lot. I think she's from Modest, Texas. And she brought her there to the wedding to be there with her brother. And so she was going to stay in the car

because they had two bulldogs they brought with them. Are the pit bulls? Yeah, and they were hanging out the window. Pit bulls. Pit bulls. Okay. Dangerous dogs, but okay. Yeah.

And then so Bobo, who thinks he's boss hog, he's going to take them on and them two little dumber dogs that I have the shaggy. Okay, sneaky and piggy. Yeah, whatever. You didn't Phil have them different names than I do. Okay, they're going to go out there and take on those two bulldoze. Well, Phil starts talking there with, I mean, it was the biggest, loudest noise,

and everybody's just looking, what's that coming from? That sounds just like my childhood growing up, okay? There was a wedding in your front yard with dogs fighting? Hey, the dogs fighting. But there was no wedding. No wedding. Well, then Phil has to stop the whole. whole wedding and said miss kay you got to go get our dogs in there go get the dogs take care of yeah we got to

shut this dog thing down so me and whoever you know we had to go out there and catch my dogs and put them in my room which was i would get them inside the house and then they'd just turn around run right out the hole that they go through so finally drug them in my room and closed them in the doors and we went back to continue on and i was so scared the neighbor's dog would come over His name is mutt. And I was so scared, but he didn't come over. Mud and Jim. Mud and Jim.

And so. His name is mutt. And so then all that interruption, we started the ceremony again. So there was a legit intermission. Oh, yeah. There was a dog fight in the middle of the wedding. How many times you think that's ever happened? I have to ask this.

It had to stop the ceremonies for a dog fight. Are you there? No, I wasn't. Hey, I have to ask this. And I'm not being rude or. bad, mean-spirited, was the dress casual or what here? I mean, we're talking about a homeless marriage. It was very casual.

There were a lot of shorts, t-shirts, different things. So this is coming as you are wedding. Yeah, just as you are. I just want to make sure. But here what we had. I am just, oh, I wish I could have been there. My nephew and your nephew, John Gimber, did all the food. We had great sandwiches.

We had chips. Everybody got bags of chips. Okay, well, wait. My brother is not a certified pastor that can marry with Al. He is. Al had made him one. He's certified. Yeah.

He's certified now. He's bona fide. Oh, he's bona fide. Okay, I didn't know. He's his second way, but he don't advertise it. Okay, I'm glad that Al was there. We just advertised. We're going to get some emails on this one.

Okay. So if you'd like to do. get married under an arbor with a dog fried with casual dress and chips. Email hello at dot callroom.com. I'll get you a priceless. We had a case of all different kind of drinks, Dr. Pepper's Cokes and all that. We had that in a nice Yeti ice chest. Oh, a Yeti.

Only the best, boys. That's what could we do? Oh, and we had a wedding cake. We had, my granddaughter made a wedding cake. It was beautiful. Who's your granddaughter? Alex. Was it good?

It was great. She is a baker from way back. Oh, she's good. Yeah, and I've got to pay her for that too. Yep. So never before will you hear about the homeless people of marrying except right here. But here's another question. No, no, here's another question.

You probably don't have the answer to it, but I would love to know. I would love to know how these people. met on the street I'm just saying okay I got a better question where did you meet these people they go to our church

okay all right that makes sure yes they go to our church and we're so happy so on a serious note what what Miss Kay and Phil do for the homeless community in Monroe is unheard of you won't find too many humans on the planet who will do

for these people what they do 100% I wish I'd have been there. I feel bad that I'm missing. Well, the next one I'll have all in my coaching. I would have loved to have been attended it. I really would have. Because every Sunday morning, you.

Everybody needs love for crying out loud. That's right. Because you and Phil host church for anybody that wants to come. That's right. There's breakfast and everything. And I provide, oh, I provide lunch to go. Oh, it's lunch? To go.

Plus, if you're only the homeless, you get free. Burger King cards that I give one a piece to all of them. Unless there's not, sometimes somebody gets two for a special thing they did. Yep. So that's what you get at our church. University Christian church, yes. I love it. Miss Kay, you're a saint.

I love it. That's the coolest thing I've heard of it. I love people. All people. That's what I want on my tombstone. Because I love everybody? Yeah. I like it.

I love it. I better tell Jay, Sal, you might pass before me. I don't know. Hey, I'm not going to make it to a hondo. And also, you know what else I'm going to put on your tombstone? Is she made the best homemade pie crust in the world. In the world.

And then she passed it down to one of her little kids. Timstone's getting big. Ms. B.K. Yep. And she cooked one for Uncle Saul. The one. It's getting expensive. And, hey.

Miss Kay's good, Timstone. Oh, how. And she cooks them for Uncle Saffirn time to time to this day. Oh, yeah. And I'm like you, I need to pay her for it too. Well, guess what I'm fixing to make next week? Where she'll have a little spending money as a teenager. Sweet potato pies.

I'm making next week. In case you wanted to know. Okay. Well, hey, next week? No, it's due to a special before you have teal season. Me and Stone will be down there sometime around when you get a mate. Oh, yeah. We'll be there.

We'll be there with bail zones. Well, that is a fantastic story. What was it like dating Phil and Cy? Because you were basically, all I've ever heard is triple dates. You know, when I ever thought I wanted like a brother, all that flew out the window. When I got him, it was like, I was like, Phil, is he going to come on all our dates? Well, I need him to help us. Because look, what one of Phil's dates would be is we're going to go sane a pond

and get all these little fish and little things. to put on the trot lines. Well, I thought that was sounded fun, you know? So me and Sire are out there doing it. And then I said, Phil, I think something just hurts my leg. It felt like a snake. It wouldn't be a snake. Oh, there ain't no snakes out of here.

Ain't no snakes. I said, why? I think it was one. And Sye said, well, I didn't see it. So naturally, then they wouldn't believe me. So I guarantee I was out there with a snake, but he didn't bite me. but here we'd go with all that stuff. And then we went back and sigh, you're going to remember this.

And if you don't, I'm going to bop you in the head. Do you remember them long worms that were that long? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, do you remember when you were going to put them down my back? And we ran through a whole cornfield and you were chasing me and you finally caught me and stuck those stupid worms down my back. I never did forgive you for that.

They're called riverworms, and they only live in clay. Yeah. And when it would rain, you could literally just pick them up off the ground, hundreds of them. That's really true. I saw them. Why did you decide to be so mean to put them down my back? Hey, that's what kids do, Kay. I know.

Yeah, put bugs on the children. But I wouldn't be two years older than you. I know. We was kids. You was, what, 14 when you met Phil? I was. I was 14 when I met Phil. And then when I took you to help have raisin,

because I'm telling you, here we were, all three of us, he's in the back seat, we're in the front seat. They'd pull up, if somebody pulled up the side of him and tell him out, who's that in the back? Phil's like, oh, that's just how I don't worry about it. So what you're saying is you didn't marry Phil for his money? No, he married me for my money. That's it.

And he spent all of them. Well, he spent a lot. On shotgun shells. Four-wheel drive truck, shotgun shells, and shotguns. Oh, that's true. And four-wheeler's later, of course. Four-wheelers, when they got, y'all. But I'm going to tell you something.

When we went out to the fancy place, like our dating, expensive place to go, you're going to die in Shreport, Louisiana. El Chico's. The original El Chico's. The original one. And you know what? we'd get all you can eat for, you know, for two. So he ate all you could eat as much as they'd let him have.

Then he took all my, she'd make me order a plate. I said, I can't eat another plate. He said, well, I can. Hold on. They cut them off at the all you can eat? They really did that. So it's really a lot. I think all you can eat has never really been like a challenge.

It's just a suggestion. All right, Martin. So Tinker. We call him Tinkerbell. Tinkerbell. I did. No, I did. Oh, Lord.

But first, time out. Oh. Is that Tony the Pony? That's him. Is that you? That's me and my grandpa. Look at Annie Oakley. That's it, boy, Danny Oakley.

Look at that. Do I have on chaps or something? Hey, you got the whole outfit. Hey, Cald, let me tell you something. Hey, you got the whole outfit. That's me. That is unbelievable. I told you.

And look, I wore that hat to church. My mom would be so mad. And then she made me hang it out there with the men's hats. I can see why you were the entertainment at the store. 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 what because of our friends over at Triedale's beef makes such a good product, baby. Ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Cy 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 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 Tritails beef. I know in size case Christine loves it, which is just a, she doesn't eat meat.

She isn't a big meat either, folks. Yeah. Just go to Tribesies. beef.com slash. That's trybeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. Right before the break, Ms. Kay got fired

up again about a certain action of her children. They locked me out of the house. Now, I don't remember what led up to, but I was so mad and I was beating, beaten on the thing and I missed the door and hit the little glass

and broke it in my door. Well, then I heard him say, Oh, no. She just broke the door. She's going to kill us. So, anyway, I got in the house. Somebody ran up there and must unlock. Then they took off running out the back door.

And I took off chasing them. And I grabbed Phil's belt on the way out. And I said, I'm going to whip y'all until you can't even sit down. And I chased them up and down. Finally got a hold of them. And I just had one at a time. And when I went to hit the belt with them, I had it slipped. And it turned around and I hit myself between the eyes with the buckle.

So they were like, now she's harder. We got to go in the woods and say, I couldn't catch me after that. All I was screaming then was wait till your daddy gets home. Oh. Yeah, they got it. I heard that. Well, I will tell you, you got up out of bed. I would walk in there in your other way.

I said, sigh, you're grown. Quit doing that in front of me. I'm not your real sister, and I'm here to see Phil. Quit walking around your underwear. You didn't want to have lust in your eyes. No, no. No, no. Yeah, the thin man, the thin man, I mean.

Did he have that hump on his back then? Yeah, I've always had bad posture. Yes. But I mean, he was in his... I'm always had bad posture. He was in his tiny wadies, but it just looked like a stick. with arms and legs, but... I'm impressed they were white.

He just walks outside. He just walks outside. I said, what is wrong with him? Phil said, oh, he's probably still asleep. As Phil wants me to keep my hair dark and look younger, but what do I have to say about him? I mean, he can just look any way he was. Well, here's what I'll tell you, Kay.

Here's what I'll tell you, he's not here. You can say whatever you like. What would you like to say about him? Well, I love him. I think he married me for my money. We did, Kay. We did. I didn't know you were going to come along with the deal either.

I talked him into it. Packaged deal. Well, if I got him, I had to get you, so there wasn't a... They had a family meeting. I said I got an idea, Phil. So Ms. Kay has a news story to tell us. I hadn't heard this one. No, and you won't like it either.

Uh-oh. It happened today. Today. This morning. This morning. I was getting his lunch ready at 8 o'clock in the morning because I knew I was going to be here, and so I prefixed his lunch. I cut up a bunch of vegetables, but then a bunch of some celery went bad, and I put it on my bowl

because I have a little compost garden out there, and you just, so I was going to go throw that all away, you know, that stuff. And I don't know why it was in a hurry to do it, but I just did it. So I go out there, and I have like shoes on, but they're like floppy shoes, you know, not well, they're just floppy shoes.

Okay, so I got there and I wasn't paying any attention to the fact that it had rained last night. I don't know if y'all know that, but it did. Well, so when I went to throw that out to the thing, that stuff didn't just go. I went

With it, I hit the whole porch. You're on the back porch? Okay, I'm out there, the porch by the country kitchen. Okay. Okay, and boom. And I found myself just laying down on that wood thinking that was slick. That's why I fell. That was too slick.

Well, I immediately said I got to assess the damage. So the first thing I thought, what's hurting? Well, it was the right knee that it looks like. you had the worst skin on a, you know how you get those losing your skin when you had the bite wreck and all that stuff? Okay, we got one of those and it's swelling. Then the left from the knee down is one big growing bruise. And it's, you know, coming up. And then I say, what else hurts?

Well, nothing else stood out. So I said, can I get up? I did get up. But then I went in, I was trying to go in the back door because I said, I ain't doing it. very good. I'm just, I've got to get it. Well, I got it in the house. And so I said, oh, no, he's going to die because he told me, don't go

out there if them things are slippery like that. So I get that, I knew that was wrong after it was done. So then I fixed the lunch like I never was hurt and did everything. And then I wrote him a note and it said, okay, this note is going to tell

you that you cannot be mad because this lady that did something that wasn't the baddest thing but it was the medium bad thing she learned her lesson and she is never ever going to do this again so now the contract says and I made it a line for you to sign this

that you can't get mad that you cannot be mad at this lady okay and that was a note so when I'm driving up here he calls me and he said what did the lady do and what lady I said well she accidentally fell on the slick wood out there by her little garden and she just fell and he said well how bad was the lady hurt I said well it's her knee on her right side and the left side down is just a big bruise like she was a bruise lady and he said well that's terrible and i said oh i'm waiting for more and then he said well look

about that meat sauce that you just cook do you think i should cook one put one spaghetti package or two spaghetti package he immediately went to dinner yeah i said put one in i said well what about what the lady did and he said well i hope that lady learned from it and that's all i'm going to say about that what you about do for a new one ain't you oh no he's he's he's uh he's He's 10 and a half years old. Has he ever been to the veterinarian? Is he what? Does he go to the vet?

Does he go to the vet? Of course he goes. All regular checkups. And we board him for Christmas with my two shaggy dogs or rescue dogs. Bill said they're the dumbest dogs in the whole wide world. And I said that's who you're supposed to help. The dung and the poor, that's who you help. So they're dumb.

I love them more. Those dogs are dumb. Hey, look. No, no. That's how you're supposed to help. The dumb and the poor. No, no. I'm telling you, most dogs like me,

but sneaky and freaky, nah. They ain't about you? No. Kay's right. They're the two dumbest dogs I ever seen. Well, that's why you love them more. I do have a question about rudeness sitting next to me.

He told a story about hitting you with a fork at the dinner table. Oh, that's what she said the first time she ate, had dinner with us. Did he really stab you with the fork? Yeah, he did. And I thought I was going to die. I mean, he said, I called for that piece. Who does that? I mean, we all get our fork and get our chicken.

And he just struck his thing right on my hand and I said, I called for that piece. That was the last picture of chicken. So that's a true story. That is a really true story. Oh, man. And that was at y'all's house? I didn't stick her. I just put it on it and helped it and said, I had called for that.

Oh, you had the fork on the chicken. Yeah. Yeah, but I'm going to tell you something. That's so rude. I was a guest at your house. And I couldn't even get a piece of chicken I wanted. Oh, you already had two or three. No, I did.

That was the last piece. That was the last piece. That's the most Robertson thing ever right there either. He knows how many pieces of chicken you had. 50 something years ago. Well, it was like they brought three chickens and they ate them all and then he's fighting over the last piece

because I wanted that piece of chicken. Oh, it was so rude. Cy claims he was the person that gave Jace his name. Well, in a way that's true because when he was in Vietnam and I was pregnant with Jace, Phil wanted to say

Why don't we And this was in case something happened to Sire or whatever That we're going to name him after him Jason Silas Robertson But then I did not know That that that was going to make Jason Act like Sye

But it really did Everybody wants to know who I fussed with the most With my kids The one that was named after Uncle Sai Jason Silas Robertson. Well, here's how Uncle Si said it went down. He said, you had just given birth in the hospital, and y'all have not decided on a name for this baby yet.

So you told Cy, go down there and find Phil, find out what he wants to name this kid. I think they added to that school. So Si runs down to the river, yells off the 50-foot river bluff, hey, well, you want to name this kid, and Phil says, I don't care. He said, I don't care. I've done my part. Name him after you. Well, that might have happened, but that might have happened like that.

I don't remember. And I heard that story, and Phil yelled back Willie Jess. And I asked Willie, he goes, I don't know, I wasn't there. And so nobody knows the truth. He didn't yell on name. Y'all have made up so much stuff. Phil didn't throw a name back. He said, hey, what do you expect me to do about it?

I've done my part. Vicks rape rub was a cure all for everything. Didn't you say that your mother used to feed that to you with a spoon? Oh, yeah. You ate. No, no. When you had that cold, you ate. Hey, you just, you just put a teaspoon on you.

You just eat a teaspoon of a fix vapor. Si, it just went all of your lips and your nose, and you punched it in the house. Oh, no, Mama made us eat a teaspoon full of it. Well, now I know what's all with you. Hey, and the whole. Hey, look, hey, I didn't have any lot of colds while I was young. You are full of vix. And it's a great hemorrhoid reliefer.

Oh, God. Okay. Okay, but Jason Robertson, no, no, no, well, let me just tell you, hey, you know, Jason's got hemorrhoids bad and I told him how to fix it. He will not buy it, boys. I said, nope. Fix vapor up? Yeah, that's what you tell your enemies, not your family.

Hey, if it works, use it. Oh, he did it. Hey, I used it. Okay, I used it. Okay. Okay, it works. Okay. Yeah. Well, if I want to get a nice burn, that's what I'll try.

Well, not ain't that bad. Yeah, but that's when you're down to the last resort. Well, that's something, no, when you've got something that is hurting you and you're always complaining about it and someone comes up and says, hey, I know how to fix that for you if you will use it. And then you tell him, and hey, hard at it. Nope, I ain't going to use it. I said, well, hey, then you know what I got to tell you? Then suffer.

buddy well yeah yeah and I've heard a lot of remedies by the rednecks and they'll kill you so I wouldn't listen to all that well I would highly recommend do not use fix vapor rub on hemorrhoids I'm never don't ever I'm telling you so if you got something that hurts you really bad put this on it and it'll hurt 10 times worse oh no that's what hey look if they are hurting it might quit hurting if they're it's It'll make it contention. Well, you quit quitting that picture in all our head right now.

I'm just telling you, it works. Okay, I have used it. Well, you've done a lot of things I wouldn't do. Did you look that up? Do people really do that? Well, first, I googled this exact term, Vicks Vaporub ingested. Yeah, what's it? No.

Get poison control help online. Or call 1-800-222-1222. Is it safe to ingest Vix Vaporubor? Rub never eat or swallow Vic's vapor rub. The ingredients are toxic when ingested. Well, you should have been dead. Yeah.

That explains a lot. Well, let me just tell you. Okay. Back in the day. Did Phil have to take it too? Oh, I guess. I don't know. Hey, oh, bring that, though, when we...

I know what you're going to say. Okay. When we was young, they used to have, you had to deworm your kids. Yeah. Okay. And they gave you in peel form. Phil would never take it

He'd always throw it behind something and mama would find it And then we'd all have to take the peel again And you all get a And y'all get a whoop in two And I'll get a whoop in two So y'all y'all got deworm like a bunch of dogs Oh yeah

Yeah, I had to Huh Well see Phil at that age He couldn't even take a pill He can't take one now He just throws the biggest fit ever But now I see why Alan Turned into be sneaky snake

When he was little boy because he didn't heard that story about Phil hiding all those pills. Oh, yeah. So Phil won't take pills? No. No. He would not. He'd rather have his blood drained.

Hey, there's one bottle of pills by his chair. He takes one pill. Omega X-L. Omega X-L. No, two. He takes two. Okay, because he takes aspirin. Yeah.

Yeah. Baby aspirin. Yeah. I take that of myself. Si, when he remembers that. Doctor's order. Well, I take mine daily. I know.

I'm glad you're now back into taking your medicine daily. There was a time. Well, I know that's what I was told. I've never been called liar so many times in my whole life until that episode happened. You're a

wonderful human thing. But you're not... I didn't know that I was that bad at all. Hey, but you're not a liar about Vicks Vaporub soothing hemorrhoids. Are you serious? While it cannot cure them, it can provide relief. Well, I'll tell you what.

Well, you feel like you're going to die for your relief. No, no, no, no, no, no. That's not true. Listen, I don't know what they, they have something that supposedly takes care of it. Don't work. Vicks Vaporub. No, no, no, no, preparation. Preparation, H or whatever it is. That they sell and doctors give it as a prescription.

No, that's number 10. It don't work. Vicks Vaporub, if it's itching, It quits. If it's hurting, it quits. No, you know what? And it does not burn. That's a lot. No, it does not.

Well, my hemorrhoes do. Well, if you've got real bad, it may burn, but I'm telling you, hey, if I had hemorrhoids the way Jason Robertson has them, and he's always whining about how bad to hurt. Well, I wonder what was wrong with him. He's always out. Well, you know, hey, look, I would try anything. If somebody said, hey, you know, put a poker, iron poker. in the fire and heat it and then burn them. I'd try it.

Well, you probably would. Okay. Well, I would. If it fit that much, I'm going to try anything. Before I sit there and be in pain, I'm going to try something that will fix it. Well, you know what? That's why they say you're crazy. Let's get awful. That's it.

This is going down wrong road. Well, I can't help it. This is going down a weird road. It all started with that yellow stain on size beer. Well, I'm trying to give me this. And it came from the red medicine made the yellow stain. That's right.

The methylate. Well, we have always... Now, hey, myelite, burn. Yes. It so does Vicks paper. I was raised up when you were. I know about that. Oh, man.

Move on. Well, moving on, even though we have a sign that says hemorrhoids are contagious. Well, that's... I don't even know where to go from here. Do not to hear. But I will make a public service announcement. It will work.

Vicks vapor up, put it on anything. But don't congest it. Don't eat it. Don't eat it. Or you will end up like Cy Robertson. I think we have to take a break. It'll make you a movie. Let's take a break.

Take a break. Time to take a break. We've got to take a break and call and apologize to Jace. Man. Crap food and then they, I mean, at least every roll and pound I got come from delicious good food. Amen. Amen. I'll let you, boy.

I see some people what they eat. You're responsible for about 30 of this. Yeah, I am. And not just you. A lot more people get in the mouth. Everything Gobwin's shedding right now you did to him. Yep. I'll watch that 50 pounds come on.

You gave Gobwin diabetes. What? I'm sorry. There you go. Like say my two little lambs that I raised. to be sheep, I would take them around and visit all the old people and tell them that my sheep or my lambs wanted to come see them and do a trick. Of course, they had no trick, but I would act like like they did. And I did that like all over the town because that's, I had a lot of time on my hands.

My mom and dad worked at the store. And I had one after another, the turtles, the frogs, everything I collected, not the alligators. They were dismissed immediately. been finding those. They were taken away. Yeah. But, I mean, I would take all my different animals and visit the old people who loved it. Because they're lonesome anyway. Yeah.

So I said they do tricks and they're waiting for the tricks that never came because they really didn't perform. I just thought they could if they wanted to. I love it. Well, one of the things that I did fall in love about Willie, too, was the fact the way he loved you. Yeah. He was, he was kind of, I mean, Ando Dynasty, Jep is definitely the mama's boy. And that is true. That is.

Because he's a baby. That's accurate. He's a baby. He is a mama's boy for sure. But Willie was also a mama's boy. He took good care of you, didn't he? Yeah, he took up for me. He really did.

Yeah. And he was, and we call each other, and it's real special. One of my favorite parts of working for Willie was just when you would call. Yeah. And talk to Willie. I don't know if you knew this or not, Kay, but he always put you on speakerphone. I should have known that. Can you believe I had diarrhea?

Well, at least. I was trying that if she knows what we're talking about. That's the truth. Now, that is the truth. Let me tell you something. I remember when he was three years old and he was funny. And this is one of the things he did. We went shopping at, it was for Walmart.

So maybe it was Howard Rose or something like that. And he, and I was with me and Ed put him in the bag in all that. And then when I noticed, I went out, I did not notice this until I was driving home. And I had my sack and stuff and all that. And then I looked over to him and I said, where did you get that hat? And he said, in that store. Oh, no. And I said, I didn't buy that hat.

He said, no, I did. I got it. And I said, well, you didn't have any money. And he said, no, I just took it. Oh, no. And he said, and I liked it. So now I've got it on. And I said, well, we're going to have to take that back.

But I couldn't do it then because I had somebody coming, you know, and all that. So it was funny because I don't know if I ever got paid for that three or four dollar hat. But I mean, it was like he just, he just had it on. Like, it was okay. Well, I can add something. Okay. The first time I saw feel at our high school. I was 14, he was 15.

And you know what I said? The first time I saw him, that's the man I'm going to marry. And it doesn't hurt that he's the quarterback of the football team. He's the pitcher on the baseball team. He throws a javelin on the track and field. And six foot and handsome. And six foot over six foot and handsome. And I like that he hunted and fished because my daddy hunted and fished.

I lost my daddy when I'm 14. My mom and I were dating at the same time, which is weird, very weird. But I'm telling you, I knew it. And so when we started dating, it was great. And, you know, I didn't let him know that I wanted, you know, I had to play it cool. But then he breaks out with me for hunting season because he didn't have time to date during hunting season. So we'd have to break up. well of course that was crushing

and then I thought well my daddy hunting fish but you know he didn't leave my mama but whatever so then so after duck's eating season he still ain't there and I'm saying well I don't know what's up but you know back then the man had to ask first

so that's the way it was so then in May of the first year when I was a freshman my daddy died he was 49 and I was 14 and all my classmates came to the funeral, and I saw Phil. He was there. And when he looked at me, and I was sitting there on the front row, he said,

I want to talk to you after, and I said, I just nodded. So when we got back together, then it was never left before. And counting dating and marriage, we've been together 64 years. Thank you, John, David. Thank you. That deserves that. And was it easy? Nope.

The first 10 years when he got to tech, he decided he didn't like those words you said. Responsibility. Ain't Nancy told him about responsibility. And what was your other word? Commitment. Oh, that just went. And then he went to play with, I mean,

he had to stay in the dorms with all the unmarried football players. Well, that was not good at all. So we had a bad time. I had a bad time. He had a sinful time for 10 years. So everybody said, you need to leave him. You need to leave him. You need to leave him.

You got a biblical reason. Leave him. Everybody feels family. My family. Every friend I had, everybody said, leave him. Everybody. I said, no, I told my grandma, Speaking of people, I had my grandma, see, because when my daddy died and mama was dating where she was busy, and I had my grandma.

She said, I want you to know, little girl, it's one man and one woman for life, and you will not ever say the D word, which is divorce. She said, don't say that. You will fight for that marriage, and that's the way it'll be. Well, I'm just rocking in swing. And I said, well, I know. what he's going to look like. And I described field to a tea. And he's going to hunt and fish and do all this stuff. And here it was. It was just like my dream come true. But then all of a sudden he was out of control because he didn't know God. And I didn't, I thought I did, but it was not real.

So 10 years. And then I said, leave him, leave him, leave him. I said, no, no, no. And then And guess what he did? After about nine years, nine and a half, he kicked us out. He said me and the kids were running his life. I said, well, you've been running my life for the last almost 10 years. So he kicked us out right in the middle of the night. Me and those little boys packed a few things and here we were gone. And I'm saying you're going to hate him then, but that was the devil.

The devil in control for the last 10 years was upfield. And so when we were left and apart, we lived in a little crappy apartment, the only thing we could afford, and the church helped us. And there we were. And every day the boys and I would pray for Phil to come to the Lord and change his ways. But we were carrying on. We were going to make it no matter what I told those boys. I said, I'm with you to the end, but we'll pray for Daddy and maybe we'll get back together.

and here he come after four months in the parking lot at lunch and my girlfriend said don't go out there he might have a gun I said he'll have a gun because he carries a gun everywhere he goes he's a hunter he might have a gun I got one no he's got one but I said no I'm not going to let him come up here

the office and cause a big thing and lose my job so I went out there and when it rolled the window down he did and he was crying. I never saw him cry. I couldn't. My whole throat was like, he's like I want him now.

And he said, I can't eat, I can't sleep. I don't even want to just live. He said, I need my family back. I can't live without y'all. And I was like, you're the one that sent us away. You know, you don't forgot that, right? I didn't say that. I said, that's great, Phil.

I believe you want to But I am not Taking you back to you Have a different inside And I think you know what I'm talking about And he said Yeah you want me to be a Christian right I said yeah

And he said well I don't know how to do that And I don't know who to talk to And I said well I know how to do it And I do know who you can talk to And that was Bill Smith You remember him Yep And so I set it up at our apartment

And all the boys said when Phil came in, they hadn't seen him in four months. You know, they hugged him and everything. And they said, Daddy, did you bring our portable color TV? Because we just have to watch black and white every day. And he said, please bring it back. Phil said, I'll bring it back tomorrow. So he came and they studied. And Phil told him, he said, look, I'm going to check you on everything you said in this Bible.

I'm going to read it and see what you told me. not just trust you. And Bill Smith said, if I've been in your world, Phil, I wouldn't trust anybody either. So he read it, and then they had another Bible study, and I let him stay then home. And then the next Bible study, we had to run his door, and there was a note on the door. It said, hurry, come to the church. And when I walked in the back of that church, Phil and him were up in the Bible Street, and I heard Phil say, yes, I'm going.

going to make Jesus the Lord of my life. And I want to be baptized. So I look down to all little boys, just tears running down their eyes. And Jason said, does this mean he won't cuss anymore? I said, we got to help him. We got to help him. And basically, that was the story of their new daddy in our life. But you know what I tell people?

Why did I stay for 10 years? I don't know a soul who would have done that. I really don't. But guess why I stayed for 10 years? My grandmother's words. Was you got to fight for your marriage? Mm-hmm. And stick it out.

So I'm not saying I'm a great person. I'm just saying, let me tell you something, don't give up easy. People, there's so many people to help you. Back then, I didn't know anybody to help me. I didn't know anybody could come tell all that, too. I really didn't. I was scared to tell somebody. But see, nowadays, look what help we've got.

Well. And that's why we have small. Hunter emails in, and he said his girlfriend and I are looking to get a dog, and we wanted your help on picking a name. We get to name this person's dog. Wow. You have a boy or girl. What?

They don't have it yet. What type of dog? They don't have it yet. Well, what time? You kind of have to see the dog to know the name. But I was thinking maybe we just go with both. No. Seven.

I think they should name him Bobo 7. Yeah. And that's why I saved that question for me. And Bobo came from a dog named Jesse James. And then we had just Jesse. And then we went on down. We run out of ways to change to Jesse James. So we go to Bobo.

And now... How did it go from Jesse James to Bobo? Well, I thought... Well, his really official name at the vet is Jesse James number four. But, or was it seven, I can't remember. But so we just, we just couldn't keep making names for that, so we just decided to call him Bobo. You had to go with the nickname.

Yeah, and Bobo suited him. Yeah. Bobo was still around. Any time you're getting sad, just think about us in your life. There you go. It's that easy. It's that easy, boys. It is.

because I didn't know where you were going that she said anytime you get sad think about me and my brother-in-law I was thinking we were about to get something super deep like I don't do deep hey simple's the best boys I don't do deep

it is true every time I do think about you inside do laugh because I've had so many good memories just in this room amen