Duck Call Room - Si's Wife Divulges Exactly How the Uncle Si 'Character' Came to Be

Episode Date: March 9, 2023

Si's truthsayer and wife — and the only woman his mother ever liked — Miss Christine, is back to shed more light on the many Si stories we've heard. For example, why did Si actually quit college the seventh time? She's also here to correct the record: She and Si have had difficult times in their marriage too, but there's no one in the world she'd rather be with — they're best friends and each other's person. Phillip remembers when he spent three days in the hospital watching out for Christine because Si can't handle hospitals. Si and Martin recall the maddest they've ever seen Phil during Si and Jase’s most famous fight. Si and Christine share encouragement for military families to be sure that the time you're together is quality time! Plus, why did Phil nickname Si "perch mouth?" And is anyone TRULY surprised that Si was a mama's boy?  -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oh my goodness. I'll make sure to put that on the list. He's got a painting toe nails before you put him in the ground. Have all the pall bears do it too. If he can find, if he can find 10. And we can wear flip flops. I'm assuming I'm going to be one of them. No, no, everybody goes bare foot, you know, without his feet.

Bear foot with painted toes. That's right. Barefoot with barney-graw colors. you got it buddy ten people have to paint one toe if it's if it's one of your last wishes you got it buddy

you still couldn't trust Willie though I'll do it for you oh hey ain't no tunnel what that boy sure that's fine that's terrible if they if they cream if they cremate him I'll take the urn with me I sit him right there beside me

on the chair I carry that rascal everywhere with me and talk to him like the boys Yeah And the boy If we do it can we get it made in the color of one of them big teacups I say though We've already

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never been in the ground welcome back to the duck call room oh we rolling we are rolling and it is so good to have Miss Christine back size truth-sayer Yeah, size truth sayer. That's right.

No, it is. It's good because I'm glad you're back because I had to be size standing for the Valentine's episode because you were double book. And I'll just say you look much better sitting next to him than I do. Thank you. Oh, man. And he was getting too frisky. I thought I was going to have to slap him a couple of times. If you could reach that high.

You kept saying don't and stop, so I didn't know which one to do. I don't. I noticed I've been on his best behavior this morning already and he left those glasses off his face for the podcast. Where are your glasses? Don't remind him.

Nope, nope, nope, nope. I ain't got two new pair. Oh my gosh. And they're even cooler than these. They're polaroid. I wonder what Miss Christine thinks about. They're the ones that you can actually see in the water when you're fishing.

She said they were night vision only. And rain. No, that's the damn of my sunglasses. So he's wearing them in the house. Hey, hey, you tell me it dark. They're also good for watching Marshall Dillon. Oh, no. Hey, you're talking about dark right now.

Hey, you put them all these things. Hey, that light goes away. Yeah, hey, pull you Michael a little bit closer to you. Yeah, Johnny D. ain't going to pull it to you today. I don't have the microphone. There you go. There you go.

Yeah. Do you, you want to swap? Look, no, they're trying to make this idiot proof. And hey, it's not. Well, you can't spell,

no, you can spell idiot without SI. That's not. You can't spell idiots. So maybe there's more than one of you. You always said you got more than one in your head, so we'll go with that. But,

no, Christine, what do you, what do you think about your husband's new eye wear? I'm interested because I was sad when he lost the glasses. because that's all I had ever known him, man. So you tried to save the day by knocking his lens out, and then he just bailed on all of us and got them things.

Well, I even ordered him. Uh-oh. But, see, I was thinking he would be rational and accuse them. Did you say rational? Reasonable, rational, logical, eh, eh, eh, I know. You're truly rational? Those are all things that do not describe a Robertson. Especially this one.

Hang. I can hope that sometimes, no, he would come to the adult side. No. No, he found out being a kid pays way better. Oh, no, I would rather go to the dark side than come to the adult side. I kind of wanted the same, maybe. That's why I didn't do it. There you go.

That's why I stayed a kid my entire life. Oh, that and you had a woman to keep you young, you know. There you go. even if she is mean redhead she is sitting right beside you know I know not mean she'll give me to that yeah yeah he's gonna get it

one of my favorite things he ain't gonna do it on television but she gets me Miss Christine has power over sigh and I've seen it a lot if sigh is telling the story and he's got his hands going like this she'll grab those hands

and she'll put them down and he goes hmm that's his power button No, no. Hey, hold on. He literally forgets what he's saying. I literally cannot talk. Without his hand.

The first time she did it, I was telling somebody something. And she didn't want to hear it. She just grabbed my hands and I'm telling you, my mind went blank. And it may have never even come back. I'm serious, because it literally, it left. I've never seen a man who's. Let me try it with you. I mean, I can still talk.

I can formulate a thought. Oh, no. You're like Ricky Bobby. Oh, no. Whatever I. You're not able to do with your hand. Like, you just, you just move them. Okay.

That's why you were so good at making reads. Hey, look. That's why you made so much racket over. I literally just went blank and we're just, I was looking at it going. And I couldn't say nothing. Well, Christine, if you'd have known that that night, he trapped. You're talking to you into marrying him, you probably could have got out there a lot easier. Yeah, I could have.

You could have got out of that restaurant before, save 15 hours. Yeah. In the morning. It's been a ride. I did feel sorry for them people, though. We didn't leave probably, what, 4 a.m., maybe 5 in the morning. They got it.

What time was it, Christine? Yeah, here you go. Fact checker. It was 10.30. They closed at 11. And it was about 4 a.m. when we left, if I'm telling you. 11.20. I have no idea.

I think that's only reason she married me so that people could go home. That was it? That was it. Okay, I'll say yes to this idiot. We can leave. I kind of wish we could find one of them workers at that place and get their account of that night. That would be fun. Yeah, the only thing is you got to watch out because there's so many outlandish stories that sigh tells.

And then I find out that a lot of them are true, you know? I mean, I've met people who were in the stories that I didn't believe before. So, and even when we fact check him, a lot of times he's true. He comes out to be true. There's shades of truth in all of them. It just depends on how much truth is there and how much is fluff. You know, but. That was my phone.

Let me turn that off. It's not my wife, so I don't have to answer it. It's your HR department. It ain't the kid. It ain't my wife and kids, so it doesn't matter at this point. Everybody else gets lost. Yeah. Turns out, I guess apparently my phone vibrating in the middle of this podcast

to make me blank. Hey, that's all it takes to get you. Yeah. So I want to know, and all the fans want to know too. Christine, what's it like to be married to the most popular reality star of all time. Uh-oh. And a hush falls over the crowd.

Look, I can't say nothing. He can't even look. Well, I don't consider him that important. Because he's always been with you. Yes. Gotcha. Look at him, Martin. And he still is funny because he makes me laugh.

He really does. And sometimes he's so irritated. Tate. What? But you all don't see that part of it. That's only a home. Christine, I've been here for 14 years. I've seen that part.

Okay. But on the whole, he's a good guy. He is. He's a great human. Yes. Even if when he did smoke, he gets in your truck of a non-smoker and just fires up about three of them.

Didn't bother me a bit. I was over choking. I was like, damn, man. But what are you going to say? He did say nothing. But he did give that up. He did. Col turkey.

Unbelievable. Yes. Unbelievable. Because he's not really that a strong personality. He's a funny personality, but you wouldn't think he's strong. You can defend yourself. That depends. Yes, he.

It does. That depends. He's very opinionated. And stubborn. Oh, Bing, Bing. Wow. He and Jay's are the most stubborn that I know from the Robertson plan. I am the easiest to get along with anybody.

Uh-oh. Her eyes got real big. Sae, you ain't got to sit here and take this from your wife. I take it. I take it. I got you back. He does not admit he's ever wrong. Well.

There have been times. There's just what happens when you're right all the time. I think that comes from being a male. I suffer from that same disease. I'll show him where he's wrong, and he won't want to agree to it, if it's a word, the meaning of a word. I can show him in the dictionary.

He still will not agree that he's wrong. He's just misunderstood. Yeah, I've been there. Mr. Misunderstood. That's me. Yeah. What's the best thing about y'all's relationship over the past 50 years that y'all have been together? I think we left the impression before that everything was good, you know, I'm funny and happy y'all.

We had some problems, mainly because of me, that I didn't talk a lot. And something was bothering me. well sigh would pick pick pick I mean just until I lost my temper which was his goal because then I would cough out you know what was wrong but we've had some really hostile quarrels before boy go ahead and preach it girl yeah but that's just

marriage that's marriage yeah heck yeah but but over the year He's my best friend. Because your best friend's all the person that can make you that mad anyway to get you to that. If they weren't, you wouldn't care. You just shut down and it wouldn't matter. It wouldn't matter. And now it's just there's nothing to fight over.

Ain't neither one of you got to energy. No. That takes too much energy to do. And it ain't worth it. Yeah. It's not. What goods it's going to prove, right? Right.

Right. And there's just nothing that. we disagree with because we're just partners. Except them glasses. Yeah, except those glasses. I like how you tell him what's on your mind. I mean, over the last 10 or 12 years that I've been with y'all, you tell him what you think and what's on your mind a lot.

Yeah. So that's got to be healthy. That's good. Well, let's take our first break. And when we come back, I've got a story about how I'm related to Christine. Oh, yeah. Wait, time out. Okay.

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that southwest washtaw parish don't go far doesn't i'm here to tell you well she's my sister in christ but also you know she was feeling bad one night and and sye said uh philip take christine up you know to the doctor to the after hours clinic he said i can't do it you know and he can't he's just He just can't do it. So we go up and they're not going to let me go back unless I'm related to her. I said, come on, Aunt Christine. We got to go see the doctor. And she said, okay, nephew, Philip.

So I signed her in and signed me in. And they said, right back here this way. And after our appointment, we came back and Sai was pacing around. It's just looking out the front door. And we pulled up. And he was like, all right, is everything okay? Is everything okay? I said, sire, you do care, don't you?

Well, that's never been the problem. Right. Yeah, but when he wouldn't go, he was like, I can't go, Philip. And we came back, and he was pacing the whole time we were gone. I was like, great. I don't like hospitals. No. No.

When I'm in the hospital, he will come to the door. You know, and say, hey, babe, how are you? And then he leaps. And he's gone. And he's gone. He ain't wanted a nest there. No. I'm not a management

Christ, it's management person. So I can't remember why, but me and Christine got to know each other really well when I stayed about three days or however long it was in the hospital in the room with you. Yeah.

While I would just come to visit. I'd have to go call Si and give him the play-by-play, hey, everything's good, Christine's doing good. But now when Sa was in the hospital, Christine was in there with him every day as much as she could be. Yeah.

Well, that's me. I think that's the, and it's the nurturing side of a woman versus us guys are like. But he's always been that way, so it's not like it's something different. Yeah. When Trace was born, he was there. But then an IG was going on. So I only saw him when she was born. And then when I called three days later and said, you've got to sign some paperbook.

work. So he came just for that and then went back. And he didn't even come to pick me up from the hospital. Only because he was in an inspection. So this is something I'm used to. And so I have adapted it because at first it upset me. But then the more that I got to know him, that it's just something he just cannot do. And that's fine. And it is. That is fine. We've always had good friends.

Yep. Our best friend in Germany, what was her name, Karen? Sharon. Sharon snuck in the hospital because it's the old thing about Ken's folks only. Yep. She was Christine's sister. Oh, no. Look.

Yep. She knew how much trouble we had had, you know, getting pregnant. You know, so I, when she finally convinced Christine, you know, about you're pregnant, you know, she told the whole neighborhood, well, we're pregnant, you know, screaming out of the window. But anyway, she drove her car, found where she was at in the hospital, drove her car around the back, okay, under the window, got on top of the car, crowd in the window is that true? Because she wasn't going to be...

That's movie stuff. Oh, no, no. She was not going to be left out. Oh, that's awesome. That's a good thing. So, you know, she was... You're talking about a nut and her daughter. You know, when we become best friends,

we can not lock our door. You know, we was on the third floor. Fourth. Well, whatever. Hey, I got close. I only missed it one floor. He said, and if I was on the floor. Happers never.

Yeah. Hey, I got a half-quartered. That's C-plus where I come from. But anyway, hey, you know, we liked to do it one time. And good, Christine. Christina. Fiat. Christina.

Oh, your best friend. Daughter, yeah, daughter, yeah. I'm called, no. Well, hey, you got to pay bills at some point. Oh, hey, hey, yeah. I mean, it happened. I just thought of something, too. So for one night, you were Phil Robertson.

right i mean hold on let me think about it if you were her nephew you were technically Phil Roberts i guess i could have been yeah yeah i was i played the part that's pretty cool but you know i i just wasn't going to let it go back by herself no i'm with you um and she needed somebody to be there with her and so i said hey take care of it you know and i was glad to do it yeah well that's a man knowing what he can and can't do which a lot of times is the the is the And you're pretending. And let me tell you this. It ain't there.

Yeah. I've got my limitations. And one is when the pilot says we're going down. You're out. Have I told you this story? Yeah. I don't know if we told it on this podcast. This one, the windshield busted.

Yeah. Okay. And Christine is like, you know, she's like, side is just like going back to sleep. But Christine was so calm. She said, honey. We all are going to die one day. I said, yeah, but not today. She said, Philip, calm down.

And everybody, it's just like the Twilight Zone. But you know what? That just shows that their wisdom and just more maturity in some areas, you know, where I just was like. That's why moms are the greatest individuals. Oh, yeah. Even my wife that I thought would freak out with me going down. She's like, you heard what Miss Christine said. We've had a good life.

We've had a good life. We've got our kids. Put the landing gear down. Oh, yeah, that was a bad. Rough, rough, rough story. Speaking of, we did make it. Speaking of a good life, you know, when I started running around here with Si, he, if the camera went to him, he would be quiet.

Yeah. So behind closed doors at your house, was he still a goofball or was he quiet then? Oh, okay. He just didn't want to do it in front of the camera at that point. Yeah. Okay. Until they... So you were...

There's got a lot of goofball in her, too. Oh, yeah. Oh. Yeah. Well, she's got to be in to stay with you. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It always comes back to you.

That always goes back to you. That ain't a one-way street. Oh, boy. That street go both ways. Back and forth. I was just curious about that because he would. Whenever we'd be duck hunting, if the camera went to him, he'd go... He wouldn't do nothing.

Yeah, he did that for a while. But I was just wondering if that personality, I was wondering if it was always there. And you just never saw it before that happened. That's what I was doing about. I mean, I knew it was there playing poker, but that's your hobby. Well, no, no. All my friends that I grew up with in high school, I went back to my fourth grade elementary school and spoke to the kids there. And it was the coolest thing I've ever done in my life.

okay and i say i's saying something because i've been with you on some pretty cool things but anyway you know i one of them it was two teachers there that was in you know in school with high school and one of them said you was so shy when you was in high school and i looked at it i said me shy i said i don't remember that part of me you know but she said oh yeah you uh but the coolest part of that was that when i was standing up by talking these four fourth graders. I actually, I said, you know, this is the coolest thing I've ever been involved in. I said, because I might be looking at the next president of the United States, or I could

be looking at the next doctor that comes up with a cure for cancer. I said, y'all've got y'all's whole life in front of you. And I said, hey, look around and look at each other. I said, because y'all are fixing to spend the next 12 years. growing up together. Some of you may even marry each other, you know. But that was just the coolest thing. And some of them you may have been looking at the next Cy Robertson.

Hey, look, Si, have you ever thought about this? One of your teachers was looking at you when you were young and you would grow up to be this reality star and go and preach the gospel to thousands of people. Did you ever think? No, the teachers wouldn't look at him and thank you. No, no, no. Look, hey, my teachers hated me.

Did you hear what she said? What did you say? I said your teachers would never have looked at you that way. No, no, they looked at me with hatred. Okay, some of them, I'm serious, because some of them even told me, I hate your guts, Robertson. Why did they say that? They're hard-headed. Well, no, no, because I was a horrible.

I was a horrible student. Okay, I did not apply myself. Okay, because I didn't, I didn't. I didn't like school, period. Well, then what were you applying yourself to while you were at school then if it wasn't education? Well, it was daydreaming. Yeah. I'm interesting.

Keep going. Zay, I'd be there and my eyes open and I'd be sound asleep. That's where you learned to sleep with your eyes. No, no, I'm serious. But I was a horrible student. And that's why I tell kids all the time, do not be like me. Actually learn your teachers. I have fabulous.

teachers, okay, to put up with me. Okay, and they actually taught me a little bit. And you made it all the way to like two days of college. Yeah, yeah. Well, hey, no, I spent a whole semester there, but it was a waste of time. Yeah, I know. Like, too, I was a waste of time. He tried college.

Oh, seven, eight times. Yeah. Really? Oh, yeah. I didn't know that. I kept going back in the military. Yeah. Because they said, well, you need to go and get some kind of degree where you get promoted.

Well, it didn't work out. College just was not for me. And it was about seven or eight times. Yeah, hold on. After he got out of the military the first time, he was going to Louisiana Tech. Okay. That lasted about six weeks. There you go.

And then he went back to the military. Well, I had something that kind of threw me off is the reason I couldn't ever complete it. Yeah. When you know like 20 people that have two degrees, And they're down at McDonald's and Burger King flipping burdiggers and are educated. It's kind of a turnoff. Yeah. Oh, you want me to waste how many years of my life, eight to get me a piece of paper saying I'm a smart guy?

No, thank you. But I can't get a job. I got a biology degree. It's coming in handy right now. Yeah, there you go. You know. Well, you're asking about him about him when he came into his own. about the joking and everything.

To the rest of the world. The rest of the world. Yeah. When he was in the military, he was very well loved by the men in his unit. I can see that. He's a natural born leader. And then there was a temporary duty out in California. And the sergeant major told him that he was going to go, but not because of his job.

He was going for morale. I can see that. Yep. I also know that if me and him been friends, like in our early 30s, we'd have gotten a lot of trouble again. No, that would have not been good. Because I'm full of bad ideas and he's full of yeses. Yes. Yeah, and he's uncontrollable.

Yes. I'll tell you that. He's a great audience when you need a crowd, too. I can tell you that right now. Yeah, I think we can do that. I never knew the shy or withdrawn sigh. May either. No, you didn't.

But when we met, you know, we met at, it was my house at a men's Bible study. And Jason, Willie, and everybody was there. And they had told me, hey, our uncle's crazy, but you're going to love him. He's got great stories. But he can't hear well, so you got to get real loud. And they told him that I couldn't hear at all, but I could read lips. so that's our first meeting and after that of course we were yelling each other and hollering for 45 minutes and then he's trying to run away from me and I'm grabbing him and turning around

where I can't yeah I said I like this guy you know and I've never seen any any other side of him you know since since that was when you first moved back I guess and started working down at fields yeah I just remember just when we started when I started duck hunting down side just sat down there. He didn't say a whole lot. And then the cameras... That's where y'all met? Yeah.

I did not know that. But with playing poker, I was like, that guy's loud at the poker table. And this duck blind, he don't say a whole lot. Of course, he's sitting in there with Phil and Jason. If you sneeze wrong, you flared them, and then you get chewed out.

Don't shoot at anything. So I also understood, and I was like, you know, maybe he's just toe in the company line here. He don't want to listen to his kinfolk gripe at him. I get that too. And, but then when the, when the big camera started coming around,

he started getting a little more lively. And he had finally sat there and taken enough from Jace, I guess, and just gave it back to him one morning about shooting and everything else. And I was like, my man. I'm sitting next to you. Come on, let's sit next to each other. This is going to be fun. I had had enough.

So then I got to where I'd poke the bear. I'd sit over there and like, believe you say that one time? They couldn't get fit. Couldn't get Si on camera. So they snuck in and they put a camera where he'd be sitting. And then Jason poked him to get him going. And then afterwards when they showed him on film, he said, oh, I didn't know that was me. Yeah.

So after that, he let it all hang out. He let her fly. Let her fly. I was there the morning he got poked. I was like, okay then. All right, now, we're cool now, so that I'd poke every morning. I was baby brother, world-class pot stirr. Right.

You know, I'd stir that pot if I got to. That ain't no big deal there. But it was, no, I was just curious if prior to Duck Dynasty that it was always in there, just it was never, it was never shown to GQ public. No. You know, like, you just didn't know it. Y'all just made me realize something. That's why I had a whole bunch of trouble in military career.

Is that I'd been poked so much? Okay, that I should get out on the military. I bet that's true. I'm serious. I just thought about that. I said, no wonder, because I would come home. I said, well, the colonel from me. I had the office this morning again.

She'd say, why do you do that? You're only homing yourself. I said, yeah, but that man knows where I stand. It's out of principle. Yeah, it's the principle. It's the principle of the thing. He knows where I stand. But that just hit me.

That's why my officers in charge of me had such a hard time with me. We just did it because we knew it made good entertainment. Yes. You know, everybody had been poking me all my life. Because you just saw the guy that was so happy go lucky, just get Ornery and irate at his nephew who's named after him. So it was actually, it was always perfect. It just because y'all couldn't be more similar.

I don't care how much he argues that. Oh, yeah. Well, that's the maddest, I think that's the maddest me and Jason Robertson ever got any of the time. Is this when you're in there picking up the decoys and the ducks were over? Oh, no, no. Yeah. I was there ridiculous.

Yeah. That's the problem. What was so ridiculous about it is that he killed one. There was duct 60 yards from him. He killed one that was 125 yards high. Okay. And I said, hey, it's your own fault. I said, why didn't you kill three in the wrong?

row the signal was at 60 instead of shooting that one that was up there, you know, in 20,000 feet. Because never forget, he's a producer, too. That wouldn't have made near as good of an argument. If he'd have killed three, it wouldn't have been near as much

your fault as him only killing one. That's the first time I've ever seen Phil Robertson put his foot down. Yeah. He said, we got to have a meeting. Because we're going to have a meeting. And then he said, hey, y'all ever pull that crap again? He said, I'll whoop every one of you. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. He got hot. Oh, yeah. And he said, now here's the deal. When I go get the boat, don't nobody move, don't go anywhere until the boat pulls up in the decards. Yes, I got me in trouble. Everybody got in trouble that day.

Yeah. We got back to the house, Phil circled us up around the tailgate. I felt like I was like, I felt like I was a kid. You didn't have to bend over the hood of the car, did you? No, but if he'd have said, grab your ankles, I guess I would have. Everybody would have that day. he was mad he was hot yeah he was hot yeah i was just like well here it is boys this where it all falls down there's seven grown men there getting a tongue lashing from field and you know what did

none of us say a word oh i wouldn't have either we were all smart i didn't even want to make eye contact with him there you go that college degree working for you i don't think anybody did i think we're all looking down on the ground i was there moving that same piece of gravel 157 times That's why he just steady chewing on us, you know. But it was, that was fun. That was a, that was a good rally cry there. That was a good one. Yeah, you got to have that clear understanding, you know what I mean, from time to time.

Well, that one had gone too far. We always had little spats in the blank because that's what guys do, locker room mentality. But that one got just downright uncomfortable. Oh, no. Hey, me and Jace was nose to nose. Yeah, I thought I was about, hey, hey, that's too stubborn in mine. Oh, no, no.

Oh, and the old folks had our fists doubled up. Yeah. I thought it was going to go to Fifth City. I really did. I thought I was about to watch two grown men scratch gravel. I didn't know what was about to happen, son. Anyway, let's take another break. We'll be back right after this.

I wanted to ask side question. Phil gives everybody nicknames. Oh, yeah. So tell me, like, your brothers and your sisters. In high school. My name, my nickname, Perchmouth. That's what Phil called you. I've never heard that.

before. I thought I was known by in high school. Really? What does perchmouth mean? He just, he named

we fished all the time. And he just, I, Perchmouthed. You know this? You know this? It stuck. Christine didn't know that.

Yeah. Oh yeah. So what about your brothers and sisters? Oh, they probably had nicknamed for they, you know. The funny thing about that, though, is that

Daddy, my father, he laughed he'd be shaking all over and have crocodile tears coming out of his eye and not a sound coming out of it. Yeah. And Tommy took after him, okay. I never heard Tommy laugh out loud. Really?

No. Boy, that was funny. No. Two-gun Tommy, you did it be hard enough to get a smile. Oh, no, no, no. He'd never laugh. He was like Daddy. Yeah.

What about your sisters, same way? No. No, they were very, both of them. then was vocal. What about your mom? Mom was funny was she would you would do something and she said I won't get you

for that and let it go you know. Now she I got to bring this up and then you don't know this Martin but granny is what I called her. Yep everybody did yeah. Si was her favorite is that right? Yes.

And so she really didn't like women. Am I right? Nope. Didn't like, yeah, yeah. But she liked Christine because you were her favorite. Yeah. Well, at first, you know,

because, you know, I actually called my mother and said, I, I think I found the woman I've been living with her. Okay. So, you know, I'm going to marry. Yeah. You know, and that's Mama's boy, yeah.

And, you know, well, she didn't really, you know. So finally. She wasn't excited about that. Yeah, she wasn't excited about it. But then she finally called her over after like two or three years after we've been married. And she said, I'm so glad you married, you know, my son.

You're all the one that, you know, is for him. That's why we get along. We're both the baby boys. Well, no, no. Yeah. Oh, no. I was mama boy. Yeah.

You bet. You bet. Circle me down for that. I'm trying to figure out which one of mine is going to be a mama's boy right now. I think I got it nailed down already, but we'll see. no but that yeah that's cool that's the one woman that granny like but hey but the funny thing about it was okay look you know people say god ain't got a big a good sense of humor oh yeah yes yeah we had a bush in our yard and it grew perfect switches oh okay and mama was she had an evil side to her because she was uh all her

her kin folks were evil too they're mean now you just they were just plain mean well they They're just plain mean. Mean-spirited. Oh, yeah. And Mama had that in her because she would make you when you, you know, she would let you go, you know, you'd break a knife. I'm going to get you for that. She didn't get you right then.

No, no, I'm going to get you for that. That's even worse. Two days later, you'd do something else, drop a glass, break in or whatever. I'm going to get you for that. Well, it will finally come to a boil, you know. And the day that she's going to get you. The reckoning. Oh, no, yeah, the reckoning.

Oh, no. you'd be running around and she'd just be tearing you up with one of them switches that she made you go pick. Oh, she must have been canned to my ground by the dick. Look, so hey, you know, she's just tearing me up and I'm running around because all she's doing is like this and that thing is just eating you alive. Eating the inside of the calves up. Yeah, both sides. Yeah. So I get to the age of about 12.

I know it all. So I go out there and I'd rather it at bush and say. Shake them a couple times. Nope, nope, that's not too good. Nope. Oh, here it is. Just isn't a break. Perfectly.

Break it off, brought it back to her. So, hey, she wore that out on me. It broke. She said, now go pick me another. Go pick me another one. Yeah. She wasn't done yet. Oh, no, no.

She didn't have that mad out in it. Yeah, she said, go give me another. She said, and hey, young man, just so you know, if this one's break, we'll pick that whole bush today. Ooh. So, hey, I wouldn't pick the one. She whipped me with that one for about three months. And she literally busted down and bawled like a baby when it broke.

She said, boy, was that ever a good one? That thing lasted for three solid months. Yeah, buddy. And that thing made me make these legs up. Ooh, I've had my rear end more out by a switch. Godly. I was pregnant with Trace. We bowed.

We were in a league. Uh-oh. you got him tickled. I know. And he's turning red. Because one... Keep talking. One of the guys on our bowling team showed up at our apartment.

I know this one. Yeah, this one's good here. This one's good. And so he's talking and he's talking. Then he just puts into it. Wanted to know if I'd be interested in swapping. I said, in what? Yeah.

I still think. you know that I'm a little naive at that time. Oh, she was naive about this because I told her, I said, hey, you watch that, watch that old boy. His wife was beyond beautiful. No, no, no, no. That's what got me, okay? And not on that, my wife is carrying Tracer,

and we had all these two or three years of problems trying to get pregnant. This idiot knows the story. And then he, I leave home. and he slips in and, you know. Well, he's talking, and I'm just telling him, no, no, you need to go. You need to go. Well, he wouldn't do it.

So I go next door and bring Sharon over. And Sherry running him off. Yeah, Sharon ran him off. She's a little bany rooster. And so she thinks. She was thinking, she said, she was going to whip him himself. She's about to climb at Rasco like a car. Oh, yeah.

He fixed to climb him up and call him. Sharon's didn't think I should tell Cy. and that's not how we go. So, yeah, I told me. And she was going to try it to Sharon's way. Yeah, I tried it to Shoren's way. Yeah. But I just couldn't do it.

Yeah. But then I just said, whoa, come here. You know, she was fixing to leave. I said, da-da-da. We had bowling that night. I said, hey, sit down. What's going on, you know? And she said, why?

I said, no, this is not going anywhere until we get this out and open. So she finally broke down and said, I said, what did I tell you? I told you to watch it, found. Well, she said, well, hey, you don't let it. I said, oh, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good. But he wasn't. He's lying. He's lying through your teeth.

Oh, no, no, no. The worst deal when we showed up, boy, he was nice. And he got quieter and quieter. No, no. I'm sitting over like a volcano. You're just stewing. Yeah, it's a rough. This thing's blow to top of his mountain off.

Well, finally I said, oh boy I said I no can't take it I said hey let's go the other guy went into the locker room yeah yeah I said hey let's go get a beer you know okay they go into the locker room no no well I will get a beer and I take him in

inside because I'm not sure how I'm gonna handle yeah yeah yeah and I said hey come me let me tell you something no and he he smiled and when he smiled I couldn't stand I just right here and just up to his faith

I get my tan and I said if you ever show up to my apartment. Microphone. Y'all, I will kill you. Yeah, no, we're good. Yeah.

Yeah. I knew those words were coming. I was trying to save the editor. And I will kill you dead. Just don't stop. Oh, no. No, I just, hot wasn't the word.

Yeah. I said, do you know all the story about how hard it was for us to get pregnant. And then you're going to hit on my wife. He's going to pull this stunt. Yeah, you're going to pull this. I said, son, I said, you're lucky.

I don't go ahead and just kill you right now. Evil comes in all varieties, don't. Yes, but always, you know, you get to see when karma comes back. Comes back. He dropped a bowling ball on his foot? No. On something else. He was a driver.

He was a driver for a full board colonel. And he was also selling drugs. Oh. Oh, no. In the colonel's car. In the, from the colonel's car. Here was the funniest part about this. Okay, this guy bowed normally.

Yes. 200, 200 games. He was good. That night, he bowled like 73. Yep. That sounds like my bowels. So that is, oh, it was all like to do to sit there. He'd go up there and throw the ball and sit back down.

Throw the ball and sit back down. I'd be worried he's going to come. me one of them 12-pounders upside the back of my head. She's seen me mad twice. That was one of them. Yeah. There you go. And she said, I don't want to ever see the third one.

No. I said, well, I'll probably kill somebody if you do. Yeah. Me neither. All right. Another question. Let's lighten it up a little bit. Yes.

That one was a rough one. What, uh, what does I cook at home? Yes. What's your favorite thing he cooks? Oh, that would be a toss-up between the space. spaghetti sauce or the hamburger. Okay. That was a question.

They wanted to know. So I was raving about his beef stew. Oh, no. On the last podcast. Yeah. Do you like his beef stew with the fillet? Okay. Now, what about the bell peppers with the hamburger meat inside it?

Was that you cooking that? Yeah. Stuff bell pepper? Yeah. I can get down with that. Yeah, a lot of bell pepper, a lot of onions. Lots of spices. A lot of spices.

He just. Besides, he smells it and sees, oh, yeah, I'll put that in. Christine, Papa Pauli wants to know what do you like most about Louisiana? And what do you miss most about Massachusetts? Kentucky. Well, they said Massachusetts, from when they live there. Yeah, I would say the only thing I like about Louisiana is size here. That's a plus.

You sound like Brittany now. I mean, that's the only thing. Oh, no, I thought she had died on me when she's, you know, we're in Alabama. Okay, let me finish answering questions, please. Go ahead. Let her talk, son. And what I miss about Massachusetts is the four seasons

and the fact that they have dirt, not sand, and there's not water everywhere. I like that, too. Yeah. No swamps. Yeah. I can see all those things. But aren't you glad it's like an early spring right now?

See, them folks in Massachusetts still freezing today. Yeah, I know. I saw that. And it's 80 degrees out here. Yeah. Massachusetts, though, has winter. Yeah, we ain't got that. October through April, usually.

Yeah, eight months of it. Yeah. Eight months of it. We get about eight days of it. Maybe if we're lucky. That's about all the winter we get. But I can see all those things. I thought that was funny because I knew you're feeling towards the great state of Louisiana.

Oh, yeah. Let's see. We got one more. And it just asked, what is your fondest memory of being married to Uncle Si? We'll close on that one. Fondous memory of being married to Uncle Sy. Because I think this could literally be anything when you say fondest. Yeah, that's very true.

I think I would have to go with his determination Okay Of finding a doctor who could help me That's awesome And he just I mean When he went back in the second time He was stationed at Fort Knox

I was staying with my parents Until he got a place to live But before I even get there He's already set up an appointment with the infertility clinic at the hospital. So this shows, you know, that I was on his mind and an important part of it was getting help for me. So that was just, you know, awesome.

That is awesome. We have a lot of military wives, husbands, and all listen to us. So any encouragement, anything you can glean or, you know, you followed it for 20, what, 23 and a half? 24 and a half years. So if there's anybody with experience, it's you. Well, one of the things that I think is important is you've got to be a strong person to be married to somebody in the military.

And it's even worse now than it was back. Because now they go to all these dangerous places and the wives have to take care of stuff at home or the spouse being a man. So, you know, military husband. Yeah. And you can't have your life to go around him 100%. You've got to have a life of your own that can mingle in. And so when he was gone, I would be dealing with the kids and with my job.

And so, and I've had to do moves by myself. And that was just part of the game, you know, that this is what he does. this is what I have to do so he can do what he does. So in everything, you were supporting him. Yes. Even while he was gone. And I think that is a key part to that is to be able to do that support even when they may not be around. Right.

But you also had, you know, from the sounds of it, great friends. Very much. Oh, yeah, you need to have that. Yeah. If you don't have your friends in the military, you're going to be hurting. Yeah. Don't withdraw. Don't withdraw.

Embrace the lifestyle. Yes. That kind of deal. The military's got their own family. Yes. Okay. And like she said, it's important that, you know, she has her life. Okay.

But then the key to it is when you're back together from a deployment, don't waste the time you have together. make that quality time love it yeah yeah and but yes

that's about all I could give you give them is that when you are together make it quality time and then this day in technology you know they yeah it's much much better if they can talk to each other

while they're gone yeah especially for the kids yes because you know like a letter is okay but if you got Facebook

and all this stuff you could actually interact together with it. Yeah, that's awesome. So how long has it been now? He had the belief that he was not around with the children, that he was never there for them. So I just get pictures out and I show him. And he doesn't remember the fact that he was with them that much.

So he said, well, I guess I did have something to do with their bringing cutoff. And look, hey, that was before Photoshop, too. so she didn't make it up. No, no. No. No. No. No. No. When I would be feeling bad about not spending enough time with them, you know, then that's when she broke

out the photo album and said, okay, well, what about this when you're dressed up as the big Easter bunny? And you didn't even remember it? I didn't. Yeah. You dressed up as the Easter money? Oh, yeah. Yep. Six foot three Easter bunny.

Well, you do that for my kid? Hey. Hey, you get the outfit and I'll do it. I love it. knew you would. Hey, you get the outfit? I'll do it. I asked the question, even though I knew the answer.

That's my favorite. I just want to say before we close out that, Ms. Christine, when you were talking a while ago, I almost got blinded by the ring that you have on your finger. And I know, Si said that he gave you a cigar band the first time you got married. But you got even with him now. I can guarantee you. He did good.

He did good. That's why she got her hand resting on that table. She can't hold it up. that old arm get heavy now oh well let's close it out we always close out with bible verse i've just got one pulled up it's one of my favorite psalm 91 one and two whoever dwells in the shelter of the most high will rest in the shadow of the almighty i will say of the lord he is my refuge and my fortress my god and whom i trust so that one gets me through a lot of times where you feel a little down you're like why am i doing what i'm doing what are we doing here and then you

just always remember you've got a god that loves you you've got jesus fighting for you you can dwell in him and you can 100% trust him so that's one that just helps me through life christine thank you so much for joining us again as we always say that chair is we'll kick johnny d out anytime you want to come so thank you so much we'll see y'all next time here in the duck call room we're out Bye bye.