Duck Call Room - The Robertson 'Duck Bros' Hijack Uncle Si’s Podcast

Episode Date: July 23, 2026

Willie Robertson’s sons and sons-in-law waste no time roasting Christian’s AI-inspired makeover and selfie collection. John Luke recounts a summer of catching deer, rescuing birds, and getting bit... by a snake until the family realizes he’s becoming Ace Ventura in real time. John Reed is the proud owner of a speakeasy now, and Jacob attempts to figure out which regular Duck Call Room hosts they most closely resemble. Will brings the word and the boys dive into a thoughtful discussion about manhood, humility, and how to handle personal suffering. Duck Call Room episode #572 is sponsored by: One thing to pack, five ways to power! Get 10% Off @‌Ridge with code DUCK at https://www.Ridge.com/DUCK #Ridgepod https://nutrafol.com — Get $10 off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you use promo code DUCK! https://ethos.com/DUCK — Protect your family with life insurance from Ethos. Get up to $3 million in coverage in as little as 10 minutes. Application times & rates may vary. https://myphdweightloss.com — Find out how Godwin is losing weight! Visit the website or call 864-644-1900 and mention "Godwin" to get 2 weeks free in the program! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:12 This isn't your first podcast, is it? Ever. I'm talking about ever. First podcast ever? Yeah, like, I don't know. I'm asked. I haven't really? No.
Starting point is 00:01:22 Yes. You've ever been on a podcast? I've ever been on a podcast. I don't know. I was on one a long time ago about records one time. What, in like 2008? Something like that. Whenever they first started.
Starting point is 00:01:33 Podcasts weren't out in 2008. or no, no, two of them. Memory lost. We did, we did pay you one dollar to be here. So, uh,
Starting point is 00:01:40 yeah, we're thankful. You got a low rate. Thank you. We're paying you 75% of the hour, because that's all it'll be. I'm usually just on the holiday episode. So,
Starting point is 00:01:53 yeah, I'm glad to be on just a regular scale. Hey, you're a premium extra for the podcast, you know? Yeah. This is like a post fourth podcast. They're always texting me when the guests like quit.
Starting point is 00:02:03 And they're like, We got to get someone in here. We got John Luke would get in here. What are you doing? Yeah. That's fair. They just think it's because I don't have anything going on. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:13 Like you don't have five kids or something. Yeah. That's crazy. Speaking of five kids, congrats. Five kids. Wow. Five kids.
Starting point is 00:02:20 Yeah. How's that been? Five kids. Yeah. How is that? Five kids. We just, we keep saying five kids.
Starting point is 00:02:28 Wait, you have five kids? Oh, we like really enter into like a podcast, but I feel like we're like, I've got three kids. You've got five kids, dude. I've got five.
Starting point is 00:02:37 No, tell me about that. What is five minus three? Two. Oh, two. Well, I've been at camp these last nine weeks,
Starting point is 00:02:46 so. You're an absent father? Yeah, I've barely been home to see them. I've had the older three at camp every day. Not every day, but most days. Mary Kate's got their twins.
Starting point is 00:02:57 Does your kids go to camp? Yeah, they've been a couple times. Your kids go to camp? Do you drive like a limousine? or something like how do you fit five kids in a car no see that that's the thing you know what he drives i don't know what he drives right do you what do you drive i don't know what you drive or this brother-in-law has amnesia like i don't know what's wrong what do you drive a suburban i can't tell if i can't
Starting point is 00:03:20 he doesn't know what i drive suburbian i can't tell if you're curious or like anything about suburban suburban are you crazy do you drive a suburban is that you go yeah you got merriquet drives Hey, what's your license plate number? What's your wife's name? Wait, wait, what camp? You said you've been out of camp the last nine weeks? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:44 Sorry, I don't know what you drive, but do you drive a big vehicle with five kids? Well, it is, but there's five seats and there's five kids, and they all fit. But I think that's where when you've got six kids, six you can probably still fit in a normal car. Well, you have to get like a special car for your children.
Starting point is 00:04:00 That's when you've reached like another level of. I don't think you can Are you there a category In a normal car? Yeah, if you got like three If one's old enough If one's old enough to ride front seat, you can't If you don't have a middle, if you have a middle seat
Starting point is 00:04:15 If you cut your wife out of the car You know, she drives separate You can fit six Like if your kid's old enough to ride in the front seat Then theoretically you can't If you had one more Like no one's old enough to ride in the front seat Yeah, well we don't have a middle seat in the middle
Starting point is 00:04:28 So some cars have middle seats in the middle So you can fit six Yeah The bucket seat So what's going on in y'all's lives? What are you up to? Like we're not filming the show right now. No.
Starting point is 00:04:38 What are y'all doing? Well, we're just hanging out right now. I mean, I have a lot of L.O. worship stuff happening. The past several months has been just traveling, going pretty much all over the country. What's the last place you went? Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Dirty Myrtle. Dirty Myrtle.
Starting point is 00:04:57 It was actually awesome. It was really, really cool. Yeah. We were at a student. life camp. So it was just like a bunch of churches come together for like beach camp pretty much. Yeah, yeah. And we led worship all week. Yeah. That was dumb. That's cool. We were expecting, Abby was expecting to go and lay out on the beach every single day after we led in the morning. But once we took a look at the beach, it was sad. It ain't those Gulf Coast beaches.
Starting point is 00:05:25 No, mm-mm, no. No. Ain't no Gulf Shores. Ain't no Gulf Shores. Ain't no Galvest and ticks. Ain't no grand dial Yeah But yeah Other than that man We're just hanging out Doing music hanging out
Starting point is 00:05:40 That's cool We're just living in LA John Reed Y'all You're doing the store Tell us about your store And your Speak easy
Starting point is 00:05:47 Your bar Why do you say it like that Your bar Yeah well tell us about your liquor sales And your speakeasy Man He just got his liquor license I'm working on getting it right now
Starting point is 00:06:00 So what the store Just tell us about it. I mean, Rebecca was just on here. But this is from your perspective. Yeah. Your, your, your, uh, we weren't on here. Valuable.
Starting point is 00:06:10 Y'all, y'all have been building this build, renovating this building for how long? Forever. What's the year? Actually how, how, can you remember? Can you remember?
Starting point is 00:06:20 Since you lasted a podcast. I can. I, uh, I bought the building in 2018. Okay. Okay. Um, I demolished it myself inside.
Starting point is 00:06:27 Did all the demolition myself in a year and a half during, after I bought it. Then it sat there for a while. And then I was super busy in the moving industry. Yeah, and I got to the building and started building it out, I guess. And then Rebecca's store is super funky and cool. Is that always the dream? It was like Harris store in there?
Starting point is 00:06:46 Like, did you have a different idea for it? Yeah, one space. Yeah, she always wanted another store. Yeah. So we did that and now it's going and it's pretty funky and cool. Y'all are in there the other day. Yeah, no, it's epic. It's pretty, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:06:59 It's awesome spot. It's cool. This has been like the ongoing thing that we thought would never actually happen. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:07 Well, the thing is, like, I was so busy the past decade with moving, with that company, you know, building it and everything that maybe the last year and a half, I've really been able to be like full throttle and get everything. Yeah. Building it, scaling it, selling it, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Are you talking about the building?
Starting point is 00:07:27 No, it's amazing. Can like anyone go in your speakeasy or like, how does that? work. Yeah, well, the back's the whole other thing. I was like my office. I didn't anticipate that to be anything. And then people started poking their heads back in there. And they were like, this is like super cool. You need to do this. Or something needs to happen here. It's like, really it's just the bathrooms for me and Rebecca in my office upstairs. But it's super funky. It's cool. You know what I mean? You have like a code word to get in? Like if I came in your store and I don't know you like does. Um, not. He said if you wink at him,
Starting point is 00:07:56 he'll take you. It's like a password situation. Oh, okay. No, like, It's really cool. Honestly, it's cool because, like, I feel like you really get to see someone's personality through, like, a space, like, and how they express themselves. Me and Rebecca, you're seeing it. Like, yeah, you see your house and stuff, and, you know. But seeing that, like, I saw it with nothing. You walk in.
Starting point is 00:08:15 You feel like you're on a movie set. No, it is, yeah. Your dad, you said your dad's going to a lot. Oh, he's going to love it. He loves that. The bathroom's super cool. I was using it the other day, and I was just staring at all the pictures. The hells for you kind of the ducks.
Starting point is 00:08:25 Yeah, it's every square inch. Number one or two. Yeah. Number two definitely has a better view for sure. It does, it does. It's kind of PG and out, I guess, a little bit. But as for the back, I mean, yeah, I mean, I didn't really have a business plan for it, I guess. It's just more cool space.
Starting point is 00:08:44 Exactly. Like a creative space. But now it's turned into something completely different. So now, yes, I'm working on, I've made the menu for it. Oh, you're going to do a restaurant. Yeah, mocktail. No food yet. I don't want to deal with that.
Starting point is 00:09:00 So you got your liquor license to make mocktails? No, mocktails and cocktails. Okay. Which honestly, I didn't have to do that, but a few people, including like my father, they'd be smarter if you did that. Sure. So I did that.
Starting point is 00:09:12 Is that a hard process? I mean, I don't know. I have no clue. Just make the same drink. You have to like alcohol. $500 a year. I think he means to get the license. It's like $500 a year and you have to keep up with it every.
Starting point is 00:09:25 You have to go like to where you get your business license for a store? No. They have to say yes. or no in your parish and then you go to the state and then you pay the $500 and then you just keep up with it every day but then everybody that works there which i just had a meeting with a couple people that are going to work for me i hate saying working for me um we have we have to we have to all get i don't like that dude i'm not not like a boss type more like a he submissive it's more like a he submissed is a partner worker and colleague type yeah colleague leader kind of person
Starting point is 00:09:57 Submissive, man. But the thing is that you all have to have some kind of like thing, like, trained. Do you have to be trained? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like whatever it's called the L. You have to go through a train and get certified or something. Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:11 I figured, I mean. Yeah, and that's it. That's cool. Yeah. And it'll be open maybe in the fall. I hope so. Yeah. We're finishing.
Starting point is 00:10:18 Actually, I was up there. I kind of look like a hubo right now, which I usually do all the time. Yeah. But I was up there working this morning. We're getting the alleyway finished. And that'll be the entrance. Yeah, that's cool. Oh, sick.
Starting point is 00:10:29 Y'all's hours are what, Friday, Saturday, 10 to 6? Yeah, Rebecca's. Yeah, the summer hours for the store, Rebecca store, our store are Thursday, Friday, and Saturdays 12 to 6. They'll change in the fall, you know, to be full week, you know. And then for, I won't really say anything about the speak easy because it's not ready yet. Yeah, that's cool. But look, if you're in town. You're going to speak easy about the speak easy.
Starting point is 00:10:53 Yeah, for sure. But if you're in town, go see their store on Deere Street, Thursday to Saturday. 12 to 6, right? Yeah. That's cool. Man, it's 2026. Technology is grand, but you know what? Ain't grand having to carry a cord for everything that you got, whether it's your phone,
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Starting point is 00:12:35 Wait, Jacob, let's go back to you. Talk about your store. Yeah, what about your store? Yeah, what about your store? Yeah, your store. How long have you had it now? I guess, was it July? A year in two months?
Starting point is 00:12:49 That's what you just did a year. What have you, like, it's cool seeing how it, it hasn't changed, I mean, that much, but seeing just kind of how you've added new stuff, over the past like months too yeah yeah what do you feel like you've like learned over this like past year like starting it now you're a year into it i'd say like the biggest thing i've learned is like really running the staff like having a staff of people because like now which i don't know if people know this but i started working at duck commander like three months ago so now it's like
Starting point is 00:13:18 really hands off on like the day-to-day employee stuff so like learning how to you know give a plan and have other people execute it without not being there and like delegating the options and then working when no one's there. So like getting all the stuff to price and put in the store and like figuring out, you know, what's selling best and like going down that route because like online's totally different than in the store. So yeah, like a whole different clientele. Like people, if you, depending on where you're at in store, like people could have a way
Starting point is 00:13:48 broader, you know, view of vintage, like a lot more outlets, a lot more genres of things or they could have more narrow. And so I've just like learned like price points that sell better in store like what's selling better. Is it more T-shirts? Is it pants? Is it hats? Is it jackets?
Starting point is 00:14:02 Seasonal. And then also, like, same thing, decorating your space and, like, create, like, the feel that you want in a store, which is super fun. Because I like having a store. Obviously, if money doesn't, like, if it's profitable, it makes sense to have a store, great. If it doesn't, it does it. But since it has been, you know, successful, in a sense, it's fun to just express myself
Starting point is 00:14:25 in that way and, like, create a store with, like, my kind of stuff. Because I would say, like, if you go in Rebecca store, it's really cool and it's awesome. But I wouldn't say necessarily, like, that's my style at all. But it's cool to, like, get to express in that way and, like, make people feel a certain way coming in your store and, like, having a style that people can either like or appreciate or just, like, see your creativity through your brain kind of situation. Would you say John Reed's outfit right now is vintage? No, but it's John Reed. It's Mr. Bean. John Reed's outfit is John Reed to me.
Starting point is 00:14:56 Like, I feel comfortable when I see him. That's what he wears. It's not like crazy. I dressed up for you all today. I feel like you've really leaned into like homelessness. This is the only way I can say this. No, no. No, no.
Starting point is 00:15:11 I feel like lately, I can be telling you all about. He's just embraced it. That was so quick. Homelessness. I do look homeless most of the time. I feel like you really leaned into like, this is going to sound weird, but like self-man manipulating your church recently into like cutting them all the same, like how you like them.
Starting point is 00:15:27 It's freaking 100. degrees outside. Yeah. It's liberating, not having your armpits and everything covered and stuff. Honestly. You'll wear that in the winter. With a jacket over it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:38 I get hot easy, man. Don't you? Yeah, aren't you hot-headed? I'm hot-blooded. Like, I run hot, like, I'm hot all the time, I feel like. Yeah. That's the opposite of me. Well, you're wearing those.
Starting point is 00:15:51 Meanwhile, John Lick's over here wearing a blanket. It's freezing in here. Yeah, John Lee, that's a person having kids. You just have blankets in your car. This is my office blanket Just for these podcasts It's so cold in here And when I'm sitting in my office
Starting point is 00:16:05 I've got my blanket Yeah It's hand knitted No but John Reed That's what that's what I think is really cool And the compliment Jacob's giving you right now In how you really customize
Starting point is 00:16:18 Like your stuff and your space That's what I'm saying That's not something like I do as much Which I think is cool And it's cool Seeing both of y'all's stores in buildings and places on the same street because it is like such an expression
Starting point is 00:16:32 of yourselves and your interests and like what you're selling and your clients and like all the things which is so different but it's it's in the same literally you know yeah yeah if you walk in the store you definitely know it was John reads well the cool thing is like a little history too I did it for people in New York for a decade
Starting point is 00:16:52 and now I'm doing it for myself so whenever I would go start these things like these little bars or these like restaurants and stuff, but we'd go in and it's like trend setting is what it is. At that point, teens or 20s, I don't have any money. So you're going with these people with a lot of money that have maybe a vision, but they don't. And they get people that are younger, like a group of got people to make it look cool. So you'll set the trend, as they say, but they're the money people. Sure.
Starting point is 00:17:21 So later on, fast forward two decades later, it's always in the back of my head. I was like, dude, I want to do something cool like I used to do for people. You get to the point. You're like, I'm the money guy. Yeah. Now I got the money. I don't know about that. But I do have still the thought of it.
Starting point is 00:17:37 And I was like, man, I just want to make it cool. So I made it cool in my office. Right. And then people started coming in and they're like, dude, can you please open this? So that's, I didn't want to make a business plan. So there's no business plan, but it'll eventually be a business planning. It's kind of like this is like a work of love. And then it kind of turned into like people holds.
Starting point is 00:17:55 I'm saying like you did it for yourself and then you made it for yourself no matter if someone appreciated it or not and people saw it and it's cool like they have appreciation in the same that they work with you and now. You know the podcast how I built this? I would love to be on how I built this.
Starting point is 00:18:12 I could do one. It's a 10 year time lapse and just well that the back office though took me two and a half years. Jeez. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:23 Two and a half years. But I mean again I'm constantly doing other things and that's what I had that's why you know if I don't that's all I had I could make it happen you know in a six months and to cut back to this real quick just so I can uh finish my thought for this
Starting point is 00:18:37 like John Reed's saying that he cuts his shirts like his shirt it fits him and it's cool but like I could never like I would never do that I couldn't wear it like I don't think I could pull that off you know what I'm saying I couldn't like you cut your collars like I like you cut your collars short like that I don't like stuff around yeah but like you still have the lining I see in there to keep it
Starting point is 00:18:55 sturdy. So I want for it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I like it. It's cool. If I showed up in a tank top, what would you say? I would flamey. I would like as roasting you.
Starting point is 00:19:04 If you do, it has to be like a gold's gym like a like a, you know. I almost started this podcast. A muscle thing. Yeah, you got to wear a muscle tank. If I wore a muscle, you would flame me. All right. No, I wouldn't. I'd be like, dude, that's freaking awesome.
Starting point is 00:19:17 This is like 70s gold's gym. I politely asked Will and John Reed, you know, what's going on, you know. You know, we kind of talked a little about John Luke. We'll get to him. him. Y'all know what he's doing somewhat, but I was going to ask you, so give us the walk through this Frosted Tips haircut you were trying to get and, you know, what happened there? Well, so.
Starting point is 00:19:37 Well, so. Frosted him tips, boy. Christian, you just got your haircut went. Two days ago from when we're recording this. So I chat GPTed a picture of myself. This is very interesting. You compared it to Thor Odinson. I wish we could throw it on the screen, his chat GPT of this.
Starting point is 00:19:54 He showed me yesterday. Well, I guess we probably could. I, no, so I took a... Why did you do this? So here's what happened. If you want to know... Break it down. You want to know the truth.
Starting point is 00:20:05 I had a picture of my long hair. I took a selfie when I had my long hair with my beard. And then I posted... For personal or for someone else? No, like just, I took a selfie at the beach. All right. And then I found a picture of myself when I had short hair like four years ago.
Starting point is 00:20:21 Okay. So I said, I went to chat, DBT, and I said put like put the short hair cut on the guy with the beard and it made the image and it somehow through chat GPT
Starting point is 00:20:34 it like bleached my hair it like made it way more blonde did your tips can you please show me a picture of that yeah I will yeah it's yeah I can I'll pull it send it in our group message okay here here
Starting point is 00:20:46 send it in the group message and I'll show John Reed and I was like this John she doesn't have a phone I just meant really my phone is on hand. No, I know,
Starting point is 00:20:57 I was like this would, oh, well, hold on, I don't, we don't, we don't have, we don't have,
Starting point is 00:21:03 it wasn't a bird of Bobby, it was more so, it was a burn to me. Yeah, that's what I know, I know, that's what I know, that's what's like,
Starting point is 00:21:08 he didn't get his building done in 10 years, he didn't have a phone. Here, let me show you my phone. Yeah. That's how you work soon. So this,
Starting point is 00:21:16 this, I literally just copy and paste did this image. I like that you put so much effort into this. No, it was crazy. It was literally no effort.
Starting point is 00:21:24 I was like, I posted two pictures to Chad Chbtee and I made this. I don't even have chat. I don't even know what it is. You know what Chad Chbett is. He forgot. It's AI. It's AI. The title of this podcast is John Reed, Rebecca's husband knows nothing of what this is.
Starting point is 00:21:40 I really don't. What is real? What is fake? He's like, we're all that podcast? What is podcast? What? Who's Mr. Bean? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:21:50 So this is, look. So here's it happened. That's him. Look, how many pictures did you take? Okay. This is the AI photo. Okay. That looks cool.
Starting point is 00:22:01 Yeah. It looks cool. Yeah. It does. It looks cool. Long story short, I just wanted to cut it short. And I had bleached it. Well, not not bleached.
Starting point is 00:22:09 I put sun bum stuff in it on our last beach trip. Sun bum. And it turned my hair orange. Oh, dude. So I was needing to dye it anyway. You ever seen a kid that shot at Hot Topic at 12? That's what Christian's hair looked like. You know what I've noticed, Phila?
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Starting point is 00:23:50 That's NutraFol.com. promo code. Well, other than that weird stuff, what else you got going on? You look real cute right now. Your hair looks cute. Your hair does look good, but that's a crazy. I actually was going for the Thor Ragnarok look. Thank you, Will.
Starting point is 00:24:10 The chubby version? Yeah, that's exactly. I'll show you a selfie I took yesterday. Oh, God. So our brother-in-law, this is the selfie king of our brother-in-law, I guess. Are you shirtless in the selfie? Yeah. Are these mirror picks or what are you talking about here?
Starting point is 00:24:26 I'll show it to John Lou. Can you type in your camera roll right now and look up selfies? I want to see how many units you have of that. Post-air-up half the phone. Post-air cut, I have a lot of selfies. Yes. He spent his entire afternoon. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:43 He spends $2.99 a month for more storage on Apple just for selfies after haircuts. That's like 23 gigabytes of your selfies on. He has a reference photos for his haircut. He bought a terabyte storage just for selfies. normal thing. Thank you, John Luke. But no, man, parenting. I've been podcasting a lot. Me and John Luke are on Unashamed on Fridays. I've been on, whoa, that's good. Sadie's podcast a lot. I just finished writing a devotional about the life of David. So I'm trying to get that published right now. And then I've been doing a couple speaking events in different places. So have you done them or you're about to?
Starting point is 00:25:22 I did. I've done two the last two months. then I'm flying to Montana in a couple weeks to do another one. What are you been talking about? Is this like a panel or you're like straight up speaking solo? Like straight speaking. Solo? Mm-hmm. Dude, I need to see this.
Starting point is 00:25:36 I haven't seen this. I spoke at a you thing in Rustin a couple weeks ago or about like a month ago. You spoke at Camp Chioca. Oh, yeah. I was saying. I spoke about David then. And then I spoke about Ephesians. Ephesians 2 at Camp Chioca.
Starting point is 00:25:54 and then I'm going to talk about David again in Montana. After his camp yoga speech, we had kids fall out. Two kids got baptized. One kid passed out in the spirit. Really? It was actually dehydration, but he was good. I mean, I was like, okay, this is fired up.
Starting point is 00:26:12 That's what I'm talking about. Two kids did get baptized after. Oh, that's awesome. Like he got baptized after. There's a whole prayer circles. One had a hospital visit. Yeah. And there was a lot of weeping.
Starting point is 00:26:21 I was, I was, it was. You really brought me. I mean, the Holy Spirit was working. through you. It was awesome. It was like at campfire. It was like late. That's awesome. Did you teach them about selfies? About selfies? Did you you show them your knife collaboration?
Starting point is 00:26:35 That's what I was about say. And you got your knife collaboration. Thank you so much. You're welcome. You're welcome. And I just had a knife collaboration come out with a company. Don't ask him. He won't get you one. I wanted one. What? You have it on you right now? No, I don't have it on me right now. You should have it. I wanted to see it.
Starting point is 00:26:50 I asked him, too, if I could have one. I'm working on getting a. I did too. You said. You wouldn't help me out. out. Hey, who's this company? Hey, Doss. I'm working on getting a discount. Dawson, please. Help us. Poor brother-in-laws. Who is it? What company is it?
Starting point is 00:27:04 It's called Dawson Knives. The knife is sick. Have you not seen anything about it? It's a sick-looking knife. He's not on his phone. He doesn't own a phone. He has a Motorola razor still. But I feel like there's a lot of little things like that that I'm doing that I can't.
Starting point is 00:27:20 That's fine. But the knife came out. The knife thing. You know what you should do if you're speaking on King David. you should like incorporate your knife not just it would be cool if you like pull it out your knife you know at speaking engagement have you seen the website it's all this is my knife well the whole website is like the whole the whole line is about king david the the knife is called the son of jesse yeah that's what i was saying that's it's all about davis's life yeah that's all about to the
Starting point is 00:27:47 sorry what are you burping or farting he's you burping or fring he's you burping or Very bright in his face. No, so the knife was, I wanted to do something to kind of honor King David and how much impact his life's had on me the last year. And I wanted to do something tying in Honey's name to it. So one of the handles, it's called Sandstone and it has more of like a honey-looking color to it. Oh, that's cool. That's sweet. Paying tribute to Honey, too.
Starting point is 00:28:12 So have you talked about on the other podcast? No, I haven't. About the impact of King David on a recently? Sort of kind of. Give us the short of the long. The short of the long is, I think there's something about David's life for me that that saw how David handled suffering. And I think there's something about David's life to where he's the only king that God ever chose.
Starting point is 00:28:42 And yet he's suffered more than almost anyone in the Bible. You're talking about both, I'm just breaking this down. Well, just his whole life. I mean, his father-in-law tried to kill him for 13 years as he's running in the wilderness. Didn't God? I guess Samuel, but God chose Saul, right? Yes, but then they, it's a, but then they also like cast lots. And but God, like, you know, obviously told Samuel, you know, I've found another.
Starting point is 00:29:09 And just the idea about David being a man after God's own heart. Right. Then if you look at the New Testament when Paul is writing, he's, you know, God says, here's, here's David who will do, you know, all that I ask. of him and at that time of his life David's a teenager in the wilderness, you know, shepherding sheep. And I think there's something about David's life. And there's also through the TV show, the House of David, I think that created something of, I've never had someone in the Bible that I've thought about more like theoretically than David. Like the idea of David getting up in the morning and bringing bread and cheese to his brothers on the battlefield.
Starting point is 00:29:49 And the idea of, like, as he's leaving his house to go bring cheese to his brothers, he's going to go fight a giant and become the most famous person in Israel in one moment in time. But then he can't relate to anybody about what he's going through because he's anointed king. But yet, he's the most famous person as a teenager. There's so much complexity to his life. And then he's playing music for Saul in the temple. and Saul's probably venting to him about Samuel anointing someone else. And then Saul tries to kill him,
Starting point is 00:30:22 but then David's still faithful to God and he doesn't kill Saul when he has multiple opportunities to. So I think there's so much complexity to his life that I just, I'm still trying to kind of unpack of like how, like his whole character arc to me is just so fascinating. But something about the way he handled suffering and then if you read the Psalms
Starting point is 00:30:42 and just the fearlessness he had, I think it's something that I've wanted to clean to this last year of going through a lot of traumatic things with my family. It's like, how did David handle the suffering? And how, I mean, in Psalms 3, he says, you know, though 10,000 surround me, I won't be afraid. And just that idea of he was such a warrior bit, he was so poet and musical, you know, musical.
Starting point is 00:31:05 So he had such a sensitivity to him. But he also would go kill 200 Philistines and take their foreskins for Saul. So, like, he's such a, like, it's just so, it's so complex to me. just that idea about how fearless he was in certain situations to me, which really stood out. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:23 But the beginning of his life about stepping into fame, being faithful about what God's called him to do, not taking matters into his own hands, having discernment, but also like just how fearless he was to me. Because wasn't David born, like all of his brothers, they didn't have the same mom? Yeah, Jesse. People debate that, yeah. Okay. I think that's part of his story about why that happened.
Starting point is 00:31:46 Another thing I wanted to say based off of that, that's great that had an impact on you like that, is that we went to the K-Love Wars, Sadie, you know, did the host of that. The thing I watched the King of David, did y'all watch that TV show? Have you watched it at all? I haven't watched it at all. Oh, it's House of David. Have you watched it at all? I've always seen the first season.
Starting point is 00:32:07 Okay, so it's good. I've heard that it's a cartoon. No, no, no, it's a real deal. It's like, it's live action. It's kind of like the same chosen, Bob. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the same. It's from the same people. I said it to say, I guess you all haven't seen it. But who, if you have seen it, David in the TV show, I binge-watched it in like four days. But he sings in the deal and it's like, it's fire. It's so good. And I was like, I asked Bella. No, he does do it.
Starting point is 00:32:34 The actor did a little bit like, like Caleb night. That's what I was saying. He sang at Caleb. And I was like, dude, he's got it. Like, it's really him. And I thought that was super cool. It's like very beautiful music. That's why the show's so cool because it's like the, it'll be David in battle like defeating all these people. And then the scene transitions to like him on top of the temple like worshiping. And like people in the city are like listening to him worship. He's like playing a little harp.
Starting point is 00:33:03 It's just just this. That's what I'm saying. It's just the complexity of like how he's so fearless in battle can do all these things. But then he's also so emotionally. Emotionally. So it's just so fascinating. We were headed back on from Tennessee the other day, and you know, you're driving, you look in front of you see them clouds and it's like, hmm, that don't look good. Well, then you fall and start going, bang, bang, back, back, like severe thunderstorm, tornado, all that, and I'm having to drive right through it with my kids. And it's at that point where I'm like, man, I hope my life insurance is paid up because everybody knows life insurance isn't exactly a fun conversation, but it's one that you got to have, and ethos makes that part easy. Ethos makes getting life insurance. fast and easy because it's 100% online.
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Starting point is 00:34:28 You would like it's just like I know I watch the cartoon Isn't there a cartoon? Yeah, they meant a movie Yeah, the David movie Yeah Yeah, I watch it But the TV shows
Starting point is 00:34:37 The TV shows is really good It's cool Like Passion The Cry style Like the Chosen, have you seen that either? It's just a more modern It's like a modern tech Not a modern tape I'm saying like a brutal like
Starting point is 00:34:49 Passion of Christ style type movie. It gets midway. Yeah, it gets brutal, but like I'm just, I'm trying to relate it to something. Not like Mel Gibson type. No, it's like The Chosen. If you haven't, I mean.
Starting point is 00:35:00 Yeah, if you haven't seen the Chosen. All I'm saying is modern film, so like it's very high quality shot. And it's like, it just gives you like a first person point of view of like what it was like back then. You know, I just like, you can like see yourself there.
Starting point is 00:35:11 It's like the Bible, but shot like the Revenant, the movie like that. I mean, what are these movie references? Other than Passion of Christ, what are we talking about here? I'm just, I'm saying, like, Hacksaw Ridge. I mean, it's like, you're saying like the way, you're talking about the visual. I'm being artistic right now.
Starting point is 00:35:24 So the visual of the movie is like, you know, the revenue is like, you know, the revenue's like kind of dark and like the way it's shot. Yeah. It's dark. But the Bible, like, it's like a, I mean, like a period piece. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm just saying like the film.
Starting point is 00:35:38 It's like high quality shot. It looks like they're in, you know, Israel, all the different types. Yeah, they film it in Greece. Like, it's super cool. But the show does not shy away from like some of the. the demonic stuff that happened. I mean, like, if, like, what's the king? Yeah, King Hague. The king that Saul did not slay, which is why he ended up getting the kingdom removed from him. They like hardcore, like, it's like a tough scene to watch. They don't
Starting point is 00:36:05 shot away from like how tormenting the spirit was that Saul had after he was disobedient. But it's, it's insane. Even if you weren't like religious of any sort, I think you could really, like, think it was a really good. Well, yeah, King David's like, like, Like, people would do the same thing with the chosen, too. Yeah. People who aren't Christians or any part of any religion would say, like, this is a... It's intriguing. It's a great show.
Starting point is 00:36:28 It's great. Who would you guess the five most famous people to ever live are? Like names. Jesus. Yeah, Alexander the Great. No. Gangus Khan. What?
Starting point is 00:36:39 King Caesar. What? Gangis Khan. So it's Jesus, Muhammad. Oh. And then it's Buddha, Moses, and King David. Oh, that's crazy. Is that a fact?
Starting point is 00:36:50 That's a fact. If you look it up. That's crazy. Yeah. Well, long way. He's like seven. Because in Genghis Khan. Gangas Khan's in there somewhere.
Starting point is 00:37:01 They're all top ten. How about that? Top ten. Yeah, there you go. But that's the thing about King David. It's like the Goliath moment for his life is what made him. I mean, obviously, I don't know if, would you think King David would be as famous as he was as he is today if he'd, didn't kill Goliath?
Starting point is 00:37:20 No. You think that's the central, I mean, that's like his big story. Yeah. That's why he's the turning point of his whole life. That's what's so fascinating. It's like, here's this teenager
Starting point is 00:37:30 bringing his brother's cheese and bread. He killed a giant. No one wants to fight him. No one wants to fight him. They're turning away. 40 days and 40 nights. They're all terrified. He shows up.
Starting point is 00:37:42 And there's a verse in 1st, in 1st, Amos 17. It says, and David heard him. And I think, I just think that's so cool. It's like, the Israelites heard the same how old is he there too like they say like people debate like 17 like 17 these are all like other people are like warriors that have killed people do you all do you all watch the there's a dude on instagram I'm on Instagram uh-oh he does that this is for his PC time watch that dude I've seen yeah dude the sling guy that's what yeah that's what David killed the job was it's like you can't fathom that but whenever you see somebody actually do it in real time how accurate they are that dude can hit somebody's head off the their shoulders at like 50 or 60 yards. It's crazy. Yeah, well, that's the thing too. It's like God was preparing David in the wilderness to face Goliath. Because it's like if David would have
Starting point is 00:38:28 neglected the time in the wilderness with the sheep, he would have never been able to face Goliath when he got there. So I think that's the whole lesson. It's like, what is God teaching you in the private moments that when you does elevate you, like what can you step into? Because if you, if you're just looking for a platform, but yet you're not cultivating the private moments, then you're not going to be ready for any sort of elevation, which is why I think David is. It's so cool. What's cool, you know how much, like he was practicing so much out there. I bet you.
Starting point is 00:38:53 Well, it's just like protecting the sheep. You just think about that. And like being by yourself in the wilderness, it's just him and the sheep, no telling what's out there. So it's like, those are small moments. Like your whole life is to protect, you know, a flop. He killed a lion and a bear. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:07 With his bare hands. Uncle Side did tell me the other day that he doesn't need the sling. He can throw a rock. This was the most crack. Three miles. Three miles. Three miles. Three miles. He's taking to throw a rock three miles.
Starting point is 00:39:17 That sounds like Uncle Rico on, what's that movie? Pauli and Donovan. Sott is our Uncle Rico. I don't know if that takes ever been there. Sot is our Uncle Rico. He's not our King David. He's our Uncle Rico. He thinks he's King David.
Starting point is 00:39:35 He's actually Uncle Rico. He's Uncle Rico with King David mindset. I can throw this rock three miles. Oh, yeah. I think he bases three miles. I think he did refer it to King. David throwing a rock through the glass forehead. It's like, well, if he can do that, I mean,
Starting point is 00:39:51 I can throw it three miles. Yeah, but he also still believes that there's like cheetahs in America, don't they, or something like that? It changes day to day. Isn't that ongoing thing? He believes there's Cheetahs? Black... Black Black Panther. Black, there might be Black Panthers, you believe that.
Starting point is 00:40:07 I mean, I forgot John Reed is Junior Uncle Rico. He's RJ, Rico Jr. RICO Jr., they call me. Instead of John J.R. He's RJ. I don't know. I'm like Black Panthers. That is it. Well, yeah, who would, who would be who in the duck hall room right now? That's it. You're at Si. You're in a side. I'm sitting in a chair right now.
Starting point is 00:40:27 I feel like Bobby would kill it on a computer, like with references. You are John David. I'm saying, I'm not meaning like your dog. I just feel like you would be good on a computer and like have a bunch of fun facts and like keeping up with everything. I feel like you would have like all the references. I should have brought like trends and cultural. I can see you here right now. You'd be a good computer. There's not a Christian on the Duck Call podcast, so I just think he's like, you know.
Starting point is 00:40:50 Are you Martin? Are you? I don't know. I'm not saying that, but I'm saying I just think you're no challenging here. You're Godwin. I'm just like, yeah, I'm sure. And I don't think there's a John Lickie. No, I don't either.
Starting point is 00:41:04 Maybe you're Stone. I'm the guest. Yeah, I'm so. Stone is crazy. Stone would not be wearing a, stone would not be wearing a, uh, uh, stone would be wearing a hand in a blanket. If we're saying it like that. I would say Galwin and Stone would be felt disrespected by their references in the duckball room.
Starting point is 00:41:24 I think John David would like Will. Yeah. So I would be like, heck yeah, brother. I need his thing, his head phone. Yeah. Well, John Luke, you've been at camp all summer. I mean, any fun stories of that? I mean, I know that's what's been taking up most of your life.
Starting point is 00:41:38 I heard it's twins and your five kids. Anything you can share? I've caught, well, I'll say I've caught a lot of animals this summer. Oh, you being bit by a snake? I got bit by snake. I caught, well, I caught... You called a little fawn, bambi. I called a fon, yeah, a couple days ago.
Starting point is 00:41:57 That was actually my yard. That was cool. It was following the mama deer, and the deer jumped the fence, and it couldn't jump over the fence. So it's like run around the yard and chasing it. And I tried to catch it last week, and I couldn't catch it. And this week, I caught it. That's cool.
Starting point is 00:42:12 It was like bucking and kicking me, and now I just yeag it over the fence. You should have put a little collar on it like a bail so you know like when that I rose up. The mama was like sitting on the other side of the fit so it just like ran to it. So it might come back. If I catch it again, I'll put like a. Is that what is in that fence?
Starting point is 00:42:28 Is that like a garden? What you were in that? It looked like a gate, like a fence. That's like the fence on the side of my yard. Yeah, like a barbed wire fence. For some reason I thought it was like a garden or something. That's why it got in there like eating something and then it couldn't get out. So you just call.
Starting point is 00:42:42 No, like between like the woods in my yard. is like a fence. But the deer come and jump over the fence every day. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah. That's super cool. I caught it. Yesterday I got a bird.
Starting point is 00:42:53 What kind of bird? It was like an injured baby bird. I put it on my shoulder and it rode around my shoulder for like two hours. Did you regurgitate its food so it could grab? Yeah, I chewed up some worms for it and spit it into his mouth. Hey, that's what I'm talking about. And then once it got the strength back, I put it and treated it. Oh, hey, I figured it out.
Starting point is 00:43:09 John Leaks, not someone on the Duck Call Room podcast. John Leaks are Steve Irwin. Yes. Yes. I was thinking like Ace Ventura or something. Ace Ventura. I was thinking more Ace Ventura. When you want to be Steve Irwin, but you're really...
Starting point is 00:43:23 I wanted to be Steve Irwin, but I'm actually... He was Ace Ventura. Yeah. Camp's been good. Didn't y'all have some camp counselors, like pass out or something? We had... The night I spoke, yeah. The dehydration?
Starting point is 00:43:38 Was that a camp counselor? No, we had another camp counselor who did also pass out from dehydration. Yeah. So if you're wondering how hot it is, it's hot. It's horrible. They need more cut off sleeves like John Reed. Yeah, John, let them armpits breathe.
Starting point is 00:43:53 I just remember growing up in camp. Like, it, like, being hydrated is like the number one thing. Oh, you have to do. Like, you have to be hydrated. The heat in deck still there was like 107. Oh, that's insane.
Starting point is 00:44:05 I mean, you just walk outside. You got to get in the shower. You need, like, liquid IV packets like on deck. Yeah, no, we do. It is depressing. I literally walk outside. Everyone just walking outside. around with IVs.
Starting point is 00:44:17 I'll just walk outside. I'm like, man, I'm going to have to take a shower. Can't wait until fall. Soon as I walk outside. Yeah, it's like, yeah, that's every day. But it's so far away, I feel like to be even like thinking about being cold, really. Not too far. It goes quick.
Starting point is 00:44:30 If we get lucky. If we get lucky. Do y'all prefer summer or winter? I prefer fall, winter, and spring. I gave you. No summer. I think I gave you two options. Fall is my favorite.
Starting point is 00:44:40 Oh, like would you rather be hot or cold? Cold. You would? I'd really be hot. I'm already, I think that's what I'm saying. That's why I have a blanket right now. I'm just,
Starting point is 00:44:48 I feel like I just, in like a lizard. I just adjust to the temperature outside. Like, it's got, right after this, I'm gonna walk like, I'm gonna walk outside.
Starting point is 00:44:58 I'm gonna like heat up in the sun. I'm gonna like sun bask on the concrete. And I'll be right next to you. And I'll come in. Yeah. Just like, I would rather, I would rather be hot.
Starting point is 00:45:08 John, he would be right beside you, get it in the nude. Yeah. He was saying. Essentially. So wintertime. What?
Starting point is 00:45:16 Yeah, Yeah. And it's hunting seasons. I am rave for hunting season. Can't kill anything during summertime. I ain't sitting on the couch all the time. I got energy. I don't know where it's come from.
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Starting point is 00:47:01 Hey, we all need to go. We didn't go all in a hunt. We didn't go out this year. Because I feel like our guy's trip was whenever we went to Texas. That was balling. Whenever we did the old. Ox Ridge. Oh, yeah. Ox Ridge. That oxy-redge hunt. We'll never be able to outdo that.
Starting point is 00:47:17 Yeah, we will. But I think if we want to do a trip this year, I think... It's all about memory and experience. Well, yeah, yeah. I'm just saying as a visual, that place is like Africa. I don't think I'll ever shoot a tank again in my life. If we want to go on another brother-in-law hunting trip this year, brother-in-law... Let's go to the land.
Starting point is 00:47:33 Let's go to duck on. Where should we go? But I'm saying, who needs to send the... Who needs to initiate the conversation for it to happen? It's either you or will. I don't know who you think. Oh, like... I'm saying we can hunt here, though.
Starting point is 00:47:45 Should we sit here. I'm with you. I'm saying like we can go somewhere if it makes sense, but like we can all just plan a day and go here too. Wait, let's put that. We had fun. We had fun. Let's have some audience interaction here for podcasters.
Starting point is 00:47:58 Yeah. Put in the comments, where should we go on our brother's hunting trip? And who should ask to go there? And who should set it up? Yeah. Who do you think? Also, who do you think is the most responsible? Put it in the comments.
Starting point is 00:48:10 More like who is the most tapped in? He's the most locked in. I just mean like, it's kind of hard if you don't know anywhere. Like, maybe we're going public land or going private land. Have we gone to you? I had fun in Oklahoma this last year we go there. I just mean, like, if we all were in a group chat, like, if someone started a group message and it was like, and Will was like, hey, dad, we need to go on a trip.
Starting point is 00:48:31 So we're saying we're affiliating this with Willie. I'm talking about without Willie. Like, if he wants to go, that's great. Well, I'm saying, we've done it like seven years of like all of us going on to hunt, but last year was the first time we didn't. But I think if we... Everybody's busy, man. I bet.
Starting point is 00:48:45 I'm thinking like this, though. I think if we plan it... I know, we're all busy. I think if we come to... We get dates. We plan it and we're like, hey, we can all go this date to this date. And we just plan it, Willie will come. Like, we don't...
Starting point is 00:48:57 If we just make the plans, he'll be like, I want to go with my sons and son-in-law's like... Yeah. And if he doesn't, then we'll just all get together. That's what I'm saying. And if he doesn't, I still want to go. Yeah. So... Cool.
Starting point is 00:49:07 But most places might be contingent on him coming with those. Okay, wait. We need, uh, yeah. All right. As we're wrapping up, Will, since you're our designated GD, we need a Bible verse. Yeah. Oh, man. You can use your phone.
Starting point is 00:49:23 Three to five more minutes. All right, wait. Just plan for three five. 55, okay. What do you all talk about for 55 minutes? Craziness, absurdity. Okay, we need five more minutes, by then. I thought we were, I thought we were ashamed where you wrap up.
Starting point is 00:49:37 Usually, like, Sa has a 20-minute segment on PBS and what he learned, you know. Well, that's just because, yeah. You have to cut out everything size says. So, yeah, all the crazy stuff. Okay, Will, what's our Bible verse? No, no, he said we got like five more minutes. We could talk about the Bible verse. We could do a long Bible verse.
Starting point is 00:49:53 Oh, okay. No, we can come up a long one. No, here we go. Hold on. This is the verse of the day. This is off the dome. This is off the dome. He's not reading this.
Starting point is 00:50:01 He has a cap. Oh, no, he is reading. I am reading it. I have my phone propped up right here. John Luke's, I can't see. I can't see. No, this is just the verse of the day, just short and sort and simple and sweet.
Starting point is 00:50:14 Turn away from evil and do good. Seek peace and pursue it. That's good. That's it. Simple. But I think that's life in general, if you break it down. John Ray,
Starting point is 00:50:25 what do you think of when you hear that verse? Repeat it one more time. Turn away from evil and do good. Seek peace and pursue it. Yeah, I completely agree with it. I don't know what you. True or false, John. Do you even get deep into?
Starting point is 00:50:42 I have a thought. I have a thought. This would be a good thing. It kind of goes with the verse. So last night, we have, we've got middle schoolers at camp this week. So I've got like, there's like 85 middle school boys. Okay. There's girls too. But I just held all the guys in because they were all being crazy, like disruptive messing with each other, like not listening, like all the stuff. And so I gave him a talk and I said, okay, We're going to talk about something tonight. We're going to talk about what does it mean to be a man? And I said, does anyone have any thoughts on it?
Starting point is 00:51:23 And this kid just yells out, beer and shotguns. And I was like, one bold of you at a church camp. And everyone, like, started laughing and whatever. And someone was like, Texas, trucks. And you know, they started like yelling all the stuff. And I was like, okay, everyone like take a step back. I said, what, everything you're saying is like external outward things. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:53 In manhood. And that has nothing to do with it. The single thing that separates a boy from man, the thing that you've got to realize right now as 12-year-olds and that you need to start developing in your life, the thing that's going to carry you all the way to the end is self-control. You can control yourself You can The world will be unlocked for you You'll be above your peers So I was talking about that and I was like
Starting point is 00:52:22 And it's hard We're all learning it And you can't do it by yourself It's got to take accountability So it's all gonna like You gotta hold each other accountable You gotta be men with each other You gotta help each other
Starting point is 00:52:36 Like control and that starts with two things The first one is controlling your mouth So when I'm talking or someone's up here talking, you don't talk. And second is controlling your body. And we're going to practice that by when we go to our snacks in just a minute, everyone's going to walk to snacks instead of just run full speed like they normally do. And they got it. They actually did it.
Starting point is 00:52:56 And that's good. Based off that, I literally was listening to a podcast another day. And it's a guy, just a financial guy. And just like, it's just what the podcast is about. But he says, the podcast was titled a few short stories. And, like, he said something that's pretty much based off the same thing. And so he brought up two things like uology, I think, eology virtues and then, like, resume virtues. And, like, essentially, I think what he's saying is, like, resume virtues is, like, house, nice car, you know, all these different things.
Starting point is 00:53:26 Like you're saying, like, outward stuff. And then, like, uology virtues, I want to say, I mean, you can change it. But it's like, you know, being a good father, like, you know, same things when you're saying, peace, patience, kindness, you know. your relationship with the Lord and like those things. And it said a lot of people want uology virtues, but put all their effort into resume virtues. So like we can say as men, like we want all these things,
Starting point is 00:53:53 but the things like we care about or like we'll talk about is like all the effort we'll put towards is like what we have like things instead of like internally. And I thought that was so true. Like even for myself, it's like sometimes like I say I want all these things. Like you're saying like, what it means to be a man self-control i might say that but then it's like i'll actually sometimes
Starting point is 00:54:15 feel more rooted in like the things that i have like that's what is going to give me that instead but you know deep down i just thought that was good yeah that's good yeah when you're talking about about you know about manhood and masculinity and what makes a man even even like seek peace and pursue it you know i think so much has to be rooted in humility and like you talk about with self-control it's like to achieve self-control, whether it's, you know, mentally, spiritually, physically, like you have to have humility to get there. And I think, I think in our culture, especially with masculinity, you men never admit they're wrong, never say they're struggling, never have humility to actually take ownership for things. And I think when you truly, well, when you do
Starting point is 00:54:59 surrender your life to Christ, when you do, you know, have the Holy Spirit and dwell within you, you, you do embody humility. And out of humility, you see the self-control. You see seek peace and pursue it. Because often, I mean, it's saying seek peace and pursue it because there's probably a situation where you need to be the bigger person to actually pursue the peace. There's even a verse where Paul says, as much as it does, as much as it has to do with you. Gosh, what's the verse?
Starting point is 00:55:33 we're just talking about peace. Yeah, as much as it has to do with you, live at peace with... Yeah, live at peace with everyone around you. And just that idea of you achieve that through humility. So whether it's seek peace and pursue it, living out self-control, as a man, I think it starts with humility and all of the other things will come into place from there. Yeah. And that's the thing is that in the end of the day, like, you also have to have God, like working
Starting point is 00:56:02 your life. And that's like that where that humility comes from of like every time you make a mistake, mistake not to spiral into that and get worse, but say, God, forgive me, forgive yourself, apologize those around you and then start over, which is, which I think what the good news of Christ is, is that we, he allowed, he died for sin so that we can repent and change. And God's well is undriable. We'll all run, like ourselves willpower. Like it doesn't last. Like, it doesn't matter how strong you are. Like, how strong you think you are.
Starting point is 00:56:38 Yeah. That's good. Good stuff. Well. Guys, that was fun. Good work. Yeah, it's fun. I mean, hey, roast us in the comments.
Starting point is 00:56:46 You know, I know this isn't your normal group. So, yeah. If you like it, let us say. What could our podcast be called instead of the duck cover? The duck boys. The duck boys. Yeah, I don't know. Something.
Starting point is 00:56:58 Maybe. Maybe. What could our podcast be? If you would listen to a podcast with all of us. us let us know. We might do it. I don't know. Maybe not. This is the plug. We'll see if Hunter, what do you think? Hunter, should we have her own podcast? Yeah, Hunter, rate us. Rate us one to 10 on our first one. Five? Seven or eight. Hey. Hey. And he doesn't actually like us. So that's not biased.
Starting point is 00:57:24 So, well, that was fun.

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