Duck Call Room - Uncle Si and Bella Robertson Pick on Korie's Cooking 'Skills'

Episode Date: November 16, 2023

Uncle Si is excited to catch up with Bella Robertson Mayo to hear about her new job, college graduation, plans for the future, and most importantly, all the latest gossip about Willie’s branch of the family. Martin and John-David take credit for inspiring many of both Bella and Sadie’s achievements due to their excellent babysitter skills. Bella and the boys pray for a young girl diagnosed with cancer. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bella, are you ready? I don't know. She's very nervous. She's very nervous. Why are you nervous? Don't be nervous. Hunter, you good? Well, I'm told Martin I'm normally prepared with questions and everything, but I have no

idea what we know. No, we don't know that, right? You have questions for us or we have questions for you? No, no, no, no. Questions for me. I will say you can ask us anything you want, though. But that's part of what makes the duck call room, the duck call room is there's no script.

That's what? Never know where we're going. But welcome back, folks. We are back in the duck call room. room we have a special guess a special guess we have Bella with us Bella I almost said Robertson Bella Mayo Bella Robertson Mayo that's right are you Bella Robertson Mayo or Bella Carraway Mayo neither Bella Chrisanne my bad yeah yeah I got a mix up come all now you didn't know her middle name was Chris A did I just got her and since Sadie's middle names mixed up

There you go no but welcome Bella yeah thanks how does it feel to be in the duck call room It feels good. It feels very comfortable. Very casual. How is married life treating you there, young lady? Married life is great. It's good. Two and a half years in now and great. Whoa.

Wow. There you go. You've been married two and a half years? Yep. Wow. What a life. How old are you? 21.

21, okay. Wow. And you've been married. Well, yeah. Martin, were you ready to be married at that age? Two and a half years at 21? Two and a half years. I'd have been divorced for a year and a half of that.

At that age. I mean, I'm just saying, that's real talk. No, I was not ready. No. Nor did I know anybody I wanted to spend the rest of my life? Well, you're never ready. Yeah, that's true. I'll give you that.

But we're not going to ask you all the questions that people ask you about, you know, all that stuff. But you are now an employee of Duck Commander. Back to the family business. Like, you now are a W-9 employee, W-2, whatever. I don't know. I get all the forms. No, no, thank.

Yeah. I think. Not contract. I'm not, I'm not, yeah, I'm not. It does more than just pay your phone bill now.

Yes, exactly. Absolutely. That is, that is true. And so what do you, what do you think about working in your family's business? Bell,

you can be honest in here, because here's the beauty of this. Your mom doesn't listen. This is, this was actually a trick to get Corey to listen. Hey, and even if they did. She will now.

Yeah. Well, I love it up here. It's so fun. And I think it's so fun because I did spend, like, my whole life growing up here with all these same people. And I love everybody. And it's so fun getting to work with everybody now. I will say, we're not a place that has a large amount of turnover. You know, Jay said it best back in the day when I first started here.

He's like, it's ain't a place you come to climb the corporate ladder. It's more your final resting spot. So I think our employees. get in here. There's not a lot to climb for. No. Well, she's at least got the right last. Well, she did have the right last name, but it's still in there. It's still in there somewhere. You know, I don't know. That Mayo name don't get you very far around here. But, no, it's fun for the people like us seeing the kids come back into the family business. Because, you know, for a while we were like, are any of them going to work here?

We didn't know what was going to happen in this place. We're just looking around saying, well, I guess Willie and Corey will sell it at some point because it didn't seem that anybody had a whole lot of interest in it. So it is fun to see y'all come back. So if y'all don't know, Bella is our store manager. So the retail store is going to get a little bit of an overhaul. It's going to look nice. What can I say?

It's not going to look like it's run by us. So she's already started changing things in there. So if you have been to our store, make sure you come back by it. because I promise you it's different than the last time you were here. Is it? I mean, as long as you weren't here two weeks ago. I hadn't been in there in a minute. But, yeah, there's couches and tables and like.

The woman's touch. Yeah. Yeah. And we're decorating for Christmas this week. See? Decorating for Christmas. You're behind. It's mid-November.

Retail you have to decorate for Christmas in like August. Yeah. I'm just kidding. Oh, no. Some people do that. I'm awaiting until Thanksgiving. I'm for that. They take the lead.

I can appreciate what Bella just said. She's going to wait for Thanksgiving. I can't get down with people decorating in October. It's just not. I didn't decorate in October. For me. She's talking about you. Or November.

Before Thanksgiving. It's just, you have to wait for Thanksgiving. Let it have its time. Hey, don't. You got to let it breathe, JD. You got to let it breathe. You got to let it breathe. First weekend in November.

I got a question. I'm going to ask you, because, you know, yeah. After the film was, was over. We don't get together as often as we used to. It's what we do. Yeah, I know, but I'm going to get, Willie's kid. You know, did you go to college or did you want to go to college or are you taking college online? So Thursday is my last day of college. I graduate on Thursday. Whoa. Ding, dang. I go to class tomorrow. I go to class on Thursday and I'm graduated.

And you're done? Yep, I'm done. Do you do it online? I'm actually at tech right now. I didn't know that. But you did most of it online. I did most of it online. I started at tech last year. That takes a college grad. That takes a lot of discipline. Is it a more meaningful degree than say health and human performance like your dad's?

Just curious. So my degree is interdisciplinary studies split between studio art and education and communications. There you go. So I'm doing. I don't know what any of that means. Sounds like an art teacher to me. That's pretty much what it is. The school I go to online, they don't have an art education degree, so I had to kind of make it.

Okay. Make it happen. Bella, you've been making it happen pretty much your whole life. Oh, how long? How long did you go? It's taken me three years. Three years? Johnny Dey, how long take you?

Anyway, Bella. Double it. Well, congratulations. Thank you. Thanks. No, it only took me six years. A lot of people go to college for six years. Yeah, they just generally leave more than one piece of paper.

Oh, I tried it seven, eight times, but I didn't get no paper. Going to class seven, eight times ain't really trying. No, I ain't talking about class. I tried college seven, eight times. You went to seven or eight different ones? Oh, well, I'm just in one another in the military, okay? I wouldn't try to, you know. It wasn't for you, huh?

Hey, college ain't for everybody. We got to have truck drivers. and the forklift drivers and the people that ring up the cash register, you know, to make this world go round. Crazy uncles who make reads. Yeah. And some of them go to school for six years only to be one of the people at the cash register to make the world go around.

Well, hey, that's me. I'm raised my hand. And stock at the shelves. Yeah, boy. But hey, look, them things are important because somebody's got to do them. Hey, and I figured out I got a finance degree. I can make way more money stocking shelves than I can count. counting other people's money.

Well, that's one of the things that I think our education system is broke because we're graduating people and they don't have a job for them. And I think too many people are going to college because they feel like they have to and not because they want to. And I think that like right now, like I look around at my class sometimes I'm like, you're miserable here. You don't want to be here. You're not doing well at your work.

So, you know, why are you spending all the money to come here? No, no. Yeah. wisdom from a youngster. Are you the youngest Robertson? No. Rowdies. Routies younger than me.

That's right. No. Oh, you were talking about in the Willie family. In the Willie family. Yeah, okay.

But they were just my neighbors growing up and you had to like look out for them because Willie would be who knows where and you'd just see Bella walking down the street some days. Or crashing my scooter down your hill. Right.

But you said that's very important. Most people that get a degree Now this is just my opinion Okay, and I could be wrong. They didn't learn nothing. They went through five, four years or five years, what I'm six years if they got a master's degree.

Hey, or it's just a regular one. Well, no, all right, and I'm saying, okay, they've got the paperwork, okay, and I will say this, okay, having the paperwork will open doors that if you don't have, you won't get to go in. And I think my mom always says, if anything in college, it teaches you to finish what you started, which is the most important

aspect is like learning how to like be disciplined, get your work done, and finish what you start. And like, I think that that is as valuable as a lot of the other things you learn in college. Well, that's going to be, that's what's going to make you be a success or a failure. Mm-hmm. Okay. Because if you give up, you're going to be a failure. Okay. Just point blank.

You know, that's just common sense. You're not a failure. You gave up. Well, no, no, but I've been very lucky. Okay, very lucky. Okay. You know, that's the thing about country many blessings and then name them one by one. Okay.

Because, you know, I didn't, you know, oh, I finished, you know, what I needed to, which was a 24-9th year career in the military. I think what you learned, I would say what I learned most in college is it's your first education and being self-motivated. Because those professors don't care if you pass or fail. Nope. Unlike a high school teacher. No, no. The high school teacher's like, I didn't even my

performance look pretty good. I can get a little bonus. So let me help you. That's where I was... Them professors? No, no. They don't care. That's where I was very lucky, okay, because we had excellent teachers in high school. Yeah. Amen. Which, I will say, I did high school online,

and I think that that's the reason I succeeded in college is because doing high school online taught me like time management. My mom wasn't looking over my work every single day while I was doing my homework. Like I had to do my homework on my own time and do it at my own pace. And in my office. Bella's been marching to the feet of her own drone

ever since day one. Just what you said is my biggest figure. I was Bella's math to them. Time management. Yeah, and time management in school is the most value thing, especially online school, because there's no one telling you when to do your work. You have to submit your assignments on time, and no one's pressuring you. And if they are, they're emailing you, and you don't have to read their emails.

If you fail, you know where to go. Go in the mirror and say, hey, dummy, you did this. There you go. Hey, I'm just serious. Online school, like for me. Yeah. I need a class room. Online.

I was at the beginning of online school where they didn't know how easy it was. for everybody to sit in the same room and take, whoa, that's an aggressive word. Yes. No, I know. I took boater safety online. I don't know nothing about the intercoastal canal, but you also know where I'm not running a boat. In the intercostal. Thank you. I ain't going down there. I will say online school changed so much after COVID because I was in online school way before COVID, and no one else was in online school. And it was just like, you know, write your paper, submit your work. online school happened and I mean COVID happened and everyone was like doing Zoom calls I was like what are y'all doing Zoom calls for I've never done a Zoom call before we don't have to do Zoom calls

I don't want to see none of y'all but now online online school is a lot different since COVID because they had to be online I'm trying to sit here in my sweat bridges and get my work done I ain't trying to look at y'all but anyway well look see Bella look how he's that is we're already our first break let's take a break we'll be back right after this all right look springtime is here it's warming up you know that means, that means more outside cooking. And y'all know, we love to eat beef around here. And that's what, because of our friends over at Triedells beef, makes such a good product, ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Sall Robertson would say, buy on the grill. Look, before we got Triedells, getting ready for a cookout, man, somebody had to run the grocery

store, do all the things, grab whatever was left in case you were late in the day. And you never really know where that beef come to them. But with Triedale's beef, we skipped the grocery store, and do it a different way. Triedails comes from a family ranch out in Texas. They're a fifth generation American ranch, so they've been at it for a while. Now, look, the beef comes straight from their ranch and other ranchers they work with who raise cattle the same way.

Their steaks are properly aged and shipped straight from the ranch to your door. We threw a couple of ribbys on the grill. Look, salt, pepper, garlic, hot fire, that's all you need. Look, because I'll tell you what, when the beef comes from people who raise cattle for a living, you can taste the difference. the tenderness and the flavor are fantastic. So if you're stocking the freezer for grilling season,

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I know. I hope no one in my class listens to this after I said that I look around my class and say that. But I guess I almost done. Never see him again? All right. I don't remember a single person I went to college with, except for John Owen. We had the same name.

Oh, yeah. I remember a lot of people I went to college with, but I don't. Where did you go to college? ULM. Well, more Hawks. I knew without a shadow of a doubt if I had to drive that 30 to 40 minutes to Louisiana Tech every day, no, you count me out. You count me out. And I knew I couldn't go to LSU.

Yeah. Because your boy wouldn't, he wouldn't mature enough for that. I visited LSU enough to know. I was not mature enough to go down there and graduate. Or it may have taken like seven, eight years for me to do it, but maybe. So I just went to you L.A. They made me the best offer money-wise. I mean, I cleared like 20 grand off of school.

Hey, you just told me why I didn't go to college. Why? Because I was not mature enough. Yeah. Yeah. That's the whole reason I went to you. No, no, no, I'm serious. Because that had never hit me.

Why didn't you? Okay. Number one, I didn't like it. Yeah. Okay. She said, you know, I didn't like it. Why I waste my time? Okay.

And the other reason was I had friends that had graduated from colleges, and they were flipping back hamburgers at McDonald's and Burger King. They don't flip on a McDonald's. Would they degree now? Or two. That's a degree. So I just, you know, but, but you just told me why Salas Robertson didn't do good in college. I wasn't mature enough.

Yeah. He was not mature enough. Yeah. Well, what I love about it is like if you look around Duck Commander, I think there's one person here that has a degree in what they work in. Harry the profit, baby. Harry profit. Our accountant slash controller slash CPA, the rest of us, what, I'm general manager, got a biology degree. That's why I'm you said.

store manager. She's going to be an art education graduate. Your mom's the same, right? Art education. Willie, health and human performance, whatever it means to be a PE coach. John David. They can't coach P.E. They can't coach P.E. Willie has a degree. Yeah, I have a finance. He was in finance. I was going to go wear a tie and we're going to bank. Kids never see that. And I said, Jordan and Angela never finished. Never, no, my last- I guess Jennifer, hers was in graphic design, she's still paying for that.

My last teacher at one of the last ones I had in college, he told me if I don't shave my face and start dressing better, I'll never get a job. How you like me now? What's his name? I forget, he looked like John Hammond, which is the old guy on Jurassic Park. Yeah.

He looked just like him without the cool hat. That's funny. We called him Dr. Hammond. That wasn't his name. He taught investments. Was he not a doctor? Very boring class. But that's what I went to Harding and realized real fast, I was like, I'm going to be here for a long time.

Yeah. Because I had no idea. I didn't know you went to Harding. Did you graduate from there? No, I went there for like a couple days. He brought it on back home to the Warhawks, too. I went there for a year and it was expensive, way more expensive than the old home team. right beside you.

Yeah. And so I was like, I realized at 18, I'm not smart enough to figure out what I want to do with my life anytime soon. So I didn't fail classes and take six years. I got six years worth the hours. Now, I could be a nurse in a couple days, not really. I took every class it takes to, I applied to nursing school. No, I didn't.

I tore up the application because I was like, I'm not doing that. I was going to make it in, too. Well, hey, that's why you said something while you go about that. electives class. Oh. No, no. I took pickleball. Mega. Man was ahead of the game.

No, no. Because I always said, wait a minute. You know, you're getting up there now where you're getting close to graduating. And you've got to do what? Oh, you got to take an elective class. Well, what does that entail? Oh, you can choose some ballroom dancing, basket weaving, important things. Oh, yeah.

Did you take basket weaving? Yeah, it's totally different online. because they don't have pickleball volleyball I don't have that so my electives were theology one theology two oh wow new testament those are mine have you heard of unashamed you might be more suited that that's awesome I remember what my like you had to do I was the senior that didn't take hardly any electives till he was a senior so then I got put in class with like freshmen and sophomores that didn't know what they were I had to go back and take like speech and just a bunch all the required junk. I took all those real early.

Yeah. I was trying to figure out what I want to do in my life. Music appreciation. I ever took that. I still don't know what any of them horns do. I took art appreciation like three times at different schools. It didn't transfer over. It was weird.

That tells you how big of a joke it is. Well, no, no. Yeah, that's where the problem lies. You go to one place and take classes. Everybody got different rules. Then you go to another one if you transfer and come in, oh, no, you need to take three other classes. Yeah. Well, wait me, hold it.

What did I waste my time for on these three that I took? If they're not, that's a university and it's no good. Yeah, then call it. Luckily, I think you at Liam is kind of like Statue of Liberty. What's that mean? Give us your sick, you shut in, you're rich, your bore. them all boys we'll make it work whatever that size he's holding whatever a tablet out there says you know oh boy that's where you'll live like we're like we all inclusive baby come on in here

i've never heard that we won't make you take a bunch of other stuff we'll call it good watch yes you know i've got to look up what the statute of liberty says now yeah don't it also have you ever been speaking of the statue of liberty and mega gars uh oh have you ever been in top of the Statue of Liberty? No. Gar. I ain't going up there. Don't do it.

I ain't riding that boat over there and I ain't going up there. That's that. He don't do it. Yeah. That seems like a good way to be a captive audience. What does it say? I've got it. The new Colossus is what it says.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. ULM. Come on. Come on. The only huddled masses were them kids smoking behind the buildings when they made that against the rules. Yep. Yeah.

and everybody at the I've lost the rest of it And everybody To chick fillet on campus When you graduated Was it at ULM? Yeah Yeah we were still

We're not that old Bella I'm closer to your age Than I am your parents' age Really? See? Yes I think Maybe

Definitely Let me do the math No I'm doing the math Right now Yeah I'm way closer to your age Than your parents age How old are you?

Like 12 I don't remember When did they switch 34 34? That's how old I am. No, when did you L. When did ULF switch?

What year was that? 2002? Yeah, I think it was right before I went there. And I went in 2003. I'd have went in August of 2003. Because you got to go to a student center. A wigwam will get you canceled these days. Oh, yeah, the wig.

The wig. The wig. You've got a degree in what biology? Uh-huh. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I use it every day. You got a degree in women.

Don't you? Oh, yeah. But I ain't got no paper to back it up. Yeah, you do. It's called a marriage stifix. No. Well, that's an experience. Got to break.

Yeah. Okay, before we make Bella really uncomfortable about her uncle being a player, let's take a break. We'll be back right after this. Bella, what do you see yourself do? Is store manager like, I mean, you're like, man, I can't here a while? Or what? I mean, do you see yourself using your art education degree? Do you want to be an art teacher?

I'm just curious. And I know that you're 21, so this should not have a final answer. I'm just saying, like, looking forward, what do you see yourself doing? I'm just genuinely curious. Not to say anything is changing or anything, but I do plan on applying to grad school in the next year. Okay. So. There you go.

I haven't, like, you know, I have a lot to. do to apply because you have to get a full portfolio together. But that's kind of my plan as of now is to apply to grad school. Grad school. Do you have to take that test? What test? I don't remember. What was it?

The G.R.E? Well, this one's just, this is art. Oh, okay. Like, Masters of Fine Arts. So I have to submit like 20 pieces of artwork. Oh, wow. 20? Okay.

Does your food count as artwork? Because you've been known to sling in the kitchen. You got that gene, which in your family is hit. I wish it did. Hit or very miss? Yes, unfortunately it is. Best cook in your family go. My dad, for sure.

Whose second? Worst cook in your family go. Yeah, you're number two for sure, aren't you? Yeah, mom. Worst? Mom. Worse than Sadie? Yes.

Worse than John Luke? Because I ain't ever seen John Luke make nothing but coffee. I don't know if I've seen John Luke make anything. Worse than Will? My mom is not bad, but she is a burner. She burns everything she cooks. She just forgets. And then she'll like forget things.

She forgets to put the eggs in the mix. She forgets to put things in the mix. And that's where her problem is. It's not that she's actually like bad. She just... She's got the thing on her mind. That was just the definition of bad. You know my favorite move, Corey always pulled.

Because before Johnny Dee was Johnny Dee, I kind of was. I was over there every night. She would go put on her apron to open a bag of salad. I've never seen her do that But I also haven't seen her open a bag of salad Ever But she Yeah no

When dad's not home I literally worry about her I'm like are you eating anything about ice cream Because you need to be eating real food Because that's literally she She'll just eat cheese and ice cream And I'm like This is not a healthy diet

Or Johnny's pizza She has set that smoke alarm off in that house of them any time Because she will get sidetrack on bread. I was next day. Willie Lowe's said, I know when it's ready. When the smoke alarm goes off, it's ready. She's burning it.

Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, she's burning. She will burn bread on broil in a heartbeat. Oh, yeah. She loves broil. She can do it fast, but then something else's... One time...

Pops into her head and she's gone. When I was young, I remember one time I was doing something. I can't remember when I was making toast or something in the oven, and I burnt it. And I was like, God, I burnt the toast. He said, what did you do? I said, I put it on broil, and I walked away for two seconds. He said, and there's your problem.

You walk away. He's like, that's what your mom does. You never walk away on broil. I will say. Broil's serious business. When Willie Robertson turns it to broil, he keeps a hand on the door, like at all times. It is funny to watch him if he's making his little bread with cheese and bacon and all the stuff on it. Yeah, when you crunched Boral, you got to stand there at work.

Yeah, you better mean it. Yeah. You got to stand there and be looking in the wood and say, okay, yeah, my toast is might near ready. Actually, y'all know Cody, the builder. Yeah. So he was working on our house one day recently, and I put toast in on broil, and he knocked on the door, and I went to the door and started talking to him. And I totally forgot about the toast, and I was like, oh, my gosh. And I ran inside it, and I came out with flaming toast, literally threw it out on the ground.

And Cody was like, are you okay? I was like, yep, I'm good. Ignore that. It's burnt toast Just like flaming toast It's a secret family recipe Yeah, it gets fire Man

burnt toast Y'all need to start making toast In the air fry Man, that thing won't hardly steer you wrong Like, it's super easy You rarely burn it But you can I've seen Brittany do it

It is possible It's just not very often Oh man What else is your What's your go-to recipe Whenever you're bringing the heat in the kitchen? I normally like for holidays I always make this bread you've had it before I think last year I made this bread it's like I roll it out the dough and then I stuff it with cheese and herbs and all kinds of stuff and roll it up like a cinnamon roll and it's really good everyone really likes that I like bread I like bread yeah there's a reason he said he was the bread of life yeah because bread rules yeah in your family the mentor who's your your your

mentor? My mom. That's better than you're right. All of you, mom? My mom. Someone with your dad is a mentor. I feel like you're going in the right direction. My mom

is a mentor as an example. Like, she's the best example to look up to. So, yeah. That's deep questions. I think he was hoping to say him.

No. No. I wasn't. No. No. You were my mentors, huh? Well, you've got so many to choose from. I do.

I do. I have a lot of great examples. Yeah. Yeah. You got your, yeah. You know, that's why I was just, yeah. Okay. The most interesting thing about Bella, though, that not a lot of human beings can do.

Uh-oh. Is you sleep harder than any human. Do you still do that where you sleep so hard that you sleep so hard that you can, can be picked up and like thrown across the room. It actually scares me now because when I sleep by myself at the house when Jacob's out of town, sometimes he'll come in like at two in the morning. I'll never know. He came in, gets in the bed, is loud, turn the lights on, I'll never know.

It scares me. I'm like, what if it was someone else? Do you know whose fault that is? He sleeps like that? No. You've taken after me before sleeping. No, it's because when she was a baby, y'all were all playing poker till 2 a.8. and she just had to learn how to sleep

with you screaming at people. I did hold her in my arms at the poker table a lot. And she was to sleep. She never woke up. Yeah, she was a great sleeper. I'm a very hard sleeper. Yeah.

Yeah, I sleep. But I used to, like, whenever I was Willie's assistant, every once in a while I'd have to go to their house and like, I've had to wake Bella up. But at this point she was like 14. And I was like, Bella, wake up. No.

Nothing. No, buddy. If you don't take her. shake. You have to shake. Or turn the fan on and take off the covers. I'll be up in a second. I hate cold. I didn't know that. But I am a super hard sleeper, but I drive everyone else crazy now because I have the alarm,

the most annoying alarm that's like, er, and it can go off for like seven or eight minutes, but I will not hear it. And I'll wake up and it'll be 708 and I'll be like, hmm, my alarm was set for seven. But I just now woke up and my alarm's still been going off for eight minutes. She is sigh She's got a little Robertson, a little Howard, she's got all the mixtures in her.

There's nothing I despise more than that alarm and the snooze button with it. No, that's, I remind me when I have a call. Just get up. Please just wake up.

Just get up. Yeah, I had to call Philip and I thought it was the alarm system and my security. Yeah. No, it wasn't, it was my alarm plant. Just your alarm point.

Going off, had been going off for three days. he ain't ever heard no it is not going off for about 20 minutes so you thought it was the like i thought it was my security system and it was just your there was alarm clock i woke philip up like 6 a.m on saturday morning get over here this stupid alarm system is going nuts and it's just his clock radio and hey that clock radio was into a thousand pieces because he pulled it out and threw it against the wall and all you heard was squealing and tires Yeah, Philip ain't a morning person either.

Philip stay up with you until 3 a.m. But he ain't trying to get out of bed for about 10. Yeah. No, that's a true statement. He ain't about that life. That's funny. No, I would imagine the other poker games probably had a lot to do with her sleep train. When I was a kid, I used to, like, be a super, like, crazy sleeper.

I would wake up, like, another room or all this kind of stuff. And now... She'd come walking through there. Once she got to walking, she... She would walk through the poker game like. Sometimes still, I'll wake up and my head will be at the end of the bed and my feet will be at my pillow. It scares me to death.

I wake up and I look up and I just see the headboard and I'm like, what in the world? She's had a journey during the night. I love it. I'd love to be able to sleep like that. No, no. No, I had to have my phone because I snored so bad. My mom used to say that she wouldn't know if it was my dad or me snoring in the night

because I snored so loud when I was little. I had to have my tonsils out, and it didn't help. I still snore horribly. You're an interesting human being. She used to drink Dr. Pepper with no eyes. That is one of the... Do you remember your Dr. Pepper Christmas? Do I remember?

Do I remember asking her for Dr. Pepper for Christmas? That's all she wanted for Christmas. And Janice got me... My mom got me two liters, but Janice got me two cases of 12 pack of Dr. Pepper. That's Janice. That's how she rolls. Yeah, she hit up at Sam's aisle. How old were you?

Like eight? Eight or so. Okay, well, here's the thing. What do you want for Christmas this year? And she'd go, Dr. Pepper. I was the best kid ever. That was like, what, $10? $10 Christmas gift?

Easy. But no, my thing, though, when I was younger, which I have always had acid reflux, my mom wouldn't let me drink Dr. Pepper. So unless it was, she was always like, unless it's a birthday party, you can have Dr. Pepper or something like that. So Martin didn't know the rules. So Martin always got me Dr. Pepper, and then I had to ask for it for Christmas because I didn't get to have Dr. Pepper. No, Martin was just being a good baby.

No, I didn't know the rule. Look, when I started here, the people at OCS would call here and say Bella sit. I'd get out there because Willie wouldn't go on. And Corey was here half the time. I mean, so I'd trudge out to OCS and there'd be Bella standing at the, standing in the office, well, a smile on her face. I'm like, man, you don't look sick. She's like, no, I really think some chick-fil-a would help.

Yeah, I think chick-fil-a-law would help. That's what I'm saying. There's what I'm saying. There we'd go. We'd go get us a number one with a Dr. Pepper with no ice. This young lady had you right here, son. Oh, there ain't no doubt she did. No, there ain't no doubt.

She was like my first. She was borderline like my first child. I remember one of the last. times you picked me at her from school and I rode the hole there like and then we got there and I joined my doctor pepper I was like yeah she like a jack in a box over there I hand her at dr. pepper she's fine oh I'm fine oh it's all good big dog that's funny yeah but kids man kids well let's take another break we'll be back right after this look I picked her up from so many places and sadie too Sadie I was a king of picking Sadia from gymnastics or whatever over there kind of in the

bowels of money. No, John David had Sadie on the Wednesdays at Sports City Girl. Yeah. I took Sadie to church every Wednesday. So you're welcome, everybody. She's preaching because of me. Now, we'd go get snow cones. I'd teach her rap music and I'd take her to church. So thank God I didn't screw her up. I still think about that. That's kind of like how she got to second place on dancing with the stars or something. She got the rap music. She got the beats from you. We were rolling in that Tahoe. Me and my 14 year old girl, cousins just rolling around like some gangsters with tent windows eat snow cones uh man i remember because like in those days too i was about 3 20 had hair going everywhere it looked like

charles manson more so than anything i look like now and i'd walk into like gymnastics with all these the young girls and people just look at me like what you doing here yeah like duck dynasty wasn't a thing yet. Like, nobody really, I was just some weird guy coming to pick up girls from gymnastics. I mean, today it'd be, I'd probably go to jail

if I walked in there looking like I did back then because my face hop. No, Doug Dynasty made that cool. Yeah, I guess so. Now you can be a big guy with a ridiculous beard and people assume

your uncle's eye and you're friendly. There you go, yeah. It's a great thing. Speaking of which, your husband's clean-shaven. What's that, what's that like? Do you like beards?

Do you not? Do you? he's very similar to my dad in that he changes his hair and his facial hair all the time like I walk in one day he has a mustache and then the next day he has mustache a cold teeth a little van go and then and like last year he had hair longer than mine and now he has short hair he changes his hair all the time so you got a look about eventually you just get stuck of what you got and you go with it yes that's where I'm at in life like he's got what you got I cut And, like, three or four months before our wedding, he shaved his head completely.

And my mom was like, uh, do you realize you're getting married in like three months and you have a bald head? And he was like, oh, it'll grow out. And my mom was like, oh, my gosh, Bella, do you realize that he just shaved his head three months before your wedding? I was like, okay. Bella's like, hey, just let it. If anybody has it, Corey's got a hard time saying anything about having a man that just goes wild with his hair at any way. For real. We bond over it.

Willie. Guess what Willie and Jacob did to their hair this week? No, for my mom's birthday party, and we were dressing up like them when they were young, we found a picture of my dad from back in the day, and he had a mohawk in the picture. And Jacob was like, oh, I'll just shave my head like that for the party. I was like, no, you're not shaving your hair into a Mohawk for a birthday party. Oh, I'm proud of you. You're not doing that.

Now, that's weird. Mokhawk was cool. And then I told my dad, Mohock. Was. I told my dad, I said, yeah. Was it? Hey, what, a Mohawk?

Was it ever cool? Yeah, it was cool. We used to do it all summer. I told Dad, I said, Jacob saw that picture of you with Mohawk. Dad was like, I never had a Mohawk before. I was like, well, I saw a picture and he was like, no, I never had a mohawk. And I said, oh, okay, well, maybe it wasn't a Mohawk.

Maybe it was just like short haircut. And I pulled the picture up, and he goes. goes, nope, that's a Mohawk. Don't remember that. Don't remember it. Willie's a king of a new haircut. What's he doing right now, by the way? He got to look about him.

That's a topic of conversation. It's like a, it's not a mullet. It's like a flowy. It was a mullet, and now it's a grown-out. He looked like Benjamin Franklin, kind of. Benjamin Franklin. I thought you were going to talk about all of his interesting new neck pieces that he has for hunting season. I don't know.

Is that a thing? I mean, some weird kinds of like scarves. Did you see the hat, though, that he wore the other day when he killed his deer? No. There's a hat. There's a hat. There's a hat. Bella said, there is a hat.

Yes. What's on the hat? Let me see. Uh-oh. Put it up. Group text. Send it to Johnny Dee. That's right.

He texted in the green message and my mom texted back, what is on your head? Yeah. Oh, I did see that. See, I thought that was a continuation of what was around his shoulders. Yeah. Oh, that's sweet. Now, that's cool. There's nothing wrong with that.

Really? Send that to me. Okay. I was going to say, I don't know if I can see that. He's wearing like chinchilla on his head or something. Like, I mean, somewhere there's like some hairless rat. Anytime you can put a full animal on top of your head, you do it. That's cool.

That's really cool. Yeah. You ever seen Peter Pan all of them cool little wild children? Maybe I don't want something else's hair. where I ain't got none. Maybe that's a deal. I don't know. Maybe it just feels weird.

I don't, I used to have this sweet rabbit skin hat. Listen, that's legit. Oh, yeah. Put it up on TV. Oh, no. I'm about to. That gives him the old. Dad's going to laugh so hard that we were talking about this.

The old mountain man looked. And Corey's replies, what was that on your head? She said, nice deer, what is on your head? Yeah, nice deer. What's on your head? I don't know. That's actually, that could probably, probably be a whole episode of the duck call room.

He said, that family's group message. Just going through it, reading some different stuff on it. Oh, goodness. Where do you feel that? Nebraska, probably. Nebraska, probably. It's just weird. Nebraska.

Yeah, I know. Well, the best thing now is that Lindsay is in our group message now. Lindsay. Neely. She's in your family's group message? She's in our family group message now. I'm glad I never got that close. And so she, because she keeps us all.

My man wearing a name tag. Like people don't know who he is. He looks like he works at a Russian Home Depot. I love it. Like that's what the Kazakhstan Home Depot people look like when you go to check out. What is happening? Oh, boy. I love what.

Corey says, nice dear, what is the world that on top of your head? Anybody want to take bets on whether or not he actually still has the sunglasses? No, he doesn't. The only man I know it treats Raybans disposably. It's a good thing for the man that sells sunglasses in town. Yeah, there you go. Unbelievable. He's wearing a name tag.

What do you do? Introduce himself to the deer? Hi, my name's Willie. Wop? Look at that. Well, he is big about coming back from places with wear. I mean, he come back with the alpaca jacket. The alpaca jacket jacket.

No, y'all should see him in the airport. He has this thing where he has to bring as many bags as he can. Bella, I got paid Walmart bags. Not enough to carry all those bags for a large portion of my life. All this stuff. Like, he'll have a Walmart bag in the airport. And I'm like, why do you have a Walmart sack in the airport? And it's got like all these random things that he needs.

He has three different drinks, two Yetis and then a coffee. A bag of rubber bands just so he can play with them. Probably. I used to carry all those bags for a living. It was a decent time. Willie's the guy that shops in the airport stores. Oh, what are you talking? That doesn't get just like food and drink.

This is what he does, though. He'll go to all of the stores with drinks and he'll wipe out all the tea, the iced tea, unsweet tea, wipes them all out into a bag, buys them all, goes to the next one, wipes them all out. He tries to buy every single unsweet tea. in the airport for the rest of his trip. Man's a hoarder. He has hoarding tendencies.

Well, duh. He definitely gets some tendencies from I'm okay. Whoa, now he got to meddle him. People used to blame me for my office being messy. I'm like, I'm not allowed to throw these things away. There's nothing I can do with them, but Willie may. Willie will, like, literally, he'll call me in a couple days. I had worked for him for him for two years.

Hey, do you remember that fan? And I'm like, no, but I really, Corey told me to throw it away. So I don't know what you're going. Well, let's take our last break. We'll be back right after this. All right. We're back. We're back.

Bella, this is the easy part of the show. Not that any of it's really difficult. But this is where we get in the hello at duck call room. com inbox and just see what the fans have to say. Do we have any that pertain to? What's funny is Evan from Midland, Texas emailed in. And I was like, oh, this would be a good one for Bella. Because, you know, she's young and she's figuring out what she wants to do with.

life and then we talked about that for literally 15 minutes but evan from midland texas said what's the best advice you can give to a 16 year old looking for a career and questioning college that was on the docket for today and uh did we hit that we kind of covered it yeah yeah we can rehash it a little bit though since you're way closer to 16 than than we are we're just the old man now we're like the grumpy old men but you're 21 who's about to graduate college but we we can trudge back there in case he just like skips third of this part you know just seeing the end of his email god dad but don't take it too seriously you don't know what you're going to do with the rest of your life even at 21 I would say that's my advice to you Bella yeah yeah I would say just like

don't feel pressure to go to college if you really don't think you're mature enough or ready for it like wait until you know you're ready don't just go straight from high school to college just because that's what everyone else does give it time and figure out what's best for you and then go when you're ready. Amen. Go work a few jobs. Go figure out a lot of life is figuring out what you don't want to do versus figuring out what you want to do.

You know what I figured out in high school? I did not want to put out pine straw and flower beds and bury plants and get stung by yellow jackets my whole life. I was like, you know, this sucks. I don't want to do this. So I figured out a way where I wouldn't have to do that. But when I was 16, it was very handy because it paid cash. You know, I needed money.

I needed gas money. But I knew I didn't want to do it long term. Si, anything for Evan? Do what? Anything for Evan? For Evan. College. What should he do?

At 16. She said what he needs to do. She said, hey, I'll thank Martin said, get a job. You say that? Yeah. Yeah. Get a job and that will help you decide, well, do I really want to do

common labor or do I want to go for a degree and maybe sit in an office? Yeah. But she said what's important. If me personally, I wouldn't mature enough to go to college. You know, wait until you,

if you have that same problem, you know, wait a while until you decide what you really want to do in life, which is good advice. There we go. What else you got, Big time? I got more stuff here. This one was interesting.

from South Louisiana. She has four boys who love watching our podcast. They're all a mixture of ages. 45, 44, 32, and 29. They're all avid hunters. But their dad passed away in March 2022. But she

says they taught them well. And she wanted to know what are some things that your dad's taught you growing up? And I thought, well, Bella's here and she's got a wild father. So it would be interesting to hear like, what's some things Willie taught you growing up and I've got, you know, we all have probably a list of things that we

could go through. That's a whole episode. But Bella, what's something you remember? I think that my dad taught me, like, how to work hard. And, like, he would never, we were allowed to say the word bored. Like, we couldn't say we were bored ever. And if we said we were bored, then he would give us a whole list of things to do because we weren't ever supposed to award. There's always something more to do. And there's always things to work on. So I think that's probably what he taught me just like to always work hard and not like sit around and be lazy, but work, work, work. And you said it earlier to finish what you start.

That's what my father taught me because I would be doing something. Like your mom, something else coming in my head and I take off. And then the next thing I find my dad got me out and it's raining and said, now get your brother out there and finish the job. you should have done yesterday. There you go. Yeah, and I learned a valuable lesson there. It was sunshine yesterday.

It ain't no fun trying to fill in a ditch when it's raining. Because all you're getting is a shovel full of water. The dirt's done gone. Yeah. Yeah. I can say that. Martin? Ah, wow, a bunch.

But to go anti-Robbertson, maintenance is key. Keep up with the oil changes. Keep up with your tire rotation. Maintenance is key to keeping your stuff working. If you want to keep your stuff working, how it was designed to run. Now, let it break and then get it fixed. Yeah.

That's funny. They don't even get it fixed. They just buy a new one. But generally, because it's past the point of repair. Well, that's not true with me. I just got my pickup. out of a shop for having change of oil, filters, everything.

I know, that's because you pay for this one. Well, hey, how's it? Hey. That's funny. Yeah. No, maintenance is key. Oh, yeah. My dad taught me about a word called committed,

and there's, he's, there's no gray area in that word. You cannot, he, it used to drive him crazy, people would say they were pretty committed to something. He's like, nope, that's impossible. You either are committed or you're not. You can't be,

halfway something. So like, I feel like in life, I've always, even if I didn't want to, you could probably count on me just to show up because I was committed to something. So, like, even if I wasn't the best that day, I'd still be there, which a lot of people need to learn these days. Just show up things. And just be there. No matter what, if it's church, if it's work, if it's whatever it is. When I committed to play church league basketball with you clowns, I am no good at basketball. But you were there. I was there. Because you know what? I said I would be there. You commit.

Yeah. That was always big days. You got to have a beginning. And if you ain't there, you ain't going to be there. Yeah. There's no beginning. Yeah. I can appreciate that, though.

Yeah. 90%? Nope. Showing up. Oh, yeah. Life is 90. But no 90% and showing up. No.

Show up. Yeah. But 90% of most things in life are just be there. Be there. Just show up. It's not that hard. Get the job done once you're there. All right.

So I got two emails I'm going to run through kind of quick, not really looking for anything. Go ahead. Except for prayers. So they are looking for something. But remember, we had a guy email in, and he was talking about some dark thoughts, and we didn't use his name,

and we just kind of encouraged him. And Cy said Jeremiah 29-11, he had plans to prosper him. And I thought Cy was reading the guy's name because the guy's name was Jeremiah. And now he says, I would like you to use that, my name, because I'm doing way better now.

And we talked about it. He said the words that Philip and Cy's encouragement, got him thinking, about it. He's been going over to his grandparents' house and talking to them about it. So he's in a really good spot. I know we had people praying for him. So I just thought that would be cool to share. And whenever he said not to say his name and his name was on my computer, is Jeremiah. And then Sass starts hammering the word Jeremiah. And I'm like, oh, no. And then I realized, oh, he's just talking about the Bible verse. And so once we got done, we talked about how cool that was because it was such

an applicable verse for that guy's life. So Jeremy. my keep it hanging in there buddy i talked to him a little bit over email but he's doing way better um and i know i got a lot of emails in about that and just wanting to encourage him and the other one jerry a big time listener from i'm guessing he's from around cincinnati his eight-year-old daughter has just been diagnosed with cancer her name is kaya uh i believe is how you pronounce it she's in Cincinnati children's hospital she's getting chemo this week and so he just said he's heard us talk about prayer, heard about sigh talking about prayer.

And he was just, he believes in one thing. The power of prayer is effective. And so he wanted to just get that out there to pray for Kaya over in Cincinnati children. So we'll for sure be doing that, Jerry. Thank you for listening. I got one. Is that it?

Yep, that's it. Instead of a verse, say a quick prayer for Kaya. Let's do that instead of reading the scripture. Well, let me take my hat on. Absolutely. Y'all bow with me. Father, we bring, we lift up Kaya to you. She's been diagnosed with cancer.

And, Father, it's a bad thing. You know, we pray for a cure to be found for it. For all those that do have it, Father, we ask you to put your hand on it, your healing hand. We know you're the creator and that if we ask it, you say we don't get it because we don't ask. So we're asking a prayer for Kaya, Father. remove the cancer from her body if it be your will.

You can do it any way you want to, Father. Use the doctors and the nurses. Or you can just do it because you think it'll be done. But we left her up until you bless the family, keep them safe. Be with them and give them strength to go through this ordeal. But most of the Father, we ask you to heal her. And we ask you to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Amen.

Amen. We'll see y'all next time here in the duck call room. We're out. Thank you.