Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Isn’t Sure About His Wife's Stand-In & Godwin Goes Commando!?

Episode Date: February 14, 2023

We’re hearing ALL about how the boys met and continue to romance their wives, such as pizza-or-makeout and squirrel hunting! Si reveals WHY he started talking so much. Martin, Godwin & John-David all wonder where their empty cups go so quick. Paula admits she has a compulsion issue. Godwin doesn’t understand why Paula doesn’t like the way he deals with his dirty laundry. John-David's wife, Alyson, has one simple request for Valentine's Day. Everyone takes turns guessing what the other wants for a Valentine's Day meal and John-David tells everyone his favorite gift which still makes Godwin uncomfortable. Plus, what do Paula and Alyson REALLY think of their husbands' beards? And is there such a thing as the "right time" or the "right age" to get married?  --- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Godwin, you got plenty of coffee? Yeah, it's good. You just feel bad up. Why are you telling me what I'm doing? That's her job. That's right. Thank you, sir. That's what we brought her in here for today, God.

Oh, you got her up. That's her job. Hi, welcome back to the duck call route. We have a very special edition here. We've got Allison joining us today. Hello, wife. Y'all know Ms. Paula? And I'm standing in for the beautiful Miss Christine.

This is the new redhead. Are you fiery? I can be, I guess. You're not very mean. I was actually hoping to be on this. After a day with me, he'll be fiery. Trust me. Oh.

Well, that was. Is that a promise or a threat? That's all I'm trying to figure out. We're talking about Valentine's Day. Come on now. You still owe me. Hey, I appreciate the flowers you got for me. Well, you still owe me a steak dinner, so don't forget about that.

All right. I forget about it. It's fine. It's all good. But I was actually kind of bummed. I wasn't going to be in here. So I was going to come moderate and just sit in and watch. But then Christine had a conflict and schedule.

So here I am. So I'm ready to peel back the layers of the onion that are Johnny D. I'm not. Because now we have a truth say. I haven't been here with Ms. Paula, though. Has she told the truth about Gobwin? Boy, they generally can't keep their hands off.

Last time we had both them on here, he was coming back from a trip. Yeah, it was a quick podcast. He zipped the end of them pants right off, turn them into shorts. I guarantee you. I saw him jogging out the door. So it is. We're here to celebrate Valentine's Day, love marriage.

There's a lot of years of all of that represented in this room. So, Alison, welcome. Thank you. I love that you dress for the part. You dress for the character. I went all out. That is good. Unlike your husband.

I put on a button-up shirt today. Who very rarely goes all out and dress. Got a hood on it. I'm trying. Still wearing shorts, though. It's going to be 70 degrees today. It is. That's good for the fishing business, right?

Which is good for her Valentine's Day. Who knows what I'll buy? Oh, you haven't bought it yet? No. Oh, okay. We got time. There's always time. That soap store out my mall's open.

Longer. Every day. That's not a gift to you. Yeah, she didn't. So she's been asked to come on this podcast more than once, and she finally said yes for Valentine's Day. Yeah, I knew you wanted me too. Hey, I can dig it. Look, I think you're going to want to come back after this.

Most people do. Yeah. Brittany was the same way. She fought it, fought it. And then she's like, all right, whatever. And then she's like, that was actually a lot of fun. Now she brings her kids. Yeah, now we have a whole thing.

Yeah. Yeah, we're not bringing our kids. Why not? Yeah, we'd need a bigger room. You bring bands. We don't lock that door. You'd have to. Oh, but, you know, we asked on Instagram for questions.

We got a lot of them. We got a bunch of them. I've got them. You're not going to get to cherry pick the questions today. So we may get uncomfortable with some of these questions. Who knows? I've been scrolling through them. It's a lot of fun.

Are you answering for Christine? No, no. No, because I, nobody can answer the way Christine would answer. That was the main question. How? How what? Were you married to Cyp for 50 something? I don't know.

I've only been dating about 10 minutes, and I love it. I'll fix to slap to your face. I'll turn another cheese. It makes them behave yourself. I can't wait. No, Chris. He's a good stand-in-in-in for Christine. Oh, man.

She's a cut-up, too. Well, do you all want to go ahead and get into some of them? We got a bunch of them. I'm just here. And hoping I don't get thrown under too many buses. Oh, yeah. Let's not have to go to marriage, count, something when we leave.

Well, I mean, I think the easiest one, you know, I love when people really get involved in the ask question, like, is being married to John David? as amazing as it seems that it would be. That was asked by J.D.O. and 7, by the way. That's a great question. Who is that? That's a good Instagram name, too.

Do you have to answer it? No, you don't. You do not have to answer that one. I did send that in, though, when I saw it. I said, that'll be funny. Yeah, that's... I didn't think you'd read that because I definitely was going to, but I was going to change the name of it.

I mean, I had to. Because there's another guy, Jay Martin Duckman, that asked, did Allison go for the pizza or the makeout? but that's supposedly he says that's his line is that in fact what got you

you know he says that's his line but I only remember the line after we got married I still ask it every day yeah he asked me that all the time but he I don't we did not ever go get a pizza thank you

we went to have a pizza there you go We never made it to get to meet them. Well, you do have three kids, so I can only put the clues together of what happened. We might be related. On that note. Oh, that's funny. I don't know what's going to happen on this episode.

We digress. A question, a common question, obviously, how did everybody meet? So would y'all like, who wants to go first? What let them go? I'm nervous. We went squirrel hunting, too. How did we meet, though? He actually was dating my roommate.

Oh, who was also Paula. Yeah. Right? It was a case of two paula. Yeah. They went out a few times. And then, but they didn't hit it off. And then later he asked me out.

And then we went squirrel hunting on our first date. Man's got a thing for Paul. And squirrels. If I didn't know what was going to happen, the rest of our married life, it was my own fault. I can do that. You go squirrel hunting on your first date and you wonder, does he hunt and fish all the time? Would you all kill any squirrel? Yeah.

Did you clean them? I know. Not the best workforce. So that's where it started going downhill. Yeah. There you go. That's right there. I told you the workforce is going down here.

They used to really be good. Well, I trained her. They used to clean squirrels, pick ducks, you know, make a pillow, feather pillars, feather mattresses. Allison, have you ever cleaned the squirrel, picked a duck, or any of them like? I made a pillow mattress. Can't say that she has. Hmm.

All right. Well, there's what spawned the gobons, a squirrel hunt after dating the roommate. What? Wow. There's nothing more Louisiana than that. So go ahead. Welcome to the South. Try to beat that.

Why don't you? Don't that, buddy. I mean, squirrels don't care. You can start it off. Uh-oh. Well, we just went and got some fried chicken at Raising Cains. It's part of the youth group. Oh, I was going to ask fast before you became.

can't find a pizza. Well, fried chicken and pizza are both very good. I went in the youth group. She was visiting her cousin, and her cousin and one of my best friends were dating, and they were the kind of people that were very touchy-feely and like, oh, I love you. And he was like, I'm going to go get a refill. And she was like, miss you.

And Allison, I didn't know her. She goes, oh, get a room. And I was like, I think I'm in love with that girl. Yeah, so he started making jokes and, you know. One thing led to the next. Yeah, that's history. Raising canes. Hey, laughter is always good.

She made that joke and I said, and I slid into her Facebook messages that night. I said, how you doing? There you go. And what year was that? 2008? Yeah. Long time ago. She did dump me for a brief period in that time.

Oh. He never bought the pizza. But then she came crawling back. Oh, she did. She came crawling back, huh? That might not be how the story. We don't worry. We're not worried about the second time we said.

Hey, look, that's all good. It's fine. Everybody's had a rocky road in there at some point. It did work out. At least y'all's happened while you were dating. Some people have been further on down the line, and it's a lot harder to recover from. So that's, okay. So, Ray's the fact that Brittany and Christine.

aren't here to have to disclose all this information. You had like I won't tell you. Christine's already told us. You're there for our whole relationship. Why don't you tell? No, no, no. You and John are the relationship with them. We was always double-dating,

going on appearances and everything else together. I'm not going to deny Brittany that in pleasure of disclosing. That's a good point. Yeah, no. Well, I had a little bit to do with them. You did? Well, he trained me. No, no, because I went hunting with him, and he said, hey, we're going to stop him.

I'm going to want you to meet somebody. And he introduced me to Brittany, you know, and I said, hey, on the way back, I said, hey, you need to keep that one. And that's why she continued today. She's a good one. You keep that one. Yeah. I had sigh's blessing, so I knew right then. And she saw sigh and said, he's a good guy.

And looking back on it, sigh does like the fiery ones, because. that's what I got. You got a way of picking them, don't we? What is it about a quiet guy getting with a loud woman? Why is that always happy? See, Johnny D. kind of loud. Allison, pretty quiet. Paula ain't live. Yeah.

He said my tombstone's going to say he lies Paula God when she's a little lippy. I said she's a little lippy. He claims it's really going to say that. I have no doubt. I can... I can guarantee you.

He'll get it. The last word. She can't rebut it. He'll get the last word. Yeah. On that one, he's going to get the last word. If she goes first, it will definitely say that. She was a little lippy.

I loved the woman the devil. She was a little lippy. But Cy and Christine both talk a lot. Well, no, that's what's so funny. You know, that's the most I've heard my wife talk when we was on the podcast. And the whole time what got me, I would be telling my side of it. she'd be sitting over going, no, tacos. So all that sold her last.

But look, Si used to not talk. Oh, yeah, that's true. He just had that strut. So I didn't talk until that paycheck started rolling in. You used to could turn the camera to him, and he wouldn't do nothing. That's so funny, a girl that wants to school with me instead of that. When I went back to my elementary school to talk. to the students.

She was a teacher, you know, there. And she said, you were so shy when you was in school. Yeah, he just ran around naked. He didn't have to say nothing. I said, me shy? Then he busted out of that cocoon. Well, no, well, the difference was, hey, you know, when Phil and him put a camera on me, okay,

it was none of the green stuff flowing. Sometimes you got a lot of peacock just fly. Hey, well, you know, you come into these things. Well, you put a little fertilizer on a plan, it'll grow, right? No, no, hey, because a woman, I was on welfare one time, you know, didn't have a job, so I said, okay, let me go ahead and sign up, you know, give me a few bucks anyway. So this lady that was interviewing me, she asked me, she said, well, well, Mr. Robertson, what would be your dream job?

I said, darling, you don't want to go there. And she said, oh, yes, I do. I really want to know. I said, no, you don't. But she just kept on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you need to tell me. if you, what would you really like to do? And I said, well, you asked for this.

I said, I want to run up on someone, okay, that it's got more money than you can ever spend in a lifetime. And he ain't got no sense. And I said, voila, A&E showed up. I give side this. His dedication to his dream is real, because it only took 63 years. Hey, it took 63 years. He got it.

He was right when he said, you need to come work for me. And I said, hey, I don't know about that. And he said, hey, I'm telling you, I'll see a ship out on the ocean. Yeah. He said, one of these days, it's going to dock and unload. You know, when I was working for him after about three or four years, I said, hey, where is that ship? Yeah. He said, hey, don't worry about it.

I see the top of the mass. Yeah, I said, okay. That's good. Well, let's take our first break. We'll be back right after this. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means?

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Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's tribeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some. Dang good steak. Let's just start. Just go down the list. What does one pet peeve you have about your partner go? Whoa! On three or what?

I know that you don't have one about me. That's true. I don't have one. She's great. Go ahead, Al. You go ahead and tell yours and then I'll probably figure one while I'm sitting there. Well, I clean up the living room a lot, and every single day I find one. black sock and it takes me a while to find the other black sock. They're always black socks

and you wonder why they don't have matches, but every day he gets home and takes off his socks in the living room. These are matching. I'm just saying. We're fresh on a laundry cycle. She doesn't pick them up. I don't wear her socks. I'm wearing socks all the time, but apparently I don't know how it works. What's that? The hamper? The socks. We've discussed this before. Anything to do with it. Uh-oh.

The hamper, yeah. The only thing I got about to say about socks is they wear out. They don't make, they don't make anything worth nothing anymore. That's because you've been wearing that same sock for two weeks. No. At some point, you've got to take them off and let them breathe. No, no, I change. I have one sock just in all corners of the house.

That's good to know. Pet peeve, where we're at. Pet pee. Stop. I was thinking she's going to say It's always one sock And you never can find the mate to it Sometimes, yeah

Well, that's because there's one in the couch One in Well, you know My socks just The dog ain't the other one yellow My pet peeve for Allison Boy, this is going to get heavy quick So we made a rule in our house

Before we got married That I don't paint Anything And no wall I don't care what color the walls are If you want to paint them Knock yourself out But I can't be involved

and so she'll start painting a room and then about nine, ten months later she finishes. So just one wall at time. Yeah, that's true. So kind of like a rubits cube before. She might want her to another color. I don't understand that. I don't know, I don't like anybody to rush me about nothing.

I understand that. She paints that first one to make sure she likes a color. Well, see, I thought as you said, just hire somebody, just have it painted, whatever you want to paint it. But I'm not painting. Well, I'm too busy, you know, prioritizing being a wife. I'm not against. I'm not against your speed.

She'd have more time to paint if you'd pick up your socks. That's what she's saying. That's what I'm saying. I just don't care what color the walls are and she does. That's my only pet pee. I like it half painted. We lived in one house for a while that was just all white. Everything is a white house.

She lets it grow on her. She paint just your own. talking about, okay. No, I don't want to give it another week. Yeah, that's right. Perfection takes a while. What, anything about Ms. Paula, drive you a different kind of crazy?

So I know she just drives you crazy anyway. Well, she's lippy, but it's kind of one thing, but it bothers me, but it don't really bother me. Because I mean, I can't believe that cup's still sitting there. Oh. Every time you put it, it's gone. It's gone. Yeah.

You leave an empty cup somewhere? She trained Brittany and get up and go to the bathroom, come back. Gone. You got to get another. No, no. I would rather have her that way than the other way. There you go. I also throw half your food away.

Yeah, may take. It's been there an hour. But I'm not done with it. Yeah. You might still be eating it and I might grab it. I don't even know. Like, it's a compulsive issue. Human beings are like hunting dogs.

They all got their quirks. That's right. I'm serious. You all got your quirk. That's it. But I'd rather be that way than the other way. Yeah, I didn't sit there and get mold on it? I'm with you.

Go ahead, Paula. What drives you crazy about Mr. Nothing. We don't wear socks. Well, it's just the whole house. as his laundry basket. I mean, he comes in, and he takes off his shoes, and then his hoodie's on this chair, and then he walks in,

and he goes, takes a shower, and the hamper's here, and the tows here, and his clothes are over here. I can relate. Then this is here. Man, I feel like I'm listening to Brittany talk. Hey. And then I'll say, throw that in the hamper, and he'll pick it up, and he'll go right by hand.

And he drops it right there on the floor. Right by side to happen. On purpose. Oh, yeah, I find clothes literally. on the floor beside the hamper. Yeah. That's because the hamper was full. So you're not going to pick up the hamper and go somewhere.

What? You're not going to pick up the hamper and go to the laundering. And what? Pick up all the way. Oh, it's right there beside it. My hamper's not even full, and he'll throw it on the floor beside it. Well, I might want to wear it again. Yeah, yeah.

He'll say if it's on the floor, I might wear it again. I said, oh, so everything. Your underwear? What's the rules here? I'll follow them if you just give him in the way. Allison, you don't know much about Galvin. If they smell fine, then wear them back. That boy ain't wearing no underwear.

Commander. Look at him. Y'all think I'm kidding. I don't think you're kidding, sir. Underwear and socks. I'm telling you. Hard pass. I say, well, let me, all right, so I put hooks behind the door.

If you're going to wear them again, hang them on that hook. No, they're here on the floor and on the hook. I picked them up this morning, thank you. Thank you. He said he picked them up in the morning. He was trying to pause this conversation

this morning. That was my Valentine's present. He picked up his dirty clothes. Wow, I'm just glad, Brittany's not the only one. What did you get your wife? Oh, I picked up my clothes this morning. Put him in the apron. Oh, I got her some gutters.

Yeah. Thank you. I hope so. So the leaves won't, I told her the latter was not that heavy. Did you really get me the gutters? That's what I really won't. Yeah. Oh, well, happy Valentine's Day.

Oh, he bought you a weed eater one time or something, didn't he? A blower. Blower. That ends up in his shop all the time. And a chainsaw that was, that I was excited about. But I kind of go get it out of his shop all the time. That's because he cutting down brush top. Yeah.

I mean, I don't ask for much, but he gets it for himself. Man, I wish Brittany would ask for chainsaws and blowers. That's awesome. I got to get them shoot lanes where she can shoot. What's that? I wanted a pole saw for Christmas to limb up the limbs in the yard and all that, and then it disappeared too. It's in the back of my truck.

I know. It's in the back of the yard. It's in the back of my truck. My dad got my mom. mom a leaf blower for Christmas one time. I don't think it would have the same effect at my house as it. That's not what she won't. Well, we have one, but there's still leaves all over.

All right. Moving on. I'll take a break. Go ahead. Easy. Do tell. Batteries charged. Good night.

Oh. She said we have a leaf blower. This is not a good idea. This is fantastic. That's why I say, y'all are getting off cheap. Your wives aren't here. No, well, the favorite thing, I'm just going to have Britney listen to this. And I can say, look, I ain't the only one.

Yeah. Look, this is normal. It's normal. We're just men and we're sloppy and we're gross. And we apologize. I don't disagree with. But we're not going to change. Oh, we'll try.

It is what it is. Yeah. Cy, anything about Christine drive you nut? Yeah, she's always using real big words. For instance, like what? Then I'd say, hey, what does that mean in everyday language? Break it down. Yeah, she said, you should read more.

I said, I ain't got time to read. He's got to take a nap. Yeah, she's, I'm serious. She's always got her nose in the book. She does have a lot of books. No, no, no. She's got a whole book room. Oh, no, no.

She's got books. We had to rinse storage to put bucks in. And she's still ordering them and cataloging them right now. They call that a library. She does have a library. She does have a library. You've got to go. And my daughter took after her.

Okay, because your punishment for Tracer was where she has acted up, we'll say, hey, you're going to lose your books. No, no, no, no, you'll kill me before you do that. Yeah. Just. Sound like Johanna. Oh, I see. They got a library card away.

She'll straighten right. No, no. All you had to do was say, I'm going to take your books away. Mm-hmm. Them air points. We smoked them. But you was talking about locked the door a while ago. When you said that about bringing the kids on, you know, me and the wife was going to have some quality relationship time.

And then the next thing we hear about, we locked the door the next thing to it. And Tracer's telling Scott, talking, hey, I can open the door. I'll go get a fork. Yeah. And then the next thing we hear, click, click, click, click, click. Tell me, I fixed to get the belt. Do not disturb. I got to come about quality relationship.

I didn't know where we's going. It's a winding road here at the love episode. Oh, boy. You can just slap it. I know, baby. Let's take another break. We'll be back right after this. This one, I like this one because this is a, this one is more fun than it is.

Thank goodness. Even though the last one was funny. To you? Well, yeah. I mean, try to get us in trouble. I had luck. It's no big deal.

Favorite Valentine's meal. We all like to eat. Meal? Yeah. Why don't you switch it up and make him answer what he thinks she would say? Oh, like a newlywed game. Yeah. Oh, turn the card around.

Yeah. I like it. What's Allison want to eat for Valentine's night? That's tough. Probably pizza. That's because we have kids and that's why. it's the easiest. I'm in a homemade pizza, not just the easy.

Oh, that she made? Yeah. Oh, you want me to make it? No, I don't want you to make that because you wouldn't do it right. Oh. We have our own things that we make. So what she's in charge of? For me to make? Probably steak and mashed potatoes.

Yep. There you go. That's the one I make. Okay. I'm not asking Allison, because we know you a pizza fiend. She's a breadmaker. So that's true. That's just like.

But lasagna's up there. too. Anything Italian. Italian. Spaghetti and meatballs, sourdough, bread with that. I'm hungry. I like that. What does Ms. Paula want to eat?

She's been eating a lot of different stuff lately. What do you want for Valentine? It's like your last meal. I mean, like, what is it? Big old chocolate hard. I don't know. She wants. What's the meal that I want?

A big old chocolate hard. That's it. She wants steak. Steak? Is that right, Paula? Yeah. If that was my last meal, probably a ribbi. I probably grilled asparagus.

I'll have one squirrel. Yeah. I'll eat any of that. Salad. A ribby, though, not just any steak. Ribby? Ribby. Your husband's strange.

With the handle on it? You want the handle or you give that to John? Yeah, I'll take a handle. For sure. Well. I know what he wants. Well. He wants, if it was any meal, it would be beef tips with gravy, real mashed potatoes.

Real mashed potatoes. Green beans. Yeah, some real mashed potatoes. Green beans. A salad with Thousand Island dressing. Sounds like a good meal. That sounds good meal. That sounds good.

I can't have it. Oh, yeah, and a cheesecake. Would you can't have that? Oh, yeah. And cheese cake Yeah Okay So what's Christine choosing?

Oh, good grief Hmm Uh-oh Tacos? Tocos? Spaghetti? Probably spaghetti Yeah

When we go to Olive Garden It's always Spaghetti Meatball I go to Olive Garden a lot Huh? You go to the Olive Garden a lot? Yeah I didn't know that

Oh no no Yeah Christine loves the Olive Garden Oh, you ain't ever going to see America they're like 4.30. Allison used to work at the Red Lobster. That's right beside all,

that's why we don't go there. That's why she knows how to make that bread. She liked them back. We can't eat them. I don't eat those biscuits anymore. The first two years of our marriage, that's what we ate for dinner every night, was just biscuits.

Just biscuits, boys. From that. Leftovers. Do you know what Gobbin would do for a biscuit right? Yeah, right. Yeah. Look at him. Some of the sawmill gravy will big little chance of sausage in it.

Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. We're going down. memory lane. We're going down to get you to stumble. We'll get out of there. Christine, what does Sioux want? Oh, Sioux wants a hamburger. Hey, that's probably a trick.

I can eat a good hamburger every day. Yeah. Or six of them. Or six if they're famous. Well, I'm just saying, a good homemade hamburger, I can eat it every day. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, Brittany's a meat eater, so steak. It's easy.

She likes filet. about that ribby life, but whatever. That's fine. It is what it is. What are you going to eat? Everything. You think you get your hands. It doesn't really matter to me.

But I will cook it. That's my only request. I would rather cook my Valentine's Day. I'm just going to leave that there. I'm not going down the Brittany cooking meat way? She's good at what she does. Not a lot. Hey, she'll tell you that.

And she's like, why would I? He does it so well. Hey, I'm cool with that. All right. Another one hot off the press. Favorite Valentine's gift you ever got? I don't mind. Go ahead then.

Well, one year after we had just had our third child, I just got the number to a certain doctor and was told that three was enough. There you go. I thought you were about to tell the vignette. Oh no, them Benyais were nasty, you know. Speaking of cooking stories, that's a great story. So the first year of our marriage, Allison wakes me up. She's a happy Valentine's Day.

I got up so early, way before the sun. And we were what? I was so excited. I found a Pinterest recipe for Beny's. You never go to Pinterest people. We were what, 16, 17 years old. We were young. And Allison comes in and he's like, I made fresh beigniates.

I was like, oh, awesome. And I've been into it, and there was grit in between my teeth, and it was crunchy. And then I couldn't breathe, and I needed water. I said, what's happening? I said, oh, I don't know. You did this right. And she goes, huh. I said, where's the recipe?

The recipe called for a cup and a half of salt in the dough. And it was literally crunchy bignets. You know, like we were eating hot pockets. We were in college newly. and leftover red lobster biscuits. Yeah, and so I was just learning to cook. I didn't know that was too much salt. A cup and a half of salt?

Yep. Somebody made a joke. They were literally crunchy with how much salt was in them. It was gross. That wouldn't be nice. It was pretzels. Yeah. Now, they were terrible.

But that was the worst gift you've ever got made for Val. But the best one was definitely the number to the vasectomy, man. Yeah. That was a good one. That was a gift to myself, too. That was a gift to herself, too. You're going to hurt that old boy. Look at him.

Yeah, I opened that card. I just had a phone number. I said, well, I guess I'll call it Dr. Mark's office. There you go. Well, let's take another break. We'll be back right after this. This one says for the ladies, what are your real thoughts on beards? Beards?

Yeah, the real ones. I can tell you, he shaved one time in our whole married. 34 year, 35 years together. And I was like, don't ever do that again. It was so strange to see him without any facial hair whatsoever. And even Johanna didn't recognize him. We had never seen him. He used to have like a Foo Manchu and a, you know,

hand-a-bar mustache. Really? Yeah. I bet you look cool. And, but. He was a bull rider. Yeah. But we had just never, and he had black hair back then, you know.

But when you see him always, with facial hair and then you don't, you know, it was strange. I like it. Allison, beards? Well, it definitely looks better than it has before. You'd say that again, sister. But I mean, I don't know if y'all have seen a picture of what it used to look like. Baby face.

I mean, we were teenagers. How good did I look? I never thought I'd, you know, have a man like with facial scruff and, you know, beard. That's way past scruff. I've come to love it. Yeah. I'm used to it. Now, I just don't know any different anymore.

It's been what? How long? Nine, ten years since I've shaved. What would your kids do if you walked out? I wouldn't. I would love for him to try it out, just seeing it. Nope, not happening. Happy Valentine's stuff.

That sounds like a cheap gift. Yeah. Not a bad idea. I will say, though, the other night Allison was scrolling through Instagram or something and a person we go to church with had a little, it wasn't a beard. It was something. growing on his face. And she goes, you know, I don't give you enough credit for how well you grow that beard.

And I was like, yes. I will say, if you do surprise me, you should get a haircut because it would be like weird to have long hair with that. No facial hair. There's your Valentine's, friend. Yeah, shave it. It's no longer a suggestion. It's now a request, by the way. Next podcast.

The Reveat. Unless don't get answered. Well, another thing about it, you know, if you, if you, if you, if you, you, you're always shaving. You know, two-day beard, and I mean, women's faces are sensitive. And with a two-day beard,

it's a scratch the fire of you. No, you know. And at least with a beard, you know, if it's out, it's soft. Yeah.

It's not, you know, it's not irritating. Well, you save a lot of money. I haven't been to a barber. Yeah. And spent money there in a decade.

Oh, I did once, whenever it was totally unruly in the Duck Dennis today. Well, you're talking about that. Hey, when I retired in 93 out of the military, I threw the razor away and no haircut. John does his own. He shades his own head. I cut my own hair once a year. I face me, get a deal and just go bald. I'm tired of doing that.

When you get you about that? I know I'm just about that. I'm not on a mistake. I mean, it's hard to, yeah. He already is. That's a funny one. Read it. Oh, our man Isaac wants to know, do y'all fart in front of each other?

Oh, good, great. I'll answer that for me and Brittany, yes. Yes, he does now. He starts to laugh at his comes down. He does. You got your kids on that pull my finger yet? Nah, our kids will fart on you. They think it's hilarious.

Dens can do it on command. It's kind of disturbing. I'm like his daddy. Stop. Hey, I'll let her fool you. She'll rip one every now. Well, Johnny D., I'm going to have to let you take over because unlike Stone on that time when he left D.K. I can't leave Brittany somewhere.

Oh, are you? Okay. Yeah, I'm out. In the interest of my marriage, I'm out. This is a love episode. You got to know where your limits are. My phone just rang. Bye.

Bye. I'm going to read Daniel's question on your way out. Who wears the pants in these relationships? We know, Mark. No, I'm just messing. He raised a four-month-old twin. She can have them. You go, sir.

You go, sir. See y'all next time. Hey, that's just a servant leader right there. No, that's a man not wanting to die. He yelled he doesn't want to die on his way out the door. He knows what side of the bread, the butter darn boys. No? Hey, you got to, hey, if Mama ain't happy, if Mama ain't happy,

ain't nobody going to be happy. It's true. All right. Miss Rhodes emails in, no, Instagram's in and says, what's the best way

to celebrate a 10-year anniversary? Well, I can tell you the one or two times John ever surprised me on anything

was on our tent. He got, his eyes got me. You got a little nervous. No. He's not very good at like, surprising or doing it. But this time he

completely fooled me. He had a scavenger hunt like gift opening for our tent and it was clues, written clues and the next one led to the next one and the final clue was that he had already booked and paid for us to go on a cruise which we'd never done in our life and I was completely shot.

He'd even arranged for me to be off work with my bosses for the time he booked a week cruise. Wow. So I have to say that was pretty cool. He did really good. We stayed in the room most of it. You didn't leave one of them rooms with the windows.

This was honeymoon. Part two. There you go. Yeah, vacation's a good thing. We went to Broken Bow. How do you feel about Broken Bow got one? Been there and done that. I love.

Not a fan. Oh, I love it. That was the best get-away. Where'd you all do? Sat there? Sight in the camera. Same thing, y'all did it on a cruise ship. We just did it in a cabin.

And it's only three hours away. Oh, I'd go back. I'd go back at a different town. You got to go fishing and stuff. He's not a sit-there, relax kind of guy. He's got to be doing something like. He goes to the beach more than most people I know. Oh, he doesn't.

I mean, we go, no, it's. I'm about to learn something here. He goes, but when we go, we go snorkel. he's not a sit on the beach in the sun kind of guy we kayak we snorkel we scuba dive we do stuff you scuba do he free he's frito like gone down yeah he's a swimming machine oh he's a young michael felix hold on to him as a buoy we reach out and have that hair and hold on well that's yeah I'd say a vacation is probably you need to You need to get away from your normal lives. If you have kids, you need to get away from them things.

Not all the time, but for your time. And just focus on each other for a while and have a good time. All right, what's next? We got a lot of people asking for advice, too. Should we go into that, Si? Yeah. Why not? Ethan.

Are we experts? Uh-uh. She might be. She tells me everything I do wrong. So, Ethan says, what is the best age to get married, you know, because of college and jobs and all that. I don't think there is an age to get marriage. I agree. Our best age.

Okay. It depends on the individuals. Because you're taking two human beings, okay, totally different. Okay. And they've got to establish a relationship. Yeah. And that's the most important thing, okay, is established a relationship, okay, and all these stuff that we've been talking about, that's part of the relationship. When you have kids, okay, you need time.

Mom and dad need time by themselves, okay, away from the kids. So it's just, it's a... I think it's a maturity thing. It's a word that comes to mind. You know, marriage is a heavy subject. You know, it's like a garden. If you ever raise a garden, you're going to work your tail off. Or either you're not going to have a very good garden.

If you have a garden that produces a lot of vegetables, the guy or woman has worked up. lot, put in a lot of hours to make that happen. You've got to pick those weeds. Pick them weeds, girl. And in marriages, there are all kinds of weeds that pop up. Okay, and you've got to take time to pull the weeds, you know. I think age is not so much a number, but a maturity level.

Yeah, yeah. And if you figure out you can't live without the person, then it's time to do something about it. Yep. How old were we? 20 the week before yeah so awesome was 19 I wouldn't recommend it to everyone but I felt like I was ready well no no no because that's one of things I you know over the years watching young people get married

you know and Paula said it the maturity level okay like me I don't think I'm ever going to matured no no I'm serious this podcast would really stink No, no, I'm serious. Okay, because I just, you know, like you were saying, okay, if you want me to fix something, no. Yeah. That's the thing about it.

I told Christine, I said, hey, look, I'm not, I am not one of them men that take care of all to you. I can fix anything. Nope, I can't fix nothing. You know, and if I try it, we're going to just, hey, go ahead and play the plumber, because if I fix it, it's going to cost five times what it would cost to play the plumber. Yeah, so I'm, because I'm not a fixture. Me neither. No.

So, and that's another thing. Know your limitations. You got to know your limitations. Do what you do good. Yeah. And, you know, you've got to like to. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. You know, and stay away from things you can't do. Amen. Yeah. But you just got, you know, and that comes into the relationship thing. Okay. because, you know, most marriages fail

because either way, they want to change you. You fell in love for this reason, and then the first thing you're going to do is when you marry him, I don't want you to do that anymore. You knew I hunted and loved to fish, and then you're saying, no, you can't go. You lost your mind? You know, I was serious, it's so stupid.

stupid really when you think about it. Yeah. Yeah. Because if you get right down to it, start asking people, well, why did you fall in love with this man? Or why did you fall in love with this? Well, y'all, this is what I really liked about. Well, all the time I hear y'all arguing about, you're getting mad because he's

spending time on the lake. You know, why are you getting mad? You knew that's what he loved to do. That was one of his passionate hobbies for crying out loud. Yeah. If you can't beat them, join them. You got to join them. No, no.

No, no, look, though. Yeah. We go together. I love it now. Then you said, oh, now I know why he loves to go in the woods. That's right. I love it. Love it.

Yeah. Allison, have I made it to maturity? You've grown a lot. Oh, hey. Didn't I get it. All right, we're going to close this. No, I'm just kidding. I thought she was going to call me at least 15.

Oh, when we look back at, at what we used to be and look at where we are now. It's like, thank you, God, for, you know, it could have ended poorly. Not because we were doing anything crazy, but because, like, we were so young, but we've grown together. And I think that's, there's a lot of beauty in that. You learn from your mistakes, and that's what helps you grow and persevere. Persevere.

You got to kick your coverage, and she's very smart. She is. She's a little quiet. I'm impressed. No, no, I'm impressed. She's smarter than I look for sure. I like my books too. I need to come to the library.

Yeah, you do. Yeah, she wakes up every morning and reads for like four hours. Not four hours, but she reads a ton of books. And then the other night she got in bed. She's like, hey, I got a book for us to read together. And she gets mad at me because to keep concentration, I have to change the words and how you pronounce them. So, but that's the only way I can stay reading.

What book are we reading? Love time. Love talks. See, look at us. Boy, there you go. About communicating. Seeking wise counsel. That's it.

We went through a stage. Yeah. Which everybody does. Yeah. She would leave me notes. Which hell. She laid me notes in the bathroom. Because I was the first one up.

And she'd leave me notes in the bathroom. What she didn't like. Well, we went to counseling. We went to counseling because we were having trouble understanding what the other one was trying to say and I told the counselor what I was trying to say and the counselor turned around and told you the same thing I just said he said why didn't she just say that and I'm like I just said that yeah but no no no no that's the craziest part of it okay you're saying one thing and and the person turn it to that's not didn't him didn't anything close to

or what you say it? The counselor told me it was my tone. So I was saying the same thing he was saying. But with an attitude. But with an attitude. Right. So he's not trying it off. Yeah, he heard that tone and he quit listening to me.

That's why my mother said my father had selective here. Yeah. Well, that did it. Okay. So he suggested we. Yeah. He suggested that if it's something serious, not every day, but very serious. like it had to be serious to leave a note to tell him so that not criticize him start with something

positive and then just say look this has bothered me and that way he doesn't hear the tone and turn it off so I very I left very few notes it wasn't a lot of notes but if it was something I really needed him to hear I left a note and that solved a lot of the problem it's better than building resentment Yeah, and may come in out. Well, no, no. That's why you're arguing and it gets to the angry stage, you need to quit. And that's because then you're going to say something, okay?

And once you say it, you can't take it back. Yeah. Or with the attitude. And the attitude's behind it. That's right. It is. And then a lot of people run out to mamas. Well, no, no, because then that's what we're doing that.

They run from it, okay. And then, hey, you ain't fixed nothing running from it. Now, if you're married, you can't run from, you've got some difficulties that have popped up here. You've got to stand firm, address them, and dress them gently. Like I said, don't do it out of anger or attitude. When you get to just saying it, you don't rely how hard that is. Yeah.

You know, I'm mad at you. You've done something that hurt me, and I'm mad at you. And I'm probably going to say something that I should not say, because once I say it, it can't be taken back. Oh, you said this to me. Yeah. So like I said, this is more profound than you can ever even imagine. For sure.

And I think one cool thing y'all said, because we got a lot of questions that were kind of deep and like this, this, that, and I'm like, yeah, I probably avoid that. But y'all was mentioned, well, we had to go to counseling. There's nothing wrong with that. That shows two people fighting for their marriage. We had to do it more than once. Yeah, I mean.

And now look at you, I can't keep your head. You've been holding hands over there all the whole time. Well, no, no, no. Because you're invested in taking the time looking at yourselves. Back to the garden. Yeah. Yeah, you got to work it. You got to work.

You got to work it. Because if you don't, okay, it's just what your wife says. you just you start just in the part we went through that phase too where we were both you know married but living separate lives and you know him he was mad but yet you wasn't even there wasn't me doing what I wanted to do you know or had to do

and so we were like okay I mean we got to so we had to do a recheck and come back in go to counseling figure out some things you know I got mad one time I'm like I'm sleeping on the couch like I'm going to show him you know I'm going to go sleep on the So he'd come in there. The wisest thing he ever did without even knowing that he did before BC, before crisis, before he obeyed the gospel.

But he knew he'd come in there and said, get off the couch. You'll never sleep, not in my bed when we're angry. You're going to wake up in the morning next to me. We are not sleeping apart because of anger. No, no. And so that said a president. He didn't even realize it, but it set a tone like, okay, now no matter what, But we're going to have worked.

We're going to sleep because you wake up in the morning and things are a little not quite as bad as they work. You know, like you kind of calm down. You've cooled down. But when you're divided and sleeping in separate rooms, that division gets wider. No, no. So that was wild.

You're actually, you're right. And he didn't even know it. You're actually putting something in there and prying yourself apart. Yeah, yeah. But when you sleep separate, stay separate, then that division, after a while, you don't even remember what you are in.

to begin with. That's why it's so important when the Bible says, okay, they will become one flesh. You don't, you can't, that's why the relationship's so powerful and so important. Okay, you've become one, one flesh. Okay, so don't have to try to part that. You know, it's meant to be together, okay? You're meant to be together because one of the things I said about me and Christ,

But then when we were talking about getting mad, I said, well, hey, I'll never, you know, I'll never sleep on the couch. I'm the one that's paying for the part we're sleeping. You can sleep on it. Amen. Well, no, no. Yeah. And I didn't bring up, you know, I'm like, that's why I'm saying, you never go to bed angry. You know.

It does. I mean, you can be angry, but don't sleep apart. Throw a fit, and I'm going to sleep on the couch. No, hold it. John, John, that's a good thing. That's right. He really does. I'm going to have a little trouble right now, but hey, you get your butt in bed next to me.

That's right. You get your butt in bed next. I married you and I love you and I want to wake up next to you. That's right. And it made it a lot better. Well, that was some wisdom there at the end. And Paula, Allison, so glad y'all could join us for the love episode. We are out of time, but we end everyone with the Bible verse.

So Ephesians 522, wives submit yourself to your husband. I'm just kidding. That is not the very much. First of the day. That is not it. Give that joke. Oh, it's a good one, but it's not the first of the day. Now, I'm going with Ephesians 525.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church, gave himself up for her to make her holy cleansing her by the washing of water through the word and to present her to himself as a radiant church without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blame us. The Lord's call for us as men is to love our wives the same way Jesus Christ love the church. church, which he gave up his spot in heaven to come here to earth to die a gruesome death and save us all from our sins. So, baby, I'm going to try my best. To love you like that, I ain't perfect, but I'm going to keep trying. That's what we need to do. And thank y'all for coming because that was a lot of fun. Maybe we can do it again sometime.