Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Learns the Truth about Will Robertson's Adoption

Episode Date: April 15, 2025

Uncle Si hears the full story of Will Robertson’s adoption for the first time. What follows is a series of wild twists and divine coincidences that eventually brought Will face to face with his biological family without even knowing it! Martin gets sentimental remembering Will as a kid and realizes just how fast time flies. John-David is baffled (and slightly alarmed) by the shocking return of jorts, and the boys take playful jabs at themselves while debating what a brain scan would reveal about their inner workings—or lack thereof. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bobby, you're good? You want to beatbox us in there, Bob? If you're waiting on me, waiting on the wrong guy. Oh, gosh. I'm kidding, Bobby. Hey, y'all remember that one? I mean, it was years ago. I was probably like 13 years old.

On what? I don't know. I think it may have been a podcast or something. You were 13 years old years ago? Yeah, years ago. I feel like you were 13 yesterday. Dude, that was 10 years ago. You're 23?

I'm 23. Holy cow. Yeah. I really am going to be 40 in August. crap. Hold on, before we go too far, because you started in on a story, welcome back to the duck call room. Yeah.

Martin, we have a guest. Yeah, this is Bobby. What's up? Or Will. Or Will. Or William Jess Robertson, the second? No, I'm Willie Alexander. No, yeah, he's Alexander.

Yeah. He was the original Zander. I'm after. I'm back to feel. Yeah. He was, he was the original Zander. I am the original Zander. Then Rebecca had to swipe in and steal it.

Yep. I could have been named Xand this whole time But yeah Is that what that's from? Huh? Kind of. Yeah. I'm connecting a lot of dots right now that I wasn't ready for it.

There may be an Alexander on John Reed's side. I'm not sure. Nah, it had to be. It had to be. It had to be, Phil. But welcome, Bobby. Will. What do you want to be?

What do you want to be called? I don't tell a story. I mean, everybody in this room pretty much calls me Bobby anyway. So we'll except for Abby. Well, that's what's weird because now Bella works here. and I'm the only person in this place that calls her Susan, which really annoys me. Yeah, no, nobody calls her Susan anymore. I know, except for me.

Like, not even dad. It's just you. Yeah, it sucks, man. Like, because that means we're getting older and things are changed. I like to remember y'all at like four fighting each other. Bobby was taking the snacks and all Bella wanted was a Dr. Pepper. I mean, I missed those days. I know.

I do too. Oh, shoot. But anyway, the story, beatboxing. Oh, no, yeah. It's about beatboxing. And yeah, no, dad was doing a podcast. It was in our game room. And I was sitting...

That podcast? I was like, we didn't do a podcast 10 years. Yes, we did. And it was about my story. And he wanted me to beatbox in the intro. And I thought that was really funny. Because you mentioned that. Well, go ahead.

Well, you are a world famous beatboxer, Bobby. He goes, no, I felt dumb at 13 and at 23. Yes. That was 10 years ago. Yeah. There you go, Johnny D. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, we're old, man.

That's fine. That's cool. That actually checks out. Bobby's in his prime and we're old. It's fine. Yeah. It's all good. Whenever I was in that,

y'all were old and now it's old. Yeah. It's gone now. I really feel like I wasted that. I'm just kidding. I really felt like I didn't thrive. Actually, I think the problem is I was supposed to be in my prime then and now I might actually be in my prime. You are.

Yes, I just wasted the 20s is what we're getting to. Yep. Well, this sucks. Yeah. Thanks for coming by, Bob. Yeah, no problem. I pretty much just ate my 20s away. I mean, I was just eating.

I was just chasing Willie for the whole decade. Where did you graduate high school? I graduated high school from Claibor and Christian. So when did you get married to Abby? I got married to Abby in April of 2023, April 28. I was about to say, don't fail that one. Folks, she is right over there. Yes.

It's coming to our two-year anniversary. I was trying to do the math because I don't know when anything happened. About two, three weeks. I don't know. It's the end of it. 28, yeah, 18 days. So, yeah, you're less than three weeks. What did you get her?

Oh. She just, her eyes went huge when I said that. That's classified. That's a good answer. And also TBD. That's tough of a secret. Thinking about it. If you didn't know, we do a lot of marriage counseling in here, too, Bob.

So we help you all out. Oh, cool. You and I be in school together here? No, we weren't. So I went to Claiborne Christian, which is a private school. She went to Weston Row High School. Oh, she was slumming with us public school. Oh, yeah.

Well, she's a year behind me, so whenever I went up to Liberty, she still was finishing out her senior year. So we did some long distance for a very long time, pretty much up until we got married. You went to Liberty? Yeah. Liberty, Liberty? I think I should know more about you than I do.

Yes. Well, it's because it's because I left. That makes sense. Well, when y'all got married, Y'all went to Texas, right? Yes. Well, I had already moved to Texas before we got married. So at least it was, I moved to Texas in the fall of 2022.

And then I was working at the church. And then I proposed in December of that year. Yeah, let's update the people because they probably remember you from Duck Dynasty. I was just a. And everybody around here, you get sucked into Western Row and you can't escape it. And you end up just being here and working for your. parents. But you have blown the coop.

I'm the literal black sheep of the family. Abby was He can make those jokes. We can't. We can't. We can't make those jokes in 2025, but he can't.

Him and John Fis are the only people I know that can make that job. He would have made it before you even got to that point. So you have, you're a peacock out there flying. Are you in Dallas or Fort Worth or Arlington? Dallas. We're in the DFW Metroplex.

That's just, that's general. We're in McKinney, which is like 40 minutes above Dallas. And what are you doing? So Abby and I are both working at, we're on staff at a church in North McKinney called Anchor Church.

Our head pastor, Jeff Jenkins. Oh, yeah, you work with a Jenkins. Yeah. Golly. At least it ain't that one. No.

Which one? They all got big heads. Hard to tell. Yeah, that's true. But now I started working there in 2022. Abby started working there in 2023. She's, I'm doing all students stuff.

So I'm working with high school kids, middle school kids, and then also doing worship there as well. And then Abby's doing all the adult ministries and stuff like that. Well, that fits. You work with the kids. She works with adults. Yeah. That tracks.

It tracks. Well, you're on a praise team or worship? Yes. Yeah. So I'm doing worship. Not as much. now because we're going back and forth a lot. But on a Sunday, I'm usually on stage leading worship or on Wednesdays as well.

Yeah, there you go. Look at Bob, man. All grown up Bob. Because I've heard him talk about your voice and I can't wait to hear it. Yeah. He's talking right now. Well, I don't know. Anytime I'm talking about my singing voice.

I'm talking about his singing voice. It's not bad. He was clearly adopted. I can make that joke. Yeah. We all see. in fact was adopted. There's no rumor about any thing.

That was a rumor for a long time. What was the rumor? Well, it was very short-lived. I was... I can understand that with his 12 years. Do you want to start a new one, though? Yeah, I know. We could right here.

This is the place to do it. Oh, boy. It was short-lived. It was very, it was dismissed. Pretty quick. What was the rumor, though, that, I don't need to go down that road. I was just wondering who stepped out on who really. But it was, it was, it was the theory, because we, because dad and I, like, favor

each other a lot, even though we're not biologically related at all. Which has there been a study done on that? Because you ever notice, like, kids that are adopted end up favoring their, their adoptive parents anywhere? Like, you take on their facial expressions and, like. Oh, yeah. No, I mean, I picked up all of dad's mannerism. Yeah.

It's just like. Well, now you're working. with kids just you're you following his path no way it's it you graduated college a lot quicker no I did not graduate college actually oh never mind okay I was Billy Robertson I was I was I was at liberty for probably a couple days I was there for only three semesters so oh well you beat side there we go you studied long or not good there we go yeah okay yeah what happened in Baptist run you out of Virginia uh wherever that is yeah no I just college one I just I just I I sucked at it.

Yeah. It was bad. Hey, that's learning half the battle. Hey, it's okay. I went for, I went for music. I went for, um, music recording and engineering and stuff. Okay. But I just, I quickly realized that the engineering and recording and stuff comes way after, um, doing all of the music theory and all that other stuff.

And so I quickly, they always put them hurdles in front of the phone stuff. I was just fix, say, it was too slow. Yeah, it was too slow for me. Yeah. That's what happened to me in nursing. school. Nursing 200. They said, everyone sit down. This is specifically a class to see if you still have the guts to go through with this.

And I was like, you know what? You got me. Yeah, I'm out. Let me go hang out with the finance nerds. Yeah, there we go. That class was scary. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up.

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Okay. Hey, you better go to class and you better start studying. And I said, why? This is a one time thing. I'm not going to be back next year. I ain't coming back. I ain't coming back because like my brother's, wife, she work in the registry's office.

Right. Yo, so look, I ain't been a play. I'm okay. No, no, no, no. I ain't been to class. You know, I may have made, you know, class three or four times, but otherwise I didn't go. And this, it's, uh, the week of, you know, the test. Finals, yo. Oh, he talked about.

So a buddy of mine come up today, look, he said, I know you ain't coming back, but I need help. He said, you know all the girls. Borrow their notes and we'll study, y'all. You got to help me pass. So we did this, okay, and look, we literally got just sugar drunk. Because we drank, like, three cases of Pepsi and Diet Coke and all this junk. You know, for, hey, look, we stayed up studying 54 hours. Straight.

No, no, no, straight. And I'm serious, if we drank. How many? No, no, I'm serious. Look. Hey, I'm serious. I drank at least three cases of like Sprite, seven up, or Coca-Cola. Oh, my Lord. It's the week of finals. I took all my tests. And on the last one, I was asleep. You know, I finally just exhausted. I fell asleep. Well, the professor woke me up. And he said, hey, look, you ain't got up 15 minutes.

You got a 100-question test. The entire test. You know, to answer. And he said, you ain't even started. I grabbed the pencil. wait a little bit and I said well it's a good thing it's a multiple choice A C D Y'all so that took me about three minutes to fill it out Signed it and the professor was watching me so I ended to him you know don't worry about my brothers Matter of fact I had three brothers in college with her almost there too Yeah

And they was always getting home to me oh you're never gonna make it in college you just you're not smart enough You're too stupid you know so Nancy tells you this, I said, hold it, hold it, time out, time out. And she said, what? I said, would you do me a favor tonight? And she said, well, that depends on what it is. I said, will you tell them three hardheaded ignorant ramesses that I call brothers that it's not because I can't do it? I just decided, hey, it's not worth my time.

There you go. Wow. Y'all, so she did. And then they started on again. I said, hey, you know what y'all can do? I said, don't make me so mad that I'm going to get up, stand up, pull my pants down, pull my underwear down, and tell y'all to kiss for the sun don't shine.

I don't know where that was going. So you don't hold any grudges towards college. It's good to hear. My story is a little bit different than that. Well, no, no, I made the choice. Right. It was too slow, and plus it was the third thing. I was too immature to go to college.

There we go. That's it. There we go. That's the three. Okay, I was too immature. They was way too slow. Everything's backward, okay? I wish we could find a hundred question test and just have sigh fill out the answers just like that and just see what we come up with.

No, no, no, because here's the thing. Here's the thing on A. Here's the thing that I know that's true. C is always a good answer on a multiple choice. Hey, that's what I did on a lot of my ACTs. I'm serious. I would always go by. In science, in science, it was the worst.

I just went C, C, C, C. I would go by and I'd keep it where I wouldn't go to or four away from C. I wouldn't go far away from C. How far you go? Every once in a way to A. No, no, no. Nope. Hey, I'll tell you, I've tried to stay with B and C and D.

And I just back and forth and with them. And, hey, C's always a good answer. You know what I was always a sucker for on them test? All of the above or none of the above? Well, I was a sucker for me. I love those. Yeah, I'd be like, yeah, I don't sound right. No, because none of them.

That was why I looked at that and I said, no, that ain't that, no. Because usually if there is the option for all of the above or none of the above, it's probably going to be all of the above. I feel like we're giving the worst advice to children everywhere this episode. Oh, I'm not saying it worked. My GPA is pretty solid, though. No, no, because here's the thing we're giving us good advice. But my, I wouldn't know blind guess.

Hey, here's the thing. College is not for everybody. That's true. And look, here's the thing. You can learn a trade like welding, carpentry, stuff like that, and make a wonderful living at it. And most of time work for yourself, too. Yeah, yeah.

Absolutely. If you feel like, you know, you've had enough of it, well, hey, quit. Yeah. Because, hey, you can get it. If you're a welder and a good one, hey, you can get on any pipeline, baby. I'm telling you. Well, now you can.

And they pay good money. Yeah. So college is not forever. I love a good sign. Amen. Yeah. So, yeah, I was, I didn't get a cold for a while. My hat's off to those that can endure it because that's really all college is.

It's an endurance step. Uh-huh. How much of this bull can you take? Sometimes you don't take it and you end up being there for six years. Hey. Well, I know I've got a buddy that's a professional. Look at that guy. No, no.

A buddy of mine was a professional student. Matter of fact, I've been. I think he's still at school. I ain't going back. He's like 50 years old. I ain't no way you got a buddy still in school. No, no. Oh, yeah, he's 50 years old.

Fitty? Yeah, he just stayed in school. Wow. Hey, I think he's got like 7 degrees. He just gets them and then, I'm serious. He just gets them and then he said, well, he goes out and tries to work in one of the things he studied for. Well, it don't take him about a couple months.

He's sick of that and he'd go back to school. Bobby, you ever going to go back? I don't know. I don't know. As the person who spent the most time in school probably here, ain't no way I'm going back. Oh, hey, I tried it. I tried it my whole military career.

To go back? Yeah, to go back to school. I would take courses and up and tape. I don't know if I was. It still didn't hold my interest. And I knew I needed it to get promoted. Oh, military school. Yeah.

Yeah. I wouldn't fit in there either. No, no. It just, it don't do it. That first college I went to when I got in trouble for wearing shorts to classes that I ain't going to make your game. Oh, dude. Oh, it was, yeah. All right.

They didn't allow shorts of liberty either. What? No. What's up with Christians in shorts? Oh, I've raised it all kind of, you know what. That's freedom. It's simple. I have nothing against liberty.

Oh, no. Y'all, I'm fixing. I do. If they don't want you there shorts to class. I ain't wearing Daisy Dukes for crying out loud. I'm not your brother-in-law. ULM just asked you to pour your beer out. Hey, don't get all the days you do.

Anyways, like, I just wear regular shorts. Hey, by the way, go look at guys in 2007 and 8. We wore shorts that touched our socks. We had the biggest shorts on earth. You just wore basketball shorts every day. Giant short. Like, it was like, oh, man, do those go six inches past your knee? And we were like, yeah, and this is cool as crap.

They're like, can't wear that to class. You know that jean shorts are coming back. I'm against the... But not like the ones that are like squeezing your thighs. It's the ones that are like super baggy. Oh, no. Hey, there you've gone to a deal. Oh, hey, the...

I don't even know what you call it, the trend of the day. Uh-huh. Okay, there's, there's, hey, one-legged pants are in. That is not a thing. That's false. Hey, it is. One-legged. Hey, one-legged blue jeans.

What? You know what they come? Yeah, a skirt. $400. Where do you see? Where are you getting? Hold on. You don't even have a phone.

Hold on. This has been on television. It's got a good-looking young woman. Where did you see it? Oh, wait. Blue jeans on with one leg. That's called a skirt. It isn't a skirt.

It's a blue jeans with one leg. These are the shorts I wore. That's what I was rocking to class. And everybody was like, that's cool. That's what we were all wearing. Now I know what you're. I don't know if we want to look at one-legged blue jeans. One-legged blue jeans.

I'm getting it. Guys, he's not lying. It's been in the news. No, 100%. The first thing that comes up, pull them up. Are $440

Copernie one-legged trowler. You're joking. No, that is the thing of the day for young ladies. No, it's not. Yes, it is. Babe, would you ever wear a, These one-legged Caperney. We're getting nose from Abby.

Well, these jeans, why are they $200? It's the material. Those are four, four. No, they're blue jeans, son. This ain't for American. Nobody in America calls them a trouser. It does say English, but it is in U.S. dollars. Well, yeah, because everybody still wants our money.

This does look like a real British thing to do. I was thinking more than you. You know what we're a pen. If they put, if they would put ice in their drink, They wouldn't have this problem. If anyone not hear that? I can't like that. That is so true.

What do he say? I said, that's a real British thing to do. And he's going, I was kind of thinking more European. Well. Wait, is that a pee joke or just a... No, I don't think he knows that Great Britain's in Europe. European. Right.

Oh, yeah. Okay, yeah. Now, you're talking about like Spain and France. He went through an American Baptist college. They didn't worry about Europe. That's that. Those pants are not acceptable at Liberty or Harding. Well, they're half accepted.

Yeah. What's the rule there, Harding? Yeah. Could I've wore those to school? I'll never forget. I was like, that was the moment I was done. I don't know where we're at now. I do.

I hope what I said. I found some on sheen for 1895. What are you watching to see a thing about one-legged britches? Look, it's just show it comes on TV when I watch it. That is a different TV. And why is this girl only wearing a bra with one-legged pants? put a shirt on lady. All about freedom, JD.

Do you wear a shirt with one sleeve on the other arm to match that way it's like... That would be so cool. It's French. Hey. It's French. Hey. Boom. No, it's a combo, baby.

It's a combo. Shirt, shirt, shirt. It's like West. It's out there by itself. It's out there by itself. It's Western Europe. And the words of Ted Lassow, how many countries are in this country? Same as many cities as in what's it?

Fort Worth. Yeah. Yeah, they only say DFW, but you go over and there's 19 cities over. Oh, yeah. I'm a fan of Arlington. And the crazy thing is, he said he's 40 minutes north of Dallas. That ain't but three miles. That's so, no, that's true. Like, that place is a... What else have you seen in the news lately? Nightmare. You've informed us of one-legged pants. And we're not sure we'll have to get a ruling from Liberty of Harding. It always amazed me to see a young lady. You know, and she's got Blue jeans, okay. Uh-oh. With holes in them.

With holes in them. Uh-oh. Okay. I had that, too, when I was growing up. Hey, I wore the holes in my blue jeans by hauling hay in the summertime. Mm-hmm. Well, Mama would take the ones that was so bad, cut the pants leg off, and put like a knee pad over that holes I had. Oh.

She would double up. That way, hey, you know. And look, they paid $250 for the blue jeans with holes in. it. Yeah. Well, even better. You can pay $440 for half a pair of them. And now I understand why Jacob, Bella's Jacob, he buys junk like that and then

makes her killing and sells it, resells it. It's because it's trending. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I don't know if you buy it. We're not We need to get in on that one leg of Jake. I think you should. You're wearing jeans. Can I cut the leg off that other one? Uh, no. Oh, hey, look. Your wife

said absolutely not. If you're, these jeans are actually pretty expensive. the right leg you need to have a shirt matching it with the left sleeve yeah there we're going in the name of the crisscross is going and hey and it's a combo make you jump jump well that is six hundred dollars oh we're about the uncle the uncle size special get the combo with half of a hat make it a thousand all that's it hey and only one shoe then hey then if you go with his shoes oh it's $1,500 baby I feel like we're on to something. We just got to get real big in France for this to work.

Yeah. Well, Duck Dynasty's coming, baby. We can start on the France, if you will, by the time you get to France, right? Like, oh, shoot. I'm going to say it, man. French people are weird. But that is one of the reasons we're able to have Bobby Y'all is because we are back filming Duck Dynasty. So now he's got a reason to come back and see us. The Bobby, he get over in Dallas. He ain't coming home.

I noticed that. He said they got six flags. Actually, I've been there for almost three years, and I have not been to six flags yet. Well, good for you. I was like two weekends ago. Why didn't you come see it? That means that Willie and Corey did their job.

Okay, because they raised this man to be independent. Okay. Reach on. That's good. What do you want to say about the rest of their kids at living their yard? Well, look, Hey, well, hold on. Nah, God, uncomfortable.

Abby over laughing at that one. We don't got Abby over here. She's laughing uncomfortably hard at that. If you're one of Hillary's sons or daughters or daughters-in-law, Abby's laughing at you right now. Oh, no. Oh, no. That just means Abby is smart, okay?

She married a real man. Abby's the smartest one all of them. Well, they've all done it, well, not Bella and Jacob. Bell and Jacob haven't left yet. But they still across the street because we're from Baltimore. Sadie did it. She moved to Nashville. John Luke did it. He moved to Liberty. And right after he and Mary Kate

got married and then, you know, Christian just hopped in. But that was after. Well, actually, no, Sadie hadn't even moved back yet. She moved to Auburn with him and then they moved back. So what you're saying is the tractor beam is strong and you're just counting down the days.

No, I don't know. They still got a little piece over there between, you know, John Davis' dad's house. Oh, they got room. That piece is expensive. Well, we have a little piece. Oh, they got room to build their house. We have a spot for if we decide to build over there, and that's going to be right

beside Sadie and Christian. Oh, yeah. I think you should move a double idea. Just see what they did. No. You and Al? You can tie it into house. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. The trailer park on the front side of the street. We'll actually connect it all. Get you a side pad? Yeah. I'm sorry. Modular home. Modular.

Pre-manufactured. trailer. No, I don't know if, I mean, right now we're, we're cool in Michigan. We're cool. That's good, though. I mean, home will always be home to us. We love coming back and with filming and everything. The traveling is a little hard, but I think, I don't think that's going to be.

Yeah, that drive just long enough to be annoying. I mean, it's, it's, it's easy. It's so easy. Well, listen, we have, we're five minutes away from a buckies. Oh, yeah, they're in McKinney. Yeah, there's one right there's one right. There's one right as you go into Melissa. Yeah.

There you go. But yeah. I only know up the one. But there's that one in Terrell. But then you got one in Lewisville. You got one right there. Well, we're about to get one in Rustin next year. Allegedly.

They're dragging it. A lot of big ground. I don't think they broke ground though. They did. Did they? Yeah, I think it's official now. Well, good. It broke ground.

Then they're going to let that ground sit for a little bit, maybe another year. Yeah. How do you know so much about the Buckees of Rusty? Because I live in Texas. Hey. This is valid point. Texas is in the deal. Yeah.

Well, my daughter, my daughter lives there. So, hey, Texas. That's right. Tray, yeah. Texas is a good state. It's a big state. Oh, yeah. It's great.

If it all goes to pot, I'm going west. I'm going to Florida first, Texas second. No. No, I'm going to. I'm a Martin. I'm riding. I'm riding to Texas. Hey, I'm west, baby.

Yeah, heck yeah. No, good to heck. I think everybody will come over. So, like, when you come in for holidays, where do you stay? Who do you stay with? You stay with a sibling now? No, a lot of the time we stay with Abby's parents, my in-laws. It's mostly because we have a dog, she's very little.

And so Abby's parents have two dogs who are the same. They're both shih Tzu's. And so. Well, and you know that anywhere on that property, talking about the Robertson compound is death row for an animal. Don't go there. Also, just because, I mean, that house is way too big for the small dog. and there's too many tundras driving back and forth.

Yeah. Watch out, dogs. Yeah. Oh, you talk about Louis. Hey, whoa, take it easy. Some people don't know that that's what happened. Hey, that's a little, hey, that's still a little raw. That's Louis that guy got?

Louis took a nap in a terrible spot. I don't think it wasn't a nap, was it? Yeah. No shot. Why did he go all the way over to your dad's house? Hey, take it easy. All the way over, it's right there. But the best dog you ever had was dingo, and you know it.

Oh, yeah, she was awesome. Yeah. Dingo was the greatest dog. That's the greatest straight ever. We had Dingo and then Biscuit tagged along the right with her. Them dogs came from the streets. Oh, they got to have a sidekick. They were able to survive.

Oh, little dog. Well, I mean, I always think of Louie as the king. Louis was a king. What was the one before Louis? Dingo. Max. Maxie. Maxie.

Yeah, Maxie got got by Corey. That was a trophy. I got that call in the Waffle. It was in kind of the same. Wade. They both went out. You start sleeping by tires. That's a problem.

Dude. Especially if you're small. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think we're out of the mini chihuahua business over there. The mini long hair chihuahuas. That one didn't have a good shelf life there.

Well, I had Dublin. Yeah. Dublin was great. He was going to stop the car. That fat sucker. Dude, he would have. You don't want to run over Dublin. That's going to total your real.

Maybe. You never met Dublin. What? He was a Basset Hound. He was slightly overweight. He was the ones that go, roo. 14 years old. I thought about him the other day.

Look down where he's buried and I said, I bet he's not really there anymore by now. Yeah. He part Basset Hound and part Edwards-Hissor hand. He had some big old nail. That dog got the longest nails. He was a digger. Oh, man. Bobby, if we want to, do we...

What do we got for Bobby? I'm just trying to think if we want to do the quick version. but people that listen to us may not know the full adopted Bobby. Oh, man. You know, I'm just saying like the quick version of it. Oh, yeah. Because there's some people that are new, they're, well, there's some people that literally.

They're brand new because of the Duck Dynasty fast channels and like they're finding all the stuff that we do now. So some people may not know your full deal and like just how close in age you and Bella actually are. Oh, yeah. The timing of the timing of God that worked there and all the things. So if you want to, maybe want to, like, obviously adopted. You made the joke earlier.

We can't. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The literal black sheep of the family. Yeah, he said literal. Yeah, we could have went with figurative, but he can drop literal. Indeed. But now, yeah, if you want to tell our listeners that, knock yourself out, man.

We'd love to let you share that. Absolutely. Yeah, so in November of 2001, I was born. Yeah, so I was adopted. at five weeks, just, yeah, literally over a month after I was born in Baton Rouge. My birth mom had me at 19, and she wasn't able to take care of me. So adoption was the best route. And then my parents, Willie and Corey, they adopted me a little over a month after that. And pretty much that was like history, like up until like middle teen years when I started

getting curious about my biological family. So now you have a relationship with your bio. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I got to meet my biolmother, Emily. She's awesome. I got to meet her in 2015. Actually, it was because of my brother, my brother, whose name is also Will.

He is a Marine right now. But the craziest story about all of that, how I got to be connected with my bio family. Will and I grew up together being best friends without actually knowing we were brothers. Wow. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah, super cool. So we grew up going to Chioca together.

Okay. And literally we were six, seven years old. He's a year and a half younger than me. So I was adopted. And then a year and a half after that, my mother had my brother and she didn't get to name me, Will. So she named him Will. So I would have been Will regardless, which is pretty cool. You were destined to be Will.

Yeah. But yeah, we grew up best friends. And he literally same skin tone, same hair, same everything. He's just a little bit shorter than me. So I called him my mini-me. And yeah, we were best friends. And then whenever we got to like middle school, we stopped hanging out for a bit. And I was like, hey, you know, I missed my friend.

and then it was, I would say it's actually, it's a few years before that. It was, I had, my birthday was coming up and my mom was Corey. She was handing out, you know, invitations and stuff inviting people to my birthday party. And my grandfather, Papa, my bio-grandpa, he was like, oh, when's your will's birthday and all that? And she was like, oh, it's November 8th and all that. And then it, like, immediately clicked in his head because he didn't even realize. that I was his grandson at that point. And then, yeah.

Yeah. No, dude, it's like the craziest thing. And so around that point, they were all getting curious as well. And so they put things together and then years following after that. That's way cooler than a 23ME connection. So nowadays, y'all've got a good relationship. Absolutely. Yes.

Yeah. So we got to meet. And instantly it was, it was. it was amazing. And so now, yeah, we have the best relationship. I call her Ma, like, M.A. So I have my mom, and I have my mom. So Ma and I, we, you know, greatest relationship. It's great. And your grandfather? Yeah. And Papa, too. The connection between myself and my brother just got instantly stronger, just knowing that we were brothers. And it was pretty cool. So now fast forward. And he's now a Marine.

He is in North Carolina and he is married and he has a little one on the way as well. So it's pretty cool. Look at there. The next time you see him, tell him we appreciate him. Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah.

Yeah. He come back home. We put both y'all in here. Yeah. That would be really cool. And guess the one. Yeah. That's true.

Yeah. Yeah, just come in and don't say nothing. We favor each other a while. Yeah. Will and will. Yeah. Which one? Y'all pick which one.

Y'all pick the one. Babe, did I miss it? anything. She said you nailed it. Okay, great. She said nailed it. Well, yeah, it's just, it's so cool. I mean, just that story and how, you know, God provided in every way.

Just, you know. So you're my, ma, ma, was she living in Baton Rouge at the time? No. So she, it's weird. So she had me in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Okay. And then I immediately. I knew you weren't from here.

I know. Frickin Mississippi. I was, I was immediately moved. to Baton Rouge to a foster home where I was for a month. Okay. And then I mean, so she was just straight down 20. Yeah,

I was just wondering like if the Baton Rouge did and then she ends up back at Westman. I know. That's just a lot. Now, Vicksburg is a lot more believable because it's just right at 20. But I mean, it's just it's the coolest thing that all my family is still here. Yeah.

Yeah. It's neat, man. I mean, that's when you just use those three words, man. look at God. Yeah. Unbelievable. For real.

That just goes to show you how little, how small the world really is. Absolutely. Oh yeah. You could have been anywhere. Yeah. I know. It's like you say, it's crazy. Yeah.

And his mom went to South Louisiana, Corey, when she was in high school and found me and her cousin who was put up for adoption. Yeah. And so adoption is just wild. Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy how similar mine and Heath's story is. Who's me and Corey's cousin.

was put up for adoption. And then he comes back and me and him have been best friends ever since at 18. And then, like, his adopted mom ended up taking care of his biological mom's mom. Whoa. I hope you kept up with that. But, like, she was her caretaker in the end of her life. And so it's just, and then Will's got this. Yeah.

Yeah. I know it's. Man, three words. It's cool. And so mom and ma, they got together. How, was it two years ago? I think. They, they did it on Sadie's podcast.

Oh, yeah. And they, they talked through all of that. That was the first time. That was the first time I met her because she came walking through. And Corey stopped and introduced her as your biological mother. And I was like, whoa. Wow.

Okay, cool. Yeah. So they go, you know, they go pretty in depth through the whole story. So if I missed anything, you can go check out. Go check that one out. He was a kid, y'all. He didn't remember all. And females are known to be a little.

more detail more detail. It is. And it's actually cool now. So, um, uh,

Ma and my aunt Becky, um, her sister, they own cake, that bakery in downtown Weston Row in antique alley. They make them cookies.

Real good. To make the cookies. So for all the people wondering, what should I do when I come to Westman row? Go to cake. Go to cake and get you a cookie. So like all the, you know,

I mean, I, not a cookie cake, but if it's a regular cake and it's all fancy and whatnot, it's probably from cake. That's usually who does all of our cakes. Man, look at that.

Yeah, it's pretty amazing. What do you think of your brother-in-law's? Why are you laughing? Because you know I've asked them all this. This is my favorite question to ask them. Cake him has been on, so we just ask him. It's been on, we've asked him. I love all my brother-in-laws.

I think each of them individually are great. I don't like playing pickleball with them. Me neither. Unless I'm on there. team. They're very aggressive. No, dude, I think, yeah, all of them are great. I think it can get chaotic sometimes whenever everybody's together.

So some of those times, it's, I mean, it's difficult to, like, spend time with everybody because they're either with their spouse or if they have kids, they're with their kids. So, like, whenever we get to spend some, like, you know, one-on-one time, it's great. Yeah. Do you have a favorite one? I do not. Yeah, we got a few minutes. Let's dive into that.

What? Young married life. It's great. It's amazing. No problems whatsoever. I love my wife and married life has been the best. Almost two years in? Almost two years.

I mean, not that long. It feels like it's been a while, not in a bad sense, but it's just been, it's been fun. It has been really fun. See, I've been married. I'll be 10 this year and I felt her eyes whenever you said that. And then I looked over there to confirm that she had them eyes at you. So I just. No, no.

I was not. But you know, proceed with caution, presentations, everything. The delivery might have been. wrong. I'm sorry. Marriage is awesome. Marriages are great. I mean, it's been two years, but it feels like forever. Oh, I mean. No, it's great. I really enjoy it.

Marriage is fun, man. That's a lot of work. Like, you don't have to sugarcoat that. We all know it. No, man. You know, I always say it's proof God's got a sense of humor. So he takes two critters that couldn't be any more opposite one another, a male and a female. Oh, my goodness. And so here, y'all need each other. So we know that Bella and Jacob have an issue with fans.

We are very in sync with a fan situation. Pro fan. We, pro fan. You like to ice out of that room. There we go. Okay, pro fan. I like that. All right.

So what's the thing, though? Uh-oh. Oh, man. What's the thing? My thing sucks. Allison hates all my socks. Or just everywhere, apparently. And I've been told I'm extremely messy, which that checks out.

10 out of time so man um what's there's so many things there's so many there's so many uh oh there's no i mean it's funny there's there's a lot of things i don't do right sometimes what's the one oh i don't you know the one i just i need to ask her well she okay here's the thing i she she's got a million things going in her head like all the time which is which is a very good thing

because she's thinking about everything for me apparently it's a little bit challenging so Bobby said I'm a little simpler. I'm a very, I'm a simple, I'm a simple kind of man. Oh, yeah. They should write a song about that. They've already had.

We can go ahead. We can go revisit the England, Europe debacle. But I'd say, that's about it. No, but that's male and female, man. Absolutely. No, no, no, no, no, no. That's what the fun comes in, though. I'm saying men.

You get to learn. It's the differences and then you've got to deal with. Got to adapt. and you've got to learn. What I was getting that idea is men have the ability to compartmentalize things a lot easier than women do. Yeah. Like, and that's not a flaw in either of our size.

No, no. Just that's biological. Like, men have a way to put stuff in little boxes and not even consider them. Right. While the women kind of put it all together in one huge puzzle, we've taken put the pieces back over here in the corner. Yeah, don't worry about them corner pieces. We'll get them later.

The woman is smarter than the man. Okay. I'm not going to disagree. I am. Huh? I am. What, you're disagreeing? You just said it.

That's what I said. I'm not going to disagree with it. Okay. The woman is smarter than a man and she can departmentalize all this stuff. Where, hey, it takes us a little, a longer time. Well, that's because we forget where we put it. Well, that's it. No, no, no.

I completely agree. I don't need to know. where I put it. I got home last night and I was like, let's talk about all that. And I was like, or it's Survivor Night and we could go to bed. Yeah. Or we can't have a couple pieces of pizza. We can watch what it. We've been

on Love on the Spectrum because the new season's out. What a... Wow. We haven't watched that. We've been watching it. We've been watching every other show under the sun. Love on the Spectrum, US is one of my favorite TV shows. It's fantastic. History of Man. Yeah, that's good. It's good. It's good.

It's quality. We just started New Girl again. New Girl is a good show. We're watching Survivor, American Idol. No spoilers. I had to talk about my feelings last night. I couldn't talk about Survivor. Well, hey, no, here's the thing.

Whenever we have like a, not like a deep conversation, but a very, I don't, I don't even know how I would say it. Yeah, that's fun. It's serious. A serious conversation. That's how a man would say. I tend to check out. Yeah, quickly. Normal.

Quickly. Yeah, I'm with you. It's because I can't, but... You know what the problem is? Yeah, I know, I'm about to... Women have never played call of duty. And they don't realize how much that would fix most of their problems.

You can't, you don't realize the amount of stress is taken out of your life whenever you put a RPG on a four-wheeler of some kid in South Carolina, and you just immediately feel better about whatever problems you had that day. And women don't understand that. Listen here,

So the reason why I said that about the conversation thing. So we in November, we went and got our brain scanned in California. You know who Dr. You know Dr. Aiman? The doc A man. Doc A man. He's the brain specialist. And we went and did our whole brain scan did the whole shebang. For Abby's, she's, lights were all on.

Lights are all on. For me, lights are on. They just flicker. Lights are on. Listen. Okay. It's crazy. tornadoes happening up there.

Yes. Listen, this is crazy. So if I'm just chilling out, my brain activity is normal. If I am in like a really focused state, just lights are off, which is weird.

Like, it's the, it's very uncommon for something like that to happen. So that's why I sucked so bad in school. It's because, like, it's because it's, you need to take that and show it to your old teacher.

I, that's exactly what I, said and be like y'all were being too hard on me look at what y'all did to me y'all shut me off yeah y'all shut me up no it's it literally is the harder i try the worse i do and so i've got yeah art isn't that crazy yeah i feel like if they scare my brain it would look like one of them houses with the techno christmas music playing and the lights just going everywhere and berserk all the time and it would so so within that conversation space i'm i sometimes i try and get her to see the way I'm thinking and she'll start feeling bad.

But it's okay. You're cute. Well, don't tell all your tricks here. I know. I'd be scared to go see that guy. We have to get you all. And have my brain scans? I need to scan your kidney.

And they bring that scanner here? Well, hey, that's actually frightening. It's useful ammunition for the rest of the family because they've all done it too. So who is your brain most like? Did they say that? Jacob May of? Yes

That checks out That tracks I would say that But it was like a night and day difference Because they gave you these supplements To like help your brain activity Oh yeah Britney on them

Yeah Yeah The brain MD It was yes Brain MD So it was night and day Like even like in church too Because like we're

Sometimes I space out And I forget what he's talking about What you had When they said they wasn't nothing there Uh-huh. No, you would just have them out-of-a-body experience. Yeah. You were somewhere else.

I was. I do that all the time. See, I'm a sock. I'm serious. I do that all the time. I go places. Where you, where's the last place you, man? Right, that I couldn't tell you.

But I'm not there. For dance. Look, hey, here's the thing about, I know, I know you can do that because I was in the military. And, hey, look, there's a guy. sitting on the top bed like bunk beds okay he's on the top he's in a yoga position okay he's got his legs folded his arms folded yeah and and we're all talking about him we ain't ever sat like that no no we're all talking about him everybody in the barracks just talking about him and the guy one of the guys said uh hey he's not there and i said oh i don't believe that bunk you know he ain't there you know and the guy

I said, well, he just looked at me. Has anybody got a sewing kit? And I said, you're going to stick him? I said, hey, he's probably going to jump up, you know, kick your butt. Y'all, he said, no, he's not there. I'm telling you, he's not mentally there. He's gone. His body is the only thing's there.

So this kid, he's got the needle, and you would think, well, okay, he just let it slide in his hand, didn't stick him. Now, he popped him, okay, and I mean, he popped him. As soon as he pulled it out, blood started coming out. Look, you can't fake this. Okay, that kid never moved. He's still just like this with his eyes closed. And we sit there and watch that blood just start dripping. And I said, well, I just learned something.

He ain't there? Yeah, that's real. Yeah, he ain't there. He ain't there. He's somewhere else. He's somewhere else. He literally left his body, minutes. Finally. J.D., you want to send us out of here? You got some verse.

Yes, I do. Romans 815, the spirit you received does not make you slaves so that you live in fear. Again, rather the spirit you received brought you about your adoption to sonship, and by him we cry, Abba, Father. You've all been adopted by the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who paid for everything you've done here on this earth, on the cross, and then he came back up three days later so that we have a father in heaven who loves us and would do it. anything for us, all you got to do is accept it. Come on. And there's going to be a reunion story even cooler than Bobby's one day. Come on. Bobby, thank you.

That was fun. Thank you for coming, Bob. Hey, you're welcome. Have you back. Look, hey, you heard it from the man. You're welcome in that chair. Perfect. Especially if your brother comes.

I'll be great. You're both welcome. Okay. Do your other brother. We know the rest of us. We don't want them. All right. We'll see y'all next time right here in the duck call room.

We're out.