Duck Call Room - Uncle Si's Rules for Love and Romance

Episode Date: July 29, 2021

Si spills the beans about what he did to put the fear into his daughter's boyfriend. Godwin's wife, Paula, joins the boys to talk about hunting, dating, love, and marriage in the extended Duck Commander family. Paula tells her side of the story about how she met Godwin, what they did on their first date, and how Jay Stone REALLY met his wife. Si and Stone talk about their weekend fishing trip where they struck out at Lake Fork but found success at Lake Spoon. And everyone weighs in on the weirdest foods they've ever eaten. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to the dog. Welcome back. So if you all had noticed already, this is a little bit different crew than what we're used to. Yeah, we're down to a skeleton crew. We are down to a skeleton crew. Where did they go anyway? They must be together wherever they're at. And look, they've got the World Series baseball going on somewhere around this city.

West Monroe, wherever is that. Yeah, I've seen them at the church building yesterday. Okay, well, hey, about 40 of them showed up. at my house. John gave them your address. Well, no, no. No, no. About 20 coming in the first time, y'all,

and then I was sitting there talking to them, you know, entertaining them. And about every five minutes, here come on another crew, and I said, what did y'all do bus in here? I said, it could grief the house is getting full. We're going to run out of room. Good thing.

You've been vaccinated. Oh, yeah. Well, look, in Martin's Place today, we have Miss Paula Goward Gowman. Way, pretty much. Oh, Gowin's woman is here, boys. So I'm personally excited about this. Welcome, darling.

Thank you. You make the room shine a little bit better, okay? I'm feeling at home. Yeah, okay. Did you pay him? Yeah. Well, hey, look, she does make the room. I guarantee you.

Her smile lights the room up. Okay. Hey, look, I'm tired of looking all you old bearded fellas, okay? You know, now we've got a fine little woman here. Hey, good deal. Good grief. I rang a bell on that, boys. Nice change of pace, that's that.

Oh, good grief. Yeah, instead of looking at big head, I'm looking at a good look of a woman. We are out of our element without at least one of them. That's right. Those two boys have what I like to call the gift of gab. If you've ever watched that movie, Old Brother, Where Art thou? they talk about that old fellow having the gift of gab. And for those of you who are wondering what the gift of gab is,

that's the ability to shoot off at the mouth. In a moment's notice. In a moment's notice with an unlimited amount of time. He don't run out of vocabularity. $5 for talking in that can. I call Martin Sir Talks a lot. So he talks a lot. Oh, he doesn't.

Well, there's a good one boy. But they are both. of them are really good at it. I mean, you need some, when you're doing something like this, you need somebody like that. So I'm going to be out of my element. I've been, I've been told I'm taking over that role today. So I, you know, all you, are you, uh, I got a few haters out there. Where's your computer? Huh? I don't have a computer. No. I don't have a computer. How you go? We're going to kind of be in the, I don't know. Since JD's gone, we're going to kind be in the dark now i don't i don't have a computer i don't do social media i don't do any of that so i'm

anti he's that well i would just say he's anti social but he's yeah yeah but hey look you ain't missing nothing when you get talking about social media yeah okay now you got one hey so i say your social media has about five million followers so you know okay well then there is there is some good there is some good social media out there That's it. Oh, okay. Yeah, because I was down on social media. Yeah.

Well, you're out now. Okay, so I got some, so it's okay. All right. I understand now. What did you do this weekend, Tye. Well, me and Jay Stone, we headed west. They always tell you, go west, young man. Go west.

Follow your dreams. Well, we wasn't following our dreams, okay. We had been invited to go to Lake Forks. Oh. Okay. Or Lake Forks. Well, whatever. Either one.

I don't know why they want to just say forked lake. Yeah. Okay, instead of lake fork. I don't like it. But anyway, we went bad fishing there and, hey, y'all, it's a gar-hole. No. No, I'm joking. We fished, okay, and I think, what, you got a bump?

Yeah. One bite? I got one bite. I never did get a bite. I never did get a bite. Okay. I fish, you know, but, hey, then we went the next morning early right at daylight. at Spoon Lake.

Okay. Lake Spoon. Yeah. Lake Spoon. Okay. They do it backwards. Anyway, you know, Lake Spoon and then we called about, oh, Miss Stone called about 12.

Okay. We had about five in there that went from anywhere from three and a half to Stone had one that was close to five. Yeah. Okay. So it was a good one. So the spoon won out over the fork. Yeah. Well, if you'd have went to Lake Canife.

Uh-oh. You would have toramom. Well, I don't know where Lake Canife is. That's not all we did, Sigh. Oh, yeah. We went to Arctawtex, I think, is the name of the store. Oh, that's old evil-ized gun store. Yeah, yeah.

We went to the store to get our optics put on our new 308-8-10. Oh, yeah. A-10. Fine, shooting, red. Yeah, okay. And I tuned it in. You know, they actually, we showed and filmed it, okay, to help the people out there that you need to go to a gunsmiths when you buy a new rifle and scope, have them mounted correctly. Unless you know what you're doing.

And side it in. And side it in. And shoot it for you. Yeah. And then go side it in for you. Yeah. So we did, we have a deal on our YouTube called Tune Up Tuesdays. So we found a little, little how to video.

so I learned how to mount his optic and bore sight it and sighted it in. Because look, I just used to buy one, buy a rifle, buy a scope. You know, eyeball, eyeball it, put it the rings on it, and I'm like, yeah, I think the vertical is vertical and the horizontal is horizontal. Yeah, and then. That's close enough. Close enough. Yeah.

You always eat good, didn't you? Well, yeah. Yeah. But anyway, there was a lot of fun watching. I didn't know it was that complicated. Okay. I mean, hey, look, when they put the rifle in a vice, and got out the levels.

Okay, got out the levels, okay, one on each, the barrel and on the back, okay. You know, got the rings on it, put the rings on it, and then put the scope on the rings, you know, start tightening it down, and they had these levels, level, okay, both of them, and they had this, you know. Then they took in and had this new technology. They had a laser. Yeah, a laser, okay. They had a laser.

I got you one last year, but... Yeah. They stuck that in the end of the barrel, okay, and it's got a red dog on the wall back there. Boar-sided. Okay, then we went out, put the targets up at 25, shot them, okay, had a good, you know, three group, you know, tight groups, okay?

And then we went to 100, yeah. And then you resided in, side it at 25, with a good shot group. Then you go to Thunderjard, and side of them again dial it in dial it in turn that turn to zero that's right where you can actually you know if there's a bug on the back of a deer's back they just shoot the bug off and let the deer go that's it that's right that's right that's it and bugs ain't too filling i got i got a buddy over there who makes rifles is a veteran uh and he made sigh a uh an ar 10 308 and a 308 cal

And it was a fine shooting weapon. But he dialed an emphasize somewhere around Dallas, TX precision, I think is the name of his. Yep. And I actually got on. Weapon. Oh, yeah. There is right there. Well, he talked to me into wearing a t-shirt.

But anyway, he, uh, so, Uncle Sall. Sal Sale. It's a comfortable T-shirt. So Uncle Sine started popping off. You wore that T-shirt yesterday, too, I think. Nope. That was another one. I got two of them.

Okay. He's got two of them. He got seven, one for every day of the week. Hey, the reason I said that, because one day he talked about it before and said, hey, a horse pants, fishing pants for like seven weeks. Oh, yeah. Well, he's done it. Not seven days, seven weeks.

We're big proponents of veteran-owned businesses, so, you know, I try to buy things that are veteran-owned as much as I possibly can because, you know, we don't think our veterans enough. Yeah. And not only that, they make good weapons. Oh, yeah. That's right. They handled them before. Sort of experts on the... Sort of.

Yeah, on guns. Paula, Paula got a weapon last year, her first gun. That was hers. Okay. What caliber? What caliber was? You answer it. Six point five.

Six point five cremower. That's what bullfrogs she used. That's a good one. Yeah. That's a good one. That's a good one. I had hunted, but I've never gun hunted. I bow hunted.

and so it's my first time to gun hunt. She's done it the hard way. Stick in strings. Most people do it the opposite. They go gun hunting, then go hunt. Way more comfortable with a bow. Oh, really? Really.

But my confidence, well, siting it in and doing that where I knew exactly that I was shooting at what I was aiming for, help my confidence. And then, I mean, I got a big one. one. I did the first time I shot it. Well, I tell you what, let's talk about that right after this break. Okay. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means?

That means more outside cooking. And y'all know, we love to eat beef around here. And that's what because of our friends over at Triedells beef makes such a good product, baby. Ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Sao Robertson would say, buy on the grill. Look, before we got Triedells, getting ready for a cookout, man, somebody had to run the grocery. store do all the things, grab whatever was left in case you were late in the day. And you never really know where that beef comes from. But with Tritails beef, we skip the grocery store and do it a different way.

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That's tribeef.com slash. support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. All right, welcome back. We were just getting into Miss Paula's deer hunting adventure. So Paula, you killed, I saw a picture of it. It is a real nice eight point, one of the prettiest eight points I've ever seen. He had huge brow tines. And so what was his name?

Bobby Brown. Bobby Brown. Bobby Browns. You know, Jeff, he comes up with the best names of his deer. I know. I can't think of names that good. Now, if you're a deer and you've got a name, you are on the list. Yes.

Unless you're a prospect. You made a hit parade, in other words. That's it. Well, he had been on the list a couple years, and he just wasn't ever at the right place at the right time for anybody to get him. Well, with the bow. I was bow hunting for him the year before and to where he was at, but and that morning

I was gun hunting and then I was like well I'm just going to shoot a dough because this is my first time gun hunting so you know I'm not comfortable I'm way more comfortable with a bow than I am a gun and I said I'd just soon shoot a dough let's just shoot

a dough and so Jeff said let's go and we went three miles in a different direction north to a different place where there's a lot of does and about 400 yards. I mean, he comes,

his head slinging. I mean, it's like, you know how you, but I think he's never going to get where I can shoot him. You know, and here, I mean, he come, he passed a lot of doze.

He come all the way over. There was a six point down there where the dough was. I was fixing a kill. And I think he'd come over there to get him out of there. Yeah. It was about a hundred.

25 yards, something like that. 140. 140, yeah. That's what I said. And he got down there and, I mean, just, it was like picture perfect. And I was, I mean, you know how it is. I mean, I'm nervous. I got John in the stand, Jeff Smith and his son.

Oh, lame. Oh, my word. So you got a whole audience. Oh, and I mean, they're like, you got a shoot, you got a shot. Hey, don't take it if you ain't got the shot. You sure you? And I would put up. And so finally at one time, I just backed up away from it and said, y'all kill it.

I mean, it was like high pressure, you know. And Lane said, he looked at me real calm. You know, he's been hunting his whole life. And he looked at me and he said, Miss Paula, you feel confident? I said, I do. I mean, I had a good shot. And he said, take a deep breath and take it. That's right.

I got these crazy people back here. He was the sound-called boys in the storm. Your 12-year-old was the voice of reason. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. I did. I mean, it was perfect. It was perfect.

That's awesome. I'll tell you what. You know, it's trending. A lot of women are starting to hunt these days. You know, the COVID, I think, had a lot to do with it. People want to do more things in the outdoors, which is awesome. great yeah you know so uh you know i have three daughters my oldest one didn't really care for it but my middle one you know she loves it her favorite thing to do is go hunting with uncle sigh yeah yeah

that's what she loves to do and go fishing and uh i'd tell them all the time bullfrogs she's a cross between my wife and uncle's i she's in trouble oh man yeah yeah yeah she's a piece of work but she loves hunting and that you know anytime anytime i say little girls or i'm Our kids in the outdoors, it just does my heart good. Well, that is a good thing because there's so many benefits to that. Okay, number one, if they're out in the woods or on a lake hunting or fishing, they're not going to get into trouble. They're not, they don't have this thing in their hands.

No, no. Yeah. And not only that, then when they're doing it with their uncle, okay, because she makes my deer season. Okay, she really does. I had got to the point that I really wasn't even care about going, okay, until Stone said, hey, come on, let's go. Me and you and BK go deer hunting. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, because my sand is like a big hotel. Yeah. So we can sit there and be comfortable and then watch her. Yeah. Okay. Well, I didn't even start hunting until I was 50. I had both, shot both competitions since our little, since Johan.

was six or seven. John and I shot 3D Target bow competitions. But when I turned 50, I was like, I'm, I want to go hunting. Yeah, enough target. Yeah, I said, I'm ready to go kill a deer. And he said, what? Yeah. I said, yeah, let's go.

Well, well, the prices of beef these days, you know, we've got to load up on some venison. Well, no, hey, like you're talking about this year, we're going to have to kill a lot of dogs. So, hey, everybody will have plenty of, you know, venison. All hands on deck. I'm excited. Oh, yeah.

I'm looking forward to hunting, and it'll be here before you know it. We've been shooting already. We've been shooting our bows getting ready. Well, hey, here's a question. How did you and your man there meet? Oh, boy. Well, he dated my roommate, Paula.

There was three of us that lived together in college. Paula, Paula, Paula and Joanne. I was short Paula. She was tall Paula and Joanne. Okay, so you're messing around with two paulas. Yeah. Okay. Boy, that's tricky, but try to write in a letter to them.

Yeah. Yeah. They went out a couple of times and didn't hit it off. And she asked me, we had a deal, you know, like you don't date other guys that ones dated, you know, you were roommate. So we had a deal that you had to talk to the other one. You just couldn't go date somebody else's ex or anything like that. But I was such a fine figure of a man. Yeah.

Well, you're called it FFO. FF O. FF-F-O-A-N. Yeah, that's what Anna and Alex, your wife and her sister, used to call him F-F-O-A-M, a fine figure of a man. Yeah, fine-figure of a man. That's from Johnny Bravo. Johnny Bravo, boy.

Yeah. So, anyway, he asked me out, and I said, well, I got to ask her first, and I did. We went out, and our first date was squirrel hunting. Our honeymoon was him fishing in a bass tournament. So if I didn't know what I was in for, it was my own fault. Yeah, okay. Didn't y'all go to the Darbone Hotel? Yeah, the Lake Lodge.

It was brand new then. On our honeymoon. Oh, it was a finest time. Darbone Lake's the lake about 20 minutes down the road. It is a pretty lake of. He fished a bass tournament the next day, won a check. Oh, you got a check. Yeah.

That's a lot back in them days. That's us. 34 years later. Well, no, no. Because the reason I ask you, it's so cool to me how God has a person for another person. Yeah. That's true.

Okay, and I really believe that with all my heart, that the people that are dating, I don't think I'm ever going to find the right one. Oh, trust me, when I tell you, God's got one already picked out for you. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

All you've got to do is be. you know, smart enough to realize it. That's right. When the opportunity comes along. You'll know it when you say. Oh, yeah. Oh, Jay. How about you?

Oh, well, hey, let's take a quick break. Let's take a quick break. Then we'll move into that. Then we'll go into hill. He's crawfishing. He's crawfishing. Hey, because this is with the Robertson families, so this ought to be good.

This story has taken. Oh, my word. 20 different directions. Yeah, yeah, this ought to be good. We'll tell the true version when we get back. All right. We're going to find out the true version. and right when we get back from break.

Welcome back. Well, coming back. How did you meet, Ms. Nade? Now I'm going to tell y'all how I met my wife, which turned out to be the best move I ever made in my whole life, times 100. So Phil tells a story where he takes credit for me and my wife. Of course, yeah.

Meeting and getting married. and then Ms. Kay tells a story where she takes credit. But the real person responsible for me and Anna getting married is sitting right across from me over there, Miss Paula. That's right. Have you ever heard that version? No, I've not heard this version. This is the true version. Okay, this is the real version?

The real version. Now, I might be, you know, it's been almost 20 years. Can you believe that? It's been a long time. It's been almost 20 years. So, you know, I go off, I go off to Afghanistan, do my little tour over there and get back, you know. Before you went, you lived with us. Well, that's right.

That's right. I did, was that before I went? Yeah, before you went, you lived with us. So, oh. And when you got back. So I bought that place on Caney. It was late about 45 minutes from where I was working. And that was working right next to where John and Paula lived.

and so me and John became friends and started fishing and hunting together and it was real convenient for me to sleep over at their house and they're going to work the next day yeah I was sitting here saying well how in the world did you get to be living with Paula and John and you used to fish and fish all the time and Rick Fortbury is the one that baptized me in the river down at Phil's house and he's he was the one responsible for telling me about the gospel and getting me lined out at the time.

So that's the way that all started. So I was staying over at John and Paula's house a lot. And let me tell you something about Paula, Godwin, Si. If there's somebody that needs help, she's the first one there. Okay. It's just, and that's one thing I love about you, Paula. And if somebody needs help or they're in a bind, Paula Galvin is one of the first ones there every time.

In other words, she's a first responder. That's right. She is a first responder. She's selfless. But I will say this, she's also very entertaining. Well, that's what she got Johnny Bravo, boy. That's what got him. What do you mean, Jay?

Did you notice, oh, all those spit cups disappeared over there? So last time I was on here, I normally sit where John is right there. Okay, me and John swap out on the podcast. And when I got there last week, there was five spit cups sitting right there. Which is bad. And I gripped about it a little bit. You know, I've been on the grate. Yeah.

So I grabbed about it. And I said, well, I tell you what, if Miss Paula was here, she wouldn't put up with that mess. Uh-huh. And so what I mean by entertaining is, now, We know John and Paula love each other, okay. But you would never think that six o'clock in the morning. Six o'clock in the morning. Because I want to tell you, when it's time to get up, that's when Miss Paula lines him out.

Oh, my word. She lines him out. Now, I'm talking about it just tells him, you know, get up, get this done, put them clothes in that journey. Get in there and make me a pot of coffee. No, she don't say that. She's a ruler. Someone's lying. No, no, no, no.

Now we know, Johnny Bravo. Hey, the word is out. Jay Stone, I may have done that to you, but you know I didn't do that to John. I know you do it out of love. She rules and rules, but, hey, she's got a loving manner. way to do it. But you would look all over John Gawler's house, you will not find one spit cup anywhere. And I know John goes through a spit cup. Do you leave a spit cup down at Miss Paula's house for more than 10 seconds? It's gone. That's a drinking cup, too. Any cup.

Well, that's right. Any cup, trash, anything. If you leave your ownership of it. Yeah. Within arms reach. That's it. It's gone. But anyways, so Phil tells the story. He told me in the blind, hey, you need to make a move on Nan over there. She got the hikes for you. Yeah, yeah. Run it by Al. I said, I said, you know, you're good to go and all this. And so he tells that story.

Ms. Kay tells me that story. But in all actuality, Ms. Paula's the one that hooked us up. You know, she's behind the scenes, you know, a little whispering in the ears. Hey, you might all do. You know, my, you know. You might not look at Al's daughter. That's right. Y'all got a lot in common.

Yeah. You know, we do, and me and my wife have a lot in common. Well, when Jay come back from Afghanistan, Anna had grown into a young woman. Well, yeah. And Jay was living with us, and he was, I could see the sparks in both of them. I could see her spark and him. She could tell. I could tell.

And they were at my house every night. And I was, they're sitting there, and I'm sitting there. I'm sitting there like a chaperon. I'm like. And neither one of them told us and they liked each other yet. For a long time. We's kind of quiet, you know.

But we were both, look, we have a lot of the same. What's the word I'm looking for? Trates. Traits. Yeah, traits. So we've been married almost 18 years now. And we'll go,

we'll get in the rig and go down the Gulf Shores. And we might say five words. all the way there. And nobody thinks nothing about it. I told, I told Jace that. He said, well, what are something wrong with y'all, y'all, y'all. I said, well, no, we just don't talk that much. You don't talk much.

You don't talk much. You don't argue much. Well, that's right. We've been in one real big fight since we've been married. And I told him somebody like that and they called me a liar. He said, no, you're lying. That's a bald-faced lie. I'm like, no, no, we've been in one big fight in 17 years. and they're like, well, how'd you do it?

I said, well, I just don't argue with it. Yeah, but here's the question. It ain't worth it. I've got to know. What was that argument over? Oh, well, I went down to Baton Rouge to buy a trolling motor. And when I, I don't know why I went that far to buy a trolling motor, but it must have been a real good deal. And I went to get some money out of the bank, and I couldn't get to it.

So I called her up. I said, hey, I know we got, they got some money. And she's like, I love it. She's like, yeah. I said, well, I said, this is the guy saying that the card ain't running or whatever. And I went to the bank to get some cash to what it was. And they wouldn't let me access. My own account.

My own account. Well, turns out it wasn't my account. She had put all the money in another account that I couldn't get to. So I was thinking, you know, she's fixing the up and R-U-N-O-O-A-D. Yeah. You know. She's a little bit smarter. So I called her up.

Dan ain't dumb. I said, what are you doing? I said, I can't get to that money. And she just didn't say nothing. So I said, huh? Of course, then I got upset. You know, I got and probably said, oh, I ain't no proud of it. I said things I regret.

And, of course, she got mad, but then the worst thing I did is went and told Phil. What happened? And then Phil bawled her out. And then she did not speak to me for seven dates. But she's not going to argue either. It's not what's different. Ain't no arguing with her, no. So, so anyways, I'm talking about like zero words in seven days.

So I learned my lesson right then. I say, you know what? I'm just, I'm not, I don't care. I don't care what happens. I'm not doing that again. So that's just the way it's been. It's been great, you know. Well, the key in all this is when you were talking about you y'all don't talk that much.

Evidently, you don't have to. No, don't have to. You all communicate other ways, okay? Hence, three kids. No, no, I'm serious. Well, no, no, but I'm just saying, you know, because I'm not, you know, people think I run my mouth all the time, but I'm actually shy.

You are? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, but that's what's so cool about a relationship between man and wife. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Okay. You don't have to say stuff. You actually, you know, you just know because you're meant for each other. Yeah. That's it. Me and Paula's never had a big argument. I argue. I argue he don't.

I try and try and try to get him to argue. Arguments never sell nothing. They didn't. They don't. Arguments are never selling nothing. No. There's just some things. Come home and see a bunch of dead chickens in the yard.

Don't wonder what's going on. Should I go in the house? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That was back pre-B.C. Before Christ. Before Christ.

So Paula is the one that's got you a nan together. That's right. The truth of the matter is. That's right. Paula is responsible, yeah. She recognized it. She saw it. She saw it.

It made a move. And the rest is history, as they say. Yep. And they lived across, they built right across the street from us and had their babies. And it was, I loved every minute of it because they were just like part, they're all part of the family. Yeah, we all lived on the same road. Al and Lisa lived on that road. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Kids running in and out. Yeah. That whole road was people from our church. Philip McMillan lived there. Yeah, Macmillan lived right next to me for five years. I never said a word to him. Yeah.

He's scared. But again, there you go with the relationships. Yeah. It's insane because the way I met Philip was, you know, the men's Bible study. Well, let's get into that after the break, so that ought to be a good story to tell. I don't know if I've told it. I think we may have told it before. Yeah, we have told it.

It's actually really interesting to look at how all everybody meets and married. Oh, yeah. It really is. Tell them about when you had to go down and you've told us. to Al, you went down and asked Al, could you start dating her? Oh. That's pretty interesting. Like, before you asked her out, you went down there.

He asked me, he said, thank I ought to talk to Al. Well, yeah. And I said, yeah. And me and Al don't talk. Well, back in them days. It was, we're done. You know, back, you know, I'm at a point now where my girls are getting grown. Yeah. Okay.

So if a young man comes to talk to me before dating my daughter. I see that as a sign of respect. Oh, no. That's a good thing. The Sicilia come and ask me for Johanna's hand. And I took that as a man of integrity. Well, no, that's a good sign.

That's a real good sign. So anyways, yeah, I talked to John about, you going to talk to, I was a little nervous, you know, if you can imagine. So, yeah, back in them days, you did that. You went and asked the dad for permission. respect today to date and that we need to bring that back that's right yeah that needs to talk about it on on there that's that's exactly you won't respect do the right thing go up and talk to their her daddy that's right well no like the one is right now was carla he asked he asked jay what time i got to have her back yeah well he said mr stone what time would you like me

to have her back and i taught him i taught him he said yes sir so To me. Well, you know, the funny thing about that. That gives me a little bit of peace of mind. Their first date, they went to the show. You know who was sitting right behind them? You? Me and John.

Right behind them. She won't. She never seen. Paula said, I'm invested in this family. We were right behind them. That's it. What's the odds of that? I'm telling you.

That was awesome. She got up, and then she got up again to go to the bathroom, and she looked down there, she said, Paco. I said, hey, baby.

So my kids called Paula Paco. Because who was that? Was that boy for all that? It was Carly. It was Carly. Yeah, she said,

she couldn't say Paula. So she just said Paco. Yeah. So she's been Paco ever since. Yeah. Paco. How old is Carly? 15?

15. 15. So for 15 years, I've been Paco to everybody. I mean, that's stuck. But my kids love Ms. Paula, you know, like a second mama. So I know something ever happened to us. Y'all got them. Good luck.

We're waiting for you to get them grown. Oh, no. Hey, I was just sick. Hey, especially with that youngest one. She said, listen to what she asked me. The broad tornado. She asked me the other day when I picked her up from camp, Sage did. She said, Paco, what's your last name?

I said, what do you think it is? she said, Paco, Duck. I said, well, that's what you call John. That's not my last name. That's what they called God. Doug. It's Duck and Paco. I said, my name is Paula Godwin.

She said, Paula Godwin. She's a hate. That's a cool thing. You know, people, I don't think people realize that, you know, pre-Duck Dynasty and, you know, this, this is a tight-knit family. Yeah. You know, even if your last name is not Robertson, I mean, you're still, it's, it's, everybody's real tight and, you know, when, when bad things happen, bad things happen

all the time, we all come together and we do the best we can to get through it. And I'll tell you, it's, you, you're talking about blessed to be working in an environment like this. I mean, I mean, how many people can say that? Not many at all. But yeah, this has been fun going back down memory lane, as they say. That makes me remember back when Scott and Tracer was young and they had fight, you know, and I would get them together and say, hey, look, all you've got is your family and then your friends around you. And you and the family and your friends, it's y'all against the one.

world. And the world is not very nice. No. Especially these days. Yeah. So it's important to keep the relationship with your family on a good key and your friends. I said, because I tell kids all the time when I'm talking to them, especially at camp, Christian camp, I was telling them, I said, y'all are in the best years, in my humble

opinion, of y'all's life. I said, because whatever grade you're in, you're going to be with these people for like the next 12 years. You know, if you don't move and go off. Yeah. And I said, the relationships you establish, okay, you'll know who you can depend on, you know. So it's a big deal. So you're saying the teenage years are the best years? I thought you said the golden 60s were the best.

Oh, the golden 60s. I don't know where that phrase come up. Look, there's nothing golden about getting old. It's not for sissies. Yeah, it's the pits, okay? That's why I look at it, you know, when they're young, they've got their lives ahead of them. That's why it's so cool to hear people talk about how they met,

what they went through together. And like you're talking about, you and now, good grief, y'all going on near 20 years' marriage. Now, it's better. And it don't look, it don't seem like it's been 20 years, doesn't it? Oh, man. Yeah. That's flown by.

Yeah. So you're saying the golden 60s ain't what it's cracked up. No, it ain't cracked up. Yeah. Well, I should say it is cracked up. Okay. Getting old is the pits, boys. That's what Daddy used to say.

Oh, no, it is. He said, getting old, it's not graceful. No. Yeah. Oh, you fight it because, hey, mentally, okay. You know, you're still trying to do stuff. That you did when you was 25. Yeah, when you was 25.

and your body is saying, hey, you idiot. You're not 25. You're not 25. Use your brain. You seem to be doing well. So you got to slow down. Jake keeps reminding me. Slow down, old man.

He just won't slow down. He still got it in his mind. You keep feeding up. Oh, that's right. He keeps grabbing. Yeah, no, no. And I'm watching him, okay? He's out there boxing and all this working out.

You all love doing. Oh, good grief. Well, I'm going through midlife crisis. I know. got three daughters i know the jiu jitsu and all that's a good therapy for me so that's just helping me

get through all this fatherhood is is a is a bone to be chewed no it really is well as a father how what we're talking about young men dating so yeah tell them about when

you went and asked Alan okay yeah so I go down there like john said I talk with him first and I went down there and asked Al for permission. And I remember he looked up at me. He said, sounds good. Yeah, it was all an act. And then what he said was an act.

Yeah, it was a act. We're done disgusting. I said, all right, thank you. Thank you, sir. We moved on, you know. You know, time went by. We got hitched, had three kids. You know, Jay's quit, and I took his job.

Here we are. And so now your daughter's dating. Now my daughter's dating. Yep. And how did that go? Did he come talk to you first? Oh, yeah. He sure did.

He sure did. Very respectful young man, which is what all you can ask for. Goes to church. Yep. You know, they met at church. So I'm like, well, I told her, I said, well, I'll give you some rope until you do something stupid. Then I'll pull all the slack out of it. That's right.

Delamor jerky off your feet, darling. Yeah. Well, she's not. She's going to be good. Oh, yeah. She's got a head on. She's a good girl. She's smart as a whip.

Hey, being a hunter helps, okay, because when Tracer started dating, you know, I had all these heads mounted and all this young stomach. Dad, you know what? I said, what? And she said, he's scared of you. I said, hey, I said, that's a good thing. I said, fear is healthy. Yeah, a good, healthy dose.

Yeah, it's a healthy thing, being afraid of the father, because I said, hey, you feel like you get crosshairs on you? you probably do that's me looking through my scope that's it yeah no no no no I said I had a fear and he was so scared he built a heart yeah yeah that's it that's it well we got a few emails we can get into after the break side what do you think about it that'll work all right find out what what's going on with the fan well let's take one more break get into those emails emails welcome back to the duck call now I'm Hold on. I'm not ready.

Miss Paula has got one thing she has got to clarify. Ms. Paula, the floor is yours. I just want to say that it is not true that I wake up and tell him what to do every morning. That was you that I was telling what to do. Oh, was that me? That was you. I must have been mistaken. He wakes me up every morning.

I'm in the bed. He gets up early. He makes coffee and he brings it to me in bed every morning. Boy. And duck season hits and I don't even know what to do then. No coffee. He's gone. I'm late to words.

I can't do it. I'll tell you what, that's a pretty good man. Wake up. I'm telling you. And make you coffee every morning. Every morning. Yep. It brings it to me in bed. Well, I drank it too.

Well, he's going to make it with her with that. Yeah, but that's beside. That's pretty awesome. Yeah. I must have been mistaken. You are. Well, since she's done it to you, you just figured she'd done it to him, too. I thought she was talking to somebody else.

Anna said I trained him and did. she got married to him and then he quit doing all that. You know what? I have been trained by somebody. I don't know who did it because I, you know, for some reason, I'm cooking supper every night and washing the dishes. Hannah's all got a winner. Well, in some way.

And daddy, your dad, your dad cook? Yeah, he cooked some. But, you know, he's washing the dishes. Are you doing the dishes too? Yeah. Really? Oh, yeah. He made Nana a real good husband.

He really did. Yeah. Well, Anna, he's a good man. I try. Stowe's a good man to have a win. He made Dan a good wife. Anna, you have me to thank for that. Yeah, that's right. Miss Paula train me good.

All right, well, we got a few emails that we can get into. So, uh, what's the fans been up to? Stop it. Well, the fans been up to. This guy right here, Mr. Caleb, he wants to know what the weirdest thing we've ever eaten. So, Ms. Paula, we'll let you start. What is the weirdest thing? Don't let me start.

I got to think about that for a minute. Do you have trouble just eating anything? I'll try anything. I have a rule. You know it. We call it a no thank you portion. If you've never had anything, like you say, I've never had that before. I tell your girls this.

You have to try it. If you don't like it, then you can say, no, thank you. But until you try it, you got to try it. I know my mama made me try English peas. was little. That didn't turn out too. Them little round ones. Yeah, he hates them to.

No, no, no, no, no. I don't think there's anything. Oakerie and greens. I like okra. I like the cooked in stuff. In greens. Greens I tried. It tastes like that.

Paula, you can't think of anything weird. I mean, I'll think about something weird, but I don't think there's anything I wouldn't try one time. What about you, John? What's the weirdest thing of you ever? You know, we do a lot of speaking. We go around speaking.

We go to these beast feasts, and they have some pretty interesting stuff. There was, one place had rattlesnake and Cougar, Mountain Line. Oh, yeah. And I chose to try the rattlesnake. Good call. So I tried that, and it was all right, but, you know, I just kept thinking, them things hurt you when they bite you. I would just fix that.

I just had a no thank you portion, that's about it. Yeah. I'm not, I'm not adventurous when it comes to food. If I look at it, don't like it looks,

no, no, thank you. You not even going to try it? No. No. Not even a no thank you. That's like rattlesnake. I've heard it's delicious.

But eating a snake, no, sir. Being snakes, don't get along on any level. They just have a little bites, you know. Yeah, have a little toothpicks.

Yeah, no, no, no. I'll tell about it on no. no level no thank you I'm not going to try you no thank you no thank you period do you say you didn't try the mountain line

I did not I've heard that it's actually pretty good I didn't try it I've never tried it you know I guess the weirdest thing and down here it's not weird to eat turtle at all because if you live in Louisiana

odds are you've had turtle but I guess for the rest of the country a turn away something weird. I got a story about that. I got a story about that. Went home with a guy in high school, okay, and they had loggerhead soup.

It was good, wasn't it? No. No, no, no, no. It would have been okay, and I was nice because my mother and father raised me, hey, you're somebody else's table, you eat what they put down there.

So I was going to do it until she dipped him with a ladle, okay, and picked up one of his front legs. They didn't even take the hide off. Oh. They just boiled it on down. They just boiled it, and I'm looking at the claw,

you know, and the skin, the wrinkles, and I said, no, thank you. With all due respect, no, thank you. I don't want to throw up on your table. It makes it all right when you say, with all due respect. No, no, I just said, hey. I can't handle it. I did have chicken soup one time in a foreign country,

and the head and the claws were in the soup. But you had to eat it because it was an insult. They were giving you the best of their best, like the very poor culture. So if they offered it to you, it's a huge insult. And when I saw that in there, it was hard. But I took one for the team. I did it. And it was good.

Did you put one of them claws in that bowl? No, no. That's what you eat with. Oh, well. So that's the weirdest thing you made? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Chicken claws.

That's pretty weird. So, yeah. Well, we also have an email from Mr. Rusty, and this one's a little more serious. So his wife and I have listened to the podcast for a while. We were watching the podcast today, waiting for her to go into labor for our daughter. The daughter was born at 1123 p.m. Thank you for the laughs and great words. Here is a verse for you that we picked for our daughter. So Rusty, we're going to read your verse and congratulations. That's right. Congratulations. On your daughter. And we're praying for good health

and patience for you on down the road. That's right. Because you're going to need it. You're going to need it. You're going to need it. So we will read that verse, and that'll be a good one to go out on. John, you want to read that verse for us? Yeah, I'll read it. It's Ephesians 317 through 19. It says then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God's love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully, then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. That's a good one.

That is a good one. One of my favorites is it's in another chapter of Ephesian. He talks about his wisdom and his understanding and talks about his inheritance in the saints. and that being us. So it's kind of like we get heaven and he gets us. Well, that's what blew me away when, you know, knowing that Jesus is sharing his inheritance, which when you think about it, okay, that's everything.

He's the one that created it all, everything is, you know, and he's willing to give a portion to each one of us. That's right. And that's what he's talking about. about here 17 through 19 is understanding and how much we can't comprehend how much he loves us.

He just loves us. And that's a good thing to have back here in the home box. You know it? Yep. It's not a That's how we have. I can't do this and check this off. He just loves us.

Well, that's how. He wants us to love him. That's why we can have, okay. Peace of mind. It's priceless. Yeah. Okay. And the only way you're going to have that is is that you understand, okay, how much God does love us for a crying out loud. Yeah.

I know it. I know it. Just like as much as he loves that little girl, that new baby girl. That's right. Yep. And here's a cool thing. He knew her in the secret place before she was born. Now that's deep.

his hair standing straight up on his arm I know on my head he's just but can you look he's what do they call it infinite infinite

so he can see Adam and us at the same time he sees things that aren't as they will be pretty profound which is which is cool Okay.

He sees the end product of you, Paula, me, you know, stone. That's it. That's my God. That's it. Think about that for a while. Put that in your mom. So thank you so much for tuning in. We appreciate it.

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