Duck Call Room - When Willie Robertson Tried to Walk Out on His Wife

Episode Date: September 7, 2021

Willie has a thing for running away, but when he tried to walk out on Korie just after they got hitched, it didn't exactly go as planned. Uncle Si and Willie tag-team a question about the best way to ask your boss for a raise. Stone wonders how Willie fared when John-David was out of commission. Willie makes plans to speak at his own funeral. Si is plotting to sneak into Willie’s deer stand, but Willie has a plan to stop his uncle in his tracks. And Willie reveals how he handles Korie's cooking mishaps. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, we're here in the duck car room. We have a special guest today. As always, we have Uncle Siall Robertson. And we've got the fat little CEO with us today, boys. We've got John David Owen, a very vital role here at Duck Commander, Jay Stone, as always, bringing his interesting perspective of workout, food, and making duck calls. And the special guest today is your host and fill in for Justin Martin. My name is Willie Robertson.

I am the CEO of Duck Commander, Buck Commander, and a few other things. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Hey, all right. Welcome. Thank you. Good to have you. We've been telling stories about you the whole way waiting on you. That's it.

Of course. We were supposed to start 15 minutes ago. There's two men that I know that show up way too early for anything. It's always better to get there and be early. I hate to be rushed. Right. and I was just a little late as usual.

I was late here. I was late to the lunch. I was at before here. I'd just been late. But I don't, I stayed up kind of late. I realize I don't live a really normal life. Monday night we played poker.

Yeah, I heard about that. Yeah. I heard about it too and I wasn't invited. No, I invited you last time. Well, you didn't invite me this time.

We have a friendly game. My kids play. But this time I had Jay some other people. game. Oh, Jason was there too? So I said, side, do you want to complain? He said, no, let's play for $5,000.

I'm like, well, that's my kids. That's my peanut, boy. That's a peanut gallery. So, yeah, so we played a little poker until 2 in the morning. And I got, hey, I got just kicked in the teeth. I made up for a year's worth of losses. You lost?

Yes, I did. Who beat you? It's a collective game, John David. It's not one-on-one, but it's like, I mean, it's different people. Who cashed out for the most, so? Jason Robertson. There you go, Jason Robertson.

Okay. Although, Corey, so look, it gets to be about 12.10. I look over, Corey's got just, I mean, a boatload of money, but I can tell after 30 years of being together, she's tired. So this is where I usually, I mean, this is where I rain now. Okay. Yeah. She tries to bluff Jay. Oh, actually, I took her on a hand where she had three pair.

Didn't realize that. And then she calls three pair, which ain't a hand in poker. Too many cards. Then she loses every dime she got. She pushed all her cards in, bluffing Jace. Jace happened to have pocket rockets. And she's trying to bluff it, which usually ends bad. Then Jace goes on trying to explain how he knew it wasn't a bluff.

I just want to say, Jace, you had ACEs. You wasn't laying it down. Boards paired up. And so Corey lost all her money to Jason. So that helped him. Do you want to play poker? I'm pretty good at it. Really?

I beat Cy all the time. You don't want to play. I do. Last time I played with John David, look. He just lied on this podcast. Last time I played with John Dave. No, that's what I was like. He picks his chips up.

No. He looks like he's got a condition. Like he's just shaking. And he goes, I was 16. I've got one question asked about the night. of poker. Okay. Did Jason Robertson ever suck out on anybody at the table and then admit it?

No, he actually didn't. He didn't actually suck out. I tell you what was unusual. He had about six buy-ins before, I mean, he bought, I mean, we kept just busting him out over and over, which is weird, right? Yeah. But then he came back late. I mean, I thought he was going to lose money. I said, this Jason is just kidding.

No, Big Coon, Hunt's late boys. but did he have fun doing it? Oh, of course he did. But, Sire, Sall, we played a new game. It's a new game. Uh-oh. Have you played this version? Well, it depends on what you got.

I think I've played all the crazy versions. Jason only played one time and he said, we are to play it. I said, sounds really fun. They deal you. No, they deal it. No, no, no. Okay. Sa, they deal you three cards.

You pick the best two and then you play hold them. No, no, no. Have you done that? Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's called. It's a modification. No, no, it's a modification of what we call.

That's why I said it begin with P. Of Pano. Yeah. Oh, Panop. I know what you're talking. No. Okay. Look, they've done got to the point.

It's just. They're making up any kind of game to try to get your money. Have you, have you played the three card and discard? I've played it. Yes. It's pretty fun. Right. That's why, none of us knew the strength of the hands.

I saw Pocket Aces a dozen times. No, no. I got beat by quads twice. I don't want to play that. It's like internet. It's crazy big hands. No, no, because we played the other night when you're talking about it's, okay, we're going to deal four cards.

Just just hold them. We're going to deal four card. You throw one down on the flop. You throw one down on the turn. It gets ridiculous. No, I'm just said this is one different version, but your hand is stronger. Yeah, I shouldn't be leading this. We're talking about poker.

Yeah, we had a whole, like, idea planned out for each segment. Why don't you just tell us what you want to talk about, Johnny, do? Why? Well, we were pretty organized today, and you came in, and I said I was going to talk whatever you want to talk about. No, no, no. Here's what I want to talk about today. What do you want to talk about it? And I got a question to ask you. Come on.

As a child, okay, down on the river. Me. You used to run away all the time. True. Okay. Until dinner time or supper time. True. Okay.

Now I've got the question I want to ask you. When you got married to Corey, did you ever run away from home with her? That's a great question. I tried to one time. Uh-oh. I like that. It's a great question. So Corey and I got married.

Then we went off to college together. Probably three or four months into this relationship. We had a knock down dragout. I mean, it was a good one. Over what? Can't even remember. I'm sure it was my father. Probably it was money.

No, it could have been. But it was over something. Okay. I was angry. And then I remember we had a little one-bedroom apartment and I said, I'm out of here. It's probably 11 o'clock at night. I opened the door. I slammed it as hard as I could.

Sorry to all the neighbors because we had people. It was an apartment. Slam the door. I walked down the stairs and I remember stopping in my tracks, not thinking, man, I'm stupid. I need to go apologize. I remember thinking where exactly am I going? Because I'm in a town. I don't know anybody.

Where am I running? I didn't know where to run away too. I didn't have enough money to get a hotel room. I didn't know where to go. I just moved to this town, and then I marched back up those steps and came back in, sat down like, now you understand the power when I say I'm out here. That means four minutes, and I'm right. I'm back, baby.

I'm by. All right, where were we? The Mac is back. Where were we? So you just slammed the door, walk right back in. Did you say that? That sounds right. I was like one who was just like, I'm out of here.

and I would just take off. If you get on the roadie or something happens and I don't want no part of it, I'm gone. I'm out of here, Jack. Yeah, I'm out of here. So I did. I did that one day. I realized like, all right, I got to quit just running away.

Then he went down and said, what am I doing? What about thanking? I didn't know where to go. I was. Yeah, I ain't got no money. I got no money. I ain't got no nothing. I ain't got no friends in.

I don't go, you know, I'm mad. I'm like, I'm leaving because I'm mad. Nobody would understand. I don't even know anybody. I'm a college kid. Oh, boy. That's good stuff. Well, we have a few more things to talk to you about.

What's you got? Well, first, we got to take a break to pay for whatever in the world we're doing here. So quick break, and we'll be right back. 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.

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So before you got here, we were talking, and Stone, you've been working hard. I have. I have. Down on the property. Field property. That is correct. Willie's property. Willie's property.

Well, and Willie. Or a combination. Or a combination. Yeah. And Jason's. Family property. Jay's Phil. Yeah, family property.

I do there. Phil actually has people on payroll there, but the person who actually does the work. The in-law is sitting before you. The people that he has on payroll are what we would call dead weight in the business. So anyways, I was driving Willie last year. We were taking a little tour of his new property, and he drove by this field, and he said, I would like a food plot right here. It's about a 10-acre field.

Beautiful. He said, I would love a food plot right here. Phil trying to make it a duck hole and never worked out. Then I intervened. I told Phil, I said, well, Willie kind of wants this to be a deer plot. He said, well, make it a deer plot. I said, okay. So now you have a 10-acre deer plot with a 6-6.

I think technically that's not even my property. But, hey, hey, but who don't? I think it's Jason. That is. You're right. Hey, you have, you do have a resident redneck that's going to be camped out in that nice stand you got coming in? No. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. That's what we've been talking about for 30 minutes. I will tell you what you have available to shoot. He's not going to shoot anything. Okay. Let me just tell you something, the resident redneck. One thing I have lived an entire life of is dealing with resident rednecks. I know how they think.

And you still have got them, boys. Yeah. And so let me tell you, there will be a series of little things for you to overcome to figure out before you ever get in there. Oh, no. I can't trust me. I'll figure that. Oh, yeah.

I will make it miserable. I will make it miserable. You should figure out how to ever sit on the inside of that thing. There will be a series of locks, a series of obstacles, of obstacles, nails in the drive where you drive your vehicle. Because in order to beat a redneck, you've got to think like a redneck. And I will make it my mission. He said he wasn't going to shoot anything, though.

He just wants to watch. Oh, no. He'll shoot something. The last time I dropped him off at a deer stand right before dark, when what do you call it, the twilight hours? I call it prime time. Right at time time. I'm sitting in my state and I hear it.

That's four. Was he dove hunting? I don't know what he was hunting. But I just kept hearing this. It sounded like a 22 going off at prime time. It was. 30 minutes before that. Cy's the only guy when he's deer hunting,

he sounds like he's dove hunting. Siott, what were you doing? Just shot after shot. No, no, you got to understand. Okay. He's not a great shot. Look, we're mainly duck hunters for the most part. Phil pumps the land up and it's got water, okay,

and then every year when we get ready to drain the water, I should say when Phil drains the water. You don't drain it? No, I went with him before. But anyway, we've got a little critter that God created. It's a beaver. Okay. I got a little nice pond that we dug in front of my hotel stand.

Okay. And there's, these little critters have moved in. Okay. so I'm sitting there right at prime time for deer hunting, and I got that 22 rifle loaded, I mean, 22 pistol loaded with hollow points, stinger of hollow point. And I look over and I seen ripple on the water. I raise up and look, talking about, yeah.

Oh, there he is. He's swimming right toward me. I just, right in the head. Yeah. I know I popped him in the head because no water splash, and he just went down. Yeah. He didn't even pop it.

What was it? Okay. Beaver. Are you sure? All right? Hang on. Hang on. This is Sy's story, right?

I don't mean to be the investigator. So, Sae says he raises up, shoots a beaver right at the head. He's gone. No, it's gone. Then why then, Sao, was there shot after shot after shot? Okay, okay. It sounds like if you're beaver hunting, it's one shot. Oh, no, no.

Like deer, one shot. It's over. Hey, yeah. He went to the bottom. Right, right. Okay. Oh, hey, I'm sitting there and I look again about two minutes. Oh, another one.

No, no. Hey, here comes another one. He's swimming away from me. I just, Bajon. Yeah, he's gone. First shot. Okay, again.

Not even question. Yeah, I miss. The water ain't splashing and he thinks. Okay. Well, hey, I look down there in another minute and half. Hey, here's one over there, and he's sitting on the bank eating the weed that he pulled up from the bottom of the pond. Yeah. So he's sitting there out of there and said, well, forget the head, John.

I said, I'm going to put some pain on this boy. just piao right to the stomach okay okay I look again another ripple I look here's another so so bye y'all side do you actually think that our listeners don't know the difference to where when you start shooting guns at animals they just all hang around like like their croly part heard a big splash heard a gun go all but hey let's eat some weeds your most wild animals. The minute they hear a noise, the break of a branch, anything, they run away, except for the ones you're out there. No, no, look, someone pulls up in the four, where they pick me up, okay? He said, what are you doing? I said, oh, this was a great hut, boy.

I said, I'll kill five beavers. Where are they? He said, what? I said, they're in the pond. No, the first thing I asked you was, how many did you see? You said, I only saw one there garhole, which I hunted that same stand the evening before and saw 30. Deer everywhere. I saw 30 deer. He sees one deer. Well, you wonder why. Yeah. He's shooting 22s

and at... Like, we do hunting shows, right? We're out there, you're hunting and all that. You got to understand. Si, if you did a hunting show, it literally is a cartoon. Like, the animals are like talking to each other, like, hey, look, there's an old Uncle Syne coming in. Here, let me eat some grass. Oh, no. He should have us again. And there's still a lot.

They're still alive. They gather back up as like, oh, I got closer today. They do actually do what you're talking about. Okay. They always say, yeah, there isn't going to stand. All right. That would be an amazing cartoon.

You could be the new Elmer Fun. And then he told me, he said, well, you know, I killed five beavers. And I said, do you think that might have something to do? You only saw one deer? He said, no, they don't pay no attention to that. No, none of size animals do. They do.

None of the cartoon animals. I don't want to pay attention to that. Look, they know me, okay, they know you too, okay? Do they? Oh, trust me. Okay. Especially the big bucks. Oh, no, they know.

Oh, they know you by name. They know you by name and they know you. They know the sound of your vehicle. I know what they? When I got up in your deer stand, it smelled like a combination between urine and kerosene. And Ben Gay. Here's the weird part. That's actually all just urine.

He drinks a lot. lot of tea. Now, I admit to the urine, but the big gait, no, I don't use bengays, son. Okay, you got me red-handed on the urine. It's a closed-in box, you know, and I have limited chances. Because he doesn't want to spook anything, obviously. And he's drank seven cups of sweet tea or unsweet tea. Hey, look, I watch more.

I watch deer more than I shoot them. You've claimed that. No, no. Is that because you miss? No, no, it's true. Okay. The only time I actually kill a deer, okay, is it stone says, okay, here's the three you can shoot. Okay.

I watch and, hey, and if it's not, if I can't identify him, I will shoot him. But the other part of it is, if I've got orders from the man that owns the property, I want some backstraps, kill me a yearling. Well, don't let a yearling walk out there because I'm fixing to lay them on the ground. The bosses don't say, hey, get me some meat. He's a killer. Yeah. Oh, man.

But I enjoy watching them. He's got that look in his eye. This deer management over there is like mission impossible. I will say that the deer that. Not with me. The size shoot, there are deer that usually I'm like, yeah, that one. Yeah. It's like the deer version of Sai.

Like if Si were a deer, that's, yeah, he'd have like one horn coming out. One's like growing sideways. It's this big hump on his back. He's coughing, you know. He's like, he's lipping out there. Super scrawny. And no, Si, you know, he's looking up and Sa. Oh, my goodness.

Breathing heavy. Well, one day, y'all already be ashamed of y'all. Really, to treat y'all your uncle. Oh, we love you, sir. Oh, I know. Also, he's probably about to pee his pants because we've been in here for 10 minutes. So we're going to take one more break. But, him are you?

Also, I got to hang out with this. Get you some ice. We'll be right back after this. No, Willie, your boy, Johnny D. He almost went down for the count here recently. COVID-19. I know it. I saw him.

Maybe it almost got him. Yeah, I drove by his house and I saw a bunch of rigs out in the yard. And I thought, oh, crap. Yeah, I did too. I was going in there to talk to him. I thought he was having an impromptu garage sale. It was a prayer vigil. They were worried about him, man.

He's in there in the window. He's inside the curtain in the window looking out. out like an old cat, you know. Ghost cat. He's just white, looking at a scared death. I was worried. You were the most pitiful, pitiful looking at you. Because I was sick.

I need to. You shouldn't be worried. I need to preach in the gospel. That's right. You should not be worried. We'll take care of that in our fifth segment. Yeah, that's right. But anyways, since he was out for so long, I think, you know, maybe you really learn to

appreciate his. I was trying to get me. Value. No. While he was out. I wanted to kind of get. Right. What it was like at the end of it did I say, you know what?

I can probably do this myself. Was I at that point or was I like, dagum. I wish he'd hurry up and get better. I wish he'd hurry up and get better. I hope it's that one. It was. I hadn't heard your story about how did you come in? Oh my gosh.

He got COVID. Just like everybody else. Oh, I know. He wants to know how I showed up here in the first place. How did he get with you? How did he come? Well, let Willie Finner finish this. I found him in a basket.

Somebody laid him out in front of Duck Commander. It was all strung out. I was fixing to ask you. He found him floating in a basket in a Nile. No, he was all strung out. I found him. I raised it. We got the mange off of him.

And then I lived in a crate for about four months. And then I started letting him out around other people. telling the story of the Good Samaritan here. I let him grow all his hair out, yeah. A cat. Okay. No, he's Corey's cousin. Oh, okay. And we had a family

meal. I hadn't really paid much attention to Johnny D. In my, probably 10 or 15 years before that. And he was there kind of yucking it up and I was like, hey.

Doing my thing. Who is this kid? Of course, that's how cousin Johnny D. And he was working in retail and at the time we had a little growing retail operation here. And I said, well, get him over and let's hire him. So he negotiated with me. He wanted a quarter more than what, yeah. No, it was a quarter.

Yeah. So I told him to go out there in my truck, dig around the ashtray, see if, get whatever change he needed to make the difference from what he was making. And let's go. Let's try it out. $9 an hour, baby. There you go. I needed that to survive.

I was in college. He was in college. So yeah, that's how I ended up hiring him. But no, he gets COVID. And I had COVID as well. And I got, not that I'm any tougher than both of y'all, but it's like nobody, there was an emergency. I wasn't frightened. It wasn't.

I worked. I cut tree. Nobody. I stayed at my property. But I went and got my chainsaw. I was behind your house, don't. Nobody showed up with 50 people to pray for you. Nobody.

I'm like, I'm good. Well, save it for somebody. I'm good. I got it. I'm going to clear the property here. I got some time to mow. Do man things. Yeah, just do work.

So I'll go, I went and worked and what I would call just sweated it out, you know. I just sweated all the toxins out. So that was my, so I thought, you know, that was sigh. Yeah, I thought, yeah, if he gets COVID, you know. I mean, I had half your funeral already. I'd written it out. He had already done the utility, boy. I was already cutting the video

We were going to laugh, do you want us laughing at your funeral or do you want us like crying? No, have a good time. Have a good time. Oh, I'll have a good time. No.

Okay. Yeah, all it is for me when I go is is a change address. Thank you. I just no longer be 335. Now with John David, I thought John David, he's young and he's like, he's, oh, I never get sick, you know, he's all tough and stuff. so I just assume. We all did.

So I had this awesome prank. I was good, because then his whole family got it. So I was going to go get yellow crime seam tape. And I was going to tape his entire yard. Oh. Like, do not enter the year. So I was getting all this prank lined out to go deliver. We're just going to do something hilarious with you.

And then he's going to hospital. They're having a prayer vigil. And then he goes to hospital. Well, that prank's over. You know, when you got to cut the tape, I want him to cut the tape to come to work, not cut the tape to get the ambulance in. Yeah.

You know, and so then I was like, yeah, this deal's getting serious. And they told me you couldn't see him. You know, you couldn't go in the hospital. And I'm like,

you pulled that once before, some prank and got the FBI involved. Yeah, that was another podcast. It got, yeah. Yeah, yeah, he's bad about prank for it.

They carried one too far and the FBI got involved. Here's the deal. Oddly enough, the biggest thing was there was a funeral. And so Dusty Hill passed away with Zizi Top. Zizi Top is on my keychain. Bill Gibbons gave me that keychain. I've got one of them. So I was like I had to get a way down there because it was pretty quick.

I would normally fall under my category. I can't get a hold of John David to get the, like I need a ride. I was in a hospital bed. I can't even book a plane. I don't even know how to do anymore. But I didn't, but Phil was going. I didn't want Phil to get COVID for sure. And so,

so we got it worked. We actually got it all worked out. But actually when I was at the funeral, I thought about funerals and it actually made me think about what happens, you know, what's this going to look like, you know, whenever you actually.

And then I really started thinking, I think I'm planning my own funeral. Now that may say more about me because I want it, But I was like, I'm planning this whole thing out. Where I have like video messages, like stuff I want to say. So my question is, well, yeah. I mean, is that video messages? No, yeah, I'd be like, all right now.

I know what you're thinking. You know, and then you just walk people through it. You know, and then maybe you just keep updating it, you know, the older you get. But that way you've got it all, you've got tons of cool stuff that you wanted to say. I like it. Does anybody having that desire for, like you want to actually be a part of your own field? I don't know. I like it.

A series. Okay, you got a series coming when Willie dies. A series? Yeah. Like a TV show? A mini series. No, it's just like you can. We got to shorten it though, like a movie.

We need a movie. No, all funerals. Everybody else is talking, obviously, right? Yeah. Well, you don't ever get to say anything. Because you're dead. See you guys soon. I know, but why not?

Why not just, I'm sure somebody's done this? Somebody's laid out there. Me and Corey's Papal. Your grandpa and papal in law. I understand the connection there. He planned his own funeral. Did he? From beginning, he planned the worship,

because we sang like four or five songs. He planned all the speakers. He planned it. See? We were actually a lot of life. I like it. You get more and more like him every day. I like him.

Yeah, he did that. And I'll say this. I have a friend who's a worship pastor. He has four songs that if something happens to me, he knows. Go back in the text messages and get those four. And that's different to me and you. my funeral is going to be 40 songs.

40? 40. You know, that's kind of long. No, I want to make it long. You remember how long the wedding was? I want some people like you. I want some people to be like, come on, man.

That's right. Come on, man. I'm like, hey, that's enough. You're going to take a whole day. Was it you? No, this ain't no one hour deal. I live enough dad-gold live. You're going to sit your butt up here about three or four hours, all right?

Just sit down, get comfortable. New holiday. Get comfortable. Look, hey, we're going to make this. a movie. No, right at the end, I'll say, all right, you made it to the end. Congratulations. Hey, yeah, popcorn. Now we got two hours of graveside, fine. I wouldn't know that everybody that got up and walked out of this thing. I want that noted. I'll be one of those. Johnny D. Me and Si can't last that long. No, and I will say this. People give, whenever Willie comes on here,

they're like, he's really mean to John David. Shut up. Really? Oh, yeah. Is that what they say? Oh, yeah. They think you're really mean to me. Hey, if you're one of those people, let me just sleep. Well, I was about to stick up for you, but go for it. No, no, no, I'm. I'm. believe I don't need that's doing that for me. If you're one of those people, email, please email this. Because I want to, I may actually use your first name. And I'll respond to the people, you know, who think I'm mean to you. Oh, no, he's just going to make fun of me more.

Nobody's in that email. I won't make fun of them. Oh, hey, it's the boss's job to be mean. Look, but let me, let me say this thing. I'm not even mean. Yeah, it's the boss's job to be mean. I'm just kidding. No, you're hilarious.

But the first, look, when I got out of the hospital, I got home and I'd put my phone away because I was sick of people asking me how I was doing. And the first person that showed up to my house was Willie and he walked in without knocking, which was weird. I'm just kidding. He knocked. But he was there, checked on me. We sat there and talked for like an hour.

And then he brought me spaghetti. First person there. I also showed up when you weren't there to check on your family. Yeah. Neither was John David's wife. She wasn't there. knows where she was. So me and John Davis' kids just hung out.

She was, hey, really. She was in the shower. She was in the shower. Well, he goes, where's your mom? They're like,

in the shower. We'll be fine. And we play video games. They play video games and explain them to me. They're tough kids. All right. You got some? Yeah.

I'm on this mean thing. I just told everybody how nice you are. Si, have you're, that's honest question. I'm not looking for any kind of cheeky answer. Have you ever seen me be mean? No,

not really. John David. Have you ever seen me? be mean to someone. What is that buzz? No, I have not. Jay Stone, have you ever seen me be mean? I have not.

Hey, look. Okay, here's the idea. We're friends. Maybe I should have said a boss has to be firm in all. No, but it's not even that. The question is, is anyone seem to be mean? And I agree, none of you have. All right.

So we need to bring someone in who's actually in. Okay. Okay. Okay. No, I'd probably bring my wife in. Like, she'd probably be a good case study for me being mean. Oh, for you being mean. Yeah.

I thought we're looking for a mean person. And then let her say, no, you don't want to see him. Like, when you see him mean, there'll be no, there'll be no, like, oh, man, that's mean. Most of us. Because I know how to be, I grew up on the river with a bunch of brothers and, you know. I did not. We finished with baseball bats and hooks and never happened. Exploding devices in places.

Yeah, I mean, I can, you know, yeah, I can be mean. In other words, they can get down with the best of them. I will get mean with you if you want to get mean. I think some people just don't make fun of their. friends enough. Like, just mess with their friends and that's what we do. Yeah, you got to, come on, man. You got to have a thick scheme.

You got to have a thick scheme. Yeah. I think that's me growing up with brothers. Like, you learn stuff not to do because your brothers are call you out. Go like, if you do that again, you're going to face the consequence of that. But then I learned in society, that's not a good thing to do. Because last time I did that, you know, I got my underwear pulled up inside my behind.

Yeah, like that's, that's what that. Or somebody dopeop. So, I mean, you know, I think you kind of learn how to live in life and get around. My sister grew up. John Luke, I mean, John David grew up when his own little Taj Mahal was his own king-sized queen-sized, you know, and he learned life from his sister, you know. She was mean. I mean, yeah, he's going to fight, you know, hey, he'll slap you with a bra or something,

you know, like. All right, we're taking a break. He's going to hide your makeup. He's going to hide your makeup back. of how great will he is. I'll get you back on that one. See him. See him.

He's being mean to me. Y'all get him in the comments. Let us take a break while he, and I'm going to tell him stop being so mean. Light me up. Oh, we love it. All right. We'll be right back after this. And we're going to get in that email bag.

Email bag. All right. And we're back. And we got emails today. And we're going to do two segments of emails because I've been storing a few very special emails up. He's like a little email squirrel. Because, hey, he's hiding them.

How do you think of this stuff? But there were some questions brought up that need to be brought up with Willie in the room. He's either an expert on the subject or they're about him. So our first email is from Dan in County Down, Ireland. Really? Okay. I will do this whole one in my Irish voice. Okay.

All right. Greetings from Ireland. He wants to ask Uncle's size advice. on the best way to ask your boss for a pay raise. Did any of you ever ask Willie? Well, first of all, you asked the wrong person to give you advice to ask a boss about getting paid. Because I didn't ever ask them. I just went in and told them, I said, hey, am I going to have to pack my bags and leave?

Or are you going to give me a little bit more money? Did that happen? Well, I'll tell you this, Dad. I had this young lady named Sylus come in there and he said, I'm going to pack my bags and I'm going to leave. And I said, well, let me go help you pack your bags. And I'll go in fact, I'll grab you a suitcase or two on my own and we can, I'll pack some stuff for you.

Well, we just lost all of our Irish fans, Dan and the other one. No, Dan's like, thank you so much because I can't understand y'all's country access. Oh, my God. No, I don't remember Sass. I ask me for a raise. I do remember Sye. We actually had a money talk one time, and I said, well, Sa, we've got the show is coming out. And I said, Sa, I think you're going to be okay.

Like, I think you're going to be in a different spot. Give on going up in the bracket. Because Sa's house was being eaten by termites at the time. No, that was mold. So, Sao had a house problem. That's right. I had a house problem. Which is, here's the deal, Dan, from Ireland.

A lot of times my employees will come and tell me they need a raise. Here's what I've always thought is interesting about it. They say, I need a raise because this happened and now I need more money because I have a house problem. Or I've been wanting to buy a boat, so I feel like I need a raise. Does that one worry? So I always think, like, that's not the way to ask your boss for raise. It's not because you spent more money and now you need a raise. The raise should be based on the job that you're doing.

What can I do to make more money? Right. That should. Oh, see, that's a great. See, Stone brings up, what can I do to make more money? So now that's put the burden back on the employee. That's right. It's not like, well, now I'm spending. You would not believe, I mean, people say, well, now I'm spending more money and

life has gotten bigger and I feel like I need more money. So because I say, well, what are you doing differently at your job than you did? You know, a year ago, is it more? Is it making more money? Is it doing something beneficial for us? And so, yeah, maybe there's different, clever ways to figure that out to do other things. So most of the time with my employees, if you want to make more money, I always say to make yourself so valuable that you're just unreplaceable.

Now, if that's the case, probably have to pay more money for you. That's where I was at. Yeah. When, when you were making reads or when you were on TV? I had to explain that to him, okay? Because he didn't know. Si has made, well, and Sae, because of television, there's no, there's, right, it's hard to replace that cat. You can't replace the TV version of Cy.

We found a new reek guy. Stone has done an interesting deal as well, so he makes duck calls and does that. But he also now has segued into land management, which we have. also need as well. So it's a way to make yourself more valuable. That's it. I agree with what he said there. He agrees with it. But Saia's best advice he's ever given on the podcast

is don't work too hard. I think Stone is brilliant because he put himself also out of a building which I'm guessing you like to work outside as well. I do. Most people do. Not John David, but most people John David walks outside, he starts crying.

Man walks in the sun and it's like he's on Mars. He falls apart. Stone lights working out. Stonelight jumps in a bulldozer. Who doesn't like jumping in a bulldozer and running over? Heck yeah.

So that's a perk of the job. Hey, that's the military in it. Yeah. I said John Day, back in the day, be like, hey, come over to help me, you know, burn this giant burn pot. And I knew he just didn't like it. It's not fine. He's got to get back to that king-sized bed.

It was a queen. Seven years old, he goes to cross five. And I was five. And he wants somebody to bring him a little thing, a hot chocolate and a bowl of fruity pebble. All right. But if you looked at him, you would think, well, here's a man's man. He's got a big beer. He's a big burly man.

Looks are deceiving. But I'm really good with the computer. He's a man's man. Why do we all? always end up just being mean to you. You know, look at you. Well, you look like you can take it. That's the problem.

I don't want to see y'all's spreading anymore. He's got tattoos on his forearms. He's, you know. No, yeah, I'm all right. But you get him anywhere near the sun or a virus or anything like crazy. Or sweat. Did you? D.D.

I'm sweating right now, but not as much as you. Didn't you see the trip wire in front of you before you fell into this? No. I'm the one that texted Willie and asked him if he would come on. I will say this. I will say this, Willie. I see him every morning about 7 o'clock walking up and down the road. I'm getting there.

So that COVID did something good for you. It did do something good for you. It motivated you to make yourself better. Listen to Coach Stone. No, it didn't. Coach Stone's coaching. Hey, he just dazed and confused. No, he went outside and forgot where he went outside and forgot where he is.

I know the story because, yes, he is. No, no. So here's the newest development. yesterday I got a phone call from my doctor. I'm all clear, finally. So the day after Labor Day, I'm stepping. I'm sorry, it was good tea, boys. It wasn't bad managers.

So next Tuesday, which will probably be the day this one airs, I'm stepping into the House of Pain. 6 a.m. 6 a.m. Going in. Pain. Oh, I cannot wait to hear the House of Pain. I'm going into the House of Pain. We're ready.

Hey, getting up. Six o'clock is the house. 6 a.m. I'm not good at that. Johnny D. Physical death. Wait, a heck of a month. A week?

Seven days a week. No days off. Seven days a week, no days off. No retreat, no surrender. That was, we just went on a wild ride there. We were going to cover our new segment about your spouse cooking terrible food, which Willie would be an expert in that. I got plenty of space on that.

But we'll talk about that right when we get back after this break right here. All right. We're back and we have some more emails, which that last. one went wrong so we've only got one more or two more ish but willie so we've started a new segment yeah uh all about this gasting in about uh what was it that i think it was biscuits and gravy or something that his wife made yeah terrible and he looked her in the eyes and said that's not how my mom made it that's that's bad yeah yeah yeah you so you got to think of another way but so now we have people all over including sarah um i don't know where sarah's from

she didn't tell us where she's from, sending us in stories of their spouse or them making terrible food and either going full Robertson and telling them how bad it was or just shoving it down their throat. So we actually got a response from someone who made something that wasn't any good because it was the meatloaf. That's what it was. It wasn't the biscuits and gravy was later. So Andrew sent in that his wife made the meatloaf and he said that's not how my mom made it.

That's the story. and his wife sent it in, responded in an email. And she said, I don't really like cooking. And so I just acted mad. And now she gets meatloaf. I'm a victim of that. From his mom every time she wants it. And she doesn't have to cook it.

She doesn't have to clean it. So when they want meatloaf, you're like, well, your mom's better. Go get it. That's brilliant. But I've heard stories from your house about your wife's cooking, my cousin. Okay. Let me solve this mystery for you. the deal. One, he didn't say anything wrong by saying that her meatloaf doesn't taste like his

mom's. That's not a negative. It's just, it's different, right? And so that's not, there's nothing wrong with that. I think, I know what he was insinuating, but I don't think there's anything wrong with that. But I feel like there are a hero here is her because she's clever going fine. Get your mom to make that meatloat. I don't want to cook it anyway. Who like, I don't even like meatloaf, you know? And so she goes and gets that meatloaf. Here's the thing, with your spouse cooking one I'm offended as a guy because I'm the only one that cooks in my household so this whole day about my wife's cooking well I do all the cooking I would rather know how it tastes and how even different members what they think how it tastes so I'm usually

asking you tell me how this taste because if they're like it's to this it's to that now then I got to make a judgment of are you wrong when you say I don't like this because it's to this that's just the way my wife likes things and she doesn't like things too spicy it doesn't mean it's better that's just the way she likes it's some of my kids and so I think you should always have honest feedback if you think it's terrible it's overcooked it's too dry here's the deal if you don't realize that and you put it out and you don't realize like that's way too dry like I usually know when I put it out like I hit salt I'm on the line they're being too salty then when they say man that's salty I already know it's salty because I taste it myself.

But you should always as a cook, be open to any feedback. If you don't want to hear that it's bad, then I'm telling, don't even do it. Yeah. Because it's going to be bad at some point. You're going to screw up. But you should want to improve and make that better. That's right. And if someone said this is not as good, let's just say they actually sell them the nose,

this is not as good as my mom's. Then I would say, what makes your moms better? What do you like about? Yeah. Why is it better? Well, because it's more of this. And then go back and see if you can figure out. Because here's a deal.

Your mom may make it that way. John Davis' mom may make something. And he likes the way it's the way it takes. I know. That's probably not the case. But here's the deal. I may not like your moms, you know. Like it's two different things.

Like some people, like my son-in-law likes a crispy waffle. Who? I like a waffle that's soft. Doesn't mean either one of us are wrong. We just like two different things. Two different tastes. A crispy waffle. He likes a crispy waffle.

Like an eggo? So if you're eating brownies, John David, do you like the edge or do you like the middle? The corner. He likes the corner. No, no. I hate the corner. Oh, no. That's the best part.

I like the middle. I take the, when I make brownies, when I make brownies, I cut all the corners off. off and throw them in the garbage cab. What? You're throwing the best way. I don't eat, I don't eat brownies anymore. That's the thing, though.

That's the deal with food. You eat the corner piece of pizza or the biggest, longest middle piece. All of them. No, you start. Yeah, I eat all. I eat pizza with you life. I eat them all.

You grab that big long one in the middle. I just start, I dough pop all four corners of that piece. That's why we make such a great team. You were talking about the crispy waffles. That's like bacon. A lot of people like bacon. Crispy. Everybody likes bacon crispy.

You like it kind of fat. No, I like it where it's just right before it gets crackling. He likes a little chewy to remind him. Phil likes it like, I mean, it's soft, like soft bacon. But Phil is the one behind what I did when he said, you have to let them know if it's not good or they'll cook bad food all the time. So I thought I'm married to her Robertson. She'll understand.

She dried out a roast. And I said, boy, it's good. It tastes good, but it's dry. That was three years ago. She never made it short. And she's not only that. She's never made anything. She doesn't even go in the kitchen.

So you can go to an extreme. Just like when Phil just grabbed the pot and through it out the door. But if she never goes in the kitchen again, I got to make an argument. She probably didn't like being there in the first. Kind of like Andrew's wife. She don't like it. Stone. smoked meat a lot, right?

Yes. Well, if you bring something over and I go, Ah, Stone, that wasn't that good. If you then never smoked meat for the rest of your life, you probably didn't like doing it in the first place. That's right. Like, you can come over and say, well, I ate his sauce be calm.

Yeah, I thought it was terrible. I'm still going in the kitchen the next. That ain't hold me back, you know, from... But I started out cooking out of necessity, and now I love it. I love it. I cook every day. And he's actually very good at this.

Okay, so my spouse and cooking. So do you have, so we're asking people to send in stories. Yeah. Of just disaster meals. Oh, yeah. So I thought you had to at least have one grilled cheese. Yeah. Well, most of them have been disasters.

But it's not a big sample size either. So that's the, it's like most are bad, but it's only, she's cooked about 12 things since we, you know. Well. So, but they have been bad. So Corey's problem is one temperature. She was actually cooking the, she was cooking breakfast Saturday. And I'm looking over it. And I see, I have a gas.

And I just see just, I mean, giant flame. So she cooks to the flame. So she just, she's racing against the fire. And I said, Corey, turn a fire down. You ain't got to fight it. You're in control. You're in control. The one that's trying to make sure the eggs don't burn.

The other one can just like make it all go away, just like that. It's a beauty of a gas stove. It's not electric where it's cold out. It's gone. The fire's gone. And she was, oh, shoot, yeah, you're right. She's turning out. Now we've got an easier pace.

But she tends to go high and then she tries to fight that. I've seen her one day. She was doing a grilled cheese sandwich. Fire was on high. H.I. All of it. She throws a little thing of butter. She puts her bread and her cheese in there.

And then she goes, goes to the bar, sits down with her computer. and so I walk through. And it's burning. Just bull and smoke. She's just burning an email right there. Like, Corey, if you're going to turn that thing on high and put a piece of white bread on it. Yeah, and then go sit down. You're committed.

No, you're committed to staying right there. Same thing with toes. She turns it on brawl. She closed that deal. And then she walks away. You know, and I'm like, no. I make her. I would handcuff her.

She needs a handcuff on the wrist. And then a handcuff on the... All the soap. Right. And I would just do it and say, you ain't leaving. You got to stay there until he gets toasting out. But when y'all were first married, did she ever get mad at you for pointing all these things out? Yeah.

I mean, you know, but I was not as a crafted communicator as I am now. But I didn't really know what I was doing. We first started cooking. It wasn't like I knew how to do it a bunch any way better. She made a corn cassero one time. This is an especially. Anna does cook a mean corn. When I need corn castles, I call Anna.

She's that sort of thing. So you basically, let me just give you the easy part. Jiffy cornbread box mix. Then you mix it with a bunch of fat and stuff that makes it good and tasty. So Corey lays this out for our visitors. We start eating it. And I'm like, man, this is different. You know, it's almost like a dessert.

But it's corn cassero. Corey's like, I don't know why. I made it the same exact way that it. it says we went and found the box it says apple cinnamon corn mix so it had a little apple cinnamon yeah cinnamon with the corn so um yeah Corey's not that great but she doesn't really want to be in there anyway and uh but yeah I've said a few things that I shouldn't have said it that way again stick with like well what makes it you know like here's what can make this better here's what I would like this to be like because you definitely want to encourage you.

You don't want somebody just to quit cooking. Yeah, because most people on desserts, most people go to the extreme with the sweetness. Yeah. They make them way too sweet. Too much sugar. Too much sugar. So I think guys that you need to encourage,

but you don't want to discourage. Cooking is very intimidating. And I think just like in anything else in life, if you just dog it every time and don't give any positive, The fever, they're just going to stop doing it. It's not. Well, the thing is on anything that you do, you have to put the time in.

Okay. Yeah. You got to put the time in. It's football. Playing football. You got to put the time in to become great at it. Yeah. Cooking's the same way.

You just don't become a chef overnight. It takes years of experience of how it cooked stuff. And then like you're talking about, and you're always trying to make it. better. Yeah. So you got to have your skin, don't, don't be thin. Don't be thin.

Don't be thin. Yeah. Stin skin. You got to be able to take criticism. Take criticism and that's what we're talking about. So please send in more emails of great stories of having to tell somebody, that wasn't any good. And we're going to all get better at doing that.

And before you know it, everybody that listens to this is going to be a great cook. Because just constructive criticism left and right. So that's hello at duckcallroom.com. It has been a fun episode today. Willie, we didn't get to two of the emails. We're going to have to have you back on because you want like three segments for this. But I had two emails specifically asking preaching the gospel sharing Jesus, people that are nervous, people that want to be evangelistic, but they're not sure that they can speak well enough or they're just not bold enough. And you happen to be, so Willie's in charge of evangelistic.

of evangelism at our church. So do you want to just give a quick snippet and a verse to send us out? This is a quick snippet. So, yeah, I'm super involved in engaging in evangelism specifically. Try to stay in that lane. We have a minister called 991 that's based off. I'll just use that one. Jesus, you know, 99 sheep that are all nice and cozy.

But there was one that was missing. And he says, we got to go out and look for that one sheep. So that's the basis of the ministry, but it's not the ministry that just certain people do. I think the call is to everyone. Matthew 28 says go out and make disciples of all nations, baptize them, and teaching them everything I taught you. And so we all have a directive to go out and share our faith with others. We will break down a lot of the stigmatism with that, which is I don't, probably the number one thing is I don't know the Bible well enough.

We'll get past. That was actually the easiest one. Yep. I'm not bold enough. I don't know enough. My past is too bad. You definitely don't want to hear from me. And so we can break down all those things.

And I promise you, I can teach you about seven passes and seven different ways to go out and put that in your faith. There's also different ideas. I learned this from Martin Middleberg and Lee Strobel, a different styles of evangelism. So it's not all just like, bam, bam and, you know, get up and lay it out. Not everybody's got to be Phil. That's it. There's different ways of doing it. There's different examples in the New Testament of actually sharing your faith.

And so, yeah, I love that. And I have tons of stories. And we do that literally every Sunday. So get ready for that. If you want to study up and be prepared, we would definitely be in 1st Corinthians 15, 1 through 4. So go ahead and just read that. Read that passage.

Read through the first four, five, six verses of 1 Corinthians 15, because that's probably what we'll camp out and base out of. But, yeah, those are a couple of scriptures. and that's what I like talking about. Yeah, so we'll have you back on. We'll do three or four segments on that. It sounds like you know what you're talking about. I studied it a little bit.

So for the verse, that was Matthew 2819. That's Jesus' last words to his disciples. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything I've commanded you. And surely I'm with you always to the very end of the age. Thank you all for tuning in. See y'all next time.

Don't be mean. Be good.