Duck Call Room - Why Phil Robertson (and Si!) Really Married Miss Kay

Episode Date: November 22, 2022

Uncle Si admits his role in Phil's decision to marry Miss Kay. Martin finally figures out the root cause of Godwin's diabetes ... Miss Kay! Martin and John-David are excited to hear about Kay's cousin (Si's old best friend Tinker) who married a Russian opera singer. John-David finds photos of Kay as a little girl with the infamous Tony the Pony. And Kay's sister, Ann, joins the show to poke fun at "Princess" Kay's childhood. --- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And now you're juggling? When did you start that? It used to be really good when I worked at a grocery store. It's been gracious. Because I would go in the back and not work and juggle oranges. Juggled oranges, boys. Now, I hope he's feminist. Pretty salty there, boys.

I'm impressed. You're going to impress me. You did. What can you juggle? I am dressed. Baby. Yeah. Keeping twins alive.

I saw a thing I can do. The ladies. Oh, man. Okay, boy, let me get. Are we going? Not yet. I don't think. Not until those numbers roll up there.

Oh, that was a fail. Okay. I've never been claimed to be good at John. That's just throwing your reload. I didn't see it. Hey, we're rolling. Hey, everybody. Now we are.

We're back. Hey, happy Thanksgiving week, everyone. And to show just how thankful we are, we have a guest. That's right. Thanksgiving guests. The best Thanksgiving cook we know. That's right. That's what I was going to say, y'all know how much I love to cook.

Amen. We had to bring the professional chef of home cooking in for Thanksgiving. Yeah, and she hadn't cooked sweets in about three months. I just took a little break. I'm going to tell you something. Now I've got to make about six pie crust. Oh, made. Of course.

I always make homemade pie crust which most people don't it's hard but you got that ice water and that flour and you'll get them what kind of pies are you making right here baby no I'm talking about for making you pie crust

yeah all-purpose flour ice water yeah ice water butter crisco I've watched you butter crisco that's a key that's the key

that butter crisco is what does this to you that there that little part that lays over your belt That's what that butter Chris go goes. I got one of those too. We all got one of those in here because we enjoy that. Well, I don't know about Sire. He might be getting on it. Oh, yeah. Oh, look at that thing.

Look at that. I never thought that would happen. That's right. When I used Sye, he looked like a skeleton when I first met him. A skeleton? Scylittlese? Scy. He's resorted back to infancy. He sleeps 16, 17 hours a day.

And he only wakes up when he's mad or hungry. When he needs to be changed or when he's hungry. I don't know how you do that. A man needs his beauty rest. Yeah. Look how pretty he is. Yeah. Well, he's a traveler.

Just traveler. Just traveler. Traveling man. So Kay, we are here. It's the week of Thanksgiving. What is on the menu for Thanksgiving? Well, you know, it's at Willie's house. Okay.

What's on the menu? Because we're too big to fit in my house now. That's a lie. We've put way more people in there. No. There's been a lot of people. to my, you can't get in at Christmas as I can, but that's it.

And look because he's, you know, skinnier. I mean, I'm serious. We cannot hardly fit in my house for Christmas. Well, everybody keep reproducing. They get married, then they have eight or seven kids. Yeah. And six years. Then everybody brings seven or eight dogs.

Yeah, and then the neighbor of somebody said, I thought I smelled something good down here, and here they come. Here they come. Jimmy Red shows up. Yeah. They didn't smell him. Well. But anyway, so what is your menu for Thanksgiving?

Well, Phil always does Tokyo dressing his way. And then Willie usually does some little version, but he hides it from Phil. Because he knows that's Phil, you know, we got that magnet light. It's about this big roaster. It was an expensive pan, man. And it was, it's perfect for our dressing. And then Phil does the duck dressing. And of course, nobody eats one bottle of that duck except Phil.

Do you eat any excitement? Oh, you do to do. Yeah, you didn't feel. That's the only two that touched the duck. Oh, yeah. The rest of us eat the delicious turkey and whatever else. Like I say, Willie does a couple of things, but he kind of hides it. Don't showcase it because he knows Phil's kind of the star of the duck and dressing.

And Gimber does the turkeys. Yep. He does. Fries the turkeys. Fried turkey is the best part of things. Oh, I love that fried turkey. I could take that turkey bone. Oh, I love it.

It's wonderful. Big leg, boys. Yeah. And then I always make, I'm usually the main dessert maker. And what's your signature for Thanksgiving? Sweet potato pies. How many of those you make every Thanksgiving? Oh, six at least.

Because Jace gets one. He gets one. A whole one. Yeah, a whole one to himself. Yep. Does he eat the whole thing? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Like in a day? And if you go to touch it, fork in hand, like not okay. He's always bubbly, but he eats the whole thing in a day? Not in a day, but he'll save it. He'll keep it in his truck and eat a piece every morning before he goes duck hunting. That's exactly what he does. And I have seen him and Willie eat a whole pie in a day. Yeah, just so the other one didn't get it.

What's up? man let's call it what it is those figure shows so sweet potato there's generally a custard one floating around there yeah that's bad to blow I like to make the egg I eat a whole one up what about the egg custard

you don't like that do you sigh I hate the whole one I love it it's gone oh man I love it it's like people just starve to death you know and then coconut yeah Thanksgiving's like the day gluttony is end.

That's right. Let's forget that part of the Bible. Like, forget that verse. Well, I mean, two o'clock, I'm going to hurt myself. Yeah, it's in. It's one day a year. Yeah.

But now you go to like seven Thanksgiving's now. You got to go the night before. Yeah, feel lucky if he'd make one. I'm surprised he even goes to the one at Willie's house. Well, he has to. I bet he's there a minimal amount of time. Why does he have to? He surprises you how he kind of, he surprised me how.

he goes in at Willys because he goes in that little living room thing that's Willys, you know, and he wears back in his chair, Willie's chair and everything. And he's just comfortable as he can be. Or the rest of us are all in the other part of the house and waiting for the dinner and everything. But Phil just makes himself at home right there in Willie's chair. He said, I'll never sit in that chair until daddy lives today. Yeah. For those of you don't know, that chair is also very close to the exit.

Right by him. Right by the door that leads you back to your truck. Thank you. Thank you. That is so true. And Willie is so big that if we don't get there early, we got to walk a mile to get in the house. Oh, they ought to have somebody park you. Well, you just take Dan with you.

Take your butler with you. Let him drop you off at the front door. My butler doesn't eat much. Well, that's even better. And that's sure not on his diet. If it's not on his recommended healthy eating plan, he won't touch it with a 10-foot pole. Yeah, I'm all fat. Well, who thinks about that at Thanksgiving?

The one day of year you can just stuff like a glutton. Just stuff like. Man, like deviled eggs and dressing. All the tremens. Yeah. Cranberry sauce. Turkey skin. A lot of people say, why do you eat cranberry sauce?

Well, that's a tradition at Thanksgiving. It does taste. But all the young people don't even know what it is. That's good. I know what it is. I just avoid it. I don't really know what it is, but I do throw it on some dressing. Well, it comes from a cranberry.

I knew that much. It's kind of like... And it's cooked down into a sauce. Yeah, I don't know how they got that. I don't know how or when or who made that. But I'm interested. No, but it goes together with the dressing. The cranberry berries, okay?

It pairs with the sage of the dressing. Yeah. Pretty. No, don't over sage it. Oh, I guarantee you. No, I'm a minimalist on sage. I know. It's not a favor I like.

We've run a few things with that over sage. Yeah. And we tried to doctor up them first blue wings with extra sage in the dress and thinking it'd make it palatable, but it doesn't. Nope. Nope. No. Just forget it. Just put chickens in it.

Just put a chicken in it and call it good. Trash ducks. Eh, just not very good in September. Yeah. In November, you can eat them. It's too warm in Louisiana. It is that. Stagnant water, eating snails.

I can't imagine why they don't taste as good. Snails. Yeah. It's fine. I had to get that Yeti cut with a handle. They finally gave me one of them. Well, you need to tell them you need another one. I'd like a handle on mine.

You have a color preference? No, I could care less about the color. I may have one in my office. He'd probably get a little. I wanted it office. Well, let's say what would that cause me like a pie or? Don't say no. Don't say no.

She's offering pies. You didn't give me a chance for my rebuttal. I mean, I think a Swiss state probably covered. Oh, he loves my Swiss state. Oh, I thought you were going to say, I just give it to you, Ms. Kay. No. No. No, we trade here.

We horse traders. It's a trader market here. We all horse traders. This is the price. It's right. But he has to pay. If I don't have one in my office, I have one of my office. I have one at my house that you can certainly have, and I will have it up here for you.

You know. Or a Swiss steak. Well, good. Because, yeah, I love, I made up that Swiss steak. Oh, praise God. I saw my mama cook something like it, but mine is better. I guarantee you. It is.

I don't know. I ain't ever had her mamas, but I can guarantee you hers is better. It's my favorite thing she cooks. I don't. I've never had it. It's so good. So good. Well, we might have to bring that up for a duck call room.

No. Oh, yeah. No, that goes to my house. Hey, tomato salt. Hey, you hit the turkey, turkey. Yeah, don't. Turn him back around. Yeah.

I didn't know you decorate with the turkey. Look, Kay, it's Thanksgiving. Gobble. Gobble, gobble. So I can do that better than me. So I get out there and dance with him. Y'all saw that episode of Duck Dynasty. I missed it.

I got to watch that. You never saw that one? He missed it, boys. I'm sure we can get it. Can we? We can find it online, Kay? It's on YouTube, so much about it. All right.

Well, let's take our first break. We'll be back right after this. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means? 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 Triedale's beef makes such a good product, baby.

Ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Sao Robertson would say, Bye on the grill! Look, before we got Triedales, getting ready to. for a cookout meant 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. Triedales comes from a family ranch out in Texas. They're a fifth generation American ranch. So they've been at it for a while. Now, look, the beef comes straight from their ranch and other ranchers they work with who raise cattle the same way. Their steaks are properly aged and shipped straight from the ranch to your door. We threw a couple of ribbys on the grill.

Look, salt, pepper, garlic, hot fire, that's all you need. Look, because I tell you what, when the beef comes from people who raise cattle for a living, you can taste the difference. The tenderness and the flavor are fantastic. So if you're stocking the freezer for grilling season, go check out Triedails beef. I know in size case Christine loves it, which is just a, she doesn't eat meat. She ain't a big meat easier, folks. Yeah.

Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's trybeef.com slash. Support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. Somebody sent you all those little ducks? Yeah. Yeah. It was a whole package. Packs deal.

We got veteran. Stress relievers. Stress relievers. Do you have a lot of stress in your life, Kay? Then we got these. No, I don't. Oh, I know. That's a cute.

You don't have a lot of stress? Not right now, but I do it other times. This is two days in a row for Kay at the office. She was up here yesterday, getting her workout on. Yeah. Something's got to keep me alive. They know that song, you could sing it, Staying Alive, Staying Alive.

Ah, hi, high, stay alive. There you go. I need you get it. You know Sioux loves a BG's. Well, that's why I have physical therapy. I can't get high like they get high. Oh, you can. Oh, no.

I give my, my guy that takes. teaching me physical therapy trains me he's young and they just had a baby and everything but i give him just you know good advice from a grandmother way and i feel like he's another grandson i inherited but uh you know i talk to him and help him and he helps me yeah he come in at me complaining about that one baby oh boy i said buddy you think that's rough yeah get you get you another one yeah come to my Get you a pair of. Have you been giving Martin advice? No, he hadn't asked me, but I will.

But I don't know anything about who maybe. I didn't know I ever had to ask a Robertson for advice. I thought those opinions were freely given. She's a careway, sir. Thank you. Hey, A.N. Ann was here yesterday, too. I love A. Your sister's a delight.

She's out in the lobby. Is she really? We ought to bring A. She can have my seat. I love A'N Ann Ann. She is quality people. Didn't she used to live across street from Mac and Mary? No.

A. N's never lived here. Texas. She's a Texas. Yeah, she's a Texas girl. Because I had an A&N when I was a kid, and I can't remember who it was your sister. Well, it wasn't my A.N. My sister. But she lives in Tyler, Texas. Ain't Ann is kind of like. She's a Texan now. She's a Texan, but she kind of like the McRib and Christmas tree cakes. When A. A. Ann starts showing up, you know it's duck season. I mean, that's just what it is.

Like there's certain little things you can mark off when, you start seeing A&A hang around. That's because Kay needs some company because ain't none of us around anymore. That's right. You got to have somebody stay up till 10, 30, 11 talking to all night long. 12 o'clock, thank you. Did y'all stay up until midnight last night? She don't. I do.

What are y'all? A couple, just girls gossiping? Not out. No, I'm watching a little TV. Not out. Okay, if you're looking for something to do at midnight, I got a couch for you. Uh-oh. Get up with them babies.

You don't have to get up if you staying up to midnight. You just stay up with them. Look, here's what I, when I was, Alan was, a baby and I was so stupid because I was just you know young wasn't I sigh about 17 and I got up to get it to warm them bottle we did not have that what y'all have now we had glass bottles only nothing else and you had to put the milk in it and just warm it up you know on the stove like we didn't have a microwave so you just put it on there put a little water and boil it and got the bottle warm that's pretty much what I do except they're not glass yeah well these were glass

And me and Alan were sitting, I was holding him doing that, and I just fell asleep. And the next thing I heard this loud blow-up noise where that bottle popped and went to the ceiling. Oh, it doesn't been in there too long. You reckon? Got too hot. You reckon? Got too hot. I'm just glad the loud noise wouldn't.

I was head bouncing off the ground, even though it would explain a lot. Phil said, what was that explosion? I said, well, if you want to stay up with him and feed this bottle, no, no, I'm going to bed. He goes. He was so much not help, not good help. He's just in the way. I said, we're teenagers with the baby. You've got to help me some.

No, I don't know anything about babies. I'm going duck hunting. I've got to get my rest. There you go. Father of the year. I said, there you go. Yeah, Alan said it was a miracle. I'm still alive.

Bless his heart. Oh, he's thriving now. Poor, sweet owl. Yeah. He hadn't gone without any food. Oh, I'm sorry. It was just sitting there. It was back on it.

Well, I'll tell you what, he didn't get fat except on good food. Now, I know people that eat crap food and then they, I mean, at least every roll and pound I got come from delicious good food. Amen. Amen. Yeah. I'll hit you, boy. I see some people what they eat. You're responsible for about 30 of this.

Yeah, I am. I mean. And not just you. A lot more people. Yeah. Everything Gobwin's shedding right now, you did to him. Yep. I'll watch that 50 pounds come on.

You gave Gobwin diabetes. What? Sorry. I'm sorry. There you go. Well, it's just so good. Who could not eat it? I mean, it's really hard.

I'm with you. Look, I said sorry. I never realized until we moved up here how much work Kay did in a day for us. Like just the workers. I never, you never, because it was just lunchtime. You didn't think nothing of it. You didn't think nothing of what she was in there cooking for you the whole time. You never, because you was working.

And I didn't have a lot of money. I didn't have a lot of money. I had to do it on a budget. Yeah. And you fed us well. I did. Fed myself well to him. The golden years of that coming in.

The pay wasn't, wasn't that much. hey, the benefits for excellent. The lunch was solid, game. Seinfeld tells that story about when he called you, you know, to come work for him. Yeah. I asked him, I said, well, you're going to pay me. He said, pay ain't much, but he said, the benefits are big time. He said, the first rule of benefits is you got it on every day.

I said, I like that. Free lunch. That's right. And then you get a big meal at lunch every day. I said, okay, that's good. That's good. And then with me, I actually get a nap every day. So, hey, that was good.

Phil said, when can you be here in about three days or so? I mean, like, move in it and feels like, can you be here in about three days? I said, I'll be there Monday. And this was Friday or Saturday. Maybe Saturday. Yeah, Saturday. I mean, you wouldn't believe that he was ever poor. In fact, I know it because I was there.

And so I know that he, how were you like 10 when I started coming in 10 or 11 or something like that? Yep. Young love. Oh, yeah. And see, I love the big family. because I only was like my sister and I are so far apart. I was kind of like an only child. You and A.N.A.N.

Yeah. How far apart are you? They called me the little princess. And the bad part was that she had to really work at our store all the time. And guess what I did at our store all the time? I entertained the old people. I had a place over there by the heater. So do you have a K now in your life?

Who entertains you? A lot of people. How did you entertain the old people at the grocery? She did little advances. Let me talk. Okay. We had the biggest grocery store. The middle of it was the grocery store.

Sy, you remember it, don't you? The grocery store, and then on the right was the hardware with the feed and all that. And on the left was, I think they called it mercantile or something. Well, we had bolts of material, thread and all that, and, like, presents you could give for us. a wedding shower night. We had that part. So right when you're going from the grocery to over there,

there was a rigged space where you had that old time of heater. You know where you put your hands up there and it easily burn up a child if they got too close. But I'm telling you, we sat there. Just burn up a child. We had some chairs around

and all the old people would come sit in the chairs. Round out of a heater. And that's a K, Katie, or whatever they call me, that said, come tell us some stories. And I'm telling you, I told more made-up stories. They usually had animals in them, but they didn't care what I told.

I just entertained them. And that was my job. And then my sister had to, like, work her butt off. She had to actually cut meat and cheese and sell stuff and work as a cashier. I didn't even know how to work the cashier thing. I didn't know Anne was a clerk and a butcher. Oh, yeah, she worked hard. She worked her tail off.

And then she said over there entertaining the old people. Maybe you are Robertson. Well. Hey, some stuff is starting to make sense. And sound real familiar. Yeah. Sit on your butt tell stories and everybody else worked. Hey.

Yeah, I've always. That didn't rub off on any of her children. Imagine if you'd have known sigh back then. Y'all could have had a punching Judy show. Yeah. I'm going to see a pattern here, man. Well, I'm going to tell you something. I'm kind of allergic to real hard physical work.

There you go. Amen. I can entertain. I'm right to tell where you, Kay. I can entertain. And so can you, you entertain all. Y'all are my heroes.

Oh, praise God. No wonder Phil kept you all around. That was it. He's so serious. He needed some lightheartedness in his life. Good grief. Talk about opposites of track. Yeah.

Yeah, my mother said, why do you have to follow love with a poor boy like that? And I said, you can't help who you follow him. I've heard that story before. Don't worry. Cora's parents said the same thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it went on down to the kids. Yeah, why does this keep repeating in this family?

This is weird. Well, you can't help who you follow love with. And besides, I guess there needed to be a. that time in my life when I learned how to be poor. It wasn't fun, but it was, we made it. There you go. You made it. Yeah, I went from.

And speaking of making it, you've made it 50 years in this company. That's wild. This is the 50th year. Are you kidding? I don't know how that is because you're only 51. That's true. That's wild. No, I'm not ashamed of my age.

74. Seventy-four. How old are you, size? 74. Well, goodnight. I thought you were younger than that. Nope. We're right there together, Kay.

Well, you just seemed young. We're not on each other 74 years. I guess I was more matured when I was your age. I'm just now getting to maturity. He's peaking. I'm just now getting there. About a month, maybe two months ago, a bunch of stuff showed up at this office. From my old store.

I got a question for you. What are you going to do with it? Yeah, that's exactly right. That's my question for you, not for me. I'm storing it for you. I just want to know what we're supposed to do with it. Well, your boss. Yeah.

I asked him, could I do that? Mm-hmm. And he said, yeah. Okay. And I said, I don't know what we're going to do with it. And he said, well, I'll find something. I was just wondering if you had developed a plan yet. That's all I was kidding about.

We should open a store. Hey, Nand really wants to see that stuff, though. So next time I'm up here, Show it to her. All she got to do is walk around. I've got it stacked. Aren't you both here right now? Yeah, that's right.

Maybe we can look at it after we're quit through working. I've got it put everywhere it'll fit for you. Well, you know, just think how many years. That's a lot of years. The hoarding tendencies are coming to Duck Commander. Yeah, the reason I ask that question is because Corey come up here yesterday asking what that stuff was. Apparently Willie went rogue on that move and didn't tell her about. Well, Mom, when you're going to be a lot of her about it.

Mom ask you to do something, there's one answer. Yes. And then you explain it to your wife later or. Or you just avoid. Hope she doesn't notice for a few months. Or you just avoid and then I have to explain to your wife what it is. And I really don't know. So, you know, I was just flying by the seat of my pants.

It's history. That's what it is. It's history. What was the name of that store? Carol Ways. Carol Ways. That's a good name. That's my maiden name.

Carraway's grocery store, mercantile, laundromat, and auto service apparently came. A little bit of everything. No, all down and no laundry. If you need to hear a story, we got a kid in the corner that'll tell you. And hey, that's right. Put a nickel in the jar. Every day I walked from school to Carraway's grocery. I loved it.

And then what's real funny, though, is I didn't even like candy, which I could get all I wanted. But I did, I was kind of, I loved ice cream sandwiches and stuff like the ice cream. And then we had a big old thing this big that had those big cookies like that big. I don't even know what kind they were, but you just reached in and got a cookie, and I did like those. But all my friends would just be stuff in their pocket with the candy. Grocery stores were so cool back then.

Oh, they really were. Why don't you start a new one? As much as you love grocery stores, we got all the stuff. We got all the stuff. I told you, I'm allergic to real physical labor. Well, I didn't say you had to do anything. I just said opening it. You just sit in a chair of point and tell others.

You got enough grandkids, great-grandkids, and all the lot to keep that thing employed. Hey, put a heater in it and break a bunch of chairs and, hey, go back to. Yeah, go back to entertaining people. Show up every day from 11 to 1 and just entertain people. I could do that, and I could make up as many stories as I did back then. And you could probably con side and showing up from like two to three to take the afternoon shift. There you go, boy, telling people stuff. Get a Shetland pony up here.

Yeah, you remembered my Shetland Pony. Oh, no, I remember it. His name was Tony the Shetland pony. Tony the Shetland pony. Hey, that's the rhyme, boys, if you didn't catch it. You had a pony? Yeah. Well, he was a cowgirl.

You did have money, didn't you? Oh, no. She was a cowgirl. And guess what color he was, pinto, like, you know, spotted. Oh, like a pinto bean. Pinto bean, boys. Yeah, spotted. Tony, the Shetland pony. And look, I would get on him.

I wish we had that picture. It was cool. Hey, did you get it for Christmas? A pony? Yeah, I guess it was. I can't remember exactly me getting it because I was young. But I do know, we tied it up to a little tree, a little bush thing, and he would eat. And I was Annie Oakley, and I would run.

And I did learn how to jump on the pony from the back. Can you believe I could ever do that? And on the side and I'd go all around the pony. I do everything. And I'd just be doing this. But I wasn't moving. He was just eating. But I replayed that I was Annie Oakland, and I did all that.

And that's the honest truth. Every bit of it. She said I was moving, but he wouldn't. Oh, Annie Oakland, a shark shooter. I didn't use a gun. Only you had a pony. But I was pretending in my, I probably had a stick. The stick was a gun or something.

Oh, praise God, for that one line. I was moving, but he wasn't. He was just eating. We have that picture in the tour of her on the pony. Thank you. I've got proof. Put that on the YouTube video. Put the picture of Ms. Kay on a pony.

I can't find it on the internet. We'll go take a picture of it up on the wall. Well, say, my grandpa used to plow and Tony plowed. And I wrote it. Tony the pony? He plowed. He plowed. And I was on Tony, and Tony went up and down the road.

It was fun. He wasn't looming, but I wasn't. Uh-huh. Oh, man. I'll tell you, talking about the old days. I'm not going to recover from that. Speaking about the old days, so you used to wave at everybody, too.

We'd set my grandma swings out there, and everybody went by. They waved at you, and you waved at them. Every time. That was back when the country was friendly. Yeah. I'm serious. We didn't even know.

half the people. Yeah. We just waved. Well, there was only 20 people in Vivian. It wasn't Vivian. It was Ida. Ida. It didn't have about four.

That's a lot. They were all caraways. That's right. All caraways was that. No, that's not even what we came for originally. We came from a place called Hall Summit or Ringo or somewhere like that. I've been there once. But my grandpa on my mother's side,

Now, he was like a French descent, and he was like Cajun talking. Pappy. Something happened when Ida was in the news a while back. It was a hurricane. No, no. It's in the top of Louisiana. No, no, I don't know. Outa Luliana was in the news the other day.

I'm serious. It was something bad. Well, Sa, why didn't you tell me that? You know what? Well, hey, I'm serious. It happened here a couple weeks ago. It was in the news, and it was something bad. I think it was Ada, not Ida.

No, either. IDA. What? Well, I don't know why I didn't know about it. But we had the biggest store that ever was in either. Tinker used to live there. That was my best buddy in high school. I know.

He's my cousin. He passed away, though. Well, see, I didn't know that. Only 53. And he hadn't been married no time. He just, I thought he was going to be an old. Oh, no. He married a Russian woman, too, didn't he?

A Russian opera singer. Yeah. Sure it did. Hey, sure did. A man named Tinker married a Russian timeout. No, no. We got to take a break. We got to take a break.

We got to go back to this. I got to reset because I'm still stuck on, I was moving, but he wasn't. He was just eating. Let's take a break. Tinker. And we're going to come back and talk about Tinker. That's right. He was tied to a wood.

I don't know how it took us 190-something episodes to get to Tinker, but Tinker, you're in. All right. We'll be back. All right. Martin. So, Tinker. We called him Tinkerbell. Tinkerbell.

Oh, I did. Not calling it. Oh, Lord. But first, time out. Oh. Is that Tony the Pony? That's him. Is that you?

That's me and my grandpa. Look at Annie Oakley. That's it, boy, Danny Oakley. Look at that. Do I have on chaps or something? Hey, you got the whole outfit. Hey, Calder. Let me tell you something.

Hey, you got the whole outfit. That's me. That is unbelievable. I told you. And look, I wore that hat to church. My mom would be so mad. And then she made me hang it out there with the men's hats. I can see why you were the entertainment at the store.

Look at that outfit. It's making more sense now. Yeah. Look at the outfit. And look at that little grin. That little grin spells nothing but mischiveness. That's it. That's it.

I can't believe y'all have that picture. Your parents were trying to figure out how they kept losing money. Kay just kept slinging candy in her friend's pockets. That's what that little grin showed. But there's Tony. Tony, the pinto pony. Tony the pinto pony. Yeah, and then whenever she met Phil and started dating,

she would put a bunch of stuff from the store in the car. I figured out several thousand dollars worth of food I brought to y'all's family. Can we go back to that pony picture real quick? Oh, yes, sir. I need to look at something. I'm trying to do the math of how Kay jumped from the ground. on to that pony. That's right.

You were a little older, weren't you? I was older, and I had a little bitty thing I jumped on for you. Who's that behind? Oh, you had your little cheater step? Yeah. It was like a stump. Well, who's that behind you in the photo? That's her granddad.

My grandpa. Pop-Paul. That's Paw-Paul. Not to be confused with Pappy, who was a Cajun. He was the other side. He was my mama's daddy. Papa was my daddy's daddy. And he was the one that,

love to garden and do all that stuff. Hey, that's face it, Kay, you was four rotten. Rotten. You had a pony. You had nice clothes. The only reason I had a store. Yeah, you had a store. But look, I stayed half my life mostly with my grandmother,

and I never in my life heard her nanny. Yeah. I never heard her yell in my life. She was just gentle. She was the sweetest grandmother ever. That's right. She looked kind of like. be on Andy.

Nan looks a lot like her. Yeah. And does. Yeah, and does. You're right. She's sure. With her hair. She's a hoot.

Nanny was a hoot. Well, what I don't understand is Phil wants me to keep my hair dark and look younger. But what do I have to say about him? What? I mean, he can just look any way he was. We don't even want to know that. Here's what I'll tell you, Kay. Here's what I'll tell you.

He's not here. You can say whatever you like. What would you like say about him? Well, I love him. I think he married me for my money. We did, Kay. We did. I didn't know you were going to come along with the deal either.

I talked him into it. Oh, a package deal. Well, if I got him, I had to get you, so there wasn't a... They had a family meeting. I said I got an idea, Phil. You know, okay? So I said, I see that ship right now. It's called a caraway, boys.

Here's what I remember. A caraway mercantile, boys. Yeah, I told him. I said, hey, this ship is already landing and unloading, boy, every time she comes here. Well, you know why? We'd go out, remember when we sain bait out of the creeks or whatever they were out there? You remember that?

And we got all the things for it filled to put on the trot line that goes in the river. Well, he made me and you, like I had to walk this way, and he was up there. And I told him one day, I said, I think I felt a snake or something. You're Annie Oakley. You know what he said? He said, that thing won't hurt you. I said, how do you know? You didn't even see what it was.

And he said, well, you didn't get bit, so just keep holding on. Keep signing. Keep signing. Yeah. I said, I don't know if I signed up for the right program here. Her daddy had a place on Black Bowl, okay, had boats and everything. Yeah. Cedar Cinder Block.

Yeah. So we'd go fishing, and Kay and Phil would be in a pee row. And who was paddling? And Kay was the motor. No motor paddle. And that's why she's now allergic to hard physical labor. No, no, no, I'm serious. Because, hey, it was so funny.

Kay didn't the back boat, paddled, and Phil said, oh, wait, give me that type of trail where, you know, and he's bad fishing. Well, we went through some low limbs, and I just fell out of the boat. and Phil said, quit rocking that boat. And I said, I'm in the water. Get me out of here. You fell in, he said, quit rocking the boat? Yeah.

Phil and lost his lower unit, didn't even know. That's a true story if I ever know. Oh, happy Thanksgiving, everybody. So I just have, since we're up against it on our time, Tinker, how did he meet the Russian opera singer? Please, tell me how a man named Tinker from I. Louisiana meets a Russian opera singer. Okay.

He had a job that required him to work. And I don't know what kind of was, but he had to go to other countries. No, no, he went to other countries. So like oil or pipeline or something? I would say it may be in that line. Yeah, probably. Yeah. I'd say it be in that line.

I wish I had the details. But his sister is still my cousin. And I visit her and I'd and stay with her whenever me and I go over there to visit. But see, we thought he's just, we called. him old bachelor and all that and he went to russia and met this girl opera singer and at 53 he gets married good looking thing too i'm talking about yeah and she still is in adam oh okay the russian yep yeah there's a russian op because ida's population is 214 so one of those yeah as a russian opera singer opters it's like a magical place but see you're only 30 miles from streetport this way

Texarkana there so you're not far from something that's magical you know Monroe West Monroe small when you say any 30 minutes from something talking about Shreveport and Texarkana that's just you know you spend a long time on a riverbank thing oh if you blink you miss flat yeah but there's a rush we were so proud of that one red light you know what sign one red light we finally got it and then see we We used to have a train come through there, but we lost the train. It don't come through there no more. Train it out, boys.

Yep. Oh, man. Well, wow. Well, happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I'm so thankful for you, Kay. I'm grateful for this episode. Well, you know, see, this is what I did as a child, entertain those old people, and I just sat there and shot the ball all the time, and they loved it.

They were so lonely. Hey, I'd buy meat and cheese if you had it right now. So I'd give you everything. That's Wilson Winnie's, I saw. Go give me a hot dog off the roaster. That's fine. I generally shy away from gas station and grocery store hot dogs, but you know what? You got me.

But we were the biggest store in town, don't you remember? Well, haven't you heard? What's right? I'm going to guess that you were the only store in town, but being the biggest is cool, too. You're right. but we had a library what the store he had a little library

the store or the town no the town had a little library oh i thought the store also was a library that's what i'm saying it's like beer bay and ammo like they got hardware they got groceries they got women's stuff and men stuff it was a hangout do they have dapper d'an i don't think so did y'all sell oh no well they probably had it did y'all sell beer two weeks no alcohol no alcohol i'll I didn't know.

Dry county. Dry county. My dad, he found some somewhere because he drank one or two every day. Every once in a while somebody just brings some shine in. Everybody had a party then. No, what killed us was our eggnog. I told you shine. No, I tell you, they mixed it up because they put three-fourths of the bottle of Old Crow.

Uh-oh. And then with the eggnog and something was real wrong with that. Boy, I hope Old Crow was better then than it is now. Oof Well, I take that ain't eggnog, that's whiskey. Yeah, that's just a whiskey drink. No, but it has a milk base because that was the eggnog, and I try to drink something.

And that's where the Russian comes in. I thought I was going to choke to death. Hey, yeah. Man, well, what happened? Boy, the Russians moved in and brought the vodka. That was way before the Russians, I. Well, hey, there you go.

This is the most confusing show. If y'all are driving and listening to this, I understand if you had to pull over. Because, wow. I, yeah. Well, let's take our last break and let's figure out where these last 10 minutes are going to go. So we'll be back right after this. Well, we're having so much fun.

Martin has left. I broke a microphone into two pieces. Which you'll have to pay for. Which I will pay for. And Martin went and swapped seats. Ain't Ann is in the house. My sister, my one and only sister. Yep.

Disatoo. Wasn't it true that I was alert? to physical work. Oh, very definitely from an early age. She was our princess and did all the entertaining while I worked at the store. She worked her butt off. That's what we've been told,

that you was the one that actually really run the store? Oh, well, I don't know about running it, but I sure worked there for a lot of years. And she hasn't been in here, so she didn't know that's what we already talked. Kay's admitted she's allergic to physical age. Oh, she always admits it because she knows it's true. She does.

So is there really, did she just sit outside on the pony? No, in the store, I sit over there where the heater was, talking to all the old women, tell them. She entertained them. She had all these stories that she sort of made up. Yeah, made up as she went along. No one was she sitting in good with the Robertsons. That's right, see?

Yeah. No wonder I fell in love with the field. Now, he, on the other hand, was a hard worker. Because remember, all the boys had to work on the oil field, on the oil rig with your daddy, right? Well, except me. Except you. You know why you were too skinny? Well, no, no, because it was too dangerous.

They tried me and told me, okay, you want to work in the derrick, which is the top of the rig. You know, are you going to work down here, you know, with all the other guys? So I tried it. No. Well, I don't know. They all had to work to provide food. What did you do? Just steal food or something?

Well, no, no. I worked in the hayfield. They went to the oil field, you know, filling them. So I ended up taking their job in the hayfield. Well, I think, though, that they didn't have a choice. Well, no, no. Yeah. Well, we were all.

Was Tommy the Derek man? Huh? Didn't he go to the top? Well, Tommy may have done that. I didn't do it. I didn't like anything where it's slippery. I don't want to be up high. Yeah.

Okay. Well, it's my understanding. Everything about that oil rig was dangerous. No, no. It is. It is. Yeah. No, so all field work.

Not only that, that was like you. Okay. That's way too much physical labor. Okay. It's all about using your muscle. I knew me and say I had a lot in common. I didn't know that. That is true.

So I have a question for A&NN on that. What did you think when she started hanging out with Phil and Cy of these jokers? Well, I was too interested in my own love life to worry about her. Okay. So you weren't worried about all the Robertson mischips. Well, see, now she's eight years younger than me. Okay. All I was to her as a kid was a brat that stole her stuff.

A pest who got, as I found out later, when I would leave the house, she would get in my closet where all my shoes and I'm getting your drawers all your drawers check them out and the funniest thing I remember doing when she come home on a date and was kissing her boyfriend goodbye I got a spotlight

I got a spotlight and shined it and then she would run and tell mom and dad on me now you wonder why I didn't like her when she was little now I understand the little princess deal here oh yeah

Yes, very much. But I wasn't ugly. I was a likable brat. You were a likable brat. Likeable brat. And says, well, maybe. Well, that's, you know, it's a matter of a bit. No, I think it's because I stayed with my grandma so much, and she was quiet and kind.

And, you know, she was just like Aunt B. Yeah. She did remind me of her. I never saw her. Yeah. And so I stayed with her, and I never heard. heard her holler in my life. Never. She never raised her voice.

Never raised her voice. No, I told him she's the sweetest grandmother I've ever known. Oh, she was very different. Always cooking. You walked in and saw the food. The whole town, okay, all, you know, never, a unkind word toward Nanny.

No, no, not Nanny. So Kay spent all her time up there playing and Yeah. Learning how to cook. You know what I got, this boy called me when I was in the eighth grade. And I was like, I was a child, like I wasn't even thinking, you know, being a teenager or nothing, I was kind of behind that way. And he called to see if I wanted to meet him at the bowling alley.

And I was like, really? Like, you're called to ask me to meet you at the bowl now? And I was, and at the time I was playing paper dolls. Yeah. and all my paper dolls spread up. And then I said, well, I'll check and see if I can. I'll call you back. So I went in there and I grabbed all those paper dolls and put them in a box.

And I said, I don't want these anymore. And then I told my grandmother, get rid of them. And then I told my grandma, I said, don't get rid of them. Just hide them in the closet. She said, okay. Okay, and back to your love life. How did you end up in Texas? Well, see, I went to Northwestern.

And I met my husband there. Okay. And Nackettish. Yeah, Nacch, Louisiana. And I went, oh, three and a half years. Well, he was going in the Army and moving. So I wasn't going to be left behind. So I quit college after three and a half years and followed him.

That was dumb. You could dis-such and you had a college. Okay. What was you majoring in? Business. Business. Uh-huh. Okay.

Well, business education. only because our dad insisted that that was the best job for a woman. Okay. I didn't want to teach, never wanted to teach, but I had the major in business education. Okay. But I never used that because I always just did, I was a secretary. So I didn't know your husband, what was his name again? Wade.

Wade? Yeah. Okay, he was a military man. Yeah, he was going straight into the military. So we got married and moved to Augusta, Georgia. Any children? Yeah, we have two. Okay.

girls. Well, we did. I lost my oldest, but I still have one left. Yeah. So how long did Wade stand in the military? I think four years. He wanted, he'd always planned on making it a career. But every time he had applied, and he was military police. And they would say, welcome to the 82nd Airborne. Okay. He was airborne too. Okay. No, he didn't want Airborne, and he refused. So he tried it again, and they same thing, welcome to 82nd Airborne. And he said, well, bye. They was trying to make him go airborne. They were trying to make him go airborne.

He didn't want it. So then he went from that and we ended up in the oil field for 30 years. Okay. So that's how I ended up in Texas. Okay. That's where all the money is, boys. Oh, yeah, there it is. I thought all the money was at Carraway General Store.

Well, it was in that town. Yeah. We were rich. Yeah, we were. They were the richest people in town, I think. Well, you've got to realize a town of 100 people, you know, and the only store. Yeah, it don't take much to be rich in a small store.

I like a monopoly. I like a monopoly. I like a monopoly. They had good entertainment at that store. And one hard worker and a little entertainment on the side. A little entertainment. Well, a business degree, you learned more at a store like that probably growing up than you could have in college.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I wasn't really interested. Like I say, all I wanted to do was be a secretary, and that's what I ended up. All right. I didn't even know how to run the cash register. She didn't want to either. Nope.

No desire. But I knew how to go back there and get me some Wilson, winters, and cheese. Yeah, you did that. I lived off of that. Bologna was so fresh. And you learned how to entertain and cook. Yep. And look at you now.

Yep. I'm still cooking. And I guess entertaining. And entertaining, too. Yep. And you know what? I wanted to marry a hunter and a fisherman. Because our daddy did that.

Mm-hmm. And I got that too. But he was kind of a rotten egg for about 10 years. Hey, Ann, I got one more question for you. Okay. Do you see the script up on the screen? Do you remember that horse? Oh, yes, that's Tony.

Tony the pony. That was Kay's horse. And he never, he was always tied up. you know, never loose. And she would just ride that horse with her cowboy hat on and just play like she was riding it. I was Annie Oakley, don't you know? Yeah, Annie Oakley. Speaking of Annie Oakley.

Oh, there she is with her hat. Yep, yep. That's me. How'd y'all get them pictures, man? I'm a man of a particular set of skills, Ms. Kay. I see it now. See, she pretended. She had Tony, and she pretended, but I,

I ended up, and I was the one that actually had horses and rode. Yeah, and tell them what you nearly killed me then. I did. I was supposed to be babysitting her one day, and I wanted to go riding, and I had strictly been told, no, as long as she came. Well, she raced. She didn't just ride. She raced the stupid horse.

We were wide open out in a field, and the horse stumbles. She thought we were at the Kentucky Derby, and I said, you're going to kill me. You're going to kill me. And I just about did. The horse stumbled and we went over the... Oh, my word. Yeah. My nose bled for an hour.

Oh, did I get in trouble for that? And she told me, she said, I'll kill you. And she egged it on, see. She said, I'll kill you if you tell mama. And she walked in the door and I said, Anne tried to kill me today. Yeah. So you just went straight on to Tattletail mode. Exactly.

Always. Always. Yeah, anything she could tattle on me for, she would do it. Oh my goodness. Well, we're running out. I wish we had another episode. A. Ann, you are welcome in this room with Miss Kay anytime. Thank you very much.

And you know I love to do it. Oh, Thanksgiving episode 2022, easily one of my favorites ever. I'm going to send us out of here with a Bible verse. First Thessalonians 518, give thanks in all circumstances for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. I hope your Thanksgiving table is as much fun as this room was today. Martin's been over here, cracking

up, laughing to the side. Miss Kay, A. N, Ann, thank you for being here. We'll catch y'all next time. Happy Thanksgiving. Bye. Bye. Been a pleasure.