Duck Call Room - Willie Robertson & His Ex-Assistant Are Rocking Mullets Now

Episode Date: May 25, 2023

Willie & John-David are eager to show off their matching mullets! Which inspires Si to relive the terrible haircuts of his childhood and military career. Martin and Willie discuss the importance of projects like Willie’s latest endeavor “His Story: The Musical” since going door-to-door, even to share the Gospel, can be dangerous these days. Willie spent the morning welcoming his 6th grandchild into the world, a fact that deeply impresses Martin! Si uses his hard-earned bragging rights to taunt Willie about the recent poker game where Si went home with pockets full of Willie’s money. Plus, what about that time Korie saved Willie from a potentially dangerous encounter with a stalker?? Vote for "Unashamed" as K-LOVE's podcast of the year by FRIDAY 5/26: https://www.klovefanawards.com/vote -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yeah, we're back. Welcome back to the duck call room, ladies and gentlemen. We are, we have reached a new high of the number of mullets in our studio today. We've had one here before. I didn't know that's what you were going for. Huh? Oh, now he's acting like he didn't. So.

Hey, don't be jealous. Mine's way better. A former right-hand man walked in with this dude and said he had no idea. That that's what you were going for. That's what I did three months ago. That's how you introduced it to me was a mullet, so I don't. I just thought you were letting your hair grow back out. Well, yeah.

Well, yeah. In the back of. When you can see skin on the sides, that's the first sign of a mullet. You cut yours yourself? No. I get it professionally done. Just whack it. It's done.

I look like he went a little heavier on the right to the left. Who knows? It was late. 10.30, I was bored. I said, I'm going to cut my beard. Then I was like, this is a lot of hair. I'm going to cut it too. But then I couldn't see the back.

And I was like, might as well try it. You didn't think about the fact that I had a mullet as well. No. Okay. Never crossed my mind. Because I remember when you came over the house before I hired you 10 years ago. That was long ago. Like 20.

No. No, when I hired him. 20 years ago, he was like a child. Plus 13. No, 30, 14. Oh. Now, when he comes over, he's, you know, he's got like a short, little haircut and no beard. And then...

That's not true. Did he have pants on? Yeah. I had on the ear back then. He has a gigantic beard. Now, you didn't have that massive thing. Well, it had to grow. So then everything grew out.

And then when you moved on to your next profession, you shorned everything. You looked all clean. I'm doing that, though. Now I look up, and you've got a ginormous mullet. When I left the store a minute ago, I'm just going to say you're welcome. Three mullets in the store. I mean, I think what it goes to show you is you are very much an influencer. Maybe, yes.

How does that make you? Here I am claiming this, and, like, me and you look like we're on a 13-year-old travel baseball team, so, like, I don't know who's following who. So we may be really late to the party. 13-year-old traveled. But I am living out what I wanted to do when I was 14, and my mom wouldn't, which is weird. Now I think back, it's not that she wouldn't let me have a, nobody cared what your hair,

she wouldn't take me to get it cut. Just do it yourself. Well, we didn't have the resources. You grew up with your own bedroom, with your own furniture and all that. We grew up. You didn't have scissors? In a shack with nothing sharp to cut our own hair.

No scissors. Nothing without fish guts. Well, no, I mean. Every knife they had. It wasn't until I met a friend in school who could cut hair that I started getting that. But I didn't have this, like, I wanted this full big thing. And back when it was really hot, like, back when it was like 89. Back when Billy Ray was Billy Ray.

Billy Ray. And I did get that I looked like Billy Ray. In fact, I went to his hometown somewhere in Kentucky. and they were like, you got to go to this Applebees because they're going to think it's him. But I was, I had a lot of people think I look like, well, we can't just brush over this. Applebees?

Billy Ray Cyrus? That's where apparently when he goes, it's somewhere north, east Kentucky, I don't know, somebody I'm sure. To be fair. Makes a lot of sense. And somebody said when he's in town, he goes to, I'm pretty sure it's the Applebee's,

I don't. Must be trying to have family dinner. I wonder if he gets his bourbon steak with onions and mushroom. I like think of it. I was in college, so that was like way back in the, that was back in the day. You had a mullet in college? Yeah, I mean, of course he did. Not a big one.

Not a full grown one. I think they need to come back. Well. Because you could just, because normally I cut my, I've cut my own hair. You cut my hair a couple times just for funzies. We get bored and my hair changes. That's because it'll grow back. What'd your wife say?

So she went to bed, and then I had nothing to do, and basketball was off the TV, and I was like, I guess I'll go trim my beard up. And then I was looking at it, I was like, might as well cut my hair too. And I was like, I always cut a mullet anyway. You always start. Yeah, you always, when you got long hair and you cut it, you do something ridiculous. It's like when. And then I just stop. It's like when restaurants don't have unsweet tea.

I'm like, that's where it started. It started there, and then you sweeted it. So you had it at one point. You had it, and then you left it. You possessed the ability. You possessed the ability. I'm sorry, we don't have that, you know. So then...

You did. But now you don't. But sugar in. You know, I've been here for 308. So you hung on to it. But when she woke up and when you're born and routine... What did she say? Hey, she goes, are you filming me right now?

That was her exact... That's the only thing she said. And then she started laughing. I said, I mean, I got a... She liked it? I don't believe so. She doesn't. He said, I love you and you're terrible.

I mean, it doesn't mean your marriage is over. I mean, golly, I do. I mean, she still loves you, you know. Yes, but she said, and your mullet. So I don't think she meant that she loves it. So here's my question for you. If she doesn't like it, do you cut it off and please her? She did say she might go on strike, which, yeah, then it's,

gone. Wow. Now I'm just the opposite. If Corey says I hate that, I'm like, then get used to it. So she didn't like it. And so she goes, how long are you going to keep that? I'm like, I don't know. You still not like it?

So I'm just the opposite. But I'll just give you time for it to grow on you. I think you should grow a mullet, sir. No, I ain't growing a boat. I mean, you already caught it. Well, he had like a. Most of mine's falling out. So I ain't worth it.

Like a, I honestly, he had like a whiskey. Skulletron. You need mature mullet. I'm pretty sure mine and size times have passed a grow mullet. Did you ever have one? No. Not even as a kid? Mm-mm.

No, I had lines cutting my hair, aerodynamics, you know. Or you could be faster in the husky section. That way you could get to those 38s first. But I'll say this. When I was like 14, my hair did not grow as good as it grows now. Like, it wasn't as full. I got a lot. The more mature I got, the more.

because my mullet in like my senior picture was a mullet but everything grew to the right so it was like nice mullet on the right zero on the left kind of like size beard wait I have a bubble off but a mirror but a mirror image but it wasn't until I grew up my hair out there and it was curly

I thought I had straight hair how would you know until you grew it out kept it short for a lot of times you've had a lot of interesting hairdors though I mean you've had well I still got it I'm just going to keep messing with it. You've went bleach blonde, you've had frosted tips. The bleach blonde was pretty

recent. Yeah, I know. I did that last year? Last Halloween or something. And then it stayed for a while. That stayed until it grew out. Yeah, it had a lot more staying power than I thought. Yeah, I thought that was like a party thing. Make a Mohawk. I've had a Mohawk. I always

one of one. I never did quite pull. Oh, no. Growing up, every summer, that's what we got, all robberses. Mohawks Mohawks Really? And I mean

It was all the way down You know So aside from summer Mohawks Have you ever had any questionable haircuts? No You're a military man

So they kind of Controlled what you did For most of your life They are And they're not very nice About cutting your hair either They're mean about it? Oh

Well they just Hey One guy sat down in a chair Next me And they just And hey He had one of big warts On top of head

just blood everywhere. Zip it off? Oh no. It's blood spurting everywhere. Hey. Yeah. My man said blood everywhere. Oh, no.

I'm sitting in this chair. He's on that one and the guy just as soon as he plops down. He just shaved the ward off. Yeah. And hey, I mean, it was a chunk of meat. I mean, this was a big wart. You know, and it was blood spurting all over the play. That's good grief.

The Army didn't care. Oh, no. No, that's like when you lined up, you'd be in a line, and they'd tell you, don't flinch. You know, and they're using its air, I don't know what you'd call it. An air compressing? Not a regular syringe.

This was air control. Oh, giving you your shots, your immunization and all that. One guy, they said don't flinch it. He did. He done that. And it was just, hey, it was like a laser cut of them on two sides, just bleed like a stock off. Good great.

Chief. All they said was, hey, I told you, it not to flinch. Johnny D. Blinching, you wouldn't have done well in that system. They knew I wouldn't have done well in the Army with your wardy head. I don't. Well, they give you like a 20 shot. It's 20 shots, you know.

What are you? Captain America? They'll pop you with, you know. Really? You just, they both are. And all you are, you step up, hit them. And next band. I would not make it.

It ain't for the faint of heart, I got way more questions. It's amazing how normal you are taking that many shots and... Well, no, you turned out okay. I was back in the day that, hey, if they had something that they wanted to try out, hey, the Army was a... They definitely tried something out on you. They've done it, yeah.

Look, you're perfectly normal. Hey, suck it up, move on. Hey, I like that idea. We're going to move on to our first break. We'll be back right after that. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means?

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Yeah. Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's tribeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. Yours almost looks permed on the bottom. Your hair is so curly. I didn't know I had this. I know. I grew back out and I'm like, it looks intentional.

I mean, I've had this for. Yeah, he's had it a minute. Keep going to keep going. It's just getting to where I like it now. Now it's getting legit. Willie, Willie, I'm not going to say you're the only man, but you're the first man I've seen in a while go to the grand opening of something Brock and a mullet.

I mean, you're, y'all's. Yeah, we had the musical, his story of the musical in the Colony, Texas Thursday night. The mullet was in full form with a purple bandana because our color's purple. And I had purple tennis shoes. I saw you every, I noticed, I noticed the flow with the carpet, the shoes, the bandana, the backdrop. I said, my man still got it. He still, other than them curls hanging out their back. color. It took some, yeah, that one took a little couple of weeks of preparation to get that.

I wanted a purple, well, I wanted the jacket with the inside liner that matched, but I was a little too tardy on. Johnny D. back in the day would have made sure I had it on. I would have had something. These new ones, they can't pull it off. You would have some Jordan ones, purple. You had purple shoes, though. I had solid purple shoes. I did have solid purple shoes. But yeah, we opened. up it was awesome we were a little late starting but it was fun in the big tent uh in the colony texas so we yeah they and then they asked me to get up and speak right before so i walked out and i can't remember what i sang but i said i was saying something welcome to our show and then i said i just sang on a broadway stage mark that one off the last of us

resume so not on the resume right before the singers and performers got up and uh but yeah we had a great crowd uh so yeah it's fully launched and it runs about five days a week so i can't wait to go back over and see it so i've got to get you over there you got don't you have ken over there in the dallas area no okay now welcome back to the one word podcast i will attempt to answer every with only one word. Yeah. No. So how do you go to a lot of musicals?

Do what? Do you go? No. We did one. And sometimes he will put in four words. You know, I, you know, I, you know, I tried the music business. It's just a tough gig. Is that why you can't go to musicals?

Because it's too painful to think about your career. I'm just saying, hey, I've been there, seen that, done that. It ain't a big deal. The good news is if you do, you have to drive right past a place that serves the brisket in the ribs. So you can run that back again and get the meat sweats again. Hold on. Willie's here and can back. You know what he said about that brisket from Long Beach.

Guess what size, direct quote? What do you say? Oh, my. Oh, my gosh. You know where that comes from? I've heard this, I've heard this song before. So your brother, Harold, you remember how he would describe brisket? This is my uncle.

He said it was dog meat. Dog meat? Yeah, he said, that's what I feed to my dog. So he never liked brisket. So somehow in y'all's weird upbringing and poverty, somehow brisket got out like it was no good. But I don't know why. The way he was talking, y'all, you think it was something. fantastic.

It is. It was decent. Okay, no, it was decent. Okay, it was edible. Tell me what you love to eat, my 100 pound friend. Yeah, well, what is it? If you want something really good, go to Jay Stone Lake Jay Stone cookie. There it is. I mean, then, hey, then you got

something that you can say, hey, now this was really good. I thought that was, that brisket was really good. Thank you. He ate a whole styrofoam plate of it overnight. And he said, And he said it's edible. And eight racks of ribs.

Well, look, hey. Hey. But it's edible. Off the ribs all night long. So, hey, I got up hungry. So, hey, I said, hey, all the thing I know is get back on it. Yeah. Get back on that edible food.

Yeah, I've been known to wake up and try something I deemed as edible the night before for breakfast cold. Yeah. No. That's when you're like, man, that was really good. I want that again. I'm going to run that back. But I spoke somewhere. Hey, look, that's high praise coming from me.

It's edible. Okay. Yeah. You just don't want to hurt. Stone's feelings. We know what the truth is. I spoke somewhere. I was in Oklahoma City, I believe, for Life Surge and I think that was it.

And I said that when I first got to Tom Commander, I tried to fire Si. And I got booed by the entire... Don't attack that. Boat me off the stage. That Oklahoma is his little family. I got a lot of good people up at Oklahoma.

Yeah, don't attack that. I like when I said, I tried to fire up in the wrong place. That was like when I done that. at Auburn. I got up and walked out on stage, and I was in one of my goofy moods, and I grabbed up mic, and I said, roll tight.

Hey, booed me for 20 minutes. I said, hey, you need to go to Walmart and get a stupid, uh, sense of humor. A what? Personality? Yeah, personal. Personality. I said, hey, it was a joke.

Well, then I told the crowd to shut up because I said, I've inherited my role. original work cast, I inherited one guy who, and I said, he farted and bounced on the couch and slept all day. And so now you're wondering why. So, you know, I didn't know the secret sauce of Si. Under the labor deal, it was a little questionable. Raleigh TV, works very well. Works very well. I found the diamond and the rust. Hard to recognize greatness laying on that couch. Hey, the boys just didn't know what he had. guarantee you. Sometimes you just got to polish it. I mean, that's it. But it was a big week for you.

So his story, just to tie that part up, it's running in Granbury, Texas. And it's a story of Jesus, right? In musical form, that's... Yeah, it's basically, yeah, it's a musical. So it's a story, and it's, yeah, it's several songs and just some powerful, powerful messaging. It's just a different way to look at the gospel. And so when I was presented with this, no one called and said, hey, will you endorse this or we, you know, it wasn't that at all. I just, I had a friend who sent me a clip of it and said, hey, I'm working on this. What do you think? And I watched it. And I got all emotional and I was like, yeah, and I just felt like God was saying there's a different way to, to share the gospel. I mean, we can share the gospel in many ways. But then I was with a pastor there who

said the message doesn't change but our methods have to change and then I started thinking about methods we use of getting the gospel out and I don't know if y'all remember but we used to we used to knock on people's doors can you imagine today if you just started knocking on people's doors door knocking door to god imagine how many people get shot just from oh no yeah if you died today where would you go If I mean, knock it on doors today would be a dangerous thing to be done. And at one time, that was a great way of. At one time, it was a great way. And it was a way to get invited in, get a glass of tea.

Yeah. You know, I mean, that's what's wild about. What happens is it changes. And I think, you know, when you're talking about like the, you know, you're talking about the story of Jesus, which is around 2,000 years old, you know, it's just people, I think people initially like, I've heard it, you know, heard it, And so, um, so any kind of different way to get some questions ask and say, hey, well, this is, you know, this is different.

And so, uh, that's what attracted me to it. And, uh, it's just a great. And then the venue's amazing. We got that we bought this tent. Um, and then the, the ceiling doubles as a screen so we can like, it's almost like Cirque disoil, it's like a planetarium where you can have all this mood and the stage is in the round. So it's all and it spins and people are moving and, oh man, it's just, it's, Well, music has always broken all the barriers down, okay, from Jump Street. Okay, like the racist problem we've got. It's always transcended that, you know, because guys, they played music together. Yeah.

You know, they didn't care what call you. You want to sit down and let's jam. Let's get down and have some fun. So it's always been a deal. I think, yeah, I mean, the arts. Get over the barriers. Even bigger, the arts, because you've got music, but you've, got, you know, acting and singing and performing.

And, yeah, it's just, it's visually a way to tell your brain something. Different movies are like that as well. I mean, they can, you know, you can tell stories. And so, yeah, it's just exciting. So it's, it's, so we'll see. We've got to just get the word out. We've got to support it. We've got to show up and, you know, get people to see it and get people in a different.

So before we go to our second break, what a day, do you know the day's time? times all that's where people can view it. Yeah, it's like... Go to his story, the musical.com. There's three of them on Saturdays and Sundays at like 2, 4, and 6. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Wednesday, Thursday, 7, Friday's at 8.

Wow, it's way off. Saturday, 12, 4, 8, Sunday, 2 and 6, Monday's at 2. And this is a destination, like, some of you going to have to get in. That's all the vehicle and drive. There's a Ferris wheel right beside it. I believe there's a,

Jurassic World or something's coming in right beside the area is unbelievable. That's not a good idea. Has nobody seen the movies? Our 10 is dinosaur proof. Okay. It's like the dumpster that's bear-proof. This one just can survive a medium-sized T-Rex. As long as it's mediums.

But it's a destination. You just need to go. You need to go check it out. That's right about Dallas, too, isn't it? Right north of Dallas. A lot of cities in that city. Lie in, drive in, go see it. If you're in the area, go check it out. And, yeah, I think you will be moved and changed.

Cool. Awesome. Well, let's take another break. We'll be back right after this. So we're rolling into summer, and I know staying on task with things you've got coming up. We've got another sportsman's camp right around the corner. We do. Hang on. I want to correct. I want to correct. The musical history is in the Colony, Texas. Grandscape is the area. So it's not grand-scape. You've got to forgive us.

We're Monroe, West Monroe. Sometimes those lines even get blurred around here. It's like if I said it's over in Balkhamville. Yeah. Like you would know the area. But technically that may be Brownsville. I'm not sure what they're. You should put a musical in Borghumville.

There is one. In a tin. Alkenville is a musical. It's called karaoke every Thursday night. Billy Ray Cyrus. Borghumville's its own music. It sounds like police sirens and Bush Light. But anyway, no.

So yeah, we've got another sportsman's camp coming up. Excited about that out at Camp Chioca. This is our camp that we do to teach kids about hunting and everything outdoors, fishing. Giant D. He'll be there to show us some pro fishing moves. Look there, John D. He just volunteered you. No, I have been asked.

I said I'd be there. So we appreciate HoneyHell is one of our big sponsors, and so we appreciate them. I didn't know that part. they told me just speak it into existence and it'll happen so thank you thank you jadie for support and i'll get you if you came it's kind of like you said though talking about the musical though too because it gives us another way to share the gospel to these kids where they're not coming to a church camp yeah they're coming to a hunting fishing outdoors camp but rest assured with the speakers we bring in they're going to hear the gospel at least four nights a week yeah so

when they're there. Oh, that's always the focus. Yeah, we're always trying to help, you know, kids and help anyone actually get, you know, a better spiritual frame of mind if they don't know or if they have questions. And so, yeah, the environment that you're in can help a lot. And so that place is awesome because we're out in the woods. And, you know, you're doing traditional swimming and, you know, games and all kind of fun stuff. And so, but we found that, you know, even Christian camps are the biggest influence on kids' lives,

than youth group and church. And I think it's because you pull them out of the environment that they're in and you separate them from phones and distractions and maybe bad friends and other things in their live TV, internet, all these things. And they just get out in the woods and you can really focus in and hone in on their lives. And that's just, that makes a dramatic impact in kids' lives. And so I don't even think we realize how much we get, well, we as adults, we get caught up in things.

And so when you can separate from that and get away from all that. And Johnny D's been a part of even some men's retreats we have. And that's the same idea. It's a smaller level. But you're bringing guys out and separating them from their phone. And you know, you get to focus in. Slow the pace down. That's it.

And communicate between each other. Yeah. Because we get in the rat race of making a living. And then, you know, which is tough. So we're focused here. on kids. And so, and I know there's a lot of parents out there who you're trying your hardest to make sure you raise your kids right and you make sure your kids know what's right and wrong, and they make good decisions and become good adults. And so this is something that can really

help them. And so, yeah, I would encourage whoever has a kid that, you know, can come out and be a part of this. It's something that we've seen made a lot of great impacts in kids' lives and teaches them about the outdoors because I learned this, that, you know, I've hung out with 20-year-old men who don't have a clue about the outdoors. They may think they do, but then when you get out there,

they really don't know. There's some of the basics, you know, about what to do. Well, it's shocking to me. Like, every year we do it, go out there and I do some of the fishing stuff and the hunting and all that stuff, but just like tying basic knots. And I'm not talking about,

obviously the kids are, like, 12 to 18. So 12-year-old? 13 to 7. There's something like that. I knew I was close. But like the younger, yeah, okay, if you don't know how to tie a knot, not that big. But by the time you're 18 years old, I just, it seems like knot tying would have come up. And I'm not talking about specific knots.

I'm talking about just overhand, basic slip knot, just like, and they're looking at it like, now how'd you do that? And it's just wild to think that that's missing. Like that somehow they've missed that in 18 years. Yeah, but if you don't get out and outdoors. Yeah. Okay, you're like going launching a boat. So some people have no idea how to launch a boat. Oh, man.

It's one of the great past times. Go sit at a boat ramp on a Saturday and just watch. Hey, you have to. When you're living outdoors, you have things that happen that, hey, if you're not out there, you don't get involved with nothing like that. Yeah. You're stuck? And I think, yeah, if you grow up in it, like me inside the,

Martin did. If you grow up in the outdoor. I knew it was coming. I knew it was coming. Well, no, no, could look like it. My dad's only wanted a tackle shop for 20 years. I've got no clue. Four or five years old, okay.

You know, I was in a log cabin. Me too. Hey. It was nice. News place. They serve. Hey, John David had those toys, too. He had the log cabin toys.

Hey, we, anything you could find to stuff in between. They grew up to rust on every Friday. You know, keep the wind out. Yeah. I mean, I didn't grow up in a log cabin. But you did live in the cook shack. You lived in the cook shack for a little while. Outside.

I think I would, I think I could hold my own on living outside. He wasn't in a big mansion either. No. That's very true. Yeah. But I think we're able to teach kids so they're not, so they do. I mean, we all had to learn something at some point. And so teaching things is never bad or even being ignorant, you know.

And so until somebody tells you and say, hey, here's that it. But especially guns and gun safety and, you know, like, this is like, okay, the main thing is like, okay, if you grew up in like New York City, they have no idea anything about outdoors. Okay. If you're a city slicker, you know, all you know, all you know is city. I think there's kids that grow up in Atlanta. There's kids that grow up in West Monroe.

I'm going to say West Monroe, Rustin. I mean, you just start naming it. If they just haven't gone to the little outline areas like we all have, that's just. But it is cool because like with Sportsman's Camp, we have had some kids do it every year. So like you get to see these same kids year after year and they love it and they enjoy it and they come back. And you can see the progress that they're actually making. And then the next year, they actually can help teach some of it because they're like, oh, yeah, I remember how to do this. And it's just, it's fun to see that in kids, man.

It's not bad to have other things, but what happens is you get so dominated by either baseball or basketball, whatever the, you know, and kids, that's all they do. And they go play ball all the time. Then their camps are surrounded by that. They don't go to church camp because they have to go do workouts or whatever. And so, and you'll look up and your kids will graduate high school, and they've never had, you know, know, they've missed out on these experiences. And sadly, most kids are never going to do that for the rest of their life. What they're going to be, have the opportunity is to be in the outdoors,

to go fishing, to go hunting. Certainly the spiritual aspect. And so, yeah, sometimes we've got to make sure that they get a little bit more well-rounded experience. The best part of the hunting camps, I've been a fish, sportsman's camp, I've been a part of it was a kid caught his first fish. Me and Mark. Big champ.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. All of a sudden I hear, I got one! And he's just backing up. Yeah. He ain't reeling. He's just backing up. Yeah, he just started walking back.

And I took off running over there and he got it. And that picture of him, he's got the biggest. It was a decent bass. It was a good one, three-pounder. Three pounds. And man. At that leg? Yeah, three-pound on a ned rig.

Like, it was wild because I took all my stuff out there. I was like, because the first year it was kind of small. What, about 20 people? I mean, it wasn't many. because we were just trying to get off the ground. So I took all my stuff, of course, they trashed everything I had. I had to go and redo everything. But old champ took that old Nedrig, fired it out in the middle of that pond.

And I saw him over there, and he just, he just whined. And that rod just, and I'm like, man, that boy done got hung up. There goes that thing. And then he starts walking backwards. About that time I see the line move, I said, and then you see him realize, I'm not, I'm stuck on one. I'm stuck in a fish. You thought he had a turtle. I thought he had a brush top.

I was like, because it's an open hook. So, I mean, it's like, it could very easily have been a limb or something. But then, oh, Chad, we got him up to the bank and grabbed it. He held that thing like a proud peacock. Yeah, and you got him in. Uh-huh. Oh, yeah. Which is the hardest part is actually getting it in, especially on this situation.

Because he never set the hook. I mean, I'm saying. Like, you come up and you get your hands on it, and then he got on. Yeah. Yeah. He had it down there. So the fish swam off with that. cricket but that was fine too i just bit the line and put him back in and said good luck buddy hope you

hope that passes but it was fun i mean ask you his first fit it arguably could have been his first cast ever i don't you know it was just but to see him smile i hope he's still catching him he's big old boy now because old cham he could be like my cousin or something in that picture we we look a lot of like so yeah he did but it was it's a good time and that so if you want to know more about sportsman's camp camp chioca.com i believe is where you can go to june 25th through july 1st ages 13 to 17 you go there you can get registered and it's almost full i do know that so geoka c h-y-o-o-ca dot com we'll be back right after this uh-oh yeah there we go this man got a lot going on man what he just pulled up a picture

can we say that why not i don't know oh well yeah just had a grand baby you can't announce it till they've announced it. Well, I'm live. That's a good point. I don't know what you're working on. I didn't know he's live here. This isn't duck call live, that's for sure. Yeah, that'll know that.

I'm sure that information's going to get out. And we already know. She's already announced the name of this one, correct? Yeah. Sadie just had her baby this morning. Little Haven. Mom and baby doing well. I know the whole name.

I got the Haven part. Haven and Honey. Kind of like Honey Hole. It was fun watching them too, watching Big Sister meet her little sister. So, yeah, they came over to eat last night. And so Honey says, Sister Haven's coming in two minutes.

Sister Haven's coming in 10 minutes. She had it all. So she's actually here. So we got a little... Actually, I'll say this. Corey made crawfish pie. Whoa. Wait, she did what?

Time out. Or he made crawfish pie. Did she? Really? So I came in. So I was in Dallas for the musical. Then I ran up to Nashville to speak. And then I got home yesterday and they wanted fried squash.

So I said, okay. Oh, praise God. You're talking about tire, man. So I cut up the squash. And Corey said she was making a crawfish pie. And so Sadie and Christian had some other kids over. And so Sadie's last meal for the big. It better have been a big one with that crew you got running around.

there was it a big crawfish pie she made two crawfish pies yeah we ate at all it was the there was nothing like it was good wow did she made she made the pie crust she did she made the homemade pie crust made the fill i did not assist in any way look at cori stepping into that grandmother roll so i fried the squash up and so we had that and then uh yeah said he was first up this morning so um Corey took off early and then left me I we had john Shepard. So I was, Corey said, well, how to go with John Shepard? I said, well, you know, it's more we just get to the point quicker, like with grandpa and grandson. There's not a lot of, he got up. And he said, let's go to the game room. I said, no, I can't play in the game room. You go by

yourself. I'd say 20 seconds later, he said, I'm ready to go home. I said, okay, got you. I said, do you want any food or drink? And he said, no. And that was it. That was a conversation. and I dropped him back off and then yeah, it went up and so we had the baby and it was fun and she's awesome. Number six, grandkids number six. And everybody's well.

Everybody's happy, happy, happy. Well, good. And I'll take off tomorrow at 6 o'clock to Los Angeles, California. So we keep, J.D., you remember those days where we just run it, so we run it. 6 a.m. at the Monroe Airport.

It's not bad. Wait, not playing. It ain't good. At least on the 6 a.m. when you know if the plane made it there the night before or not. Look that up before you go to sleep. You're going to be there for a minute. Make sure that flight landed.

That way you ain't wasted a lot of there. I've had such good. Everything's been rolling good. Been on a good street. I've been on a really good street. In fact, I spoke in Nashville. I flew from Dallas. And Nick Woeachich was the other speaker.

He flew from Dallas. canceled the flight. I must have came out right at the right time. He had to drive from Dallas all night from Dallas to Nashville. That's a long drive. And he was singing the blues, and I said, well, I had a bad trip too.

I left my Yetty cooler at the airport. The one with your face on it? The one with your face on it? The one with my face on it. Somebody's got in Nashville. And you see a red, white, and blue, Yetty with Willie's face on it, that's mine. I left it in the baggage claim.

I set it over there and I grab my suitcase and dead gum and I left it there. So you know how it is when you don't have a container for your tea. You know what that's like? Oh man, I hope this thing's on eBay. Oh, I can send my mother-in-law up there. Let me just say this too. I know we got, we're mentioning grandkids and all the things going on in our lives.

Nashville Airport is nice now. Have you been to it? Yeah, they completely redid. B&A. Wow. Yeah. All the local, all the native Nashvilleians were sad that they upgraded their airport, but something about the car. Because it was crappy before. Yeah, something about they love the car. Super nice. I don't know. Yeah. Before it was all kind of dingy. Now it's like, no, the place is nice. Yeah. Well, they all in the little sky club. Remember it used to be like super tiny? Mm-hmm. And I walked there, it's like the Taj Mahal. I think I'm going to fly to Nashville just to hang

out in that place. I go in and I caught the Vegas or they got full wall of like giant screen TVs. I wasn't there. Oh no Nashville was always going to. I really I walked it was like I went into Narnia like I didn't know what I thought I was going into super like the size of this room

I walked in there. I was like look at this place. They're stepping up. I've been to Nashville like every weekend. I don't know everything's happening in Nashville. I've been to one airport since I switched jobs one time. You like it better

You like I don't miss flying and traveling I miss like So you like hanging Just being at home Yeah I'm being at home I miss some of the

You know The funner ones Like like Fort Wayne Indiana I won't I won't go back there There's people from

Hey I like your place But like I was in places like that a lot Oh That's fantastic No offense Fort Wayne But we yeah, remember when we went to Indiana like every other weekend? I went to Indiana a lot for like a bunch. I know, I've been on like a Nashville, which I've been, I've been all over this year.

I've been everywhere. But we've had some fun times, yeah. I had some fun trips, fun trips coming up in L.A. I'm not super excited. I know we have a giant L.A. follow. Oh, yeah. All our fans in L.A. are going to hate to hear that. I was just there a month or two ago.

and I had a guy, I'm presuming, without home, followed me for two blocks just, and I turned around, of course, said, uh-uh, don't. And I mean, because he was like up in my face and like cursing, like just, I don't know what he was so mad at, you know. And I don't know why he looked at me like, I'm going to take this guy, you know.

There's a hair. I looked that soft. And I thought around, I said. You don't want to answer that. I think he's going to jail here in downtown L.A. This guy. You don't go to jail in California anymore. I figured one of us was going to go to jail and I figured it be me.

So I figured I was going to end up in jail. There's no laws there anymore. But he, man, that guy is so aggressive. Unbelievable. And I said, I'm not coming back here until. I'm not coming back here for three weeks. I'm coming back in that way. How many places are you not going back?

Montana is one of them? Yeah, I did swear off Montana for the rest of my life, but I've been back there a lot. Yeah. Big state. It's a big state. Oh my goodness. Well, let's take our last break and we'll be back right after this. All right, we're back.

Normally, this would be the hello at duck call room.com segment. And it still can be. Look, if y'all got Willie questions, just email them in. We'll save him for when Willie's back on. He's on here enough that he's a semi-regular. Sometimes I'm up here. Yeah. Every now and then he comes to the building he owns

and that we run business out of. So send them, Johnny D. I'll archive them and we'll have them sitting over there. But Willie has something he wants to talk about. So by all means. Yeah, I got something. I need to get since Syes here. So the last time I was with Sive was like a week ago.

So we played poker. Uh-oh. And, uh-oh. Look at him. You got him excited. So I come in. I'm just going to, generally, generally. I'd say I'm probably 90%.

When I show up, when I leave, I got more money in my pocket than I walked in with. So I come in there and it wasn't a great night. But, you know, I'm grinding along. Had it all set up perfectly. Cy comes in this pot and I shove all my money in there. I've got a queen, ace queen, queen 24. So I doesn't even hesitate just falls over his chest. shoving all his money i thought he must have hit a set of something he turns over pocket tens

pocket tens there's two cards somewhere in this giant deck of cards that could beat me the next card out there it's right there was a 10 it's next he gone and so he busted me and he just totally busted me out and so this is what's weird happened to me side this is never happened so it's like 1030 and I'm like, I know I could, if I'd, you know, buy back in and grind again. I just lost the desire. I said, I think I'm just going on. First time ever, I was like, I kick you in the nuts and I'm going on. Never happened before, but this is the first time ever.

That was unlike him because if he'd been at the house, he'd be looking behind pictures, and all the stuff. I know, everybody was, like, trying to loan me money. And I said, no, no, no. Hey, I have money in my wallet. I'm not out of money. Everybody was saying, hey, Willie, I got five on it. I said, no, no, no.

It's not a problem. Issue of not even like I have money, but not on me. I had money on me. Like, I left the game with money in my pocket. It was like, I'm just kind of lost the. We're past the days of Willie throwing his checkbook in the pot and having a white piece of paper for every 20 that he bought in for after that because he was out of cash.

But I do want to know, how did that turn? How did the rent? Because I left, it's so weird that I leave without. I cashed, what, $2,300. So you did? Yeah, I wondered if you lost.

I cast out $2,300. Well, that makes me feel good, knowing that the money I lost went to you. Well, here's the... Imperarily, but it's in your possession. All that long, I'd get up to a $3 grand, and I'd lose it. I'd start playing good again,

get up $2,000, lose it. I saw a lot of that happening. Happened about three, four times, And then I said, after I done you, I said, I ain't losing this. There ain't nothing sweeter than Willis. I was. You don't get me too often in situations like that where I have the hands down best hand. And then you get lucky.

Here's what everybody at the table said when I said that. They said, take a picture of that because he ain't going to have it. It's just 15, 20 minutes from now. Well, 15 and 20 minutes out of that, I said, cash me up. I wondered what happened. He left shortly after. I get home, Corey said, how much do you win?

I said, no, I didn't win anything. I lost money. To Si. I said, to sigh. She was like, wow. That makes me happy. And she was wondering what I was doing home so early. It was like, wow, you got home.

No, my wife says that a lot. I said, no, I got cleaned out. You didn't have a good night, did you? I said, no. There's a time frame. If you're home before 10, you didn't have a good night. Get home after two, probably had a pretty good night playing poker. So anywhere in between there, the craft shoot.

I did get the best. So I got the best of me. Oh, Jace was there too. It was like a family reunion. I didn't see Jason forever. He had a family of the street. Oh, he was. When I left.

No, he was, yeah, he was rolling. Yeah, he had a royal flush, a straight flush, quads and then another straight flow. Were y'all play on the internet? I had cashed out. Were y'all playing wild cards? He did that that night. Yeah, he done that the night I cast out and left.

Then he just went on a tear for about. Oh, that's Omaha. That's not holding. Oh, that was their choice games. Yeah, yeah. Four hands in a row, he just killed everybody. Now, truth be told you, I're playing Omaha a lot, and I don't play that game. Well, hey.

And so I'm literally buying, like, master class. I have to play because that's all him idiots to play. When I'm there, though, they do play round for round. So I was hoping. I was doing okay. I wasn't losing on that. I was just like chunking. Trying to make sure you didn't get hurt.

He's bad about, you know, he'll run you just keep running the pot up, keep running the pot up. You know, and he ain't got nothing. But then later on, he starts catching the cars. And now he's really running the pot up. And then he's really got a big stack. I love hearing the other perceptions of what they see. I love side telling me like you ain't dopeopped me for 10 years playing at me. I was just smart enough to stay away from you.

I was like, you know what? I just, I ain't going to play against you. Like, it's not even fun anymore. Oh, that would like it. Because there was a reason we had the website, luckiest man alive.com. I mean, there was a reason that that website existed. But, hey, you made it happen.

bet on it to happen and just so happened a lot of times it did that's when it's really sweet sometimes you guess it right yeah sometimes you just have a feeling you know sometimes you have a song jindy you ever played poker you ever i played with y'all one time i won 50 bucks and said never go that's on airplane no oh not that time oh no the first time i ever met sigh was that one of y'all's little poker games all of a sudden i thought it was like me and my friends all of a sudden like all these old dudes are just trouncing him all of us show up yeah sigh shows up and i don't really really no side he's just the guy that sings loud at church and I'm like what is happening and he's race on every one of them and then willie's laughing at me because I got like 50 bucks I'm like this

has got to last me a week you're not going to tell when you when you attempted to bet yeah and then I went to bet and his hand's just shaking knocked over everything I had knocked over everything makes you know hang out of my bet you know he goes out there everybody folded oh no Willie didn't. Willie said, nah, I have to know what you. I'm going to pay you

just to know what you have. That way I know later. And that's how I won 50 bucks. It was bad as whenever we had Brittany over. I was thinking 5. 25 an hour. I remember that? We were all sitting there in the kitchen and she went,

I said, oh, Lord. Or when Corey bet, when Corey bet with her bat and she said, I bet kings. Yeah. I mean $20.

Yeah. I mean $20. No, That's when I always got to take a one with y'all lived there over there by the chicken houses. Corey had put up with all the noise and all that, and y'all would, it'd be 2 o'clock in morning. Corey'd come in there and tell me, all right. Then she took everybody.

Hour later, hour later, everybody's going home, broke. Corey's got all the money. She's so, well, I just haven't. She's gotten worse. She's terrible now. She remembers those days. Now we play as a family, so my kids love to play. Which is super fun.

So we're playing right to it. It's really hard. It's like playing for, like, you know, I raised $2. I'm like to lose their mind. You know, why are you bullying everybody? But Corey just likes to play every hand. She's like size. She's like playing with side and then she bust out.

But I've got some decent little card players in my family. I call there to play. Who's your best? Who's the best now? I mean, obviously you, but. Oh, God. That's a great question. Who is the best?

No, that's a good question. And there's a lot of thought in this. And I would say, just to clear the air, ain't nobody's the best. Well, he asked who the best in my family. I'm talking about in his family. Oh, in his little family. I'm going to tell you who I think will be really good one day.

Sneaky good is Bella. She's an orthodox. Yeah, you can't quite. Who? Like, Rebecca's a good player, but she's so tight. She, I mean, she plays like Jace. It's like one hand, an hour. And then when she bats, I'm like, oh, let me guess.

You finally got a picture. Yeah, you got something. You finally got pocket kings. Yeah, okay. But, yeah, Bella is a sneaky. Sadie's decent. She did something recently. We just played on vacation when she did something, like kind of a.

Oh, you say Bella is the best player? I think she's got the, she's got potential. She's got potential. Because she makes some move sometimes. I'm like, what was she? But it was out of the box. It wasn't like, you know, it was like, like she bluffs and stuff. You got to have that in your repertoire.

Got to have that move. You got to run sometimes without the ball. I hope for the back spot you. Which is pretty much your whole game plan playing. Si ain't ever got the ball to the river. Oh, no. He just hoping one of y'all fumbles. He ain't ever got it.

No, when the cards are being turned over, it's like side going, hey, hey, throw with the ball, throw with the ball. Yeah, lateral. Yeah, it's a hook and ladder at the end of the game. He's in the end of the game. it he's in it he's tweeter oh man well johnny d yes boss it's been fun johnny or do you have a bible verse that's on your mind to close the side of here boss oh man well actually yeah i have one i'm not sure where it's it's it's it proverbs 27 20 i think it's x 4 um somewhere and i just read the whole chapter you'll find it um but it's where they were you know they were uh peter and they were they were trying

to get shut down arrested and then the boy says hey wait here's the deal don't Don't mess with these guys. If they're from God is going to go. If they ain't from God, it'll shut down. Yeah, it won't make it anyway. And so that was just, yeah, when we did the musical, that's kind of why I thought, like, hey, if it's from God, it's going to go.

If it's not, it won't. So, yeah, Acts chapter four. I can't remember. It's in that chapter, but. I love it. I like the redneck paraphrase version. I can appreciate that. Go read Acts chapter four.

Read it. But there's the take-home message. If it's from God, it'll go. And if it's not, it won't. You don't have to worry about it. So thanks, boss, for coming by. And we'll see y'all next time right here in the duck call room. We're out.