Duck Call Room - Willie Robertson Is Making GAINS

Episode Date: January 21, 2021

Willie channels his inner Si to bring you some of his favorite stories about the Duck Call Room crew, Robertson family pranks, and his recent effort to hit the gym. Willie reveals why Si's hand-me-downs had a distinct odor after he got ahold of them, and that reminds Godwin of his air addiction. John-David explains why Willie nicknamed him "Nervous Pervis," and Martin lays down the law about imitation burgers. Then, get ready for big laughs as Willie describes his attempt to fire Si, one of his favorite Godwin stories, how Martin really ended up at Duck Commander, and how John-David "negotiated" his hourly pay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here we are. Ladies and gentlemen, we are excited to announce. We have our first ever guest on the Duck Call podcast, the Duck Call Room podcast this week. So, okay, we were going to keep it a little bit of a mystery. Hopefully y'all don't know that voice. So the first guest ever is a platinum recording artist. He is a New York Times bestselling author.

He's the CEO of a multi-million. dollar empire. He was in a movie once. Bing, Bing. He was that. That was a big movie. What other accolades do we have for him? We got all day, boys.

Keep your home. Nobody needs to know it's here. He was the executive producer on the largest non-scripted TV show ever made. Rob Kardashian. Thank you. And he is our boss. Willie Robertson is stepping in

for Uncle Si this week's. What's up, guys. How are we doing? Well, we're doing fine. We're working for you, boss. What's, what's going on in your world? It's been a few days since you've actually been at the office. We're just, we're checking in with you. A few days. Oh, man, he's getting all judgy. I'm not judging. I'm just legitimately curious. What's going on in the world of Willie? I thought we were working from home.

You were confused. Okay. I like it. I started the COVID protocol about two, three, three, three. years ago. I just needed to get prepared in case there was a pandemic and I needed to work from home. And so I'm working from home and it's going swell. I wonder what y'all were doing. I didn't even know there was a podcast going on. Oh, so you've listened to us.

That's good. That is not correct. I have not listened yet. I have not listened to the podcast. But I have heard good things about it, which is good. That's good. And that's probably the way it'll stay for the rest of my life. Will you listen to the one that you're on or not?

No, that's our. Yeah, I don't go back and listen. Well, you side. I live in the moment, man. You've got to live in the moment. So, sighs, what is this? What is this? What's the point?

Well, generally how this podcast goes is we get sigh off on some tangent that reminds him of a memory in his life. And we laugh. and he tells the story and we laugh some more. And it works so far. So we're keeping with that system. So you got big shoes to feel this week. Galvin just said it works. It seems to.

But what makes it work? I mean, based on what rationale does it work? Because Sa is funny. And we laugh at him. We have a good time doing it. So if Sao makes you laugh, it works. That's right. So that's the goal.

Hey, Doug Dye does. We understand the pressure that I feel now because nobody can do what sigh does. Well, we did a whole Christmas episode about bee stings. I don't know where you were going with that. You can just go. You can really go anywhere that you feel like whatever pops in your head. You're like, you know, I got stung by a bee on Christmas once. And then about five bee stories later, we were done.

Yeah, we learned about bees and buttocks. And welcome to the duck call in podcast. Uncle, Uncle FM or whatever his name was. He said he was mean. Yeah, you had a really mean great uncle. Did you know that? Who, FM? Yeah.

Yeah, I heard the stories. So you're aware of being backed into Purple Tail Walsman. He's lucky. He was lucky. He was lucky. I wasn't around back there. I'd have slapped him upside his face. And then took off running.

I was, that's what I was. That was my move. I would hit or throw and then run. Ah, guerrilla warfare. I was hit and gone. Hit it and gone. That was my tactic. And anything you could grab was your weapon.

Hey. Oh, anything. Yeah. You know what that says? I'm a younger brother because I was the same way. They beat me, beat me down. Six years between me and my brother. So there was a...

Yeah, but you're giant. Were you giant? You had to be giant your whole life. I mean, it's... You had to be giant at six. No, I just had a big head. I mean, my head was the same size, but I mean, my body, I was still a six-year-old. Yeah, they put the beat down on me for sure.

Who's that, J-S-W-E? All of them. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I wish I'd have been like Johnny did. Would you get pinched when you were growing up? One time your sister pinched you? Mainly wedgies.

But she would pick me up by the under. We've discussed this, but she'd pick me up by the underwear and sing the Batman song and call them Batman. Bad if I'd have had a week with you. It'd change your life. It'd be a lot tougher than is now. Oh, would it be tough. So did you try to get everybody in trouble? No, no, that was, no, I wasn't that guy.

Well, you couldn't go tell. That was, there was no title telling. Until Jep came along. Because y'all all got it if one guy. Well, no, there was, it was sort of how it worked was you can go tell. Which, you know, that's like whatever. But then once you told, then you really got it. So yeah, you would just get beat down even more.

So you just had to deal with it when it happened. So probably my best one I got on Jace was he threw me off the recliner. And he's sitting up on there. He said, I'm the king of this house. And so I just leaned in from the door frame with a 16-gauge shotgun shell right between his eyes. I mean, all I had. He threw it. He threw it.

He did not shoot it. Oh, I threw it. No, I threw it. hit him right in the face and I took off running. He caught me about a quarter mile off the street. You played out. It wasn't a hole. It was a live shell.

It was a shell, yeah. Oh, it was full. Oh, yeah, two and three quarters. I said, who's the king of the house now? Then I'm like, he got on. Then the king retreated. Oh, yeah. What about sigh?

What was it like having sigh as your uncle growing up? Was sigh around in your formative years? Oh, yeah. he was just a weird weirdo you know like he was the weird uncle uh he was funny um but just bizarre and the the main thing i remember outside was him bringing all the army clothes and we thought that was cool uh so he would give us you know the hammy downs from the army and it had robertson on it which was cool so we wore um all his shirts and jackets uh the the cool thing was the sleeping bags they had the real feathers in them

so they're Army sleeping bags and I peed on every one of them and I peeped the bed and if you've ever tried to dry out urine from like real goose feathers it is a chore so here's I go I'd pee and then I would wake up

in my cold urine we didn't have central heat so we have one gas fireplace so I would just hold that blanket I would hold the sleeping bag in front of the the little fireplace until it kind of dried out and then I'd snuggle back in for the night run it back the next night I was a bedwinner so you got very used to the smell of warm urine

oh everything smelled like pee yeah everything I slept on but it was great because if you're in a like you like you John David you all had probably one bedroom that you all shared yeah the whole family uh nobody slept with me you know it was like nobody came from. So wherever I slept, like, I had my own place. You got your own covers. Every, yeah. My everything was Han Solo when it came to slumbering. I also peed the bed. It was a queen-sized bed, but... You had a queen-sized bed when you were a child? Oh, I went from crib to queen. Like when I was three. Rich people. My dad... That's what rich people do. Hold on. My dad built it himself, first of all. It's still in that room to this day. You can't get it out because he built it in there.

And part two is... You had your own room? Mm-hmm. Wow. I didn't have my own bathroom, though. I took a nose spray every night before I went to bed that would make me not pee the bed. You should have got some of that. There was some kind of nose spray urine stop? Oh, yeah.

And like whenever me and my buddies would go to a house, all the bedwetters had to go to the refrigerator, get the nose spray. The 90s were a weird time. Wait, how is that connected to that? No idea. I don't know. We would all... I did it. I tried rubber bands and didn't work.

No, don't try that. But we would do a nose spray and you wouldn't wet the bed. I had to do it at Campioka. When I was a kid, I had to go to the nurses station every night, so I wouldn't get beat up for peeing on the top bunk and tripping down on the person below me. Gobwin, is that why you use nose spray all the time? No, I'm just addicted to air. He said he's addicted to air.

Godwin, did you pee the bed? I don't remember I don't recollect you're in trouble How do you not Your first memories are like at 17 What happened to you? I think so I mean

If you didn't remember You didn't do it Yeah I must not have Yeah No the last time I did I was like 14 Really?

Oh Yeah it was like I was like What just happened But I finally I did yeah I don't even know How to follow that up

I know how to follow it up. Let's take our first break. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means. That means more outside cooking. And y'all know we love to eat beef around here. And that's what because of our friends over at Triedells beef makes such a good product, baby.

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They may have. Who knows? I ain't neither one of them that slick at that age. You know what they did to me one time? Uh-oh. Very. I'm interested. Very interested.

Them suckers. So I was asleep. They woke me up, told me get ready for the school bus. So I get completely dressed, book bag. I'm sitting on the couch and then they all laugh because it was about 12, 15 at night. It was so funny. What did you throw out? I'm just sitting there waiting on the bus and I'm like, wow, it's waiting for their old son.

She's a little late this morning. Well, I imagine. Why is David Letterman on? That's weird. Back then, why was the American flag on the TV? It actually says more about my sleep, right? like I'm peeing. I have no idea.

It's a hard life. I wasn't like a rich kid right here with his own room and his king's house waterman. I did not have a lot of water. Your mom would probably come in and gently like sing little tunes to you. Good morning. Johnny Dee. Wake up. It's going to be a great day.

Wake up. She's not a singer. She did wake me up though. How did you wake up? Always with yelling and angry. I you know what my mother every time she spoke to us it was always like she was mad like like we she'd be like get off your butt and go get the groceries and I'm like well it's not that we wouldn't have got like well why why so harsh all you got to just say I didn't do it was I go get the

grocery it was like we didn't want to oh that's funny everything and now you can't hardly get K stirred up for anything now she was she ran out of that vigor It was an angry season. Angry season. Well, in her defense, raising you three, I'd have probably been a little angry, too. So, y'all, y'all were mean to each other. I mean, let's just call it what it is. Y'all, y'all were scrappers.

Yeah. Yeah. Had to be, man, survival. Barnyard scrappers down there on the river back. I wish it would have been like giant day, like the rich kid in the neighborhood. What? You married into that neighborhood. That's all I'm saying.

Hey, I'm in that. I moved out of that neighborhood. Yeah. He started a new one on the other side. On the highway. I couldn't handle that neighborhood. He makes fun of my family and he moved next door to him. Really close.

Yeah, I know. When Corey and I got married, I said, I ain't ever living on this street. Yeah. Now you own half of it. Yeah, now I can hit a pitching wedge over there to everybody charge. Oh, my goodness. Well, hey, look, Sire's not here. So I think it's our time that we should tell a story on Sight.

that he can't interrupt and tell it his way. Johnny D., your first time meeting Uncle Sy, what? Willie was there. Was it? I bet you don't remember it. You made fun on me the whole night. Poker? Yep, poker.

I get him. He does remember it. He just remember. I remember when you went to bed. I'd tell him, okay. So here we go. So my buddy, he has some older brothers. he's like, hey, we get invited to go play poker,

aka some college kids wanted to take a few high school kids, you know, lunch money. So I had like 20 bucks. And so I'm in this college dude's house. There's nothing on the walls. And all of a sudden, Willie shows up. And I'm like, what in the world is that? That was the next level of play.

That's the one they didn't tell you was coming. All of a sudden, all the bets start going up. And I'm like, I'm sitting beside Willie. He's making fun of me. And then this old guy shows up with like a half beard. and a tea jug, and of course it's Si, and they sit me between Willie and Cy, and I'm 16 at the time, playing poker, I've watched it on ESPN, so I'm, and it's, you know, at one point I go to bet $5, and my hand is just shaking.

He puts it out there. It's the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen. Because they both got like a hundred bucks just throwing it out there, and I'm like, if I, I won't be able to drive to school. Was this at the Easterly's house? or like Seth Zach Stevens house I was there that night

Yeah And I got hung with nervous Purvis For the rest of the night I remember that night I'm nervous because Willie's making fun of me But the crazy old man next to me Every time I'm like

I'll just check And he just screams Every raise And I'm like What is happening And my other buddy Who doesn't talk to anybody He just like left in the middle of it

So then I'm just the high school kid just getting beat down by grandpa, my cousin's husband, and like all these college kids. But at the very end of the night, I took Sye for like $60. And he's not there to... There's a trophy

to put on your man. Or you beat Sight poker. If you play Sye, you're going to take his money. Willie called me nervous purpose for about three more years after that. He's a old nervous purpose. So from my perspective, they said, hey, there's a bunch of rich kids over here. You have Queens

size beds, you know, their own rooms. They want to play poker. Y'all want to go over there? I'm like, yeah. Yeah. Hey, I was interested in playing poker over there because finally my boss wouldn't taking my paycheck back. I mean, that's, that was Willie's move back in the day.

It was, hey, let's play poker on Friday. He'd pay us on Friday morning, Friday night. And then take it out. That payroll would just come right back into his pocket. He told me that. Technically, it wouldn't come back to me until Saturday morning. Yeah. Early.

He said, that's why I have it at my house. I've seen the boy, I've seen him go to bed. Bed, not like I'm out. No, he went to bed, wake up three hours later, find a 20 behind the picture frame, say, let's roll, and then have every chip at the table. You're like, but, but you went to bed. Like, you quit. And then I'm back. Yeah.

I mean, I remember being over there, like, Bella waking up and got to give her a bottle. Like, yeah. I mean, we were playing. in those days. I mean, it was, oh, man. So I do remember, Sa, we were,

this was at the new house, not the, the newer house, not the original house. The middle house. Yeah, the middle house. Too many houses to remember them.

I'm all rich kid. I said you were rich as a kid. I didn't say. Some of us didn't make it there. So, uh, we're at the middle house. So poker game,

it starts at 7th. right sigh's the guy size's there at 545 you know for a 7 o'clock kind of like Johnny D he's an early guy too he's way early

I share a lot in common with so sigh came in so he would just sit I'm like with side it starts in an hour and 15 minutes so he would sit in there by himself and deal hands and then play with himself

I mean like he would look at this hand but what's funny was he would make commentary as well to himself. Oh yeah. Oh, what's you hold now? Oh, I got Jack 10.

Jack, that's a good hand. That's a good. I'll raise on that one. Let's see what's next. Oh, sevens. We got pocket sevens. And then he would play. And so Bella came in there and she was a little kid and said,

Dad, Uncle Si is talking to himself. I said, yeah, he's fine. Just let him do what he's doing. He's talking to the boys. And he would play with himself. till everybody showed up and then he would That was the beauty though But when we would start you'd get there

And sigh would have $500 in 20 stacks Already counted out for everybody He's like aye who's in And you didn't have to count your chips I had them all Honest count like you didn't waste no time He would get there

Yeah we'd be like having dinner Like the family Here comes side I'm like yeah go ahead Get at the table in there Sit over there And do what you do He'd count all the cards

There'd be two decks ready to go I'll go back to when I invited something. James and I kept trying to get him to play, and he wouldn't come play. He would say, no, no, no. And we were like, why not? And he goes, do you not know how to play? Which I don't know if he still doesn't.

I still don't know if he knows how to play. And he said, no, because I love it too much. Like, I just, I love it too. And I was like, oh. And then I realized when he started playing, that was true. He's, yeah. He loved it so much. Oh, man.

Yeah, he, that is his one love in life, I think, is poker. It's amazing how much it's, oh, hey, and you didn't put my accolades when you were reading them earlier. What I miss? You missed probably the coolest thing I've ever done in my life. Uh-oh. I got Si to lay down pocket aces. You did. On a straight stone cold bluff.

You did. I had like deuce four, nothing. And he laid down aces on the river. Got him. And that guy, I bet him out of it, and he laid down rockets. And I turned over that chunk, and I don't think he's ever laid down a hands in. No, you started on a bad trend there. You could side lay down aces.

You had played some serious poker. I think that was the night the couch was born. Take them to the couch, boys. I don't ever want to play with y'all. Oh, it's so much fun. It's not fun now because they're in a different tax bracket. So it's a way different. What about when a person we won't name, so this guy would get up big?

We're not named. And then he would want to leave. You know, it'd be like, oh, I'm up big money, so I'm going to leave. And which, you know, it just burned us up. He's taking all this money. So he stands up. I'm dealing, right? So I just dealt him.

He said, hey, I'm out. And I saw I just deal your hand. It'll be dead. And so he looks down at it. And he goes, I'll make him play one more. Well, I know right there he's got a good hand. Yeah. So I don't care what I got.

Like, I don't care. what you bet. I'm in this hand. I got one shot. To get that money back. It was almost in your truck. That sucker sat back down. Oh, and he had pocket queens.

And I can't remember what I bust him with. I think it was Jack Deuce. Who knows what it was. I mean, it could be literally any two cards. It was from the garbage pile. And he did leave after that hand, except he took no money with him. every dime he had. He was standing up. He was standing up to leave.

I need to know who it is. He goes by the name of Curley. We'll leave it at that. Curly. He goes by the name of Curly. Phil McMillan needs to be here for that story. We'll leave. We'll leave.

We got more Curly stories coming. Is Phil McMill on this? Phil McMillan is on it. That's hilarious. Let me tell you the first time. So Philip was. was like a senior and I was in 10th grade at Westmore High School. So I knew he had this giant curly hair.

I just knew who, you know, everybody kind of knew who he was. That's a cool guy. And so I'll never forget. I'm sitting in front of Westmore High School. I'm in the gold truck and this cat pulls up. We're like at the red light going down to seven. And I look over with this guy. It's old Phil.

And he's got a fan of $100. dollar like i mean like a a fan you could cool yourself with of hundred dollar bills and he just looks over at me he does that face and he goes mm-hmm i was like that dude is cool man who has that much money on him and he was working for like some kind of auto part so he was just actually taking money but he would fan it and show everybody his money that's one of my first memories ever of Help, Macmill's. Old Macmill. Well, on that note, let's take our next break.

We'll come back with more. All right, guys, we're back. Yeah, welcome back. I'm not leading this operation. I'm not in charge here. Welcome back, guys. Hey, fun times from the duck car room. You were right here with the, what's what's it called?

The duck call room. And technically, I think you are in charge of this. Yes, sir. Johnny Dee. My right-hand man sitting on my left side. Good to see you, John. Johnny D. You look dapper as always. This takes me way back to Willie Robertson's Wild Life.

Your first run at a podcast set, but it was a radio show back then. Remember the original. Willie Robertson's Wild Life. Oh, yeah, yeah. That was radio. Yeah, I know. Remember, oh, Rock. One of six.

Oh, Rock. One of six. Yeah. I forgot about that. That was a good time. I just remember the deal. I remember you always, because I was like, You had, what, 12 of them, and I was your guest seven times, so it was kind of...

That's about like the podcast, me and him. You were the smartest guy news, so you said, what do I have going on right now? I'm doing a fast. He's fasting. And Johnny D. is fasting as well. Can we talk about Bible stuff, or is that all phlegmous to? No, Bible. Bible is in.

Okay, all right. I wasn't sure what you are... The Bible's in. We're just not preachers. Some of my people are, I mean, some people I know are fasting from the news. I've been doing that. I'm doing like a more, a little more. I'm not eating during when the sun is up.

I'm not eating. I haven't had meat. So it's more of it like a super traditional. Are you an all night diet or? Well, that's the problem because I feel like now I'm kind of skanking it because if you just stay up late enough, you can get that second meal later. Taco Bell made a living. off that last meal. Yeah, so it's like, I can eat it.

It's like 5.34, so whatever time. It's like I'm hunting. I'm looking at the sun. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's down. If you don't like short days, if you're like, oh, I hate short days of the worst, fast during sunlight and you'll love short days. Yeah.

So you have like sunset or nine. So you have legal eating hours instead of. Yeah, I mean, that's for what I'm doing now. I mean, for the fast that I'm doing. Yeah. So do you wake up at like four o'clock to get one in? No, no, no, John David put that in my, I think he's like the little, the little devil character on my shoulder. Because he's like, well, you could eat technically in the morning.

I was like, oh, I've never thought about that. Like, I'm doing the whole thing, but I was like, I could. It's dark early. Yeah, because I looked and it's like, I mean, not saying that I haven't gotten up early, but I was like, what time is the sun come up? Well, 6.40 is legal shooting hours right after duck. There you go, because it's like seven times. I'm like, oh, my goodness. I could eat, like, I could eat a full breakfast.

You go wildhouse. But I think that would be disastrous because then I think I would just be starving to death. Like, then if I had to wait. That's the way I am. I'm still doing it like I could. That was a good observation, though. I just go by the rules.

So where did that come from? The Bible. At night? Jesus. Huh? Eating at night? No. Well, it's just the one I'm doing.

What do you mean? Where did that come from? Which the fast. Your particular fast. Oh, I just, it's, uh, I mean, technically, I guess. it would be intermittent fasting. Yeah.

But yeah, I just thought I'll do that because I had some stuff. I wasn't going to fat. I was like this year I'm not doing it. Because we do like a 21 day. It's intense, you know. And so I was like last year we did the straight Daniel fast, which was no meat, no sugar, pretty much nothing that tastes good. That's what I'm doing, kind of.

But that's our new rule too. We don't discuss other. So he's doing what he's doing. I'm not going to give comments on his. He's not going to comment on mine. Because, yeah, at 542 tonight, I could eat at Johnny's pizza. I could, too, with no meat. But I don't do that.

But I ate. But we broke fast last year, me and Sadia, my whole family, we broke fast at Johnny's. We actually went to the restaurant and just scalded the top of our mouths, like just rookie one or like, ah, and then just totally scalded. caught in my mouth where I couldn't taste for another. I just have to know, did you make it home? Yeah.

Oh, okay. I was just curious, because if you fasted for 21 days and your first meal was going to slam Johnny's, that's a, ooh. That's a belly out there. No, no, no, no, no, your belly's already like, you're, my stomach's looking at me, like, really? Like, what are you shoving down in here? Man.

Like, we had a great deal going. We've been working this for years. And then it's like, what? is this coming down the pipe. Like, there's a veggie burger. I don't do fake meat, though. I did eat a whole bag of Brussels sprouts last night, and I'm just... Oh, now, that'll tell you.

I'm trying... Hey, the impossible... I'm hoping you don't want to leave by the time this is over. No, that thing's good. I'm telling you. No. I don't... We're going down.

The Impossible Whopper is delicious, and you can't tell... Here's the deal. People are like, no, I like meat. What? The standard of Burger King? eat like that's what you like to taste i don't like that's not good anyway i'm telling you it's a good thing i just have a personal belief if your stance is i'm not eating meat then you forfeited the right to a burger quit making fake ones quit making all this other stuff it's made a plant

actually veggie burgers are pretty good they're getting no but but if you're vegetarian beans it's beans that are flavored well that's fine eat baked beans but leave the bacon out of them No. You eat purple whole peas. I can't eat that without putting baking. I mean. Fake anything. If you got something.

Against it. Yeah. When you go vegetarian, you forfeit your right to all meat dishes. I'm fixing to be with a vegetarian chef. Actually, this weekend. I bet he's skinny. Or is it a shit? I think he's, no, he's super bowed up.

Is he really? Yeah. You know what? I eat a lot. Hey, you all need to. Well, that's where they started. You all need to watch the document game changers. No, no, no, no, no.

I'm awful. See, you don't want. You can't handle the truth. That ain't the truth. I can handle the truth. That's conspiracy theory. Yeah, I went and shot five ducks this morning. Okay.

Hang on. This isn't the podcast for this. We're about to buckle down, boys. Do you like the running back for the Saints? Which one? What does he? Alvin Camara is not a vegetarian. Yes, he is.

Fact check it. Yes, he is. Look it up. I need to know. Oh, Johnny D. And plus, hey, let me tell you something. I ain't close to ever doing what Alvin Camer can do, and he can do whatever we want. I'm just saying there's a lot of pro athletes.

I'm not, hey, I like meat. I'm just saying don't be knocking people that eat plants. If you want to, let me think of the line right. If you want to be strong like the ox, eat what the ox eats. I want to be strong like the lion and he eats the ox. Yeah. God would still think. God was like, I want to be strong like the weeners.

I eat hot dogs. Chili dog, baby. I'm with God. I ate chili dogs other night. I did. Was that your last? I called my shot and I told Corey as a Corey tomorrow and I'm making chili dogs. She was like, hey, I'm down with it.

Everything in moderation. Yeah. I haven't eaten a chili dog. I want a shot. Oh, man. We eat them all the time. Not all the time. When we first got married,

yeah. Corey didn't have it. I was like once a week. That was in the rotation. My wife doesn't like hot dogs. But I found the red skin, the little red wieners. The football team? Oh, sorry.

Not the one, not the really good ones from Nebraska. The Wilson ring. The Red Wieners. Nebraska are so good. Yeah. We called them Wilson, but they're not Wilson anymore. Kay told me, she said they got my Brooksers. And I went up there and showed up.

So I cook like 28 ween. You know, it was basically Corey and I. He's like, but I'm so hungry, like, and I'm just eating them like, literally like I'm fixing to die. That's my favorite part about Willie Robertson right there. He will tell you why veggie burgers are good for you. And then the very next story is, me and Corey ate 28 red weas. No, no. Cori ate two. I ate about 12.

I love it. Oh, I look like Kobayashi going on in there thing. I was like dipping them in water. You said everything in moderation And ain't nothing about that boy in moderation Nothing he's either veggie burgers or a dozen hot dog I'll still eat a veg I'll go eat impossible wopper right now

I'm telling you you want your food taste better Do a little fast that it'll taste better Because then you're starving Those Brussels sprouts were good last night I fast every night from the hour's like 8 to 6 When I sleep I wake up my eating You sleep a lot.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Unless somebody's waking up eating. No. But some people do that. Yeah, there are people that go to the fridge about midnight, dough popping something, go back. You know what that or do, too? Get you up about 3.15.

You know what I've been into? Ever been there before? Hey, y'all can help me with this. This is what I've been doing now since. And I hate being that guy. I was that guy. Like January the 3rd. I go to the health club.

I walk in. I'm like, man, I'm so that person. You have a gym at your house Well, I'm going to tell you I had to go to the gym I hate going to the gym I'm working my legs So one of my goals this year

Is to get my legs stronger I don't have leg weights at my house Like I've got And so I go in there and I just do legs Now the first time I left You never want to hear this from the person Working at the gym When I leave she goes

Oh, you're finished already I said Hey, Miss judgmental. It's a baby step thing. I was in there for like literally 12 minutes. I couldn't walk. I was like, got it. Oh, fell asleep at like, ate my face off and chilly dogs and I'm sound asleep.

Like my body is going. New Year, new me. What is happening? Like. So I'm doing leg workouts. So just so you know, if you see me like doing something athletic and you're like, whoa, man, you'll know I'm doing leg workouts. If I see you doing something athletic, I'm calling the orthopedist because it's only a matter of time before you get injured. Uh-uh.

No, that's the old me. The new me with super strong legs is not going to be that way. Oh, next year. No, next month. Oh. How many times have you been to the gym? Right now. Three.

Three. No, two. We're up to 36 minutes of gym workouts in the new year. No, I've been maybe three. That's once a week. Twice and 14 days. No, no, no. It's going to be every other day.

I may hit it on the way home. but I don't like going as crowded but then you need to start in February because January I know I feel stupid walking in there so but

Corey's like we have a membership I was like oh perfect so I'm just going to slide in like hey I'm back you know I'm a member no I don't have the right stupid fob you know to get in the door

and then and then she's like well you're not on the list and so I'm like well just put me on the list and she goes Well, you've got too many people on the list because all my kids have put themselves on my plan. And so I'm like, and so she's looking.

Oh, this is so funny. She goes, well, I mean, Corey hasn't been here since before COVID. So I always took her off. And then Corey's mad. She's, no, I've been there. They just hadn't seen me. I'm like, I don't know. The fall don't lie.

They didn't log your visits. Don't lie. What are you going in the back door? Oh, that's, but I work on this because I'm working on my tennis game. And so I'm trying to keep up with my children. So that tennis. Oh, wow. Well, I've just.

He's a veggie burger. I'm a vegan tennis playing. I cut all my hair off. It's over. Yeah. Let's face it guys. Yeah. Half the listeners just turned us off.

They said, Willie's a vegan tennis player. I can't wait to read the comments. I just ate chili dogs. So, you know what I'm saying? And I like tennis. So at my age, what else? I would have going to go play football? I mean, I'm on Martin's team.

We're going to play baseball? No. I mean, let's face it, guys. If you want to do something athletic, that's a competition, there's just a few things, you know. I didn't play football since we did that little game on Duck Dynasty, where he popped his hamstring, which was real, by the way, folks. That was a real hamstring pop.

I drove him to the doctor. No, so, no, that came from. him I was racing will. Yeah. But then we played the football game. I was smoked him. Like, I was going to beat him in that race.

Allegedly. No, I, no, he had. Watch the video. No, I was,

I was there. But I also heard the, unfortunately, you were on the ground. I also heard the audible pop of his hamstring saying, I can't do it no more. I popped it. Yeah.

I mean, it did. I was like, oh. Now, I went to a guy on that. You know, he did?

He stuck a wooden needle in my, in my muscle. A wooden needle. A wooden needle. Vegan witchcraft. Well, my doctor said, hey, go try this, man. It actually works. That sucker drove a wooden piece of.

I saw splinter. Yeah. It's like bamboo stuck at my leg. And I'm telling you. Gobwin's wife. Gobwin's face is disturbing. I ain't saying Gobbin is uncomfortable since we talked about mastectomy. The muscle relieved and it felt way better.

But the back of your leg is tender. Like a red. Weenie. I think a pop just like one of them red weenies was. He took a piece of wood in there. What were you thinking when you took over, Duck Commander? What was the thought process? Godwin was here.

He was. Godwin is an older employee. Godwin was one, you were the person I did not hire. That's still here? Right. Yeah, he came along. He came with the package. It was a good package, though.

I'm the oldest employee here outside of the family. There you go. He's the oldest employee here outside of the family. Wow. You've made it. 21 years this year. Is that how long it's been? Wow.

I worked at Riverwood for 21 years. Yep. That's unbelievable. I've actually never wanted to fire you. I mean, that says something, like 21 years, especially if you're part of the old team, you know. Yeah. Did you ever want to fire, Si?

Yeah, oh, for sure. No, I went and begged Phil. He's not here. Let's get it out on the table. So I go to Phil. What was I thinking? Well, I explained that in a minute. So I went in.

I'm looking at the kind of the bottom lines. I'm kind of looking at the operation. We are running Duck Commander out of Mom and Dad's house. And so, Cy's the reed guy. But he slept most of the day. And he really didn't, you know, Nobody wanted to do the reeds, but I was like, this is just a bad spend on our money.

We didn't have any money. And so I go to dad, and I said, Dad, look, we need to let go. We need to drop some, really a person, and that needs to be sigh. Because I was like, Godwin can do the reeds. I was already cutting the end pieces. Yeah, you were fixing to do bone. I was like to mock up that down to you. Boy.

So, and I see. said, so we just need to let Si go. I mean, I know he's your brother, but let's face it, he's not a good worker. Phil goes, feels in his recliner. Phil said, nah, leave old Sae alone. He's a reed man. That's a monotonous job. Nobody wants to do it, so just let him keep doing it.

And I was like, crap. And so I went to actually try to get him let go from the company. That would have been a bad move. That's a good thing. My God would always. So God would always want to hire more. He needed more help. Like we just need more help down here.

So finally we had a meeting. And I said, Godwin, what exactly are you looking for? I need three more people in this warehouse. I said, for what? Like, what's the job? What do we need to get done? He goes, well, I mean, the UPS guy comes at three o'clock. And it's just, I mean, we're working right up until three o'clock to get the order in.

have you missed one? He said, no, we hadn't missed one. I said, well, if you had more people, like,

what would you want to accomplish? He goes, well, then we could have it ready to go by like 11. And then I asked him the question, he didn't have the answer to you. I said, well,

what would you do from 11 to 5? He goes, I don't know. Rejected. No more hiring of people. No new people. To get done three hours. hours early.

I told John David that before we went on. I said, I know which one Willie's going to tell on Gavin. I said that, that'll be, that'll be that one right there. Sure enough. You don't disappoint. Now, what's my story on you? Oh, the, the one I sent you an email. He's the person I never hired.

But here I am, boy. I didn't hire him. And he's still around. So we play poker all the time. He worked at a sporting good store, which is cool. And he's really smart. And he said, hey, if you got anything you need me to do, I can help you out. I was going out of town.

For free. Yeah. For free? I said, I like free. I said, yeah, well, just, I'm going out of town. Why don't you just come here and cold call some stores and just see if you can sell some duck calls? Because I thought you knew the lingo. You weren't at a sporting goods store.

And so it's like, it must have been a long trip. I was going because it's like a week and a half later, I get an email from. careful you've already put it out there in a national bestselling author from Martin's email address from Martin's email address which is it's in print if you want it

which is Jmart diggedy digdy digdy dog at Godoo dot org and I'm like what the heck like how did he get an email address I didn't even hire him hey look I had to do so I sold some stuff Did you work before I actually paid you?

Four and a half months. Did you come to me and say you haven't paid me? No. No, you said. There's been employees here that I've hired. Did I forget to pay you? You just didn't tell them about my negotiations. I negotiated a higher rate.

Oh, so listen to this kid. Listen to this kid. I'm afraid. Hold on. David is like my family. Like, he's related to my spouse. I was recruited. Right.

So I remember, like, when he's just like, little kid. Yeah, he's a little rich kid and they were a queen-sized man, you know. They had built. Oh, yeah. I kind of had probably something against little rich kids. And so, well, then I just totally forgot about what happened. I was like, whatever happened that kid. And we were having a... I was

living next door to him. That's what happened. So, we have some weird family meal because we actually don't have a lot of family. It was at your house. Something happened. Giant D's there, like working the crowd. Did you have the full beard by then? It was a smaller

Oh yeah. So he's starting to get on that that nasty train. And so the beard's doing that before. Doing that before. And I'm like, who was this kid? That's like,

I was old Johnny D. baby. I was so nervous purpose. Remember, I remember he's like, you know, convulsing when you played one hand out of an hour playing poker.

I said, we need to hire this kid. And so we have a meeting. He calls me while I met my other job. He's like, leave that, come over here. And so I'm like,

I'm like, what are we? What's the? And so, John David starts negotiating. So I'm like, what do you make an hour? And it's like $3. What is like $8.50 an hour?

And he goes, you know, and I'm like, well, what's it going to take for us to get you? Should have said 10. Get you here. And John David's like, well, for $9 an hour, I think I can make the move. You hit the books for a little bit more in that now. Yeah, well, I should have went with 10 back then. But then, look. The idea you had me.

I did. I got my first paycheck and he didn't tell anybody. So I think it was like eight and I had to walk in. I said, excuse me. I don't know if you've heard, but I negotiated a higher rate. Well, at least you got a paycheck. No, I mean, but I volunteered to work here for free. So I didn't expect nothing. And then like, yeah, four to five months later, he said, why don't I start paying you?

I was like, okay, not a problem. I mean, I didn't. I would forget, I would forget to tell him that. I wasn't as bad as Phil, though. Phil would have people work for him for him for never pay them. Oh, and Kay would. Like a dime. Like, it was just like.

Well, that and Kay would just say, hey, mind holding that? Yeah. You mind holding that till Tuesday? Hold that till Tuesday. That was my first check from, you know, quitting Riverwood. Did you have to hold your checks? Yes, she said, don't cash this till Monday. Oh, yeah.

That's back. Well, that's why, yeah, that's why I took it over, actually, because, yeah, mom mom she she did as good as she could but I was like well being the buyer at a local sporting store was good for me because I knew all I had to do was wait for y'all's vacation before I even knew anything about y'all's vacation and I could get duck commander product for the year because she would say I'll give you a really good discount if you pay me cash they were doing all these stupid and we I just pay her out the register and she'd go on vacation like she's like oh I got four hundred Oh my gosh.

We would go to a show and we'd sell Doc Cause all weekend. We'd make like 10 grand right. And then mom would like have it in her purse. And then we'd always just go eat. And then we'd just go blow it. And then we'd have to pay for something, you know. So I started investing in the company. But then I realized, hang on, man.

How's the story going in? You know? I said, why don't I just like kind of take it over and took it over? It was rough. So I go to the bank, and I said, and this is right before, when you could still kind of talk to the bank, you know, and it was like, yeah, this doesn't really make any sense, but we'll take a chance on you. And he goes, I said, I said, I need a loan. I can't remember what I was asking, a couple hundred grand maybe. And he goes, well, you can have like 35,000 as a business loan.

I'm like, well, how in the heck I'm going to pay for all this stuff? We got nothing, you know. I said, is there any way we can get some more? I don't know. And that's about all. I don't know how we made it. But I held my checks, too. They were about six months of them.

They were on the top of my desk. All my paychecks were just stacked down. They were no good. They were just paper. I was betting on it to come, baby. I was crossing my fingers saying, let's work hard and figure it out. And here we are. Well, let's see.

Now we all got queen size bands in our own bedroom. Yeah, buddy. Well, let's take our last break. We'll be right. back that leads us into the uh the last section of the show look we have not had time uh due to hunting and everything else around here to go through the emails for this week yeah we got time i'm saying we've got you've got plenty of time but you've got the last emails what is it you've got the last section so we're going to give you plenty of time to opine here at the end but

hey welcome back guys if you got questions or comments on our boss because he won't be back here and it's obvious he doesn't listen to the podcast so we can talk freely when he's not here. Just send him to hello at duckcallroom.com. That's hello at duck callroom.com. Don't forget like and subscribe on YouTube. And look, boss, I know since you don't listen to this or watch it or anything, and you don't know how we close this week. Hello.

Hello, it's me. That's copying out of. Dale was going to be. Silence of the land. I'll watch that though. That was Lionel Richie, not Adele. You said it's me you're looking for. I can see it in your eyes.

You went line of Richie. I thought you had all the hell of races. So anyway, before we got distracted again, we always close with a Bible verse or some positive thought, boss. This is where you come in. Send us home. Positive thought. All right.

I'll try to be positive. Um, yeah, it comes from the book of Psalm. I believe it's 51, John D. Psalm 51. 51, yeah, verse 10. You want me to read it? Verse 10. Yeah, read 10.

Then I'll comment on it. Created me a pure heart, oh God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Psalms, 51.10. Is it Psalms or is it Psalm? It's hard to say. Creating me a clean heart of God. God. All right, let's keep reading. And renew a steadfast spirit within me.

All right, read the next one. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. All right, let's hear the next one. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me. So David's going through some stuff here, right? Like, so he's wanting this cleansing. All right, the next one. Then I will teach transgressors, transgressors your ways.

so that sinners will turn back to you. This one, this one I want to pause on. So he says, creating me up your heart, oh God. And then he ends up saying, then,

then I will teach transgressors your ways. And sinners will come back to you. You know what that sounds like, John, do? Sounds like evangelism. Oh. Now,

I don't often go, I'm the evangelism coordinator in our church, but, and I don't often go to the Old Testament, And I was reading that this morning actually, and I was like, wow, David's saying he is actually going to be evangelistic, but he's got to get himself right first. So he's asking for that pure heart. Then he will teach people their ways and sinners will turn back to God.

All right. Read the next one. Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshadow, God. You who are God, my savior, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness. So deliver from the guilt, which is see, guilt will hold. hold you back from doing what you need to do. All right, the next one. Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise.

Uh-oh. We got more evangelism. Open my lips. And so I see this, that's a real pattern that I've never actually seen before, a pattern that to tell others good news, you've got to work on yourself, get yourself there. And then once that opens up, you'll be able to tell others about the hope and the joy that you have. And I actually shared that with a couple of people this morning, because we've been

going over the idea of evangelism. We're actually going to do a series on it. And so it's amazing how you can do that, because I think we're all called, which evangelism, if you don't know, it's an old word, it just simply means to proclaim the good news of Jesus, either publicly, which some people go, oh, I could never do that, or personally. And so once you get it, down to there, then you should be able to tell others about that. Now, I will say I really learned this on watching Phil, and of all the stuff that I saw Phil do, that dude has always been sharing his faith. And so I witnessed that growing up, and so I've tried to do that myself and give people

good news because what I'm seeing what's happening in the world, there's a lot of bad going on, a lot of heartaches, but I'm seeing opportunity, surely for something. better and something hopeful, something beyond what we can see. Because I think 2020 exposed a lot of people as to what's important, what really matters, what we're all into, what we follow, what we go to, family, you're stuck with people, relationships. I mean, there's a lot of people that's in a lot of hurt, you know, and a lot of stuff has happened. and so we're only here for a short time and then we're gone so I'm banking on the just like when

I took over this company and holding all my checks and was like I hope something better's coming but I think we saw it through this past year you know that this world doesn't offer all those things for us and so the more we get tied up in it caught up in it and it'll chew you up and spit you out and leave you really hopeless so that's what makes me get up in the morning that's what gives hope and happiness and that way no matter what happens no matter what happens on this planet I'm hoping that there's something better that our lives can go there and so my word of the year I'm giving everybody my word no one knows this word for the year which I which I'd move the goalpost John you moved the goalpost to February you found it should not make yeah I have my word you shouldn't

make your new year's resolutions on January the 1st because you're coming off of Christmas and hectic stuff and then you're like oh no what am i going to try to do for the year then you come up with something and let's face it most people by this by now are like already failed miserably so i took the entire month of january to figure out what it is that i wanted to do for 11 i'd rather have the 11 months of something and so we're doing fasting and we're doing praying and so i'm waiting for this time but i've come up with my word for the year and it is create and that passage starts out with create, which is what led me to that passage. And so this year I will try to create.

I have a whole list of things that I'm going to try to create. But I'm kind of a creative type. And so creating something from nothing, which I'm interested in. And I'm glad this podcast was created. There we go. We're glad to have you. Glad to have you, boss. Come back any time.

You're always welcome here in the duck call room. So I may stop by. I'm glad you like it. This is about the seventh, eighth, eighth one. Is it? I don't have to listen to it to like it. I can just like it. As long as you subscribe.

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