Duck Call Room - Willie Robertson Was Nearly Attacked by a Gorilla with a Machete

Episode Date: October 25, 2022

Willie encountered a machete-wielding gorilla in the Democratic Republic of Congo and lived to tell the tale. Godwin stuns the room with his persimmon prophecy skills, and Willie declares Godwin the Woodsy Martha Stewart. Uncle Si recalls witnessing drunk deer farting in the Alabama forest. And John-David asks the boys for their best — and worst — marriage advice. --- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, welcome back. We're back. Welcome back to the Duck Room podcast. Hey, Martin. How's the kids? Kids are doing great, just trying to get a little nourishment in their belly, and, you know, they were going to go fishing. If you haven't caught on, because you're listening and not watching,

we've got a special guest in the house, Cye's favorite nephew. Is that true? That's true. Okay. Well, all right. Size's favorite nephew. Willie Robertson. It was easy.

My old boss, Godwin's current boss, joining us today. Am I still a special guest? You don't ever get past that. I think I own this place. I'm a guest. I'm like a guest in my own. You do own the room.

What would that be? And probably the podcast. It's called the duck car room. Hey, I ain't seen that. Welcome, boys. Hey, it's good to be back with you again. Yeah, I'm filling in for Martin, who's a changing diapers. Things going on.

He's on maternity leaf. He is. I changed 975 diapers. He's got to change double that. You changed that many diaper? Yeah. Where'd you come up with that number? Well, I started counting after Paulusay.

He don't never help. And you actually counted? I started counting. I made it through Bella. Never changed a diaper. Really? One of my kids, I never changed the diaper. That's some sort of award.

I mean, it's not celebrated, obviously, but like, every time. Men, like, that's probably last. That's pretty impressive. Well, I couldn't change them. Every time she moved, you told Cole, your turn. I don't have the system. How did you do that?

I don't have the system to change diapers. I don't either. It was a, I mean, every time I changed the diaper, it was like, it'll be better if somebody. You'd have to clean the kid up and then clean up where I threw up. Immediate bath, like, I would change the diaper, Then it'd go to everybody in the bathtub. Yeah.

We were in a maze in Oklahoma that you paid to get in, and then you were trapped in for two hours. It was crazy. And Lottie was, you know, we're out of diapers now. I'm done with that. I'm at zero now. And I was like, man, I knew I was a sweaty guy, but I didn't know it was this sweaty. And then I put her down. I was like, oh, no, I've just been peed all over.

That's not sweat. That was not sweat. So I went and took a shower. But yeah, that's my story. That's the whole thing. Wow. Well, Martin is, uh, Martin's, uh, dad now. Yeah, he's got two.

Two children. We haven't told anybody yet. We're waiting for him to tell. Oh, sorry. Well, all the fun stuff. Sorry. Do you know what he's, two puppies?

I mean, two puppies that he just got. Yeah. Yeah. We just didn't tell the names. A puppy. Do you even know the names? Ask me in five years. No.

Probably still. I'll have a good nicknames. I have a couple of nicknames. There you go. So you and Sire going hunting tonight? That's what I heard. I just heard. Well, I knew I was hunting.

And then I heard Sall was going to go down. Adam Rosh is in town. You make sure that you don't kill the wrong buck. Oh, my gosh. He's going to be your guide. That's right. That's why. Are you wearing those snake boots?

No, I'll put on my tennis shoes. Here's what's funny. I have on snake boots. What kind? Repels snake bites. Oh. Sigh has on snake boots like rattlesnake hide. No, there ain't rattlesnake hide.

What is that? That's the, uh, andaconda. Andaconda or the, or the bull constrictor. The bull constrictor or the andaconda. That's right. That's right. As much as I hate snakes, I can't believe. I'll tell you.

You know, the show gave me these. Okay. The show. Yeah. What's the show? Dagnan. Oh. But anyway.

They just gave you some. The show didn't give me. The show didn't get me Andy Condi boots. Yeah, he did. I gave you flame boots. This was for the Nashville scene. Mm. And they just kind of stuck.

Well, no, no. They looked good. They just never gave them back. No, no. These are the most comfortable boots there are in the world. I'm sitting for cowboy boots. Cowboy boots are usually too tight and they, you know, create bunions on your feet. You know, these are good.

That's a good set of boots. It is a good Saturday book. Why wouldn't you wear them on? Why wouldn't you go hunting in them? No. No. Mess them up. Hey, this one, this was, this.

You want some blood on them? Back when I was out on the road with my band, this was my, this was my get-up, part of my get-up for singing. The snake, baby. They help you sing better? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

We're going to go deer hunting, but the rumor I've heard is that you passed on this deer. Blood doesn't get on his eye. He doesn't shoot deer. He's the biggest buck on the property. Which, why you're even have the option to shoot the deer's, I'm questioning that. No, no. So you look at it. Who owns the property, Phil?

No, no. Here's how it went down. One's not named, Sa, but. Here's how it went down. We done totally on the podcast before this. Yeah. Stone said, well, there he is. Look him over.

And if you want him, shoot him. Now, for years, Sao, you. You have shot literally every shot at. Everything you've seen. Whatever walked. Yeah. They'll come out there. Stone said you said he wasn't barrel-chested enough for you.

Well, no, no, no. He wasn't, okay? He's only four. Okay. He's only four years old. Hey, I just love that somehow Jay's like, now you're actually thinking about how old they are. Well, no, no. Well, I got into it.

Jay got me into it. Okay. And now. Well, I love it that you're passing the biggest deer. I'm on board with the management thing. Okay. Okay. I really am.

So, Will. Let's hope he doesn't come out tonight. No, no. That's why I told him. We'll be able to age him a lot better after how you get done with him. No. No. You can pick him up.

You can open his mouth. Look at the teeth. You grab that crossbow. I'm going to hit the trigger and let it go out the window. Okay. It's going to be very safe in that blind tonight, everybody. No, it'd be good and safe It'd be good and safe

I'm looking forward to Okay I'm exciting Oh no no Because you never know what's going to come up When was the last time you two were in a deer stand Oh good grief Never

In a deer stand we'd never A deer hunting either Oh man And Doug was in Doug blind Was a while back Pretty good ways So This could be

We're back baby Back Uncle and nephew you right again. I'm sure we'll see something. It'll be good. Hey, we're going to see here. Whether we see a shooter,

no, that's a different story. Well, it's bo season, so we won't be able to reach out and touch them. Yeah, but hey. Close work. I know you, now that you're on the program with all your bow hunting you've been doing. Oh, yeah.

They're right there. Hey, I gave up the sticking stream because, hey, I always done something wrong and never kill one. Okay. mean, I'm literally, I shot at one that was right under me. Okay, and how it happened I do? I shot under him. He shot the 20-yard beam.

Instead of over him. He shot under him and the deer was under him. And the deer was under me. That's hard. I mean, just right there. That's an oxymoron. If I'd had a big long spear, I could have just stuck him. Yeah, been a lot simpler.

You should do that. Well, no, no, a lot of people do. Kill them a spirit. Do they? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a thing.

No, no, that's the new thing now. That's the new thing. All the kids are talking about it. It's all over the internet. When you don't stick yourself. Godwin's a deer hunter too. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

So I've been going after, usually we go to a different state. I'm going to call the state. Yeah. And I'll come in. So it seems like always after you guys. Yeah. Clean up. A lot most time.

Yeah. You're back and clean up. I'm like. finishing the job seems like a lot. That was funny. We still talking. We was talking about. That was funny.

What happened? Paula shot a deer and she hit him in his elbow. He took a right, I mean, it was just inches. But she hit him and she don't shoot, you know, she's shooting 40 pounds. So when it hit that elbow, it didn't go through. Yeah, stuck in it. And so he took off. A bee sting.

Yeah. So Jeff called me a buddy of mine. And he said, I seen. And see, it wasn't two weeks later. What happened? Well, he's... I didn't shoot him in the elbow. No.

We had some great pictures for Paula. Yeah. He said... You know the big buck? Yeah. Yeah, he was all right. I mean, he was a, yeah. It's kind of like Jones had forgotten.

I've seen a few deer since then, but. Yeah. John David, and I was instrumental in helping John David achieve. Did you shoot the deer with a bow? Crossbow. Crossbow. Yeah. I got, that's my only deer in my life.

Willie got me on him. Yo, palmed it. He had a weird, funky. He's up in my living room still. He's in the living room. I shot him and shook for about an hour and a half. and he got so fired up he never went back.

I've been deer hunting since then. Just not in the places that Willie Robertson has access to. My 60 acres in Calhoun doesn't have that many deer on it. A lot of raccoons, though, if you ever want to go whack and stack those. Oh, man, there's cones everywhere.

It's a good population of cones everywhere. Everywhere. I tell you, even shooting a dough is hard. trying to because i mean Paula's pretty picky on which one she's gonna shoot picky on those she's picky on those she is

huh that's a new one vibes ain't right if it if it's got a little old phone with it she ain't gonna shoot it which i mean she's a motherly

I mean they're way I say phone why don't you just shoot the pawn no i'm just joking well not I say I call it a phone it's not a phone it ain't got spots or nothing it's big I mean, it's a big.

Big for its age. If it's got two with it, she ain't. Yeah, she doesn't want to break that up. She doesn't want to break up the family. Well, we're going to break this up. We're going to take our first break, and we'll be right back. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up.

You know what that means. That means more outside cooking. And y'all know. We love to eat beef around here. And that's what because of our friends over at Trial's beef makes such a good product, baby. Ain't it good? It's so good. It's our friend, Sao Robertson, would say,

Buy on the grill. Look, before we got Tritels, getting ready for a cookout, man, somebody had to run the grocery store, do all the things, grab whatever was left in case you were late in the day. And you never really know where that beef comes from. But with Tritales beef, we skip the grocery store and do it a different way. Tritales comes from a family ranch out in Texas. They're a fifth generation American ranch.

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It's that time of year. 34 degrees tomorrow. Yeah, it's going to be awesome. When's the last time it done that in October? I don't remember any time in the 30s. It's yesterday, 91. I did cut a persimmon seed open other day. It had a spoon in it.

What? Does that even mean? Or what did you just say? There has a spoon in it? Yeah. All right, I'll fight. What's the persimmon doing? You don't know.

No. You cut a persimmon seed open, it tells the weather how the winter's going to be. What? It's either a spoon or a knife or a fork. What does that mean? What does that mean? Oh, wise, Bobbmaster. If it's a spoon, it means you're going to

be shoveling snow. It's going to be a cold winter. What? If it's a fork, it's, I don't forget what they are. One of them's a, oh, come on. One of them's a, one of them's, I got it. He's not lying. Oh, he ain't lying. Oh, boy. So, what is this? A fork, the winter will be mild, a spoon. There will be a lot of snow. One will be in a knife. Fitterly cold if it's a knife. Because it cuts like a knife. It cuts like a knife.

That knife and spoon look really similar. I've never... You didn't know that? Obviously not. I don't know that. So I figured you... You learned a lot on this podcast. What if he...

Has anybody ever taken a bite into a persimmon? Oh, yeah. Oh, how about that? That's... Oh, no. Yeah. Fuck her up. Fucker up.

That'll fuck her up. That'll puck your mouth there. Oh, yeah. I did that church one time. The old church, it was... I said, let me bite this stuff. and I mean my mouse shriveled up. Now you know where they make dry wine from.

Hey, you are just, what happened? He reads the Almanac and he watches PBS. The Palsini version of Martha Stewart here. I mean, you've got like all the little. So the Pissimino is saying we're going to have a lot of snow this year. Oh, this, yeah, that ain't all on the bitterness. So I go out to check my trail cameras the other day. I got Joe Hanna with me.

We run by a persimmon tree. She said, I got to get them. I said, why? She said, I want to make some jam. I said, so I'm backing up the persimmon tree. And look, I buy it in the one. And like you, it was better. I said, these ain't going, that ain't going to be no good.

She said, no. She said, no. She said, you fill up a zip block bag and put a banana in. and put the persimmons in that bag with the banana lets off a gas that neutralizes the tanning. Who are you got? He's like, why are you not laughing? Bradley Cooper when he ate the pills and like turned into like the smartest man in the world. I took the blue one.

I feel like I should like take my shoes off and sit at your feet, Indian style, to teach me your ways. Teach me old wise one. Tell me this. Well, the other. Well, tell me this. Give us another one. What did Batman tell Robin before they got in the car? Buckle your seatbelt?

I don't know. Get in the car, Robin. Welcome to the duck car room. I was on fire today. All this knowledge, all this like weird. Here's the thing. For someone's, if they're really. Ripe.

Okay. A really delicious. What's that, dude? Okay, but if they're not ripe... If they're not ripe... Yeah, if they're not ripe... You're talking about puckered up, Jack.

So when deer are eating them, are they eating them ripe, or they eating... It doesn't matter. No, no, no, they wait till they fall on the ground. I'm serious. But I have seen doles standing up, which, if they don't fall,

they try to knock them down. I've seen a dough popped other day. Oh, no. I've seen a dough doing this and knocking them off with the tree limbs. Big dough. But any kind of fruit, okay, because this takes me back to Alabama, where we had an evening, a evening ritual when I bought the little place in Alabama. It had two big giant pear trees right next to my house,

and they was lowly down all the time. You know, year around, when the fruit was in, they were low. look just there's pairs laying all over the ground okay and they're darker than this piece of leather right here

they're just black because they're rotten well here comes a doe and two yearlings out of the woods comes up and look for an hour and a half they just gorge themselves on this

just rotten pairs. They're literally alcohol. Okay, and look. They're drunk. Oh, no, no, no, look. Oh, hey, look. Oh, look. Hey. Their bellies are this bigger around.

Okay, from the gas to swarm inside them and every time they move is we're on the floor. Oh, my wife is Tracy and Scott are on the floor laughing.

And then when they left, y'all run up there and get out of the black parrars. Oh, no, no. We just yell some of them. Oh, I'm glad they're gone. I need a break. What in the world? But hey, they was literally a distillery. They were bloated.

They had so much alcohol in them pairs. They were bombed, number one. Bombed and bloated and drunk. Yeah, and bloated yesterday. And every time they moved. Maybe it was just, you know, gas going everywhere. I don't think I've ever seen that. Oh, no, no.

Tell us why it's Buckmaster in all of your journeys. It was hilarious. I never heard of nothing like that. A lady from South Africa emailed in like yesterday. No way. Angelique. And she was confirming some of size PBS stories, but she said, but you need to tell them about this.

There's a fruit that grows on the trees in South Africa. And when they fall to the ground, they firm it. monkeys, baboons, and elephants will eat it, and it makes them drunk. Some say it's a myth, but it's 100% real. So Angelique from South Africa. It's validation. It also happens in Alabama.

No, no, no. I'm telling you, this was a daily ritual for us. It's 4.30. It's time for the deer to get on the pantry. Well, I mean, if you told me there's people get drunk off weird stuff in Alabama, I would say, yeah, I'm sure that's the case. I just didn't realize it was wildlife. No, no, that's the first time.

That's why it was so hilarious. Okay. Although, I got to think watching a bunch of monkeys and elephants getting drunk. Now, that's a party. Hey. You're talking about it. Like the monkeys are hanging on. Give me a lift, you know.

The elephants are throwing them over and falling upside down. I watch TVS all the time. This is true. Okay. The other night. okay was the episode was Rivers of Life Okay

It's the Zambezi River That's the one she emailed That goes No no That goes through about Eight countries Okay Confirmed

One of them is Africa Okay When it gets to one of the countries There's a big lodge there That everybody comes to To take pictures of the wildlife in Africa So this thing is open

It's a big lodge It's open Okay There is a giant fruit tree grows up right in close to this lodge. Okay, and whatever fruit is, I can't remember whatever the fruit was. It's the Marula fruit. Okay, but anyway.

The Marula, yeah, yeah. Okay, so anyway, she's telling the story that I watched the other night. Okay, here comes bull elephants while bull elephants with tusks. I heard of them, and they just come walking through the stupid lodge. They go in the... Inside. I'd have moved the lodge. No, no, no, no.

Look, they go into the gift shop and one of them picked up something and looked at it, you know, with his truck and then sets it back down. I mean, were they, like, elephant doors of the lodge or like regular human doors? Huh? Just regular, they're open, I'm telling you. This thing is open. But I mean, like an elephant, you realize. It's a giant. Elephant.

No, no, elephants, baboons, and all this stuff is coming in here to eat this thing. fruit off the ground. They eat their field. They're bombed. He doesn't got high as well. Look at the roof. No, they were staggering. They were staggering when they left.

My question in my mind was, they don't ever go rampant, you know, just go berserk. But this has been going on for years, okay? Wow. It's just, it's the insane.

Hey, let's go build a lodge under that tree. Under that tree. Where all these elephants come and fall over on us. Hey, look, I'm serious. There was the ladies sitting down in the lobby of the lodge. She's got a camera, and I'm serious. There was a bull elephant where you two are sitting across from her eating the fruit, and she's taking pictures of it.

You know? She must be a track runner. And I'm looking and I'm saying, this is so insane. we actually can't get along with the critters if we just, you know, strife. Get them, look at that. Look at that. If we just get them to loosen up, have a drink, and then that fit. I ain't doing that.

What if he starts spitting seeds out of that trunk at you? Some people aren't fun when they drink. They get mad. Oh, he's just playful. If he does that, he's just playful. Don't get all been out of shape. I don't know where we go from here, but we should probably take a break. We'll take a break.

Do you watch a lot of PBS, Willie? No, I don't watch a lot of... You need to watch it. It's very informative. What was the other night? What channel is that? I need to start watching. No, I'm serious. The other night, it was the Yukon and the Klondike.

You con was playing who? For PBS. Oh. Yukon was playing Pondike on Pondike on sports? No, okay. And the Klon Dike, it runs the Klon Dike, I mean, the Yukon runs into the Klondike. And look, there's only... Only 125,000 people in up there, because of the harshness of it.

Because it gets 60 below. Okay, the river, the Klondike, or no, the Yukon. The Yukon actually freezes over and becomes a highway for everything. Then during the fall stage, when it's summer, then it barges and all this stuff, take stuff to all the people that live up there. But it, you know, it's just, it's crazy. Okay. It's called the Rivers of Life.

It's fascinating. Oh, no, no, it is. Okay, all the junk that goes on from them is, you know. They drive him trucks on them. Oh, yeah. On the river? Ice Road Chuckers. I ain't doing it.

That's another show. Oh, no. They do. Oh, yeah. I ain't getting on that ice. Yeah. Willie, do you have any connections? at PBS.

All of our... I do that here in the United States up in the northern side. I know. All of our fans want side to narrate an episode of nature on PBS.

Oh, how incredible that. Hey, that'd be awesome. That'd be awesome. It would. It'd be awesome. Hey, I get fired up too. Specifically the one with the drunk...

I'd love to go to that lodge. What are we? And watch the big elephant come in and eat the fruit and get bombed. You're just a plane right away, my friend. Yeah. Jump on plane, take out.

Yeah. That would be for an adventurous person. Are you not adventurous? Why go watch it when you can watch it in the comfort of your living room and recliner. In no danger. No danger. Yeah. Yeah.

That is a good point. I would not go to Africa just to see all the wildlife. Willie's been to Africa. You've been to Africa. He saw a group. A gorilla take a machete. I had a gorilla come at me. True story.

How'd have hit me. Then he stole our machete and took all running with it. You sure? You sure that wasn't a mechrist? A gorilla? A gorilla. How big are they? Big?

Yeah. Big enough to scare you if it's got a machete? They're like... One hundred pounds. The silverback gorilla? Well, when we first walked up on them, they were... One of them came swinging in. He was going to slap me.

me and the park ranger stood in front he slapped him he said it's okay it's just a little initial like jockeying for position you know and he said don't look at them in the eye we looked down and they and then they just started being submissive to him yeah we were submissive and yeah we hung out with them for a couple hours that's wow in varunga that's wild national park in congo okay that's wow It was totally, I mean, I thought He was swinging in. This is not safe. No.

Not when he's coming in to slap you. Yeah, he was coming in. What if he'd rare it back to slap him back? So they have to go like a year where they kind of train them to where they don't, like, tear you apart. But he could have picked us up and thrown us 30 feet. Yeah, monkeys are strong. Gorillas, these are big. No, no, this is a big.

silverback that's what it was it was awesome oh no hold on watch this side that's willy back when he had

a long hair look that's that's me that looked like me and John Gowan at the Johnny's buffet yeah when there's two pieces

of pepperoni left that's a face off who's gonna get it okay hey here we're I know the lady she's known

she's a doctor and she live with them Dr. Quinn No. No, this ain't the medicine one. This is, she lived with the silverback. Didn't the one that live with them ended up getting killed by them? Yeah.

She may have. I just know that she lived with them. Well, Sa, you should know that before she didn't bring it up. And it showed her sitting down and she's surrounded by in like the lead male of the pack. Yeah. You know, you come up and, you know, you actually got scary. Oh, it's scary when you're not. No.

There's no rules. You know, you don't know what he's going to do. No. Yeah. But that is, no. No. It was pretty cool. It was.

I would have had to go to the... The guerrillas didn't kill him. Restroom and clean myself up. If a silverback gorilla come up there and try to slap me. I'm still trying to get this in my mind. Somebody stepped in front of me, he slapped him. Yeah. Y'all just pull up and get out of the Jeep or something.

Yeah, we were going on a, he said, do you want to go, we were in Varunga, which I think, I don't think you can go in there where we went now you can't, but, um, but yeah, it was pretty sketchy and he said, we can go hang out with the mountain gorillas. There was about, they knew what was going on. They just kind of moved around, eating leaves and swinging off bushes. Well, they were used to seeing him. They weren't used to. Well, they were getting used, yeah, they had gotten them used to seeing humans and hang out. Wow. That's insane.

I figured I'm probably never going to be able to do this again, so why not? That's a one. I mean, if you're going to go out, that'd be. Go out of a blaze the glory, baby. Taking on a side of that. Yeah, that's pretty wild. It was the younger male that came to swing at me. Like, it wasn't the silver bag just kind of sat back there.

One of the younger bucks came in, he's going to. He let the young ones come in and do all the work. Yeah. But the part ranger stood in. He swat him on the back, and then they watched it and see if you were going to what was the next move and we just kind of looked down and they were like all right

then we just kind of walked with them through the woods just and they would come up the little ones would come up to you and mess with you but he really did I got a video of him grabbing the machete

and take it off with it what that guy I saw you when he done that he took off after him to get it back give me my machete back we got the machete back that lady that he was talking about was in Varunga

oh it was Brunga yeah it was just Wikipedia did it which you know it's true Maybe. Brunga's pretty fascinating. Yeah, it's the national part full of... I can't imagine

you living in that kind of country or like you've got to go get water from a river and crocodile, you know, he may come up for breakfast. Yeah. You're it. Yeah. Yes.

You got to be on your guard. That's insane. Show them in a little, like a pea row, you know, and the, And the most dreaded thing in Africa kills more people than anything is the hippo. The hippopotamist. Yeah, hippopotamist. And this kid, he's just a kid going to school.

He's paddling to school. You know, and a hippo comes up in front of him, you know. And he just said, well, we just turn around and paddle away as fast as we can. Yeah. And I said, what a day for school. What happened today? Oh, I was paddling to school and a hippo. Almost got he.

Yeah. They got killed by it. That's the story he's telling his kids. When I was in school, we had to paddle. Back in Vivian. I had to paddle past hippopotamus on the Red River. Hey, I had to paddle through hippos and crocodiles when I was a kid. Wow.

That is pretty amazing, though. And if we stayed late, when it got dark, just think of that. Yeah. I had to navigate the river and the hippos and the crocodiles. We didn't never get detention. didn't want to be there after dark That's it What was they?

All right, well I don't know where to go from there So we're going to take another break We'll be right back But if it wouldn't have been so dangerous He was going to take us up on a plane Into the heart of it Where all the giraffes and lions

Like it's amazing But literally everywhere we stayed and camped All that's been taken over By it's shut down Really Yeah, people get kidnapped every year from, I mean, if you go in there, they'll kidnap you and kill you. It's rough.

So they're trying to fight the people coming in or trying. The most thing they want is not the animals, it's the wood. They need the firewood. And then the second thing is the animals because they're trying to eat them. So you got this weird point in life where it's like you kill humans who are trying to survive or take care of the wildlife. It's a weird balance of life. But that's all they,

it's like. But they, somebody went in and shot like 13, well local shot 13 of the guerrillas. Just because they were the big attraction and they thought, well, if we kill all the guerrillas, everybody quit paying attention to what we're doing here.

Yeah. And then we, so that was their thinking was like, let's just kill all the guerrillas and get that over with. So it's taken over now. It's not a person from Africa. It's someone from Brussels. We met with the guys crazy.

That Congo is wild now. How much. So you got that volcano that went off right after we were there. You could see it glowing. Really? Yeah. So it's rough. That was right before the pandemic yet.

Yeah, that was my. And then I got home. Remember, I got home. hour before the national championship game LSU, which I would have been so excited, but then I can't even watch the game because I'm thinking about how bad it was that Congo. And I'm like, what are we doing? Why are we watching football?

I remember wasting our lives. You came home to your comfortable chair with all the amenities. Yeah, it was like, yeah. It was pretty remarkable. It does put it in perspective, I guess. It does. Yeah, I think every person needs to go somewhere.

and we have people that listen from all over. But go somewhere because there's people that don't have it what you got. I mean, I went to Peru with you, Willie. And remember that kid? He was paddling to, like, his friend's house. He was in a bucket. And I, like, broke down in the freaking boat right there. I was like, good night.

Like, I grew up in Westbro. I had it pretty good. And this kid's paddling a bucket. Because the water comes. up and their houses are all like 50, that is like 10, 15 feet off the ground because the Amazon River had come up and when it comes

up, they're just like, all right, well, this is how we live now, swimming and paddling and all that. That's why I go to Iowa just to remember how good we have it. I'm sorry. Iowa. Nobody in Iowa.

Why did you do that? Nobody in the state of Iowa's listening to this right now. That's not true. Nobody. I guarantee you. I won't get one email for my... Oh, yes, I will.

He will not get one. There's not one person in the state. He's going to be looking. This is Mason from Northeast Iowa six days ago. Just had his little girl, Adeline Rose, seven pounds, 10 ounces. Congratulations. Congratulations, Mason. And we're going to scold Willie for what he said about Northeast Iowa.

What is in Northeast Iowa? You know that guy? Yeah. Mason? I'm just joking. and I love Iowa. I swear to Paul is still. Iowa would, no way I would say anything anyway because they're super nice.

Look, and they're having babies. I mean, congratulations, Mason. Now, I thought about which state I would say. And actually, for some reason, I picked Iowa. There's some big deer in Iowa. See? Big deer, a lot of corn. So far, Willie's offended, Alabama.

Who lost to Tennessee. What's up? And Iowa today. I mean, Alabama, that's obvious. but I haven't even mentioned Arkansas yet. I only offend the people from Cincinnati, but they got the last laugh at this. That's who I make fun of.

Cincinnati? Yeah. What's wrong with? They eat chili on pasta. Oh, my gosh. Oh, by the way, does chili have beans? No. Yeah.

Thank you. That don't? Yeah. I was all alone in here saying it has beans. Yeah. I mean, no. I've never heard of it. Beans produce gas.

Read the beans out. Oh, and you've, believe me, you've heard of it. You've tried it. I promise you that. Yeah, we had this big argument, and I was the only person in here that was like, yeah, chili has beans. Who backs, the Cincinnati backs you up on that? I don't know of Cincinnati.

Most of the fans back me up. Cincinnati, is that what their fans for, like chili on pasta? Yeah. Somebody sent us a bag of chili. Not a can't. They put chili on pasta. Yeah. Spaghetti new.

Well, they're just running out of things. They're starving, you know. That's somebody going, I got an idea. Long winter. I got two things alike. Let's mix them up. I got this chili and I don't have nothing else. What can I put this on?

Found some spaghetti noodles, boys. All right, who else can we offend? Any other? Oh, you know, I thought I saw you fishing. Is that not you fishing? When? During the Bengals Saints game? I should have.

Who was? Was that people from your party? Were you at your? Where? Who? In my yard. No, I was. Most of your dad's yard.

And I saw a lot of golf carts coming out of your dad's. And I thought it was you and I thought, wow, he's just not watching the Saints. Like he literally, which would have been a good move. Yeah, I'm there. I wanted to see if you just quit watching them or. Yeah. Just give up. I do like you may go.

I thought you made go to the game because it was. No, my cousins were there. The Bingle, you had LSU's finest against the Saints. I don't want to go to that. That was made me sad. I had a bad feeling. I do like. your shirt though you're wearing a that's a scary shirt how about that willie's wearing a shirt

that has a lion on it man of god with the man of god written on his forehead whose shirt is this this my man to mario davis Mario davis so you do you talk to him I did I talk to him and I'm fixing to be with him in a couple weeks Monday night football who the Saints play do you know their schedule the Ravens oh Ravens Monday night November 7th I'll be at the yeah I'll be there. I'll be at the game. Need an assistant for the weekend or anything? I might go. It just depends on if they start winning. Oh, no, I'm just kidding. I'm not a fair weather fan.

I don't know if they're going to start winning. Nope. Let's not talk about football. That's boring. Except for Tennessee beating Alabama. How about that? That was an epic game. You know he yells roll tide all the time in here? Do you like Alabama? Oh, no. You lived in Alabama. I lived there for a while.

I'm an Alabama boy. I'm a lot. That's a roll tide boy there. Well, they rolled that tide, didn't it? Then we got Martin. The week before I was in South Dakota, pheasant hunting, and I was with a bunch of dudes from Tennessee. And there was a football game on, LSU Tennessee. Oh, man, Tennessee rolled us, and I thought, oh, well.

And then I thought maybe, and they did it. They got it. Yeah. That team's good. I've been wearing my Bill dance hat. all around. Oh, you're a tennis county. Everybody doesn't.

I'm hopped on the base. I love it now. Everybody from Tennessee has like went into their attic and found all their Tennessee gear, brought it out. Oh, you know, I'm like, I ain't seen you're orange. Oh, man, it looks like a. The only person who kept Brittany Martin's wife, she's been. She never put it up.

A good week for her. And now she's at everybody else. They love the falls. They love the falls. In Tennessee, whooped Alabama. I'm mad as Nick Saban. He looked rough. He was very angry, man.

I didn't actually watch a home. They had a lot of penalties, they say. Oh, they were just. I had to go see a movie with my kids, but thank God for technologies. Their kids were watching a movie. I was eating popcorn watching Tennessee and Alabama on my phone. Man, it was a good game. LSU and a whooping on Florida.

Oh, yeah. It was a good week. Joey Lagano won NASCAR. Didn't that happen? And Zion, Will. Williamson's back, baby. Ryan Williams is hurt again? No, he's not.

I thought he got hurt again. He's okay. Oh, he's okay. He's okay. We're the same of sports podcast. Marvin Moose can't one straight, where at rhythm. There you go. What?

What does that mean, please tell me before we take a break? Tell me y'all covered the exhaustively on the show, the cheating, the putting the weights. You know who we covered it with? Corey. Corey probably didn't even under that way. Oh, no. She was all about it. Did she even know what happened?

Oh, yeah. That was... And Saiz said, if you'll cheat in a fishing tournament, you'll cheat on your wife. And he just took it straight to the jugular. You're cheating and everything. They've done taking them dudes boats away and everything. Oh, they're in jail. They're out.

And if you do ever need to win a fishing tournament, aisle two is where you can find the lead weights. We'll be right back after this break. Willie, I know you listen every week at just every Tuesday and Thursdays. The highlight of your week. Actually, I listen on a slow-mo it so that I can hear it. So it makes it longer. Yeah.

So it's like, all y'all's voices are slower. Like, oh, it's like that. And it just helps me to. We watched ourselves in Spanish. We articulate all of it you can. You just want to absorb. Actually, when you're on regular speed, you're like slow-mo. It's like, you don't have to do the dubbing process.

Anyways. Yeah, listen all the time. I know. And you've emailed in a couple questions asking, for advice on stuff from us and we appreciate that wasn't me we have wasn't me it was a friend asking for a friend asking for a friend yeah if you got anything hello at duck call room dot com um you all want to do dating advice or marriage advice all of it we'll take all of it go for the goal ring go for the goal ring a go all right mason from paraguild paraguille paraguaygoode

Paragu. Paraguld. A lot of ducks up here. Arkansas. Paragood up in, I don't know how to read it. Up there's Stuttgart, Arkansas. It's a little bit north of that. You're from Wisconsin?

What's your problem, man? It's freaking paragu. Who is this guy? He's from Wisconsin? Who is his pasting? He's his camouflage hat and his honey hog. How do you know that's from there? You know anybody from there?

No, not really. What Jeff's from? Fortinberry. Shelby Fortenberry. There you go. There you go. The Pirgold, Arkansas, Paragu. She wasn't in Fortenberry then, though.

Now, look, how do you like me now? Mason, we're going to get there, I promise. I don't know what her maiden name. Once Johnny D. figures out where you're from, Mason, we'll get there. Mason's from somewhere in Arkansas, Paragu. And he says, you have somehow all outkicked your coverage when it comes to women. Correct. Fair.

Mason's getting married this weekend. There you go. Congratulations, Mason. Also, he sent this about a week ago, so he's married. But he was just wondering the best and worst marriage advice that we've been given. That we've been given? The best and worse. The worst be?

All right, I'll give you the worst. So, well... There you go. I mean, what would the worst be? Actually, I got one. Hold on. Well, it's not bad marriage advice, but it was kind of... kind of something I couldn't quite pull off.

So when Corey and I were wanting to get married, her parents were, let's just say how to say this. Totally for it. They weren't totally for it. They didn't have the vision that I had at the time. And we were 18, 17. Nobody was pregnant. And so they were kind of frowning on it.

So I went to dad and I said, Phil, wanted to get married. Corey's parents aren't too happy about it What do you think? You know, I'm really wanting some legitimate advice from my father. He goes, well, how old is she? I said, well, she's 17. I've just asked her, you know,

but it's not like an official. He goes, well, I tell you what I'd do. When her parents ask about it, I'd just say, you missed it. I went, what do you mean? He said, when you go to Arkansas, I'll get married at 17, and just go to the justice of peace,

get it over with. And then when they ask you, just say, yeah you missed that. That was a couple of months ago. What's next? So with that, I don't think we can, like, do the no,

no, he said, hey, yes, what I do. That's what I do. That's what I do. So I would say that was in the category.

Yeah, that's best. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know if it's bad a vibe, but it wouldn't have been good for the family vibes. Oh. And it was in Arkansas.

Hey. Yeah. There you go, Mason. There you go. I ain't married by now. Yeah. What's good marriage advice? What's some good marriage advice you got?

You've been married 80 years? Never? Yeah, not quite too much. Hey. Never let the son go down angry. Yep. Yeah. Okay.

There's just some things, okay, that you and your woman are going to have to agree to disagree. Oh. There'll be a lot of them. And one of the things to me, Okay, hey, in our marriage, we had a lot of laughter, which I caused. Well, had a lot of laughter that you caused.

Yeah, I never would have thought that. It's like a hungry ride. You know, don't take yourself too seriously. Yeah. Especially if you're you. Trust me what I tell you. Because I'm not going to take you that serious. I think that's good about it.

Gala, what is the secret to you here? I want to second that because, unfortunately, me and Paula came from broken homes. And that was one thing that I didn't want to let it happen. And I told her, I said, look, I said, if we're going to get mad at each other, after this is one time she got mad at me. But I said, it's okay. it's okay to be mad I ain't going to be no going to

mommas ain't going to be no going to daddy's ain't going to be no sleeping on the couch we're going to sleep in the same bed every night and we'll talk about it in the morning I say give more than you take that's a goal that's a goal

I always try to give it's always better to give than to receive ready for it's more than you say if you try to keep that yeah here's mine ready Yep. Jesus says love your neighbor as yourself, right?

Yep. She's like your neighbor. No. You go a few more chapters. Ephesians says, husbands love your wives the way Christ loves the church. He died for us. That's heavier than loving your neighbor as yourself to me.

He died for us. Jesus, and he became man to die for us, that means she's got to be number one in everything because she's your teammate, she's everything in life for you on this earth. So you got to have her above everything else in life and keep her first besides, you know, Jesus. I've just always thought of Corey as my neighbor. Yeah.

And so I just have to love her. More than that. Like a neighbor that's really close. Yeah. We share a bedroom. We share a bedroom. Well, January would be 31 years. Awesome.

33, 34. 92. 52. Johnny D. About to be 12. Oh. The kids. That's awesome.

There's a phrase. But it gets better and better every year. There's a phrase, there I go only by the grace of God. Yeah. I thought you were going to say, there I go on the road again. There I am. I feel a whole state. I feel that way sometimes.

Way to star again. There I go. With this bad. Turn that page. Was this bad singing? We'll lift it. We'll not end the podcast. Hold on.

My greatest marriage advice is turn to page. Turn to pay. That's a good one. Sometimes I'm going to say, hey, turn that page. Zigrant. Willie. That's a good one, boys. It has been great.

Do you have us anything? You've been studying anything? You've got a good verse for us. You got a lot for us to send us out. You know, it's, you know, I thought recently it's not only sharing the gospel with people. I think there's more. It's how excited you are about the gospel. Because, you know, anybody can just say something,

but when you're really excited about it, it gives it more oof. I was playing golf recently, and a guy was saying, Jesus Christ died first, but he was saying it so angrily, and I was like, I don't know if that's going to come across

the way he probably intended to, but then I was like, so there's something about having the energy. It's not just saying the right thing. Probably this is also good marriage advice. Have you ever said something to your wife? Fine, I'm sorry. It wasn't what you said. It was the way that you said.

How you say it. You can't take it back. And the damage has been done. Like you're talking about that goes along with okay. you know you need to be uh the street lingo is like hey if you talk to talk you need to walk to walk that's the street well yeah if you you can i mean you can go turn on tv i've just been thinking about like it's how you present you know i'm always thinking about ways and they're going in your life too yeah but you come in there going oh i've got to you know and then oh yeah but i

hate my life and it's all miserable but guess what jesus dad for no there should be a difference in you and there should be some joy there it's kind of like because what i hear people It's like they talk about how bad everything is right now. It's like the economy's bad and I hate whoever. Whoever is in politics and there's like so negative. And then they're like, you know, good thing we got Jesus because I hope this whole world ends anyway. And I'm like, well, that's not kind of a positive message that I don't know if it's coming across right. So I want to be a bearer of good news, not just bad news.

Right. It's not like I got to say it. It's I want to say. That's a good point. Yeah. Yeah. But you want somebody. I got a Bible verse for it. You ready?

Let's hear it. Romans 1513. Oh, yeah. May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Thank you. It should just be coming out of you naturally. The song says...

You're a Christian, there should be joy and hope coming out of you. Yeah, exactly. The song says... I've been hanging around with some Christians lately, and there's a lot of weepy and nasty and... Yeah. Negativity. Yeah, negative.

The song says, hey, always be humble and kind. And that's a good verse. That's a good phrase. Always be humble and kind. And have some joy in peace. This is still the greatest nation on earth. Regardless of all our problems we've got, it's still the greatest place on it.

I just want to be a guy that a lot of laughter happens and I'm the cause of it. That's it. Thank you. I've heard that before. I've heard that for. Yep. All right. Well, hopefully our good friend Justin Martin will be back next time. If not, who knows what we got in store.

But we're hoping. Keep praying for him and Brittany. Twins seems like more than one. So we're rooting for them. And we'll see y'all next time right here on the duck call room.