Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 1097 | Willie Gets Roasted by Korie & Jase for His Stuntman Fails on ‘Duck Dynasty’

Episode Date: May 23, 2025

Willie and Korie join the guys to celebrate the June 1 premiere of Duck Dynasty: The Revival and take a hilarious, heartfelt walk down memory lane. From unforgettable injuries on set to forgotten Phil rants and roundabout chaos, nothing is off-limits—including the roast session that breaks out between every member of the family. The Robertsons trade jabs and jokes about who made filming the hardest, who was always late, and the real reason Si always delivered the best punchlines. — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? By the way, this is for Jace. I have to be done it. I have a card. Well, I mean, one. That was for Jays. Yeah. Put a governor. Are we recording all this? It is like one of those go cards. You have to put a governor on it. Well, can I respond?

I do have one complaint from a female. Willie, we'll make sure you're in this. It's like my court. I ain't running this, joy. Are we rolling on that? We're rolling. We're rolling. I want to respond to whatever that was.

I don't even know what you're talking about. Well, let's say it again because I'm not sure we're rolling when he said it. He said, I want, this is for J's, but I need to be done by one of a call. Yeah, I have a. Oh, I get it now. We only have 55 minutes. Well, I'll tell Corey, and you can, feel free to use what I'm fixed to say. My life has been filled.

with a lot of wow moments. Yeah. You don't get it? The wow, let me... Like most of what you say, no. Yeah, here's a new definition of wow. I'm trying to figure out how I can use this. Yeah, you're going to use this.

Here's the new definition of wow that I've experienced for the last 50 years. Waiting on Willie. Oh, well. That is true. That is true. Is that true, Willie? I was here on time. That's incorrect.

No, I was just saying one of the times I was on this podcast, I got my first question at minute 49. So I'm just saying, I might have more to say. Here's the thing. And so I've got to be done in an hour. It's a 48 minute. Exactly.

Minute 49. Willie, what do you think about that? Well, okay. We're out of time. Well, now we hear you. Be brief. I will say, Willie has gotten better. We used to have a phrase waiting on Willie.

Wow was a very common phrase in our life, but he's gotten better about that. You were here before me today. Now, Corey's went woke because we're waiting on Corey. Oh. You know what you call that? Woke. That'd be okay. Waiting on Corey.

We've all been woke. Or a walk, yeah. Walk, yes. But I get where you're going with that. That's funny. Jay's I would put it waiting on women in general because this is a very impatient man that first had a wife, two daughters, and two granddaughters for like 30 years, and I felt like I spent my life waiting on women.

You may tell you who won this battle? I offended Willie, Willie offended me. You offended half the population. Yeah. So you lost. All the women listeners. And I won. I will say, I spent every Sunday, every Sunday with our kids growing up, I would, you know, get

all the kids ready for church. We'd all be ready. We'd all get in the car. Then Willie had to go to the bathroom every Sunday. I think that's a common. That's at IBS. That's a common women issue with men on Sunday morning before church. I'm going to agree with that.

The coffee kicks in right when everybody gets in the car. It was always after church because I would be talking. Well, that one too. And you'd be out in the car losing your mind. Well, but, Coy, the problem with that is is what I've learned, and this is demeaning. toward us as men, is you didn't realize at that stage of our life, we are one of the kids. Yeah, it's true. We're functioning as immature.

Your brains have fully developed. Your mug says always late, but worth the weight. I'm not apropos. Do you remember who my college minister was? You talk about thinking ahead. You know what you're pimping. Yeah, Zach's bringing up that hit the college minister. Do you remember my original college minister?

I was waiting on you to become a Christian when you. you were in college. I'm glad I waited that long. Go ahead. Not just an adult. What do you got to say there? We call that W.O.Z waiting on Zach. Yeah, you reprobate.

Go ahead. Willie shows up about 20 minutes late for church. The whole college group is in there waiting on the college pastor to come in and teach us the word of God. He had to go to the bathroom. His IBS was irritable Bible syndrome. So he shows up 20, 30 minutes late and he walks in and we're just like, like, you're late and he's and everybody's looking at him and he goes now you know how it feels we turn the

entire thing around on us as like a as like a lesson for like why this is how it feels when you guys show up late now you know how it feels that's like that's good I was slick man I look at you now you're taking the producer you're doing things your life is going places he's a believer now you you went from an extra he has a church not just a believer yes pastoria look See? Zach, you were from an extra inductive dynasty to this life. Look at where you are today. Thanks to Willie's.

Do you take any credit? Do you take any credit for it? Of course. I mean, he should be giving credit. At the family reunion episode when the family shows up for the family reunion and you guys are in a warm, heated tent with catering

and I'm outside in the 20-degree weather and it's got the little, and they had a little box of crackers like those. That was another lesson. Another lesson for you see. And you learned. Was that the one with Mia and the...

Yeah, yeah. We were just talking about that. That was the coldest... It's one of the coldest I've ever been. Yes, that was terrible. What was Willie? You had a famous line. What did he say to the wrestling?

He told that when the two wrestlers showed up from Atlanta, they were purple, literally, because they were out in this cold with just the tights of us. And shirtless. And one of them walks by Willie, and we're not rolling. I wish we would have been because he told the guy, He said, look, dude, I don't want to choose to take this the wrong way, but your nipples right now could cut glass. You said that.

I forgot. He never said it, but I'll never forget it. It was one of those awkward conversations that drew no response. Except from me. By the way, welcome Willie and Corey six minutes ahead to the Unashamed podcast. Thank you. Good to be here. Thank you.

I was actually trying to defend Willie on the, when Corey was talking. about that. Oh, he had to go to the bathroom. Because Zach had some doctor on here, and it explained a lot on my early marriage. Which one? Was it Dr. Raymond? There's been so many, and I get it that you're trying to figure out. We had God's Dr. Ayman. Yeah. And I tried to get him to tell us about your brain scans, but he was like, I can't do that. No, he started going Fifth Amendment.

Fifth Amendment. Well, I was lying. I just thought, well, their family, we can know. They were like, he said, I can't talk about that. No. Oh, Zach does that all the time. Never about his, you know, the court case. It might be a lawsuit. You know, son out of the wreck.

Oh, he's the worst. And all of a sudden, we start asking him questions. He's like, I can't comment. Yeah. I mean. So he tells us the other day, it's like, well, I got a funny story about, you know, bear wrecking my truck. I said, oh, perfect.

That'll bear a cold open. So I was like, Zach. So someone in your family rank or done, he said, yeah, I can't talk about that. I can't comment. legal ramifications. And I'm like, what? Legal representation is your son?

Sorry, Ben Matlock. I didn't know we could. So as soon as we wrapped, I said, all I got from that was you were at fault. That's what usually people say.

He said, well, my kids are going to be on American Idol. I said, ooh, that's great. And then I'm like, so Zach, you got something to tell us.

He said, well, maybe there might be someone in my family that might be on a show that might air in the future. And I'm like, what?

You can't tell us. about it. Mr. Cryptic. Just these little teasers. Just these little teasers. So what I was going to say about the doctor, so they said that a man's brain is not fully developed until he's 30.

And a woman is like. 30 now? I thought it's 25. It's 30 now. Oh, and look, a woman is 21 or 22, whatever it was. And I kind of looked at.

I looked at my kids and I thought, then I thought, well, babe, you need to forgive me up until I was 30. I wasn't developed yet. I was working here. That's it. So John Luke turns 30 this year.

Reed turns 30. Their brains are about... Which is about right. Because they're both kind of, yeah. We figured it out. I think they're on to something. The Jews had it right all along because that was the rabbi. That's when you became a full teacher.

You know what I told my son? I said, Jesus began his ministry. So did Ezekiel. At 30. So that doctor, what must have been reading is Bible. Yeah. So. Yeah.

So there's that. There's that. I mean, don't you think that's kind of weird? It makes sense. Jesus began his ministry at 30. I do love all the science things that, like, are backed up in the Bible. Like the things that they knew then that you can, that now we know. And it's like, oh, that was actually in the Bible.

It's amazing. We just did a podcast, a few, Maddie I'll have to look it up, about these 12 jewels in the book of Revelation, is it 21? Yeah. 21. And they're not all the fanciest jewels. It's like no diamond, no emmer. I can't remember.

Yeah, it's all these. Well, some scientists, who's a believer, he, once, now that we have laser light, you can look at these things under a microscope, and I can't remember the scientific names of them. One of them was isotropic and the other, whatever. But what it meant was when you put these jewels under this condensed, polarized light,

the 12 listed in Revelation 21 are way more beautiful and spectacular than they are to the naked eye. They said, think of a rainbow on steroids. So his whole point was, how did the writer of this book get 12 for 12? Because when you put a diamond or some of the other tools. You don't get the same spectrum. In fact, the stuff we consider to be great. Yeah.

It's actually, we can't even see. It's dark, cold looking. It just looks, it looks less. And so the whole point that he didn't make that I made was, I thought, thought, well, when God's light shines on you, which is why, because he's using those jewels to describe the church, the bride of Christ. It's like when you put God's light on it, it becomes even better than you thought it was. That's cool. Oh, I thought it was fantastic. I looked that up. I started doing this, you know.

What? Will you see what you in Michigan fired up on? You're not impressed? What does it take to impress you? It's impressive, but I'm not, like exercising over it. Oh, I was. Jirating. I started gyrating because people put me in a box based on my outer shell. And I'm like, but under God's light, oh, I'm like a rainbow on steroids. I was like that when I found out that the donut place, if I told them they would put the sugar on the like regular donut donut.

And then they would put the chocolate on top of the sugar, not just straight to the bread. Same way. It was like I found a jewel. I was like, and I don't know why they don't sell them. But you sugar it then put the chocolate. And then I start, oh, I start exercising. My experience is that all the exercise when they put the sprinkles on top of the chocolate that was on top of the grease. I wonder why I always struggle with a weight problem in our family.

I don't mind. I don't know. I got a mirror. Here we go. Another biblical concept. Look, when you stare at a mirror and then you walk away and immediately forget what you just look like. There's the problem. That is in the Bible.

That's in the book of James. That's why I just take them down. No mirrors. I just look in a water puddle. Which is why. I'm like, yep, I got the idea. Like the anxious. Like the anxious to it, right?

That's what I'm saying. I actually preached a sermon, a point on a sermon, that there's two items in your house that will not be in the next life. Mirrors? Mirrors and clocks. I thought it's a pretty good sermon. What about those glazed donuts with the chocolate on that? I think that may make it. I did actually read a study one time that said when a wimp, it was like a little thing.

It's like when a man looks in the meat. what he thinks he looks like and it's like better than what the mirror shows when a woman looks at the mirror what she thinks she looks like and it's worse I wonder if that's true I mean who can actually prove that but I feel like there's probably something to that

because all we have to do Corey is to change the whole dynamic is suck her gut in push everything up to the top and it's like oh yeah still got it so got it yeah that's what you do I do the Fonz you remember the Fonz and Happy Days

I look in a mirror every time I do it on purpose And I go, there's nothing to do here. You're proving my point. That's it. Exactly. Yes. Remember those pictures of Jace, Willie?

Every picture, when he was young, he would be like, his arms would be like this. And he was straining just like he was trying to pass a piece. The only thing that looked different was his face. Yeah. You know why? The body looked the same, but it was like. Because I was skinnier than normal when I was trying to make 92 pounds burst forth. Like a little garter snake trying to puff up like a cobra, you know?

Look, you know what's funny about that? Missy asked me one time, because I did it when I got married. I'd just come in there and go, and she said, when did you stop doing that? This is weird. Y'all brought this up. When your brain developed? No, you know what happened? 30.

Yeah, it wasn't 30. I said, you know, you want to know the truth since we're married and we're bearing all things? I said, when I hurt myself doing that, I quit. Actually, it is dangerous. It's dangerous at our age. I think I'm hurt. It's time to quit that. It had to stop that.

Yeah. I can see that. Under the armpit of pain. When I threw my back out when I sneezed one time, I knew, I was like, I'm in trouble. It's a lot, though. It's a thing. The backs are getting thrown out quite a get these days. Oh, I put my shoe on, couldn't walk for five days, and found myself in a cough

that they called an MRI. And all I did was try to put my shoe back on my heel because it was all. I just reached back and fell over. I fell on the ground in Costa Rica. Yep. It's always the little things. Yeah. You guys remember saying Quentin, right?

Yeah. Yes. Yeah, you and Willie both went down. Willie got her baptized at a guy that was about 200 or 300 pounds. Willie, he was three on that one for sure. Did you, well, I slipped because it was muddy. I remember you being tired. Well, I was hurt, and he was making fun of me the whole time.

You were just hurt before we came. Yeah, you were. What was wrong with you? I threw my back out, remember? Oh, here we go. Doing what? Brushing my teeth. What was you thinking about those jewels from Revelation?

I get to California, of course, Willie the whole time. I really couldn't move. He's making fun of me. Well, then he, they baptisms break out, which turned the prison yard into kind of a mud pit because the water's splashing out. So Willie's standing there baptizing this big 300-pound, I mean, a huge guy. What you would think of like a prison dude, like. Oh, yeah. And Willie does the split.

So you're, you lost footing. Well, I did the splits. You did the splits. Yeah, in the mud. When he went down, I was doing the splits. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it can be.

Well, and we witnessed a true miracle that night with the water. That was amazing. The water was full in these baptistries, and we didn't have any water to bring in. You know how, like, sometimes you got to just keep dumping more water in, and we're thinking there's no way this water is going to last because. And as we're baptizing, hundreds of guys, I can't remember how many are baptized. It was a couple hundred of these. Yes. The water is splashing, and we're standing in mud.

We're covered in it. So you would think the water would go down. It did not go down. Those tubs were full. end of the night. They were full at the end of the night. I'm going to have to change my bill. The widow's oil.

Two miracles. I did the splits as well. That was a miracle thing. Which is miraculous. But you did pay the price for it. You did pay the price. But I did it. I mean, I got him, you know.

But you can finish the baptism. So some of the, because we want to talk about the new show with you guys, because obviously it's a big thing coming up. But I was thinking about Willie, I've told so many stories about the old show, the times you got hurt because Willie was the one always getting hurt. He did his own stunts, which was part of, you know, we tried to get him to have a stunt. Again, yes. It wasn't, running is not considered a stunt.

Hey, race your son. Pulled hamstring. That was not doing your own stunt. Tom Cruise jumping out of a plane for real, you know, breaking his thing. I understand what Tom got through. Jumping out of the boat. Actually, the very, if I'm not mistaken, Will, the very first injury, you hurt your knee. Coming out of that trailer episode, because, like, there was some varmets in the trailer.

The possum was in the trailer. Oh, there was a possum in the stove. Yeah, the possum bite me up. And you jumped out of the boat when the snake jumped in the boat. And every time you got. The wrestling. Wrestling. That one, they had to actually call the medics, I think.

Spray my ankle. Like from the front, I had those boots on. It got caught and just ripped my ankle. Yeah, I remember that. Then you were limping around after that. So it would always be like, and I'm sure people thought they were watching the show that we were just making this up. Willie getting hurt. But no, it was real.

He gets hurt a lot. For the Duck Dynasty crazies, there will be almost a whole season where every time you see Willie, he's sitting. It was so annoying. It was the episode. It was the outhouse race episode. He's sitting in the whole episode because he couldn't walk. Well, he couldn't walk. That was the next week after the last week after the house.

the race with Will. I will say, I don't know if this was y'all's idea or some producer or somebody, but in the episode and Will's episode, when you, when you tore your hamstring, and then they put you on the back of that Polaris or John Deere, which was a kind of a throwback to the guy on Spokey and the Bandit, Jackie Gleason. I don't know if y'all thought about that, but like he would ride around on the back of this thing and like bark orders did that about on a football field. Yeah.

And it was Willie. It was Willie playing that. That's why I was bringing this up because then he had a PA for a month that just carried around his chair. And I thought, I can't live in Zach Badger. Look where he is now. It's like, we're all standing because that's the hardest thing to do about filming is the time that you spend standing. Yeah. It goes on.

There's never a place to sit out. And then Willie gets his little chair and starts. barking and I'm like, I can't work in this. Did he have his name on the back? Like Boss Hog or something? No, but I think he actually brought that up as an idea. Why not? He does

do a lot of physical comedy this time around too. I actually commented on that. That was my first question. Is Will he still doing physical comedy? He falls a lot. He does. I never realize how much whether it's intentional or not, we'll never know. But yes, he does do a lot of physical comedy. He falls a lot on this show, too.

But I always say, Will, that the, the truest form of a comedian is a person who does things that can laugh at himself. And what most people don't know from the show, the behind the scenes, is every time Willie would get insulted, which is a lot on the show from Cy or Chase or whoever, a lot of them are his idea. Like he'd say, say, say, call me this. Especially with Cy. Yeah, exactly.

Because, Cy didn't want to go. Mainly, Si, because Si, who knows, who speaks Sai? Who knows? The worst thing you can do for Sai is just. not tell him what's going on. Like my dad was awesome. He had no idea what was happening. He just popped in.

Is that what he had to say? He never understood. Yeah. Never understood that we're actually... Never knew what was funny about it either. No, he never got it. Because he never watched it. I remember telling him, I'm like, Phil, we're actually making a show.

And he's like, what are you on me doing about? Yeah. I'll be like, that's the dumbest, silly as that. But don't you all think that's what made him so funny in the show? Because he never got out of the show. the feel bubble, whatever it was. One time Willie was telling him, like, oh, Dad, that was so funny what you said.

And he said, I wasn't trying to be funny. And we're like, we know, that's why it was funny. One of the funniest episode or scenes of all times was, and we had some problem with the production company, and they were like, y'all just do it. And we did an episode. Oh, that was the, that was the, when we took over the news station. Yeah.

That was one of my favorite. We were having some conflict. with the production people. And so I don't even know what the problem was. But they basically were like, y'all just do it. And so we did. We literally acted like the newscaster. Remember?

Yeah, I just said, let us just take it over. And we did it. Well, the problem was. Side of weather, Jep and Jess had a little rumba class. Well, the problem was we had Phil was going to be our outside reporter. And look, since we didn't have any production people like saying, And you forgot about Phil. We forgot about Phil.

And we filmed for hours. And so then finally somebody said, well, what about Phil? And we were like, oh, no, he's still outside. Remember the wind was blowing? And so we said, well, let's cut to Phil. Well, he had gotten so worked up and agitated. When we cut to him, it was almost a holler. He said, I tell you, the wind's going to blow.

It's going to be a rip snar. And it was agitation and just the... Angry weatherman. Because he had gotten forgotten that he didn't know. And I thought, what in the world just happened? And they ran it. Whatever that rant was, it was just a rant about weather, people, and places that made no sense. And they read it.

I remember watching it. And it was more funny to me because I knew what had happened. I was like, we forgot about him for hours. He was just sitting up there outside. Well, and I think the inside joke for us and the family was we all grew up watching local news because back in the day we had no cable. And so you had to watch local news. And so like we loved it. We loved it.

It was like we and so we all have an affinity for it, although now it's funny when I go back and watch it. I still watch it. Do you really? And I record segments and I send it to my family. Because it's so funny. No, the local news. Which to me is some of the funniest stuff on television now. It's unbelievable.

Oh, it is. If you really want to just laugh. Remember we had that, they put the roundabouts in West Monroe. Those big news. It was like, West Monroe, now we have roundabouts. And so they interviewed a lady that lived right up the way from the roundabout. She goes, I don't know. Apparently, you just drive in circle and go where you want to go.

And they're like, that's it from right here at the roundabout. Westman row. I laugh so hard. I remember when Lisa made the local news. Oh, Lisa. Yeah, Lisa at the fair. A couple of times, yeah. Family story.

The lease at the fair. There was a local paper when they said, you know, they were just going on and said, what do you like about the fair? And everybody would tell us up. And we had just gotten some food. And we were sitting in the little food tent area. And they said, ma'am, why do you like the fair? And she said, she looks down.

Not seasoned yet. She looks down at her chicken stick. And she said, well, you know, I like that you get onions and garlic. You get to put together foods you don't normally. put together. And so she's literally calling out like chicken and pickles and fried other things. Because that was her little chicken on a stick that she had just got. Whatever's in front of her.

But that made the quote in the paper where Willie read it. How long have I brought that up to her? Literally. 30 years. 30 years I still every time. She still makes it for it. Weekly I say, you know what I like about it. You put foods together that don't normally go together.

Yeah. Well, I had an interesting show idea that on the. roundabout. I think you could just put the cameras. Maybe this can work into the news. No, I'm serious. Put the camera. And I got it from our local police juror who's a friend of mine.

I was like, how many wrecks are happening at those roundabouts? He said, about every hour. At first. No. That's what he said. At first it was. Now, this was when it first happened. And he said, nothing serious.

But it's just bump, they bump in each other. They holler out the wind. The cops come. I will say when we first got them, it was chaos. They would stop in them. They would stop. They would stop in it. They would still stop in it.

And I had an accident. I can't talk about it right now because it's still under, it's still being, it's still in the grand jury phase. It's under investigation. I think you could film Roundabout. That is the show. You just go Roundabout and Roundabout. And the more.

And you just film people on Roundabout? People are probably watched. It's all about, it's called Roundabout. Why are we watching? Because people lose their minds. That's a show? That's a show. It's like Jerry Springer on wheels.

We're making our show way too complicated. We should have just done that. Yeah, that's driven around about. Because it's on TV. It's not yet. Yeah, there was the other story that I saw when I lived there in the news of the guy running for mayor of Monroe and his whole campaign was that the storm drains were clogged up. Do you guys remember that guy?

Yeah. Willie loves political. That's another thing he loves his political commercials. I can't talk about it right now because he's still out there. Y'all getting to be running. So he's going to hang on that. He will say that, yeah. I will say this, Zach, I've been on this podcast a couple of times.

And I always forget you're there. And so this is not, I mean, I really do. For the viewers, it is kind of hard because, like, we're talking this way. It's like you're there. We should put you there. It is hard with guess. It's basically like your whole life. Like, I always forget you're there.

And then I realize, oh, yeah. Zach's there. Who's that kid peeing on his own forehead? Oh, that's Zach. Okay. Oh, he's down here. Who's the guy out there freezing to death while we're feeling? Oh, yeah, that's Zach.

Well, that's why we have the little. We have this little button and we mainly use it for Zach. This is our special effects to part. It has crickets, rim shot, boo, but it does have applause. And so, because we try to help people remember. I thought he had to buzz in to say something. No, we're doing it to remind people that he's still there. Oh.

So it draws attention. But I have a new button. I actually got this this morning. This is a perfect place to introduce this. Oh, boy. Because Zach, sometimes he starts talking. And it's like, it's not that I don't understand, you know, the words, but some of the words are probably. Yeah.

He'll get into this trance and he'll, like, do a two-minute riff. And I'm like, I can't even put crickets because that's like, what is he talking about? So I have a new button for you, Zach. A new button, guys. Before you play the button, let me just say that. No, it's not a play. It's a visual. It's a visual button.

It's a visual button. Go ahead. So when you do your next two-minute little deal, this button, I'll let you read it. I can't even read it. Fact or crap. Fact or crap. So will that be? Fact or crap.

That's what it says. It's PG-13 because some people probably. Well, we got Willow on Michelle. So it's okay, right? That is the pot called the kettle black. Yeah. Because you won't, I'll say this, you won't go on a two-minute rant. You'll go in about an eight-minute.

Twenty-two minute. Forty-eight minute in Willis' case. I knew this was going to come up. And feel free to use the button for me. I feel like that could go for any of the Robertsons, actually. He gets in that trance where he's got that whole, even the crickets quieted. Even they're like, yeah, whatever. They did.

Their legs quit rubbing together. No, I had that idea. You guys are talking about the show. You guys got a new show. Let's talk about the new TV. Zach, wait, what is that? Wait, what is that fallacy? That's one of those fallacies.

You just changed it into the subject. Willie trades in the currency of fallacies. I mean, you go to look up. Was that he dropped a bomb on us the day because when Jace was talking about appearing on the show recently, then Zach says, well, I'm an executive producer on that show. And we all went, Jason and I looked at it. Well, he started acting like I just broke the law.

And I said, I haven't signed anything. And he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, edit that out. I'm like, I can't be in trouble if I'm not legally signed to anything. I'm like, I talked about what I did. I didn't get the details. I was like, all I, what I was mad about was the, they give you a little call time. Yeah. I think you can talk about that.

And it said 10. Be here. Look, it said 230 rap. I never read anything below. love that because I know what rap means. That means we're done. And so. Tone this puppy up.

And then I said, do you know when I left? And that said, 10, 1230, rap. I left at 8.30 p.m. And so I pulled aside one of the guys in charge and I said, see this word rap? I had it pulled up on my phone. That means nothing to our crew. And do you know how he responded? He said, I'll have a meeting.

And I thought, oh. There you go. There you go. You know what I said, Jay's, welcome back. Yeah, exactly. That's to do with reality TV. Reality sometimes goes. You sometimes go.

You never know. He actually said that. He said, we let y'all play it out. And it was good. And it did kind of have that feel. It just kind of went off the rails for about eight hours. So tell us a little bit about what we're going to look for. Earlier, there was something y'all were talking about.

I was like, I need to bring this up because y'all were talking about, you know, feeding sidelines to make fun of Willie. Well, we had a full circle moment the other day. Willie came home and was like so proud because John Luke told Willie something to say to make fun of himself. Oh, really? And so he came home and he was like, I was so proud as a dad. It's like they were doing something.

And John Luke was like, oh, dad, say this. And it was like a riff on him. It was making fun of himself. And he was like, it was full circle. It was so perfect. You know what that proves that men's brains form at 30. See, when you can laugh at yourself. That's right.

That's the spiritual nugget of this whole nonsenseical conversation. What is it? When you're 30, you're ready to go. That's a spiritual nugget, okay. I got that at 21. What's that spiritual nugget? If you're a female, yeah, you've got to wait for the rest of us to catch up. By the way, I got, y'all are talking about the local news.

I got a text from the local news wanting me and you to be on there in some capacity. Really? This was about a week ago. Wow. And it was like, you never told me. Well, I didn't because I'm telling you now. I didn't know you were into the local news, so I didn't respond. I never responded.

They said it's kind of like a podcast for the local news. But I wanted to say what you need to do is have a roundabout segment. Ratings will go out the roof. You've got it right here in our hometown. We've even proven local news because of how fascinating we are over these roundabouts. It's like, we'd never see anything like it. No, there's no stop. It's just...

When it first opened, I was preaching, I was like, West Monroe, Arkansas Road has been fixed. And now I go over and drive on Arkansas Road, even if I'm not going anywhere. I just drive up and down. Just for fun. Just take the car out and take a drive. It has three roundabouts.

It is a lot faster. It is crazy how much faster it is. It is really good. And it's way more comedy. I said, if you can open up a coffee house with an outside deck right in front of this roundabout. You will make millions of dollars because people will come and drink coffee

while they watch the chaos. It's the greatest idea ever and no one wants to list. See, we should have done it. See, Missy argued with me because the first time I went through it, I said, are you ready? He's like, ready for what? I was like, we're fixing to do this. Roundabout, here we go.

And she's like, what is wrong with you? I was like, this is awesome. You know, what could happen? I don't think of all the possibilities. But I wonder, is everybody like me where I think I've figured out the fastest way? Like I have a method of going from the outer to the inner. It's like NASCAR. You can't go, you can't switch lanes in the roundabout.

Can you not? No, that's illegal. Oh, you just don't. That's why you don't divulge everything on the pie. No. Legal. Take it no one. I didn't know that before.

Somebody called on one of them. I'm just going to say out. My brother said that, but I don't know. I didn't believe that. I'm telling you that. I can get through it quick. It's like once you know, then you actually can't do it because then you're complacent, complicit.

Then you're complicit. So now you're complicit. So, Jay's, don't tell him. Don't tell him. That is a good choice. Chase understands a lot about local laws. He's had some.

I'm still going to try it. I have, I do have a lawyer on speed dial now that if you need to talk to. But probably Zach's going to tell you to plead the fifth. because that's his favorite thing to do. Well, you've already confessed it, so it's out now. You can't take it back unless we edit it. We could edit it out, but I don't think we will.

No, I think we'll leave it in. That's your call. Well, they didn't catch him. So I don't think they could prosecute you for something you admitted to in the past. The laws are real gray in that roundabout, though. It's hard to know what happens. I don't know about that. No, I think so.

Yeah. We went on a roundabout in Kate Town, South Africa, with John Luke driving on the wrong side of the road. That was the scariest moment of my life. around about on the opposite side. I've done that in the Bahamas. With the wheel on the opposite side, that is terrifying. I do that in the Bahamas.

We did it about three times before we figured out which we're going to get off. Well, because everything's backward on the getting off when you're getting off. It's so weird. So weird. Yes. You remember who was in the car that time that it was a traffic jam on one of the, what you call it? When you get on the interstate, the off ramp or whatever. and when we finally got past it,

it was our grandpa who had tried to go the wrong way. That happened a lot. And it was like, oh, do we wave? Do we say, hey, I know that guy who calls him? No, we acted like we never knew. And not only did he back up traffic for miles, he did it in the world's smallest car. Remember that little car?

It was like a 50-gallon drum he was driving. He might not. Should have been driving by that point. Maybe you could hear the gas sloshing in the back seat. That's the most terrified I've ever, ever been. Was it Dodson? What was that? No, it was a Ford Fiesta.

Ford Fiesta. Yeah, you could hear the gas and smell it and it's all the time. And throwing cigarettes out the way. You know how they have the safety things for cars surviving a crash? It was like negative 30. That's scary. Well, look, we were telling this story, well, recently, Lisa was on the podcast about when we were going to my wedding, the car, Lisa had put,

and Paul had put kerosene in the big car. And so it made it about two miles up the road. And on the straightaway, it just died. So when Paul came along in the Fiesta oil cam, we all had to get in it. There were like 12 of it. Do you remember that? We went to the wedding in the fiesta, 12 of us, to my wedding. With kerosene.

With kerosene. On purpose. Don't think to that. No. No. It was an accident. No. No, because sometimes a kerosene got put in the wrong can.

That's right. No. No. I was there on the conversation, and it's like, we didn't have gas. And he's like, I don't think kerosene will work. And it's like, but do you have a better idea? Because we don't have any gas. And so then when the car blew up, then they said, oh, we used the wrong can.

But that was a lie. They did it. This is no other. It could be fake news. That's the truth. I can't talk about it because we're still litigating that. Sorry, Zach. Yeah, you don't bring that up on the podcast.

I should have known in that moment. Lisa and I were going to have some troubles in our marriage. Yeah, going to your wedding. That was on the way to the wedding. Wow. Disaster. So let's talk about the show because even though I have... Now that we're in the last second, let's talk about the show.

Hey, I get a question. 37 minutes into it. I've been on the... That's 10 minutes better than last. I've been on this show, I guess. I mean, I've filmed. That's yet to be determined. But I'm asking you the question because I still have no idea what it, you know,

I don't know if you ask me. would know better because y'all have been on quite a few more yeah because y'all've been filming for a while now for a while yes it airs june first yeah june first 8 p.m. Central on a and e back on a and e that's all like a resurrection or is it a different night or do you know um Sunday nights okay yeah originally it was going to be Wednesdays and then they changed it Sundays and felt like that was a what is a resurrection it's a revival a revival what is the name Doug dynasty the revival oh that is the It's a revival. A&E came up with that.

We were throwing out all kinds of things, and they came up with the rest of the revival, and we were like, but that's really cool. It's got such a spiritual connotation and everything, so that was really cool. A&E, as a company, I went to a tent revival,

and then they got the idea after that. See, I would have named it. I know there's a reason y'all didn't ask me what's the name of it. No, there's a lot of reasons. They would have called it. They'd not ask you the roundabout. They didn't have been to us just trying to have.

Two days to set aside for this conversation. Are you kidding me? That's better than the idea that I was fixing it down. Deck Dynasty, the roundabout. That's it. Just roundabout. Duck Dynasty, roundabout. Roundabout.

It's chaos. Doug Dynasty. J's, I got a few things to get off my chest in a roundabout way. See, I would get comfortable. What was yours? Sorry. I would have named it. I would have named it Duck Dynasty never again. And then,

But you're coming out with it. And I would say, exactly. Exactly. Well, if you keep dogging the production company, it may be never going for you. So that's a bad way. I didn't dog them. I did what I do with Zach,

because I love Zach. He's one of my best friends and my cousin. I just, we had a word problem. When I see rap, I thought there may be an alternate definition of the word. I was like, when I see rap, you know what Jason's like, Willie, he's like,

the guy that gets up to do the Lord Sopertok and says, you know, this is probably going to be the last time I get asked to do this. And then you're like, yeah. Yeah, it is. Thank you for making that prophecy because it's about to happen. But somehow I think he forgot. That's what I'm saying. You did a lot of television. You're like the guy who goes to the airport who hasn't flown a couple years.

I had to wait, you know. My flight got delayed. Well, of course. That's what's going to happen. It's like having a baby. you forget later how difficult it was. You've forgotten. Yeah.

We waited around a lot. That waited around in the freezing cold. Zag, you know. And he was just an extra. Well, I did the blind. And also I filmed the blinds. I was there on set every day for 25 days. And it was brutal on the waiting.

There is a lot. It's long. It is long. All I can say from my experience, because I was in a couple other scenes that were, you know, timely and quick. I thought, okay, this is great. when that happened, but I will say that for those eight or I think it was 10 hours total, I was there.

There were a lot of bewildering looks on the faces on the other side of the camera. They just looked confused. So after the scene was over, I was like, was that confusing? And then they were confused and didn't answer that you asked that. Yeah, I thought, I don't know how you feel about that. Well, they've been listening to me. then they heard you and they got very confused and bewildered. I mean,

but making TVs or movies is a waiting game. It takes a long time. It takes a long. It's hurry up and wait. I've waited so long. I came back and Zach got successful. That's how long I waited one time making a show. Like, I came back.

Well, the truth is, there's a nugget that somebody said something to me one time that stuck with me and motivated me. for it to do everything I've been doing. And it was you, well, even when you were working for me. I'd hired you as well. He only likes to,

no, he likes to say it because he likes to say you were working for me. You missed that. You did work for me at one point in life for about six hours. But you had your little, you got that.

You had your little Dave Ramsey in. He had his little deal. He bruised my hill. He bruised my hill. All right. Yeah. That's a Genesis 315. So what did you learn, Zach?

So what did you learn in that moment? Well, it wasn't that I learned anything. It was, I think, it put like an insecurity in me where I felt like I had to prove myself. And so I've spent the last, you know, 20 years trying to prove myself. Why were you so insecure? You had that big fancy house on the golf court, but you had made it in life, you know. Selling drugs. This is what came after.

Selling drugs. That was the ridicule. You know what I was a kid. So that's, you know, all that stuck in me. That's my only memory. him doing that as I said, well, I don't know, out there selling drugs. And he said, they're called pharmaceutical. He didn't want it to be called like he's a drug dealer.

I'm like, well, you can tell yourself whatever you want, but you're a drug dealer. Well, I will say, just as a fan of now the show, I can't wait to watch it because I can't talk about it like Zach, but I know there's some scenes being filmed today when I heard about it because my son-in-law was involved in them. And so when I heard about what they were doing, I laughed out loud. Like, he told me the setup, and I thought, ooh, this town. So I'm eagerly awaiting some of these scenes. There is a lot of laughter.

It's funny. Yes. Well, these are our, I'm going to say this. These are hour episodes, too. Oh, really? That's a little different. No wonder we went eight hours. So that's why I was about say that justifies your eight hours.

It's your hour episodes. They should have told me that. So there's a lot. I mean, they film a lot to see what happens. But yes, you laugh a lot. It's a lot of fun. There's something else I was going to tell about. What was it?

Can you talk about it? I don't know if I can talk about it. Can we get Zach? Can we get Zach? I didn't say it. I don't know. But you're signing laws. Oh, I know of the title.

We were going to, so we were throwing all these names. We were saying like Duck Dynasty the Next Generation because remember we're a big Star Trek The Next Generation. I thought that may be the name. We tried. We went for it. But they already used it. And I even used the example of like Star Trek the next generation was successful.

But, you know, it's been done. So anyway, we were coming out with all these. His names, we were like, date 9-I-C, reloaded. That's a terrible example, by the way. In 2025, remember Star Trek the next generation? I mean, what? They're all dead. I'm insane.

Like, that's, oh, yeah, that's right, boy. But they live on in our memory. That thing revolutionized the game, didn't it? See, that's why I had the never again. You can bring things back. I did a bigger impact on us before my brain was developed. True. True.

So anyway, revival is the name. love it. It's really fun. And yeah, it is kind of the next generation, though. It is the next generation of Robertson's. Everybody. But it's still the old, I mean, you still, yeah. Yeah, I was wondering if it kind of followed the same format or whatever. Yeah, how is it, how is it different from the original show? What's different. Because I know there's got to be some differences. The cast, the family. It's different, it's different parts of the family. Yeah, because it's, it's, it's, the people who are on it. I've been telling people you're way, one thing. One thing I got way younger. Yeah. Yeah.

Because you're talking about our children and grandchildren versus, you know, Phil and K. And, you know, so it's, it's younger. And I was saying about that with the grandkids, because we have eight grandkids. And we had, we had six children, but they weren't all the same age at the same time. So now you've got this just giant group of, you know, chaos running around, which is, which is fun. It's kind of hit me. I've turned in, because I was, we were making fun of Phil. but the other day I had no idea what was going on

and I didn't really care and when I did a whole scene like if somebody said what's that about By the way you're the new Phil I'll be like I'm not real sure and guess what we were going to tell you Joe you're the new Phil

this is a way way better way better role you know what I mean you can just do what you want to do well Jason is famous for saying he's not funny on purpose so he's only accidentally fun that's a fact Every time I try to be funny, nobody laughs.

Then people laugh when I was dead serious, so I don't get it. Stick with being yourself. I did realize of the day that y'all are all grandparents now. Yeah, everybody. All five others. Yeah. So everybody is a whole new season of life for sure. It is.

We're getting all that. The generations, I think it's like following the generations and just seeing like a family legacy. And it's a lot about what's happening up here at Duck Commander, which has expanded so much now. i.e. what we're doing it. This wasn't here. We're actually in the Duck Tomato Warehouse.

Can I say that podcasts are a part of? Oh, yeah. They're a big part of the story driven. It kind of reminded me in the old days. It was kind of the Duck Call Room itself. And now it's a podcast that kind of become that driver. So I loved what I've been hearing. Which is why when people always ask,

they're like, well, don't y'all just do that again? I'm like, well, it actually was what we were doing. We were doing that. So they're doing a show now based on what we're actually. doing. Exactly. In this same space where the show was. Yeah, there's a lot of different businesses up here.

And it just happens to be that a lot of my kids are up here. Dase's kids are all up in. My kids are here too. And I will say to what you were saying about what's being filmed this week that we can't talk about that. But it's like some of that was birthed on this podcast. Those conversations that's happening on this podcast, it's like, oh, you're able to see a little bit more of it in real life.

We got the sweetest comment ever from Al's daughter about the show. Alex, she sent the sweetest text. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was, like, what in the world? I mean, she sent it late at night, and I thought, is she been drinking? I mean, because it was really long. Well, usually when I get a text, there's late at night and it's real syrupy, you know, I'm like. I thought Jason was like, because usually when I send a text long late at night, you know,

I bet I'm a lot of it. I'm already about a little bit. deep into the bourbon. Well, that's the one thing I never got into. Thank the Lord. I'm saying some other people have. Like, if I'm asleep in my bed and my phone buzzes, I think. Are you told me like the one we got last night at 11 that said,

Willie and Corey are going to be on the podcast today? Like that late at that. You know what I was on the sauce last night? I was making a joke. Well, you know what I told Missy? I said, looks like one of the producers is into the sauce tonight. Thank you, Beth. Next time, I'll have me over.

My apologies. But that is classic Robertson's, and Robertson's turn anything, like a sweet moment. We had this sweet text from Alex late at night into this. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. What is wrong with y'all?

I'm guilty. I thought she must be having a nervous break down. Sorry, we can't be sweet. That was the sweetest text. Drunk. Drunk text. I noticed this is. about Willie, this is recently I said.

I was like, there's about, and this is Indy Robertson, like, there's about three passes in a conversation where it's normal until they say something absurd or like, ridiculous. Three, like, you know, you can have a normal, like, deep conversation about three passes back.

Like, I see something, you say something, I say something, and then it's, no. It's going to be something ridiculous. It's a fear of intimacy. It's what it is. Thank you for diagnosing it, Zach. No, it's our way of saying it's time to move on. It's time to move on. We can't see.

I can't see. There was a moment for your new thing. Fact or crap. That's what I'm like, should I just get up and walk out of this conversation or just say something ridiculous and then maybe we'll get the point. All right. So we're out of time. Look for it. Duck Dynasty.

The revival. The revolution. The Reformation. The Reformation. The revolution. The roundabout. The resurrection of the revival. The revival is coming out.

June 1st. June 1st, Sunday nights. 8 Central, 9 Eastern on A&E. A&E. I'll be in town for the premier party. Yeah, we hadn't had a premier party in a while. Everybody, we have one coming up. You'll get an invitation.

I need a place to stay. I need a place I can stay at. Can I stay with something? Here we go. Zach. Am I got a house? He's successful, but he still doesn't want to pay for a hotel room. No, he likes to stay.

I know. You're always welcome, Zach. I literally had to ask what month it is right now. So it's coming up. It's coming up. Well, thank you for coming on the podcast and helping us do podcasts. It's good to be here and actually talk some. Yeah.

You got in at 37 minutes. It's the only podcast I come to where I never get asked a question. It's like the roundabout. You have to learn it and then you work your way up. Jump yourself in. You just switch lanes and we're out of here. You now have a conversational role. Welcome.

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