WHOA That's Good Podcast - Leave Uncle Si Alone | Si and Willie Robertson

Episode Date: March 24, 2021

The laughs don't stop when the legendary Si Robertson makes his WHOA That's Good debut alongside Sadie's dad, Willie Robertson. Get ready for wild Robertson family stories, hilarious one-liners, and advice on marriage, faith, family, and laughter from a man who embodies the phrase "live original." Si shares why he refused to do "Dancing With the Stars" and why he should have done time in the pen. Willie reveals the life-changing advice he was given about Uncle Si and how Si stuck him with a $32,000 bill. Then, Sadie and Christian give a caller practical advice for reminding yourself of God's faithfulness. Check out Uncle Si's podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/duckcallroom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So we're in a new location today. We actually showed up to your office instead of you coming to my office because I wanted you to film where that's like at home. So do you feel comfortable? I'll be a hump comfortable. Okay. I'm comfortable anywhere I'm at. Well good. My chairs that in my office are like short fluffy chairs and I couldn't really see you in that chair. So that's why we're here. Also, I invited dad to be on the piecast because you know, you all lived a lot of life before I was ever in the picture.

I thought he could maybe bring up some more Uncle Si Fax and I know. And then of course, Christians and you just laugh hysterically at how he looks and headphones. So he's already getting bullied. He's already like, why am I here? So let me translate that about our office. It's really clean and so you're out. She was scared you would mess it up.

So when she says you're office, which is the duck cut, which is not even his office, he's rarely here. Oh, I was always in charge here, son. You just didn't ever know it. You were in charge? Yeah, yeah. Oh, I was always in charge here, son. You just didn't never know it. You were in charge. Yeah. Oh, here we go. He's already starting. He's already starting. He's already starting. This is why I wanted you to hear. But I have to ask you the question and ask everybody who comes to the podcast. Are you ready for this? You probably

don't know this because you've never listened to my podcast. Have you? No, I haven't. So with that being said, I probably know I'm not ready for this. All right, get ready. It is. What is the best piece of advice that you have ever been given? You can think about it. That would be because when I was out, when the show was going on, full blast.

I got asked that every time I was up for we left. And I would always tell them, you know, learn to life is yourself. Okay. Don't take everything so serious. Life is too short. Okay. And we live in a mean and cruel world. Yeah. That's good.

I'm actually really shocked. You were prepared for that. Well, I actually wanted to ask you about that anyways because everybody thinks that you're hilarious because you are hilarious. But the main question I get asked, especially in the height of the show, is the question, is Uncle Si really that crazy? To which I'll always say, yes, you're crazy, you're in person. Because the show only shows 22 minutes but

you're like this 24-7 so how do you learn to laugh at yourself were you in Poetville always just crazy as you are now well like I said okay I had four brothers and two sisters okay and growing up to say I had a identity crisis is an understatement. Because in school and everything I did, okay, the reply was always, well Jimmy Frank wouldn't have done it that way or Judy wouldn't have done it that way, you know, and I was going, hey, I'm not Jimmy Frank, I'm not Judy. So, but everybody takes everything too serious. That's true. It's true.

Look, worry, if you take everything too serious, that's worry. He's the businessman. He worries too much. Okay, but on his good side, okay. He's the biggest prankster in the Robinson family. It's true. No, oh for sure. Hey, first off, I don't worry.

The only thing that worried me about business was you were part of my business. Which kind of worried me. That's worried. I have to depend on you. It was a little worried. I've always been dependable. That's why I feel when all other people at Duck Command and Home was that feels, I'd

be over here sleeping after we had a big meal from Miss Kate. But it's got to work. And he would just say, hey, leave him alone. Do you need some reads? And they'd say no. And I said, hey, he's doing his job, leave him alone. I was actually just telling Christian, we were talking about memories that I have with you.

And I was talking about how, before the show even, I remember we'd be down there at Memal Campo at Welfl's when Duck Commander was down there and every single afternoon after lunch you really would take an nap. And what you don't know though is V-REG Collagen Lake would hide behind the low case kitchen table and wait for you to wake up because 99 percent of the time you had gas when you woke up. I feel like you were waiting for you to fart.

That's true story. That's true story. That's true story. The one time when you was little, he had a poker game. I showed up early and I'm dealing the cards out for all five people. You're watching and I'm talking all five of them. I was even for that. You asked Barman Dad something. What's wrong with

Uncle Ty? He's in there and he dealt five hands and he said hey it's your bed or fold. Do whatever you're gonna do. Well first of all no you show up at the house nobody was there except for me and my babysitter and we thought somebody broke in the house and we were like one of your smaes in the house we can hear them talking in there and so we sneak around the corner and we were like, all my asses in the house, we can hear them talking in there. And so we sneak around the corner and we look in and it's you and you're dealing five hands out to yourself and you're saying, I full jack.

And we're like, what is happening? I think. I like how Sadie is, I like the advice that he gave, learn to laugh at yourself. Like, you had to learn that sort. I mean, that has to be natural, right? For you to laugh at yourself like like you had to learn that side I mean that has to be natural right for you to laugh at yourself because I mean probably with

me no no probably with me now I would say that to do because like I said okay I really did have an identity crisis because nobody would say hey what about yeah it was always hey tell, Tommy wouldn't do that. Especially with the teachers, okay. You gotta understand, the teachers at the high school taught my whole family, okay? Dermot Frank, a Harold Judy, Tommy Phil, and then me. And it was always, it was,

well, good grief so and so wouldn't do that and I'm going hey hey so and so dummy yeah well but but your other siblings were really smart so maybe don't go there dummy maybe it was the teacher just gonna. Your siblings are really like I put just what they're educated idiots okay just like you are okay just because they got a piece of paper okay They're smart Don't mean do this right yeah because you didn't get that paper did you no

Look it took me it took me about three days going to college to figure out okay is there they're wasting six years right years of your life just to hand you a piece of paper and then when you go get a job here's the first thing out of the guys this interview you oh I'm sorry we can't use your two educated. Is that what you thought? No, anything what I thought. I had friends, okay, it's your friend, and some older ones, okay.

They had degrees and guess where they was working. They had a BA and a master's degree and I said, hey, where are you doing that? He said, I'm down at, oh, McDonald's, Fippin' Hamburgers, but I'm gonna work my way up to be a manager. So I looked and said, wait a minute, why would I waste four years of my life just for some edit that's got a piece of paper to tell me, oh, you're too educated, I can't hire you. What's that? You may as should have talked to other people besides that one person.

All right, no, no, no, no. No, there was more than one. OK, but hey, look here. Hey, it all worked out. It works out because I guess who runs this country? It ain't the educated idiots. OK, it's the ordinary common man that's down there and getting the job done.

Well, hey, good. That's what makes us world-torn boy. You are right in this country. Hey. Sadie, were you gonna ask me my advice again? Or was that just for Sa? That was just for Sa, but do you want to share? Well, yeah, because I was really panicked.

You were gonna ask me. Because if you've been on the show more than once, if you get the same question, so I actually went back and listened to the first one. I did, to see what advice I gave you. Yeah, I did research. Yeah, I did research. So, but I wanted to give another,

I've got another piece of good advice if I get invited back, and I'm gonna use that one. But you can answer it now. No, I don't wanna share that one, I'm gonna save that one. But you can answer it now. No, I don't wanna share that one. I'm gonna save that one. Save that one. I'm just, I'm just, I'm just,

I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just dying to figure out what you're going to say. You won't, you won't say that. Let me know. I'm gonna give you another piece of advice that was given to me. So, when I take over duck commander, so I'm the new boss and I'm looking at payroll,

and we gotta cut, like we're not making enough money. And so I look down there and size on the payroll. Well, I was trying to figure out, who do we keep, who keeps going? So I've got, sahu basically sleeps on the couch for four hours every day at work, which is we're working in the house, right? And I thought, look, you know, I hate to be the CEO of Sahu, but yeah, I got to trim the

fat or lack thereof. And so I go to Phil and I say, Phil, we need to let Sah go. Like, I mean, I just, the word, the productivity's not there. And Phil gives me this advice. He said, leave Si alone. He makes the reads when he's awake. And nobody else wants to make the reads. So just leave me alone.

He'll be fine. I'm like, oh man, okay, we'll keep Si. But then as it turns out, when the show happens, when Doug Vasty saw still there, everybody gets to meet saw. It had done what I was going to do. So you would have been, you wouldn't even been a duck commander. It's true. And so the one of the best piece of us I got was to leave Simon you never know that that that jewel that's right there you may overlook and we have no idea you were a diamond in the real right like really rough and that is crazy I think about and that is good advice so on that note did you ever ever

ever think in your life that you would be as famous as you became. No. No. No. I mean, and for you, I mean, obviously you could say it to yourself too, but would you have ever thought that Uncle Sy would be as famous? No, no, no. I'd not, that wouldn't even enter his mind.

Okay. Okay. So, so here's how the story goes. So I end up keeping it on. And it wasn't because it wasn't anything personal So I just wouldn't have any money and so then I start making a TV show like we're still doing the video so I'm having a video But I thought we can't video sigh like he's too awkward. Nobody's gonna get it

And so I was filming around him so we'd be in the duckbine and I would just film around. Oh no, no, I was always camera shot cause when you pointed my face. What, you wouldn't say anything. Well, no, no, I just wanna say it. Right, he was like, you like the turtle. I mean, the frog on Tom and Jerry, you know, every time the spotlight hits him,

he just would throw. Wow, were you so nervous? It was, say, you didn't understand. Okay. Nobody had brought out the green stuff. Oh my God. I was pan you green stuff. Yes, we were panning that son.

Nobody was panning what I was worth. Well, I'm starting to see the McDonald's thing. Oh, no, no, no. Nobody would tell you what you were worth. That's right. That's right. That's why I didn't flip hamburgers. Well, I mean, I was tell you what you were wearing. That's right. That's right. That's why I didn't flip hamburgers. Well, I mean, I was trying to get you to audition.

You wouldn't say anything. And so it wasn't until I put a hidden camera on the table and I covered it up. And we were watching the footage and you just come to life. I'm like, that's the guy. I had a hidden camera and we ran it. We showed the footage of you. I know, see?

And you killed everything. I didn't even know it. I wouldn the footage of you. I know, see, and I had you killed everything. I didn't even know it, I wouldn't have done that. I know. That's crazy. And that's how, that's how really the first time I saw that, and then when they actually came to do Doug Dynasty, I wasn't even on the list. Wow.

It just had the couples. And then I called him back. I said, hey, you don't need to check out Uncle Sa. And they go, well, here's what they said. We may use him from time to time on the show. And then they met you. And then they didn't have enough room. And then they started paying you, I guess,

what you were more accustomed to. That's exactly what I was worth. OK, obviously, the green stuff helped you. But how did you go from being so nervous that you wouldn't do anything on camera? And obviously even in your childhood feeling like you're the one that nobody understands to literally singing three songs on a platinum cell phone.

You are the main character of Doug Dones who you speak everywhere. Like, where did the confidence all the sudden come from? I've always had. You just don't know, no, you gotta understand. Okay. The Robertson family are most of them, feels not really, feels like the limelight. Okay. The rest of us are pretty good storytellers, but I'm the best of them to the storytellers. Because the stories are not always true. Because you make them up. No, and I ain't that.

I didn't tell you. I wrote a book. It's 95% to 75%. Just to give it a little punch. At least you admit it. But you have to go question because here I got one for you and him. Okay. Okay. Did you ever dream that you would be what you are?

Okay. Because of the show. Never. I mean, Danyton was a star. Danyton was a star. I wasn't even on the list at the beginning either. It was John Luke and Cole were the two kids. Yeah. And then somehow I made it on. I think because of the prom dress video that the prom dress episode that y'all were both in and then that really hit You don't remember the prom dress That's when you were dancing with the mannequin up at the

That was really my first kind of episode and then when we went driving and that was my first time to ever drive and I drove with you and I was And then when we went driving and that was my first time to ever drive and I drove with you and I was Remember that that was the first day back from shooting remember we did that was the first episode And it was like a 105 degree yes It was a camera guys are passing out and I literally had no idea what I was doing And I actually kept hitting the little duck decoys Yeah, and I was like I cannot I really don't know how to drive so my actions to teach me So that was really what did it, but then dance with the stars happen

because they asked you to be on and you said no. And mom was like, say to you can do it. I wasn't. So they asked me to do it. And then they said you get paid. So I looked at how much I got paid. And I'm like, why? Why?

Maybe open it. But I never watched the show. Then I watched like five minutes of the show. And I was like, heck, no, I'm not doing that oh I'm a baby. But I never watched a show. Then I watched like five minutes of the show and I was like, heck no, I'm not doing that at all. So I passed. And then I think that was the way it was meant to be for you to come on. It's crazy.

Would you ever do the interview? No, no, no, they asked me. No, they asked me and I said, no. I said, hey, I didn't watch. That's for young people. Even without all the problems I got, no, I didn't watch. That's for young people. Yeah. Ain't without all the problems I got. No, I can pull that out. Okay, so I want to ask you a question.

And we need your advice, me and Christian. So, you know, when the show started to everyone's surprise, pretty much every girl in America had a crush on Uncle Psy, which I don't know how that happened, but it happened. But people don't know, that happened, but it happened. But people don't know you've been married for so long. How long have you been married? April, the seventh will be 50 years.

Oh my gosh. 50 years. 50 years to that main redhead on Margie. She needs to write a book up 50 years. Yeah. Oh yeah. No, no, no. That was put in the loony bin.

No, no, no. Cool. Everybody asked her know, well, why aren't you on the show? And ask me, they said, why aren't your wife on the show? I said, because no more, she's a lot smarter than all of us. Okay, she don't want no part of it. But it's real reason that she said, Hey, I have to live with him. Okay. That's true. So I don't need to be on the show. She need a break. So what's your marriage advice for me in Christian? 50 years down the road. Never go to bed after an argument. I love that.

That's awesome. No, no, I'm serious. Don't go to bed if you're arguing. You just have to come together to hide. We're just going to have to agree to disagree on this. Yeah. You got to watch that, though. One time I stayed up for two and a half weeks. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha here. That's true. Now most of it is that and then you got to communicate. Yeah. Okay.

It's good. You can't just quit and say okay, oh you made me mad. Well sure you're gonna make mad. You're two individuals for crying out loud. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. Yeah. We'll take it. Yeah. That's great. And the laughter part comes into play in the marriage. It's good. Yeah, and the laughter part Comes into play in the marriage Good Okay, don't take yourself to it. It's always Easier to laugh at stuff you do Especially once you get like man christine Old age is hilarious

No, no, I'm serious We do stuff now and then just bust out life it and sad. We just we do something and we both bust out life Yeah, cuz just as you know, it just cuz we know each other so well That's awesome. It's ridiculous That's awesome. That's really good advice Christian. What do you think of Uncle Si when you first met him? Well, I remember the first time I met you was when I was interning for Duck Commander that summer that we got engaged and we were traveling so much that I wasn't actually here that much, but I was building duck calls with Jay and you walked in and I thought

that you were the funniest person I ever met. I think it was like 15 minutes maybe you were in and out real quick, but I thought you were hilarious. Dad, what do you remember about Uncle Sidegrown Up? Because you have all kinds of crazy stories. So I remember he gave us all his army stuff, the clothes. Oh, that's cool. Which had Robertson, which was really cool.

We were super poor. So like, we had our name on our chemo shirt that was too big for us when we were in fifth grade. The sleeping blankets with the real feathers in them and you gave us those. I remember we commandeered your truck the Nissan. No you didn't come dear I gave it I gave it to Phil. And then Jason I commandeered it and that was our rig we drove around we drove it till it just finally wore slap-out That was actually a good truck. It really was. Oh, yeah, it was a five-speed

Cory would ride in the back That had the little seats that folded down and so we would go around town and yeah, I remember your truck But yeah, I mean, so I was always funny and you know just like he is now and Yeah, I mean, so I was always funny and you know just like he is now and But not like I've watched him over time then he really you know just are really coming out of that shell too I think it was probably tough with you with your with your older siblings No, no, it's kind of difficult to really come out especially someone like Phil because he so Don't know all of them are dominant. Okay. I'm serious You know, Dominate and family it was yeah, cuz you know it just So all of them are dominating. Okay. I'm serious.

You know, dominating family. It was. You know, because you know, it just, and here's what's funny. I didn't even realize that I have the identity crisis to feel sun, older sun, Al said, hey, I want you to do a sermon for church. So I got looking in doing all this stuff and now it took me like a month. You know, he told me it's up the way. It took me the whole month because I was chasing rabbits every time I'd read something.

Oh, yes, what I want to do. I'd get going down there and then it would just go blank and I'd go, God, I know I can't do it. down there and then it would just go blank and I'd go, I'd knock it down. And that's when I come to the conclusion that you never did exist from a child to high school because everybody was always, well hey, you know, Harold wouldn't do it that way. Judy, Tommy, Phil, none of them would do it that way. And I was sitting over here going, jumping up down and saying, hey, I ain't them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like they couldn't see me. You're actually like such a good example of our whole message, live original, which is like my whole ministry, everything we talk about. And it's

becoming confident in the original person that you are created to be because so many of us compare ourselves at everyone around us and we don't feel like we're created to be because so many of us compare ourselves at everyone around us and we don't feel like we're good enough and we don't feel like we're worth, you know, anything. Hi, all that. Yeah. And like what you experience is the same that so many people experience, but it's so cool that you share that

because so many people look at you and they're like, that's uncle side, that's, you know, my hero, that's my favorite TV personality, That's, you know, the person, but you went through all the struggles everybody else did. Yeah, but that's the thing. Okay. And again, back to your marriage, you're deal. Don't put, don't you put him on a pedestal because he's going to fail you. Don't you put her on a pedestal because she's going to fail you. She's human beings. Yeah. Yeah. And that's what people do. You know, that's why that's the wildest part of this. And I've got the greatest answer in the world of why I am who

I am is because of the almighty. This good. Preach. Okay. no, I've got chill months all on because it's just, you know, that's why when I'm out talking to people about Jesus, the father of the son, the Holy Spirit, and after I get through talking about him, I hear this way too often. I can't see this God, you're talking about Uncle Si, and I said, you know, I actually feel sorry for you because everywhere I go, I see him, I see him in a rose bush. You know, the honey bee. If it wasn't for the honey bee and the insects, guess what folks, there would be no fruit. wasn't for the honey bee and the insects. Guess what folks? There would be no fruit. Okay, festivals, all that stuff. That's God, little creatures that he created doing all this.

So you need to open your eyes and take it all in and use your brain that God gave you. Good grief. The animal kingdom, the fish kingdom, the bird kingdom. You know, I don't even remember what it was. I saw it on Nature Show, on TV. They got these huge perts. Now, I think it's South Americans somewhere. They're gorgeous, bright red, yellow, blue and everything. You know, just, you know, he's a creator of beauty. You know, I've, blue and everything. Yeah, just, yeah. He's a creator of beauty.

Yeah. I've gone to preaching. So as I went to preach, yeah. I wonder if they're, I wonder if they get tickled at you and having like looking down at what he created. Oh no, no, look, God's got a great sense of humor. Well, obviously, he made you, so he made that brain. Look, and here's a good sense of humor. Well obviously. Oh yeah. He made you. So he made that brain. Look, and here's a good thing about it. I'm unique and so are you. And show what she's so

that he's that's it. Period. Hey, so I tell you this, the so Paul, who is your dad, my grandpa, I heard Paul say like a hundred words in his entire life to me. So he didn't say much. Now was that, is that the way he was or was he always kind of quiet or I'm wondering like, I'm seeing a lot of dynamic personalities come out of the family. Yeah. But if you hung out with Paul, he just didn't say much. That's, you had to get to know knowing or he had to get to know you Yeah, so when your young was he pretty quiet or was he no? No, no, he was always at way that was like you know, I seen him Daddy never left out loud Wow, you know Tommy was the same way

Yeah, daddy would I seen him twice actually fall off a couch Hit the floor and he looked like he's having an empty left. He fit He's got crocodile tears coming out of his eyes. He's shaking all over and ain't a thing or coming out of him He did it red skeleton. He did it with a grouch or a mark Okay, look and look they said stuff. Okay, and I'm not going to speak. The screen of the TV went blank, and then we read the paper a week later. Rich cattlemen get to see $300,000. Got your marks, get $300,000.

For any appropriate income. And I thought it was funny. Yeah, I'll know. Mama will come running in cause all you heard was, good, you know, she coming in, James, you are? He did. You know, so you had to get to knowing, but he was quiet, okay.

Yeah, from growing up, like, you know, this child, who had stories, you know, This child has childhood stories. You know, Phil was always center of attention for the family. Yeah. Okay. Even back then. No, no, from my viewpoint. Right.

Okay. So finally, you know, me and Dad's going to duck blind by ourselves and I just bring it up. You know, I said, well, Phil, you're favorite. You know. No, you know, we had that conversation. He said, no, you're missing fault. You know, no, what do you mean? I'm missing fault. He said, you got your head on straight. He don't. So yeah, I have to give him more tension than I give you. And he just said, he said, you'll understand this once you get married and you have kids. It'll look like your favorite, you know, favorite to them, but it's really not.

You're giving them the child that needs it the most the attention when he needs it. Wow. That's a good thing about it. That's great. No, no, just, you know, and that's part of growing up, you know. Now Granny was not that well. Granny seemed to be very outspoken. No, no, yes, you know, and that's part of growing up. Yeah, now granny was not that what granny seemed to be very outspoken No, no, that's funny part. Okay, because we all have a different outlook on my mother You know

Most of the kids think my mother went insane at times What she did clinically did one no no that's what I, that's different opinion, okay, for everybody. She went to the insane hospital. No, no, but hey, all that was was a vacation. You gotta understand. Here's no medication. No, no, no, here's still. Here's my viewport on that.

Oh my goodness. She's married to James A. Trawson, my father. Yeah. Okay, and only way I can describe him and feel both. Okay. Is there a hard to mend? Okay. You don't want, they don't want to show any kind of emotion.

That's a sign of weakness. Yeah. Okay. She was married to daddy. Okay. She had seven kids. Yeah. Okay. Just had seven kids. Yeah. Okay. Just think about it. Look at me.

Okay. She had to put up with me. Okay. And then she had to put up six more. Okay. That won't make anybody want to take a break. So hey, she had finally get fed up with it. I didn't do something wild and I didn't. It puts it in the hospital. But she had a chemical imbalance, right? I mean, that's what the doctors say.

Okay. Well, my viewpoint is, okay, hey, I mean. That's what the doctors say. I'm just saying, I see it differently than all the other things. Because she would say, I mean, hang on, were you around when she would have her episodes?

Yeah. I mean, she stayed up all night one night, crowing with the chickens. Right. On top of the chicken house. Right. Like, I witnessed that. Hey, well, I've never heard that one.

You were doing it. Oh, 100%. I saw her doing it. Yeah. Well, I was like, hey, she had some Christmas lights wrong out of your house. No, they were at Christmas lights. They were, they were like lights like that.

Well, I thought some lights. Christmas lights. Jason said it had Christmas lights. Jason, no, it was just outside life. Okay, anyway, hey, the boys were walking around. She's 22. She said, give me a 22 boy. She did. She started. Pay, pay, pay, pay, pay. She shot every ball ball. Which is impressive. So the woman, so the woman can shoot. Okay. Hey, I got it from someone. Yeah, I would I mean She was basically raising me at the time. So I got to see all the She cleaned the banana. She cleaned the windows with banana just smeared bananas

Every window paint. Oh my gosh. I'm a little kid like what's up with that? That is interesting. And then she painted everything square red Yeah, and then when she got home from being a thos bit. And then she painted everything square red. And then when she got home from being a thospedal, she said, who painted all this red? Yeah, did dad take her and put her in hospital? Oh yeah, oh yeah, we'll feel, yeah. Okay.

Okay. Hey, vacation time. Hey, so I was sitting there with, so Paul, Paul is sitting there playing solitaire, right? He got a winsman hanging out of his mouth. And one burn in his neck, right? She just walked by and grabbed every card on the table, except for the ones in his hand

and threw all the cards in the fireplace. What? And Paul just looks and looks. No, and Paul goes, oh, bull. And he just went back to smoking a cigarette. You got to understand, girl, boy. And he just went back to smoking the sir. You got to understand, okay, because I'm moving forward to mom lived to be 94, okay?

She told me she was 96. 94. I thought she was 97. Yeah, she told me 96. 94. Anyway, but anyway, yeah, check that. She would go on vacation to the net house. Okay Okay, to get away from James, I dropped in several kids. Okay, go fake take a vacation Now you got to understand that was back in the day that doctors come in okay and put wires

And then got over and turned machine on and just turned it up having a kick watching her jerk with electricity. Do you know for sure that happened? Yeah, yeah that happened. I'm just making sure. No, no, yeah. Okay, so you got to understand she was 94 and she was just as sharp today she is born. That's true.

Okay, so you were on prices right when she was 84. Okay, and one, two, that was both showcases. She won both showcases. Okay, and she wasn't close to what the items were. Bob Barkham would say, Matt, how much is that right there? You know, how much is that bottle of shampoo? 399 there, Bob? 399? Yeah.

That was shoes and I watched it with it. How old Mary took her up there? She had a blast doing it. But I mean, I just, that's why I've got my viewpoint of mama and her craziness. Okay. All of the rest of and kids got their viewpoint, okay. And then if you go and bring in the police and say, okay, we got 10 witnesses to this shooting. And they get the story and they get 10 different stories. Okay, so hey, that's why I witness reports are no good. Wow.

And consider the source on you calling me by crazy. I like though that you you know you see everybody for who they are and let them be who they are because today we're very quick to diagnose everybody for everything and it's kind of nice to say you know what she went through some stuff she adds some moments certainly she you know rub bananas and windows and through cards and the fire pit but she was a good woman and she raised you well. Well no no cause here's the thing about it. Okay. In this world okay. Anytime you see anything happen or you have an argument or something you might want to go into the bathroom or somewhere where it mirror is and turn around

and say, okay, what is your part in this? Did you have any part in this doing, making it what was happening, happening? Yeah. Yeah, cause hey, whatever he did, can you change, can you change him? No. Before he wouldn't do it. No. Before he wouldn't do it? No. Nope. The only person you can make the difference in is, hey, what can I do for you today?

That's good. Oh, here's what I'm going to do for me today. I'm going to try to do everything I do. I'm going to be good and it's going to be right. It's going to be the right thing to do at the right time. That's good. I'm going to be good and this is going to be right. It's gonna be the right thing to do at the right time. That's good. I'm gonna be good and it's gonna be right. Oh, come on.

That's good guys. Well, I do wanna tell one more, one of my favorite size stories. I'll be remiss if I didn't tell the story. So, Doug Dynastie hits, it's a big hit. And I was driving out to fields and he passed by a size house-ish. So,

so, I had like a hundred people a day coming to his house, right? I mean, every day, and so I would open the door, just, chitty chat, you know, oh, fan, yeah, just, every day. So I dropped pass and I thought, God, I mean, that's gotta get old, and I thought, I'm gonna do something nice for so, I was gonna wake up and do something good for you So I said so I'm gonna put you up a fence Just I was thinking along the highway just like a wooden fence. You know, just so you couldn't see directly and so

So I said yeah, I appreciate that and so I told my Accounting I said hey, so I was gonna defend something pay for it. So So she comes back about a month later and says, hey, I just wanted to make sure, am I good to pay this bill? And I thought, why is she calling me to pay a, like, okay, in my mind, 1,000 bucks, 12,000 bucks, you know, wouldn't, she goes, well, it's $32,000 and I just wanted to make sure. I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, it's already installed.

So I go out there, Sa has put a fence, like you have never seen. He had to tell the fence person, you do whatever you want to do, Willie's paying for. Nope, nope, nope. It's like he's going to be a fence inside that there's like, a whole lot of money. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm sorry. It's a pre-fab home, which is a nice lovely home. But the fence almost rivals the cost of the fences on the inside, outside, by. And that thought, well, I said, okay, well, you got me.

So I hung one on one, that one on one. It was my fault. I should have been more clear. So what I was thinking, I thought, oh, well, so I'll go to side, I'm thinking, well, at least, at least, I've got the nicest fence in Westman row now and Saugas man, I appreciate that fence Scott's gonna love it He was moving it wasn't even where he stayed he put another place on the other side of the street and to this day

There's still not a fence around your place and not cousin has the nicest fence and for you that was the funniest part of the street. No, that's why I was limited in time but no, it was a time. And look, mine's got three quarters of fence around it and I was checking into it and I got the roundabout driveway and I was going to have to put up, I got the roundabout driveway. And I was going to have to put up two gates on the roundabout. And when I looked at the price of them, I said,

I put up with the fans coming in the evening. So I was up, I was thinking, oh, no, put the fence up everywhere. Now that is right. That was chocolate. The chocolate was, she told me about him, and was friceless. That was friceless. That was friceless. That was friceless. That was friceless.

That was friceless. She told me about him and the roof back. That was so funny. He said, I expected like $2000. That's what I thought. $150. He said, you know, he said, it's not high. It's vinyl.

I still, it floors me today. Every time I draw a body, I think about it. Because now nobody's even livid. It's just a, you know what I hate? Ten of the livid there. Oh wow. Well, I just by I think about it because now nobody's even a little it's just a Teenolil there. Oh wow, thank you my wife Tina has a knife Tina is protected Well, I have loved this uncle side. It's fun to hear more stories about you and from you

Plus you gave so much good advice. I love how you'll be laughing and being a little crazy one second and the next second you'll drop a bomb. Hey, crazy is fun. Crazy is fun. Yeah, just one. Let the world know it. Well, thank you for being on the world. That's good pie cast and it's been a some time with us today. I'm going to play. Oh, hello. Hi. Hey, hey, yeah, this is Sadie and Christian. Hi! Hey! Hey, yeah, this is Sadie and Christian. Hi, how are you guys? So good, how are you? Good, happy Wednesday. This is so awesome.

I'm so excited to join you guys today. I know I was so excited. And we're even talking on, whoa, that's good Wednesday. It's perfect. Yes! It's perfect. Well, remind me of your name.

My name is Lucero. I knew it. Sarah, that's such a beautiful name. I know we we didn't want to pronounce it wrong. So I wanted to I was right. I was right on the annunciation. So beautiful. Well, what was the question that you sent in? Yeah, so the question that I sent in a week ago is what are some practical things that you can do to be reminded of God's faithfulness? What a great question. It's a great question. Nice to be thinking of promises. Have you heard of promises to Psalm at Maverick City?

I don't think so, don't. You got to go listen to it. I was one of the best. It's basically just talking about God's faithfulness and it talks about like from the rising son to the setting same, I will praise your name as kind of the course of it. It's like from the morning to the evening, get a praise your name because of your faithfulness. And you know, whatever I think

a God's faithfulness and just practical ways to remind yourself is literally to, you know, whenever the, I think it's in the book of Joshua, yeah, whenever they're crossed on the Jordan River. And we know the story whenever they're crossed, they stop and they pick up 12 stones. And these stones are their memorial, they're making memorial, they're literally standing in the river, holding up a stone, saying like, this is going to be our memory of what God has done today, allowing us to pass through the Jordan River.

And I think that can teach us a lot about how sometimes in life when God does something Extraordinary and there's faithfulness of God. It's so important to make a marker of those moments like if it's a stone If it's writing in your journal if it's taking a piece like even if you go Maybe it's like you go to a passion conference and you keep your land you're like keeping things that just reminds you of the time that God Really showed up in a powerful way. I even think social media can be that in a sense. Like when you post pictures and you share captions of what God's done, like you're just like setting, you know, kind of picking up a stone in the middle of the Jordan saying, this

is what God has done in my life. And I think that those are the things that help you be reminded of them is whenever you really make a moment out of them. But that's for me, Christian, what about you? Yeah, well, I love what you said about markers. I think that's so true and so important for me. The way that I oftentimes look at God's faithfulness over my life is just remembering back to where I was,

before I knew Jesus, where I was when I first encountered Jesus. And kind of that moment in time when I had that conversion of how my life has changed since then, how much more scripture, I know how much more better of a person I feel. All the fruits of the spirit that I feel like my life is starting to embody. And that's when I think back to God's faith with us from how much He's brought me from when I was lost, when I was found, when I was living in sin, to where I'm walking and freedom. And I just look back to those markers in my life where I saw God show up in this.

I saw myself stop struggling with this then and kind looking looking through those periods of life throughout my walk. So basically your amount of God's faith was when you look in the mirror, you say, hello, I'm like, hey, what's up? Hello? No, and I'll just say one more thing on that is there. There are some things in life where God's faith when this is like loud and it's huge and you see it and you're like, this is when he did that, this is when he did that. And then there are some other moments in life where you're like, okay, God, like am I hearing you? I'm not seeing you. I'm not, you know, nothing crazy's happening. I'm afraid I was being answered.

And I actually felt like that kind of when COVID happened, the pandemic happened and, you know, everything was closed and everything was getting canceled. And I remember Christian, you remember the suit when we moved into back to Louisiana and everything had just changed. And I honestly just kind of felt like a lot of the prayers that we had prayed that we thought were going to answer just all of a sudden weren't. Like a lot of the ways that God was speaking really loudly all of a sudden that he was quiet. And I remember every night when the sun would set, don't you, I get emotional like in a

good way, because it was just a reminder that God is still moving. And every day when I woke up in the sun was out, I would get like this gratitude of like, okay, it's a new day. And it was like even though everything's being canceled, even though everything's going crazy, like God, you're still waking up and setting this day. You're still, you know, the sun's still going up, sun's still coming down, and then it's coming up again. You still have the birds coming out and chirping.

You still have the trees glorifying you. And if they're still doing it, I'm gonna still do it, you know? And so there are some times in life when the faith of the Lord is huge And so there are some times in life when the faith on this God is huge. And there are some times in life where the faith on this God requires your perspective to change. And I think when you allow your perspective to change

and just see God for the beauty in front of you, you're gonna be a much more at peace person. And so I love this question. Well, thanks for bringing up such a good conversation. Yeah, that's such a deep question. I love it. Yeah, no, thanks guys. I think everything that you guys said

are just practical things that anyone can kind of do. For sure. And just remember where you have been before, where you are now, and how far gone has brought you, and where you are today. So that's super cool. I love it. Thanks guys so much. Yeah, so you are today. So that's super cool. I love it. Thanks guys so much.

Thank you so much. Thank you so much. I appreciate getting the talk to you over the phone. And thanks for sending in the question. Thank you so much. Bye, guys. Bye. That was so good.

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