Ep 1097 | Willie Gets Roasted by Korie & Jase for His Stuntman Fails on ‘Duck Dynasty’
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I am unashamed. What about you? By the way, this is for Jace. I have to be done. I have a cotton quill. I mean, one. That was for Jace? Yeah. Are we recording all this? It has like a...

It's like one of those go-karts. You have to put a governor on it to keep it in. 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 joint. Are we rolling on this? We're rolling. I want to get this in. Always 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 Jace, but I need to be done by one o'clock. Yeah. Oh, I get it now. Something else I have to do. We only have 55 minutes. Well, I'll tell Koi, 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. Yeah. You don't get it?

The wow, let me... Like most of what you say, no. I need a translation. 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.

Is that true, Willie? Is that true? 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 podcast. Exactly. Yeah.

Minute 49. Willie, what do you think about that? Well, okay. We're out of time. 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 more 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 become woke. Actually on a walk.

Or a walk, yeah. But I get where you're going with that. Well, Jace, 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. Women, yeah. So you lost. All the women listeners. And I lost.

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 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. 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. So we're functioning as immature. Your mug says always lay, but worth the wait. Apropos, wow. Do you remember who my college minister was? You talk about thinking ahead. I don't even know what you're pimping there. Zach's bringing up the college minister. Do you remember my original college minister? I was waiting on you to become a Christian when 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. His IBS was irritable Bible syndrome. So he shows up 20, 30 minutes late, and he walks in, and we're just like, you're late. And everybody's looking at him and goes...

Now you know how it feels. We turned the entire thing around on us as like a lesson for like, this is how it feels when you guys show up late. Now you know how it feels. That was good. I was slick, man. Look at you now. Look at you now. You're taking a producer. You're doing things. Your life is going places. He's a believer now. Yeah.

You went from an extra... He has a church, not just a believer. He's pastoral, look, see? Zach, you went from an extra on Duck Dynasty to this life. Look at where you are today, thanks to Willie. Do you take any credit for it? Of course, I mean, he should be giving me credit. It all happened 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. Yeah.

And I'm outside in the 20-degree weather. And it's got the little, they had a little box of crackers. That was another lesson. Another lesson for you, see? And you learned. Was that the one with Mia and the, we were just talking about that. That was the coldest. It's one of the coldest I've ever been in my life. Yes, that was terrible. What was Willie? You had a famous line. What did he say to the wrestling crowd? He told them when the two wrestlers showed up from Atlanta, they were purple.

because they were out in this cold with just the tights on us. And shirtless. And one of them walks by Willie. And, you know, we're not rolling. I wish we would have been because he told the guy, he said, look, dude, I don't want you 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 for me. By the way, welcome Willie and Corey, six minutes in to the Unashamed podcast. Thank you. Good to be here. Thank you. I was actually trying to defend Willie 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 about

on my early marriage. Which one? Was it Dr. Amen? There's been so many, and I get it that you're trying to figure out. We had Dr. Amen. Dr. Amen, 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 like, I guess I just thought, well, they're family. We can know. And they were like, he said, I can't talk about that. No. Oh, Zach does that all the time. Everybody's, you know, the court case, it might be a lawsuit. 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 the other day, it was like, he's like, well, I got a funny story about, you know, bear wrecking my truck. I said, Oh, perfect. That'll bear cold open. So I was like, Zach. So someone in your family, he said, yeah, I can't talk about that. And I'm like, what? I was still under investigation. 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. Then he tells me, 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? Yeah.

He can't talk about it. Mr. Cryptic. He likes to just drop the 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 was 25. It's 30 now. Oh,

And look, a woman is 21 or 22, whatever it was. That checks out. I looked at my kids and 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. With the best I have. So John Luke turned 30 this year. Reed turned 30. Their brains are...

About just about. Which is all 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. Do you know what I told my son? I said, Jesus began his ministry. So did Ezekiel. At 30. So that doctor must have been reading his 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, if you, Maddie will have to look it up, about these 12 jewels in the book of Revelation 20. Is it 21? Yeah. 21. 21.

And they're not all the fanciest jewels. It's like no diamond, no emerald. I can't remember. Yeah, it's all these. Well, some scientist who's a believer, he wants, 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 jewels... 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 coal looking. It just looks... Yeah. It looks less...

And so the whole point that he didn't make, that I made, was I 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 started doing this, you know. Oh, wow.

What? Will you see what you've been missing? I'm just getting fired up for it. 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. It takes a lot. Gyrating. 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.

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I was like that when I found out that the donut place, if I told them they would put the sugar on the regular 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 on top.

And then I start. My experience is I only exercise when they put the sprinkles on top of the chocolate that was on top of the grease. I wonder why we struggle with a weight problem in our family. I don't know.

I don't know. I got a mirror. Here we go. Oh, 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. No mirrors.

I just look in a water puddle, and that's good enough. Which is why I'm like, yep, I got the idea. Bite the anxious. Bite the anxious, dear, 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. Hmm.

I thought it was a pretty good sermon. That's probably true. What about those glazed donuts with the chocolate on them? I think that may make it. I did actually read a study one time that said when a woman, it was like a little thing. It's like when a man looks in the mirror what he thinks he looks like and it's like better than what the mirror shows. When a woman looks in 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 our gut in, push everything up to the top and it's like, oh yeah, still got it. Still got it. 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. We're going with it. You're proving my point. That's it. Exactly. Yes. Remember those pictures of James Bailey? Every picture when he was young, his arms would be like this. And he was straining just like he was trying to pass a PC. The only thing that looked different was his face. Yeah.

Yeah. You know why? The body looked the same, but it was like... Because I was skinnier than normal and 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? We were, this is weird y'all brought this up. When your brain developed? No, you know what happened? At 30. Yeah, it was at 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. They

It is dangerous. It's dangerous at our age. I think I'm hurt. It's time to quit that. You have to stop that. Yeah. I can see that. Somewhere 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. This is trouble. It's a thing. The backs are getting thrown out quite a bit these days. Oh, I put my shoe on, couldn't walk for five days, and found myself in a coffin that they called an MRI. Oh, my God.

And all I did was try to put my shoe back on my heel because it was off. I just reached back and fell over. I fell on the ground in Costa Rica. Yep. That's it. It's always the little things. Yeah. Mm-hmm. You guys remember St. 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 was three on that one. Yeah. Well, I slipped because it was muddy. I remember you being hurt. Well, I was hurt and he was making fun of me the whole time. You were just hurt before we came. I was hurt when I got there. What was wrong with you? I threw my back out. Remember? Oh, here we go. Doing what? Brushing my teeth. Yeah.

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. 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,

Huge guy. What you would think of like a prison dude. Oh, yeah. And Willie does the splits. Not just muscle, just solid. So you lost footing. Well, I did the splits. You did the splits. Yeah, I did. In the mud. When he went down, I was doing the splits. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, it can be dangerous. Well, and we witnessed a true miracle that night with the water. That was amazing. The water was full in these Baptist trees, and we didn't have any water to bring in. You know how 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. A lot, 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 at the end of the night. They were full at the end of the night. I'm going to have to change my meal. Widow's oil. Two miracles. I did the splits as well. That was a miracle too. Which is miraculous. Yes.

But you did pay the price for it. You did pay the price. Well, I will say. But I did it. I mean, I got him. Yeah. 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 double. Wow. It wasn't, running is not considered a stunt. Ha ha ha.

Hey, raise your son. Pulled hamstring. That was not doing your own stuff. Tom Cruise jumping out of a plane for real. I understand what Tom got through. Actually, if I'm not mistaken, Will, the very first injury, you hurt your knee.

Coming out of that trailer episode, because there was some varmints in the trailer. The possum was in the trailer. Oh, there was a possum in the stove. Yeah, the possum bit me. 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 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 race with Will. I don't know if this was y'all's idea or some producer or somebody.

But in the episode, in Will's episode, 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 Spokane 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 to everybody on the football field. Yeah. And it was Willie. It was Willie playing. 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. That might be a Robertson story right there. Look where you got. Yeah.

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 down. And then Willie gets his little chair and starts barking. And I'm like, I can't work. Did it have his name on the back? Like ball sock or something? No, but I think he actually brought that up as an idea. Why not? Yeah.

He does do a lot of physical comedy this time around, too. I actually commented on that. That was my first question. Yes. Is Willie still doing physical comedy? He follows a lot. He does. Whether it's intentional or not, we'll never know. But yes, he does do a lot of physical comedy. He follows a lot on this show, too. But I always say, Will, that 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 was a lot on the show from Cy or Chase or whoever, a lot of them were his idea. Like he'd say, say it this way. Or say, call me this. Especially with Cy. Yeah, exactly. Mainly Cy, because who speaks Cy?

The worst thing you can do for Si 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, said what he had to say, moved on. Never understood that we're actually. Never knew what was funny about it either. He never understood the whole show. No, he never got it. 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 do you want me to do about it? Yeah.

I'll be like, that's the dumbest, silliest, I don't know. But don't y'all think that's what made him so funny in the show? Because he never got out of the Phil 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.

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One of the funniest episodes 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... When we took over the news station. Yeah, we took over the news station. That was one of my favorite episodes. 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 it. We literally acted like the newscasters. Remember? Yeah. I just said, let us just take it over. And we did it. Well, the problem was, I did weather, Jep and Jess had a little rumba class. 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, you forgot about Phil. We forgot about Phil and we filmed for hours. And,

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.

It's going to be a rip snort. And it was agitation. 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. Yeah.

That made no sense when 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 out there. 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. We loved it. We loved it. 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. Of that episode? Because it's so funny. No, the local news. Just in general. 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 when 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 circles and you go where you want to go. And they're like, that's it from right here at the roundabout, West Monroe. I laughed so hard.

I remember when Lisa made the local news. Oh, Lisa. Yeah, Lisa at the fair. She made it a couple of times, yeah. Family story. The Lisa at the fair. It was a local paper when they said, you know, they were just going around saying, what do you like about the fair? And everybody would tell us. 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, and she said,

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 onions. Because that was her little chicken on a stick that she had just got. It was like whatever's in front

But that made the quote in the paper. How long have I brought that up to her? Literally. 30 years. 30 years. I still, every time. You still make fun of her 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 on the roundabout. I think you could just put the cameras. Maybe this can work into the new show. No, I'm serious. And I got it from our local police juror who's a friend of mine. I was like, how many wrecks?

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 into each other, they holler out the wind, the cops come. I will say, when we first got them, it was chaos. Well, people would stop in them. They would stop. They wouldn't know what to do. They're still stopping. And I had an accident. I can't talk about it right now because it's still under discussion.

It's still being, it's still in the grand jury phase. It's under investigation. I think you can film Roundabout. That is the show. You just go Roundabout, Roundabout, and the more... And you just film people on Roundabout? 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. Capturing chaos. It's like Jerry Springer on wheels. We're making our show way too complicated. We should have just done that. Driven around about. Because it's on TV. It's not yet. 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. You guys remember that guy?

Yeah. Willie loves political commercials. That's another thing he loves is political commercials. I can't talk about it right now because it's still out there. What?

Y'all give him something else that he's going to hang on to. We'll say that. 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 we're talking this way, but then you're there. We should put you there. It is hard with guests. It's basically like your whole life. I always forget you're there, and then I remember like, oh, yeah. Yeah.

Zach's there. Who's that kid peeing on his own forehead? Oh, that's Zach. Okay. Who's the guy out there freezing to death while we're filming? Oh, yeah, that's Zach. Well, that's why we have the little... I'm Zach. We have this little button and we mainly use it for Zach. This is our special effects department. It has crickets, rim shots,

boo but it does have applause and so because we try to help people i thought he had to buzz in to say something no we're doing it to remind people that he's still there so it draws attention but i have a new button i actually got this this morning this is a perfect place to introduce oh boy because that 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,

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? Fact or crap?

So we'll let the... What was it? Fact or crap? Fact or crap. That's what it says. It's PG-13 because some people probably... Well, we got Willie on the show, so it's okay, right? I got a belief for crap on the show. That is the pot calling the kettle black. Yeah, yeah. Because you won't... I'll say this. You won't go on a two-minute rant. You'll go on about an eight-minute rant. 22 minutes. 22 minutes. 48 minutes in Willie's 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 quieten down. Even they're like, yeah, whatever. Their legs quit rubbing together. No, I had that idea. You guys are here talking about the show. You guys got a new show. Let's talk about the... Zach, Zach.

Wait, what is that? We don't play. Wait, what is that fallacy? That's one of those fallacies you just changed into the subject? Oh, Willie trades in the currency of fallacies. I mean, you go look up... Well, Zach dropped a bomb on us the other 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, I looked at him. Well, he started acting like I just broke the law. And I said, I haven't signed anything. 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 I was,

They give you a little call time. Yeah. I think you can talk about that. And it said 10, be here. Look, it said 2.30, wrap. I never read anything below that because I know what wrap means. That means we're done. Tone this puppy up. And then I said, do you know when I left? And it said 10, 12.30, wrap.

I left at 8.30 p.m. And so I pulled aside one of the guys in charge and I said, see this word wrap? I had it pulled up on my phone. That means nothing to our crew. Nothing. Do you know how he responded? He said, I'll have a meeting. And I thought, oh. Did that make you feel better? There you go. You know what I said, Jace? Welcome back.

Yeah, exactly. Well, that's the deal with reality TV. Reality sometimes goes longer. Sometimes it goes. 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. Well, earlier, there was something y'all were talking about. I was like, I need to bring this up because y'all were talking about 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. 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? What? That men's brains form at 30. That's right. See, when you can laugh at yourself. That's right. That's the spiritual nugget of this whole nonsensical conversation. What is it? Make. 30. 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 got to wait for the rest of us to catch up. I know.

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By the way, I got, y'all were 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, well, I didn't because 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 been proving local news because of how fascinated we are over these roundabouts. We've never seen anything like it. There's no stoplight. 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 for fun. Just drive. 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. Oh, man. Fix the traffic. It is really good. And it's way more comedy. I said, if you could 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 listen to it. See, we should have done it. See, Missy argued with me because the first time I went through it, I said, are you ready? She'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? Think of all the possibilities. But I wonder, is there a bike 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 switch lanes in the roundabout. Can you not? No, that's illegal. Oh!

You just have it yourself. That's why you don't divulge everything on the podcast. No. Legal, legal. Take it up from Zach. I didn't know that before. Somebody called me. I don't know. I'm just going to say, my brother said that, but I didn't believe it.

I'm telling you, that hits the wall. I can get through it quick. It's like once you know, then you actually can do it because then you're complicit. Then you're complicit. I'm not complicit. Now you're complicit. He lives complicit, but he's now complicit. Don't tell him. Don't tell him. That is a good choice. But Jace understands a lot about local laws. He's had some. I'm still going to try it. 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 already confessed it, so it's out now. You can't take it back unless we edit. We could edit it out, but I don't think we will. No, I think we'll leave it in, Zach. 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 Cape Town, South Africa with John Luke driving on the wrong side of the road. That was the scariest moment of my life. A roundabout on the opposite side. Yeah, 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 he figured out which way to get off. Well, because everything's backward on the getting off when you're getting off. So weird. So weird. Yes. You remember who was in the car that time? It was a traffic jam on one of the...

What do 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 on the interstate. That happened a lot. And it was like, oh, do we wave? Do we say, hey, I know that guy who calls? No, we acted like we never knew it.

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. He 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 been. Was it a Datsun? What was that? No, it was a Ford Fiesta. Ford Fiesta.

Yeah, you could hear the gas and smell it, and Paul was smoking the whole time. And throwing cigarettes out the window. You know how they have the safety things for cars surviving a crash? It was like negative 30. That is scary. Well, look, we were telling this story, Will, recently. Lisa was on the podcast about when we were going to my wedding,

Lisa 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

There were like 12 of them. Do you remember that? We went to the wedding in the Fiesta, 12 of us, to my wedding. With kerosene. On purpose. Don't think of that. It was an accident? No. It was an accident. No, because sometimes the 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? Yeah.

Because we don't have any gas. We're not bad. 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 good information. It could be fake news. That's the truth. Wow.

I can't talk about it because we're still litigating that. Sorry, Zach. Yeah, you don't bring that up on the podcast. Sorry, Zach. 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 segment, let's talk about the show. Hey, I get a question. 37 minutes into it.

That's two minutes better than last time. 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 asked me, y'all would know better because y'all have been on quite a few more. Yeah. Because y'all have been filming for a while now. For a while, yes. It airs June 1st. Yeah, June 1st. 8 p.m. Central. Oh, no.

Back on A&E. Back on A&E. That's awesome. Is it the same night or is it a different night? It's Sunday nights. Okay. Yeah. Originally, it was going to be Wednesdays and then they changed it to Sundays and felt like that was it. It's not a resurrection. It's a revival. A revival. What is the name? Duck Dynasty, the revival. Oh, that is the name. That is the name. It's a revival. A&E came up with that. We were throwing out all kinds of things and they came up with Duck Dynasty, the revival and we were like, that's really cool. It's got such a spiritual connotation and everything.

and everything. So that was really cool. Well, A&E as a company had went to a tent revival and then they got the idea after that. See, I would have named it. Y'all, 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. Yeah.

They would have called it Duck Dynasty the Roundabout. They would have had two days to set aside for this conversation. Are you kidding me? That's better than the idea that I was fixing to do. Duck Dynasty the Roundabout. That's it. Just Roundabout. Duck Dynasty Roundabout. Roundabout.

It's chaos. Doug Dynasty. Jace, I got a few things to get off my chest in a roundabout way. Okay, what was yours? What was yours? Sorry. Pull up a chair, Willie. I would have named it Doug Dynasty Never Again. And then they're like, but you're coming out with it. And I would say,

Exactly. Well, if you keep dogging the production company, it may be never good for you. So that's a bad way. I didn't dog them. I did what I did 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's Supper talk 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.

Duck Dynasty, the first time around, we waited around. You're like the guy who goes to the airport who hasn't flown in a couple years. I had to wait. My flight got delayed. Well, of course. It's like having a baby. It's like having a baby. You forget later how difficult it was. You've forgotten. Yeah.

We waited around a lot. I don't even know what the argument is. Zach waited around in the freezing cold. Zach, you know. And he was just an extra. Well, I did the blinds. 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 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. So.

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Well, I learned something of himself. Well, the truth is there's a nugget that somebody said something to me one time that stuck with me and motivated me to do everything I've been doing, and it was you, Willie, when you were working for me. I'd hired you as well. Oh, again. Have we not told this story? No, he likes to say it because he likes to say, yes.

You were working for me. You missed that. You did work for me at one point in your life for about six hours. You had your little Dave Ramsey. He's always been a hard worker. I had Dave Ramsey. He had his little Dave. He bruised my heel. He bruised my heel, all right. Yeah. That's a Genesis 315. So what'd you learn, Zach? So what'd 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 course. You had made it in life, you know. So?

Selling drugs? No, this is what came after. Selling drugs? No, it was the ridicule. You know what I'm saying? You guys were pretty brutal when I was a kid, so that's all that stuck in me. That's my only memory of him doing that is I said, well, I don't know, out there selling drugs. And he said, they're called pharmaceuticals. 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 today.

There is a lot of laughter. It's funny. Yes. Well, these are our, I want to say this. These are our episodes too. So that's a little different. No wonder we went eight hours. So that's why I was about to say that justifies your eight hours. These are our 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. Well, there's something else I was going to tell about. What was it? Can you talk about it? I'm trying. I don't know if I can talk about it. Can we get Zach to sign off on it? I don't know.

But your honor laws. Oh, I know the title. So we were throwing out all these names. We were saying like Duck Dynasty, The Next Generation, because remember, we're a big Star Trek fan. 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 names.

We were like, date 9IC reloaded. That's a terrible example, by the way. In 2025, remember Star Trek, the next generation? They're all dead, all those actors. I'm just saying. Some of them are still alive. But they live on in our memory. That thing revolutionized the game, didn't it? See, that's why I had the never again. It had a bigger impact on us before my brain was developed. True. Yeah.

True. So anyway, Revival is the name and we love it. I like it. It's really fun. And yeah, it is kind of the next generation though. It is. It is the next generation of Robertsons. Everybody. But it's still the old. And the old. Yeah. I was wondering if it kind of followed the same format or whatever. Yeah. How is it different from the original show? What is different? Because I know there's got to be some differences.

The cast. The family. It's different parts of the family. Yeah, because it's the people who are on it. I've been telling people it's your wing. One thing, it got way younger. Yeah. Yeah. Because you're talking about our children and grandchildren versus, you know, Phil and Kay. So it's younger. And I was thinking about that with the grandkids, because we have eight grandkids. Yeah.

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 chaos running around, which is fun. It's kind of hit me. I've turned in because we were making fun of Phil, but the other day I had no idea what was going on. 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'd be like, I'm not real sure. And guess what? We were going to change. You're the new Phil. This is a way better role. You can just do what you want to do. James is famous for saying he's not funny on purpose. So he's only accidentally funny. That's a fact. Every time I try to be funny, nobody laughs. Right.

Them people laugh when I was dead serious, so I don't get it. Stick with being yourself. I did realize the other day that y'all are all grandparents now. Yeah, everybody. All five of us. Yeah. So everybody. It's a whole new season of life for sure. It is. We're getting old. The generations, I think it's like following the generations and just seeing like a family legacy. Well, it's a lot about what's happening up here at Duck Commander, which has expanded so much now. Yeah.

i.e. what we're doing this wasn't here we're actually in the Duck Commander warehouse can I say that podcasts are a part of oh yeah they're a big part of the story driven like it kind of reminded me of the old days it was kind of the duck call room itself and now it's podcasts that kind of become that driver so I loved what I've been hearing which is why when people always ask they're like why don't y'all just do that again I'm like

Well, it actually was what we were doing. So they're doing a show now based on what we're actually doing. In the 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. Dace's kids are all up in the

And I will say too, what you were saying about what's being filmed this week that we can't talk about that, but it's like something 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. Oh, that was. To the group, yeah. That was so sweet. That was like, what in the world? It was. I mean, she sent it late at night, and I thought, has she been drinking? I mean, because it was really long. Well, usually when I get a text that'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, it's long late at night. You know, I bet I'm already about four fingers deep into the bourbon. I thought Jason was going to say that.

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, sleep it off. Are you talking about 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 night. You know what I was thinking of all day? 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. Yeah.

Right.

Thank you, Beth. Next time, I'll be over. My apologies. But that was classic Robertson's. Robertson's could turn anything, like a sweet moment. We had this sweet text from Alex late at night into this. We could turn it into an alcohol-laden thing. Exactly. What is wrong with y'all? I'm guilty. What is wrong with y'all? I thought she must be having a nervous breakdown. That was the sweetest text. Drunk. Drunk text. I know

this about Willie this is recently I said it 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 touching ridiculous three like you know you can have a normal like deep conversation about three passes back like I say something you say something I say something and then it's no

Then we go there. It's going to be something ridiculous. It's a fear of intimacy. It's a fear of intimacy. That's what it is. Thank you for diagnosing that, Zach. No, it's our way of saying it's time to move on. It's time to move on. We can't sit back and leave. I can either get up and leave. Fact or crap. That's why 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.

Yeah. All right. So we're out of time. Look for it. Duck Dynasty. The Rev- The Revival. I said The Rev- The Revolution. The Revolution. The Revolution.

The Reformation. The Revolution. The Revolution. The Roundabout. The Resurrection of the Revival. The Revival is coming out, what? June 1st. June 1st, Sunday nights. 8 Central, 9 Eastern on A&E. A&E. I'll be in town for the premiere. For the premiere party. Yeah, we haven't had a premiere party in a while. Everybody, we have one coming up. You'll get an invitation. I need a place to stay. Amy, you got a house I can stay at. Can I stay with somebody? Here we go.

Zach. What month is it right now? He's successful, but he still doesn't want to pay for a hotel room. No, he likes his dad. No, 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 y'all for coming on the podcast and helping us. 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. Just switch lanes, and we're out of here. You now have a conversational role.

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