WHOA That's Good Podcast - Willie Robertson: Boss Hog, Husband, Dad

Episode Date: March 18, 2020

Sadie Robertson welcomes her Dad, WIllie Roberson, onto the podcast. Willie Robertson is best known for his appearances on the reality TV series Duck Dynasty on A&E. Willie shares advice on a variety ...of topics including marriage, business, and faith, which will inspire you and be sure to make you laugh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 What's up, well that's good. Wednesday, today is going to be awesome because normally I have mom in the house at the end of the show, but today we have dad in the house for the whole show. So we get the ball tag himself on the podcast. So welcome, Willie Robertson. Hello, Sadie Rob Huff. Sadie Rob Huff. Whatever you're going by these days. That's the new name.
Starting point is 00:00:41 Well, thank you for being on the podcast. You know, we've had it for a few years now But you're a hard guy to get just kidding only like you have. Yeah, well usually I find that when you want someone on your Podcast the first thing you need to do is ask And so since I haven't been asked I felt it awkward to try to worm my way in on the podcast if I what really wasn't invited All I know is you call me one time and ask me one silly question That's the only time. Yeah, that was your feature on the podcast. I was like can I ask you a question? You said hurry. I'm hunting. Oh, yeah
Starting point is 00:01:14 That was a bad time now. We're not hunting so I'm excited. It's an honor to be your guest on your podcast. Hopefully I can Match up who's your last person had your last person we had on last person? We had Julie Wilson and she was amazing. You're right for that. We had Beth Moore. So you're really carrying some manly hood to our podcast Man, I got the best Beth Moore story ever but we'll have a later podcast later. Podcast all right, so I will treat you like I treat every other guest with the very first question We ask and that is what's the best piece of advice that you've ever been given? Well, that's a great question.
Starting point is 00:01:51 I think I would have to say is give more than you take. It's good. That pretty much covers every aspect of life. If you try to give, always give more than what you take. And so I think sometimes we get caught in trying to take more. But if you always try to give more at your job and your marriage, whatever it is, if you're giving more than was asked and certainly more than you're taking, I just find that that's work for me. I think that's the one of the secrets like in business is like you just try to help other people.
Starting point is 00:02:24 If I can help you, then it's gonna help me and it's turned out pretty good. So good. I love asking this question because every time I ask it to people, it's influential people, right? And then when they give their advice, you can always see it bleed through everything that they do.
Starting point is 00:02:39 And so being your daughter, having a up close view of your life, I can see how you give a lot more than you take and that's really cool to know that's been at the forefront of your mind. Has anyone ever said that before? No, no one said that. So, it's not. It's not.
Starting point is 00:02:52 I'm scared I'd have one that someone else, because sadly, I'm a little behind on your podcast as far as listening to them. So, wow. Which may be, you see, Rosalind, I didn't know. So, I just want to make sure I wasn't like, oh, it's a four time we've heard that one. Well, here's a good thing and crazy enough.
Starting point is 00:03:06 We've never had anybody repeat something that somebody else has said, which is unique. Yeah, because I guess everybody just has different stories, different people feeding into their life, but no, that's so good. And then you kind of mentioned this, you're like, that goes for business, that goes for parenting, that goes for being a husband,
Starting point is 00:03:22 giving more than you take. And I wanted to do something fun on this podcast. You know, normally I talk about people's books or stories. And if we did that, we would talk forever. So I got more specific. And I wanted to go through just pieces of advice and different areas of your life that I've really seen you thrive in. Some learn the hard way, some just like absolutely you're just good at.
Starting point is 00:03:42 And so I wanted to ask you just different piece of advice and different segments of your life. And the first one I want to ask you is about your sense of humor. And this is why when people tell me I'm so much like you, there's two things that they're normally talking about. They're like, you have his exact dimple and you know, you look a lot alike. And then they say, and you have a sense of humor.
Starting point is 00:04:02 And I think that's a high compliment because I write things you're hilarious. But what's your best piece of advice And then they say, and you have a sense of humor. And I think that's a high compliment because I write things you're hilarious. But what's your best piece of advice on having a good sense of humor? Oh, man, that's a lot. And I was thinking, I'm glad you're not overweight. Because then you would think like, oh, that's why they're saying that.
Starting point is 00:04:16 Because, well, air go, that's why you asked me about my sense of humor. So you've always got to be thinking, right? So pretty much when everyone says something, I have to fight not thinking the funny thing about what you're saying. I don't know if that's advice, but I think the main thing that I've said this for years, and we've said this even about our TV show,
Starting point is 00:04:36 was that I try not to take myself so seriously. Yeah, I feel like you're going to say that. It keeps coming up over and over. So what I find really funny is people that do take themselves too seriously. There's just comedy gold in there because it's so funny because it's funny, but sometimes I don't think it's funny because they're taking themselves too seriously. So you can make light of things and I guess growing up, thinking about being funny, I mean, there's a lot of people in my
Starting point is 00:05:05 family that are funny and some are funny and not trying to be funny. And I don't know, it's how we dealt with, I think a lot of, you know, shortcomings or pain or stuff that we had in our lives as a family. And so we found this way to make light and to laugh at anything. And so, and growing up with like with my dad, so Phil is this so serious. And he does have a funny side for sure. And I've certainly seen that. But he comes across so serious. So it just, it creates a good habitat for something funny because when there's something serious,
Starting point is 00:05:39 then it can really get funny. Like when you're not supposed to laugh, I'll never forget when I was a teenager. I was in there making mom laugh. And mom was one of the greatest because she would laugh at everything. And so I was in there working some material and and I remember Phil he's in there watching the news or whatever he's watching with the weather channel and he screams in there he goes, hey everybody be quiet in there because we had such a small house and so if you got loud on one side of the house it was like too loud. He said, yeah, you all pipe down in there. Saturday night lives over and I thought that was the funniest I got
Starting point is 00:06:12 ever. Saturday night, Saturday night lives over. And so I really enjoy watching people melt down. It just cracks me up and because you know people are like, oh, this is the worst thing that happened and I guess in America, when I hear these things, I'm like, that's the worst thing that's happened. And so one of my favorite things, which you're in airports, like I am a lot. And so I love when there's problems at the airport, which is all the time, I love just watching people just, just lose their minds. They're melting away. And so I was in Houston one night. It was storms were happening. Everything's getting away. And so I was in Houston one night. It was storms were happening. Everything's getting delayed and these people are just,
Starting point is 00:06:48 and I'm just sitting there watching these people in line. And I never get this lady comes up and I've got to be on this plane, man. The plane's not leaving, you know, it could crash, you know. And so she goes, you don't understand. And I was waiting for what was gonna come over, Matthew. You know, I'm having a child. I'm having this. She goes, you don't understand. And I was waiting for what was gonna come out of her mouth. You know, I'm having a child, I'm having this. She goes, I'm platinum.
Starting point is 00:07:10 She was a platinum adult. And that's her problem. Oh, I'm sorry, you're platinum. Oh, okay, we'll tell the pilots, we'll crank this thing up. We'll go against every safety thing that we have because you're platinum. And so in fact, let's just get you a private plane to go through because you're platinum. And got to play. In fact, let's just get you a private plane to go through because you're platinum and so on.
Starting point is 00:07:26 I've told you these things a lot. Or in traffic. I just watch in people just, you know, like it's the worst day of their life because there's someone in front of them or, you know, the grocery line. And so when I get in those situations, and then I just push myself, I got to like,
Starting point is 00:07:42 we are not going to get upset. I've seen that play out in your life so clearly, and it's so funny, because like, your initial thing, don't take yourself too seriously, don't take situations too seriously. Robertson family, all does that. You think like there would be like something big happening in the family that most families,
Starting point is 00:07:58 it would be really, really hard, and it's not that it's not hard, but y'all just always make light or make somebody laugh, because you're like, we're not gonna just get to say man, we're not gonna say half-set, we're not gonna say in this rut, and I love that about y'all just always make light or make somebody laugh because you're like, we're not just going to say man, we're not going to say it up. So we're not going to say in this rut. And I love that about y'all. And I learn a lot from y'all in them. When you got to thank funny, I remember we're doing the TV show and it's so fun being around people who actually think funny. And so you just start thinking, you know, when funny people get together, you start thinking funny. It's just, it's funny. And not everybody
Starting point is 00:08:23 has that. Yeah, you just start thinking funny and how could this be funny and then how can we make this funny? And you and Uncle Psy would be like, you would be crying or thinking of things. And so I'm saying Psy is awesome because he have to, I don't even know that he realizes he's being funny, you know. And there's a fun thing between trying to be funny
Starting point is 00:08:43 and then just being funny. And so, and sometimes people that are trying to be funny and then just being funny. And so, and sometimes people that are trying to be funny, they'm like, yeah, okay, bye. You know, you're not the funniest person out there. And so, yeah, I just try to find comedy and everything. And I think it helps in life. I think it helps you to get through things. And, you know, it helped me with the show.
Starting point is 00:09:00 I was invited up to a hospital, to see a little girl. I think she passed away like four days after. And I had never been that close, but realizing now because the TV show was invited up. And so I took my head in and I just start bawling crying. So I'm like, oh, one second, I'm trying to gather myself and realize. But then I realized that girl wanted to see the person she sees on TV. She's been seeing people crying for weeks or months, you know, maybe even years. And so I just had to pull myself together and say, I've got to go in there for her because
Starting point is 00:09:35 I know she wants to see just for a few minutes something fun and something she sees that she laughs at and all that. And so it is tough. And when situations are tough like that and that's where at and all that. And so it is tough. And when situations are tough like that, and that's where you can have that. And so I'll go in, I gather myself, I went back in there and, hey, you know, I'm a duck call. And so we were gonna be funny.
Starting point is 00:09:53 Then I left the room and then I'll start crying again. Yeah, then I start bowling around again. No, I get that, that's so sweet. I've seen you do that. That's powerful. The next piece of advice which shift and gears a little bit. But I've really seen this a lot in your life and learned a lot from you, mom, and yours, marriage.
Starting point is 00:10:09 Well, let's talk about marriage advice. Christian and I just got married so you can give us your best piece of advice. That's big. Also, a lot of people don't know that you, mom, literally met in like what, fourth grade? Fourth grade, yeah. Fourth grade.
Starting point is 00:10:20 And so you've had like kind of a lifelong relationship on and off, I won't say you dated since fourth grade But on and off in the fourth grade Like when we got married not on and off when we were married There's a couple years. I was gone for a couple years and came back to the house Yeah, on and off from fourth grade to when she was a senior in high school So when you proposed we were in the same youth group because she went to the private Christian school. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:46 I was the old public school boy. So yeah. I love it. Yeah, we have known each other pretty much our whole house. Yeah. And so now, Y'all been married for, mom said 27, you said 28. It's 28. It's terrible.
Starting point is 00:10:59 Most people are like, I asked her why if they don't know the date. No, not my wife. She never knows it. Always off. I have to go look it up or ask someone to know what that is. I know I was trying to get my facts right for the podcast And I'm like how many years just like 27 is your marketing team facing burnout? We hear you hiring just doesn't jive with budget cuts enter bunny studio one and hourly all in one plan with 100 quality Vettigreative services produce all original, visual, and written content at the same time. Bunny Studio scalable platform supports your content production with infinite skills
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Starting point is 00:11:46 speeches at the end of last year. And so we were, it was 27. But January, we had another anniversary. So I'm counting that one. So I'm, I'm 28. That's what it is. So what's the marriage advice you give, Christian and I? So for younger people, this was a piece of advice I had gotten in my premarital counseling. And I think it was really helpful, which is you're not the other person's parent, so don't act like the parent. Because at some point in young relationships, you figured out that you've got it better figured out in something than the other person.
Starting point is 00:12:22 And then you end up treating them like they're a child, not like they're your spouse or your friend. And so you're not the parent. So I would constantly have to say, I'm not Cory's dad, you know. So, because you would, you know, for it would be like over safety over something. And it's literally like I'm treating them like a child.
Starting point is 00:12:40 And I look, here's what you do, you know, it was great advice that I had then and I think it's good to say, hey, we're not, I'm not raising you. This journey that you're gonna go through in life is obviously with your spouse, but there's also a lot of other things that you've got to figure out,
Starting point is 00:12:56 and figure out with other men, or with other women, with friends, with relationships, with careers, and all this. And so I think it's, you know, you just gotta be careful not to treat that other person as a young couple. I mean, for couples who have been married like you off 28 or so on years. Well, at some point, my advice shifts to you, you got to hang in there and you got to weather the storms and I mean, that's not really ground breaking
Starting point is 00:13:23 at the ice. But I think in this culture, we have less face it. I mean, that's not really ground breaking advice. But I think in this culture we have, let's face it, I mean, somebody said the other day, if there's a back door, believe me, you'll use it. So if there's an option to get out of this thing or just move on, you have to do that. And then that goes back to give more than you take. And so what I try to do is, how much can I give? And I'm sure to give more than I'm actually taking.
Starting point is 00:13:45 And there's gonna be times where you end up taking indirectly, but if you can always just wake up when you're working on doing some of the good advice, I think I have is like find some things in your relationship that you're good at and that you like doing. And then you pour into those like mom and I with cooking for instance, she's not a good cook and she doesn't really care about cooking, she doesn't love it.
Starting point is 00:14:07 She finally likes to eat, I mean, with first-gen, she didn't know what good food was. And so, man, and I just owned that and I said, I'm going to take this over and I will, you know, and so I work at it, I practice, and now it's been this cool relationship, like with you guys, with siblings, with family. We bring your friends, oh, that's cooking this. And so when I'm just sitting around with nothing to do, and there's a Saturday I'm by myself, I usually get a cookbook and I'll try to,
Starting point is 00:14:32 I have practice meals that I do. And some of them work, some of them don't. But all that's going into one thing that I can provide, which is that another piece of general advice, which is, I'm always like this, I wanna live my life. If I'm not there, I wanna be missed. I wanna be like, oh shoot, Willie's not here. So it's not gonna be as fun,
Starting point is 00:14:54 or it's not gonna, I'm not trying to, you know, ruin somebody's thing, but I wanna live my life, of course, like when you're here, man, you give this, or you give that, and you're really missed if you're not here. And so, cooking's one thing that I can do. We eat, you know, two to three to five times a day, and so it keeps coming up. And it comes back to that, it's a together thing. We'll, you know, tonight we'll be cooking.
Starting point is 00:15:17 We've got lobster tonight. We've went big time, and this whole thing will be a process. We'll sit in there, we'll have this time. You know, it's actually what Lou and Shelley Gaglio, when they were at our house, and I'm big time and this whole thing will be a process, will sit in there, will have this time. It's actually what Louie and Shelley Geaglio, when they were at our house, and I'm cooking, we're having this conversation, and then Louie called and said, hey, Willie, I want you to do that at Passion City. I'm like, do what? That whole thing we did, the cooking. And so they set up the stove, they got the ingredients, and I cooked while they sound the couch, and we had this
Starting point is 00:15:44 conversation. That's cool. Because it was just a powerful time, they got the ingredients and I cooked while they sound the couch and we had this conversation. That's cool. Because it was just a powerful time and then the sitting and the eating and so all that is that family time but it's not this force like what can we do as a family. We can do something like that. It's way better just going, hey, let's go pick up. Obviously at times we go pick up something to eat. But I just try to be so intentional about that and say, and I want it to be the best.
Starting point is 00:16:05 I want it to be good. And if I'm not here, people are gonna go, I don't know. What do we do? We're gonna eat. Well, I can attest to that. Your cooking is my favorite thing ever. Like me and Bella literally like call each other
Starting point is 00:16:17 like what should we ask dad to cook tonight? And what it is, something we circle around. I was telling somebody today, I was like, it's not just like meal time with our family, it's before meal time. It So when dad's cooking, we all sit around the counter and talk and wait for you to finish. It's some of the best conversations. And so I can see how that's really brought our family together. And I'm very thankful for that. And that rolls right into the next piece of advice I want to ask you about fatherly advice. That's
Starting point is 00:16:39 one of my favorite things about what you do as a father. So I can just go ahead and pump you up and say just the way that you intentionally cook. Like it's so seen in our house and it's so felt from every child that something we all look forward to. Even the ones who don't have great taste like will. But he still likes hanging out with the family. But what's some fatherly advice you give? Oh man, I think that's probably the toughest advice. Fatherhood or motherhood either one, you know, parenthood is so hard because you don't really know. I mean, you can read all the playbooks. You can read the new testament.
Starting point is 00:17:12 You can read the Old Testament. You can get advice on what needs to happen. But you really don't know, you know, when you're in the arena of raising children, one, it constantly changes, you know, from babies to, you know, to getting up to young kids and then you're getting into the teenage years. And then now, so you're still learning and having to grow. And I guess my biggest advice is you've got to be able to adjust. You know, for our family, there's six kids, all sorts of different backgrounds, you know, through adoption, through coming in different, everything. So everything had to adjust. In fact, up until today, you know, like it's still,
Starting point is 00:17:51 like today I have to may have to make a move, you know, here or there, tomorrow I will as well. And so as you're dealing with the different people, I guess my advice is I don't push too much. I try not to shape, I didn't try to shape you guys into anything other than being a good person, hopefully a believer in something bigger than you are in our faith aspect. But I could only teach you that by doing it myself. And so I could read you all the Bible scriptures. But I knew a slew of people who went to youth group and went to church who turned out to be terrible human beings. So that's not the secret sauce, which is if you hear enough. And so it's, you know, tried to be terrible human beings. So that's not the secret sauce, which is just, if you hear enough. And so it's, you know, tried to be the same, good or bad,
Starting point is 00:18:29 you know, at home as I was, I didn't want somebody to go. You know, I want you guys to go like, whoa, what happened to that? He didn't, he didn't talk like that, you know. So you try to keep that the same. And, but I didn't try to push you guys, just I was like, whatever happens, which, you know, I'm not a big goal guy.
Starting point is 00:18:44 I'm not, you know, and some like, I'm not pushing. I'm just gonna let you guys and then let me, whatever it is, wherever you get to, let me try to help you in that moment. Don't ask, I don't know what God's got in store for me, just whatever I'm doing, God's there. And so we can work through whatever that is because Lord knows I never knew what I was gonna be doing.
Starting point is 00:19:05 I'm a PE major. I'm like, I didn't know what I was gonna do. I know I love the Lord. I know I love my wife, I love my kids. And so I was a camp director and then that shifted. And then I worked for the church and ended up being on TV with my family business with duck calls.
Starting point is 00:19:21 So you never know. And so making you guys into the best athlete or the best this, which dad had taught me that as well. He was a college quarterback. He had done all those things in really in life. He had already seen that's not the most important thing in life. And if you're skilled and if you are a great athlete,
Starting point is 00:19:39 it's not that I quit the basketball team when I was a senior. And I quit only because I wasn't playing. And I wanted to go play, so I quit and went and played in the wreck league. So I could play basketball. And my team when I quit, we're like 500. And then I quit and it wasn't me quitting that made the difference because it's believed me.
Starting point is 00:20:00 I didn't play. But then they went to the final four in the state of general. I was like, shoot, I wasted my time. I always say, hey, maybe want to stick it out. So it's not that you can't, I mean, you won't tell it and I'll be in push. My parents were, no, any puts you know, other than church and, you know, being a good person, but figure that out. Don't just, I think sometimes we try to shape our kids life so much, you know, and then we get thrown into the world. And then it's like, I don't know what to do, you know, because mom and dad did this. So there's just a little bit
Starting point is 00:20:27 of real, a little bit of, you know, street smarts mixed with, you know, whatever it is. And don't push this guy all the way inside whatever it is. I have it ends up. I'll help you. That's really cool. It's really cool to hear you say because, you know, I've obviously seen you parent me like that, but I never really realized I was the intention, but now I'm like, oh, it's so clear. Like you never pushed or mom never pushed, but you're always there for us and always there to speak into whatever it was if we asked, like even when I was playing basketball,
Starting point is 00:20:55 it wasn't like you're at like every single game and I was like, hey, I'm working on this, I'll never forget you were like, you got to stop taking that one dribble and picking the ball up. And so we asked you to speak into it and help us figure something out or go out and help us figure out by showing us.
Starting point is 00:21:09 And that always really means a lot. And it's so true. It's like, we don't know where God's going to take us. We couldn't, I guess, this. I wasn't a guest going to Nashville speaking on doors right. It wouldn't have happened, but God was there and it all. All right. So I want to shift gears next to Best Piece of Business Advice because you are a businessman
Starting point is 00:21:24 through and through. Even from the time you were young and you were selling bubble gum packets. But here you are now and you run that commander and several different things. So what's the business advice? Well, yeah, I've always kind of had a night for trying to make money or figuring out ways. And my business advice probably is going to sound super counterproductive. What you would think I would say, and I've said this before to other groups of people,
Starting point is 00:21:48 and it's really to be content. And so, and I think people go, what? Like, that's terrible advice. You gotta push, you gotta drive. And I'm like, no, believe me, I've been around every kind of person who pushes and drives and some are wealthy, some are not.
Starting point is 00:22:07 No matter where you are, you have to be content. Now that does not make up for hard work. I'm going to work as hard as anyone else on whatever that job is. No matter what you're doing, if you're not content and you're sitting there warning something you don't have or warning more or warning, you warning, I think it'll just drive you crazy, and you'll look up and realize you spent so much of your life pushing for some, you don't even know why you wanted to meet it in first place.
Starting point is 00:22:32 And so one thing I learned from my dad, which was he was so content, like we made nothing, we were poor and all that. But today where I sit, I'm so glad I had that experience, which is nothing with parenting, like you guys didn't grow up like I did. And so, but man, I appreciate having to fight for something and want something. You had to work. It was the question.
Starting point is 00:22:53 I was like, I don't think I'll just not do anything and chill out and watch TV. And that wasn't an option. It was like, if you want stuff, you have to go where? When I give you anything, you got to go do it. And so that was understood, but I understood that contentment. So you could run into a guy who makes $100,000 a year. He's not content. Cause he feels like he should be making three.
Starting point is 00:23:13 You could run into a person who makes $25,000 a year, they're not content. You know, if you're content with whatever you have, and so if it's a little of it's a lot, I've had the beauty in my life of living with very little. I've had to be in my life even as an adult where I didn't have a lot of money. Everything had to be thought about.
Starting point is 00:23:33 Mom and I, when we first got married, we would just have a knockdown dragout fight over. I wanted to buy some comic book or something. I was so stupid, I can't even remember what it was. And she wanted about like ice cream, and I which I thought was just a terrible way to spend money. And so like $4 is not down. Drag out fight. But now I see the beauty in that of being able to live my life in those situations to where now obviously I
Starting point is 00:23:55 have a lot more. And it's where you can tent. And so really I don't think about money. I know this. It was fun making money for sure, but it's super fun. Give it away. So I love giving it. sure, but it's super fun, give it a way. So I love giving it a thing. Yeah, I just love it. I'm not sure. I think about it. It's right back to get.
Starting point is 00:24:11 And so, man, when I can help something or some person, when I can say I can afford to do that, if you want to push yourselves to be like that and have what I have, then, yeah, you're going to have to work a lot. You're not, you know, it's always time and money. There's very few people I know who have time and money. So you need to figure out what you want more of.
Starting point is 00:24:30 If you want more time, then you probably won't make as much money. If you want more money, believe me, you're not gonna have as much time. And so I find that people go like, well, I want them both. Well, you don't have them. What I want to do, the reason I really push
Starting point is 00:24:44 because I didn't want to be so old to how I was like, I finally got everything I wanted. Now the time and now I can't walk, you know. So somebody helped me over to get to where I wanted to. I wanted to do it young, where I was still young enough to where I felt like I could enjoy it and then give some away and have that. And such good advice.
Starting point is 00:25:01 And honestly, that's taught me a lot. I've watched you and mom just stay content and the good times, the bad times, times and each and different season of our life because even our life like I feel like we grew up a little bit different than how even little after or after. Oh for sure. No, you know, you're just seeing that especially Jean-Luc and I has been really cool because as kids we never saw you all acting different when we got more or when we had less. There was a contentment throughout the whole thing. That's really the same thing.
Starting point is 00:25:27 The space may be bigger, but it's the same thing happening in the space or the same. It's really those same things. And now my new job is awesome. I love this job. Yeah, please tell me your new job. Because I'm a volunteer in Camp Chioca. I'm actually a teller by John Luke's chief maintenance guy, which means I have to pay for everything too, so because I'm also a donor. But I love being a volunteer because I can't get fired. I know there's no way they can say,
Starting point is 00:25:56 look, you're out of here, you know. And one, I'm just really getting after it. So, you know, I may be a little obsessive, but it's, I mean, I work till dark, you know, every day, mom knows I'll be home at dark, which does make the food a challenge. It's true. Because then I have to cook. So the meals are late, and I'm like, well, if you want me to cook, it may be 9 o'clock.
Starting point is 00:26:15 I'm trying to determine how long it will take me, or any human being, not just me, because I'll cheat and get some other people to help, but I want to pick up every piece of dead wood on a hundred acres of property. Every piece of dead can't shoot. Yeah, every tree that's falling, everything. So my dream is to walk and there be no piece of dead wood. So I told John Ligg and I said, then if I accomplish this, we may be like really old people.
Starting point is 00:26:43 He may be my age and I may be like in a little hover around scooters Going around there with my little stick grabber. I have a custom like stick grabber It's awesome and I went through tons of them, but yeah, I just love it. I love being outside and really just love not having to do other things But I'm gonna do other things. Yeah, I'm in a season of volunteering, but I still we run the biz. I mean, I still have a lot of you You really did produce so many waters is hilarious like you're still doing so much and you're still going so much Enough to be in the public eye where people will say oh, I see our dad in Washington, D.C. Or I saw your dad here There and he's all these cool places and they say so what's he doing nowadays? I'll say I was actually volunteering at Camps you picking up stuff and like, oh, because you do
Starting point is 00:27:27 so many different things and I love it. But we did have a show for a little while and you were a celebrity and you are a celebrity and you are recognized by a lot of people. And so I want to ask you some celebrity advice. For me, I'm just going to go and shout you out because for everybody on the show, I try to say something I really learned from them.
Starting point is 00:27:42 A piece of advice that I learned from them. And for you, like, I've watched you, you're really, really good at being yourself. And like for me, you kind of spoke over me to be like the original. That's where the whole thing came from. I really encourage us, like stick to who we are, be true to who we are, stick to what we believe, don't be one foot in one foot out, go all the way. And I've just watched you really stick to who you are. I mean, I know that's been a heart and it's been a challenge, but for me watching you walk through that
Starting point is 00:28:11 in the celebrity spotlight, whenever it was really honest, helped me really walk that out and be like, okay, well, nobody else is changing who they are, especially the adults around me. So like, why would we go crazy and change who we are? And I watched that benefit for your life. But what's something you'd say to people walking into life change like being a celebrity or something you want people to understand about it? Right. Yeah. Well, one else it's really hard. And, uh, who, you know, people come and say,
Starting point is 00:28:36 oh, I want to do a TV show. And usually my initial response is, you know, you don't like, it's really hard. You don't, you know, To keep it all together and to keep yourself sane and to not get that big head, I think all the other advice that I've mentioned probably goes into that, which is give more than you take, all these things. I think celebrity is so tough. For us, what helped a lot was, there was a bunch of us together at the same time. So really, your whole family kind of became famous, which was helpful. Most celebrities I know is just one person. It's the one, you know, singers, the one athlete, it's the one actor,
Starting point is 00:29:10 whatever. And so what happens is everybody just kind of gravitates around the one person. They usually hire everyone they know, you know, their family. And then they become like the little G God, you know. And so then that's a that's a scary place to be in because man, if you get off there, no one's there to say, hey, you're off. You're off. Celebrities, I feel like it's really just a bigger version of what you are when you come to it. And so, if you're just a terrible person and you're selfish and, you know, I'm trying to use all the correct words that I can say, you know, as far as a person, and then you become
Starting point is 00:29:43 famous, you're just a bigger worse version of that who has money now, have fame. And so I've typically found whatever you brought to the game that usually, in most cases, you're just a bigger version of that. And so going back to when we didn't have much, and, you know, it's the same type of deal. But I was committed to saying, hey, man, I found that that was more attractive. Say, it was like, it's more attractive like I found, you know, the true nature over our show, if you could bowl it down to something, there's really an authenticity there. You know, it's like, man, these people were, you know, they really are like this. And so I would hope that people would come around with me. And I've had people say that thousands of times, you know, you're that thousands of times. Yeah, I should have said,
Starting point is 00:30:25 I'm regular guy. Yeah, I'm just regular guy. You're at the grocery store. What are you doing here? I'm like, well, I gotta eat. When people said to me, it's so funny. I thought you would hire somebody to buy your family. No, I don't trust anybody to go pick my food.
Starting point is 00:30:37 Yeah, I gotta pick up the fruit and all that. And so it's tough. I mean, living in the fishbow, I definitely see the downfalls. And so luckily for us, we were able to, you know, which I think God had a plan for us and our lives and what we could expose, use our platform. You're a great case of that.
Starting point is 00:30:54 But we did get a little bit of the spotlight. You know, we had some smaller shows. And so it was coming, it was building. I felt like we were prepared more for that. So people just drop into it and you're just zero to hero, you know, man, it can be, you know, it can be tough. For sure. Well, I definitely learned a lot from you, a mom in that season, because that was certainly crazy and a lot of hard things, but a lot of really good things came, I think, even for growing in who we all were.
Starting point is 00:31:19 So you kind of talked about this authenticity was like the number one thing of our show. I think when you blow it down, people say that all the time. And y'all are so authentic. We all work to our faith, really. And it's really funny because people all the time are like, so what made you all decide to really like, bring your faith into it? And I was like,
Starting point is 00:31:35 I mean, we just are Christians and our faith is really important, so just blood through. And I just wanted to kind of mention this because I've watched you do this in every part of your life It's not just TV like when you're like, oh now we have a show. Let's talk about Jesus You always talk about Jesus when people come over to our house to have dinner. They don't know the Lord I will watch you bring them to the couch and so natural like you're just talking and then faith comes out
Starting point is 00:31:59 Somehow and they want to know more and you open up your Bible and you turn to certain things and it's just really powerful And so I really just want to give advice other people as your daughter to say, like if it is who you are, if you love Jesus, if you are a faithful person, bring it into everything that you are, and that is so good about just so naturally being himself in those moments. If you have any advice on that, you can give it.
Starting point is 00:32:21 But really, I just think it's really impressive how naturally flow into conversation. Is this where we move into the next podcast? Because this might be, yeah. No, I was worried to go to the next one. The faith part is, well, I'll give you some short, simple things. One is I'm not, I'm not as inspired by people who say,
Starting point is 00:32:39 well, I just keep my faith to myself and I don't really talk about it. And so I'd probably not think as how we have that person if they were like that about their spouse, like, no, I don't really talk about it. And so I'd probably not think as highly of that person if they were like that about their spouse, like, no, I don't ever mention my spouse. I don't wanna talk about that person. You know, you'll never hear me mention that person. And when that relationship's real, when it's on fire,
Starting point is 00:32:56 and the Bible does that to it, it likens it to a marriage, you know. I probably can't go five minutes without mention. Oh, I was telling Cory that day, you know, because it comes up because that's in my life. And that's what is important to me. So the idea of just keeping it like in a little treasure chest. And so we'll open that up only privately. It's fine. If people want to do it, that's totally fine. For me, man, I find that, you know, what's in you starts pouring out of you. And so my best advice on bringing faith up to people is number one to listen.
Starting point is 00:33:26 It's not to talk, it's to listen. It's good. And when you listen, it's amazing. If you talk someone long enough, you will hear something. If they don't have a faith or they're misunderstood or whatever, you'll hear something come out that you're like, ah, maybe that's the thing right there that we can go off that. You know, maybe has to do a death or sickness or fear or you know, just hear something and be like,
Starting point is 00:33:47 ah, and so we dig deeper in that. And so most of the time it's not this just, you know, we're you out with the Lord today. Yeah. And that's weird. I mean, that's, yeah, I saw John, people weird, I'm John, they be like, I'm gonna be a weirdo.
Starting point is 00:33:59 But if I hear somebody say, man, oh my wife draws me crazy, I just don't even know if I can, you know, how do you owe my kids or whatever it is or I'm scared of death, I may die or whatever that is. And so, man, I found something that has an answer for everything. Like it has all the answers. Even the little girl I mentioned earlier
Starting point is 00:34:18 who she actually passed away that same week. And so I'm so excited that, man, we have a God and we have a book that there's a hope. There's something, you know, I just got back from the Congo. You're over there and you're like, if that's all life for some of the people, if that's all it has to offer, man, what a bad draw. You know, you just like really? So what excites me about bringing that passion to the Lord with people in America, people who do have stuff, one of my favorite ones are the people who have everything, you know, or think they have everything.
Starting point is 00:34:48 And so trying to crack that person, and so, man, I will go just over know with them, just trying to figure out what can I say? You know, who is a positive thing? I'll pray that the words that come out of my mouth, you know, can have this. And so, what happens is, then you become become that person so people will naturally bring people to you It's a beautiful thing just like the food just like it's like oh dad's cooking
Starting point is 00:35:12 Let's go with the same way with stuff about the Bible so when someone's Misunderstood they go oh well, let's go ask Willie cuz man. He helped me out this time And so then you get even more opportunities to help people because, and you'll hear all kind of stuff. And there's sometimes I'm going, whoa, I don't know what to say. But usually I can say, all right, let's break this down. Let's go study some more of the five say, let's keep this conversation out.
Starting point is 00:35:38 Let's keep this going. And no matter what, and I've learned this over the years, I don't have to at the end win. Like I'm like, boom, they came to the Lord and they had this big thing. No, it may last a year, it could last years, it could last a lifetime of just somebody watching you. But I always tell you,
Starting point is 00:35:53 your life has to be that harbor because somebody may be going through the worst thing ever, terrible and they may come back to you years later going, there's one person I know. And I don't want to come back to me and me going, oh, I'm screwed up, I'm more screwed up than you are. So, you know, that's what I find in the Lord. And do not hold yourself back and think,
Starting point is 00:36:16 and well, when I get it all figured out, I'll be that person because acts one and two and at the end of the gospel's Peter, who you spoke about, race land, I've spoke that a ton of times man this guy falls flat on his face did not know and God and is at the point where it'd be like You need to take 10 years off where you can ever say another word because you just denied this whole thing And it was in my Bible I turn the page and there he is he gets up and says Hey, let me get up and preach the first sermon now. And so for people who say,
Starting point is 00:36:47 Oh man, you just don't know how bad I've been. Well, perfect. The apostle Paul, the next chapter from Stoning, Stephen now calls up saying, I'm gonna to the point where everybody was scared to death of him. So for us to say, whoa, I'm just not the guy, you know, I'm reading about people who did far worse
Starting point is 00:37:04 things and they get right up. And I'm not saying that, but giving you a license just to go, San, I'm giving you a license to live in Jesus and say, there's no time for, there's no like, well, how long does it take before I can, you know, get back, go and ever to where I can do something bold, you know. And so that's why I don't, you know, if someone's really bad in San, I'm like, man, we need you on our team because you could be really powerful for God. You know that? So all that, all that mobs you had for sand.
Starting point is 00:37:29 Let's turn it something good. That's so true. I love it. Man, I guess he's so stoked. And I'm watching you do it with so many people and walk through it with so many people and including myself and including all of my siblings. And so that's awesome.
Starting point is 00:37:41 And it's gonna encourage so many people. Some people are probably in their car like responding right now. They're like, okay, let's turn the page in my life. You know, with that Kanye West. I was gonna say was our family not like. I push myself. I remember watching him and I was like, whoa,
Starting point is 00:37:55 because he was doing a lot of the same things we were. You know, with interviews and stuff and I was like, man, that just emboldened me. I'm like, I gotta turn it up a notch. You know, Kanye is out there. He went. But that's the nature of Christianity. I got to turn it up a notch. You know, Kanye is out there. He went. But that's the nature of Christianity. Like you get encouraged by other,
Starting point is 00:38:08 I don't know Kanye West or anything about him. All I know is when I was hearing him say, how I'm doing this for Jesus, I got to album, you know, Jesus is king. And so I'm like, it may be even more bold, you know, even in the public eye going, hey, I'll tell you, I don't care. And people are like, how can that be?
Starting point is 00:38:24 And it's like, well, that is the gospel look at Peter like a poll Look at all these people it it isn't crazy that that's what his response was to the gospel because that is the response to the gospel It changes everything about you. So it's amazing So last thing I want to ask you and this is kind of a funny question But people ask me this all the time. I say city. How do you deal with haters? How do you deal with the haters on Instagram, social media, being a celebrity, all this different stuff? And it's one thing to ask a 22 year old girl.
Starting point is 00:38:50 And I know a lot of people might not think to ask a man, a father, and people probably don't even think it would bother someone like you, but people are straight up rude. And so, one, do you have haters to how do you deal with the haters? Oh Of course I have haters that haters and everything and this is one I have to be careful because I can probably get Quasas sinful over this because you know, I'm like oh really you want to like I will just take you apart I will make you feel so small and I will make fun of you and it'll be funny
Starting point is 00:39:25 and I have a way here platform and you know, I will just beat you to death and so, but that's back to the nature of Christianity where we're not like that. Where those are people, so it's all people. We can't just separate the people and all that. But I will say this, I could care less. Like I literally could care less about someone who says,
Starting point is 00:39:44 I'm a hater or I don't read comments on social media very soon after the shot I don't read the you know, I don't get my little up from it, you know, go look at me people like, you know, because of some I was going to say something but one did slip through and I never forget it was a tweet and it said two Willie Robertson You're very existence makes me sad. How awesome is that? So I didn't even know what to apologize for, like, for existing. Like, I mean, I don't have a slide. Wow, you know, that's a big time.
Starting point is 00:40:17 There's somebody actually thought about that, you know, my very existence. So I really don't care. You know, mom always says that she says, you are so funny because if you disagree with me, then basically I'll just think you're stupid. I'll be like, well, you're stupid. And so I'm right. You're stupid. So that's that's how I can deal with that. If you don't think what I'm thinking, right? But I love having talks with people, but I just don't think social media is the best venue for them.
Starting point is 00:40:45 I mean, I will sit down and talk with literally anyone, people that I disagree with, people that certainly disagree with me. It's okay. I'm going to walk away and say it's fine, but I would love to talk to them. I'd love to find some kind of common out. Well, we can agree that we're both human. We both have noses. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:41:02 Let's agree on something that we can. I try to see the best in people, but just straight up haters at some point, you just gotta say, look, I could care less. You gotta care less, man. I'm doing the stuff I want to do. I have the family I want to have. I have this and so I'm not going to let you.
Starting point is 00:41:17 And just because you can have some sort of access to me through the internet or whatever it is, now you're not getting through. You won't be talked about as my staff knows that do not bring me all that stuff. We will not let 100 comments and 99 of them, not even get mentioned and one, we get talked about. I'm like, no, I'm not giving you that right.
Starting point is 00:41:36 It's like myself on that, just because you have a number, it doesn't mean I'm gonna answer when you call me. Like, no, I don't wanna talk right now. So, if we let everybody just say, oh, the minute you need me, you know, then we'll be so distracted. And so, and that's what it does. It distracts people.
Starting point is 00:41:50 People that are reading that all the time, it's so distracting. And so I just, you want to talk about losing my mind, is that thing where you're talking to someone and they're looking down at the phone the whole time and I just want to take it and smash it up because the wall, I'm saying, man, let's, and maybe I'm old whole time and I just want to take it and smash it up because the wants it man Let's and maybe I'm old school, but I just hate that I just hate out, you know and watching you guys like the kids just like
Starting point is 00:42:12 Holy moly. What is going on? You know, and so I'm so thankful that we didn't have those phones because you can your whole self Emory if you read that stuff. I mean They say so ugly ugly stuff there and. I'm like, I ain't letting some gassin and gris-conson like ruin my day. Are you kidding me? I love his constant. But I mean, any, you know what I'm saying? Like, you don't get the right to try to, because you're going to high-factor bag. Oh boy, you know, I made somebody cry or whatever. I mean, good grief. Very grief. That's such good advice. I don't care if you are 22, 15, if you're a girl,
Starting point is 00:42:46 a guy, an older, I don't care. Like everybody take that advice. And I think sometimes you don't realize that you actually can take that advice. You know, like you can put down the phone, you can't delete that. You don't have to read on the phone. And I'm not into a cell phone, by the way.
Starting point is 00:42:58 The cell phone is bringing the gospel to place. For sure. For me and you start today, we would never make it there. So it can be a positive. All these recipes I research on the internet. Oh, in the cell phone. Yeah, so it's not the cell phone.
Starting point is 00:43:11 It's just being able to handle that thing, not getting so caught up in the negative things like that. And other obviously things that you can get caught up in on a cell phone, but they can be positive. Who you're allowed to speak into your life. Yeah, speaking into my life. That's good. I don't even know me. How speak in the mouth. You don't even know me. How would you even know?
Starting point is 00:43:26 You don't even know who I am. You know what I'm saying? You've seen a version of me or you think you know me, but you don't. Yeah. Well dad, you crushed it. I mean, so much good advice. People are going to have to listen to this like three times
Starting point is 00:43:37 and get a notebook. So thank you for all the wonderful advice. Thanks for being a great dad and a great friend. You're the best. Thanks for asking me, love you, and let's go with asking me to love you and let's go eat some lobster. Love you, let's go eat some lobster. Alright, fam, are you ready for some good and bad advice? We ready, we ready, we ready.
Starting point is 00:44:01 What's your advice, babe? Brought to you by Christian Huff and Sadie Robhuff in our house. Christian, I think I'm gonna throw you for a loop today. Let me for a loop today. Okay, so whenever I was reading through the good and bad advice, somebody like through in there, which by the way, thank you for sending in.
Starting point is 00:44:18 As always, we get our good and bad advice from the Boy That's Good podcast Instagram. But somebody said, what do you think about streaks, like Snapchat streaks? Which today I'm going to think about, why don't we just kind of talk about some different aspects of social media and give some advice on each different one? Is that sound good?
Starting point is 00:44:35 That's good, that's good, yeah. Okay, what do you think about Snapchat and the whole streak thing and all that? So personally, I really dislike Snapchat. I think that for something to be created to target what the people were wanting to target it for creating it, I don't think that it was a good cause. I just don't think it's good. I think that you can communicate in other ways. I think that some of the ads on Snapchat are very provoking, very bad, very just not beneficial for you to see. And I think that a lot of times,
Starting point is 00:45:05 I think people do get caught up like you said with the streaks. I've known people that like the streaks are like the most important thing and their life's had to speak. And I would hate you to literally idolize Snapchat and idolize your Snapchat streak. And yeah, I don't like Snapchat. Yeah, I mean, in Christian, we kind of bonded on that. I started dating because neither of us light Snapchat.
Starting point is 00:45:24 And it's not like we're like, oh, Snapchat is the woat. It's just like Snapchat, just, it's not been official for the most part. I mean, I'm sure you can use it and it'd be okay and you do it in a healthy way. But for both of us personally, we just have not experienced like a good thing
Starting point is 00:45:44 for our life, our mind, our heart, our body, through Snapchat. I mean, if somebody sends a picture that's meant to be like unseen a few seconds later, it's just not a really good set up for teenagers or young adults. And then also the ads they put on, even if you weren't doing something bad, it's just super, I don't know, I think it could just definitely take you down the bad road. Okay, what do you think about Instagram? I like Instagram. I think Instagram is different as Snapchat
Starting point is 00:46:10 in the way of, I think that Instagram is a great outreach for people. It's really connecting just the world through, just getting to see a part of your life. I know that we have had some moments with Instagram where we've had to delete it just because there are times where you can maybe feel like you're on it too much. I think you should set a timeline for Instagram for the day. That way you're not spending too much time on it and filling
Starting point is 00:46:31 your mind on it. But I think that there are many beneficial things. I think that you can spread the gospel on Instagram. I think that you can be encouraging and uplifting to people on Instagram. But I know that there are also negative sides that you can compare yourself to others and that you can be insecure or that you can strive for likes on a post or that you can ... It totally is what you make it. That's a beautiful thing about Instagram. I mean, it's who you follow is what you're going to see.
Starting point is 00:46:55 It's what you post is what your page is going to look like. So you can be as encouraging. You can be a light on Instagram or you can cave in and be like everybody else and start comparing and start getting insecure and be like everybody else and start comparing and start getting insecure and stuff like that and to fight against that, I think you have to limit your time and be protective of who you follow and how much you're looking at something. But I think Instagram can be used for the best.
Starting point is 00:47:18 So you think it can definitely be huge outlet and I've seen that in my own life. Okay, what about Twitter? I don't really know much about Twitter. I don't really know. Yeah, I'll do Twitter. I'll say Twitter can be hateful. But again, just like Instagram, it is what you make it. I mean, it's what you post and it's who you follow
Starting point is 00:47:38 and it's what you allow yourself to see. So it's all of these things. Social media is like meant to connect you to other people, right? So if we're not really authentically being ourselves or we're not It like being a good friend and it's not gonna do it's a original purpose to connect you to other people It's just going to put you in harm's way and so I think if you if you be a friend if you reach out If you post encouraging things if you follow encouraging people It's gonna be an encouraging place for you If you follow all of these accounts that are funny but hateful, then it's going
Starting point is 00:48:07 to be something that probably hurts you. It's always funny when somebody else until it's you. It's not so funny anymore. Yeah. All right. What about Facebook? Okay. So I don't have Facebook either. But I'm really funny to interview. I can't also. I don't have anything on social media. I have a 15 minute time on Instagram. This literally all I do But Facebook it's kind of like what you said you can make it what you want to be is it was really cool last week
Starting point is 00:48:31 We were in Haiti and There was this guy that we met and he said that his dad was passing away and his dad said that he had two stepbrothers that he had never known about and His dad told them his stepbrothers names and he literally just like them up on Facebook and he met up with them in Haiti. So I think that's definitely a cool face. I said that Snapchat was like, it's not the world it kind of is. So the world being worse of all time. I think I personally think Snapchat is of all social media. I think Facebook's a go.
Starting point is 00:49:00 Like I love Facebook. Because it's really your friends and family, you know, and then like it's encouraging, inspiring videos and stuff like that. I love Facebook. I think it's awesome. I know it's like old school, whatever. I don't get on to that much to be honest, but I love it whenever I do. It's like just very authentic. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:16 Okay. What about TikTok? TikTok. Maybe. TikTok on the cook in it. That's kind of controversial. I feel like for me, TikTok is an app-chet or a toss-up. I really don't like TikTok either.
Starting point is 00:49:30 I just don't like dancing. I don't like the whole- Because she would not be good at TikTok. No, I don't know. I'm just not- I'm not in TikTok. If you're a 13. No, I mean, yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:44 But I would totally love it. But at the same time, like, I know I'd spend too much time on it because it would tell me forever. And the only downplayed to talk is how, like, it just keeps playing other videos so you don't really know what's going to pop up next. So that's why I haven't gotten ticked out yet. Because here's the thing, y'all. We have to protect what we see.
Starting point is 00:50:01 We have to protect what we get in our heart. It's a protect our mind. It's very important because we don't protect it. And then we wonder why we're comparing ourselves to everybody. Why we're so afraid while we're addicted to certain things. And it's like, well, maybe it's because that's what we're filling ourselves with. And so with all the things social media, be careful, protect what you're seeing, protect what you're looking into, protect what you're searching, but also be the example that you want to see on social media, be a light, be a friend,
Starting point is 00:50:29 build your community, and be authenticated to who you really are. And that way you won't have to feel the need to hide because you just are who you are. You don't have to fear somebody who will see you and think less of you because you presented yourself in a certain way. Social media can be a great tool,
Starting point is 00:50:42 but it's all about how you use it. That's good. Wow. That's good. Thank you so much for listening to the WoW That's Good Podcast. I have so much been doing this. I hope you'll have fun listening and don't forget to follow me on Instagram at legitcityrob and follow the podcast at WoW that's good podcast. I don't know where to live original.com to see when I'm in a city near you or visit live original blog on our online store which carries my exclusive words by city rob line. Also be sure to subscribe to my podcast and leave comments so we can hear what
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