Speaker 1: What is that? Sounded weird? I don't know how's that go? When?
Speaker 1: How's everybody to win me? Okay? You know, I mean
Speaker 1: l A, it's like eighty five degrees here, it's like May.
Speaker 1: Everyone's like, we're moving out of California. We're going to
Speaker 1: Texas where there's no state taxes, which dude, I get.
Speaker 1: I used to live in Nashville. No state taxes, great,
Speaker 1: but eighty five and January? Is that where my money
Speaker 1: is going? Is that where where state taxes going? California?
Speaker 1: They go to the thermostat outside because totally worth it.
Speaker 1: Played golf aesterday with my brother and his buddy, and
Speaker 1: his buddy was hitting out of the sand trap out
Speaker 1: of bunka and he hit me right in the titty,
Speaker 1: right below the titty, but just in the ribs. And
Speaker 1: then they proceeded to beat us in the game that
Speaker 1: we were playing, and I owed him in twenty bucks,
Speaker 1: so effectively I lost twenty dollars and I got smacked
Speaker 1: the titty, So to lose lose A lot going on
Speaker 1: in the world right now, right, nothing going on a politics, right,
Speaker 1: That's that's smooth cool? Yeah? What else? Oh? Bachelor news? Victoria?
Speaker 1: She seems like a spark plug. Dug shake also Army
Speaker 1: Hammer gonna stay away from that story because what okay,
Speaker 1: should we just do it? All right? Do it? This
Speaker 1: is the Wells Cast with Wells Adams and I heart
Speaker 1: radio podcast. You want this thing to the Wells Cast,
Speaker 1: like I should change the end of the show. Just
Speaker 1: not creative whatsoever. Honestly, I didn't think it was gonna
Speaker 1: last this long. Once Steph kind of bailed out, I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, I give it like four weeks,
Speaker 1: like a solid month, and then people are gonna be like,
Speaker 1: I don't care about this any But that is not
Speaker 1: the case. So thanks for caring about it for this song.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about today's episode, I tell you that much.
Speaker 1: It's a little annoying to have people who are like
Speaker 1: under the age that have done a lot more than
Speaker 1: I don't know me in their career in a much
Speaker 1: shorter period of time. It's like, okay, let me get
Speaker 1: it found the brakes. But to be honest with you, uh,
Speaker 1: that's more of an indictment on my laziness and less
Speaker 1: of one on their ambition, albeit an ambitious ambition. I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: This young lady has literally done it all, starting hit
Speaker 1: reality TV show, Check competed on Dancing with Stars, Check
Speaker 1: Rhode New York Times bestseller Check preached in front of
Speaker 1: over seven hundred thousand viewers on the New Faithful App.
Speaker 1: Uh check literally done everything you know her from Duck Dynasty.
Speaker 1: Cannot wait to sit down and talk to the one,
Speaker 1: the only, Sadie robertson this is one episode. Guys, you
Speaker 1: are not gonna want to miss al right back in
Speaker 1: the wells Gass very excited to have the star of
Speaker 1: Duck Dynasty, Dancing with the Stars and the New Faithful
Speaker 1: App Sadie Robinson on the show. How are you doing good?
Speaker 1: Thanks for asking? How are you? You know? I'm making
Speaker 1: it stay seven thousand, eight hundred and twenty seven of
Speaker 1: the Quarantine. I haven't changed sweats in over a month.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna make it through. We're gonna make it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna make it. So. You've got a lot going
Speaker 1: on right now, Yeah, a little bit, a little bit.
Speaker 1: Things have been a little crazy, but all good things,
Speaker 1: all good things. Let's start with personal life. Congratulations you're expecting, Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you. We're so excited. I know it's like time's
Speaker 1: going by really fast. All this sudden, Well that's probably
Speaker 1: a good thing. You want these nine months to go
Speaker 1: by as quickly as humanly possible, I would assume it is.
Speaker 1: I know, you just start getting bigger and bigger and bigger,
Speaker 1: and you're like, okay, yeah, it's okay, this just starts
Speaker 1: freezing by. But it's it's the best thing ever. It's
Speaker 1: honestly magical, Like we're just starting to feel her start
Speaker 1: moving and so it's really a fun a fun part
Speaker 1: of life. You said her, So you know what you're having. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's a girl. Um, she's definitely gonna melt my husband's heart.
Speaker 1: So that's a sweet thing. We were so excited. Did
Speaker 1: you have a crazy gender reveal party? We did? We did.
Speaker 1: We were those people, but it was so fun. We
Speaker 1: did um paint guns and we did like pink paint,
Speaker 1: but we didn't know what it was of course, Like
Speaker 1: we had one of our friends do it all and
Speaker 1: so you know, they started squirting the pink paint all
Speaker 1: over us and we were just like shocked. So we
Speaker 1: were covered in paint. It was a blast. I mean, obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, the only thing you care about is to
Speaker 1: have a healthy child. But were you guys leaning one
Speaker 1: way or the other on what gender you wanted. We
Speaker 1: really weren't. We were totally like, whatever God has for us,
Speaker 1: weird be so excited. We just want a healthy baby. Obviously.
Speaker 1: I just had a feeling it was a boy, though
Speaker 1: I didn't like necessarily care one way that. I just
Speaker 1: thought it was so when they started shooting pink paint,
Speaker 1: I was like, shook, it was so funny. Your poor
Speaker 1: husband's in for it because I feel like, I know,
Speaker 1: you know, like I'm sure, yes, you're right, Like she'll
Speaker 1: she'll melt his heart in the beginning, but then she's
Speaker 1: gonna give him a freaking ulcer. Come age eighteen, trust me,
Speaker 1: I know, and we have so to me. And then
Speaker 1: we have a little dog, who is the most proof
Speaker 1: for a little girl dog. And then we're now we're
Speaker 1: having a girl, and he's like, whoa, what just happened?
Speaker 1: So outnumber real quick talk about the Instagram post where
Speaker 1: you paid homage to your parents. I thought that was
Speaker 1: kind of cool. Yeah, we did. So my mom and
Speaker 1: dad took a picture of their seventeen week old baby bump,
Speaker 1: you know, back in the day, and since then, my
Speaker 1: sister did, my brother and his wife did and now
Speaker 1: we did at seventeen weeks and so we posted it
Speaker 1: and I already went crazy because it's just so cool
Speaker 1: to see, you know, back in the day and now.
Speaker 1: And we tried to do a little vin to it.
Speaker 1: But now my mom has all of our pictures framed
Speaker 1: at the house. So you had it for Christmas. She
Speaker 1: was really excited. You nailed the like wardrobe, was that
Speaker 1: like the original clothes from your parents? No, I just
Speaker 1: found that online. But Christian was like, did not have
Speaker 1: any Hawaiian start, so we did borrow from my dad.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we we nailed it. We nailed it. Tell
Speaker 1: me about the Faithful App. So Faithful App is a
Speaker 1: new app out. It's so cool, especially if you watch
Speaker 1: sermons online because basically it's taking the faith based to
Speaker 1: an app on a really high cool level. So um
Speaker 1: tons of speakers pastors who are sharing motivational messages or
Speaker 1: sermons on the app, and you can actually go watch
Speaker 1: the sermons for free, or you can get a subscription
Speaker 1: to get a whole lot more stuff. But it's so cool.
Speaker 1: So a lot of people say, you know, I want
Speaker 1: to spend time with God, but I don't have time
Speaker 1: or I don't know how, and this is like the
Speaker 1: perfect way to do it because it's through an app.
Speaker 1: It's fun and it's easy, but it's also effective and
Speaker 1: like truly a good time sim with the Lord. So
Speaker 1: I have a personal original content coming on the app
Speaker 1: as well, starting in February. Uh, and I'm loving it.
Speaker 1: It's so cool. I mean, it's a good idea, especially
Speaker 1: these days when a lot of people are scared to
Speaker 1: congregate and you know, in large groups at church, you know,
Speaker 1: this is a good way to still get your daily
Speaker 1: dose to God, I suppose, and you know, not for
Speaker 1: yourself in danger. You know, I was looking at your
Speaker 1: Instagram and like I think your most recent post or yeah,
Speaker 1: one of your most recent posts, you're up there like
Speaker 1: straight up doing like a sermon. When did you decide
Speaker 1: to start being in this public order? That seems like
Speaker 1: that would be the most terrifying thing in the world.
Speaker 1: Trus me, It did actually terrifying me that I would
Speaker 1: have never thought I would do what I'm doing now,
Speaker 1: especially when I was young, Like I was the person
Speaker 1: that if like, you know, we're at school and I
Speaker 1: see that it's like a popcorn reading situation, and I
Speaker 1: knew I was getting called on I would be like
Speaker 1: having anxiety, so I never thought i'd be doing this.
Speaker 1: But actually, um, so, you know, my family had a
Speaker 1: TV show, Doug Dynasty, and then I was on Dance
Speaker 1: with the Stars, and so I kind of grew this
Speaker 1: level of fame, if you will, and I just didn't
Speaker 1: really know what to do with that. I was like, God,
Speaker 1: this is this is cool, but it's like I don't
Speaker 1: really know what to do with this. And look at,
Speaker 1: you know, what other famous people do, and I didn't
Speaker 1: know if that was necessarily what I was feeling called
Speaker 1: to do or what I really wanted to do. And so, um,
Speaker 1: I actually ended up going to a church event kind
Speaker 1: of in this time of like praying through some things
Speaker 1: that I saw this woman get up there and she
Speaker 1: just preached and like everything she said was so inspiring
Speaker 1: and just the way she said it was so much confidence.
Speaker 1: And I remember looking at her and saying like, I
Speaker 1: think I want to do that because I want to
Speaker 1: say words that matter and I wanna influence people for
Speaker 1: the better. And so I just kind of started to
Speaker 1: sharing messages here and there, and now it's been about
Speaker 1: four years of just pre shoeing it different different places,
Speaker 1: different spaces, and just saying people, just younger people being
Speaker 1: encouraged and inspired, UM to dive into God's word and
Speaker 1: all that God has for them. So I I love
Speaker 1: what I get to do. And that was actually at
Speaker 1: the Passion event which Christian and I'm a husband are
Speaker 1: part of Passion and it's an event for eighteen to
Speaker 1: twenty five year olds. And this year was huge because
Speaker 1: it was online and we didn't know what was going
Speaker 1: to happen, you know, people were gonna come or watch
Speaker 1: or whatever. But we had over seven dred thousand people
Speaker 1: attend online and to start the new year. So you know,
Speaker 1: that's when I look at it and I say, God,
Speaker 1: now now all of this has purpose whenever we get
Speaker 1: to use it for the good. Um. And it's it's
Speaker 1: really cool, amazing, but also it's got to be extremely
Speaker 1: anxiety written. That's a lot of pressure to put on
Speaker 1: yourself day in and day out. Yeah, it is crazy,
Speaker 1: it is. Well, I think you know how to come
Speaker 1: to the point at one point in my life a
Speaker 1: few years ago when I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I think you have pressure when you try to be
Speaker 1: perfect or when you try to perform, and so I
Speaker 1: always try not to. I just try to be authentic
Speaker 1: and be who I am, where I'm at at all times.
Speaker 1: And you know what I found is that that's actually
Speaker 1: a lot more relatable when I'm inspiring to people, because
Speaker 1: when you give somebody a perfect image, they're like, what
Speaker 1: do I do with this? This isn't it real, this
Speaker 1: isn't me. And I think we do that a lot
Speaker 1: on social media. But when you give them your authenticity
Speaker 1: and who you are, people are like, Okay, that I
Speaker 1: can be. I can be friends with that, I can
Speaker 1: get behind that, I can learn from that because it's relatable.
Speaker 1: So once I took the pressure of myself to try
Speaker 1: to perform or be perfect or be this unrealistic expectation
Speaker 1: of who I could be, things got a lot less anxiety. Written.
Speaker 1: You've been in the spotlight in a lot of different avenues,
Speaker 1: right like starting out with duc Dynasty and being on
Speaker 1: a reality show, and then kind of doing this competition
Speaker 1: situation with Dancing with the Stars and now just getting
Speaker 1: in front of well, I guess seven thousand people. What
Speaker 1: do you like best of all those media outlets? What
Speaker 1: have you had the most fun doing? Definitely share messages,
Speaker 1: preaching your motivating people. I think just because you know
Speaker 1: there there are things in life that you get to
Speaker 1: do that are that are a good thing for you
Speaker 1: and that you have fun with. But then there are
Speaker 1: other things like you get to do for other people.
Speaker 1: And that's something that I see as a thing for
Speaker 1: other people. Like when you share a message and somebody
Speaker 1: comes up to you and says, I've been dealing with
Speaker 1: anxiety for four years, or I've been dealing with depression,
Speaker 1: or I have lost hope. But when you said that,
Speaker 1: it literally changed everything in my life, Like I started
Speaker 1: going back to church, or I started waking up happy,
Speaker 1: or I started this And you see this like actual
Speaker 1: shift in somebody's life because of something you spoken to them.
Speaker 1: And I know it's not me, I know it's God.
Speaker 1: But it's just an incredible thing to get to know
Speaker 1: that your words and your life has has meaning. And
Speaker 1: I think everybody has the opportunity that whether you have
Speaker 1: seven hundred thousand people watching our seven People at Home.
Speaker 1: Boa talks about how our words hold the power of
Speaker 1: life and death, so our words really matter. What we
Speaker 1: say is either going to build somebody up or it's
Speaker 1: going to tear some way down, and so for me,
Speaker 1: there's nothing like what I get to do now. Even though,
Speaker 1: of course Dancing to the Stars was so cool and
Speaker 1: it was so fun. It was a blast, um, but
Speaker 1: I was way more scared doing that than what I'm
Speaker 1: doing now. Who won your season? Alfonso Ribero, who is incredible.
Speaker 1: I love him, totally deserved to win. I came in second,
Speaker 1: and I told him from the beginning, I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to stay right behind you, and
Speaker 1: I think I'll be good, and I did. The whole
Speaker 1: way through. I was like, check, I don't think a
Speaker 1: guy that has his own dance named after him should
Speaker 1: be allowed to go on a show called Dancing with
Speaker 1: the Stars. I know it was a little bit of
Speaker 1: an unfair advantage. I think I won in my own heart,
Speaker 1: just because I came in second to him who has
Speaker 1: a dance saying after him. But it was really fun
Speaker 1: going back to like kind of being vulnerable and people
Speaker 1: really gravitating towards you being honest or just not being perfect.
Speaker 1: I know a couple of years back, you kind of
Speaker 1: opened up about eating disorders and your religious person. Is
Speaker 1: that something you have to prey on before you're able
Speaker 1: to become really, really vulnerable with millions of people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, for sure. You know, one of my mentors
Speaker 1: told me one time to wait until your story becomes
Speaker 1: a testimony to share it with people. And what she
Speaker 1: meant by that is that, you know, you can share
Speaker 1: your story with anybody. Everybody has a story. You can
Speaker 1: get on and you can say anything these days, and
Speaker 1: a lot of people do that. You know, I could
Speaker 1: get on un tell you all my life problems, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't really help me, or it really doesn't help
Speaker 1: anybody else, because now I'm just dumping a lot of
Speaker 1: my stuff that I really need to be talking to
Speaker 1: the people about actual life about. But then there becomes
Speaker 1: a point where you kind of read a testimony where
Speaker 1: you've come through something and you have advice to give
Speaker 1: because you live through it and it's hard and it's
Speaker 1: real and it's messy, and it's not something you feel
Speaker 1: proud to share about the same time you do because
Speaker 1: you know other people feel the same way and need to.
Speaker 1: You're somebody to say, hey, I was there, but I
Speaker 1: got through it, and you can't do. And so I
Speaker 1: think when you get to the point in your life
Speaker 1: where you've gone through something tough, and you know, this
Speaker 1: could be a value to share with somebody else, to
Speaker 1: say that you're seeing your known and you're gonna make
Speaker 1: it um. I think it's a gift to the world
Speaker 1: to be vulnerable in that way. But I think sometimes
Speaker 1: we do share things too soon because we want comfort
Speaker 1: from online, which you really shouldn't try to find your
Speaker 1: comfort in people online because they don't know you and
Speaker 1: they don't see age your heart well, you know, And
Speaker 1: so I think that there's wisdom and waiting until it's
Speaker 1: time to share something that is really personal to you.
Speaker 1: I'm always interested to talk to famous religious people about
Speaker 1: social media because there are amazing things that come with
Speaker 1: social media. All you had seven thousand people at that
Speaker 1: event you were talking about earlier, and probably wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been able to touch that many lives without that big
Speaker 1: of a following. But the Juxtas position in that is
Speaker 1: that there is like a lot of just evil and
Speaker 1: hate and trolls that come with social media. How are
Speaker 1: you able to balance it to Yeah, Well, the truth
Speaker 1: is is it's a it's a constant battle. You know.
Speaker 1: At there are days where I'm so frustrated with social
Speaker 1: media and I'm like, oh, it's so evil, too terrible.
Speaker 1: But then there every day that I that I know
Speaker 1: that there is also opportunity for good. And you have
Speaker 1: to know that social media is what we make it.
Speaker 1: So you know, you look at that and you're like, well,
Speaker 1: that's what we've made it. Like we the people who
Speaker 1: get to make our profile and choose what we post
Speaker 1: and choose who we follow, have made it the way
Speaker 1: that it is. So there's a huge responsibility to make
Speaker 1: it better because it is up to us to make
Speaker 1: it better. And you know, the Bible it talks about
Speaker 1: Jesus calls us to be the light of the world,
Speaker 1: to be like a city on a hill whose light
Speaker 1: gives off like light to the whole world. And so
Speaker 1: I think about that in a place that is so
Speaker 1: dark like that, literally is our calling to be a light,
Speaker 1: to be a good example, to bring joy in a
Speaker 1: place that normally brings hate, to bring love on a
Speaker 1: place that brings you know, hate, and just trolls and
Speaker 1: all this stuff, to bring peace to people in their
Speaker 1: day and whenever people are written with anxiety, and we
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to post stuff like that, And so
Speaker 1: there's a balance, you know, I've been thinking about this lately,
Speaker 1: just reading the Bible that you know, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people who become famous, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: hard to stay um in faith. There may be religion
Speaker 1: or close to God. I feel like a lot of
Speaker 1: people kind of fall. But when I've been reading, like
Speaker 1: Jesus actually himself was famous, Like he had crowd to people,
Speaker 1: he had people following him, he had people hating on him,
Speaker 1: He had all this stuff. And so when I don't
Speaker 1: know how to handle something like you really can turn
Speaker 1: to the Bible and see a perfect example of how
Speaker 1: to handle a troll or how to handle hey, or
Speaker 1: how to handle a massive crowd that you're like, do
Speaker 1: I ever actually get a load time? Um? So yeah.
Speaker 1: But one of the things Jesus did is he isolated
Speaker 1: himself after he did huge miracles or after he had
Speaker 1: a huge moment, or after he was with the crowd,
Speaker 1: he went and he was alone. So like, for instance,
Speaker 1: I just did that thing with some hundred thousand people,
Speaker 1: and I don't have social media on my phone right now.
Speaker 1: I deleted it, but I'd probably have it deleted for
Speaker 1: the next two weeks or so, just because I need to.
Speaker 1: I need a break, you know, and I think sometimes
Speaker 1: it's good to kind of have that heart check of
Speaker 1: like you know, I do I actually need to be
Speaker 1: looking at this right now. Um, and then take time
Speaker 1: for yourself to go on so that you can remain
Speaker 1: healthy and you know, truly be that light in the
Speaker 1: place of darkness. Jesus came back to day. Do you
Speaker 1: think he'd have an Instagram account? Goodness? You know, Jesus,
Speaker 1: he shocks me. I think I think he would because
Speaker 1: here's the thing. He was always there, Like, he was
Speaker 1: always there. He wasn't like, he wasn't weird, Like he
Speaker 1: was there. He was in the crowd, he was talking
Speaker 1: to people, and he was like, hey, let's be like
Speaker 1: the world. He was dropping bombs. Like think about the
Speaker 1: captions Jesus would have. I think about he would have. Um, well,
Speaker 1: I think this is a really cool thing. Uh, this
Speaker 1: Faithful app. You can grab it at the App Store
Speaker 1: or Google Play. It's just a really good idea, especially
Speaker 1: right now when a lot of people just can't go
Speaker 1: and congregate and praise Jesus and all that stuff. And
Speaker 1: I think it's really cool that someone like you is
Speaker 1: on this platform because let's be honest, it's really hard
Speaker 1: for a lot of young people to listen to old
Speaker 1: white dudes preach at them. I have a hard time
Speaker 1: with it myself, and I'm much older than you are,
Speaker 1: and so I think it's really cool to see someone
Speaker 1: your age being able to touch you know, this gen x,
Speaker 1: which I think probably needs a lot of guidance right now,
Speaker 1: just because there's just a lot of weirdness in the
Speaker 1: world just in general. How old were you when you
Speaker 1: wrote your New York Times best selling book? Guys? It
Speaker 1: was a sophomore in high school. I was writing it
Speaker 1: because I remember I was really strung, like what about
Speaker 1: English papers that I was like, I'm writing a book,
Speaker 1: it should count for something. But yeah, I was a
Speaker 1: sophomore in high school. Uh. And then it came out
Speaker 1: towards the end of junior year, which was whenever I
Speaker 1: was on Dance with the Stars, So that was a
Speaker 1: really perfect timing. And um, I think that I definitely
Speaker 1: contributed to just the amount of people that I got
Speaker 1: to read it and see it. So, yeah, before we
Speaker 1: change gears over to kind of my portion of the show,
Speaker 1: is there anything that you want to talk about that
Speaker 1: we didn't touch on, or if you want to promote
Speaker 1: that we that I didn't ask you about. I think,
Speaker 1: you know. The only thing is just I do have
Speaker 1: a podcast. That is my most consistent thing that I do.
Speaker 1: You know, I do speak different places, but our podcast
Speaker 1: it goes out every Wednesday. That's good. So if you
Speaker 1: need to send good advice to catch it on the podcast?
Speaker 1: Is it just you or do you have a co
Speaker 1: host with you? So it's just me and then I
Speaker 1: have somebody I interview each week. I love it. All right, well,
Speaker 1: everyone go subscribe, download that and then also down to
Speaker 1: the Faithful appre a quick break and when we come
Speaker 1: back to anyone, tell you what what my show is about.
Speaker 1: It's an origin story. I like to find out where
Speaker 1: people came from and how the hell they got here.
Speaker 1: So get ready to tell your story. Quit right, we
Speaker 1: come back Sadie Robinson right here on the Wells Cast.
Speaker 1: All right, back on the Wells Cast. Sadie Robinson. You
Speaker 1: know her from Duck, Dynasty or Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 1: She's got a new app out right now where she's
Speaker 1: a part of a new app called The Faithful App.
Speaker 1: You can download it now at the Apple and uh
Speaker 1: Play store also has podcast out that comes out every
Speaker 1: Wednesday called Woe. That's good. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: being on my show. I do appreciate it. I mean
Speaker 1: i'd be lying to say that I wasn't a huge
Speaker 1: fan of Duck Dynasty back in the day, but thanks
Speaker 1: for having me. Yeah, I mean I missed the show.
Speaker 1: I want to go back to before the show happened.
Speaker 1: You know, this is an origin store. So where the
Speaker 1: hell are you from? So I'm from Westminro, Louisiana. So
Speaker 1: where I currently am right now too? So full circle, um,
Speaker 1: but yeah from Westminroe, was raised here, ended up moving
Speaker 1: at one point in my life, think coming back. Where
Speaker 1: are you in a birth order? Okay, so this is
Speaker 1: confusing because there's six of us, but some were adopted,
Speaker 1: So birth order I'm second, but adopted order. I've heard
Speaker 1: an older sister who was adopted oldest, and then my
Speaker 1: brother John Luke, and then me and I have a
Speaker 1: younger brother who's adopted Will, then my sister Bella, and
Speaker 1: then another adopted brother, Rowdy, and everybody kind of came
Speaker 1: in at different times, and so our order is a
Speaker 1: little bit confusing about we have a whole lot of
Speaker 1: fun in our few what's the dynamic. What's your role
Speaker 1: in the family in terms of siblings? And my families
Speaker 1: have always been really close. We all have like a
Speaker 1: good relationships separately, you know, individually with each other. But
Speaker 1: it is kind of funny because when our show started,
Speaker 1: my parents started traveling a lot. I definitely took on
Speaker 1: mom role to like my three little siblings, and so
Speaker 1: we joked that my little brother still sometimes says yes
Speaker 1: ma'am to me because I would be like press routine
Speaker 1: like yes ma'am. So funny. And so now you know
Speaker 1: that we're having a baby, everyone's like, who's gonna be
Speaker 1: the strict parent? And my little siblings are like definitely
Speaker 1: her because they experienced the mom's siblings. How old were
Speaker 1: you when duc Dnassey started. Yeah, so I was in
Speaker 1: eighth grade when we started filming our pilot, and then
Speaker 1: about fourteen doing end of my freshman year whenever in
Speaker 1: high school, whenever Duke Dynasty started. Okay, so you're yeah,
Speaker 1: you're super young before the show happens, do you remember,
Speaker 1: I mean, like what was life like before the show
Speaker 1: for the Robertson family. So for sure, like for me,
Speaker 1: growing up was very different than even how my little
Speaker 1: siblings grew up because it was definitely before the show.
Speaker 1: Even though eighth grade obviously freshman or high school was young,
Speaker 1: you know, your childhood raiser. I feel like elementary, middle school,
Speaker 1: the whole thing. And so it was just fun. We
Speaker 1: lived out in uh, the country, and we played a
Speaker 1: lot outside by parents. We we joke, you know, most kids,
Speaker 1: good time out. My parents would be like go outside, like,
Speaker 1: go entertain yourself in the woods. So so many fun.
Speaker 1: Members of my brother like that. We used to So
Speaker 1: before duck Yannessey our business with duck Commander, so my
Speaker 1: mom would have us helping out with the business. So
Speaker 1: my brother and I would help build duck calls into
Speaker 1: the phone, help package things. So we had a lot
Speaker 1: of fun just doing stuff together as a family. Do
Speaker 1: you like duck hunt No, I am not a duck hunter.
Speaker 1: I've actually never been duck hunting with my family. I've
Speaker 1: actually only been duck hunting one time with a friend,
Speaker 1: and I'm just that's just not my thing. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: come from a family that did a lot of hunting,
Speaker 1: and I've done it a bunch. The problem with duck
Speaker 1: hunting is, uh, it's very cold and you have to
Speaker 1: sit in like a steel box and just to freeze
Speaker 1: your butt off waiting for the early Yeah, very early, exactly. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you're like and then I guess the production company
Speaker 1: comes up to your parents and says, hey, we want
Speaker 1: to make a show about your family. How does it work?
Speaker 1: So what happened is my dad kind of took over
Speaker 1: the business at the Duck Command of Business, which was
Speaker 1: my grandpa's business that he's had, Like I think it
Speaker 1: was forty years since he started a business when our
Speaker 1: show started, so he had his business for a long
Speaker 1: time because he invented the double reated duck call, which
Speaker 1: actually sounds like a duck, so they have been making
Speaker 1: videos selling it. So like that when my dad took
Speaker 1: over the business, he decided, you know, this could be
Speaker 1: a great Well, my mom kind of is the one
Speaker 1: that had the idea this could be a great reality
Speaker 1: TV show because she said, your family is so weird
Speaker 1: and so entertaining that people would truly watch this and
Speaker 1: it could be about 'all making the duck calls, the business,
Speaker 1: all the things. So my dad pitched it to the
Speaker 1: Outdoor Channel at first. So we got on the Outdoor Channel,
Speaker 1: which is typically just a hunting channel. Um, but our
Speaker 1: show is different because it had hunting and family and
Speaker 1: so now all of a sudden, wives and kids are
Speaker 1: watching the Outdoor Channel and their ratings just skyrocketed. So
Speaker 1: that kind of got the attention of other networks. And um,
Speaker 1: next we know, Annie made an offer for a show
Speaker 1: called Duck Dynasty, and you know, we took it and
Speaker 1: you know, filmed the pilot. Didn't know what was to come,
Speaker 1: didn't know obviously the success that it would have. UM,
Speaker 1: and we're pretty blown away by how many people loved
Speaker 1: it and watched it and how many families came together
Speaker 1: because of it. But it was a wild ride. Was
Speaker 1: there anyone in the family like, hey, us and guys,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do this? Yeah? Kind of. I
Speaker 1: mean my grandpa and some of them men were just like,
Speaker 1: what are we doing like a TV show? This is crazy? UM.
Speaker 1: And I remember I can't remember it was my grandpa
Speaker 1: or somebody, so like, this will never work. And that's
Speaker 1: like his famous last words, because you know, for the
Speaker 1: next like however many years, my dad would be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this will never work. Uh. It's pretty funny. Were you
Speaker 1: ever annoyed with how you were portrayed on the show sometimes,
Speaker 1: but you know it's funny. We were pretty stubborn with
Speaker 1: how production might want us to do something. We would
Speaker 1: not do it. Like I remember first day we were
Speaker 1: filming and it was like the kids first time to film,
Speaker 1: and like my grandpa told us to go pick up sticks,
Speaker 1: and we said, yes, sir, we wouldn't pick up six.
Speaker 1: In the production people are like, oh wait, wait y'all,
Speaker 1: y'all aren't supposed to actually do it, Like if he
Speaker 1: says pick up sick, y'all should be like, oh, we
Speaker 1: don't want to pick up six, and we're like, are
Speaker 1: you kidding? We're not telling him no, like because like
Speaker 1: you're raised to respect your good fad if they tell
Speaker 1: you something, you said yes sir. And so I remember
Speaker 1: they kept trying and like every time we'd be like
Speaker 1: yes sir, like we couldn't do it, Like we could
Speaker 1: not do it. And my mom I just told and
Speaker 1: she's like, don't do anything that isn't true to who
Speaker 1: you are. And so I'm glad she gave us that
Speaker 1: little tipit of advice because you know, we we I
Speaker 1: feel like we would have regretted things a lot more,
Speaker 1: have we not um, but we say pretty true to
Speaker 1: who we were. There were some things that I was like,
Speaker 1: that's goofy, or I just looked like the typical teenager
Speaker 1: and I'd be like, oh, that that's just that's just silly.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, everything that's true to who
Speaker 1: we were. What are your friends thinking? Because you're you know,
Speaker 1: you're still in high school right when you're making this show,
Speaker 1: Like what are your friends thinking? And how are you
Speaker 1: able to navigate that? So that was really hard, honestly.
Speaker 1: So I had some of my closest friends since pre K.
Speaker 1: I went to a really small private school and we
Speaker 1: grew up together. And then all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: my family is on a TV show and all of
Speaker 1: America is like knows who we are, and and it
Speaker 1: was weird because we're from a really, really small town
Speaker 1: and um, I still was playing basketball, I was still
Speaker 1: playing tennis, track, doing my normal things, but everything was different.
Speaker 1: You know, people were showing up to our basketball games
Speaker 1: just to take pictures and just you know the whole thing.
Speaker 1: But in l A that might be normal, but in
Speaker 1: the real l A, Louisiana, that's not normal. So it
Speaker 1: was definitely hard to navigate with friends and I feel
Speaker 1: like there was a lot of friendships unfortunately that where
Speaker 1: UM lost at the time. That was sad, just because
Speaker 1: of life being different and people are not really understanding
Speaker 1: or misunderstanding UM. And that's a hard thing to feel,
Speaker 1: like super misunderstood because you're like, no, like my life
Speaker 1: is changing, but I'm not changing. Uh. But you know
Speaker 1: it's cool because I feel like God is a redeemer
Speaker 1: And since then, a lot of those friends that I
Speaker 1: lost the time circled back and UM kind of rekindled.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that was an interesting thing to navigate for sure.
Speaker 1: Would you do a reality show again? Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I would. I would. It depends on what it was.
Speaker 1: Reality TV is a whole thing. I mean, it is
Speaker 1: a full on situation and I loved it and it
Speaker 1: was so fun and for the gift of getting to
Speaker 1: be with my family so much and hanging out with
Speaker 1: like Uncle Si and my grandparents, who like I wouldn't
Speaker 1: like hang out with on a regular basis. Besides the
Speaker 1: show like that was such a blessing. So if I
Speaker 1: did it with my family, I'd love to. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: want a show like about me because that's just not
Speaker 1: my personality. But it was with my people. I'd love it. Sadie,
Speaker 1: IM running out of time with you. But before I
Speaker 1: let you go, do you have time for some rapid
Speaker 1: flyer questions? Let's do it alright, rapid fire questions with
Speaker 1: Sadie Robinson real quick. Oh, I'm gonna go Pineapple? What really?
Speaker 1: I love Pineapple pizza man right out the gates. So controversial,
Speaker 1: I know. I felt like I had to say it.
Speaker 1: Favorite book, Oh, Irregular People. It's like from eighties something.
Speaker 1: My great grandma gave it to me. Who's your first kiss? Oh? Jeez,
Speaker 1: please sah. I did know to say this. It was
Speaker 1: a terrible first kiss that poor guys like, damn it.
Speaker 1: What was the first concert you went to? Probably mercy me.
Speaker 1: I'm not even kidding, something like some church concert. What
Speaker 1: was your first car? I did have? I just feel
Speaker 1: so weird to say this. I had to b w
Speaker 1: X three white one. It's very pretty. Then I traded
Speaker 1: it in for a jeep because I felt like it
Speaker 1: fit my personality. Moore, what's your biggest pet? Peeve smacking
Speaker 1: like when you're eating? Yeah, like when you're eating and
Speaker 1: like my husband can smack on like air Like I
Speaker 1: don't even know how he doesn't. It's just like it's
Speaker 1: actually a talent. Who was the most famous person in
Speaker 1: your phone? Oh God, I have no idea. I have
Speaker 1: no idea. I'll just say this for funny because he's
Speaker 1: like my dad's best friend. But Luke Brian is like
Speaker 1: one of our people, and he would not care that
Speaker 1: I would say his name. What's the weirdest superstition that
Speaker 1: you have? I don't really have superstitions, but you still
Speaker 1: When I played basketball, I thought if I didn't wear
Speaker 1: my hair in two braids, then I would have a
Speaker 1: bad game. What's one thing that's always in your fridge avocados?
Speaker 1: What's the physical trade that you noticed about someone you're
Speaker 1: attracted to. Well, I'll just say Christian Christians eyes. Do
Speaker 1: you believe in soul mates? Yeah? How would you describe
Speaker 1: your high school self? Insecure? Who was or is your
Speaker 1: celebrity crush? Oh I don't have a celebrity crush. I
Speaker 1: gotta say my husband, he's famous. Lastly, who is your
Speaker 1: favorite family member? Now that's controversy, but for the sake
Speaker 1: of everybody, probably agree with me. My great grandmother, who
Speaker 1: was a legend, Sadie Robinson, Thanks so much. For being
Speaker 1: on the Welles Cast. You've been to delight everyone out there.
Speaker 1: Go download the Faithful app at the App Store and
Speaker 1: Google Play download or subscribe to WOA. That's good, buy
Speaker 1: your book, follow you where on an Instagram, legit Sadie
Speaker 1: rob and pretty much from there. I put everything else out.
Speaker 1: Go there, say you think so much for me on
Speaker 1: the show. You're awesome. Yeah, thank you, good to hang later. Well,
Speaker 1: she's just the sweetest thing in the world. It's not
Speaker 1: a lot. Really young age Jesus made feel kind of
Speaker 1: bad on myself. I go write a book. All right.
Speaker 1: That's our show. I hope you enjoyed it. Yeah, I'm
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