Duck Call Room - 'Duck Dynasty' Cast Member Undergoes Surgery for Brain Leak

Episode Date: August 8, 2024

Uncle Si gets real about his open-heart surgery and how long-term tobacco and nicotine use has affected his quality of life. John-David makes a call to Rucker for an update on the serious health issues he’s facing and Martin’s fascination with biology has him contemplating watching the major surgery. Stone decides pickleball isn’t for him and Si makes clear his feelings about the vitriol over the winery episode of “Duck Dynasty.” A power failure during filming has John-David running scared in the dark. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Martin, you see what was on the table here. I saw that. I saw that producer Hunter. Yeah. The sickest person alive. Yeah, has made us beer bread. Beer bread. Did you try it?

I did. What is it? Beer bread. You want some of it? Bread out of beer. Why not? Hunter's been sick for three weeks. Oh, hey, you get a beer real cold and then you drink it.

You don't take it. You don't bake it. Okay. Yeah. But you can taste the beer in here, but I could tell it was a cheap beer. Uh-oh. That's Hunter. Bloodwines a special.

No, it was some kind of natural light or something. Oh, natural light. Hey, don't be knocking natural light. Hunter, would you make this bread with it? Yingling flight. Yingling flight. Is that the low calorie one? Yeah.

Yeah. That's what I like to think about when I'm making bread. What's the lowest calories I can do with this? Yeah. Yeah, if you're just going to blow up by eating bread, use the full Monty. Use some Guinness staff. And some butter, maybe some syrup.

That'd be like if you made something called Coke bread, but you used Diet Coke, that'd be dumb. Just use Coke. Amen. You know it goes real good with Dr. Pepper, pork. Yeah. You bake a, you cook a Dutch oven pork. Oh, the whole pork with the Dr. Pepper.

It goes good on wood ducks, too. Let me tell you something even better than that. Uh-huh. knee-high peach knee-high peach oh my buddy Brad who's afraid of vegetables yes sir he's done that it's real good over at the iron cactus

oh he copied the iron cactus also named Brad though that's what they're knee-high peach really yep I cook it and knee-high piece that butt in the oven or I want to smoker that's one of the greatest orders in this town and Stone taught it to me you order the fajitas Monterey and you don't stop

there. You tell them, and then go back and pull pork on top. Oh, pork on top. All those juices. Just soak through

that grilled chicken and bacon, cheese. Don't stop me a few valuable things in life and that's one of them. Stupid good. What is it called?

The iron cactus. I know. What are you putting on it? What was the peach? The peach knee high. Peach, yeah, a drink.

It's a drink. It's a drink. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Huh. Oh, it's good. But that pulled pork is fantastic.

And look, you can, uh, you can. Pete Brandy's real good. Oh, yeah. And so is Peach T. Well, I'm talking about, yeah, piece T is good too. Oh, is Pete's me. You know what ain't good? Hey, what?

A peach. That's not. I like pieces. If you get a go on, it's good. But you, hey, you got to look hard and far to find a good Pete. You know, off the tree. You know, it's weird. A fresh peach?

Not, not really hitting. You had on them canned one? A can one. and peach so you can just, he's got to, I got to give to. They're always good. So you're the one that eats, like on peach cobbler, you actually eat the peaches? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Because I just eat the cobbler part and some ice cream. I leave me peaches for. I'm more of a blackberry cobbler kind of fella, but yeah, yeah, I like a good. I'm more of a vanilla ice cream kind of guy. Just bypass all the rest of that and give me an extra scoop of vanilla ice cream and let's call this baby good. I forget to be good.

Throw in two scoops of ice cream before the peaches were. Yeah, yeah, forget doing peaches. They'll get me an extra scoop of ice cream. And if you could run it, buy something warm. My way to melt just a little bit, that'd be even better. Thank you, call me later. You had a guy in my unit in Vietnam in Vietnam that he would go in at 2 a.m. in the morning and make the best summer rolls you ever ate in your life.

I mean, do you think, would they have been good here or were they extra good because you were in Vietnam? That would be good anywhere. I just always like that. I mean, perfect. Who I am. And that's high praise from a Robertson. Oh, no. On your cooking to say something.

I didn't eat bruffles. Like eggs and baking and all that. You left the K out? I got me two of the biggest similar rolls there was, and that's what I have for breakfast. The high-carb diet. Oh, hey. And look at him.

It was fine. Still sitting here today. Boy, he got a little fat on him now. But that was back when Sa did literally, he got in trouble once an hour, so he did 2,000 pushups a day. Oh, that was in basic training.

Big old, I was being him, you know, we was drawn to each other for some reason. But you just making up for lost time. You got to Vietnam and said, I'm going to eat him cinnamon rolls. Oh.

No, I'm saying that was the best. I mean, all you had to do was just spoon it and don't even chew it. Just putting your mouth and let it melt. It's like a hot doughnut. There's not much better than a good cinnamon. What kind of ice in it have on?

Glaze. Yeah. And look, I'm telling you, you ever had Mexican bishops? Mexican biscuit. Yeah. They're about that made around. A taco? No.

No, this is a biscuit. I ain't ever got one in them. Hold on a Mexican breakfast thing. It's always been taco. No, no. In high school, I went to visit a family. In Mexico? Yeah.

No, no. in our, and, and, and, and, and, and lives in our area, we got to become a good friend. And I ate breakfast with them one more. And I'm serious. You know, they, I don't get it. And, hey, they was about that big around and about that high. Really? And delicious.

There is something. You know, my dear had to put a lid on them just to keep them in the pan. Otherwise, they just flowed out. Flood out. They'd have halopinias in it? Huh? They have jalapinas in it? No.

I mean, people call that stuff Mexican cornbread because they put halepalepinias in it. Now, I do love. I love Lisa's Mexican cornbread Oh, I do too. You know what Mexican biscuits look like?

What? I mean, you're going to disagree here. They kind of look like a Popeye's biscuit. Really? Let me look at it.

He's right. They do, because, hey. But, like, they're about I have to size that bongrel drum.

About their barrel. So much better than you drop biscuits. Hmm. I mean, I'd eat it. Like, I told you that day,

I would rather have Bojangles' biscuit or Popeye's biscuit. I mean that. And I stick to that. But I still ain't had like just a terrible biscuit. I mean, I'm a fan of them all. Yeah, I'd eat it. What's some type of biscuits in the can that just keep the little layers of biscuits?

The grand's flaky layers. You're a man that does know your biscuits. Uh-huh. I like them. Yeah, because you can peel. Sheets of biscuit. Yeah, you can peel them off and you can leave. leave that bottom there because most time everybody burns the bottom of it.

And what you do is you cook them in Owens' is a little outdoor drill. Oh yeah, your uncle used to do them in the low end. We got those. He found those again, did you? Yeah, the Duck Blind Bistro Cup. Yeah, and they were. Everything better than a duck. As the Italians say, it was, muw.

That's true. Wow. That was wonderful. That's what the Italians say. That's what they say. Hey. Interesting. Biscuits.

I love them. I mean, I really do. They're a good vehicle for a lot of things. Oh, yeah. You put gravy on them. Yeah. And you can turn it from a breakfast food to a dessert real quick. Yeah.

Yeah. You put Mayhaal jelly on it. You can put fresh beehive honey. Oh, I was thinking of honey. Oh, yeah. I got a honey on them. A lot of butter. Since you brought up Mayhaal jelly, and I'm not here at this office anymore,

but I saw y'all like peddling Mahal jelly like it was Phil's approved is it Phil approved it's approved I needed to know that yeah it's approved it's good it's good is it not it's not feels good but I mean you know I and I say that yeah you make it blindfold me and hand me one of each and I may not know the title you know it's good it's good it's made I mean it is made in Louisiana is there more in there still there we ordered 150 jars I don't know how many would sold. But that's all we could, that's all we could get.

Do you all get that from Rustin? No, we actually got it from down south, down around Laplace. Oh, what Phil's kids, I think, you know,

they got a bunch of may hall trees on one of their outdoor camps that they all make jelly out of those. Phil's kids. Bill's kids. Willie, Jay. Oh, Philip.

Oh, Philip Miller. Oh, Philip Miller. I was like, your nephews? Like, when did we just start calling on Phil's kids?

Well, I was wondering, because I'm pretty low on the list of getting filling Kay's Mayhael jelly. Yeah. I have to steal it from Willie when he's not looking. Well, now he makes his own. You're going to the wrong man. Go to Willie. Yeah, well, now he makes his own. He got that straw haul or whatever, the half strawberry half Mayhog.

Oh, that ain't bad. Oh, I don't, I don't doubt it. Hey, don't be going bad on. But leave it. Don't go bad on the strawberry mayhaw. I'm not. But leave it to Willie to put two things together, right? Because strawberry jelly good.

Yeah. So is Mayha jelly. It's good. He's a goulash, man. Oh, hey, y'all, you can make slow. What does Phil call it, the slum guillian? The slum guillian. Flo and Mayhaal, and that's real good.

Yeah. I love the slow jelly. That's the one I always waited for it to get from Phil was the slows. Because it's like extra tart. You know why they call them slows? Huh? Why they call them slows? Because they're late in a year.

They're the last one. right last one yeah yeah slum gullion's an actual thing matter of fact he's got he's got one slow tree on his property filled up oh I know and I was one found I drove under it this morning

yeah loaded now damn damn they're funny it's a crazy tree one year they're produced and just be hanging breaking limbs and do next two years nothing

then you can have you a slow gin fizz There you go, boy. I always thought anything slow is good. You know, Willie planted that Mayhall Grove and it never bore fruit. Last year, I said, let's try to spray them. The fungicide. The fungicide, because they got, they were, those cedar trees were putting out with cedar rust.

Mm-hmm. And they wouldn't bear fruit. So we sprayed them twice and all of a sudden. Here they come. But then I was worried that he would call and say, get out there and pick them mayhawls. Gathering the Mayhouse. No, they did a whole family deal where they had a grandkids. Well, no, that's what I was doing for.

Well, he got a whole bunch of grandkids now. He got a whole bunch of labor. He got a tribe. And he feeds all of them every night, so might as well get something out of them. That's right. You know. There's a bunch of them. Yeah.

You see them from over on your side of the compound. We stay on our side. We just look over there. They just show up around pickleball time. Yeah. I see there's a lot of pickleball going on over there. Don, you ain't played you? No, I don't, I don't associate myself with that sort of activity.

No. With all the activities you've got, Robertson, I don't blame me for that. Well, you know, there's something to be said about grown men out there playing pickleball. The fun sport. You know, it's fun. I'm sure it is. Yeah, the more we talk about. about it on here the more I get ads for stuff on my phone about it.

About pickleball? So you just say pickleball and it pops up on your phone. Apparently, because I ain't ever looked it up. Oh, it's great. It happens. They're listening. The phones are listening to it. I was wondering because I get an email all the time says how much whiskey is too much.

Well, somebody may have submitted you for that one. Google that once and it's, it's, they peg you for life. Yeah, them dadgum cookies. I get anxious out and it's biblical. Oh, what is it? Okay. Too much whiskey is when you overindulge in it and you get drunk. Yep.

Okay. Okay. That's pretty much what it says. God has never said you can't drink. Okay. So I remember when we so called the Robertson family bought a winery. Okay. And got all runs in all kind of bad vibes from everybody.

Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know where you were going, but I really appreciate it. Well, no, no. A lot of bad vibes were headed our way. All the bad vibes and a lot of mouthy going on, okay. Yeah, and they wouldn't even in that thing stomping them nasty grapes like I was. Yeah.

Yeah, your feet were in that. That's trash, man. I bet. I don't think I ate it. Hey, where you think that sour flavor comes from? I don't think I've ate a grape since. I don't like grapes. I was just over it.

It was hot that day. What episode was like? Hey, that's a lot of work. No, but let me ask you this. You play pickleball during the week. Stone, I have a job in my boss's name is David Allen Owen. Oh, I know who you boss is. Yeah, so from 9 to 6, I'm pretty well covered up.

Wait, thanks to do. I thought you were going to say David Allen Cohen. Time out. Yeah. Your daddy's middle name is Alan. Uh-huh. How am I just now finding out about this? Oh, David Allen Co. Owen.

Oh, yeah. I mean, why, I'm just, he should be David Allen Cohen. I mean, like, it's really close. Yeah, it fits. Like, wow. Yeah, I don't get. to go play. We call that recess, me and my dad do? We don't get recess at the Honeyhole. I was wondering. I saw Jacob and a brother-in-law out there. If you sell T-shirts at

1 o'clock on a weekday. That's your lunch break, I guess. And they were, boy, they were into it. I mean, just sweating like crazy. They were saying, they're like, they looked to me like, what are you doing? I'm like, yeah, they were judging you for not being there. Yeah. And you judging them for doing it. You know, I got a weed eater in my hand. And they're out there playing pickleball. I don't do anything between the hours of one and three that is not indoors currently. Amen, buddy. Unless it's on an air-conditioned tractor or skidsteer or dozer or something.

But yeah. I went and played with them like one time, but I was like, yeah, 7 a.m. And they're like, okay. And somebody had put on Spacebook, oh, state champion pickleball or something. Who? You know, do they, y'all have competitions? I went. They'll have tournaments?

I'm not that good. What about your in-laws? My in-laws? They're going to play pickleball tournament? They're talking about Drew. Oh, no. Oh, we were in one out at OCS. It was like a fundraiser.

Me and Allison met it further than Drew in generous. Oh, a mixed one, huh? Yeah, but then it was like dudes against co-ed. It didn't work out. It was like, can we, okay. It was fun, though. There you go. Hey, raise some money.

We raised money. I'm not sure for what, really. That wasn't on the docket specifically, but I paid money is the rumor I heard. Well, good. You know. Pekyll ball. Yeah, I don't really. It is.

You should play some. You'd be really good at it, Stone. He's just shaking his head, ladies and gentlemen. He ain't playing. I could never see myself playing pickleball. Have you ever played ping pong? I have played ping pong. Did you enjoy ping pong?

when I was 12 in other words in other words hey it's time to move on he's moved on maybe it's time to grow up a little yeah it's time to grow up

no I just do fun stuff like you know choking people all right look springtime is here it's warming up you know what that means that means more outside cook and and y'all know we love to eat beef around here

and that's what because of our friends over at Tritels beef makes such a good product, baby. Ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Sal Robertson would say, buy on the grill! Look, before we got Tritels, getting ready for a cookout, man, somebody had to run the grocery store,

do all the things, grab whatever was left in case you were late in the day. And you never really know where that beef comes from. But with Tritels beef, we skip the grocery store and do it a different way. Tritales comes from a family ranch out in Texas. They're a fifth generation American ranch, So they've been at it for a while. Now look, the beef comes straight from their ranch and other ranchers they work with

who raise cattle the same way. Their steaks are properly aged and shipped straight from the ranch to your door. We threw a couple of ribbys on the grill. Look, salt, pepper, garlic, hot fire, that's all you need. Look, because I'll tell you what, when the beef comes from people who raise cattle for a living, you can taste

the difference. The tenderness and the flavor are fantastic. So if you're stocking the freezer for grilling season, go check out Tritale's beef. I know in size case, Christine loves it, which is just a, she doesn't eat meat. She ain't a big meat easier, folks. Yeah. Just go to trybeef.com slash.

That's tribeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. You told me before we got started, our boy, Rucker, what's he got? Rucker's in a bind. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he sent me a long text other day. He's got spinal fluid leaking out of his ear. That is what my dad, right before we left here. What?

Rucker. I brought up Rucker's name and dad said, was brains leaking out of his ears? And I said, Dad, that's a little aggressive to call somebody. That's exactly what's happening. That's what's happening.

Yeah. Do you think that's from too much head stuff or? Well, he's done a lot. He said there's no barrier. So he's missing like the blood brain barrier? He's missing some bone is what he told me. Let me see if I can find out.

We always knew he was missing stuff up here. I know that rascal was hardheaded, but I didn't know he'd done sprung a leak. Dad thought he was having surgery like, today. Oh, they like putting a patch on it, like a tire or something? He's got spinal fluid licking out of his ear canal. The bone but tissue, tissue between my ear canal and brain is eroded and gone. It's been a hard...

For about a year. In his ear, that bone is gone. Something between his ear and the base of his skull, I guess. He said, having surgery and then a few days recovery, I'll be back to normal. He's having surgery. He texted him. He said, long story short, let's tell you, I'm not going to be a

J.J.C. Nothing against Rocker. Hey. Oh, no, no. He was letting his coach know. Hey, nothing against Rucker, but he'll never be normal. Yeah.

Oh, no. Well, you don't want to be normal. He never was. He don't want to be normal. So, hey. He's having surgery. When is this air, Hunter? Thursday?

Ladies and gentlemen, Rucker had surgery yesterday. Ah. Play for the recovery. Because he's having surgery. Yeah. I wonder, like, if he turns his head, does it just come out?

That's what he was. I'm trying to figure out like... He got an ear infection because of it, he talked with a day. That's why. Because he tried to collect a sample of it to send to a doctor and gave himself an ear infection. And he said if the infection goes to his brain, then he could get meningitis. Can't laugh at meningitis, sigh. I'm trying not to.

I'm just, this is so wild. Yeah. Out of all the things that could have, arguably should have snuffed Rucker out. it's a brain leak. It ain't going to snuff him out. That's pretty wild. If he made it this far. That's what I'm saying about all the stuff he witnessed,

Dodge, and all growing up, and then all of a sudden he gets clean, he gets right, everything's good, he's married, he's moving on in life and his brain. And the brain.

His brain just said, no, I've had enough. Yeah, we're going to leak. Tell him up. I'm, hold on.

What's his name in my phone? I forgot. Rucker. For some reason, it's Brian Rucker, which is, oh, wow, you've done much professional.

But, Hey, look, here. Before they did the surgery. Yeah. We got to call, Rucker. I need to hear him explain this. Hello. Yeah.

Well, we have him. Hello, Brian. Hello. Rucker, are you in the bathroom? Yes. I mean, does it matter? Yeah, I hear the echo. Yeah, you're in a bathroom.

Why'd you answer if you're in a bathroom? Look, man, anytime Johnny D calls, I'm answering the phone. Okay. no i'm actually not in the bathroom i'm in a security room at a uh treatment center that i come and do some uh counseling okay this that's why we're calling are you okay now yeah i'm i'm okay for now uh it's been a struggle past week so um long story short of it uh so uh i i had tubes put in in December because there was was some fluid in my ear.

Well, the fluid in my ears has been there for years, really. Well, after I had the tubes put in in December, the left ear healed up fine, everything was good, but the right ear has just perpetually leaked fluid. And so they did a CT scan, they did an MRI, and ultimately what we found out is it's what they call a CSF week. that cerebral spinal fluid leaking out of my ear.

So between your ear canal and your brain is a thin layer of bone tissue, mine has holes in it. Why? Not really too sure. Could be from the, you know, adventurous lifestyle I used to live. Head stuff. But so, so essentially I got cerebral spinal fluid leaking. through my ear. Well, I've been dealing with that since December. So that really wasn't too big of a deal.

But then in the effort to collect the fluid to have it sent to the lab, it got super infected. And so my ear was killing me. My head was killing me. I mean, it was a really bad infection. And then that multiplied by the risk of getting meningitis because there's no. protecting my brain from my ear canal. So it's like infection can run up to my brain at any point in time. So just been pumping antibiotics and things like that. And I'm on the, I'm on the, I'm on the men now as far as the infection. You know, I've just been, you know, doing antibiotics and stuff.

But since now discovering with 100% certainty, it is cerebral spinal fluid. coming out my ear. They scheduled me for the initial surgery, which is to go in, remove the tubes, put an artificial membrane patch in the ears, and then two weeks from then, I go to Jackson, Mississippi, and do one of two surgeries.

First surgery is go in through the ear and patch it from the bottom. That's the one we're praying for, because surgery B is essentially brain surgery. They cut a hole in your head, go in and lift up the brain and patch it from the top. Everything is leaning towards the ear surgery. Who's doing the ear surgery? Dr. House.

You know the man. Dr. House, baby. Yeah, he's cut Carter's, both the Carter's ears off and fix them. He got you. He'll have you like the guy that was on Fox for all them years. No, this guy uses a bleeding, shine, a rattle trap. Oh, wow. Okay. The things we know about Jackson, Mississippi,

Ear, Doctor. Wow. So, yeah, it's been a thing, but I'm feeling, you know, today's the, I feel, I feel almost completely normal today. The biggest issue, the past week, was just the infection. Like I said, the flu, it's been there. And I've been dealing with that. But the infection, and then come to find out, if you got to see,

CSF leak, you're not supposed to do any thing that can raise your heart rate because that also increases the pressure in your in your brain. Well, your boy's been doing cross-fitting jujitsu like, you know, five days a week since December. And so I've been just, I've been just kind of on a hiatus, just kind of, you know, getting through this. and then Wednesday we'll do that first surgery. Two weeks from now, we'll do another surgery and try to get back to 100%. Well, hey, we're going to say a prayer for you that the one you want, the one, the little one,

is what they'll have to do. And also, if they have to do the big one, I'm just nerdy enough. I'm very interested in coming with if they'll let me observe them pick your brain up. Come on, man. I'm just saying. I'm just curious about that too.

Because I kind of like, I'm actually very interested. and what your brain looks like. I'm out on the brain part, but the ear part, I'm there for you, buddy. Well, the way I see it, man, is I could end up with some form of superpower when this is all setting down. Oh, Spider-Man. Well, I don't know if I'd be Spider-Man. I'd probably be like Rain Man.

He's a super. He's got a superpower. Yeah. Well. Well, I was wondering where you been, Rucker. You sent me that long text, and I was trying to explain to them why you hadn't been training. but that's a pretty good excuse, I guess. Yeah, I know we had to hear it from you

because at all the things that could have snuffed you out, who'd ever thought that it was a leak in your brain? Well, man, and that's the, that's the interesting thing. You know, my wife, she's like, you know, I was like, man, I've always said, I've survived so much stuff that should kill you. This would be it. This would be something stupid like this would be the thing. You know what I mean?

You go take it out in the crosswalks and not looking both of the things. You said something about being normal. You'll be fine on this. Some people are never going to be normal. Me and you are two of them. Amen. Confirmed. Hey,

I take pride in that. I just, I just am extremely curious of their answers like basically a patch kit from AutoZone. Like, hey, we're going to start with this little patch. Well, they graph,

they graft like some cartilage from your, that's what they did with Carter. straight up. They cut the back of his ear off, took some stuff out of that, and then folded the ear over, shoved it where the holes were, and then flat that thing back on, sticks it up. Stitched it up. If you look behind both of Carter's ear,

there's like a place where they literally lopped his ear off and then put it back off. Yeah, this doctor house guy is apparently the guy. He's the guy. He's the guy. They made an old TV show about him. Phil. Phil's a type of doctor friend.

There's a different guy. And he just said, hey, look, all I am is a body and fender man. It just happened to be that I'm working on the body. There you go. Hey, I'll get in there and cut it off, bend this, break this, put back the other. And, hey, roll all down the road, son. Yeah, I think it'll be fine. Like I said, the past week has just been that infection that has been the heart part.

And so now we're just going to, you know, we're going to start doing these surgery things. I'm hoping during that two weeks after they do this first surgery Wednesday, I can get back to training and working out and stuff. Because, man, you would be surprised how much that stuff is needed for a guy like me. Because I've just been picking fights with my wife because I ain't got no other way to get my... I thought you were talking about heavy guys. You were talking about just kind of ornery fellas. No.

We do this for therapy. John Dugge. You don't understand. It's therapeutic. So did all this start whenever you got married? You know, I could, I mean, potentially. Not like the really, though, the fluid that was behind my ears been there for, I mean, at least seven years. I mean, so I had to have been leaking it for a long time and just that.

So that's why they did the tubes. in the first place. And then after getting the cubes, the right one was just like constantly flowing. I'll give you credit for waiting seven years to figure something out. That's impressive. You got Mary and she made them actually

trying to take care of them. One time my testicle swole up and I gave it like a month and I said, you know, I got to go see somebody about this. Not many people can confirm that, but can confirm. Yeah, I had to show it to Johnny D. It was impressive.

At least you didn't wait until they ride it off. Yeah, I mean, I wasn't going to let them start leaking. Apparently, from where I could judge, there was already a leak. Yeah. Yeah. But there wasn't a drain. There was a leak, but there was no drain. Most impressive thing.

I don't know if you could do this, but look, this is. What is happening? I heard it. Oh, that was your ear. Can you hear it? Yeah. That's my ear. Bubbling.

Rocker go. Wow. Things sound like old faithful. Well, hey, well, we'd be, I'll be standing by Thursday for an update. yeah for sure well wednesday is pretty simple Wednesday should be

which whenever it's basically like the same thing as the tubes only they're taking them out and patching it he goes yeah man it should only be about 20 minutes you'll be back to normal next day and then I thought well that's what you told me last time

and it took me about a week to shake back but that might have been because of the that might have been because of the fitting all you know what I'm saying oh okay all right um wow I didn't know we were getting there. Hey man, it's a journey.

I have no idea what just happened. Oh, well, get back to it, Rucker. We've taken enough of your time. But yeah, we'll love you, friend. Yeah, we'll keep everybody on the podcast. We just check your in on you, my man. Yeah. Hey, love you guys too, man.

I'll see y'all tomorrow. All right. All right. All right. Well, my man. That was wild. My man's had a leak. So he's having Carter search.

So Carter's has something similar to this? Well, Dr. House did it, but yeah, similar. Yeah. Carter had to have everything inside as he repaired. I love the way he said, well, what's the first one is, they're going to go in and try to repair it. And if that won't work, he said, then they go out to go to have full brain surgery, lift my brain up, and then put a patch on it and put it back in it.

I am mildly interested in that. Yeah. That one sounds like super cool. I hope it doesn't come to that. Hopefully they can. Crazy that they can do that. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. like the idea of pick it up.

No, it fits right there. How are we going to pick it? No, no, no, no, no. How are we going to pick it up? Like that, that blows my mind. That's like me when I had an open heart surgery. Dr. White, okay, the team told me this. Literally when they popped my teeth, first he cut 12 inches right here.

Oh, yeah. Then I said, okay, rib spread it. He spread my ribs out. And he literally rinsed under my heart. heart, picks it up and pulls it out where you can see it good. Cut one side, sticks a van, and it stitches it. And look, he's doing this in between heartbeats. Okay, because I wasn't put on the blood machine where I was just, you know.

Yeah. He literally stitched my, put my, you know, your heart back together. My past surgery, he stitched two veins that he took out of my knee to by heart. That's wild. And then laid it back down, put it in place, closed it up, sold it up, hey.

So medically, they can do some wild stuff. I know. And as nerdy as I am, I kind of would have wanted to see that. Oh, no, no. That's cool. I told Philip.

Sounds like a lot of blood. Okay. For years. And he said, you're the greatest and biggest lie I've ever met my life. I don't know. I don't know that this story, excludes that.

Yeah, no, no. So being, me and him was in John Gimmer's restaurant over there on the dessert by you. Okay, and a guy comes in scrubs

home. And when he walked away, he said, is that you, Uncle's Eye? And I said, man, how are you doing since your surgery? John, I said, do good.

He said, that was amazing. He said, Dr. White, put the ribs better in there and then rinks down and grab your heart and pick it up. And we all watched him cut, stitch,

and put that vein on your heart. And Phillips going. That's crazy. He said, I always thought you were lying. I said, hey, I told you,

that's what I was told by my brother. They told him. That's crazy. Oh, it is crazy. Boop. Boop. That's what got me

that he can stit in between the heartbeat. Bum, stitch, bum, buntch. I guess after a while you're just getting a rhythm,

kind of like a jump rope. Yeah. Keep going. I mean, just keep going. If you said, look here, if you had a picture of my heart, they didn't even cut the excess off. You got extra heart? No, no.

When he stitched the stitch on the vein, there's a piece of the vein sticking out. Oh, Lord. On the side. I'm serious, just crazy saying, you don't want to look into your life. Medical Marvel. No, no.

I'm sitting by. Oh, I should have been dead. They ain't no doubt about it. I should have been dead. That's amazing. I'm glad you're alive. Me too. And Rutgers is going to be alive.

Hey, no, no. Because me and the good Lord, because what it was, the night of my surgery, I'm laying in the hospital bed, and my blood pressure is just going out the roof. With Dr. White come in, he said, hey, if you don't stop this and settle down,

I'm going to have to operate on you, and I don't have my, they're not, the team's not here. He said, so I'll have to go in with whoever I can assemble. And he said, you need, whatever you got to do, you need to settle down, dude. So then me and Jesus had, we had a meeting. Okay.

And I told him, I said, hey, look, I've had whatever that was. I said, hey, I've had 65 great years. If I die on an operating table, men, you're square. We're good. And after that, hey, I just, y'all went back to sleep. And here we are. The next time I know they're waking me up to tell me, okay, It's time to go in for surgery.

And then Duck Dynasty happened. The whole world saw your face. It's like God had a plan. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Who would have ever thought? Yeah, who would have thought it? Yeah.

Si wasn't, side just like Rucker, though. There's been a hundred things that should have taken him out. Oh, no. He'll get clipped by some random stray cat or something, you know. Hey, sweet pee, do me? Yeah. I mean, just something.

And you're going to be like, you know? Yeah. I see it. I hope it's a black panther, just to prove a point. That would be a good one. Yeah, well. How did the boy die?

Hey, a black panther killed him. Maudy. He got mauled. Either that or, you know what happened? A dang Beaver going to show up in his yard and sawed down a tree and it's going to fall through the roof. It's going to fall on me. The next thing you know, he's going to be like, yep.

That fits. It's going to have to be the bedroom while I'm taking a nap. You know. Lord knows you spend plenty of time there. Yeah. Oh. Well, I know one thing. Man.

I'm making a new rule this year in duck season. Uh-oh. No brain fluid. No. If you can't stand up to shoot, you don't get to shoot. Have you seen the footage of them, too? Oh, feel and that? Well, it's not a big deal because they're down there by themselves, you know?

No. Y'all don't stand up? No, they quit all. that. Well, the ducks are coming in on our side I stand up. Here's what I'll tell you.

Si is either, he's to the point now, Duck Hutton, because I saw it when I took him last year, whatever position he's in upon their arrival is where he's shooting from.

That's right. If he's standing up, that's great. But the act of going from sitting to standing ain't happening and he ain't going from standing to sitting either. It's just wherever he's at,

that's where I'm shooting from. Man, shooting sitting down is fine as long as everybody is sitting down. Yeah. But when you have, four people standing up and two people sitting down. It gets a little hairy.

But I will say for me and all the people that hunt with me, when I shoot, I shoot directly in front of me. He is safe. And I don't go about this far. That's it. You are not your brother Tommy. You stay in front of you. I do.

I shoot the front of me. Tommy ain't ever seen a shot. He didn't think he couldn't make. And I mean, in fairness to Tommy? He made a bunch of them. Oh, he did? Yeah, he made a bunch of them. Now, your ear drum may have got clipped in the process.

Oh, no, no, no, no. But he did make them. I mean, you couldn't hear the splash, but you just, you kind of figured. Well, here's the good news, Tom. You ain't had to worry about me too much because the only time almost goes when you said, hey, you need to go today. It's good. Yeah.

Otherwise, probably now. Yeah. I may go with Martin because it's fun, Mark. Yeah. I get him over. I get him over. hunting with Billy and with Clay. Yeah, I'll get you over there.

You can shoot the rest of my shells. You didn't shoot last year. Martin just don't need to get to my right. I was popping him with the holes. Every time I was helping me right upside the face. Martin said, good grief. I said, what? He said, your shells are hitting me in the face.

I said, hey, I can't do about that. I shot right in front of me. Oh, yeah. No, hey, I wasn't worried about it. I was just trying to figure out how they all hit me so fast. I leave him for an old man. He could still pull that. trigger quill.

Oh, hey. One time I got hitting the eyeball. Hold on. That stuff hurts. You wouldn't enjoy it. Our goose hunt up in, on Missouri line. Bub,

but, but, but, we had one of shotguns that had a, a magazine extension. It was 11 shots. Every time.

Every time. Yeah. I know you. Hey, look. Oh, he emptied it every time. Every time. I know. Look, every one duck come in.

I ain't even on his ear. He's going to stay. and I'll shoot three times just because, by God, I'm here. I ain't toting these things out there. Hey, I ain't carrying it around for that. Shells are heavy. Yeah. Hey, man took 200 shells every time he went duck hunting.

Look here, that was one of the most beautiful things I've ever experienced. You're laying in a white sack, okay, on the ground. And we've got 5,000 geese circling above us. Okay. And they're just about in range. And then the dead gum speckle bellies, which you can't shoot, about a thousand of them jokers swoop under the bottom, okay, and get in front of all the snow and blues.

Okay. And we don't fire a shot. They leave. We were under the tornado. But it was amazing to see it. They're circling us, okay, 5,000 up. and they're like 60 yards. They're fixed to drop down to 40,

and we're just going to ball them. And the Speckle Bell is ruined. I should have shot 11 times and killed 25 of them. Two million claimants. No, no. If I hadn't done, I'd killed 25 Speckle Bell. Put me in jail. I don't really care.

Well, we're to that point, Johnny Deeb. When you gather yourself, what's that mail bag? I got some interesting. Interesting things. Okay. Hello at dot callroom.com. That's the email address. Okay, so you know how we talked about the guy that showed up on the TV program?

You know the guy with the gospel hat on? Yeah. A former student of his emailed in is like, dude, that dude is the man. You have no idea how great of a dude he is. And it's Brody Malone's dad, the gymnast. Yeah. Then he emailed in. He listens.

Wait for real? I got his phone number. Whoa. I'm going to text him here in a little bit. But he was like, man, yeah, that gospel hat got a lot. of attention. It's just a cool way to share Jesus' story. Love to be on sometime. I got his phone number. And his name's J.D. Malone. They did a big story about him and his son. We talked about the man this morning or not ashamed. Did you? Where's he from? George. He's a ranch man.

Like he's a farmer. Yeah. And Georgia. Yeah. And his son would probably be the world's greatest bull rider, but he went into gymnastics instead. And he's pretty good at that too. five, six man that strong that can hold that. He got to be a good bull rider. Oh, yeah. What happened to Godwin? Do that or? Motorcross.

Motorcross. He'd be good at that. But it names J.D. Malone. And it stands for John David. So I'm in on this guy. Yeah, no, 100%. But I'm going to text him. J.D., you're in.

Yeah. Yeah. So I'm very excited about that. And then we were talking before we got started. And then I opened the emails and it was just right here. And we're going to go down this road. Hunter, you can edit it if you so feel. Is nicotine sinful?

Bump, bum, bum. Uh-oh. Bennett, 30 years old from Crystal Springs, Mississippi. He has a question for Martin Stone and Godwin. Apparently he's judging you guys. He shouldn't judge Stone. But anyone can weigh in on it. He's dipped since he was 14, quit, picked it back up, quit, picked it back up, quit, picked it back up.

You don't me give a micke take on it? Let's hear. this is a man that spoke for about 30 years yes it is sinful because it harmed your body yeah so you're going straight sinful i'm going sinful i can't get with that because i like bow jangles too yeah oh if we're going with things known to harm the body and sinful then i mean technically anytime you walk outside of that sunscreen on is sinful so i mean like there's just just a lot of I would say if it replaces maybe I should have said be smart if it replaces something in your life that is good right like if you're what's beeping I don't know but

it might be one yeah yeah oh yeah it's speaking of nicotine my friend let me turn this mess off the oxygen machine and when you're older we'll start beeping in the middle of whatever you're trying to do. Ben it. But, anyway, I just, I mean, that's a, it's a tough. Hey, look, we was disgusting whether nicotine is sinful. I said it was, and then, hey, Martin said, no, it's not, and then the lights went out.

God said, oh, yes, it is. I don't know how to end this. It's dark. We don't know how to do. John 812 says, I'm the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but we'll have the light of life. It's very dark in this warehouse, and I don't like it.

I mean, how dark is it in this warehouse? I'm glad y'all camera nerds have them like. I can't go in the bathroom. I can't pee in that. Come on the building. You know what kiddies. We used to have a podcast, that ain't this.