Duck Call Room - 'Duck Dynasty' Stars Finally Fess Up About Their Off-Camera Antics

Episode Date: July 4, 2024

Uncle Si takes the boys on the road to Sportsman’s Camp for a live episode with a roomful of teenagers. Willie shows up to tell some lesser-known tales of the “Duck Dynasty” era, and John-David shoots his shot with his single hunting story. Si cracks everyone up with his unique skill at playing the game Two Truths & a Lie, and Martin and Godwin turn out to be terrible liars. A fan question leads Si to calculate his tea drinking over his lifetime, and it’s pretty staggering! Then Si and Phillip are joined by Bishop & First Lady Martin of Possum Trot fame to explore the power of pouring love into the lives of kids.  https://campchyoca.org/sportsmans-camp-page — Learn more about Sportsman's Camp https://Angel.com/Hope — Get showtimes for "Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot," in theaters now! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to the Duck Call Room, ladies and gentlemen. Look, we are fresh off of getting to have some fun the other night. We do have a special episode for you guys today. It's special. It is special because our sportsman's camp out at Camp Chioca is going on right now. And we had a little fun. We got to take the duck call room on the road, so to speak. Live in front of a studio audience.

Calhoun, Louisiana. We're like a regular Nickelodeon show now. The big metropolis. But it is fun to go do one in front of actual fans of the show. So I was out at Camp Choker the night before for the welcoming night or whatever. And those kids, man, they talked about how much they watch this podcast and how much they love Cy and Gobwin and even Johnny Dee. There's some Johnny D fans in this world.

Well, when you get the concentrated group of kids that smell like that and have mullets like that, there's bound to be a couple. And not to mention I looked up and saw a couple of Gar Commanders there. The Gar Command. Carter and CJ in the Who? They made it. They made it some sportsmen's camp. Your people were there.

But we did have some fun with them. We played a couple of games with them. And then we could let them ask some questions to us, which I challenged them the night before. I said, look, y'all are going to get one chance to ask us one question, make it good. Don't be the, what's your favorite thing to hunt? And they all went strangely towards Vietnam. Yeah, they all wanted more of SIE, which who can blame them, right? Every kid we called on, oh, what question you want to ask?

Yes, sigh. And Willie showed up, and they were like, no, just kidding, Sai, we have a question. He did get a little dose of humble pie on that one, I would think. Willie? Oh, for sure. Yeah, I mean, he got a rousing ovation when he walked in, but still the questions were for size.

All of them. It was funny. The best part, though, is when Sai told all them kids at college is for suckers. And they're all in high school. You'll have to stay tuned. Yeah, he says, school don't matter. And they're all in school. I'm like, boy, you are preaching to your crowd now, buddy.

You are telling them exactly. what they want to hear. But it's fun seeing the next generation, like the younger generation of sportsmen and outdoorsmen and all that, you know,

hopefully we can have some sort of positive influence. That was the best days. Yeah. That was the good old days. Yeah. They're right smack in the middle of, and big deal for producer Hunter over here.

Hunter had a fan in the house, y'all. I had three fans. Those were weird. Hunter said, put some respect on my name. A whole three. I was about running that Sharpie at ink. I felt so bad, though, because the guy was like, we had just got through, and you'll see,

y'all, you guys will see. We had answered all the Duck Dynasty questions and all the things. And like, so my mind's in, like, Duck Dynasty mode, going back to the old episodes, because these kids were watching them and asking me about stuff that I have forgotten about. It's jogging my memory.

So, like, I'm still in Duck Dynasty phase, and they're like, where's Hunter? And I'm like, Hunter, who? Me Hunter. I have done push Duck Call Room so far, to the side like i'm still i'm going back to 2013 14 and 15 i'm like hunter there was no hunter on duck dynast like i don't know who you're talking about and then the guy said no man the one that does y'all's podcast and i was like oh he's right there yeah and he said is he really i want

him to sign my card and i was like yes but but we are going to document this so martin called me over he said come here come here you guys hunter's about to sign an autograph i was like oh heck yeah Oh, man. But it is fun. I mean, so that shows you just how close of attention these folks are paying to us. That's kind of worrisome. Good on you, Ben. That's a cold deal.

That was something. That was my first time signing an autograph. Yeah. Oh, weird. You never forget your first time, Hunter. Do you miss bear your name? I think so. I think I left out the R.

Yeah, you. Or the E and Hunter. There you go. So that's an app. Okay. They'll never know. Yeah. That's fine.

I'm proud of you, Hunter. See, look, you're doing a good job. These people are paying attention. Some of them want to be like you. Some of them want to do. I'm saying they were like, how do you get into this podcast thing? It was one of the things that they asked me after that. So I mean, like some of them, you're even an influence on some of them.

So just because you ain't got a camera on your face, they're still listening to you, big dog. Well, they got it. He got the voice. He's got the face for radio, hunter. He even got to a sign of Zara spook. That's a moneymaker there. A one knocker spook at that. It's like the expensive one.

That kid walked up to me and said, can you sign this fishing bait? And I was like, we've made it. This is it. I've signed a lot of duck calls that I don't know how to use. I never really get to sign a fishing bait. That was fun. But for real, though, man, sportsman's camp is always fun. We try to do a lot for these kids when they come here, teach them about the outdoors,

teach them about faith, family, and the outdoors. I mean, just kind of pour into them while they're here. They're only here for a week. A lot of them we've seen multiple years. That thing has grown. man it has grown Jordan summit Jay Slumman it kind of heads up all that deal at camp so it went from like six people who got a whole bunch of one-on-one time with us to almost a hundred the other night yeah it was a huge crowd it was unbelievable so to see that thing keep growing the Lord there's a kid from New Zealand there's a kid from Dubai yeah Dubai yeah Dubai yeah Dubai which one's technically long won't I don't know but I mean I would that and now here's where I'm at on that I'll forget which one's further I would say there's a much stronger chance that somebody from New Zealand likes us than somebody from Dubai. I know.

That's all I'm saying. Like they still hunt in New Zealand. I guess they hunt in Dubai too because this kid showed up. And I said, will you sign my shirt, mate? And I said, where are you from Australia? Which I think offended him. Sorry, man. And then he was from New Zealand.

I think they have like a whole Westminster Monroe thing kind of. I'm team New Zealand as of today. There you go. But no, hope you guys enjoy if you want to learn more about. sportsman camp will drop a link in the description for camp shioka.com in case you got kids of that age age 13 to 18 that need something to do next summer so I hope you guys enjoyed the duck call room on the road live live from calhoo all right so do any of you listen to the podcast the duck call room whoa whoa there we go all right do any of you watch it on YouTube

All right. This is everybody, this is all of our fans right here in one room. Dave. That's all right. Hey, I got a question. Uh-oh. What's YouTube? It's made you a lot of money, sir. You really like it.

That's a good thing. You'd like it. Well, this is the first time we have ever gone live. We're going to record this. We're going to put it out there. We're normally pretty edited. I don't know if you know this. So we're just going to see what happens tonight, Martin.

No, I think we're going to start off with a game. Yeah, well, in the spirit of summer camp and sportsman's camp, they wanted to start off with a little game. Have you ever played the game called Two Truths and a Lie? You have? Hold it. I thought it was two lies and a truth. That's your version. And your truth won't be the truth.

Okay. We're going to see. Oh, yeah, Will. We're going to, so Martin, let's start with Martin. What am I doing? You giving us two truths. A lie. Oh, so I got to come up with three things.

Three things. Okay. Do do, do do, do. Oh, we texted him about it this morning. I'm not used to lying on purpose. Where you got to? It's always a side effect of other things. No, I'm kidding.

I'll go down front with you, Sunday. Let's see. I'm currently very interested in the Tennessee, Texas A&M baseball game, and I'm rooting for the Tennessee volunteers. Boo. I would say that's true. Okay. Well, you got to let them tell it.

My biggest bass that I've ever caught is 10.6 pounds, so 1060. Let's see. I still build duck calls every day. Anybody? My man with a hair in the back, red shirt. Which one was the lie? Whoa. He don't build those duck calls.

What was the last time you built a duck call? Last year, well, I build some from time to time for special deals, but last time I was in the call shop was when we did the signature series Martin and Gobwin calls last year. He only builds calls with his name on it, Kim. Oh, y'all finally got y'all's signature. All right, look, springtime is here.

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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 them. But with Tritels beef, we skip the grocery store and do it a different way. Tritales comes from a family ranch out in Texas.

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Here this year. Yeah, you get to build here this year. I got you one for this year. Oh. There's an announcement. You're going to build them? Well, good. Are you going to build them? No. Yeah, you are. Hey, boys, when I quit, I quit. Oh, I'm going to bring it to the house. All right. All right. So there's my goblin. Gobbling? Gobbin? All right. I used to race motorcross, if any of y'all know,

and I won the Louisiana State Championship three years in a row. I played a trumpet on a cruise ship for some entertainment. Yeah, played the trumpet. So you got trumpet. Oh, I didn't hear it.

We need a third one. I didn't hear trumpet. And I used to ride bulls all the time. Wait, wait, Galvin, it's two truths and a lie. Those are all three truths.

I know that about you. What was your name when you was on the motorcraw? Superfly. No, wasn't super fly. What was it? Huh? It was the flying fleet. Blind fleet.

Big liar. The flying flea. The flying flea. Galvin got so much integrity. He can't even play two. truth and a lie. I done it. So who thinks one of them's a lie? This guy, he still, he'll believe me. Which one is? No. No, no, he rode bulls. I rode bulls. I can confirm that. I didn't win three times. Oh, that was not. Did you win twice? Those were separate statements. Okay. Because you said I used to

I got, oh, you kept talking. I thought that was one continuous thing about racing. Where you got to explain yourself sometimes, you know. Okay. The devil's in the detail. Yeah. Yeah, okay. I got you. God won and run on sentences. So he was not. Yeah. I never won the Louisiana State Championship. Something always happened.

Okay. Yeah, punctuation can be your friend. Good, great. Yeah. I failed English and I speak English. Well, you speak a version of English. If any of y'all need me to subtitle him, just raise your hand. I can tell you what he's saying.

So, yeah. Oh, hey. You got mumble. We covered this. He doesn't mumble. Yeah. So if y'all need close captioning, I'm up? You're up.

I'm up? Yeah, you're up. Okay. I have caught a 10.8 pound bass, a little bigger than Martin. I run a tackle shop, son. Ooh. With the immediate note. I don't agree.

Hold on. I've taken a selfie with Bill Clinton and Justin Timberlake at the same exact time. And I was Willie's. assistant which mean I got him coffee and did all of his dirty work and went to his grocery store for eight years so yeah that is though I've never got a 10 pound bass you know how big a 10 pound bass is it's huge all right sigh okay no one in here knows okay all the pro teams in football had me for their number one pick okay now hold let me tell you the only reason pro football

ball is still on TV right now is that I was a good guy and I did not let them pay me because you say, hey look I was the team I played all 11 positions I was number one on all 11 positions

okay and I just was honest with them when they said yeah I said look you can't afford me that's the first one okay second one there's only been two human beings on this earth that was perfect, I hold the second position.

Jesus has got the first position. Okay. And then number three, okay, and on this one, that was two truths, now my lie. Or it could actually be, I'm going to claim both of them on this. I'm the best storyteller in the world slash liar. Now, my question now, which is? one of the real life. The first one,

but I was the, hey, I was the baddest thing on the football, football field. It's a field. At 130 pounds, but they had to hose me down with water to get up to 130 pounds. You're right. It was the first life.

What about, you're perfect? Yeah. Close. 95%. 95%. I'd be good. Grief, y'all. Five percent.

Oh, that's good stuff. There's a fun round of two truths and a lot of somebody. Why don't we pick somebody and let them do it? See if we can figure it out. You raise your head. Don't hold on. Hold on. Never do this.

Because that means you're coming up here. He got all excited. Then he realized he's got, come on. Yeah, slide on up here, Costa. Hey. Come on down. All right. Put him in the middle.

We'll just be behind you making faces. This isn't part of your, this isn't part of your two choices and a lie. Introduce yourself, name, where you're from, because we don't know you. What if I want to lie about where I'm from? That's weird. That's weird. You can't lie about where you're from. My name's Jordan.

I'm from Dubai. Dubai? Got that old money. That's a long walk. Oh. So you are. got that tall bill and I want to jump off that thing. So you like oil money or what? Let me try and figure out here. You like fishing? I know a tackle shop we can go to. Yeah, they ship there.

Got your dad's card or anything? We got on that. Huck her up. Yeah. No, go ahead. You're from Dubai? That's incredible. Got to be an import though. Got to be. Yeah, he's an import. I'm going to Google map that while you continue. Yeah, go ahead. All right, now let's start with your two truths and a lie. Redfish is 47 inches. That's a little. I live in a $10 million mansion.

This is going to be awkward, man. You are from Dubai. Can't hide that money. All right. Keep rolling. I've got four, three siblings. I don't know how to count. Four three. That's seven.

It's got seven. I don't know how to count. So does he live in a mansion? Does he have three siblings? He ain't from Dubai. He caught a 47-inch redfish. I mean, I ain't. There ain't no redfish in the bar.

He ain't caught a redfish that big. He hasn't. All right. Is that it? It was 46. That's close enough. So that was the truth. Yeah, we round up.

That's fine. My bad. That's fine. So you got a big house. No. Okay, that's the lot. Oh, good. He's just got a constant.

in Dubai. I thought he was here putting off the vibes for somebody's ladies. I thought that was like a little slow flex for everybody. So you do have three or four brothers and sisters? Yeah. I would establish that. Yeah, they're in and out, you know. Okay. Well, there you go. Thanks, man. That's fun. Learning learning something about Jordan from Dubai. Give Jordan a hand. Yeah. Wasn't that it? Jordan or Joshua? It started with it. Come on up here, girl. I want you to look to your hard left right now. Don't get nervous, but look to your hard left.

Oh, ladies and gentlemen. Willie Robertson. Get out. Get quit. This is why I quit. Don't hurt him. We need him still. Hey, I know my place.

Jordan, give me a chair. We need to. Before you. go, before you go, we need to catch the boss up on what the game is. We're playing. We're playing two truths and a lie. What are we doing? We're doing a podcast. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's scary. We're not edited. Yeah, we're live. This is kind of intimidation. Would you say this game is? Two truths and a lie. So she's going to tell us two truths and a lie and we've got to figure out which one it is. Okay. All right. Name and where you're from? My name is Leah from Corn, Oklahoma. That's a

lie. I've had five hermit crabs in total in a tank in my bedroom. I've had five fish in total in a tank in my bedroom. And I've had 62 chickens. Two chickens. You got a lot of animals. Is your last name, Summit? Because you got a lot of animals. Yeah. She ain't got but 59 chickens.

62 chickens is a lie. That's a lie. I'm going with That's too many eggs. Five fish. Hermit crabs, chickens. Want me to answer? Not yet. We're still discussing. It's the chickens.

Nobody needs 62 chickens. You know how many eggs? That's what Popeyes is for. But she acted like that was the, she acted like she made that one up. So I think she may have been a little actress there. I think it's the... 62 chicken? I missed the first two, though.

What were the... She had five? She's got five hermit crows. in a tank in her room. She's got five fish in a tank in her room. I think the crabs, because those things dying like one day. They always did at my house. I'm saying crabs.

Hold on. How on earth do you get a hermit crab to Oklahoma? There's no ocean around there. You drive Interstate 20. They're not still alive. Yeah, some of them have deceased, apparently. Yeah. All right, which one's the lie?

The chickens. I told me. Too many eggs. You couldn't gather that many eggs in one day. I have two hermer crabs in my room right now. Willie, I have a question for you. Okay. Does your mouth actually freeze whenever you touch gotten?

It does. How did you know that? That's true. That's a true statement. Was that on Doug Dostee? I don't. No, literally my jaw is locking and thinking about it. In the spirit of two truths and a lie, Willie Robertson.

What you got, pal? Hold on. While you're thinking, I'm going to give you a second to think. You're a second to think. I'm going to give you a second to think. He sat down and looked at sigh and said, he's whispering. Nobody told me.

Does I have a go-tee? We did a whole podcast episode on. He cut his whiskers off. I've been out of town. I go out of town and come back. It's the perfect time to listen to a podcast. Get up on your employee. What is the new facial structure we got going on?

It's still uneven, though. That's what I love. It's still uneven just looking. It's still shorter on the right somehow. It took me three times. It's true. To cut it? No.

No, I went to one hairdresser, my wife's hairdresser. She did it. Okay. I didn't like it. So then I showed up and went to Redd. Okay. Thinking he was, it was a man. Nope.

Red's a woman. so I went to another woman She did it again I didn't like it Come home when I told my wife I said hey Get the scissors and come over here And get this right

Who did it right? Yeah and then I just said hey I want you to cut it like this And then across Hang on I saw you like a week ago Yeah he had it on Well I had mudflap on I had mudflap on

I knew it was something odd But it wasn't that Yeah Yeah I had mudflip Okay I didn't like the mudflap So I got my wife I finally got the right woman to trim my beard right.

I'm sized spirit animal. He's just in his Godwin era. Hey, I'm next week. I'm probably just shave it all off and then let it regrow again. Can we not? I'm in one of those moods right now.

How about we just leave the stash before we go all the way off? Well, now, hey, you know, I'm in that state of mind, so that may happen. I'm in a country state of mind, boys. All right, so two truths and a lot. through our intermission, boss.

Two truths and a lie. Y'all know all my stories. Y'all are going to know all these. It ain't for us. Yeah, but deep people don't. It's for them. Okay. It's for them.

Okay, so I know over 152-letter words in high school. No. Wait, two-letter words? Yeah. There's like, but just two-and-up? Two-letter words? Just two? Different two-letter words.

Like, it? Hashtack scrap. That would be one. is in college in college i was a badminton champion and also a you got a reaction there son and also a cheerleader there are male cheerleaders i'm just letting you know okay so there's two that was three oh that was three okay so the college one was a two you know what i say 152 letter words, a badminton champion in college, and a cheerleader. Did you wear two two on the things that did?

No, it's either male cheerleaders. So we got a vote here. He never heard of a third one. All in favor of cheerleader? Okay, what else we got? Okay. Badminton champion? Who's going with badminton?

Very good at racket sports, people. That's wow. Two letter words. And 152 letter words. I don't even think there is. I've been counting them in my head. There's only like six of them. No, you got all them Scrabble words, man.

Like the O-I's and the... But places like Oz don't count. The Z-A and like... X-I-X-U. Those are words? Those are all words, my friend. Yeah. No, I knew that one.

As much as that boy plays Scrabble, I was like... Yeah, I know more than that. I just threw out the... So the truth is, I don't... do know all those two letter words. One of them, yeah. It's also true that in college, I was the intermereal badminton champion. Cheerleading was one that I did not do.

There you go. So if you chose cheerleading, give yourself a hand. We're going to do a little, Jordan. Where's Jordan? I was just going to come say hi. I don't know if you're saying. No, you can, it's up to you, man. You got a chair now.

You didn't mean to be a permanent feature. I was just going to say hello. You're in like playing. Is it okay, Jordan? I mean, hey, Jordan, it's your thing, man. It's your, no. This is your camp, man. I work for you.

This is your camp. I don't, but you can stay. I actually thought one of them was going to be he's fired Jordan at least two times. I really thought that. Oh, come on, man. I thought you were taking your chance. Martin, that's too soon. No, it's been like 10 years ago.

No, it's fine. This isn't about me. It's still painful. It's isn't about me. So, how much tea do you think he would, drank in your old life? Whole life. Oh, wow.

At least a million gallons. I drink two gallon jugs daily. At minimum. Minimum. It's my job. That is, you know, I get up about 10 and I go to bed about 10. So that's, you know, one during the day

and then one, but right before I go to bed. He said two every day. to a day 700 times 77 we're running the numbers though he's been doing it for 1,369 years everybody

well hey no you can make that you know when I was working okay I drink 4 days no when you was working when was the last time you worked that's what I want to know back in the 1900 when I was in the military

when he was in the military way back to 1900 way back to 1900 way before you were I was reading on you, I was back when you getting drunk on Dr. Pepper and Sprite. Mountain Dew.

Mountain Dew. No, don't tell the kids this. Nope. We didn't have, we had Coca-Cola, Sprite, and seven up. Seven up. That was, I knew it was one of that.

Yeah. Me and my buddy was sugar. Sugar, I ain't good enough. We was polluted. Okay. Okay.

So there you go, kids. Guess on all your tennis. College is not for everybody. School is not a big deal and you'll turn out like Uncle Si. Yeah, never's done. You get polluted on Mountain Dew. Go ahead, Jordan. What else we got?

Okay, so this is for any of y'all. What is one moment you all sat back and realized like, wow, that was God that did that. The day me and Willie survived what I knew was going to be a plane crash in Creek, Nebraska. I couldn't believe I did that. And then we argued about what the news. article would say if it were Willie Robertson and four others or if they would actually put my name in the article. Yeah, we almost had. Yeah, I don't know. It's still a, it's still a 50-50. I don't, I'm not sure, but no, that was a, that was a wild ride with, with that man. That was,

going to play in a charity golf tournament. Yeah. And I said, this is it. This is it, boys. This is where it ends. This is where it ends. Right here. Were you nervous? What'd you yell? No, he was laughing. No, we're all going to die. No, that wasn't what he was yelling, but we won't talk about what he was yelling. He had a different song. Willie likes to make people very afraid on planes. So I think when the show, I think just how big the show guy was for me

when the show first came out. I remember I took a picture with someone in the grocery store in Westman Row, and I pulled back up to the office, and Cy and Jace, y'all were standing out in front of the office, which is funny. And I said, boys, I don't think our life will ever be the same again. And I remember thinking, wow, this is crazy,

but I definitely think the show. Good question. It's, I mean, I'm still saying that. Being here on this stage, being a part of Duck Commander from the start. And not from the start of my start, but definitely was a guy of thing. Coming from where I was. for me the moment I look back with these guys we were all on a plane to Spokane Washington

anybody from Spokane who no okay um but I just because I wasn't on the show really I was on like an episode and I just got to work under these guys and work for these guys and help them just do whatever they needed done like clean up their spit cups or whatever but no it was incredible to watch These guys go to the height of everything that you basically could do in America. But all the plane rides and all the stuff like that, we were still talking about Jesus the whole time. It wasn't really about, well, we played some silly poker games and stuff like that. But it wasn't about, can you believe what we just did?

It was, we always ended it talking about Jesus on the way back. And that was a testament to this guy and this guy, especially, for sure. Best deer hunting story. I got one Best deer hunt story ever Well I was in I was hunting a food plaw

In Germany And uh Uh oh Oh wait that's your story That's a lie I've done that before I got a real deer story tell us man Johnny D does have one deer story

Yeah killed it There it is this story Got him. DJ was there. Got him. Oh, DJ filmed you. I'm deer broke up. DJ filmed him and I talked to him and the boy couldn't breathe.

Because what if I just heard it? I'm not a hunter. I'm a fisherman. Let me laugh. What if I heard it? That was a joke. Oh, here we go. Bottom man on the totem bowl.

Somebody's got to be. It's a good spot to be. I can't even think of one, which is really funny right now. My brain. Jordan, what's the funniest deer story? You ever? An action figure one time to the deer stand? Okay, that's a good story.

So I was in Montana, and I had this little good luck, Charming. It was little mini Willie. There was a toy, and so I would take him with me, and I would hang him up, and I don't know that we ever missed with little Willie in the blonde. And then I would set him up on the horns. My favorite one with you, though. Oh, we, oh, no, this is a good story. Oh, no, no, no, no. I wasn't going to tell that one, because that makes me paint some way.

That makes me, paints me in a bad light as a poor cameraman. But I did have one. No, no, not that one. Oh, which one? The truck? That is a funny story. I killed one deer and this is what they do. When we sat at the gate in the truck, I said aim higher.

No, not that. Oh, man, we got a bunch of them. The one that you went to recover the next day, I shot a deer. We let him lay. We're going to go back. Martin yells at me because I ran out in front because I just knew I was going to find him. Because that's what Willie does on me. You said, hey, we got him, and then I heard this biggest scream.

He grabbed his horns, and that deer jerked his horns away from Martin, got up and up and skedaddled. Ran off. You had his horns in your hand. He was still very much alive when I grabbed him. I did not know. You'll learn that here to make sure that when you recover an animal. The little toe nudge, you know.

Yeah. But at that point of my life, I was. bumping along about 315 so I didn't figure I would sneak up on a lie man right like I mean I figured if I got to lay on him like at the way you were at like you ever grabbed a live one I never had I can't say I have the first thing went through my mind was let go the first thing I went through my mind was let go and I did and then he ran and then I ran after him like I was going to catch him or something and then I looked up and he just ran right in front of me and I went what happened what just happened you said that was him that was him that was 100% him i walked up on him in a

cutover i was like man that was yeah we had some good ones though i i now that i think back we've had we have had some we have had some debacles we have had some fun times me and willie can do a really good video on what not to do dear yeah early bug commander was certainly that yeah uh tell us some more gianties more you got mine i killed it but uh yeah so we always closed the duck call room with a Bible verse. So Johnny D. Send us out of here. I'm going to end this. So if y'all listen, we end it with a Bible verse. I'm going to give you all my favorite Bible verse. Romans 12-2, do not be conformed to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so you will know what God's

good, pleasing, and perfect will is for you. Look, I can't imagine being your age. Y'all are dealing with stuff that none of us ever dealt with. Sass still doesn't have a cell phone. we didn't deal with the stuff you guys deal with. But we all were that age. We all were that age at one point, yeah. But look, you got two choices growing up. You can either be like everybody else. You can sit on your cell phone all day.

You can waste away your life. Or you can be something with it. And the only way you can be something with it is with Jesus Christ, right? I'll leave you with this. Y'all are in the best time of your life. That too. Okay. In my humble opinion.

okay you'll be with all these people you're with you'll be with them next 12 years okay take care of each other you know you want any day you're gonna get drunk all this junk to the human being done hey don't do that okay you know it ain't worth it okay that's experience talking but hey love each other and take care of each other you know that's my challenge to you All right. That's it from the... All right. Well, we'll see y'all next time right here on the duck call room.

We're out. So look, continuing with today's kind of different episode, we now have Cy and Phillips' interview with the Martins. We're going to run for y'all. So they were here. I mean, I love them. They got a great last name. Strong last name.

You know, but no, check out their interview with Cy and Philip as they sit down and talk about the movie. Sound of Hope, the story of Possum Trot. It is out now. It is out this evening. so if you're looking for something to do, go check it out. If not, we've got a long holiday weekend. Check it out over the weekend. Hope you guys enjoy this interview with the Martins.

Well, I want to talk about y'all's movie. We saw it last night. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. We just absolutely loved it. And, I mean, what a great story. Adoption. I've worked at the children's home for 30 years.

And me and Cy talk about it a lot. Matter of fact, I hang out with Cy for comic relief. And, not only that, I've always told people us today. You need to clear your mind, and when you look at this old man, known as Uncle Si, I said, what you're looking at? Did you really see me? And they said, what do you mean? I said, hey, I'm a 14-year-old kid trapped in this 76-year-old body.

Come on that. You know, because I refuse to grow up. I don't know it's a boring. You know, but no, back to the movie. I told the producer what to go with him and his wife when he was in here. Josh and Rebecca. Yeah. They done a fabulous job.

Oh, yeah, absolutely. Okay, they really did. I told them a few of the main things that I really like. One of them was that, hey, the people playing, y'all, okay, God put it on their hearts to do something. Okay, and then the man said, whoa, whoa, oh, baby, we can't do this. You know, we can't handle it. Well, in the end of it, after they got into it and just,

More kids were coming and it's getting worse and getting worse, and they can't. And then they just, she finally just said, I can't take it. I can't do it anymore. Well, that's real. That's real. Because, hey, I felt so bad when I left the movie.

I felt so inadequate as, and we used the term lucre, Christian. You know? And look, I share Jesus with everybody I come in contact with. But that ain't enough. Amen. Because when you're seeing kids that are abused and hurt like the ones we've seen in the movie, folks, that ain't right. You know, and Donna, you have to tell us, what happened?

What was it that struck a nerve with you where you said, I've got to go and help? I mean, and I mean, the bishop, he was like, what are you talking about? And you're like, no, we got to do something. Tell us about that. What happened? Well, actually, it happened after the death of my mother. Mm-hmm. I was, you know, one of 21 children's, raised up with 16 of us.

And after my mother passed away in 97, a couple of months, my mother passed away in February the 12th. And my goodness. I was like 35 years old and several months after then, reality actually set in. And I just began, I remember one day telling the Lord that, okay, God, today is the day. Either you heal me and let me die, you know. And when I said that to the Lord, it's like I was just moved. The Holy Spirit just let me to my back porch. And when I stepped out there, it was like, he,

said to me, I've heard you. I've heard your pain. I heard your, I heard your complaint. He said, but think about those kids that's out there and do not have and don't have what you had in a mother. He said, foster and adopt. Give back. And immediately it was like a release, it was a lifting. I was just moved. I was no longer myself. It's like the Holy Spirit just guided me back inside. You had a mission in mind. I opened the phone book to 1-800 adoption. I make the call. I said, my name is Donna Martin.

I want to foster and adopt children. I knew that I didn't want just one. We wanted siblings. So we got Mercedes and Tyler. Of course, my sister, Diane, got Nino first, and he was one. But then Terry came along. She was nine years old, and she had been in all kind of different foster homes. And actually, she was brought to me, to us, for respite.

Because her foster parent went off on a vacation and had told CPS that when we come back, we want you to find a placement. So CPS just asks us to respite her. Yeah. But when she walked through my door with that curly, kinky hair and that little beautiful, innocent face, she was just gorgeous. Yeah. So you had got to the point that you finally just looked up and said, okay, hey, here's the deal. I'm sick of this. Oh, yeah.

Something's got to change. Either let me die or, you know. I take this away. or take it away. Take it away from me. Yeah. One of my favorite parts was when Bishop Martin said, you're mine now. He told those kids, he said, you're mine now.

You know, and Donna did too. But that's just struck a chord with me with the kids that I work with, you know, having somebody to tell them that I love you and you're mine now. So what a great leader. And did that just come natural or is this something that it took you a while to work on? No, it, because of the fact, that we didn't know all the ends and out of adoption. What we've done, we didn't have a clue of the understanding

of what adoption was all about. We just thought we'd do what people do. But if God is with us. You know, and God is with us. Yeah. You know, so at that time, they said, you're mine now to let them know because we had looked and heard about what, like Todd and Mercedes, there was a nine home for one year.

And that is for a three-year-old and a five-year-old, it's just absolutely ridiculous. They don't know what to say because, and they needed some confidence to know that this is the last train of Georgia. You will not leave from here. So to speak those words to those, those two young people will give them some confidence. And see, one of the things that we need to understand, when a child come into your home, we talk about we have learned to trust that child, But that child got to learn to trust us. Because who to say they're going to stay here for a moment, then they're out of the door. Time to do something wrong, they're out of the door.

But they have to understand that they're home. This is home. This is it. You know, you ain't going nowhere. Don't even think about it. Get that thought out of your mind. Absolutely. And I noticed that these kids tried to self-sabotage.

You know, they tried to, it was so good at home that they weren't used to it. And so they would try to sabotage. themselves. But Donna would say, no, I'm not giving up on you. That's exactly right. You know, from the beginning, I knew that every child, it was not an option. You know how you just, you don't make that declaration or you don't speak it. It's just, you know it. I knew that every child that came into my home was going to stay. You know, when CPS said to me, Terry is just here for respite. I told her, I said, we're only keeping you into your foster mom come back because I was told

not to tell her. But I began to love her and give her the unseen and unknown love that a mother, I knew what I was doing. And the moment when they came back in those two weeks to tell her that they were going to have to find a placement for her, we were sitting in our living room. and it was two caseworkers came and they broke the news to her and told that her foster mom was not able to take her back,

make the choice not to. And she just began to weep. And I grabbed that baby and I just held her. And Susan Ramsey said, the way that you hugged this baby, I know. And I told her, I said, I didn't say anything to y'all, but I knew all the time.

This was her place. Absolutely. Yeah, but saying it, you can say it, and if you ain't true, they know. They know. Kids know. They know. That's right. One of the greatest sensation to us is that our adult children looks back upon us and say,

Mom and Dad, thank you. Thank you. And all of them, except Princeton, has children. And to me, too, when they gather at my. home and to look at those precious babies that will never experience. Y'all going to make me feel Jesus. Hey! Ever!

They'll never experience what their parents experience. Thank God a wonderful God. So now what would y'all say to people that are considering adoption? I will encourage you to take a leap of faith, to go ahead on and get involved. It would be one of the greatest things that you can do to plant a seed into a child's life that you had nothing to do with and bringing their child here. If you ask me if it's going to be easy, I'm going to tell you no.

Then I have to tell you that what is easy in life? Everything we do is always a problem. So don't think that taking a child going to be a flower bed. need, get ready to go through with everything else. But one thing I will say that we can learn how to be overcome us, but you can't do this in your own strength. You can't do this in your own mind, your own will. The power of God has to be there with you. If you're going to overcome the problem, because these babies come in with all things. type of baggage more than you ever can imagine. But all the baggage that they come in with

with what God give you, you can be an overcomer. You can overcome that baggage. So I will encourage you to go ahead on. Don't be afraid because if you go in with fear, it's not going to work. You got to go in with the faith and believe that God is going to see you through this process. Listen, I want to thank y'all for coming to the Duck Call Room. Look, we have had a wonderful time with y'all. We love the movie. We want to encourage our viewers to go and see this movie. One other side, I got a dope.

I want to know their birth. Yeah. Tell me what the sound of hope is. Adoption. Well, we really appreciate y'all. We love the movie. We love you guys. I'm so glad for what y'all are doing.

When is this fix this view again? The movie coming out, July. the 4th. Yep, July 4th. All over the United States. Check your listening for July the 4th. It may be

at the 6th, almost it's a field for the 6th, but it is coming to your town. But the date, let's get out and flood the theaters with your present to see the sound of hope, the possum trot story.

All right, that was a different episode. That was a different episode. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Look, if you did enjoy it, Drop us a note down in the comment. Maybe we can do some more like this that kind of combine things and talk to different things of what's going on around us and what's going on out there in the world. But look, the focus of today is all about the kids, right?

Like whether it's camp pouring into a bunch of 13 to 18-year-old kids and young men, young ladies, I mean, however you want to define them, I'm to the age now where I'm calling those people kids. So, you know, it is like that. And then, you know, the sound of how. hope the story of possum trot also all about fostering leading to adoption of kids that need a home again something's very near and dear to the heart here at duck commander um gobbling and on that

note i'm going to give you the the floor to close us out on a bible verse buddy close us out on a bible yeah i'm going to spring it to you hmm bible verse i know you've always got one handy well uh I'll just do Corinthians 15-134, which all this comes down to love is adoption and invest in your time in the kids 1st Corinthians 15-1-3-4

but I can't say it. Now brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you which you received and on which you have taken your stand by this gospel you are saved if you hold firmly to the word I preach to you otherwise you have believed in vain for what I received I passed down to you as the first importance that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures and I'll just add to that what did Jesus tell his disciples

let the little children come to me Matthew 1914 yeah there you go and we hope y'all have had a great weekend and time celebrating the greatest country on earth the United States of America Happy America. We'll see y'all next time right here.